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Counting the Akelas
Akela-engined GNs made a big impact on British race tracks, and a few still survive
After WW1, the GN was one of the most successful racing cars in its class. GNs have a fascination of their own anyway, something I know Edward Riddle and others will readily endorse. So thinking in terms of their racing performances is good mental therapy.
Ron Godfrey and Capt "Archie" Frazer Nash made these sensible cyclecars for a living but were also very happy to drive competition models, as well as sell the standard i o e 90-degree vee-twins. "Kim l" forsook that simple engine for a pushrod oily one with two inclined valves per cylinder, designed originally for the 1914 loM Cyclecar GP, which the war forestalled. As a boy I was enthralled to read a description of "The Fastest Cyclecar in the World" in my treasured copy of The Light Car & Cyclecar for June 19, 1920, which I still have. It illustrated well this slim single-seater air-cooled racing job and I was equally pleased when I learned that Derek Dent had made a neat model of "Kim II", based on Meccano parts but with model maker's wire wheels. This was an age when Rudyard Kipling was much admired and Godfrey and Nash obviously felt the same acclaim for this patriotic author and poet, calling their GN racing cars and engines after his characters. "Kim", "Mowgli" (the elephant boy), and "Akela" (the lone wolf). Later there was the Plus-Power-engined Frazer Nash "Rikki-Tikki", named after Kipling's mongoose.
The exploits of these racing GNs have been well documented. "Archie" Frazer Nash scored numerous wins in speed trials and hillclimbs and was not averse to putting a claustrophobic hood on "Kim" and driving it all the way from the Wandsworth works to a race meeting at Skegness. Chain drive using a six foot run of exposed roller-chain behind the cylinders for the overhead-camshafts of the "Vitesse" vee-twin racing engines as used in the racing GN "Mowgli" was found suitable for sprints. It also served the great Basil Davenport and "Spider" (FTD at Shelsley Walsh from 1926 to 1929) very well. But when the go-ahead Junior Car Club took a deep breath and announced a 200-Mile Race for 1100cc and 1500cc cars at Brooklands in 1921, to win either class of which would be valuable prestige indeed, the GN partners Godfrey and Nash decided that the trouble the chain timing-drive had given them had better be eradicated before this important but stressful event.
For this purpose the GN "Akela" racing vee-twin engine was designed. It retained the same bore and stroke 84 x 98mm as the standard models and former pushrod ohv racing GN engines; the latter had sometimes been given an increased bore of 89mm or a stroke of 120mm to put them in the 1 1/2-litre record-breaking class. "Kim II" (the racing GN Nash used at Brooklands after an accident there when "Kim l" skidded and went through the Railway-straight fence upside down) was exhibited on the GN stand at the 1920 London Motor Show.
The new 1921 racing engine was named the Akela and was very sophisticated for a two-cylinder cyclecar. At the time, the pattern followed for the best racing cars was four valves per cylinder operated by twin overhead camshafts, and this was the format adopted by Godfrey and Nash for their new vee-twin power unit. The valves were in detachable pent-roof bronze cylinder heads secured with eight studs (against four that sufficed for the bronze heads of "Kim I") and each pair of valves was prodded by a separate short camshaft. The camshafts rotated in opposite directions in order to fling oil over the tappets. So this could be termed a four-cam engine. The camshafts were driven by a cross-shaft and bevel gears to the two cylinders, which in turn was driven by a vertical shaft rising from the crankcase; the engine's nickname became "I swear", an epithet that legal luminaries should readily understand…
Side by side conrods were used instead of the former forked rods of the earlier GN engines, and two ML magnetos side by side on a platform ahead of the crankcase fired two plugs per cylinder, one on each side. Lubrication was less sophisticated, a large tank beneath the cockpit floor holding lubricant that was fed to the engine bearings and cylinder walls by two submerged plunger pumps, operated by driver or mechanic when necessary (Cushman gave three squirts a lap, apparently). However, as engine speed seldom exceeded 3500rpm and roller big-end bearings were used, this was satisfactory.
It is said that the Akela engine was ready within three months of chain failures with the Vitesse engines at the 1921 Boulogne Speed-Week and Grand Prix. The new engine was put into a normal chain-and-dog transmission GN chassis, with a neat two-seater pointed-tail body and a large cylindrical petrol tank mounted, half-submerged, across the tail. As no water radiator was involved, an open-fronted cast GN dummy was used.
One entry was made for the 1921 200-Mile Race, the driver the burly, ever-cheerful "Archie" Frazer Nash, his passenger Arnold Cushman. As is well-known, the result was eminently satisfactory. Although Salmson had sent over a twin-cam four-cylinder car with their French driver Lombard for this ambitious and well-publicised race, he ran into the pit-wall, broke two wheels and lost 15 minutes. So it was the GN which came home winner of the 1100cc class, at an average speed of 71.54mph. To show no loss of stamina the last lap was timed at 77.45mph. It was on 200 x 75 Palmer tyres. Afterwards Nash said; "The GN ran splendidly, using six gallons of petrol (the carburettor was a Zenith triple-diffuser) and 2 1/4 gallons of oil." To put things into perspective, the Salmson averaged 67.91mph while the victorious 1-2-3 finish by the Talbot-Darracqs in the 1 1/2-litre class was led by Segrave, who won at 88.82mph. That the GN was still in good form was seen when Frazer Nash took records with it soon afterwards; the mile at 81.86mph, 100 miles at 77.24mph, on the same tyres as used in the race.
During 1922 Nash used "Kim II" and "Mowgli" for sprint events and the Akela-GN once or twice at Brooklands. Then it was time to prepare for the 1922 "200". Encouraged by Nash's win the previous year a team of three GNs was entered and three new engines were prepared much as the T-drive one, but with the camshaft's drive-shafts running up in front of the cylinders, in place of the cross shaft.
The 1922 GNs were bodied as before and the drivers were named as Nash. Godfrey and F N Pickett. The latter was an astonishing man who, after seeing the enormous ammunition stores around Boulogne during his war service, realised the scrap metal value of the millions of unused shells and afterwards, obtaining a £50,000 bankloan, acquired thousands of acres of shell-dumps in the Calais-Marck area. He prepared to sell the metal from the defused ammunition but met much opposition from worried local residents and was fought by two powerful newspapers. Clearly a resourceful man, he bought both papers anonymously and reversed their published views. He also had a private army with orders to shoot on sight anyone who looted his nine factories (that at Boulogne employed 10,000 workers) and he would lock up in his private prison anyone who disobeyed him. The dangerous nature of his business probably made such permission possible. He soon became a millionaire.
Francis Pickett was an Englishman who loved motor racing sufficiently to organise the Boulogne Speed Weeks and the GP threat, which he encouraged British drivers to attend. He was also a director of Frazer Nash Ltd, hence his entry in the 1922 "200". Before that, his wife had completed in a ladies' race at Brooklands in a GN against Frazer Nash's wife in an Akela-GN, presumably the 1921 car. Mrs Pickett came third, but Mrs Nash lost the bottom-speed chain and failed to get away… Possibly because business kept him in France, Pickett's car was driven in the "200" by Hawkins, a well-known GN private owner.
Frazer Nash had Cushman as his riding-mechanic and made him lie prone on a mattress throughout the long race to reduce wind resistance! He had found nothing in the race regulations to prevent this, to which Cushman is said to have commented: "No, nor does it say the mechanic has to be alive"! Although three of the revised Akela engines had been prepared, for some reason Nash drove a GN with the T-drive engine, thought to be the 1921 car. Perhaps the third new engine was unready (the GNs had practised late) or was held as a reserve.
David Thirlby, who knows more about GNs and Frazer Nestles than I ever will, has it in his first Frazer Nash book (Macdonald, 1965) that the 1922 engines were numbered consecutively. The T-drive one was numbered 309, Pickett's V-drive Akela 309-2 and Godfrey's 309-3. A photograph of Godfrey's car prior to the race shows its number as IT-354 however we know how number plates were changed about, don't we? In the race Nash's car had this number!
It is just possible that a second T-drive engine had been made but this seems unlikely. If not, Nash had to rely on the 1921 engine for the "200". He decided to use a new type of piston, maybe after trouble in a short handicap race. This was his downfall, because the nearside one broke up and although he and Cushman replaced it (in 35 minutes or 42 minutes, depending on which report you read) and completed the course, (65.50mph), the Salmons were first and second, the famous Robert Benoist winning at 81.88mph. Godfrey, with Finch as his passenger, was third at a speed 2.87mph higher than Nash's winning average the previous year. Hawkins also finished (71.82mph), making GN the only intact team, and before his problem Frazer Nash had set a new 50-mile class record, at 78.78mph. During the 1922 season, Pickett's and Nash's GN appeared at Brooklands with streamlined bodies, Pickett's driven by Hawkins, and Nash's single-seater being placed second in two races (lap speed 89.41mph), in 89 x 120, 1 1/2-litre form.
Having promised a count, I intend to do my best. But it is no easy task, made more difficult because some think that further Akelas were made, and it is difficult to recognise from faded photographs whether an engine is a V-drive Akela or a Vitesse or whatever. It is a line I would not have liked to tackle without the help provided by Ron Sant, who kept a record of later owners and who helped Davenport revitalise "Spider" after the war. I am grateful for his valuable assistance; but if anyone knows more, I would appreciate hearing from them.
When Nash left GN Ltd to form his own company he took his 200-Mile car with him, but had to buy it. It seems as if Godfrey and Cushman also kept theirs. Having lost the Pickett Cup to Salmson in 1921 and failed to contest it in 1922, Nash was keen to enter a team in 1923, composed of himself, Godfrey and Cushman. Godfrey became ill, so his entry was taken over by C Ringwood, Pickett's chauffeur. The GNs, two-seater bodies replaced, were entered as Frazer Nashes to publicise Nash's business. Ringwood proved to be a good driver and he led the team home, followed by Nash and Cushman, in the 1100cc class. This secured for them the coveted Cup, as although two Salmsons beat them, the third one retired.
The "200" came soon after Boulogne. Only one GN was entered by Pickett for Nash the words "Frazer Nash" emblazoned large on the body sides but it retired. After that, the Akela-GNs found private owners.
The versatile girl racer Ivy Cummings acquired what was either Nash's car or a spare car (EL 8123). With it she did extremely well in sprint events (see table) and in 1924 it was given a single-seater body and a somewhat altered front end. Ivy even took it to the Gaillon hillclimb but was disqualified as the car had no reverse gear (trust the astute French to protest at this even the BARC had overlooked it in the 200-Mile Races). But she was allowed to make an unofficial ascent and was faster than the class-winning Amilcar.
The car was shared with LCGM Le Champion, a contrast to his Brooklands giants. It shed a back tyre in a race, but Le Champion took Class G, records at the Track with it in 1925, the 8cwt GN covering the flying-start mile at just under 80mph. Ivy had used the car for record work in 1923 in two-seater guise, with "GN" blanked out on both sides of the body, the standing-start mile covered at 68.58mph.
During 1925 Miss Cummings sold the car to E L F Mucklow, who ran it at Shelsley Walsh until 1928, when W H Hylton took it over. The next owner seems to have been H P Prestwich, who used a single-seater body rather like a more bulbous version of that on "Spider" and entered consistently, especially in sand races. Quite what happened next to this GN is shrouded in the mists of time but J W Ecroyd apparently found it and passed it on to Basil Davenport, who was contemplating building up an Akela replica. When spent a week-end with him in Macclesfield in 1957 he showed me a shed full of parts, and later with the help of Ron Sant the job emerged with the V-drive engine in 1 1/2-litre size, and with "Spider", made very welcome appearances up to about 1960, when the timing gears stripped. Sant bought it in 1978 and put it back to its original engine capacity and competed with it and "Spider"; a nostalgic reminder of the great Davenport era. This Akela-GN is now owned by Charlie Smith, who raced it at VSCC Silverstone last year.
Before the 1924 200-Mile Race Ringwood, who had either bought or been bequeathed Pickett's GN, experimented with supercharging, using a German centrifugal blower, if contemporary reports got it right. But when on full song the insulted vee-twin blew up in a big way, damaging a cylinder head. It may have been a Vitesse or other engine, because he was able to start in the "200" with an original-looking car and V-drive power pack. He was said to have put revised timing gears into this engine and warmed it up a bit. Whatever, he finished second in the 1100cc class, behind the Englishman O Wilson-Jones' Salmson, in the old GN (or Frazer Nash!), but at only 74.06mph compared to the French car's 85.70mph. Undaunted by the artificial "road course" which the JCC introduced for its 1925 "200", Ringwood again entered his back-braked GN but retired as a result of what he diagnosed as plug trouble, but which was actually ice in the carburettor.
After 1922 it became ever more confusing as to which Akela was which. For instance, in 1923 Pickett nominated a car for Nash to drive at the Easter Brooklands Meeting but Cushman drove instead (lap speed 79.68mph). Then, standing at the side of the Railway-straight with my Box Brownie at the ready during practice for the 1929 Brooklands Easter Meeting, I was delighted to see an Akela-GN crackling past, as these cars would have done in 1922, apart from its paintwork being blue, with white wheels. It belonged to A P F Dempster. Later I was told that Godfrey had sold this car (XL 6458) to Dempster in 1928. But by 1930 it had acquired an FN radiator and a sidevalve four-cylinder 1 1/2-litre Anzani engine and was re-named the KHG Special, after Kingston Hill Garage, where Dempster was either the owner or a customer. Speed had gone up by four to five mph, but with no better luck…
Further confusion! A photograph shows a Mr Cole coaxing what looks to be an Akela-GN up Dalton Bank in 1928, at the Huddersfield MC's freak hillclimb and in that year A Marshall drove such a GN at the opening car meeting at Greenford dirt track. As for the Ringwood car, the trail grows cold, but the car may have gone into KMG Anderson's Special, before he passed it on to Nigel Orlebar, who in turn passed it to Wing Cmdr Craddock, for his reconstruction of an Akela-GN, in which I had a pleasing flip at Greenham Common aerodrome in 1964. The body was a very accurate replica of the original. After Craddock's recent death Arthur Gibson was able to take over this GN, and when I visited him just after Christmas last year he had been using it as a road-going machine and intends to race it this year. I have heard that another V-drive engine is also known to exist, which may one day be united with a GN chassis. As it has "FN" instead of "GN" on the disc-like cambox covers it is tempting to think that perhaps it came from Dempster's car, when the Anzani power unit was substituted, but of this I have no proof. Then how do we identify the GN (U 7884) which Capt Trubie Moore, a friend of Godfrey's, drove in North Country speed events from 1923 and which Jack Cole had in 1928, before Jack "Moses" Moor cannibalised it when building his famous GN "Wasp"? Craddock had seen an advertisement in MOTOR SPORT for the T-drive GN engine and although then he was unable to get to Leeds to buy it, this historic GN heirloom was still there in 1963 and was duly acquired. Gibson now has it and unless anyone can prove otherwise, it is the only one of its kind, as used in the 1921 and 1922 "200s" by "Archie" Frazer Nash. It is No 309, and now has twin carbs.
E A Stafford-East spent many years in his workshop meticulously re-creating another Akela-GN, making missing parts exactly to the original patterns. Godfrey had intended to build up "Kim l" but when I visited him at Bramley shortly before he died he was busy with the water wheel at his mill house, and had just told the electricity company he would no longer need their supplies, as water power was adequate for house and workshop! So Stafford-East was able to have his GN parts, and bits of an Akela engine came to him from Davenport during the mid-1950s. Davenport later built up another one.
Godfrey's 1921 car went in 1926 to the brothers Nigel and K M Asprey, who ran it in sprints as PE 9074. Following motor-racing tradition, Donald Bird and his brother, of the famous custard-powder family, had it by 1928 and they are thought to have increased its engine size to 1 1/2 litres. The following year KB Showell took it on and turned it into a single-seater. After a spectacular accident at the September Shelsley Walsh meeting he apparently supercharged the veetwin engine and dispensed entirely with the bodywork. When Showell went to farm in Norfolk he dismantled the GN and by 1931 the parts went into Davenport's store.
That three Akela-GNs survive is excellent, the more so as, if some parts are not original, many are, and the rest have been accurately copied. I hope Messrs Gibson, Smith and Stafford-East will continue to delight us with further appearances in these effective racing cyclecars this year. WB


