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School of Music Presents 'Video Game Music Re-Imagined' Showcase Concert
Organized by MBET students, the show features arrangements and adaptations of video game music for live ensembles
October 21, 2013
The University of the Arts is proud to announce its first concert featuring arrangements and adaptations of video game music for live ensembles. Organized by students in the Music Business, Entrepreneurship & Technology program, "Video Game Music Re-Imagined" includes video game music from the original NES through today's console generation, reinterpreted and rearranged for UArts ensembles, featuring big band groups, rock groups, choirs and world instruments by some of the best students, faculty and composers at UArts.
The concert will take place at Caplan Recital Hall (211 S. Broad Street) on Friday, November 8 at 7 p.m., with a matinee on Saturday, November 9 at 1 p.m. The show is free for all UArts students, staff and faculty; general admission is $10 at the door.
As part of "Video Game Music Re-Imagined," three guest video game composers will perform their pieces live. Tom Salta will premiere a live performance of his music for "Halo: Spartan Assault" featuring Jillian Aversa on vocals and Andrew Aversa will premiere an arrangement of the main theme from "Return All Robots!"
On Friday, November 8 at 2 p.m. and 4 p.m., Tom, Jillian and Andrew will present seminars, focusing on the business, art and craft of professional composing, using real-world examples and drawing upon their experiences as professional composers. The seminars are open to all UArts students, faculty and staff.
Throughout the 20th century, jazz composers and arrangers have taken the popular music of the times and used the thematic, harmonic and melodic content as a springboard for brand-new interpretations in the jazz, rock and world music scene. In today's world, a video game theme is every bit as melodic and memorable as a Gershwin or McCartney tune. The University of the Arts composers and arrangers have taken these memorable tunes (many of which were written with 8-bit audio technology) and arranged them for professional ensembles. Alternate harmonies, interludes and different instrumentation: all are used to give these songs a new, exuberant style.
About the Composers
Tom Salta is a renowned composer for video games, film and television. He has scored games such as "HALO: Combat Evolved Anniversary," "Ghost Recon: Future Soldier," "From Dust," "Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands," "Red Steel" (IGN Award for Best Original Score), Tom Clancy's "Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter" and Tom Clancy's "H.A.W.X" series. He is also an active speaker and evangelist, having spoken at the Game Developer's Conference and AES in New York City.
Andrew Aversa is an award-winning composer and electronic music artist, who is active both in the album music industry and scoring original music for games. His notable credits include scoring the console games "Soul Caliber V," "Phineas and Ferb: Across the 2nd Dimension," and the re-mixing/re-orchestration of the LucasArts' classic "Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge." As an artist, Andrew has released over 10 albums, several of which have garnered awards.
Jillian Aversa is an award-winning vocalist, songwriter and performer whose shimmering voice has appeared in a medley of projects, from video games, film and hit dance singles to her original solo albums. Her ethereal vocals can be heard in blockbuster video game franchises "Halo" (Microsoft), "God of War" (Sony), "Civilization" (Firaxis) and "Soul Calibur V" (Namco Bandai) for which she co-composed the ending theme. She is also a prolific album artist, having released "Origins" and the holiday EP titled "Through Sand and Snow."


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It's visible every day and was so especially on this day. Right there on the left lapel of Craig Heisinger's suit jacket was a now familiar pin, the letters RR inside a Winnipeg Jets logo in honour of the late Rick Rypien.
"Geez, I wear this pin on everything... there's not many days when I don't think about Rypper," began Heisinger, tears welling. "I wear it. My kids wear it on their helmets. It's important."
On Monday the Jets True North Foundation unveiled some of the details of Project 11, a youth education plan that focuses on positive mental-health awareness. It's been launched as part of the "Hockey Talks" initiative that will run during the month of February and be promoted by all seven Canadian National Hockey League teams.
But this is about more than just playing the good corporate citizen for the True North organization. The initiative is especially important to many in the organization who were devastated in the summer of 2011 when Rypien, who had played with the Manitoba Moose and had signed with the Jets for their inaugural season, took his own life. Rypien had long been battling depression and dreamed of one day helping promote mental-health awareness.
Project 11 (his uniform number) is the beginning of fulfilling that dream.
"When Rick wanted to get the story out there he had the opportunity to make a powerful message," said Heisinger. "I knew what he lived through and his passion to get it out there. I think it was going to get there... it seemed like the right time was coming and before his untimely passing it seemed like it was just around the corner.
"I think he would be happy because his focus had always been to try to help other people. It took him a long time to understand he wasn't the only one. He always thought he was a burden, that he was the only one. And that's clearly not the case."
Project 11 will be a resource document for teachers in grades 5-8, which will be launched in September 2014 to help promote positive mental health.
The Jets will host Hockey Talks on Feb. 7 as they take on the Toronto Maple Leafs at the MTS Centre. That night the Jets will use in-house messaging to raise awareness of mental-health issues and also have mental-health resource guides available to fans. As well, Mike Keane will be on the concourse signing limited Rick Rypien hoodies for $150 each, with all proceeds going towards mental-health research.
