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Religious Faith and John Rawls
A Brief Inquiry into the Meaning of Sin and Faith, with "On My Religion"
Reading Obama: Dreams, Hopes and the American Political Tradition
In December 1942, a philosophy major at Princeton, who was due to begin serving in the army upon graduation, submitted his senior thesis. It was a substantial piece of work. Entitled "A Brief Inquiry into the Meaning of Sin and Faith: An Interpretation Based on the Concept of Community," it explored the connection between moral life and man's relationship with the divine, a philosophical theme at least as old as Socrates' dialogue with Euthyphro. The thesis found its roots not in the classical tradition, however, but in contemporary Protestant theology. Its leading idea—one deeply grounded in Christian thought—was that the central task of human life was to develop proper relationships with other persons, including, finally, with God. So the essay gave a Christian answer to the core question of ethics, how each of us is to live well. But it touched, too, as ethics eventually must, on questions in social philosophy, proclaiming: "The world in its essence, is a community, a community of creator and created, and has as its source, God."
The thesis is clearly the work of a young person of remarkable intellectual gifts and a deep moral and religious seriousness, struggling to find some guiding principles as he sets off to risk his life in a great war. But in itself it would be merely a curiosity had its author, John Bordley Rawls, not gone on to write the most influential work of liberal political philosophy of the twentieth century. A defining presupposition of his mature work is that, in modern multireligious societies, there are bound to be distinct and competing conceptions of what it is to live well. As a result, if our political system is to attract the reflective support of all reasonable citizens, it cannot depend on one such overall conception.
When Eric Gregory, a professor of religion at Princeton, rediscovered the thesis just after Rawls's death in 2002, and revealed that it was a work of Christian ethics that drew some consequences for political philosophy, there was bound, at the very least, to be some curiosity about its claims. We should be grateful, therefore, to Rawls's heirs for agreeing to its publication, along with a short essay, "On My Religion," that was found among his papers; and grateful, as well, to Joshua Cohen and Thomas Nagel, who contributed a fine introductory essay to the volume, connecting Rawls's thesis with his later political philosophy, and to Robert Merrihew Adams, whose commentary places it securely in its midcentury theological context.
Like many ambitious undergraduate essays, the Brief Inquiry has too many ideas, not all of them fully digested. But—unlike too many undergraduate theses, alas—its central philosophical thrust is clear. This is a polemic against any view in which human life is directed at some impersonal end. Both Plato and Aristotle, for example, are…
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Fighting minor crimes well worth it
GRAFFITI: There's an old saying, "Take care of the little things and the big things will take care of themselves." That's apparently what Providence City Councilman Michael J. Correia of Ward 6 thinks. He has pushed police to take tough action against graffiti criminals and it's starting to produce good results already. Thankfully, other public officials have joined Correia's crusade. Police should not have to be prodded into this kind of action, however. Respected criminologists, sociologists and history from other cities have proven that when police concentrate on stopping small crimes, especially among the young, the overall rate of serious crime decreases. It may take some time for the salutary effect on more serious crime to become apparent, but it will. It's well worth the effort for police to shift resources to fighting those minor crimes that, if left un-addressed, encourage juveniles and young adults to move on to more serious crimes.
CLUCK IF YOU'RE DISGUSTED WITH NIMBYS: Two neighbors of Drake Patten's proposed urban farm supply store on Broadway in Providence are perhaps the quintessential NIMBY (not in my back yard) protestors. Patten refurbished a dilapidated old gas station that had lain dormant for 10 years and was an eyesore to the neighborhood and made it into an attractive, clean, vibrant business. Unfortunately, she failed to notify one of the hundreds of neighbors when she sought a zoning board variance for her store. The neighbor and an across-the-street church got the variance overturned based on the failure to notify. The city then issued Patten a peddler's license to sell her products in front of the unopened store. The neighbor and the church now seek a restraining order against Patten for peddling.
There is something seriously wrong with our society when one neighbor and a church that doesn't pay taxes can keep a small business from opening. Kudos to the Providence Zoning Board for supporting Patten and to the hundreds of neighbors and supporters who want the store to open. But, this whole episode portends poorly for the future of free enterprise in our capital city. And, with the loss of free enterprise goes businesses that pay taxes and create jobs – followed by increased residential taxes.
LIMITS ON ABORTION RIGHTS: The trial of Philadelphia abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell has brought to light some appalling information about late-term abortions and the killing of babies who have survived botched abortion attempts. Gosnell is charged with seven counts of murder for severing the spinal chords of living, breathing, sometimes screaming babies who survived his abortion attempts and whose late-term "delivery" would have most likely resulted in their survival. Gosnell's assistants have testified that hundreds more were disposed of in a similar fashion, to include testimony that one "fetus" was swimming in toilet water as it tried to stay afloat before it was flushed into the sewer system. While women should have the right to control their bodies, to include making their own decisions about terminating most pregnancies, there must be a limit to some very late-term abortion practices. Millions of babies born prematurely during the eighth or ninth month of their mothers' pregnancies have survived to become healthy, happy children. With the morning-after pill readily available, no limits on abortions during the first six months of pregnancy, and the multitude of barren couples begging to adopt, surely our society can place some limits on late third trimester abortions. Otherwise, we will continue to hear about babies who survive late-pregnancy abortion attempts being tossed into the trash instead of receiving medical care.
LOTTERY A "TAX ON THE POOR?" In Texas, the state's legislature almost shut down that state's lottery after tea party lawmakers called the lottery "a de-facto tax on the state's low-income residents." Should state lotteries be equated to a "tax" on the poor? Evidence suggests that low-income residents spend four times more on lottery tickets than do higher-income folks. In Texas, poorly educated residents who did not graduate high school spend an average of $600 per year on lottery tickets, while those with graduate-level degrees spend only about $150 per year. This statistic supports the adage "the lottery is an investment vehicle for those with poor math skills." Here in Rhode Island, of course, we have widespread math deficiencies among high school students and graduates, and further, our state motto, "Hope," and advertising by the Lottery Commission encourages the poor and under-educated to buy lottery tickets. After all, buying "hope" instead of food might lead to lottery riches. Is it a de-facto tax? Of course it is!
QUOTE OF THE WEEK: "I don't see why state taxpayers should bail out a developer who made a boneheaded decision to pay $40 million for a building that's worth $10 million," said Angus Davis, founder of Providence technology company Swipely, speaking of the "Superman" building's owner seeking $70 million in taxpayer subsidies to redevelop the building into downtown apartments. Some politicians, especially union-connected ones like Senate Majority Leader Dominick Ruggerio, are actually sympathetic to the request. Only in Rhode Island would we be considering such a move after throwing away over $100 million with the 38 Studios debacle.

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One player's adventures in the World of Warcraft. Hunters, Paladins, Raiding, Mythic Plus.
Sunday, June 27, 2010
Grandpappy Hammer
Now I could go way back in the day, and tell you tales that me Grandpappy told me. Days before even Righteous Fury when Paladins tanked with Seal of Fury and were by all accounts darn good tanks. A time when Blessing of Kings was a 31 point talent… in the Retribution tree… and Consecrate, oh sweet Consecrate, was an 11 point talent…in Holy. A time when blessings lasted all of 5 minutes and you had 40 people to keep a buff up on.
But those were even before my days. So let me tell ya the story I know da best. My story.
When I started tanking, we didn't even really know if we were supposed to be tanks, at least not raid tanks. A Warrior would see you wearing a Raiding Tank shield in Shattrath (that's where we hung out before Dalaran) and shake his head and mutter about what a waste of gear it was. We were called the worst spec in the game and a waste of a raid spot. We were, by our very existence, destroying the game.
