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Three Walk-ons Collaborate on 57-Yarder; Nebraska's Best Career Kickers Applaud the Feat
Here's the snap from senior center T.J. O'Leary.
Senior holder Jake Wesch puts the ball down on the Colorado 47-yard line.
Sophomore Alex Henery hits the ball well with his right foot. It's in the air, heading a little right. It's drawing back in. It's going, going, still going . . .
Can it make it? Will it make it?
More than 85,000 fans tell everyone in the house and those watching on national television the outcome. Their roar beats the official signal. Yes, Alex Henery's 57-yard field goal, the longest in Nebraska and Memorial Stadium history, is . . . GOOOOOOOOOODDDD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
"I knew Alex had it, but he'd already taken off down the field to celebrate," Wesch said. "Until I actually saw the ball clear the crossbar, my heart was racing a hundred miles an hour and my head was spinning. I couldn't believe what had just happened. It brought a tear to my eye. I knew that kick defined our whole season. It meant so much to us seniors and to the whole state of Nebraska."
The relevance of Henery's school record kick didn't end there. The signature play in an 8-4 season was near flawless execution among three walk-ons. It started with a perfect deep snap from O'Leary to Wesch, who caught the ball and teed it up with the same speed and precision he's shown for three seasons. Without a picture-perfect snap and hold, the kick would not qualify as heroic or historic.
"The snapper and the holder have just as much pressure on them as there is on me. Their jobs are just as hard as mine," said Henery, a quiet engineering student who came to Nebraska on an academic scholarship and admits he'd "rather just stay under the radar and do my job like they do theirs."
Not this time. "Oh Henery" was a headline waiting for something dramatic to happen. And the sophomore who passed up a soccer scholarship at NCAA power Creighton to walk on at Nebraska "will be remembered forever in the folklore of Nebraska football," Wesch said. "T.J. and I are just happy to be a part of that one play with him. We think it summed up our time here at Nebraska. As seniors, it didn't always go our way – at least the Virginia Tech (35-30 loss) and Texas Tech (37-31 overtime loss) games didn't. But we finally caught a break. That field goal was a fitting metaphor for our last game at Memorial Stadium."
Kris Brown Reacts in Houston
Houston Texans kicker Kris Brown, Nebraska's all-time leading scorer with 388 points – 20 more than Eric Crouch and 73 more than Nebraska's other active NFL kicker, Josh Brown, agrees with Wesch.
"My level of appreciation and respect for that kick just went up higher than I ever thought it could go," Kris Brown said. "Walk-ons are the lifeblood of Nebraska's program, and I love to see them back in the big picture. I still pinch myself knowing I got to play for the best college football program in the country, and we all know why it's always been different and better than anyone else – because of all of those walk-ons who are inspired to play at Nebraska. They're the heart-and-soul of the program. They came – and will continue to come here – to do what those three guys just did."
In his 10th pro season, Brown has made 222 field goals in the NFL. He's hit 45 of his last 51 field goal attempts, but only one in his career has gone as far as Henery's traveled last Friday afternoon. "I asked my wife during the timeout before the kick if she remembered my only 57-yarder," Brown said. "When Amy said 'yes,' I said: 'Who knows? Maybe this kid will kick one, too. Wouldn't that be something?'"
When Henery nailed his historic kick, Kris Brown was "glued to my TV" with a large family gathering in Bellaire, Texas, a Houston suburb. "I was holding my six-month-old son (Burke) in my arms," he said. "I leaped up off the couch and jumped so high, I think my head hit the ceiling. It was weird because when I saw the ball come off Henery's foot, I knew it had a chance. Watching the draw and how it turned back to the upright, I knew it had the distance. What a great kick! Beautiful! Fifty-seven is a magical number. It creates such a unique feeling."
In 2007, Brown kicked five field goals against Miami, including an NFL record of three field goals of 54 yards or more. The last of the five was a career-long 57-yarder with one second remaining to give the Texans a 22-19 win over the Dolphins.
Amazingly, Kris Brown was more excited for Henery than he was for his own dramatic 57-yarder. "I was excited for Alex, the team, the program, Coach Pelini and his coaches and all the students and fans who just experienced a remarkable season one year after the worst one in more than 40 years," Kris said. "I loved the way Bo rolled the dice and put his faith in someone who could come through like Alex did. I see that kick as a sign of bigger things to come."
Josh Brown Celebrates in St. Louis
In his sixth pro season, Josh Brown has made 139 field goals in the NFL. He was the Seattle Seahawks kicker in the 2006 Super Bowl and has made 23 of his 27 field goal attempts this season, his first with the St. Louis Cardinals after spending five years with the Seahawks.
Josh and his family of 20 were "all curled up around the television" in his Creve Coeur, Mo., suburban St. Louis home last Friday. "What did that kick mean to me?" he asked. "Well, let's just say I celebrated like I made the kick myself, even though I couldn't understand at first why they were kicking it when they passed up the 50-yarder before halftime. All I can say now is Coach Pelini really knows his players. He put Alex in that situation, and that kid came through like a pro.
"You could just feel yourself rising up out of the chair. We were all rooting the kick on. I mean, our whole house shook when we knew he made it. We were all screaming – everybody. I went high in the air and said: 'Oh my God, this kid just hit a 57-yarder with 1:43 left to put his team up by two (33-31). That's a tough kick on a calm day with nobody in the stands. It's a tough kick all the way around and any way you look at it. To do that on a big stage against a rival with 85,000 people admiring your work – and who knows how many more like us watching on national television – you better be able to hold your water. And he did . . . quite well. To kick one of those 57 yards puts him in an elite group. A lot of guys can make 'em in practice, but making it in a game like that . . . well, it's a whole, 'nother story."
Paul Rogers Watches Solo in Omaha
Unlike the Browns, Paul Rogers watched the game by himself in Omaha. He was the first Husker to kick a 55-yard field goal (against Kansas in 1969) – the Nebraska record he shared with Billy Todd (1977) and Chris Drennan (1989) until Henery erased all three names from Nebraska's record book.
The only Husker kicker in history with at least three 50-yard collegiate field goals, Rogers has been waiting to fade into football's woodwork as he runs his Internet marketing business. "It was a great kick and a very timely kick – one of those deals where everything just clicked at the same time," he said. "Most athletes have one time when everything comes together like that. This was Alex Henery's time, and I thought it was great. After almost 40 years, it's about time someone took over that record. I have no complaints. I'm glad it was him, and I'm glad it was such an important kick."
Rogers had one of those "times" and one of those "kicks" himself – a 51-yarder with 21 seconds left to give Nebraska a 13-10 win over Wyoming in the 1968 season-opener. Bob Devaney and the Huskers were coming off their worst season in six years, finishing 6-4 in 1967. They finished 6-4 again in '68, and Devaney told Rogers and more than one banquet audience that the game-winning kick against Wyoming was the one play that probably saved his job.
Henery didn't have to save Pelini's job, but Nebraska's first-year head coach will be the first to tell you that his kicker saved his bacon after his decision to use the same Wesch-Henery fake field goal play that resulted in a first down against Kansas. This time, though, when Wesch flipped the ball backwards, Colorado's Jimmy Smith intercepted the "no look" lateral and ran it back for a 58-yard touchdown that pulled the Buffs into a 24-24 halftime tie.
As devastating as the 10-point swing on that play was, O'Leary, Wesch and Henery all now understand that the good never would have unfolded so magically if the bad and the ugly hadn't caved in first.
