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Gelinas' OT goal gives Devils win against Rangers
The New Jersey Devils put up a more respectable number of shots, and the added offense produced just enough goals to beat the rival New York Rangers again.
Eric Gelinas scored on a power play 1:15 into overtime, after the Devils squandered the lead in the final seconds of regulation, to lift New Jersey to a 4-3 win Saturday night.
The Devils managed only 11 shots Friday in a 3-1 home loss to Detroit. They fired 24 at Rangers goalie Henrik Lundqvist, and got four past the man with the new seven-year, $59.5 million contract.
"I'm fortunate to be out there in that type of situation, and I gave it a shot," Gelinas said. "It definitely feels good to be rewarded and to get that winner, but it was a team effort."
New Jersey has won all three meetings against the Rangers this season, including two at Madison Square Garden, with two remaining.
"These are fun games to play," said Devils goalie Martin Brodeur, who wore new pads without breaking them in. "To come in here, get the puck to the net, score some goals, it feels good."
Gelinas one-timed a shot, off a pass from Patrik Elias, from above the right circle past Lundqvist. The goal came 13 seconds after Rangers captain Ryan Callahan high-sticked Andy Greene in the mouth.
"My intent was to swing around and get his stick, but it comes up too high and catches him," Callahan said. "It's a bad penalty. It cost us a point."
Michael Ryder had put the Devils ahead 3-2 with 4:04 left. Chris Kreider tied it on a power-play goal with 21.3 seconds left.
Brodeur made 21 saves for the Devils, who earned just their third win in nine games (3-5-1).
Travis Zajac lifted the Devils into a 2-all tie 5:58 into the third period. Cam Janssen also scored, and Jaromir Jagr and Tim Sestito both had two assists.
Brad Richards and Mats Zuccarello also had goals for the Rangers, who again failed to move two games over .500 as they began a nine-game homestand. Lundqvist made 20 saves in his first home start since signing his contract extension.
The Rangers fell to 11-1-1 when leading after two periods and 14-2-1 when scoring first.
"It's a big point," Lundqvist said of the overtime loss. "We never gave up, so that's a good sign. We just didn't get the bounces."
Zajac, in his 500th NHL game, got the Devils even when he cleaned up a rebound of a shot by Jagr and scored from in close.
The Devils, with revamped line combinations and changes to the lineup, put early pressure on Lundqvist, but despite recording the first three shots, New Jersey fell behind 3:32 in.
New York raced out of its zone on a 2-on-1 break, with Richards carrying the puck on left wing alongside Callahan to his right. Richards snapped a drive from the left circle — the Rangers' first shot — that beat Brodeur stick side for his team-leading ninth and second in two games.
There was more jump to the Devils' offense than on Friday, yet they couldn't get anything past Lundqvist in the first period on nine shots.
"We knew we were going to need some depth contributions," Devils coach Pete DeBoer said. "We got them from Janssen, the fourth line, Peter Harrold, who I thought was excellent.
"We needed a lot of energy, and those guys gave it to us."
The Rangers made the most of their early offense again in the second period, this time scoring on their second shot that came off a big rebound.
Callahan ripped a drive from the right circle that Brodeur sticked away to his right, but it came to Zuccarello, who stepped into a hard shot from the left circle that easily found its way into the open left side 57 seconds in.
New Jersey got a fortunate bounce when Janssen's third of the season cut the deficit in half at 6:02.
The rugged forward, who scored only three goals in 312 career NHL games before this season, crashed the net toward a rebound of Sestito's shot and knocked the puck past Lundqvist with his left skate. The on-ice call stood up to a video review.
"I thought it was a kick, but it doesn't matter," said Lundqvist, who will make his third straight start Sunday against Washington. "They got it, and in the end they just managed to get the bounces. It's a frustrating loss."
Brodeur earned the secondary assist, the 43rd of his career.
NOTES: Rangers D Marc Staal was struck in the head by the arm of New Jersey's Reid Boucher in the third period and left the game. It wasn't immediately known if Staal would play Sunday. … Harrold filled in for D Marek Zidlicky, who sat out with an upper-body injury. RW Damien Brunner returned to the lineup after being a healthy scratch Friday, replacing C Jacob Josefson. … D Justin Falk replaced D Michael Del Zotto, and newly recalled C J.T. Miller took LW Benoit Pouliot's place in the Rangers lineup. RW Derek Dorsett sat out for the fourth time in six games with a wrist injury.

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Mr. Nagorski will join Asia Society from ABC News, where he has had a distinguished career spanning more than two decades, most recently as Managing Editor for International News.
Asia Society's Board of Trustees Co-Chairs Henrietta H. Fore and Ronnie C. Chan said in a joint statement: "We are delighted that Tom will be joining Asia Society. Along with a strong passion for Asia, Tom brings a commitment to our far-reaching and multidisciplinary endeavors, as well as the intellect and experience to advance both Asia Society's work and its global network."
Mr. Nagorski's first exposure to Asia was as a Luce Scholar, when he spent a year as a journalist in Thailand, and reported from Burma, Laos, Indonesia, and the Thai-Cambodian border. He has remained engaged with Asia throughout his professional life, reporting from China and India, Afghanistan and Pakistan, and leading ABC News' coverage of recent stories ranging from the killing of Osama Bin Laden to Japan's tsunami and nuclear crisis. He has lived in Asia and Europe, is fluent in French and Russian, and is conversant in Thai, German, and Polish.
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Understand EMP threat? U.S. enemies do
Anti-ballistic missile defense system ill-prepared for assault
WASHINGTON – A December 1998 Iranian military journal published an article titled "Electronics to Determine Fate of Future Wars," and it detailed how an electromagnetic pulse, or EMP, attack on the electronic infrastructure of the United States caused by the detonation of a nuclear bomb over the U.S. would be crippling.
"Once you confuse the enemy communication network you can also disrupt the work of the enemy command- and decision-making center," the journal said. "Even worse today when you disable a country's military high command through disruption of communications, you will, in effect, disrupt all the affairs of that country.
"If the world's industrial countries fail to devise effective ways to defend themselves against dangerous electronic assaults then they will disintegrate within a few years," the Iranian journal added. "American soldiers would not be able to find food to eat nor would they be able to fire a single shot."
The journal went a step further in telling how an EMP attack on the U.S. electric infrastructure from the detonation of a nuclear bomb high above the U.S. would severely cripple the U.S.
Editor's note: Michael Maloof, author of "A Nation Forsaken," will discuss the catastrophic threat posed by an EMP attack for three hours on George Noory's "Coast-to-Coast" Thursday night, Jan. 3, the day the book is officially released nationwide.
The Iranians, who do not yet have nuclear weapons but are working on it, learned about the effects of electromagnetic pulse attacks from the history of some of the first nuclear weapons tests conducted first by the United States in 1945 and later by the Russians and Chinese, who also are expert on EMP.
