Who Really Thinks About Balance?
I was at the gym today working out and I was enthralled with the Jerry Springer show. Not the actual topic, something along the lines of "my cheating baby daddy", but the question that popped into my mind – is work life balance an issue for the people on the show?
Are they on stage in the back of their mind thinking about how to fit it all in – how to get the kids to wherever, the presentation done, the house cleaned and the summer vacation plans in action? Please forgive me if that comes across as highbrow or elitist in anyway, that is far from my intention, just stay with me a few more sentences.
I ran 3 miles wondering if the folks on stage dream about having more time to themselves or if people in the audience struggle with trying to fit it all in. Which then lead me to thinking about the home viewing audience as well, and thoughts around what is nagging on their minds that has to be done after the show ends.
My question triggered by the show is pure, who really thinks about work life balance and how do they think about it outside the ivy towers of the corporate world, which admittedly is my main frame of reference with the subject.
I don't know for sure, but I do know from the workshops that the triggers are different for everyone to bring them to their balance breaking point. So maybe the majority of people don't frame it the same way as the legions of corporate minions do – but we all want the same things to feel love and happiness and have time to enjoy the things that are important to us.
It doesn't matter where you live, what you do for a living, how much money you have, your religion, your skin color, your weight, the size of your house or the words used when you're feeling out of control – we all want balance in some way.
This entry was posted in News on January 12, 2010 by SimpleIntentions.
The path to balance doest have to be overly complicated – sometimes just a simple reminder is need to check in yourself. A friend of mine sent this to me yesterday – it's been in her desks for years – very worthwhile to pass along as a small reminder when you're feeling a bit out of control.
This entry was posted in News on January 8, 2010 by SimpleIntentions.
For the last year I've been working on 2 separate but related projects – both with the goal to empower people to empower themselves.
This project the work life balance project is about planting seeds and encouraging people to look at their values and actions in way that might lead to a more balance lifestyle.
The other project – called Simple Intentions – focuses on empowering people one word at a time when they need a tiny nudge through simple products like bamboo wall tiles and custom t-shirts.
The reality is both projects make up one company focused on – you guessed it – empowerment.
In a separate but related conversation I was talking about what I wanted to accomplish in the next decade. Simply put I want to empower 1 million people to feel empowered. I want to in some way inspire 1 million people to know they are in control every morning when they wake up to choose their life, their mood and how they spend their time. It is that simple – one company – one mission – 3 offerings – wear it, read it or listen to it.
Do you want to be part of the million people that own their life?
This entry was posted in News on January 7, 2010 by SimpleIntentions.
Almost half of all US workers (45 percent) say they are unhappy with their jobs according to new report by the Conference Board that was released today – the lowest number in the 22 years since studying the topic.
For comparison in 1986 61 percent said there were happy in their jobs. Yikes. That is a lot of people walking around unhappy and we learned from Brain Rules and This Emotional Life – you have one brain you take with you everywhere and if almost half of all US workers are unhappy at work – I can only guess how that might carry over at home and school.
Something in the study jumped out at me – workers under 25 have the highest level of dissatisfaction. I wonder if this has always been the case throughout the years as this age group is dealing with the end of a collage party environment and the reality of the real world. Or is this a bigger generational shift that the over stimulated, tech savvy children of over protective parents are cut from a different cloth and might always struggle to adapt to rules and structure inherent in the current corporate America landscape.
One can be optimistic that demands of the younger generation at work will help shape a better world of work for everyone. My last thought about the study is what are the other 55 percent doing differently that make them happy at work?
This entry was posted in News on January 5, 2010 by SimpleIntentions.
Tonight on PBS there is a 3 part documentary about happiness called This Emotional Life. In the media promotion of the material the concept of emotional balance is discussed, a concept that I feel is an integral part of achieving overall balance between work and the rest of your life.
As Brain Rules author John J. Medina puts it, "You have one brain. The same brain you have at home is the same brain you have at work or school. The stress you are experiencing at home will affect your performance at work, and vice versa." So it makes absolute sense that your emotional brain impacts every area of your life in the same way a stressed brain does, because it is the same brain.
Sounds so simple, yet you'd be surprised the resistance in the workshops sometimes to this notion. Some people want to believe they are superhuman (or nonhuman) and that they don't take work home or home to work and they believe they can compartmentalize their feelings and emotions and not have cross-over – like removing a tie of taking of the heels results a magic emotional metamorphosis.
Perhaps work life balance is more an issue of emotion and stress balancing and really isn't much about working at all. Rather work life balance is about how you interact with the people and events in your life, of which work is a part of. And how you interact with your own emotions and manage stress in and out of work largely determines the level of balance you feel.
This entry was posted in News on January 4, 2010 by SimpleIntentions.


Eating pints of chocolate ice cream right from the tub, luxuriously hot bubble baths, exploring the healing powers of Netflix and dancing the night away with your besties are all tried and tested ways to deal with a breakup. But often times these breakup remedies just won't cut it when it comes to mending your broken heart, and now science has an explanation for why.
A new study published in the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin by Stanford University came to the conclusion that some people see a breakup as a personal reflection of themselves. Scientists Lauren Howe and Carol Dweck conducted five surveys with a total of 891 participants who were all asked about hypothetical and real-life relationship rejections. They found that the type of person who has a definitive view of who they are perceives a breakup as an "attack" on who they are as a person. This makes it harder to accept the situation and move on.
On the flip side, people with a more fluid idea of who they are can more easily roll with a rejection. Hey, stuff happens, right?
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They Want $250,000 To Make A DRM-Free Clone Of SimCity
Jason Schreier
A team of developers is looking to make a single-player city-building game that seems like the anti-SimCity—and they're asking for $250,000 on Kickstarter to make it happen.
Called Civitas, the project promises to be a SimCity clone that you can actually play offline, which might come as welcome news to fans burned by the recent launch disaster.
As the folks behind Civitas write:
Out of all of the possible types of games our fledgling studio could pick as our first project, why did we pick a city simulation title as our first effort?
Easy, it was out of a combination of how much we loved some of the original city simulation games back in the early PC days and our displeasure with the direction the new SimCity has taken under the iron fist of EA. We don't agree with the removal of single player, the lack of terraforming, lack of modding, and above all them forcing the worst form of draconian DRM on its players known as the "Always On-line" requirement. They are seriously not going to let you play their game if you aren't online. Anyone that has ever been forced to play under that DRM knows how terrible it is. Not only can your internet access stop you from playing, if EA is having any server issues (Yeah those never happen right?) you'll get a nice fat error message instead of your game starting. Forget playing while traveling or anything. This is not a good recipe for a simulation game. EA should really just rename it SimFarmVille and get it over with.
Ouch! Go check out the Kickstarter if you're interested in hearing more about the potential game and its plans.
Civitas - Plan, develop, and manage the city of your dreams! [Kickstarter — thanks, Dazza!]

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(BusinessWeekly.co.uk) AlgoDynamix has unveiled a new cloud-based service using technology provided by D-Wave Systems and says it is a world first in behavioural forecasting for financial analytics.
The new service is a no-cost upgrade for premium-level clients; the UK business says its cloud-based calculations will be up to 10,000 faster and will enable additional customer functionality.
The analytics alert flags are sent to clients via e-mail, browser or an optional API. These analytics now provide much more functionality including the new, crucially important FX and FX treasury forecasting capabilities.
AlgoDynamix CEO, Jeremy Sosabowski, adds: "It is great to see yet again how innovative and solutions-oriented our award-winning company is. Back in my (optical) Quantum Mechanics PhD days I could already see the early research which included ground-breaking outcomes such as the Quantum molecular approach to redefining time.
"Being able to apply the power of Quantum Computing to our forecasting analytics is a significant step forward and clients will quickly benefit from increased speed and capabilities across multiple asset classes. I hate to use the phrase 'game-changer', but this is a very big step in forecasting technology."
ABOUT: AlgoDynamix was started in 2013 and incorporated in January 2014 with software based on many years of academic research at the University of Cambridge, where the team met.
The co-founders Jeremy Sosabowski and Wei Teo are both experts in experimental physics, mathematics, and algorithms but were (and still are) somewhat puzzled with the world's obsession with using past data for future extrapolation purposes; even more so when there is little or no past data available for events such as pandemics, elections, referendums or other 'never seen before' events.
Very recent examples of the forecasting analytics – around US elections time, and the start of the Covid pandemic – are shown with the AlgoDynamix analytics providing advance warning of major directional market movements.
Key to Creating Quantum-Resistant Encryption Is Getting Away from Core Strength of Computers, According to One Expert
BT Staging First Trial of End-to-End Quantum-Secured Communications for 5G & Connected Cars


