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Cardiac arrhythmias are disturbances in the normal rhythm of the heartbeat. Arrhythmias may be a sign of heart disease and can lead to other cardiac symptoms. Because arrhythmias can be life threatening, it is critical to have your heart evaluated by an expert cardiologist. Cardiologists who diagnose and treat patients for cardiac arrhythmias are known as electrophysiologists. Learn more about electrophysiologists.
- Changes in the rate, rhythm or pattern of the pulse
- Chest pain
- Fainting
- Fast or slow heart beat (palpitations)
- Light-headedness, dizziness
- Paleness
- Shortness of breath
- Skipping beats
- Sweating
Risk Factors
- Blood chemistry imbalances
- Caffeine
- Illicit drug use
- Endocrine abnormalities
- Inappropriate use of amphetamines or other stimulants
- Prior heart attack
- Use of certain prescription medications
Fast Heart Rhythms
A typical heart beats 60 to 100 times a minute. Faster than this is a fast heart rhythm, known as supraventricular tachycardia (SVT). This rapid beat can cause the body to receive an inadequate blood supply.
SVT Types
- Atrial fibrillation keeps the heart from pumping blood efficiently, causing blood to pool inside the heart. Eventually this blood forms clots, setting up a dangerous situation where stroke, pulmonary embolism, or heart attacks can occur.
- Paroxysmal Supraventricular Tachycardia (PSVT) is an abnormal heart rate that occurs sometimes. This form of SVT is caused by too many electrical signals in the heart at once. This causes overload, and the heart begins to beat too quickly.
- Atrial Flutter occurs when the top two chambers of the heart beat too quickly and the lower two chambers-the ventricles-beat too slowly. This condition most often occurs in the elderly and is dangerous because it can cause a stroke.
- Atrial Tachycardia is caused by too many electrical signals in the heart, specifically the atria; the two upper chambers of the heart. These signals cause the heart to beat too quickly, causing palpitations, breathlessness and possible anxiety.
Slow Heart Rhythms
Each day, a normal heart contracts 60 to 100 times a minute. Abnormally slow heart rates are typically those fewer than 60 beats a minute. These slow heart rhythms, referred to as bradycardias, can be life threatening.
Bradycardia is usually treated with an implantable cardiac device known as a pacemaker. Learn more about bradycardia.
Palpitations are usually felt as an unusual pattern to a person's heartbeat, like skips or jumps. This sensation is usually uncomfortable for people and can sometimes signal that there is a heart problem. It is critical to be examined by a cardiologist with experience in evaluating and treating palpitations. Learn more about palpitations.
Syncope is caused by a temporary loss of consciousness, known commonly as fainting. It is caused by low blood pressure—the heart cannot effectively pump enough blood to the brain, affecting the oxygen supply and causing the person to pass out.
While syncope alone is not life threatening, it may sometimes be a symptom of a more serious condition and should be evaluated as soon as possible. Learn more about syncope.
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Progressive Insurance is expanding its optimized mobile quote and buy experience to a new group of vehicles. Owners of motorcycles, boats, RVs and powersports vehicles can now shop for insurance with all the speed and ease of the Progressive.com website on their smartphones.
"We know that people who ride, boat and camp like to stay on the move," said Pat Callahan, recreational products general manager at Progressive. "With the ability to quote and buy policies on their mobile smartphones, motorcyclists, outdoorsman and recreational vehicle enthusiasts can protect their vehicles and lifestyle whenever and wherever they choose."
Consumers can access mobile quoting and purchasing via the Progressive website on their mobile phone, just like they can with auto insurance. The new service is available in all states that offer Progressive coverage.
"Our goal is to give people who own boats, RVs and motorcycles another option when they shop for insurance," said Matt Lehman, Progressive's mobile business leader. "In a world that becomes more integrated with mobile devices each day, we are rolling out an on-the-go insurance option to as many people as possible."
Progressive first rolled out mobile quoting for car insurance in November 2010, letting consumers get an instant quote using their smartphone. For more information about Progressive's mobile efforts, check out the mobile hub at http://www.progressive.com/resources/mobile-hub.aspx.
About Progressive
The Progressive Group of Insurance Cos. is America's No. 1 writer of motorcycle insurance and a leading provider of boat and recreational vehicle insurance. Its comprehensive and specialized policies offer flexible, year-round coverage so people who ride, boat and camp can get the most out of their recreational vehicles and have the peace of mind that they're protected. In addition to comprehensive offerings for liability and physical damage, Progressive offers specialty coverages which vary by state, including Accessory Coverage, Total Loss Replacement, Agreed Value Protection and Sign & Drive Roadside Assistance. Progressive makes it easy to understand, buy and use vehicle insurance by offering its products online at progressive.com, by phone at (800) PROGRESSIVE, or in-person with more than 35,000 independent agents.

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"Austin Friars continues to be the first choice school for parents considering independent day education in Cumbria and South West Scotland.
As an independent school we are free to innovate and are inspired to care. We focus on the individual young person; to nurture and develop his or her unique potential. We equip our pupils not just with knowledge, but with skills for life, and take pride in preparing them for life after Friars. We do this by ensuring our young men and women are: effective in working collaboratively in teams and equally adept at working independently; creative problem-solvers who are able to adapt and improvise; effective communicators who are engaged listeners prepared to express themselves assertively, and, inextricably linked to these skills, confident, modest and articulate members of society who embody the Augustinian Values of Unity, Truth and Love, enshrined in our provision.
The jewel in our crown is the cohesion of the wholly inclusive ideal of "family" that underpins all that we do. The relationships between pupils, between pupils and staff, parents and staff and amongst staff themselves are supportive, constructive and built on the firm foundations of respect and trust.
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Etsy Gets New CEO
Etsy has announced via their blog that CEO Maria Thomas, who was the keynote speaker at CHA-Winter 2009, is leaving the company. She will be replaced as CEO by company founder Rob Kalin, who was the company's CEO before Thomas took over in mid-2008 after serving as COO for several months. Before that, Thomas was at NPR.
The announcement of the change in executives took pains to stress that the company is now a profitable one. There was also mention of Etsy's plans to launch a German site in January.
Palin founded Etsy in 2005. He had adopted the title of CCO ("Chief Creative Officer") during Thomas's tenure as CEO and has been working on the company's charitable foundation as well.
Tim Holtz Teams With Sizzix
Perennial scrapping and stamping favorite Tim Holtz announced today via his blog that he will be designing a new product line for Sizzix called Tim Holtz Alterations. Holtz describes the line as "my own signature line of dies, texture/embossing folders, and yes, a new machine." The line will debut at CHA-Winter 2010, with peeks revealed in the coming days on Holtz's blog.
Scrapbook Update's first thoughts on the idea of a new Tim Holtz die cutting line: Die cutters are typically marketed with a very "cute" or graphic type of style. The Tim Holtz signature style is very vintage in design. This could help Sizzix (and retailers who sell their products) appeal to a new category of scrapbookers for die cut equipment with this product line.