Military experts say that Iran has been involved in conducting mid-air detonations which are critical to acquire the EMP effect. The tests were linked in with the launching of the Iranian Shahab III from the deck of a ship and then exploding the warhead in mid-air.
Experts say that there really is no other reason to test for such mid-air explosions except to develop an EMP weapon.
In March 2005, a staff member to the U.S. EMP Commission referred to research that had been done in determining which countries had the knowledge and possible intentions of undertaking an EMP attack.
Here's the documentation of the danger: "A Nation Forsaken – EMP: The Escalating Threat of an American Catastrophe."
"The survey found that the physics of EMP phenomenon and the military potential of EMP attack are widely understood in the international community, as reflected in official and unofficial writings and statements," said Dr. Peter Vincent Pry before the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Terrorism, Technology and Homeland Security.
He said that in addition to Iran, the following countries have knowledge about EMP and its effects following an attack: Britain, France, Germany, Israel, Egypt, Taiwan, Sweden, Cuba, India, Pakistan, Iraq, North Korea, China and Russia.
"Many foreign analysts – particularly in Iran, North Korea, China and Russia – view the United States as a potential aggressor that would be willing to use its entire panoply of weapons, including nuclear weapons, in a first strike," Pry said. "They perceive the United States as having contingency plans to make a nuclear EMP attack, and as being willing to execute those plans under a broad range of circumstances."
Pry said that Russian and Chinese military scientists in open source writings describe the basic principles of nuclear weapons designed specifically to generate an enhanced-EMP effect, called Super-EMP weapons, which can destroy even the best protected U.S. military and civilian electronic systems. Both countries have been considering limited nuclear attack options that employ EMP as the primary or only means of attack.
In electromagnetic pulse, a highly intense burst of electromagnetic energy generated from a nuclear weapon, a massive solar storm or from radio-frequency, or RF, weapon, is used.
In early July 2008 testimony, then-Assistant Secretary of Defense for Asian and Pacific Security Affairs James J. Shinn told the House Armed Services Committee that China, which is a threat to Taiwan, was working on exotic electromagnetic pulse weapons that can devastate electronic systems using a burst of energy similar to that produced by a nuclear blast.
"The consequence of EMP is that you destroy the communications network," Shinn said. "And we are you know, and as the Chinese also know, heavily dependent on sophisticated communications, satellite communications, in the conduct of our forces. And so, whether it's from an EMP or it's some kind of a coordinated anti-satellite effort we could be in a very bad place if the Chinese enhanced their capability in this area."
Now, the Chinese say they are developing EMP warheads on new missiles designed to hit U.S. aircraft carriers that enter into its sphere of influence in the South China Sea.
The U.S. was aware of the prospect for an electromagnetic pulse when it detonated a nuclear device on July 16, 1945, thanks to the expectation of an EMP by Enrico Fermi, an Italian-American nuclear physicist renowned for his development of the first nuclear reactor and development of quantum theory, nuclear and particle physics, among other things. In 1938, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on induced radioactivity.
According to reports at the time, all signal lines were shielded and, in many cases doubly shielded. However, many records still were lost. Similarly, a British nuclear test in 1953 resulted in instrumentation failure attributed to "radioflash," the British term for EMP.
Then in July 1962, there were several high-altitude nuclear tests known as Operation Fishbowl. They significantly advanced the knowledge of EMP effects.
One such test, called Starfish Prime, was conducted at some 400 kilometers, or 250 miles, above the Pacific Ocean.
Starfish Prime test showed that the effects of a high-altitude nuclear detonation were much larger than first thought. The effects were so significant that the detonations caused electrical damage in Hawaii almost 900 miles from the site of the detonation.
It knocked out streetlights, set off burglar alarms and damaged the microwave link of the local telephone company, according to a report by Charles N. Vittitoe of Sandia National Laboratories in a June 1989 article titled "Did High-Altitude EMP Cause the Hawaiian Streetlight Incident?"
Starfish Prime then was followed in November 1962 by two other high-altitude tests – Bluegill Triple Prime and Kingfish – which provided enough EMP data for scientists to accurately identify the physical mechanisms producing the EMPs.
While the damage in Hawaii wasn't very significant, scientists conclude that if that same explosion had occurred over the northern portion of the continental United States, damage would have been more significant due to the greater strength of the Earth's magnetic field over the U.S. At higher latitudes, there also are other anomalies that intensify the effects of an EMP.
To understand the characteristics of an EMP, scientists have divided EMP pulses into three components: E1, E2 and E3.
E1 is developed from a nuclear explosion. It is considered to be the most intense. The pulse from a nuclear explosion creates a very intense electromagnetic field of electrically charged objects. This component is produced when gamma radiation from a nuclear detonation knocks electrons out of atoms in the upper atmosphere. These electrons then travel in a downward direction at an estimated speed of 90 percent of the speed of light of 186,000 miles/second.
Damage from the E1 component is caused by electrical breakdown voltages such as insulators being overwhelmed, thereby destroying electronic components in computers and communications equipment. The intensity and speed at which the pulse hits is too quick for ordinary lightning protecters to guard the equipment.
The interaction of the Earth's magnetic field and the downward flow of electrons is what produces a very large, intense but brief electromagnetic pulse which hits within five nanoseconds.
According to experts, the process of the gamma rays knocking electrons out of the atoms at a high altitude causes this region of the atmosphere to become an electrical conductor due to ionization. The strength of the pulse will depend on intensity of the gamma rays produced by the weapon, the rapidity of the gamma ray burst from the weapon and the altitude at which the detonation occurs.
The E2 component is produced by weapon neutrons and is considered to be an intermediate time pulse. It lasts for up to a second after the beginning of the EMP. This E2 component has many similarities to EMPs produced from lightning and can easily be protected since lightning protection readily is available.
If an electronic component is protected only from an E2 pulse, an E1 pulse will destroy it.
E3 pulse is very slow, and has similarities to a geomagnetic storm caused by a solar flare. Like a geomagnetic storm, E3 can produce geomagnetically induced currents in long electrical conductors, which then can damage components such as power line transformers, according to a January 2010 report by Metatech Corporation titled "The Late-Time (E3) High-Altitude Electromagnetic Pulse (HEMP) and its impact on the U.S. Power Grid." This study was done for Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Above the 250-mile altitude, there will be no EMP effects on earth, since the gamma rays would disperse over the longer distance. Where there is no magnetic field, there would be virtually no EMP.
Up to 250 miles above the earth over Kansas, for example, scientists say that the effects of an EMP pulse would cover virtually the entire continental United States.
"Since it is a geometrical line-of-sight effect, a detonation at a height of a few hundred kilometers would encompass within its line of sight essentially the entire United States, with the effect growing weaker the larger the distance from the burst point," according to Dr. Michael J. Frankel, who was executive director of the EMP Commission.
