Terror Fears Stoked By Trend Of Young Muslims From U.S., Europe Fighting With al-Qaeda in Syria, Africa

A growing trend of young muslims traveling from the U.S. and Europe to Syria, as well as Africa, to train and fight alongside al-Qaeda is pushing Western intelligence agencies to heighten surveillance at airports, harbors and border crossings amid fears that these trained fighters will return home to launch terror attacks.

Those fears were highlighted Wednesday when two Islamic jihadists slaughtered a British soldier in the streets of London and the recent bombings at the Boston Marathon by Chechen born Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and his brother Tamerlan. These terrorist attacks have left investigators - on both sides of the Atlantic - with more questions than answers. Were these groups acting alone or were they following orders from al-Qaeda central, or one of its fringe groups?

Rebel fighters in Syria

Rebel fighters in Syria. Credit: AP

One thing is certain: this will not be the end of these seemingly random and difficult to predict terror attacks, say U.S. officials. And with the war escalating in Syria and Islamic extremists groups gaining momentum in Africa, Western law enforcement will have to contend with more trained fighters returning from these war zones to the U.S. and other European nations.

"We know young men are leaving London, U.S. and other parts of Europe with medical bags, tactical gear and other supplies to Syria, and some are heading to Africa to fight in places like Somalia, Algeria and Mali," said a Western official, with direct knowledge of the terror investigations. "Unfortunately, the rebel groups they are fighting with have strong ties to al-Qaeda and other extremist groups. This is where they will be indoctrinated - what happens when they come home trained, ready to fight and hating the west?"

The problem is that many of these fighters are skilled enough not to be detected by law enforcement "and therefore slip through the cracks - Syria isn't the only country we're concerned with," the official added.

War on Terror

In President Obama's speech on Thursday, he narrowed the definition of the "war on terror" saying "beyond Afghanistan, we must define our effort not as a boundless 'global war on terror' - but rather as a series of persistent, targeted efforts to dismantle specific networks of violent extremists that threaten America."

Steven Bucci, a former a deputy assistant defense secretary under Donald Rumsfeld, said a major problem is that the Obama Administration downplays the seriousness of the threat.

The administration explains many of these incidents as "lone-wolf" actions and Obama's speech Thursday, reiterated the administration's inability to understand the capabilities of the enemy.

"He is totally delusional about "winding down the war," Bucci said. "I don't know if he noticed that the bad guys don't want to stop - think about London (Wednesday.)"

In London, one of the men, identified in British news reports as Adebolajo, told a bystander who witnessed the attacks that "he swears by almighty Allah we will never stop fighting you," as he held a meat cleaver in his blood soaked hands.

The men hacked into the British soldier like a "piece of meat," stunned bystanders told the media. One bystander said one of the men told them, "the only reasons we have done this is because Muslims are dying every day. This British soldier is an eye for an eye, a tooth for tooth. ...You people will never be safe."

Muslim Jihadists Traveling to Syria

A U.S. military official, with direct knowledge of terror networks in Afghanistan and Africa, said military officials are aware of the growing trend of young Western Muslim jihadists traveling to the front lines in Syria and Africa.

"It is extremely concerning when these extremists eventually return home with skills that bring the battle zone to our front door and endanger our way of life," the military official said. "It's overseas where they gain the knowledge to build bombs, use weapons, connect with leaders in the jihadist movement. It's not a matter of if we'll see terror attacks at home but when."

Since 2008, ?FBI officials have been monitoring the travel of Somali men who have left the U.S. to fight alongside rebel forces in their former homeland. Some of these young fighters were used as suicide bombers, while others were taken under the wing of Somalia's al-Qaeda affiliate, Al-Shabaab Mujahideen.

FBI Spokeswoman Kathleen Wright acknowledged that law enforcement is aware of the threat, referring to testimony given to Congress by FBI Director Robert Mueller in March, where he explained why radicalization in the U.S. is more prevalent now than in the past.

?"First, American extremists appear to be attracted to wars in foreign countries," Mueller told a House Appropriations subcommittee.??"We have already seen a number of Americans travel overseas to train and fight with extremist groups. The?increase and availability of extremist propaganda in English perpetuates the problem."

