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Convert System.Drawing.Bitmap to BitmapImage
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The launch of the General Comment on Adolescents in Geneva and Brussels this week is the most important articulation of adolescent rights since the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child in 1989. Adolescence, defined as "a life stage characterised by growing opportunities, capacities, aspirations, energy and creativity, but also significant vulnerability" is an increasing focus area for the rights and development community, and poses opportunities and challenges for child and youth policy-makers alike.
Alex Farrow, from our team, speaks at the launch event in Geneva.
The General Comment on Adolescents (GC20) was finalised in September 2016, and was the subject of two launch events at the Palais de Nations in Geneva, and in Brussels this week.
As Benyam Dawit Mezmur, Chairperson of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC), noted at the Geneva launch: "The Convention is, by definition, an age-based Convention." But while the Convention formally relates to those up to the age of 18 years, it is used as an advocacy tool for young people generally, those advocating and defending youth rights, and those conducting research – especially in the field of youth participation.
Age is a crucial aspect of this debate, and the reason for our involvement in the launch events.
Do you remember the last time you were denied something because of your age?
For most, your 18th birthday gives you the ability – within the law – to do things for yourself. To choose, to act, to be autonomous. This is not the reality for adolescents. It is difficult to imagine a time of life when – purely based on age – so many laws dictate what you can, can't, and require permission to do.
The GC20 attempts to bring visibility to the age of adolescence – still a contentious and undefined life stage – which remains a squeezed period of life; not child, not youth, and rarely considered in either national policies. Except in one domain: when it comes to juvenile justice, adolescents feature prominently given that this life stage spans the period when children become criminally responsible. Within UNICEF, adolescence has become an emerging issue as part of their focus on the "second decade". While UNICEF is traditionally known for their work on early childhood, their logic with this shift is clear: there is no point in keeping children alive until they are 10 years, only to abandon them in their adolescence.
The area of minimum-age legislation is receiving renewed attention: CRIN launched their notable paper, Age is Arbitrary in 2015; the EU's Fundamental Rights Agency have undertaken a large-scale mapping of age-relation legislation across the EU – as have UNICEF Regional Offices in Latin America and Eastern Europe & Central Asia. The GC20 takes us to the next level in the discussion on the ages that adolescents should be able to make independent choices, access services, and realise their rights. It makes clear recommendations in three areas: increasing the minimum age to 18 years; the setting of ages based on national context; the removal of any age restriction.
States should set an age according to national context: Consent to adoption, change of name, applications to family courts (Art 39); access to sexual and reproductive health services (Art 39); sexual consent (Art 40); the right to work, excluding hazardous work & must not interfere with schooling (Art 85).
States should remove age-related requirements: Consent to medical treatment (Art 39); access to confidential medical counselling (Art 39); sexual and reproductive health service (Art 61).
Minimum ages are often a balance between protection and participation. How do you empower adolescents to make independent choices, while simultaneously ensuring they benefit from the protections afforded to them by virtue of their young years? However, many areas are neither; they are politics. Under the guise of protection or participation, adolescents are frequently subject to adult politics: religious influence that allows child marriages; national security threats which allow adolescents to held, tried and incarcerated; an economic reality that forces adolescents out to work instead of in school.
While the GC20 takes numerous positions on minimum ages, some in the child right's community would go further: CRIN, for example, would advocate the removal of age limits entirely in some areas and would favour more emphasis on the capacity of the child in determining when a adolescent can make decisions or choices. A more extensive look at the debate on minimum ages can be seen in our working paper on age-related barriers.
Our research with UNICEF CEE/CIS, Age Matters!, has focused on minimum-age requirements across the Eastern Europe and Central Asia region. While in many areas States are in line with the GC20 recommendations, there are legal inconsistencies, vast exceptions, and bizarre legislative realities: when a child is responsible for a crime, but cannot make a complain themselves in court; when there is a low age of consent for adopt, but a high age of consent for medical treatment; when an adolescent can be married from as young as 14 years, but cannot access independent, confidential medical advice until 18 years.
You can read our full research report, our working paper, and visit our interactive data site here: www.agemattersnow.org.
The Committee emphasizes the rights of all adolescents to freedom of expression and respect for their physical and psychological integrity, gender identity and emerging autonomy. It condemns the imposition of so-called "treatments" to try to change sexual orientation and forced surgeries or treatments on intersex adolescents.
We welcome this statement from the Committee. It cannot have been easy to agree – especially given that homosexuality remains illegal in 73 UN Member States – but we are thankful to the Committee for standing firm and facilitating delicately this long-standing human rights abuse. Along with specific focus on girls, those with disabilities, minorities and indigenous adolescents, the GC20 takes a significant step forward in ensuring the Convention on the Rights of the Child remains evolving, relevant and credible as we approach its 30th anniversary.
When it comes to adolescents, age matters. It matters because when young people are refused services, denied a choice on a matter affecting them, and unable to claim their rights, their wellbeing is – at best – restricted, but at worst, jeopardised.
The GC20 was written and agreed by the Committee on the Rights of the Child, and while it is not legally binding on States, the process of development has ensured it has been rigorously debated, with every word agreed upon. But now the focus is on States to implement, the CRC to monitor, and the UN to champion stronger rights for all adolescents and youth.
We repeat our call for an International Youth Rights Convention. There is clear overlap between the rights of children, adolescents and youth, but this needs a stronger and wider articulation than the General Comment can provide.
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Written and researched by Alex Farrow and edited by Cristina Bacalso.