"For assessment purposes, a SCUD class missile launched from a nearby offshore location might reach a height of about 100 kilometers, sufficient to encompass within its effects footprint most of the eastern seaboard, with its great density of people and infrastructure," he said.
In recognizing this threat, especially if such countries as North Korea and Iran acquired nuclear weapons, Congress under Title XIV of the Floyd D. Spence National Defense Authorization Act, or NDAA, for Fiscal Year 2001 had established the Commission to Assess the Threat to the United States from Electromagnetic Pulse Attack, also referred to as the EMP Commission.
The provision originally was sponsored by Rep. Roscoe Bartlett, R-Md.
Bartlett, who recently lost his bid for re-election, has been a major proponent of preparing the nation against the prospect of an EMP attack.
An EMP attack is "an event we will not avoid," he told National Public Radio in 2009. He also said that any remediation after the fact would cost upwards of $2 trillion.
"The more sophisticated we become, the more vulnerable we are," Bartlett said. "There's a huge concern about cyber-attacks on the grid. Well, a really robust nuclear EMP lay-down means microelectronics across the country would be shut down and you have no power…
"There's one event that we will not avoid and that is a solar electromagnetic interference – solar storm," he said. "If we have a big one like the one that occurred back in 1859, that would shut down the whole grid for quite a long while … It would cost us between $1 trillion and $2 trillion in damages, and the loss of life could be horrendous if in fact you were without electricity for months at a time."
The 1859 solar storm to which Bartlett referred also is referred to as a solar super storm, or Carrington Event. It is said to have been the most powerful solar storm in recorded history.
To a number of critics of an anti-missile defense system, however, the EMP Commission was regarded as the "cornerstone of right-wing advocacy on national defense policy," according to the leftist-leaning Institute for Policy Studies based in Washington, D.C.
In criticizing the provision, the IPS said that those advocates were "seeking to spread alarm about the purported threat of EMP attacks, which would involve the detonation of nuclear weapons in the upper atmosphere to generate a pulse that would knock out electronics-based infrastructure."
The IPS said those people "have repeatedly used the findings of this commission to advocate increased funding for costly weapons programs such as missile defense and push alarmist notions that 'rogue states' like Iran and North Korea pose an existential threat to the United States."
Bartlett first raised the alarm after he and former Congressman Curt Weldon, R-Pa., had met in 1999 with their Russian Duma, or parliament, counterparts about assaults by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization during the Kosovo crisis occurring at the time.
The two had conferred with Vladimir Lukin, who at the time was chairman of the Duma's International Affairs Committee and had been a high-level official of the then-Soviet national security apparatus under former Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev.
Lukin told the congressmen that if Moscow really wanted to hurt the United States without fear of retaliation, Russia would launch a missile from a submarine, explode it high over the country and shut down its power grid and communications for six months.
The EMP Commission made its first report to Congress in July 2004 in which it stated that a nuclear-generated EMP is "one of a small number of threats that has the potential to hold our society seriously at risk and might result in the defeat of our military forces."
Its duties were to assess the nature of a high-altitude EMP threat to the U.S. from potentially hostile states or non-state actors – terrorists – that have or could acquire nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles needed to conduct such an attack. The commission was to look at such a threat for the next 15 years.
It also was to determine the vulnerability of the U.S. military and especially the civilian infrastructure in terms of emergency preparedness. It also was to determine just how quickly the U.S. could repair and recover from damages on military and civilian systems from an EMP attack. In addition, the commission was to determine the feasibility and cost of hardening critical military and civilian systems against such an attack.
"EMP is one of a small number of threats that can hold our society at risk of catastrophic consequences," the executive report said. "EMP will cover the wide geographic region within line of sight to the nuclear weapons. It has the capability to produce a significant damage to critical infrastructures and thus to the very fabric of U.S. society, as well as to the ability of the United States and Western nations to project influence and military power."
The executive report pointed out that the common element that can have such a devastating impact on the critical infrastructure is primarily electronics.
Just what constitutes the critical infrastructure facilities of the United States?
Section 1016 (e) of the U.S.A. Patriot Act of 2001 defines them as "Systems and assets … so vital to the United States that the incapacity or destruction of such systems and assets would have a debilitating impact on security, national economic security, national public health or safety, or any combination of those matters."
These critical infrastructure facilities include electric power, oil refineries, water treatment plants, banking systems, pipelines, transportation systems, and communications. They all depend on electrical and electronic systems to operate. Yet, they can be very vulnerable to the pulse effects of a nuclear weapon or radio-frequency weapons.
"The primary avenues for catastrophic damage to the nation are through our electric power infrastructure and thence into our telecommunications, energy and other infrastructures," the report said. "These in turn can seriously impact other important aspects of our nation's life, including the financial system; means of getting food, water, and medical care to the citizenry; trade; and production of goods and services."
The report pointed out that certain types of low-yield nuclear weapons can be used to generate "potentially catastrophic EMP effects" over a wide geographic area and "designs for variants of such weapons may have been illicitly trafficked for a quarter-century."
Here's the documentation of the danger: "A Nation Forsaken – EMP: The Escalating Threat of an American Catastrophe."
The concern to the commissioners in their preliminary 2004 report was that the U.S. had developed more than most other nations as a modern society heavily dependent on electronics, telecommunications, energy, information networks and financial and transportation systems that use modern technology.
"This asymmetry is a source of substantial economic, industrial, and societal advantages, but it creates vulnerabilities and critical interdependencies that are potentially disastrous to the United States," the report added.
"The current vulnerability of our critical infrastructures can both invite and reward attack if not corrected," the executive report said. "Correction is feasible and well within the nation's means and resources to accomplish."
It went on to say that an EMP attack had the capability to produce "significant damage to critical infrastructures and thus to the very fabric of U.S. society."
The preliminary report made a strong point on the interdependence of elements of the infrastructure that could show a cascading effect if subject to an EMP attack.
"All of the critical functions of U.S. society and related infrastructures – electric power, telecommunications, energy, financial, transportation, emergency services, water, food, etc – have electronic devices embedded in most aspects of their systems, often providing critical controls," the report said.
"Electric power has thus emerged as an essential service underlying U.S. society and all of its other critical infrastructures," the report said. "Telecommunications has grown to a critical level but may not rise to the same level as electrical power in terms of risk to the nation's survival."
All other infrastructures and their critical functions, the report said, are dependent on the support of electric power and telecommunications, suggesting that emphasis be placed on protecting these two high-leverage systems.
At the time, the 2004 executive report recommended that the U.S. government spend up to $200 billion over 20 years to "harden" U.S. critical infrastructure.
Among other things, it also recommended that the U.S. ensure that it had "vigorous interdiction and interception efforts to thwart delivery" – namely, an anti-ballistic missile defense system – of a nuclear weapon.
