Climate change agreements and climate change levy implications for UK organisations. Please see also our articles on Corporate Governance.
And to all leaders, and future leaders, be under no illusion... Climate Change has for many years been showing us an increasingly bright amber warning light. Amber actually means stop now, or it will be too late to stop. Stop the catastrophic disaster for humanity that will unfold if we continue to delay and deny.
We all have a responsibility to understand these issues, and get involved however we can, to urge greater priority and cooperation in meeting this challenge.
I took part in the first major Deep Adaptation (climate change/collapse) Q&A webinar on 27 March 2019.
This further confirmed to me that Professor Jem Bendell's Deep Adaptation work is extremely significant, advanced, and globally existentially important. This is a matter of increasing urgency.
Most people will not accept the information in the links below, because of the gravity of the situation. Our brains are not conditioned to accept such notions, although some people seem able.
Professor Bendell's Deep Adaptation work can/should inform the thinking of all leaders and aspiring leaders, urgently, because education/work/society/health - and life as we know it - will be dramatically impacted very much sooner than is generally appreciated.
In truth, of course, the devastating impacts of climate change have been destroying human communities and other natural life for many years, which remains largely ignored by all fortunate enough not yet to be affected.
Climate change is now at a stage that it cannot be reversed before there are devastating existential consequences, and so humankind must be prepared as much as possible for a very uncertain future.
The first stage is awareness - including self-awareness - and I urge anyone interested in looking beyond newspaper headlines and political/corporate denial, apathy, delusion, etc., to explore Deep Adaptation, and perhaps then choose to become part of the preparations and solutions, and the very deep adaptability we must now consider.
While this article seeks to explain climate change and particularly its effect on modern UK businesses, the implications will be felt by all businesses around the world in similar ways, whether now or in the future.
"The burden of taxation will move from the 'goods' to the 'bads'; (thereby to) encourage innovation in meeting higher environmental standards."
Given the strange use of pre-school language it's as well to understand that in this context, 'goods' are products or services considered to be socially and environmentally beneficial, for example, health and public transport services; whereas 'bads' are products or services considered to be socially and environmentally damaging, for example, tobacco, alcohol, private and commercial road transport.
The Climate Change Levy (CCL) is charged on certain energy supplies used by the industrial and commercial sectors, agriculture, public administration and other institutional services and organisations.
Typically businesses and other organisations pay the Climate Change Levy through their utilities bills.
According to Defra (the UK Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs), in 2005: "...The scientific evidence is growing that man-made greenhouse gas emissions are having a noticeable effect on the earth's climate. Globally, the ten hottest years on record have all occurred since the beginning of the 1990s. Current climate models predict that global temperatures could warm from between 1.4 to 5.8°C over the next 100 years, depending on the amounts of greenhouse gases emitted and the sensitivity of the climate system. The social, environmental and economic costs associated with this could be huge..."
The participating nations at the 1997 Kyoto summit conference agreed to control and reduce emissions of 'greenhouse gases', which are generally now believed to be responsible for global warming.
The ECA (Enhanced Capital Allowances) scheme (which enables reduced levels of tax payable on qualifying capital investment made in energy efficient technologies).
".. Businesses' commitment to tackling climate change is growing in the UK. Many firms have recognised and acted on the cost effective opportunities that are available for cutting greenhouse gas emissions. Some leading firms have adopted high profile initiatives bringing wide-ranging benefits - they deliver real cuts in emissions, offer good examples for others to emulate and introduce a constructive and practical note into climate change debate. The Government welcomes the action that business has already taken, but much more significant changes will be needed as part of the move to a lower carbon economy. In developing its programme, the Government aims to build on the foundations that have already been laid and recognises the diversity within the business sector. The programme aims to encourage and enable businesses of all kinds to take the lead in finding and implementing cost effective measures that will cut greenhouse gas emissions. The intention is to tackle climate change while ensuring that a healthy and competitive business base is maintained and, where possible, improved..."
Gas supplied by a gas utility or any gas supplied in a gaseous state that is of a kind supplied by a gas utility.
Any petroleum gas, or other gaseous hydrocarbon, supplied in a liquid state.
Electricity attracts a higher tax rate because a considerable proportion of the energy content of the fossil fuels used to generate the electricity is lost in combustion, transmission and distribution. Petrol and diesel, and road fuel gases, mineral oils and waste and other renewable energy sources are not taxable commodities.
Logically, by reducing energy consumption, businesses and organisations can reduce the impact of this tax.
Certain businesses which use large amounts of energy can participate in negotiated Climate Change Agreements involving energy efficiency targets, which can result in them achieving up to 80% rebate on the levy.
Climate change agreements are voluntary agreements made by UK industry and the Environment Agency to reduce energy use and carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. In return, operators (business organizations) receive a discount on the Climate Change Levy (CCL), which is a tax (detailed above) added to electricity and fuel bills.
The Environment Agency administers the CCA scheme on behalf of the whole of the UK.
The Department of Energy and Climate Change and industry sectors negotiate umbrella agreements. Together they agree the energy efficiency targets for a sector - 'the sector commitment'.
The agreement is then held between the sector association and the Environment Agency; the administrator.
Umbrella agreements also list the processes that are eligible for a CCA.
An underlying agreement is held by a site, or group of sites, owned by an operator within a particular sector. This contains energy or carbon efficiency targets appropriate for their type of operation. Sector associations manage the underlying agreements for businesses in their sector. An operator that wants to enter into a CCA must apply first to its sector association.
A revised CCA scheme started in April 2013 and is scheduled to run until 31 March 2023.
An operator that has a CCA will measure and report its energy use and carbon emissions against agreed targets over four, two-year target periods. If an operator has more than one eligible facility (for example manufacturing sites) in the same sector it could hold individual CCAs for each facility, or choose to group them together under one CCA. The target could then be shared across the grouped facilities. Where a facility, or group of facilities, holds a CCA, it is referred to as a 'target unit'.
If the operator meets its targets at the end of each reporting period, it continues in the scheme and is eligible for the discount on the CCL.
Details of businesses that hold CCAs are published every month as reduced rate certificates for each sector.
The Environment Agency maintains a summary of processes within each sector that are eligible for a CCA.
More information for industrial sectors is available via the gov.uk website.
The UK ECA (Enhanced Capital Allowances) scheme provides distinct financial advantages to organizations purchasing machinery, equipment and vehicles which comply with the qualifying criteria.
The Enhanced Capital Allowance (ECA) Scheme is a key part of the Government programme to manage climate change. It provides businesses with enhanced tax relief for investments in equipment that meets published energy-saving criteria.
Businesses can write off the whole of the capital cost of their investment in these technologies against their taxable profits of the period during which they make the investment. This can deliver a helpful cash-flow boost and a shortened payback period.
The qualifying technologies have to meet defined energy efficiency criteria.
Only investments in new and unused machinery and plant can qualify.
The climate change levy is a tax on the use of energy in industry, commerce and the public sector, with offsetting cuts in employers' National Insurance Contributions and additional support for energy efficiency schemes and renewable sources of energy. The levy forms a key part of the Government's programme. Information about the climate change levy can be found on the HM Revenue and Customs (was Customs and Excise) site (see link below).
Climate Change Agreements allow energy intensive business users to receive 80 per cent discount from the Climate Change Levy, in return for meeting challenging energy efficiency or carbon saving targets.
