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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. – Mohamed Sanu was Mr. Everything for Rutgers, and the Scarlet Knights' string of postseason success continues.
The multi-threat receiver ran for two touchdowns out of the wildcat formation and also scored on an 11-yard reception from Tom Savage, another true freshman who threw for a career-best 294 yards in Saturday night's 45-24 victory over Central Florida in the St. Petersburg Bowl.
Rutgers (9-4) claimed a school-record fourth consecutive bowl win to finish with at least nine victories for just the sixth time in 140 years. UCF (8-5) fell to 0-3 in bowl games under coach George O'Leary.
"That's four straight bowl wins, five straight bowls," said coach Greg Schiano, who has rebuilt Rutgers from the ground up over the past nine seasons. "You need to be consistent before you can be great. We're going to be great someday — someday soon."
Billy Anderson scored on a 19-yard interception return for Rutgers, which shut down 1,000-yard rusher Brynn Harvey, limiting the running back to 32 yards on 13 carries to end his streak of three consecutive games with at least 129.
"It was real frustrating. We wanted to open the running game up and things just didn't go our way. Just couldn't get it done," Harvey said.
"They close to the ball very fast. We just couldn't sustain blocks and we couldn't protect our quarterback. It was just hard for us."
The first Rutgers player since 1993 to run for a TD, throw for a TD and catch a pass for a TD in the same season, Sanu rushed for 41 yards on 13 carries and had four receptions for 97 yards.
He also set up UCF's first touchdown, fumbling a punt that was recovered inside the Rutgers 10. Three plays later, Brett Hodges threw a 7-yard touchdown pass to Kamar Aiken for a brief 7-7 tie.
"As the season progressed, we did more and more with the wildcat because we felt like he earned the touches," Schiano said of Sanu, the Scarlet Knights' second-leading receiver and rusher.
"We needed to get the ball in his hands, and that's one way we could guarantee doing that. I think he did a great job."
Tim Brown, whose status had been uncertain because of an ankle injury, put the Scarlet Knights ahead for good when he caught a pass over the middle and turned it into a 65-yard TD play.
"We stepped it up. We just kept pounding the ball and just kept making plays — the plays we needed to make," Sanu said. "We did our assignment, did our job and got the job done."
UCF won five of six after a 3-3 start to earn its third bowl bid in six years under O'Leary — a 106-mile ride from Orlando that's the shortest trip any Football Bowl Subdivision team will make for a postseason game this year.
Rutgers beat South Florida in mid-November to climb into the Top 25 for the first time this season, but the Scarlet Knights wound up in St. Petersburg for a pre-Christmas matchup after losing two of three down the stretch to Syracuse and West Virginia.
Sanu scored on runs of 5 and 1 yards in the first half. His first reception, a 61-yard gain to the UCF 12 on a pass that was slightly underthrown, set up his 11-yard TD catch that made it 35-17 early in the third quarter.
Savage completed 14 of 27 passes and was intercepted once. Hodges was 13 of 28 for 175 yards and two interceptions for UCF before being hurting his shoulder and being replaced by Rob Calabrese late in the fourth quarter.
Central Florida had 5 yards net rushing before Calabrese scrambled for 30 for the big gainer in a 10-play, 75-yard march that Jonathan Davis finished with a 2-yard TD run.

Hoping for a chance to pull closer than 38-24, UCF tried an onside kick that Rutgers' Damaso Munoz returned 35 yards for the Scarlet Knights' final touchdown with 2:18 remaining.

The linebacker did a somersault into the end zone, drawing a penalty but also putting an exclamation point on the victory and setting off a celebration among Rutgers fans in the announced crowd of 29,673.

With the game being played so close to Orlando, more than half the tickets were sold by UCF.

"As I told the players, I was embarrased for the team that we didn't go out and do a better job as far as for the fan base," O'Leary said.

"Our offense never really got on track the whole day. ... Rutgers defense was much better than our offense. I thought that was the difference, really, in the game."

BAGHDAD – Officials say Iraqi oil workers are back at a disputed oil well in southern Iraq that was seized by Iranian forces earlier this week.
Two Iraqi government officials and a worker at the site say Iraqi army troops escorted the workers Sunday morning to well No. 4, about 50 meters from the Iranian border.
A senior Oil Ministry official in Baghdad also confirmed that Iranian troops left the well.
All four spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the issue publicly.
About 11 Iraqi oil employees returned to the well. Troops raised the Iraqi flag on the oil well where the Iranian flag had flown earlier.

