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Welcome to International Cat Day!
It's all about cats on August 08, 2016 because it's World Cat Day or International Cat Day. It had been proclaimed by the International Fund of Animal Welfare and is coordinated by divers animal welfare organizations all over the world. The goal of the happening is to increase the public's awareness for the needs of cats. The exhortation for species-appropriate keeping and the fighting of neglect and abuse are a major issue, too. On World Cat Day cats receive special delicious food or other gifts that they like.
Cats accompany humans for thousands of years. They are pets, that are not used for any kind of work or economic reasons, which makes the connection between humans and cats so extraordinary. The character of a cat is said to be idiosyncratic, farouche and independent, which makes them hard to train. But nonetheless cats always keep in touch with humans, when they were tamed once und quiet often the connection between the animal owner and the pet is very emotional. Whether this is a one-way love or not caused debates among animal friends. The text "World Cat Day" has been taken from www.cute-calendar.com.
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Great Wheat North: Shockers Battle Carleton (goshockers.com)
Editor's Note: Syracuse beat Carleton in 2014 76-68. They also lost to Syracuse in Ottawa in 20123 69-65 in overtime.
Zach Brown scored 17 points and Landry Shamet chipped in 13, but a sluggish third quarter doomed Wichita State in a 100-75 setback at six-time defending Canadian national champion Carleton University, Sunday afternoon at the Raven's Nest.
Brown hit 4-of-8 shots and also did damage at the foul line (8-for-9) in 29 minutes of action. He scored 11 of his 17 in the first half.
Shamet played a game-high 31 minutes and was 5-of-14 from the field.
Darral Willis, Jr., Conner Frankamp and Daishon Smith supplied eight points each, and Rauno Nurger finished with a team-best six rebounds.
Carleton (2-0 in exhibition play) added another high-profile NCAA team to its list of victims that also includes Baylor (2015), Valparaiso (2015), Syracuse (2014) and Wisconsin (2013).
Carleton put the Shockers on their heels with a precision passing and timely hustle plays. Two early fouls put Morris on the bench, and in his absence, the Ravens succeeded in working the ball inside
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UNC to NCAA: Don’t use Wainstein’s work to penalize us (enwsobserver.com; Kane)
Kenneth Wainstein, a former top U.S. Justice Department official, found that the academic counselors had pushed for the easy classes and embraced those started by Deborah Crowder, a longtime manager for the Department of African and Afro-American Studies. The News & Observer
Two years ago, UNC-Chapel Hill and UNC system officials talked about the breakthrough that helped them get to the bottom of a scheme of bogus classes that had lasted 18 years.
They had just released a 131-page investigative report by a former top U.S. Justice Department official that made the strongest connection to date between the fake classes and athletes’ eligibility. What made it happen, UNC Chancellor Carol Folt and UNC system President Tom Ross said, was getting the cooperation of the two people behind the classes.
Now, with UNC facing sanctions from the NCAA, the university wants the information provided by Julius Nyang’oro and Deborah Crowder excluded from an infractions hearing. Attorneys for UNC say those interviews conducted by Kenneth Wainstein and his team of lawyers didn’t follow NCAA standards.
“(T)he information considered by the hearing panel should be limited to materials in the record that comply with procedural requirements adopted by member institutions to protect the integrity of the NCAA’s investigative process,” attorneys Rick Evrard and Bob Kirchner wrote in their 70-page response to the NCAA’s notice of allegations.
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Rio Olympics: U.S. women endure anti-gay chant common with Brazil's soccer crowds (PS; TNS)
Late in the U.S. team's opening-game win over New Zealand, 2-0, in the Olympic women's soccer tournament Wednesday, the tiny crowd of 9,556 inside hulking Estadio Mineirao began entertaining itself.
First it tried the wave. Then it chanted "Zika!" every time famous anti-virus crusader U.S. keeper Hope Solo attempted a goal kick.
Then the crowd crossed the line.
Three U.S. players said afterward that Brazilians on the sidelines told them fans were also chanting an anti-gay slur often used at men's club games in Brazil. The Sydney Herald reported the same homophobic taunt was hurled at Australian keeper Lydia Williams and Canadian goalie Stephanie Labbe in Sao Paulo, where Brazilian journalists said it was the first time they knew of the slur being used at a women's game in their country.
"It is personally hurtful," offered U.S. midfielder Megan Rapinoe, who said the stretcher crew near the American bench told her what was being shouted. "I think sort of a mob mentality kind of takes over a little bit."
"I don't think most of those fans would have said that directly to my face. I don't think they mean it in that way," continued Rapinoe who, like U.S. Coach Jill Ellis, is openly gay. "But they need to understand that that's how it's taken. They need to understand if all of you are willing to do that, what does that say to a gay player? Especially in the men's game.
"What does that say to players who are struggling to come out?"
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