This senate body at Wichita State University exists to promote the interests of all University Support Staff employees of the University, to provide an open forum for the expression of these interests, and to regularize the exchange of information between administrators, faculty, students and University Support Staff of the University.
The senates have been discussing joining forces to form one representative body with both UP and USS members. On April 1 2019, the USS and UP Senates invited all USS and UP staff to attend an Open Forum Discussion to gather feedback on combining the USS and UP Senates.
Note: The discussion of joining forces for one representative body relates to senate representation only and has no effect on employee position classifications as UP or USS or their related personnel policies or procedures.
For more information, please contact USS Senate President Matt Houston (matthew.houston@wichita.edu) or UP Senate President Camille Childers (camille.childers@wichita.edu).
The following notes and responses reflect the discussions and input that staff shared on this important topic.
What do you see as the purpose of the employee (USS and UP) senates?
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Home >News >World >Pichai one of world's highest-paid executives, awarded $281 mln in compensation last year
Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai (Photo: Reuters)
Pichai one of world's highest-paid executives, awarded $281 mln in compensation last year
1 min read . Updated: 25 Apr 2020, 03:18 PM IST Bloomberg
The vast majority of the package is stock awards, some of which will be paid out depending on Alphabet's stock return
Pichai's annual salary was $650,000 in 2019, according to a proxy statement filed with regulators on Friday
Pichai is one of world's highest-paid executives, awarded $281 mln in compensation last year Alphabet Inc. said in a regulatory filing that Chief Executive Officer Sundar Pichai was awarded $281 million in compensation last year, making him one of the world's highest-paid executives.
The vast majority of the package is stock awards, some of which will be paid out depending on Alphabet's stock return relative to other companies in the S&P 100 index. That means his haul can become significantly smaller, or much bigger. Pichai's annual salary was $650,000 in 2019, according to a proxy statement filed with regulators on Friday. The company has said that will rise to $2 million this year.
The CEO's compensation is 1,085 times the median total pay of Alphabet employees, the company also said in the filing.
Pichai took over as CEO of Alphabet from Larry Page at the end of last year as Page and co-founder Sergey Brin stepped away from the company. Now, the 47-year-old executive will have to navigate Alphabet through the coronavirus crisis and economic recession. Pichai has already cut back significantly on hiring and investment plans for the year.
This year, Alphabet's board changed the companies it compares itself to when it decides how to determine compensation. It added Netflix Inc., Comcast Corp. and Salesforce.com Inc., while removing HP Inc. and Qualcomm Inc. Also on the list: Apple Inc., Amazon.com Inc. and Facebook Inc.
Alphabet also disclosed the pay of David Drummond's wife. Axios reported in September that Drummond, the company's chief legal officer at the time, married another Google employee who once worked in his legal department. Drummond's spouse was paid about $197,000 in 2019, the filing said. Drummond stepped down earlier this year.
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Susannah Harker (born 26 April 1965) is an English film, television, and theatre actor. She was nominated for a BAFTA TV Award in 1990 for her role as Mattie Storin in House of Cards. She played Jane Bennet in the 1995 TV adaptation of Pride and Prejudice.

Early life and education
Harker was born in London. She is the daughter of actors Polly Adams and Richard Owens. She and her younger sister, Caroline, were brought up as Catholics and educated at a "strict" independent convent boarding school run by nuns in Sussex, and at the Central School of Speech and Drama in North London.

Acting career
Harker has acted in both contemporary and classic works, on stage, in movies and in TV series. In 1990–91 she appeared alongside Clive Owen in Chancer, and as the journalist Mattie Storin in the original House of Cards. She later played Dinah Morris in the 1991 adaptation of Adam Bede. She starred as Jane Bennet in the 1995 TV adaptation of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. She is featured as Emma Fitzgerald, the love interest of Superintendent Tyburn (Trevor Eve) in the BBC TV series, Heat of the Sun (1998). In 2003 she played Clare Keightley in the audio version of the Doctor Who adventure Shada, alongside Paul McGann.

On stage in 2005, she appeared in Simon Stephens's play On the Shore of the Wide World at the Royal National Theatre. In 2008, she played Gwendoline in Charles Wood's Jingo at the Finborough Theatre, where the London Evening Standard reviewed her performance, saying "Susannah Harker, an actress who should appear more often in our major playhouses, is in beautifully crisp form as Gwendoline."

She played Sapphire in Big Finish Productions' audio revival of Sapphire & Steel, in three series of plays released on CD between 2005 and 2008. In December 2011 Harker appeared in the BBC drama Young James Herriot. In 2012 she returned to the stage, playing the role of Sue in a London production of Mike Leigh's Abigail's Party. During early 2014 she starred in the Gate Theatre, Dublin production of The Vortex by Noël Coward.

She has also worked in radio. In 2015, she played Miss Ella Rentheim in a BBC Radio 4 production of Ibsen's John Gabriel Borkman. She played Kris in Radio 4's 2021 drama Barred written by Thandi Lubimbi and Richard Kurti.

Personal life
Harker is a great-great-granddaughter of Joseph Harker, an artist and theatrical scene designer.

She was married to Iain Glen from 1993 to 2004; they have one son. She was later in a relationship with Paul McGann from 2006 to 2008.

Harker's sisters, Nelly Harker and Caroline Harker, are also actors.