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An update to tasty treat app Made is your first app worth downloading today. It lets you order baked goods and desserts from local food makers in your area and have them delivered to you. A big influx of games also has hit the App Store this week, so we've got two for your consideration: […]
An update to tasty treat app Made is your first app worth downloading today. It lets you order baked goods and desserts from local food makers in your area and have them delivered to you. A big influx of games also has hit the App Store this week, so we've got two for your consideration: the elegant puzzler Color Zen, which is about carefully clearing objects in the right order from each of its levels, and Defense Technica, a strategic tower defense game with some unique riffs on the genre.
Made update (Free)
What's it about? Bakery app Made lets you find delicious, hand-made treats and order them for delivery to your door.
What's cool? Made takes a local approach to helping its users find great baked goods. App users search through various kinds of treats and desserts, and allows you to find what you're looking for from a local maker and order it for delivery. The idea is that the app combines a handmade approach to food with the ability to order online. You can place orders, favorite items, and share what you get through social networks. The latest update to Made lets users search through local food makers and see their favorite items, rather than just browsing through the foods themselves.
Who's it for? If you're a Chrome user on the web, you should try the mobile app; it's also great for anyone looking for an alternative to Safari.
What's it like? Skyfire is also a solid browser alternative, as is Dolphin Browser.
Color Zen ($0.99)
What's it about? Puzzler Color Zen is all about carefully clearing colors in the correct order from the screen – a simple but challenging logical quandary.
What's cool? Each puzzle of Color Zen presents players with shapes of various colors, and a border around the edge of the screen that is made up of one of the colors represented in the shapes. The goal of each level is simple, once you understand how the game works: when you move two shapes of the same color together so they touch, they fill the screen with that color. Touch two other shapes together, and the new color wipes out the old one. The idea is to remove each set of shapes and colors until only the border color remains. There's really no way to lose and no score in Color Zen, but its elegant design and challenging puzzles keep things interesting along the way.
Who's it for? Puzzle game fans who like something mellow but challenging should check out Color Zen.
What's it like? Both Zen Bound 2 and Amazing Breaker are two solid, easygoing puzzlers.
Defense Technica ($0.99)
What's it about? Tower defense title Defense Technica brings great graphics and some interesting alterations to the genre.
What's cool? Like most other tower defense games, the goal in Defense Technica is to place various defenses along the path of a group of enemies that are working to reach a goal you have to defend. As you earn money for killing enemies, you can spend it on building more towers or upgrading the ones you have to make them more deadly. The cool thing about Defense Technica, though, is that it features a more nuanced strategy. Instead of a set path for enemies around which players have to build towers, you have the ability to rotate paths, giving you the ability to create different strategies in different areas for various enemy types. You can also combine "tower cards" to make new kinds of towers and change strategies.
Who's it for? Tower defense fans, you'll want to try Defense Technica's take on the genre.
What's it like? Kingdom Rush: Frontiers is another great tower defense game worth your attention.


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NEW YORK, N.Y. – Havoc is heading to the Big Apple this weekend and thanks to a great partnership with Lumber Liquidators and VCU's chapter of Theta Delta Chi, the VCU Athletic Department is giving 100 children from the Madison Square Boys & Girls Club an "Atlantic 10 Tournament Gameday Experience."
Through the partnerships, these children will receive tickets, food and much more to Saturday night's Atlantic 10 Conference semifinal session at the prestigious Barclays Center in Brooklyn, N.Y.
"Part of our quest for distinction is community engagement and that community is not limited to the Richmond area. We're such a diverse university and athletic department and we want to continue to engage the VCU brand across the country and world with opportunities like this one," Director of Athletics Ed McLaughlin said. "Through tremendous support from our corporate sponsors like Lumber Liquidators, we're able to continue supplying these unforgettable experiences for children all over the country."
Since 1884, Madison has been saving and enhancing the lives of youth by providing after-school and summer programs for children in New York City's most disadvantaged communities. Programs are engineered to empower each member to achieve three priority outcomes: Academic Success, Good Character and Citizenship, and the adoption of a Healthy Lifestyle. Every day, Madison provides thousands of children with a safe and positive environment, one where fun is encouraged and positive role models are plentiful. A founding member of Boys & Girls Clubs of America, Madison currently serves more than 5,000 youth, ages 6 to 18, at seven sites throughout Brooklyn and the Bronx as well as at Camp Madison in Kingston, New York. www.madisonsquare.org
"We are thrilled to be a part of this exciting weekend for the Virginia Commonwealth University Rams as they play in the Atlantic 10 Tournament. It is an experience of a lifetime for the 100 of our middle school youth who will be going to cheer the team on and will not soon be forgotten by any of our members," Executive Director of the Madison Square Boys & Girls Club Joseph Patuleia said. "Madison Square Boys & Girls Club has been a well-known presence in the New York City community for more than a century, so it is only fitting that our members help to welcome the Rams to the Big Apple!" –
Theta Delta Chi was founded in 1970 at VCU and prides itself as being the first fraternity on campus. In addition to its social persona, its charge has a strong philanthropic and community service tradition. With a mixture of pride, tradition, and history, Theta Delta Chi has been, and continues to be, a strong group of close friends dedicated to each other. Two of its members, Dan Oshinskie and Bill Schwartz, have been an integral part of making this event happen for the Boys & Girls Club.
"The brothers of Theta Delta Chi are proud to help sponsor this "win-win" event. Club kids get an afternoon of high-quality college basketball entertainment and an opportunity to witness some life-changing inspiration," Oshinskie said. "It also allows an alumni organization, the Athletic Department and the corporate community a chance to collaborate in giving back by doing good in the local community. In all, it's a great fit with Coach Smart's history of community service and his emphasis on the importance of education."


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The defining characteristic of most home Blu-ray players isn't usually their thickness, but perhaps if you live in a house with low ceilings you might fancy Samsung's new, unnamed Blu-ray device. Seems pretty deep, though, Samsung. Got anything narrower?
While announcing the device, Samsung also took the time to blow its trumpet about US Blu-ray player sales—claiming it is "commanding" the US market and took a 35% share of sales between January and November. [Samsung]