Emissions trading is a key part of the longer term solution to greenhouse gas emissions. Emissions trading allows companies to emit in excess of their allocation of allowances by purchasing allowances from the market. Similarly, a company that emits less than its allocation of allowances can sell its surplus allowances. In contrast to regulation which imposes emission limit values on particular facilities, emissions trading gives companies the flexibility to meet emission reduction targets according to their own strategy; for example by reducing emissions on site or by buying allowances from other companies who have excess allowances.
Anyone doubting the seriousness of the situation might change their views after learning more below.
And if you think that the year 2070 or 2080 is too far ahead to worry about, consider that it's just a couple of generations from now.
A balance between energy coming in from the sun in the form of visible radiation (sunlight) and energy constantly being emitted from the surface of the earth to space determines the temperature of the earth. The energy coming in from the sun can pass through the atmosphere almost unchanged and warm the earth, but the infrared radiation emanating from the earth's surface is partly absorbed by some gases in the atmosphere and some of it is re-emitted downwards. This further warms the surface of the earth and the lower atmosphere. The gases that do this naturally are mainly water vapour and carbon dioxide. An analogy is made with the effect of a greenhouse, which allows sunshine to penetrate the glass that in turn keeps the heat in, hence the greenhouse effect. Without this natural greenhouse effect, the earth would be over 30°C cooler and would be too cold to be habitable. But as greenhouse gas concentrations rise well above their natural levels, the additional warming that will take place could threaten the future sustainability of the planet. The extent to which changes in temperature over the last 100 years are due to human activities has been studied by looking at patterns of change across the surface of the earth, and vertically through the depth of the atmosphere and the ocean. Climate models predict a characteristic 'fingerprint' pattern of change in response to increasing greenhouse gas concentrations. Statistical analysis shows that this fingerprint can be detected in observed temperature changes, indicating that most of the change which has occurred can be attributed to human activities. The individual contributions of natural effects, for example, variations in the sun's output and volcanoes, have also been studied. They were found to be unable to account for all of the observed warming. Only when greenhouse gases emitted by human activities are invoked can the observed warming be explained. Borehole measurements worldwide imply a global surface warming of around 1°C during the last 500 years, with about half of this warming occurring in the 20th Century.
The most important greenhouse gases are carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, hydrofluorocarbons, perfluorocarbons and sulphur hexafluoride. These are the gases that are covered by the Kyoto Protocol. Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) and hydrochlorofluorocarbons (HCFCs), which are also powerful greenhouse gases but they are being progressively phased out under the Montreal Protocol as they also damage the stratospheric ozone layer. A full list of greenhouse gases covered by the Kyoto Protocol is given below. Each greenhouse gas has a different capacity to cause global warming, depending on its radiative properties, its molecular weight and its lifetime in the atmosphere. Its so-called global warming potential (GWP) encapsulates these. The GWP is defined as the warming influence over a set time period of a gas relative to that of carbon dioxide. A 100-year time horizon is used in the Kyoto Protocol. When the warming effect of current greenhouse gas emissions over the next 100 years is calculated, the graph shows that carbon dioxide will be responsible for about two thirds of the expected future warming.
Not to be confused with aerosol spray products such as deodorants, these 'aerosols' are a generic scientific term: Very small particles, known as aerosols, also affect our climate. They are formed by emissions from sources such as power stations and transport. They scatter sunlight, which would otherwise reach the surface of the earth, back out to space and therefore have a cooling influence on the climate. Their influence can also be important in heavily polluted regions. But unlike greenhouse gases, the lifetimes of aerosols are short and they do not accumulate in the atmosphere. Measures are being taken in Western Europe and North America to reduce sulphur emissions, mainly to tackle acid rain, and this will cut the level of aerosols.
1. To compare the relative climate effects of greenhouse gases, it is necessary to assess their contribution to changes in the net downward infra-red radiation flux at the tropopause (the top of the lower atmosphere) over a period of time. Ultimately the best way to do this is by comparing different emission scenarios in climate models, but a simple working method has been derived for use by Parties to the UNFCCC. This provides the relative contribution of a unit emission of each gas, relative to the effect of a unit emission of carbon dioxide integrated over a fixed time period. A 100-year time horizon has been chosen by the Convention in view of the relatively long time scale for addressing climate change.
2. The factor is known as a global warming potential (GWP). It means for example, that 1 tonne of HFC-134 emitted to the atmosphere has 1,000 times the warming potential over 100 years of 1 tonne of carbon dioxide.
3. To compute the carbon dioxide equivalent of the emission of any gas, we multiply its emission by the GWP. This is often expressed as the carbon equivalent so we then multiply by 12/44, the ratio of the atomic weights of carbon and carbon dioxide. Thus, for example, an emission of 1 tonne of HFC-134 is equivalent to 1 x 1000 x 12/44 = 273 tonnes of carbon.
"...future Climate change is one of the most serious environmental threats facing the world today. Its impacts will be felt across the world, as sea level rise threatens the existence of some small island states and puts millions of people at risk. Temperature increases, drought and flooding will affect people's health and way of life, and cause the irreversible loss of many species of plants and animals. Average global surface temperatures have increased by 0.6°C over the 20th century. The ten hottest years on record have all occurred since the beginning of the 1990's. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) the strong warming of the last 50 years cannot be explained by natural climate variations alone, but requires the inclusion of the effects of human emissions. Much of the observed rise in sea-level (10-20cm) during the 20th century may be related to this increase in global mean temperatures. Current climate models predict that global temperatures will rise by a further 1.4 to 5.8°C by the end of the 21st century. Global mean sea levels are also predicted to rise by 9-88 cm by 2100.."
By the 2070's, large parts of northern Brazil and central southern Africa could lose their tropical forests because of reduced rainfall and increased temperatures. If this happens, global vegetation which currently absorbs carbon dioxide at the rate of some 2-3 gigatonnes of carbon (GtC) per year will become a carbon source generating about 2 GtC per year by the 2070's and further adding to carbon dioxide build up in the atmosphere. (Current global man-made emissions are about 6-7 GtC per year).
New climate change scenarios were launched by Defra in April 2002 (see the UK Climate Impacts Programme - UKCIP - link below - the UK Climate Impacts Programme - UKCIP - provides scenarios that show how our climate might change and co-ordinates research on dealing with our future climate. UKCIP shares this information, free of charge, with organisations in the commercial and public sectors to help them prepare for the impacts of climate change).
The UKCIP data shows that average annual temperatures across the UK may rise by between 2° and 3.5°C by the 2080's, with the degree of warming dependent on future levels of greenhouse gas emissions. In general there will be greater warming in the UK's south and east than in the north and west. High summer temperatures will become more frequent and very cold winters will become increasingly rare. For example, a very hot August, such as that experienced in 1995 may occur as often as two years in three by the 2080's under the higher emissions scenarios. It is not just temperatures that will change in the UK, but also rainfall amounts and frequency. Winters will become wetter and summers may become drier across all of the UK. The largest relative changes will be in the south and east where summer precipitation (rain in other words...) may decline by up to 50% by the 2080's. Heavy winter precipitation will become more frequent, but the amount of snow could decline by 60% - 90% by the 2080's. In addition, sea levels will continue to rise and could be between 26 and 86 cm above the current level in south-east England by the 2080's. Extreme high water levels, which currently have a 2% annual probability of occurring, could become 10 to 20 times more frequent at some east coast locations by the 2080's.