Filmography

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1965 births
Living people
Actresses from London
English film actresses
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20th-century English actresses
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Cowater's Gender Statement: From a Water & Sanitation Perspective News
The Water, Sanitation and Environment (WSE) Division at Cowater International is an award-winning leader in water resources management having implemented studies to improve water governance and sectoral monitoring and evaluation in Africa and Asia, over 100 water supply and sanitation projects in more than 30 countries, contributing to economic growth in urban, peri-urban and rural settings in developing countries. Our work is also focused on supporting developing countries to adapt to the existing and foreseen impacts of climate change.
Using a demand-responsive and participatory approach, WSE works closely with local governments, communities, and other stakeholders to build capacity at the international, national and local levels and identify integrated solutions that promote consensus on the social, economic and physical environment. In every project, the WSE Division recognizes the strong linkages between access to water, sanitation and hygiene, and gender equality. In this effort, the WSE Division acknowledges that:
Women are more affected from the inadequate access to sanitation and hygiene, as they are often faced with additional challenges related to menstrual hygiene, personal safety, sexual harassments and violence;
Women are more affected from climate change impacts, as water borne diseases that are caused through flooding and poor sanitation have greater impact on women and children than men;
Women are over-represented in economic activities that are dependent on natural resources that are more sensitive to both climate and disaster risks;
Women are more affected from lack of access to water as they play a central part in the provision, management and safeguarding of water and spend significantly more time acquiring water than men and boys, which in turn can deprive them of fully contributing to agricultural production, food security and business opportunities.
The WSE Division applies the Canadian Institutes of Health Research definition of gender which reads as follows: "Gender refers to the socially constructed roles, behaviours, expressions and identities of girls, women, boys, men, and gender diverse people. It influences how people perceive themselves and each other, how they act and interact, and the distribution of power and resources in society. Gender is usually conceptualized as a binary (girl/woman and boy/man) yet there is considerable diversity in how individuals and groups understand, experience, and express it."
WSE believes that the integration of gender equality concerns in water and sanitation services goes beyond equal opportunity; it requires the transformation of the basic rules, hierarchies and practices of public institutions. We are committed to educate ourselves on the topic and to keeping our knowledge up-to-date about new approaches and developments. We share this knowledge with our local partners so that, together, we are enabled to adequately address gender issues in our activities.
Recognizing, understanding and addressing gender dimensions within water and sanitation projects promotes human rights and can lead to increased household welfare, improved health, increased gender equality and environmental sustainability in a context of climate change. WSE has an important role to promote gender mainstreaming in water, sanitation and environmental projects, and to support active participation of women in the planning, design, implementation, and monitoring of interventions.
In that sense, we believe access to safe drinking water and sanitation along with ensuring sustainable use of water resources in a context of climate change are central to women development and sustainable livelihoods. The consolidation and implementation of integrated water management is necessary to achieve improvements in crucial priorities such as water efficiency, which is a growing concern in the context of adaptation to climate change and water scarcity.
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HRH Blues VI @ O2 Academy, Sheffield.
(Day 1)
McHale's Permanent Brew
Openers, McHale's Permanent Brew are made up of Paul McHale (Vocals/Guitar); Frank McHale (Guitar/Vocals); Ste Houghton (Bass); Chris Orrell (Drums) & Si Lomax (Keyboards).
They have a style that mixes in some ballsy Americana (think Drive By Trucker) with elements of Pearl Jam and Neil Young aspects too all moulded into one. Paul has a beefy strong voice with good presence. He said he could not stop smiling because he was so happy to be there!
It's packed in here already just about!
Porcelain Hill
Porcelain Hill are a solid cool as hell trio from Los Angeles, California who frequent here a lot - they obviously like these parts! They consist of Darnell 'Big D' Cole (Guitar/Vocals), Sonny 'Wildfire' Campos (Drums/Backing Vocals) and Jakob 'Special K' Parnham (Bass). There is some smart sounding soloing between Bass and Guitar with a cracking backbeat on them drums.
Darnell is slick moving and knows how to work the stage and could become the star of the entire day at this rate. File these cats somewhere between Jimi Hendrix & Curtis Mayfield.
Rebecca Downes
Rebecca Downes has a powerful voice as ever. She changes it up a bit with in the set at times by letting her larynx take centre stage without her leopard spotted Telecaster. It was hard to hear her Fender during the show which had been placed so low in the mix.
A major highlight was the rendition of 'With A Little Help From My Friends' in the grand ole Cocker style. I love the fact that there was plenty of lyric trading too.
Danny Bryant
So poor old Danny has got a sore throat. Never good when you are a vocalist too - he gets by though but must be in a bit of pain when he hits the higher notes. He does not let it get him down and is full of personality regardless and joking with crowd on a regular basis.
Mr. Bryant also asks us if we are a having a good time? As if we'd say no! Style-wise it's very Colour by numbers blues but fun stuff all the same. There are some fantastic Hammond sounds making the mark in the mix and really spruce it up. A standout includes the number towards the end of the set that was like a cross of 'Spirit In The Sky' meets a slowed down 'La Grange'.
Billy Walton Band
Billy Walton Band were a tight impeccable talent that added in some killer sexy sax and top dollar trumpet sounds into a superb sounding set that was a perfect moulding of blues, rock and soul. The man himself was first noticed when he was the lead guitarist for Southside Johnny!
As you can no doubt imagine, they from the Jersey Shore (that's New Jersey not the island off the UK full of non-taxpayers). Billy's band is made up of William Paris (Bass), Tom Petraccaro (Saxophone), Eric Safka (Hammond B3), Bruce Krywinski Jr (Trumpet), Shane Luckenbough (Drums) & Destinee Monroe (Guitar/Vocals).
They went down really well and had a perfect positioning on day one, making the best of the well-packed crowd on this late Saturday afternoon. Splendid stuff indeed - an outfit who are no strangers to HRH Blues!
Snakewater
Okay, these were the 1st band to grace the stage upstairs in the smaller intimate room. I must apologise since I did not catch too much of their set but they were a strong solid act to say the very least who perform a cracking selection of Blues Rock in this new line-up of the band.
Ryk Mead Band
London based Ryk Mead Band are up next - with the man himself being quite a pedigree, despite still being pretty much unknown in his own right on the larger blues scale of things and played alongside folk such as Dave Gilmour (Pink Floyd), The Pretty Things & Steve Waller (Manfred Man's Earth Band) to name but a few and performed all over from the USA to China. Steve Cooper joins him on Bass/Vocals with Adam Bond on Drums.
He has a very hard-edged style that I associate with the sounds from the British early 60s and onwards - authentic, raw and in your face that makes your hair stand on end. He also mixes some Jazz and Rock in as well, making him not your usual run of the mill kind of player. Good stuff and would like to see a full set one day up here again as I missed an awful lot due to clashing with what was on downstairs.
Thirteen Stars
Upstairs again was the exceptional Thirteen stars from Cumbria with JJ Watt on Guitar - that dude is in at least 3 or 4 different bands at last count - talk about a busy boy! Other members going by the name of Scott Mason (Drums), Bret Barnes (Saxophone) and Hoss Thompson (Lead Vocals/Guitar). This outfit is very Rocky Blues meets Americana who blew me away with amazing top standard female backing singers in Lol Jackson (also on Keyboards) & Kira Mac!
There was a long track at the end that got ya going and was as cool as hell which was like the Rolling Stones meets Reggae if I remember right. That Sax too sounded magic which added an extra layer of greatness to the already remarkable up-tempo enchanting band!
Downstairs on the main stage is a Rock Legend who needs no introduction. Bernie Marsden gave us a treat of how to play blues well in his loud Chicago meets the South style and plays us stuff like 'Red House' and a Whitesnake classic or two like the cover 'Ain't No Love (In The Heart Of The City)' and closes with 'Here I Go Again'.
He has us all singing along to those "Here's a song for ya!" moments as you can imagine and wisely opts for lower octaves as opposed to top notes in many of those famous songs that even David Coverdale himself struggles to reach comfortably these days. Mr. Marsden is well and truly a master supreme with lovely blues harp added too, not to mention a fine fitting band of complete class!
And the headliners tonight are The Quireboys minus you know who. Guy Griffin took the role with his Telecaster having a chance to take centre stage too. There was the odd heckle to which he said "He is behind you" with a buddy of ours thrown out for be being too vocal about it before the 3rd song if I remember right!
Guy did an impeccable job and they totally pulled it off saying it had been 'A Long Time Coming' before they did the song itself. Up in the Royalty section on the balcony there were some Blues Purists bawling for blues with Guy saying, "We play 'Rock 'N' Roll' and do they not like rock n roll?" These are the type that would have probably shouted "Judas" at Bob Dylan at Manchester in 1964 for going electric right?
Before announcing 'Roses And Rings' Guy exclaimed that it reminded him of drinking underage in L.A. when he was younger - well you do have to 21 there to do it legally... hahaha... An army of classics are delivered where we are asked, "What time is it?" Well actually, it's probably gone 10 pm but it's '7 O' Clock' regardless - LOL! Anyway, It goes down real good as does their encore in the form of 'Sex Party'.
Tonight the 'Boys nail it since they give a faultless performance that every person I spoke to after agreed with me on. Believe it or not they were an even tighter together unit with a member down - Lord strike me down for saying that but it really is true. To be honest, in the long run the unit will work like this since it was perfectly flowing and very smooth.
Congratulations guys. You did yourselves proud!!