Whenever O'Leary does his job, he's anonymous. "If anybody knows my name, it's usually because I messed up," he said. "That's why my dad (former mid-1970s Husker running back John O'Leary) can't stand being in the stands for kicks like that. He's been walking laps around the field since I was in high school. For the Colorado kick, he was behind the disabled section underneath the North Stadium. He had no view of the ball at all, but he could hear the crowd, and he could see the refs put their hands up."
Kevin Seibel Gets Excited in Chicago
John O'Leary was inside the stadium, but Kevin Seibel, another prominent former Husker place-kicker in the early 1980s, had a better seat inside his suburban home in Chicago, where he's an assistant principal at Elmwood Park Elementary School. "When Joe Ganz got sacked 15 yards two plays before the kick, I thought we were in severe trouble," Seibel said. "I've seen Henery kick, but I thought a 57-yarder was going to be a tall chunk of cheese to chew there."
Seibel's longest field goal at Nebraska was 52 yards against Colorado. "During the timeout, TV showed Alex talking to Coach Pelini and giving him a pretty confident nod of the head that he could do it," Seibel said. "Being a kicker myself, I could tell he hit the ball good the second he struck it. But like everyone else, those next few seconds were an eternity. You would have thought I was the official. The second that ball went through the uprights, my hands were straight up in the air, and silently, I was thinking and hollering that there is no place like Nebraska."
Kris Brown, Josh Brown, Paul Rogers and Kevin Seibel were all Nebraska scholarship kickers. None knew that Henery is a walk-on without a scholarship, but it does not surprise them, and it does not matter.
It doesn't even matter to Henery, who came to Nebraska for one reason – to live his dream. "During the timeout before the kick, Jake told me I was going to be the hero," he said. "It's hard to understand how much this means to so many people. I don't look at it in terms of being a hero. I just love to kick – before, during and after practice. I enjoy working with Jake and T.J. We work hard every day, just like everyone else."
Henery is so good with his foot and a ball, "he's like a golfer with a lot of clubs in his bag," O'Leary said. "He's very versatile, and nothing fazes him. He's so gifted, so natural. He'll practice any situation until he gets it down. We've all seen him kick the big ones in practice. We knew. He knew, and that kick against Colorado just catapulted us right into a New Year's Day bowl game."
Wesch told Henery his soccer background was about to pay off. "I told him he could make any range," Wesch said. "I also reminded him that he'd kicked a 64-yarder in practice."
Jake Wesch: The Goalposts Looked So Far, Far Away
Even though he bullishly envisioned hero status for Henery, Wesch is the Boy Scout who cannot lie. "I will admit that while I was waiting for the snap, I looked up the field," he recalled. "I couldn't help thinking how far, far away those goalposts looked and how far that ball was going to have to carry just to get there."
After that, everything became a blur. "It was surreal," Wesch said, adding that the three protagonists in perhaps Nebraska's most pivotal play of the season don't look at themselves as walk-ons.
"I just hope we showed kids everywhere that Nebraska is still the best place out there," Wesch said. "If you come here, work hard and stay dedicated, the sky is the limit. Just ask my two roommates. Todd Peterson and Tyler Wortman walked on together (from Grand Island), and now they're both second-team Academic All-Americans."
Only in Nebraska . . . land of opportunity.
And home of the humble walk-on celebrity kicker. Teammates say Henery may be the Big 12 Special Teams Player of the Week, but he will not change because he has the emotional makeup of an athletic director, not a kicking star. One fell swoop of his right foot may have made him a household name in Nebraska, but it will not alter his below-the-radar style or his low-key approach to life.
"I never envisioned any of this at all," Henery said. "I don't understand why more than 200 people I don't know wanted to get on my Facebook page that night. I'm the quiet guy, and intend to stay that way."
Still, "If what I did inspires walk-ons, I feel good about that," Henery said. "Walk-ons work hard. At Nebraska, they turn down scholarships just for the right to fight and get on the field. That takes character."
That character defines a season.
And in this case, it even defines the entire program.
Husker Reaction
"Great article about Henery and the former NU kickers and of course their reactions. I was at the CU game and didn't think Alex could make it from that distance. What a kick and what a collaboration by the walk-ons. I started going to NU games at the age of five and also being an NU alum I've seen more than a few home games. It's hard to say for sure, but the crowd noise after Alex's kick was probably as loud as anything I've heard in Memorial Stadium. What a moment! I was also at the game in 1968 when Paul Rogers hit the winning field goal against Wyoming. I was 12-years-old and vividly remember being in the North end zone (the same end zone as Alex's kick) and my buddy and I were in the ramp opening and as soon as ball cleared the cross and the crowd erupted we went running, jumping and screaming down the ramp and out the stadium. I'll never forget either kick as long as I live. Thanks again for the great article." - Matt Samuelson, Pender, Neb.


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The Cleveland Indians hope to avoid their longest losing streak to the Oakland Athletics in more than 40 years, as the two are set to open a four-game series on Monday at Progressive Field.
Oakland is in search of a ninth straight win over the Indians, which would be its longest streak in the head-to-head series since winning 10 in a row during the 1971-72 seasons. The A's have won each of their last five visits to Cleveland.
While they have gone 13-3 against AL West foes, the A's are just 5-11 against the rest of the majors this season. Still, one of those victories came Sunday against the Yankees in a 5-4 final.
Luke Montz, Yoenis Cespedes and Josh Donaldson all went deep in Sunday's victory, as Yankees starter Andy Pettitte was chased after five innings.
The A's are in the midst of a 10-game road trip that will end in Seattle later this week.
Cleveland saw its six-game win streak come to a halt in Sunday's 4-2 loss to the Twins. Heading into the ninth inning, the Tribe had managed only four hits to go along with nine strikeouts. It marked the only time in their last seven games the Indians failed to score at least six runs and record at least 12 hits.
Monday's starter, Ubaldo Jimenez, is coming off his most promising start of the season for Cleveland. After giving up 18 runs over his previous three outings, Jimenez pitched seven shutout innings at Kansas City last week, as he scattered only three hits.
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Week 11: Pats Rout Bills 56-10
Nothing good came out of most lopsided loss in team history.
by Steve Saslow
Dick Jauron summed it up best saying that this was not a nice way to spend an evening. Everyone knew a win over the Patriots would be very tough but it was thought the Bills could keep it close thanks to the primetime matchup and the 12th man. Then when it was known that Marshawn Lynch wouldn't play we knew it would be tougher. No matter how well the rookie could have played this still would have been a rout. The Bills suffered the most lopsided loss in team history as the Patriots routed the Bills 56-10.
How bad was it? The 56 points is tied for the 2nd most allowed by the Bills in team history and the most by any NFL team at home in 34 years. Tom Brady threw for nearly 300 yards and four touchdowns to Randy Moss in the first half alone! That is the most amount of touchdown receptions by a player in a game in Bills history. The Patriots went for it twice on fourth down in the third quarter to turn two potential field goals into two more touchdowns. Brady was in the game for seven drives, before being lifted in the fourth quarter, and they scored seven touchdowns. There only punt came from the Bills 36 yard line with Brady out of the game. They also finished the scoring with a defensive touchdown.
The Bills lone highlights were a 47 yard touchdown pass from J.P. Losman to Roscoe Parrish to cut an early Patriots lead to 14-7. Rian Lindell added a 52 yard field goal in the third quarter. That was one of the problems, while the Patriots were going for it on 4th down with a big lead and getting touchdowns, the Bills were kicking a field goal instead of going for a touchdown.