We didn't have fancy things like Divine Plea, or mana return from Blessing of Sanctuary. Sure, we had Spiritual Attunement, and Judgement of Wisdom. We had Mana per 5 on our gear and we liked it! Actually, we hated it. We begged the developers, and after months and months, they took it off our Tier 4 gear. And speaking of our Tier, it was always itemized to be worse than Warrior Tier gear. Less hit points, less avoidance. We didn't have the stamina talents you have today. The Warrior would always have a large hit point pool than you, unless you just flat outgeared him.
We were just so bloody happy we could get actual Tanking Tier gear.
And spell power plate? That wasn't just the realm of the Holies. Oh no, that spell power was what we needed to make threat. We did back flips when they put a sword with Block Rating AND spell power in the game. Still has that in me bank, I does.
Twas a different tanking world back then. You had to know this thing called Uncrushable. You youngins call it 'Block Capped' and don't care about none too much. But back in MY day, you couldn't tank much if you weren't Uncrushable, and you need a Master's degree in Mathematics (or a well writen addon/macro) to figure out if you were. Them Warriors, they got Uncrushable with the push of a button. Not us Paladins. No sir, we had to gear for it. And you need to act like a rogue spamming your Holy Shield button. Back in MY day, it was 8 second duration and 8 second cooldown. You let that thing fall off and BAM, you are Crushable and the Bosses would turn you into a fine paste of goo.
Course, you could handle spamming your buttons cause there wasn't much going on in the rotation. This fancy 969 stuff you whipper snappers love so much didn't exist in my day. We had Consecrate. We had Judgment. We had Holy Shield. And that, my young apprentices, was it.
Didn't matter none, because we made outstanding threat. Might have even been OP. But staying alive, well that was another matter. These fancy cooldowns you play with like Bubble Wall and Raid Wall? Nope, didn't have them. Our cooldown was Lay On Hands and in MY day, it had a 60 minute cooldown. It really didn't help none if you were going to get hit for 120% of your HP. For that you needed Shield Wall or Last Stand.
Oh we had Ardent Defender, but not like what you have. We had no idea if it was working or when it saved your butt, which wasn't often. If you were hanging out sub 35% on hit points, your healers weren't doing their job and your death would be close at hand. See for Ardent Defender to work in MY day, you had to ALREADY be under 35% before the hit came. Then she would knock off some damage. It wouldn't hurt, you'd just be dead.
And kids, we would RUN back after the wipe, a long friggin way sometimes. None of these fancy-smancy teleports you kids can't live without.
We didn't have none of this Dual spec business. If you were a tank, by golly, you were a tank from beginning of the instance to the end, unless you ported back to Ironforge and coughed up 50g to change your spec. When you weren't needed to Tank because the particular boss didn't need as many tanks as the last one, you whacked the boss like a wet noodle, respeced to Holy and healed, or got replaced, plain and simple.
The encounters were stacked against you, too. There were two encounters that could not be defeated unless your Tank had Spell Reflect in his spell book. One of them, Kael'Thelas, was one of the most important encounters in game at the time, and the other, Reliquary of Souls, was a hurdle you had to pass before the end boss of that Expansion.
There were fights like Hodir where you needed special resist gear. One of them was called Hydross. Getting Uncrushable was dang hard without some specific drops. One of the most important was a Defense trinket that dropped from Hydross himself. So you needed a drop from the Boss that you needed the drop to Tank. It was beautiful.
And there was fight after fight after fight where the strategy was basically have your Warrior Tank pop Shield Wall and Last Stand to survive the Bosses big nuke. Guys like Gruul, and Magtheridon. We had to cheat with things like Nightmare Seeds. Still have some of them in me bank, too.
There was an entire instance where it felt like every other mob had a silence, or a mana burn. You think keeping your mana bar up is tough today? Try it with mobs that mana burn and no divine plea. Replenishment didn't exist either, well unless you brought a Shadow Priest and had him in your group. Fat chance on that one. In Tempest Keep, your raid was 24 manning much of the time. Speaking of 24 manning, there was one boss that burned your mana, and if you ran out, you BLEW UP. Nothing like risking the raid cause your bar is blue and not red.
And Hammer of Justice didn't interrupt back in MY day. If something had to interrupted, and there's always a couple of fights where it does, you better trust your Rogues a whole bunch.
My favorite might have been Fear. A ton of Bosses did it. When they did you turned your back and got Crushed, or the Boss turned and Cleaved or Breathed and wiped out half your raid. Warriors, you know the ones who were supposed to be tanking, they just stance dance and Bezerker rage. We came up with some neat tricks, like Bubble cancel macros. Course that only worked once. The best news was one of the End Bosses of the Expansion, Archimonde, was based on that mechanic. Fun times.
Course, we didn't let none of it stop us. No siree bob. We fought through it all. We had to work twice as hard to be half as good, and we pushed a few lazy Warriors to the ranks of the DPS. We took the lumps for you to be the tanks you are today. Appreciate your past, and remember where you came from.
Now, GET OFF MA LAWN!
13 comments:
- Shayzani said...
I dig this.
I could pretty much copy/paste this post and put a new title on it to tell my own story too.
I would call it "Reasons I play a Death Knight now"
- June 28, 2010 at 3:40 AM
- Jong said...
haha I remember the spell damage weapons. I grinded bgs for the merciless gladiator mace.
- June 28, 2010 at 9:38 AM
- Nyss said...
Ah, the old days...
I remember having to have a macro set up that reapplied my seal every time I judged and broke the seal...
I remember completing the Charger quest chain, only to have "Summon Charger" become trainable a month and a half later...
Good times, good times :)
- June 28, 2010 at 2:45 PM
- Rhidach said...
This brought back so many memories. Painful, painful memories.
Great post Honors!
- June 28, 2010 at 3:15 PM
- Orthien said...
I to remember these days, back when we liked block rating and enchanted our weapons with spellpower. Will I am glad they are over I still look back with fondness on them as they were my first experiances raiding. I to still carry my Crystalforged Sword and S2 Spell mace in my bank as momentos.
- June 28, 2010 at 4:17 PM
I've been Ret since T7 and I STILL have my Crystalforged Sword in the bank! PROOF that the developers meant for us to be tanks! XD
I remember getting invited to tank Heroic Black Morass, and seconds later getting kicked from the group because the mage "would feel better with a Warrior tank." So I formed my OWN group, one-shotted everything, and when I got back to Shattrath that mage was still trying to fill his group! I /w him to let him know. :)
And speaking of the tough old days, this was when at least two members of your party had to physically get to the CoT summoning stone by doing something like portalling to IF, flying to Menethil, taking the boat to Theramore, flying to Tanaris, and then riding to the entrance of CoT. At some point in BC, they put a teleporter in Shattrath, and of course there's one in Dalaran now.
- June 28, 2010 at 4:48 PM
- Honors Code said...
Well, I was an engineer back then, I always had a portal to Gadget.
I tanked BM so many times to get people their Kara keys.
- June 28, 2010 at 5:00 PM
- Dorgol said...
Strange as it is, I liked using spell power gear for tanking.
It was a way of saying "it isn't MY strength that is saving your ass... it's the Light and the power granted me that is saving your ass."
I'm happy things are better now, but I still liked the RP-ness of a spellpower enchant.
- June 28, 2010 at 5:17 PM
What a trip down memory lane!
Forgot how painful and frustrating tanking used to be for us.
- June 28, 2010 at 9:51 PM
- Anolaana said...
I wonder how you folks did it TBC. Thanks for keeping up the fight of Righteous [Fury]- the world's a better place 'cause of you tanks.
