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Joey O'Connor hadn't thought about his college recruitment for months. The four-star offensive lineman from Windsor was stress-free, focused on playing his last season of high school football.
No longer.
In the wake of a child sex-abuse scandal that has rocked Penn State and led to the firing of legendary coach Joe Paterno, O'Connor reopened his commitment earlier this week. And the floodgates.
The 6-foot-5, 297-pound O'Connor, who committed to Penn State in June, said college coaches started calling him as soon as news of the scandal broke last weekend.
He said Friday he is deferring any further decisions on his recruitment until after the postseason. Windsor, seeded No. 5 in the Class 3A playoffs, hosts No. 12 Holy Family today.
"I was definitely shocked finding out a week ago, and not knowing how big of a situation this was, and then figuring out what was going to happen," O'Connor said in a phone interview. "It just started to go downhill from Sunday night."
Penn State's recruiting class had 16 oral commitments before the scandal broke, and O'Connor is the first to officially decommit.
He sat down with his parents Wednesday night to figure out "what was in the best interest for me." It was a conversation that ended in the decision to decommit, mainly because of the uncertainty concerning the university and the coaches, O'Connor said.
Still, O'Connor said of Penn State: "Just because I'm decommiting doesn't mean I'm ruling them out. . . . This is going to basically start the whole process over again, start from ground zero."
When he committed in late June, O'Connor said he felt a weight lifted.
"Now," O'Connor said, "the whole process is started over again, but I'm not going to concentrate on that right now. I'm going to concentrate on dealing with my team."
Some of the schools that had offered him a scholarship before he committed included Colorado and Colorado State as well as UCLA, California, Arizona, Arizona State, South Carolina, Tennessee, Utah and Washington State.
O'Connor said he'd hoped to play for Paterno for "at least one year," but added that "going into this, committing into this, I had to be real about this and know that Joe Paterno could retire at any point in this whole process."
"It is disappointing to see the way it happened and the whole situation," O'Connor said. "My heart goes out to those victims and their families, and they'll be in my thoughts and prayers. Even Joe Paterno."
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The next iteration of NASA's Solutions for an Enterprise-Wide Procurement (SEWP) contract will include major reforms intended to curtail supply chain risks, a problem that is increasing due to greater use of digital systems.
Officials want disclosure from companies on where they are getting their products, Joanne Woytek, the contract's program manager, recently told FCW. The goal is to ensure that all the companies on the contract are authorized resellers for their products, she said. NASA released a draft request for proposal for the contract, entering its fifth generation, on March 4.
With that disclosure, NASA will provide customer agencies information that allows them to make a risk-based decision on their purchase, she said. The requirement aligns with the National Institute on Standards and Technology's work and recommendations on supply chain risks.
The acronym SEWP originally stood for Scientific and Engineering Workstation Procurement. NASA changed it to Solutions for an Enterprise-Wide Procurement in 2007, because, "While the SEWP contracts are still centered on support for NASA's scientific and engineering missions, the complex IT product solutions available through the contracts extend to many other disciplines."
In dealing with supply chain management, NASA officials have been participating in numerous national and international efforts, including the Open Group's Trusted Technology Forum. The Open Group is an international vendor- and technology-neutral consortium. Its aim is building a more trusted chain of distinguished providers through a secure and sustainable global effort.
NASA and Defense Department procurement policy officials have been working together with the Open Group's forum, and NASA has included provisions in its draft RFP that are compatible with DOD's latest requirements for supply chain management, Woytek said.
Supply chain risks are not new, particularly to the military. Yet, the prevalence of digital systems brings new threats. It is the risk of electronic components that have been altered to digitally infiltrate U.S. defense systems.
"We're now worried [about] the integrity of the products coming into our global supply chain that might compromise businesses confidentiality or the overall availability of essential services," said Melissa Hathaway, former White House cybersecurity adviser and now president of Hathaway Global Solutions. Hathaway spoke Sept. 26, as part of a panel at the Potomac Institute in Washington.
In addition, officials have seen cases of chips with "built-in back doors" that could allow system access for espionage or data theft.
SEWP V is a 10-year, indefinite-delivery-indefinite-quantity contract with delivery orders for IT and audio-visual products and services. SEWP is open to NASA and other government agencies, if a product or service meets their need.
Among other changes, officials are reducing the number of competition groups from 13 in SEWP IV to 5 in SEWP V. They expect it to reduce the cost to both industry and the government. SEWP V has a set-aside for small firms located in Historically Underutilized Business Zones. NASA also plans to fully track orders as well. Officials want to provide agencies with detailed information of their buying patterns primarily to assist with strategic sourcing.
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Rubber Band Balsa Plane -> RC Conversion
Long story short:
I need help tissue covering my plane. I used aero gloss to shrink and shine and seal at the same time it shined and sealed and didn't shrink... I have only done the elevator what should I do to get a full shrink. Also, what glue should I use to attach the tissue... Ive heard so much different stuff that now I don't know which glue to use... I also was told that doing anything to seal your tissue can make it heavy. Is this true? I know it will add some weight but is it negligible or is it very heavy?
Long story long:
So I wanted to fly around a little RC airplane around the park or a gymnasium or something. I thought a Dumas piper cub walnut scale balsa wood kit would be small, fun to build and I could engineer it to be RC. Oh and one more thing... It had to be 4 channels... I didn't care how "difficult" it would be that was a must.
So new to the whole airplane RC thing. (I understand very well how they work but never actually flew or held one (other than an aero ace if that even counts...)). So at first I thought I could build my little airplane with 3 9g servos, a 20g esc, and a 25g rimfire motor, and a 49g 800mah 7.4v lipo, with my light 2.4ghz futaba reciever onboard... Well after I weighed all the parts in the kit the whole plane weighed 20g give or take... so I thought it was interesting that the electronics would be almost 7.1 times heavier than the rest of the plane...
So I realized ok thats not going to work... I downgraded to 2.5g servos and a 12g volcano esc (they were sold out of the 6g one I wanted) and a 8.5g brushless motor with supposedly about 80-110g of torque and a 32g 400 mah 7.4v lipo, depending on the propeller (hey maybe I could do 3d?)... anyways... the electronics are going to be about 4 times heavier... thats a little better right?