The game got off to a bad start just minutes after an inspiring message from Kevin Everett was played on the jumbotron. Losman threw an interception and a late hit penalty setup the Patriots in the red zone setting up the easiest of their seven offensive touchdowns. A three and out and a six play, 63 yard touchdown drive made it 14-0 midway through the first quarter. The Parrish touchdown gave fans something to cheer about but the rout would be on as Moss would catch touchdown passes of 16, 6, and 17 yards in the 2nd quarter and it was time to go to bed for people like me who get up real early for work.
Brady's final two touchdowns were exclamation points on the rout along with Ellis Hobbs 35 yard return of a Dwayne Wright fumble and a touchdown run by little used Kyle Eckel. The biggest rout in Bills history is over, now what? Do the Bills fall apart or do they show their resiliency and regroup for an important game in Jacksonville with the Bills still in the wildcard hunt. They need to play a hell of a lot better in their final six games to even sniff a playoff spot.
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Originally constructed in 1955, the arena was officially rededicated prior to the 2003-04 campaign as "Charles Koch Arena, Home of Devlin Court" following a multi-million dollar renovation. Its rebirth coincided with a similar renaissance for the Wichita State men's basketball program. The 2003-04 season was the inaugural season of Charles Koch Arena - the 10,500-seat arena which Shocker fans know as the home venue for Wichita State basketball and volleyball competition.
For 47 years the arena, previously known as Levitt Arena, was home to men's basketball games, and for 19 seasons, it was home to volleyball before the $25-million renovation campaign - "Roundhouse Renaissance" - began in March 2001.
Wichita State University's two-year "Roundhouse Renaissance" campaign came to fruition Dec. 20, 2003 as WSU dedicated Charles Koch Arena in front of a sold out crowd (10,512) at halftime of its men's basketball game against rival Tulsa.
"Roundhouse Renaissance is the most significant administrative event in the history of the program," said former Wichita State Director of Athletics Jim Schaus, the driving force behind reconstruction. "It changed the face of the program forever. Every aspect of athletic department changed overnight, from recruiting, attendance at events and fund raising, to fan enthusiasm and staff morale.
"It has been a major factor in elevating Wichita State to another level. It is wonderful to have new buildings, but it still comes down to people, and how these facilities are changing the lives of our student-athletes, fans from around the region, the entire campus, staff and so many others."
Charles Koch Arena opened in the fall of 2003, and the first event inside the new facility was the fourth-annual Green Mill Restaurant Shocker Volleyball Classic (pictured left) on Sept. 12-13, 2003. Charles Koch Arena was dedicated Dec. 20, 2003 when Wichita State defeated long-time rival Tulsa.
The 2002-03 season marked the first time in 47 years that Wichita State did not play its home basketball games on campus as Roundhouse Renaissance was turning the once-futuristic arena at the corner of 21st and Hillside into the new Charles Koch Arena.
The plan, which was announced in October 2000, and began in March 2002, addressed the primary facility needs of the Shockers' Athletic Department with the Henry Levitt Athletic Complex, which includes the Charles Koch Arena and Devlin Court, the Taylor Concourse, the Preferred Health Systems Multi Purpose Center, Geist Student Services Building, the Downing Academic Learning Center and the Via Christi Sports Medicine Complex.
"This is a defining moment in the history of Wichita State," Beggs said at the announcement. "The project will redesign and redefine the future of the WSU community, and will compliment the City of Wichita's business, cultural and social heart."
Initial pledges totaled nearly $13 million, which included a $6 million gift from Koch Industries, Inc., in honor of Koch Industries Chairman and CEO Charles Koch, and funding for the project has reached levels higher than the initial pledges. The lead gift represented the largest single gift in the history of the company, as well as the largest single gift received by the University.
Charles Koch said this gift was not only for the University, but also for the community.
"WSU is part of the Wichita community, and the Wichita community is part of WSU," Koch said. "We are proud to be a partner in this exciting new era of Wichita State University athletics."
Three families were also instrumental in making an initial gift to the project, including the Tom and Myra Devlin Family, $2.75 million; Bob and Maura Geist, $2.75 million; and Barry and Paula Downing, $1 million. Several additional families have also made considerable contributions to the project.
In a November 2001, announcement, Dan and Kate Taylor's $1 million contribution to Roundhouse Renaissance also allowed for the naming of the renovated arena's concourse for the longtime University's supporters.
"Henry Levitt was honored by the naming of the arena in 1969, and we continue to honor his name in a more expansive manner befitting his commitment to Wichita State," Beggs said. "It was also critical to create new naming opportunities in order to effectively finance this project."
The initiative's outcome is a diversified area of support which benefits all 15 Wichita State University intercollegiate athletic sport programs, and provides a better venue for university and community events and activities.
Originally constructed in 1955 at a cost of $1.4 million, the $25-million reconstruction again placed Wichita State at the top of the conference for facilities.
The 10,400-seat arena was considered futuristic because of its circular design. It is regarded as an excellent facility for spectator viewing because of its sight lines and the close proximity of fans to the court.
Charles Koch Arena, as Levitt Arena was before it, is recognized around the Missouri Valley Conference and the nation for the homecourt advantage that boisterous WSU fans provide the Shockers.
During the 47 seasons the Shockers called the arena home, WSU fashioned a 502-183 record in Levitt Arena, a .734 percentage.
Wichita State men's basketball kept up that history, winning 11 games in 2003-04, and playing host to the first postseason basketball competition since the 1988-89 season.
Wichita State men's basketball has averaged better than 8,000 fans a game in all but 10 of the last 38 seasons and annually ranks at the top of the MVC in attendance. More than 5.7 million fans poured through the gates to view basketball in the 48 years the arena has been WSU's home court.
During 19 seasons Wichita State volleyball has played in Charles Koch Arena, the Shockers have fashioned a 125-91-1 record.
Originally known as the Roundhouse for 13 years, the arena was rededicated Jan. 17, 1969, in honor of the late Henry Levitt, a civic leader in Wichita and a noted friend and supporter of WSU.
Upper level donors can enjoy the benefits of the Champions Club, while visitors are also treated to a 10-foot high, 270-foot long concourse mural that features great moments and individuals in Shockers history. The concourse also contains a Shocker merchandise store and Pizza Hut Shocker Shocker Sports History Museum.
Home to the WSU-ICAA offices, Charles Koch Arena has been the site of many concerts and special events, including Jesse Jackson; Spike Lee; Dick Vitale; Elvis Presley; Chicago; Rick Springfield; Willie Nelson; Foreigner; the Oak Ridge Boys; Ray Charles; Neil Diamond; Peter, Paul and Mary; Simon and Garfunkel; The Eagles; Bob Hope and numerous NBA and WNBA exhibition games.
Perhaps the most special night in the arena's history came on Nov. 28, 1970, when it was the site of a live television production, "Night of Stars," which raised money for the families of plane crash victims involving both Wichita State's and Marshall's football programs.
Numerous stars were on hand, including master of ceremonies Monty Hall, Bill Cosby, Leif Erickson, Phil Ford, Mimi Hines, George Gobel, Humble Pie, Marilyn Maye, Minnie Pearl, Lou Rawls and Kate Smith.
Seven times Wichita State has been the host of NCAA tournament play in its arena, including two years -- 1964 and 1981 -- when Wichita State played on its home floor.