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The most recent meat lovers breakfast bowl ended up being kind of a downer in terms of taste, but, we figure that can't be how all of them are. This one had a similar make-up in terms of ingredients compared to the other one, too.
Most Jimmy Dean products come with a solid mix of carbs, fats, and proteins. This one looks no different than the others we've had, but let's take a look at some company info first!
The Company Behind Delights Turkey Sausage Breakfast Bowl
The company behind Delights Turkey Sausage Breakfast Bowl is Jimmy Dean, purveyor of all things breakfasty and sausagy. This brand was started by the singer Jimmy Dean way back when in 1969.
Back in those days, he thought that he could make a better sausage compared with what else was out there. In addition to that, his eccentric personality and fame from his singing career made him a marketing machine.
When he was a kid, he actually made a lot of fresh sausage at the farm he grew up on with his Grandpa. After a run-in with a particularly grisly piece of meat at his local diner, he knew he could do better.
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Unfortunately, before products like the Delights Turkey Sausage Breakfast Bowl came along, we lost Jimmy back in 2010. The name and the brand live on, however, and that's why we're reviewing this today!
Front of the Package
The front of this Delights Turkey Sausage Breakfast Bowl has the iconic Jimmy Dean logo in the upper corner of it. Below that, we see DELIGHTS in all caps (with a trademark symbol, too). Under that, there's "turkey sausage" listed, letting us know about the main meat involved with this bowl.
Under that, the rest of the ingredients can be found. That's scrambled egg whites, diced potatoes, turkey sausage, & cheddar cheese. All of this adds up to 240 calories per serving, too. As you'll see soon, those 240 calories are the entire bowl, since this is one serving.
They also have a nice picture of the meal itself on there.
Nutrition Facts for Delights Turkey Sausage Breakfast Bowl
As I mentioned before, this Delights Turkey Sausage Breakfast Bowl has a solid 240 calories with 100 of those coming from fat.
There's a total of 11 grams of fat in it. Out of that, 4.5 grams of it are saturated fat (23% of your daily value). There's not quite as much cholesterol in here as I thought with 13% of your daily value.
There are a few carbs, but the real place our attention needs to be is on the protein: there's 18 grams of it in here! It's absolutely loaded on protein, nice to see.
Below that, there isn't too much in the way of vitamins and minerals.
Our ingredients for this sound pretty chemically, to be honest. The pre-cooked eggs sound fine, but the diced potatoes have something called tetrasodium pyrophosphate in them. In addition to that, it looks like there's some disodium dihydrogen pyrophosphate as well (to maintain color, of course).
Yea, so, these ingredients in the Delights Turkey Sausage Breakfast Bowl aren't incredible.
Despite being a little concerned with some of the ingredients in this sounding super chemically, it ended up tasting completely fine.
The turkey sausage was really tasty, too. In the meat lovers bowl I had before, the regular sausage just wasn't that great and it was really greasy. That was not the case here. The turkey sausage hardly had any greasiness to it and I'd have thing one again in a heartbeat.
The egg whites were also egg-cellent, if you ask me. The cheddar cheese was also pretty good. The potatoes, on the other hand, were pretty similar to the meat lover's potatoes.
I really wanted the potatoes to be good since everything else in this bowl was. Since 90% of it was really tasty, I won't let these drag the review down too much overall. If you haven't tried turkey sausage, getting some from the Delights Turkey Sausage Breakfast Bowl may be the way to go.
Nutrition Facts: Average
Ingredients: Kind of Below Average
Preparation: Average
Taste: Above Average
Recommend Jimmy Dean Delights Turkey Sausage Breakfast Bowl? Yes.
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3Lab. Super Cream. Rocks. For multiple reasons. And I am lucky enough to be one of the first style/beauty bloggers to try this magic potion out.
Yesterday, at the Thompson Hotel, 3Lab held a brunch for beauty bloggers to introduce the Super Cream. Always a little bit skeptical of new products that claim to stop aging, I sat back and listened to 3Lab founder, Erica Chung, speak about this revolutionary type of skin care. First, Erica has pretty much flawless skin-I am talking no apparent wrinkles, sun damage, age spots, or any of the lovely things that come with getting older. Next, she revealed that she is 56 years old (btw, she could easily pass for someone in their late 30′s) and that she has never injected anything into her face-no Botox, fillers, lip enhancement-yet. I guess you can never say never, but as someone who also has not done any of these procedures, I am holding out hope that the Super Cream will be a strong ally in the fight against looking old.
Not to get too technical, but basically, the way it works is that the cream has an X-50 "GPS" system created to deliver Pantothenic Acid-heptapeptide-Cu directly into cells to increase collagen and elastin production, effectively, shooting a bulls eye into the cell itself. It is comprised of Nano-Claire GY bio-growth hormone to generate new cells, rare Swiss apple stem cells which have been shown to delay chronological aging, Oscilift which helps to give an instant lift to the skin and minimize fine lines and wrinkles, Alpha Melite which lightens and brightens the skin, as well as Dragon Blood which is known for its anti-inflammatory and skin healing properties. And applying the cream is half the fun because of the way it feels going on-very smooth, and the instant you put it on, the texture of your skin becomes soft and supple. I put some on last night before bed, and twelve hours later, the skin on my face still feels soft and hydrated. 3Lab maintains that "within six days of use targeted cells saw nine times the amount elastin production and two times the amount of collagen production." And don't we all want that youthful, dewy, glowy look? The price of a 1.7 oz./50ml. jar will set you back $875.00, but how much is too much for the price of beauty? All I can say is that I am on day two and I cannot stop touching my face! Click here to shop 3Lab Super Cream, which is available exclusively at Barney's New York.
Purchased the cream and serum…didn't do a thing for me, except lighten my bank account.Don't feel it is worth the huge price tag. Save your $$$$.
I'm glad it works for some people…for me it did nothing, except put a big dent in my bank account. Got the super serum also, so used them together. Save your $$$ for something more substantial.
Could someone tell me what is Dragon Blood?
Yes, she looks really great! I will follow up her. I am jealous her because there are many good stuff around her to pick up easily!!!
i could not stop reading your blog! this product sounds incredible! I always trust a woman with good skin!
No doubt that is is really expensive but it seems to work. It looks like Erica Chung and Roxy both have amazing skin. I hope it is worth the investment that I am about to make.
thanks for the tip roxy. need to try this out.
I need this in my life,I don't care how expensive it is!!!!!


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In the rivers down around the lower valley the fishing has really slowed up as the bass move into their spawning season and are very reluctant to attack a lure or bait. It's the time when you try to obtain Brownie points in readiness for Spring or, as I will do, head north chasing barra or out west chasing cod.
Up around the Barrington Tops you could get in a quick fish for trout before the close of the season, with fly or worms the better option.
In the impoundments, where the levels are continuing fall by around 1% a week, the water temperature will be dropping slowly and touching 15° or 16° before the end of the month, making for some very tough fishing indeed. This month also can be very windy and cold and so if you intend going up to the dams I recommend you look for the rare couple of days of high barometer and no wind and then go.
Topwater lures worked extremely well for me last June. The dams are really gin-clear at this time of year, provided we don't get heaps of rain, and a topwater lure can be fished in the warmer shallows where fish are moving around the banks seeking food.
You can plop poppers into specific areas or at targets, such as stumps, trees or rocky points, and not spook the fish as you might with spinnerbaits and crankbaits.
The trick that I found when using poppers was to work them extremely slow and here are a few reasons. The fish aren't used to seeing a popper. You cannot stop a spinnerbait or crankbait and let it sit still in the strike zone yet you can stop a popper and it can be one of the most tantalising baits you can use around the banks and cover.
I started to use these lures instead of flies when I had a bad shoulder. There are plenty of poppers around but I definitely like the Jackall SK Pop in the lighter colours in the clear water and white in the dirtier water.
At Lake St Clair the Carrowbrook section around the timber will be the most productive for bait anglers and those wishing to throw a few lures. Although you might not catch big numbers of fish they are usually of good quality.
Worms are definitely the flavour of the month. For those using spinnerbaits I find the smaller 1/4oz and 3/8oz to be a better size. Go for really bright colours with a touch of pink or chartreuse on the skirts. I will be trying some of the new Squidgy spinnerbaits in the next couple of weeks as they are also very small in profile and have some bright colours.
If using lipless crankbaits, I have found the smaller TN50s to be really good, especially in the darker colours.
At Glenbawn, with the dam now at around 36% and falling at around 1% a week, conditions are beginning to take a toll on the fishing.
Some of the former good spots are now 10 metres out of the water so you will have to do a bit of boating to find some new locations. But be very careful because a lot of tree stumps and rocks are starting to appear.
The fishing can be quite rewarding at this time of year if you get that slow-moving high weather pattern but you will have to pay a lot of attention to your sounder. If it has not been too windy you can locate definite thermoclines which can be down around the 10 to 15 metres.
You can target the fish that sit around these thermoclines by trolling really deep lures, such as AC Invaders, Ferralcatts and Jackall TN70s and even 3/4oz spinnerbaits with single willow blades.
Another technique is to vertically jig plastics on 1/2oz or 5/8 oz jigs but my preferred method is to work 60mm or70 mm Jackall Mask Vibes through the thermocline, which can be quite easy to find on my Lowrance LMS332. I zoom in on the 20'-40' range with the sensitivity around 90% and can see the lure quite easily moving through the water column.
This can also be a slow month for bait fishing but targeting individual trees out by themselves using worms is a good option.
The dams are really falling to depths that I have never seen in my 15 years of fishing them and unless we get some decent rain it will take a long while for them to recover. It is the time for bass to migrate downstream to spawn but I hope not to many go down the spout.