In 2010, the FBI and DHS were closely monitoring the U.S. Mexico border when information that 23 Somalis, some with ties to Al-Shabaab, were plotting to illegally enter the United States after being mistakenly released from custody by Mexican officials, a confidential federal law enforcement report said.

U.S. officials don't have a number on how many young men may have left the U.S. to fight alongside Syrian rebel groups but in Europe hundreds of young men have gone to their homeland to fight, according to European intelligence officials and news reports from the region.

Recruiting Terrorists

Al-Qaeda groups work together in war zones overseas - sharing information and recruiting new members, according to U.S. Intelligence officials who spoke to The Blaze and Bucci.

Claims by Obama that al-Qaeda is "disseminated," gives power to the terrorists here at home and lowers the guard of Americans and Europeans who are the group's primary targets, Bucci said.

"To say al-Qaeda is diminished, and try to be so specific you have sound bites for it, is disingenuous," said Bucci, who is now director of the Douglas and Sarah Allison Center for Foreign Policy Studies at the Heritage Foundation. "These AQ fringes work together in Mali, Libya, Algeria, Yemen, Syria, Somalia, Iraq and make connections with followers all over the world. They are transnational terrorist groups who swap expertise and narratives."

"Every time they succeed in an attack, regardless of the regional venue, it makes their job more successful to radicalize people here."

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Syracuse University professor argues Earth's mantle affects long-term sea-level rise estimates

Public release date: 23-May-2013
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From Virginia to Florida, there is a prehistoric shoreline that, in some parts, rests more than 280 feet above modern sea level. The shoreline was carved by waves more than 3 million years agopossible evidence of a once higher sea level, triggered by ice-sheet melting. But new findings by a team of researchers, including Robert Moucha, assistant professor of Earth Sciences in Syracuse University's College of Arts and Sciences, reveal that the shoreline has been uplifted by more than 210 feet, meaning less ice melted than expected.

Equally compelling is the fact that the shoreline is not flat, as it should be, but is distorted, reflecting the pushing motion of the Earth's mantle.

This is big news, says Moucha, for scientists who use the coastline to predict future sea-level rise. It's also a cautionary tale for those who rely almost exclusively on cycles of glacial advance and retreat to study sea-level changes.

"Three million years ago, the average global temperature was two to three degrees Celsius higher, while the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere was comparable to that of today," says Moucha, who contributed to a paper on the subject in the May 15th issue of Science Express. "If we can estimate the height of the sea from 3 million years ago, we can then relate it to the amount of ice sheets that melted. This period also serves as a window into what we may expect in the future."

Moucha and his colleaguesled by David Rowley, professor of geophysical sciences at the University of Chicagohave been using computer modeling to pinpoint exactly what melted during this interglacial period, some 3 million years ago. So far, evidenced is stacked in favor of Greenland, West Antarctica, and the sprawling East Antarctica ice sheet, but the new shoreline uplift implies that East Antarctica may have melted some or not at all. "It's less than previous estimates had implied," says Rowley, the article's lead author.

Moucha's findings show that the jagged shoreline may have been caused by the interplay between the Earth's surface and its mantlea process known as dynamic topography. Advanced modeling suggests that the shoreline, referred to as the Orangeburg Scarp, may have shifted as much as 196 feet. Modeling also accounts for other effects, such as the buildup of offshore sediments and glacial retreats.

"Dynamic topography is a very important contributor to Earth's surface evolution," says Rowley. "With this work, we can demonstrate that even small-scale features, long considered outside the realm of mantle influence, are reflective of mantle contributions."

Moucha's involvement with the project grew out of a series of papers he published as a postdoctoral fellow at the Canadian Institute for Advance Research in Montreal. In one paper from 2008, he drew on elements of the North American East Coast and African West Coast to build a case against the existence of stable continental platforms.

"The North American East Coast has always been thought of as a passive margin," says Moucha, referring to large areas usually bereft of tectonic activity. "[With Rowley], we've challenged the traditional view of passive margins by showing that through observations and numerical simulations, they are subject to long-term deformation, in response to mantle flow."