Some of the biggest names in the history of college basketball passed through Wichita in previous NCAA tournament action on their way to basketball immortality.
The 1964 Midwest Regional featured great coaches like Tex Winter from Kansas State, Don Haskins of Texas Western (now UTEP) and Ralph Miller from WSU, in addition to All-America players Dave Stallworth (WSU) and Paul Silas (Creighton).
In 1966, the Houston Cougars, coached by Guy Lewis and led by Elvin Hayes, passed through along with Texas Western and Oklahoma City's Abe Lemons. Houston and the "Big E" returned in 1968 to face Wes Unseld and Butch Beard of Louisville and another Tex Winter coached Kansas State.
In 1971, Ted Owens brought Dave Robisch, Bud Stallworth, and the rest of his Kansas Jayhawks to Wichita to face the Austin Carr- led Notre Dame squad and Maury John's Drake team. Alex English led South Carolina to the arena in 1973, while another future pro, Danny Vranes, and his Utah Utes stopped by in 1978 to challenge Norm Stewart's Missouri Tigers and Ray Meyer's DePaul Blue Demons.
The 1981 event featured one of the great games in Wichita State history. That year the "Bookend Forwards"--Antoine Carr and Cliff Levingston--and senior guard Randy Smithson carried the Shockers to a stunning come-from-behind win over Iowa.
In addition to NCAA action, from 1955-60, the arena was home to the Wichita Vickers, the 1959 AAU champions. It was also the site of the Kansas-Illinois all-star games in 1979 and 1980, and the McDonald's Classic all-star game in 1981, which featured future Shocker Aubrey Sherrod and Michael Jordan.
The arena has also been the site of numerous high school and junior college basketball games, including the 1992-98, 2006-11, 2014-15 NJCAA Region VI tournaments and the 1992-94, 2011-15 Kansas Class 6A State High School Championships.
Although not in the arena, Wichita State also played host to the 1994 NCAA First/Second Round of the NCAA Tournament at the Kansas Coliseum, an event which featured Michigan, UMass, Maryland, Pepperdine, St. Louis, SW Texas State and Western Kentucky. NCAA First/Second Round of the women's basketball NCAA Tournament in 2011 at INTRUST Bank Arena and scheduled to host 2018 NCAA men's basketball First/Second Round at IBA.
Charles Koch Arena is recognized around the Missouri Valley Conference (MVC) for its homecourt advantage that boisterous Wichita State fans provide the Shockers.


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Few geopolitical events in the 20th century could compare to Richard Nixon's historic visit to China 40 years ago. Today, the "week that changed the world" is chiefly remembered as a bold gamble in diplomatic revolution that paid off handsomely for the American president and the United States. Even more obvious today, however, is that the Nixon visit started a process that eventually ended China's self-imposed isolation and paved the way for the Middle Kingdom's re-emergence as a great power. Over the last 40 years, China has gained far more than the United States from the Sino-American strategic rapprochement.
In terms of security, the quasi-alliance established between the United States and China following the visit vastly enhanced China's ability to stand up to the Soviet Union, which amassed 30 to 40 divisions against China and was contemplating a preemptive strike on Chinese nuclear facilities shortly before the Nixon visit. Of course, adding China as a balancer against the Soviet Union helped the United States wage the Cold War. But the United States would have ultimately defeated the Soviet Union in this contest even without the Chinese contribution, which was modest in substantive terms.
Given the political turmoil of the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976), the economic dividends of the U.S.-China rapprochement would have to wait a few more years. It wasn't until Deng Xiaoping's return to power – and the economic revolution his reforms launched – that China began to appreciate the economic importance of its ties with the United States. Obviously, the astute Deng himself grasped this importance instinctively. That's why the first overseas visit he made after gaining political supremacy in December 1978 (the month during which, incidentally, Beijing and Washington formally normalized relations) was the United States. He knew that China's economic reform and opening couldn't succeed without investment and technology from the United States. The model that drove China's economic rise – high investment, openness to foreign direct investment and trade, and de-centralization – would have delivered far less impressive results had the U.S. market been closed to Chinese goods and American companies banned from investing in China (as they were before the Nixon visit).Enjoying this article? Click here to subscribe for full access. Just $5 a month.
So this past week, four decades after the Nixon visit, the verdict is in: China has been the clear winner. Luckily, the U.S. didn't lose, either. It has been a rare win-win game in geopolitics. Nevertheless, even in this win-win situation, China has undoubtedly gained far more than the United States. The tallying of such relative gains makes one wonder why so many Chinese elites should harbor such anti-American resentments today.
The underlying reason for the mutually beneficial U.S.-China relations since the Nixon visit is quite clear. The two countries shared important interests: security against the Soviet threat during the Cold War and growing economic benefits from trade and investment after the Cold War.


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Man fired after using forklift to free stuck candy
Jobless benefits denied because he allegedly damaged machine in pursuit of stuck Twix bar.
DES MOINES — It's a familiar tableau: a vending-machine candy bar dangles on a spiral hook, tantalizingly out of reach and refusing to drop.
For most of us, that mini-drama usually ends in defeat. But not for Robert McKevitt of Spirit Lake, whose victory over an uncooperative vending machine ultimately cost him his job.
McKevitt was working the second shift at Polaris Industries' warehouse in Milford, Iowa, when he decided to break for a snack last fall.
He says he deposited $1 in a vending machine, selected a 90-cent Twix bar, and then watched as the candy bar crept forward in its slot, began its descent and was abruptly snagged by a spiral hook that held it suspended in midair.
"I was, like, 'Oh, man,'" said McKevitt, 27. "So I put in another dollar, and then it wouldn't do anything."
At first, McKevitt's frustration took the customary route: He banged the side of the machine. He tried rocking it back and forth.
But when that didn't work, McKevitt walked away and commandeered an 8,000-pound forklift, according to state unemployment compensation records.
He reportedly drove up to the vending machine, lifted it 2 feet off the concrete warehouse floor — then let it drop. He allegedly repeated the maneuver at least six times, by which time three candy bars had fallen into the chute for his retrieval.
When a supervisor confronted him, McKevitt allegedly explained he was simply trying to get the snack he had paid for.
He was fired five days later.
In a ruling that became public last month, a state administrative law judge denied his claim for unemployment benefits, saying McKevitt had demonstrated a willful disregard for his employer's interests.
McKevitt, who served in Afghanistan with the Iowa National Guard in 2011, didn't testify at his Dec. 16 unemployment-benefits hearing.
But he told The Des Moines Register he never lifted and dropped the vending machine.
He says after shaking the machine to retrieve the elusive Twix bar, he used his forklift to move it back in place against the wall.
"That machine was trouble," he said. "They fired me, and now I hear they have all new vending machines there."


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Marina Poplavskaya as Elisabetta di Valois and Rolando Villazon as Don Carlo in Don Carlo © Catherine Ashmore/ROH 2008
Acclaimed by Gramophone Magazine as showcasing "A great night at the house", the DVD of Verdi's Don Carlo won in the DVD Performance category at this year's Gramophone awards.
Nicholas Hyntner's production was acclaimed by the press on stage and this home release reveals the same high standards in the transition.
Gramophone praised the DVD release for avoiding the potential difficulties of the piece: "Don Carlo is notoriously hard to get right...even the end is tricky – where Carlo gets dragged off by a mysterious monk (but is it his grandfather? A ghost? Or just a monk?)".
Reviewer the late John Steane felt that the DVD even improved upon his impressions of the production on stage.