"UK greenhouse emissions are provisionally estimated to have fallen by 14 per cent between 1990 and 2003 and carbon dioxide emissions by 7 per cent. Emissions increased by a provisional 1.5 per cent between 2002 and 2003, largely due to increased coal burn for electricity generation, but the downward trend is projected to resume in future years. The latest available projections show that UK carbon dioxide emissions will be about 14 per cent below the 1990 level, and that emissions of all greenhouse gases will be around 20 per cent below 1990 levels by 2010. The UK is still on track, therefore, to meet its Kyoto commitment to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 12.5 per cent between 2008 and 2012. However, the projections show the UK falling short of the domestic goal of a 20 per cent reduction in carbon emissions by 2010. The Government has launched a review of the UK Climate Change Programme to examine the success of existing policies and consider the scope for further emission reductions..."
Climate Research Unit - based at the University of East Anglia, a leading institution in the study of natural and anthropogenic climate change.
The Hadley Centre for climate prediction and research - part of the Met Office, provides a focus in the United Kingdom for the scientific issues associated with climate change. The Hadley Centre's two main objectives are to develop the best possible regional and global predictions of climate change, and to assess current climate change and its attribution to human influences.
The Tyndall Centre - a national UK centre for trans-disciplinary research on climate change funded by the research councils. It is dedicated to advancing the science of integration, to seeking, evaluating and facilitating sustainable solutions to climate change and to motivate society through promoting informed and effective dialogue.
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) - established by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in 1988. IPCC assesses the scientific, technical and socio-economic information relevant for the understanding of the risk of human-induced climate change.
I am grateful to Gary Mills for advising on this article.
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In mixer bowl combine eggs, milk, flour and pepper & salt. Beat vigorously with fork for 1 1/2 minutes.
Pour in batter into preheated muffin tin no more than half-way. Bake in 400 degree F oven for 30 minutes. Serve with a roast, baked potatoes, and your favourite veggies.


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June 30, 2019 by Peter T Young 1 Comment
Born in 1890, Duke Paoa Kahinu Makoe Hulikohoa Kahanamoku was one of nine children of a Honolulu policeman. He was born at Haleʻākala, the "pink house" (home of Bernice Pauahi Bishop) located near ʻIolani Palace (near where Bank of Hawaiʻi now stands on King Street.)
With respect to his name "Duke," he was named after his father. The elder Kahanamoku was born during the Duke of Edinburgh's visit to the islands in 1869.
The elder Duke explains his naming as "after I was washed by Mrs. Bishop she gave me the name "The Duke of Edinburgh." The Duke heard and was glad and came to house and I was presented to him and tooke [sic] me in his arms. And that is how I got this name." (Nendel)
Duke lived in interesting times in Hawaiʻi; in his lifetime, Hawaiʻi moved from an independent monarchy to full statehood in the United States of America.
Kahanamoku's family lived in a small house on the beach at Waikiki where the present day Hawaiian Hilton Village now stands. He would never graduate from High School due to the need to help his family earn enough money to live.
Duke Kahanamoku had a very normal upbringing for a young boy his age in Waikiki. He swam, surfed, fished, did odd jobs such as selling newspapers and went to school at Waikiki grammar school.
For fun and extra money he and others would greet the boatloads of tourists coming to and from Honolulu Harbor. They would dive for coins tossed into the water by the visitors, perform acrobatic displays of diving from towers on boat days, and explore the crop of newcomers for potential students to teach surfing and canoeing lessons to on the beach.
He earned his living as a beachboy and stevedore at the Honolulu Harbor docks. Growing up on the beach in Waikiki, Duke surfed with his brothers and entertained tourists with tandem rides.
By the time that Kahanamoku burst upon the world scene in 1911 (at the age of 21,) shattering American and world records in the one hundred and fifty yard freestyle swimming races at an Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) sanctioned meet in Honolulu Harbor, sport had become a tool of nationalism used by countries around the world to demonstrate modern manliness and vigor. (Nendel)
He later won an Olympic gold medal in 1912 – a feat he repeated eight years later at the age of 30. In 1924, he won the silver. Overall he won five medals at the various Olympic Games.
Returning to Hawaiʻi as a hero, yet unable to find a suitable job, Duke took his swimming ability abroad through exhibition swimming competitions – he also used every opportunity to introduce the world to surfing (he even appeared in 28-films as a bit-part actor, with such stars as John Wayne.)
However, fame brought him into politics and he served as Sheriff for thirteen consecutive 2-year terms. He initially ran as a democrat, but later switched and served as a Republican. After the office was eliminated, he became the city's official greeter.
However impressive these feats are, it was his love of surfing that Duke is most remembered. He used surfing to promote Hawaiian culture to visitors who wanted to fully experience the islands.
Through his many travels, Duke Kahanamoku introduced surfing to the rest of the world and was regarded as the father of international surfing. On one trip to Australia in 1914-15, Kahanamoku demonstrated surfing and made such an impression that the Australians erected a statue of him. (Nendel)
British royal, Prince Edward asked Kahanamoku to teach him to surf. Duke heartily agreed.
Focusing surfing at home – and at Waikiki – the Outrigger Canoe and Surfboard Club was formed in 1908 in order "to give an added and permanent attraction to Hawaii and make Waikiki always the Home of the Surfer." (Nendel) Duke joined the club in 1917.
Duke is credited for writing an article "Riding the Surfboard" in the January, 1911 edition of 'The Mid-Pacific Magazine.' It notes, "How would you like to stand like a god before the crest of a monster billow, always rushing to the bottom of a hill and never reaching its base, and to come rushing in for half a mile at express speed, in graceful attitude, of course, until you reach the beach and step easily from the wave to the sand? "
"Find the locality, as we Hawaiians did, here the rollers are long in forming, slow to break, and then run for a great distance over a flat, level bottom, and the rest is possible. Perhaps the ideal surfing stretch in all the world is at Waikiki beach, near Honolulu, Hawaii."
On August 2, 1940, he married, Nadine Alexander, a girl from the mainland.
At the Huntington Beach Surfing Walk of Fame, Kahanamoku was the first 'Surf Pioneer' inductee in 1994. In 1999, Surfer magazine honored Duke as the century's most influential surfer and placed his portrait on the cover of its annual collector's edition.
In its December 27, 1999 issue, Sports Illustrated named Duke Kahanamoku the top athlete in the list of the top 50 greatest 20th-century athletes in Hawaiʻi.
On August 24, 2002, the United States Postal Service issued a commemorative stamp in honor of the man whom Robert Rider, Chairman of the Postal Service Board of Governors, called "a hero in every sense of the word." The stamp honored Duke Kahanamoku, a man regarded with the reverence bestowed upon a legendary figure in his home State of Hawaiʻi.
"Kahanamoku represented a link to old Hawai`i and its monarchy and proud people as well as serving as the emerging image of modern Hawaiʻi as depicted in travelogues and television advertisements. There is no question that Kahanamoku is a symbol of the old and new Hawaiʻi." (Nendel)
At his funeral services in 1968, Reverend Abraham Akaka said, "Duke Kahanamoku represented the aliʻi nobility in the highest and truest sense – concern for others, humility in victory, courage in adversity, good sportsmanship in defeat. He had a quality of life we are all challenged and inspired to emulate."
