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West Coast rapper Mack 10 is currently recovering in a Los Angeles hospital after undergoing stomach surgery on Monday (April 11).
The former Ice Cube-affiliate, born Dedrick Rolison, was admitted to the hospital after experiencing acute abdominal pains last week. He was diagnosed with diverticulitis, a swelling of the intestines. If left untreated, the condition can cause inflammation or abscessing due to stool spilling from the colon into the abdomen.
According to Mack 10's publicist, surgeons were forced to operate on his stomach, and "six inches of the problem area in his stomach were removed," in an effort to relieve his discomfort. The operation has been hailed a success, and the 39-year-old Westside Connection founder is expected to make a full recovery, remaining under doctor's care for 10 days before he is released to continue his convalescence at home.
"We are all very glad that the worst is over," Mack's publicist revealed. "Now it's time for healing. His colleagues, the Hoo Bangin' team and the entire artist roster wish Mack 10 a quick recovery. We are confident that he will be back to business very, very soon."
Meanwhile, Mack 10's collaboration album with fellow L.A. rapper Glasses Malone, 'Money Music,' was released on Tuesday (April 12) on Mack's Hoo Bangin' Records label.
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It's always awesome when people who shred at life hang out. An example being yesterday's meeting of three legends in their own right — one Grimes, one Emma Mulholland and one Byron Spencer. Unsurprisingly, Grimes (who we interviewed for our Music Issue) loved all of Emma's pieces. She even wore a pair of current season 'Three Pointer' pants to her show at Oxford Art Factory last night, which by the way was fantastic and the maybe the closest thing I have ever come to a religious experience.
Luckily Byron was armed with a Polaroid camera to document this miraculous meet-up — pics or it didn't happen. In the photos, Grimes wears a one-of-a-kind version of the 'Desperate Much?' AW13 bomber which Emma made especially for her, along with some Sheriff & Cherry sunnies. Emma Mulholland represents Emma Mulholland in a 'Cold Blooded Chiller' bomber (in store now!).
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Ian Thorpe has revealed he is stressing his body to its optimum.
Thorpe's bold experiment in contesting the shorter events and individual medley, despite tight programming challenges at the world championships in Barcelona in July, is deliberate.
"I like to train my body to do these things," Thorpe said.
When asked if he was putting his body through the maximum amount of stress he replied: "Yes, I want to put my body through such a state... because it is even a greater challenge. What you do to recover in the meantime is very important. I want to be successful over a number of days, I want to be able to push, recover and push it again."
This comes as Australian head swimming coach Greg Hodge described Thorpe's preoccupation with new things as a "courageous" act.
"We know that Ian's doing a lot more cross-training out of the pool with his yoga and his work on the sand hills and his strength training," he said.
"When you make the kind of changes that they've made, particularly out of the pool changes and some minor technical ones, you're not going to see immediate results. You have to look at the long-term picture and they're focused on next year.
"It's very easy when you're at that level to sit back and, the next thing you know, the rest of the world is passing you by. They're trying to do things to take his swimming to a new level. That's courageous but it's great to see and it's a lesson for all of our athletes and coaches that you can always do something better, you can always do something differently.
"You've got to look more creatively, you've got to look more globally and you've got to be prepared to listen and take advice from other people and figure out what's going to be best for you and your athlete.
"There are always things you can improve. Every person has a weakness and the aim is to look at what you need to do to improve that.
"Just because a person swims world records doesn't mean something can't be done differently and can't be done better. What they're striving to do is take those world records to new heights. Sometimes you've got to take two steps back to take one step forward."
When asked if the approach came under the definition of "if it ain't broke, don't fix it", Hodge said a swimmer can't just keep getting into the pool 10 times a week and "doing the same old, same old. That's not necessarily going to make you a better athlete."
Thorpe, 20, has admitted that his 100m, 200m, 400m freestyle and 200m individual medley program is a tough schedule.
"It's really tough. I swim three different freestyle events that are worlds apart," he said.
"They may as well be different sports because there's such a difference between them all that it makes it very difficult to be able to swim well at each of those events."
But he was unwilling to drop one of the events, even though there are questions about fatigue at these national championships.
"I enjoy the 100. I love the sprint events. I love how intense it is and how switched on and how perfect you have be throughout the race," he said.