At this point, however, none of the monies has been expended to harden the nation's vulnerable electrical grid system. Nor has the Obama administration implemented a full anti-ballistic missile system, especially in the Northeast, leaving the most populated portion of the United States very vulnerable to any missile attack.
Members of the media who would like to interview Michael Maloof about his book "A Nation Forsaken" should contact [email protected]


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At his peak, Terrell Davis was the best running back on the planet.
Unfortunately for Davis, he didn't stay on that peak long enough to hold the attention of Pro Football Hall of Fame voters.
The former Denver Broncos star was not among the 15 modern-era finalists announced Thursday night on NFL Network's "Pro Football Hall of Fame: The Final 15." It marks the seventh consecutive year Davis was a top-25 finalist who didn't survive the next cutdown.
Davis exploded on the scene with the Denver Broncos in 1995, beginning a four-year stretch of dominance that included an NFL MVP, two Super Bowl rings, a Super Bowl MVP and a 2,000-yard rushing season in 1998. He suffered a knee injury the next season, however, and never got all the way back. He hung around for two more seasons and was out of football by his 30th birthday.
"To me, he's Gale Sayers. He was a comet," NFL Media columnist Michael Silver said during the "Final 15" announcement show. "He was a brilliant player whose career was cut short by a knee injury."
Rod Woodson believes Davis deserves enshrinement based on what he called "the Gale Sayers rule." Sayers was another brilliant back whose career was cut short by a knee injury. The former Chicago Bears star was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1977.
"When TD played, there was only a couple of running backs that we had to game plan for," said Woodson, who was inducted into Canton in 2009. "There were only two, and I played for 17 years. That was Barry Sanders and TD. Without the injury, his numbers would have been outstanding."
Davis' greatness cannot be denied, but we see where the voters are coming from. It's hard to vote Davis in when there are dozens of other deserving players who were stars in the league for a decade or more. (Andre Reed's head may explode if he were to witness TD slipping on a gold jacket.)
Which isn't meant to marginalize what Davis was able to do before the injury. He was amazing. But durability obviously matters to Hall voters.
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I love garlic. I love garlic more than I love meat, though I love meat as well. In that way, I am a proud child of Korea, where we eat more garlic per capita than any other country in the world.
So I was shocked when I found out recently that devout Buddhists in Korea generally eat a diet that avoids not only meat and fish, but also garlic, scallions, onions, and leeks. I was even more shocked that I hadn't missed the garlic when we ate lunch at a Buddhist temple during our trip.
The morning after eating still-wriggling live octopus, we drove to Chirisan National Park to eat a lunch of 사찰음식, sachal eumshik, or temple food. Diane's great-aunt is a devout Buddhist, and she has long had a relationship with this temple and its monks. So when we told her that we would be driving through South Jeolla Province, she generously arranged for us to eat lunch at this temple, where meals aren't normally open to the public.
Korea is too small a country to really contain wildernesses. Our national parks often surround Buddhist temples, as the Buddhists retreated into the mountains when persecuted during the Choseon Dynasty. Chirisan National Park houses seven temples, including Sanggyesa and Hwaeomsa, two of the most famous temples in Korea. That's really all I can say about temples. I grew up an ignorant Presbyterian.
But I do have an opinion on what we ate. Temple food is popular in Korea even among those who are neither Buddhist nor vegetarian. Koreans love their meat, but they've always eaten their vegetables. Before the Buddhists were driven into the mountains by the Choseon Dynasty, Buddhism was the favored religion of the preceding Goryeo Dynasty, which encouraged the development of vegetarian Korean cuisine. But the Buddhist elites weren't ascetics. Temple cuisine developed with influences from royal palace cuisine, which I could see in the delicate tofu-stuffed spinach packages we were served. For them, their dietary prohibitions were no reason not to eat a wide and varying range of foods, and I think we have the Buddhists to thank for the many wild greens, like fern bracken and bellflower root, that are common in a Korean diet. That, and the hunger borne out of bad harvests and poverty. Michael Pettid, in his book on Korean culinary history, cites a 1554 text called "A Concise Reference for Famine Relief," describing 851 types of edible plants and herbs.
The lunch we were served was a beautiful example of the Korean love of namul, the catch-all phrase that describes most vegetable side dishes, whether lightly cooked and seasoned or raw, crunchy, and fresh.
On one plate was a trio of namul, which is the way they're often served, to better show their contrasting colors, spinach or sigeumchi-namul, fern bracken or gosari-namul, and wild aster or chi-namul. The spinach was tender, just slightly blanched. The gosari was obviously freshly gathered rather than dried, as it was chewy without the toughness of dried fern bracken. But my favorite was the wild aster, which has a strong, somewhat bitter taste that goes so well with just a bit of soy sauce.
There was a salad made almost entirely of fresh cilantro, which was surprising because I'd never seen it in Korean cooking before. There were pickled maesil plums, the firm, sour green plums pickled with sugar as well as salt; pickled cucumbers, darkened and preserved with soy sauce; and shiraegi-namul on the left, a cooked and seasoned salad of tangy-sour radish leaves, those leafy tops that grow out of Korean radishes. (Koreans, at least traditionally, never threw anything away.)
Here, you can see something that looks like cut-up brown towels. They're neungi mushrooms, also known as koutake mushrooms in Japan and apparently known nowhere else, as the only other name I can find for them through Google is the Latin sarcodon aspratus. They're rare and expensive but were served to us in luxurious quantities. They were a little spongy.
Even more luxurious, and more delicious, were the songi or pine mushrooms (also known as matsutake mushrooms in Japan) we were served. (You can see the tofu-stuffed spinach leaves behind them.) Sauteed with half-moon slices of Korean summer squash, they were firm and sweet. Diane's father marveled at how they had that true pine mushroom smell. When we got back to Seoul, I saw boxes of them being sold at swank department stores for $100 a pound. There was so much food, we couldn't eat it all, but when we left the songi mushrooms, we were told, "You can't leave the precious songi mushrooms!" So we ate them, every bite.
The vegetables we ate were proud to be vegetables. There was a clarity of flavor, an assertiveness of texture that was both impressive and calming. They weren't hiding behind butter, cheese, or even garlic. One of the guests, a local practitioner, had brought homemade lotus leaf packets of sticky rice studded with chestnuts and beans. It tasted wholesome but not aggressively so, the way whole-grain foods sometimes feel. The same was true of the soup, a vegetarian yukgaejang that was spicy and full-flavored even without the meat.
This kind of flavor doesn't come easily, though. With so little added, the ingredients have to be of the highest quality. All around us, we could see what kind of work went into this kind of food—buckets of pine cones from which pine nuts had been painstakingly plucked and broad platforms where red chile peppers were drying in the sun for the best kind of gochukaru.