ABOARD A U.S. MILITARY AIRCRAFT – The top U.S. military officer said Sunday he does not assume Iran's brief seizure of an Iraqi oil well is part of an orchestrated plan in Tehran.
Adm. Mike Mullen also said he's worried about "the clock now running" on the Obama administration's efforts at trying to keep the lines of communication open with Iran.
The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said "signals are very clearly in the air" about more international penalties against Iran over its nuclear program. The U.S. and others worry that Iran's program is intended to make a nuclear weapon. Iran says its work is peaceful and designed to generate electricity.
Mullen spoke while flying from Germany back to the U.S. The oil well incident adds to his worry about Iran's intentions toward neighboring Iraq and the rest of the world, he said.
Mullen supports the offer of outreach from President Barack Obama, and has said any military strike on Iran, whether by Israel or the United States, should be a last resort.

NEW ORLEANS – A perfect record would have been lagniappe, as they say in Louisiana — a little something extra.
The history-making achievement the Saints and their fans really covet is a first Super Bowl appearance, which is all that's left to accomplish now that Tony Romo and Dallas ended their December doldrums at New Orleans' expense.
Drew Brees and the Saints are marching toward an unbeaten season no more after their frenzied rally fell short in a 24-17 loss to the Cowboys on Saturday night.
"This is going to sting for a while but we've got to be able to put this behind us," Brees said, noting that the Saints remain in control to finish the No. 1 playoff seeding in the NFC. "It's all about the next game."
Romo threw for 312 yards, including a 49-yard touchdown to Miles Austin, and DeMarcus Ware punctuated his comeback from a neck injury with a game-sealing strip of Brees.
The loss by the Saints (13-1) left the Indianapolis Colts (14-0) as the NFL's only unbeaten team this season.
"We'll digest this," Saints coach Sean Payton said. "Nonetheless, it is what it is and we've got to get back to work next week. We have two important games in front of us and we'll take that approach."
The Saints' start had New Orleans hoping its team could go 19-0 and win the Super Bowl after so many years of losing and heartbreak. It was seen by some as a symbol of New Orleans' ability to come back better than before from the epic disaster that was Hurricane Katrina a little more than four years ago.
Brees had sensed all of that, and made no secret that he wanted the Saints to go for it.
"We feel like we deserved it and the whole city deserved it and we wanted to make it happen," Brees said. "That's probably the most disappointing thing about it."
Instead, the Cowboys (9-5) overcame failures of a more recent nature, ending a two-game skid and proving they were good enough to beat the top team in the NFC in front of a charged-up, hostile crowd. They came to New Orleans 3-8 in December games in their last three seasons under coach Wade Phillips, who was finding himself increasingly on the defensive about his club's ability to play well down the stretch.
Dallas dominated early, scoring on its first two possessions to take a 14-0 lead and went up 24-3 on Marion Barber's second short TD run of the game in the third quarter. Then the Cowboys held on despite Nick Folk's surprising missed 24-yard field goal shortly before the 2-minute warning.
"I said all along this team has a lot of heart, a lot of character and a lot of leaders," Phillips said. "I didn't think this team could get beat three times in a row."
The high-powered Saints nearly pulled off what would have been the latest of several improbable comebacks.
Mike Bell's 1-yard run made it 24-10 with 12:35 to go. Brees followed that by capping a seven-play, 70-yard drive with a 7-yard touchdown pass to Lance Moore with 8 minutes left, cutting New Orleans' deficit to 24-17.
That left it up to the Saints' defense to hold once more. Dallas faced a third-and-7 on its own 23 and the crowd was going so wild Romo had to call timeout a moment before the play clock expired.
The noise was still deafening when Romo returned to the line of scrimmage, but that didn't stop him from finding Austin on a short crossing route for a 32-yard gain.
"We did what we knew we had to do on that drive," Romo said. "We all know how good their offense is so we had to move the ball on them."

On the next play, Romo spun away from the rush and hit tight end John Phillips for a 23-yard gain to New Orleans' 22. From there, Dallas went conservative and set up what looked to be a game-sealing field goal from nearly the same distance as Shaun Suisham's miss two weeks ago, which allowed the Saints to come back and beat Washington in overtime.