"The tactics I love in the 400 as well. I'm not willing to give up one or the other. I'll continue pursuing them and hopefully I've found the right program to allow me to be able to swim well in all of them."
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Feeder cattle marketing was brisk for the first full week of 2013 which annually posts the heaviest auction receipts of the entire year. Compared to the last full non-holiday week of sales, feeder cattle sold firm to 5.00 higher with steer and heifer calves selling 3.00-10.00 higher.
The weather was accommodating in most major production areas with sellers anxious to get cattle off their grocery bill in the new tax year and buyers actively bidding to fill orders that were low on inventory after the holiday break. Despite lighter numbers of available feeder cattle and producers selling cattle ahead of schedule, auction receipts for the busiest week of the year were only 7 percent lighter than the same week a year ago. Undoubtedly, this volume was aided by cow/calf operations selling calves that normally don't sell until much closer to spring and by wheat pasture grazers pulling cattle off barren fields.
Average feeder cattle prices were very comparable to a year ago with Northern Plains markets falling just a few dollars short and Southern Plains locations slightly higher, while the Southeastern region quoted popular calf weights from 3.00-8.00 higher than a year ago. Trading was very active for all classes, but mounting pressure from lower CME cattle futures started to limit gains toward the end of the week (especially on direct country sales that are tied much closer to the Board).
Beneficial moisture moved across the country late this past week with the eastern half of the United States enjoying unseasonably warm weather and spotty rain showers, while the western half shivered under a cold front and heavy snowfall in the northwestern states. Producers are already hoping for an early spring with hay piles quickly evaporating and winter pasture almost nonexistent. Naturally, demand is expected to improve progressively for stocker calves as we move closer to spring but feeder cattle prices are also expected to advance.
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As you all know, between Black Friday weekend and December 15, Target's in-store credit and debit card processing system was compromised, allowing attackers to make off with more than 100 million card numbers and other information. Last night, Target CEO Gregg Steinhafel went on TV to (repeatedly) apologize and to explain why Target didn't acknowledge the hack until Dec. 18. [More]
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Now that everyone is so obsessed with their credit reports and FICO scores, credit monitoring services have popped up everywhere. For a modest recurring fee–one that easily adds up to over $100 a year–you can have a company constantly watch your credit report and alert you of any changes in it, so you can always be on top of your creditworthiness. But should you bother? The consumer director of the U.S. Public Interest Research Groups federation (U.S. PIRG) tells BusinessWeek that credit monitoring is a "protection racket" that turns people into "financial hypochondriacs… who are scared of their own financial shadows."
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Re: Countrywide Sends Fraud Alert Letters: 'Your Info May Have Been Sold," Reader Esqdork writes, "Yesterday, I phoned Countrywide to get them to extend the credit monitoring service [that they offered in their apology letter] to my co-borrower and was promptly hung up on." The only surprise here is that they even picked up in the first place.
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Michael Ondaatje.
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Afterword: The English Patient.
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When Michael Ondaatje came to Canada in the 1960s, his innovative poetry and prose swiftly began to fuel the new Canadian literary renaissance. As his contemporary Margaret Atwood has said, Ondaatje was quietly recognized as "one of the most vital and imaginative of the younger poets." The Dainty Monsters (1967) first established his critical and popular reputation, displaying the emotional energy and creative imagination that would soon characterize his entire oeuvre. Only four years later, Ondaatje won the first of his many awards, Canada's prestigious Governor General's Award, for his extraordinary prose-poem The Collected Works of Billy the Kid (1971). In 1992 he became the first Canadian writer to win the Booker Prize for The English Patient. Today, as his richly metaphorical texts enjoy international renown, Ondaatje's fame is especially fascinating, for he has neither followed trends nor played to any crowd, instead fulfilling his wish to "start each new book with a new vocabulary." Unlike fellow writers Robert Kroetsch and George Bowering, Ondaatje dislikes discussing theory - it takes an appreciation as sharp and probing as Douglas Barbour's to enlighten us to the thoughts, intentions, and influences that have shaped Ondaatje's work, his consistent movement into new territory, and his masterful traversal through the modes of late modernism, postmodernism, and postcolonialism. Barbour offers luminous readings of each of Ondaatje's books up to The English Patient (1992), a novel of international scope that is as much about the power of narratives as the power of passion. Barbour illuminates Ondaatje's early alignment with Wallace Stevens and Robert Lowell, as well as his later development in the Pound tradition. He explains the curious genesis of Ondaatje's first novel, Coming through Slaughter (1976), and in the poet's memoir, Running in the Family (1982), uncovers themes from his youth in Sri Lanka while analyzing how memory and invention interact. In a chapter devoted to Secular Love (1984), the most recent poetry collection, Barbour provides insight into Ondaatje's expression of love lost and found. For the 1987 novel In the Skin of A Lion, he explores Ondaatje's blending of fiction and history in a socially conscious story of Toronto written in the style of magical realism. In both the poetry and the prose, Barbour analyzes Ondaatje's brilliant ability to transform documentary storytelling through brilliant postmodern effects - to accomplish his artistic goal of generating in his readers a "movement of mind and language."