Limited edition Hockey Talks T-shirts will be sold throughout February and at all six Jets home games. Jets players will also sport a Hockey Talks decal on their helmets during the month.
One in five Canadians will experience a mental-health problem or illness in their lifetime and approximately 70 per cent of mental-health problems and illnesses begin during childhood or adolescence.
"This is near and dear to our heart and our foundation," said Dwayne Green, the executive director of the Winnipeg Jets True North Foundation. "Obviously, you know the impact Rick had on our organization. But as a formal educator, I know how difficult it is for youth to talk about this and it's hard for educators to find the appropriate ways to communicate that with youth. We're hoping Project 11 will be the avenue and the means to be able to normalize the conversation and allow kids a safe venue to be able to open up."
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KINGSTON, ONT. -- There have always been, of course, the provinces -- and territories -- that every year seem to be the doormats at Canadian curling championships.
But what's evolved only more recently -- and which we are seeing here at the 2013 Canadian women's curling championship in particularly sharp focus -- is a trend that has seen a couple of provinces ascend to a whole new competitive level all their own.
Put it all together and what you have now is a competitive framework that's not very competitive, where in addition to the teams who annually struggle to compete with anyone on the national stage there is now a second set of teams with whom almost no one else can compete.
And so it is that we head into Day 4 here today with a standings board in which the three teams everybody expected would still be standing come the playoffs this weekend -- Manitoba, Ontario and Canada -- are still undefeated at 5-0 and threatening to turn this into a three-way race before the event is even half over, with only the fourth and final playoff berth likely left to be determined over the final four days of the round robin.
Manitoba's Jennifer Jones romped through her Monday schedule, overcoming a 3-1 early deficit to drum Nova Scotia's Mary-Anne Arsenault 11-4 Monday afternoon and then hammering NWT's Kerry Galusha 9-1 last night. Jones plays a winless Alberta team skipped by Kristie Moore this evening in her only game today.
Things are unlikely to get really interesting for Jones until Wednesday, when she will finally be tested by Canada's Heather Nedohin. Her second big test will come the following day against Ontario's Rachel Homan.
If it seems like the gap between the top teams and everyone else is widening, it's not just happening in the standings. Consider the shooting percentages: The Top 3 teams in the standings are also the top three teams in team shooting percentage. And the top three skips in shooting percentage also come from those same three teams.
Care to guess which three teams in this 12-team field has also spent, by far, the most time this winter -- and every winter lately -- competing on the World Curling Tour?
The result of all this is a playing field at the national championships that's not even close to level -- and that includes for former six-time Canadian women's curling champions.
Nova Scotia's Colleen Jones admitted her team got schooled -- literally -- by Manitoba Monday. "They can put on a clinic. They can just make the right shots all the time really, really well," said Colleen Jones. "They're just absolutely world-class. They've clearly worked at the game for a long, long time."
But while it's looked easy here this week, the Manitoba players insist it hasn't been. "I don't think that's true," said Manitoba third Kaitlyn Lawes. "I think early on in our games, we've had some tight battles. It's been us trying to figure out our rock placement. And once we've been getting a hold of it, I think we've been starting to build a little momentum.
"But I wouldn't say it's been a runaway by any means."
Lawes insisted upsets will still happen -- even if they really haven't here this week yet -- and pointed to a lightly travelled Saskatchewan team skipped by Jill Shumay that was raising eyebrows here the first couple days with a 4-0 opening record, until a 12-7 loss to PEI Monday night brought them back to earth.
"There's always an upset. There's always some team who kind of has a great week and kind of breaks through. I don't think that's still out of the question."


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An epic odyssey in which a young man must choose between the lure of the future and the claims of the past.
With clouds looming ominously on the horizon, a group of children play among the roots of the gnarled Bone Tree. Their games will be interrupted by a merciless storm - bringing with it the Great Flood of 1927 - but not before Robert Chatham shares his first kiss with the beautiful young Dora. The flood destroys their homes, disperses their families, and wrecks their innocence. But for Robert, a boy whose family has already survived unspeakable pain, that single kiss will sustain him for years to come.
Losing virtually everything in the storm's aftermath, Robert embarks on a journey through the Mississippi hinterland - from a desperate refugee camp to the fiery brothel Hotel Beau-Miel and into the state's fearsome swamp, meeting piano-playing hustlers, well-intentioned whores, and a family of fierce and wild fur trappers along the way. But trouble follows close on his heels, fueling Robert's conviction that he's marked by the devil and nearly destroying his will to survive. And just when he seems to shake off his demons, he's forced to make an impossible choice that will test him as never before.
Teeming with language that voices both the savage beauty and the complex humanity of the American South, Southern Cross the Dog is a tour de force of literary imagination that heralds the arrival of a major new voice in fiction.
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Fresh bread is one of life's unsung pleasures! When I didn't know any better, I used to keep my bread in the refrigerator. Then, I learned that putting it in the frig is the fastest way to make bread go stale. It has something to do with the fibers of the bread. Anyway, freezing bread is just fine and doesn't ruin it. So, I freeze it and then store it in my bread bin. The bin keeps it fresh for a surprisingly long time. I just love my Eva Solo Bread Bin. I can't believe I ate stale bread for years.