So I built it and its coming along very well but after so much time. I'm pretty patient but were on roughly the 30th hour and I justtt finished the framework... And to be honest, in retrospect it wasn't even difficult or complicated (ok sometimes when I was tired it was complicated) but I guess I either am slow or I was looking into perfection too much...
the whole plane is basically waiting on the 3 servo's to come in (which should be here in 3 days). I even added all the pushrods and the ailron twistrods? lol But ya I'm really happy with my framework. I even added a massive hatch on the bottom so that I have access to all electronics. The cowl has a nice hatch in case I need to replace the motor. I also am loving the smoothness of the ailrons, I thought they would be stiff but the du-bro micro ailron set works just swell.
Anyways, so I tried to cover the elevator, I figured If I mess up oh well because its much less important than the wings (covering wise). But I decided to use aero gloss to shrink the tissue and shine and seal it but 10 minutes later (the stuff dries seems to dry fast) it is still wrinkled :/ It was rather taught before I tried it... any tips? what glue should I use on the tissue? I also was told that doing anything to your tissue can make it heavy... "just use water and call it a day"... Is this true?
Also, assuming my moter is actually rated at 80g this thing should fly... but when it does, is it going to screech across the sky just to stay afloat or will it be a surlily enjoyable flight? any thoughts?
So ya... I'm mostly a flyer but I love building things so I thought Id give it a shot... I wasn't expecting 35+ hours... so ya if I don't get any tips then I'll make sure this thing fly's, even if its only once... rocketry style
Thanks for the help
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"They can strip the plankton off this cow in as little as seven days!"
Evolution Lab
"What could you possibly have in common with a mushroom, or a dinosaur, or even a bacterium? More than you might think. In this Lab, you'll puzzle out the evolutionary relationships linking together a spectacular array of species. Explore the tree of life and get a front row seat to what some have called the greatest show on Earth. That show is evolution." Evolution Lab is a educational game created by the Life on Earth Project and NOVA Labs
Troubles in Paradise
Troubles in Paradise is a review of the history and arguments of the creationism/intelligent design movement, written by James Downard.
Shills for Big Paleo
British-based webforum Mumsnet (For Parents, By Parents) had a fun time this weekend, when a new member decided she was sick and tired of dinosaurs being forced on our children. [more inside]
Your childhood is fine. Calm down.
Sprouting feathers and lost teeth
"A remarkable international effort to map out the avian tree of life has revealed how birds evolved after the mass extinction that wiped out the dinosaurs into more than 10,000 species alive today. More than 200 scientists in 20 countries joined forces to create the evolutionary tree, which reveals how birds gained their colourful feathers, lost their teeth, and learned to sing songs." Via iO9.
Pathetic vestigial organ or integral part of fearsome predator?
In this paper, we examine a first-year torque and angular acceleration problem to address a possible use of the forelimbs of Tyrannosaurus rex. A 1/40th-scale model is brought to the classroom to introduce the students to the quandary: given that the forelimbs of T. rex were too short to reach its mouth, what function did the forelimbs serve? This issue crosses several scientific disciplines including paleontology, ecology, and physics, making it a great starting point for thinking "outside the box..." Lipkin and Carpenter have suggested that the forelimbs were used to hold a struggling victim (which had not been dispatched with the first bite) while the final, lethal bite was applied. If that is the case, then the forelimbs must be capable of large angular accelerations α in order to grab the animal attempting to escape. The concepts of the typical first-year physics course are sufficient to test this hypothesis... Naturally, student love solving any problem related to Tyrannosaurus rex.
How Fake Fossils Pervert Paleontology
A nebulous trade in forged and illegal fossils is an ever-growing headache for paleontologists. [more inside]
You're gonna need a bigger boat.
A gigantic fish-eater (Bigger than a T. rex!) with a crocodile snout and a large sail on its back, Spinosaurus aegyptiacus has always been a strange and enigmatic creature. It may have just become something stranger: a semiaquatic, quadrupedal theropod dinosaur. [more inside]
Patterns in Palaeontology
"Transmogrification event caused by incorporation of alien bacteria!!!"
Evolution is wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey stuff.
Understanding creationism: An insider's guide by a former young-Earth creationist [more inside]
The man who saved the dinosaurs
Dinosaurs were lumbering, stupid, scientifically boring beasts—until John Ostrom rewrote the book on them.
Women in archaeology, geology, and palaeontology
"TrowelBlazers is a celebration of women archaeologists, palaeontologists and geologists who have been doing awesome work for far longer, and in far greater numbers, than most people realize." [via]
The greatest challenge to 21st century paleontology
"The greatest challenge to 21st century paleontology: When commercialization of fossils threatens the science," a commentary by four paleontologists. [more inside]
There's more to paleontology than dinosaurs!
Palaeocast: "An open broadcast of paleontological information, a place where the beauty, diversity and complexity of the field can be conveyed and discussed in a digital format." Every interview-centric episode is associated with a blog post, organized by era and period. [more inside]
Shall these bones live? shall these Bones live?
Settling in for a long winter's nap? In need of a memento mori to guard against the unbridled jollity of the season? Just want to explore the wonderful world of 3D scans, osteology, and bioarchaeology on the internet a little further? Sad that Santa probably isn't bringing you a T-Rex for Christmas? Well, just peak inside... [more inside]
The truth about T. rex
Even one of the best known dinosaurs has kept some secrets. Here is what palaeontologists most want to know about the famous tyrant.
High School Student Discovers Skeleton of Baby Dinosaur
High school student discovers Skeleton of Baby Dinosaur
Four wings good, two wings better?
I was surprised by how many of the weird things ......came form the book
Sort of like a cross between a giraffe and a stork
9 things you may not know about giant azhdarchid pterosaurs, via Quetzalcoatlus: the evil, pin-headed, toothy nightmare monster that wants to eat your soul
Holtz on to Your Butts
"The Life and Times of a Tyrannosaurus Rex," a lecture by Dr. Thomas Holtz
On Dinosaur Time...
Who the hell is 'Prof. Brian J. Ford'? And did he say this in 1900?