Sometimes I wonder why I like to go to Italy so much. Well, there are many obvious and profane reasons, all of them perfectly legitimate, like shopping for shoes and food, chancing upon history and sights around each and every corner, sensing the arts, learning about la vita italiana.
Soon, the bricks and mortar of Florence were replaced by gentle hills of rural southern Tuscany. The weather, the food, the wine, the mood – everything mixed and moulded into perfect getaway.
Early on Saturday morning we left for Florence for a short break. We were eagerly anticipating that trip for we didn't stop in Florence this last summer en route further south for the summer holiday. We thought we better leave it out so we have a relevant reason to return to Tuscany again later in the year. Not that one actually needs a relevant reason; there are plenty more or less simple and basic ones. Delightfully, we stuck to that plan.
Florence is a magnificent city as anyone who ever visited will tell you. I haven't met a soul who'd complain about it or think ill about it (although the hordes of tourists are in fact quite overwhelming and at times very much suffocating).
Anyone heading to Florence (or further south) from the east please note that the new route between Bologna and Florence is now finally open (we gladly found that out back in July already), so a traveller can choose between Panoramica (the pre-existent motorway) and Direttissima (new and faster way, lots of tunnels). The two meet at the top of the hills near Barberino di Mugello. This part of the way between Bologna and Florence used to be the most tiresome because the lanes were dramatically narrow for all the heavy traffic (trucks! trucks!), continuing ups and downs and endless curves. Now, if you're lucky, you'll be jammed only for a (relatively) short period of time (of course the never-ending road works are on-going) before descending downhill to Florence.
Which reminds me of my childhood, when driving in our parents' car towards the Adriatic coast for the summer holiday my brother and I competed impatiently who was going to be the first to glimpse the sea. Cheerful exclamations of "The sea! The sea!" were the proof the holiday had commenced. Even now, as a grown-up, when approaching that last curve before the descent, I usually feel the excitement of a child: the sea is still a vast blue breadth holding a promise of good times and jolly. This same captivating feeling upon descent down the Apennines onto the plain where Florence spreads out all elegant and classy moves me dearly, and the restless eye looks out for the tremendous cupola of the Duomo. The child in me shyly exclaims "Duomo! Duomo!" thus confirming the good time is here.
We had the best possible time in Tuscany this autumn. Two days in Florence and two in the country. The four days were sunny and warm (no socks! short sleeves! sunglasses!) and we could enjoy the impressive colours and fruits of autumn without limits.
The flavours of autumn were persistent too: marroni (glazed and roasted), freshly pressed olive oil, ribollita on day one, trippa alla fiorentina on the last. And many other delicious meals in-between.
Despite the leading motifs of autumn and the cool nights, we simply couldn't skip the best Florentine ice cream. We walked to Carabe after dinner (every additional trip up Via Ricasoli makes the walk seem shorter) and I (of course) had a cup of Sicilian agrumi and crema. So good! As I remarked to the master how delicious his ice cream is every time we have it (for we have been returning customers for years now), he smiled and humbly said it was the quality of the ingredients that made the end product reliably superb.
Two days are scarcely enough to explore Florence if one is to do it justice. But to take it all in it's enough to submerse into its elegant streets, turning the head more often upwards at the marvellous Tuscan facades and peeking past the ajar doors into craftsmen's workshops or brick paved courtyards with cisterns. Notice the Duomo looming large above and behind the narrow streets. Carelessly sip the coffee or Negroni which is what Bellini is for Venice. Watch the people and scan the exquisite shops.
See some of the obvious sights en route: Piazza della Signoria, Ponte Vecchio, Davide, Uffizi, Palazzo Pitti, Basilica di Santa Maria Novella – there is more art, beauty and history than you can imagine. Breathtaking.
Shop for fantastic designer goods (many of the great Italian designers originate in Florence) or for refined Florentine prints in countless tiny shops or for medicinal herbal tonics and fragrant soap.
By all means, plan to return. Florence like Venice is pure magic.
Our favourite eatery in Florence is Sostanza in Via del Porcellana but it's open weekdays only. So we chose this one instead and it was very good. EDIT: We ate at Trattoria Sostanza again in summer 2018. It was delicious as ever.
Ignore the silly fashion industry photos lining the walls if you please but do take your coffee at Caffe Giacosa because it really is excellent. The interior itself has been painstakingly renovated so it retains the same old school charm – a must-see – and the service is attentive. Alternatively, Gilli is another Florentine institution (for more info in Italian only see Italian wikipedia).
A few weeks ago saw a launch of a much anticipated TV series on the Medicis, the most famous of Florentine dynasties. As it turns out, it's so far been aired in Italy only but pay attention to when it comes to your country. According to the frenzy it seems to be a good one.
It's fascinating to be European. With so many tribes and rulers and nations and states interchanging, mixing, succeeding one another, one is sure to not know the whole history of one's own let alone the one of the others. The history of Gorizia and Nova Gorica, two neighbouring towns, one in Italy and the other in Slovenia, is figuratively and actually an interesting one. Both have been relatively unknown beyond their geographic region but this might be changing soon. Enter France.
My first time ever to visit both towns purposefully was last June. True, I happened to pass them by many times before especially on our way to Collio and Goriška Brda. I was told that both of the towns are fairly uninteresting so I never really felt like I was missing much by not seeing yet another Austria-Hungarian merchant town and yet another bleak communist settlement.
The region surrounding them (on both sides of the Italian-Slovenian border) on the other hand is well known among wine connoisseurs. The soil and climate conditions and hard-working people give some spectacular wines that can be found in restaurants' wine lists worldwide. And where there's good wine there's good food, right?
Plenty good options for either lunch or dinner around here. The countryside is wonderful for a daytrip alone: meandering roads, manicured hilly vineyards, many lovely villages, a castle or two (Spessa, Dobrovo), lots of wineries, different options of bicycle tours or horse riding (La Subida), or just plain good old lunching time in the country.
The two towns are rather dull but Gorizia's charms are good food (it's Italy after all), rose lined corsi (and come spring every other house's wall is transformed into curtain of jasmine so the wonderful perfume follows you around like a faithful dog) and some grand palazzi. Nova Gorica (meaning New Gorizia) as an alternative is a town of no big secrets lest the last resting place of the penultimate king of France.
The Franciscan monastery Kostanjevica on the hill above Nova Gorica is a lovely spot. Tranquility and serenity are at home there and the views especially are nice. It's where locals come for some peace and quiet. The summer's day at the end of June was hot, the light was harsh, the colours stark. The man showed us in and accompanied us to the crypt where the tombs are. He was very busy so we were offered to do a little tour on our own which was marvellous. The whole place was solely at our own disposal.
The last (Bourbon) King of France (next one (and truly the last one) cleverly denoted himself as the King of the French) Charles X is buried here along his entourage. Don't know why this fantastic information was kept from us growing up under Yugoslavian communist rule. It wasn't because the king had to flee France as a result of the revolution. Communists praised the revolution. Possibly the venue was not to be promoted since religion was a no-no. As I said, I don't know. I've known about the Bourbon tomb in Slovenia only for a few years now which is a disgrace but ever since I found out I'd wanted to go and see.
The monastery also houses the perfect (and second largest in Europe) collection of Bourbon (surprise!) roses within its walled garden. We'll return next May when it's in full bloom. It is another thing I long to see.
As for the French, suddenly they want him back. Apparently, he's the only king buried outside France. R.I.P.
Whenever I flip through the photographs I took, a warm feeling comes over me. Mostly, I remember the mood not only of the place but the one I was in at that moment.
Different occasions provoke different responses: these days it is a regretful sense that the holiday season is over. I know, I know, the whole world is back to work again (myself included) so stop moaning and groaning, right? Right. Let me take you on a trip to Lecce then, as promised. This way please.
There was this store we were passing every day for it was just around the corner of the garage where we parked. Its shelves were full of wine and champagne bottles and other liquor from all over the world. The loaded pallets were stacked outside on the pavement in front of the store waiting for lorries and vans to collect them. On our second evening in Lecce we decided to stop by and ask if one or two bottles can be bought since it gave the impression more of a wholesale. Well, we could've bought the entire pallet had we known how good the wine was going to be and spent the holiday happily surrounded by emptying bottles. We'd end up lying under the table soon enough though because the Apulian reds are intoxicatingly strong. So, instead of doing that we healthily opted for two bottles to drink on our terraces (yes, we had four at our disposal) before going out or after we'd return or for no reason at all – just to enjoy them. Not only did the signore serving us suggest two lovely wines, Primitivo di Manduria and Negroamaro, when asked he would happily recommend a place for dinner.
To be honest, the restaurant didn't look very convincing upon our inspection (it resembled a regular tourist trap). But we were shown the day's fish and decided to dine. The restaurant filled up completely by nine (mostly locals; lady from the kitchen came out to greet them that's how we knew) and was bursting with muted voices of diners' satisfaction. It was soooo good. I'd like to say that it was then and there I had the best octopus and the best fritto misto of my life but I'd be lying. I had the best octopus and the best fritto misto a few days later when we chose Blu Notte to be the venue of our last Apulian dinner. There may be better ones but haven't been discovered yet.
There, we entered the oasis of calm and elegance that this restaurant is. It was exactly what we needed after the hustle and bustle of the whole day around town. The food was to die for. The antipasto of melanzane was too good to be true as were the orecchiette with clams and chickpeas – what a wonderful combination. Mind you, the dish was filled with full halves of the clams only – where else do you get that?
The wine we had was superb as was the passito that rounded off the meal nicely. We returned to the apartment hypnotised by the deliciousness of it all.
By all means, there's more to Lecce than food and wine. There had been the Messapians, the Greek, the Romans, the Normans, and the Ottomans. The rich mixture of cultures and their clashes caused the town to have developed a distinctive charm. There are countless impressive churches, terrific villas, monuments of astounding proportions, colourful roof tiling, extravagant baroque facades that blow your mind, not one but two Roman theatres, infinite number of ornate balconies with bearded plants hanging over them, huge pedestrian area for passeggiata and numerous picturesque streets of the golden centro storico. Proximity to the coast adds appeal and the climate is fantastic. I've said it before, Lecce is overwhelming. Breathtaking. Astonishing.
We were very lucky to have had selected a fantastic accommodation and I highly recommend a rooftop place to stay: the views over town's landmarks, terraces, flat roofs, aerials and church bells are unforgettable. Plus, the gentle movements of the evening air are priceless in the summer heat because the only place to feel the gentle breeze is on top.
Last but not least, beginning another new day with a delicious breakfast under the shade surrounded by blue skies and lush Med greenery is a rare luxury several floors above the dried up stone pavements.
As for the signore from the wine store, we never met him again although we passed the store almost every evening, carrying our helmets at the near ending of yet another joyful day. I regret we couldn't fire the sparks in his eyes with praise of his recommendations again.