7 Jul-12 Sep 1920: Duke Paoa Kahanamoku (Lane #5) of the USA preparing to start a race in a Swimming event at the 1920 Olympic Games in Antwerp, Belgium. Kahanamoku won gold medals in the 100 Metres Freestyle and the 4 x 200 Metres Freestyle events. Mandatory Credit: IOC Olympic Museum /Allsport
Filed Under: Prominent People Tagged With: Duke Kahanamoku, Hawaii, Surfing, Waikiki
December 2, 2018 by Peter T Young Leave a Comment
Ho'okipa
Haʻaheo ʻiʻo nō e Hoʻokipa Pāka
Kahi a ka lehulehu
E kipa a hoʻonanea
Nanea mai hoʻi kau
Nanea mai hoi kau ke noho ʻoe la
Malalo o ka lau o ka hau la
Kahi e malu aʻe ʻoe
He malu ʻolu ʻai ʻoe
He nani iʻo no keʻ`ike aku la
I ka papa heʻenalu
Heʻe ana i ka pue one
He one kaulana no
Pulu au i ka huna kai kai heʻʻeheʻe i ka `ili
Ame ka ehu kai kilikilihune
A konikoni i ka ʻili
Huʻi kona au maʻaʻele
E ō i kou inoa Hoʻokipa Pāka
Proud of Welcome Park, over there
Place where the crowd
Is welcome to rest
Come, rest here for a while
Rest here a while, stay
Under the hau tree leaf
Where you have shade
Cool shade, you'll enjoy
It's splendid there to see
The surfboards
Surfing to the sandbar
It's a famous beach
I am damp with sea spray that drips on the skin
And the fine salt mist
Makes the skin tingle
I tingle chilly and numb
Answer to your name, Welcome Park
Is welcome to stay
(Ho'okipa Pāka, Alice Johnson)
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"In 1936 my family moved from Lower Pāʻia to Kūʻau. I was singing with the Royal Hawaiian Band, but in 1937 I left them to come home. One day my sister and I decided to walk over to the park. We were curious to see what it looked like."
"A friend of ours was the park keeper, and when we arrived, she had just finished her poi lunch and had fallen asleep under the hau trees. The peacefulness and beauty of the entire scene inspired me to write 'Hoʻokipa Park Hula.'"
"The kids from Lower Pāʻia and Kūʻau were already surfing here, so I mentioned surfing in the song. The ʻ46 tidal wave destroyed the area and completely changed it. The wide beach and many of the hau trees were lost, and the high wall there today was built to prevent further damage." (Alice Johnson, January 27, 1978; Clark)
"Surfing on Maui really came into prominence with the formation of the first 'Ho'okipa Surfriders Club' at Ho'okipa Park some 25 years ago (1935). Meetings were held each month at the Ho'okipa Park Pavilion and the County of Mui erected a surfboard locker to hold 50 surfboards."
"Surfing was then confined to just Ho'okipa Park and Kahului Harbor and the surfboards used then were made of solid redwood weighing from 60 to 75 pounds each. Then years later the hollow surfboards made of plywood became very popular."
"These too were quite heavy but they were longer than the redwood type and much easier to pick up waves. On Kamehameha Day in the year 1939, surfboard paddling races were held between the piers at Kahului Harbor."
"Surfing died off for awhile on Maui until the Meheulas moved to Maui from Honolulu and introduced the new Malibu type balsa wood boards. This type proved to be very popular and today (1960) there are over a hundred of these boards on the island."
"They are very light compared to the oldtime surfboards and thereby faster on the bigger waves and their maneuverability were terrific. Surfing thus came to be more exciting and thrilling and the challenge on bigger waves became greater."
"Today there are over 18 surfing beaches on Maui and Ho'okipa is rated by the Californians to be one of the best anywhere." (Uchimura, June 18, 1960; info from Lind)
"Maui Agriculture leased the land for the park to the County of Maui in 1933 and in a land exchange conveyed title to the Territory of Hawai'i in 1947. The name Ho'okipa means 'hospitality.'"
"The surf offshore from Ho'okipa Beach Park provides surfers with waves almost all year round, as the reefs pick up both summer and winter swells. The most spectacular waves, however, occur during the winter and often reach heights of ten to fifteen feet."
"This tremendous surf is some of the best on Maui. … A small building that served as a clubhouse and a set of surfboard racks were donated and constructed in the park by Harold Rice"
"Foremost among the charter members were two brothers, Donald and Teruo Uchimura, who have both been avid surfers as well as great promoters of the sport of surfing since the founding of the club." (Clark)
In the early 1970s, windsurfing was introduced to Hawai'i. (Clark) Today, Ho'okipa Beach Park remains the epicenter of the windsurfing world.
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August 21, 2017 by Peter T Young 1 Comment
Did the Missionaries Ban Surfing?
Did the Missionaries really stop Surfing in Hawaiʻi, as we are most often led to believe?
Invariably there are definitive statements that the missionaries "banned" and/or "abolished" surfing, hula, even speaking the Hawaiian language.
However, in taking a closer look into the matter, most would likely come to a different conclusion.
First of all, the missionaries were guests in the Hawaiian Kingdom; they didn't have the power to ban or abolish anything – that was the right of the King and Chiefs.
Most will agree the missionaries despised the fact that Hawaiians typically surfed in the nude and that hula dancers were typically topless; they also didn't like the commingling between the sexes.
So, before we go on, we need to agree, the issue at hand is surfing and hula – not nudity and interactions between the sexes. In keeping this discussion on the actual activity and not sexuality, let's see what the missionaries had to say about surfing.
Let's look at surfing …
Here is what Hiram Bingham had to say about surfing (Bingham was leader of the Pioneer Company of missionaries to Hawaiʻi, he was in the Islands from 1820 to 1840 – these are his words):
"On a calm and bright summer's day, the wide ocean and foaming surf, the peaceful river, with verdant banks, the bold cliff, and forest covered mountains, the level and fertile vale, the pleasant shade-trees, the green tufts of elegant fronds on the tall cocoanut trunks, nodding and waving, like graceful plumes, in the refreshing breeze …"
"… birds flitting, chirping, and singing among them, goats grazing and bleating, and their kids frisking on the rocky cliff, the natives at their work, carrying burdens, or sailing up and down the river, or along the sea-shore, in their canoes, propelled by their polished paddles that glitter in the sun-beam, or by a small sail well trimmed, or riding more rapidly and proudly on their surf-boards, on the front of foaming surges, as they hasten to the sandy shore, all give life and interest to the scenery." (Bingham – pages 217-218)
"(T)hey resorted to the favorite amusement of all classes – sporting on the surf, in which they distinguish themselves from most other nations. In this exercise, they generally avail themselves of the surf-board, an instrument manufactured by themselves for the purpose." (Bingham – page 136)
"The inhabitants of these islands, both male and female, are distinguished by their fondness for the water, their powers of diving and swimming, and the dexterity and ease with which they manage themselves, their surf-boards and canoes, in that element." (Bingham – pages 136-137)
"The adoption of our costume greatly diminishes their practice of swimming and sporting in the surf, for it is less convenient to wear it in the water than the native girdle, and less decorous and safe to lay it entirely off on every occasion they find for a plunge or swim or surf-board race." (Bingham – page 137)
Missionaries also Surfed
Another of the missionary group at the time was Levi Chamberlain, the mission quartermaster in the 1830s;) here is what he had to say:
"The situation of Waititi (Waikīkī) is pleasant, & enjoys the shade of a large number of cocoanut & kou trees. The kou has large spreading branches & affords a very beautiful shade. There is a considerable extension of beach and when the surf comes in high the natives amuse themselves in riding on the surf-board." (Chamberlain – Vol 2, page 18)
"The Chiefs amused themselves by playing on surfboards in the heart of Lahaina." (Chamberlain – Vol 5, page 36)
Another set of Journals, belonging to Amos S. Cooke, also notes references to surfing (Cooke was in the 8th Company of missionaries arriving in 1837:)
"After dinner Auhea went with me, & the boys to bathe in the sea, & I tried riding on the surf. To day I have felt quite lame from it." (Cooke – Vol 6, page 237)
"This evening I have been reading to the smaller children from "Rollo at Play"–"The Freshet". The older children are still reading "Robinson Crusoe". Since school the boys have been to Waikiki to swim in the surf & on surf boards. They reached home at 7 o'clk. Last evening they went to Diamond Point – & did not return till 7 1/2 o'clock." (Cooke – Vol 7, page 385)
"After dinner about three o'clock we went to bathe & to play in the surf. After we returned from this we paid a visit to the church which has lately been repaired with a new belfry & roof." (Cooke – Vol 8, page 120)
James J Jarvis, in 1847, notes "Sliding down steep hills, on a smooth board, was a common amusement; but no sport afforded more delight than bathing in the surf. Young and old high and low, of both sexes, engaged in it, and in no other way could they show greater dexterity in their aquatic exercises."