Last week I had the chance to do another shoot with the fabulous Helen Peng. As usual it was a fun shoot, really chill, and all that good stuff. I sneaked in my new pair of shorts from my fave store ever Bogatte =) They are from the brand Lovecat and acid washed. I had been eying them for quite some time so I finally decided I would just order them. Usually I am cautious when I buy light washed denim or a light acid wash because I think there is too much of a contrast with my tan skin, but these jeans weren't too light at all. ^_^ I am also wearing a black printed blouse from XXI, a belt from eBay, and ankle boots (which you can't see). I am loving this summer sun. Cannot believe this week is almost over, I am going to a concert on Monday so I'll talk to y'all then!


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Australian parliament censures former PM over secret ministries
KYODO NEWS - Nov 30, 2022 - 14:35 | World, All
Former Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison. (Getty/Kyodo)
Australia's parliament on Wednesday censured former Liberal Prime Minister Scott Morrison, after an inquiry deemed his secret accumulation of multiple ministries during the pandemic "corrosive of trust in government."
While it is symbolic in nature, the move marks the first time a former prime minister has been censured by parliament. The motion was passed by 86 votes to 50 in the country's lower house.
Morrison, who lost power in a general election in May, secretly had himself appointed to five ministerial roles during the pandemic, becoming joint minister for health, finance, treasury, home affairs and resources.
An investigation into the matter found Morrison's actions were legal, but it ruled that he "fundamentally undermined" responsible government.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said Wednesday that the actions were an abuse of power and a trashing of Australia's democracy.
"The fact is that our democracy is precious. There's no room for complacency," Albanese said during the debate ahead of the censure motion.
Morrison has continued to defend his actions, labelling the censure as "political intimidation" and "retribution" in a speech to parliament Wednesday morning ahead of the vote.
The former prime minister only used the additional powers once, to block an offshore gas exploration project in the lead-up to the May election.

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The acting of Sonia Sui Tang has been affirmed by many viewers, and now her father has also came out to support her, "Since young she has strong desire to perform, and got a lot of scars on her body and face from throwing, so I used to not allowing her to pursue the road to stage, not hoping the baby daughter to develop her career in entertainment industry." But after parents watch her hard works been rewarded, now is allowing her to have career in entertainment industry with piece of mind.


