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Mayor Don Wesely and officials of Leadership Lincoln, Inc. today announced the establishment of a Youth in Action Center, a comprehensive model program to address youth development issues.
"Our young people have many talents, and they have the desire to be involved in their community," Mayor Wesely said. "The Youth in Action Center will help them develop the skills they need to be effective leaders today. By providing this training now, we are also building a pool of future decision-makers who are diverse, knowledgeable and committed to their communities."
The Youth in Action Center will be housed at Leadership Lincoln, a community leadership development organization. Leadership Lincoln celebrates its fifteenth anniversary this year and has recently moved to new offices at Old City Hall, 9th and "O" Streets. The organization currently has three programs: the Fellows program, a year-long series of monthly seminars and retreats; the Executive Series, a three-month program for CEOs new to Lincoln or to their positions; and Youth Leadership Lincoln, sponsored by the Knights of AkSarBen, which provides leadership training to high school students beginning with their sophomore year.
"Youth Leadership Lincoln has been very successful, but we can only take one of ever six students who apply," said Deane Finnegan, Executive Director of Leadership Lincoln. "The Youth in Action Center will complement our current program by providing leadership development at no fee for many more students. This program is the first of its kind in the nation, and we appreciate the organizations that have made the Center possible."
The Woods Charitable Fund has provided $92,500 for the new program, and the joint budget committee of Lincoln and Lancaster County has allocated $20,000. Leadership Lincoln has also received $15,000 from the Lincoln Community Foundation and $7,500 from the United Way of Lincoln/Lancaster County for the program. The Center will replace and expand on the former Youth Advisory Council of the Consortium for Children and Youth.
"This financial support shows how much this community values and believes in our young people," Mayor Wesely said. "Once again, Lincoln is on the cutting edge in an important area, as other communities look to Lincoln as a model for their own youth development efforts."
The Youth in Action Center will focus on students in the tenth and eleventh grades in Lincoln's public and private schools. Peter Ferguson, the Center's coordinator, has been with Leadership Lincoln since August. He said the program hopes to reach 200 students its first year and will seek young people from all parts of the community, all socio-economic background and all races and ethnic groups.
"As these diverse teens come together to learn about leadership, they will also be learning about each other and about the importance of respect," Ferguson said. "The Center can be a tool to break down some of the barriers in our community."
Participants will attend the Youth Leadership Institute, four workshops on such issues as trusteeship, diversity, ethics, facilitation, communication and teamwork. After completing the workshops and a service learning project, the students will be eligible to participate in other Youth in Action Center programs, which include include a clearinghouse to match young people with community agencies, boards and committees. Other projects may include a youth program on public access television, a "quick action" team of volunteers to help with short-term projects, a mentoring group, a youth advisory committee and coordination of the Anti-defamation Leagues's peer-to-peer program.
The Lincoln Public Schools currently provides two teachers as in-kind support to Youth Leadership Lincoln. The teachers will assist Leadership Lincoln with curriculum development for the Center. Facilitators for the Youth Leadership Institute will include teams of trained adult and youth volunteers.
During the first year of the project, the volunteers will be graduates of Leadership Lincoln's three existing programs. Leadership Lincoln will also develop a training component to recruit additional adult volunteers, with a special emphasis on recruiting volunteers from the minority communities. The adult training will be free.
Applications for the Youth in Action Center will be sent to all Lincoln high schools soon. Adults interested in volunteering can contact Leadership Lincoln at 441-4662.


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This birch bark headdress box was made by Tomah Joseph (1837-1914) who was a prolific artist. He incorporated Passamaquoddy origin stories into birch bark art. This container references Rabbit, who became a Shaman, Mikumwess, one of the little people who dwell in the woods, holding two pipes, and a moose, a woodland creature. By incorporating Passamaquoddy stories into a traditional Native art form sold to non-natives, Tomah Joseph shared and in turn, preserved his cultural identity.
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Steve Coll on ExxonMobil, 'Independent Sovereign'
In the Big Interview with WSJ's Dennis Berman, author Steve Coll describes the extraordinary power of ExxonMobil, the world's largest non-government-owned oil company, which operates as an "independent sovereign," he says, answerable only to its shareholders.
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... getting inside when most powerful secretive company's owner and Dennis Berman of Wall Street Journal here with the big interview ... my guess Steve called one of our ... greatest living journalists cycle to take them and so he's written a new book ... it's called private empire and that it's about that ... Exxon Mobil and that it's the spread ... across the world with this this and Steve ... thanks for being with us so that um ... so ... you spend alone time covering Exxon ... is in force for good a force for evil ... it's it's a force ... then it has lots of impacts of the world that are both constructive and destructive ... and ... some of which are built just out of its ... fury business lower structure its influence in really weak states were palms oil and gas that is not so much ExxonMobil's fault but ... part of the sort of structure of resource extraction and really pour countries is problematic ... but sudden ... it's also really successful corporation you know you go back and in American history ... and this is hard to find a single corporation that has ... operated at the top of the American table for so long that I've never forgotten ... the early research looking for to five hundred lists from like nineteen fifty and there they are inevitably the value of steel to deliver ... so of it seems that to ... you you've got so much information ... about the company a few things haven't read the book ... that that really stood out one is the ... great character Lee Raymond the ... CEO who ... left a few years ago ... but ... I sense you have kind of grudging respect ... for Mr Raymond ... in that he was evil ... by ... bullying by being quite that difficult but being in some ways visionary really to push Exxon still ... forward to widget would you describe them ... he was a very effective chief executive to go to those who suffered under his ... arm with a ... forgiving God in choir ... I would would say that as much ... but he ... did you he led a very big Corporation for a long time and changed it ... once you realize how intractable Exxon Mobil is as a ... collector as a as a ... company ... list any bureaucracy that size ... with such a ... solid business model the song threatened by competitors and so for this would be difficult to change and he really change the play ... about these ... I'm in ... that's one reason to be admiring um I think as a writer you always love people more comparable with the roads you were not disingenuous or will you lay it all out there just be direct and he's a martyr the what's your read ... and to lose that way the industry I think what he retired ... in two thousand and five as record certain spoke for itself has created a lot of value for Exxon Mobil shareholder ... and that was the measure by which he drove himself so you have to respect someone to choose their own goals even showed ... even if other people around you might have taken a more balanced approach word ... that's been ... a little more ... on ... forward-looking about environmental and climate issues ... he was he was a wee wasn't it did apologize I think you have a nice meeting in lines I think you view ... of excellence and success are a little less charitably ... and he says you describe is ... very focused on his boy Scout heritage ... and he almost seemed to suggest that that's the ... almost of weakness that he's doesn't have that killer instinct ... of re read what he came in to do something that's very hard for anyone to do that so mobile which is to ... communicate more effectively from the perks of of big oil company that nobody likes them ... so this idea that by sheer force of ... so the boys DEL personality Keith who is ... the ... current moved ... into position with Exxon Mobil was and I thought was a little naive that I don't I don't think it was very effective now ... as a leader of the Corporation I think it's too early to judge his record as of as a business leader he's done he's he's only now starting to ... build departures from the strategy that he inherited ... and he has a good team and he certainly hasn't failed us Chief Executive I'd I think ... how much he is really able to shape Exxon Mobil and Walker legacy he leaves for shareholders is just too early to ... know what will become the book when you describe in getting metals to employees almost as if there is out ... there ... of ... the kit the personalities and and perhaps painted taking a step back from them ... deprive Empire's the name of the book ... and you do get a sense ... of the company became the has an extra national ... institution with working with governments when it's and it's ... service is so good at it and certainly ... perhaps upsetting than when it's it's interesting too so that way ... of unifying the theme for wedding private empire ... he