Central to Moucha's argument is the fact that viscous mantle flows everywhere, all the time. As a result, it's nearly impossible to find what he calls "stable reference points" on the Earth's surface to accurately measure global sea-level rise. "If one incorrectly assumed that a particular margin is a stable reference frame when, in actuality, it has subsided, his or her assumption would lead to a sea-level rise and, ultimately, to an increase in ice-sheet melt," says Moucha, who joined SU's faculty in 2011.

Another consideration is the size of the ice sheet. Between periods of glacial activity (such as the one from 3 million years ago and the one we are in now), ice sheets are generally smaller. Jerry Mitrovica, professor of geophysics at Harvard University who also contributed to the paper, says the same mantle processes that drive plate tectonics also deform elevations of ancient shorelines. "You can't ignore this, or your estimate of the size of the ancient ice sheets will be wrong," he says.

Moucha puts it this way: "Because ice sheets have mass and mass results in gravitational attraction, the sea level actually falls near the melting ice sheet and rises when it's further away. This variability has enabled us to unravel which ice sheet contributed to sea-level rise and how much of [the sheet] melted."

The SU geophysicist credits much of the group's success to state-of-the-art seismic tomography, a geological imaging technique led by Nathan Simmons at California's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. "Nathan, who co-authored the paper, provided me with seismic tomography data, from which I used high-performance computing to model mantle flow," says Moucha. "A few million years may have taken us a day to render, but a billion years may have taken several weeks or more."

Moucha and his colleagues hope to apply their East Coast model to the Appalachian Mountains, which are also considered a type of passive geology. Although they have been tectonically quiet for more than 200 million years, the Appalachians are beginning to show signs of wear and tear: rugged peaks, steep slopes, landslides and waterfallspossible evidence of erosion, triggered by dynamic topography.

"Scientists such as Rob, who produce increasingly accurate models of dynamic topography for the past, are going to be at the front line of this important research area," says Mitrovica.

Adds Rowley: "Rob Moucha has demonstrated that dynamic topography is a very important contributor to Earth's surface evolution. His study of mantle contributions is appealing on a large number of fronts that I, among others of our collaboration, hope to pursue."

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Contact: Rob Enslin
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Syracuse University

From Virginia to Florida, there is a prehistoric shoreline that, in some parts, rests more than 280 feet above modern sea level. The shoreline was carved by waves more than 3 million years agopossible evidence of a once higher sea level, triggered by ice-sheet melting. But new findings by a team of researchers, including Robert Moucha, assistant professor of Earth Sciences in Syracuse University's College of Arts and Sciences, reveal that the shoreline has been uplifted by more than 210 feet, meaning less ice melted than expected.

Equally compelling is the fact that the shoreline is not flat, as it should be, but is distorted, reflecting the pushing motion of the Earth's mantle.

This is big news, says Moucha, for scientists who use the coastline to predict future sea-level rise. It's also a cautionary tale for those who rely almost exclusively on cycles of glacial advance and retreat to study sea-level changes.

"Three million years ago, the average global temperature was two to three degrees Celsius higher, while the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere was comparable to that of today," says Moucha, who contributed to a paper on the subject in the May 15th issue of Science Express. "If we can estimate the height of the sea from 3 million years ago, we can then relate it to the amount of ice sheets that melted. This period also serves as a window into what we may expect in the future."

Moucha and his colleaguesled by David Rowley, professor of geophysical sciences at the University of Chicagohave been using computer modeling to pinpoint exactly what melted during this interglacial period, some 3 million years ago. So far, evidenced is stacked in favor of Greenland, West Antarctica, and the sprawling East Antarctica ice sheet, but the new shoreline uplift implies that East Antarctica may have melted some or not at all. "It's less than previous estimates had implied," says Rowley, the article's lead author.

Moucha's findings show that the jagged shoreline may have been caused by the interplay between the Earth's surface and its mantlea process known as dynamic topography. Advanced modeling suggests that the shoreline, referred to as the Orangeburg Scarp, may have shifted as much as 196 feet. Modeling also accounts for other effects, such as the buildup of offshore sediments and glacial retreats.