I'm not giving up my garlic. I don't have the purity of mind or the energy of body to do the work I would need to do, which might explain why I will never be a Buddhist monk. Instead, I am the kind of girl who will run an entire bucket of peeled garlic cloves through a food processor to store and use in the freezer as necessary. But I might have some garlic-less days every once in awhile. I think it's easy to eat and eat and eat, and not even taste what we're eating any more because we're so used to it. Pork tastes better when you don't eat it everyday, and the same may be true of garlic as well.


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All of this Cheetos-munching has nutritionists concerned. One bag packs in a whopping amount of fat and salt—"26 grams of fat and a quarter of the amount of salt that's recommended for the entire day," according to ABC News. These airy puffs have no nutritional value—zip, zilch, nada. And as you might expect, the salty snacks are like crack and highly addictive—as in once you stick your hand in the bag there's no turning back.
Schools across the country, from New Mexico to Illinois, are concerned about the number of bags their students are consuming and principals are yanking Flamin' Hot Cheetos off their menus. A Chicago school district, which once sold 150,00 bags a year, no longer carries the snack. "If children were to bring in snacks that are high in fat, high in calories, that's their choice," Rockford School District Interim Superintendent Robert Willis told ABC News "We're not going to be providing those kinds of foods."
One California school isn't even allowing kids to pack in their own Flamin' Hots. "We don't allow candy, and we don't allow Hot Cheetos," Rita Exposito, principal of Jackson Elementary School in Pasadena, Calif., told the Chicago Tribune. "We don't encourage other chips, but if we see Hot Cheetos, we confiscate them — sometimes after the child has already eaten most of them. It's mostly about the lack of nutrition."
Flamin' Hot Fritos first hit store shelves in the early 90s, according to the Chicago Tribune, "to target urban convenience stores." The snack flew off shelves and led Frito-Lay to make several other similar varieties including Flamin' Hot Fritos, Flamin' Hot Fries and XXTra Flamin' Hot Cheetos.
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Remember waaaay back in 2006 when Miley Cyrus first stepped on the Disney Channel scene as Hannah Montana? Overnight, she was famous -- and mostly because she could act and sing. She was headed for pop stardom. Or so we thought. Nowadays, it's hard to remember exactly what Billy Ray's little girl is famous for ... Chopping off and dying her hair to look more like Pink? Being skinny? Being engaged to the kid from The Hunger Games? Taking silly pics and posting them on Twitter and Instagram?
Thankfully, some people still believe it's preferable to be famous for having actual abilities, real talent. Maybe even Miley herself -- who recently released a new (sort of) music video of her cover of her godmother Dolly Parton's 1974 hit "Jolene." Maybe she wanted to remind us that at the ripe ol' age of 20, she can actually still sing?!
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While she's still got nothin' on her godmother, that was still pretty awesome, right? Granted, as you can tell from her hair, this was recorded a little while back -- during early summer 2012's "Backyard Sessions," which feature Miley and her band playing some of her favorite songs, like "Jolene," Bob Dylan's "You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go," James Shelton's "Lilac Wine," and Melanie Safka's "Look What They've Done to My Song, Ma." Very cool.
But now that I've seen this, I gotta say, knowing her next album is a collaboration with famed hip-hop producer Pharrell Williams and the fact that she says "a lot of the beats are produced hip-hop beats" worries me. Her voice and the power and emotion behind it seems to fit perfectly with these folksy, rock, and yes, country tunes. Here's hoping that one day she'll realize her strongest suit would be stickin' to her roots.
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Health and fitness industry professionals in the spotlight.
v Scott Goudeseune has been named vice president of sales and new business development for the American Council on Exercise (ACE). He brings more than 20 years of extensive sales and marketing experience to the San Diego-based nonprofit organization. He is expected to broaden ACE's direct sales and marketing efforts globally to health clubs, specialty fitness retailers and manufacturers.
v Precision Fitness Equipment, a dealer of exercise equipment, has named Kimberly Land to the position of vice president commercial sales for Florida and the Caribbean. According to a company release, Land joined Precision in 1996 and has played an instrumental role in earning the company designation as one of the country's top Life Fitness exercise equipment distributors.
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The S&P 500 marked its 26th closing high this year on Wednesday. Emerging markets are at 17-month highs.
Feel better? No? You\'re not alone. Here\'s how one reader responded to Wednesday\'s closing Market Snapshot story:
\"There were train wrecks everywhere in the market today. How can the averages be up? Tupperware, United Tech, Boeing, Xilinx and many others. The wheels are coming off this thing unless you happen to own one of the few stocks that is soaring. It\'s a stealth decline.\" — Chuck Karabin.
In his latest note, BTIG\'s Dan Greenhaus says many of his clients can\'t seem to be swayed from \"the-end-is-nigh\" talk. Their fears probably echo those of lots of other investors: lack of volatility + unheeded geopolitical concerns + 10% correction that just won\'t materialize = a bigger pullback in store. (Check out Matthew Lynn\'s column on why investors brush off horrific world events.)
On that last point, Greenhaus says they\'ve argued blue in the face that the lack of a 10% pullback just doesn\'t matter. Determined to push the point home, he notes there have been 10 rallies and nine declines since late 2011/early 2012. The current rally — about 9.5% — is the strongest since early 2013, but is trailing three rallies in percentage terms over the last two-and-a-half years. As for duration, in the summer of 2012, the 14.7% rally lasted 73 sessions, while this current one is right around 70.
\"Does this mean the rally will imminently end? Of course not, and the S&P is \'just\' 7.5% away from its 200 (daily-moving average), hardly a stretched spread,\" says Greenhaus.
So Greenhaus drew up a big chart \'Contextualizing the recent equity rally.\' And that should settle it, once and for all. Maybe.
Here are some more MarketWatch must-reads that explore both sides of the correction talk:
\'Misery\' and other ingredients for a bear market are still missing
The market is in a topping process. Can you smell it?
S&P 500 vies for technical breakout
Are crash conditions growing or fading?
— Barbara Kollmeyer


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Carrie Underwood will spend the holiday break with family, friends and her new album. A report from her fan club forum reveals that the singer has finished recording vocals for the still untitled fourth album, and she'll be listening to the finished cuts over Christmas.
MjsBigBlog.com reports that the 28-year-old is still unsure on when the album will be available to fans, and rumored released dates are just that — rumor. Underwood still needs to lay down one background vocal, but the project is in the hands of producer Mark Bright. Bright has worked on each of her previous three albums.
Underwood did a photo shoot last week that the fan club forum reports is for her single. It's not known which song will wind up being her first offering to radio, but it's reportedly been narrowed down to two, including one she had a hand in co-writing. Underwood had previously co-written 'All American Girl' from the 'Carnival Ride' album, 'What Can I Say' from 'Play On,' and 'Eighteen Inches' from Lauren Alaina's 'Wildflower' album.