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Countless essential vitamins and oils are lost in today's commercially processed flours...all in the name of convenience. To ensure that today's store bought flour will last on shelves, all traces of the grains bran and germ must be removed. Why must they be removed? Because once the bran and germ are milled, they can only last up to 72 hours at room temperature before going rancid. Since the germ is packed with vitamins B and E, much is lost by it's removal. This removal process also results in a loss of up to 26 essential vitamins necessary for proper nutrition. Valuable roughage which our bodies need to absorb and remove unwanted toxins and poisons within our digestive system.
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"The Rise and Fall" is a really good 70′s Hard Rock album, equally good with any release from the same period. "Rock Star" is the opening track of the album and the band's first single. This song introduced the band to a bigger audience and helped them book venues throughout London…This Angel Air release contains four bonus live tracks form one of their performances in the "Marquee" – "The Riot", "Silver Box", "Thank You" and "Kerb Crawler".
John Stefanis, www.getreadytorock.com (February 2004)
…generally rocks and bops through eleven songs of such overwhelming period charm that you forget you're listening to music that's been buried in a box for 30 years. The Rise And Fall sounds like every great glam album you've been in love with all your life.
Jo-Ann Greene, Goldmine (February 2004)
…they come across as a Mott The Hoople without the keyboards. The melodies are good…Johnny has a vocal style which fits in well, and he is certainly sure of himself, and the result is a band that were probably a really good crack to go and see live.
Feedback (March 2004)
…one of the first glam rock bands of their time…A good sounding rock band who play a mixture of styles from other bands of the era…
Alistair Flynn, Classic Rock Society (March 2004)
…recorded back in 1975 and has been remastered to give you this great piece of rock history. This is well illustrated in the now legendary Angel Air cover booklets.
Benjy Mouse, Modern Dance (August 2004)
Bearded Lady could write a good tune, were all good musicians and had a good mix of self deprecation and hard attitude…Worth a listen…
The Chronicle, (May 2009)
There was clearly talent in the band and with better management, writing advice and production support they may well have been successful…The hilarious sleeve notes, especially Fred Sherriff's recollection of their first gig, in themselves are worth the price of the CD
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Book the Life in the UK Test
This is the only official government service for booking the Life in the UK Test. You need to take the test as part of your application for British citizenship or settlement in the UK.
You must book your Life in the UK Test online at least 3 days in advance. It costs £50.
There are over 30 test centres in the UK - choose one of the 5 closest to where you live.
If the centre is not close to where you live, you will not be allowed to sit the test and you will not get a refund. You must bring proof of your address to the test.
Prepare for the test
You'll be tested on information in the official handbook for the Life in the UK Test - you should study this book to prepare for the test.
You'll have 45 minutes to answer 24 questions about British traditions and customs.
Book the test
You need all of the following to book a test:
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Accepted forms of ID
You can use one of the following as ID to book the test:
- passport - it can be out of date
- UK photocard driving licence - full or provisional
- convention travel document (CTD), certificate of identity document (CID) or stateless person document (SPD)
- EU identity card
- immigration status document endorsed with a UK residence permit that has a photo - it can be out of date
- biometric residence permit
Check the 'Identification requirements' document to make sure the ID you have is acceptable.
Email email@example.com for help if you do not have any of these documents.
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- have a long-term physical or mental condition - you must provide either a form or letter from a doctor confirming your physical or mental condition
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Step 3 - Sort your books
The purpose of sorting is to send to Africa only those books that are truly useful for your African library. The remaining books should be donated, swapped or sold elsewhere. This will save you postage money and ensure that every book you send is well used.
You will want to sort by size in order to get ready for packing. In addition, if you have collected books for more than one library, you will need to sort by level to ensure that each library gets a range of reading levels. Sorting takes time, so sort regularly to avoid an intimidating mountain of books at the end of your book drive.
Overall Guidelines
Paperback books are less expensive to mail. Send hardcover books as your funds allow.
- A library of 1,000 mostly paperback books will cost at least $250 to mail to the shipper's warehouse, while 1,000 hardcover books can cost as much as $500.
- A library of more than 1,000 books will increase the mailing costs.
- You will also be asked to pay ALP $250 to cover the cost of shipping the books from the warehouse to your library in Africa.
Send only books in good condition. Most books that appeal to Americans will also appeal to Africans.
DO SEND books that fit your African partner's type of library:
- If you are donating to a PRESCHOOL (ECCD Center):
- Baby Board Books
- Children's picture books
- BIG books
- If you are donating to a PRIMARY SCHOOL:
- Baby board books
- Children's picture books
- Children's fiction and non-fiction
- Early readers
- BIG books
- Teacher's resource books for school libraries
- Children's dictionaries/picture dictionaries
- Encyclopedias less than 15 years old
- Children's encyclopedias/picture encyclopedias
- Children's thesauruses
- Paperback textbooks in math, English, geography, health, and science at appropriate level (kindergarten to 6th grade). Send no more than two copies of any texbook; these will be used for teacher resources.
- Books with universal themes (friendships, animals, love)
- Children's books teaching life skills about health, hygiene, adolescence and careers
- Accurate up-to-date atlases
- Books about Africa or African-Americans
- Educational children's science and literary magazines in good condition
- Brain teasers, flash cards, educational games and puzzles
- If you are donating to a SECONDARY or HIGH SCHOOL:
- Juvenile literature
- Children's fiction and non-fiction
- Teacher's resource books for school libraries
- Dictionaries
- Encyclopedias less than 15 years old
- Accurate up-to-date atlases
- Thesauruses
- Math books from 6th grade up, including algebra, geometry, and pre-calculus, English books (focusing on grammar or comprehension), geography books, health books, science books including general science, biology, chemistry, and physics at appropriate level. Send no more than two copies of any textbook, these will be used as a teacher resource.
- Life skills books about health, hygiene, adolescence, careers, etc.
- Books with universal themes (friendships, animals, love)
- Books like Chicken Soup for the Soul (inspiring stories with life skills lessons)
- Books about Africa or African-Americans
- Educational kids science and literary magazines in good condition
- Brain teasers, flash cards, educational games and puzzles
- If you are donating to a COMMUNITY LIBRARY:
- Any of the books listed for Primary and High Schools
- Agriculture
- Animal husbandry
- Gardening
- Health
- Business
- Current events
- Ecology
- National Geographic, less than 5 years old, especially with articles featuring Africa.
- Books about Africa or African-Americans
Book Examples by Reading Level
4th grade titles:
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7th/8th grade titles:
DON'T SEND but donate elsewhere:
- Books that are filled with small, dense print that might be too intimidating or boring for the age level
- Books with lots of slang, which may be difficult for English learners to follow
- Books for very young children that have many references to appliances and electronic gadgets.
- Adult paperback romance novels
- Books about United States or Canadian history or government (but DO SEND books about African-Americans)
- Books about North American or religious holidays (Easter, Halloween, Christmas, 4th of July, Thanksgiving, April Fools Day, Valentine's Day, Chanukah, etc.)
- Books that evangelize or promote a particular religion
- Magazines except for children's educational magazines and National Geographics less than 5 years old
What can you do with books that you collect but don't send? Here are a few ideas.
- Donate them to your local library, jail, or shelter.
- Organize a book sale and use the money to help fund your shipping costs.
- Ship them to Better World Books (BWB) for them to sell online, and BWB will donate a portion of the profit to the African Library Project (not your specific book drive). Here's how it works:
- Check at Better World Books website to see the types of books they collect.
- If you have 200+ sellable books, email email@example.com. Include how many books you have, your phone number and that you want the books to support the African Library Project.
- BWB will set you up with free shipping through UPS or a freight pickup (depending on the volume) and donate 10% of net sales of your books to the African Library Project.
- If you have raised enough money to cover the shipping costs yourself to BWB, they will give you a tracking code and the address of their warehouse and return 30% of net sales to ALP.
- Let us know that you have sent books to Better World Books so we can look for their donation to ALP on your behalf.
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- Type:Single Family Home
- Age:1979
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STAGE TUBE: Cast of Broadway's ANNIE on KATIE - Clips, Interviews and Highlights!
Annie, the new production of the Tony Award-winning musical, opens tomorrow at the Palace Theatre (Broadway at 47th Street). The production has been featured on television and radio lately. ABC's "Katie" devoted a full hour to the new production of Annie on the show on November 2.Click below to watch Katie Couric's interviews with Lilla Crawford, Katie Finneran, Anthony Warlow, Bill Berloni, Andrea McArdle and Aileen Quinn, plus Lilla Crawford's performance of "Tomorrow", the orphans singing "You're Never Fully Dressed Without a Smile" and more!
Annie, the new production of the Tony Award-winning musical opens November 8, 2012 at the Palace Theatre (Broadway at 47th Street). Annie features a book by Thomas Meehan, music by Charles Strouse and lyrics by Martin Charnin, with all three authors receiving 1977 Tony Awards for their work. Annie is directed by Pulitzer Prize and three-time Tony Award-winner James Lapine and choreographed by Tony Award-winner Andy Blankenbuehler.
Annie stars two-time Tony Award winner Katie Finneran as Miss Hannigan, Australian star Anthony Warlow making his Broadway debut as Daddy Warbucks and 11-year-old Lilla Crawford as Annie, with Brynn O'Malley as Grace Farrell, Clarke Thorell as Rooster Hannigan and J. Elaine Marcos as Lily St. Regis. The Orphans are Madi Rae DiPietro as July,Georgi James as Pepper, Junah Jang as Tessie, Tyrah Skye Odoms as Kate, Taylor Richardson as Duffy, Emily Rosenfeld as Molly and Jaidyn Young as standby for the roles of Annie, Pepper, Duffy and July. The production also features Ashley Blanchet, Jane Blass, Jeremy Davis, Fred Inkley, Merwin Foard, Joel Hatch, Amanda Lea LaVergne, Gavin Lodge,Liz McCartney, Desi Oakley, Keven Quillon, David Rossetti, Sarah Solie, Dennis Stowe and Ryan VanDenBoom.
The original production of Annie opened April 21, 1977 at the Alvin Theatre and went on to win the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Musical, seven Drama Desk Awards including Best Musical, the Grammy for Best Cast Show Album and seven Tony Awards, including Best Musical, Best Book (Thomas Meehan) and Best Score (Charles Strouse,Martin Charnin). The show was one of the biggest Broadway musical hits of the 1970s, running for almost six years and playing 2,377 performances.Buy Tickets to Annie - click here.