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Ben Affleck appeared on HBO show Real Time and debated with Sam Harris and Bill Maher about Islam. This video backs up Ben Affleck's stance providing verses of the Holy Quran to disprove Sam and Bill's unfounded attacks on Islam
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Does Islam sanction murder in foreign lands? Does jihad entail forcing Islam on the unwilling? Is militant terrorism ever justified by the Qur'an or the practice of the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh)? And what, or who, is a true Caliph?......
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General Meeting of MKA Inner Park at the Ackroydon Hall July 2010.
Roehampton Qiadat held their local Khuddam Ijtema on Saturday 4th January 2014.
Local Ijtema Academics part 2, ijtema was held at Albermarle Primary school, attendance were over 70%.Mashallah it was a very successful Ijtema.
Muqami-Amla Dinner & Q&A Session with Maulana Mobashar Ahmad Khaloon Sb Mufti-e-Silsla , in Sira-e-Khidmat
We planned to hold a Regional Tarbiyyat forum on a key topic- 'Marriage (True Concept of Love)'. We had the opportunity to invite a distinguished guest from Pakistan Maulana Asfand Yaar Muneeb Sahib (Murabbi-e-Silsila) We contacted Tabsheer department to seek permission to approach and request to Murrabi sahib to come and address our Khuddam. We where advised by the Tabsheer department to seek direct permission of Hazrat Ameerul Momineen (May Allah Be His Helper) regarding this issue. Next a letter was sent to Hazur by Nazim Tarbiyyat under the instruction of Mohtamim Muqami Sahib. Hazur (atba) gave us permission to proceed with forum with Maulana Sahib.
After seeking approval and contacting Murrabi sahib the date and time for the event was set. Qaideen were contacted via text and telephone conversations as well as bieng met personally by Nazim sahib to request the attendance of Khuddam from their respective Qiadats. Mohtamim Muqami Sahib and Naib Mohtamim Sahib also helped in the attendance campaign for the event. Some Khuddam were directly approached by the Regional Tarbiyyat team. Announcements were made on various prayers in the Mosque and after a few Friday Sermons.
Finally the forum was held on the 16th of August after Namaaz Ishaa in Fazl Mosque. The forum began with the recitation of the Qur'an followed by an introduction given to Khuddam by Nazim Tarbiyyat of the Guest and the Programmed for the evening. Murrabi sahib then began his address during which he shed light on the importance of marriage and the true concept of love in an Islamic context; dueing which he explained the disadvantages of so called Love Marriages and the bad influence of the society we are living in and guided how to protect our selves from the evils of so called sexual independence. Then Nazim Tarbiyyat took questions from Khuddam related to the topic which Maulana sahib addressed during his talk. It was a very interesting and eye opening programme for Khuddam, attended by more than 100 Khuddam from the region, including various guests.
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Muqami Trip to North Wales from 21st to 23rd June 2013, Part 1 of 2
Muqami Trip to North Wales from 21st to 23rd June 2013 part 2 of 2
Muqami region would like to thank Yorkshire region for their hospitality. We had a great time. Jazakallah.
Waqareamal in Fazal Mosque
On Saturday 18 may and Sunday 19 may region Muqami did a big Waqareamal in Fazal Mosque in this Waqareamal we did clean all halls and bathrooms and paint the Mosque. Fatal Khuddam .... And ....,Atfal from our region take part in this Waqareamal.
Baitun Noor region would like to thank Yorkshire region for their hospitality. We had a great time and look forward to see you guys soon. Jazakallah.
On 04th may 2013 region Muqami held a Ta'leem & Tarbiyyat Forum with Amir Sahib Ghana. Amir sahib kindly agreed to give up some time from his busy schedule to come and talk to our Khuddam regarding various topics related to Ta'leem & Tarbiyyat.
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Shares in rare earths miner Lynas Corporation have been halted from trade ahead of an outcome in a court case relating to its licence to operate a plant in Malaysia.
Lynas was granted a temporary operating licence for its controversial advanced materials plant on Malaysia's east coast in September, but local activists have sought a judicial review of that approval.
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I have taught every course in the physics major, both lecture and lab, along with other courses for non-majors, including Energy (Phys/ENVS 105/107). I have also taught science fiction courses in the First Year Program, including To Boldly Go: The science and fiction of space travel, time travel and extraterrestrials, and Global Science Fiction. My research interests: Charge transport in metal-hydrogen systems; Error analysis in van der Pauw resistivity and Hall measurement; Translation of Spanish-language science fiction, especially Cuban.
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Beast went ballistic in the second half, Buffy the Vampire Slayer became the Vanderbilt slayer, and Zeus brought down the thunder at just the right time.
Against an LSU roster bristling with comic book super heroes and Greek gods, it's a wonder the Commodores lost only 54-51 Sunday to the Lady Tigers.
Last week for their game at South Carolina, LSU's players decided to give themselves nicknames culled from pop culture and ancient lore and to try to channel themselves into their alter egos.