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A relentless spotlight has been shining on the world of political party funding all week - as we've been seeing - on the murky business of secret loans, high value donors, dark hints of cash for honours.
This is, of course, nothing new.
Though the sums of money involved, may have got - indeed have got - a great deal bigger, Alistair McAlpine, Lord McAlpine, who was the Tory Party Treasurer in the Thatcher days, has been described as a genius with a cheque book after a jolly lunch.
He spoke to me earlier from our studio in Rome and I asked him if he thought that honours were, in effect, for sale.
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Well it comes passing close to it. I mean if you lend a million pounds or so to someone who has very little or no chance of repaying it, it doesn't fall into the category of a commercial transaction.
In your day, if someone had come to you and said I am prepared to give a certain amount, a large amount, of money to the Conservative Party but I would hope for a knighthood or a place in the House of Lords afterwards, what would you have said to them?
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Well actually it happened to me once - the guy is now dead - and I - he was a very old man, and he was very sick, and he asked me to come and visit him - and I did and I listened to him and I said "Look, I'm very sorry but what you are suggesting is a criminal offence." And he was deeply shocked.
There was a lot of talk back in the Eighties and Nineties about sleaze and how the Labour Party was going to clean up the system of donations to political parties and yet you look at the last few days and some people would say it's dirtier than ever.
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The Eighties, the sleaze wasn't just money - it was sexual and every sort of sleaze that anyone could lay their hands on.
It certainly was.
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And of course when Tony Blair came in he said I'm having none of that. But, you know, looking back over the last eight years, or whatever it is, it's a mirror image.
Looking back on it, with all your experience, what would be your advice to the Tories and to the Labour Party and the others now? How do they clear this up?
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I advocated that any donation should be declared and published in the London Gazette or something, within a week of receipt. No delay waiting for party accounts and that sort of thing. Now the problem about these loans is they don't appear to be donations but if you're lending money who has very little chance of repaying you, and no visible assets, it comes passing close to being a donation. It's just a technicality.
The perception is that both political parties - all three political parties, because for God's sakes, the Lib-Dems have had a pretty funny time recently - are a very sleazy bunch and there's not a jot of difference between them. Now somehow we've got to get back to the situation where the electorate has faith in political parties otherwise we face an ever falling number of people voting at elections.
And you were raising all this money in the old days because of the hugely increasing cost of campaigning - you had to pay Saatchi and Saatchi and those advertising sites and so on - would another part of the problem be solved by actually putting a cap on how much parties could spend?
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No I don't think that that really would make much difference, because they'll find some way of spending more. You know, the German parties did something like that and they started having foundations, which weren't part of the party but, coincidentally, had the same aims and did the advertising for them.
Lord McAlpine thank you very much indeed for joining us.
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Thank you.
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Last Night of the Proms, with its patriotic ritual and party atmosphere, is different to the rest of the season. One former director hated it so much he would slip away at the interval before the flag-waving began. Petroc Trelawny, who presents the Proms on Radio Three and BBC4, selects four Last Night milestones.
1. A popular ritual is dropped
When Roger Wright became director of the Proms, in 2008, one of his first moves was to drop the ritual performance of Sir Henry Wood's Fantasia on British Sea Songs. It was a bold decision: after it was dropped in 1953, a group of Promenaders formed a protest committee and made posters emblazoned with the slogan, "We want sea songs". The work had caused concern a decade earlier when Lady Jessie, Wood's partner, said its inclusion "turned the season into a music hall rabble". The Sea Songs return tonight after a four-year hiatus.