When Folk's kick bounced off the upright, the crowd erupted, sensing the Saints were simply destined not to lose. And it looked that way after Brees converted a frantic fourth down on a pass over the middle to Marques Colston, who made a one-handed catch.

The Saints marched to midfield in the final minute, but the Cowboys held firm. Ware stripped Brees for the second time in the game and lineman Jay Ratliff recovered, silencing the packed Superdome while the Cowboys leapt in the air and embraced one another.

"That was a fun one," Romo said. "These are the ones you love to play."

Ware had to be taken to the hospital only a week earlier after what looked like a serious neck injury in Dallas' loss to San Diego. He didn't practice fully all week, but said he was feeling better and was cleared to play. He certainly looked rested and healed.

He sacked Brees twice, forcing fumbles that the Saints' lost both times. The first one set up a field goal that gave Dallas a 17-3 lead at halftime. Linebacker Anthony Spencer also had two sacks.

Very little went right for Brees, who was intercepted once, sacked four times and pressured all night. Even what looked like a certain 36-yard touchdown pass in the third quarter slipped through Devery Henderson's hands in the end zone. Brees was sacked by Spencer soon after and that drive ended with a punt.

NOTES: The Cowboys outgained the Saints, 439 yards to 336, holding the Saints 90 yards and nearly 19 points below their averages in those categories. The Saints, who came in converting nearly 48 percent of third downs this season, converted only one of seven. ... Miles caught seven passes for 139 yards, going over 1,000 yards for the first time in his four-year career. ... Reggie Bush pulled up lame in the second quarter, favoring his right leg, and did not return. The Saints did not provide an update on his condition.

This week, the Obama administration took its first step toward making high-speed Internet service available to everyone in America. It announced millions of dollars in grants and loans for broadband service in underserved communities across the country. But it didn’t act alone and that’s an important point. States kicked in. So did the private sector. 
The Internet is as fundamental to US economic growth and productivity in this century as the telephone, electric power, and the National Highway System were in the last. The Web is both the dial tone and transport system of the modern age – connecting people and ideas and opening a path to markets and services around the world.
Until this year, though, the federal government has been largely absent from the delivery of fast Internet service. That’s been the work of the private sector – the cable, satellite, and telecom companies. They’ve done a good job. Some studies show that nearly 90 percent of US households now have access to broadband. 
But the private sector can’t do it all. Companies only go where there’s profit, which means that many poor neighborhoods, and rural and tribal areas don’t have access to a high-speed Internet connection. Once a leader in the Internet, the US ranks 15th in broadband market penetration. And compared with a country such as Japan, the average Internet speed in the US is a tenth as fast. 
It’s time for the federal government to get involved, and this year, it did. Congress provided $7.2 billion of Recovery Act money to help reach the goal of universal, affordable broadband access. Wisely, it also required matching funds from states to augment this assistance.
This week, Vice President Biden announced the first recipients of the stimulus funds: $183 million to poor and underserved areas in 17 states, from Appalachian Georgia and rural Maine to native American areas in southwest Alaska. Other public funds and the private sector are contributing $46 million. 
Congress has also required the Federal Communications Commission to come up with a National Broadband Plan, due in February. From a preliminary report released this week, the FCC looks to be on the right path. It says competition should be a “guiding principle” of any plan, because competition drives innovation and provides consumer choice. It also recognizes limited government funding and says federal help will have to be “leveraged with private sector investment.”
That seems to be the reality of the 21st century. The federal government simply doesn’t have the money to expand the Internet in the way it built Interstate highways or electrified rural areas. And government can’t always know which Internet technology to support. But there’s also no denying that universal, high-speed Internet service is as essential to American competitiveness as universal phone service has been. 
Broadband for all will have to be a public-private partnership for now.  

LONDON (AFP) –
FTSE 100 shares fell in late morning trading on Wednesday, extending heavy losses from the previous day amid anxiety about government debt in Dubai and Greece and ahead of a key budget statement in London.

In late morning deals, the FTSE 100 index lost 0.17 percent to stand at 5,214.60 points.