"It sounds goofy now," said senior guard Adrienne Webb, a.k.a., Buffy. Next to her on the podium, LSU coach Nikki Caldwell looked ready to roll her eyes.
But she was also ready to give in to whatever motivational ploy would work to help her team get a crucial win over a talented Vanderbilt team.
So what if she now has to coach Professor X and Xena the Warrior Princess?
"We are a team that has turned a corner with our intensity on the defensive end," Caldwell said.
What does it matter if that turn is onto the road to Mount Olympus?
For a long time Sunday, it looked as it would take a super hero-type effort for LSU (12-7, 3-3 Southeastern Conference) to pull out the victory over Vandy (13-5, 3-2).
After an early six-point lead, the Lady Tigers' offense was stifled much of the first half. LSU shot only 27.3 percent and went into the halftime locker room down 24-16.
Theresa Plaisance (nickname: Beast), the SEC's second-leading scorer with 17.8 points per game, had just five points in the first 20 minutes.
She went into total Beast mode in the second half, though, scoring 11 of LSU's 13 points in a critical four-minute stretch to bring the Lady Tigers back from a 10-point deficit for a 34-34 tie with 11:44 to go.
In all, Plaisance poured in 21 second-half points to finish with 26, her most ever in an SEC game.
In Caldwell's mind, Plaisance has completed the transition from part-time role player as a sophomore to go-to "Beast" in her junior year.
"She's stepped up in a big way and is not just one of the best players in the SEC but the nation," Caldwell said. "From offense to the defensive end, she blocks shots, rebounds, takes charges, and you can play her anywhere. And we have played her from point guard to the five (center) spot."
Despite Plaisance's super play, the game was far from LSU's at that point. Plaisance couldn't get over in time to defend a pair of 3-pointers from in front of the Vandy bench by VU's Christina Foggie, and Vandy went up 50-47 with 2:46 left on a jumper by Elan Brown.
But LSU fought back as well. Webb made both ends of a one-and-one with 1:46 left, then Plaisance posted up on the right wing and buried a 3-pointer for a 52-50 lead with 1:08 to go.
"My confidence is high," Plaisance said, "but it goes back to my teammates and coaches. They have confidence in me and help me have confidence in myself. Without them, I wouldn't be doing half the things I'm doing."
Tiffany Clarke, who battled Plaisance inside and was also highly effective with 17 points and a game-high 13 rebounds, made one of two free throws with 50.8 seconds left to make it a 52-51 game. Webb then missed the front end of a one-and-one at the 36.7 mark, giving Vandy a chance to work for a winning shot.
It's a shot that never happened. Bianca Lutley (Zeus) reached out and swiped an entry pass in the lane from Kady Schrann with a little more than eight seconds left. Lutley then went to the line and calmly drained her one-and-one opportunity with 7.5 ticks left.
Vandy had one last desperate chance to tie, but its bid came off badly. LSU put on a full-court press and left the Commodores with nothing better than a contested, off-balance 3-point try from the top of the key by Foggie that smacked high off the backboard and bounced harmlessly away as time expired.
"Obviously, LSU confused us," Vanderbilt coach Melanie Balcomb said, referring to LSU's second-half strategy to switch from press to zone to press to man defenses. "We were hesitant and confused."
Webb finished with 10 points for LSU, while Danielle Ballard had nine points and nine rebounds. Foggie had 13 points for Vandy.


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PC Ian Northcott, nicknamed the Busking Bobby, has received a Point of Light award that recognises outstanding individual volunteers - people who are making a change in their community and inspiring others.
Ian earned his nickname when he was on duty one day and began chatting to a busker.
He then performed an impromptu rendition of Oasis' Wonderwall in front of crowd that began to form.
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Prime Minister David Cameron said: "Ian is showing what can be done by taking the initiative and encouraging more people to help others in their community.
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>Off the Beaten Path>The Korean Stuff [Kimchi!!!]
I went this year to Deagu in South Korea to participate in a 10K run. Well, sportively it wasn't too good, 44:17 on a 10K is a rather bad-ish result fo me... but beside of that is that came back with a terrible addiction:My name is Enric Martinez and I am addicted to: KIMCHI!!!!!!!!!!Never heard of this stuff? I heard that Michelle Obama has the addiction too and uses to prepare huge batches of it. I bet most of you know what it is but for those who don't:It's a delicious side-dish made basically of napa cabbage fermented in a mix of green onions, Korean chili flakes (sweet and not so extreme hot as Mexican chilis), garlic (Chinese please, if you use the Spanish or French stuff the cabbage will jump out of the jar and search refuge in the Ecuatorian embassy) and some other things (Seaweed, ginger and that's it. some add shrimp powder and dried mackerel).Besides with cabbage, kimchi can be made with a lot of things, from daikon radish to zucchini. You can even make up your own with local vegetables: I use a local large turnip, shii-take mushrooms, mung-bean sprouts and paksoi.
Kimchi counts among the 5 most healthy foods in the world. It contains bacteria related to the milk microorganisms responsible for yoghurt, the name of the critter is Lactobacillus kimchii. For those who know about these things, yes, it is related to L. acidofilus.