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As if Netflix (NASDAQ:NFLX) didn't have enough to worry about already, Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) has gone and thrown yet another wrench into Netflix's works.
The popular e-commerce site now offers its Amazon Prime service at a mere $7.99 per month. Amazon Prime gives subscribers access to a decent library of online-streaming movies and television shows, access to a "borrowed" e-book (one at a time), and free delivery for most physical goods ordered through the website.
If the $7.99/month price point rings a bell, that's because it's the monthly fee most Netflix subscribers pay for access to online digital content, and the same price Hulu — the joint venture of Comcast (NASDAQ:CMCSA), Disney (NYSE:DIS) and News Corp (NASDAQ:NWSA) — charges for access to Hulu Plus, which also offers more and newer digital content than is available on the free version.
Of course, it took consumers about two nanoseconds to conclude that Amazon was taking dead aim at Netflix, and to a lesser degree keeping Hulu at bay. It took about three more nanoseconds for the market's pundits to start talking about the fiscal impact Amazon's new pricing model could have on Netflix.
And those experts may well be right. But before adopting their conclusions, investors might want to consider a couple of other, obscured details.
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Die-hard fans of Netflix will be quick to point out that the digital content library available to Amazon Prime customers pales in comparison to Netflix's lineup. And those die-hard fans would be right. Over the course of 2012, however, the gap between the breadth and depth of both online-streaming services has been closing.
Netflix still says it has three times the content library Amazon has. Other sources say it only has twice the amount of Amazon's digital content. Either way, Netflix still is the top dog in the business. But, as Amazon finesses more and more studios and distributors, it's getting tougher to pick one over the other.
It's not just a content quality/quantity question right now, though. If it was, Netflix would win hands-down. Perhaps more important to investors is the differing subscriber trends each company is experiencing.
Although Amazon never has disclosed the headcount of Prime subscribers, some very educated guesses have been made since the service got going in 2009 and started out with roughly 2 million customers. Some say Amazon was aiming for 10 million by the end of 2012, while others say the total Prime customer base is already 13 million. Either way, the number is big, and getting bigger faster.
Meanwhile, though Netflix still is adding subscribers, it's doing so at a much slower pace than it had been. After adding 2.95 million global subscribers in the first quarter of the year, it only added 1.85 million in the third quarter. Its DVD rental business actually lost (net) 630,000 customers in Q3. As of the last tally, Netflix has 29.4 million streaming content subscribers and 8.6 million DVD-rental service subscribers.
Just to put that in perspective, Amazon's digital content business is half the size of Netflix's, and Amazon.com isn't even a dedicated digital content company — its focus still is on online retailing.
That's where the debate takes an unexpected left turn.
The news of the new monthly pricing plan for Amazon Prime has polarized investors who are convinced every industry has only one viable winner and one key loser. Those investors act — and trade — accordingly.
Thing is, making an apples-to-apples comparison of the two might ultimately be a misstep.
Amazon doesn't have to make money with its digital content business. In fact, given the company's penchant for spending big bucks to win market share rather than turn a profit, odds are good it doesn't make much — if any — money with Prime. It's just as much a marketing and customer acquisition tool for its other lines of business, such as e-books, and sales of all sorts of physical goods. While at some point the online streaming content business can and should be self-supporting, Amazon has proven it doesn't need to be in a hurry to widen the bottom line.
Netflix can't say (or think) the same. If it's not selling its service for at least a little more than providing that service costs the company, it can't remain in business.
And as of the beginning of 2012, that has been the problem. Netflix swung from a huge profit of $4.26 per share in 2011 to what will most likely be a profit of only 4 cents in 2012. The forecast for a profit of 41 cents per share in 2013 isn't much more encouraging. The problem? Content costs are just a tad less than subscription revenue, and not much is going to change that going forward; Netflix wouldn't dare up the price from being on par with Hulu Plus and Amazon Prime.
Bottom line: If you're only willing to own one, then AMZN is the name to own. However, that's got little to do with the quality of Amazon's streaming business, which is just a hair above "good enough." To investors, the compelling aspect of Amazon Prime is what else it can do with those customers.
As of this writing, James Brumley did not hold a position in any of the aforementioned securities.


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Responding to an early goal by visiting Dominican College with two quick strikes of their own, the Chestnut Hill College women maintained the resulting 2-1 lead throughout the remainder of last Saturday's Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference soccer match.
The outcome elevated the Griffins into winning territory in the CACC, at 2-1-1, and gave them an overall record of 2-4-1, while the Dominican Chargers headed back to Orangeburg, N.Y. at 2-2, 2-3-1.
"The conference is brutal – a battle every game – and it's great anytime you can get a win," remarked third-year head coach Sandy Dickson. "We've gotten some people back from injuries and that's starting to help us. We've had four concussions, sprained ankles, kids in the ER, but if there can be any upside to that, it gave a lot of different people more playing time and gave us more experience overall."
After a rough go in a 3-0 conference loss to Georgian Court earlier in the week, Dickson was happy to see junior goalie Samantha Pauls keep her confidence and be able to make 14 saves and protect a one-goal lead for the last 50-plus minutes of Saturday's contest. Pauls has just stepped into the nets this season, following the graduation of four-year mainstay Jessica Veazey.
Dominican spent more time on offense overall in the weekend duel, outshooting the hosts, 22-17, but the Griffins were more dangerous in transition, earning 11 corner kicks to the visitors' three. The match at CHC's Victory Field was a kind of homecoming for the Chargers' Jamie McGinn, a sophomore who participated in varsity soccer, basketball, and track at the old Springside School. She is a defensive midfielder and a regular starter for the Dominican booters.
McGinn's squad was first on the board last Saturday. A little over a dozen minutes in, they lofted a ball into the box and senior Olivia Antonopoulos put it away for the early lead. This occurred four minutes earlier than Georgian Court had started to score on CHC three days earlier, but in this game the Griffins kept their cage closed the rest of the way, and answered back.
They pressed up on the attack, but didn't net the equalizer until a penalty kick was called on the visitors with 8:54 remaining in the first half. Senior Carly DiGiovanni, a two-time first team all-star in the conference, placed the ball inside the right post at chest height to make it 1-1.
After that, the key for the Griffins was that they did not sit back for a spell, satisfied with their tying goal, but kept on attacking. That led to a second score a little over two minutes later. On a corner kick from the right, there was no shot directly off the restart, and Dominican cleared the ball out just over the 18 yard line on the right side.
Chestnut Hill popped the ball back into the box and DiGiovanni, a few yards inside the right post, headed it into the middle on the ground, where senior classmate Lauren Nolte punched it into the cage.
"We're trying to play very simple soccer," observed Coach Dickson. "We want to connect 10 to 12-yard balls and keep possession. We're working on switching the point of attack more and keeping the ball on the grass."
