The Royal Government of Cambodia (RGC) is a signatory to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and is a REDD+ partner country. The objective of REDD+ is to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation and the conservation, sustainable management of forests and enhancement of forest carbon stocks. REDD+ participant countries may become eligible for results-based payments for verifiable emissions and/or enhanced carbon stocks.
Prior to seeking such results-based payments, Cambodia's REDD+ programme must establish an implementation framework. The key elements of this framework include a national REDD+ strategy, national forest reference emission level, national forest monitoring system, and a safeguards information system.
Given the importance of integrating a gender perspective into its REDD+ implementation framework and ensuring women and men are equitably involved in and benefit from REDD+ in Cambodia, the RGC has supported various efforts over recent years to promote the incorporation of gender equality and women's empowerment principles into its REDD+ programme and corresponding implementation framework.
Although there are policies and institutions in place within the country to promote the integration of gender considerations in forestry and other natural resources management sectors, barriers have prevented the effective function of such institutions and implementation of these policies.
Acknowledging these gaps between policy and practice, Cambodia, from 2012-14, agreed to serve as a pilot country in a regional Joint Initiative on women's inclusion in REDD+, organized by the UN-REDD Programme, USAID's LEAF programme and WOCAN. Through a country assessment concrete barriers to women's inclusion and integration of gender perspectives in REDD+ (at institutional & community levels) were examined; corresponding key entry points and recommendations for removing those barriers were formulated; and good practices on gender issues for replication were identified.
In response to these findings/recommendations, in 2014, the Government decided that creating an inter-ministerial Gender Group at the national level would be an effective initial measure to help the REDD+ Taskforce to 1) address some of these identified gender gaps and barriers within its ongoing REDD+ work; and 2) strengthen existing good practices on gender. Made up of four government representatives, the objectives of the Gender Group, as established by Cambodia's National REDD+ Strategy are: (i) to build awareness on gender among members of the REDD+ Taskforce, Consultation Group and Technical Teams, and (ii) to advise on gender in components of the National REDD+ Strategy (NRS). During the development of the NRS, the Gender Group was actively involved in its consultation meetings and undertook various capacity building and awareness raising activities. Because of these efforts, the NRS integrates gender considerations in its guiding principles and includes the Gender Group in its institutional arrangements for NRS implementation. Efforts are now underway to implement the NRS, and to help guide this work, a National REDD+ Action and Investment Plan will be drafted over the course of 2018.
It is within this backdrop that the Cambodia's REDD+ programme seeks to engage a consultant to support the Gender Group's efforts to mainstreaming gender into the REDD+ Action and Investment Plan. The specific objective of this assignment is to assess existing REDD+ country reports, REDD+ sectoral strategies and action plans and undertake follow up field surveys with REDD+ demonstration sites to identify entry points for mainstreaming gender within the National REDD+ Action and Investment Plan.
Produce a work plan that outlines tasks, methodology, approach, timeline and deliverables.
Present the work plan to Technical Specialist in REDD+ Taskforce Secretariat for comments and feedback.
Revise work plan per comments received.
Share final work plan to Technical Specialist in REDD+ Taskforce Secretariat for approval.
Review the National Protected Area Strategic Management Plan, National Policy for Production Forestry, and Sub-decree for Mangrove Forest and action plans to identify if the plans integrated gender. If so, identify if and which actions and considerations on gender could also be integrated into the National REDD+ Action and Investment Plan.
Review the implementation reports (e.g. progress reports, mid-term review report, final report, etc.) for the 5 REDD+ demonstration sites supported by FCPF (these sites demonstrate the implementation of the Protected Area, Production Forest and Fisheries strategic management plans). For this analysis: 1) assess if and how the 5 REDD+ demonstration integrated gender concerns in design and implementation, including in any consultations undertaken and 2) identify any good practices and/or lessons learned on gender undertaken which can be used to help inform provincial level design within the National REDD+ Action and Investment Plan.
Topic 2: Identify organizations, partners and stakeholders (government, CSOs, NGOs, etc.) in Cambodia that have supported socially inclusive and gender-responsive national policy processes and consultation and engagement efforts. This review can look beyond the natural resource management and forestry sectors, to identify good and concrete examples. As a starting point of this exercise, the consultant should check the UN-REDD/USAID LEAF/WOCAN country assessment and documentation on Cambodia's community-based REDD+ (CBR+) projects (to be provided by UNDP at start of consultancy). To note, other documents and literature should also be reviewed as part of this task. The good practices and lessons learned identified from this review can be used to help inform the formulation of the National REDD+ Action and Investment Plan.
Based on the results of the documentation review for the REDD+ demonstration sites supported by FCPF (e.g. Task 2, Topic 1), determine if ground-truthing in the field is necessary and follow up field surveys with the demonstration sites is required to fill in any gaps of information. Reasons to conduct field surveys can include to 1) assess whether and to what extent they integrated gender considerations; 2) further identify any good practices and/or lessons learned on gender undertaken; and/or 3) desk review revealed no evidence that gender considerations were integrated. The scope of work for the field covers a maximum of 3 REDD+ demonstration site field visits (at 4 days each).
If follow up in the field is necessary, work with Gender Group and UNDP Cambodia to 1) develop a matrix for selection criteria for the REDD+ demonstration sites supported by FCPF to be visited (based on desk review results); 2) determine the approach and methodology for field work; and 3) identify the stakeholders who should be interviewed and consulted with at the demonstration sites to obtain the gaps in information. The consultant will then organize and undertake the necessary interviews/consultations with stakeholders at the applicable demonstration sites.
Based on results of the desk review (Task 2) and any necessary field surveys (Task 3), develop a detailed annotated outline for the report for review by the REDD+ Gender Group, and Technical Specialist in the REDD+ Taskforce Secretariat. The report should include the following information: 1) background information including objectives and methodology used; 2) results of desk review on the topics discussed above for Task 2; 3) results of any field research undertaken; and 4) concrete recommendations for how and where the National REDD+ Action and Investment Plan should mainstream gender.
Present the outline to the REDD+ Gender Group, Programme Analyst in UNDP and Technical Specialist in the REDD+ Taskforce Secretariat for comments.
Per the agreed upon outline with the REDD+ Gender Group, Programme Analyst in UNDP and Technical Specialist in REDD+ Taskforce Secretariat, develop the first draft report. The draft report should be no more than 30 pages, excluding annexes.
Prepare the second draft report incorporating all comments received from the REDD+ Gender Group, Programme Analyst in UNDP and Technical Specialist in the REDD+ Taskforce Secretariat. The report should be no more than 30 pages, excluding annexes.
Present the second draft report to the REDD+ Gender Group, Programme Analyst in UNDP and Technical Specialist in the REDD+ Taskforce Secretariat.
Work with UNDP Cambodia to conduct one national consultation workshop with the REDD+ Taskforce, Consultation Group and Technical Teams, as well as other organizations and government stakeholders working on gender as necessary (tbd) to share and validate findings of the consultancy report. It is expected that the consultant will present the findings and recommendations of the report during the workshop via a PowerPoint presentation.
Based on any feedback obtained from the validation workshop, revise the second draft report as necessary. The report should be no more than 30 pages, excluding annexes.
Present the final report to the REDD+ Gender Group, Programme Analyst in UNDP and Technical Specialist in the REDD+ Taskforce Secretariat for approval.
Interested offeror must read the Individual Consultant (IC) Procurement Notice, which can be viewed at http://procurement-notices.undp.org/view_notice.cfm?notice_id=44618 for more detail information about term of references, instructions to offeror, and to download the documents to be submitted in the offer through online.
Flexibility and ability to operate in different cultural settings and with a variety of stakeholders, in a culturally and gender-sensitive manner.
A master degree in gender studies, anthropology, social science, human geography, natural resource or environmental management or other relevant social sciences.
Strong experience in providing strategic advice and dealing with the government and development partners and stakeholders.
Interested Offerors are required to submit application via UNDP jobsite system as the application screening and evaluation will be done through UNDP jobsite system. Please note that UNDP jobsite system allows only one uploading of application document, so please make sure that you merge all your documents into a single file. Your on-line applications submission will be acknowledged where an email address has been provided. If you do not receive an e-mail acknowledgement within 24 hours of submission, your application may not have been received. In such cases, please resubmit the application, if necessary. Please combine all your documents into one (1) single PDF document as the system only allows to upload maximum one document.
Any request for clarification/additional information on this procurement notice shall be communicated in writing to UNDP office or send to email procurement.kh@undp.org. While the Procurement Unit would endeavor to provide information expeditiously, only requests receiving at least 5 working days prior to the submission deadline will be entertained. Any delay in providing such information will not be considered as a reason for extending the submission deadline. The UNDP's response (including an explanation of the query but without identifying the source of inquiry) will be posted in Individual Consultant (IC) Procurement Notice page as provided above. Therefore, all prospective Offerors are advised to visit the page regularly to make obtain update related to this Individual Consultant (IC) Procurement Notice.