Other winners included Dame Janet Baker who won the Lifetime Achievement Award and Don Carlo conductor Antonio Pappano who triumphed on three occasions, also winning in the Editor's Choice category for his recording of Rossini's Stabat Mater for EMI Classics and for his part in Jonas Kaufmann's effort in the Recital category.
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Markets took a beating today on a barrage of news.
First the scoreboard:
Dow: 12,570, -185.2, -1.4 percent S&P 500: 1,355, -19.0, -1.3 percent NASDAQ: 2,846, -37.0, -1.2 percent
And now the top stories:
- Oil prices spiked this morning after the Israeli Defense Force said it killed Hamas leader Ahmed Al-Jabari in an air strike. Hamas released a statement saying that their leader's death has " opened up the gates of hell" for Israel.
- U.S. retail sales fell 0.3 percent in October, which was marginally worse than the 0.2 percent decline forecasted by economists. Excluding autos and gas, sales fell 0.3 percent, which was much worse than the 0.4 percent gain expected.
- The Fed published the minutes of its October Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting today. Members said they liked the idea of adopting quantitative targets (e.g. unemployment rate target) to their monetary policy programs. "A number" of members also said they favored more quantitative easing after operation twist ends.
- President Barack Obama gave his first press conference since winning reelection. The fiscal cliff was a major topic. He pushed his tax policy, saying the "majority of voters agreed with me." "We cannot afford to extend the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy" this time, he said. He also reiterated that the government needs to make sure that middle-class taxes do not increase.
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Presentation of the Aid-for-Trade Indicators Project by the OECD Secretariat
Session I: The Demand and Supply of Aid-for-Trade Indicators
There is a growing demand for and focus on results in aid for trade. The need for results is particularly pressing considering the significant additional resources that have been directed toward aid for trade over the past five years. This session explored the rationale for establishing a menu of indicators to measure results in aid for trade at a country level.
1) Perspectives from the demand side
This session articulated the demand for indicators to evaluate aid for trade through presenting both donor and partner country perspectives.
2) Perspectives from the supply side
This session opened with presentations (by videoconference) from agencies that collect and generate trade-related indicators.
Session II: Which Indicators to Select?
Harmonisation of indicators is neither feasible nor desirable given differences in operational needs and strategic priorities of different donor and partner countries. The idea is to establish a menu of indicators drawn from the existing pool of indicators. However the challenge is to define a menu which is broad enough to capture the wide range of aid-for-trade interventions while still providing credible information on how aid for trade is building trade capacity at the country level. This session discussed the criteria for selecting indicators which can be used for aggregating aid-for-trade results at the country level. It opened with presentations from agencies which had already gone through, or were going through, the process of selecting indicators for results management.
Session III: How Do We Go Forward?
It was agreed that indicators were necessary to monitor aid-for-trade results but there was an understanding that they should be focused on the project and programme level rather than a "one-size-fits-all" menu or at the country level. OECD plans to develop a road map for future work which may include work on sectoral/programme specific indicators to be tested in a group of pilot countries.
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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) – Adrienne Webb scored a career-high 29 points, including two crucial free throws with 22 seconds left, and LSU beat third-seeded Penn State 71-66 in the second round of the NCAA tournament on Tuesday night.
Bianca Lutley overcame foul trouble and capped an 18-point night with a tough floater in traffic in the final minute to give LSU the lead and added another key free throw to make it a four-point game with 8.3 seconds to go.
Webb, a senior, was 10 of 16 in what would have been her last game had No. 6 seed LSU (22-11) lost. Instead, she carried LSU to the Spokane Regional semifinal on a night when the Lady Tigers had only seven available players.
Nikki Greene scored 16 points and Alex Bentley 14 for Penn State (26-6), whose loss meant all four No. 3 seeds were out of the tournament.
Bentley's night started strong but ended with a miss in the final minutes that could have given the Lady Lions the lead.
LSU next meets second-seeded California on Saturday.
The Lady Tigers opened the tournament with only eight healthy players, but reserve junior guard Jeanne Kenney's concussion in LSU's first-round victory sidelined her against the Lady Lions. Kenney, an emotional leader for the Lady Tigers, was not even in the stadium, but no official word as to why was immediately provided by LSU.
The Lady Tigers could not afford to have key players in foul trouble, but that's what happened. Lutley, a 5-11 starting forward, was called for her fourth foul with 11:51 left. Then 6-foot-4 reserve center Derreyal Youngblood was called for her fourth with 6:01 to go.
That limited both players aggressiveness in defending and rebounding, and Penn State appeared ready to pull away when Green scored three times inside, Taylor hit a layup with Lutley backing away during an 8-0 run that gave the Lady Lions a 60-55 lead.
But Lutley responded with a 3, and LSU regained the lead, at 63-62, on Webb's 3 with 3:04 to go.
Ariel Edwards, who had 13 points for Penn State, drive past both Lutley and Youngblood for a layup, then hit a pull-up jumper with 54 seconds left that put Penn State in the lead for the final time at 66-65. But Lutley, then dribbled into traffic in the lane and rolled in a shot for the lead with 40 seconds to go.
The contributions by Webb and Lutley were particularly important on a night when LSU's leading scorer, All-Southeastern Conference forward Theresa Plaisance, shot 3 of 14 and finished with eight points.
Now LSU is in the regional semifinals for the first time since 2008, while Penn State failed to get as far as it did last season despite appearing to have a deeper and more experienced team. Penn State's Maggie Lucas, the Big Ten player of the year, shot 2 of 10 and finished with nine points.
LSU shot nearly 60 percent throughout the first 10 minutes of the game and led by as many as eight when Ballard's steal and fast-break layup capped a 12-4 run that made it 24-16.
Lutley, who scored 10 of her points in the first half, had five points during the spurt, including a steal and fast-break layup complete with a spin move to set up the shot.
Senior-laden Penn State hardly seemed rattled as Bentley, who scored 14 in the opening 20 minutes, responded with a right corner 3 and Lucas added a pair of free throws to make it a three-point game.
LSU maintained a slim lead until less than five minutes remained in the half. Then Penn State closed the half with a 15-4 run that included Bentley's steal and fast-break layup and Maggie Lucas' wide open transition 3 for her first field goal of the game.
The spurt gave the Lady Lions a lead that grew to 42-33 on Lucas' free throws before Webb's foul shots cut it to 42-35 at halftime.
Copyright 2013 The Associated Press.


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Sibling Harmony
"Get out of my room, you idiot!" "Shut up." "Give me back my iPod right now." "I'm gonna tell Mom!" With every outburst and door slam, your blood pressure rises. Sibling spats have grown into a virtual blood sport and you don't know if you should run interference or head for safer ground.
"The old thinking was, kids fought to get a reaction from their parents. So stay out of it," says Susan McHale, professor of human development at Pennsylvania State University in University Park. Now the belief is that kids need more than that from us. "As siblings get older, they find more sophisticated ways of tormenting each other. It's crucial that parents pay attention to this kind of hurtful behavior because it can have a far-reaching impact on self-esteem and the relationship siblings have with others," says Laurie Kramer, PhD, professor and director of the Family Resiliency Center at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
This doesn't mean that we should start acting as referees for our kids — determining who's out of bounds, punishing perpetrators, and squelching arguments altogether. "When parents intervene in this authoritarian way, kids end up fighting more," says McHale. "They also never learn to resolve conflict on their own — with each other or with others in their lives."