PhyloPic: an open database of life form silhouettes
PhyloPic is an open database of life form silhouettes. All images are available for reuse under a Public Domain or Creative Commons license. [more inside]
Dinosaur Feathers in Amber
The walking cactus
Consider this animal, the newest fossil discovery from Jianni Liu in China. She calls it "the walking cactus." We have grasses and flowers and beetles in more varieties than you can imagine, and yet, in some deep architectural way, the developmental paths were set way back then, 500 million years ago. The Walking Cactus is just another souvenir of that crazy moment.
Women of the Royal Society and elsewhere
The Royal Society's lost women scientists. Women published in the Royal Society, 1890-1930. Most influential British women in the history of science. Women at the Royal Observatory Greenwich. Heroines of Science. Women Biochemists, 1906-1939. Women in Science. Previously: The Women of ENIAC.
Aaron's World - a kids podcast about dinosaurs, by a kid.
Practical Paleontology
Darren Tanke has been guest blogging at Dave Hone's Archosaur Musings about his preparation of a Gorgosaurus (as seen here). [more inside]
"I knew that tuna-eating lizard was useless."
"Like many paleontologists, I believe that T. rex was a hunter: a forest hunter. More specifically, I believe that T. rex used the very same hunting strategy that millions of forest hunters practice today: stand hunting from a tree."
Things That Need To Be On The Side Of A Van #328
Paleontologists discover the skull of a massive predatory whale (Leviathan melvillei) in Peru. Discovery News presents this finding with the best of all possible illustrations. (via)
Dinosaurs in the Deep
In 1916, Bone War veteran (and poet) Charles H. Sternberg loaded 22 crates of fossils from the Alberta Badlands onto the SS Mount Temple, intending to ship them to the British Museum of Natural History. They never made it. [via Dinosaur Tracking]
Young Indiana Jones Discovers Missing Link (maybe....)
"So I called my dad over and about five metres away he started swearing, and I was like 'what did I do wrong?' and he's like, 'nothing, nothing - you found a hominid'."The remarkable remains of two ancient human-like creatures (hominids) have been found in South Africa. Some researchers dispute that the fossils are of an unknown human species, but others say they may help fill a key gap in the fossil record of human evolution. [more inside]
Conceived at the 2007 Flugsaurier pterosaur research meeting in Munich, pterosaur.net is devoted to the titular prehistoric reptiles. [more inside]
There is no evidence that Quetzalcoatlus could see dinosaur pee with its ultraviolet vision, or that a herd of hadrosaurs could knock over a predator with their concentrated infrasound blasts.
Paleontologist Matt Wedel was a talking head in the Discovery Channel's Clash of the Dinosaurs, but was not very happy with the final product. The production company, Dangerous, responds. Finally, the Discovery Channel steps up.
BoarCroc! DogCroc! DuckCroc! Pancake Croc! RatCroc!
"A suite of five ancient crocs, including one with teeth like boar tusks and another with a snout like a duck's bill, have been discovered in the Sahara." [more inside]
Ardipithecus: We Meet At Last
Ardipithecus: We Meet At Last. (Single Link Carl Zimmer)
Puijila darwini Makes a "Splash" in the Paleo World
On April 23, 2009 Natalia Rybczynski, Mary R. Dawson, and Richard H. Tedford published their paper "A semi-aquatic Arctic mammalian carnivore from the Miocene epoch and origin of Pinnipedia" in the journal, Nature, detailing their 2007 discovery of the species they have named Puijila darwini. The carnivorous marine mammal, which lived about 21 to 24 million years ago, was discovered practically by accident, but as a "transitional fossil" is re-writing our understanding of pinniped evolution. It could also be noted that it was most likely cute as all get out, and is already the star of it's own mini documentary.
Jesus Christ Dinosaur
"Science is an integral part of culture"
The Unofficial Stephen Jay Gould Archive, an online library dedicated to the Harvard paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould (1941-2002). Includes an excellent selection of videos. And The Official Stephen Jay Gould Archive [still under development], which includes two of his books and his Harvard course online. [more inside]
Ask a Biologist. "We think that kids don't always get the access to real scientific information (or real scientists!) outside of the classroom so we are here to do just that." One of the newest in a line of question-and-answer sites, this one is run by fifty professional scientists and directed toward school kids. Is is possible to clone dinosaurs? Why do I sneeze when I look at the sun? How many mutations do I have? How do polar bears keep their feet warm?
Tracks of Swimming Dinosaur found in Wyoming
Tracks of Swimming Dinosaur found in Wyoming The tracks of a previously unknown, two-legged swimming dinosaur have been identified along the shoreline of an ancient inland sea that covered Wyoming 165 million years ago, according to a University of Colorado at Boulder graduate student.
Bone Wars!
Bone Wars is an educational game that "simulates the process of creating a scientific hypothesis and testing it against new data" (A good thing to teach kids with people like these guys running around). The game is based on the legendary Cope/Marsh feud: a conflict that caused one Dinosaur to be classified twice and could make for a really cool movie someday.
Look around you...
DREAM WORLD Given that green tea provides a more effective and environmentally-friendly method of preparing computer hard disks, pulsars are used to study gravitational waves with great precision, solar cells made from nanocrystals are found to be much more efficient, and scientists have discovered evidence for the earliest known wildfire in Earth's history, 443 to 417 million years ago, it would be hard to make the case that what we are living in is not, in fact, a Dreamworld.
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Tyler Seguin's Speed Makes Bruins Offense More Dynamic, But Right Wing Needs to Be Aggressive (Video)
Originally written on NESN.com | Last updated 3/30/13
Tyler Seguin can make an immediate impact on the ice, where turnovers can turn into scoring chances very quickly thanks to the young forward's speed. A more aggressive Seguin could almost single-handedly fix the offensive issues the Bruins have dealt with all season. Seguin is back on the same line with Patrice Bergeron and Brad Marchand after some experimenting by Claude Julien, putting the Bruins' best offensive line back together. Seguin showed his value with three points against Montreal, but he and Marchand need to keep moving to prevent the Bruins' offense from falling into ruts. Check out Barry Pederson's thoughts on Seguin in Bruins Face-Off LIVE in the video above.