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England's James Vince hoping to make most of Ireland series
With England missing the likes of Joe Root, Ben Stokes and Jos Buttler for the ODI series due to their Test assignment against the West Indies, Vince is hoping to grab the opportunity.
Southampton 27 July, 2020 13:41 IST
England batsman James Vince has not been able to make an impact in the 13 ODIs that he has played so far, scoring at an average of 24.09 with just one fifty. | Photo Credit: Getty Images
Top-order batsman James Vince, who was part of England's World Cup-winning team, is hoping to make an impression during the three-match ODI series against Ireland starting on Wednesday.
Vince has not been able to make an impact in the 13 ODIs that he has played so far, scoring at an average of 24.09 with just one fifty.
Eng vs WI: West Indies teetering after Broad's show with ball
"I'm 29 now, so hopefully I've got a few years left in the tank. Obviously it's a very tough side to break into, especially when it's at full strength," Vince, who also played 13 Tests and 12 T20Is so far in his international career, told the PA news agency.
"It's not always that easy when I'm in and out, but hopefully I'll get a bit of a crack in this series," added the 29-year-old, who scored an unbeaten 66 for England Lions against Ireland on Sunday.
Vince was included in the World Cup squad in place of injured Jason Roy but failed to make a mark in the three World Cup matches last year.
English cricket currently boasts of a solid ODI line-up with lot of quality batsmen and bowlers waiting for a chance to break into the team.
"There's certainly a lot of good players — batters and bowlers — coming through, so for English cricket overall, it's pretty positive signs," Vince said.
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A really good prep school education involves much more than just classroom subjects. St Andrew's Prep offers a breadth of opportunity through its extra-curricular provision. Children have opportunities to sample and excel at a range of activities including archery, art, ballet, batik, Brownies, carpentry, chess, craft, cricket, fencing, football, golf, hockey, Lego clinic, patchwork, Piglet's Pantry, Pi programming, Saturday strolls, school productions, sewing, shooting, squash, table tennis and water polo. We encourage children to spend time getting involved in our clubs as well as our teams, choirs and orchestras.
Every Saturday morning (apart from exeat weekends) our Activities Programme is run for all children (day and boarding) in Year 4 upwards who would like to participate. There are two sessions which run from 9am until 12.30pm. Children can select which activities they wish to take part in.
Through the extra-curricular programme children learn to work together benefiting themselves, the school and the wider community. Such teamwork fosters friendships across and within the year groups.


Life gets awkward we just have to deal with it at the time, and sometimes afterwards it still isn't funny. But its okay to laugh at other peoples messups, so lets do that right now.
Don't wear a low cut top when people use digital cameras with face recognition, makes the photo taker feel awkward.
If you decide to dress up, probably don't give the costume a weird expression, especially if it is Woody from Toy Store.
Teenagers are prone to selfie fails, this is a good one.
That moment on holiday when you are trying to get a really good photo of something that is far away.
Why does the belt always become difficult in a public toilet?
A severe faux pas is wearing the same jumper, if needs be message a friend to double check they will not be wearing the same clothes.
However things are a bit different for men!
On the topic of fashion also be careful not to dress like famous characters.
If you are a bit on the plump side be careful where you sit, things can get wedged.
We all suffer from this problem on Facebook, fortunately it is normally a problem we experience on our own and not one other people witness.
Waiting for a reply when it is you who forgot to reply.
Things get really awkward when you are at the distance of being unsure whether to hold the door for someone or not. If unsure, dont hold it open, it can get weird.
Its nice people try to be polite.
And remember, when these awkward social situations happen in life, it is time to look down at your phone.
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Robert L. Penick's work has appeared in over 100 different literary journals, including The Hudson Review, North American Review, and The California Quarterly. He lives in Louisville, KY and previously edited Ristau: A Journal of Being. In 2018, he won the Slipstream Press chapbook competition. More of his writing can be found at www.theartofmercy.net
It's all open to you now:
The club membership prepaid
greens fees servile caddy
VIP club your own rules
take this quail back to the kitchen
and bring the wine list.
You can buy those children now,
the ones in grade school, mocking
your grandmother's walk with two canes
to meet you at the bus stop.
Buy and sell them, trade them like
baseball cards or trophy wives.
They will love you now, will accept
your dandruff and hand-me-down clothes
as endearing, even fashionable.
You will be invited to birthday parties,
included in pick-up games,
receive copious valentines and smiles.
The world has opened up to you now,
like a blossoming flower,
it's delicate beauty and fragrance


Big transitions leave you changed forever. Sometimes they leave you feeling as if it would be impossible for life to continue the way it had before. For me, I can pinpoint two such transitions: one was the death of my father, and the other was birth of our daughter. When my father died almost nine years ago, my entire world stopped. Then after shiva, when it was time to rejoin the world, the world felt different. It looked different. Something as seemingly insignificant as how I used my phone was turned completely on its head for me. I was no longer tied to my cell phone for constant health updates. I also didn't have him calling to bless me on Shabbat anymore. Instead, the new normal was me listening to several of his old blessings that were left as recordings on my voicemail and making sure to call and check in with my mom on a regular basis.
With the birth of our sweet Shiri, my world was also turned upside-down. Our hours and days were no longer our own; they were shared with her and largely based on her schedule. Travel and vacations were suddenly limited by when and how it was appropriate to travel with an infant. Transitions are an integral part of life, but the big ones bring with them new definitions of normal in abrupt and not-so-subtle ways.
The Torah has keen insights into the transitions we face and the changes they can bring to our world, especially where death and illness are concerned. At the macro level, this week's Torah portion, Metzora, is a pause in the narrative between the death of Aaron's sons and his mourning process and rejoining the community. The text details the healing and purification processes, and the steps include different actions for different circumstances.
Chapter 14, verse 4 begins this reintegration process with the step-by-step approach to rejoining community. The "afflicted" may move from their home outside the camp to inside the camp, but not yet return to their home in the camp. These are the baby steps, the slow reintegration approach that allows for the marking of time and space as a person comes out of a life-changing illness.
In this approach the text recognizes the "new normal" that comes after a major life event. It is in the recognition of change that we are able to emerge and move forward. The Torah recognizes that although a transition can happen quickly, adjusting to change doesn't happen in the blink of an eye. Rather, as a community and as individuals it takes time to move forward as well as the support of those around us to reenter society. The Torah reminds us that it is not only OK, but normal and natural to have time for a transition, and that we should embrace that space as sacred before moving forward.
One thing Judaism does exceptionally well put meaning behind transitions. From Shabbat and Havdalah we get the transition from week to weekend and back. From Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur we get yearly check-ins with ourselves as a way of transitioning from one year to the next. From a bat mitzvah, we get the ceremonial beginning of the transition into responsible Jewish adulthood. From shiva and shloshim, we get time specifically set aside for mourning and transitioning back to the world. All of these experiences, even the death of a loved one, are part of Judaism's life-affirming tradition of celebrating the moments in between and really living the transitions.
Shabbat Shalom, Rabbi Eve – your words of wisdom resound in my soul. As always, they are personal and connecting.
Thank you, Judy! it gives me such joy to know that we're still learning together even far apart!