2. Concerts halted by the war
The increasing number of air-raids on London in 1940 led to the Proms being abruptly abandoned a month earlier than planned. It was also the last Proms at the Queens Hall, the Regent Street venue where the concert series had started in 1895. An incendiary bomb destroyed the building in May 1941. A bronze bust of Sir Henry Wood was found undamaged in the rubble and is now displayed each season at the Royal Albert Hall.
3. Contemporary controversy
This year sees the premiere of sparks by young composer Mark Simpson – but contemporary classical music hasn't always been well-received. The most controversial Last Night premiere came in 1995 with Panic, an 18-minute saxophone concerto written by Harrison Birtwistle. The Proms programme described it as a "bold choice". John Drummond, then Proms director, said "the BBC switchboard was swamped with several thousand protesting calls".
4. Last minute changes
American conductor and composer Leonard Slatkin had to create a new programme following the events of 9/11, which took place just four days before the Last Night in 2001. The work that had been planned to open the second half was John Adams' unfortunately titled Short Ride in a Fast Machine. Its inclusion was also cancelled in 1997 when it was considered inappropriate in the wake of the death of Diana, Princess of Wales.


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Theory Z is the name applied to the so-called "Japanese Management" style popularized during the Asian economic boom of the 1980's. In contrast Theory X, which stated that workers inherently dislike and avoid work and must be driven to it, and Theory Y, which stated that work is natural and can be a source of satisfaction when aimed at higher order human psychological needs, Theory Z focused on increasing employee loyalty to the company by providing a job for life with a strong focus on the well-being of the employee, both on and off the job. According to Dr. William Ouchi, its leading proponent, Theory Z management tends to promote stable employment, high productivity, and high employee morale and satisfaction.
Ironically, "Japanese Management" and Theory Z itself were based on Dr. W. Edwards Deming's famous "14 points". Deming, an American scholar whose management and motivation theories were rejected in the United States, went on to help lay the foundation of Japanese organizational development during their domination of the world economy in the 1980's. Deming's theories are summarized in his two books, Out of the Crisis and The New Economics, in which he spells out his "System of Profound Knowledge". He was a frequent advisor to Japanese business and government leaders, and eventually became a revered counselor. Deming was awarded the Second Order of the Sacred Treasure by the former Emperor Hirohito, and American businesses ultimately tried unsuccessfully to use his "Japanese" approach to improve their competitive position.zh:Z理论
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Schmid Names 22 Players For Final Camp Before U-20 CONCACAF Qualifying Tournament
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CHICAGO (Dec. 30, 2004) – United States Under-20 Men's National Team head coach Sigi Schmid named the 22 players that will participate in the team's final training camp at U.S. Soccer's National Training Center at The Home Depot Center in Carson, Calif., before the U.S. Under-20 MNT attempts to qualify for their fifth consecutive FIFA World Youth Championship.
Of the 22 players named to camp, 16 are in college while five are professional players, four of which play in Major League Soccer – Freddy Adu (D.C United), Arturo Alvarez (San Jose Earthquakes), Eddie Gaven (MetroStars) and Danny Szetela (Columbus Crew). The final professional player is first-choice goalkeeper Quentin Westberg, who plays for ESTAC Troyes in the second division in France. Midfielder Robbie Rogers, who recently had a two-month trial with PSV Eindhoven in Holland, is currently not under contract with any professional team.
The players will arrive into camp on Jan. 2 and Schmid will select his final 18-player roster days before the U.S. competes in Group A of the CONCACAF Under-20 Qualifying Tournament, which will also be held at The Home Depot Center, from Jan 12-16, 2005. The U.S. is in Group A along with Costa Rica, Panama and Trinidad & Tobago. The U.S. will open against Trinidad & Tobago on Wednesday, Jan. 12 at 8 p.m. PT before facing Panama on Friday, Jan. 14 at 8 p.m. PT. The U-20s wrap up the tournament against Costa Rica on Sunday, Jan. 16 at 2:30 p.m. PT. Fans can follow all three games on ussoccer.com's MatchTracker, presented by Philips Electronics. The top two finishers in Carson will advance to the 2005 FIFA World Youth Championship, which will be held in Holland from June 10-July 2.