Instead parents should aim to act as a coach, gently guiding kids through their conflicts when the kids can't work it out themselves, while also helping them hone the skills they need to communicate. "If parents change their approach to conflict, the kids will do the same," says Vikki Stark, MSW, a family therapist in Montreal and author of My Sister, Myself (McGraw-Hill Companies).
The following are common problems that adolescents clash over, along with expert advice on what you can do to help your opposing players declare a cease fire and come together as a team.
Sibling Differences
Sibling rivalry: My sons couldn't be more different: The 13-year-old is popular; the older one is a loner. This used to mean lots of fireworks. Now it's more heartbreaking because they have little to do with each other.
Sibling revelry: "Sometimes you have to lower your expectations and accept that your kids may never be best friends," says Stark. Forcing the issue may only build up friction. When kids have very different personalities, parents must develop a culture of respect in the family for each temperament.
If your older son tends to spend time in his room, help your younger son understand that his brother isn't being rude or grouchy, he's probably just recharging himself, says Lois Braverman, CEO and president of the Ackerman Institute for the Family in New York City. Accommodating different or even conflicting personalities doesn't mean, however, that everyone should go his own way. "The strongest sibling relationships are associated with siblings who spend meaningful time together in the company of one or both parents," says McHale. "It may very well be that parents are there to help orchestrate a positive experience and to help kids find common ground." It can be as simple as sharing a daily meal or watching a TV show together.
"Whatever you try, don't do any of the things that pull them apart, like locking them into roles as the "good" one or the "smart" one or by showing favoritism," says Adele Faber, coauthor of Siblings Without Rivalry (HarperCollins). "If you clear the road, brothers and sisters will find a way to each other. It just may not be until one leaves for college or they're adults. Ultimately, though, the tie siblings have can bring them great comfort in life."
Sibling Gripes
Sibling rivalry: My daughter gripes that her kid sisters get to have things — like a cell phone and a later bedtime — that she never did. It's partly because we're more relaxed parents. But my younger girls are more mature because their big sister blazed the way. Do we need to hold back on our younger girls on principle?
Sibling revelry: "Treating kids equally is usually not possible," says Katherine Jewsbury Conger, PhD, professor of human development and family studies at University of California, Davis. What matters is that kids perceive that they are being treated fairly. Acknowledge your older daughter's feelings, then speak candidly about why you've made the decisions you have, giving her a vote of confidence at the same time ("You handled these privileges so well, which is why we thought your sisters could handle them sooner"). Then ask if there's anything she wants. "She might request a 12 p.m. curfew and you'll need to go over why that may not be a great idea," says Faber. Regardless, the point is that you treat her as an individual.
Sibling Squabbling
Sibling rivalry: My children are constantly squabbling and name-calling. If they're not fighting over who sits where in the car, they're cursing each other out over control of the remote.
Sibling revelry: Parents have to lay down ground rules about how family members should be treating one another. And they must communicate what their expectations are, clearly and often, says Faber. Otherwise, kids will behave as lawlessly as we let them.
Talk with your kids about what's going on and how you expect their behavior to change. "You can say that while you can't demand that they act like they love one another, you do require civility. There is such a thing as kindness without closeness. It's a lesson that will go a long way in the outside world," says Braverman.
Emphasize that abuse of any kind won't be tolerated. Pinpoint key conflicts and ask the kids to suggest guidelines — and the consequences for not following them. For example, you all might agree that commandeering the TV clicker from a sibling automatically loses the bully an hour of viewing time. The next time it happens — and it will — your job is to remind them of the agreed-upon punishment.
Sibling Annoyances
Sibling rivalry: My daughters had a pretty solid relationship until recently. Now the 14-year-old is always shooing the younger one away; she in turn seems to be doing everything to make her older sister crazy, like borrowing clothes without asking.
Sibling revelry: "The teen years are a high point for conflict, especially with girls," explains Stark. Big sis is trying to establish an identity outside the family. Little sis is desperate to win back her sister's attention, even if it's by driving her nuts.
Calling a family meeting when tempers are somewhat cool gives you an opportunity to help each girl understand what the other is feeling, says Faber. Sit the kids down, acknowledge there's a problem, and allow each girl the chance to air her gripes without interruption. Then they have one shot at rebuttal.
If your younger daughter's response to her big sister's complaint is along the lines of, "I take her clothes because hers are way cooler than mine, and I bug her because she's always ignoring me," run with something positive. Point out that it sounds like she is missing her sister and also really likes her taste in clothes. "We can all forgive a lot of things in someone if we know she likes things about us," says Faber.
Brainstorm solutions — like going shopping together and not entering each other's rooms uninvited — then meet in a week to check on the situation. And, in the meantime, let your older daughter have some space while you devote extra time to the younger one.
Can't They Just Get Along?
While you won't ever eliminate all the fighting, you can lessen the frequency.
- Be clear about what will be tolerated and the consequences of inappropriate behavior.
- Have a consistent plan with your spouse for handling the kids' conflicts.
- Try to understand why your kids aren't getting along by talking to them separately — and avoid judging their opinions about each other.
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STRANGE BUT TRUE- Tranquil tabby: Prozac helps keep pets purring
Q. What are all those pets doing taking Prozac-like medications? If they're depressed, they certainly can't tell anybody about it. –A. Pontuso
A. Psychiatric drugs have been used to help with dogs that obsessively lick their paws, cats that spray walls with urine, pet parrots that might self-mutilate when bored, zoo animals suffering outside their natural habitat, reports the Atlanta Journal Constitution. The overall aims are to do what is humanly possible to protect animals from self-injury and to improve quality of life (Journal of Exotic Pet Medicine).
Dog owners try to stave off problem behaviors such as howling or destructiveness that can lead to veterinary euthanasia, says John Bonner in New Scientist magazine. A reported 25 percent of dogs euthanized fit the behavioral category. Dogs have long been given tranquilizers to calm them during holiday fireworks and the like. Now a new antidepressant called "Reconcile" has been licensed for use with dogs, containing the same serotonin reuptake inhibitor used in the human drug Prozac. There are critics of the approach, but United Kingdom veterinary behaviorist Daniel Mills says human psychiatric drugs have been used successfully for many years in treating animals, as the clinical features of depression are "very similar" in humans and dogs. The key differences with the new drug are dosage reformulation and an added beef flavor. But Mills stresses that no responsible vet would rely solely on drug therapy, ignoring the behavioral inputs to the problem.
Q. What's the "Donald Duck gas" that can get a laugh at times but all too often winds up being the prankster's last laugh? –W. Rodman
A. Helium, which when inhaled into the vocal tract creates an air-helium mixture where the speed of sound jumps from maybe 340 meters per second in just air up to 900 mps, says Jearl Walker in The Flying Circus of Physics. Now on comes the Disney duck, as the higher frequencies of oscillation of the vocal folds result in the distinctive voice sounds.
The danger here is obvious: You can live only if you breathe oxygen, but if you foolishly fill your lungs with helium, you can no longer breathe in air. As the oxygen level in your blood drops, you might not be able to get the helium back out and the air back in fast enough to avoid suffocating or your brain undergoing oxygen starvation.
"We all have to die someday, but this is a really stupid way to do it," Walker says.
Q. Why is it that "Time flies when you're having fun" and "A watched pot never boils"? –J. Child
A. Brain resources for paying attention to anything are limited, so when you're really engrossed in an enjoyable activity, you can't think much about the passage of time, says Jay Ingram in The Velocity of Honey. So you're fooled into thinking that less time has passed. Of course, when you're thinking of nothing but time, it expands, as with the watched pot. An irony about a fast, fun time is that when you think back on it, memory will actually make it seem longer than it was.