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Halloween draws near, and that brings lots of fun, local activities
The leaves have taken on some glorious hues and Halloween is just around the corner.
If you've got your costume together and your pumpkin carved, there are lots of activities with a fall or Halloween theme taking place this weekend that will help you experience the season.
Ghost tours and haunted houses
The annual Terror on the Trail event at the Brain Injury Adventure Camp in Robards is open from 7 to 11 p.m. today (and again Oct. 26 and Oct. 27).
This year's Terror on the Trail will include a Clown Town, Freddy Krueger, concessions, a bonfire and a hayride.
Organizers said people taking to the trail need to wear comfortable shoes and be able to walk at least a half-mile. Most of the trail is wheelchair accessible.
This event is not for younger children.
The admission is $10.
Grey Lady Ghost Tours are be
ing offered at the Willard Library in Evansville focusing on the historic library's resident ghost, The Grey Lady.
Tour times today are 8 p.m., 9 p.m. and 10 p.m. (Tours are also available on Oct. 25-27). To reserve a tour time, visit www.willard.lib.in.us.
The library is located at 21 First Ave., in downtown Evansville.
Corn mazes, etc.
Cates Farm Corn Maze and Pumpkin Patch has hay rides, a corn maze, a pumpkin patch, a straw maze and games.
Hours are 5 to 9 p.m. Fridays and 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Saturdays through Nov. 3. It's also open on weekdays for groups by appointment.
The cost is $8 for ages 12 and older, $6 for ages 4 to 11 and free for ages 3 and younger.
It's located at 8132 Pruitt-Agnew Road. For information, call 823-6150.
Part Time Farm Maze, Pumpkin Patch has a hay bale maze with a play area, a petting zoo, hay rides, a pumpkin patch and bonfires.
Hours are 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Saturdays, 1 to 4 p.m. Sundays and Friday nights for groups of 25 or more by reservation through October. The cost is $7 for ages 4 and older and free for those younger than 4.
It's located at 7072 Sportsman Club Road in Robards. For information or reservations, call 521-7018 or email email@example.com.
Angel Mounds Historic Site in Evansville is offering a corn maze and Sunday afternoon educational programming about Native American foodways.
The "Family Funday" is set for this Sunday (and again Oct. 28) from 1 to 5 p.m. Food samples will include nuts, teas, greens, deer and other game, popcorn from Angel Mounds' own organic Three Sisters Garden and more.
Other Funday activities related to ancient food ways include archery, atlatl (an ancient spear-throwing device), flint knapping (the art of making knives and arrowheads from stone tools) and children's games and crafts. Guided hayride tours of the site will also be offered.
Admission is $5 per person and includes access to the museum, corn maze and all activities.
The corn maze is open through Oct. 28, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday and 1 to 4 p.m. on Sunday. Admission is $3 per person.
Boo At The Zoo
Mesker Park Zoo & Botanic Garden is hosting its annual event today and Sunday (and again on Oct. 26-28).
Activities will include treat stations, games, crafts, the Tent of Terror, a scarecrow contest and more.
The event will run from 5 to 8 p.m. The zoo is also displaying winners from its Scarecrow Contest through Nov. 1
The zoo is located at 1545 Mesker Park Drive in Evansville. For information, visit www.meskerparkzoo.com.
Trick or treat
Looking ahead a few days, trick-or-treating in downtown Henderson is set for 3-5 p.m. on Oct. 31.


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UFC 117 Odds
- Updated: August 5, 2010
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The main event is Anderson Silva (-500) against Chael Sonnen for the middleweight championship. Silva has held the title since beating Rich Franklin in 2006 and is considered by many the best pound-for-pound fighter in the sport.
Silva has defended his title six times and has won his last 12 fights overall. However, his utter dominance and lack of trash talking has made him less of a draw than warranted.
The American Sonnen has decided to spice things up by doing enough trash talking for both of them. He's a former collegiate wrestling champion and 3-1 since coming back to the UFC. His three last fights, wins over Nate Marquardt, Yushin Okami and Dan Miller, have gone the distance.
Jon Fitch (-125) and Thiago Alves (-105) have very even odds for their welterweight fight. They're also two of the highest ranked welterweights in the sport. This is a rematch of a 2006 fight won by Fitch, but that has little bearing on what will happen on Saturday.
Matt Hughes is another welterweight. He's on the downside of his career at 36, and is the +125 underdog to Ricardo Almeida (-155).
Finally, heavyweight fights always draw interest and the Junior dos Santos (-325) vs. Roy Nelson (+250) battle is no different. Santos is just outside the top-5 heavyweights in most MMA rankings and the winner should get an upcoming title fight.
UFC 117 Odds
Anderson Silva (26-4) -500 vs. Chael Sonnen (24-10-1) +300
Ricardo Almeida (12-3) -155 vs. Matt Hughes (44-7) +125
Jon Fitch (22-3) -125 vs. Thiago Alves (16-6) -105
Junior dos Santos (11-1) -325 vs. Roy Nelson (15-4) +250
Clay Guida (26-11) -130 vs. Rafael dos Anjos (14-4) Even
Thiago Silva (14-2) vs. Tim Boetsch (11-3)
Ben Saunders (8-2-2) -260 vs. Dennis Hallman (41-13-2) +200
Dustin Hazelett (14-5) -120 vs. Rick Story (10-3) -110
Johny Hendricks (8-0) -525 vs. Charlie Brenneman (12-1) +325
Phil Davis (6-0) -800 vs. Rodney Wallace (9-2) +500
Stefan Struve (19-4) -185 vs. Christian Morecraft (6-0) +155
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Florida's Tofft Named as the Louisville Slugger/NFCA Division I National Player of the Week
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Senior third baseman Stephanie Tofft of Florida has been chosen as the Louisville Slugger/NFCA Division I National Player of the Week for games played over April 14-20.