"Dynamic topography is a very important contributor to Earth's surface evolution," says Rowley. "With this work, we can demonstrate that even small-scale features, long considered outside the realm of mantle influence, are reflective of mantle contributions."

Moucha's involvement with the project grew out of a series of papers he published as a postdoctoral fellow at the Canadian Institute for Advance Research in Montreal. In one paper from 2008, he drew on elements of the North American East Coast and African West Coast to build a case against the existence of stable continental platforms.

"The North American East Coast has always been thought of as a passive margin," says Moucha, referring to large areas usually bereft of tectonic activity. "[With Rowley], we've challenged the traditional view of passive margins by showing that through observations and numerical simulations, they are subject to long-term deformation, in response to mantle flow."

Central to Moucha's argument is the fact that viscous mantle flows everywhere, all the time. As a result, it's nearly impossible to find what he calls "stable reference points" on the Earth's surface to accurately measure global sea-level rise. "If one incorrectly assumed that a particular margin is a stable reference frame when, in actuality, it has subsided, his or her assumption would lead to a sea-level rise and, ultimately, to an increase in ice-sheet melt," says Moucha, who joined SU's faculty in 2011.

Another consideration is the size of the ice sheet. Between periods of glacial activity (such as the one from 3 million years ago and the one we are in now), ice sheets are generally smaller. Jerry Mitrovica, professor of geophysics at Harvard University who also contributed to the paper, says the same mantle processes that drive plate tectonics also deform elevations of ancient shorelines. "You can't ignore this, or your estimate of the size of the ancient ice sheets will be wrong," he says.

Moucha puts it this way: "Because ice sheets have mass and mass results in gravitational attraction, the sea level actually falls near the melting ice sheet and rises when it's further away. This variability has enabled us to unravel which ice sheet contributed to sea-level rise and how much of [the sheet] melted."

The SU geophysicist credits much of the group's success to state-of-the-art seismic tomography, a geological imaging technique led by Nathan Simmons at California's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. "Nathan, who co-authored the paper, provided me with seismic tomography data, from which I used high-performance computing to model mantle flow," says Moucha. "A few million years may have taken us a day to render, but a billion years may have taken several weeks or more."

Moucha and his colleagues hope to apply their East Coast model to the Appalachian Mountains, which are also considered a type of passive geology. Although they have been tectonically quiet for more than 200 million years, the Appalachians are beginning to show signs of wear and tear: rugged peaks, steep slopes, landslides and waterfallspossible evidence of erosion, triggered by dynamic topography.

"Scientists such as Rob, who produce increasingly accurate models of dynamic topography for the past, are going to be at the front line of this important research area," says Mitrovica.

Adds Rowley: "Rob Moucha has demonstrated that dynamic topography is a very important contributor to Earth's surface evolution. His study of mantle contributions is appealing on a large number of fronts that I, among others of our collaboration, hope to pursue."

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Japan's PM Abe defends policies as markets settle

Bank of Japan Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda speaks at the 19th International Conference on The Future of Asia in Tokyo, Tuesday, May 21, 2013.(AP Photo/Itsuo Inouye)

Bank of Japan Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda speaks at the 19th International Conference on The Future of Asia in Tokyo, Tuesday, May 21, 2013.(AP Photo/Itsuo Inouye)

Bank of Japan Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda speaks at the 19th International Conference on The Future of Asia in Tokyo, Friday, May 24, 2013.(AP Photo/Itsuo Inouye)

TOKYO (AP) ? Japan's top leaders are defending the economic strategies championed by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, though the central bank chief acknowledged a need for better communication with financial markets, a day after Tokyo shares suffered their worst loss since the 2011 tsunami disaster.

Bank of Japan Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda acknowledged Friday the need for careful handling of aggressive monetary policies aimed at breaking the world's third-largest economy free of deflation, or falling prices, that has hobbled growth by slowing investment and consumer spending.

"We are undertaking very flexible market operations and interest rate volatility should be curbed as much as possible," Kuroda told a regional conference in Tokyo, a day after 10-year government bond yields breached 1 percent for the first time in a year. By Friday afternoon they were at about 0.83 percent, near their recent trading level.