The rest of the afternoon would've have been less nerve-wracking for the home crowd if the Griffins had been able to convert a second penalty kick, which was called with 3:19 to go in the half. This time, though, Chargers goalie Gina Yannette was able to make a diving save on a shot that DiGiovanni hit low to the left.
After the intermission, the Dominican offense applied pressure early and kept it on. Occasionally the Griffins made brief forays to the other end of the pitch, but they did not earn their first corner of the period until more than 26 minutes had gone by.
In the CHC goal, Pauls was making some tough saves, and was getting help from her experienced defense. About 20 minutes into the half, Griffins junior Melissa Marotta dashed over to block a potentially dangerous shot right on the feet of a Dominican forward.
As usual, 5'1" senior back Brittany Boles was frequently in the thick of the action.
"Boles is our leader back there," Dickson stated. "She's a pint-sized little player, but she just has so much soccer sense. She reads the game and she anticipates what's going to happen, and she comes through when we're in a tight spot."
With 16 minutes left to play, Dominican missed an excellent chance to tie the match when a ball went bouncing left to right through the box and Melissa Messina was unable to hit an open volley into the goal. Four minutes after that, an outside shot from the right flank by the Chargers' Jamilyn Snyder skipped off another player on the way to goal, but CHC's Pauls wasn't fooled by the altered flight path of the ball and hauled it in.
In the final minute of play, the junior keeper stopped a long shot by Dominican's Elisa Falzarano and a closer attempt by Samantha Cala, and the Griffins were able to celebrate a well-earned win.


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Ghostface, Method Man, Raekwon, Inspectah Deck news...
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- 2003-05-30
Lounging on a leather recliner in Miami's Audio Visions Studio,
Ghostface Killah
takes a rare moment to focus on something besides music. He's thinking about rims. Ghost sifts through photos as his manager advises him to "pick the one you like the best - or, three, or five. They'll make it your signature line."
Ghostface, perhaps the most consistent MC to emerge from the Wu-Tang camp, is recording his fourth solo LP, The Pretty Tony Album. It's also his first Def Jam release, and, to true to form, he's "striving for perfection." Much like his lyrics, his recording philosophy is somewhat unorthodox. "I'm so selective with my music," he says. "I know what beats are going to fit me. Instead of just doing a bunch of tracks and narrowing it down. if I feel that beat, most likely that track will end up on the album." The beats on Tony are provided by
True Master
The radio-friendly first single, "Tush," is a guaranteed club banger, a disco-influenced track over which Ghost and
Missy Elliott
spar with not-so-subtle sexual innuendo. On "Holla" he spits over the original track to the
classic "La La Means I Love You," a feat that few rappers besides Starky Love can pull off. Some call it genius, others may call it lazy, but either way the result is a refreshing blend of classic soul and raw hip-hop.
"Every album I do, that's my baby. I gave birth to that. That came from my mind, that's my seeds right there," Ghost continues. "I don't really like to talk about the album; I like people to decide for themselves."
Studio Survival Pack:
1. Water
2. Protein
3. Now & Laters (assorted flavors)
4. White almond candles
5. Staten Island gurdas
Inspectah Deck
Kay Slay
talk about the gool ol' days:
Kay Slay: Where have you been these last few years?
Inspectah Deck: Suffering in silence. Nah, I've been all right. I had to take a break, focus on myself and leave music alone. I went through a lot of hell where I didn't have the same hunger. If I had a chance I'd do it all over again.
KS: You have to pick up the ball and start dribbling again, you can't lie down and die. It's about taking that bigger step and opening doors so your kids and the people around you can eat. That was the whole reason for me trying to do an industry move. You got to feed the wolves.
ID: Nowadays, with millions of dollars being thrown around, I don't trust anybody. I especially watch the niggas close to me. We got kids and family to take care of; I can't take care of grown men. I don't have a mansion in the hills. I'll do a show, get paid 20 grand, and come back to the projects.
KS: That's real talk. When everything is bubbling, it's love, but once things get rough, your homies start scheming and hating. The game is crazy. It's just the street game all over again. The same players are just tossing a different kind of pill. I came into the game dolo. That's why I think I'm more respected than these other wankstas. Everybody needed someone to cosign them. I cosigned myself.
ID: I had to fight with niggas, take microphones from muthafuckas in the middle of their show just go get on. Nobody was going to fuck with nine grimy-looking niggas. We had plans but couldn't go to a label. They thought we were a bunch of thugs who wanted to steal shit out of their office. But sure enough, the streets showed us love. We came with a different science and tried to teach niggas.
KS: Niggas were ahead of their time. Of course, when you get a new sound everybody is going to jock it, but if niggas ain't understanding, they will stray back to something they understand.
ID: I called my album The Movement because I'm fed up with that shit. Let me put out an album where I'm on the front lines taking shots. I'll take the heat for trying to be underground again - nobody else is. And I know there are some people fed up with that shit than supporting it. All it takes is for those cats to be woekn up, just like Iraq. They had no presence until the U.S. got there; now they're defending thier shit.
KS: Now cats doing that happy rap have to run for cover until Puff breaks out his shiny suit. You got to love the Wu because they never changed for anybody.
ID: A lot of MCs are here because of Wu. They rolled the hardcore wave then converted. You see dudes now with furs and minks on, but check their first muthafuckin' video.
Summer Music Preview:
Method Man
Program: Tical 0: The Prequel
Unplugged: August
Lyrical fighting style: Panty-raiding shadowboxin'
Oracle says: Venturing away from RZA's grimier soundscapes, Meth still manages to score big. Expect the P. Diddy-produced, Missy-assisted "Mini Van" and Jellyroll's electrofunked "Fire" to have dancefloors on smash. Ghostface nicely chips in on teh string-laden "The Afterparty" and Ludacris manages to coax Tical away from his usual cadence for a double-time Dirty South flow on "Rodeo."
Mainframe of Mind: "All the shit muthafuckas have been listening to is just bits and pieces of me," exclaims a valiant Meth. "I'm back!"
Program: The Lex Diamonds Story
Unplugged: August
Lyrical fighting style: Shaolin iron fist meets Godfather gunplay
Oracle says: Having secured his deal with Universal and groomed his new clique called Ice Water, The Wu's Cuban Linx kingping continues to paint vivid portraits of street life using his own brand of slang. Joints like the epic story "Pablo Escablow,", the flash, EZ Elpee-produced "Big Spender" and the bouncy, piano-laced "Who Don't Know" exude the quality of classic Raekwon material.
Mainframe of Mind: "Beats is more stronger. Lyrics is more iller," Rae says of his new LP. "The vibe is more together. Right now I would consider the stage that I'm at is I'm a prison-thinkin' nigga inside the law library, but I still be in the yard with the guerillas. At the same time, I'm goin' up in the law library to get this case together for y'all. This is a case, baby! This just ain't a project, this is a case. And I'm gonna get acquitted."