is will ... one day so I think you describe it I mean we live in a world where governments matter less and ... multinational corporations relatively speaking louder more ... so do other non state organizations ... human rights watch for the Red Cross matters more relatively on the global stage than it did forty years ago ... and so and so the terrorist network so that's ... what drew me to this object of them ... of a multinational within that ... certain context ... ExxonMobil is a particular case study because their business model ... is ... demanding a way that say who pools for Wal-Mart store Apple's other powerful multinational corporations today because of their cash flow and their ... role in your permission economy ... ExxonMobil's doesn't will differ they drill holes in the Vernal all over the world in this it'll top of them for forty years and I'm ... arrange geo political imperative of what you actually want when you do that as an independent sovereign is you want stability ... so ... warrants Home Walton coups and changes of government are actually bad for them and ... and and that's interesting thing is having Exxon as an independent so yes I am though I think they see themselves that way I mean I came into the project thinking of course the cliches about ... big oil companies can't be true but what's the alternative ... Democratic Fredrik a bizarre think well the alternative is a kind of independent sovereignty ... in which they don't ... do the bidding of the Bush administration unless they find it ... in their interest at all the role watch ... right but ... what surprised me was discover that ... really they're pretty self conscious about that so that's actually the way they see themselves are ... is the be imposing on fuel ... and air Monessen above where I think an engine with couldn't in Russia ... Putin's ... business and will get get Exxon to do it you want the U S government has added a seven week don't tell us someone to do not sweat ... literally says ... the Scots what to do and there's this great scene ... where Raymond is talking to ... in a one-on-one meeting at the stock to shivers thinking about buying a controlling share in euros ... the quarter cost is higher than in two thousandthree ... and then put together triple what it is the remains of ... telling ... everyone sang basically I didn't need to take control ... who says what does that mean that if I want to do anything with this big oil company on the half to come to you and ask permission and Raymond says ... yet the stilts about this like a lot of ... yet another Russian enemy has even ... received a round of the book and and and is the minerals industry generally we see those tensions rise between ... a nation states the natural resources and independent companies are not ... generally speaking the move has been more courts nationalize energy sources ... and that's left fewer opportunities for co companies like Exxon ... truly make a living meaning to write and that's really important to the world that ExxonMobil lives and how they ... operate and see themselves in of the onthe wanted the paradoxes there are ... there of ... the largest and most influential oil company in the world is not owned by a government that makes them still the roads weak when compared to state-owned companies but also ... the world is change because of this nationalism around oil and resources the start of the Middle East and seventies spread lots of post colonial countries ... and is attracted to spread Argentina's but are generally was right there and and and and ... and so who knows what that pertains Latin America and Brazil but ... this ... this world in which ... you have to replace all the oral ingestion of never use on ExxonMobil's cuz that's what a billion ... barrels of oil equivalent ... that's a lot to fall and ... ended in a world where many many countries lucky well for nationalistic reasons it means ... that you're driven to ... pour three different directions ... all of which are very interesting what is to really weak states like an African better just too weak to do so in the book ... country called it a try again which no one really knows about but it's it's um one of the most ... of valuable oil finds in the world Dow off two or three plays a ... terrible place but the has a lot of oil wants to be the Court of Africa for word for it stick to my character ... to add another benighted countries for a fourth world country with a pile of oil is discouraged trade area ... Angola Nigeria larger oil powers view bigger but ... deeply troubled places ... so you go to weeks that ... then you go also into new technological frontier is word you can argue even to nationalistic government should be less educated ... drilling water this before in ... what is all about ... the fact that ... so that's another so so you end up with his risk profile its geo political risk that Israelis are unstable states disproportionately ... in your places you would want otherwise be why what Exxon Mobil one of the and chatted it didn't really need the reserves ... and yet we see these circumstances really push the company ... into making what might be the it is no moral choices that that that is so resistant to make my God ... you show the route that to become the was the stand as far away from politics is far away from judgment as he can have his contract ... it's going to stand behind iron fences and is can it do its thing and whatever happens outside to ... it doesn't matter but of course we have an outside ... matters a lot when he saw the Equatorial Guinea's didn't add ... the seam in the United States ... aam ... it seems um you know ... a more Alan C is a business needs ... but it also seems that the company I think loses a lot of credibility with awesome and doing the right thing when ... did do a lot of cases and to stand back and that's bad thing that happened ... yet know who you gonna do that with a certain tension that I ... came to ... understand or believe in was between ... all these risks all this turmoil outside political challenges in stability environmental campaigners opposition ... of all types ... so this ... context of instability in risk ... and then within the company ... of real bias towards conservatism uniform systems ... you know a more Alli something that's ... holding an engineer ... so there when he and they are and what the world's greatest engineer ... but there are engineering skills ... are just cannot mother Nature adapt to all of the dimensions of risk that their deal ... and because of this problem of accessing enough resources to replace with the help of some of the year ... the key being driven into high risk your environment certain though they would like ... to just live in nice ... the Civil war over you could call for a Share courtiers of the top do you ... think that ... um ... Corporation is purse ... the ... aam ... now ... I mean I think that a corporation has the status of a person under the law in some certain circumstances in settings yes but what's interesting about ... really trying to get a feel for what ... of an institution like Exxon Mobil is is that it actually lacks the qualities of an individual ... it is a ... it is a strong current of incentives and called for an ... Tina's and so forth and ... it's a pretty extreme example of of of ... close system because it's ... basically ... more like the Marine Corps than any other corporation I've ever encountered ... everyone's there for life from the people who rise to the top prize together and cohorts and ... you don't come in from the outside that company ... aam but that but the quality of the ... the mid season form by a lot of talented people out of dedicated hard working people ... but it doesn't have um ... their turf the rest of the vote ... of an individual you know it if anything it sure draws individual ... individuality alphabets ... were a hoax and ... creates a greater twenty oh we're seeing right now ... the question about this on the campaign trail ride is Corporation a person then and from a legal perspective U S law that says yes ... um ... and is this principle that ... enshrine NBC's was enshrined into law in citizens United case which gave companies ... of which was hit on unfettered with the speech ... of watching now ... Exxon but he is um ... politically and as an actor in our political realm ... the citizens United ... decision makes sense or is there some as a unique characteristic about ... companies in business that should push them out of our political props ... what was interesting to think about that ... and ... especially with older workers on mobile which has ... as it often points out ... euro million plus shareholders own ... initial phone retirees' everybody who owns ... an initial phone is likely to own a piece of Exxon's level ... government pension funds teacher Retirement phones ... so they're a very democratic with this mold the ... organization and that many Americans participate in the voting ... and they're they're eighty thousand employees most of them are not Americans their living abroad but ... the employees in the United States contribute to a political action committee phone ... but nobody bought a handful of executives at the headquarters of the goddaughter that the ... death star ... it ... has a say in how that money is spent so ... ExxonMobil undertakes a series of decisions that you know it's entitled to take the nerd citizens United and other legal regimes ... which is it decides to spend ... ninety percent or more of its employees political action committee contributions on Republican candidates ... so ... more than any other corporation whose ... own contributions I analyze the data politically active strategy ... and ... now ... when you'll all their entire peddled to that that is what leadership the selected to do as opposed to forge political strategies that are matched with the shareholders' interest does the leadership season but ... this is all the one hand they want to argue for their status and our political system ... was pointing out that there are there everybody you know they're a lot of different people little gone isn't in Italy on him they wanna make ... the green arrow self interested decisions that ... don't have to do with the value of the shares by which their compensated than so so ... much for what to make of all of a ... sudden there's a lot a contradiction it doesn't seem that this super PAC ... that he knew were saying in this ... election ... it does not like a great flowering of democracy ... and ... I mean if there is the Super PACs or even order of magnitude worse than what Exxon Mobil goes with that ... his partisan least transparent ... it files its lead over and it didn't work said a certain level of spending ... compared to a single individual who ... can often shield a lot of his views is just dropping five or ten million into the Balkans and ... that's ... um do you get the ... sense that Exxon is the platonic ideal ... of incorporation them in ... the way you describe is ... the so the logical extension of a certain idea of a corporate and you know they they are ... they are there there are a form of ... beauty perfection within a certain realm and then what's clarifying about that is you look at it and say ok I see the formal geometric ... achievement to go operating discipline financial discipline ... Corporal coherence ... lifelong employment with a real cohesion and a philosophy that is consistent ... and applied overtime systematically focus about some of the old beautiful Ruth was yes ... yes and then use a walker so what's wrong with this picture ... I think that's an interesting ... discussion that we've been having one of ... the questions is ... what are its responsibilities beyond this formal should doesn't really don't have any other responsibilities or imperatives what his leadership ... really about if you're in a position sold at the last two questions and that is is there a moral moral responsibility ... from a company that perhaps fulfills a letter of the law for Phil's contracts behaves honorably as a businessman is there a higher moral duty ... maybe not but there is a business imperative to do better than they do I would argue because ... basically ... if you live in a world ... that's changing the way ours is ... there were ... young people are rising and soon the far faster than ever with the world's more diverse and more interconnected than ever ... you know were ... were challenges more individualistic and more creative you want to retain the best young scientists of the next-generation can you really operate with the call for the half ... I think that ... that the fundamental problem with their formal formal hold beauty is that it's actually self defeating in the long run they're going to have to adapt ... to the world that we actually lived and not stand apart from ... and last question is ... what they have a strike by was how of the women says you know I don't have a duty to the United States you ... have a duty to ensure lose them ... I see that in so many different ways ... you can companies around Wall Street light duty for system and shareholders ... have we lost the sense of duty ... to the country ... um ... and ... and ... is there a ... general ideal that you let shareholders compares my country comes maybe six right ... below us I think if you talk to business leaders of the postwar era who really good came of age in the sixties and during the cold war ... they'll all say yes absolutely and ... and maybe it's the end of the cold war maybe it's the fact that there's no existential in the dentist no two competing systems that ... could find a corporation to national interest the same way ... that it's globalization and the fact that the whole structure of the world economy ... has disbursed of these businesses in ways that forced them to make these choices and ... in ways that are somewhat in the sixties with record the net ... but it's definitely a loss of ... a certain sort role in global role that these corporations played in those sixteen ... and ... beautiful ruthlessness ... at the end of the most productive people are thinking so much for joining us now to the discredit of higher ... whimsical


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Soulja Boy Speaks A Bit About Robbery Incident When Goons Kicked In His Door! (But Not Alot Of Details)
Soulja Boy on Big Boys Neighborhood. Shout out to Q Deezy
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SETTLEMENT : Plaintiff contracted serious, untreatable disease from a drug injection
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homecarolinas needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 62 designs submitted by 16 freelance designers.
We are a Charlotte based Real Estate company who is hoping to expand our client base and increase sales. We have previously focused on the luxury market here in Charlotte but are hoping to branch out and work with multiple types of buyers and sellers. Recently we launched our site homecarolina.net and are looking for a logo to convey the message of our company.
We aim to make people feel at home and represent an honest and personable real estate experience. We want our logo to appeal to all markets including first time home buyers, distressed properties, luxury homes etc.
Looking for a logo to be created for our real estate team HomeCarolina that will be used for web and print marketing, as well as signage and letterhead. We are looking for a simple, clean look with a touch of elegance but with a modern/edgy appeal. It needs to be simple but professional.
Here are a few things to consider:
We would like to incorporate a house in the logo or something that notes a real estate company.
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As far as colors we want them to coincide with our website. Feel free to play around with the colors but make sure it can tie in with the colors on our page.
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You are invited to design a logo expressing a love for nature, postive change and people-to-people networking. This is an exciting opportunity to brand our IUCN Commission for the future.
CEC Chair Juliane Zeidler invites you to design a winning logo to be used globally the IUCN Commission on Education and Communication. CEC is a global network of more than 1,100 members who actively volunteer their professional expertise in learning, knowledge management and strategic communication to achieve IUCN goals. In this case, we are calling for graphic design expertise and anticipating great results from our volunteers.
Logo requirements
The logo should embody the following themes:
- Love for nature
- Positive change (uplifting)
- People-to-people (network, community)
Conceptually, the logo should represent the vision and mission of our Commission:
- Vision: A global community that loves and values nature
- Mission: We enable the global community to effectively communicate and use knowledge to create positive conservation change.
The logo should represent our work in strategic communication, learning, capacity building and knowledge management. Consider also the many cultures represented in our network, and the people-to-people nature of communication.
Who can apply
Any individual or any team, company, organization or institution with a fantastic concept can enter this competition. You do not need to be a member of IUCN CEC.
IUCN Commission logos
IUCN's six Commissions are an integral component of the Union, as core constituents and as a crucial driving force towards implementation of the IUCN Programme. Each Commission has its own identity and history. In branding terms, the Commission identity is a 'daughter' of the IUCN identity. Thus, all external communications from IUCN Commissions must follow IUCN logo rules and the IUCN visual identity rules. An IUCN Commission logo must always appear with the IUCN logo to clearly show this strong relationship. A Commission logo cannot be used on its own. This applies to all printed, digital and web materials. To view current Commission logos, as well as IUCN logo rules for Commissions, please click here >>
Of course, any images that are subject to copyright or that might offend cannot be used. Entries should not be in any way similar to existing logos or other copyrighted images. All usage rights will remain with the contest holder, IUCN CEC.
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Logo entries must be submitted by 20 October 2013. You may submit up to three entries.
- The entries should be submitted as a scalable vector graphic in EPS format or as a high resolution JPEG at least 1000 pixels/side. In addition, provide a low resolution version in PDF or JPEG for reference. Our email has limits on attachment size, so kindly compress images, send individually or use free services such as Dropbox or WeTransfer.
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I understand that in order to use SSL, the server should need extra-power, as more CPU and memory would be required. I think it's worth, though.
Anyways, Let's encrypt is now issuing free/gratis SSL certificates, and I would consider this option: https://letsencrypt.org/
eg: FreeBSD forums are encrypted (though it's the official one). https://forums.freebsd.org/


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Oyster Seafood & Raw Bar is now a proud member supporter of Scout. We will be publishing their news on our front page and hosting a page for them in our list of recommended restaurants to check out. We'd like to take this opportunity to thank them for their support of our little website. Click ahead to read on or jump directly to their Scout page here…
Inside Vancouver's original Stock Exchange Building (circa 1929)
475 Howe Street, Vancouver, BC
Telephone: 604-899-0323
Web: www.rawbar.ca
Hours: Monday to Saturday, 12pm to 9:30pm
Capacity: 25 seats
Owner: Jeremy Towning
Manager: Kelly Ann Woods
About Oyster
Oyster Seafood and Raw Bar: a new pearl in the Vancouver dining scene. A small and charming room, distinctly focused on Ocean Wise seafood, Oyster blends the charm of the 1920's with the upscale and modern influences of the twenty-first century. Housed in the original Vancouver Stock Exchange building at 475 Howe Street, this 25 seat oyster haven is open from noon to 9pm Monday to Friday, with daily menu features and 3 – 6pm "buck a shuck" oysters.
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(Story originally published March 19, 2013)
Carlos Bocanegra went to sleep on the evening of Feb. 5 in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, expecting to play his 111th game for the U.S. national team the following afternoon.
Entering his seventh year as captain, the 33-year-old center back had been training with most of the projected starters and was by far the most experienced defender at U.S. coach Jurgen Klinsmann's disposal.
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The afternoon sun would be blazing for the World Cup qualifier, and the Estadio Olímpico Metropolitano would be raucous. The two-time World Cup veteran, who was so familiar with the treacherous conditions typically associated with road qualifiers, had every reason to believe he'd soon be leading his teammates onto the field to face high-flying Honduras.
The next morning, however, Klinsmann announced a starting 11 that, according to one source, left Bocanegra in "disbelief."
Geoff Cameron and Omar Gonzalez, who never had played together, would partner later that day in central defense. Fabian Johnson and Timmy Chandler, two German-born defenders with minimal World Cup qualifying experience, would man the flanks with scant support in front of them.
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Bocanegra's omission wasn't the only surprise (starters Cameron and forward-turned-midfielder Eddie Johnson had been training with the reserves), but it was the most dramatic. The squad was unsettled.
"It was one of those things where Jurgen woke up the next day and wanted to try something we weren't familiar with," a player said.
According to multiple sources, Klinsmann appealed to Bocanegra—now relegated to the bench—for his support during the pregame pep talk. It was described as an awkward, tone-deaf move that surprised several U.S. players and deeply hurt the long-time captain.
"He already broke Carlos' heart," another source said. "Why drive the knife in and twist it?"
Building a case
Sure enough, the U.S. played like a team lacking leadership and an appropriate, coherent plan throughout an ugly 2-1 loss to Honduras.
It wasn't the defeat itself that proved so troubling—the U.S. always loses two or three matches during the 10-game qualifying gauntlet known as the Hexagonal. It was the manner in which the Americans capitulated. The final score flattered a U.S. squad that spent the majority of the afternoon on its heels, devoid of the energy, possession and ideas Klinsmann intended to deliver.
The performance that day, as well as a lack of obvious improvement during his 19 months in charge, has alarmed the American soccer community and unearthed considerable discontent. The U.S. might have just set out on the road to Brazil, but confidence is on the wane on both sides of the locker room door as the Americans prepare to face Costa Rica (Friday) and Mexico (March 26) in a pair of critical qualifiers.
Over the past several weeks, Sporting News has spoken to 22 individuals with ties to the U.S. national team or its members—including 11 current players based in MLS or abroad. The remaining sources make their living in American soccer and have reliable relationships with players, coaches and executives. Sources were offered anonymity in exchange for their anecdotes, observations and opinions. Those identified by name are Klinsmann and three players who spoke shortly before Sporting News commenced reporting this story.
What emerged over the course of these discussions was near unanimity regarding the players' flagging faith in Klinsmann, his staff and his methods, along with the squad's absence of harmony.
In conversation after conversation, the same themes emerged:
— Klinsmann and chief assistant Martin Vasquez either lack the tactical acumen and game-day chops to successfully lead the team or fail to communicate their wishes effectively.
— Too much time and too many resources are spent on initiatives that don't translate to the field.
— Constant lineup changes and building resentment over the perceived importance and attitude of the German-born players are harming team chemistry.
This group isn't on the same page with its coach or each other, and the World Cup campaign might be in peril unless that changes. Sources painted a picture of a coach whose big ideas might not fit a team he could be in danger of losing.
Sporting News reached out to U.S. Soccer for comment and spoke to Klinsmann at length Sunday.
The former World Cup champion, who then managed his native Germany to a bronze medal at the 2006 tournament, wasn't shocked by the fact his players are struggling or confused.
"These comments are just normal to me," he said. "This team is in a transition. Between two World Cup cycles, faces change. We're doing that, and you also kind of mix up the chemistry. There will be a new group of leaders coming through that process, and that will be responsible for molding everything together."
Klinsmann emphasized that he respects predecessor Bob Bradley and the work he did during his five-year tenure but is convinced that progress requires change.
"It's not the same routine they were used to before we came on board. And my job is to elevate the program and I can't do that by doing the exact same of what they did before me," Klinsmann said. "I can only get to another level by bringing in new players and challenging the older players. By challenging them in every training session, by giving them uncertain feelings here and there—'Do I play or not play?'—and so on."
Cause for concern
The players felt uncertainty in San Pedro Sula, starting from the moment Bocanegra was benched and continuing into the Olímpico locker room.
"(Klinsmann) didn't really say how we were going to play. It was a quick turnaround," one U.S. player recalled. "He just basically said, 'Guys, we know the importance of the game. We know it's going to be a tough game down here. They made it a national holiday. They're going do everything they can.
" 'They're going to bite, kick and scratch. They're going to do everything to take you out of your game. But at the end of the day, it's a game. The ball doesn't change. The way we play doesn't change. So just go out there and represent yourselves well.' "
Honduras certainly did kick—around and through a ponderous U.S. team hoping to survive with an inexperienced back four, a lack of width and the absence of a midfield playmaker who might help possess the ball and alter the tempo.
It looked so much like the September setback in Jamaica that one source said, "You're judged as a coach based on what he learned from the first round of qualifying. Nothing."
Immediately after the loss, Klinsmann focused on his team.
"We gave away too many opportunities to this Honduras team, and they took advantage. Too many players didn't reach their usual potential," he said. "Too many players kind of were underneath their usual performance."
Others focused on Klinsmann.
"Several things about the lineup didn't work," one of the players told Sporting News. "Sometimes a coach's biggest mistake is trying to get in who he sees as the best 11 players on the field. But they don't have to be. You have to have 11 players on the field who are going to work well with each other and be good for each other."
It was a miserable day that highlighted the disconnect between the team and its manager.
Speaking to reporters immediately following the game, both midfielder Michael Bradley and goalkeeper Tim Howard offered comments that a pair of former national teamers told Sporting News amounted to "cries for help."
"I think we need to find a way to get a better rhythm," Howard said. "It's OK if you have to sit in and form a shell. That's OK. But even when you do that, you still need to get about the ball, close it down and get out to the flanks."
Regarding the makeshift defense, Howard told New York's Daily News, "They never played together in any game, let alone a Hex. The back four is all about jelling. It's a frying pan. We don't have time to learn."
When asked what the U.S. might do better, Bradley said, "I think at times, knowing how to tactically get a little smarter as a team and to know that in different types of games, to stay disciplined and to stay connected without running crazy, but in a smart, solid way, control situations."
The big questions
It's not all doom and gloom. Klinsmann has enjoyed some good results. The U.S. was a program-best 9-2-3 last year, finally beat Mexico at the Estadio Azteca and finished atop its semifinal round World Cup qualifying group.
But the record papered over the fact the soccer often left something to be desired. There was a lack of consistency and a lot of ugly wins, which matters when the coach talks so frequently about style. Klinsmann's decisions came under scrutiny.
Most observers agree that the combination of physical fitness, technical precision and proactive play Klinsmann targeted so publicly and passionately remains elusive. Meanwhile, after more than a year and a half in charge—and as that game in Honduras suggests—his lineups and tactics still confound.
On the surface, the frustration has been tempered by reasonable mitigating factors. First and foremost, the sort of cultural shift Klinsmann hopes to spark can't happen overnight.
Teaching players to challenge their assumptions and to consider new approaches to their sport, their careers and in some cases their lifestyles is a tall task, especially when a national team gathers for only a few days at a time. Injuries, problematic club situations, deep-seated player development issues far beyond Klinsmann's control, rough road trips and his effort to broaden the U.S. talent pool have added to the growing pains.
It's also important to note, as multiple sources stressed, that no team is completely happy and harmonious—especially after a tough loss.
"Every team I've been on, there have always been guys who don't buy in," one national team player said, echoing several others. "There's always been trouble with adjustments as far as applying what the coach has to say. That's nothing new."
But the trouble with the national team goes beyond a disgruntled player or two. According to sources, there is a lack of understanding and confidence in Klinsmann's message and method, even among those who get regular minutes, which is worthy of concern considering what's at stake for American soccer. That disconnect can be boiled down to two fundamental questions: How long should the transition take and who is expected to conform to whom?
Klinsmann made his opinion clear Sunday. He believes the U.S. will qualify for the World Cup and that his job is to identify the players with the talent, fortitude and commitment to meet the standard set by the sport's elite nations. Catching up requires extra work and a ton of motivation. Comprehension and chemistry start from within.
"This is what we're trying to tell them. This is what we're trying to introduce to them. They're challenged," he said. "Some guys are out of their comfort zone, absolutely. It's not actually the coach that has to adjust to the players, to kind of think about it, 'How do I communicate it perfectly (and) correctly to the players?'
"It's actually the players' job to take the information from the coach, with whatever personality the coach has and let it kind of sink into his own system. ... Now, I have to implement it in my own way. It's a learning process, and that's fine.
"It's never going to happen if you don't start doing it."
Troubling tactics
"Have you read Philipp Lahm's book?"
That was the response from a U.S. national team player when asked about the tactical issues the U.S. is experiencing under Klinsmann and Vasquez.
Lahm, the German national team captain, wrote an autobiography two years ago in which he criticized several former coaches, including Klinsmann. The pair worked together when Klinsmann managed Germany from 2004 to 2006 and Bayern Munich in 2008-09.
"We practiced little more than fitness (at Bayern). Tactical things were neglected. The players had to get together before (games) to discuss how we wanted to play," Lahm wrote. "After six or eight weeks, all the players knew it wouldn't work with Klinsmann. The rest of the season was damage limitation."
Klinsmann, with Vasquez in tow, failed to last the 2008-09 season at Bayern and didn't coach again until hired by U.S. Soccer president Sunil Gulati in the summer of '11. He responded to Lahm's criticism shortly after taking the U.S. job, telling ESPN, "It's basically a player's perspective that never has the coaching perspective. He doesn't see the big picture."
Klinsmann's perspective is a wide one. Curious, humble and thirsty for knowledge, he leaves no stone unturned while working tirelessly to forge the next generation of American soccer player.
Not only is his commitment to fitness on the cutting edge—the U.S. now travels with a fully stocked, portable gym and the players undergo routine tests and screening—he is willing to try just about anything if there's a chance it might offer his team an edge. From yoga, meetings with a full-time nutritionist and field trips to historic sites to media training, motivational speakers and "aptitude tests, like an IQ test," Clint Dempsey told Sports Illustrated last year, Klinsmann's players work long hours in pursuit of holistic, 24/7 excellence.
There usually are two practice sessions a day, along with additional physical activity like bike work and yoga. Blood tests are common. There are meetings and team meals and little freedom to head out in the evenings.
All of which might build better men. But the players are starting to wonder if it has anything to do with building a winning team. Lahm's words could have been a cheap shot. But they resonate.
"We do all this stuff. OK, it's good for us and it's scientifically proven. But in the end it's a round ball. The Pelés and the Maradonas in the world weren't doing all these things," a U.S. player said. "I think we spend more time worrying about gyms and nutrition, and we don't do enough of what we need to do on the field."
Another source said the players are "overtrained and undercoached."
It's no secret that when Klinsmann was revitalizing the German national team ahead of the '06 World Cup, it was assistant coach Joachim Löw who deserved a significant part of the credit. Klinsmann said so himself, telling Der Spiegel, "If Joachim Löw is better at noticing wrong positioning strategy, I can't cut him off just because I'm the head coach. I have to hold myself back and observe why and how Jogi does and explains things."
Germany's swashbuckling style earned plenty of admirers en route to the bronze medal in '06 and Die Mannschaft has continued its winning ways under Löw, who took over when Klinsmann resigned following the World Cup. Meanwhile, Klinsmann hasn't enjoyed the same acclaim working with Vasquez, a Mexican native who moved to Los Angeles as a child. The pair met after the German immigrated to California around a dozen years ago.
Vasquez, the first man to play for both the Mexican and U.S. national teams, is a friendly, soft-spoken coach who worked as an assistant with both the L.A. Galaxy and Chivas USA before joining Klinsmann in Munich. After Klinsmann was fired, Vasquez returned to the U.S. and earned his first opportunity to run a team.
Chivas USA appeared to be the ideal fit, but after a disastrous 2010 season that remains the struggling club's worst since its inaugural year ('05), Vasquez was cut loose. His performance was panned in domestic soccer circles. When Klinsmann reached out to his old friend for help with the national team, Vasquez was working with kids as the director of Real Salt Lake's academy in Arizona.
Only one source said Vasquez was up to the job as Klinsmann's primary tactician. Whether it was Vasquez's basic and repetitive training sessions, his inscrutable explanations or simply a lack of command, responsiveness or charisma, plenty of other sources had at least one comment referencing Vasquez as a decent guy who's in over his head.
There also is the feeling that Klinsmann's deputy should act as a foil. That sentiment was echoed by a player who, when asked about Vasquez, simply said, "Jurgen could use an assistant who doesn't just say 'yes' all the time."
Klinsmann stressed Sunday that he had "100 percent confidence" in Vasquez. "He's an outstanding coach and we're thrilled to have him," he said.
To add to the confusion, multiple sources reported that Klinsmann's training camps often are conducted in a "manic" fashion, with the manager frequently altering the schedule on short notice.
"He's just scatterbrained," a player said.
"He coaches based on feeling," another source said.
And therein lies that disconnect. Players value rhythm and predictability. They don't want to wait until the morning of the game to learn who's starting, which one former national teamer called "the worst thing you could possibly do."
In 2007 or '08, several players went to Bob Bradley and asked him to announce his lineup on the night before a match rather than the day of, and he complied. Athletes prefer to prepare for the opponent and the task at hand. They want to practice how they're going to play.
One U.S. regular, when asked how frequently Klinsmann deploys a lineup or formation that wasn't practiced before the game, answered "70/30."
So 30 percent of the time, they take the field feeling confused. And that's just the beginning of the players' struggle to get the information they need.
Klinsmann is a masterful communicator in many ways. He's brilliant with both fans and media and is more accessible and outgoing than any national team predecessor. He's the face American soccer needed and, according to several players, is readily available for feedback and counsel.
During the national team's January camp, Houston Dynamo midfielder Brad Davis praised Klinsmann's easy-going yet forthright manner.
"In past camps I've been to, I never got any feedback whatsoever," Davis said prior to the exhibition against Canada. "I went up to (Klinsmann) and kind of explained the way things had gone in the past with myself, personally, and said, 'If you have any feedback before the end of camp, to know what you guys think about where I stand. ... He was like, 'Oh, absolutely. We'll have a sit-down interview. Things have been going well so far. We've been impressed.' This kind of casual conversation, how they run things, was a good sign."
But that give-and-take seems to end on game day, when the players often feel unsure of their roles and responsibilities. Klinsmann insisted, "The specific guidelines and specific information that they need, they always get them very, very accurately from us."
But Lahm's claim that he was forced to work through tactics with teammates rings true with the men now taking the field.
One player said a typical pregame instruction will be something like, "Go express yourself," while another source recalled that players returning from Honduras claimed, "He just threw guys out there and played."
A different player said that at halftime of the qualifier in San Pedro Sula, with the U.S. fortunate to be level at 1-1, Klinsmann, "Didn't really say that much. Just, 'C'mon, we've got to win this game. They scored an unbelievable (tying) goal, and we can't do anything about that. We're going to win this game.' It was never, 'We need to do this. We need to change this.' "
That same player continued, "It's always motivational. He's a great motivator. He can make you feel you're better than what you are."
But that wasn't good enough in Honduras, and there has been a bit of locker room whiplash since Klinsmann took over for Bob Bradley. The 2010 World Cup coach lacked the German's charm and big-picture ambition, but Bradley was a meticulous tactician who constructed a coherent system that made the most of the talent at his disposal.
"Bob was better at getting his message across. There was more of an identity," a player said. "We're still coming to terms with that (under Klinsmann). ... Sometimes the message they're trying to get across isn't relayed the best, or as players we don't apply it. It's just different."
Whether it's the message or the interpretation, players now feel unprepared. They have questions.
One asked why the 4-4-2 formation that was so effective against Slovenia in the fall of 2011 hasn't been used more often. A second player wondered how 14 months later the U.S. could look so disjointed in January's scoreless draw against Canada after spending nearly three weeks together. Another asked why the U.S. is 1-2-1 in road World Cup qualifiers under Klinsmann, despite taking the lead in all four. And a fourth posed the biggest question of all: Is the U.S. even ready to play the style Klinsmann wants to see?
"They want us to play the beautiful game, but we're not a technical team like the Germans. We're not Spain or Brazil," the player said. "What we're good at is we work hard, we fight and we compete. We have great athletes and we're a good counterattacking team. Maybe we need to go back to what we're good at."
The confusion persists.
Klinsmann said it's all by design.
"They all want the safety net. They want to always feel comfortable, but if you want to elevate the program to another level, you need to go to a phase of being uncomfortable out there and then deal with that," he said.
He doesn't want players knowing the lineups before game day because he wants them competing hard up until the last minute (and not sharing the information with confidants who might leak it to the press).
As for unexpected changes in tactics or formation, well, dealing with that is part of being an elite player as well.
"On that level that we operate," Klinsmann told Sporting News on Sunday, "and maybe I'm a bit different from whoever was there before, you expect players to adjust right away to different tasks on the training field, to different formations, to different ways of solving problems. That goes back basically to leaving their comfort zone. We do that in training sessions, too. And, yeah, it makes them kind of worried."
"Now suddenly it's a higher level. Suddenly I have to adjust in training or suddenly I don't know if I'm in the starting 11. Or I have to switch (formations) and still I have to solve it on the field. I have to build chemistry with the guy I never see when I come into camp. When all those elements we throw at them now, because if we don't do it, it's too late in the World Cup."
Chemistry calamity
Klinsmann has fielded 23 different lineups in his 23 games in charge. Based upon the qualifying roster he announced Monday afternoon, which excludes Bocanegra, Howard, Chandler, Fabian Johnson and a few more familiar names, it soon will be 24 in 24.
It's an astonishing statistic and certainly not entirely Klinsmann's fault. Injuries and club commitments can create depth-chart chaos and are the bane of every national team coach. The upheaval highlights some of Klinsmann's positive qualities as well—he's willing to give new or unheralded players an opportunity and is even happy to be wrong about an individual he previously dismissed.
But if the picture Lahm painted applies to the U.S., then that lack of continuity doesn't bode well. It's tough enough if players don't understand precisely what Klinsmann and Vasquez want. It's even tougher if they don't understand each other.
"Coming into these camps, certain players aren't in the same situation and on the same page on the field. It's frustrating," a player said.
The divide is clear, deepening and international. For several U.S. born players, the increasing stature of Jermaine Jones, Danny Williams, Fabian Johnson and Chandler (and to a far lesser extent, Terrence Boyd)—all German born sons of American servicemen—is harming team chemistry.
"They stay to themselves. Jermaine is the leader, and the rest of them follow him," one player said. "I don't know if they don't care."
"It's like they're here and they enjoy it, but they don't care as much as you should to play for the national team," said another player.
It wouldn't be a shock if the German-born players kept to themselves. Cliques are natural. There are cultural and language issues in play and Jones, the leader, has been a U.S. regular for only two years. But the U.S. natives who spoke to Sporting News were bothered, however, by how those differences manifest themselves on the field.
"We need more guys around who understand what it takes to get through these games, knowing what the meaning of going to Honduras away, where the pitch is going to be (crap), the weather is going to be bad and you have to do everything you can," a player said.
Such mentality was absent in San Pedro Sula.
"(Klinsmann) isn't going to bring them all the way from Germany and sit them down," the same player said. "But Bocanegra, who's the most capped guy on the team, isn't playing. Everybody found that a bit disturbing, not having our captain. That guy has the most leadership in the squad and to not have him in a game like that was really peculiar. If you go back and look, when did we get together or have any sort of huddle on the field? It was just everyone on their own terms.
"Everyone was doing their own thing. And it showed."
The lack of direction from coaches and the "mulligans" some believe have been granted to the German players has damaged the all-for-one camaraderie so evident at the 2010 World Cup. One player talked about how background and self-image can become an issue on the field.
"You play in the Bundesliga. You play in the Premier League. You're not that player here. Don't try to be that player here. Come to terms with who you are as a player," he said. "Nobody should feel that way because they play somewhere. I feel sometimes we try to do too much. This isn't your club team. We've got to find common ground.
"I can't put it all on Jurgen. When you're at this level, you should be smart enough as a player and proud enough as an individual to want to do the right thing."
It could be jealousy or jingoism. Or it could be unfolding exactly as these players describe. Either way, the mere suggestion of a divide, the presence of the smallest shred of doubt when a player takes the field alongside a teammate whose commitment he questions, is enough to turn perception into reality.
Klinsmann claimed adamantly that he has no bias toward players of a certain background or place of employment, and in fact a couple said Klinsmann seems to have more faith in MLS talent than his predecessors. But the coach told Sporting News that it isn't entirely his responsibility to heal any locker room rifts. He can mix and match roommates, but in the long run it's up to the players.
"I understand that first there's always an uncomfortable feeling with every change you bring to a team environment in any industry you work with," Klinsmann said Sunday, asking, "If any of the players that you talked to said what he can do to solve the problem. ... If they feel that way, which is fair enough, then they can actually do something about it. If the players were to ask a German-American about his background ..."
Looking ahead
Jones and Boyd will be the only German-Americans available for the games against Costa Rica and Mexico, two challenging opponents in four days. Three points at the Azteca are unlikely, and heading into June's qualifiers at anything less than 1-2-0 surely would increase the tension around the team.
"Things are boiling over," a source said. "The feeling now is that this is (Klinsmann's) last chance against Costa Rica."
The morning of the Honduras qualifier, probably around the same time Bocanegra was seeing his national team career flash before his eyes, Gulati met with a group of reporters at a hotel breakfast. During the conversation, Sporting News asked if he ever spoke with leading U.S. players about Klinsmann or the national team's direction. Gulati said he did but declined to reveal the content of those conversations.
Even if Gulati is hearing similar concerns, it's difficult to imagine a coaching change during the Hex. Klinsmann has a mandate and a long-term objective. He also makes a base salary of $2.5 million per year. Financial issues can't be ignored, and additional upheaval within a team crying out for stability would be counterproductive.
But at some point, if World Cup qualification starts to slip away, there will be calls for change.
A couple of players said Klinsmann might be more suited to the role of general manager or technical director. Perhaps his success with Germany hints he's more of a visionary who needs a complementary, nuts-and-bolts colleague to handle the day-to-day grind. Perhaps the appointment of another assistant, one with more experience and success coaching American players, would do the trick. Perhaps this team has enough talent to overcome all the aforementioned issues and qualify for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil anyway.
Klinsmann is confident a solution will be found.
"This is not happening overnight," he said. "I take this conversation, I take it as a positive also with the players, talking more about this process to them. That they really understand that this is not happening overnight. ... The only way we get them to that next level is to run them through this uncomfortable period and they have to learn and they have to swim in the cold water. And we're going to convince the world later."
He certainly isn't a lost cause. His commitment to improving individual players and his interest in setting them up for the next stage in their careers is laudable. His desire to lift the U.S. into the sport's upper echelon represents the sort of ambition for which fans have been dreaming.
But it's safe to say that a significant number of Klinsmann's players believe they're not being put in position to play well and win and that team tactics, rhythm and chemistry have suffered under his watch. Whether such things actually worsened no longer matters. The seed has been planted in the locker room. Klinsmann must find a way to fix it before it takes root.
At breakfast in Honduras, Gulati recalled Klinsmann's introduction as U.S. coach nearly 20 months ago.
"I said to Jurgen in New York the night before, 'You understand right after this press conference is finished, people are going to expect you to walk across the East River,' " Gulati said. "That was never going to be the case. We weren't going to play like Spain the next morning. We don't have the players to play like Spain.
"But a big part of what Jurgen has tried to do is instill in players the confidence they can do more than they are doing, the confidence in taking risks."
That confidence has dwindled, replaced by worry. Klinsmann now must win back the locker room. Walking on water might be easier.


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GLOSSARY : Skin prone to redness
Your face skin
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Pilosebaceous follicle
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A logo with some form of icon - we don't want just text.
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Font is important and it should be plain and stylish.
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Make fun Easter baskets with the kids ... all from recycled containers and foam or construction paper. Make a cute centerpiece for Easter.
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HOOVER, Ala. -- Sophomore Maddi Everts finished an outstanding week at the Samford Intercollegiate with a round of 75 Tuesday, netting a third-place finish out of 60 golfers. She led the Tennessee Tech women's golf team to a sixth-place finish.
Everts played consistently through the three-round tournament, carding a final total of 76+76+75=227. The Ooltewah, Tenn. native drained 34 pars, the second-most in the field. This marks the second time in the last three tournaments at the sophomore earned all-tourney after she finished second at Tech's Bobby Nichols Intercollegiate in March.
Senior Katherine Bell (21st) and freshman Megan Williamson (24th) earned top-25 finishes, scoring 241 and 242, respectively. Williamson hit the only eagle of the entire tournament, draining an estimated 130-yard approach shot on the par-four 15th hole.
Senior Amanda Randolph and freshman Allison Geer rounded out the Tech squad, which finished with a team score of 970, 20 strokes ahead of seventh-place UAB.
Host Samford won the tournament, following a playoff against Louisiana-Monroe, with a team score of 930. ULM's Alison Knowles won the individual title with a 72+76+75=223.
The Golden Eagles will return to action April 21-23 at the Ohio Valley Conference Championship at the Greystone Country Club.


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8 oz semisweet chocolate
3 oz macadamia nuts, coarsely chopped
3/4 cup flour
1/2 cup light brown sugar
1/4 cup Dutch processed cocoa
1/4 cup sugar
6 tablespoons butter
1 teaspoon vanilla
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
2 eggs
Preheat oven to 350. Spray with baking spray or grease and flour one 9 inch baking pan. In a saucepan, melt the butter, cocoa and chocolate together over low heat*. Stir occasionally, and when the chocolate is nearly melted, remove from heat. Whisk until smooth. Set aside. In a small bowl, stir together flour, nuts, salt, baking powder. In a separate bowl, beat together the brown sugar, sugar, eggs and vanilla until frothy. Slowly stream the chocolate mixture into the eggs and mix to combine. Gradually stir in the dry ingredients and mix until the batter is thick and glossy. Pour into prepared pan and bake 30 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean.
*You can get fancy and use a double boiler for this part, but frankly, I just dumped it all in the pot (pictured above), set it on a fairly low flame then basically ignored it while I beat the eggs, sugar and vanilla until fluffy and measured out the dry ingredients. When about 90% of the chocolate was melted, I removed it from the heat, whisked it together until smooth and that was it. I wouldn't recommend doing it in the microwave (too much chocolate to melt evenly) but doing it in a saucepan only takes a few minutes longer.
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San Jose will play host to the all-important time trial and Mount Diablo will hold a mountaintop finish as the Bay Area has become the centerpiece of the 2013 Amgen Tour of California, race organizers announced Tuesday.
San Jose is the only city to participate in all eight events of North America's biggest cycling tour, and is holding a time trial for the second time.
Livermore also is one of 12 participating cities, playing host to the start of Stage 7 that finishes on Diablo.
The 750-mile race starts in Escondido on May 12 and ends in Santa Rosa on May 19 — the first time the course is traversing south to north. Course details will be announced at a later date.
"Taking the tour from south to north is something we always knew we wanted to do," the race's executive director, Kristin Bachochin, said in a statement. "We think this will bring a whole new element to the competition for the elite cyclists who participate, not to mention some striking California scenery for our worldwide audience."
The final three stages of the eight-day tour will be held in the Bay Area where the race probably will be decided.
San Jose's Stage 6 on May 17 will feature an individual time trial, one of the few stages where elite riders can separate themselves from competitors. Last year's time trial in Bakersfield was 18.4 miles.
In 2006, Floyd Landis won a 17-mile time trial to take the yellow jersey along a scenic course in south San Jose near Coyote Creek County Park and Calfero Reservoir.
The next day comes a mountaintop finish on Diablo in the penultimate stage. A year ago, Dutch pro Robert Gesink won the race by winning the grueling mountain stage on Mount Baldy.
After holding a finish last year, Livermore will have a start this time. The Livermore city council originally declined to commit $100,000 in funds that race owner AEG required to play host to the stage. But community groups and private sponsors contacted city officials pledging to offset the costs. Officials also met with AEG and worked out additional cost-saving measures.
The city council voted Monday to authorize $35,000 to bid for the stage, which will pay for hotel rooms and meals for riders.
City officials said the weekend stage would allow for more volunteers and less city staff, also reducing costs. The start of the stage, officials said, would likely be held on Second Street to lessen the impact on traffic in the downtown area.
"I think it's a real win for everybody and it's going to be a fantastic festival," Livermore mayor John Marchand said at the council meeting. "This is going to be remarkable."
The tour will end with a scenic stage from San Francisco to Santa Rosa.
Stage 2 goes from Murrieta to greater Palm Springs; Stage 3 from Palmdale to Santa Clarita; Stage 4 from Santa Clarita to Santa Barbara, and Stage 5 from Santa Barbara to Avila Beach.
"After growing up in San Diego, I love seeing the race back on the roads I've ridden for the past 25 years," 2011 champion Chris Horner said in a statement.
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Nearly every performer out there is touting some sort of Christmas or holiday album. Among those that came across my desk was a little gem called The Jewish Songbook: The Heart and Humor of a People (2008). It's a CD compilation from Shout Factory and the Jewish Music Group put together by record producer, recording engineer, playwright, singer, and screenwriter, Brooks Arthur. This guy engineered a lot of rock classics, including "Chapel of Love," "Leader of the Pack," "My Boyfriend's Back," and "Hang On Sloopy." One of the protentious choices he made was his work on Van Morrison's American debut album; Blowin Your Mind that had Morrison's signature hit "Brown-Eyed Girl." He's produced albums for Janis Ian, Liza Minnelli, and Adam Sandler. He's also produced soundtracks for several major motion pictures including all three Karate Kid movies, Ordinary People, and Lean On Me.
It comes as no surprise that he would gather a varied cast to showcase thirteen songs from his Jewish childhood that he thought would represent the warmth and humor of this community. Alongside artists you would associate with an album like this, Arthur brings the unexpected. Barbara Streisand, Neil Sedaka, Lainie Kazan, and Theodore Bikel are here adding their signature touches to time-worn favorites. The leavening that comes in this album is from vocal performances by actors we all know. Rob Schneider does a funny version of "Bagels & Lox". Jason Alexander adds a Yiddish voice to an Irish ditty and calls it "Shake Hands with Your Uncle Max." The funniest of the lot is a duet by Paul Shaffer and Richard Belzer (Law and Order: SVU) in a track called "Joe and Paul," which was translated by Theodore Bikel. And, Adam Sandler is here, too, turning in a beautiful duet with Cantor Marcelo Gindlin of "Hine Ma Tov," a traditional prayer.
There also are some instrumental cuts by Dave Koz and Helb Albert. And Manhattan Transfer does what it does with the opening track, "Utt Da Zay." Plus, there are some cuts by Marvin Hamlisch and Triumph the Insult Comic Dog. A lot of the material came from shows in the Catskills during the 50s and some came from traditional material sung by families or in temple.
The CD is well done and quite fun, but it is missing something. The spiritual songs such as Sandler's "Hine Ma Tov" and Theodore Bikel's duet with Betsy Hammer on "Sabbath Prayer," though well executed, cannot compare with brothers Martin and Michael Model and childhood friend Jan Watarz's 2005 independent recording, Songs for Zeyde (2004). That's a hard thing for me to say because I've been a long-time fan of Bikel's work. But Songs for Zeyde is that good.
This 20-song CD took four years to complete and boasts a subtitle - A musical journey in Hebrew tradition. It is first a tribute to the Models' grandfather Zeyde Joe who came to America from Poland before WWI. But it is also a contemplative and joyful work, filled with melodies that are familiar to Jews all over the world and capable of touching even the spiritual lives of non-Jews as well.
The inspiration for this project, Zeydo Joe, was a man of peace who enjoyed sitting on a bench in his Brooklyn apartment, playing his mandolin and greeting his grandsons and their friend Jan. "It was almost like he was meditating, the way he was playing," Michael says.
"His eyes and his face always had a sense of joy," Jan remembers. "Everyone has struggles in life, but somehow he was able to find what we're all in search of."
When they were youngsters, Michael and Jan used to play Beatles tunes on their guitars after school, and Zeyde often joined them on his mandolin. Zeyde was comfortable in any medium, whether a modern rock tune or the Eastern European and Gypsy melodies he had grown up with or the music from the Hebrew service he had brought with him from Poland. His influence is deep within the Model boys and their friend Jan.
Martin, a psychotherapist, does solo mandolin concerts and plays regularly for the monthly Dances for Universal Peace in Durango, near where he lives. He also is a member of the Har Shalom Ensemble (four musicians plus singers) that performs at Hebrew services and bar mitzvahs. Jan started out as a child performer in Vaudeville and did revues in the Catskill Mountains and the Pocanos. When he was 16, he was managed by Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme's manager. He wrote music for Mercury records, and finally landed in California to work as a musical consultant with conductor Joe Massolino for the Mike Douglas show. He has been in a number of bands and plays keyboards, bass, and guitar. Michael, a corporate comptroller in LA, played in local bands as a teenager in Brooklyn, and plays piano, drums, bass, accordion, and tuba.
When Martin gathered Zeyde's melodies and the sacred music from temple and brought them to Michael and Jan, the men realized that they needed to preserve this music for their families. Setting up in Michael's home studio, they began to lay down basic tracks. For inspiration, Martin brought Zeyde's mandolin to play on the album.
Soon the project began to grow. "It was so natural, and it was unplanned. It had G_d's hand print all over it," Jan says. They added tonal layers of different instruments and the beautiful voices of Michael's daughter Ali and Jan's daughters Amanda and Haley. Musical friend Mick Toto lent his voice, and Freddie McFinn added voice and strings to a few tracks.
The result is a musical prayer. But not just because the music came from the sacred music of the weekly Friday evening Shabbat service and the contemplative services during the High Holy Days. There is something vibrant and dynamic about the acoustic instrumentation and the vocals that mark this work as something more than a ego-saturated performance that many artists would render with this material. There is a contemplative feel to some of the material and an intense joy to much of the other songs. "For people who grew up Jewish, who went to synagogue, these songs are in their souls," Martin says.
That must be why these melodies are also very singable, even for folks who weren't raised in this tradition. The listener can't help but hum or sing along. They were meant for single voices joining together in community. From the Shephardic "Blessings of G-d" that begins and ends the CD to the beautiful "Shabbat Shalom" to Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach's plaintive "Return Again" to the healing "Mi Sheberach," the album blesses, stirs, and brings listeners to a calm place of peace. Even the pure fun of "Klezmer Mama" or "Adon Olon" that has a Mannheim Steamroller feel with its fuzzed electric guitar and mandolin are meant to heal through their joy.
In addition, Martin compiled family photographs for the CD booklet that has become a hand-held history of both families and a tribute to the plight of Jews everywhere. The back cover has a photo of a relative, Rabbi Bernard Cohen, and his parents and siblings in Poland in 1916. Of the five people in the photo, only he and his sister escaped the Holocaust and came to America.
Songs for Zeyde and The Jewish Songbook are two very different offerings to consider this holiday season. They both are very good, but the choice of either is due to personal taste. It's like a choice between a CD of Christmas music by Nashville's best artists and a Ralph Stanley gospel album. It really depends on the depth of the roots you are looking for.


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Users in 131 markets will be able to take advantage of a pricing deal announced by Microsoft to upgrade from Windows XP, Windows Vista or consumer editions of Windows 7, to Windows 8 Pro for US$39.95.
To take advantage of the $40 special, users will need to purchase and download Windows 8 via Windows.com.
The pricing deal will begin with Windows 8's general release and continue until 31 January 31 2013.
Lovers of physical media will be able to create their own backup DVD or USB stick, purchase a backup DVD for US$15 plus shipping and handling, or a packaged DVD version for US$70.
Various degrees of migration will occur during the upgrade, depending on which past version of Windows the user is upgrading from.
"You will be able to upgrade from any consumer edition of Windows 7 to Windows 8 Pro, and bring everything along, which includes your Windows settings, personal files and apps. If you are upgrading from Windows Vista, you will be able to bring along your Windows settings and personal files, and if you are upgrading from Windows XP, you will only be able to bring along your personal files," wrote Brandon LeBlanc, Microsoft Windows communications manager.
During the promotion, Windows Media Center will be offered for free through the "add features" option within Windows 8 Pro, after upgrading the system. It was previously announced that Media Center would be available as a purchasable add-on.
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