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Camco Acura | Events | 2022 NSX Type S – Pre-Order Contest
2022 NSX Type S – Pre-Order Contest
Events Sep 8th, 2021
We're pleased to announce the arrival of the 2022 NSX Type S is just around the corner! Hand-built by master technicians at the Performance Manufacturing Center (PMC) with a limited production of 350 units globally, the new NSX embodies the pinnacle of dynamic driving worthy of the Type S badge. While continuing to honor its lineage with meticulous engineering and striking design, the NSX Type S pushes the boundaries of possibility with more power and more sound for a more adrenaline-fueled drive.
This is your chance to be one of the 11 NSX enthusiasts to purchase one of these exclusive units. Join the NSX Type S Pre-order Contest today! Enter for a chance to place a non-refundable deposit on the highest-performing production Acura ever built. One entry per dealership. Drawing is on September 10th, 2021, enter now! www.acura.ca/NSXTypeScontest
THIS CONTEST IS OPEN ONLY TO RESIDENTS OF CANADA (EXCLUDING NUNAVUT, NORTHWEST TERRITORIES AND YUKON) AND IS GOVERNED BY CANADIAN LAW
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The Acura NSX Type S Contest (the "Contest") starts on September 8, 2021 at 12:00:00 a.m. Eastern Time ("ET") and ends on September 8, 2021 at 11:59:59 p.m. ET (the "Contest Period").
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The Contest is open only to residents of Canada (excluding residents of Nunavut, Northwest Territories and Yukon) who have reached the legal age of majority in their province of residence at the time of entry, except employees (current and retired), representatives or agents (and those with whom such persons are living, whether related or not) of Acura Canada, a division of Honda Canada Inc. (the "Sponsor"), Honda Canada Finance Inc. o/a Acura Financial Services ("AFS"), or any of their respective representatives, agents, sponsors, parent companies, subsidiaries, affiliates, prize suppliers, advertising/promotion agencies and any other individual(s), entity or entities involved in the development, production, implementation, administration or fulfillment of the Contest (collectively, the "Contest Parties").
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I understand that Sponsor, AFS and its affiliates and service providers may collect, maintain, use and disclose my personal information and may share this information between themselves, for the purposes of: (i) administering the Contest; (ii) providing me with marketing information (if I have opted in to receive such communications); (iii) other applicable purposes described in the Sponsor's Privacy Policy (www.honda.ca/privacy); or the AFS Privacy Policy (www.honda.ca/privacy/hfs), as applicable; and (iv) other purposes permitted by law. I can contact the Sponsor and AFS at 180 Honda Boulevard, Markham, Ontario, L6C 0H9 or by telephone at 1-888-946-6329 (Sponsor) and 1-800-387-5399 (AFS) if I no longer consent to these uses or to update or correct my personal information. If I withdraw my consent for the uses and disclosures detailed in section (i), Sponsor will be entitled to deny my entry into the Contest. My personal information may also be combined with other information collected from me if I enter into or have previously entered into a transaction with the Sponsor, AFS, or their affiliates and may be used for the purposes consented to at that time. In some cases, personal information may be disclosed, processed and stored outside Canada, and therefore may be available to government authorities under lawful orders and laws applicable there.
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To enter, visit www.acura.ca/NSXTypeScontest or www.acura.ca/NSXTypeScontest_fr at any time during the Contest Period and follow the on-screen instructions to fully complete the entry form (the "Form"), which requires you to: (i) enter your full name, valid e-mail address and any other mandatory information; and (ii) agree to be legally bound by the terms and conditions of these Rules. Once you have fully completed the Form with all required information and have agreed to the Rules, click the "SUBMIT" button to be eligible to receive one (1) Entry (an "Entry" and collectively, the "Entries"). To be eligible, your Entry (regardless of the method of entry) must be submitted and received in accordance with these Rules. Your Entry will automatically be allocated to a Zone depending on your mailing address. All decisions of the Sponsor in this regard are final and binding without right of appeal.
ENTRY LIMIT AND CONDITIONS:
There is a limit of one (1) Entry per person. If it is discovered by the Sponsor (using any evidence or other information made available to or otherwise discovered by the Sponsor) that any person has attempted to: (i) obtain more than one (1) Entry (regardless of the method of entry); and/or (ii) use multiple names, multiple identities, multiple e-mail addresses, multiple accounts and/or any automated, macro, script, robotic or other system(s) or program(s) to enter or otherwise participate in or to disrupt the Contest; then they may be disqualified from the Contest in the sole and absolute discretion of the Sponsor. The Contest Parties and each of their respective agents, employees, directors, successors, and assigns (collectively, the "Released Parties") are not responsible for, and accept no liability whatsoever in relation to, any late, lost, misdirected, delayed, incomplete or incompatible Entries (all of which are void). An Entry may be rejected if, in the sole and absolute discretion of the Sponsor, the Entry is not submitted and received in accordance with these Rules.
All Entries and entrants are subject to verification at any time and for any reason. The Sponsor reserves the right, in its sole and absolute discretion, to require proof of identity and/or eligibility (in a form acceptable to the Sponsor – including, without limitation, government-issued photo identification): (i) for the purposes of verifying an individual's eligibility to participate in the Contest; (ii) for the purposes of verifying the eligibility and/or legitimacy of any Entry and/or other information entered (or purportedly entered) for the purposes of the Contest; and/or (iii) for any other reason the Sponsor deems necessary, in its sole and absolute discretion, for the purposes of administering the Contest in accordance with the Sponsor's interpretation of the letter and spirit of these Rules. Failure to provide such proof to the complete satisfaction of the Sponsor within the timeline specified by the Sponsor may result in disqualification in the sole and absolute discretion of the Sponsor. The sole determinant of the time for the purposes of the Contest will be the official time-keeping device(s) used by the Sponsor.
PARTICIPATION REQUIREMENTS:
BY SUBMITTING AN ENTRY, YOU AGREE TO RELEASE THE SPONSOR AND ALL OF THE OTHER RELEASED PARTIES FROM ANY AND ALL LIABILITY IN CONNECTION WITH THE CONTEST AND YOUR PARTICIPATION THEREIN AND TO INDEMNIFY THE SPONSOR AND ALL OF THE OTHER RELEASED PARTIES AGAINST ANY AND ALL CLAIMS, DAMAGES, LIABILITIES, COSTS, AND EXPENSES ARISING FROM YOUR PARTICIPATION IN THE CONTEST. BY SUBMITTING AN ENTRY, YOU ALSO AGREE THAT THE ENTRY (AND EACH INDIVIDUAL COMPONENT THEREOF) COMPLIES WITH ALL CONDITIONS STATED IN THESE RULES. THE RELEASED PARTIES WILL BEAR NO LIABILITY WHATSOEVER REGARDING: (I) THE USE OF YOUR ENTRY (OR ANY COMPONENT THEREOF); (II) PARTICIPATION IN ANY CONTEST-RELATED ACTIVITIES; (III) ANY USE, COLLECTION, STORAGE AND DISCLOSURE OF ANY PERSONAL INFORMATION; AND/OR (IV) IF DECLARED THE WINNER, THE PRIZE (INCLUDING ANY USE OR MISUSE OF THE PRIZE). THE RELEASED PARTIES SHALL BE HELD HARMLESS BY YOU IN THE EVENT IT IS DISCOVERED THAT YOU HAVE DEPARTED FROM OR NOT OTHERWISE FULLY COMPLIED WITH ANY OF THESE RULES. THIS RELEASE AND INDEMNITY SHALL CONTINUE IN FORCE FOLLOWING THE TERMINATION OF THE CONTEST AND/OR AWARDING OF ANY PRIZE.
By participating in the Contest, each entrant hereby warrants and represents that any Entry they submit does not contain any reference to any identifiable third parties, unless consent has been obtained from all such individuals and their parent/legal guardian if they are under the age of majority in their jurisdiction of residence; and will not give rise to any claims whatsoever, including, without limitation, claims of infringement, invasion of privacy or publicity, or infringe on any rights and/or interests of any third party.
There will be a total of eleven (11) Prizes (each, a "Prize" and collectively the "Prizes") available to be won as follows:
Central Zone: 5
Eastern Zone: 3
Western Zone: 3
Each Prize will consist solely of the opportunity for the confirmed winner to place a one-time non-refundable deposit of $9,500 CAD (the "Deposit") with a participating Acura retailer in Canada towards the purchase of a limited-production 2022 NSX Type S supercar (the "Vehicle"). Each Deposit shall be placed in accordance with, and governed by, the non-refundable Deposit terms and conditions of the confirmed winner's selected Acura retailer.
For the avoidance of any doubt whatsoever, the Prize consists solely of the opportunity for each confirmed winner to place the non-refundable Deposit. The Prize does not consist of the Vehicle.
The Vehicle is an extremely limited-production supercar. Available options and accessories will vary and will be subject to strict manufacturing restrictions and limitations. Eligible Prize winners must confirm all Vehicle details and options directly with its selected Acura retailer.
If a confirmed winner fails to follow-through with making the Deposit in the manner and according to the time line as defined by the Sponsor, then he/she/they will be disqualified.
If a confirmed winner fails to follow-through with completing the remainder of the purchase process after making the Deposit in the manner and according to the time line as defined by the Sponsor, then he/she/they will forfeit the entirety of the Deposit.
Prizes have no retail value.
The opportunity to place the Deposit is not transferrable or assignable. The Deposit must be placed, and the Vehicle must be registered, in the name of the individual as identified on the Form.
By accepting a Prize, each confirmed winner agrees to waive all recourse against the Sponsor and all of the other Released Parties if the Prize does not prove satisfactory, either in whole or in part.
The Sponsor and the other Released Parties are not responsible for any delay or postponement, for any reason, of any aspect of the Prize – including availability of the Vehicle. Neither the confirmed winner nor any other person or entity will be compensated in the event of such delay or postponement.
None of the Released Parties makes any representation or offers any warranty, express or implied, as to the quality or fitness of any Prize awarded in connection with the Contest. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, each confirmed winner understands and acknowledges that he/she/they may not seek reimbursement or pursue any legal or equitable remedy from either the Sponsor or any of the other Released Parties should the Prize fail to be fit for its purpose or is in any way unsatisfactory. For greater certainty and the avoidance of any doubt, by accepting the Prize, a confirmed winner agrees to waive all recourse against the Sponsor and all of the other Released Parties if the Prize or a component thereof does not prove satisfactory, either in whole or in part.
ELIGIBLE WINNER SELECTION PROCESS:
On September 10, 2021 (the "Selection Date") in the Greater Toronto Area, Ontario, at approximately 10:00 a.m. ET, eligible entrants (according to the number of Prizes per Zone – as outlined in Rule 10) will be selected by random draw from among all eligible Entries submitted and received in accordance with these Rules in each Zone. The odds of winning depend on the number of eligible Entries submitted and received in accordance with these Rules in each Zone.
ELIGIBLE WINNER NOTIFICATION PROCESS:
The Sponsor or its designated representative will make a minimum of two (2) attempts to contact each eligible winner within two (2) business days of the Selection Date. If an eligible winner cannot be contacted within two (2) business days of the Selection Date, or if there is a return of any notification as undeliverable; then they may, in the sole and absolute discretion of the Sponsor, be disqualified (and, if disqualified, will forfeit all rights to the applicable Prize) and the Sponsor reserves the right, in its sole and absolute discretion and time permitting, to randomly select an alternate eligible entrant for the applicable Prize/Zone from among the remaining eligible Entries submitted and received in accordance with these Rules in accordance with the procedures outlined in Rule 11 (in which case the foregoing provisions of this section shall apply to such newly selected eligible winner).
ELIGIBLE WINNER CONFIRMATION PROCESS:
NO ONE IS A WINNER UNLESS AND UNTIL THE SPONSOR OFFICIALLY CONFIRMS THEM AS A WINNER IN ACCORDANCE WITH THESE RULES. BEFORE BEING DECLARED AS A CONFIRMED PRIZE WINNER, each eligible winner will be required to: (a) correctly answer a mathematical skill-testing question without mechanical or other aid (which may, in the sole and absolute discretion of the Sponsor, be administered online, by e-mail or other electronic means, by telephone, or in the Sponsor's form of declaration and release); and (b) sign and return in electronic format within one (1) business day of notification the Sponsor's declaration and release form, which (among other things): (i) confirms compliance with these Rules; (ii) acknowledges acceptance of the Prize (as awarded); (iii) releases the Sponsor and all of the other Released Parties from any and all liability in connection with the Contest, their participation therein and/or the awarding and use/misuse of the Prize or any portion thereof; (iv) agrees to indemnify the Sponsor and all of the other Released Parties against any and all claims, damages, liabilities, costs, and expenses arising from use of their Entry; and (v) agrees to the publication, reproduction and/or other use of their name, city and province of residence, voice, statements about the Contest and/or photograph or other likeness without further notice or compensation, in any publicity or advertisement carried out by or on behalf of the Sponsor in any manner or medium whatsoever, including print, broadcast or the Internet. If an eligible winner: (a) fails to correctly answer the skill-testing question; (b) fails to return the properly executed Contest documents within the specified time; (c) cannot accept (or is unwilling to accept) the Prize (as awarded) for any reason; and/or (d) is determined to be in violation of these Rules (all as determined by the Sponsor in its sole and absolute discretion); then he/she/they will be disqualified (and will forfeit all rights to the Prize) and the Sponsor reserves the right, in its sole and absolute discretion and time permitting, to randomly select an alternate eligible entrant for the applicable Prize/Zone from among the remaining eligible Entries submitted and received in accordance with these Rules in accordance with the procedures outlined in Rule 11 (in which case the foregoing provisions of this section shall apply to such newly selected eligible winner).
The Contest is subject to all applicable federal, provincial and municipal laws. The decisions of the Sponsor with respect to all aspects of the Contest are final and binding on all entrants without right of appeal.
ANYONE DEEMED BY THE SPONSOR TO BE IN VIOLATION OF THE LETTER AND/OR SPIRIT OF THESE RULES FOR ANY REASON IS SUBJECT TO DISQUALIFICATION IN THE SOLE AND ABSOLUTE DISCRETION OF THE SPONSOR AT ANY TIME.
The Sponsor and other Released Parties will not be liable for: (i) any failure of any website or any platform during the Contest; (ii) any technical malfunction or other problems of any nature whatsoever, including, without limitation, those relating to the telephone network or lines, computer on-line systems, servers, access providers, computer equipment or software; (iii) the failure of any Entry and/or other information to be received, captured or recorded for any reason whatsoever, including, but not limited to, technical problems or traffic congestion on the Internet or at any website, including the Online Entry Form; (iv) any injury or damage to an entrant's or any other person's computer or other device related to or resulting from participating in the Contest; (v) anyone being incorrectly and/or mistakenly identified as a winner or eligible winner; and/or (vi) any combination of the above.
The Sponsor reserves the right, in its sole and absolute discretion, to cancel, withdraw, amend or suspend the Contest (or to amend these Rules) in any way, in the event of any cause beyond the reasonable control of the Sponsor that interferes with the proper conduct of the Contest as contemplated by these Rules, including, without limitation, any error, problem, computer virus, bugs, tampering, unauthorized intervention, fraud or failure of any kind whatsoever. Any attempt to undermine the legitimate operation of the Contest in any way (as determined by Sponsor in its sole and absolute discretion) may be a violation of criminal and civil laws and should such an attempt be made, the Sponsor reserves the right to seek remedies and damages to the fullest extent permitted by law. The Sponsor reserves the right, in its sole and absolute discretion, to cancel, amend or suspend the Contest, or to amend these Rules, in any way without prior notice or obligation, in the event of any accident, printing, administrative, or other error of any kind, or for any other reason whatsoever.
The Sponsor reserves the right, in its sole and absolute discretion, to administer an alternate test of skill as it deems appropriate based on the circumstances and/or to comply with applicable law.
The Sponsor reserves the right, in its sole and absolute discretion, to adjust any of the dates, timeframes and/or other Contest mechanics stipulated in these Rules, to the extent deemed necessary by Sponsor, for purposes of verifying compliance by any entrant, Entry, and/or other information with these Rules, or as a result of any technical or other problems, or in light of any other circumstances which, in the opinion of the Sponsor, in its sole and absolute discretion, affect the proper administration of the Contest as contemplated in these Rules, or for any other reason.
By entering the Contest, each entrant expressly consents to the collection, storing, use and disclosure of the personal information submitted with an Entry for the purposes indicated in Section 4 – Privacy of these Rules. Nothing in these Rules will limit any other consent(s) that an individual may provide the Sponsor or others in relation to the collection, storing, use and/or disclosure of their personal information.
In the event of any discrepancy or inconsistency between the terms and conditions of these English Rules and disclosures or other statements contained in any Contest-related materials, including, but not limited to, the French version of these Rules, point of sale, television, print or online advertising and/or any instructions or interpretations of these Rules given by any representative of the Sponsor, the terms and conditions of these English Rules shall prevail, govern and control to the fullest extent permitted by law.
The invalidity or unenforceability of any provision of these Rules shall not affect the validity or enforceability of any other provision. In the event that any provision is determined to be invalid or otherwise unenforceable or illegal, these Rules shall otherwise remain in effect and shall be construed in accordance with the terms as if the invalid or illegal provision were not contained herein.
To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, all issues and questions concerning the construction, validity, interpretation and enforceability of these Rules or the rights and obligations of participants, Sponsor or any of the other the Released Parties in connection with the Contest will be governed by and construed in accordance with the domestic laws of the Province of Ontario and the federal laws of Canada applicable therein, without giving effect to any choice of law or conflict of law rules or provisions that would cause the application of any other jurisdiction's laws. The parties hereby consent to the exclusive jurisdiction and venue of the courts located in Ontario in any action to enforce (or otherwise relating to) these Rules or relating to the Contest.
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The Mrtinovik bay is located on the southeast side of Hvar and one of the bays that offer the best shelter in strong north winds. The water is crystal clear and on the shore there is a beautiful pebble beach. The 5 buoys belong to the Konoba Mrtinovik. As they are usually occupied, a reservation is recommendable. The fisherman Ante Rosandic, who is called Gambo, operates a rustic tavern in the northeast part of the bay. Mainly fresh caught fish and octopus ends up on the plate but also other Dalmatian specialties. There is no menu. But daily-changing dishes of the day. A 3-4 course meal with scampi, fish , dessert and wine is about 36 euros per person . The wine and most of the ingredients are grown on Hvar.
vom 4. auf 5. Juni 2016 lagen wir an einer Boje beim Fischer. Hervorragend gegessen - sehr freundlich - kommen auf jeden Fall wieder.