"Multitudes could be seen when the surf was highest, pushing boldly seaward, with their surf-board in advance, diving beneath the huge combers, as they broke in succession over them, until they reached the outer line of breakers …"
"… then laying flat upon their boards, using their arms and legs as guides, they boldly mounted the loftiest, and, borne upon its crest, rushed with the speed of a race-horse towards the shore; from being dashed upon which, seemed to a spectator impossible to be avoided." (Jarvis – page 39)
Even Mark Twain notes surfing during his visit in 1866, "In one place we came upon a large company of naked natives, of both sexes and all ages, amusing themselves with the national pastime of surf-bathing. Each heathen would paddle three or four hundred yards out to sea, (taking a short board with him), then face the shore and wait for a particularly prodigious billow to come along …"
"… at the right moment he would fling his board upon its foamy crest and himself upon the board, and here he would come whizzing by like a bombshell! It did not seem that a lightning express train could shoot along at a more hair-lifting speed. I tried surf-bathing once, subsequently, but made a failure of it. I got the board placed right, and at the right moment, too; but missed the connection myself.–The board struck the shore in three quarters of a second, without any cargo, and I struck the bottom about the same time, with a couple of barrels of water in me.." (Mark Twain, Roughing It, 1880)
As you can see, there were foreigner reports on surfing throughout the decades. Obviously, surfing was never "banned" or "abolished" in Hawaiʻi. These words from prominent missionaries and other observers note on-going surfing throughout the decades the missionaries were in Hawaiʻi (1820 – 1863.)
Likewise, their comments sound supportive of surfing, at least they were comfortable with it and they admired the Hawaiians for their surfing prowess (they are certainly not in opposition to its continued practice) – and Bingham seems to acknowledge that he realizes others may believe the missionaries curtailed/stopped it.
So, Bingham, who was in Hawaiʻi from 1820 to 1840, makes surprisingly favorable remarks by noting that Hawaiians were "sporting on the surf, in which they distinguish themselves from most other nations". Likewise, Chamberlain notes they "amuse themselves in riding on the surf-board."
Missionary Amos Cooke, who arrived in Hawaiʻi in 1837 – and was later appointed by King Kamehameha III to teach the young royalty in the Chiefs' Children's School – surfed himself (with his sons) and enjoyed going to the beach in the afternoon.
In the late-1840s, Jarvis notes, "Multitudes could be seen when the surf was highest, pushing boldly seaward, with their surf-board in advance".
In the 1850s, Reverend Cheever notes, surfing "is so attractive and full of wild excitement to the Hawaiians, and withal so healthy".
In the mid-1860s Mark Twain notes, the Hawaiians were "amusing themselves with the national pastime of surf-bathing. Each heathen would paddle three or four hundred yards out to sea, (taking a short board with him), then face the shore and wait for a particularly prodigious billow to come along; at the right moment he would fling his board upon its foamy crest and himself upon the board, and here he would come whizzing by like a bombshell!"
Throughout the decades, Hawaiians continued to surf and, if anything, the missionaries and others at least appreciated surfing (although they vehemently opposed nudity – likewise, today, nudity is frowned upon.)
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Hui Nalu
When Duke Kahanamoku, Kenneth Winter and William 'Knute' Cottrell decided to form a boat club, one of the names they initially came up with for it was the 'Very Lazy Surfers.' They later settled on 'Hui Nalu' (the club of the waves, or surf club.) (Davis)
The club was loosely organized in 1905 and officially formed in 1911. (Walker) (Others suggest it was formed in 1908.) Based at the Moana Hotel in Waikiki, swimming was the primary activity of the club in the early years; it expanded into surfing and canoe paddling.
They met daily under the hau tree near the Moana Hotel and used the hotel's basement bathroom for a changing room. They decided that dues were one dollar per year. 'It was a poor man's club, but it was made up of dedicated surfers.' (Kahanamoku; Davis) Membership was by election.
(Founded before (1908,) Outrigger Canoe Club had previously snubbed Duke Kahanamoku, but later asked him to join. He accepted the invitation in large part because his good friend, George 'Dad' Center.) (Davis)
(Outrigger, the world's oldest surfing organization, was a social club, as well as an athletic club; membership was almost entirely foreign-born haole, or white, and the ranks contained an ever-growing number of nonathletic Honolulu businessmen.)
Composed primarily of surfers of full or partial Hawaiian blood. Hui Nalu was a longtime rival to the 1908-formed Outrigger Canoe Club, the world's oldest surfing organization.
The Outrigger was a social club as well as an athletic club; membership was almost entirely foreign-born haole, or white, and the ranks contained an ever-growing number of nonathletic Honolulu businessmen. Membership to Hui Nalu, in contrast, was by election, and the club, while social in its own way, was for athletes only. (Walker)
In 1915, Hui Nalu surfers opened lucrative beach concession businesses in Waikīkī. Through these concessions, Hui Nalu surfers found regular and profitable work and became known as Waikīkī beachboys.
The beachboys were lifeguards, bodyguards, instructors, entertainers, and tour guides for visitors in Waikīkī. For a relatively high price, they took customers out into their Waikīkī surf to ride waves on canoes and surfboards.
One beachboy recalled, "[You] could make as much as five dollars a day. Oh, boy, was that big money. . . . We go out and catch three waves. But we fill the boat up with as much as six paying customers. Six dollars!"
By the late 1920s and early 1930s, the beachboy concession evolved into a bigger business, catering to higher-paying customers, as some beachboys became constant companions/tour guides for visiting families and made very good money.
Louis Kahanamoku explained, "Us boys would go down the ship. And we'd buy leis for them. . . . We come out of there, twenty, thirty, forty bucks by the time we got out". (Walker)
By the end of 1946, the two main original Waikiki surf clubs had changed considerably. The native Hui Nalu had limited its activities mostly to outrigger canoe racing.