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Pop Stars or Porn Stars? 'Blurred Lines' Book Examines Music's Role In Sexual Assault on Campus
"America is in the middle of a sexual revolution and the rules are constantly changing," says Vanessa Grigoriadis, who authored the recently released Blurred Lines: Rethinking Sex, Power, and Consent…
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"America is in the middle of a sexual revolution and the rules are constantly changing," says Vanessa Grigoriadis, who authored the recently released Blurred Lines: Rethinking Sex, Power, and Consent on Campus, noting that today's music stars play a crucial role.
Because many of these issues begin and play out in college, the award-winning journalist interviewed 120 university students and spoke to an array of activists, school administrators, and parents to craft her guide to the sexual assault debate. In several chapters of Blurred Lines, Grigoriadis highlights the power that pop stars are having on today's impressionable teens. Billboard caught up with Grigoriadis to discuss the influence of Drake's lyrics, Miley Cyrus' lewd antics and pop stars who look like porn stars while professing to be feminists.
Billboard: What inspired Blurred Lines?
Vanessa Grigoriadis: In Robin Thicke's song, "Blurred Lines," the important line is "I know you want it but you're a good girl." That really was one of the earlier indicators that societally we were starting to think about sexual assault in a different way or at least starting to talk about it in a different way. That song, in all of its ridiculousness, was the song of the summer in 2013 but was also widely criticized in no uncertain terms all over the Internet. A song like that, even three years earlier, would never have been talked about as a rape culture song in the mainstream media. My book is about making those lines straight and clear and a fight on college campuses to make that all happen.
You mention pop stars like Miley Cyrus in the book. What role have these musicians played in the current rape culture?
Miley Cyrus wants to do a "Wrecking Ball" video with Terry Richardson. She wants that video to be as provocative as it can be and she knows that Terry is talented. Her sense of activism may not extend to pass on him as a videographer. Taylor Swift is notably making music that attacks other women, particularly Katy Perry. At the same time, both Miley and Taylor are saying they support women's rights, that they feel that now is the time for women to speak out strongly and show their power and that girls should feel confident and not let boys bring them down or rule their lives. That's also a strong message. Do we want to congratulate them for some of the message or do we want to denigrate them for the part they are missing? And that's a hard call.
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Kesha and Lady Gaga are symbols of young millennial women who are willing to be up front about trauma that they have experienced but are adamant about taking power back from their situations. In Kesha's case against Dr. Luke, which is not an open-and-shut case, the fact that she was supported so openly by colleagues like Demi Lovato and Fiona Apple, Taylor Swift giving her $250,000 for her legal fees. There was a groundswell of support for somebody who is a victim but may not have the evidence to actually get anywhere in criminal court.
Lena Dunham wrote an essay about Kesha, in which she says it wasn't so long ago that famous women watched other famous women come out and say that they were victims on TV but didn't want to support them because they were afraid that somehow that would boomerang and make men not want to hire them for jobs. But those days are over. We can expect to see this go on, whether it's in the realm of sexual assault or domestic violence or record contracts that are unfair. I think the girl power of Twitter is unstoppable.
How has pop feminism affected the sexual revolution?
The rise of pop feminism coincided with the rise of Obama. And that pop feminism in a lot of ways did work for girls who are in college now. It gave them a sense of purpose in the world, which was very different than what the girls who grew up trying to emulate Britney Spears had. These girls in college now are post-Britney. They were so little when Britney was around and they look at a manufactured star like her with a lot of skepticism. But they are not skeptical of women who are owning their sexuality and who are presenting it as: "I'm Nicki Minaj. I am calling all the shots myself, even the sexual ones." They want authentic stars. They are part of the rise of Taylor Nation.
On one hand, pop feminism made girls more aware of the rape culture because it makes women feel self-confident and sexually self-confident. And it's part of why they have decided to call out boys who don't treat them right, because they feel self-assured enough to do that. On the other hand, there is no ability for anybody to become a pop star if they don't look and act like a porn star today. You have to sell sex as a package, which you always did but not as overtly. That has been a paradoxical thing; we have this pop feminism at the same moment that every pop star basically looks like a porn star.
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How does the recent Taylor Swift groping case play into all of this?
Five years ago, America would say "Taylor what you doing? Why are you making such a big deal out of this? Are you just trying to get attention? Are you just a fame whore, Taylor?" That was not the response here. She's setting a new standard for what should be labeled sexual assault and what should be considered taboo in our culture. To have the most important pop star in the country do that is a pretty extraordinary moment.
Is the popular music on campus affecting the dialogue?
In my book, I talk a lot about Drake as the guy who thinks, "Why do I need an independent women to feel like she needs me?" as he says. That's the kind of thought process that a lot of guys are going through. The music college kids are listening to are Chance The Rapper, Childish Gambino, Post Malone. And there is a vulnerability to some of those guys. They are not presenting a bulletproof misogynist; they are saying, "OK I may be in a man's world but I can see a woman's perspective." Male stars are beginning to see that there is a consciousness rising among women and that they need to react to that in their music, that they can play with their own sexuality in a way that they couldn't before. You can be a gay rap star. You can wear a dress if you really want to, you can wear a kilt.
In what way can entertainers continue to advance this discussion?
I think they can continue to police the issue a little bit. I think they can continue to support each other and call out producers and people that cross the line. I think that they can get deeper with their activism supporting women's issues. And if they are pro choice they should be talking about being pro choice. If they want to get more sophisticated in the way they look at feminism, I think everybody would benefit from that. I also think that they have to reckon with the fact that they've turned themselves into sex objects and as they get older, they have to think about what the path is and how they might model a more deeper femininity. I think we have a lot of stars right now who are aging into that time, like Katy Perry.
What are some of the more shocking things that you heard about while doing Blurred Lines recon on campuses?
I interviewed a woman who used the pseudonym "Blackout Blonde" and she said, "I'm an unrepentant party girl. I don't even really believe in sexual assault. If something happens one night, you should just blame that on Jose Cuervo." And then I met activists at radical campuses who told me that anything that was at all murky in terms of sex was rape, and really felt that using the language of rape was powerful, and that boys deserve to have that label on them and they should be kicked out of school. I met a UT Austin student who — as much as you might make fun of him for saying this — was really thinking about what consent means. He said, "I read something on a magazine the other day and it was like 'How to be a real man: Shave with the grain the first time, never point a gun at somebody if you don't intend to shoot them, always buy tools you don't need to replace, and never have sex with somebody who doesn't want to have sex with you.'" And that's the ultimate message here: No. What's promoted in songs does not always need to be the case.


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When Floyd Mayweather welcomes UFC Champion Conor McGregor inside the boxing ring, it is expected to be the biggest fighting spectacle of this generation, if not ever. On August 26, 2017 viewers will witness, for the first time, the sports version of when two worlds collide.
Boxing has long been the staple in the combat sports world, until Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) became the fastest growing sport in the world and captured newer audiences. Today many view it as the old vs. new age, one seems to be on a meteoric rise and the other struggling to stay relevant.
Brick and mortar retail stores are following the same traditional format that we all grew up with. Mayweather, while flashy and controversial, represents a sport that gets the same headlines as brick and mortar stores; "Boxing is dead" or "Boxing is a dying sport". You can replace brick and mortar in any of those headlines and find thousands of results on Google. This superfight, not only brings both sports to a height neither has seen in some time, but will create a new blended party for audiences.
Lines continue to blur between traditional brick and mortar shopping and e-commerce. Shoppers care more about bottom lines price and will go wherever that leads them, online or in store. These two worlds collide and coexist to consumers everyday while brands continue to struggle.
The $1.9 trillion e-commerce world shows no signs of slowing down, companies are facing more challenges managing product content across channels, and are losing revenue as a result.
Thanks to e-commerce, online sales have scaled new heights, winning a growing percentage of the market every year. The Irishman, McGregor has made his own emergence from obscurity, much like MMA and e-commerce. The UFC Champion was said to be living out of his car just a few years ago. Now he is on the verge of a multi-million dollar pay day, bringing MMA into its largest spotlight to date. Regardless of who wins, audiences will fill the arena and create a new hybrid of both sports, leaving room for only growth.
An estimated 8,640 brick-and-mortar stores will close their doors in 2017, more than 2008 in the great recession (Zero Hedge 2017). Each retailer must look to online sales to keep consumers and both sides must concentrate on what the consumer wants/needs more than thinking of winning them for their side. This will not be a Blockbuster vs Netflix, we all know how that turned out, this battle is all about placement and willingness to adapt.
We have seen past dual sport athletes, Michael Jordan, Bo Jackson and Deion Sanders did it first by showing the cross over appeal. Now athletes like Tim Tebow and Brock Lesnar bring a different appeal to dual sports by sole mass appeal to the media. But this is not playing two sports separately, this is a head-to-head battle of two becoming one.
The weigh ins for a fighter are as mentally tough as they are physical. Today with regulations becoming stricter and heavier regulated in order to keep transparency and safety for fighters health, there is very little room for error.
Product information is becoming rich, robust, accurate and readily available to customers and consumers alike, and businesses are becoming more efficient, compliant, and transparent. Consumers want to know more about the products they buy and are basing purchasing decisions on the information available to them.
Companies that aren't paying attention to larger trends will lose customers trust; the value of a cross channel approach is becoming a must in order to maintain trust loyalty and consistent experiences across every channel.


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Cosby said he got drugs to give women for sex
(AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, File). File- This Jan. 17, 2015, file photo shows comedian Bill Cosby performing at the Buell Theater in Denver. A federal judge will hear arguments on Cosby's request to have dismissed a defamation lawsuit filed by three
By MARYCLAIRE DALE
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Bill Cosby testified in 2005 that he got Quaaludes with the intent of giving them to young women he wanted to have sex with, and he admitted giving the sedative to at least one woman and "other people," according to documents obtained Monday by The Associated Press.
The AP had gone to court to compel the release of the documents; Cosby's lawyers had objected on the grounds that it would embarrass their client.
The 77-year-old comedian was testifying under oath in a lawsuit filed by a former Temple University employee. He testified he gave her three half-pills of Benadryl.
Cosby settled that sexual-abuse lawsuit for undisclosed terms in 2006. His lawyers in the Philadelphia case did not immediately return phone calls Monday.
Cosby has been accused by more than two dozen women of sexual misconduct, including allegations by many that he drugged and raped them in incidents dating back more than four decades. Cosby, 77, has never been criminally charged, and most of the accusations are barred by statutes of limitations.
Cosby resigned in December from the board of trustees at Temple, where he was the popular face of the Philadelphia school in advertisements, fundraising campaigns and commencement speeches.
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After missioning for 20km and throwing up a powder type dust over all the villagers along the way we finally got to Lake Shala & Chitu. A Park Ranger took us down to the lake side and allowed us to pick our tree along the water edge, where we camped for the night. At night you heard Flamingoes flying overhead but the flocks where so big that it sounded like a swarm of mosquitoes.
The next day the ranger took us down to the hot springs and to see the Flamingoes which must have numbered around 10,000. Lake Chitu (the bottom photograph) is a lake in the bottom of a volcano, villagers bring their cows and clothes to clean and the flamingoes are on the left (out of picture).
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Shrishti (Sapna Chaudhary), Ranvir (Vikrant Anand), Gaurav (Zuber Kamal Khan) and Avni (Anju) belong to different strata of society, but their hearts are one.
When Shrishti's father, an honest teacher is falsely implicated in a question paper scam, he commits suicide, resulting in Shrishti's family leaving the city. Ranvir is also forced to leave the city when his mother discovers an extra-marital affair of his father. The four friends depart only to reunite in college.
While they are enjoying their lives in college, things take a turn when Gaurav wins the college president election against Ranvir. Ranvir avenges his defeat in a way that none of the friends would have ever imagined. The chaos drifts the friends apart again. Will these friends be able to rekindle their friendship again?