I tanked from 30-75. Never really, really got the hang of it like the veterans- but I probably would if I had the time to make a warrior alt. Perhaps I should brush the dust off the tanking shields I have some day.
It's too late for me these days though. I would have loved to tank TBC- Vanilla even. I'd be better off for it. But I'm stuck in Holy Spec now- the world's probably a better place for it, cause if I was prot there's be a heap more wipes!
- June 29, 2010 at 7:36 AM
- What's my main again? said...
I love your comment at the end about having to work twice as hard to be half as good at the end as the lazy warriors... because that's how I feel now as a warrior comparing myself to a paladin :P
Things have a changed a lot haven't they? Maybe I just like playing the underdog... playing a feral druid tank and prot pally in BC... and now a warrior in wotlk when prot pallies became utterly boring for me to play.
But from the start of playing my paladin in BC I loved tanking... my fondest memories of my pally was hitting lvl 40 and getting holy shield! Then grinding for hours on the pirates in Tanaris. Back when judging consumed your current seal and applied that effect to the target so I would rotate between seal of light and wisdom and judged when the debuff was about to fall off.
So many whispers back then from the other players about how I was able to kill 5-6 guys without dying lol.
- June 29, 2010 at 12:03 PM
- Honors Code said...
Today's warrior is far more competitive than the BC Paladin was. Tanks overall are more balanced than they were in either vanilla or BC.
- June 29, 2010 at 1:30 PM
As pretty much a 5 man only tank(with some occasional forays into kara and ZA) I switched from bear to pally. Their AOE threat was phenomenal. They were the premier 5 man tank, the damage output was healable, and they required little to no cc in an age where some instances weren't getting done without it. Mechanar without a warlock? Out of the question! Shadow labs without at least a rogue and a mage... no thanks!
Druid tanks were fighting that "Warriors are the only real tanks" perception as much as pallies. The example that stuck with me was the time I was headed with my fully formed group into ramparts, and some random DPS asked if the voidwalker was tanking. Ouch! My poor bruised ego!
- June 30, 2010 at 2:06 PM


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Eco design flies in the face of the expression "you can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear," which suggests if something isn't very good to begin with, it cannot be made valuable.
Carlos Salgado and Bart Bettencourt of SCRAPILE, a Brooklyn, New York furniture company, refute the idiom every time they make a dining table, bookshelf, or bench with salvaged wood. Since 2003, the designing duo has collected scraps shed off from New York's woodworking industry and combined and reused the discarded pieces to make new furniture.
Salgado and Bettencourt say they began their business after noticing all the wood-based material being thrown out in New York City. Disturbed by the simultaneous waste of usable wood and clear-cutting of virgin forests, they planned the implementation of a reuse system, started a collection route, and created designs that integrate different types, colors, and grades of wood into inherently one-of-a-kind pieces.
The process creates a win-win situation for SCRAPILE and the larger manufacturers who face the expenses of waste disposal. Once collected materials are back at the company warehouse, the wood is milled to a specific size, cataloged, and laminated into a block with different types of wood.
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Bettencourt estimates that 90 percent of SCRAPILE's customers buy for aesthetic; the fact that the furniture is reused is just "value added." Although Bettencourt says people have suggested SCRAPILE adopt a more elegant name, he explains that one of the business's premises is to get people to start looking at waste in a different way, "so the name really is what we're all about."


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Fusion-io Delivers the All-Flash Datacenter for Hyperscale and Cloud Businesses
New Fusion ioScale Provides Up to 3.2 TB of ioMemory Flash at Prices that Displace Disk in the Datacenter for Cloud and Hyperscale Companies of All Sizes
Jan 16, 2013, 08:30 EST
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Jan. 16, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- [Open Compute Summit] – In advance of the Open Compute Summit today, Fusion-io (NYSE : FIO ) announced its newest product line, Fusion ioScale. Previously exclusive to Fusion-io customers outfitting thousands of servers, ioScale is now available for hyperscale and cloud companies in minimum order quantities of only one hundred units. Each ioScale provides up to 3.2 terabytes of reliable Fusion ioMemory capacity that is performance tuned for the unique needs of webscale environments. With prices starting at $3.89 USD per gigabyte with increasing discounts based on volume, ioScale now makes it practical to architect an all-flash datacenter at scale.
"By making ioScale available to growing webscale and emerging cloud companies, Fusion-io is at the forefront of the transition to the all-flash hyperscale datacenter, powered by open software defined solutions," said David Flynn, Fusion-io CEO and Chairman. "Hyperscale companies are an entirely different market with different needs compared to enterprise organizations. Fusion ioScale has been specifically designed with the input of existing hyperscale market leaders to maximize the simplicity of the all-flash datacenter and meet the unique needs of webscale customers. Fusion-io is pleased to now be able to offer this technology to emerging market leaders to help them redefine what's possible when it comes to cost effectively delivering rich data services to millions of people around the world."
By leveraging involvement with its strategic partners, Fusion ioScale evolved from the high volume Fusion ioFX workstation acceleration products. Fusion ioScale delivers on the unique needs of webscale and emerging cloud companies, meeting their requirements for price, maximum rack density and trusted Fusion-io reliability. As the industry shifts to open software defined datacenters, solutions like ioScale are powerful I/O engines that dramatically improve the performance and efficiency of hyperscale infrastructure.
"We're thrilled to see Fusion-io launching ioScale in conjunction with the Open Compute Summit and making this high-performance, low-power technology more broadly available," said Frank Frankovsky, Chairman of the Open Compute Foundation and Vice President of Hardware Design and Supply Chain at Facebook. "We've been involved in all stages of the product's research and development, and we're excited by this technology's potential to help the industry meet its rapidly growing storage demands."
Simplified, higher density and more reliable servers make the hyperscale all-flash datacenter more efficient than datacenters based on solid state disk and hard disk systems. The reduced floor space requirements, lower power consumption, and the tolerance of wider temperature and humidity ranges dramatically reduce operational costs and environmental impact through an all-flash hyperscale datacenter.
"Hyperscale companies architect their infrastructure with bare bones servers and open source software that scales-out cost-effectively in the hundreds and thousands," said David Floyer, Wikibon Chief Technology Officer. "These organizations focus on capital expenses; this is very different from the operating expense focus seen at traditional enterprises that implement feature-rich infrastructure with long lifespans. The data requirements of these hyperscale companies are growing astronomically fast, much faster than the enterprise market. The design of the ioScale flash memory products will enable Fusion-io to reach a broader range of webscale and cloud companies, including the emerging hyperscale leaders who will power the services consumers will enjoy in an always-connected world."
Key benefits of Fusion ioScale include:
- Up to 3.2 TB of capacity on a single half length PCIe slot, with a single controller, enabling a small form factor server to reliably scale to 12.8 TB or more, delivering maximum rack density and reducing the need for antiquated disk drive bays
- Hyperscale servers supporting UEFI can boot from Fusion ioScale, further eliminating the need for RAID controllers or disk infrastructure in spartan webscale servers with limited space
- Best-in-class Fusion-io endurance in all capacities, empowering caching, write-heavy databases and large scale applications
- Enterprise reliability with the Self-Healing, Wear Management, and Predictive Monitoring capabilities of Fusion ioMemory, ensuring customers can easily meet even the highest service level requirements
- Compatibility with the Fusion ioMemory software development kit (SDK) to leverage application programming interfaces (APIs) like Atomic Writes and directFS permitting applications to run natively on flash
Fusion ioScale will be showcased at the Open Compute Summit in Santa Clara, California on January 16 and 17, 2013, in Fusion-io booth #A4, where it will be featured in Facebook servers. Fusion-io CEO David Flynn will present at the Open Compute Summit on the displacement of disk in the datacenter at 1:00 pm Pacific Time today, January 16, 2013.