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Zionism is as old as the Bible itself and can be described simply as a love and longing for the land that God gave to the Jewish people. During the Jewish people's many years of exile, this longing drove their efforts to return to the land.
The modern Zionist movement emerged in the late nineteenth century under the leadership of Theodore Herzl. While his movement was secular - a response to the anti-Semitism that continued to plague the Jews of Europe - it was supported by noteworthy Christians. They supported Herzl's Zionist vision because of their reading of the scriptures and their concern for the well-being of the Jewish people. This support coincided with a major shift that was taking place in the Christian Church, which was becoming more biblically literate and appreciative of its Jewish roots.
The New Testament authors were Jewish as was the church that they wrote about. As a result of their deep understanding of the Hebrew Scriptures, these authors believed in the everlasting validity of the Abrahamic covenant. They also believed in the literal accuracy of the prophecies regarding the life and ministry of Jesus as well as future events including the restoration of a kingdom to Israel.
As the church grew and became predominantly gentile - unable to read the Hebrew scriptures - Christians lost sight of their faith's Jewish roots and God's promises to the Jewish people. Most did not even know that Jesus was Jewish.
For more than 1000 years, most of the church believed that Christians had replaced the Jews as the people of God's covenant. Known as replacement theology, this set of beliefs reads the scriptures allegorically. God's promises to the Jewish people were spiritualized and applied to the Church. In rare instances, monks and priests read the scriptures differently, however, this theology was the predominant view - and the fuel that fed centuries of Christian anti-Semitism.
This began to change in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries when the scriptures were translated into the languages of the common people, particularly into English. Christians began reading the Bible for themselves. They learned of Christianity's Jewish roots, and of the promised return of the Jews to their ancient homeland.
As a result, beginning in the sixteenth century, respected theologians and preachers taught of a future Jewish restoration to the Land of Israel. Entire movements of Christians began praying for this return. By the eighteenth century, the Christian Zionist movement, known as the Restoration movement, included many theologians, writers, and politicians. This movement continued to grow in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and Christian leaders expanded the scope of their involvement in the Zionist cause beyond prayer and into advocacy. They did all that they could to help the Jewish people return to Israel.
The term Christian Zionist was first used by Theodore Herzl when he acknowledged the participation of some key Christian supporters at the first Zionist Congress in 1897.
Christian Zionists today are proud to follow in the footsteps of a multitude of Bible-believers from numerous theological persuasions, countries, and professions - men and women who saw overwhelming evidence in scripture for God's continuing covenant with the Jewish people and their right to their ancient homeland. While many Christian Zionists today may differ with these pioneers on other points of theology or politics, we all agree on the biblical significance of the restoration of Israel. Our Christian Zionist Hall of Fame introduces some of the most notable members of this movement through the ages.
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Snotty Nose Rez Kids Top WCMA Winners List
Oct 17, 2021 by FYI Staff Comments
On Oct. 15, the Western Canadian Music Alliance announced the winners of the 2021 Western Canadian Music Awards, in both the Artistic and Industry categories. The big winner, with three trophies, was acclaimed Indigenous hip-hop duo Snotty Nose Rez Kids. Winning in two categories apiece were Begonia and Kelly Bado.
This year's WCMAs featured a live-streamed broadcast and a special in-person watch party in BreakOut West 2022 host city, Winnipeg. The awards honour artists and music industry professionals from across western Canada.
"It's been so exciting to celebrate the accomplishments of artists and industry over the past year," says Robyn Stewart, Executive Director, Western Canadian Music Alliance. "We saw a significant increase this year in material submitted for artist nominations, which is such a wonderful sign of the resiliency of creators. Congratulations to all who released work this year, and to all industry who supported new music releases. I am excited for the future of western Canadian music and the strength we are building together, as we get safely back to live."
A special pre-awards show program aired earlier in the afternoon, ahead of the full winner reveal, on CBC Radio One's Up To Speed , where Pop Artist of the Year (Sponsored by CBC Manitoba) was awarded to Begonia, Grant Davidson (MB) was announced as the winner of the Songwriter of the Year Award (Sponsored by SOCAN), and Rock Artist of the Year (Sponsored by Torque Brewing) was presented to Mise en Scene (MB). The award presentations were also accompanied by live in studio performances from Davidson and Mise en Scene.
Following the broadcast, all the award winners were named on BreakOut West's Facebook Live, featuring a performance by 2021 double nominee, Slow Leaves.. Manitoba's musicians made an outstanding showing this year, taking home 11 of the Artistic awards, including Recording of the Year, which was presented to Begonia, and accompanied by a $2,000 honorarium courtesy of the Stingray Rising Star program. Double-winner, Kelly Bado (Global Artist of the Year and Francophone Artist of the Year) was also presented with a $1,000 honorarium courtesy of APCM.
The Heritage Award, Kevin Walters Industry Builder Award, and Western Canadian Music Hall of Fame inductees will be formally presented at a special event during BreakOut West 2022 in Winnipeg. (February 2-6). This year's recipients are Manitoba's Ray St Germain (Heritage Award), Carole Vivier (Kevin Walters Industry Builder Award), and The Watchmen (Western Canadian Music Hall of Fame).
2021 WESTERN CANADIAN MUSIC AWARDS ARTISTIC WINNERS
Blues Artist of the Year – Kenny "Blues Boss" Wayne, BC
BreakOut Artist of the Year – Sargeant X Comrade, AB
Children's Artist of the Year – Claire Ness, YT
Classical Artist or Ensemble of the Year, Sponsored By Canadian Music Centre (CMC) – PEP (Piano and Erhu Project), BC
Classical Composer of the Year – T. Patrick Carrabre, BC
Country Artist of the Year – Nice Horse, AB
Electronic & Dance Artist of the Year – So Sus, BC
Francophone Artist of the Year, Sponsored by APCM (Association des professionnels de la chanson et de la musique) – Kelly Bado, MB
Global Artist of the Year – Kelly Bado, MB
Indigenous Artist of the Year – Snotty Nose Rez Kids, BC
Instrumental Artist of the Year – Rubim de Toledo, AB
Jazz Artist of the Year – Will Bonness, MB
Metal & Hard Music Artist of the Year – Vagina Witchcraft, MB
Pop Artist of the Year, Sponsored by CBC Manitoba – Begonia, MB
Producer of the Year – deadmen, MB
R&B Artist of the Year – Sebastian Gaskin, MB
Rap & Hip Hop Artist of the Year – Snotty Nose Rez Kids, BC
Recording of the Year, Presented by Stingray – Begonia, MB
Rock Artist of the Year, Sponsored by Torque Brewing – Mise en Scene, MB
Roots Artist of the Year – William Prince, MB
Songwriter(s) of the Year, Sponsored by The Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada (SOCAN) – Grant Davidson, MB
Spiritual Artist of the Year – Yvonne St Germaine, SK
Video Director of the Year, Sponsored by Manitoba Film & Music – Alfonso Chin, Snotty Nose Rez Kids, Screaming Indian, BC
Visual Media Composer of the Year – Factor Eight, Live Is But A Dream, SK
2021 WESTERN CANADIAN MUSIC AWARDS INDUSTRY WINNERS
Audio Engineering Award – Sheldon Zaharko, BC
Community Excellence Award – National Music Centre, AB
Excellence in Visual Design – Roberta Landreth, MB
Impact in Artist Development – Birthday Cake, MB
Impact in Live Music, Sponsored by Canadian Live Music Association – The Starlite Room (Starlite Sessions) #SupportCanadianVenues, AB
Impact in Music Marketing – Birthday Cake, MB
Heritage Award – Ray St. Germain, MB
Kevin Walters Industry Builder Award – Carole Vivier, MB
Hall Of Fame, Sponsored by FACTOR – The Watchmen, MB
See the complete list of artistic nominees here, and the list of industry nominees here.
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Networking is connecting with people. Face-to-face. It's about having good, in-depth conversations with people about topics that you genuinely care about. Networking leads to the discovery of common needs and goals. In a profession where we spend so much time isolated in our treatment rooms with our clients it is natural to turn inward at the end of the day and want to retreat. Yet we must keep talking about the issues in our profession and keep a support system of like-minded people around us. That is what the Memphis Massage Professionals (MMP) group is about.
We are a networking group of licensed massage professionals from the Memphis Metropolitan Area. Our purpose is to create opportunities for the LMTs in our area to exchange knowledge and experience in a respectful, supportive and professional manner.
A great mission statement! I'm working hard to uphold each and every point.