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Welcome to the Saintly Spotlight! The brilliant idea of Jack the library intern, The Saintly Spotlight is an opportunity for St. Anne's-Belfield School's most passionate readers to share their reading lives with their school community. All students in grades 5-8 are welcome to apply by customizing a Google Slides template with common reading related questions. Each week, a different middle school student will be chosen and have the chance to "take over" the Saintly Spotlight corner with their favorite books, decorations, and chatchkes from home. Additionally, their Spotlight slideshow will play on the library TVs all week long.
Last week the Saintly Spotlight corner was dedicated to Eden! Eden is a fifth grade graphic novel lover who loves to get comfortable when she's really into her book. I love Eden's reading advice about staying true to yourself as a reader – reading books that aren't a good fit just because others love them may seem tempting, but it's not always the way to find the best book for you! Congratulations, Eden!


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STEAM Horizon Awards, Ottawa, ON – Wednesday, May 17 the Canada Science and Technology Museums Corporation Foundation will be presenting seven STEAM Horizon Awards to Canadian students, three of whom are recent Canada-Wide Science Fair participants. Aidan Aird of Markham, Ontario, Marianne Drolet-Sénéchal of Sherbrooke, Québec, and Thomas Imbeault-Nepton of Saint-Honoré, Québec will be receiving the award along with four students from Toronto, Winnipeg, Scarborough and Lark Harbour.
The award, presented in Ottawa at the first annual National Science and Innovation Gala, recognizes Canadian youth who are leaders and innovators in the fields of Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics (STEAM), who are making differences in their communities using STEAM. Along with the acknowledgment of their amazing contributions and innovations, these seven students will be receiving a $25,000 grant for their post-secondary education.
All three CWSF alumni, award recipients, have participated in the Fair in the past couple of years, receiving Thomas, a current Canada-Wide Science Fair finalist, is in Regina competing for over $1,000,000 with 460 other young, Canadian scientists. He will be flying to Ottawa, from Regina, Wednesday night to be recognized for his accomplishments and receive the award.
For me, science has no limits – it represents the infinite because you never know where it will lead. My goal has always been to help people improve their lives. That's why, in my early science fair projects I developed a system to help people with Parkinson's to walk. This past year I studied how light can help people with attention deficit disorder. Finally, this year, I worked on a system to detect and prevent falls for seniors. A sense of ambition is essential for doing science. – Thomas Imbeault Nepton
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Bands, Choruses and Orchestras from the Annie Sullivan Middle School, Horace Mann Middle School, Remington Middle School and Franklin High School all performed this past weekend at the annual Massachusetts Instrumental and Choral Conductors Association (MICCA) Festival.
Ensembles are evaluated and awarded a medal of Bronze, Silver or Gold according to the score they receive. The combined middle schools chorus received a bronze medal, while the combined Franklin Middle Schools Orchestra, Horace Mann Middle School Band, Remington Middle School Band, Annie Sullivan Middle School Band, Franklin High School Wind Ensemble and Concert Band, FHS Chorus and Select Chorus all earned Silver Medals.
The Franklin High School Symphony Orchestra and the Franklin Repertory Orchestra both brought home Gold Medals from the regional three-day festival.
The high school, under the direction of Diane Plouffe, is comprised of 72 orchestra students ranging from grades nine through twelve.
During the competition, the students performed three selections: "Symphony No. 27, Finale" by Haydn, "Make Our Garden Grow" by Bernstein and "Russian Sailor's Dance" by Gliere.
The Franklin Repertory Orchestra, also under the direction of Plouffe, is an audition-based group comprised of 23 students from grades 8 to 12. The Repertory Orchestra is part of Franklin Public Schools Lifelong Learning Music Academy directed by Sheila Darcey.
Both orchestras will be performing in the state's Gold Medal Showcase performance on Saturday, April 8th at Mechanics Hall in Worcester. This performance is free and open to the public.