It does also yield very few calories.In fact the whole Korean cooking and eating style was for me a very interesting experience: The ingredients and form of preparation are very easy, without the complications of the Chinese or Japanese cuisine and served in a very enjoyable way. I just love banshana like gaji namu, slices of garlic or similar. I have been able to learn enough in a week in Korea and a month searching on the internet to prepare a full Korean meal in no time. I bet you USians know what I'm talking about as I believe that Korean cuisine is somewhat better known there as here in Europe... and if not I encourage you to try it, even for those who aren't too much into Chinese or Thai stuff: This is simply good food, so good as you can imagine.Just a final note: If you eat Korean food at home or outside of Korea you can use forks. Even in Korea they will give forks to the foreigners. You can of course also use chopsticks... but Korean do not use these: The chopsticks are made of steel (clever, huh?) and used to pick up banshan and the rice (and soup) is eaten with a SPOON... well, the darn chopsticks are tricky as hell even for people used to them.Deuseyo!
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I like Kimchi in small amounts. The stuff can be strong. My wife is Japanese, and she likes it more than I do.
Kimchi....yum! (Spent a year in Korea)
I actually made a batch last fall. It's not terribly difficult.
Well at least someone here is making relevance to the subject. - S.J.
Not dead. Yet.
Korean BBQ with all the fixin's is one of my all time favorite meals. And I too love the kimchi!
Have never thought about making a batch. Might just have to try. I bet it has to sit for a long time to absorb everything though, and I always have a hard time waiting for things to pickle. I got into a pickled egg thing for a while a few years ago, and usually by the time they were about done pickling, half of the eggs were already gone.
How can we know our limits if we don't test them?
I've been in Korea for five years and didn't go near Kimchi for the first four as it was so disgusting.
Finally got around to eating some Kimchi Jigae (soup with kimchi and meat) and from there I guess it grew a bit on me. I have it at lunch every day (school cafeteria) and when I go out to eat. It was certainly a learned taste for me, though, as fermented cabbage just doesn't sound appetizing in any degree.
There are definitely "levels" of kimchi, and the really good stuff will have been fermented for months/years whilst the not so good stuff will be imported from China. Even I can tell a difference and I'm certainly not an aficionado of any sort.. There are also regional differences though those are lost on me.
That "top 5 healthiest foods in the world" label is interesting and not something I'd actually think would be the case, though maybe it'd be alright if not eaten at every single meal like it can be in Korea. A S. Korean study suggested a potential link with gastric cancers. But I guess if you're eating 40 lbs a year of something that's been fermented out the whazoo then it might have some other effects.
MMM I love kimchi. And I never have to share.
I do have a hard time finding it, one local store carries a almost passable version that comes from China.
Korean BBQ with all the fixin's is one of my all time favorite meals. And I too love the kimchi!
Have never thought about making a batch. Might just have to try. I bet it has to sit for a long time to absorb everything though, and I always have a hard time waiting for things to pickle. I got into a pickled egg thing for a while a few years ago, and usually by the time they were about done pickling, half of the eggs were already gone.
It doesn't have to ferment all that long - my recollection is about two weeks. And, J-L-C, I don't think it's desirable for it to ferment for months or anything - they don't do vintage 1979 kimchi or anything. Some Koreans have dedicated kimchi refrigerators in their homes.
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My in-laws are Korean. I've eaten just about every type of South Korean food (I would not touch many of the dishes originating in the North). Most of it is very good.
But I can't stand kimchi. However at family gatherings it is consumed in large amounts...just not by me. I do, however, repurpose the left-behind glass jars for making pickled eggs.
I would also question the "five healthiest foods" label. Pickled foods of this class are strongly linked with higher rates of gastric cancer in Asian countries. This does not mean I would see a problem with consuming more moderated amounts.
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Not a big fan of the kimchi but I will say that at the food truck gatherings there's one that serves some kind of kimchi tacos - heaven on earth I tell ya.
You described so well. I shall try looking for one to taste.
Regarding pickled food, I agree with Spaniel. I also think too much pickled food is not good. In a town, Changle, close to where I grew up, they had the highest gastric (stomach) cancer (every 145 per 100,000). Research found out people in that town love pickled food and consume many times more than others. Stomach cancer is the second highest rate in China, accounting for 42% of all gastric cancer cases worldwide. Pickle could be one of the major reasons. Most Chinese very often eat pickle at their breakfast.
The above figures are from :Comparative epidemiology of gastric cancer between Japan and China
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It doesn't have to ferment all that long - my recollection is about two weeks. And, J-L-C, I don't think it's desirable for it to ferment for months or anything - they don't do vintage 1979 kimchi or anything. Some Koreans have dedicated kimchi refrigerators in their homes.
The longer it's fermented, the better. I had some at a nice restaurant that was fermented for over a year and the place was famous for that.
It doesn't have to be, but like alcohol, it can get better with time.