Fusion ioScale is now available to customers interested in accelerating their business with an all flash datacenter. Please visit http://www.fusionio.com/ioscale for more information on how to order.
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Fusion-io delivers the world's data faster. Our Fusion ioMemory platform and software defined storage solutions accelerate virtualization, databases, cloud computing, big data and performance applications. From e-commerce retailers to the world's social media leaders and Fortune Global 500 companies, our customers are improving the performance and efficiency of their data centers with Fusion-io technology to accelerate the critical applications of the information economy.
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Crowdsourcing Real World Human-Robot Dialog and Teamwork through Online Multiplayer Games
We present an innovative approach for large-scale data collection in human-robot interaction research through the use of online multi-player games. By casting a robotic task as a collaborative game, we gather thousands of examples of human-human interactions online, and then leverage this corpus of action and dialog data to create contextually relevant, social and task-oriented behaviors for human-robot interaction in the real world. We demonstrate our work in a collaborative search and retrieval task requiring dialog, action synchronization and action sequencing between the human and robot partners. A user study performed at the Boston Museum of Science shows that the autonomous robot exhibits many of the same patterns of behavior that were observed in the online dataset and survey results rate the robot similarly to human partners in several critical measures.
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Fur balls occur when cats clean themselves, ingesting their own fur. While these are common, be sure to brush your cat's coat on a regular basis so that this doesn't lead to serious, and even fatal, problems.read more
While he was completing his final year of veterinary school, Dr. Tony Buffington started noticing a relationship between stressful events or environments and evidence of certain "sickness behaviors" in cats. He happened upon a paper in the journal Feline Practice that detailed an increase in the number of cats suffering urinary tract disease symptoms in the San Fernando Valley, Calif., area during the aftermath of the quake. The paper theorized that the stress of the quake and subsequent aftershocks played a role in the symptoms.
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Buffington, a professor of veterinary clinical sciences at Ohio State University, recently led a team that observed a group of healthy cats and a group of chronically ill cats under controlled, enriched environments. The ill cats had a condition called feline interstitial cystitis, which is characterized by recurring discomfort or pain in the bladder, and an urgent and frequent need to urinate. The researchers occasionally took cats out of their environments, or otherwise disrupted their schedule. As the authors reported in a recent issue of the Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association, the periods of prolonged enrichment eased the symptoms of the sick cats. During the brief periods of disruption, however, the healthy cats were just as likely as the sick cats to exhibit sickness behaviors.
Buffington says the findings provide two unique insights. One is confirmation that fairly simple environmental changes can lead to physical symptoms in healthy cats. "Happy cats are healthy cats, and their environment plays a role in that," he says. "From the point of view of being a good pet owner, wise owners know what an enriched environment is and create it for their animals. That way, their animal stays healthy longer. There's now good evidence for this."
Second is the fact that the enriched environments took what were essentially lost causes and more or less cured them. "What surprised me most is that the affected cats were donated to us because they had such severe symptoms that they were going to be euthanized," says Buffington. "But by changing their environment, we were able to resolve those symptoms. They were not completely cured, but by the end of six months their sickness behaviors were indistinguishable from those of healthy cats."
How to Make an Enriched Environment
Creating one of these enriched environments is not terribly complicated, according to Dr. E'Lise Christensen Bell, an animal behaviorist at NYC Veterinary Specialists. In fact, many cat owners may only require a few additional steps from their current situation. She suggests doing the following:
Buffington notes that not all cats are going to respond the same. Some are more adaptable than others to unpredictable environments. He's also sensitive to cat owners who may feel they are being told they're not good caretakers, and stresses that veterinary professionals are themselves in the process of learning the importance of his team's findings. "We veterinary professionals have assumed the authority to tell you that you should keep your cats inside, so we also shoulder the responsibility to tell people how to do it right," he explains. "Having the right evidence-based advice is the best preventative healthcare you can do."
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Nelver says: Yes cats can be born with ilenlss and can pass them on. Best thing is to be sure everyone is up to date with their shots.
robert says: i believe stress is a big cause in my cats health
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Rhonda says: I have an urgent question???? I took my 18 yr old cat to my Vetenarian this past thurs, because she was acting odd. She was weak when walking and would stumble and fall/lay down quickly. I was so sick with a breathing problem that I could not take her any sooner because I could not even drive. Well, the Vet took 2 vials of blood from her and said all the tests he did came up negative. He said she seems to have nothing wrong. She seems healthy for 19 yrs old he said. He weighed he at 3lbs....which she has always weighed only 7lbs at most. She is a strong fighter for such a little girl (like me in ways) She was a stray from down the street Ii adopted 19 yrs ago. Please help me...I do not want to lose her. I don't want to be selfish either. Can you suggest in what ways I can make her comfortable tonight and until I can call my Vet. again tomorrow ???? God Bless Smokie and Us All in America and The world all Over with Peace Not Hate or Wars. Respecfully Rhonda in Florida... Awaiting a reply...Please
TDC Editor says: Hi Rhonda, The best advice that we can give you is to call your vet immediately. Even though we work at The Daily Cat to give you the best possible advice about cat health, there's no replacement for having a good vet check out Smokie. We hope that she starts feeling and acting better soon!
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2011 saw a lot of wonderful books published. Whether they made me laugh, cry, or look under the bed for monsters, here are some of my favorites.
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Fond du Lac Public Library cardholders have access to free e-books through the library's website. The main library will hold two classes in January to help e-reader users learn the system and provide information about other e-book resources.
Every time the calendar rolls over, many people resolve to do a better job saving more and spending less. The Fond du Lac Public Library's Money Smart U program will offer a great start with It's a New Year: Where's Your Money Going? at 6 p.m. Tuesday, January 11.
Fond du Lac native Dorothy Donohue has published 16 children's books that feature her remarkable cut-paper illustrations. A collection of her illustrations will be on display January 4-January 31 in the Fond du Lac Public Library gallery.
Ho ho ho! Santa's on his way and a lot of you are getting e-readers this year. In fact, sales of e-readers are projected to go way up this year. Whether this will be your first e-reader or an upgrade, the library is here to help.
Christmas is right around the corner and stress levels are on the rise. Need a little something to get you back into the holiday spirit? There is nothing like a warm, heartfelt Christmas story to lift your spirits and bring back the true meaning of the holiday season. Take your pick from this list of new books by some of your favorite authors.
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These are all books that were published in 2011 that I read and liked. Since I like books with a Wisconsin connection, about half of the titles have a Wisconsin connection.
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It's the season for giving. Jonathan, 6, and Arianna, 9, stopped by the Fond du Lac Public Library Children's Desk on December 13 to give Children's Coordinator Julia Cartwright each a five-dollar bill. The kids were following a family tradition handed down by their father, Mike Korb, of donating what they received on St. Nicholas Day.
Sara Cujak hosted the annual Cujak's Wine Market Holiday Wine Tasting at the Fond du Lac Public Library in November.
Kids ages 6 to 12 who could benefit from practicing their reading are invited to participate in the Fond du Lac Public Library's Paws to Read program. Kids read aloud to certified therapy dogs in a relaxed setting. Studies have shown that reading aloud to dogs helps put the child at ease. Kids benefit from the dogs' patience, acceptance and comforting presence while they practice reading and build skills. The therapy dogs will be accompanied by their certified handlers and are from the group Healing Paws, Inc.