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'We are entering an intense period of activity': Reabold Resources' Oza and Williams talk drilling plans as they gear up for 2019 expansion (RBD)
With a 0.82p share price and a £31.5m market cap, oil and gas investor Reabold Resources (LSE:RBD) has advanced considerably since we spoke to co-chief executives Sachin Oza and Stephen Williams in June. The period has been a busy one for the business, defined largely by its entry into the US and its subsequent discovery and production of hydrocarbons in the country after a period of intense drilling and workover activity. Here, we once again catch up Oza and Williams to discuss Reabold's preparations for two prospective drills at its European interests later this year and longer-term plans for a wider roll-out of its strategy.
Reabold took a significant step forward in June with the acquisition of US-focused oil and gas firm Gaelic Resources for £3m, paid in shares. Through Gaelic, the business was granted the option of participating in three near-term, high-impact Californian oil and gas leases called Monroe Swell, West Brentwood and Grizzly Island. These are estimated to have an NPV of up to $235m net to Reabold.
Alongside its partner Sunset Exploration and operator Integrity Management Solutions, Reabold is targeting more than 4MMbbls of oil at Monroe Swell with a net NPV of up to $100m. Meanwhile, the trio are targeting up to 2MMbbls of oil at West Brentwood and 50-90bcf of gas at Grizzly Island with a net NPV to Reabold of $25m and $100m respectively. Oza says the US leases met all of Reabold's strict investment criteria, which he and Williams have been pursuing since taking over last year:
'We had to make a direct investment in the US rather than our normal approach of taking a stake in an operator. However, we felt this was necessary because all three leases met our need for high-quality and high-return projects that are technically de-risked, close to monetisation and can reach production at little expense. The resources here are not massive, but we are looking to maximise the dollars that come out for every dollar put in. On that metric, these are phenomenally good assets for us that can rapidly advance.'
True to Oza's word, the firm and its partners wasted no time following the Gaelic acquisition, delivering an almost constant stream of newsflow. Firstly, in July, Integrity began a four well workover programme with a net NPV of up to $10m to Reabold. This was completed by August, with all four wells in production at a gross production rate of 70bopd.
Then August also saw Integrity begin drilling a well at West Brentwood, the first of the five wells that Reabold has the option to fund before the end of 2019 in exchange for earning-in to 50pc of the three licences. Days after spudding the well, Integrity announced that it had made a commercial hydrocarbon discovery, and in September it began to prepare facilities for production in excess of200bopd and 60MMcf/d gross.
Moving forward, Reabold expects to spud the second and third wells of its five-well programme at Monroe Swell and Grizzly Island before the end of the year. Integrity is also looking at the possibility of drilling two more wells at West Brentwood to maximise its potential. Thanks to this rapid progress, Williams says the Californian assets are already contributing to Reabold financially while it awaits progress across the rest of its portfolio:
'California has moved forward very quickly, and it has been useful to get something into production while we wait for the slightly slower wells in the UK and Romania. The successful well at West Brentwood is currently being completed and will soon be producing. The plan is then to drill two more wells in California this year and several more in 2019. The specific programme for next year has yet to be signed, but we are confident that the US will continue to quickly bring in cash.'
Imminent drilling
Although a lot of news has been coming from California in recent months, Reabold has also been reporting progress in the UK and Romania, where it is funding other operators' appraisal wells.
In the UK, the company owns a 32.9pc interest in UK oil and gas business Corallian Energy. Corralian is the 40pc owner and operator of the Wick prospect in the North Sea. It is also 49pc owner and operator of the Colter prospect, which is based just off the UK's south coast and adjacent to the prolific Wytch Farm oil field. At $55/bbl oil, Colter has a success case NPV of $180m, of which $59m would be net to Reabold
Alongside its partners at both prospects, Corallian has spent this year gearing up to drill an exploration well at Wick and an appraisal well at Colter in the fourth quarter. In July, the firm announced that authorisation for expenditures had been signed at both projects, marking a final stage of approval. Then, in September, it said that a rig site survey had been completed at Wick ahead of drilling.
With these updates in mind, Oza told us that everything is on track for drilling in the UK over the coming months. He expects the newsflow associated with drilling and any potential discovery to be 'extremely meaningful' for Reabold:
'Hopefully, the newsflow around the wells will be significant. The value case from Reabold's perspective is extremely meaningful,and the potential value of both prospects is reflected in the huge amount of farm-in interest they have attracted. We are now on the brink of unlocking what could be on offer.'
Meanwhile, in Romania, Reabold owns a 29pc stake in Danube Petroleum, a subsidiary of ADX Energy, which it bought the stake for £1.5m in December 2017. Danube is 50pc owner of the Parta Licence where it is planning a $5m appraisal campaign that will see it re-drill two gas discoveries starting later this year. The wells were first drilled in the 80s but abandoned on weak demand and low gas prices. The wells have an independently assessed contingent resource of 21.6BCF and prospective resources of 28.3BCF. They are expected to deliver a low estimate success case NPV of $29m and upside case of $86m.
In September, Reabold announced that it had released the second tranche of its £1.5m investment in Danube, funding the company for the first well in the programme, which is expected in Q1 next year. Drilling of the second well is currently contingent on Danube securing additional funding, but Williams tells us he and Oza are confident this will go ahead:
'Danube is working on securing the money for the second well. We think the low-risk nature of the projects thanks to previous production and strong gas prices in Romania that are converging with wider Europe should make it attractive to investors. If the funding is secured, it is likely that the drill contract will have an option to go on to the second well, allowing back-to-back drilling. If not, we will just do the first one.'
Oza adds that the wider Parta block has additional upside potential of up to 300Bcf gas and 45MMbbl oil that could extend even further through the consolidation of nearby licences:
'In this area, even moderately sized historically de-risked prospects they are highly economical because the situation is very different from the 80s when they were first drilled. The region also benefits from low drilling and operating costs along with robust gas pricing and infrastructure. This could yield extremely profitable production for Reabold and our investors.'
Expansion plans
The last few months have also seen Reabold begin preparations for its future, raising £4.8m in September to extend its strategy into additional high-impact projects. Having proved concept through its work in California, the firm is keen to take advantage of low project entry prices and drilling costs while it can and has already identified several potential opportunities. As Oza puts it:
'The reason Reabold can invest in low-risk, high-impact upstream oil and gas projects is because we can find opportunities that are significantly undervalued. With the oil price having increased there is a sense in some areas of the world, this anomaly is changing a bit. The difficulty for us comes when we are not able to buy into these technically de-risked projects at very low prices. Each basin moves to its own rhythm, and the window is closing a bit in some area. It remains open in some areas we focus on, which is why we are keen to get after them quickly. We are constantly evaluating opportunities that could meet our criteria and are in discussions with numerous potential projects we expect to create significant value for our shareholders.'
Encouragingly, the placing was cornerstone with a £3m investment by asset management giant M&G Investments. With further institutional backing from the likes JO Hambro and Miton – which increased its stake to 10.1pc in the placing – it seems that Reabold well and truly has the City's support to fully roll out its strategy.
Thanks to early progress in the UK and Romania and the barrage of news from California, Reabold's shares have risen from 0.7p to 0.82p since the beginning of June, giving it a current market cap of c.£31.5m. In its results for the six months ended 30 June, released this week, the firm posted net current assets of £9,659,000. Since then, the company has raised a further £4.8m of cash, taking it net current assets to around c£14.5m.
If we subtract admin costs of c.£65,000/month over three months and $1.4m for drilling at West Brentwood (the five-well programme is expected to cost $7m in total) this figure falls to £12.9m. Using this rough calculation, the market is currently valuing Reabold's portfolio at just £19m, a small portion of the combined net NPV it has predicted for its projects.
This point, combined with the planned period of intense drilling activity in the coming months and longer-term institutionally-backed growth plans, led Williams to argue that Reabold's shares could rise much further:
'We are entering an intense period of activity. It will be hectic in both the US – where we are confident we will be able to demonstrate further success– and in the UK and Romania, via our operator stakes. That will be the most fundamental driver for our shares and market cap, but on top of that, we now have the balance sheet capabilities and firepower to execute further transactions. We think these will be exciting and believe the market will also like them. Our job now is to start filling in drilling slots for 2019. I think investors really appreciate this constant stream of wells and we would like to continue that indefinitely.'
After a healthy nine months that has seen shares increase significantly, Reabold is on the verge of a very significant period for newsflow that, if all goes to plan, could unlock plenty of upside for its shares. Taking a longer-term view, Reabold is in the unusually strong position for a company of its size of having a significant amount of institutional support and cash covering roughly a third of its market cap. These points bode well for its plans to keep on expanding while it can still access undervalued assets across the world.
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Oregano is one of the world's finest natural medicines, its power lying in the oil found in its leaves.
The name oregano derives from the Greek words oros, for "mountain," and ganos, for "joy" or "splendor." Not only is oregano a beautiful plant, but the mountainsides on which it grew were considered much more beautiful because of its presence. This aromatic herb is a perennial that grows wild in the mountains in areas free of pollution and flourishes in late summer in warm, sunny fields. Oregano is usually thought of as a culinary herb, but its medicinal properties have been understood and used for thousands of years. But beware: The related herbs thyme and marjoram sold in most North American supermarkets are often mislabeled as oregano and do not possess wild oregano's miraculous healing properties.
Tea made with oregano for loss of appetite, nervousness, indigestion, bloating, flatulence, coughs, urinary problems, bronchial problems, headaches, swollen glands, and to promote menstruation. It has also been used in the past to relieve fevers, diarrhea, vomiting, and jaundice. Unsweetened oregano tea can be used as a gargle or mouthwash. Alternatively, the leaves can be dried, pulverized, and made into capsule form when it's inconvenient to make a tea.
Oil of oregano helps in the reduction of tooth pain. In fact, when poured into the cavity of the tooth, it acts as an analgesic. Oil of oregano is also a powerful fungicide and can be used to treat fungus and yeast infections, especially systemic, chronic, or recurrent fungus infection and yeast infection caused by Candida albicans intestinal yeast overgrowth (Candidiasis). Oregano can also help alleviate intestinal disorders commonly associated with Candidiasis including Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS), Fibromyalgia, Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS), leaky gut syndrome, and a number of intestinal parasite and bacterial infections.
Historically, oil of oregano superseded anti-inflammatory drugs in reversing pain and inflammation and is nearly as powerful as morphine as a painkiller. Externally, oregano leaves can be pounded into a paste. Add small amounts of hot water or tea to reach the desired consistency (oatmeal may also be added to thicken it if needed). This paste can then be used to relieve pain from rheumatism, swelling, itching, aching muscles, and sores. Oil of oregano can also provide immediate help for bee stings and venomous bites until medical attention can be reached. For tired joints and muscles, put a handful of oregano leaves in a coffee filter, mesh bag, or cheesecloth bag and run steaming bath water over it. Allow it to steep in the tub with you as you relax in the warm, fragrant water. Oil of oregano has even been suggested as a treatment for dandruff, diaper rash, and other skin disorders.
Oregano has high antioxidant properties. It is proven that it has more antioxidants than blueberries and apples. These healing properties help to prevent cancer and can slow down aging.
Oregano has powerful anti-inflammatory properties and can be used effectively in place of pharmaceutical products for headaches, flu, sprains, strains and swollen glands.
Oregano is beneficial for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. It can also be used for general fatigue alleviation and in cases of depression.
Oregano extract can help treat lung and sinus congestion. Mix a few drops with citrus juice or water and drink daily. You should notice a great improvement in a few days.
Oregano is a natural treatment for yeast infection.Women prone to reoccurring vaginal yeast infections can benefit from taking oregano supplements.
Oregano oil is highly effective as a topical treatment for bug bites, rashes, even poison ivy. Just dilute the oregano oil with olive oil.
Oregano tea when consumed regularly can help to increase flexibility in your joints and muscles.
Oregano oil is a good remedy for mild indigestion. You can mix a few drops of oregano oil to a small glass of milk or juice.
Oregano can help slow the process of spoilage of food and thus minimizing the risk of ingesting harmful bacteria, parasites and fungi.
Oregano for cooking: Oregano is one of the few herbs or spices that has a stronger flavor when dried than fresh. When using fresh oregano, you will probably need to use three times as much to achieve the same intensity of flavor. Oregano herb goes well with tomato sauces, lamb, cruciform vegetables (broccoli, cauliflower, etc), as well as zucchini and of course about any pizza. Other spices that go with oregano are garlic, parsley, sage, thyme, pepper, basil, and dried onions.
Another important benefit of oregano in cooking is the facts that the volatile oils in oregano used during food processing may have an important role in preventing the spoilage of food and in reducing the risk of ingesting harmful bacteria, fungi, and parasites.
Oregano Tea: Dried or fresh leaf of oregano can be made into a tea by steeping 1 to 2 teaspoons (5 to 10 grams) in hot water for ten minutes. This tea can be consumed three times a day.
Tips when buying and using oregano oil: Make sure that the oil is derived from Origanum Vulgare, and that the carvacrol concentration is at least 70%. When Using oregano oil always follow the instructions on the bottle before applying topically, since highly concentrated oils may first need to be mixed with Olive Oil or Coconut Oil before application (usually one teaspoon of Olive Oil or Coconut Oil per one drop of Oil of Oregano).
There are some confusion regarding oregano and marjoram because they are so similar in smell and flavor that they are often mistaken for the same plant, though botanists tell us that they are really quite different. Some oregano supplements are very concentrated, particularly the liquid form. Some shops sell oils with a trace of oregano and blend it with other herbs. This would not give the desired effect.
Digestive distress may occur with too high a dose. This may be prevented by taking oregano supplements with a meal. Pregnant or nursing women should avoid supplements of oregano.