Tickets ranging in price levels from $10 to $24 are available online at ussoccer.com, at all Ticketmaster ticket centers throughout Southern California (including Robinson's-May, Wherehouse Music and Tower Records), by calling 213-480-3232 (Los Angeles), 714-740-2000 (Orange County) or 619-220-8497 (San Diego), and at The Home Depot Center ticket office. Groups of 20 or more can call U.S. Soccer at 312-528-1290.
"Despite the short window we had to choose our team for the qualifying tournament, I'm confident the players we are bringing in will provide us with the best opportunity to finish in one of the top two positions and advance to the world championship," said Schmid, who was named the U.S. U-20 MNT head coach in late October. "Going up against Trinidad & Tobago, Panama and Costa Rica will be a difficult challenge, but it is one the players are looking forward to meeting head on."
With four professionals available to play the inside and outside midfield positions, the U.S. will look to lead from the center of the field. While only being 15 years of age, Adu is one of the most experienced international players on the team as he was part of the U.S. Under-20 MNT that had a remarkable run at the 2003 FIFA World Youth Championship in the United Arab Emirates, finishing in fifth place. In the past two years with the U-20s, Adu, who has played in midfield and as a forward, has appeared in nine international matches with two goals and one assist.
Gaven will provide an offensive bite from his central midfield position, but the amount of time he sees on the field may be limited as he is still recovering from hernia surgery he underwent in November. At the outside midfield positions, Szetela provides a formidable attack with his speed, vision and pinpoint passing on the right wing, while Alvarez brings experience on the left with 17 international caps over the past two years.
On defense, Westberg is the first-choice goalkeeper as his international experience in France and with the U.S. Under-17 MNT has pushed him to the lead in caps for goalkeepers this year with 10 international appearances for the U-20s.
Defender Jonathan Spector will most likely not be able to assist the U.S. U-20s in qualifying as he is currently playing in England with the Blackburn Rovers, who recently retained his services on loan from Manchester United this past week.
Out of the 16 college players invited into camp, a total of 12 schools from six conferences are represented. The Pacific-10 Conference leads the way with five players (four from UCLA), followed by the Atlantic Coast Conference with four, the Big East with three and Conference USA with two. The two remaining – Big Ten Conference and Southern Conference – each have one representative.
There are a number of college players that will be looking to solidify the defensive line in front of Westberg and backup goalkeepers Andrew Kartunen (Stanford) and Justin Hughes (UNC). Patrick Ianni (UCLA), Patrick Phelan (Wake Forest), Tim Ward (St. Louis) and Greg Dalby (Notre Dame) are all options at central back, with Dalby and Ward also possible fixtures in midfield. On the outside, Schmid has the benefit of choosing from three solid defenders in Hunter Freeman (Virginia), Nathan Sturgis (Clemson) and Marvell Wynne (UCLA).
In midfield from the college ranks, Will John has made the most impact over the past two years for the Under-20s as the St. Louis product's versatility has made him a valuable asset to the team. John is capable of playing a number of positions on the field, including as an attacking midfielder, on the wing or even up front as the lone forward, performing at a high level every time to lead the team with nine points (four goals, one assist) in international play.
Benny Feilhaber (UCLA), Sacha Kljestan (Seton Hall), and Randi Patterson (UNC-Greensboro) may also play a role in midfield for the Under-20s during qualifying, as all three made an impact in the final camp of 2004 to earn one of the 22 spots.
Schmid will have an array of weapons up front with the ability to choose from Chad Barrett (UCLA), Charlie Davies (Boston College), Jacob Peterson (Indiana) and Patterson, who could also see time as a forward. Barrett finished second in scoring for UCLA with 22 points (six goals, 10 assists) this season, while Davies (22 points - nine goals, four assists), Peterson (24 points - 11 goals, two assists), and Patterson (46 points – 19 goals, eight assists) were the scoring leaders for their respective squads.
Since taking over the reigns of the Under-20s in late October, Schmid has gone undefeated (6-0) with impressive victories over CONCACAF counterparts Mexico (2-1) and Honduras (2-0) in Fort Lauderdale in November and two 1-0 victories over Canada at the HDC in December, increasing their overall record in 2004 to 12-7-6.
In Carson, the U.S. will open play on Jan. 12 against Trinidad & Tobago, who defeated Cuba 6-5 in aggregate in the Caribbean Zone to advance to the final round of qualifying. The U.S. holds a 7-2-0 record against Trinidad & Tobago in world championship qualifying, with a substantial goal differential of 26-5.