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Montreal mayor vows change after report says city neglected fight against racism
The 261-page document follows a public consultation involving more than 7,000 people
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Montreal's mayor promised on Monday to take immediate action after a report found the city has neglected the fight against racism and failed to recognize the systemic nature of discrimination.
Valerie Plante said Monday morning that the city would implement the report's recommendations, beginning with a formal acknowledgment of systemic racism.
"Starting today, at city council, I will propose a statement to recognize the systemic nature of racism and discrimination, to affirm the city's solidarity with the thousands of citizens who have denounced racism and discrimination in all its forms, and, above all, to reaffirm our commitment to act and to put in place the necessary measures to fight them," she told a news conference.
Also in response to the report's recommendations, Plante announced the city will appoint a commissioner responsible for the fight against racism and will review its hiring processes to ensure visible minorities are adequately represented in the city's workforce and have the chance to move up the ranks.
She said she was also working with the provincial and federal governments to explore the possibility of outfitting the Montreal police with body cameras, a proposal the administration previously rejected.
The 261-page document follows a public consultation involving more than 7,000 people and concludes that the city has trouble translating words into action.
Montreal's public consultation office makes 38 recommendations, starting with a recognition of the systemic nature of racism and discrimination against racialized groups and Indigenous people.
The report touches on a broad array of aspects including racial profiling, hiring practices, workplace culture, policing and inequalities between neighbourhoods, meaning that areas where visible minorities live often have the worst access to transit and other services.
It also recommends that the city and its boroughs produce data every three years detailing variances between racialized, Indigenous and white people in such sectors as employment, racial profiling, housing and economic development.
At one point, it notes that the city's efforts have been mostly concentrated on better integrating new immigrants, rather than fighting racism.
"The fight against racism and discrimination has been neglected," it reads.
"The systemic nature of these phenomena is not recognized. Consequently, the city does not question its policies and practices, nor its role in the production and perpetuation of inequalities within its various jurisdictions, such as employment and public security."
The office's president, Dominique Ollivier, said in a letter to Plante accompanying the report that the failure to recognize the problem has left the city without the necessary tools to tackle it.
In a video accompanying the release, Ollivier said it took the city seven months to respond to the office's request for a document outlining the steps they were taking to fight racism.
Ollivier said the city's plan lacked specific data and was vague, preferring to use words such as "improve," and "help" rather than setting concrete targets.
"It's certain that if you improve from 0.001 you've improved, but you haven't really done anything, and that's a bit what transpired," Ollivier said.
While the report acknowledged that the Montreal police have committed to updating their interception policy, the report found that racial and social profiling continue to prevail, and Ollivier said the problem has only been recognized sporadically.
"We have a culture at the SPVM that means sometimes we recognize there exists racial and social profiling, and sometimes we don't," she said.
When asked about the assessment of her administration and those before her, Plante acknowledged that, "of course, it hurts," but said she was ready to accept the criticism and move forward.
"I think it's just a reason to continue, but also to improve our processes and how we want to make sure there's more representation within the public servants an all the other aspects I've talked about," she said.
She also noted the steps her administration had already taken to fight discrimination, including the fact that it set and exceeded a target of having 33 per cent of new hires from under-represented groups.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published June 15, 2020.
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Passport: Watch: 'Erdowie, Erdowo, Erdogan' — The Video That Made Turkey Mad Enough to Summon the German Ambassador Watch: 'Erdowie, Erdowo, ErdoganR...
Watch: 'Erdowie, Erdowo, Erdogan' — The Video That Made Turkey Mad Enough to Summon the German Ambassador
The video shows footage of Erdogan's most absurd public moments, intercut with crackdowns on protesters.
By Benjamin Soloway
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan doesn't like being made fun of by anyone — not by people sitting at home in front of their televisions, not by Internet trolls who created a meme comparing him to Lord of the Rings character Gollum, not by the journalists he has imprisoned at an alarming rate, and not by Germany.
That's why the Turkish Foreign Ministry formally summoned German Ambassador Martin Erdmann to discuss "Erdowie, Erdowo, Erdogan," a song and video that aired on Extra 3, a satire program on German public broadcaster NDR.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2e2yHjc_mc
That's why the Turkish Foreign Ministry formally summoned German Ambassador Martin Erdmann to discuss "Erdowie, Erdowo, Erdogan," a song and video that aired on Extra 3, a satire program on German public broadcaster NDR.
The video shows footage of Erdogan's most absurd public moments, intercut with crackdowns on protesters. "Equal rights for women: beaten up equally," the song goes, as police beat women with batons.
Despite mounting human rights abuses, Germany can't afford to be too hard on Turkey these days, with a refugee deal on the line. Turkey has agreed to take back refugees who reach Greece by boat, in exchange for the resettlement of refugees currently in Turkey and other concessions by the EU.
By summoning Germany's ambassador, Erdogan has continued efforts to extend the reach of his crackdown on free speech beyond Turkey's borders. This month, Der Spiegel, the magazine that broke the story of the diplomatic spat over the video, had to withdraw its Istanbul correspondent over concerns about the government's treatment of the press.
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Apple gets last-minute delay in complying with App Store changes after Epic lawsuit
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Apple won't have to allow App Store developers to direct users to alternative payment systems for the time being. At the last minute, an appeals court judge granted Apple's motion to delay App Store changes that were to take effect on December 9th.
"Apple has demonstrated, at minimum, that its appeal raises serious questions on the merits of the district court's determination that Epic Games, Inc. failed to show Apple's conduct violated any antitrust laws but did show that the same conduct violated California's Unfair Competition Law," the decision reads, according to 9to5Mac. "Therefore, we grant Apple's motion to stay part (i) of paragraph (1) of the permanent injunction. The stay will remain in effect until the mandate issues in this appeal."
Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers, who oversaw the case between Apple and Epic Games, issued an injunction in September to prevent Apple from stopping developers who wanted to include "buttons, external links, or other calls to action that direct customers to purchasing mechanisms, in addition to In-App Purchasing." Apple typically takes a 30 percent cut of in-app purchases, and these measures would have allowed developers to use other payment systems.
Apple filed an appeal against that permanent injunction in October, claiming that it would "take months to figure out the engineering, economic, business, and other issues" that were required of such changes. Judge Gonzalez Rogers denied the appeal, but Apple took it to the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
In August 2020, Epic informed Fortnite players on both iOS and Android that they'd receive a discount if they bought the virtual V-Bucks currency if they bypassed Apple and Google's in-app payment methods. The latter two companies removed the battle royale game from their stores and Epic swiftly filed suit against them both.
The Apple case went to trial in May. Judge Gonzales Rogers ruled in Apple's favor in almost all counts. Among other things, she determined that the App Store doesn't violate antitrust rules. Epic appealed the ruling a couple of days later.
India's top steelmakers seek federal funds to cut carbon emissions
India's top steelmakers have urged the government to provide federal funding and other economic assistance to help them meet targets for cutting carbon emissions, a leading industry body said. India, the world's third-biggest emitter of greenhouse gases behind China and the United States, has pledged to achieve a net-zero carbon emission target by 2070 and increase the share of renewables in its energy mix to 50% by 2030. Indian steelmakers want federal subsidies and tax incentives to source new technologies, the Indian Steel Association said in a statement ahead of the country's annual budget on Feb. 1, as they seek to reduce emissions to 2.4 tonnes of CO2/per tonne of crude steel output by 2030 from 2.6 tonnes in 2020.