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Rock And Roll Pioneer Little Richard Dead At 87
(hennemusic) Rock and roll pioneer Little Richard died in Nashville, TN on May 9 at the age of 87. The legendary musician's son, Danny Jones Penniman, confirmed his father's passing to Rolling Stone, with the singer's lawyer Bill Sobel noting that the cause of death was bone cancer.
Born Richard Penniman in Macon, GA in 1932 as the third of twelve children in a religious family, the future music icon was originally inspired by gospel and grew up singing in church before Ike Turner's 1951 single, "Rocket 88" - considered by historians to be the first rock and roll record - inspired him to learn piano, with another main influence being Esquerita, a South Carolina singer who also wore his hair in a high black pompadour.
Richard got his first break while working at a concession stand at the Macon City Auditorium, where gospel artist Sister Rosetta Tharpe heard him singing before her concert at the venue and hired him to open the show.
After his father kicked him out of his home at 15 over his sexuality, Richard moved in with another family and began performing at a local venue they owned, The Tick Tock Club, before landing his first record deal, with RCA, in 1951. A few singles followed without much success before the singer signed with Specialty Records and issued his landmark 1955 hit, "Tutti Frutti"; backed up by Fats Domino's band, the song hit No. 2 on the R&B charts and the Top 20 on Billboard's pop charts while going on to sell a million copies. Read more here.
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Denise (Dotson) Low, Ph.D., is chair of the English Department at Haskell Indian Nations University, where she also teaches creative writing and American Indian Studies courses.
Her book, Words of a Prairie Alchemist, a collection of essays, was published by Ice Cube Press (2006). A poem collection, Thailand Journal, was named a notable book of 2003 by the Kansas City Star, and her book, New & Selected Poems, 1980-1999, was published by Penthe Press. She also edited Wakarusa Wetlands in Word & Image for the Lawrence Arts Center's Imagination & Place Committee (2005).
Low was guest co-editor of Teaching Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony, a special issue of American Indian Culture and Research Journal, UCLA, 28.1 (2004). Her articles, essays, and reviews of American Indian literature appear in Studies in American Indian Literature, American Indian Culture and Research Journal, American Indian Quarterly, Midwest Quarterly, Kansas City Star, and others.
She is a 5th generation Kansan of mixed German, Scots, Lenape (Delaware), English, French, and Cherokee heritage. She is a member of the Prairie Writers Circle of The Land Institute.
collect tears from the driving wind.
its slow arc through floodplain.
of willows and osage orange.
each hill, each piece of stone.
and leave the solid shape of your back.
and the blotting of night.
White dew sifts back into sky.
feeding from that slight, dampened, decomposing ash.
Her voice stilled. One ruddy robin in the grass, dipping.


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How Does the Public Perceive Farmers?
October 16, 2020 | Ed Scharringa
In this pandemic world, there have been numerous online articles, webinars and panel discussions about how the public perceives farmers and the way food is produced.
As farmers, we're very proud of what we do. We are diligent in producing the highest quality food and other products.
By and large, the public appreciates our efforts. But they generally don't know much about how we do it. A 2019 survey by the Canadian Centre for Food Integrity found that more than 90 per cent of this country's consumers indicated they know little to nothing about modern farming methods. The same report also said that 60 per cent wanted to know more.
John Jamieson, the head of the CCFI had some interesting things to say about building public trust during a webinar at Canada's Digital Farm Show, held last month. He said that, while getting the facts right is important, people also want to connect emotionally to where their food comes from.
That's why the CCFI has embarked on a campaign called "It's Good, Canada," which highlights to urban and suburban audiences the real stories of farmers, truck drivers, food processors and everyone else involved in the food supply. It attaches names and faces to the people who get food on tables. It also provides the facts and a bit of education around how we are environmentally responsible, support all our workers and care for our animals.
While the pandemic has been extremely trying, it has also opened up opportunities.
It has made people sit up and take notice of their food supply, with many looking to local sources for their groceries. Our innovative industry is and will continue to be well-positioned to help lead the way out of the troubling times in which we live.
We do, however, need the support of our government, and the fact that the recent Throne Speech was positive about farmers and our critical roles in producing food and fighting climate change is encouraging.
It's important for us to be able to tell our real story in ways that consumers can understand. We have done and are doing an incredible job through some of the toughest times the world has ever known.
As we approach the end of the 2020 season, let's be grateful for our built-in resilience, innovative spark and compassion for others. And let's spread the word.
Ed Scharringa is President for the Christian Farmers Federation of Ontario. The CFFO Commentary represents the opinions of the writer and does not necessarily represent CFFO policy. The CFFO Commentary is heard weekly on CFCO Chatham, CKXS Chatham, CKNX Wingham, and CHLP Listowel.
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Where do I go to do my FORCE Evaluation?
There are currently 22 FORCE Evaluation sites in the USA that have been selected based on the number of CAF personnel located at each site. It is unrealistic for testing to be conducted at each OUTCAN location in 44 States throughout the USA. Members are directed to the CAF Fitness Evaluation schedule for the location of the nearest FORCE Evaluation site.


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Subaltern Voices Series
Speaking & Theorizing from the Disciplinary Margins
Dr. Rob Aitken (Assistant Professor, International Political Economy, University of Alberta)
Topic: "Culture, Geopolitics, and Social Security: The NFB and the Japanese Internment."
Date: Thursday, 28 September 2006
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Abstract: Throughout the fall of 1943 and all of 1944, the National Film Board (NFB) negotiated and managed a complicated documentary film project entitled Of Japanese Descent. The project, which suffered strangely protracted bureaucratic negotiations, sought to portray the internment of Japanese citizens in a way that would serve 'as insurance when this is all over'. At one level, this project dramatized a familiar narrative which diagrammed (and erased) the violence and dislocation associated with the imposition of order by conflating the interment with the question of geopolitical danger and emergency. At another level, however, the Descent project threaded a number of other, and broader, stories of order and social stability. Beneath the surface of geopolitical and national emergency, the Descent project framed another narrative relating to the question of culture and social security. Mobilizing 'culture' as a kind of technology or surface of intervention, the NFB used the film project as an experiment in pursing a particular form of social security. In this paper I both review this experiment in culture/social security and argue that the invocation of social security in this context served as a kind of 'translation mechanism'. By centering this story of social security, the Descent project sought to translate the internment into a language of social cohesion and humane treatment. In doing so, the film both cleanses the story of internment and contributes to a narrative of the nation as a humane, peaceable and non-imperial body.
Bio: Dr. Rob Aitken is an Assistant Professor of International Political Economy in the Department of Political Science at the University of Alberta. He holds an MA and PhD in Political Science from Carleton University, and a BA (Hons) in Political Science and Development Studies from Trent University. His research interests lie at the intersection of International Political Economy and Cultural Studies. His research and publications focus on the globalization of finance, the culture of everyday economic spaces and the relationship between governmentality, culture and the making of economic space. He is currently completing a manuscript on the role of everyday finance in the global political economy entitled, Performing Capital: Toward a Cultural Economy of Global and Popular Finance (Palgrave, forthcoming).
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This stunningly beautiful castle was commissioned and built in 1856 by William Richard Annesly, 4th Earl Annesly, as his main residence and home. It is a fine example of Victorian architecture and craftsmanship.
The Castle is situated in the middle of an extensive forest park on the edge of the Mourne mountains, with some of the most beautiful and breathtaking scenery in Ireland. It overlooks a lake of nearly 1 mile in length, with the mountains of Mourne climbing behind.
Today the Castle is a thriving Christian Conference Centre, its facilities being used by many church, school and mission organisations.


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Biden CFPB Asks Supreme Court to Review Ruling on Its Unconstitutionality
Devin Watkins • 11/18/2022
The Biden administration has moved to appeal an October court ruling against the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), a ruling that invalidated controversial restrictions on short-term "payday" lenders and, more importantly, deemed the unusual funding method for the bureau itself unconstitutional. CEI Attorney Devin Watkins predicts the Supreme Court will hear the case, and a subsequent ruling could have big implications:
"The Supreme Court will likely grant the petition for certiorari. Circuit courts have disagreed on this issue, and the Court understands the prospect of invalidating an act of Congress as very important. The Fifth Circuit's decision protects democratically accountable government by ensuring that Congress can't create an unaccountable funding mechanism that cuts off a future Congress' ability to influence the government—which is worth the Court's time.
"The Supreme Court should affirm the decision that the CFPB has sought review over as it strengthened our Constitution's system of separation of powers: it ensures that, from now on, the CFPB will be lawfully funded through congressional appropriations. That decision was a victory for accountability that the Supreme Court should uphold. Our Constitution's structure encourages political accountability by giving Congress a powerful lever — namely, decisions about funding — to influence the behavior of unelected bureaucrats. The Fifth Circuit found that the CFPB's "double-insulated" funding structure — which includes what the court called an "off-books charge card that rings up unappropriated monies" — is indefensible.
"After the Supreme Court affirms the Fifth Circuit Decision, it should similarly scrutinize the other end-runs around the norms of the congressional appropriations process — such as the problematic funding structures of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Comptroller of the Currency, and the Federal Housing Finance Agency. This will ensure that the people will be in charge of the government, rather than the government being in charge of people.
"Ultimately, if the Payday Lending Rule were invalidated, everything the CFPB has ever done could end up being invalidated until Congress decides to fund the CFPB. Such funding could include riders that block the implementation of specific rules or otherwise restructure the CFPB. As the Republicans have not liked how the CFPB has operated, getting new funding through the new House without substantial riders limiting the CFPB's authority is unlikely."
CEI legal and policy experts have long objected to the bureau's unaccountability, starting with its unchecked, direct funding from the Federal Reserve. CEI previously filed a lawsuit on this subject in the D.C. Circuit in National Bank of Big Spring v. Mnuchin.
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Варькино — село в Дубовском районе Волгоградской области, в составе Горнобалыклейское сельского поселения.

Первоначально известно как хутор Варькин. Основано около 1800 года

Население —

История
Первоначально известно как хутор Варькин. Хутор заселён около 1800 года выселенцами из села Караваинка. По сведениям А. А. Минха хутор получил название по жившей здесь казачке Варьке. Земельный надел общий с селом Караваинка. Помимо хлебопашества крестьяне занимались садоводством и огородничеством. В конце XIX века хутор относился к Романовской волости Царицынского уезда Саратовской губернии.

В 1919 году село в составе Царицынского уезда включено в состав Царицынской губернии.

В 1928 году включено в состав Ольховского района Нижне-Волжского края (с 1934 года Сталинградского края). В 1935 году передано в состав Балыклейского района Сталинградского края (с 1936 года — Сталинградской области, с 1962 года — Волгоградской области). До 1953 года существовал отдельный Варькинский сельсовет. В 1953 году Варькинский сельсовет был упразднён, территория передана Романовскому сельсовету. В 1963 году в связи с ликвидацией Балыклейского района село было включено в состав Камышинского района. Дата передачи в состав Дубовского района не установлена. С 2005 года — в составе Горнобалыклейское сельского поселения

География
Село расположено на севере Дубовского района в степной местности в пределах Приволжской возвышенности, относящейся к Восточно-Европейской равнине, на реке Балыклейка. Рельеф местности холмисто-равнинный. Склоны долины Балыклейки изрезаны балками и оврагами. Центр села расположен на высоте около 40 метров над уровнем моря. Почвы — каштановые. Почвообразующие породы — пески.