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Q: VMWare: Linux host doesn't get NAT connection from Windows Host I've been trying the last couple of days to get NAT networking to work.
I am running VMWare workstation on Windows 7, and installed an Ubuntu image. The image starts up fine, but the vm does not get an IP address. The vm is setup to use NAT networking, and this has DHCP enabled.

A: After searching around a lot, I finally stumbled upon a thread on the VMWare forums (https://communities.vmware.com/thread/494261) which has the title "Can't get VMware NAT Service running".
I realized that the VMWare NAT depends on a Windows service that has to run. So I went to the
Services settings of Windows, and sure enough, the "VMWare NAT Service" was set to manual. I started it and set it to start automatically, and networking started to work in my vm.

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After presenting the sexiest stand at Maison et Objet 2019, Houtique officially introduced the Déjà Vu bar stool designed by the Valencian studio, Masquespacio. This design event was not only the perfect place to follow the trends but also to present the brand's new designs.
Houtique's co-partners, Masquespacio, designed the Déjà Vu stool following Houtique's colorful fringed personality and inspired by the overwhelming and mysterious sensations produced by déjà vu.
Designer and Co-Founder Ana Milena Hernández commented on the design inspiration for the stool, says that she never trusted those stories full of mystery that some people love to tell. The stool's name is very self-explanatory, Masquespacio's design throwbacks to those moments where someone says that they have experienced, lived, dreamed about that thing, idea or moment, but they actually have not. They have the sensation they had already gone through that moment but in fact, it is a brand new one, it just only feels like repetition.
She describes this modern art collection as a Deja Vu feeling, as a result of a strange dream, a dream that has come true, and I Lobo You is completely in love and can already imagine these gems in your home design!
Having in mind a stool with a contemporary design and color that fits in all of the interior design, Houtique offers multiple color combinations for eclectic stool, you just gotta pick your favorite one and let this Masquespacio's piece shine on its own.


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Las Vegas' Best-Kept Secret: The Oyster Bar
Pan roast and gumbo at the Oyster Bar at Palace Station Las Vegas (Photo by Brad A. Johnson)
Oyster Bar at Palace Station Las Vegas (Photo by Brad A. Johnson)
In a city filled with splashy, high-profile celebrity chef restaurants, it's refreshing to discover something more low key, unexpected and off the traditionally beaten path. Chances are you didn't even know there was a casino in Las Vegas called Palace Station. And chances are even better that you've never heard of that casino's Oyster Bar. The locals would like to keep it that way.
Blink and you'll miss it. The entire restaurant is merely a kitchen counter with about 16 bar stools. It's open 24 hours, and there is always—always—a line (no reservations), almost entirely made up of regulars. The menu is tightly focused on shellfish: freshly shucked oysters, clam chowder, gumbo, jambalaya, bouillabaisse… The gumbo is as good as anything in New Orleans, but the best dish on the menu is something called a "pan roast," which is a lot like gumbo, only better.
For dessert, they serve what they call profiteroles. Brace yourself. It couldn't be farther from the traditional definition of profiteroles. But adjust your expectations accordingly, and you'll devour every last bite. You might even lick the bowl.
The Oyster Bar is definitely worth a detour. Seriously. You won't be disappointed.
For more travel inspiration and photos, I invite you to follow me and join the conversation on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.
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Brad A. Johnson is a writer and photographer specializing in food and travel. His work has been honored repeatedly by the James Beard Awards, the Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Awards, the pdn Food Photography Awards and many others. Based in Southern California, Brad currently serves as restaurant critic for the Orange County Register.
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State Route 724 (SR 724) is a short east-west state highway situated in the southeastern portion of Ohio.  The western terminus of this state route is at a T-intersection with State Route 260 nearly  southwest of Summerfield in eastern Noble County, and its eastern terminus is at State Route 145 approximately  northwest of Stafford in western Monroe County.