Across in the Middle East, Dubai share prices were battered again in early Wednesday trading, falling 6.54 percent as the Financial Times reported the Gulf emirate was struggling to halt the spread of an alarming debt crisis.

Meanwhile, London investors will focus later Wednesday on the government's latest plans for taxation and spending.

The Labour administration will announce a budget statement which it hopes will help fix public finances and revive its fortunes ahead of an election expected next year, amid reports it will slap a "supertax" on bankers' bonuses.

Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling will unveil his pre-budget report at 1230 GMT, against the backdrop of Britain's worst recession on record.

"Darling?s main challenge is to rein in the budget whilst at the same time trying not to hurt the economy," Rabobank analysts added.

Ratings agency Moody's had warned Tuesday that Britain and the United States needed to take action on public debt to protect their cherished AAA ratings.

RALEIGH, N.C. – Clay Aiken received a lot of votes as an "American Idol" contestant and eventual runner-up. Now, it's his lone vote that's drawing attention in North Carolina.
The Wake County Board of Elections scheduled a meeting Wednesday to examine a complaint questioning Aiken's voter registration in the county. It's unclear if he'll attend.
Wake Republican Party Chairman Claude Pope filed the complaint last month, after Aiken called candidates for the county school board "selfish idiots." Records show Aiken voted this fall in his hometown of Raleigh. He now has a house in nearby Chatham County.
Pope said he wants Aiken's registration canceled if he no longer lives in the county.
Board director Cherie (sherry) Poucher said the board will decide if there's enough evidence for a full-blown investigation.

MINSK, Belarus – Men appearing to be law enforcement officers have abducted four Belarusian opposition activists in an attempt to scare them away from political activity in the repressive former Soviet republic, a human rights organization said Tuesday.
The activists were held for several hours before being released in the woods dozens of miles (kilometers) from the capital, Minsk.
Dmitry Dashkevich, leader of the Youth Front, said five men seized him from his Minsk apartment on Sunday. They put a bag on his head, pushed him into a minibus and after a five-hour drive threatened to kill him, he said.
"It was a real imitation execution," he said. "In the woods they told me they had already dug my grave and would bury me there."
Dashkevich said his abductors were in plainclothes but carried police radios, leaving him with little doubt that they were from the special services.
After returning to Minsk, Dashkevich said he reported his abduction to the police, who responded by searching his apartment and confiscating opposition literature.
Yauhen Afnahel, an activist with the European Belarus Movement, was abducted Monday. Two other opposition activists were abducted in late November. In all four cases, the scenario was the same, according to Dashkevich.
The respected human rights center Vyasna issued a statement Tuesday condemning the abductions, which it described as a form of political persecution.
"We are certain that Belarusian law enforcement agencies took part in the abductions of the activists of the youth organizations," Vyasna activist Vladimir Lobkovich said.
The Interior Ministry said it had no information about such abductions.
European Parliament President Jerzy Buzek issued a statement Tuesday condemning the abductions in Belarus, which he said would harm its efforts to improve relations with Europe.
"I appeal to the authorities to create circumstances which would eliminate such incidents from happening ever again," Buzek's statement said.