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Purdue, John (1802-1876) | Purdue University Libraries, Archives and Special Collections
John Purdue was born in a log cabin in Germany Valley (near Shirleysburg), Pennsylvania on October 31, 1802, although the exact date of his birth has been questioned. He was the only son of Charles and Mary Short Purdue and had four older sisters—Catherine (McCammon), Nancy, Susan (Thompson), Sarah (Prosser), and five younger sisters—Eliza, an unnamed sister who died as an infant, Margaret (Haymaker), Mary (Miller) and Hannah (Clark). The Purdues may have been descended from French Huguenots, although they lived in a German-speaking region of Pennsylvania and may have attended a Dunkard church (John Purdue was still noted to speak with a German accent years later). Charles Purdue worked at a nearby iron foundry, and the family endured extreme poverty. John began attending a local school at age eight, but had to drop out at age twelve to help support his family as a hired worker. He may have also taught school in Pennsylvania when he was a little older.
In the early 1820s, the Purdue family moved to Adelphi, Ohio (60 miles south of Columbus, Ohio). Charles Purdue died either right before or during the move, as did one of the Purdue daughters, Nancy. John Purdue took a job teaching in a one-room school house in Pickaway County, and may have also apprenticed with a local merchant during this time. After brief stints teaching in Michigan and purchasing and running a farm in Ohio, Purdue was persuaded by his neighbors to take their hogs to eastern markets and sell them, which he did, making a tidy profit of his own and broadening his experience in the business world. Purdue continued to sell crops and livestock for his neighbors on commission, and he began to save as much money as he could while still providing for his mother and sisters.
In 1833, Purdue opened a general merchandise store in Adelphi, with James Fowler. Fowler's brother, Moses, had been one of Purdue's students and began to work in the store, which prospered and did business with suppliers as far away as New York. Purdue was doing well enough to buy a farm for his mothers and sisters in Ohio, as well as land in Warren County, Illinois, and 240 acres in Tippecanoe County, Indiana (at the present-day intersection of McCarty and Creasy Lanes in Lafayette). During his travels in the 1830s, he bought and kept newspapers about politics, business, education, national affairs, philanthropy, and the abolishment of slavery.
Sometime around 1834, for reasons unknown, Purdue left his Adelphi store and moved to Lafayette, Indiana. The community welcomed him, and Purdue quickly became involved in several civic activities: he served on the first board of directors for the Lafayette branch of the State Bank of Indiana, and became a member of the Northwestern Freedmen's Aid Commission. Throughout his long stay in Lafayette, Purdue would donate generously to churches, libraries, schools, and other local organizations.
In 1839, Purdue convinced his old apprentice, Moses Fowler, to join him in Lafayette and start another Purdue & Fowler general merchandise store, which moved from its original location to Third and Main Streets in 1840. In addition to merchandise, Purdue also continued to sell items on commission, traveling extensively to various cities to buy and sell a variety of items. Business was good, but even more so when the Wabash & Erie Canal opened north of Lafayette in 1843. Purdue purchased Lot 1 (the first lot in the first plat of Lafayette) from Eliza and James McCormick, original settlers of the area. Joining this lot to other surrounding lots as he bought them, Purdue established the "Purdue Block," an area that would eventually become known as the largest business district outside of New York City's Wall Street.
In 1844, Purdue and Fowler parted ways. It is unknown if the two friends had an argument, but relations between John Purdue and Moses Fowler would remain strained for the rest of their lives. However, they would occasionally collaborate on business dealings, although for the most part they would remain major business rivals. After Fowler's death many years later, his wife Eliza donated $70,000 to Purdue University, the largest single donation since John Purdue's initial donation of $100,000. Because of her gift, Eliza Fowler Hall was named after her, and the Fowler Courts complex, Duhme Residence Hall, Fowler House, and the Knoy Hall of Technology are all named for Fowler descendants.
In 1846, Indiana Governor James Whitcomb appointed Purdue to a panel of commissioners to sell stock for Lafayette's first railroad, the Lafayette & Indianapolis. Purdue was elected to serve on the board of directors, and he also contributed toward a second railroad, the New Albany & Salem. By this time, Purdue had appointed another young business associate, William Stacy, to partner with him in his general merchandise business. Purdue helped contribute funds for the building of a bridge over the Wabash River, which was completed in 1847. In 1851, he established a second "Purdue Block" in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He also opened a commission house for the sale of "western" products in New York (Purdue, Ward & Company), and had another office in Chicago.
In 1852, Purdue was appointed as a trustee to Lafayette's first public school, and helped select sites for three new schools. While the Indiana Supreme Court debated for a year over the legality of taxation and local schools went without funding, Purdue donated his own money to keep the schools running. Purdue also contributed to the Tippecanoe Battle Ground, Stockwell, and Purdue Institutes, and to the Waveland and Alamo Academies. In Ohio he donated to Otterbein and Oberlin Colleges, the University of Akron, and possibly others.
In the 1858, Purdue bought Walnut Grove Farm in Warren County, Indiana, and employed several family members to help run it, including William and Lucinda Clark, John and Eunice Prosser and their three children, and John McCammon. Besides owning extensive property in Indiana, Purdue also owned real estate in Iowa, Illinois, Ohio, Wisconsin, Colorado, Minnesota, and California, and possibly Texas. Despite his massive land holdings, Purdue himself lived simply, spending roughly half of his time living in a hotel in New York and the other half living in the Lahr House in Lafayette.
Mary Short Purdue died in 1860 at the age of ninety. When the Civil War broke out, Purdue donated money to the Union cause and became the main pork supplier for the Union Army. When Confederate sympathizers in Lafayette starting vandalizing local businesses, Purdue financed and armed a volunteer militia, the Purdue Rifles (possibly named after the Enfield rifles Purdue bought for the men). Besides guarding the home front, the Purdue Rifles also served as a state militia called the Indiana Legion. They guarded Confederate prisoners, located deserters, saw action at Twelve Mile Island on the Ohio River, near Louisville, Kentucky, and guarded railroads in Tennessee and Alabama, freeing combat troops for General Sherman's march through Atlanta. Purdue donated ten percent of a "citizen bounty" to be paid to men who volunteered for the Union Army, funded war monuments, and lent Tippecanoe County $10,000 to cover its war debts.
When William Stacy left, Samuel Curtis became partner in the Purdue merchandise business in Lafayette. In 1863, Curtis left, and Lazarus Brown became a full partner. The following year, Purdue ran for Congress as a Republican against incumbent Godlove Orth. Orth was a good speaker; Purdue was not. Purdue narrowly lost the election, but the bitter banter both campaigns had generated chipped some of the polish away from his pristine reputation. In 1866, Purdue ran once more against Orth, this time as an Independent. Orth favored strong disciplinary measures against the former Confederate States as they rejoined the Union, whereas Purdue espoused a more forgiving approach. William Lingle, owner of the Lafayette newspaper the Courier, was particularly harsh in his criticism of Purdue, so Purdue purchased the rival paper, the Journal, to meet Lingle's onslaught. Purdue again narrowly lost the election, as well as a bit more of his reputation.
Around this time, Purdue began to show signs of the physical and mental degeneration that would plague him later in life. When asked to provide funding for a lecture hall, reading room and library for the young people of Lafayette, Purdue agreed, but only if the proposed building would be named the Purdue Institute. The idea was rejected, and Purdue himself began to be perceived as egotistical and stubborn. Despite his recent disappointments, Purdue's other ventures were as varied and prosperous as ever. In 1867, Purdue and a group of other men salvaged a factory that made mechanical reapers and other farm machinery, renaming it the Lafayette Agricultural Works. When another group of businessmen started Lafayette Savings Bank, Purdue served as the bank's first president. In 1869, he helped form the Lafayette, Muncie & Bloomington (LM&B) Railroad. Disputes over the use of the tracks by other railroads began almost immediately. Because the LM&B ran too far south of his Benton County land holdings to profit him, Purdue's old partner Moses Fowler helped found a rival railroad, the Cincinnati, Lafayette & Chicago. Although it eventually branched north, the CL&C had to share some track with the LM&B. A long and bitter court battle ensued over track ownership, upkeep and usage. When the LM&B finally opened in 1874, Purdue had actually paid for a portion of the track to be built himself, and had secured over $600,000 in personal bank loans to keep the LM&B afloat.