Route description
State Route 724 begins at a T-intersection with State Route 260 in eastern Noble County's Stock Township.  The entirety of the state highway passes amidst a forest, with the occasional grassy meadow making an appearance at select points along the route.  State Route 724 starts out heading easterly, intersecting Noble County Road 43 before bending into a more southeasterly trend, passing Stock Township Highway 232 prior to meeting County Road 45.  Here, the state route turns to the east-northeast, and comes across Township Highways 233 and 234 at back-to-back intersections.  From Township Highway 234, the remainder of State Route 724 follows a generally eastward trajectory, with thick woods abutting the highway on both sides.  After crossing the county line into Monroe County's Franklin Township, the state route ultimately arrives at its endpoint at its junction with State Route 145 northwest of Stafford.  Continuing east of State Route 145 after State Route 724 terminates is Franklin Township Highway 834.

No portion of State Route 724 is incorporated within the National Highway System.

History
State Route 724 was established in 1937 along the routing that it currently occupies between State Route 260 and State Route 145.  The highway has not experienced any major changes since its inception.

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1968: The Year of Revolution in American Catholic Education
Since the successful coup at CUA in the late Sixties, says Fr. Peter Mitchell, "the theology of dissent against Church teaching has remained normative and prevalent in American Catholic institutions of higher education…"
May 11, 2015 CWR Staff Interview 0 Print
Fr. Peter Mitchell's book The Coup at Catholic University: The 1968 Revolution in American Catholic Education, recently published by Ignatius Press, is a detailed studied of revolutionary events that took place in the late Sixties at Catholic University of America. The revolution was led by Fr. Charles Curran, professor of Theology at CUA, who with more than 500 theologians signed a "Statement of Dissent" declaring that Catholics were not bound in conscience to follow the Church's teaching in Pope Paul VI's encyclical Humanae Vitae.
The battle at Catholic University was focused on the nature, purpose, and limits of academic freedom. Curran and other dissenting theologians insisted they should be free to teach as they wished, without direction or oversight from the authority of the bishops. The bishops, in turn, said that the American tradition of religious freedom guaranteed the right of religiously-affiliated schools to require professors to teach in accord with the authority of their church. Fr. Mitchell used never-before published material from the personal papers of the key players to tell the inside story of the conflict at CUA; his account begins with the 1967 faculty-led strike in support of Curran.
Fr. Peter Mitchell received his doctorate in Church History from the Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome, in 2009. He is a priest of the of the Diocese of Green Bay and has spent much of his priesthood working in Catholic education. He recently corresponded with Carl E. Olson, editor of Catholic World Report, about The Coup at Catholic University.
CWR: You present the events at CUA in the late Sixties as the result, in large part, of a revolutionary clash between a short-sighted, authoritarian stance by Church leaders and the dissenting, "freedom first" approach by theologians and others. What events and movements inside and outside the Church led to that situation?
Fr. Mitchell: The immediate aftermath of Vatican II saw an unprecedented and largely unexpected release of frustration on the part of Catholic intellectuals with the attitude of the hierarchy towards priests and professors. Prior to Vatican II, there had been several incidents of censorship at CUA imposed by the bishops who made up the university board of trustees. The clerical authority that ran the university was perceived, not without good reason, as extremely controlling and fearful of genuine academic debate.
By contrast, the young, unified and highly motivated generation of priests who took control of the School of Theology self-consciously defined themselves as devotees of "post-conciliar theology" and relevance, which primarily meant that they equated the pronouncements of the hierarchical Magisterium with a narrow-mindedness that was to be eschewed for the sake of a supposedly more relevant and modern approach to faith and truth.
In turn, post-conciliar theology found a willing and powerful ally in the AAUP, the American Association of University Professors, whose principles had developed into a quasi-religious ideology of academic freedom that rejected the validity of any and all creedal statements of a priori dogmatic truth. The larger cultural context of the Vietnam War and the Sexual Revolution also contributed to a climate in which protesting and "freedom" was in and obedience to authority was out.
CWR: In what ways did the resulting controversy reveal deeper issues and tensions? And how have they informed various conflicts between bishops and theologians since then?
Fr. Mitchell: From the very beginning of the controversy, Monsignor Eugene Kevane, dean of the CUA School of Education, declared unequivocally that the real issue at stake was the practical authority of the Magisterium over Catholic higher education. The School of Theology believed that the bishops who oversaw the university had a faulty understanding of their own authority and sought to eliminate them from having any practical oversight of the school. Kevane sought to dissent from the position of these dissenters and as a result found himself ostracized within the university academic community and eventually thrown out of his deanship in January 1968.
At the time of his dismissal, Kevane wrote a letter to the bishops on the CUA board of trustees and warned them that the issue at stake was whether the Church could continue her schools in the United States at all: "For if the plan succeeds to capture this official National Catholic University of the American Hierarchy, there will be incalculable future results. The seeds of religious doubt, doctrinal confusion and outright crisis in Faith will be sown over the entire United States through the very schools and colleges operated by and in the name of the Church."
Kevane's words have proven remarkably accurate: the coup at Catholic University succeeded, and the theology of dissent against Church teaching has remained normative and prevalent in American Catholic institutions of higher education as well as in secondary and parochial schools to the present day.
CWR: A key theme throughout your study is that Fr. Charles Curran and other dissenters wanted CUA — and the Church — to be fully Catholic and fully American. Why is this point so important and how did Curran and others envision such a marriage, so to speak, to come about?
Fr. Mitchell: American history has always seen a certain tension between the American cultural values of individualism and personal liberty and the Catholic tradition's emphasis on obedience and hierarchy. Curran sought to harmonize "American and Catholic" by striving to eliminate from the Catholic understanding of authority the elements that he thought violated human rights and individual liberty. He believed that CUA would gain prestige among American institutions of higher learning by throwing off its vestigial attachment to the juridical authority of the hierarchical Magisterium. Curran was supported in his view by numerous other Catholic educators across the country who signed the "Land O' Lakes Statement on the Nature of the Contemporary Catholic University" in July 1967.
CWR: What sort of role did the "Land O'Lakes Statement" play in the controversy at CUA, and what impact has it had, overall, on Catholic higher education in the U.S.?
Fr. Mitchell: This watershed "Declaration of Independence" was signed by twenty-six representatives of American institutions of Catholic higher education, including high-ranking superiors of the Holy Cross Fathers and the Society of Jesus. Five presidents of major Catholic universities – Notre Dame, Boston College, Georgetown, Fordham and St. Louis University – joined with other educators in declaring that the oversight of bishops was an embarrassment for schools that were striving to enter the American mainstream and be accepted by their peers in secular higher education.
In calling for critical evaluation of the bishops and for the absence of all boundaries to intellectual inquiry, the Land O' Lakes Statement declared that "changes of this kind are essential for the future of the Catholic university." The American bishops were told categorically at Land O' Lakes that any practical oversight of Catholic universities was no longer their role in the post-conciliar Church. This situation in which bishops have little if any juridical authority over Catholic institutions of higher education remains normative in the United States to the present day.
CWR: What was the role of Fr. Curran and, in your estimation, what motivated him? And why was he so successful in leading the revolt against CUA leadership and the bishops?
Fr. Mitchell: Curran and his peers sought to preserve the academic reputation of Catholic education within the greater American academic community. They believed that the Church had squelched freedom within higher education and saw themselves as crusaders for truth and basic justice. Curran's supporters skillfully used the media to present Curran as the unjust victim of discrimination by an oppressive university administration. The bishops' refusal to give Curran a hearing or to publicly comment on the reason for their dismissal of Curran did not help their cause. The secular press presented the bishops as being out of touch and opposed to the reforms of Vatican II, while Curran came across as youthful, easygoing, moderate, and respectable. Such sympathetic coverage caused Curran to receive substantial support from casual observers both inside and outside the Catholic Church.
CWR: How were Curran and others able to appeal to Vatican II as a source for their dissent, but then, in 1968, turn around and publicly denounce "Humanae vitae" and use that in an entirely different manner?
Fr. Mitchell: Post-conciliar theology emphasized the competence and relevance of theologians, especially young theologians, in contrast with the relative, if not total, incompetence of the Church's Magisterium in pronouncing on theological matters. It further dismissed obedience to the teaching of the Magisterium as simplistic and unworthy of autonomous modern man, and it declared, in the name of the "Spirit of Vatican II", that all that had been taught by the Magisterium prior to the council was contingent and historically conditioned.
Post-conciliar theologians asserted that Vatican II had called the laity to instruct the pastors of the Church, and this "Magisterium of the People of God" and the "Magisterium of the theologians" was declared to hold more validity than the Magisterium of the pope and bishops. In the words of Robert Hunt of the CUA School of Theology, "The Sacred Magisterium, which serves a function different from theologians, can never, under any circumstances, directly enter or pre-empt the Catholic theological academe. The Sacred Magisterium … is simply incompetent in theology."
When Humanae Vitae was issued, Curran and his peers invoked their professional expertise as theologians and declared it was their duty to inform the Catholic faithful that the teaching of Pope Paul VI was not infallible and therefore not morally binding in conscience upon the laity.
CWR: It seems evident that many Catholics today, in rejecting the Church's teaching on a host of moral issues, are using a tactic very similar to that used in the late Sixties. What lessons should be learned from the events of 1967-68, for bishops and for lay people alike? What must be done in order for Catholic universities and colleges to thrive and embody the mission of the Church?
Fr. Mitchell: Monsignor Eugene Kevane accurately predicted that confusion, doubt, and outright crisis in faith would become the norm throughout the country, and that this confusion would be caused by Catholic education. The recent survey conducted in preparation for the upcoming Synod on the Family has shown that in fact there is widespread ignorance and dissent against Church teaching among American Catholics.
This situation is largely the result of the ascendance of the theology of dissent in the years immediately following Vatican II. Many of the bishops in the late 1960s hoped that a moderate position and dialogue with dissent would lead to an eventual "moving on" from the Curran controversy, but in fact their failure to find an effective vocabulary and/or the courage to oppose Curran in a united way gave the theology of dissent an unparalleled position of influence because of CUA's position as the keystone of the entire Catholic educational system in the United States.
John Paul II's 1990 apostolic letter on Catholic universities, Ex corde ecclesiae, remains largely unimplemented in many Catholic institutions. John Paul spoke at CUA in 1979 and affirmed the essential and indispensable role of the Magisterium in the theological enterprise, as well as the right of the faithful to receive from the Church the Word of God as authentically interpreted by the Magisterium. More attention on the part of bishops to this right of the faithful to receive the fullness of the truth from educators who teach in the name of the Church would be a healthy development in American Catholic higher education.
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With just 1 day to go, the organisers and partners of the 23rd edition of the Baiduri Masters are busy at work putting together the final touches for the tournament.
RBA Golf Club crewmembers have been working through the night grooming the golf course to provide an optimum playing surface which includes grass trimming to remove any excess, green rolling to ensure a smooth putting surface and repairing any signs of turf stress and disease.
The event partner and sponsor of two hole-in-one prizes a Mini Cooper S Countryman and a BMW 740Li, QAF Auto Sdn Bhd, as a show of support towards the Baiduri Masters, have also put in the work to decorate their cars with official Baiduri Masters livery.
The Baiduri Masters is set to take place over two weekends starting tomorrow, Friday 27 April until Sunday 29 April and the weekend starting Friday 4 May until Sunday 6 May. With limited slots available, those that are still interested in competing at Brunei's largest and most prestigious annual golfing event are encouraged to register soon as slots are on a first-come first-served basis.
Those that haven't registered for the tournament can still do so at the RBA Golf Club, First Floor, VIP Room. Participants are encouraged to play more than once to improve their chances of winning, and they will enjoy a BND10 discount on the registration fee on their subsequent rounds.
The Baiduri Masters tournament is divided into 4 divisions – Men's, Group, Ladies and Junior. The Men's division will be further divided into Men's Gross, Men's Nett and Senior Golfers Nett. To be eligible for the Ladies Division, ladies must have a handicap of 36 and below and to be eligible for the Junior Division, junior golfers must be between 13 – 18 years old.
For more details, the public can log onto the website www.baiduri.com or call the RBA Golf Club at 8773612 during office hours.