LONDON – Iran is holding five British sailors after stopping their racing yacht in the Persian Gulf, the British government said Monday. The move could heighten tensions between Iran and major world powers, including Britain, that are demanding a halt to its nuclear program.
Oil prices spiked 2 percent to $77.45 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange as the news broke before settling slightly at $77.28.
The yacht owned by Sail Bahrain was stopped on its way from the tiny island country to the Gulf city of Dubai on Wednesday when it "may have strayed inadvertently into Iranian waters," Britain's Foreign Office said. Sail Bahrain's Web site identified the yacht as the "Kingdom of Bahrain" and said it had been due to join the 360-mile (580-kilometer) Dubai-Muscat Offshore Sailing Race, which was to begin Nov. 26.
The event was to be the boat's first offshore race, the Web site said, adding that the vessel had been fitted with a satellite tracker.
Attempts to reach representatives of the raceboat's owner were not immediately successful.
It is not clear what route the boat took from Bahrain, which is just off the coast of Saudi Arabia, and Dubai, on the southeastern tip of the Arabian Peninsula. Richard Schofield, an expert on international boundaries in the Middle East at King's College in London, said it was difficult to understand how its crew could have ended up in trouble with Iranian authorities.
"It's hard to see why, on a regular journey from Bahrain to Dubai, they would have gone through Iranian territorial waters," he said.
British Foreign Secretary David Miliband said that British officials had been in touch about the matter with their Iranian counterparts for nearly a week. It was not immediately clear why British officials had decided to publicize the case now.
"I hope this issue will soon be resolved," Miliband said in the brief statement.
The statement added that the crew members — identified by British media as Oliver Smith, Sam Usher, Luke Porter, Oliver Young, and David Bloomer — were still in Iran but were "understood to be safe." The statement did not go into further detail and a Foreign Office spokeswoman said she was not in a position to elaborate.
She spoke anonymously in line with department policy. A spokesman for Britain's military also declined comment.
An Iranian Foreign Ministry official said he was not aware of reports a British yacht had been stopped. He spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to the press.
Iran's elite Revolutionary Guard has the responsibility for protecting Iranian waters in the Persian Gulf. Officials from the Guard and from the regular navy could not be reached for comment on Monday.
Iran is holding three young Americans who strayed across the border from northern Iraq in July. The U.S. has appealed for their release, saying they were innocent hikers who accidentally crossed into Iran. Tehran has accused them of spying, a sign that they could be put on trial.
Fifteen British military personnel were detained in the Gulf by Iran under disputed circumstances in March 2007. Iran charged them with trespassing in its waters, and the Iranian government televised apologies by some of the captured crew.
All were eventually freed without an apology from Britain, which steadfastly insisted the crew members were taken in Iraqi waters, where they were authorized to be.
Schofield, of King's College, said that Iran had a pattern of taking such action when it was feeling "a little defensive."
"There's pressure being felt," he said. "It has happened before." But he added that, as this case involved civilians, it was less likely to be prey to international tensions.

The phone rang unanswered at the Iranian Embassy in London.

Iran's nuclear chief on Monday said U.N. criticism of its nuclear program had pushed his country to retaliate by announcing ambitious plans for more uranium enrichment. With tensions rising over deadlocked negotiations, France said diplomacy was not working and sanctions against Iran were needed.

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Associated Press writers Sylvia Hui in London and Ali Akbar Dareini in Tehran contributed to this report.

WASHINGTON – The couple who crashed the Obama administration's first state dinner communicated with a senior Pentagon official about going to the event, but the official denies that she helped the couple get in.
Michele Jones, a special assistant to Defense Secretary Robert Gates, said in a written statement issued through the White House on Monday evening that she never said or implied she would get Michaele and Tareq Salahi into the Nov. 24 White House dinner.
"I specifically stated that they did not have tickets and in fact that I did not have the authority to authorize attendance, admittance or access to any part of the evening's activities," Jones said. "Even though I informed them of this, they still decided to come."
This is the latest twist in the unfolding mystery of how the two reality show wannabes managed to get into the highly secured event and shake hands with President Barack Obama. Also on Monday, a House committee chairman asked the couple, Secret Service Director Mark Sullivan and White House Social Secretary Desiree Rogers to testify at a hearing Thursday on the incident.
In a similar incident a month before, the Salahis sneaked in through a back entrance to a Congressional Black Caucus Foundation Awards dinner at which Obama spoke. A guest complained that the couple didn't belong at his table.
"I double-checked my (guest) list and when they weren't on that list we escorted them out," a foundation representative, Lance Jones, said in an interview early Tuesday.
WTTG-TV, which first reported the incident at the Black Caucus dinner, said that when the Salahis showed up at the dinner they were followed by TV cameras from Bravo, which airs the "Real Housewives" reality programs, and were turned away at the door.
"They apparently made their way through the kitchen and got in that way," Jones said, who added that he realized the incident involved the Salahis after he was contacted Monday by a WTTG reporter.
Most the attendees at the event did not have access to Obama, he said.
A Secret Service spokesman, Darrin Blackford, said early Tuesday he knew nothing of the incident.
The White House issued Michele Jones' statement after questions were raised about communications between the administration and the couple prior to the state dinner. The White House did not provide details about Jones' relationship with the couple. Jones spoke at the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver on Obama's behalf, and is currently a Pentagon-based liaison with the White House.
A friend of the couple, McLean, Va., real estate agent Casey Margenau, said in an interview with The Associated Press that the couple interpreted an e-mail exchange as permission to attend the exclusive White House event. Margenau said he did not personally see the e-mails and did not know with whom the couple was corresponding.
Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, said he wants answers about the Secret Service's security deficiencies that allowed the Salahis to attend the White House dinner. A White House photo showed the Salahis in the receiving line in the Blue Room with Obama and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, in whose honor the dinner was held. Obama and Michaele Salahi are smiling as she grasps his right hand with both of hers and her husband looks on. Singh is to Obama's left.
"This is a time for answers," Thompson said in a statement Monday. "This is not the time for political games or scapegoating to distract our attention from the careful oversight we must apply to the Secret Service and its mission."
Some lawmakers have called for criminal charges to be brought against the couple, but the Secret Service has not yet decided whether to refer the case for criminal prosecution.
The Secret Service declined to comment on whether Sullivan would testify Thursday.
On Friday, Sullivan issued a statement saying that his agency is "deeply concerned and embarrassed" by the circumstances surrounding the White House dinner.
Secret Service spokesman Ed Donovan said the couple was not on the approved list for the party, but they were allowed in. "This should not have occurred," he said.