The LM&B was not Purdue's only legal and financial worry during this time—in 1870 he invested money in a silver mine near Georgetown, Colorado and established the Purdue Gold and Silver Mining and Ore Reduction Company. Laborers from a nearby mine had been smuggling the silver out on Sundays to avoid detection, and by the time they were discovered and legal proceedings had run their course, much of the mine's profits were lost, or had gone to pay lawyers.
By 1869, Indiana had received funding through the Morrill Act to establish a land-grant college providing instruction in agriculture, mechanical arts, and military science. Although several cities had expressed interest in hosting the school, the process was still stalled, and no college had materialized. Purdue first offered $100,000, then $150,000, to the state, as well as one hundred acres of land that he had purchased on the west bank of the Wabash River for the establishment of the college. His only the stipulations were that the college bear his name and that he be awarded a lifelong seat on the board of directors. With the help of Senator John Stein, the Indiana Legislature approved the establishment of Purdue University.
Purdue and the new university trustees clashed immediately. Purdue had been appointed as a one-man committee to oversee the building program, which he did with his usual take-charge attitude, serving as his own contractor and, sometimes, architect. Purdue was raring to go, but the trustees advised caution—so much so that they held twenty-three meetings before they could decide on the location of the first building. Purdue was frustrated by what he perceived as unnecessary delay, and skipped the 1871 groundbreaking ceremony in protest.
The next few years brought a constant power struggle between Purdue and the trustees as Purdue University staggered into fruition. Purdue stumped around the nearly-empty campus and used his walking stick to measure building foundations, saying "myself and my cane are all the architect I need." In 1873, the trustees appointed Richard Owen as the first university President, a man with little appropriate experience for the job. President Owen and the trustees tried to begin classes on October 1st, but had to stop as most of the buildings on campus were unfinished, with no heating or lighting. Despite these setbacks, the trustees continued to hire more faculty and conducted a set of free, fifteen-week courses as a trial run for the real experience.
In March of 1874, Richard Owen resigned his post, and Abraham Shortridge became the next President. Shortridge was more qualified than Owen; he had been Superintendent of the Indianapolis public schools, and had made advances in procuring education for black children. Although he suffered from very poor eyesight, he was competent, worked well with the trustees, and quickly spoke out against John Purdue. Purdue, perhaps seeing him as a threat to his power, immediately bent his will on wearing Shortridge down, and then out.
Under Shortridge, the Schools of Engineering, Natural Sciences, Agriculture, and Military Science were created. Classes officially opened in September of 1874. Although 200 students were anticipated, only 39 showed up to enroll. Of those 39, only 13 could pass their entrance exams. The others were put into the hastily-created Preparatory Academy to gain some extra instruction.
Eventually, John Purdue's constant antagonism drove Shortridge out, just as he'd hoped. Shortridge resigned, physically and emotionally ill, and bankrupt. Ironically, John Purdue himself gave Shortridge a small loan for his immediate expenses, and helped arrange short-term housing for him on campus.
The first Commencement took place on June 16, 1875, with one graduate, John Bradford Harper. Purdue gave an address, alluding to his struggles with the trustees by saying "we don't get on very nicely." The dislike was reciprocal. The trustees chose not to appoint Purdue as board president that August, and worked steadily against him at every turn thereafter. Emerson White became the next University President in December.
The next year was filled with trouble for John Purdue. In addition to his ongoing clashes with the trustees, his other business ventures were rapidly depleting his fortune, especially the ongoing legal headaches connected with the LM&B railroad and the Colorado mine. Purdue was declining mentally and physically, prone to confusion and paranoia. His finances became so drained that he had to mortgage most of his beloved Walnut Grove Farm to ensure the final payment of the pledge that gave birth to Purdue University in the first place. That was in August of 1876. On September 12th, Purdue's nephew drove him to campus to take a walking tour of the grounds, then returned him to his room at the Hygienic Institute, a hospital-like facility he had been staying at off and on for a few months. A few hours later, staff members found Purdue face down on the floor, dead.
After Purdue's funeral, a local dentist and former mining associate, Anderson M. Moore, created a plaster death mask of Purdue's face, which is currently part of the John Purdue Artifact Collection in Archives and Special Collections. Purdue was interred on campus, and the following year a subdued headstone was placed at his grave. But the real monument to Purdue was the University that surrounded him, a living, breathing memorial that continues to grow and evolve to this day. Of the many legacies that John Purdue left behind for the city of Lafayette, the state of Indiana, and the world at large, Purdue University was his greatest.


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Nov. 20, 2002
The Santa Clara University men's soccer squad landed six of its players on the All- West Coast Conference teams Wednesday as announced by the league office.
Senior Jamil Walker and sophomore Ryan Cochrane topped the list of Santa Clara players on the All-West Coast Conference teams as the pair received first team honors following the season. Junior midfielder Audren Cashman was named to the second team, while junior Kellen Gilmore and freshmen Jason Cunliffe and Jeff Scott each earned honorable mention honors.
Walker led the WCC in goals and points scored during league play while Cochrane directed a stingy Bronco defense that allowed only seven goals in conference action. Both earned All-WCC honors last year with Cochrane taking home second team honors and Walker earning Honorable Mention status in 2001.
Cashman's selction to the second team was well-deserved as the junior played center midfield all season for the Broncos, the hardest position on the field. He was the only Bronco to start all 17 games this season, chipping in with one goal and one assist on the year.
Gilmore's selection comes after the junior started in 14 of the 16 matches in which he appeared in for the Broncos, posting three assists on the year which ranked second on the team. Cunliffe's honorable mention selction comes after the redshirt freshman scored four goals and assisted on two others. He scored the game-winner against No. 10 Loyola Marymount to help Santa Clara back to the .500 level in league play. Scott's first year on the Mission Campus was deemed a success after his honorable mention seclection came after he scored two goals and assisted on two others. He was at times the most explosive player on the field as his speed and ball-handling gave the opponent fits.
West Coast Conference champion Portland and San Diego split the individual awards in the 2002 WCC Men's Soccer All-Conference team. For the second time in his career, San Diego's Ryan Coiner was named the WCC Player of the Year. Coiner, who shared 2000 Player of the Year honors with Loyola Marymount's Arturo Torres, ranks third on the WCC all-time goals scored list with 49. Coiner's teammate, Scott Burcar, earned Defensive Player of the Year honors, while Portland freshman standout, Alejandro Salazar, was tabbed the Freshman of the Year. Portland head coach, Clive Charles, led the Pilots to their first WCC men's soccer title in a decade and was rewarded with the WCC Coach of the Year award.