Now this is a fun holiday! National High Five Day was founded by a group of three friends at the University of Virginia in 2002. According to the National High Five Project's website today is a day about having fun and doing good. The National High Five Project is such a great organization that they even have a scholarship in which high school seniors are asked to write a creative essay on how to solve a modern issue. National High Five Day, NF5D for short, has been such a huge success in it's ten year existance that it has been mentioned on local news channels, Jimmy Kimmel Live, the Today Show, Sports Illustrated, and now the year of LIVING UNOFFICIALLY!
I have always been a huge advocate of the high five. Going out and seeing how many random people I can get to give me a high five is something I thoroughly enjoy. This past Christmas season Brittany and I met our friends Ryan and Allison (newly engaged by the way, congrats!) at Tyson's Corner and I was able to provide everyone with a few laughs and even a bit of embarassment by getting groups of people to give me a high five (at one point I even was able to get one out of a rent-a-cop.) Today we decided to help get everyone through the day by giving as many high fives as possible. I am not too sure of the official count, but I think due to Brittany's shyness I got quite a bit more high fives than she did. It didn't stop there though. On our way home tonight we had to run a few errands in preparation for this Sunday's "unofficial". One of our stops was Chick-fil-a to grab a bite to eat. We ordered the usual and after receiving our food at the drive-thru I looked at the cashier and said, "Do you mind if I get a high five for National High Five Day?" "Of course you can!" said the cashier as he leaned out the window and extended his arm to give me a high five. It's the little things like this that seem to always put a smile on someones face. It feels great knowing that even if for a split second you were able to make someone experience something positive. More people need to do this and they should do it more often!
Tomorrow is about doing good too, this time it's not just for someone else. Tomorrow is Earth Day! Plant a tree, recycle, how will you contribute?