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Alpine SG Doubles Down on Behavioral Health and Human Services EHR With Investment In Foothold Technology
New York City & Walnut Creek, CA – September 26, 2018 – Foothold Technology, the #1 cloud-based behavioral health and human services EHR software vendor in New York and New Jersey, announced today that it is joining Exym®, LLC as part of Alpine SG, LLC ("ASG"), a group of market-leading vertical SaaS companies. Exym is a leading behavioral health EHR company based in California. Foothold founders Marlowe Greenberg and Nick Scharlatt will remain active in the business as CEO and Head of Sales respectively. "ASG and Exym were a clear partner choice for us," said Greenberg. "We aligned very early in the process with them around our customer-focused approach to business. Our shared priority is to deliver superior software and support to our customers to enable them to best serve their clients for whom quality care is essential."
Over the past 18 years since its inception in 2000, Foothold Technology has grown from a custom database solution for a single New York agency to a comprehensive, cloud-based platform with robust functionality for human services agencies nationwide. Foothold's software platform, AWARDS®, delivers superior functionality for mental health, alcohol and substance abuse, intellectual and developmental disabilities, homelessness and housing placement, and employment and training agencies. AWARDS also serves a variety of other therapeutic services organizations who provide care to individuals, families, children, adults, seniors and veterans.
Together, Foothold and Exym proudly deliver mission-critical EHR software to more than 1,100 agencies and nearly 60,000 users in 30 states and US territories. This investment by ASG represents the first step in its vision to bring EHR software vendors together to better serve behavioral health and human services populations across the country. "We believe that behavioral health providers are underserved by today's software and service options. It is our mission to change that," said Dan Saper, Group CEO at ASG.
The partnership with ASG allows Foothold and Exym to make strategic investments in engineering and expand their business intelligence and data analytics functionality to customers in the near future. "Our shared vision is to become the nation's premier software for behavioral health and human services agencies. This partnership is the next step in delivering the very best in EHR functionality to our valued customers," added Nick Horn, Exym CEO.
About Alpine SG
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David Douillet, the double Olympic judo champion and former French Sports Minister, is to challenge Denis Masseglia for the Presidency of the French National Olympic and Sports Committee (CNOSF).
Douillet, 48, made the announcement in an interview with L'Equipe, the French sports newspaper.
"It is not a personal goal," Douillet, who won Olympic gold in the over-95 kilogram competition in 1996 at Atlanta and the over-100kg category in Sydney four years later, said.
"Winning the Presidency would only be useful and make sense if the project to save French sport as I envisage it was put into effect.
"Because it really is a question of saving French sport, taking the future, with its budgetary cutbacks at every level, into account."
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The May 11 vote will come at a critical juncture for the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic bid.
It will be within days of both the scheduled run-off for the French Presidential elections, pitting the two best-supported candidates from the first round against one another, on May 7, and the arrival in Paris of the International Olympic Committee (IOC)'s Evaluation Commission on May 14.
Following the withdrawal of Budapest this week, the French capital faces only one rival - Los Angeles - in a race scheduled to culminate on September 13 at the IOC Session in Lima.
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Q: select rows based on another query result with rank PostgreSQL I am beginner of SQL language.
I am trying to write a query that gets rows from words table based on result of another query (news table).
I have the below two tables.
News