По автомобильным дорогам расстояние до областного центра города Волгограда составляет 140 км, до районного центра города Дубовка — 83 км, до административного центра сельского поселения села Горный Балыклей — 20 км.

Часовой пояс

Население
''Динамика численности населения

Примечания

Населённые пункты Дубовского района (Волгоградская область)

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There are 7 reviews of Eau Ressourçante / Eau Tranquility.
Soft, gentle, inoffensive no matter how much you spray on- and so very suitable for hot days and shared work spaces. It's gone in an hour, but it's inexpensive and in a large bottle, so you can top up the scent whenever you need to freshen up.
Clarin's 'therapy' fragrances are so much better than their perfume lines, although have a very short lifespan as they contain natural ingredients. They are also much cheaper, I have picked up full bottles of Eau Dynamisante for $20, so I have no qualms about spraying them liberally. Another thing is that they are supposed to actually be soothing to the skin, and since I have extremely reactive skin this bodes well for me. It also means that I can dab it on my temples.
At first I didn't like Eau Ressourcante, I didn't dislike it but it had a plasticy kind of top note. I suspect that this may have been the age of the sample bottles I got, as well as the fact that the plastic cap did not fit well meaning that the perfume may have turned. After that dissipated this truly is a relaxing smell (for the time it lasts) . It's fresh and as with Dynamisante has a very clean smell to it. I like to use this before bedtime after a shower or bath, it helps me drift off to sleep (sometimes I use badger sleep balm or Shisedo relaxing fragrance instead just so I don't habituate to one or the other). I think this would be extra nice layered with the same-scented Clarin's body products. Clarins makes great body stuff, and this to me feels more like a skincare product that a proper perfume, but I like it for what it is none-the-less.
Not as great as Eau Dynamisante, but similarly refreshing with more floral notes and a hint of citrus and more energizing than calming.
I definitely find this frag more perfumy and less "masculine" than Eau Dynamisante, and it doesn't last as long as I would like it to.
In any event, as someone else wrote here, this is a good value.
This one reminds me slightly of YSL's Rive Gauche. Totally inoffensive smell, fantastic price for what you get, therapeutic properties and a lovely simple big blue glass bottle! On its own this doesn't do too much for me but I find that if I spray a little D&G Light Blue on first, and then this, that Eau Ress really comes out of itself and is enhanced by the combination.
be too much e.g. when you are feeling worse for wear or have a headache threatening.
I get a fresh opening and a lovely musky drydown. This is my "go to" scent for relaxing weekend days and relaxing summer holidays.
The bottle looks fab on the bathroom shelf too.
Gentle, serene and rosy; I love to wear this fragrance when travelling as it calms me down. It's lovely in summer as well - it has enough complexity to count as a 'real' perfume, but feels simple.
I get roses and perhaps other flowers, not too sweet, with a background murmur of woods to support and give some longevity. Definitely feminine.
A really beautiful fragrance that makes a good gift.
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June 3 update on COVID-19 in MN: Deaths rise to 1,086; protests a 'recipe for spread'
MPR News Staff and Catharine Richert
June 3, 2020 10:30 a.m.
A person gets tested for the coronavirus in a drive-thru setting at the People's Center Clinics and Services in Minneapolis in April.
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Minnesota health officials Wednesday reported 14 more deaths from COVID-19, putting the toll at 1,086 since the pandemic began.
The Health Department says 537 people are currently hospitalized, with 254 in intensive care, numbers roughly the same as Tuesday.
The newest numbers come as Minnesota's top health officials remain concerned that protests tied to the killing of George Floyd are inadvertently helping spread COVID-19.
The demonstrations are "a recipe for spread" of the disease, Minnesota Health Commissioner Jan Malcolm said on MPR News Wednesday. "The mitigating factor is that it was outdoors."
The fact that people without symptoms of the illness can still be spreading the virus continues to be among the biggest challenges, said Kris Ehresmann, the state's infectious disease director.
"There is a big role for asymptomatic transmission," and it's hard to identify who those people are, she said.
Across the U.S.Massive protests raise fears of new virus outbreaks
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Malcolm said her department has made clear to providers around the state that people involved in the demonstrations or cleanup effort should be tested — even if they have no symptoms.
She urged people to get tested right away if they have symptoms. If they don't, she said, they should wait five to seven days after they participated in a protest or clean-up effort to get tested.
And if their test result is negative, but they suspect they were exposed, Malcolm encouraged people to get re-tested around 12 days after they think they were exposed.
We recommend that any Minnesotan who has attended a protest, vigil, or community clean-up get tested for #COVID19. If you start to feel sick, get tested right away. If you do not feel sick, get tested as soon as you can, but no later than 5-7 days after the event. (1/2) pic.twitter.com/eTLrCXqYTL
— mnhealth (@mnhealth) June 3, 2020
Malcolm said that in addition to expanding guidance on who should get tested to protesters, the state is looking into opening testing sites in the areas where the gatherings have happened and are happening.
Malcolm said the most recent statistics suggest smaller waves of the virus making their way through the population, but there's nothing definitive.
"We're still at a fairly high degree of community spread in Minnesota," she said.
Still, Malcolm said that there are some signs the state's cases are stabilizing. For instance, the number of overall hospitalizations for COVID-19 is on a downward trend, and the number of people in intensive care unit beds has been holding steady at around 250.
Malcolm added that the state should start to see the impact of the state's efforts to reopen in about a week.
On when the state's economy will reopen (#covid19 related) more fully, @GovTimWalz says to expect more guidance in the next few days.
He says there's a possibility more will reopen before June 15.
Reopening consultations with his advisers will resume this evening or tomorrow.
— Brian Bakst (@Stowydad) June 3, 2020
While testing has been on the rise, Malcolm said Monday that the Health Department's public health laboratory stopped processing results over the weekend. The lab closed when the State Capitol complex was evacuated due to mass protests over the police killing of George Floyd.
That led to a dip in the number of tests being processed over the weekend. But by Tuesday, a little over 5,000 tests had been processed. The state has a goal of processing 20,000 tests daily in the coming weeks.
During the Health Department's Wednesday briefing, Ehresmann also said that "we are in desperate need" of blood supplies, urging Minnesotans to donate blood.
Developments from around the state
Beware of contact-tracing scams, MN officials warn
The state is warning Minnesotans to be on alert for text scams related to contact tracing of COVID-19.
According to the Federal Trade Commission, scammers are targeting people via text, saying that someone they know has tested positive for coronavirus and that they should click on a link for more information.
Some texts ask people to download software on to their phone, while others seek information like social security numbers and banking information.
Contact tracing is the practice of figuring out who someone who has tested positive for coronavirus has been in contact with. It's a strategy meant to mitigate the spread of the virus.
The state is encouraging people who get these texts to report them to the FBI.
— Catharine Richert | MPR News
U of M study: Hydroxychloroquine can't prevent coronavirus infection
A new University of Minnesota study shows hydroxychloroquine is not able to prevent the development of COVID-19 better than a placebo.
The results of the first randomized clinical trial of the drug will be published in the New England Journal of Medicine. Researchers also found that 40 percent of the trial participants taking hydroxyhloroquine developed nonserious side effects like nausea and diarrhea.
However, the trial found no cardiac complications from taking the drug, which is typically used for lupus.
The trial included 821 people in the United States and in Canada who had been exposed to someone with the virus, either members of their household or in their work as a health care worker or first responder.
President Donald Trump has touted the drug as a treatment for coronavirus, despite warnings from medical professionals that there was no research to back up his claims.
Questions over how MN defines congregate care
Data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services confirms that Minnesota is using a broad definition of long-term care, including foster care and hospice. That's creating some confusion as people try to compare Minnesota's COVID-19 deaths to other states.
Most states are only reporting the deaths of people in nursing home facilities as congregate care deaths.
State legislators have criticized public health officials for what appears to be a high number of long-term care deaths relative to other states. Minnesota's reported about 80 percent of all COVID-19 related deaths have been associated with these facilities.
But it's a statistical anomaly — the state's more expansive definition has actually skewed that statistic, said Health Commissioner Jan Malcolm.
"The narrative that's emerged is not accurate. That's not to say there aren't real important issues about are we doing as well as we can, and how we can do better," she said during a recent state legislative hearing.
The national average of nursing home deaths is 27 per 1,000 residents, while Minnesota's is 12 deaths per 1,000.
Minnesota's nursing home resident cases are also below the national average.
State Sen. Sen. Karin Housley, R-St. Marys Point, has also demanded answers from the state on why people who have coronavirus are being allowed back to their long-term care facilities.
Most of the spread, however, has occurred when staff brings the virus to these facilities, not from residents, said Kris Ehresmann, the state's infectious disease director.
Housley used the Senate hearing to push for universal testing in long-term care, saying she will introduce a new bill aimed at universal testing in these facilities. She wants to use some state money meant to fight COVID-19 to make sure all staff and residents in places like nursing homes and assisted living are tested for free, and regularly.
"Just get me universal testing. Let me see my mom. Let my mom have her hairdresser come in and do her hair," she said. "We're talking about getting families back with their loved ones."
Malcolm says the state's goal is testing in facilities that have no cases, but is currently focusing efforts on facilities that have at least one.
Court blocks bar owner from serving dine-in guests, violating Walz order
A Stearns County judge has ruled against an Albany, Minn., bar owner who threatened to open last month in violation of COVID-19 restrictions.
Kris Schiffler owns six bars and restaurants in central Minnesota. Last month, Schiffler announced he was opening one of them, Shady's Hometown Tavern in Albany, to dine-in customers, even though restaurants were restricted to take-out orders only under Gov. Tim Walz's stay-at-home order.
He backed down after state Attorney General Keith Ellison sought a restraining order.
District Court Judge Shan Wang granted the state's motion for a temporary injunction against Schiffler, prohibiting him from violating the governor's executive order.
The judge ruled that the governor "acted within his authority" when he closed restaurants, and did not abuse his power when he determined that the pandemic constituted a peacetime emergency.
In his statement following the ruling, Ellison praised the court decision.
"All Minnesotans — especially the folks who live in and near Stearns County — can be relieved that the court has put their health first by granting this temporary injunction," he said.
Bar owner Schiffler said he's not giving up his fight, and he plans to take the case to federal court.
"We will be out of business probably before this court case is settled, but we're not going to quit yet," he said. "Because we don't want this to happen to any business in December, or in two years, or 10 years or 20 years."
— Kirsti Marohn | MPR News
Meatpacking hot spots remain
Many of the outbreaks outside the Twin Cities metro area are focused around meatpacking plants. Officials have intensified testing in those hot spots, uncovering more infections.
In southwestern Minnesota's Nobles County, where an outbreak hit Worthington's massive JBS pork plant, about 1 in 15 people have tested positive for COVID-19. In mid-April, there were just a handful of cases. By Wednesday, there were 1,558 confirmed cases, although the numbers are rising at a much slower rate than in previous weeks.
The JBS plant shut on April 20 but has since partially reopened with expanded hygiene and health monitoring measures.
Similar problems have been reported in Stearns County, where COVID-19 cases tied to two packing plants — Pilgrim's Pride poultry plant in Cold Spring and Jennie-O Turkey in Melrose — skyrocketed in May.
An undisclosed number of workers at both plants have tested positive for the virus. There were about 55 confirmed cases in Stearns County in early May. By Wednesday, confirmed cases were at 2,047 with 14 deaths.
Kandiyohi County in west-central Minnesota is also seeing cases continue to climb more than a month after officials with the Jennie-O turkey processing plant there said some employees had tested positive for the coronavirus. The county had confirmed three COVID-19 cases then.
On Wednesday, the Health Department reported 505 people have now tested positive in the county.
While the counts in those counties are high relative to their population, officials say the growth in new cases in those areas appears to be stabilizing.
Data in these graphs are based off Minnesota Department of Health cumulative totals released at 11 a.m. daily. You can find more detailed statistics on COVID-19 at the Health Department website.
The coronavirus is transmitted through respiratory droplets, coughs and sneezes, similar to the way the flu can spread.
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Government and medical leaders are urging people to wash their hands frequently and well, refrain from touching their faces, cover their coughs, disinfect surfaces and avoid large crowds, all in an effort to curb the virus' rapid spread.