Welcome the rise of the Bourbon, South Africa. The movement is growing and we are finding Bourbon popping up in cocktails and drinks around the country and in some of Joburg's top bars more and more frequently.
This may be due to the fact that Woodford Reserve is pioneering a new path for their beverages and in partnership with international Old Fashioned Week, they bring us the Woodford Bourbon Trail campaign which is going on a search to find the best Old Fashioned cocktail in Cape Town and Johannesburg. What's not to love?
Woodford is particularly suited to the Old Fashioned, a classic American Bourbon cocktail steeped in history. The recipe was said to have been invented by a bartender in 1881 in Louisville, Kentucky, in honor of a prominent bourbon distiller who brought it to the internationally acclaimed Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City.
With the expert assistance of Master Brand Mixologists Marson Strydom and Ntando Ngema, the Woodford Bourbon Trail has recruited the best bartenders in the country to showcase their talents through the creation of first-class Woodford Old Fashioned cocktails – with a twist.
The 'trail' starts off on 5th November and Cape Town and Johannesburg's finest bars will be participating for the title in which a judging panel will taste and rate the cocktails according to an international base Score Weighting System.
Each Old Fashioned cocktail will be crafted using Woodford Reserve bourbon, brown sugar, bitters and orange zest with a twist suited to the style of each bartender.
The winning bars in Cape Town and Johannesburg will go head-to-head in a national Bourbon Brawl finale taking place on 27 November 2018. Check out the list of participating bars at the end of this article.
Woodford Reserve is a super-premium, small-batch craft bourbon following the traditional method of distillation to produce bourbon of exceptional quality. Woodford Reserve isn't manufactured; it's crafted in small batches.
The art of making fine bourbon first took place at Woodford Reserve in 1780, making the distillery one of Kentucky's oldest and smallest.
Due to continuous innovation and new expressions developed by distillers, the Bourbon industry has seen unprecedented growth around the world. Although South African whiskeys are of a very high caliber, Woodford Reserve aims to revolutionize the bourbon movement through their annual Woodford Bourbon Trail.
Woodford Reserve bourbons are available at Makro and all good liquor stores countrywide and range in price from R 499 to R 699.
Drink responsibly, and always uber if you are going to be drinking. Not for sale to anyone under the age of 18 years.


Kyoto, Japan: Korinsha Press, 1995. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. Text in English, French, and Japanese by Toshiharu Ito. Includes numerous color images by Ueda with many of them in long gatefold plates. A fine copy in linen covered boards with color image affixed to the front cover in a very good plus die cut slipcase that has some wear. A beautifully produced book.


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Q: Is it possible to recover / convert / mount fakeraid image files? (TL;DR - have fakeraid images, want to convert them to mdadm images) My Promise NAS NS4300N recently died (PSU or motherboard failure, probably the former as it has trouble spinning up the disks).
I've managed to dd(1) the drives (4 500GB drives in a RAID5 configuration) as images on a new server, even though one of the drives had a couple of read errors (conv=noerror ftw...).
However, as the Promise NAS doesn't use mdadm(8) for RAID but instead uses "hardware" RAID (aka FakeRAID), the resulting images look like this:
$ fdisk -l /local/media/promise.dd.1
Disk /local/media/promise.dd.1: 465.8 GiB, 500106174464 bytes, 976769872 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0xb95a0900

Device                      Boot Start        End    Sectors  Size Id Type
/local/media/promise.dd.1p1         63 2929918634 2929918572  1.4T 83 Linux

$ fdisk -l /local/media/promise.dd.2
Disk /local/media/promise.dd.2: 465.8 GiB, 500107862016 bytes, 976773168 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

$ fdisk -l /local/media/promise.dd.3
Disk /local/media/promise.dd.3: 465.8 GiB, 500107862016 bytes, 976773168 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

$ fdisk -l /local/media/promise.dd.4
Disk /local/media/promise.dd.4: 465.8 GiB, 500107862016 bytes, 976773168 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0xb95a0900

Device                      Boot Start        End    Sectors  Size Id Type
/local/media/promise.dd.4p1         63 2929918634 2929918572  1.4T 83 Linux

When mounted as loop(4) devices, the images look like this:
$ sudo lsblk -io NAME,FSTYPE,SIZE,MOUNTPOINT,LABEL
NAME               FSTYPE                            SIZE    MOUNTPOINT     LABEL
..
loop0              promise_fasttrack_raid_member     465.8G
loop1              promise_fasttrack_raid_member     465.8G
loop2              promise_fasttrack_raid_member     465.8G
loop3              promise_fasttrack_raid_member     465.8G

Unsurprisingly, mdadm(8) is unable to read these, as it is unable to find a usable superblock:
$ sudo mdadm --verbose --examine /dev/loop0
/dev/loop0:
   MBR Magic : aa55
Partition[0] :   2929918572 sectors at           63 (type 83)
$ sudo mdadm --verbose --examine /dev/loop1
mdadm: No md superblock detected on /dev/loop1.

And of course:
$ sudo mdadm --verbose -A /dev/md127 --readonly --run /dev/loop1 /dev/loop2 /dev/loop3 /dev/loop4
mdadm: looking for devices for /dev/md127
mdadm: no recogniseable superblock on /dev/loop1
mdadm: /dev/loop1 has no superblock - assembly aborted

I thought I could try to read/examine these using dmraid(8), as this is advertised as a tool to "discover, configure and activate software (ATA)RAID". But as far as I can tell, this statement is only true if the drives are exposed through the BIOS, which these clearly are not, being that they are loop(4) devices:
$ sudo dmraid -ay
no raid disks

Do I have any chance at recovering the data via software? Or is my only option to find hardware that can read physical drives with the data on them (e.g. a Promise PCI card)?
Thanks for reading.

A: I found my self in the same situation.  I was able to recover the data using the demo version of R-Studio to reconstruct a virtual RAID array mostly as described here:
https://www.r-studio.com/automatic-raid-detection.html
Under the "Drive" menu, select "Open Image" and import the drive images previously created using dd.
In the "Create Virtual RAID" drop down menu select "Create Virtual RAID & Autodetect", then drag and drop the opened drive image files from the tree view (on the left) to the virtual RAID device list panel (on the top right).
Click "Auto Detect".  The process should complete in a few seconds.  In my case it detected a 32k block size, RAID5, Left Async (Continuous) with 50.2% confidence.  It also displayed the text book diagram of a RAID 5 array.  Click "Apply".
Back in the "Device view" tree, there should now be a partition and volume group (e.g.: "vg002-lv001") with an ext3 file system.  Select this entry and click the "Create Image" button.
In the resulting dialog box, select "Byte to byte image", choose an appropriate path and file name.  Click "Ok" and then wait overnight for the process to complete.  Make sure you have enough room for the resulting image.  (For 4 x 500 GB drives in RAID5 that will be approximately 1.5 TB.)
The resulting image file can be loop mounted to access the data.  E.g.
# mkdir /mnt/promise
# mount -o loop vg002-lv001.img /mnt/promise/

I also found it convenient to remap the UIDs and GIDs before running rsync to copy the data:
# mkdir /mnt/promise-bindfs
# bindfs --map=1001/1000:@499/@100 /mnt/promise /mnt/promise-bindfs