The reigning Southeastern Conference Player of the Week, Tofft batted .700 (7-for-10) with six runs scored, a double, three HR's and 10 RBIs as the Gators swept a three-game league road series at then-No. 21 Texas A&M. The Lincoln, Calif., native homered in each of UF's three match-ups, while extending her hitting streak against league opponents to six games dating back to April 4. She christened her weekend by going 2-for-3 with two tallies, a HR and a pair of RBIs in a 5-1 series-opening win. Tofft followed that up on Saturday by knocking in five runs while posting a 2-for-3 effort with a double and a HR during a 17-4 (5 inn.) rout of the Aggies. She wrapped up her impressive performance by recording a 3-for-4 day at the plate with a HR and three RBIs in Sunday's 8-0 (6 inn.) finale. For the season Tofft is batting .326 overall with 38 runs scored, 18 extra-base hits, including nine HR's, and a team-leading 51 RBIs.
"It was a team effort," Tofft said. "Having our pitchers at the top of their game allows me to relax at the plate. They did a great job to hold Texas A&M's offense in check. Our coaches have worked with me a lot to improve my swing, and I'm seeing the ball very well. I think we're playing really well as a team right now, and we want to maintain our momentum going into the postseason."
"I want to thank the NFCA for recognizing Stephanie for her performance last week," Florida head coach Tim Walton said. "Her play was pivotal in our three-game sweep on the road against Texas A&M. Stephanie has really played at a high level this season, and she is an important part of our offense."
Tofft and the Gators return to action on Wed., April 23, when they host USF at Katie Seashole Pressly Stadium in Gainesville, Fla.
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Florida State's Maddie O'Brien, the ACC Player of the Week, batted .857 (6-for-7) with three doubles, two HR's and seven RBIs over five victories against Pitt and Syracuse while reaching safely in a remarkable 18 straight plate appearances...College of Charleston's Kelsey Hodgson was tabbed as the Colonial Athletic Association's Player of the Week after hitting .800 (8-for-10) with a double, four HR's and seven RBIs…Harvard's Laura Ricciardone earned Ivy League Pitcher of the Week honors after going 6-0 with a 0.00 ERA and 18 strikeouts over 29.1 innings…Mississippi State's Alexis Silkwood earned SEC Pitcher of the Week after going 2-0 with 23 K's in 15.1 innings to go along with a shutout against No. 4 Tennessee…Conference USA Player of the Week, Kristin McGrath of UAB, batted .600 (9-for-15) with a double, two HR's and 11 RBIs as the Blazers went 4-1…Notre Dame's Micaela Arizmendi hit at an .818 clip with three doubles, a HR and eight RBIs over only 11 plate appearances against Virginia…UNLV's Emily Haslinger powered her squad offensively by hitting .500 (6-for-12) with four HR's, including three round trippers and seven RBIs to equal school single-game records during a 10-2 Friday win over New Mexico…USF's Sara Nevins, the American Athletic Conference Pitcher of the Week, led the Bulls to a sweep of then-conference-leading Houston by picking up three wins with a 0.93 ERA while also becoming USF's all-time wins leader with 93 W's…Tulsa's Aimee Creger was named Conference USA Pitcher of the Week after recording two wins and a save and posting a 0.38 ERA with 29 strikeouts over 18.2 innings in a sweep at UTSA…The Summit League Player of the Week, Lizzie Noble of Omaha, drove in total 13 runs and also hit at a .615 (8-for-13) clip with 11 of those RBIs during a three-game sweep of South Dakota State…Stetson's Meredith Owen was 2-0 with a 0.35 ERA and batted .455 with a HR and three RBIs to earn Atlantic Sun Conference Pitcher of the Week…Baylor's Jordan Strickland hit at a .556 pace (5-for-9) with four HR's and 12 RBIs, including a pair of two-HR games, during a three-game series against Oklahoma State…Missouri Valley Conference Player of the Week, Wichita State's Brittany Fortner, batted .571 (8-for-14) with a 1.357 slugging mark and nine RBIs…Hofstra's Michaela Transue blasted two doubles, two HR's (both against LSU), scored four runs and added seven RBIs on the way to reaping CAA Rookie of the Week accolades…Western Michigan's Allyson Kus earned MAC West Pitcher of the Week after posting a 3-0 record with a 0.39 ERA and a pair of complete games…Nicole Pagano of Mount St. Mary's registered a 3-0 mark with a 0.33 ERA, 19 strikeouts over 21 innings and managed a no-hitter in a win over LIU Brooklyn.
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Feb. 11 – Griffin Joiner – Kentucky – Jr. – C – Hopkinsville, Ky.
Feb. 18 – Bryana Walker – Washington – Sr. – P – La Quinta, Calif.
Feb. 25 – Anna Miller (Co-) – USC Upstate – Sr. – P – Portland, Ore.
Ally Carda (Co-) – UCLA – Jr. – P/UTIL – Elk Grove, Calif.
March 4 – Lacey Waldrop – Florida State – Jr. – P – Chester, Va.
March 11 – Dallas Escobedo – Arizona State – Sr. – P – Glendale, Ariz.
March 18 – Sydney O'Hara – Syracuse – Fr. – P/OF/1B – Cicero, N.Y.
March 25 – Jaclyn Traina (Co-) – Alabama – Sr. – P/UTIL – Naples, Fla.
Sammy Marshall (Co-) – Western Illinois – Jr. – SS/OF – Naperville, Ill.
April 1 – Cheridan Hawkins – Oregon – So. – P – Anderson, Calif.
April 8 – Katiyana Mauga – Arizona – Fr. – 3B – San Diego, Calif.
April 15 – Michelle Mueller – Wisconsin – Sr. – IF – La Crosse, Wis.
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— An article in the Observer reports that since the attacks on September 11, 2001, Europe has increasingly become not only a target of terror but a popular training ground for it as well. The paper has conducted an investigation into Islamic militant networks in Europe - through interviews with senior level intelligence officials, secret recordings of phone calls between militants, and through classified intelligence briefings, the Observer has learned that terrorists have been able to not only sustain their network in Europe, but that they have managed to enlarge it even further, from England to Germany to Italy, even expanding eastward into Bulgaria and Poland.
And more on the ongoing investigation behind last month's assassination attempt on Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf — using a cell phone data card found at the scene of the explosion, authorities have been able to trace calls leading to the round-up of nearly 40 militants, many of them from the radical Pakistani Islamic group Jaish-i-Mohammed, a one time ally of Pakistan's security services and currently thought to have links to al Qaeda.