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Flags Raised and Presented in Augusta
The Daily Constitutionalist of Augusta published two instances of flags being raised and presented in the city.
Flag Raising. A handsome flag, of the Confederate States, was raised over the Georgia Railroad Machine Works yesterday afternoon about 5 o'clock. It was gotten up for the purpose by the employees of the shop, and was raised to its position by the master mechanic, Mr. Hardman. A speech was made by Mr. B. Walker, which was loudly cheered; and a salute was fired in honor of the occasion, with Mr. Philpot's steamboat battery.
Flag Presentation. A banner was presented to the Edgefield Rangers at Beach Island yesterday, and was the occasion of some very agreeable exercises. The presentation speech was made by Mr. Wm. Atkinson, of Beach Island. There was also a fine barbecue, at which several speeches were made, and a number of good things, of course, were said, and many more ate…
Battle of Spotsylvania Courthouse; Gordon's Heroics (5/12/1864)
Confederates Moved South from Rocky Face Ridge (5/12/1864)
Editorial on How to Get Arms (5/12/1861)
Flags Raised and Presented in Augusta (5/12/1861)
Georgia Railroad Bridge Guard (5/12/1862)
Sick Soldier Found Nice Caretaker (5/12/1862)
Diary: Testy Encounter with Yankee; Confederate Treasury (5/12/1865)
Last Group of Confederates East of Mississippi Surrendered at Kingston, Georgia (5/12/1865)
Milledgeville Newspapers Reported and Commented on Yankee Raids (5/12/1863)
Yankees Fled; Stonewall Dead (5/12/1863)


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Q: Unable to get property 'unuseGeometry' of undefined or null reference thrown I'm doing automated test to my angular aplication and I got this error: Unable to get property 'unuseGeometry' of undefined or null reference thrown. I don't know what it is wrong, to test I use Edge browser.
it('should call goToInitialMenu()', () => {
    spyOn(component, 'goToInitialMenu');
    component.goToInitialMenu();
    fixture.whenStable().then(()=> {
      expect(component.goToInitialMenu).toHaveBeenCalled();
    });
});

Full test file:
import { async, ComponentFixture, TestBed } from '@angular/core/testing';
import { CUSTOM_ELEMENTS_SCHEMA, NO_ERRORS_SCHEMA } from '@angular/core';
import { SinglePlayerMenuComponent } from './single-player-menu.component';
import { HttpClientModule } from '@angular/common/http';

fdescribe('SinglePlayerMenuComponent', () => {
  let component: SinglePlayerMenuComponent;
  let fixture: ComponentFixture<SinglePlayerMenuComponent>;

  beforeEach(async(() => {
    TestBed.configureTestingModule({
      declarations: [ SinglePlayerMenuComponent ],
      schemas: [CUSTOM_ELEMENTS_SCHEMA, NO_ERRORS_SCHEMA],
      providers: [SinglePlayerMenuComponent],
      imports: [ HttpClientModule ],
    })
    .compileComponents();
  }));

  beforeEach(() => {
    fixture = TestBed.createComponent(SinglePlayerMenuComponent);
    component = fixture.componentInstance;
    fixture.detectChanges();
  });

  it('should create', () => {
    expect(component).toBeTruthy();
  });

  it('should call goToInitialMenu()', () => {
    spyOn(component, 'goToInitialMenu');
    component.goToInitialMenu();
    fixture.whenStable().then(()=> {
      expect(component.goToInitialMenu).toHaveBeenCalled();
    });
  });
});

This is the component file:
import { Component, OnInit, OnDestroy } from '@angular/core';
import { Song } from 'src/app/shared/song/song.model';
import { SceneOrchestratorService } from 'src/app/services/scene-orchestrator.service';
import { Scene } from 'src/app/shared/scene/scene.enum';
import { SongService } from 'src/app/services/song.service';
import { Subscription } from 'rxjs';

@Component({
  selector: 'a-single-player-menu',
  templateUrl: './single-player-menu.component.html',
  styleUrls: ['./single-player-menu.component.css']
})
export class SinglePlayerMenuComponent implements OnInit, OnDestroy {

  private _songSrvSubscription: Subscription;
  constructor(private _sceneOrchestratorSrv: SceneOrchestratorService,
              private _songSrv: SongService) { }

  private _songs: Song[];
  private _selectedSong: Song;

  ngOnInit() {
    this._songSrvSubscription = this._songSrv.getTopRaitedSongsList().subscribe(
      (result: Song[]) => {
        this.songs = result;
      });
  }

  ngOnDestroy() {
    if (this._songSrvSubscription != undefined) {
      this._songSrvSubscription.unsubscribe();
    }
  }

  get songs(): Song[] {
    return this._songs;
  }

  set songs(songs: Song[]) {
    console.log(songs)
    this._songs = songs;
  }

  get selectedSong() {
    return this._selectedSong;
  }

  set selectedSong(songSelected: Song) {
    this._selectedSong = songSelected;
  }

  selectTheSong(song: Song) {
    this._selectedSong = song;
  }

  goToInitialMenu() {
    this._sceneOrchestratorSrv.actualScene = Scene.initialMenu;
  }
}

I have the same code in the other component and it is working fine, I don't know why in this component I got this error.

A: At the end the solution was add the services to

app.module.ts

and too add the

HttpClientModule, HttpClient

to providers and imports
import { BrowserModule } from '@angular/platform-browser';
import { RouterModule, Routes } from '@angular/router';
import { HttpClientModule, HttpClient } from '@angular/common/http';
import { NgModule, CUSTOM_ELEMENTS_SCHEMA, NO_ERRORS_SCHEMA } from '@angular/core';

import { AppComponent } from './app.component';
import { MenuComponent } from './menu/menu.component';
import { GameComponent } from './game/game.component';
import { SinglePlayerMenuComponent } from './menu/single-player-menu/single-player-menu.component';
import { PartyMenuComponent } from './menu/party-menu/party-menu.component';
import { HowToPlayComponent } from './menu/how-to-play/how-to-play.component';
import { CreditsComponent } from './menu/credits/credits.component';
import { SongService } from '../services/song.service';
import { BeatsaverAPIService } from '../services/beatsaverAPI.service';

const appRoutes: Routes = [
  { path: '/game', component: GameComponent },
  { path: '/menu',      component: MenuComponent },
  { path: '/singlePlayerMenu',      component: SinglePlayerMenuComponent },
  { path: '/',      component: AppComponent },
];

@NgModule({
  declarations: [
    AppComponent,
    MenuComponent,
    GameComponent,
    SinglePlayerMenuComponent,
    PartyMenuComponent,
    HowToPlayComponent,
    CreditsComponent,
  ],
  imports: [
    BrowserModule,
    HttpClientModule
  ],
  providers: [HttpClientModule, HttpClient, SongService, BeatsaverAPIService],
  bootstrap: [AppComponent],
  schemas: [CUSTOM_ELEMENTS_SCHEMA, NO_ERRORS_SCHEMA]
})
export class AppModule { }

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaStackExchange