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Washington wants Cruz, Nathan back in Texas for 2014
Rangers manager refuses to place blame after offensively challenged campaign
ARLINGTON -- On the morning after elimination, Rangers manager Ron Washington faced the media one last time.
He touched on many subjects. Washington said he wants all of his coaching staff to return. He hopes the Rangers will re-sign Nelson Cruz and keep Joe Nathan. He talked about the inconsistency of his offense and strongly defended his team's aggressive baserunning.
Washington also made it clear that he was proud of what his players accomplished in 2013, despite falling short of their goal, and wasn't really interested in breaking down exactly what went wrong.
"I think that would be pointing fingers, and one thing we always did in that clubhouse is whatever went down, we accepted it," Washington said. "We just didn't get it done. Of course you can assess things that went down over the course of 162 games. You win games that you shouldn't win, you lose games that you should win. You can always point back and say, 'If this would've happened, if that would've happened, it might've been different.'
"Through all the turmoil and all the adversity that we had that happened to this club this year, we never put our head in the sand. We just kept battling. Once again, I'd like to say out loud that I'm very proud of the way those guys fought in that clubhouse through everything."
The Rangers season came to an end with a 5-2 loss to the Rays in the Wild Card tiebreaker game Monday night at the Ballpark in Arlington. The loss kept the Rangers from going to the playoffs for a fourth straight season.
"It's disappointing, because our intentions were to play possibly for the World Series and we didn't do that," Washington said. "Those expectations don't change, and those feelings when it doesn't happen don't change. We played 163 games. In the past four years, our season was never over until 162 games were over. I think that's an accomplishment in itself. The only thing I feel is disappointment that we expected to do more and it just didn't happen."
The next step for Washington is to meet with general manager Jon Daniels and discuss the Rangers' offseason plans. There will be no discussions about Washington's job security unless it is to talk about a contract extension. Washington is signed through next year, and the Rangers have made it clear he will return after the club won 90-plus games for the fourth straight year.
The main topic of discussion will likely be the offense. The Rangers were built around pitching and defense in 2013, and their once-explosive offense produced some of the lowest numbers seen in a non-strike season since the Ballpark opened in 1994.
Asked if offense would be a priority this off-season, Washington said: "I would think so. You got to score runs. You got to score runs. You got to score runs."
Yes, he said it three times, and for good reason. The Rangers scored 730 runs this year, the lowest in a full season at the Ballpark in Arlington. Their 176 home runs was the third lowest, and their .412 slugging percentage was the lowest, a reflection of the lack of power usually associated with the Rangers.
"I think everyone would like to have power in their lineup, but when that doesn't happen, I don't think you sit back and use that as an excuse," Washington said. "You try to do other things to put runs on the board. An asset I felt that we had was our speed. At times we were too aggressive, but the thing I loved more than anything else was there was never a time where we weren't aggressive. And that's what I loved."
The Rangers stole 149 bases, tied for the most in one season at the Ballpark. They were also successful on 76.4 percent of their attempts, which was the fifth best success rate in the American League this season. But there is also no doubt the Rangers' aggressiveness cost them at times.
But Washington made it clear the Rangers are not going to change their aggressive style of baserunning.
"I've always been a person in the game of baseball that was aggressive as a player, I was aggressive as a coach, and I'm aggressive as the manager," Washington said. "And I'm not going to apologize about that. Yes, sometimes it causes issues, but that's the way we play. That's the type of athletes I had, and all we can do is continue to work on it and maybe we'll be consistent at it, but I am not putting ankle chains on them. I am not putting handcuffs on them. We're going to go out there and take it to them, and we'll live with it. And that's what we had to do this year.
"You're always surprised when you have potential in your lineup and things just don't click. We just weren't consistent. There were certainly times when our offense looked as explosive as any offense out there, and there were times when it wasn't. It was just a weird year on our offensive side, but they never stopped grinding."
The Rangers will look for offense this offseason, especially for power in the middle of the order. Washington is hoping Cruz will be a part of that.
"When you think about a Nelson Cruz, who wouldn't want a Nelson Cruz?" Washington said. "Big heart, great teammate, but there's a lot of decisions to be made on our part and Nelson's part. I do believe Jon Daniels will go down that road and see where it works or doesn't work."
On the pitching side, Washington said the Rangers' staff is in great shape. The Rangers' rotation next season will include Derek Holland, Yu Darvish, Martin Perez and Alexi Ogando. The Rangers also expect Matt Harrison to be back to full strength, and they still have Nick Tepesch in the mix.
In the bullpen, Jason Frasor is the only key reliever who is eligible for free agency. Right-handers Tanner Scheppers and Joakim Soria, and left-handers Neal Cotts and Robbie Ross are returning. The Rangers also expect Neftali Feliz to be at full strength in Spring Training and they are expecting to keep him in the bullpen.
The Rangers still have to make a decision on Joe Nathan. The Rangers have a $9.5 million option on him for 2014 with a $750,000 buyout. But Nathan also has the right to void the option himself and become a free agent. Nathan, who has no intention of retiring at age 38, said he would like to remain in Texas, but is also hoping for a multi-year deal rather than playing on a one-year contract.
Washington made it clear he wants Nathan back.
"I thought Joe Nathan had a tremendous year," Washington said. "I think, at the end of the year, Joe Nathan proved to everyone that doubted him what he was made of, and I certainly would love to continue giving him the ball, because he gets outs.
"I think my pitching staff is in a great situation right now. If we can keep what we have together and add to it, and the experience that some of the young guys got down in that bullpen, they can take it and grow into the next year. We just got to see what pieces we got to add, and we'll be in good shape."


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As part of my project i have to extract text from the image. I already done some search on OCR.
for java i found Asprise OCR which can fulfill my task. but it is commercial and very expensive for me.
And other ones Tesseract OCR , GOCR are not related to java like Asprise OCR.
So is there any other apis in java which can perform this task.
And also please guide if any other alternative methods in java rather then OCR to extract the text form image.
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Severe storms can strike at any time. They are often unpredictable and can cause major damage to property, as well as serious injury and even loss of life.
That's why the Queensland State Emergency Service (SES) has teamed up with NRMA Insurance to share some simple ways to protect your household members and property from storms.
This website contains storm safety tips and resources to help you prepare for storms, plus advice based on the first-hand experiences of SES volunteers.


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MySQL Cluster NDB 7.1.22 is a new release of MySQL Cluster,
incorporating new features in the
NDB storage engine and fixing
recently discovered bugs in previous MySQL Cluster NDB 7.1
Obtaining MySQL Cluster NDB 7.1. The latest MySQL Cluster NDB 7.1 binaries for supported platforms can be obtained from http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/cluster/. Source code for the latest MySQL Cluster NDB 7.1 release can be obtained from the same location. You can also access the MySQL Cluster NDB 7.1 development source tree at https://code.launchpad.net/~mysql/mysql-server/mysql-cluster-7.1.
This release also incorporates all bugfixes and changes made in previous MySQL Cluster releases, as well as all bugfixes and feature changes which were added in mainline MySQL 5.1 through MySQL 5.1.61 (see Changes in MySQL 5.1.61 (2012-01-10)).
DUMP 2303 in the ndb_mgm
client now includes the status of the single fragment scan
record reserved for a local checkpoint.
(Bug #13986128)
A shortage of scan fragment records in
resulted in a leak of concurrent scan table records and key
operation records.
(Bug #13966723)
Cluster Replication: DDL statements could sometimes be missed during replication channel cutover, due to the fact that there may not be any epochs following the last applied epoch when the slave is up to date and no new epoch has been finalized on the master. Because epochs are not consecutively numbered, there may be a gap between the last applied epoch and the next epoch; thus it is not possible to determine the number assigned to the next epoch. This meant that, if the new master did not have all epochs, it was possible for those epochs containing only DDL statements to be skipped over.
The fix for this problem includes modifications to mysqld binary
logging code so that the next position in the binary log
following the
COMMIT event at the end of an
epoch transaction, as well as the addition of two new columns
next_file and
next_position to the
mysql.ndb_binlog_index table. In addition, a
new replication channel cutover mechanism is defined that
employs these new columns. To make use of the new cutover
mechanism, it is necessary to modify the query used to obtain
the start point; in addition, to simplify prevention of possible
errors caused by duplication of DDL statements, a new shorthand
ddl_exist_errors is implemented for use
with the mysqld option
--slave-skip-errors. It is highly
recommended that you use this option and value on the new
replication slave when using the modified query.
For more information, see Implementing Failover with MySQL Cluster Replication.
Note that the existing replication channel cutover mechanism continues to function as before, including the same limitations described previously. (Bug #11762277, Bug #54854)


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Eastern Iowa Community Colleges in partnership with the Clinton Area Chamber of Commerce, the Greater Muscatine Chamber of Commerce & Industry and the Quad Cities Chamber has developed the Business Information for Growth (BIG) service.
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Sound the alarm for hard disks—it looks like solid state drive prices have plunged enough to finally jump out of early adopter territory. California-based flash memory maker Super Talent is now offering a 128GB SSD for $US300 retail. That's $US150 cheaper than a comparable offer from Dell and about $US4.95 cheaper per GB than Intel's disks (though, granted, Intel's runs faster).
The 2.5-inch FTM28GO25H claims a 100MB read rate and a 40MB write rate, faster than the "cheap" SSD modules of yesterday. If 128GB seems like too much space for you to handle, the company's offering a similarly specced 64-GB model as well for $US179. [Super Talent via JKontherun]


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If you love chocolate, but never thought the day would come where you could get paid to eat it, then we've found the perfect job for you.
Nestlé is searching for a product tester to test confectionery at Nestlé York.
The job description reads, "Calling all sweet tooths, chocaholics, and people who like a sugary treat a little bit too much!
"We have your dream job and will pay for you to indulge in eating some of our clients best products."
What the job involves
As a product tester you will taste a range of chocolate and sweets before then talking about them and sharing your opinions with the rest of the team.
This will lead to the development of the taste and texture of chocolate and sweet confectionery.
Job requirements
You need to be available for four hours a week, as the role requires you for two hour sessions, twice a week
Due to the nature of the products you'll be testing the role is not suitable for anyone with the following food allergies – peanuts or tree nuts, gluten, soya, milk, wheat, eggs
Additionally if you don't eat gelatine products this role is probably not suitable for you
Experience is not necessary, although a love of chocolate and all things sweet is essential for any would be product tester
To become a product tester you must be able to work one or more of the following shift patterns, and commit on a long term basis to this role:
- Mon & Tues: 9.30 – 11.30 or 16:00 – 18:00
- Weds & Thurs: 9.30 – 11.30
- Wed: 13.00 – 15.00
- Fri: 9.30 – 11.30
This role is part-time and the salary is £10.00 per hour (four hours per week).
For more information or to apply for this role visit the Indeed website.
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Our history is marked by several world premières, records for speed, distance and endurance, expeditions in unlikely places for electric vehicles, the development of innovations for applications involving extreme conditions as well as daily use, the production of technology demonstrators and the manufacturing of standard cars.
Whatever the problems, climate conditions or nature of the terrain, our teams have designed and implemented solutions over the past ten years which have proven to be efficient and effective in every field. Sports cars, urban and utilitarian vehicles, our range of models and our achievements embody all the various capabilities of the electric car.
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Venice Film Festival
If "Hunger," artist-turned-filmmaker Steve McQueen's remarkable debut feature, was a study of a body strenuously denied its fundamental needs, his satisfyingly rigorous, explicit follow-up, "Shame," traces the very different damage done by a body over-gifted with wants.
A sternly formalist parable on the pruning and stunting of relationships both familial and carnal in modern-day urban society, "Shame" is only for the purposes of swift summary a story of sex addiction — specifically that endured by Brandon, Michael Fassbender's dourly handsome New York advertising hotshot. Sex, and the pursuit thereof, is what needles Brandon first and foremost, but it doesn't take Freud (or indeed Fassbender's own Jung from "A Dangerous Method") to tell that it's a displaced urge in a life whose most crippling vacancies take longer to fill than a Friday night fuck.
"Hunger" was a film that dismantled known history and re-presented it in highly sensual, imagistic terms. The new film might be a foray into fiction for its director — working from an original screenplay by British playwright and television scribe Abi Morgan — but it performs a similar trick with psychology so embedded in the popular consciousness it would appear to offer little room for surprise.
Morgan's views on the human condition, and on single professional self-alienation, aren't especially revelatory (its portrait of Brandon is a more solemn essay on male ennui issues that fill monthly copies of GQ magazine), but McQueen's depiction of his narrow, clammy routine is rendered in such crisp, arresting visual and sonic strokes that his plight becomes that much more distinct. This is lifestyle cinema in the most literal, and least romantic, sense of the term.
If it seems surprising that Brits McQueen and Morgan, not to mention their Irish and British leads, have converged on the United States for a story of fairly universal resonance, it makes perfect sense when the film's vision of New York City comes into clean, cold focus: famously a city of everything at once, McQueen and brilliant "Hunger" DP Sean Bobbitt shoot it as a kind of continuous, gunmetal-colored waiting room, at once over-populated with distractions and under-populated with options.
Theirs is a city where people size each other up in subway carriages and do the nasty in plate-glass windows: Brandon's addiction isn't just fed, it's positively forced. In an exquisitely held scene where Carey Mulligan, as Brandon's feckless younger sister Sissy, sings a slowed-down, jazz-lite rendition of Kander and Ebb's "New York, New York," her interpretation tempers the original's elated defiance into something rather more ominous, an expression of desire to "make it there" from someone who nonetheless knows the city is far more likely to swallow her whole.
It is Sissy's unannounced arrival that takes Brandon's conventional crisis of depravity into blurrier, more dramatically involving territory: played by Mulligan with a blend of her expected baby-woman fragility and a harder, drawling insouciance that's excitingly new from the actress, Sissy colonizes Brandon's white-cube bachelor pad and calls him out on his indulgences, though her life is less gathered than his: her arms marked with a lithograph of self-harm scars, drifting between boyfriends with only some proudly vintage clothes to call her own, she demands Brandon's care with a fervor that professes the need to preserve family ties and fabricate balance — what has happened their parents is never explained, but it's clear they're vulnerably alone in their bloodline — but occasionally threatens to subvert them. When she climbs into her brother's bed, the fury with which he ejects her hints at realms of desire he either fears or has already broached.
This is messy emotional terrain, and I wish Morgan's intelligent script were less eager to tidy it up with neat, if cutting, symbolism and a redemptive moral arc that's plotted a mite too smoothly: it's left to McQueen's inventively disciplined direction and the superb actors to chip a few crevices into the material. Clearly, following their joint breakthrough partnership on "Hunger," Fassbender and McQueen are familiar with the levels of each other's control: the actor is tightly, precisely coiled here as he was in the Bobby Sands biopic, and as dependent on his (amply and immodestly viewed) physical form for tension and expression. If the recent likes of "Jane Eyre" and "X-Men: First Class" warmed Hollywood up to the idea of Fassbender as a regular-world lead, this performance should give them pause — and that's meant encouragingly.)
Mulligan, meanwhile, isn't just more limber and engagingly crumpled than she's yet been on screen, but is offered her most generous rapport yet with a co-star: the tetchily, even desperately, adoring sibling relationship between them is so authentic as to etch in a lot of subtext the script needn't provide.
"That's all you ever say, that you're sorry," Brandon scolds Sissy in one of their many arguments. "At least I say I'm sorry," she shoots back, her voice giving us all the history of forgiven liberties we need. (Fassbender finds another equal sparring partner in the excellent Nicole Beharie, radiating smart warmth as the co-worker whose emotional security undoes his sexual confidence.)
It's no slight on the actors, and only a measure of the hand guiding them, that McQueen remains the star here. Like the finest filmmakers from a fine-arts background, he has a consistently rewarding understanding of the narrative powers of composition: abetted by heaving, tricky sound design and Harry Escott's counter-intuitively soaring score (with an assist from some well-chosen Glenn Gould recordings), "Shame" conjures image upon image of such astonishing beauty that they'd risk stalling the film if not for the spare depth of feeling grounding the whole. The first of these opens the film, with Fassbender sprawled across his bed, his body as unhappily taut and angular as a Francis Bacon subject. He takes up the top half of the screen, a sea of creased cornflower-blue bedsheet filling the remainder: for its dense chain of trysts and dependencies, "Shame" is most powerfully a film of absence.
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A peaceful ranch, once a stage stop on the Santa Fe Trail, rests in a circular valley clasped by steep mountains. Spanish conquistadors named these mountains Sangre de Cristo, "blood of Christ," but in 1862, it was the blood of warring brothers that bathed the land near Pigeon's Ranch.
This battle--the Battle of Glorieta Pass--represented the high water mark for a bold Confederate offensive into Union Territory on the western frontier. Here volunteers from Colorado clashed with tough Texans intent on conquering New Mexico. Victory here would be a necessary prelude to detaching the western states from the Union and expanding the Confederacy to the Pacific Ocean. Referred to as the "Gettysburg of the West" by many historians, this running battle along canyon and ridge from March 26-28, 1862 culminated in the retreat back to Texas of the invading Confederate forces. Glorieta Pass was another great turning point in the Civil War, the battle that shattered the western dreams of the Confederate States of America.
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Getting Started: Inquiry Question
Setting the Stage: Historical Context
Locating the Site: Maps
Determining the Facts: Readings
Visual Evidence: Images
Putting It All Together: Activities
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Pecos National Historical Park
This lesson is based on the Glorieta units of Pecos National Historical Park, among the thousands of properties listed in the National Register of Historic Places. Glorieta Pass Battlefield has been designated a National Historic Landmark.


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Hey that is the very least we can do, David...David.P wrote:Anyway, thanks @all for commiserating.
The00Dustin wrote:I tend to believe you are more tense or something and it causes a slight difference that just crosses some threshold that isn't being considered.
The00Dustin wrote:Trying five finger scrolling sounds especially reasonable if you want five finger scrolling anyway, and it sounds like you do.
However, I'm curious as to whether your four finger scrolling is with your fingers together or spread. I'm guessing spread, because if they were together, I don 't think there would be any way for the device to attempt to detect which hand was being used.
Is your pinky finger as long as or longer than your index finger by chance?
Personally, I always placed the tips of my fingers together (or at least lined up almost horizontally) to do the four finger gestures
Obviously you'll have to try anything you can think of, but figuring out what is happening inside the pad could lead to an a-ha moment, so sorry if the questions about your finger length seem personal, but here is another: Is your pinky so short that the pad could think it is a thumb in a different gesture (one that either isn't programmed or wouldn't negatively affect most of what you do anyway) when one of the other three fingers comes off the surface before the pinky?David.P wrote:No, it is actually rather short.
The00Dustin wrote:so sorry if the questions about your finger length seem personal
The00Dustin wrote:but here is another: Is your pinky so short that the pad could think it is a thumb in a different gesture
http://www.luckyearthlings.com/article/palmistry-7-little-finger wrote:Short little finger people may:
Miss verbal signals and nuances in conversation.
Mistrust sarcasm and irony.
Have trouble making themselves understood.
Avoid foreign languages.
Don't read much.
Feel insecure about personal finances.
Aren't all that curious.
Often look years younger than their actual age, and are typically vivacious and fun-loving.
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Paul Van de Water, one of the top budget wonks at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, has a worth-reading post at Off the Charts this morning.
"Medicare and Medicaid spending per beneficiary has grown less rapidly than costs for private health insurance in recent years, as we have previously pointed out. (See here and Figure 1 here.)
This favorable trend is projected to continue for at least the coming decade, according to a new article in The New England Journal of Medicine. These data belie the claim that spending for Medicare and Medicaid is "out of control" and that the programs must be fundamentally restructured by adopting Medicare premium support or converting Medicaid into a block grant."
And here's his chart illustrating this reality:
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Spud Spikes stainless steel potato baking nails gets reviewed!Dont take our word for itTailgatingideas.com reviews Spud Spikes and youll have to read it for yourself! When they received their samples of Spud Spikes, they were a bit skeptical at first. But after they baked their potatoes using Spud Spikes on their Bubba Keg Grill in just about 35 minutes, Im sure they were glad they had the Spud Spikes potato baking nails on hand.
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Is there a classification of singularities from $S^2 \to \mathbb{R}^2$ ? The critical points of the map $(x,y) \mapsto (f_1(x,y),f_2(x,y))$ where the matrix:
\[ \left[\begin{array}{cc}\frac{\partial f_1}{\partial x} & \frac{\partial f_1}{\partial y}\\\\ \frac{\partial f_2}{\partial x} & \frac{\partial f_2}{\partial y} \end{array} \right] \]
has less than full rank. Locally, can we draw a picture of what singularities look like?
In the case of maps $S^2 \to \mathbb{R}^1$, we just get the critical points where $f(x,y) = f(x_0,y_0) + (x-x_0,y-y_0)^T (D^2 f )(x-x_0,y-y_0)$


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Soul Calibur V video demonstrates Critical Edge system using Patroklos
In the latest video for Soul Calibur V, director Daishi Odashima demonstrates the Critical Edge system in the game, using Patroklos. It's in Japanese, but you get the idea easy enough. It's posted below courtesy of Andriasang. Also, check out Kotaku's look at Assassin's Creed hero Ezio in the game. It demonstrates his various moves and […]
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Ezio costume to appear in FFXIII-2
Assassin's Creed Revelations is to lend one of its costume designs to Final Fantasy XIII-2, Square said this morning.
EG Expo: AC Revelations session and demo detailed
Following the BioWare SWTOR date bombshell, Ubisoft held a session on Assassin's Creed: Revelations, which was hosted by Brent Ashe and Raphael Lacoste of Ubisoft Montreal.
Assassin's Creed: Revelations features Ezio as an old man
Time waits for no man – not even Ezio Auditore. Assassin's Creed: Revelations is the third game where you'll be able to play the Italian assassin, and he's looking a little worse for wear.
New Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood trailer shows nemesis
Your single player nemesis that is. While Assassin's Creed Brotherhood's multiplayer mode has taken a lot of attention of late (the MP beta commenced last month), it seems Ubisoft are now ready to start trickling out plot details.
Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood detailed a bit more
Ubisoft has sent over some details surrounding Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood.
New Assassin's Creed set in Rome, will have assassination multiplay
Ubisoft has said that assassination multiplayer will be included in the new Assassin's Creed game.
Next Assassin's Creed stars Ezio, is continuation of ACII
If you were hoping that the newly-announced Assassin's Creed game, to release in the coming Ubi fiscal year, is a completely new banana with a new setting, think again: it's more Ezio, and it's more of the same story.
Assassin's Creed II screens shows sex scenes
Gameswire has up seven screens of Assassin's Creed II, showing screens of the sex scene in the game. No tits and ass, though. No tits and ass… The game is out for the PS3 and 360 tomorrow in the US, and Friday in the UK. PC version is out in 2010.
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Big Rapids, Mich. - The Ferris State University women's golf team wrapped up action in the 2013 NCAA Division II East Regional Championships by moving up one place on Wednesday (May 8) in Joliet, Ill.
The Bulldogs posted a team-best 311 team score in the third and final round to finish at 986 overall, which was good for seventh place in the regional event after the conclusion of 54 holes on the par 72 course at the Joliet Country Club. FSU climbed up a spot from eighth place following two rounds of action and posted the second-best overall team score of the final round with the 311 figure.
Indianapolis won the regional title with a 924 team score followed by Ashland (970) and California (Pa.) in third place with a 971 figure as the trio of teams advanced to the NCAA-II National Championships in Daytona Beach, Fla. A total of only 16 strokes seperated the second thru seventh place teams in the final regional listing.
FSU was led by Libby Berens, who carded a 77 in the third and final round to finish at 240 for the tournament and earn a share of 15th place overall.
Berens was followed by Jacqueline DeBoer for the Bulldogs as she netted a 79 score in Tuesday's round to place tied for 25th in the field with a 247 total.
Behind DeBoer was Ashley Swanson in a share of 32nd place with a 251 total as she registered an 84 on day three. She placed three strokes ahead of teammate Cooper Shawen, who was tied for 36th at 254 with an impressive final-day score of 74 in the event.
Finally, the Bulldogs' Emily Rohdy came back to place 49th overall with a 165 score after shooting an 81 on the third and final day of action.
Lewis University hosted the East Super Regional Tournament on the women's side with the participating teams playing a single round each day for a total of 54 holes.
Each women's golf super regional consisted of both team and individual competition conducted concurrently with nine teams and four individuals from non-qualifying teams at each site. The top three teams along with the top three individuals not affiliated with a team from each super regional advanced to the national championships. The 2013 NCAA Division II Women's Golf Championships will be held May 15-18, at LPGA International in Daytona Beach.
Ferris State is guided by sixth-year head coach Mike Mignano and made its 12th consecutive national tournament appearance.
Women's Golf Concludes NCAA East Regional In Seventh Place Overall
Big Rapids, Mich. - The Ferris State University women's golf team wrapped up action in the 2013 NCAA Division II East Regional Championships by moving up one place on Wednesday (May 8) in Joliet, Ill.


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Note to the House GOP: Kill the Bill — The House Republican leadership is having trouble getting 218 votes for its immigration bill. The policy objections to the bill seem convincing to me—among them that it seems to appropriate more money, on a pro-rated monthly basis …
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Tea party opposition puts fate of House Republican border bill up in the air
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Begging for Impeachment — To improve its standing with voters, the White House tries to drum up some trouble for itself — At 10:02 on Friday evening, July 25, I received the following personal message from the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee: "THE IMPEACHMENT OF PRESIDENT OBAMA IS NOW A REAL POSSIBILITY."
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Top House Democrat: 'You bet we're going to run' on impeachment
Top House Democrat: 'You bet we're going to run' on impeachment
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Catalina Camia / OnPolitics: Paul Ryan: Dems playing 'ridiculous game' on impeachment
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David A. Graham / The Atlantic Online:
21 Emails From the Democratic Party About Impeachment
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David Weigel / Slate: The conservatives who wanted to impeach Obama are acting like it was never their idea.
Guy Benson / Hot Air: Chuck Todd: Democrats and Republicans should be embarrassed by this impeachment nonsense
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Dan McLaughlin / RedState: Obama Peddles Impeachment Conspiracy Theories To Raise Money
Alexandra Jaffe / The Hill: Dems fear a debacle on turnout
Cristina Marcos / The Hill:
House votes to sue Obama
House votes to sue Obama
Paul Waldman / American Prospect: Republicans Take Careful Aim At Foot, Blast Away
Rich Lowry / Politico: A Constitutional Crisis for Fun and Profit
Ana Marie Cox / Guardian: Obama's plan to get out the vote by mocking the GOP totally works on Republican voters, not Democrats
Adam O'Neal / Real Clear Politics: House Votes Along Party Lines to Sue Obama
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Neel Kashkari / Wall Street Journal:
Brother, Can You Spare a Job? — I spent a week as a homeless person, looking for work.The 'California Comeback' has a long way to go.
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Blogger fired from language school over 'homophonia' — Homophones, as any English grammarian can tell you, are words that sound the same but have different meanings and often different spellings — such as be and bee, through and threw, which and witch, their and there.
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John H. Richardson / Esquire:
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Immigration is now President Obama's worst issue — Immigration has emerged as perhaps President Obama's worst issue — definitely for today, and maybe of his entire presidency — when it comes to public perception. — A new poll from AP-GfK shows more than two-thirds of Americans …
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Jim Geraghty / National Review: Obama Hits 36% Approval in Ohio, 31% National Approval on Immigration
Patrick O'Connor / Wall Street Journal:
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Paul Ryan Says Climate Change Is Just An Excuse For Obama To Raise Taxes — Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) said Wednesday that "climate change occurs no matter what," but that the EPA's recent efforts to reduce emissions from existing power plants are "outside of the confines of the law," and …
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John Kerry is right — Robert Kennedy, speaking of John Kennedy, using words they would both probably use to praise John Kerry, said that JFK's favorite quote was this: "The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in times of moral crisis preserve their neutrality."
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Canyon Oaks CC general manager David Lee presented the 2012 Player of the Year award to Jackie Drakulic for earning the most points throughout the year in the women's golf club tournaments at the club's annual awards dinner.
Tournament chair Dorothy Cranston presented the awards to the winners in various other categories. The award for most birdies went to Shelley Carney. Vicky Spelts had the most chip-ins. Hole-in-one awards went to Nancy Evans, Lenora Chapman and Ginny Wolf. Those achieving a milestone in breaking a scoring barrier were Linda Boone, Carney, Bev Paull, June Park, Joan Wagoner and Pat Radisich.
Women's Golf Association of Northern California medallions were presented to Wagoner and Park for their play in the annual tournament. Carney was honored as the Most Improved Player as well as for her recent victory in the Hot Shot Tournament. Linda Allen, the women's club champion, was recognized for winning the title three years in a row. Allen will represent Canyon Oaks CC in the WGANC Champion of Champions tournament later this year. Allen will try to dethrone the reigning WGANC champion, Lynne Cowan, who has won the event 10 out of the last 12 tournaments.
The evening was capped off with a surprise award presentation to Linda Arellano as the Most Inspirational Golfer.
The Tuscan Ridge GC Women's Golf Club recently held its annual awards luncheon and presented awards for various achievements throughout the year. Scoring the lowest gross round on the year (88) was a tie between Sandy Allen and Lilia Crawford. Sherry Cole shot the lowest net round (61). Those winning awards in the other categories were, Chip-ins, Gayle Hanosh (7); Birdies, Allen (5); On the green, Phyllis Kotyluk (7); Eagles, Allen (1); Sandies, Allen, Hanosh, Linda Mowell, Norma Payne, Robin Garden (1).
The Paradise Pines GC Women's Golf Club held its monthly pro points tournament last week. Sandy Allen posted the low gross round (95) on the day. Carroll Grimes shot a net 66 to take that category. Tying for first place in the net division of the first flight were Allen and Pat Teel with a score of 71. Grimes won the second flight two strokes ahead of Sherry Cole's score of 68.
The team of Jim Serrao, Wayne Vieira, Steve Umina and Jim Moon came out on top in a recent Canyon Oaks CC senior sweeps shamble format tournament. The closest to the pin winners on the four par-3 holes were Paul McIntosh, Dave Foreman, Joe Lopez and Doug Bockus. Foreman also received recognition for the best shot of the day.
The Paradise Pines GC Men's Golf Club played a four-man, one best ball venue for its weekly tournament. Taking first place was the team of Ron Doring, Terry Wild, Jack Gullick and Rich Boulter with a score of 54 in a card-off over the team of George Kerber, Jay Izatt, Jerry Hall and Bill Daguerre. The team of Harold Long, Walt Jankowski, Bob Boulter and Gary Behne took the third spot with a score of 56.
Spectacular shots — Jim Gochnauer hit his pitching wedge approach shot into the cup for an eagle two on the seventh hole at Canyon Oaks CC while in the company of Art Schreiber, Mike Wedow, Tony Danielsen and Emmett Lazaro.
Trivia — The first golf balls were made of thin leather stuffed with feathers. Tightly-packed feathers made balls that flew the farthest. Feather balls were used until 1848. There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
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Topic Page: Annan, Kofi A. (Kofi Atta)
(kō'fē ä'tä ăn'Әn) 1938–, Ghanaian diplomat, secretary-general of the United Nations (1997–2006), b. Kumasi. The scion of a family of Fante chieftains, he studied at Macalester College, St. Paul, Minn. (grad. 1961), and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.A., 1972). Annan began working for the United Nations in 1962 (with the World Health Organization) and, except for a stint as head of Ghana's tourist ministry (1974–76), he was with UN bodies until he became secretary-general. He acquired special expertise in the areas of refugees and peacekeeping and in 1990 negotiated the release of UN staff and Western hostages held by Iraq following the invasion of Kuwait. Named (1993) undersecretary-general for peacekeeping operations, he was a special representative to the former Yugoslavia (1995–96), overseeing the transfer of peacekeeping duties from UN forces to NATO. His tenure during this period was marred by the failure of the United Nations, its members, and its peacekeeping forces to prevent the atrocities that occurred in Rwanda and Bosnia.
In 1997, Annan succeeded Boutros Boutros-Ghali as secretary-general, becoming the first sub-Saharan African to hold the office; he was elected to a second five-year term in 2001. Accessible and affably candid, combining idealism with realism, he generally was an effective consensus-builder. Annan particularly emphasized the UN's traditional obligations in the area of human rights and the newer challenges of the HIV/AIDS pandemic and international terrorism. He had some success in streamlining UN bureaucracy and controlling its budget and, until his disagreements with the United States over its invasion of Iraq, had generally improved strained relations with the United States. Annan called for overhauling the United Nations, particularly the Security Council, to make it more representative of the UN's membership and to increase the organization's effectiveness, but he was not able to get member nations to agree to significant changes in the UN's structure. He, along with the United Nations, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2001.
In 2002–3 Annan worked unsuccessfully to resolve the division of Cyprus, and in the same period his work as secretary-general was made more difficult by strong differences among the permanent members of the Security Council concerning how to handle Iraq's resistance to complying with UN weapons inspections and by the Anglo-American invasion of Iraq that began in 2003. He subsequently publicly emphasized the need for individual nations to support the United Nations and work through it instead of unilaterally and the need for revamping the Security Council.
In 2004 he publicly criticized the U.S. invasion of Iraq as having been illegal. Those comments were seen as contributing to subsequent calls for his resignation by conservative Republicans in the United States because of the United Nations' failure to prevent corruption in the Iraq oil-for-food program; UN staff and Annan's son were implicated as the investigation into the program progressed. Other nations, however, remained strong supporters of Annan. The report on the oil-for-food program criticized him for exercising inadequate oversight. Annan was succeeded as secretary-general by Ban Ki-Moon. In 2008 Annan negotiated a power-sharing agreement between opposing parties in Kenya after a disputed election there. He later (2012) was joint UN–Arab League envoy to Syria, in an unsuccessful attempt to find a peaceful solution to the civil conflict.
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Goldyn will have goodie bags for the first 100 guests, a Piazza handbag preview (and a six-bag giveaway) and is offering discounts of 20 percent on all merchandise for the evening. Candy from Sugarlicious, a champagne reception, free styling and hair trend trips from Scarlet, and entertainment from DJ Tyler Snow are also part of the evening's activities from 6-9 p.m. Goldyn, 2040 West 30th Ave.; shopgoldyn.com


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The former Magical History Tour exhibition took visitors on a journey of discovery through 800 years of Liverpool history, from medieval 'Lyverpoole' to 21st century 'Livercool', with help from a time travelling taxi driver.
Told through the lives of Liverpool people through the ages, the exhibition charted the city's growth from a tiny fishing village to a busy port. It traced the evolution of the settlement from its earliest pre-historic roots and examined life in the medieval and early modern town before the port's emergence as a Victorian metropolis of global significance.
The story was brought up to date with the challenges faced by those living in the city during the 19th and 20th centuries, before finally considering the evolving perceptions of Liverpool and Liverpudlians in the recent past.
Iconic objects on display included the Liverpool charters, the Huxley hoard of Viking silver and a reconstruction of the long-lost Liverpool Castle.
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In celebrating the amazing rollercoaster story of Liverpool, this exhibition played a major part in the celebrations of the 800th anniversary of the foundation of the city in 2007 and the city's year as European Capital of Culture in 2008.
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Around the world, while women have gained significant ground on the issue of equal treatment under the law and norms of society, they still are not treated the same as their male counterparts in many economies. Christine Lagarde, head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) says, "Inequality is sexist," and argues that it actually hurts global economic growth.
Speaking at a forum organized by the Albright Institute at Wellesley College, Lagarde delivered her remarks in honor of International Women's Day. As she noted, while conditions have largely reached a nearly even footing in much of the developed world, in many places women still struggle to receive an education, open financial accounts, own property, or find work.
According to Lagarde, this represents an enormous untapped resource pool, and excluding these people simply based on their gender robs the world of trillions of dollars of productive output each year.
Citing a study by consulting firm McKinsey, the IMF chief noted that the world's economy would grow an impressive 25% by 2025 (more than $28 trillion) simply by allowing these women to have the same opportunities as men. To put that figure in perspective, that is a number roughly equivalent to the current output of the U.S. and Chinese economies combined.
Despite their relatively even footing in the developed world, women still suffer some inequalities. In general, women still are paid less on average than men for doing the same job are, and they continue to face barriers to their admission to the work place. Lagarde suggests that even the powerhouse economies of the world, like the U.S., China, Russia, and Japan, could benefit by improving these conditions and further reducing inequality, because these nations face huge worker shortages as the Baby Boomer generations prepares to retire.
While remedying the problem from a legal standpoint is not terribly difficult, fixing the attitudes that underpin these inequalities is. Many still feel women are best suited to serve as caregivers for their children and limited access to affordable childcare and tax penalties for married couples with two wage earners serve to underscore that problem.
"The bottom line is it really revolves around some cultural changes," Lagarde said Tuesday.
In developing countries, the gaps tend to be far wider. In many cases, women lack basic human rights compared to their male counterparts. In fact, according to the World Bank, only about 25% of women in developing countries have access to bank accounts and financing resources.
In support of her argument that equality between the genders is better for the economy, Lagarde sites Peru. In the 1990s, Peru abolished discriminatory laws against women, and it has enjoyed an impressive economic boom led, in large part, by the strong influx of women into the workplace.


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Ed McLaughlin sits at his beige, marble-topped desk inside his new office at the Stuart C. Siegel Center. The cosmopolitan layout is open along one side to showcase the glistening Verizon Wireless Arena, the crown jewel of the VCU Athletics program, below. From inside, McLaughlin can see the most visible reminder of the program's greatest moment, VCU's Final Four banner, hanging proudly from the white, steel rafters.
The room is pristine, and for good reason. The former Niagara athletic director has barely had time to unpack. Just a few weeks into his tenure as VCU's athletic director, he's had to hit the ground running. There's a $10 million basketball practice facility in the works, fall sports seasons are off to the best start in school history and he's short at least two senior staffers and a secretary, who left when Norwood Teague departed for Minnesota in May. He's even received inquiries about next year's Washington Redskins training camp, which will relocate to Richmond.
As he lays out his vision for the program, which moved to the Atlantic 10 Conference this summer, his cell phone rumbles atop the desk. It's Men's Basketball Coach Shaka Smart. Minutes later, the office phone chirps impatiently. Then, a staffer pokes his head into the office, looking for McLaughlin.
McLaughlin is genuinely busy, but he also seems to be genuinely enjoying himself. As people tug at him from every direction, he aims to calmly prioritize.
"It's been busy, but in a good way," he says. "The challenge becomes making sure you don't wait two weeks to talk to someone that shouldn't have to wait two weeks to talk to you. There's a balance between going a million miles an hour because you want to do things so well, and then realize, I probably should've called so-and-so or I probably should've gone out and said 'hi' to that team or whatever. In your first few weeks you can't miss those because you don't get them back."
The 39-year-old McLaughlin has been preparing for this opportunity in one way or another for most of his life.
The youngest of three children, McLaughlin grew up mostly in Natick, Mass., a town of 30,000 just west of the Boston city limits. His father owned a construction business, while his mother was a schoolteacher. McLaughlin says his parents' blue-collar approach taught him the value of a hard day's work, and he spent his summers helping with his father's construction business.
"I had to fill the dumpsters and do the demolition work and carry [stuff]", McLaughlin said. "I had to do all the stuff those guys didn't want to do."
McLaughlin also developed a love of sports. He grew up playing baseball and football, and Opening Day at Fenway Park was an annual family tradition. McLaughlin also dissected the Boston Globe sports section every day. For decades, the Globe sports section was considered among the best in the nation, with a dream team roster of journalists that included Peter Gammons, Dan Shaughnessy, Bob Ryan and Jackie MacMullan. McLaughlin devoured their works and decided he wanted to be one of them someday.
Years later, as a student at Boston College, McLaughlin became the sports editor of the school paper and also wrote for the athletic department's magazine, Eagle Action. Sportswriting provided McLaughlin with an enviable experience. As a junior, he covered Boston College's win at Notre Dame in football. The following season, he was in attendance when BC played at Michigan.
He also covered the Eagles' run to the Elite Eight during the 1994 NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament, which included wins over top-ranked North Carolina, as well as a Bobby Knight-led Indiana team in the Sweet 16. He even met Bill Raftery in a hotel bar. McLaughlin was having the time of his life.
During the first round of the tournament that year at the Capital Centre in Landover, Md., Indiana's Sherron Wilkerson broke his leg in the Hoosiers' game with Temple, causing a lengthy delay on the floor. McLaughlin headed to the media room for a bite to eat. The room was practically deserted, but as he ate, North Carolina Coach Dean Smith wandered in and pulled up a chair at McLaughlin's table. The two struck up a conversation, the hall of famer and the cub reporter.
"He just sat down and we were just chatting about things. I was awestruck," McLaughlin said, still beaming over the chance meeting 18 years later. "We talked about me being in college, what I was studying. In true Dean Smith fashion, he made it about me."
McLaughlin, days removed from his 21st birthday, also picked up some advice from the coaching great. Dressed in a sport coat and tie, Smith applauded McLaughlin's attention to his appearance.
"He said, 'in this business, you always have to act like the President can stop by at any time,'" McLaughlin said. "And that's never left me to this day."
As much as he was enjoying his front row seat at the best college athletics had to offer, the experience was actually pulling McLaughlin farther away from a career in journalism.
Success in college athletics produces a collective satisfaction that is hard to duplicate. As much as the players and coaches relish victory, so too does the play-by-play announcer who brought the game into fans' living rooms, as does the development staffers who raised money so the team could have comfortable travel arrangements, as does the marketing director who helped fill the arena, and so on. There's a necessary disconnect in journalism that neuters the experience. There can be no rooting interest, other than for a juicy story or an eye-catching lede. McLaughlin took notice. Then he took inventory of his career path.
"When I was at Boston College, I fell in love with college athletics, and I knew I wanted to be an NCAA Division I athletic director."
After graduating from Boston College in 1995, McLaughlin worked in media relations and sports information at Merrimack College in Andover, Mass. and at the Hockey East Conference, which operated out of the college. He later became an assistant athletic director at the school, a jack-of-all-trades position he credits with helping him become well-rounded.
In 1999, he married his college sweetheart, Shelly, a former Boston College cross country runner. A year later, he accepted a facilities position at American University in Washington, D.C. In 2004, he agreed to become the school's associate director for external affairs, as well as executive director of the Eagles Club, the school's athletic fund.
McLaughlin realized that in order to become an athletic director, he'd need experience working in fundraising. American had never had anybody in charge of annual giving, so when McLaughlin was approached about the possibility, he jumped at the chance. He had no idea what he was getting into.
"[They said], we'll move you over and it's not that hard to do. You just send some letters out and talk to donors and it's easy," McLaughlin said, amused by the absurdity. "And I fell for that one, hook, line and sinker. I had no idea the level of organization and attention to detail you had to have, while still being able to communicate well."
Although he sensed he had bitten off more than he could chew, McLaughlin was determined to succeed. So, he asked questions, lots of them.
"I just started reaching out to different fundraising people," McLaughlin said. "I looked around and figured out who did it well, whether it was people in our league, or if we'd go play a game somewhere, I would go [talk to someone there]. A couple of times when I was on vacation, if there was a school in the area, I'd look at some of their stuff, and if I thought it was good, I'd call them up and say to the person, 'you mind if I buy you a cup of coffee, and we'll just talk?'"
His diligence paid off and helped get the Eagles' fundraising efforts out of infancy.
Much of McLaughlin's work at American was done with the department in some stage of transition. The school had four different athletic directors during his tenure. The ever-changing landscape proved difficult to negotiate, but provided valuable lessons.
"That time taught me what to do, what not to do, taught me how important it is during transitions and when you are an athletic director that culture and continuity are so important, and not compromising what you believe in is so critical as well," McLaughlin said.
In 2006, McLaughlin got his first shot to apply what he had learned, when he was named Niagara's athletic director. He was just 33 years old.
His tenure at Niagara was a success on many fronts. The Purple Eagles won more conference championships in his six years than the previous 75 combined. Niagara student-athletes recorded a 3.30 grade point average during the 2007-08 school year, the best in program history. In 2010-11, 70 percent of student-athletes had a GPA of 3.0 or higher. McLaughlin also oversaw multimillion dollar upgrades to the school's basketball and hockey facilities, as well as the construction of Niagara Field, home to its soccer and lacrosse programs. Revenues climbed by more than $500,000.
"I think we built a culture of, maybe we don't have all the resources in the world, but we're going to outwork everybody," McLaughlin said.
When he was introduced as VCU's sixth athletic director at a July 24 press conference on the floor of the Verizon Wireless Arena, McLaughlin wasted little time laying out his bold vision.
"There are a lot of people in this business, a lot of ADs that take jobs, but not a lot of them can say when they wake up, 'We can win a national championship here.' It's inspiring, and I think VCU is a place where we can win a national championship," he said.
VCU has been close to a national title twice, reaching the Men's Tennis Championship Match in 2000, as well as the Final Four in men's basketball in 2011. McLaughlin believes if he can help create the right environment, VCU can win its first. He also believes his experience, including the bumps along the way, have put him in a position where he's confident enough to set lofty goals.
However, McLaughlin says the road to any championship will be paved by a certain set of ideals, from which he will not waver.
"I believe in integrity. I believe in doing things the right way. I believe in hard work. I believe in winning championships," McLaughlin said. "More importantly, I believe in the student-athlete experience. I love mentoring student-athletes. I love being around student-athletes and helping them go from their teen years to adults. It's incredibly rewarding."
McLaughlin, now a doting father of three, recalls how his own experiences as a student journalist, then as a young, eager athletics staffer, shaped his career and eventually brought him to VCU.
"College has got to be about experiential learning. For all of our student-athletes, we have to make sure their experience is great so they are ready for the world," he said. "Those are things you learn in college that you don't have the opportunity to if you're just in the classroom. You have to experience college. The people they meet, the places they see, the experiences they receive makes them the people they are today, just like it did for me."


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Mixed Vegetable and Soya Rice
I made this over the weekend to use up all the small bits and pieces of vegetables languishing in my refrigerator. Since we are big rice-eaters, I always have some rice sitting in the refrigerator. I prefer to use rice which is at least a day or two old for such recipes as each grain of rice remains firm and manages to retain its identity. In addition to the vegetables, I also threw in some soya granules (textured soy protein). Since we are vegetarians, I always look for ways to incorporate this in our meals whenever possible as it adds to the nutritive content of any dish.
3 cups cooked Basmati rice
1 small onion, chopped
2 spring onions (scallions), chopped
1 tomato, chopped
1 potato, chopped finely
½ cup lima beans
1 cup Soya granules (soak in some warm water for about 10 minutes, squeeze, wash, squeeze again and use)
1 tsp cumin seeds
1tsp ginger paste
1tsp garlic paste
½ tsp chilli powder
2 tsp garam masala
1 Tbsp oil
Salt to taste
Heat oil in a pan and add the cumin seeds followed by the onions, spring onions and ginger garlic paste. Sauté for a bit till the onions turn translucent.
Add the finely chopped potato, lima beans and chopped tomatoes and cook for 2 -3 minutes.
Add the chilli powder and garam masala followed by the soya granules. Cover and cook on medium heat for 5-7 minutes allowing the soya to absorb all the flavors.
Stir in the cooked rice and mix everything well.
Serve hot with a raita.
2-3 cups yogurt, whipped/beaten
1 ½ Tbsp tomato paste
½ cup onion, very thinly chopped
4 green chillies, thinly chopped
Salt to taste.
Blend the tomato paste into the yogurt.
Add all the other ingredients.
Chill and serve.
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