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DII Women?s Basketball Player of the Week ? No. 3
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Morgan Stuut of Saint Xavier (Ill.) has been named the NAIA National Division II Women's Basketball Player of the Week, the national office announced Tuesday. Stuut was selected based on her performances from Jan. 13 – 19 and was chosen out of a pool of conference and independent award winners. She is the first individual to receive back-to-back Division II Women's Basketball Player of the Week honors since Jennifer Jorgenson of Grand View (Iowa) accomplished the feat in 2011.
Stuut, a native of Marcellus, Mich., recorded her second triple-double of the season with 40 points, 23 rebounds and 11 assists in Saint Xavier's 117-80 win over Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference rival Olivet Nazarene (Ill.) on Jan. 18. The junior forward set single-game school records for points scored (40), field goals made (17) and field goals attempted (26). Stuut's 23 rebounds also tied the Cougars' single-game mark. Three days prior to her performance against Olivet Nazarene, Stuut recorded her 14th double-double of the season with 11 points and 18 rebounds in Saint Xavier's 92-42 win against NCAA Division III Illinois Tech. For the week, Stuut averaged 25.5 points, 20.5 rebounds, eight assists and four steals. She also shot 66.7 percent (22-of-33) from the field and was 5-for-5 at the free throw line.
On the year, Stuut, who paces Saint Xavier in points, rebounds, assists, steals and blocks, leads the NAIA in total rebounds (271) and defensive rebounds per game (9.4), while also ranking among the top 10 nationally in rebounds per game (2nd; 13.6), total scoring (4th; 418), points per game (7th; 20.9) and 3-point field goal percentage (8th; .452).
The weekly honor is the third of her career.
For a complete list of all the national statistical leaders, click here.
The next NAIA National Division II Women's Basketball Player of the Week will be announced on Jan. 28. For the complete Player of the Week calendar, click here.
Nominees: Brittany Gray, Evergreen (Wash.); Brooke Adams, Concordia (Mich.); Megan Howard, AIB (Iowa); Sarah Munds, Friends (Kan.); Akia Davis, College of Saint Mary (Neb.); Armeka Booker, Tennessee Wesleyan; Atavia Blake, Northwood (Fla.); Amy Daniels, Mount Vernon Nazarene (Ohio); Brittany Lehner, Valley City State (N.D.); Celeste Beck, Dakota Wesleyan (S.D.); Ariel Nickell, Alice Lloyd (Ky.); Natalia Hawthorne, La Sierra (Calif.).
2013-14 Division II Women's Basketball Players of the Week
Week 1 (Jan. 7): Laurel Zwiener, Hastings (Neb.)
Week 2 (Jan. 14): Morgan Stuut, Saint Xavier (Ill.)
Week 3 (Jan. 21): Morgan Stuut, Saint Xavier (Ill.)


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I don't really like cheese. I know it's anathema to admit that out loud but the prospect of ordering a cheese course at a restaurant makes me cringe. Goat cheese, Camembert, blue cheese. Blech! In my world, blue's a color, not a food. I think the problem is that I grew up eating Kraft singles and I continued to define cheese as neon orange squares, plastic-wrapped and eaten with Ritz crackers long after I stopped shopping at Kids Gap. Ok, so not much has changed. I'm still petite enough to shop at Kids Gap and I still like Ritz with Kraft singles. You'll be pleased to know I recently discovered that I like Brie. Not because I was trying to broaden my cheese horizon but rather, because Brie reminded me of cream cheese. Don't hate because I'm a true gourmand :).
In light of my (extremely) limited cheese experience, it's particularly surprising that one of my favorite South Asian desserts is ras malai, or paneer in sweetened milk. Holy Batman, that even sounds unappetizing to me and I've been eating it for years. Let me elaborate. Paneer is a particularly mild, fresh cheese with no real flavor of it's own. As a result, it works really well in different contexts from main dishes to desserts. It's basically the tofu of the dairy world. Remember your last stroll through your local Indian buffet? Remember the palak paneer? Same paneer (but in a savory, spinach sauce). Whew, that explanation sounds much better than paneer in sweetened milk.
While I was growing up, my mom always made ras malai, complete with homemade paneer. There are numerous videos on the internet for the "I make my own bread, grow my own vegetables, raise my own cow" group of foodies inspired to make their own paneer. I should warn you though that it takes f o r e v e r. The voices in your head chanting "dessert now, dessert now" hit an all time high as you watch the moisture s l o w l y drip out of your paneer.
There is a shortcut. Ricotta cheese. I know, I know, numerous South Asian grandmothers just rolled over in their graves. But it's true. Ricotta cheese has an eerily paneer-like consistency without the drama of making paneer. Mix the ricotta with sugar, spread in a baking pan (or if you insist on making things more complicated, use a mini muffin pan for cute, little, paneer rounds), and bake until firm. Wait (impatiently) until the rounds are cooled, add to cooked, sweetened milk, refrigerate, and gobble quickly.
If you're feeling fancy, you can cook the sweetened milk with cardamom and top the entire concoction with pistachios and saffron threads but note the whole garnishing business takes more time (which means it'll be longer before you can eat dessert). The voices in my head prefer the ricotta cheese route but if you have a Sunday afternoon, a container of whole milk, a cheesecloth, and a hankering for paneer making, go at it. Just be sure to have some brownies at your disposal to appease the dessert-craving voices in your head while you wait for the paneer.
16 oz. ricotta cheese
1 cup sugar
2 cups whole milk
2 cups half & half
1/2 cup sugar (or more, to taste)
1/4 cup pistachios, chopped
3-5 cardamom pods
Gently mix 1 cup of sugar with the ricotta. Spread in a dish or spoon into muffin pan and bake for 20-35 minutes. After 20 minutes, peer into the oven every five minutes (feel free to insert a toothpick into the middle of the ricotta mixture to check). The ricotta should not be born but should be cooked fairly thoroughly such that there is no clumps on the toothpick. Cool completely. Cut into squares if necessary.
Mix 1/2 cup of sugar with milk and cream. You may want to add more sugar depending on preference. Cook on low heat until mixture thickens. Remove cardamom seeds from the pods and crush some of them. Add to the thickened milk/cream mixture. Cool completely.
Add cheese cubes to milk/cream mixture and refrigerate for 2 hours (or until chilled). Top with chopped pistachios and saffron threads.
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I have a Car class, the objects are below:
//The car description.
private String carDescription;
//The customer name.
private String customer;
//The required deposit amount.
public int downPayment;
//The number of days the car is to be rented for.
public int rentalPeriod;
//The daily rental rate of the car.
public int rate;
//The date the car is to hired.
public String dateOfHire;
//The date the car is due to be returned.
public String dateOfReturn;
//The total amount of rent due.
public int totalRent;
//Whether or not the car is currently on loan.
public boolean onLoan;
I now need to make a RentalCompany class with an attribute that is an array list of the Car class objects.
Please help, how do I start this? I am using BlueJ


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Seneca Wallace waited seven years in Seattle for a chance to be a starting quarterback in the NFL. Now he might get that shot, but in Cleveland where he'll reunite with former coach Mike Holmgren.
The Seahawks traded their long-time backup quarterback to the Browns on Monday evening for an undisclosed draft choice in 2011.
The Seahawks clearly are ready to go new directions with their roster under new coach Pete Carroll and now will likely draft a quarterback to groom under and compete with starter Matt Hasselbeck.
Holmgren, meanwhile, is pushing the Browns in the direction of his familiar West Coast offense and could use Wallace to help that transition.
"This will give Seneca a chance for a fresh start," said new Seahawks general manager John Schneider. "The Browns front office's familiarity with his abilities will give him an opportunity to compete for playing time. We wish him nothing but the best."
Wallace, 29, was drafted by Seattle in the fourth round in 2003.
Wallace performed fairly well as the fill-in starter after Hasselbeck went out with a back injury midway through the 2008 season, but struggled in his two starts last year in new offensive coordinator Greg Knapp's system.
The draft pick will be in part decided by how much Wallace plays next season in Cleveland, but exact terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Coincidentally (or not, conspiracy theorists?), the move frees up Wallace's No. 15 roster number, which also happens to be the number worn by Denver receiver Brandon Marshall.
Don't hold your breath on anything happening there immediately as the Seahawks must determine their level of interest in Marshall and then work out compensation with both the player and the Broncos if they intend to make him an offer.
But it's fair to say the Seahawks were impressed with Marshall during his weekend visit and will continue looking into the possibility of signing the controversial receiver.
Wallace started 14 games in his seven seasons in Seattle, completing 333 of 556 passes for 3,547 yards with 25 touchdowns and 14 interceptions.
He was a good enough athlete to play wide receiver on occasion as well and made a memorable catch in the Seahawks' NFC Championship game in 2005. He caught four passes for 76 yards in his Seattle tenure and rushed 54 times for 214 yards.
The move leaves the Seahawks with just two quarterbacks on their roster — Hasselbeck and Mike Teel, who didn't play last year as a rookie out of Rutgers.
It surely increases the likelihood of the team drafting a quarterback at some point this April. The Seahawks have lined up an individual workout with Florida quarterback Tim Tebow, but they'll have numerous options there or could pursue a veteran backup in free agency.
Chad Pennington just re-signed with Miami, so the list of potentially available veterans include the likes of Kyle Boller, Rex Grossman, Jon Kitna and Chris Redman.
More likely the Seahawks pursue a young leader of the future and may be competing with the Browns in that vein. Tony Grossi of the Cleveland Plain-Dealer suggests Derek Anderson likely will be released or traded in the coming weeks and that Brady Quinn might be vulnerable as well.
Wallace gives Holmgren a transitional quarterback already versed in his system, which Grossi says former Seahawks sidekick Gil Haskell is already teaching to Browns offensive coordinator Brian Daboll.