Europe Terror Cells Regroup — And Now Their Target is Europe Secret intelligence papers from across the continent reveal a growing danger from a widening network of fanatics — and this is a struggle the West cannot lose. (The Observer)
Pakistan Investigation of Attacks on Musharraf Points to Pakistani Group Building on clues from a cell phone data card, investigators probing last month's assassination attempts against Gen. Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan's president, say they are increasingly convinced that the bombings were partly orchestrated by militants associated with the radical Muslim group Jaish-i-Mohammed, a onetime ally of Pakistan's security services with links to al Qaeda. (Washington Post)
India Officials: "Al Qaeda" Passenger An Innocent Indian Leather-Garment Exporter An Indian Muslim, at the centre of a terrorism scare on trans-Atlantic flights, is an innocent leather-garment exporter. (AFP)
Scientists Discuss Ways to Fight Terror Forty experts from the United States and India met this week to explore ways to use science and technology to fight terrorism, the U.S. Embassy said Tuesday. (AP)
Africa Diplomat: Al Qaeda Launders Money in Africa Extremist groups like al Qaeda are using mafia-type methods to launder funds and hide their financial footprints, including through diamond trading in West Africa, a regional U.S. diplomat said Tuesday. (Reuters)
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Bare foot forward: Does running without shoes help or hurt?
Chris Harmon didn't need a book to tell him about barefoot running. A 55-year-old holistic health educator from Vista, he has come to be known as the "running practitioner" by many Olympic athletes and national record holders, and he's been extolling the virtues of running sans shoes for the past 30 years.
"If you put too much support on the foot, the muscles and tendons will atrophy," said Harmon, a former competitive runner who has devoted his career to teaching others how to achieve their athletic goals and relieve pain caused by sports-related repetitive-use injuries.
"The only reason you should wear a shoe is for protection from punctures."
Harmon is among the many runners worldwide who have joined the "cobbled or un-cobbled" debate ---- to shoe or not to shoe. The un-cobbled contingent argues that raised heels, cushioned soles, support arches and motion control wedges built into modern running shoes lead to chronic overuse injuries of the feet, legs and hips.
On days when he isn't tearing along on the beach with bare feet, Harmon can be seen using a modified aquatic split-toe surf bootie, which he says offers protection from punctures, but no support whatsoever for the feet.
The idea behind running unshod is that doing so provides instant feedback from the ground, forcing the body to react naturally, which promotes efficiency. Barefooters rely on their legs for natural shock absorption and tend to land on the forefoot, with their feet under their bodies. Shoe-wearing runners, on the other hand, tend to land hard on their heels with their feet out in front of them.
Since the publication of Christopher McDougall's nonfiction best-seller "Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, And the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen," the barefoot running movement has been growing. Runners everywhere are ditching their expensive running shoes in an effort to take advantage of the body's natural biomechanics to increase speed and endurance, while reducing injuries.
"Born to Run" investigates the shoeless running style of the Tarahumara Indians, an isolated tribe living in the remote and unforgiving area of the Copper Canyon in the southwestern part of Mexico's state of Chihuahua.
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Dr. Gregory Clark, head of podiatry at Scripps Clinic Medical Group in Rancho Bernardo, concedes that the conceptual advantages of barefoot running may have some valid benefits for elite runners who are in tune with their bodies and able to alter their gait and running style.
But Clark cautioned the average or beginning runner that the laundry list of potential injuries is extensive, ranging from stress fractures to skin lacerations and infections.
"The foot, which is the body's primary shock absorber, is an absolutely amazing anatomic structure," Clark said. "Unfortunately, the majority of people are not in good enough physical condition or have not trained appropriately to take advantage of these things."


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Critical Essay by Marilyn C. Wesley
SOURCE: "The Transgressive Other in Joyce Carol Oates's Recent Fiction," in Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, Vol. XXXIII, No. 4, Summer, 1992, pp. 255-62.
In the following essay, Wesley surveys Oates's later fiction to describe the function of "the transgressive other" in her narrative technique.
According to Tony Tanner [in Adultery in the Novel, 1979], "Very often the novel writes of contracts but dreams of transgressions," a paradoxical statement well illustrated in the fiction of Joyce Carol Oates. Although Oates has been thought of primarily as a realist, even a moralist, her work may often be understood with respect to its dialectic with the text, its superimposition of a narrative leveled against the text itself to decenter the social codes through which it is organized. This radical contradiction is regularly mounted by the intriguing and anti-social character that I designate as the transgressive other, who is defined by a narrative position in contrapuntal relation to domestic norms and standards of communicability within which the text is located. The most famous example of this "transgressive other" is Arnold Friend in Oates's frequently anthologized short story, "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" but other such figures are a recurrent device throughout her career and a dominant feature in her most recent novels.
In "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" [in The Wheel of Love] fifteen-year-old Connie is engaged in the tentative process of defining herself through a counter-ideology—made up of popular music, shopping center trinkets, and youthful sexuality—that opposes the belief system of her parents and her "plain" and "steady" twenty-four-year-old sister until mock-heroic Arnold Friend introduces her to the unapprehended corollary to heady independence: that in abandoning family norms she also loses family protection. To read the moral of this story as a disparagement of tasteless teenage defiance is entirely possible. In fact, critics generally interpret "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" as Connie's initiation into evil, and in the ending of the story they discover Connie's capitulation to the shallow values of a debased culture. Her own commentary on the story in a review of the film based on it shows that Oates is also particularly concerned with the ending, specifically with the reversal in the movie version of the text's "unfilmable" last paragraph. In Joyce Chopra's adaptation, Connie is saved from the murder that is her probable fate after the conclusion of the story; at the end of the film she returns to her family, "rejecting the 'trashy dreams' of her pop-teen culture." In Oates's version, however, Connie does not return to her family nor abandon her adolescent impetus toward freedom; although she will probably be raped and killed, the diction of light and open space of the final words of the story implies positive value in "the vast sunlit reaches of the land … Connie had never seen before and did not recognize except to know that she was going to it."