Another time oddity is the "tourist illusion." When you travel by car to a place you've never been before, then come back the same route, the trip out always seems to take much longer, probably due to anticipation and suspense.
Get a fever, and your biological clocks may go crazy: once when biochemist Hudson Hoagland's wife was bedridden with a fever of 40 C (104 F), she sent him on an errand to the drugstore. Though he was gone only 20 minutes, she insisted it was much longer. Ever the scientist, Hoagland put her to the test, asking her to judge the passage of a minute by counting off the seconds. The higher her fever, the faster her count. Apparently during his errand, her clock had "ticked over more than usual."
Q. Some blind people can walk unaided down busy streets, uncannily avoiding obstacles. One six-year old could even ride a tricycle. How is this possible? –M. Magoo
A. People with this ability say they feel a kind of shadow or pressure on the face that warns of approaching
objects, says John Downer in Supersense. But when they're tested with ears plugged, this mysterious "facial vision" disappears. Echolocation– as used by bats and dolphins– seems to be their secret. The reflected sounds of footsteps, conversation, or deliberately issued tongue clicks or cane taps provide the clues. The estimated time required for an echo's return indicates distance to the obstacle, while echo loudness signals the size.
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My local newspaper (Pocono Record, Stroudsburg PA)
published your question and answer about whether 1.0 is bigger than 0.9999999... Your answer was neither strange nor true. Your answer states that 1/3=0.3333... and 2/3=0.6666... Actually, 0.3333... and 0.6666... approximate, but will never equal, 1/3 and 2/3. Using "equal" is a matter of convenience, not fact.
This response is incorrect. 1/3 does in fact equal 0.33333... where the 3's repeat FOREVER. There are an infinite number of decimal places and 0.3333... is only a less convenient way to represent it than as a fraction. Technically the last 3 should have a bar over it or there should be 3 dots after the end of the number to indicate it repeats forever. Lots of mathematical objects have an infinite number of terms. Take, for example, any algebraic series that represents e^x or any of the basic trig functions (sin(x), cos(x) etc). Also, ANY irrational number has an infinite numbers of terms (Pi or sqrt(2) for example). I know I'm coming in on the end of the discussion but Mr. Arensbergs answer about the equality of the decimal (when properly notated) vs fraction representation is not correct.


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Club-Varsity is a relatively new athletic classification at Bucknell University. The club-varsity program, which currently incorporates Men's Crew, provides athletes with many of the same training and competitive opportunities as varsity athletics, but requires that the teams be self-funding.
Bucknell Men's Club Varsity Crew
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Bucknell Men's Club Varsity Crew is Excited to Announce our New Head Men's Coach; Dan Wolleben
Bucknell Associate Athletic Director, Karen Landis along with the Bucknell Crew Association Board of Directors, recently announced that Dan Wolleben has been appointed the new Head Coach of the Men's Club Varsity Crew team. Coach Wolleben just completed his seventh year at Bucknell as an assistant coach for the women's team.
"Not only has Dan Wolleben shown that he is an outstanding coach, but he has achieved an impressive track record of recruiting and developing student-athletes," said Landis. "Bucknell places great emphasis on developing the highest caliber student-athletes, both on and off the water, and we believe that Coach Wolleben is a perfect fit to lead our Men's Club Varsity Crew program and successfully build on our established traditions."
"I am extremely grateful to Karen Landis, the Bucknell Crew Association, and Bucknell for this opportunity," said Wolleben. "I have enjoyed my seven years of coaching at Bucknell, and am excited for this new endeavor. It has been great to watch the Men's Crew program develop over the years, and I am thrilled to be able to help lead the program into the future."
Wolleben is a Fordham Hall of Fame rower, personal holder of three Dad Vail Regatta Gold Medals, a three time CRCA Mid-Atlantic Region Assistant Coach of the year, and 2012 National Assistant Coach of the Year. In his seven years working with Women's Head Coach, Steve Kish, he has amassed Gold's at the Murphy Cup, Dad Vail's, ECAC's, Patriot League's and individual sprint races. Dan takes over for Al Monte who heads to the prestigious Ivy League at Dartmouth after taking the Head Coaching Job at Bucknell for the 2011 season.


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Panthers safety Mike Mitchell knows a thing or two about bulletin board material, even if most people under 40 have no idea what a bulletin board is.
Mitchell helped riled up the Saints by calling quarterback Drew Brees soft (and then later trying to say Mitchell didn't call Brees soft). Mitchell is now trying to help rile up his teammates in the wake of some shots fired by Jets receiver Santonio Holmes.
"Not to call these guys out, but their secondary is probably weakest link on their defense," Holmes said this week.
Mitchell sent a link to Holmes' comments (hopefully the PFT version) to the team's full complement of defensive backs.
"The whole team should take it personal," Mitchell said, via Jonathan Jones of the Charlotte Observer. "I like that coach tries to do things like that. Always making it team, team, team. I think that's very good how he does that for us."
Coach Ron Rivera seized the opportunity to spread Santonio's slight across the full defensive roster.
"Coach Rivera said something to the defense about it and like Coach Rivera says, it's a team game," cornerback Captain Munnerlyn said. "If he feels that way, everybody on the field on Sunday, we're out there together and we're going to play for each other."
Officially, Rivera was less inflammatory.
"People are going to say what they want to say. That's fine," Rivera said. "But that's why you play them on Sunday to find out. Something I learned in all my years of playing, it's all about showing up on Sunday and we'll see how it goes. That's why you play."
The Panthers don't really need extra motivation as they try to nail down an unlikely playoff spot and chase an even more unlikely division title and first-round bye. But any motivation helps.


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Working in physics: Back to school
Outreach programmes that bring researchers together with school children can yield plenty of rewards for both groups, as Edward Gomez describes.
My first brush with science outreach occurred in 1997 while I was in the second year of an MPhys degree in astrophysics at Cardiff University in the UK. During that year's national science, engineering and technology week I gave a 30 minute talk on cultural cosmogenesis (creation myths to you and me) to the general public. At the end of this talk, I was surprised to find that the audience asked interesting and probing questions, and I felt that I had really achieved something. The experience left me keen to do more public speaking, although the prospect was a little daunting.
For the rest of my undergraduate years I delivered talks related to my course to an audience of my peers, but it was not until my first year as a postgraduate student (also at Cardiff) that I started thinking about being involved with public outreach again. At around this time I saw a flier for the organization Researchers In Residence that had been casually abandoned in our department.
Researchers in Residence (RiR) aims to build mutually beneficial relationships between researchers, who develop communication skills, and secondary-school students, who get to learn more about current scientific research. The organization, which is funded by the Wellcome Trust and Research Councils UK, arranges placements for junior researchers in schools throughout the UK. The organization also supports the researchers during these placements by giving training in how to discuss science with students (while not patronizing them) and by providing projects to work on with students. It also offers a small monetary incentive.
A researcher in residence typically spends 24 hours in total at a school over the course of a year. I chose to spread my placement, which I began in 2000, over a whole year by visiting the school regularly for short periods, but a researcher could instead spend a whole week in a school for an extended activity such as science week, or any other combination that suits the researcher and the school. This degree of flexibility makes the RiR scheme unique among outreach organizations, which, from what I have seen, are usually quite prescriptive about volunteer involvement. RiR trusts its researchers to build a relationship with their school partners, and allows them to work with more than one school and on nearly any project.