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Invoking suspension of disbelief allows us to enjoy superhero and supervillain sagas without worrying about whether or not these fictional characters are liable for the legal repercussions of their actions; however, what if Lex Luthor could sue Superman for assault? Would Superman be held accountable and be forced to retain legal representation?
Authors James Daily and Ryan Davidson closely explore the legal reality of super fiction in their new book, "The Law of Superheroes." The book simultaneously serves as an analysis of basic legal theory and an entertaining exploration of the fictional world of comic book characters. Daily and Davidson explain that some comic books do attempt to incorporate legal realism. For example, in the DC comic universe, there is a fictitious Twelfth Amendment , which allows masked superheroes to legally avoid revealing their secret identities. Listen in as authors James Daily and Ryan Davidson put the modern legal system to the superhero test.
James Daily, Co-Author, "The Law of Superheroes," Attorney and co-founder of Lawandthemultiverse.com; specializes in intellectual property law
Ryan Davidson, Co-Author, "The Law of Superheroes," Attorney and co-founder of Lawandthemultiverse.com; specializing in insurance litigation.


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Data Mining Projects (Analysis Services - Data Mining)
When you develop a data mining solution in Analysis Services, you first create an Analysis Services project. Within this project, you define the source of data that you will use for analysis, and then set up a model that includes an algorithm and custom instructions for handling the data. You can also continue to test and refine the model within the project. When you are satisfied with the solution, you can deploy it to another server or use it in an application to provide predictions and analysis.
The following sections outline the tools and processes for creating a data mining solution, and provide links to resources to use for each step.
Creating an Analysis Services Project
When you develop a data mining solution, you must first create a new Analysis Services project by using Business Intelligence Development Studio. Each data mining project contains the following four kinds of objects: data sources; data source views, which are based on the data sources; mining structures, which define how the data is used in the model; and mining models, which create and store patterns.
For More Information:Defining an Analysis Services Project, Defining a Data Source Using the Data Source Wizard (Analysis Services)
Defining a Data Source
The data source defines the connection string and authentication information that the Analysis Services server will use to connect to the data source. The data source can contain multiple tables or views. Analysis Services can use datasets from both relational and Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) databases, or from external providers.
After you have defined this connection to a data source, you create a view that identifies the specific data that is relevant to your model. The data source view also enables you to customize the way that the data in the data source is supplied to the mining model. You can modify the structure of the data to make it more relevant to your project, or choose only certain kinds of data. If you want to filter the data, you can do so in the data source view, or in filters that are applied at the level of the model.
The requirements for how much data you will need, and how that data should be cleaned and formatted, will differ depending on the algorithm that you use to investigate that data.
For More Information:Defining a Data Source View (Analysis Services)
Adding Mining Structures to an Analysis Services Project
Once you have enough data to begin analysis, you select the columns of data that are most relevant to your business problem, and add mining structures to the project. A mining structure defines the columns of data, and columns with nested tables, that are obtained from the data source view or from an OLAP cube in the project.
To add a new mining structure, you start the Data Mining Wizard, which walks you through the process of defining the data and optionally creating an initial data mining model. When you create a structure, you can also partition your data to include a training data set, used for building models, and a testing data set, which can be used to test or validate all mining models that are based on that structure. You can use the Mining Structure tab of Data Mining Designer to modify existing mining structures, including adding columns and nested tables.
For More Information:Creating a New Mining Structure, Data Mining DesignerData Mining Wizard (Analysis Services - Data Mining)
Working with Data Mining Models
To each mining structure, you add one or more mining models. The mining model defines the algorithm, or the method of analysis that you will use on the data. You process each model by running the data in the data source view through the algorithm, which generates a mathematical model of the data. This process is also known as training the model.
After the model has been processed, you can then visually explore the mining model and create prediction queries against it.
Analysis Services provides several options for processing mining model objects, including the ability to control which objects are processed and how they are processed. For example, you can process a structure and cache the data, and then continue to add new models to the structure. If the data is cached, you can use drillthrough queries to return detailed information about the cases used in the model.
For More Information:Data Mining Algorithms (Analysis Services - Data Mining), Processing Analysis Services Objects, Using Drillthrough on Mining Models and Mining Structures (Analysis Services - Data Mining).
Validating Data Mining Models
After you have created a model, you can investigate the results and make decisions about which models perform the best. On the Mining Model Viewer tab in Data Mining Designer, Analysis Services provides viewers for each mining model type, which you can use to explore the mining models.
In the Mining Accuracy Chart tab of the designer, Analysis Services provides tools that you can use to directly compare mining models and choose the most accurate or useful mining model. These tools include a lift chart, profit chart, and a classification matrix.
You can also use the cross-validation report, new in SQL Server 2008, to perform iterative subsampling of your data to determine whether the model is biased to a particular set of data. The statistics that the report provides can be used to objectively compare models and assess the quality of your training data.
For More Information:Viewing a Data Mining Model, Validating Data Mining Models (Analysis Services - Data Mining)
Creating Predictions
The main goal of most data mining projects is to use a mining model to create predictions. After you explore and compare mining models, you can use one of several tools to create predictions. Analysis Services provides a query language called Data Mining Extensions (DMX) that is the basis for creating predictions and is easily scriptable. To help you build DMX prediction queries, SQL Server provides a query builder, available in SQL Server Management Studio and Business Intelligence Development Studio, and DMX templates for the query editor in Management Studio. Within BI Development Studio, you access the query builder from the Mining Model Prediction tab of Data Mining Designer.
For More Information:Creating DMX Prediction Queries, Data Mining Extensions (DMX) Statement Reference
SQL Server Management Studio
After you have used BI Development Studio to build mining models for your data mining project, you can manage and work with the models and create predictions in Management Studio. By using the query tools in SQL Server Management Studio, you can explore the data in your models, create complex content queries, or manage data mining objects stored in an instance of SQL Server.
For More Information:Data Mining in SQL Server Management Studio
SQL Server Reporting Services
After you create a mining model, you may want to distribute the results to a wider audience. Because the results of data mining are stored in a consistent schema that is readily accessible via database queries, you can use a variety of client tools to present the results of analysis, to explore the patterns in the model, or to make predictions.
You can use Report Designer in Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services to create reports, which you can use to present the information that a mining model contains. You can use the result of any DMX query as the basis of a report, and can take advantage of the parameterization and formatting features that are available in Reporting Services.
For More Information:Using the Analysis Services DMX Query Designer (Reporting Services), Integrating Reporting Services into Applications
Working Programmatically with Data Mining
Analysis Services provides several tools that you can use to programmatically work with data mining. The DMX language provides statements that you can use to create, train, and use data mining models. You can also perform these tasks by using a combination of XML for Analysis (XMLA) and Analysis Services Scripting Language (ASSL), or by using Analysis Management Objects (AMO).
You can access all the metadata that is associated with data mining by using data mining schema rowsets. For example, you can use schema rowsets to determine the data types that an algorithm supports, or the model names that exist in a database.
For More Information:Data Mining Extensions (DMX) Reference, Data Mining Schema Rowsets, Using XML for Analysis in Analysis Services (XMLA)