"Communication and dialogue with the markets should be strengthened," Kuroda said. "The markets should be stabilized through various channels as we work on the wider economy to establish a favorable growth cycle, and prices should rise gradually."

Kuroda, Abe and other officials said they will stick to the "Abenomics" program of extreme monetary stimulus, government spending and reforms aimed at reviving growth after two decades of stagnation.

The central bank is buying some 70 percent of all new Japanese government bonds as it pumps money into the economy, aiming to double the volume of cash in circulation and bank reserves and push prices higher. Kuroda launched the program in early April, saying he expected it would help keep long-term bond yields low. But as investors have shifted their portfolios out of bonds and into the booming share market, yields have actually risen, adding to worries over the eventual costs Japan will face in managing its huge public debt.

On Thursday, dismal manufacturing data from China coupled with the concerns about Abenomics triggered a sell-off in Tokyo, where the Nikkei 225 fell 7.3 percent, as investors cashed in on recent gains. Shares gyrated Friday, first rising, then falling and then rebounding to close 0.9 percent higher, at 14,612.45.

Abe told a parliamentary session Friday that the government was keeping a close eye on the markets. But he said Japan would "firmly proceed with measures to ensure sustainable government finances and secure market confidence."

The aim is to bring about long-term improvements, said Finance Minister Taro Aso.

"Japan's credibility will increase if it can end prolonged deflation" through Abe's policies, he told reporters.

Associated Press

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Global Market Sell-Off - Business Insider

Markets around the world are deep in the red.

England's FTSE is down 2.1%.

France's CAC 40 is down 2.5%.

Germany's DAX is down 2.7%.

Spain's IBEX is down 1.9%.

Italy's FTSE MIB is down 2.8%.

In the U.S., the S&P 500 is down 0.8%.

This follows sell-offs across Asia. Japan's Nikkei fell by a stunning 7.3%.

On Wednesday, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke told the Joint Economic Committee of Congress that the Fed could start tapering its quantitative easing (QE) program during one of its next few FOMC meetings depending on economic data. QE is one of the Fed's economic stimulus programs, which is intended to lower interest rates through bond purchases.

Over in China, the Flash Manufacturing PMI unexpectedly plunged to 49.6 from 50.4 a month ago.? A reading below 50 represents contraction, and this is the first sub-50 reading in seven months.

Eurozone, German, and French Flash PMI numbers all showed improvement in May, however, all of the numbers continued to be under 50.

Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/global-market-sell-off-2013-5

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Florida Elder Care & Senior Health: Housing for Seniors - What are ...

When it comes to selecting the best place for seniors as they age, there are a variety of options. Some are small individual homes that meet the needs of five or six people. Others are large complexes that provide individual apartments or apartment homes. Many communities are independent living facilitates, providing only the basic services such as someone checking on you if they do not see you during the day at all. Others, called assisted living facilities, offer more extensive services, allowing individuals to remain in their home environment and still receive the care they need. A nursing home or skilled nursing facility is the very last resort.

This is a world-wide concern for many seniors. One senior community in the UK, offers apartment homes that can be purchased or rented. There are many similar in the U.S. However, many times families must deal with this on their own. Elderly family members often live with their children. This can be difficult, but it can also be rewarding when the circumstances are conducive to allowing family members a degree of privacy and when not all of the caregiving is on one individual family member.

Finances, family relationship dynamics, and necessity will most likely play a big part in the decisions made.

This post is sponsored by ExtraCare Charitable Trust

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Suspect killed by the FBI was an MMA fighter

Early Wednesday morning, an FBI agent shot and killed someone they were questioning for his connections with the Boston Marathon bombers. Ibragim Todashev, the suspect, was an MMA fighter with a 1-0 professional record.

Todashev, who was reportedly a friend of deceased bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev, fought in July of 2012. He submitted Bradford May with a guillotine in the first round of their bout at Real Fighting Championships in Florida.

Khusen Taramov, a friend of Todashev's, said that Tsarnaev and Todashev trained together in Boston. Tsarnaev trained and competed as a boxer.