That Arnold, the probable rapist and killer, is a diabolic figure and a depraved lunatic is indisputable. As Oates reports, she based him on a "tabloid psychopath" whose "specialty was the seduction and occasional murder of teenage girls," but that he is also somehow useful, even appealing, is the clear implication of the surprising tone of the ending of the story. Arnold's positive function is, I believe, that he openly confronts the codes of the family. Although he himself has no genuine identity (he borrows his artificial form from a humorous pastiche of teenage styles and slogans), he forces Connie into a recognition of the necessary displacement of the unexamined forms of "family" that both define and confine her:
"The place where you come from ain't there any more, and where you had in mind is cancelled out. This place you are now—inside your daddy's house—is nothing but a cardboard box I can knock down any time. You know that and you always did know it. You hear me?"
That Arnold has a positive function as the transgressive other to the text of the American family is demonstrated by the fact that similar figures of limit and challenge are a constant feature throughout Oates's oeuvre. Max, the manipulative esthete of With Shuddering Fall (1964); Richard Everett, the matricidal memoirist of Expensive People (1968); Trick Monk, the trickster foil of the protagonist in Wonderland (1971); Hugh Petrie, the nihilistic cartoonist of The Assassins (1975); Bobbie Gotteson, the "Maniac" of The Triumph of the Spider Monkey (1976); Fitz John Kasch, the post-romantic central consciousness of Childwold (1976); Alexis Kessler, the narcissistic composer of Unholy Loves (1979); Sheilah Trask, the "dark" opposite of Monica Jensen of Solstice (1985); and Maxmilian Fein, the demonic father-lover of Marya (1985) are key examples. What these characters have in common is their opposition to the norms of community and comprehensibility that the texts seem to endorse.
This use of a "transgressive other" to the text as a projection of deviation—a struggle within the text against its own limits of consciousness—is a prominent feature of Oates's most recent fiction, in which the story and status of such an opposing figure is foregrounded. Three important works published in 1989 and 1990—American Appetites, Soul/Mate, and Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart—mark the emergence of this narrative pattern and its related themes as Oates's central preoccupation at this time.
Soul/Mate is a revealing example of this tendency. Not only does the plot concern the actions and motivations of an extreme "other," a "psychopath" in the tradition of Arnold Friend, but the genre of the work and even the designation of the author emphasize the thematics of "otherness." Soul/Mate, a "psychothriller" according to the book jacket, a genre Oates reserves for the consideration of the otherness themes of "identity, twins and doubling," is the second of her novels to be published under the pseudonym Rosamond Smith. "I wanted a fresh reading; I wanted to escape from my own identity," Oates explained, and in a discussion of Romain Gary's nom de plume, she posited the writer's need for "an erasure of the primary self" so that "another (hitherto undiscovered?) self may be released." This employment of an alternative authorial "other" strongly suggests the desire to test the ideological limits of "Joyce Carol Oates," a writer by now established in a particular tradition.
The structure and meaning of the novel also underscore this concern for the evasion of bounds. The two main characters of the work are Dorothea Deverell, a decorous and passive art historian approaching middle age and Colin Asch, a waif-like and appealing serial killer. Written from the third-person limited-omniscient point of view, the chapters of Soul/Mate alternate between the perspectives of Dorothea and Colin to produce the effect that these characters do indeed mirror one another despite their differences in style. "[O]ur lives are … parallel," he. "[T]heir predicaments were identical," she observes at a crucial point; "they were united in their desperation to escape." And, in fact, Colin does serve as the agent of Dorothea's unacknowledged wishes. Standing between her and future fulfillment as the director of the prestigious Brannon Institute and the wife of her lover Charles Carpenter are two impediments—Dorothea's slanderous enemy Roger Krauss, who favors another candidate for the appointment that she has been promised, and Mrs. Agnes Carpenter, Charles's alcoholic wife. By garroting Krauss and drowning Agnes, Colin clears the way for the happiness that is Dorothea's implicit fate at the conclusion of the novel.
That Colin is Dorothea's psychological other is obvious. Where she is methodical, he is manic. Where she is self-doubting, he is narcissistic. Where she is self-abnegating, he is wildly paranoid. Where she resolutely denies, he perversely accepts. Where her personal relationships are mired in "stasis," his intimate connections are resolved through deadly action. But the otherness Colin represents has a social dimension as well. While Dorothea is preternaturally sensitive to the nuances and codes of her group, Colin's self-absorption radically distorts his ability to decipher even rudimentary gestures. This is dramatically demonstrated in the first of the murders the book details:
[D]riving out of Fort Lauderdale in the red '87 Mustang with the sliding sun roof the woman had given him, which she surely wouldn't call the police to get returned … he happened to see, one lane over to the right, one car length ahead, a car he thought at first to be identical with his, lipstick-red, two-door coupe … but it turned out to be a Toyota of about that year, and what drew his attention to it like a magnet was it had a sliding sun roof too and the roof was partway open and there was a hand stuck through it wriggling the fingers to taunt him.
Or was it a signal?
Cornering the driver in a rest stop men's room, Colin demands to know the meaning of the taunting wave. Explaining that he was stretching to try to keep awake, the man insists that Colin has "misread" him. Colin, however, stubbornly adhering to his own deadly misinterpretation, accuses the unfortunate motorist of having tendered a "false signal" and kills him for the crime of deceptive discourse.
A novel, of course, is made meaningful insofar as it may be read with regard to the codes and systems it invokes. But recognizable patterns of language and culture are consistently obliterated in Colin's perversions of communication and understanding. It is pertinent that Colin is presented as the anti-author of a kind of parody of the novel. In the "Blue Ledger" Colin sets down aphoristic interpretations of his own experiences—the initials of his victims, the money he has received from them, and the coded notation of their deaths. Significantly, the codes employed involve reversal. The moment of Agnes Carpenter's murder, for example, is recorded with her initials inverted as C.A.88104am. In the denouement of Soul/Mate another meaningful reversal occurs to contradict symbolically the communicative function of the text: instead of preserving his journal, before his suicide, Colin carefully feeds it page by page into the fire.