id,
url
url_order
source
created

1
http://..
1
src1
2022-02-26 02:13:32.459176+03

2
http://..
1
src1
2022-02-26 02:12:32.459176+03

3
http://..
1
src1
2022-02-26 02:11:32.459176+03

4
http://..
2
src2
2022-02-26 02:10:36.683408+03

5
http://..
2
src2
2022-02-26 02:09:36.683408+03

6
http://..
2
src2
2022-02-26 02:08:36.683408+03

7
http://..
5
src6
2022-02-27 05:47:46.803674+03

8
http://..
5
src6
2022-02-27 05:46:46.803674+03

9
http://..
5
src6
2022-02-27 05:45:46.803674+03

Words

id,
news_id
word
source
created

1
1
foo
src1
2022-02-26 02:13:32.459176+03

2
4
ipsum
src1
2022-02-26 02:13:32.459176+03

3
7
dolor
src1
2022-02-26 02:13:32.459176+03

4
8
sit
src2
2022-02-26 02:13:36.683408+03

5
9
amet
src6
2022-02-27 05:47:46.803674+03

I'm getting the below result after the following query.
SELECT id, url, url_order, created, source
FROM (
    SELECT
        id,url,url_order,created,source,
        RANK() OVER(PARTITION BY url_order, source ORDER BY COALESCE(created) DESC)
        MyRank  -- Rank each (def, item) combination by "time"
    FROM news
    ) src
WHERE MyRank = 1
AND url_order < 25

Result from above query (most recent row each url order)

id,
url
url_order
source
created

1
http://..
1
src1
2022-02-26 02:13:32.459176+03

4
http://..
2
src2
2022-02-26 02:10:36.683408+03

7
http://..
5
src6
2022-02-27 05:47:46.803674+03

I want to get related words from words table with news_id which I getting with this SQL query
expected output

id,
news_id
word
source
created

1
1
foo
src1
2022-02-26 02:13:32.459176+03

2
4
ipsum
src1
2022-02-26 02:13:32.459176+03

3
7
dolor
src1
2022-02-26 02:13:32.459176+03

I am getting rows which most recent of each group with above query and I need to get words related with this Id's from another table words

A: I think this is what you're looking for. You can simply turn your current query into a subquery for the query against the Words table.
SELECT *
FROM words
WHERE news_id in (
    SELECT id
    FROM (
        SELECT
            id,url,url_order,created,source,
            RANK() OVER(PARTITION BY url_order, source ORDER BY COALESCE(created) DESC)
            MyRank  -- Rank each (def, item) combination by "time"
        FROM news
    ) src
    WHERE MyRank = 1
    AND url_order < 25
)

Below is the output from Fiddle.