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National Geographic Challenge allows players to explore our planet through its history and geography, providing a journey through the ages and an inside look at the extraordinary extent of mankind's achievements.
The game will include both single and multiplayer game modes as up to four players can compete in the quest to claim territories on the in-game globe by answering questions correctly while using various tactics to foil their opponents.
Also known as: National Geographic Challenge
Release Region: United States
Release Date: November 29, 2011
Publisher: Ignition Entertainment
Release Region: United Kingdom
Release Date: June 24, 2011
Publisher: Black Bean
Also available on: Wii, PlayStation 3, PC
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Bezos on Android: We Like It!
When it comes to operating systems, Jeff Bezos is pretty darn pleased with Android.
The Amazon CEO said that Android is accomplishing everything that Amazon needs it to and, at the same time, giving the company flexibility to customize things.
"We treat Android like Linux, and so it's a base OS layer," Bezos told AllThingsD in an interview on Thursday. "We have a large dedicated team that customizes Android and that's what you see on the Kindle Fire."
Amazon will also be using a customized version of Android on the new crop of tablets, albeit the more recent Ice Cream Sandwich flavor of the operating system.
On top of Android, Amazon has created its own user interface along with a suite of software and services, including the Amazon App Store. With the new Kindle Fire, the company has also licensed map data from a third-party service, widely believed to be Nokia's Navteq.
Bezos shrugged off the notion that Amazon had any plans to shift away from the Google-created operating system.
"No," he said. "We like it."
Here's what Bezos had to say about some of the other products that his company is cooking up. And check back later for more from his interview with AllThingsD.


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This article is no longer maintained, so its content might be out of date.
QuickTime can sometimes take over as the handler for Flash content, either from the installation or by actively selecting it as the default handler.
Starting in QuickTime 7.3.1 this should no longer be an issue because the Flash media handler in QuickTime has been disabled for security reasons. Make sure that you upgrade your installation of QuickTime.
If you cannot upgrade QuickTime to the latest version, you may be able to reconfigure an older version of QuickTime so that it does not handle Flash content. See Use the QuickTime plugin to play audio and video for more information.
- Open the QuickTime Player.
- At the top of the QuickTime window, select the menu, select , and then select . The QuickTime Preferences window appears.
- In the QuickTime Preferences window, select the Browser tab, and then click . The MIME Types window opens.
- Expand the Miscellaneous category and, if found, remove the check mark from "Flash Media".
- Click , then restart your computer.
- From the Apple menu, click . The System Preferences window appears.
- In the System Preferences window, click , select the Advanced tab, and then click . The MIME Types window opens.
- Expand the Miscellaneous category and, if found, remove the check mark from "Flash Media".
Flash content on websites can now be handled by the Adobe Flash Player.
Based on information from Flash (mozillaZine KB)
Last Update: 2011-01-23


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Angle falsely suggested Bush's Social Security plan won't include benefit cuts
FOX News chief Washington correspondent Jim Angle suggested that Democrats were dishonest for claiming that President Bush plans to cut Social Security benefits as part of his plan to let workers divert payroll taxes into personal investment accounts.
In fact, Bush's own pledge to confront Social Security's long-term revenue shortfall requires him to cut benefits, since he has already promised not to raise payroll taxes (or, presumably, begin using general revenues to fund the system). Also, White House aides and Congressional Republicans have said in anonymous statements that Bush will propose reducing benefits (see here and here). Moreover, "Model 2" from Bush's 2001 Commission to Strengthen Social Security, widely expected to form the basis of the reform plan Bush will propose (see here, here, here, and here), reduces benefits by indexing the growth of initial benefit levels to prices rather than wages, as is currently done. A leaked memo about Bush's plans for Social Security from Peter H. Wehner, head of the White House Office of Strategic Initiatives, also endorsed this concept.
From the February 9 edition of FOX News' Special Report with Brit Hume:
ANGLE: Democrats are launching a broad assault on the idea of personal accounts in Social Security, claiming among other things they would need a huge cut in benefits.
[clips of Democrats criticizing benefit cuts]
ANGLE: But in fact, benefit cuts would not be required to finance personal accounts, and the president has not proposed any reduction in benefits. Nevertheless, the critics are assuming that the president will call for benefit cuts and were already blaming him for it.
While Angle is correct that "benefit cuts would not be required to finance personal accounts," those accounts will have to be financed in some way. Specifically, the government will have to borrow trillions of dollars over several decades in so-called "transition costs" to finance these accounts, since personal accounts will be financed with payroll taxes that are now used to pay benefits for current retirees.
Moreover, as explained above, while benefit cuts would not be necessary to finance personal accounts, they will be necessary to address the Social Security's long-term solvency problem, so long as tax increases are off limits. Though an unnamed administration official admitted this fact in an official White House briefing, Bush himself has repeatedly suggested that private accounts will address the solvency problem. Rather than dispelling this confusion between private accounts and solvency, Angle exploited it to defend Bush from Democrats; by failing to distinguish the two issues -- while ignoring the transition costs associated with private accounts and denying the fact that Bush will have to cut benefits to restore solvency -- Angle created the false impression that Bush's plan to save Social Security from "crisis" will cost nothing.
Angle's report continued by casting skepticism on Democrats' additional criticism of Bush's plan to reduce guaranteed Social Security benefits even further for those workers who choose to establish private accounts. Bush's expected plan would reduce guaranteed benefits dollar for dollar by the amount that workers choose to divert from their payroll taxes into private accounts, plus interest. The Democrats labeled this feature a "privatization tax." Angle showed a clip of Sen. Jon S. Corzine (D-NJ) criticizing this feature, then noted that "Corzine's numbers could not be verified" :
CORZINE: The privatization tax is actually going to be 70 percent of what has been accumulated in these private accounts, and only 30 percent left to you [the beneficiary].
ANGLE: Though Corzine's numbers could not be verified, those on the other side say the remaining 30 percent would be nothing to sniff at.
But the graphic that Angle displayed, which illustrate Corzine's description of the "privatization tax," listed the Democratic staff of the Senate Finance Committee as its source. Angle's skepticism about numbers from Democratic sources contrasted starkly with his acceptance two days earlier of highly misleading figures and an accompanying chart from the White House budget office.
Following Angle's prepared report, Special Report anchor and FOX News Washington managing editor Brit Hume questioned Angle further about the purported benefit cuts. Angle acknowledged, if only implicitly, that personal accounts would do nothing to address the solvency of Social Security. Hume declined to dispute this statement, even though less than a week earlier he had "corrected" Morton M. Kondracke, a regular member of Special Report's "All-Star Panel," when Kondracke accurately noted that private accounts do not address the solvency problem. Here's Angle's exchange with Hume on February 9:
HUME: Jim, I'm not clear. Where is the claim that the president is proposing a 46 percent cut in benefits? Where is that? I guess that's supposedly as the result of the private accounts? Where does that come from?
ANGLE: Well, it's not a result of the private accounts. It's a result of a fix for the long-term solvency in Social Security. It's one of many options that were included in the Social Security Commission, one of the many options floating around Washington for some years now. But it would happen four or five decades from now and would fall most heavily, 46 percent, on wealthy taxpayers.
Angle's claim that the benefit cut "would happen four or five decades from now" is misleading, since he declined to mention that the same is true for the proposed private accounts. Current retirees and older workers won't have the option to open such accounts at all, and while younger workers would be allowed to begin diverting payroll taxes within a few years under Bush's expected proposal, they wouldn't be allowed access to the money until decades from now, when they retire. Indeed, the entire debate over Social Security reform centers on changes that will occur "decades from now," since Bush made clear in his State of the Union address that "for every American who is 55 or older ... the Social Security system will not change in any way." Still, the supposed logic behind Bush's plan is precisely that earnings from private accounts will compensate for the reduction in guaranteed benefits, so the design of the system will presumably ensure that the cut in guaranteed benefits coincides with workers' access to their accounts.


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MARSHALL CO., OK-An Oklahoma District Attorney said the state will pursue the death penalty if a Marshall County man accused of killing three people is convicted.
Twenty-two-year-old Joshua Scott is due in district court Wednesday morning for formal arraignment. He's charged with first degree murder.
Deputies said, last summer, Scott confessed to killing Chad Page and stealing his car before picking up Joshua Mahaffey and breaking into 20-year-old Ashleigh Lindsey's home in Kingston. Deputies said Scott gave Mahaffey the gun, who then shot Lindsey then killed himself. Lindsey, who was pregnant, later died.
Tuesday, D.A. Craig Ladd told us his office will pursue capital punishment if they get a conviction.
We'll continue to follow this story.