"He used to talk on the phone with him (Tsarnaev)," said Taramov. "They talked last time a month ago. After the bombing, I couldn't believe it."

Todashev was reportedly being questioned about a triple-murder in Massachusetts in September of 2011. The FBI said in a statement Todashev posed an imminent threat to the agent.

Source: http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mma-cagewriter/suspect-killed-fbi-mma-fighter-194231412.html

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Cedar Bluff's Henderson gets second chance to play football, signs with Shorter

by Shannon Fagan, Sports Editor Rn T.Com

Sitting from left is Gary Moore (uncle), Robert Henderson and Dale Reese (mother). Standing from left is Cedar Bluff principal Bobby Mintz, Cedar Bluff assistant football coach Todd Dean, Cedar Bluff head football coach Jonathan McWhorter and Cedar Bluff assistant coach Matt Watson.

slideshow CEDAR BLUFF - September 7, 2012 is a day Cedar Bluff senior running back Robert "Bam" Henderson won't soon forget.

Just a play into the Tigers' second football game of the season at Valley Head, Henderson pulled up lame. He thought he'd rolled his ankle or had a cramp, but the diagnosis on the sideline was much worse.

"The trainer was like, 'You're probably done.' I was like 'What do you mean?' She said, 'You're probably not going to play football again. You tore your ACL,'" Henderson recalled. "I looked at her and dropped my head. I started crying because I had put in so much work over the past few years in football, the sport that I love."

May 21, 2013 is also a day Henderson won't soon forget, either.

That's the day all the rehab and conditioning he's gone through the past few months proved to him it was worth it. He's been given a second chance to play the sport he loves.

Henderson signed a football scholarship with Shorter University in Rome on Tuesday. He said he never thought signing a football scholarship would be possible following his injury, but he's thankful Shorter sees something in him to take a chance.

Henderson plans to make the most of that opportunity.

"Today, I have a different feeling. I'm filled with joy and happiness," Henderson said. "I'm ready to move on. I'm ready to open a new chapter in my life, close this one and start fresh. I'm ready for it."

Henderson thanked Tiger football coach Jonathan McWhorter for helping him get through his difficult time. He said McWhorter gave him the push he needed to keep battling back to form.

"After I got hurt, I pretty much gave up on it," Henderson said. "I was focusing on going into the military, but Coach McWhorter always stayed in my corner. He stayed after me every day. He said 'Hey Bam, you still want to play football?' I'd look at him like he was crazy. I was like 'Coach, don't anybody want a running back with a blown out knee.' Through it all, he still stayed in my corner and helped me get recruited."

McWhorter said he's proud of how Henderson has worked his way back into playing shape.

"It?s pretty remarkable," McWhorter said. "He?s pretty much back at full speed now. He?s running, cutting, back in the weight room, trying to get back to where he was. He just needed an opportunity, and now he?s gotten it. Now it?s up to him.

"This is definitely not an ending. It?s a beginning. It?s an open door. I'm just so proud of him."

Henderson said the call he got from Shorter was unexpected. He was coming home from track practice one day and saw a number he didn't recognize. It was from Shorter recruiter and assistant coach Shawn Turner.

"He was like 'Bam, we're interested in you coming up here and playing a little ball. You want to come up for a visit?' It was just one of those things that popped out of the blue. I was just so happy," Henderson said.

Henderson went on his visit, met the Hawks coaching staff, and the rest is history.

"From a 1A school with no film your senior year, it?s tough to get opportunities," McWhorter said. "Shorter kind of rolled around and said they were interested. He went for a visit, and it kind of went from there. He was definitely excited when he found out they were at least interested. After the visit, he got to sit down with their head coach, offensive coordinator and some other people, and he couldn?t quit smiling when he got back that next day."

Henderson said the Hawks more than likely plan on playing him at the wingback position when he arrives at camp this summer.

"It's going to be odd at first running the option because I'm not used to that kind of offense, but that's part of the game," Henderson said. "You've got to transform and become better. Day by day, I've just got to push myself to get better, and that's what I'm going to do."

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