id
news_id
word
source
created

1
1
foo
src1
2022-02-26 02:13:32.459176

2
4
ipsum
src1
2022-02-26 02:13:32.459176

3
7
dolor
src1
2022-02-26 02:13:32.459176


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Life and Community • Weatherford and Parker County
Corporate finance gig equals rockin' job in London
WC alumnus makes his living attending concerts
From Weatherford College
Expensive suits, plush offices and a fancy desk are the norm for a career in corporate finance, but for Jordan McGregor, it also includes casual clothes, large concert venues and great live performances.
McGregor, originally from Decatur, attended Weatherford College Wise County in 2007 and 2008, and completed his bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Finance at the University of North Texas. He then defied the Longhorn and Aggie tradition of his family and went to the University of Oklahoma to complete his MBA.
"I wanted to go out of state for the experience and decided to be the black sheep of the family," he said with a laugh.
He was also drawn to the Oklahoma program because of its small size and scholarship opportunities. While working on his master's degree, McGregor was selected for the Dunham Scholarship. The scholarship sent him to London for a summer to learn corporate finance while interning with Live Nation, a live events company headquartered in Los Angeles which owns Ticketmaster and House of Blues.
"Due to this experience, I was able to land a full-time job in London and also meet a beautiful British ballerina who is now my wife," McGregor said. "I didn't plan on leaving the United States, but after the experience, and for what I do in music and entertainment, there isn't a better place."
For the past three-and-a-half years, McGregor has worked for AEG Live, also a global, live event company headquartered in California.
Whereas Americans spend more of their entertainment dollars on sports, in England they funnel that money into concerts, McGregor said.
"You have an opportunity where a band may sell the American Airlines Center in Dallas, but they have multiple sell-out dates in England (at each venue)," he said.
As the management accountant, McGregor pays the artist half of the contracted amount upfront, attends each show to make sure the talent fulfills their contract, and pays the remaining amount to the performer's manager or agent at the conclusion of the event.
"I still have to do all of the boring stuff, I do the taxes and month's end financial statements, but I also get to go to all the shows," he said. "It's a unique opportunity for someone working in finance."
He said the best show he's seen as part of his job was a Rolling Stones concert that sold out Hyde Park for two nights.
"It was a beautiful day, warm summer day, uncommon in England," McGregor said. "The hype was really big for those two shows. Having the Rolling Stones on a nice summer night was special. It was the biggest show I've been a part of."
As much as he enjoys attending shows, McGregor's plans are to move into an executive role on the corporate side of the company which might bring him back the United States since most of those roles are in Los Angeles. Until then, he's enjoying London and the ease it affords him to travel around Europe.
McGregor said his career and current lifestyle would not have been possible without Weatherford College.
"I would not have been able to afford my master's degree without the money I saved by beginning my education at WC," McGregor said. "And without my graduate degree, I would not have my current job or be able to live and work in London."
McGregor said his instructors at WC Wise County were passionate and professional.
"WC made me feel like I was a part of a large family," he said. "The instructors and administration actually knew my name and took an active interest in helping me reach my educational goals."
One of his favorite teachers was government instructor Michael Mask.
"He seemed to have the entire US Constitution and other important government documents entirely memorized and would act out elaborate scenes, which was very entertaining and educational," McGregor recalled. "If I could, I would take his class again just for the fun of it."
Now his siblings are enjoying access to the same education.
"WC has been good to us," he said.
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Q: Converting Javascript code to Delphi I'm trying to convert a javascript code to delphi but I failed ...
this is the javascript code:
 /* generate random progress-id */
        var uuid = "";
        var i;
        for (i = 0; i < 32; i++) {
            uuid += Math.floor(Math.random() * 16).toString(16);
        }

and this is my try in delphi:
function uid :string  ;
var
i :integer;
begin

for I := 0 to 31 do  begin

result := result + inttostr(floor(random * 16));
end;

end;

and this is the result for the java script code
a638aa8f74e2654c725fd3cdcf2927d3

my knowledge in delphi is limited, so I don't know what to do more ..
I would like to see some help and learn from it .

A: Literally, here is how the function looks in delphi:
function uid: String;
var
  i: Integer;
begin
  for i := 0 to 31 do
    Result := Result + IntToHex(Random(16), 1);
end;

If you need a lowercased "id" - use the AnsiLowerCase function.
EDIT
In the name of correctness, the homebrew method from above is not recommended- it's just a literally translation of the javascript snippet. It could lead to collisions (and will).
The following function is recommended:
function uid: String;
var
  myGuid: TGUID;
begin
  if Succeeded(CreateGUID(myGUID)) then
    Result := Format('%0.8X%0.4X%0.4X%0.2X%0.2X%0.2X%0.2X%0.2X%0.2X%0.2X%0.2X',
      [myGUID.D1, myGUID.D2, myGUID.D3,
      myGUID.D4[0], myGUID.D4[1], myGUID.D4[2], myGUID.D4[3],
      myGUID.D4[4], myGUID.D4[5], myGUID.D4[6], myGUID.D4[7]]) else
    {TODO: some error processing - something bad happened}
end;

The notice for the lowercased "id" from above is valid here too.