This transgressive other represents, then, a dislocation of basic patterns of meaning. In his "Blue Ledger" Colin carefully records Blakean comments that outline the collapse of organizational categories:
Thus "praise" and "blame" are equally unmerited.
Thus "he" (agent) and "it" (action) are falsely separated.
Thus even the most general time demarcations—"past," "present," "future"—are invalid.
For in the Blue Room (which at certain times Colin Asch was privileged to enter [through the act of murder]) all things become one. The fierce blue light erases all shadow. There is no gravity, no weight. Not even "up" and "down."
The dissolution of contradictories characteristic of Colin's "Blue Room" posits an alternative to the opposed terms—for example, good/bad, male/female—upon which communities and texts are structured, an alternative, in his case, both attractive and deadly. At once "angel boy" and "devil twin," Colin is the intermediary between two universes of meaning—that of social repression but semantic order and that of freedom but incoherence. Soul/Mate suggests, therefore, that the very oppositions that make meaning possible—the arrangements from which civilization emerges—also make it destructive or impossible in the social or family experience of many of Oates's characters. Again, Colin's story provides the example.
The motivation for Colin's deviance is the extreme freedom realized in the dramatic loss of his parents in an automobile accident in which they were both drowned:
The boy managed to get out and swim to the surface, but his father and mother were trapped inside the car, in only about eight feet of water, so the boy tried to save them diving back down trying to get the doors of the car open, trying to pull his mother free and then his father…. [A]nd it was said that Colin had gone mad in those minutes, that his mind had simply shattered.
Colin's subsequent actions are attempts to resolve his complex reactions to this experience. His rage at his mother's abandonment finds expression in his brutal treatment of women. Significantly, he fantasizes drowning Hartley, one of his lovers, in shallow water, and he does dispatch Agnes in this fashion. His equally powerful love for his lost mother is expressed through his adoring fixation on Dorothea, who, as Hartley reminds him, "looks old enough almost to be your mother." Colin chooses to murder Agnes Carpenter rather than Charles Carpenter, his rival for Dorothea's affections, because he imagines Dorothea and Charles can replace his lost parents: "It would be the most natural thing in the world; older childless couples often take up younger unattached men. A kind of spiritual adoption. 'You will never be lonely again.'" And when Colin finally kidnaps her, even obtuse Dorothea is aware that together they seem to be enacting "a grotesque parody of domesticity." The conclusion of the novel finds Dorothea and Charles together about to embark on their marriage in a new house. Oates's most uncharacteristically unambiguous ending sets this recovery of familial arrangement against the disorder Colin has introduced.
Similar domestic resolutions counter the appeal of disorder in both American Appetites and Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart. In the first novel, a staid middle-aged man accidentally, but with much provocation and passion, kills his wife during a vituperative drunken argument. The book is structured around the complicated issue of his guilt; and during the course of his attenuated trial, the defendant himself experiences the emotional state of otherness. "It seems so easy, somehow," Ian McCullough musingly remarks to his lawyer. "Crossing over…. To what's on the other side." When the scandal first hits the newspapers, the lawyer suggests that Ian move into the Sheraton Inn under a false identity to avoid publicity. During this interval, Ian experiences an alternative self, the "Jonathan Hamilton" who signed the guest register. He wears a "pair of plastic clip-on lenses, dark green" to "give substance to his incognito." He makes minor adjustments to his appearance and discovers in his assumed alter ego interests and attitudes he had not previously acknowledged in himself. But this dark liberation, which is the substance of the plot, is countered by the ironic frame of the novel. American Appetites commences, as does Soul/Mate with the domestic ceremony of an elaborate dinner party. It concludes with another dinner party. So despite the introduction of the theme of transgressive otherness, the frame of the book attempts to rectify the deviation that has been the central preoccupation of the novel. Despite McCullough's cataclysmic experience, the only substantial change in the structure of his world is the woman who officiates at the consistent dinner, an undeviating ceremony of communal regularity at either end of an attenuated exploration of violent alternative.
In Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart, young Iris Courtney moves from the failed family of her working-class background into an upper-class family of inherited wealth and academic stature at the conclusion. This novel also endeavors to contain in domestic resolution the deviation from social order that consumes Iris throughout the novel. For the plot of Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart concerns her experience and pursuit of otherness. In an uncharacteristic gesture of chivalric bravado, a young black boy accidentally murders the retarded and repulsive Red Garlock who has been sexually menacing Iris. His differing race and his antisocial crime situate Jinx Fairchild as a fascinating "transgressive other," a "soul-mate" with whom Iris is obsessed throughout her life.
Different in plots and even in the class levels of social experience addressed, these three recent works are similar in their presentation of equivocally appealing otherness that violently controverts social/textual standards and in their attempts to contain that appeal within a recuperated domesticity asserted in the endings of the novels. These works of the transgressive other oscillate between the complicated advantages and disadvantages of dual alternatives: painful and radical freedom and stifling necessary order. But the transparent gestures of containment that frame or conclude these narratives do not stabilize the radical contradictions set in motion by the texts.
Soul/Mate, American Appetites, and Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart exaggerate a philosophic basis in productive contradiction—a constant challenge of conventions and limits—that has been present throughout Oates's career. The introduction of her 1981 book of essays collected under the title Contraries states, for example, that "the seven essays in this volume, written over a period of approximately twenty years … were originally stimulated by feelings of opposition…." But this practice has been a source of confusion for Oates's audience. In 1979 Linda Wagner surveyed the unpredictable variability in critical response to Oates's works [in Critical Essays on Joyce Carol Oates, 1979], and Joanne Creighton noted [in Joyce Carol Oates, 1973] that readers have often been unable to relate the deterministic expectations invoked by Oates's generally naturalistic techniques to "a modernist formulation" of her "visionary perspective." Generally misread and frequently condemned, Oates has never abandoned the interrogations of the social assumptions and novelistic practices in which her fiction is rooted, and her most recent novels propound again the insistent dialectical stance epitomized by her series of "transgressive others." The effect of these provocative works is the assertion of the existence of alternatives just outside the reach of ordinary experience, while the ambiguous treatment of the figures and contexts of such alternatives acknowledges both their genuine threat and their ultimate value.
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