I make a pretty damn good Kimchi if I may say so. It's not my recipe, but I befriended the gal that ran the company kitchen decades ago at a former employer. She was Korean and I pleaded with her for the recipe. She finally gave it to me and I've been making it since. Love the stuff. My wife, oddly enough, can't stand it...yet she'll eat baby octopus, live scallop, squid ink soup...stuff like that....go figure. *giggle*
I've eaten Korean food all my life, my mom is Korean.
Also addicted to the stuff....I've always enjoyed Korean food, but never really got into kimchi and would eat all the banchan except for the kimchi... last year, some mysterious kimchi switch in my brain went off l now it's the one thing I crave all the time. I've tried, and failed, making in myself and now just go to the restaurants I know have the best whereupon I become the annoying white girl who keeps asking for refills on kimchi.


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The Silver and Black against the Orange Crush for the division lead. Well, at least the current Raiders and Broncos going head to head for first place in the AFC West.
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Volume 21 - Article 28 | Pages 843–878
Assortative matching among same-sex and different-sex couples in the United States, 1990-2000
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Same-sex couples are less likely to be homogamous than different-sex couples on a variety of characteristics, including race/ethnicity, age, and education. This study confirms results from previous studies using 1990 U.S. census data and extends previous analyses to examine changes from 1990 to 2000. We find that same-sex male couples are generally the least likely to resemble one another, followed by same-sex female couples, different-sex cohabitors, and different-sex married couples. Despite estimated growth in the numbers of same-sex couples in the population and the increasing acceptance of non-traditional unions, we find little evidence of diminishing differences in the resemblance of same- and different-sex couples between 1990 and 2000, with the possible exception of educational homogamy.
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Christine Schwartz - University of Wisconsin–Madison, United States of America
Nikki Graf - University of Wisconsin–Madison, United States of America
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NYC Celebrates globalFEST's 10th Anniversary in 2013; Lineup Announced!
Founded by some of the United States' most informed and engaged global music presenters, globalFEST celebrates its 10th year on January 13, 2013 at NYC's Webster Hall with a dozen vibrant acts from across the world and the sonic spectrum. Scroll down to read about each artist.
2013 globalFEST Lineup
A Tribe Called Red: This crew of DJs and audio-visual artists, joined by live pow wow singers, reimagines pow wow music for Canada's increasingly urbanized aboriginal youth, reclaiming clichés and transforming them into hot club beats and striking images. VIDEO
Christine Salem (NYC debut): One of the few female voices of Maloya, a traditional music of the island of Réunion, the rebellious Christine Salem is an extraordinary artist with a unique path. Accompanied by a kayanm, a percussion instrument made from sugar cane flower stems and seeds central to Maloya music, she sings in Creole, Malagasy, Comorian, or Swahili, blending music from the Indian Ocean and African rhythms. VIDEO
Fatoumata Diawara: With an intense but gentle stage presence and catchy, lilting songs, Diawara is the latest strong female Wassalou voice to emerge from Mali's diverse, lively music scene. VIDEO
Kayhan Kalhor and Erdal Erzincan: Two masters in their own right join forces for virtuosic, riveting improvisations based on the shared melodies of Persian and Turkish classical forms. Kalhor's evocative kamanche (spike fiddle) sails over the delicate yet vigorous textures of Erzincan's baglama (long-necked lute). VIDEO
La Santa Cecilia: Big, bold, and danceable, this Latin Grammy-nominated L.A.-based band harnesses gutsy vocals and roaring accordion to explore pan-Latin and alt-pop good times. VIDEO
La Shica: Flamenco and funk-tinged rock are the perfect pairing in this Madrid quartet's hands. Serpentine, sultry flamenco vocals and dance meld with electric guitar flourishes for hard-hitting nuevo flamenco. VIDEO
Lo'Jo: Polyglot pioneers of border-defying music from elsewhere and everywhere, the French band synthesizes powerful grooves, delightful vocals, Gallic soul, and influences that range from the Saharan nomad blues of the Tuareg to Balkan beats. VIDEO
Martha Redbone Roots Project: With a soulful voice and intrepid spirit, Redbone focuses on her Native American and Appalachian roots, drawing on the stirring poems of William Blake and high lonesome sounds to shed new light on old ways. VIDEO
Mucca Pazza: A marching band that thinks it's a rock 'n roll band, a couple dozen mischievous performers – including high-jumping cheerleaders, anarchic horns, and helmet-amped guitarists – tear through originals inspired by the world's marching band traditions and perfected in Chicago's underground. VIDEO
Oliver Mtukudzi and the Black Spirits: Oliver, known affectionately as 'Tuku,' the venerable Afropop pioneer from Zimbabwe has remained a vital, ever-changing part of the African music scene, adored for his beautiful guitar work, rich and husky voice, and positive, uplifting message. VIDEO
Parno Graszt: High-energy Hungarian Gypsy (Roma) merriment, complete with strings, accordion, jugs, spoons, and other ingenious percussion, with joyful dances and scat singing. VIDEO
Stephane Wrembel and His Band: Wrembel's wry, skillful interpretation of the jazz manouche guitar sound, first made famous by Django Reinhardt, has caught the ears of Woody Allen (who used Wrembel's work in Vicky Cristina Barcelona and Midnight in Paris). His five-piece band summons up the glorious, swinging, bittersweet spirit of Gypsy jazz. VIDEO
globalFEST, Inc. is a not-for-profit production presented in association with Live Sounds, Joe's Pub at the Public, Acidophilus: Live & Active Cultures and The Bowery Presents. Support provided by The Ford Foundation and The Cultural Services of the French Embassy with additional support from the French Music Export Office, recognizing France's pre-eminent role as a hotbed of global music activity. Kayhan Kalhor and Erdal Erzincan are presented with support from Cultures of Resistance Network Foundation. Artist visa services are provided courtesy of Tamizdat. Publicity services are provided by rock paper scissors, inc.