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There are a lot of misconceptions about having a career in law: that only people with connections in their families will be successful, that you have to be a book worm, that you can only become a lawyer or a judge and so on. Of course, these myths can be true sometimes, but they are often false. If you're thinking about enrolling in law school, or even if you are just curious about what having a career in law implies, here are 10 things to consider.
You have many career options
Law is not just for lawyers or in the courtroom as it affects all aspects of society; from the protection of life and liberty to corporate or international relations, law graduates are capable of doing many important roles in various professions. With a law degree, you can be successful in any related field or profession like politics, management, journalism, international relations, police, and so on.
What do world leaders like Barrack Obama, Margaret Thatcher, Mahatma Gandhi have in common? They all studied law, and others too numerous to mention, were able to scale through in life and make a difference because of it.
It's a rewarding profession
You will likely work long hours, as well as take on projects that are challenging and could be stressful. For exemple, some lawyers travel the country, or even the world, to participate in trials, depositions, and business deals. Others work with business leaders, politicians, sports figures, and even celebrities. Making a difference, upholding the rule of law, and helping to win cases especially when the odds are small will be more than rewarding.
It is intellectually challenging
Those who are curious and have the energy to keep learning will find themselfs enjoying the intellectual challenges and rigor associated with a legal career. As a future law student, you should be prepared to never stop learning as it's very important to stay up-to-date with new legal changes, as well as with the technology trends. Given the advanced era that we are in, it's very exciting and dynamic to be a member of this profession.
Awareness of rights and responsibilities
With the knowledge of your rights and responsibilities as a citizen, you will definitely be more careful and involved. In addition, you will be able to question certain laws that are obnoxious and encourage others to fight for their rights. You learn to be more intentional and take more actions – you begin to think about strategy and outcomes a lot more than you did.
It's a noble profession
By choosing a legal career you will unquestionably feel like you are making a difference in the world, and you are. As a lawyer you are able to defend a person's rights and interest, to turn the tide in one's favour and to provide advice. After all, it is being said that only painters and lawyers can turn black into white and it's defintely true. Also, a judge's job is no less important: they have to make the biggest and most important decisions that could change a person's destiny. These are just a few examples; having a legal career is more than that, as I explained at point 1.
You will become a great negotiator
By choosing a legal career you will, without doubt, be knowing how to argue and negotiate like a pro. Law school will teach you that almost everything is negotiable and will give you the knowledge to help you see both sides of a story or situation to come up with a counterargument.
Pursuing law prepares you to enter a circle of few elites who command respect and who embody the real definition of success. You're even in a unique position to impact leaders and politicians to effect change around the world.
Let's face it: this is a very important aspect, as well. You may not have immediate financial freedom but as you progress, you will be faced with more job options which bring about financial stability and your salary will increase with more experience in the field. So, yes, by choosing a career and law you have high earning potential.
Job stability
Economic downturns have the power to put some industries under. However, this is not the case when you have a career in law. The legal sector has fared pretty well in recent history however, thanks in part to law firms expanding into new markets and diversifying their offering. No matter what becomes of the economy, you should still find opportunities as a legal professional.
Creating a great network
In general, people who enrol into Law School share the same passion and interest and you're likely to make a lot of nice friends with the same mindset as yours. You'll find yourself studying together with these people, discussing a lot of interesing things, attending in lectures and working on projects and also doing a lot of fun things. And let's face it, having the same things in common with a group and feeling like you belong to it it's a very nice feeling.
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Ninth Circuit court decision upholds Department of Labor tip pool rules: What this means for your restaurant
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By Paul Schlienz
In an unexpected decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, on Tuesday, February 23, ruled that the Department of Labor has the authority to regulate the tip-pooling practices of employers who do not take a tip credit, including prohibiting these employers from instituting tip pooling programs that include back-of-the-house staff, management, and other workers who are not customarily tipped. This decision reverses two federal district court rulings, and essentially ignores the Ninth Circuit's 2010 ruling on this issue, Cumbie v. Woody Woo.
"We did not expect this ruling, and we're still consulting with our litigation partners on how we will respond," said Anthony Anton, president and CEO of the Washington Restaurant Association. "We will inform our members when we have chosen a course of action."
Possible options include petitioning to have the case reconsidered by the panel that made this decision, petitioning to have the entire Ninth Circuit court hear the case, or appealing the decision to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Question: What should I do now, if I have a tip pool that might be impacted by this ruling (e.g., includes back-of-house staff)?
Answer: There is no right answer for all operators. There are practical considerations, as well as potential risk, to consider which approach is best for you. Specifically:
From a practical standpoint, changing the tip pool now to address this ruling will require a lot of adminsitrative issues, changes to compensation structure, impact employee morale, and create other challenges. This is a big change, and you may end up changing back to your current model if the Ninth Circuit then changes its ruling, if a request for review is made and granted.
From a legal standpoint, there is some risk with not changing your tip pool at this time. These risks may be lessened, however, while a request for reconsideration or appeal is pending. We are working with our legal counsel to better understand the scope of these risks depending on next steps.
Question: What are WRA's next steps, in terms of the lawsuit and providing guidance to its members?
Answer: WRA and its partners in this litigation will be reaching a decision in the next several days on its course of action in the litigation. Once this decision is reached, we should have a better understanding of risks to members of maintaining a tip pool prohibited by federal law while the matter is pending further review. We will then provide our members with updated information, which may include a webinar, to provide further guidance.
Question: What should members do in the meantime?
Answer: You will need to decide whether you want to make a change to your tip pool program now, or wait for updated information. We believe, however, that given the magnitude of the changes implicated, an appropriate course of action is to develop a plan for changing the tip pool program (e.g., a new compensation model, communicating to your team) in the coming days while awaiting additional information, so you are prepared to implement such a change on short notice if deemed appropriate.
For more information, contact the WRA at 360.956.7279, and we'll put you in contact with employment law attorney Bob Donovan, from the WRA's Advisory Network. Additionally, the WRA will be holding a half hour conference call with Bob Donovan at 2 p.m. on Monday, February 29, where he will provide updates on the ruling and our response in addition to answering your questions. If you are interested in participating in this conference call, contact the WRA's Paul Schlienz at pauls@warestaurant.org.
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Andy Smith sped his way to a third successive Scottish Championship win on Sunday at Cowdenbeath while Mat Newson claimed the Millers Oil Challenge Trophy at Knockhill.
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$620,000 Granted to Benefit the People of Park City
Park City Community Foundation awards local nonprofits with annual Community Fund grants and grants from the Community Response Fund for COVID-19.
Park City, Utah (Monday, July 6, 2020) – Today Park City Community Foundation announced that it has provided critical support and recognition to local nonprofits organizations, awarding them with annual Community Fund grants and with grants from the Community Response Fund for COVID-19. Grants totaling $620,000 are being given out to support high-impact nonprofits.
Because of the dire need that many nonprofits are experiencing due to the economic impacts of COVID-19, the Community Foundation decided to make its annual Community Fund donations in July, rather than September. With the addition of COVID-19 stabilization grants from its Community Response Fund, the total awarded is 2.5 times more than grants from last year, an unprecedented amount for the Community Foundation.
"Summit County has been hard hit by COVID-19. We have the highest unemployment rate in Utah and our friends and neighbors are struggling to pay rent and put food on the table," says Anna Frachou, Board Member and Grants Chair of Park City Community Foundation. "These grants have huge impact in greater Park City and allow organizations that offer important services to our community to prevent homelessness and hunger and stay afloat."
Community Response Fund Grants Now Total $895,000
In early March, Park City Community Foundation activated its Community Response Fund to support locals who have been disproportionally impacted by COVID-19. A first phase of grants from the fund totaling $500,000 was rapidly awarded to eight health and human services organizations helping people who are struggling with rent, food security, and other urgent needs. The Community Response Fund is now awarding an additional $395,000 in stabilization phase grants that provide unrestricted support to 28 nonprofits to help offset the economic impacts of COVID-19.
$2.4 Million Raised by Park City Community Foundation for COVID-19
Generous donors, businesses partners, community groups, and local government have joined the Community Foundation to support the Community Response Fund for COVID-19. However, there is still a significant gap between donations that have come in and what the Community Foundation expects to be needed for local nonprofits to get through the coronavirus pandemic intact and able to provide their services.
$500,000 Remains to be Raised for COVID-19