The USA's second match on Jan. 14 pits them against Panama, a team they have never faced in U-20 qualifying. Panama advanced to the final round by finishing second in the Central American Zone behind Costa Rica, who is the third and final team the U.S. will face on Jan. 16. The U.S. and Costa Rica have met eight times in qualifying and the series is tied up at 2-2-4, with the U.S. holding a slight edge in goal differential, 7-6.
The other two CONCACAF representatives to the 2005 FIFA WYC will come from CONCACAF U-20 Group B as Honduras will host Mexico, Canada and Jamaica in San Pedro Sula from Jan. 26-30, 2005.
This marks the second straight time that U.S. Soccer will host an Under-20 qualifying tournament, as just two years ago the U.S. hosted the 2003 Under-20 Group B qualifying tournament in Charleston, S.C. Before that, the U.S. hadn't hosted the event since 1980.
This will be the first time any U.S. Youth National Team will play at The Home Depot Center, site of U.S. Soccer's National Training Center. The U.S. Men's and Women's National Teams have both played matches at The Home Depot Center.
Under-20 Men's National Team
Training Camp/2005 CONCACAF Qualifying
Carson, California
January 2-17, 2004
Name Pos. Ht. Wt. Birthdate Hometown Club / College
Adu, Freddy F 5'8 150 06/02/89 Potomac, Md. DC United
Alvarez, Arturo M 5'9 170 06/28/85 Houston, Texas San Jose Earthquakes
Barrett, Chad F 5'11 180 04/30/85 Beaverton, Ore. UCLA
Dalby, Greg D 6'0 175 11/03/85 Poway, Calif. Notre Dame University
Davies, Charlie F 5'10 160 06/25/86 Manchester, N.H. Boston College
Feilhaber, Benny M 5'9 150 01/19/85 Irvine, Calif. UCLA
Freeman, Hunter D/M 5'11 170 01/08/85 Allen, Texas University of Virginia
Gaven, Eddie M 6'0 145 10/25/86 Hamilton, N.J. Metrostars
Hughes, Justin GK 6'0 165 04/23/85 Wake Forest, N.C. University of North Carolina
Ianni, Patrick M 6'1 175 04/15/85 Lodi, Calif. UCLA
John, Will F/M 5'10 155 06/13/85 Overland Park, Kan. St. Louis University
Kartunen, Andrew GK 6'1 175 02/07/85 San Juan Capistrano, Calif. Stanford University
Kljestan, Sacha M 6'1 150 09/09/85 Huntington Beach, Calif. Seton Hall University
Patterson, Randi F 5'10 170 04/16/85 Hackensack, N.J. UNC – Greensboro
Peterson, Jacob F 5'10 160 01/27/86 Portage, Mich. Indiana University
Phelan, Patrick D 6'1 175 01/16/85 Enfield, Conn. Wake Forest University
Rogers, Robbie F 5'9 135 05/12/87 Palos Verdes, Calif.
Sturgis, Nathan D 5'10" 150 07/06/87 St. Augustine, Fla. Clemson University
Szetela, Danny M 5'11 170 06/17/87 Clifton, N.J. Columbus Crew
Ward, Tim D 6'0 160 02/28/87 Waukesha, Wis. St. Louis University
Westberg, Quentin GK 6'1 180 04/25/86 Paris, France ESTAC Troyes (FRANCE)
Wynne, Marvell D 5'10 170 05/08/86 Poway, Calif. UCLA
U.S. U-20 MNT Staff
Position Name Residence
Head Coach: Sigi Schmid Manhattan Beach, Calif.
Assistant Coach: Dave Dir Addison, Texas
Assistant Coach: Mike Lapper New Albany, Ohio
Assistant Coach: Peter Vermes Overland Park, Kan.
Coordinator: Erik Carlson Long Beach, Calif.
Doctor: Scott Powell Pacific Palisades, Calif.
Trainer: Jeff Thomas Chicago, Ill.
Trainer: Mike Overturf Aurora, Ill.
Massage Therapist: John Zecopolis Charleston, S.C.
Equipment Manager: Mike Manning Newbury Park, Calif.
Press Officer: Neil Buethe Chicago, Ill.