Pictured: A Tribe Called Red


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Islands most vulnerable to rising sea levels are pushing for a climate-damage insurance program, adding to pressure on industrial nations to boost aid committed to fight global warming past $US100 billion a year.
The islands propose a "loss and damage" mechanism that would insure and compensate countries that suffer from extreme weather, erosion and drought. The request adds to tensions between more than 190 industrial and developing nations at the United Nations climate talks in Doha this week.
"All we are asking if that they help us with these issues that aren't our doing," Malia Talakai of Nauru, lead negotiator for the Alliance of Small Island States, or AOSIS, bloc of 43 island nations, said in an interview in Doha. "We are trying to say that if you pollute you must help us."
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon joins the meeting tomorrow with six national leaders including Gabon's President Ali-Ben Bongo Ondimba and Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn. The conference is aiming to streamline its negotiation process this year, paving the way for adopting a treaty limiting fossil fuel emissions by 2015 that would come into force in 2020.
Industrial nations three years ago pledged to boost aid to $US100 billion a year by 2020. Those funds would cover projects including renewable energy and sea walls that would help countries adapt to and fight climate change.
The U.S., the European Union and other developed countries are wary of the proposal because it may have the potential to create open-ended financial and legal liabilities, said Saleemul Huq, a Bangladeshi scientist based in London at the International Institute for Environment and Development.
'Taboo subjects'
"Developed countries hear that phrase, 'loss and damage,' and they think of an international fund for compensation and liability -- taboo subjects for them," Huq said in an interview in Doha. "There's strong push back. The U.S. has said there is no way they are going to do it."
U.S. State Department Envoy Todd Stern dodged a question today on the matter after arriving in Doha, saying there are "some issues that are of concern there, but I don't want to weigh into that without being certain."
EU Climate Commissioner Connie Hedegaard said the 27-member bloc has been supportive of the concept, though has some reservations on how to proceed.
"We think that it's not really mature enough yet to say this is exactly how we do it," Hedegaard said in an interview today in Doha. "We need some more work on that, but we have signaled very clearly to them that we are open to find a solution on loss and damage."
Envoys at the UN talks have yet to nail down details of where the $US100 billion will come from and what it will be spent on. Questions remain about how to pay for the Green Climate Fund, which would channel a portion of that aid.
Island demands
At a minimum, the islands want the UN talks to keep studying how a loss-and-damage mechanism might be established. They'd prefer delegates in Doha agree to a system, which Talakai says ultimately would have to be "much more" than the $US100 billion already promised.
While AOSIS first proposed the fund 21 years ago, the request is getting fresh urgency this year because of evidence of increasing damage to the environment from fossil-fuel emissions. Greenhouse-gas concentrations hit a record in 2011 and are on track for another surge this year, according to a Dec. 2 commentary in the journal Nature Climate Change.
The effects of warmer temperatures have stacked up this year. Arctic sea ice shrank to its lowest extent on record, the continental U.S. is heading for its warmest year ever, and heat waves registered across Europe and in China, Russia, Morocco and Jordan. Drought struck almost two-thirds of the U.S. this year.
No protection
"We don't have insurance against these things," Fatou Gaye, Gambia's environment minister and lead delegate for the group of least developed countries, said in an interview in Doha today. "Richer countries can quickly adapt if hit by a climate change disaster. For us, it takes ages. It destroys."
Germany's Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research said last week sea levels are rising at 3.2 millimeters a year, faster than the 2 millimeters forecast by the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in 2007.
Island nations from Barbados in the Caribbean to the Maldives in the Indian Ocean and Tuvalu in the Pacific say rising sea levels and intensifying cyclones as dangers to their aquifers, agriculture and in some cases, the very existence of their countries. Tuvalu and the Maldives, for example, have high points that are just a few meters above sea level.
Adao Soares Barbosa of East Timor, coordinator in Doha for the least developing countries on the issue of loss and damage, says his country lost almost 80 per cent of its rice production last year because of El Nino.
"Who will address these issues? Is it my government's responsibility?" he said in an interview in Doha. "We have a right to survive."


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IT'S derby day next Saturday (February 8) as Bridgwater & Albion take on North Petherton at College Way.
A late try from James Cox sealed a 25-23 victory for North Petherton at Beggars Brook in the season's earlier meeting, but Albion head into the game on the back of two consecutive victories following last weekend's 21-10 triumph over Clevedon.