The Community Foundation is asking for contributions of any size to help get Park City and Summit County through stabilization and recovery. Woodward Play It Forward Fund is currently matching donations up to $75,000 to the Community Response Fund. And the Community Foundation itself is matching grants given directly to 28 nonprofit organizations at parkcitycf.org/giving-guide/.
2020 Annual Community Fund Grants Total $225,000
The annual Community Fund supports Park City's most pressing needs and 42 organizations are being awarded with grants in 2020. Now in its thirteenth year, Park City Community Foundation has granted over $1.8 million to nonprofits that serve the greater Park City area through this fund alone. These grants will provide mental health support, youth arts and sports programs, high quality affordable childcare, trails and open space, affordable housing, legal assistance, and much more.
"Local nonprofits are critical in making Park City the great place that it is," said Katie Wright, Executive Director of Park City Community Foundation. "We want them to succeed during these difficult times when we need them most, and we are honored to support them in accomplishing their missions."
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NEW YORK, May 25, 2018: Morgan Lewis has been named Law Firm of the Year in the "Energy/Projects: Power (including Renewables)" and "Environment (including Climate Change)" categories of leading legal publisher Chambers & Partners' Chambers USA Awards 2018. The awards recognize a firm's preeminence in key practice areas in the last 12 months, including outstanding work, impressive strategic growth, and excellence in client service.
With more than 100 lawyers in key energy and financial centers around the world, Morgan Lewis's energy and project finance and infrastructure teams advise on project development and finance; mergers, acquisitions, and joint ventures; capital markets transactions; the full range of corporate and securities matters for utility systems; as well as on litigation and regulatory and compliance issues. Members offer practical, thoughtful, and informed advice on some of the world's most complex and significant energy matters.
The environmental counseling and litigation team counsels clients on environmental permitting, compliance, risk avoidance, and crisis management, as well as transactional and litigation matters. As one of the first environmental practices established at a major law firm, its lawyers have a powerful historical perspective on evolving public and legislative policy, coupled with experience across industries.
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Bored of Your Games? Why Not Swap Them?
Many video games have a short lifespan, and after you have finished with them you just leave them to collect dust on the self. However, a brilliant service named GaBoom is a possible solution to your problem. Why not swap the video game for a different one once you have completed it? www.gaboomswap.com is the site to visit. GaBoom is a video game swapping service for the UK, and Jessica Ratcliffe (the owner) was actually featured on the Dragons Den TV show.
GaBoom! Swap your video games here.
No matter how good something is you can always improve it and that is exactly what Jess Ratcliffe has been doing with GaBoom, the UK's most sophisticated and advanced peer-to-peer video game swapping website.
Since its launch in July 2010 GaBoom has attracted over 10,000 users and helped facilitate thousands of video game swaps. By listening to user feedback GaBoom has undergone some changes that will make it quicker and easier for users to swap their unwanted video games.
As well as a new URL (http://gaboomswap.com) the swapping process has been simplified with now one swap method – a direct member-to-member swap. Another way the process is being made simpler is the inclusion of Booms, GaBoom's virtual currency. One swap costs 100 Booms which can be purchased through the Boom Store or you can earn Booms by inviting your friends to use GaBoom and for receiving positive feedback from other users you have swapped with.
The browse and search functionality has been improved making it easier for users to add and remove games from their swap list. Couple that with GaBoom's unique 'Match Me' technology which automatically finds swaps for a user based on their Swap and Wish Lists it truly is even easier to find yourself a new game.
The changes will come into effect today, Tuesday 1st November 2011.
A full list of the changes can be found below:
New URL of http://gaboomswap.com
A simpler swapping process replacing the three previous swapping methods (Secure Swap, GaBoom Escrow and Forum Exchange) with a direct member-to-member swap.
Introduction of GaBoom's virtual currency, Booms, that can be used to pay for swaps – 100 Booms = 1 Swap.
Booms can be purchased from the Booms Store – 100 Booms for £1, 600 Booms for £5 or 1200 Booms for £10.
Booms can also be gained through inviting friends to sign up (50 Booms awarded after friend makes first swap) or by gaining positive feedback (25 Booms)
Members can now cancel swap requests-ENDS-
ABOUT GABOOM!
GaBoom is a peer-to-peer video game swapping website. It's a place where gamers can get the video games they want, using the games they own by swapping them with one another. Jess Ratcliffe founded GaBoom in February 2010, when she was 19 years old and in her first year at Royal Holloway, University of London. GaBoom.co.uk went live in July 2010.GaBoom has been live for over a year now. This time has allowed Jess to gather a great amount of feedback from GaBoom's members and fully understand what people like and don't like about the website.
ABOUT JESS RATCLIFFE
Jess is 21 years old and working on GaBoom full-time. She left University after her first year to focus on GaBoom and hasn't looked back since. Jess first had the idea to create a website where you can swap your video games with other gamers when she was 15 years old and used to swap her video games with her friends and neighbours.
In September last year, Jess appeared in the series finale of BBC Dragons' Den, which can be seen here. Jess had a fantastic experience in the Den, with Peter Jones offering her a job and Deborah Meaden stating she has no doubt Jess will be in one of their chairs one day.
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Antarctica 'Penguin Post Office' Job Attracts Record Number of Applicants
People with a penchant for penguins are perfect for this position.
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United Kingdom Antarctic Heritage
— -- People with a penchant for penguins are perfect for this position.
A job posting to man the "Penguin Post Office" in Port Lockroy, Antarctica, has received a record number of applicants: more than 1,500 since Feb. 16. In 2014, there were only 82 applicants all year long.
United Kingdom Antarctic Heritage Trust (UKAHT) is looking for four people to, in addition to taking care of the 70,000 cards posted each year for delivery to 100 countries, monitor the impact of the approximately 18,000 visitors to Port Lockroy, situated on Goudier Island in the Antarctic Peninsula, on the wildlife, plus record the number of visitors and ships visiting the area.
The team at Port Lockroy, situated on Goudier Island in the Antarctic Peninsula.
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One reason for the increase in applications, the organization said, was the airing of the documentary "Penguin Post Office" on BBC2 in the U.K. in July 2014 and on PBS in the U.S. in January 2015.
The current team preparing for a penguin count.
Each year, the UKAHT's U.K. team -- based in Cambridge -- searches for committed individuals to make up a small team of four to spend five months at its flagship site, Port Lockroy, situated on Goudier Island in the Antarctic Peninsula. The job runs from November 2015 to mid-March and pay is $1,700 per month.
Stephen Skinner, a member of the team currently at Port Lockroy, canceling post.
United Kingdom Antarctic Heritage Trust
"The team chosen to spend the 2015/16 season at Port Lockroy will assist the Base Leader in the efficient running of the post office, maintenance and museum operation, with areas of responsibility being divided up amongst team members. A can-do attitude is vital as is good physical fitness, co-ordination (carrying heavy boxes over slippery rocks and slushy snow whilst dodging the local gentoo penguin population is a frequent requirement), environmental awareness and a practical knowledge of minimum impact living. Above all successful candidates need to be passionate about the Antarctic."
No post office experience is necessary and applicants need not be British citizens.
Amy Kincaid, a member of the current team, said applicants need to be "realistic." She called the living quarters (pictured) "surprisingly cozy," though added that "being confined to an island the size of a football pitch isn't for everyone."
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Wolves breaks club record to sign 18-year-old Silva
Wolves did not disclose the fee paid for the 18-year-old striker, who has signed a five-year contract, but said it was a club record.
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Wolverhampton Wanderers has smashed its club record transfer fee to sign Portuguese teenager Fabio Silva from Porto, the Premier League club said on Saturday.
Wolves did not disclose the fee paid for the 18-year-old striker, who has signed a five-year contract, but said it was a club record. Media reports had indicated the fee was around 35 million pounds ($46.50 million).
Silva was part of the youth system at both Porto and Benfica and made his first team debut for Porto, his hometown club, in August 2019 as a 17-year-old.
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The forward has scored one goal in 12 Portuguese league appearances for Porto and spent time last season with its B-team in the second division.
Wolves chairman Jeff Shi said Silva was a natural talent who was ready for Nuno Espirito Santo's first team.
"We've been following Fabios' development for a long time. He's a player that you only need several minutes to see his natural football talent. In recent years, Fabio has been developing very fast and now has proven himself in Porto's first team, which is a top squad," he told the club's website.
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"Our head coach's requirement for quality is very high, but he thinks Fabio is an important signing who will help the team immediately this season," he added.
Wolves' previous record signing was Mexican forward Raul Jimenez who joined the West Midlands club from Benfica for 30 million pounds in 2019.
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When Java 8 hits final release this March, it will have a lot more in common with Scala. ReadWrite's Matt Asay asked Scala creator Martin Odersky whether this change will hamper Scala adoption, but Odersky didn't think so.
People often ask me if these features coming to Java will slow the adoption of Scala," said Odersky. "Quite the opposite! Instead, I feel the acceptance of these features by the Java Community Process validates our innovation in language design on the JVM. As developers come to understand what these features are and how they work, they will also develop a better appreciation of the more extensive support of functional programming that Scala provides."
He added, "Java 8 will definitely bring the Java and Scala developer communities closer together. I also believe it will make life easier for polyglot language support on the JVM, while at the same time giving Java developers just a taste of how languages are evolving to support a higher degree of concurrency and parallelism."