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Argo Nots
Director Ben Affleck was nine years old when the Iran hostage crisis began. He was thus recreating the milieu of his childhood, from new Star Wars action figures to grown men in three-piece suits. Early on there's a scene in which his character watches television, and he made sure to show us the man standing up and clicking the dial from one VHF station to another. Every time the scene shifts to an office, we hear the busy sound of a Selectric typewriter. With no answering machines in sight (though they were on the market), the story's telephone connections become even more tenuous.
During the closing credits, the filmmakers show off their work, pairing period photographs of the Iranian Revolution or decaying Hollywood with their careful recreations of the same sights.
Those credits also show the fake passports of the real American diplomats at the center of Argo's story, and their haircuts really did look like that. Again, such details helped immensely to make them seem real since we see little of those characters beyond their plight. Affleck's own performance as CIA "exfiltration" specialist Tony Mendez consists mainly of looking serious in a beard. The acting energy comes from the pacing and the supporting cast of pros: Alan Arkin, John Goodman, Bryan Cranston, and Victor Garber.
It's disappointing, therefore, to learn that the movie's realism in little things masks big liberties with what actually happened. The movie's basic concept is true: Mendez and the CIA used the production of a science-fiction epic in turnaround called Argo as cover to fly six American diplomats out of Teheran.
But the exciting scenes—the last-minute interventions, the Republican Guards tumbling to what's happening, the airport chase—are completely fictional. The Tony Mendez character arc, from separation back into his family's bosom and from professional exile back to being a CIA hero, also doesn't seem to reflect reality. Argo is a movie about Hollywood bullshit proving useful in the real world that's actually built of Hollywood bullshit.
In real life, all of the challenges in the movie's tense, exciting third act had already been cleared away through the least exciting activity American filmmakers can probably imagine: careful, quiet work by Canadian bureaucrats.
One visual element of the real story that didn't make it into Argo consists of Jack Kirby's designs for the planned epic and its related theme park, Science Fiction Land. This PDF from the Kirby Museum uses Kirby's drawings to illustrate interviews about that grand project. The image above is the original announcement that the movie would start filming soon.


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SANAA (Reuters) - Awdah al-Shabati has never seen her father Abdulrahman except via video link with a U.S. military prison thousands of miles away from her native Yemen.
He is incarcerated at the U.S. Navy base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. His daughter was born after he was picked up in Pakistan following the September 11, 2001, attacks on the United States.
Now Abdulrahman is one of more than 90 inmates on hunger strike at the prison.
"The last time we spoke to him was eight days ago. He looked thinner, his health seems to have deteriorated since we last saw him," Mohammed al-Shabati, a Yemeni Defence Ministry employee and Awdah's uncle, said last week.
Awdah, speaking to her father from a Red Cross office in the capital Sanaa, asked him about his health then burst into tears, Shabati added.
A total of 166 inmates remain at the prison more than a decade since its opening despite U.S. President Barack Obama's pledge soon after he took office in 2009 to shut it down.
Many inmates have been held without charge or trial and some have been cleared for release but kept locked up. At least 89 are Yemeni, many of whom were captured more than a decade ago.
International human rights groups have over the years condemned the prison, the harsh treatment of inmates, and the dubious legality of the system.
Guantanamo is back in the spotlight after a clash between guards and prisoners this month and the release of accounts by inmates about the force-feeding of hunger strikers.
Legal and political hurdles stand in the way of closing the facility, including U.S. fears inmates may rejoin al Qaeda if they go home.
The United States began repatriating Yemeni prisoners after Obama's election in 2008. The effort was halted in 2010 after a man trained by militants in Yemen attempted to bomb a U.S.-bound plane in 2009 with a bomb concealed in his underwear.
Yemen itself is in the frontline of the fight against al Qaeda, with Washington providing military support including drone strikes at militants operating mainly in the south.
The White House insists it wants the facility shut but says restrictions by Congress remain an obstacle.
Some releases would need senior U.S. officials to certify that countries receiving an inmate were willing and able to stop the individual from acting against the United States - a guarantee few U.S. politicians would want to give.
Asked if measures taken by new Yemeni President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi to confront al Qaeda would help restart the transfers, White House spokesman Jay Carney said he had no new information on the detainees.
Caitlin Hayden, White House National Security Council spokesman, blamed Congress for the impasse.
Human rights lawyers say the restrictions put in place by Congress are not the full story.
Cori Crider, legal director of Reprieve, a British-based charity which represents detainees, blamed a lack of political will by the Obama administration, which she said feared being seen as weak on security.
"Where there is no political will, suddenly the administrative obstacles are important and everyone is concerned about meeting Congressional reporting requirements. But when there is political will, no one cares about that," she said.
David Remes, a U.S. lawyer who acts for detainees, told the Yemeniaty.com website their plight could not compete with Obama's domestic policy priorities like immigration reform and gun control.
"It is a big issue as far as principle is concerned, but in terms of practical politics, it's a tick on a camel's back."
Al-Shabati's family says he has never been convicted of any crime despite being held in Guantanamo for more than 12 years.
They say the 30-year-old - 18 when he was arrested in southern Pakistan and handed to the United States - was a victim of an indiscriminate crackdown on foreigners with suspected al Qaeda ties. He was in Pakistan to study, they say.
Mohammed said a U.S. military review panel cleared Abdelrahman in 2008 of charges of being an enemy combatant - a term normally apply to suspected al Qaeda militants - but efforts to win his repatriation had been fruitless.
"The Yemeni government says the U.S. government does not want to hand them over and the Americans say Yemen does not want to take them," Mohammed said. "We no longer believe anyone."
Yemenis complain that their government has not been pushing enough to ensure the return of its citizens.
Mohammed said the family has grown more worried about Abdelrahman's health following the hunger strike, now in its third month. Washington says 17 are being force-fed.
In an op-ed in the New York Times this month, a Yemeni man gave a dramatic account of force feeding and prison conditions.
Samir Najal al Hasan Moqbel, who said he has been held for 11 years and three months without charges, wrote he had lost about 30 pounds since he began to refuse food on February 10.
At a coffee shop in Sanaa, Bandar al-Qatta'a said his brother Mansour had joined the hunger strike because he lost hope of being freed after a decade in jail without trial.
"We hope human conscience will move to help us secure their release. Those people have never been convicted of any crime," said Bandar, a Saudi-born Yemeni who campaigns for the inmates.
Yemeni rights activists say a U.S. military committee that studied the cases of the inmates had recommended that 58 of the Yemenis at Guantanamo prison be returned home.
Abdelrahman Barman, a Yemeni human rights attorney, said the United States had demanded that the Yemenis be sent to Qatar or to Saudi Arabia to ensure they did not return home to join al Qaeda. About 11 Saudis freed from Guantanamo later quit a Saudi rehabilitation programme and disappeared, security analysts say.
"Those who returned to al Qaeda did so because they were kept under constant harassment by security forces and found the doors (for normal life) closed," Barman said.
The Yemeni government says talks with the U.S. government over the fate of the prisoners are making progress.
Rajeh Badi, an aid to Yemeni Prime Minister Mohammed Basindwa, said work was underway on an $11 million centre to hold the prisoners while they undergo a rehabilitation program to ensure they did not return to al Qaeda.
"We object to sending Yemeni prisoners anywhere but to their home country," Badi said. "The government will be responsible for caring for them and rehabilitating them."
Additional reporting by William Maclean in Dubai and Roberta Rampton in Washington, Writing by Sami Aboudi, Editing by Angus MacSwan