Albion head coach Kevin Innalls believes his side head into the game full of confidence, despite a lengthy injury list. He said: "After a few wins we are confident - I felt we were unlucky to lose at their place and hopefully we can put in another good performance next week. We would like to get a few more backs back in contention, but we'll have to see."
Bridgwater & Albion versus North Petherton is a 3pm kick-off next Saturday - a huge crowd is expected and the club are urging supporters to arrive early.


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THE Acorns Children's Hospice shop in Pershore High Street will be getting a new look this month.
The store will be closed from Friday, March 7, until Friday, March 28, when it will be refitted but the charity is keen to make sure people know they are not closing for good.
Donations can still be made during some of the closure period as the shop will be staffed for collectiongs from Thursday, March 20.


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SAN FRANCISCO -- Google is adding a new and more expensive touch to its line of Chrome laptops in an attempt to outshine personal computers running on software made by rivals Microsoft and Apple.
The Chromebook Pixel unveiled Thursday includes a 33-centimetre (13-inch) display screen that responds to the touch or swipe of a finger. That duplicates a key feature in Microsoft Corp.'s Windows 8, a dramatic makeover of the world's leading operating system for PCs.
The Pixel's high-resolution screen displays 239 pixels per inch, slightly more than Apple Inc.'s MacBooks with high-resolution retina displays. A MacBook Pro with a screen that measures 33.3 cm (13.1 inches) diagonally can handle 227 pixels per inch (2.5 centimetres), while the 39.1-cm (15.4-inch) model is at 220 pixels per inch.
"This is the future: high-resolution screens and touch," said Sundar Pichai, a senior vice-president who oversees Google's Chrome web browser and operating system.
Google Inc. designed and built the Pixel for "power users" -- a fastidious and generally more affluent segment of the PC market willing to pay more for machines equipped with compelling features and components not found in cheaper laptops.
The strategy is a departure for Google, which had positioned Chromebooks based on its Chrome operating system as affordable options for homes and offices looking for a quick and easy way to connect to the web. Google has been partnering with PC makers to make Chromebooks over the past two years. Among them: Acer Inc. makes a bare-bones Chromebook for $199, while Samsung Electronics Co. sells one for $249.
The Pixel, which Google is building without a partner, will cost $1,299 for a Wi-Fi-only model with 32 gigabytes of flash storage. A 64-gigabyte machine that can connect on both Wi-Fi and a 4G LTE cellular network will cost $1,499. That's the same price as the cheapest MacBook Pro with a comparable screen, though the Apple laptop comes with 128 gigabytes of storage.
Apple does have a cheaper, lighter laptop, the MacBook Air. A 33-cm (13-inch) model with 128 gigabytes of storage starts at $1,199. It weighs less than 1.35 kilograms and doesn't have a high-resolution screen. The Pixel has the high-resolution screen and weighs 1.52 kilograms. The 33-cm high-resolution MacBook Pro weighs 1.6 kg.
Google believes Pixel is a better value than the Air, given its higher-resolution screen with touch controls. Google is also throwing in 1 terabyte of free online storage in its data centres for three years -- a benefit Pichai estimates would cost $500 to $600.
The Pixel "will stand up very, very well to the MacBook Air," Pichai said. "The goal here is to push the boundaries to deliver the best laptop at the best possible price."
Though its popular iPad has a touch screen, Apple has shunned touch-screen laptops. Apple figures that because people use laptops with the screen in front of them rather than in their hands or laps, it's not a pleasant experience to constantly have to reach out to touch the screen.
Microsoft, on the other hand, considers touch screens to be central to all computing environments. Windows 8 was designed to make desktop and laptop computers work more like tablet computers. Computers with touch-screen monitors can respond to touch along with old-style mouse and keyboard commands.
Google's online Play store will begin selling the Pixel in the U.S. and U.K Thursday, with BestBuy.com expected to take orders on Friday.
Pichai declined to say how many of the lower-priced Chromebooks have been sold, but said the models have ranked as the most popular laptop sold by Amazon.com Inc. for the past four months.
The free online storage is being included with the Pixel to overcome the laptop's lack of a hard drive. Like other Chromebooks, the Pixel functions like a terminal dependent on an Internet connection to get to information and applications stored in large data centres run by Google or other technology providers.
Spurred by the growing popularity of smartphones and tablet computers, Google is betting more people will prefer having data, photos and video stored in remote data centres instead of individual hard drives so the content can be accessed from any Internet-connected device.
Google's expansion into the high end of the laptop market immerses the company more deeply into the business designing and making gadgets.
The company is already a major player in the mobile-device market through its Android software. To help promote Android, Google also has designed a line of smartphones and tablets under the Nexus brand. The company also owns smartphone maker Motorola Mobility, which it bought for $12.4 billion last year.
Google's deepening involvement in hardware has ignited speculation the company might eventually open its own chain of stores to sell its products, just as Apple and Microsoft already do. Pichai didn't address that in a response to a question on that topic at Thursday's event.
Apple and Microsoft already have been hurt by the increased competition from Google.
-- The Associated Press