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The exact origins of the West of England Bull Terrier Club are not clearly documented. No accurate records exist and clubs did not need Kennel Club approval in the distant past however it is documented that Mrs Gladys Adlam was its Secretary for several years in the first decade of the 20th century. Little else is known of those early years except that we know the breed was strong in the West Country. References have been made about the club in old breed notes and because of these references we know the club continued healthily through the twenties and thirties. At the outbreak war in 1939 most clubs ceased for the duration and the WEBTC was no exception.
The club was resurrected after the war primarily by the efforts of a few people including Mrs Helen Glasby, Miss Betty Woods, a Mr & Mrs Chambers, Mr & Mrs B. Lord, Mr & Mrs George & Helen Glasby and an A.B. Berry. Certainly at the first Bath Championship Show after the war plans were formulated to hold an inaugural meeting of the club at the Pump Room located by the Roman Baths in the centre of Bath. They arranged their first committee meeting at the Chambers house located just outside Bath where Mr Chambers was elected President, Miss Woods Chairman, and Mrs Chamber the Secretary. Mrs Glasby went to Australia in 1966- and at 90 years of age she is the only known living founder member.
A landmark was the clubs first Kennel Club approved show. This was held at the St James Hall at Bath in 1947 during a great freeze. It is notable that the hall was unheated and the temperature inside a little over freezing. A committee member brought an oil fire. Although hardly central heating it did bring some relief for the judge, the redoubtable Miss Eva Weatherill, and all was well.
IN 1951 the great Raymond Oppenheimer judged the club show at Devizes. It was a grand affair with the Mayor, Councillor Mrs M. Reed, in attendance and presenting the prizes but in 1957 only eight of 46 members entered the open show. The minutes reported flogging a dead horse Very shaky
It was in 1959 that there was a mention of club Secretary Helen Glasbys Ch. Rickmay Anbanaad. She was a very important point of breed history as she was the first CBW bitch champion. CBW means a Colour Bred white, that a coloured parent had tainted her pure white ancestry. Its so normal now, and it would be impossible to find a PBW, (Pure Bred White) but in those days whites (pbw) were mated only to whites (pbw). To allow coloured blood to enter the pure bred white was a stigma, and prohibited the animals entry into the Bull Terrier Clubs Pure Breed White Stud book. Strangely the Keeper of this record, and a strong advocate for it, was the otherwise far seeing Tom Horner. The Bull Terrier Club rescinded this rule during 49/50. A wise move as it enabled breeders to now use top class whites tainted by coloured breeding, which until then had been used only by coloured breeders.
Membership rapidly increased to over 100 and the members list read like the who's-who of Bull Terriers breeders. In 1963 the club received an invitation to visit the famous Lenster/Phidgity/Harper kennels in Hampshire, an offer the club gratefully accepted. This visit was repeated in 1971. During this period show entries had generally increased to around 125-150 but in 1970 the entry plummeted to 67. The judge, a very eminent person in the breed, was a D. Rainy Brown, who I believe a veterinarian surgeon from Scotland. It was also in this year that the club accepted an invitation to visit the world famous Ormandy/Souperlative kennels where they were entertained by the great Raymond Oppenheimer and Eva Weatherill
In 1968 Raymond Oppenheimer presented the clubs main trophies- The Ormandy Boxes- to be competed for annually by dogs shown at Club shows the previous year. These are held at the October Show and are an important part of the club year. Three years ago the Valkyrie Trophy was awarded by the club in honour of George & Audrey Jarrett (Valkyrie) and this too is on offer annually to the best-coloured animal shown in the previous year. On a sad note, the sudden death of our popular Chairman John Hinks in 2000 resulted in a new trophy the Johinska Cup being awarded for the BOS to the Valkyrie trophy.
The 1968 Open Show held at the Corn Exchange, Devises drew an entry of 140, and in 1969 an entry of 145. Throughout the 1970s entries were maintained around these high figures but shows did receive more support from members in those days. The Corn Exchange at Devizes was a popular venue for the club shows. It was an attractive Victorian building of ample size and in the town centre and it did have adequate parking. A couple of AGMs were held in Devizes also, but we lost the use of the Devizes hall and now we use halls in Bristol for our shows and the AGMs.
The club is proud of the support it gives to the Bull Terrier Club Welfare Trust and has received several commendations from them. The club membership is now 300 with the target of 400 in view. It has a fine range of trophies on offer to members, and these represent the history of the club. The club won the Bricktops Trophy, and national interclub competition, this year (it also won it the first year of the competitions existence in the late eighties). Our committee is active and stable, and always interested in promoting events of interest to members. We hold our three licensed shows a year, and also educational and fun events periodically.
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In the film industry, there are numerous actors that you see all the time; you may not know them immediately by name, but they manage to leave a lasting impression with everything they do. Ravi Patel has been in the industry since the early 2000s appearing in TV and films including Transformers, Scrubs, Bones, Perception, Super Fun Night and too many more to name. Currently he is starring alongside John Stamos and Josh Peck in the hit FOX comedy Grandfathered, where he is constantly stealing the show! Now, he has shifted his focus to an all-new documentary titled Meet the Patels, directed by himself and his sister Geeta, which follows his search for love and the struggle of family and culture. I had the pleasure to sit down with Ravi to discuss the new documentary and how it came to be.
Bobby: How did Meet the Patels come about?
Ravi: It kind of happened by accident. It was pretty much a home video as you see in the beginning of the movie. I had just gotten out of this relationship with a white girl that I had never told my mom and dad about, and off we go on a family trip to India. My sister had brought with her this brand new camera that she wanted to learn how to use, which I like to say that she never did in the movie. She was going to make a documentary about our family trip and the charity that our mom and dad do there, all in an effort to learn to use this camera.
In the meanwhile, I am on this flight for eighteen hours going through this phase and mom and dad pressuring me to get married. But, they have no idea that I am depressed because of breaking up with this girl that I could never tell them about. By the time we were done with that India trip, we realized that we had something special and we sent it off to ITVS. At the time, we pitched something more like a 'Michael Moore documentary' that was more of a funny direction, but then over time, it turned into something way more personal than I would have signed up for.
Honestly it was the most important time in my life. I'm really grateful that we filmed it because not only did I go through what you saw, but because I was making the film with my sister I was able to be a little more intently introspective on it than I might have otherwise.
Bobby: There is a lot of home video footage throughout your life here. Was this just something that was normal in your family, to film a lot through-out your life, which in turn made you luck into having that footage for the film?
Ravi: I actually feel like we didn't have much footage. There is an entire decade of my life where we didn't film anything. We basically took everything that my mom and dad could find and combed through it. My dad was pretty good with the camera. Some of the shots we were yelling at him about how good they were. Some of his camera movements were just really cool to watch. Maybe that's where we got it from.
Bobby: With you already being in the industry and this not originally meant to be a film, are there any moments where your parents are just annoyed with the camera in their face or is it just the norm for them now?
Ravi: They are shockingly not annoyed or effected. A lot of people wondered if they were acting because they were so comfortable in front of the camera. They just have that quality and that is probably the same reason I am an actor. My family is just very fun loving and kind of unaffected by that kind of thing. They don't care about what people think. The camera didn't have an effect on them, but the only thing is that all four Patel's have really strong opinions so every time the camera was on we had four directors.
Bobby: While this film is obviously about your journey in the relationship situation you are in, the film also serves as a sort of history lesson of your culture and how it works for these relationships. Was this by design once you decided to make this film or just kind of happen organically?
Ravi: It's all rooted in the latter. We as filmmakers ultimately decide on the best way to tell the story. We left in the nuances of my experience and tried really hard not to represent anyone else's experience and just trust that the more deeply and truthfully we told my story the better it would be for people to relate. However, they chose to relate to it whether they are Indian or not.
That said, we definitely knew that the Indian immigration story (…would connect). We talk about how my dad came to America; we were both very fascinated by these things and they clearly have an organic place in my personal story. Most Indian Americans have the same immigrant story on how their parents got here through the different immigration waves.
There is one (…migration) in the late 60s and early 70s and another about 10-15 years later. And so the one, for example, with my dad came in the late 60s. That was an example of the cream of the crop coming from India to America because you were a student or some kind of professional in the medical field or engineering and that is why everyone was saying Indians were so smart. The ones you know are the kids of the ones that were at the top 1% of their class.
Bobby: There is a moment during one of the car conversations where you tell Geeta to turn the camera off, but she keeps recording. Are there any of those moments like that, where you realized she was still recording, that are difficult for you because you now have to deal with whether or not put it in the film? Or are you glad she did so you had more direction for the story?
Ravi: It's an interesting conflict as the guy who is in a documentary about his personal life which was not or is something I am excited about. The general instinct was to say "let's turn the camera off". But as a director who is pretty cautious about the story that were are trying to communicate, not just a filmmaker trying to make a good movie, but from a social impact perspective, I recognized the need for me to be as truthful and vulnerable as possible. I would say there is a physiological 'push-pull' in generally thinking in those moments.
I think my thought was, 'well Geet and I are directing it so if I can just not get annoyed and just be myself in front of the camera as much as possible; if I really end up hating it at the end of the day, for whatever reason, I can take it out'. I think first and foremost I recognized that in order for the film to be the best version of itself there had to be some integrity of how honest and vulnerable a subject I was on camera.
Bobby: Being someone who is into animation and as an artist myself, I loved the decision to animate a lot of the interview aspects of the film, as it made it stand out as something different. Where did that decision come from?
Ravi: Thanks! It was something that evolved over years. We spent six years making this movie. We wanted to make the movie broad, fun and funny for people that may not usually watch documentaries. Even if you hated watching documentaries you could still watch it and enjoy it.
To do that we had to do a couple of things. We wanted to take the romantic comedy narrative and throw it on top of the traditional documentary. That meant the way we structured the film we tried to structure it like a romantic comedy and throw in those elements so subconsciously there is a nostalgia there like the music, the When Harry Met Sally interviews, clips from romantic comedies and even the pacing and the way it was edited was all meant to invoke a sense that it was a fun family romantic comedy.
The animated part that you love originally was going to be done as a "Woody Allen" kind of thing. We did this big shoot on a big white background where I was hosting a talk show in it and it would go into different stations in the white abyss that was meant to resemble my imagination. Ultimately we are both big fans of radio and big fans of the film American Splendor and we talked about how visual radio can be when a story is told well and I had seen an animated version of a Miss America life story and that was the seed.
What if we did animation? What if we did such a good job telling these little moments that are already kind of visual and then we use the animation to either force people to listen more to the audio or to add another layer to the audio, whether it be a joke or some other visceral element. That is how we ended up with that and we went through five or six animators and ultimately the people that did it were not far from you in Austin.
Bobby: You really should take that aspect into a cartoon series.
Bobby: In the film there are also some other recognizable Indian actors and you guys are obviously friends. Were these people that you already knew prior to your career and the film? Or were they friendships that built over time from being in the same auditions or communities?
Ravi: It's more of the latter. We are all friends and came up together. All of the working Indian actors, we are all friends. There are some famous ones that didn't even make the final cut, but everyone was really helpful and wanted to be a part of it. Russell Peters and I have the same manager; Sunkrish Bala, he is on Castle; Pej Vahdat from Bones is in there, and a lot more. It was just a bunch of actors from the community that live here in LA and that is just who your friends are.
Bobby: Is there anywhere that fans can reach out to you like a website or anything?
Ravi: You know the concept of people being my fan is very new to me. I'm really flattered and hope the trend continues and I can stay humble and accessible because I would love to interact with them. Right now I think I know all of my fans personally. The best place right now is on my Twitter and Instagram @showmetheravi where people can follow me there. I'm on Grandfathered and also an episode of the Netflix series Master of None.
Bobby: I think you are one of the best parts of Grandfathered and am a big fan. Congrats on your continued success.
Ravi: That means a lot man, thank you so much.
Bobby: I appreciate you taking the time to speak with me sir.
Be sure to check out Meet the Patels available on DVD January 26th as well as On Demand, EST, and SVOD available now.
Also be sure to check out Grandfathered on FOX.