The haole-influenced Outrigger Canoe Club had become more of an exclusive prestige-type establishment, "with a wide range of social and athletic interests."
So, in 1947, the Waikiki Surf Club was formed for the same reasons that the other two had originally been put together. "Its purpose," wrote surfing historian Ben Finney, "was to promote surfing as well as other Hawaiian water sports."
"It provided board lockers and clothes changing facilities near the beach, for anyone who could pay the small initiation fee and monthly dues." (Ian Lind)
Today, members of Hui Nalu O Hawai'i share the vision 'To come together as a family who shares and cares' and mission 'To promote and provide educational and personal achievement opportunities which
strengthen family, community and individual relationships'.
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George Douglas Freeth, Jr
In 1889, the Redondo pier in California was a wharf at the foot of Emerald Street, designed to handle the enormous lumber trade from the Pacific Northwest. Two additional wharfs were added in 1895 and 1903.
Traffic into the port was so busy that ships had to wait their turn for a spot at one of the piers, as Santa Fe rail cars transported the cargo inland as fast as possible. (RedondoPier)
However, Redondo's popularity began a slow decline when San Pedro Harbor started to take shape in 1899. By 1912, the Pacific Steamship Company stopped calling at Redondo altogether. (Megowan)
In 1907, real estate entrepreneurs Abott Kinney and Henry Huntington were heavily promoting their respective coastal resorts. Kinney had the lead, having dedicated his "Venice of America" (Venice Beach) on July 4, 1905. Henry Huntington, in June 1907, was putting the final touches on his own elaborate beach resort in Redondo Beach. (Verge)
At about that time, 19-year old, hapa-haole, George Douglas Freeth Jr, met up with Jack London and Alexander Hume Ford riding the waves at Waikiki. "I saw him tearing in on the back of (the wave,) standing upright on his board, carelessly poised". The "young god bronzed with sunburn" gave London a surf lesson. (London)
"The whole method of surf riding and surf fighting, I learned, is one of non-resistance. Dodge the blow that is struck at you. Dive through the wave that is trying to slap you in the face. … Never be rigid. Relax."
"The man who wants to learn surf riding must be a strong swimmer, and he must be used to going under the water. After that, fair strength and common sense are all that is required." (London)
Around 1905, Freeth was the first – or among the first – to reintroduce angling across the wave as opposed to heading straight for shore. (Encyclopedia of Surfing)
"In 1907, (Freeth) left Hawaiʻi for the Golden State with letters in hand from Ford, Jack London and the Hawaiʻi Promotion Committee. His objective was to 'give exhibitions of Hawaiian water sports to the people of that section.'" (Pacific Commercial Advertiser; Laderman)
The July 3, 1907 Pacific Commercial Advertiser announced Freeth's departure from his native Hawaiʻi with a page 1 headline that read, "George Freeth Off To Coast – Will Illustrate Hawaiian Surfboarding to People in California."
"The aquatic skills that had enamored London, Ford and the Hawaiʻi Promotion Committee were the same skills Freeth brought with him to California, where he found work for two of the major developers of the period, Abbot Kinney and Henry Huntington." (Laderman)
Within six months of his arrival, Freeth was commuting between the two seaside communities aboard Huntington's Pacific Electric Railway. At Huntington's Redondo resort, Freeth performed his surfing act twice a day under the billing, "The Hawaiian Wonder."
Freeth lived in Redondo Beach where he worked as a swim instructor/lifeguard at Huntington's "Plunge," which from afar looked more like a royal palace than a public swimming pool. With over 1,000-dressing rooms and three heated pools, the Redondo Plunge could hold as many as 2,000- swimmers at one time. (Verge)
"At Venice Beach, Freeth went to work training Kinney's Venice Lifesaving Crew. Freeth taught the crew to become one with the water. Rip currents, for example, were not to be fought against, but instead used by the rescue swimmer to speed to the victim in distress – a method that is still employed today."
"So grateful were members of the Venice Lifesaving crew that on the occasion of his 24th birthday, they surprised him with a gold watch and a card that read in part – 'Mr. George Freeth, King of the Surf Board, Captain of the Venice Basketball team, First Lieutenant of Venice Volunteer Life Saving Corps, and leader in Aquatic Sports and General Good Fellowship, is reliable, sober, industrious.'"
"'We, his comrades and citizens of Venice, extend our best wishes and a watch, that he may continue to keep abreast of the time to the century mark at least.'" (Verge)
On December 16, 1908, Freeth's water safety skills were put to a test. That day, a tremendous winter squall suddenly descended upon Santa Monica Bay. Gale force winds and high surf trapped several Japanese fishing boats off the Venice Pier.
For the next 2 ½-hours, Freeth braved gale force winds, pounding surf, and a frigid ocean temperature to save single-handedly the lives of seven men. The Venice Lifesaving Corpsmen launched their boat to assist Freeth. More were saved.
As a result of these collected statements and the first-hand news accounts of the rescue, a special act of Congress dated June 25, 1910, awarded Freeth the nation's highest civilian honor: the Congressional Gold Medal.
In 1915, lured away by the prospects of a better income and the chance to promote Hawaii and the sport of surfing, he joined the San Diego Yacht Club as a lifeguard/swim coach. Unfortunately, the club suffered from financial problems and Freeth was let go; a sympathetic club member then found Freeth a job at a sporting goods store in downtown San Diego.
On a warm spring day in May 1918, 13 swimmers drowned together in a massive rip current. Ocean Beach officials who hadn't thought it necessary to have lifeguards saw their beach resort community empty as tourists stayed away.
Twelve days later the legendary lifeguard and surfer was in charge of the beach. There, Freeth performed on his surfboard, trained youngsters to work as lifeguards, and to the delight of everyone, not a single swimmer drowned.
Sadly, the flu pandemic of 1918-19 was sweeping through San Diego. Worldwide, 20 million people died from the flu in four months, as many as were killed in all of World War I. Rather than the young and the old, the victims were mostly healthy and middle aged. Among the stricken was Freeth. (Verge)
Freeth is credited as being the "First great waterman of the modern era" – Swimmer, diver, boatman, fisherman, outrigger canoeist, sailor, first professional lifeguard in California, Congressional Gold Medal for bravery, founded lifesaving service in California and introduced waterpolo to California. (UCSB)
George Douglas Freeth, Jr was born on Oʻahu on November 9, 1883; he died of the flu in San Diego on April 7, 1919 at the age of 35.
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The spring tags are getting parse but the jstl tags are not getting parse. I don't know what I am doing wrong.

A: From the accepted answer, link. we shouldn't mix up c:url tag with spring form tags, that is illegal. You have to instead do it this way
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Ashleigh Butler spoke of her heartbreak after losing her 'one in a billion dog' to cancer.
Britain's Got Talent winner Pudsey the dog has died it has been reported.
in an emotional tribute on Instagram Ashleigh Butler, who won season six of the ITV talent show with Pudsey announced news that she had made the heartbreaking decision to put him to sleep.
"I can't honestly believe I am writing these words. My handsome man is gone and I don't know what to do without him," she wrote.
"My heart is broken and I don't know how I'm going to get through this. It hurts so much that my handsome man has gone and I don't know how I'm going to get through this. It hurts so much that my handsome incredible Pudsey Bear will never be by my side, where he belongs again."
"We only had 11 years together, but they were the best years ever. He was my one in a billion dog that will never be replaced.