2002 WCC All-Conference Team
First Team
Scott Burcar, USD (JR, MF, Tacoma, WA)
Ryan Cochrane, SCU (SO, D, Portland, OR)
Ryan Coiner, USD (SR, F, Aliso Viejo, CA)
Josh Hansen, USF (JR, F, Phoenix, AZ)
Nate Jaqua, POR(JR, F, Eugene, OR)
Mike McCarthy, GON (SR, GK, Kailua, HI)
Andres Murriagui, LMU (SR, MF, Laguna Hills, CA)
Alejandro Salazar, POR (FR, F, Portland, OR)
Curtis Spiteri, POR (SR, GK, Vista, CA)
Arturo Torres, LMU (SR, F, Wilmington, CA)
Jamil Walker, SCU (SR, F, Pittsford, NY)
Second Team
Audren Cashman, SCU (JR, F, Palo Alto, CA)
Michael Erush, LMU (JR, MF, Van Nuys, CA)
Miguel Guante, POR (FR, MF, Ft. Huachaca, AZ)
Jeff Kovar, LMU (SR, D, Palos Verdes, CA)
Matt Kovar, LMU (SO, D, Palos Verdes, CA)
Matt McCausland, (USD, JR, MF, San Diego, CA)
Mark Muleady, USF (SO, GK, Bakersfield, CA)
Kevin Novak, LMU (JR, MF, Huntington Beach, CA)
Gabe Sturm, USF (JR, MF, Phoenix, AZ)
Garrett Turk, USD (SR, D, Laguna Nigel, CA)
Eric Wunderle, USD (JR, MF, Poway, CA)
Rob Anderson, GON; Kari Arnason, GON; Matt Prichard, GON; Scott Yuska, GON; Eric Cronkrite, POR; Matthew Domingo, POR; Sheldin Maistry, POR; Heath Pearce, POR; Jarrod Weis, POR; Kyle Tanner, POR; Adam Sthay, LMU; Niles Almarinez, SMC; Michael Johnson, SMC; Pat Lower, SMC; Tyler Conley, USD; Kellen Hiroto, USD; Parker Jarvis, USD; Alfred Bedrossian, USF; Chris Schwarze, USF; Jason Cunliffe, SCU; Kellen Gilmore, SCU; Jeff Scott, SCU;


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Hickory Hills, Palos Hills baseball programs merge
After years of competing against each other as local rivals, Hickory Hills Youth Baseball and the Palos Hills Baseball Association have merged into one organization.
The new entity will be known as "Hills Baseball Softball Association," and provide baseball and softball at all levels for children aged 4-16. HBSA, which will conduct play on fields in both communities, will accept youngsters from throughout the southwest suburbs for recreational participation, as well as for its part-time and full-time travel teams.
Registration dates are Jan. 11 and Feb. 8 from 9 a.m.-1 p.m. each day. Both Saturday sessions will be held at Conrady Junior High School, Roberts Road and 97th Street in Hickory Hills.
George Czarnik, of Hickory Hills, and Peter Donahue, of Palos Hills, will serve as HBSA president and vice president, respectively. For more information about the new organization or how to become involved with it, contact Czarnik at 599-6983.
Two more baseball camps announced
Chicago Christian and Lewis University in Romeoville will both host six-week baseball camps during the winter.
Lewis' camp will begin Jan. 11 and be directed by Flyers coach Tim McDonough, while the one at Chicago Christian starts Feb. 1 under the guidance of Knights coach and school athletic director Eric Brauer. Both are being held in conjunction with U.S. Baseball Academy and are open to players in grades 1-12.
Sessions will be offered in advanced hitting, pitching, catching, fielding and baserunning. Registration is now underway, and classes are limited to six players per coach. Previously, a similar camp was announced for Oak Lawn High School with a start date of Jan. 5.
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Midwest Elite Diamond 19-and-over women's fast-pitch softball club is looking for college-rostered players to compete in the summer of 2014.
The team will play in four local tournaments — including nationals — and two round-robin events. All positions will be considered, but specific needs include pitcher, catcher and infield/slapper. No practices are required.
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Palos Park to host winter basketball league
Palos Park, in conjunction with the Palos Heights Recreation Department and Worth Park District, will host a winter basketball league for youngsters in grades 1-8 that will play games each Saturday from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. beginning Jan. 18 and running through March 15.
Each child will have one practice and one game per week, with an emphasis being placed on skills development. Separate leagues will be formed for boys and girls, and play will be conducted in a total of four different age groups.
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Oak Lawn High School will host a six-week baseball camp, in conjunction with U.S. Baseball Academy, starting Jan. 5, 2014.
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Reference service is a focal point for research in SLCC Libraries. Librarians serving as liaisons to academic programs provide assistance and instruction to both print and electronic resources.
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Reference staff provide individualized assistance in finding a specific piece of information, or locating specific items or materials on a topic in person, by phone, and by email. Reference staff provide guidance and recommend strategies for using the library web site, online catalogs, electronic resources, print collections and ePortfolio.
Information Literacy TrainingThe library offers to teach classes on information literacy. The classes focus on teaching students where to access library databases and locating material within the library.
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When washing your cat's litter box, use mild soap and water. Harsh chemicals can be harmful for your cat, and their odors could discourage future litter box visits.read more
For many cat owners, taking kitty to the veterinarian is so fraught with struggle and discomfort that they avoid visits altogether. According to the American Veterinary Medical Association, cats outnumber dogs as pets in this country, but dog owners take their pets to the veterinarian twice as often as cat owners do.
Your cat's good health is dependent on regular examinations. The good news is that there's plenty you can do to make the veterinary experience a better one for both you and your pet.
Cat Veterinary Office Tips
Marilyn Krieger, a Redwood City, Calif., certified cat behavior consultant, recommends using a hard carrier. Begin by taking the top off and leaving the bottom out for your cat. Place a soft, familiar blanket or treats in the carrier. Play with your kitty around the carrier. Eventually, you can add the top, but leave the door off. "Put the door on after your cat goes in and out on its own," says Krieger. When you're ready to travel with the carrier, try a spritz of Feliway, a calming pheromone spray. Bring another towel to cover the carrier, which can provide some security.
What Your Veterinarian Can Do
Veterinarians can also work to make each visit a better experience. They should consider:
If both you and your veterinarian work to control the experience, you're likely to be pleasantly surprised.
Kim Boatman is a journalist and frequent contributor to The Daily Cat, based in Northern California whose work has appeared in The Miami Herald, the Detroit Free Press and the San Jose Mercury News. She is a lifelong lover of animals and shares her home with three cats.
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Sesame Workshop Launches New Sesame Street China Website
Sesame Workshop, the non-profit educational organization behind Sesame Street, is committed to the future of children's educational media in China. That's why last week we launched the Sesame Street China website, a new online resource with activities and videos for children and tips for Chinese parents.
The site is made up of three sections, titled "The Show," "Grown-ups," and "Meet Sesame Street." The first includes segments from Sesame Street's Big Bird Looks at the World, the Chinese version of Sesame Street, created in partnership with Shanghai Media Group's Toonmax. "Grown-ups" has professional parenting tips to help Chinese families with their children's mental, physical and emotional development. And "Meet Sesame Street" has information about Sesame Workshop's research model, our historical international educational efforts both inside and outside China and the Workshops' key partners. The website is also highly interconnected with Weibo and Kaixin, two extremely popular Chinese social media networks.
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Wapakoneta gets 12 players on all-district teams
From staff reports
The Wapakoneta Redskins had 12 players selected to the Division III All-Northwest District football teams for the 2013 season.
The all-district teams for all divisions were released Thursday.
Wapak had three first-team selections, senior offensive lineman Kyle Gonterman, senior running back Zach Schmerge and junior defensive end Thomas Schoenlein.
Gonterman was named the Western Buckeye League's Offensive Lineman of the Year earlier this month. He helped lead the Redskins to a school-record 39.4 points per game in 2013.
Schmerge was the WBL's Offensive Back of the Year, leading the league in rushing yards.
Schoenlein had 20 tackles for loss and eight sacks this season.
Appearing on the district's second-team offense for Wapakoneta were senior offensive lineman Wyatt Harrison and senior kicker Bailey Hinegardner.