Review Summary: Lana Del Rey's lesser known work adds depth to the sultry artist's sound while preserving what makes her so appealing.
The superiority complex that accompanies being familiar with an artist's unreleased work is almost as – if not more – exciting than the actual songs. After all, anybody can cite Bad Romance as their favorite Lady Gaga track, but who do you know of that can express their enjoyment of Blueberry Kisses" What's that, you ask" You've already failed the test. Fans who get off on the saying "You're not a real fan if…" find particular joy in flaunting their knowledge of tracks that require a little work to find. Snobbish" Absolutely. Unfair" Probably. Am I guilty of doing just that" You bet. And considering the buzz that's surrounded Lana Del Rey since her infamous SNL outing, she's particularly easy prey for listeners who love to play musical king-of-the-hill.
For those who are genuinely interested in the music, though, there's plenty to embrace with this album. Lana Del Rey (or Ray at the time, as shown on the album cover) is talented as ever, and her songwriting skills are as mature as you'd expect. It's easy to see the beginnings of the themes that would go on to permeate Born To Die and Paradise: there's plenty of sultry talk of courting men, loving men, leaving men, playing with men, wanting men, and Coney Island. None of this sounds like filler: each track has its own personality, and like a Fiona Apple work, the songs bloom and reveal more of themselves with each additional listen.
However, those looking for an album's worth of Born To Die bonus tracks are going to leave bewildered and disappointed. The songs here may follow the general motifs of Lana Del Rey's studio work, but the sound and mood of Lana Del Ray a.k.a. Lizzy Grant is more chilled out and laid back than the sweeping opulence we've been exposed to. This is more of a soundtrack for trailer parks and lonely nighttime walks, and less of an exercise in excess for Baz Luhrmann. Grand orchestration is almost completely absent, giving way instead to acoustic guitars, pianos, and the occasional synths. It's disarming, to say the least, given the stylistic consistency of her more official work.
But if you can appreciate Lana Del Ray a.k.a. Lizzy Grant on its own terms, it's hard not to enjoy the discordant exuberance of tracks like "Mermaid Motel," or the relaxed sensuality of "Oh Say Can You See," or the dreamlike glow of "Yayo" (the version here being far superior to its breathy Paradise counterpart). What we have here is a stripped down, creative record that presents to us a Lana Del Rey who, while less embellished, is no less magnificent.
Blonde Lana whoa! Good review.