Also, here's a review from The Source for Inspectah Deck's upcoming album The Movement... due out June 10th.
Score: 3 Mics
Review: Inspectah Deck needs a compass. Though his follow-up to 1999's Uncontrolled Substance is clearly rooted in the Wu-Tang ethic, it is unclear at times where exactly The Movement is going. From the outset, the cinematic pimp-strut of "City High" contrasts the anxious, aggressive feel of "Get Right." While the burly "He's a Rebel" and "Vendetta" bring the Timberland-and-hoody vibe that anchored many of Deck's standout efforts, experiments like "It's Like That" are suspect. Here, baffling lyrics like "Ya'll ride dicks like a taxi" scuttle Deck's untested staccato rhyming flow. And the girl-watching "Shorty Right There" is a surprisingly amateur ditty that probably should've been a skit. Thankfully Deck recovers on the soul-powered "Stereotype," on which he emerges from his indentity crisis as a "Black action figure that's strapped with the spitter." When he's sure of his target, this G.I. bro still bombs atomically.
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Hope College will host its 73rd annual Nykerk Cup competition on Saturday, Nov. 3, at 8 p.m. at the Holland Civic Center, located at 150 W. Eighth St.
The event, one of a variety of activities scheduled during the college's Parents' Weekend, will feature more than 200 members of the freshman and sophomore classes competing in song, plays and oration. The participating classes this year are the freshman Class of '11 and the sophomore Class of '10.
The public is invited. Admission is free.
The competition, first held on March 16, 1936, is named in honor of the originator of the program, John Nykerk, a professor, college dean and founder of the HopeCollege department of music. The event is continuously staged before a large audience.
The freshman play will be "Outside the Box," coached by juniors Allison Fisher of Wilmington, Ill., and Shanna Mack of Allegan.
The freshman play morale coaches are juniors Daniel Gruben of Wheaton, Ill., Kyle Terpstra of Grand Rapids and Matthew Minkus of Zeeland.
The freshman song will be "Splish Splash." The freshman song will be coached by juniors Jennifer Fait of San Diego, Calif., and Meghan Wahl of Defiance, Ohio.
The freshman song morale coaches are juniors Ben Oegema of Lawton, Chris Sikkema of Rochester, Minn., and Graham Carlson of LaGrange, Ill.
The sophomore play is "Cinderella," coached by seniors Erika Oglesby of Castro Valley, Calif., and Calista Peterson of Hudsonville.
The sophomore play morale coaches are seniors Andrew Denniger of Winfield, Ill., Andrew Liang of Holland and Brian Eisinger of Grand Blanc.
The sophomore song will be "Annie Choral Highlights," coached by seniors Lauren Stacks of Concord and Chelsea Stephenson of Salt Lake City, Utah.
The sophomore song morale coaches are seniors Jon Oegema of Lawton and Kyle Clarkson of Midland.
This year's oration theme is "A Second Glance." The freshman orator will be Sara Saavedra of Holland, whose speech is titled "The Secret to Democracy." She is coached by juniors Ayannah Abiade of Kalamazoo and Barbra Rubio of Holland. The sophomore orator will be Robin Baker of Cicero, Ind., whose speech is titled "A Second Glance." She is coached by senior Courtney Vredevoogd of Grand Rapids.
The general chair of Nykerk is senior Kelsey Hinkle of Cadillac, and general chair-elect is junior Lisa Borton of Hudson. The senior treasurer is Heidi Snyder of Flushing, and the junior treasurer is Anna Gagliardi of Midland. The senior publicity chair is Claudia Klimkowski of Carmel, Ind., and the junior publicity chair is Kariayne Cozzie of Evergreen Park, Ill. Senior Abby DeVuyst of Webster, N.Y., and junior Torey Allen of Williamston are the production chairs. The secretary is junior Abigail Drake of Portage.
The weekend will feature a variety of other performances and presentations in addition to the Nykerk Cup competition.
The gallery of the De Pree Art Center is featuring exhibitions of new work by Erin Carney and Jim Cogswell through Friday, Nov. 16. The De Pree Art Center is located on Columbia Avenue at 12th Street. The gallery is open Mondays through Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sundays from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Admission is free.
The college's biology and chemistry seminar series will each feature addresses by members of the Hope faculty on Friday, Nov. 2, in the A. Paul Schaap Science Center. Biologist Dr. Debbie Swarthout will present "Sensitivity of Stomata to Light and C02 in Endophyte Infected and Uninfected Grasses: Implications for Water-Use Efficiency and Drought Tolerance" at 3 p.m. in room 1019, and chemist Dr. Michael Pikaart will present "A Tale of Tails: Histone Modification and Gene Expression" at 4 p.m. in room 1000. The A. Paul Schaap Science Center is located on College Avenue at 12th Street. Admission to both talks is free.
The college's orchestra, directed by Richard Piippo, will perform with college organist Dr. Huw Lewis on Friday, Nov. 2, at 7:30 p.m. in Dimnent Memorial Chapel, located on College Avenue at 12th Street. The concert, part of the college's Skinner Organ rededication series, will feature the world premiere of the "Concerto for Organ and Orchestra" by Benjamin Boyle. Admission is free.
HopeCollege football will host Olivet College on Saturday, Nov. 3, at 1 p.m. at Holland Municipal Stadium, located on Fairbanks Avenue at 13th Street. Tickets are $7 for reserved seats, $5 for adult general admission, $3 for general admission for those under 18, and free for children five and under. They are being sold in advance at the ticket office in the front lobby of the DeVos Fieldhouse, which faces Fairbanks Avenue between Ninth and 11th streets and is open weekdays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tickets will also be available at the gate.
Apollo's Banquet, an ensemble of dancers and musicians that present 18th century choreographic master works in concert, will perform on Saturday, Nov. 3, at 7:30 p.m. in Snow Auditorium of Nykerk Hall of Music, located in the center of campus along the former 12th Street between College and Columbia avenues. Admission is free.
The college's men's ice hockey club team will host Oakland on Saturday, Nov. 3, at 9 p.m. at The Edge Ice Arena, located at 4444 Holland Ave., near Ransom Street north of Holland.
The three-day Parents' Weekend, running Friday-Sunday, Nov. 2-4, will also feature activities geared toward parents of current students specifically, including a variety of open classes and discussion sessions focused on various aspects of college life.


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Sioux Falls Man Says He Was Knocked Out, Robbed on Bike Trail
A Sioux Falls man has told police he was knocked unconscious and robbed early Tuesday on the bike trail near Cherry Rock Park.
The man says he was walking on the trail around 1:00 am Tuesday when he was struck with some type of object, possibly a pipe, as he crossed the bridge over the Big Sioux River. He said he was knocked out and when he came to, his wallet was on his chest and his cash was gone.
The 56-year-old man had no suspect information for police.