Just rewards
The idea of spending a long period with a school immediately appealed to me. Full-time research can be quite an isolated and insular existence, especially for a student in my situation who does not belong to a large research group (or who has a tyrannical supervisor). I, like many conscientious PhD students, worked antisocial and unhealthy hours, and RiR provided a fantastic opportunity to be involved in something stimulating and rewarding but completely removed from my research, which at the time seemed to be going round in ever-tighter circles.
Initially I was involved with two schools. At Whitchurch School in Cardiff I worked with the whole of Year 6 — children of 10–11 years of age — on an alternative-energy project. This involved me giving short talks at the beginning of each class about solar power, wind turbines and the importance of finding alternative sources of energy, and then helping the students with activities such as making miniature wind turbines out of everyday objects. At Howells Girls School in Llandaff I worked with the A-level students and the astronomy club on activities such as finding asteroids and quasars.
Standing in front of a classroom full of school students is a world apart from speaking to members of the public who are "science aware". The younger students were the most challenging to work with. But in some ways they were also the group that I learned most from, because, although they were undoubtedly the most rowdy, they were not afraid of to ask questions about subjects that older students often take for granted, for instance why stars have to be spherical. At both schools a teacher was always present and was very much involved in the activities, which I found enormously helpful because it meant that I did not have to worry about classroom management.
Being sidetracked by questions from the students was one of the unexpected pleasures of these placements. I was amazed at how enthusiastically the students responded to having a researcher come into their classrooms. I had been fully prepared for them to be uninterested, but instead they were brimming with questions about the Big Bang, dark matter, quantum theory and the old favourite of why the sky is blue. Being there to do science that supplemented the curriculum gave the lessons a certain freedom that the students might not have usually enjoyed, and I really believe this helped the students to see science in a different and more exciting light.
Reaching further
When I completed my PhD in 2005, I moved from astronomy research to astronomy education and public outreach. RiR proved to be my first step to understanding the importance of communicating science to the public in an effective manner and it made me realize that only a fraction of people are able to learn from a subject presented in a talk. For most of us, experiencing science in a hands-on manner leaves a far more valuable and lasting impression. This is something RiR strongly promotes.
I am currently the educational operations manager for the Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network (LCOGT) and work with the Faulkes Telescope Project, which is supported by the UK philanthropist Dill Faulkes, at Cardiff University. We provide observing time on two robotic telescopes in Hawaii and Australia for UK school pupils and other users in education, as well as facilitating collaborations between schools, amateur societies and professionals around the world. At the core of our education programme are activities for school students, which any researcher is very welcome to use during an RiR placement.
I would encourage every PhD student and postdoc to consider RiR. The organization's website is packed with useful information about the practical arrangements and guides to the sorts of activities you could take into schools. It is hugely important for us as scientists to show the next generation that physics is a subject that is exciting, dynamic and enjoyable — just think of the first spark that gave you an interest in science. Even if the only outcome of your placement is that the students you meet think differently about science in the future, your time will have been well spent.
About the author
Edward Gomez is educational operations manager for the Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network, in Europe.
This article originally appeared in the April 2008 issue of Physics World
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Teachers building dwelling thinking with slideware
Catherine A. Adams
Teacher-student discourse is increasingly mediated through, by and with information and communication technologies: in-class discussions have found new, textually-rich venues online; chalk and whiteboard lectures are rapidly giving way to PowerPoint presentations. Yet, what does this mean experientially for teachers? This paper reports on a phenomenological study investigating teachers' lived experiences of PowerPoint in post-secondary classrooms. As teachers become more informed about the affordances of information and communication technology like PowerPoint and consequently take up and use these tools in their classrooms, their teaching practices, relations with students, and ways of interpreting the world are simultaneously in-formed - conformed, deformed and reformed - by the given technology-in-use. The paper is framed in light of Martin Heidegger's "Building Dwelling Thinking" (1951) and "The Thing" (1949). In these writings, Heidegger shows how a thing opens a new world to us, revealing novel structures of experience and meaning, and inviting us to a different style of being, thinking and doing.
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Newsday's Pinkerton: Katrina victims "whining all the time on TV to get more federal money"
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On the September 17 edition of Fox News Watch, Fox News political analyst and Newsday columnist Jim Pinkerton accused the victims of Hurricane Katrina of "whining all the time on TV to get more federal money." Pinkerton also accused the media of directing too much blame for the botched response to Hurricane Katrina at the federal government while "absolv[ing] ... the local populace."
From a panel discussion that also included Fox News contributors Cal Thomas, a syndicated columnist, and Neal Gabler, a media writer, on the September 17 edition of Fox News' Fox News Watch:
THOMAS : I don't think there's a problem with the criticism at all. I think that the administration on this issue had a tin ear. He -- politically, they made some very bad decisions. But there's also, as Neal is fond of saying -- and I think he's absolutely right on this -- there is a template in this coverage. And one of the templates -- and there are many on this particular issue -- is that only big government is good. And so if big government has failed, as it clearly did at some level in this, then the media jump right on -- what we really need is more money, and more big government. I find that to be inconsistent.
PINKERTON: Right. The further paradox is it's -- the big government is good, but of course the federal government under Bush is terrible. So we have to -- we have to replace the current proprietor of the federal government, Bush, with somebody better. That's what they're really trying to get at.
And absolved in that are state and local governments to a substantial measure. And, of course, the local populace, which continues to get it -- to find itself whining all the time on TV to get more federal money.
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Calvin Everett Seadeek, 70, of Council Grove died Feb. 27 at his residence.
He was born Feb. 2, 1943, in Holland, N.Y., to Everett and June (Wheeler) Seadeek. He married Linda Kay Smith on Aug. 22, 1970, in Winter Park, Fla.
He worked as a loan officer in Florida for several years before moving to New York. There he worked as a modular home salesman and later as a bus driver.
In 1993, he moved his family to Marion, where they became members of Emmanuel Baptist Church.
He was a custodian and bus driver for USD 408 until he retired in early 2008. He moved to Council Grove in November 2010 to be closer to his family.
He was preceded in death by his parents.
He is survived by his wife Linda of the home; two sons, Calvin E. Seadeek Jr. of Council Grove and Michael T. Seadeek of Wilsey; five grandchildren; and a sister, Pat Owens of Chipley, Fla.
A memorial service was scheduled for Tuesday at First Baptist Church.
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Kids' Halloween Costumes That They're Too Young to Understand
Do you know a kid? Does that kid need a Halloween costume? Are you cool with casually exploiting said kid for your own trick-or-treat amusement? Take a break from the princess and superhero aisles at your local holiday superstore and consider these silly costumes that are meant to make grownups chuckle. True, these outfits might go right over the wearers' kiddie heads, but who wouldn't love finding a tiny Mr. T or a baby Bob Ross at their doorstep? We wish we could give these youngsters' parents high fives. Enjoy some adorably mini versions of grown-up pop culture figures after the jump.
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If you have access to aviator eyeglasses, hair gel, and brown fabric for a mustache, there's no reason why your kid shouldn't be dressed like Kip from Napoleon Dynamite this Halloween. True, 2004's Dynamite craze is long over, but go ahead and park your little Kip in front of a bus stop with a "Lafawnduh" sign anyway. The occasional adult passerby is bound to keel over with laughter. Bonus points if you teach the tyke his wedding song.