"I don't need to write all of his endless accomplishments on here to prove how incredible he was for me. Sleep tight my handsome man, I love you lots xxxx."
Paying tribute on Facebook Ashleigh's mother Penny revealed he had been battling "acute leukemia".
In a post on Facebook, she wrote: "We, as a family, had to make the hardest decision yesterday to let Pudsey go to sleep. We are absolutely devastated and in shock with how quick this has all happened, and our hearts are broken.
"We would have done anything to keep him with us, even for a little longer, but he didn't have any more time as acute leukemia made us take the heart breaking decision to end his pain."
The pair from Wellingborough in Northamptonshire, came to fame in 2012 after wowing judge Simon Cowell with their Mission Impossible inspired performance.
Pudsey and Ashleigh had worked together for 11 years and were the first dog act to win the TV talent show.
They performed for The Queen at the Royal Variety Performance and in 2012, Pudsey won a £100k book deal for the publication of his his autobiography. He went on to make his big screen appearance in Pudsey the Dog: The Movie.
News of the passing of the border collie, bichon frise and Chinese crested cross quickly spread on social media prompting tributes from fans and celebrities.
A post on the BGT Twitter feed said: "We are saddened to hear that today we lost Pudsey, a most marvellous winner. Our thoughts are with Ashleigh."
Britain's Got Talent judge David Walliams paid tribute, writing: "Farewell to a very special dog that the nation fell in love with".
Posting a photo of himself with the much-loved dog fellow BGT winner George Sampson wrote: "RIP my little mate, you were and will always be a superstar."
Noooooo! Pudsey? Pudsey the Dog has died? That's awful news. Thinking of Ashleigh. She adored that little boy.
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David Newton is a British guitarist, songwriter and record producer, best known as a member of the band the Mighty Lemon Drops.[1]
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Newton has been a member of Active Restraint (1981–1983), the Wild Flowers (1983–1984), the Mighty Lemon Drops (1985–1993),[1] Blue Aeroplanes (1992–1993), Starfish (1993–1994), Revolux (1995–1997), Fonda (1998–2003), Straight to Video (2001–2003), Twinstar (2003–2006), the C86 All Stars (2006–2007), Bilston United (2006–present), the Joshua Dreamz (2008) and most recently David Newton and Thee Mighty Angels (2009–present).
Newton still occasionally performs with his own bands, the C86 All Stars, Bilston United and most recently David Newton and Thee Mighty Angels.
In the late 1990s, Newton moved from Wolverhampton, England to Southern California, U.S. in January 1995 (via five years in Putney, London), where he co-formed the short-lived band Revolux with former Seven Simons honcho and The The guitarist Keith Joyner. Newton built his own personal recording studio, Rollercoaster Recording.[2]
Newton has produced or engineered records by the Little Ones, the Happy Hollows, Everybody Was in the French Resistance...Now!,[3] Kissing Tigers, the Soft Pack, the Movies, the Henry Clay People, the Blood Arm, Death to Anders, You Me & Iowa, Wait Think Fast, the Lassie Foundation, Twinstar, Graham MacRae, Red Lightning – Alain Whyte (Morrissey), Big Stone City, the Hush Now, Star Parts, One Silver Astronaut, Slow Car Crash, the Transmissions and the Golden Years. Newton produced the Little Ones' debut EP, Sing Song,[2] as well as material from the Blood Arm[4] and Rat Fancy.[5]
Newton has done occasional work as a composer for television, film and music libraries, and has had work and compositions featured on Gilmore Girls, The Osbournes, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and The Bill, amongst others.
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Advocates for Biafra and Journalists Against Corruption Face Gov't Crackdown
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NEW YORK (IDN) - The war may be over in a place called Biafra – a region of states in the southern part of Nigeria – but it remains a flashpoint for ethnic tensions that simmer just below the surface.
This September, the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), announced a meeting with world leaders at the United Nations to present the grievances of the Igbo community, including unfair treatment by successive governments.
These grievances, according Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the outlawed IPOB, include an unequal distribution of resources, poor investment and a heavily militarized presence in the region.
Meanwhile, President Muhammadu administration has taken out its own grievances against the separatist group with the arrest by Nigerian counterintelligence operatives of popular author/journalist Chido Onumah. Onumah, who was returning from Spain after graduate studies, was identified by his t-shirt which bore the inscription "We Are All Biafrans" – also the name of his book.
The State Security Service, however, denies there was an arrest. "To set the records right, Onumah was never arrested by the Service. He was rather engaged in an interaction during which an act of his, capable of undermining public order and national security, was explained to him."
Speaking up for Chido was the National Coordinator of the Human Rights Writers Association, Emmanuel Onwubiko, and the Executive Director of the Civil Societies Legislative and Advocacy Centre, Awual Musa (Rafsanjani) in interviews with PUNCH newspaper.
Also Agba Jalingo, publisher of CrossRiverWatch, an online newspaper with a focus on Cross River State has been arrested. Jalingo, in prison in Calabar, has been charged with treason over a report about an alleged diversion of 500 million naira by Cross River Gov. Ben Ayade.
Omoyele Sowore, publisher of Sahara Reporters and presidential aspirant, also remains behind bars. A Federal High Court on September 24 ordered his release after about 50 days detention but State Security Services claimed that it had not received the court order and has since refused to release Sowore.
In other Nigerian news, Nigerians in the diaspora on the platform of the Global Coalition for Security and Democracy in Nigeria have petitioned the President of the World Bank, David Malpass, to put an end to further negotiations with the President Muhammadu Buhari regime to borrow another $2.5 billion.
The group stated that Nigerians could no longer tolerate the action of government officials who, they claimed, steal public funds and resort to raising taxes among the same citizens they stole from.
Finally, 19 pregnant girls and four children suspected to have been abducted by persons engaged in child trafficking were released by Lagos police, and in the northern city of Kaduna, police rescued more than 300 male students, most of them children and some of them in chains, from an Islamic school where many had been tortured and sexually abused, a police spokesman said Friday.
The victims, including adults and minors, were kept in "the most debasing and inhuman conditions in the name of teaching them the Koran and reforming them", Kaduna state police spokesman Yakubu Sabo told AFP.
Among those rescued were "around 100 students including children as young as nine in chains stuffed in a small room all in the name of reforming them and making them responsible persons", Sabo said. [IDN-InDepthNews – 03 October 2019]
Photo: Chido Onumah. Credit: Oriental Times.
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Wynston just wants to eat all of the food!
Wellness® grain-free Complete Health™ and Core® foods offer natural ingredients and pre/pro-biotics to provide your dog with a wholesome meal. I couldn't be happier with the Core® grain-free small breed food that Wynston has been eating over the past two months. The tiny kibble triangles are made from turkey, chicken, salmon-oil and vegetables. There are no fillers, meat by-products, corn, soy or wheat-gluten. It's also free of artificial colors, flavors and preservatives – it doesn't get much better than that! Grain free Core is meant for dogs who have higher energy needs. We do a lot of hiking and agility for fun, so it's the perfect food for Wynston.
Core air dried dog recipes, which I LOVE using as a meal topper.
Complete Health dry dog food recipes, which include ingredients like lamb, chicken and whitefish.