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The Shed Opens With a Purpose. And a Party.
The new $475 million arts center at Hudson Yards opens with Soundtrack of America, a five-concert exploration of black music from the slavery era through blues, jazz and pop.
By Jon Pareles
On opening night at Lincoln Center, in 1962, Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic, joined by opera singers and a choir, performed music by Beethoven, Mahler, Copland and Vaughan Williams for an audience in tuxedos and gowns.
The atmosphere should be decidedly more funky at the concerts that inaugurate the Shed, the 21st-century arts complex devoted to presenting new work, which is just two miles from Lincoln Center. Its first concert series, Soundtrack of America, will celebrate not the European classical sphere but the heritage of African-American music across a broad historical and stylistic spectrum, from spirituals to hip-hop. Most of the crowd will share a dance floor.
It's a statement of purpose, though it also promises to be a party. It signals that the Shed, a $475 million arts center within the Hudson Yards development of luxury retail, name-brand architecture and multimillion-dollar residences, will welcome cultural events and audiences well outside the economic elite. As with all of its programs, some tickets — spread across the room — will be only $10.
"Because we're starting from scratch, we're trying to customize every decision to being inclusive," said Alex Poots, the Shed's artistic director and chief executive. He added: "We commission work across all platforms with parity between performing arts, visual arts and pop. They're all equal, and there's no poor relation either in terms of investment or in terms of space, in terms of facilities or in terms of brainpower."
Soundtrack of America, a five-concert series from April 5-14, is directed by the visual artist and film director Steve McQueen ("12 Years a Slave") and will feature 25 up-and-coming musicians, five per night, playing roughly 15-minute sets. The performers' mandate is to view the past from the present, placing songs of their own alongside music that influenced them. Their individual artistic paths are intended to add up to an expansive musical constellation.
At first, Mr. McQueen said, he had imagined presenting an orderly linear musical progression, from the African rhythms that survived in Congo Square in New Orleans to the present. But America's musical history made him reconsider. "It's not linear," he said. "It goes back on itself, it goes left, and it goes right. Is the wind linear? Sometimes it blows back and forth. It's like a garden more than anything else. Things are sprouting up all over the place."
The opening-night roster includes Jon Batiste, the bandleader for "The Late Show With Stephen Colbert," and PJ Morton, the Grammy-winning keyboardist from Maroon 5; other nights feature the rapper Smino; the Grammy-winning blues-rocker Fantastic Negrito; the blues-rooted guitarist Melanie Faye; and the idiosyncratic R&B songwriters Moses Sumney and Eryn Allen Kane.
The Shed sought out musicians who are thoroughly conscious of forebears and possibilities. Serpentwithfeet — the self-described "pagan gospel" songwriter Josiah Wise — is on the bill April 9. "This show holds a different place in my heart," he said. "I've always been a fan of not just black music itself, but of the narrative of black music. I'm thinking about the music of today, and how does that relate to the music of the 1940s, or the 1870s. I'm constantly thinking about it. I don't have the privilege not to. Black music isn't just decorative. It always has a lot of legwork."
The musicians will be backed by a house band — including horns and strings when needed — led by Greg Phillinganes, the prolifically recorded session keyboardist who has been the musical director for Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder onstage, among many others. The music, Mr. Phillinganes said, will be unmistakably live. "This is an Auto-Tune-free zone," he said.
Mr. McQueen intends the staging to focus on musicians at work. "We want to get as close to the bone as possible, to get to the idea of performance rather than any idea of spectacle," he said. "I want to see the sweat. I want to see the tears. I don't need glitter. I don't need smoke."
The brain trust choosing and advising the performers also includes the history-making producer Quincy Jones, along with two younger producers, Dion Wilson (better known as No I.D., who produced Jay-Z's album "4:44" and tracks for Kanye West, Drake, Common and Nas) and Tunji Balogun, an executive producer for H.E.R. and Khalid.
Building Soundtrack of America was a labyrinthine process. To program the Shed, Mr. Poots cast a wide net of ideas — to, among others, Mr. McQueen, with whom he had curated projects in England. One day Mr. McQueen "phoned me out of the blue," Mr. Poots recalled at an interview in the Shed's temporary New York City offices. "He said: 'Imagine hearing the history of African-American music. Imagine a family tree, and you hear from when the boats arrive, and African-American music starts happening all over the country, right up to now."
Mr. Poots immediately wanted to make that the Shed's grand opening project, forthrightly declaring that African-American music was central to modern culture. "The minute the idea was hatched, this was going to be it," he said. "I had absolutely no idea how to do it, and Steve really didn't, but he said, 'Let's just start.'"
Instead of a gala opening featuring superstars, Soundtrack of America will present emerging musicians. "We didn't think it was strange," Mr. Poots said. "But people have pointed out, 'Who launches a new arts center with 25 pretty much unknown musicians?' To me, it was a logical conclusion to the idea and the goal that Steve had set down."
Mr. McQueen and Mr. Poots, who are both British, knew they needed American perspectives and solid academic underpinnings, so they called on an expert: Maureen Mahon, a cultural anthropologist and associate professor at N.Y.U. who concentrates on African-American music.
She oversaw a "family tree" — intended as a suggestion, not a canon — of music: from unrecorded African-American music through work songs, spirituals, blues, jazz, swing, bebop, R&B, rock 'n' roll, hip-hop and onward. A panel of other advisers included the journalist Nelson George and musicologists with specialties ranging from current trap back to little-documented slavery-era music.
The family tree went out to the performers, but beyond that tree, musicians didn't receive assignments; they defined their own musical genealogy. "It's hard to pick fruit from such an amazing tree, but no matter which one I pick, I know it's going to be sweet," said Tarriona Ball, a.k.a. Tank, the frontwoman of New Orleans poetry-funk-jazz band Tank and the Bangas. "Or maybe even a little bitter, because the history isn't always so clean."
Morton, who grew up in New Orleans, plans to incorporate prime New Orleans R&B and Stevie Wonder in his set. "It's a beautiful thing that we can be influenced by everything now," he said. "But I do think it's important to know that these are real people and real things, and to understand how we got here."
The jazz-soul singer and songwriter Sy Smith is hoping to dovetail her father's doo-wop, her classical music studies, the go-go music she heard while attending Howard University, the mixtape culture of early hip-hop and her current jazz-tinged mode. "I want people to appreciate that we all come from different places to end up where we are," she said.
The initial five concerts may not be the end of Soundtrack of America. It will be filmed in a five-camera shoot; it could spin off an educational app. And given the infinitude of African-American music old and new, it could lead to additional concerts in many formats as the Shed welcomes culture without tuxedos. "I don't view our first five concerts as the endgame," Mr. Poots said. "That's the starting point. We could do this for years."
Jon Pareles has been The Times's chief pop music critic since 1988. A musician, he has played in rock bands, jazz groups and classical ensembles. He majored in music at Yale University.
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I hope you had a wonderful thanksgiving! We sure did! I had GREAT brain day, so I spent a good amount of it in the kitchen making all sorts of yummy things for our Thanksgiving gathering with friends.
All six recipes were new to me, but the one I was most excited to try was the non-dairy, grain-free stuffing created by my amazing sister, Carisa, who runs the Clean & Lean Facebook page. If you want to be inspired to live a healthy life, you are going to want to check out her page. If you want inspiration to eat clean and move your body, you'll find it with Carisa's recipes, ingredient substitutions, motivational thoughts, and workouts.
If you are in Minnesota, you can catch Carisa on Fox 9's cooking segment. Follow her page for show times. Two weeks ago, she was on the show making this non-dairy, grain-free stuffing recipe. Fortunately for those of us not in Minnesota, she posted the recipe to her Facebook page, as well.
It was such a big hit at dinner tonight, I asked Carisa if I could blog about it here, and she graciously agreed. So here are your step-by-step directions to my new favorite healthy stuffing alternative. And did I mention that it's made in a crock pot? Throw it in and take it easy, or, in my case, whip up five other recipes!
1. Add rinsed quinoa and wild rice to the crockpot. I've yet to figure out the best way to rinse quinoa without making a mess. Anyone have any hints for me?
2. Add 3 cups chicken broth. I used to buy a ton of chicken broth until a friend told me about Better Than Bouillon.
4. Dice 1 onion, 2 carrots, and 4 celery ribs (including leaves). Add to crock pot.
5. Add 4 cloves garlic (about 2 teaspoons).
7. Add 2 bay leaves.
8. Carisa said to add 1 teaspoon poultry seasoning. I like seasoning. I added two. I make my own poultry seasoning. Eventually I'll make a post about that.
9. Finally, add 3 teaspoons salt and 1/4 teaspoon pepper. Set the crockpot to 3 hours on high.
10. Three hours later, the stuffing is done!
11. I put the stuffing in a casserole dish for easier transport to our friend's house.
A few notes from Carisa.
This is a stuffing that you can cook ahead of time because it reheats well. (She cooks hers overnight on low). This is a very moist stuffing, it's not dry at all. If you prefer a more dry stuffing, start by leaving out a half cup of chicken broth and a Tablespoon of the oil. I love the flavor of this stuffing, it's my absolute favorite, but my husband prefers it with more salt. You may need to add salt depending on your personal preference.
I thought the texture was just right, not too dry, and not too moist. It's really savory and with my particular poultry seasoning, I think I will cut the salt by half next time, and believe me, there will be a next time! Also, this recipe makes a very generous amount of stuffing. If you are making this for a smaller group, you may want to half the recipe.
I've made a printable recipe so you can get a started on next year's menu!
How precious is a sister! And her stuffing sounds delicious. Thank you for linking to the In and Out of the Kitchen Link Party. I look forward to seeing you next week.