Harrison was a first-team All-WBL guard, while Hinegardner was the league's Kicking Specialist of the Year.
Second-team all-district defensive selections for the Redskins included senior linebacker Isaac Kirby and junior defensive back Kodi Morgan.
Kirby was a WBL first-teamer, while Morgan was a second-team choice in the league.
Earning honorable mention in the Northwest District for Wapak were senior defensive lineman Casey Stauffer, junior offensive lineman Blake Bfenning, junior offensive lineman Wil Rankin, junior running back Keaton Metz and junior defensive back Quinn Lotridge.
Twenty schools in the Northwest District were classified as Division III for the 2013 season.
With 12 total selections, Wapakoneta had the second-most in the district, trailing only Toledo Central Catholic's 14.
Central Catholic, the Associated Press poll champion for Division III, is set to play in the Region 8 championship tonight.
St. Marys senior defensive back Jared Knous was a first-team all-district selection Thursday.
Kenton senior Noah Furbush was named the defensive player of the year in Division IV after having helped guide the Wildcats to a WBL regular season championship and a No. 1 ranking the Associated Press poll for Division IV.
Coldwater junior quarterback Brody Hoying was named the offensive player of the year in Division V.
The Midwest Athletic Conference nearly swept the Division VII individual awards, as St. John's senior running back Tyler Jettinghoff was the offensive player of the year, Marion Local senior linebacker Jacob Kunkler was the defensive player of the year and Marion Local's Tim Goodwin was the coach of the year.
All-Northwest District football teams
First team
OFFENSE: Ends_Jeremiah Braswell, Tol. Central Cath., 6-0, 180, jr.; Trey Guilliam, Defiance, 5-11, 180, sr.; Derek Gray, Clyde, 5-9, 160, sr. Tight end_Zach Fielder, Napoleon, 6-23, 221, sr. Linemen_Ramone Miles, Tol. Central Cath., 6-5, 270, jr.; Isiah Moore, Tiffin Columbian, 6-4, 305, sr.; Kyle Gonterman, Wapakoneta, 6-2, 240, sr.; Jacob Yaratch, Sandusky Perkins, 6-1, 250, jr.; Konner Garcia, Clyde, 6-0, 225, sr. Backs_Ryan Lynch, Tiffin Columbian, 5-10, 185, sr.; Zach Schmerge, Wapakoneta, 6-1, 230, sr.; Breck Turner, Norwalk, 6-1, 190, jr. Quarterback_DeShone Kizer, Tol. Central Cath., 6-5, 220, sr. Kicker_Grant Hull, Norwalk, 6-0, 185, sr.
DEFENSE: Linemen_J'Quan Fisher, Tol. Central Cath., 6-1, 260, jr.; Chance Weitz, Elida, 6-3, 265, sr.; Thomas Schoenlein, Wapakoneta, 6-3, 245, jr.; Kyle Lewis, Sandusky Perkins, 6-4, 215, sr. Linebackers_Chris Green, Tol. Central Cath., 6-1, 220, jr.; Bryant Schlade, Napoleon, 6-1, 200, sr.; Kade Long, Clyde, 6-1, 220, jr.; Jared Cook, Norwalk, 6-0, 185, jr. Backs_Derich Weiland, Tol. Central Cath., 5-10, 180, sr.; Jared Knous, St. Marys Memorial, 5-9, 155, sr.; Dale Irby, Sandusky Perkins, 6-3, 180, sr.; Matt Davidson, Norwalk, 5-11, 170, jr. Punter_Griffin Rinner, Norwalk, 5-9, 165, fresh.
Offensive player of the year: DeShone Kizer, Tol. Central Cath..
Defensive player of the year: Dale Irby, Sandusky Perkins.
Lineman of the year: Isiah Moore, Tiffin Columbian.
Coach of the year: Jason Ziegler, Sandusky Perkins.
Second team
OFFENSE: Ends_Anthony Amison, Tol. Rogers, 6-2, 170, sr.; Clark Etzler, Elida, 6-0, 175, jr.; Joseph Hinckley, Norwalk, 6-0, 170, sr.; Braelen Bader, Celina, 5-10, 175, sr. Linemen_Christian Ward, Tol. Central Cath., 6-0, 290, jr.; Seth Gerken, Napoleon, 6-5, 240, jr.; Wyatt Harrison, Wapakoneta, 6-1, 230, sr.; Dylan Hermes, Sandusky Perkins, 5-11, 225, sr.; Larry Case, Norwalk, 6-1, 250, sr. Backs_Tre'Von Wade, Tol. Central Cath., 5-10, 170, soph.; Kalvin Gordon, Mansfield Madison, 5-11, 190, sr.; Damien Coburn, Clyde, 5-11, 200, sr. Quarterbacks_Will Batt, Defiance, 6-2, 195, sr.; Jordan Johnson, Norwalk, 6-0, 165, sr. Kicker_Bailey Hinegardner, Wapakoneta, 5-10, 170, sr.
DEFENSE: Linemen_Codey Chance, Tiffin Columbian, 5-11, 295, sr.; Spencer Batt, Defiance, 6-1, 180, sr.; Adam Green, Celina, 5-10, 200, sr.; A.J. Scott, Norwalk, 5-11, 225, sr. Linebackers_Paul Moses, Tol. Central Cath., 6-0, 220, sr.; Isaac Kirby, Wapakoneta, 5-9, 185, sr.; John Workman, Sandusky Perkins, 6-0, 220, sr. Backs_Tejuan James, Tol. Central Cath., 5-9, 160, sr.; Nate Hoyda, Tiffin Columbian, 5-11, 185, sr.; Kodi Morgan, Wapakoneta, 6-0, 165, jr.; Collin Rieman, Clyde, 6-1, 170, jr. Punter_Gabe Rodriguez, Defiance, 6-0, 260, sr.
Honorable Mention
Josh Spurgeon, Napoleon; Caleb Hoyng, Celina; Tyler Smith, Elida; Zach Temple, Lexington; Jarrod Wehinger, Elida; Colton Relyea, Defiance; Peyton Smith, Elida; Gio Masi, Lexington; Clayton Farrar, Clyde; Marcus Winters, Tol. Central Cath.; Marwan Allen-Marsenburg, Tol. Central Cath.; Ryan O'Hearn, Tol. Central Cath.; Casey Stauffer, Wapakoneta; Keon Rayford, Tol. Rogers; Zach Graven, Maumee; Christian Moran, Elida; Seanquez Frye, Elida; Louden Limon, Celina; Caleb Baldridge, Napoleon; Anson Lankenau, Napoleon; Cody Harris, Mansfield Madison; Zack Davis, Mansfield Madison; Trent Richwine, Lexington; Stephon Campbell, Tol. Central Cath.; Cahle Puhl, Maumee; Trey Brown, Tol. Scott; Day'Vonta Russell, Tol. Scott; Dakarai Adams-Williams, Tol. Scott; Ian O'Donnell, Tiffin Columbian; Derek Dryfuse, Tiffin Columbian; Austin Hancock, Defiance; Sam Walker, Napoleon; Wil Rankin, Wapakoneta; Blake Pfenning, Wapakoneta; Keaton Metz, Wapakoneta; Quinn Lotridge, Wapakoneta; Bradon Conn, Elida; Avery Sumpter, Elida; Cody Rollins, Lima Shawnee; Kyle Blust, Mansfield Madison; Tim Hoppe, Clyde; Josh Rohrbacher, Sandusky Perkins; Ja'Vion Moore, Sandusky; Garret MacFarland, Norwalk; Larry Case, Norwalk.


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