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Hampton Roads has been a hub for aircraft and their carriers for a century
By Tamara Dietrich
| Hampton
Retired naval aviator Robert "Boom" Powell by the Navy Douglas A-1 Skyraider on display at the Military Aviation Museum in Virginia Beach. - Original Credit: Justin Fortier/VBMAM - Original Source: Justin Fortier/VBMAM (Justin Fortier/VBMAM / HANDOUT)
Don't tell anyone, but retired naval aviator and war veteran Robert "Boom" Powell is terrified of heights.
"Watch me on a tall ladder someday," said Powell.
Acrophobia is actually pretty common among pilots, he said, despite the fact that pilots are most at home operating at great heights and great speeds.
"Part of it may have to do with the motion," Powell said. "When you're flying, you're going forward and knowing you're being sustained."
And Powell, 77, is no lightweight. He was "shot up a little bit" over Vietnam, got knocked around for years by weather and turbulence and once sucked a bunch of birds down the No. 4 engine of a Boeing 747 on a takeoff from Trinidad.
Not least of all, he's skilled in one of the most difficult precision maneuvers in military aviation: landing on an aircraft carrier.
He puts that challenge in perspective:
"Think about the fact that your runway is moving away from you," Powell said. "You've got to have a very small and accurate area, unlike the Air Force guys with their 10,000-foot runways. Landing on a carrier today, you have to put the airplane down on speed, within just a couple of knots of speed. And it has to hit within five feet, left and right. And the total area is 120 feet. So you tell me who can do that."
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Well, Powell did that 486 times.
His passion for carrier-based aircraft and their gargantuan motherships inspired him to learn more about how they co-developed over the decades, particularly here in Hampton Roads.
"This was the area the first-ever shipboard takeoff was done — right there off Willoughby Spit in 1910," Powell said.
Today, he said, "we are in the midst of aircraft carriers, both sides of the (James) River. The Norfolk Naval Base, of course, now has all the East Coast U.S. Navy carriers. And the other side is Newport News Shipbuilding. You can't drive across the HRBT, looking to one side or the other, without seeing an aircraft carrier."
And at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 3, Powell is set to deliver a free public presentation on the topic at the Virginia Air & Space Center in downtown Hampton. His appearance is part of the monthly Sigma lecture series offered by NASA Langley Research Center.
Robert C. Scott, associate director for aerosciences at NASA Langley's Research Directorate, met Powell a couple of years ago when Scott joined the Tidewater Soaring Society. It was Scott who recommended Powell as a Sigma lecturer.
"As I've gotten to know him, I've been fascinated by his many aviation anecdotes," Scott said. "Some related to his flying career, which started in the 1960s, and included flying with John McCain on at least one occasion. And others related to his flying WWI aircraft at the Virginia Military Aviation Museum."
Powell writes a regular column called The Hook, and has published articles in aviation magazines. He has penned several books, including "Wave Off! A History of LSOs and Shipboard Landings," that forms the crux of his presentation. An LSO is a landing signal officer, a position only offered to the best of the best carrier pilots.
Born on Long Island, N.Y., where his father was a successful comic book artist, Powell joined the Navy ROTC program as a way to fund his college education at the University of Pennsylvania.
"And after four years of ROTC, I was brainwashed," he jokes.
He got his degree and his commission in 1964. "Vietnam was just barely heard of at the time," he said. "All I wanted to do was fly airplanes."
After finishing Navy training command, he got his first deployment flying the A-4 Skyhawk, and later the RA-5C Vigilante. It was the latter aircraft that earned him the nickname Boom, after a particular incident over Thailand that he says he only talks about under special circumstances.
"It's got nothing to do with my landing abilities or crashing airplanes," Powell said wryly. "It strictly has to do with supersonic flight."
He was stationed in Virginia Beach at Naval Air Station Oceana in Fighter Squadron 43 before a tour as an attache in South Africa. He returned to Hampton Roads to serve on the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower. After a 20-year military career, he became an airline pilot for Pan Am and Atlas Air.
He has lived in Virginia Beach for years, and raised two sons — one became an Army helicopter crewman in Desert Storm and the other a professional skydiver. Today, Powell flies gliders and antique aircraft.
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"I never thought about not flying," he said. "It's complete freedom. It's exciting. Guys talk about driving cars fast and having fun — that's nice, but it's two-dimensional. Airplanes are three-dimensional."
And nothing, but nothing, he says, beats a carrier landing at sea — especially at night.
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"You get the clouds, it's dark, you don't see anything," said Powell. "You get the feeling you're not even moving — your speed is strictly the needle on the gauge. And you fly this precision approach. You do everything you're supposed to. And, all of the sudden, passing maybe a 200-foot cloud base, wham! You look out in front of you and you see the little lights of the carrier deck and the lights of the 'meatball' and you just go, 'I made it."
"There is nothing quite like it. It's one of the greatest thrills around."
The Air & Space Center is located at 600 Settlers Landing Road.
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Lakers Won't Visit White House During Upcoming Road Trip to DC
According to reports, the Los Angeles Lakers will not visit the White House during their upcoming five-game road trip that ends in D.C.
By Michael Duarte • Published April 18, 2021 • Updated on April 19, 2021 at 7:00 pm
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The Los Angeles Lakers will not schedule a stop at the White House during their upcoming road trip, according to ESPN. The reigning NBA Champions head out on Wednesday for a three-city, five-game road trip with stops in Dallas, Orlando and Washington, D.C.
After defeating the Miami Heat in six games during the 2020 NBA Finals at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida, the Lakers were invited back to the White House by then President-elect Joe Biden.
No NBA teams that won the championship during former President Donald Trump's four years in office, including the Golden State Warriors and Toronto Raptors, visited the White House. In total, out of the 14 major basketball champions during Trump's presidency, only one team, the 2019 Women's NCAA Tournament champions the Baylor Bears, took a trip to the White House.
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Most people expected the Lakers to visit Biden at the White House when they faced the Wizards on April 28, especially with an off-day scheduled both before and after the game.
Instead, because of COVID-19 safety protocols and scheduling conflicts, the visit has been postponed, ESPN reported.
In January, LeBron James and the Lakers said they would visit the White House if it was possible due to health and safety regulations.
"It would be great, but I have no idea what we can even do right now besides hotel, arena, and home," said James at the time.
A future visit to the White House has not been ruled out entirely, but the Lakers are not scheduled to return to the East Coast again this season, and it's doubtful they would travel to Washington, D.C. during the NBA Playoffs.
At this point, it seems the only opportunity for the Lakers to visit the White House would be during the offseason or when they play the Wizards on the road next season. And by that time, who knows which players outside of James and Anthony Davis will even still be on the roster from the 2019-20 season.
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Around 200 kilometres from Reykjavík, somewhere near Kleifar on Route 60, the rolling landscape of western Iceland starts to change. After speeding through the hopeful springtime farmland of Borgarfjörður and Hvammsfjörður and over the Gilsfjörður land bridge, the green-tinged land fades into autumnal expanses of umber and maroon shrubbery and shivering copses of reddish trees. Open fields become wild, barren heaths, rough hills, and stretches of broken, islet-littered shoreline by steep, eroded mountainside; well-kept farm buildings give way to careworn farmsteads and rusty barns, and the few gas stations we pass seem weather-beaten and forlorn. As we enter the Westfjords, there's a palpable shift in atmosphere.
The Westfjords have historically been a genuinely remote region of Iceland. Until the 1950s, the Vestfjarðarvegur road ended somewhere around Bjarkalundur, near the Reykhólar peninsula. Travelling further meant a voyage by boat, with some southern Westfjordians having to sail to the tiny island of Flatey to buy everyday items in the general store. All-but disconnected from the rest of the country, the region developed a distinctive local culture of proud and fierce independence that survives to this day.
Even now, the road isn't easy. The narrow paved road of Route 60 often gives way to sections of potholed dirt track that curve through long, precipitous fjords, and over mountain passes that are still snowbound in a blustery May. At the highest points, fierce winds whip the fresh, powdery snow over the road, creating treacherous snowdrifts. We crawl past a jackknifed articulated truck, and shortly after we're waved past a Mercedes stranded in a snowbank as the stoically smiling driver organises his rescue by cellphone.
The fishing town of Patreksfjörður sits nestled in the fjord of the same name, perched on a narrow shelf of land between the mountainside and the water. There's not a soul to be seen as we pass the pool, police station, a diner, and a shop, and pull up at the Fosshotel Westfjords. Weary from the long road, we're the last to arrive at the restaurant. We take in the view as we eat, wordless and exhausted, drinking a cold beer and gazing through the spitting sleet as the sky slowly starts to darken over the wetly flapping Fosshotel flags, the steely ocean, and the huge, snow-streaked mountains beyond.
Patreksfjörður is one of three towns in this region of the lower Westfjords, and in the morning, we set out to explore the other two. The season seems to be having an identity crisis, with the weather cycling quickly between bright sunshine, violent hail, rain, and snowfall, sometimes in the same minute.
We arrive in Tálknafjörður in a bright moment. It's a tiny, quiet town with a modern church overlooking the few rows of houses. A recently-built self-service fish shop still smells of sawdust and hasn't yet been stocked; just behind, a seaside path has an information board about local wildlife. As I read about seals, eider ducks and falcons, I realise there's not a sound to be heard other than the rhythmic wash of the tide, and the croaks, chirps and trills of the manifold seabirds that line the shore.
The nearby forest behind the town pool has a tempting path leading up the hill and under the tree canopy. As large, fluffy snowflakes begin to fall, we take a short hike into the tunnel of knotty green branches. The trail leads past hidden away picnic benches and occasional viewpoints looking out over the fjord, which is by now barely visible now through a sheet of slow-motion snowfall.
Or hide in the woods in Tálknafjörður.
A few kilometres along the fjord's peninsula there's a bathing spot called Pollurinn, or "The Puddle." It turns out to be a set of three well-kept concrete hotpots with geothermal water piped in from a nearby hot spring. After changing in the recently renovated wooden changing room, I slide into the silky water of the hottest pot. It feels about 43°C, and as my car-cramped muscles slowly relax, I watch the vast, textured mountains appear and vanish through fast-moving bands of rain and sleet.
Over the next mountain pass lies Bildudalur, a former merchant town that's now home to 200 or so people. The old store has been repurposed to include a bodega bar, with beer pumps by the till and a backroom café serving plates of hot and steaming fish 'n' chips. A nearby museum dedicated to centuries of multifarious sea monster sightings in Árnafjörður is still closed at the tail end of the off-season, so we decide to press on.
We loop back towards Patreksfjörður via Reykjarfjarðarsundlaug, a dreamlike bathing spot in the middle of an obscure, almost uninhabited fjord. It's too tempting to ignore, and we spend a blissful half hour swimming in the lukewarm swimming pool and basking in the nearby rock-lined hot pot, overlooking the fjord in the warm spring sunshine.
Even with a couple of days to drive around, the trip feels too short to fully explore the fjords and villages of the southern Westfjords. This sparsely populated region feels like another Iceland, and I'm left keenly aware of the turnings not taken, and how much more there is still to discover.
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Effective April 2019, members of the Social Security System and their corresponding employees will start paying more contribution following the passage of Republic Act No. 11199 or the Social Security Act of 2018.
The contribution for workers in the private sector will be increased from 11% to 12%. The minimum monthly salary credit (MSC) will also get higher from Php 1,000 to Php 2,000 and the maximum from Php 16,000 to Php 20,000.
SSS Officer-In-Charge Aurora Ignacio stressed the advantage of the changes for the pension fund's members.
Under the contribution rates, the benefits of members will also be increased. For example, if an employee under the Php 20,000 MSC gets sick, the sickness benefit he/she can be given per day would be Php 600, a hundred and twenty pesos more than the previous benefit. The monthly basic pension will also be increased from Php 6,400 to Php 8,000 for the same employee.
Aside from this, the increase in contribution rate is also expected to lengthen the fund life of SSS until 2045. It can be recalled that the pension hike, as well as the extended maternity leave, slashed the state fund's life by 10 years.
For an employee earning Php 12,000 per month, Php 480 shall be deducted from his/her salary. Meanwhile, his/her employer should pay Php 960 under the new rates. This will only be an increase of Php 44 for the employee and Php 76 for the employer in comparison to the old rates.
This change is not only for tenured members, but also for self-employed and voluntary members. Employers of 'kasambahay' members would also be paying for higher contributions.


The pictures show us half-way through a large reduction on a 60m hedge which had grown to 65′ in Worton Village, Devizes. Following the unusually high winds in May, several branches had broken off and there was a further risk of more damage, so permission was sought from Wiltshire County Council as the hedge/trees were within a conservation area.
The work was then scheduled, needing our large cherry picker, and we recycled all the chip and timber locally.
We were awarded the contract to clear trees and undergrowth from in and around a lake in Worton, near Devizes. We also uncovered a spot of erosion which has now been reinstated so water goes over rather than around the weir. The work will require a program of tree removal and replacement planting, fencing, drainage works and removal of timber from the lake.