"The preliminary findings of our internal investigation have determined established protocols were not followed at an initial checkpoint, verifying that two individuals were on the guest list," Sullivan said Friday. "Although these individuals went through magnetometers and other levels of screening, they should have been prohibited from entering the event entirely. That failing is ours."

White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said Monday the president shares the Secret Service director's concern about the incident.

"That's why there's an investigation," Gibbs said.

Gibbs said the president was not concerned about his safety and continues to have faith in the Secret Service.

The ranking Republican on the House Homeland Security committee, Rep. Peter King of New York, also said there needs to be an investigation into what happened. King said he wants to be sure the hearing does not give away Secret Service operations or methods that could tip someone off how to get into the White House. King said he's been to at least 40 invitation-only events at the White House — including two state dinners — and security has always been tight and thorough.

The Salahis have boasted about going to the state dinner on their Facebook page: "Honored to be at the White House for the state dinner in honor of India with President Obama and our First Lady!" they wrote.

Michaele Salahi is a reality TV hopeful trying to get on Bravo's "The Real Housewives of D.C."

The couple's publicist, Mahogany Jones, could not immediately be reached for comment about whether the Salahis would testify Thursday. But earlier Monday, Mahogany Jones said allegations that the Salahis are shopping interviews and demanding money from television networks to tell their story are false.

NBC said Monday that the Salahis will be interviewed Tuesday by "Today" host Matt Lauer. The interview is scheduled to air in the 7 a.m. half-hour segment.

An appearance previously scheduled for Monday night on CNN's "Larry King Live" has been canceled.

A TV executive who spoke on condition of anonymity to publicly discuss bookings had told The Associated Press that the couple's representatives had urged networks to "get their bids in" for an interview.

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Associated Press writers Julie Pace and Lolita C. Baldor contributed to this report.

A chiptune, or chip music, is music written in sound formats where all the sounds are synthesized in realtime by a computer or video game console sound chip, instead of using sample-based synthesis. The "golden age" of chiptunes was the mid 1980s to early 1990s, when such sound chips were the most common method for creating music on computers. Chiptunes are closely related to video game music, which often featured chiptunes out of necessity. The term has also been recently applied to more recent compositions that attempt to recreate the chiptune sound for purely aesthetic reasons, albeit with more complex technology.

The chiptune scene was recently the subject of a documentary called Blip Festival: Reformat the Planet by 2 Player Productions. This film was an official selection at the 2008 South By Southwest Film Festival in Austin, Texas. The Premier took place on March 8 2008 at the Dobie Theater.

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The heart is a muscular organ in all vertebrates responsible for pumping blood through the blood vessels by repeated, rhythmic contractions, or a similar structure in annelids, mollusks, and arthropods. The term cardiac (as in cardiology) means "related to the heart" and comes from the Greek καρδιά, kardia, for "heart."

The mammalian heart is derived from embryonic mesoderm germ-layer cells that differentiate after gastrulation into mesothelium, endothelium, and myocardium. Mesothelial pericardium forms the inner lining of the heart. The outer lining of the heart, lymphatic and blood vessels develop from endothelium. Myocardium develops into heart muscle.

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