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You all know how much I cherish PetSmart. I could go on and on about my love for the store but I will spare you…this time 😉 Wellness offers a grain-free option for every dog and every budget! I strongly encourage you to head to your nearest PetSmart to browse the Wellness section. As you can see from the photo above, the possibilities seem endless! PetSmart keeps their shelves clean and organized, making it easy to take a good look at all of the grain-free products made available to pet parents. And get this, Wellness is offering $2.00 off their Core® dry dog food recipes at PetSmart stores during the month of June!
"At Wellness®, we do whatever it takes to create the healthiest foods for the pets that depend on us." As a dog mom I truly appreciate the fact that Wellness is looking to help sustain the good health of my pets. They prove this by offering dog food options that don't have all the icky fillers and artificial ingredients. Our dogs and cats deserve long, healthy, happy lives and it's up to us to provide that for them!
Weekend plans? Take your dog to the nearest PetSmart and have some fun! I'd recommend browsing the massive selection of Wellness grain-free products. You can even do some research on PetSmart.com and look at all of the foods before you go to the store. Remember that Wellness offers a food for every dog on every budget, so I'd bet that you can find something fitting for your pampered pup. Plus, you can take advantage of the $2.00 savings on Wellness Core dry dog food recipes during the month of June!
You can read more about our Wellness grain-free journey here! It's been an absolutely phenomenal experience and I dare you to make the switch 😉 OH! And be sure to follow Wellness on Instagram and Facebook so you can share photos of your dog's grain-free journey!
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Ahahaha Wynston also loves and and I'm also fascinated by it!
I love the idea of mixing things up and rotational feeding. We only recently started this with Ruby about six months ago and it's working really well. We will absolutely use the coupon and check out Wellness Core Grain Free. Thanks!
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My Sunday Song – "Frankenstein" by The Edgar Winter Group
Published on January 27, 2019 December 22, 2018 by 2loud2oldmusic8 Comments
For My Sunday Song #128, the instrumental this week is the great "Frankenstein" by The Edgar Winter Group. The song was off the band's 1972 album 'They Only Come Out at Night' and went all the way to #1 for one week in May 1973. The song sold over a million copies and you probably know it and don't even realize it.
The title of "Frankenstein" is interesting. The title came from the fact the song was pieced together from a very long version of the song as the band would often just jam. So pieces from that jam were spliced together to form the 4 minute album version. It sounds seamless, but the song is an amalgamation of so many different sounds and styles from funk to progressive rock to just plain experimentation. It is a monster for sure.
Speaking of monster, what a monster line-up on this song. You have Dan Hartman on bass, Chuck Ruff on drums, Ronnie Montrose on guitar and Edgar Winter synthesizers and keyboards as well as Rick Derringer producing the song. What a fine group of musicians.
Back to the song, the song is also famous for the double drum solo between Chuck Ruff and Edgar Winter. Chuck on the drums and Edgar playing a set of timbales. It really adds to the song. And don't forget all the synthesizers music, sound and whatever strange noises were being made. It was just such a weird song sandwiched in between those awesome Montrose guitar riffs. And Ronnie Montrose is a beast on this one.
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Categories My Sunday Song, Rock•Tags Charless Ruff, Dan Hartman, Edgar Winter, Frankenstein, Instrumental, Rick Derringer, Ronnie Montrose, The Edgar Winter Group, The Only Come Out at Night
"My First Time" with Kiss – 'Lick It Up'
Published on December 11, 2017 December 3, 2017 by 2loud2oldmusic10 Comments
We are now to the end of the "My First Time" series. I ended up skipping it in November as their were too many new albums to review, plus I just wasn't in the mood, That got me thinking. I don't like being tied down to a specific album or theme. I want to review albums whenever I am in the mood to do it. Doing this series, limited me a little so I figured I would do one more and then just start reviewing any album, any time…no theme.
I figured if it was going to be my last, it needed to be something special. For me, that means Kiss!! The "My First Time" series is about the FIRST album I bought from a band. Believe it or not, that album is 'Lick It Up' by Kiss. A couple of my brothers were huge fans and had all their albums, but I had never bought one. That changed with the excitement of this release.
What was all the excitement about this album? Well, I am glad you asked. Kiss sales had been in the decline. Even with the stellar album 'Creatures of the Night' (one of their best), Kiss needed to do something to shake things up. So they did just that. They removed the make-up. It was such a big deal, MTV held a special for the band to reveal themselves without make-up. They also introduced the video for their first single, "Lick It Up". Here is the MTV special reveal…
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Categories Album Review, My First Time, Rock•Tags A Million to One, All Hell's Breakin' Loose, And on the 8th Day, Dance All Over Your Face, Eric Carr, Exciter, Fits Like a Glove, Gene Simmons, Gimme More, God, KISS, Lick It Up, Michael James Jackson, Not For The Innocent, Paul Stanley, Rick Derringer, Vinnie Vincent, Young and Wasted
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Previous article Behavior Driven Development with Behat and Mink.
Symfony standard Edition is not enough to build a small Content Management System. In this articles suite, we will discover how to use some of the most powerful Sonata Bundles. Today : Sonata Admin Bundle.
As we have Behat and Mink installed, we can write tests for Sonata Admin install.
Given I am on "/admin/dashboard"
Then I should see "My Admin Dashboard"
The @sonataAdmin line is a tag. We can call bin/behat and just play feature or scenario associated with this tag. See Gherkin tags documentation and Gherkin Filters documentation.
Nevertheless, we get an error, as Sonata admin is not installed yet.
Note : We add SimpleThingsEntityAuditBundle because it's a non declared dependancy of SonataDoctrineORMAdminBundle (see SonataDoctrineORMAdminBundle git). If you don't add it, it produce a Catchable Fatal Error: Argument 3 passed to Sonata\DoctrineORMAdminBundle\Block\AuditBlockService::__construct() must be an instance of SimpleThings\EntityAudit\AuditReader, null given, blah blah when later creating block in Sonata page.
Sonata Admin is now installed. Not usable to manage you application yet, but installed and working.


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Une connexion de toute la vie
If I started this post by writing 'This time five months ago...' you would have no idea how that sentence would conclude; but if instead I wrote 'This time last week...' you would instantly think "Paris".
That is the right answer to both, in fact. Just five months ago I was cycling on a public bike along the Promenade Plantée; taking a long walk around the 13th arrondissement with Quân; standing in the dark with the crowds at the top of the steps at the Trocadero, watching the lights twinkle on the Eiffel Tower; gliding beneath its bridges on the Tapestry II, on my way to Normandy. The weather was warm and sunny, people were starting to relax into the summer, and it was a glorious place to be.
Now? Not so much, superficially. The hideousness of last week's attacks have cast a blight over the city and the unspeakable scum - Daesh - will be celebrating. But not for long. Paris will return to normal. Better than normal, because the French now know that the rest of the world stands with them. Especially those of us who have studied French.
Learning a language, and the culture and customs that go with it, forges a bond that never breaks. However long ago it was, if you've ever sat in a classroom practising irregular verbs, sweated over proses for homework, learned by using a graph how to draw a map of the country freehand, then you've made a connection that's not going to be broken for the rest of your life.
Everyone in the free world is feeling for France right now - but because I've done my time with Tasman verbs and inexplicable genders, with y and en, with hyphens, circumflexes and cedillas - because of all that, French and France are a part of me, and I'm taking the attacks personally. (Even if turning up a stray and ancient school exercise book has proved that learning French was much more of a struggle than I remembered.)
I do hope you're still there, my Parisian reader?


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