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David Maraniss, an associate editor of The Post, is the author of "Barack Obama: The Story" and "First in His Class: A Biography of Bill Clinton."
Big John, he was called, even in his 80s, long after he had shrunk from his once-imposing 6-foot-3 hulk and had also lost much of his power, if not stature. When John David Dingell Jr. announced Monday that he was finally calling it quits after serving in the House of Representatives longer than any public servant in history, he explained that he did not want to be hauled out feet first. Fat chance. One could say that Dingell outlasted the two institutions he loved most, Congress and Detroit. Which went bankrupt first is as much a theological question as a political or economic one, as is the question of which might have the better chance of returning to past glory, but there is no question about Dingell's place in congressional history.
It is more than a historical quirk that his career stretches back seven decades, to 1955, and the days when Sam Rayburn was speaker of the House. Though he never ascended to the speakership, Dingell was in many ways Rayburn's heir, an old-school social Democrat who devoted his life not to the celebrity of politics but to the inner workings of the legislative world. He understood that world better than any of his colleagues and probably revered it more, or at least what it once was, having grown up in it as a cloakroom page and as the son of a congressman who bestowed on him both a name and a life's profession. Follow the line of Dingells back to his father's first election to the House and you travel back in time to 1933, the year that FDR entered the White House.
In his heyday as chairman of the Energy and Commerce Committee, which once had served as Rayburn's own power base, Dingell the younger enjoyed a House domain unlike any other. Ways and Means and Appropriations got more press, but E and C had the biggest staff and largest budget and came closest to issues that defined and shaped the lives of all Americans. Thirty years ago, I spent a year studying Big John and his committee and never came close to running out of material. In Energy and Commerce, I wrote then, "day after day, crucial decisions are made affecting everyone who breathes, drinks, eats, smokes, watches TV and movies, listens to the radio, drives, plays the stock market, needs medical care, pays for insurance, enjoys sports, worries about hazardous waste and nuclear power plants, buys faulty products, rides the railroads, and gets buried." That takes care of pretty much all of us, and that was before the advent of the Internet and its attendant technology, which would also fall under the committee's purview.
Tom Tauke, then a Republican member of the committee from Iowa, once told me that Dingell "feels about his committee much as Lyndon Johnson felt about his ranch. Johnson didn't want to own the whole world, he just wanted to own all the land surrounding his ranch. Dingell doesn't want his committee to have the whole world, just all the areas surrounding its jurisdiction." His committee was bulging with bright lights and brighter egos. Henry Waxman of California was there, the yin to Dingell's yang, the short and tall of it (also retiring this year); but so was Tim Wirth of Colorado, Al Gore of Tennessee, Ed Markey of Massachusetts, Phil Sharp of Indiana, Ron Wyden of Oregon, Mike Synar of Oklahoma and Bill Richardson of New Mexico. No shortage of ambitious Democratic cats, but all, in that sphere, subordinate to their chairman. Some moved on to bigger things, but in the end, he was the last one standing in the House.
When Dingell arrived in Congress, most of his district was on the west side of Detroit, a city that then had 1.8 million residents and was booming with the best year of car sales in history. Over the decades of his tenure, as auto plants closed or moved out, Detroit's population drained like a tub, with longtime residents gushing through the pipes out to the suburbs by the hundreds of thousands until only 700,000 now remain inside the city limits. The congressional maps of Michigan kept being redrawn to accommodate politics and demographics until Dingell's district was almost entirely in the western suburbs. While he never shied away from being called a liberal, two issues separated him from the Waxman-Wirth-Gore-Markey crowd — cars and guns. He was a staunch defender of the Big Three, and even as he fought for strong environmental protection usually took the car guys' side when there was a conflict. It was all in the family, literally and figuratively. Two of his sons worked in the auto industry, and his wife, Debbie, his possible successor, came out of the General Motors lobby shop. His opposition to most gun control legislation and his proud membership in the National Rifle Association were more related to the car culture than you might think. There was a long tradition in Michigan of autoworkers using their disposable income and hard-won vacations on cottages up north of the city where they hunted and fished.
Dingell attached himself to the cultural mores of his Detroit heritage, but in his life's story, a tale of two cities, Washington, not Detroit, was the dominant place. He grew up mostly in Washington and went to school here at Georgetown Prep and Georgetown before beginning his unprecedented run in Congress. He had the stern exterior of a prosecutor or high school vice principal, precisely enunciating each syllable of every word as though he were issuing a proclamation from above, yet his favorite haunt outside the Rayburn building was the Kennedy Center, where he pursued his obsession with ballet. Not exactly lithe, this Big John, but he had a certain grace of loyalty and doggedness and authenticity that is now dancing off the stage, never to be repeated.


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August 19
Today during our morning and afternoon training sessions, we advanced to 'group defending.' We played games in which the defenders had fewer players, which challenges us to be more compact, communicative, and essentially to become smarter players. Jerry referred to today's afternoon session as a mental practice more than a physical practice. He teaches that the smarter a player is the easier soccer becomes physically. We started group defending with three offensive players against two defenders and then proceeded to 5 vs. 3. Although today's training sessions were supposed to be more mental, I think we'd all agree that group defending is one of the most physically challenging topics to learn.
To promote more team bonding and unity amongst the new players and returning players, our coaches made up a complex "scavenger hunt" that took place at the Olympic Training Center. They picked six teams, each having four players, a team captain and a team name. Chardi's team name was "The Terminators" because she's one of the most intimidating players on our team; Kristi's team name was "Comedy Central" because apparently some people find her funny (I just don't get it); Tracy's team name was "ER" because she's just recently recovering from muscle injury; Leslie's team was "The Osborne's" in honor of the show on MTV; and Alyssa's team of feisty players was named was "Patton" after General Patton. All of us, being the competitors that we are, decide to sprint from clue to clue in order to win the prize for returning with all the clues to the finish. One of the few rules was that all team members must stay together at all times. So imagine groups of four girls sprinting crazily all over the massive training center. Of course the coaches picked locations as far apart as possible between each clue. Some of us thought that this "scavenger hunt" was some sort of undercover fitness test. We hustled from the cafeteria to the softball dugout, and then to the tennis courts, next to the Olympic torch, then all the way across to the soccer fields, then up to the field hockey field, and far down to the archery area, then back to the cafeteria. In case you didn't know, the training center lies on tons of huge, steep, treacherous hills that separate many of the fields and facilities. This "fun" and "simple" game turned into a 40-minute run up brush-covered hills, down long pathways, across marshy fields, over large rocks and up many stairs. The coaches ran into some "minor" issues setting up the clues in their proper places which caused us to essentially end the hunt in completely different places. Thus, there was no winner and no loser... this was at first hard to swallow because all of us literally ran until the sweat was soaking our shirts in order to win the prize. But once all the teams finally made it back to the cafeteria and started telling funny stories from our intense scavenger hunt, we quickly forgot the fact that no team won the race. Let's just say that it is very unfortunate that there wasn't a winner because I made a bet that if my team didn't win I would leave my full head of crazy and wavy hair down, out and free flowing from my usual ponytail at tomorrow's training session. This is a female soccer player's nightmare, so lucky me I guess! Today was a day to remember to say the least...
Go Broncos!!!
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The 2011 recipients of the Excellence in University Service Awards are Mary Janz, Patricia Johnson, Rick Karabon and Danny Smith.
"Much of my work is with young, emerging professional staff," Janz said. "I have a great opportunity and responsibility to help them learn and grow, helping them acquire good skills that they may take with them as they move up and perhaps on to other institutions." Students and staff that she has mentored have gone on to institutions that include Clemson, St. Louis, George Mason, Creighton and Bradley universities, among others.
Johnson is enthusiastically cited by her nominators for her ability to deal with multiple tasks simultaneously, showing a positive attitude no matter the circumstances. "Our clinic is required to handle an emergency or two from time-to-time," said a nominator. "Trish truly is amazing in emergency situations, always remaining calm and professional and ensuring that everyone involved is both physically and emotionally taken care of."
"Knowing that they are, by definition, in some emotional distress, I strive to be welcoming and empathetic while also getting necessary information in order to make a proper disposition of the case," said Johnson of CPS clients.
Johnson provides administrative support for the Center for Psychological Services and the Department of Psychology, supervising graduate student clinic assistants and providing secretarial support to department faculty.
Known throughout the School of Dentistry for his work ethic, helpfulness and humility, Karabon helps run the school's simulation lab. His responsibilities include preparing the lab for first- and second-year dental students and their instructors. "I truly believe that it is impossible for anyone to do the job better than Rick does it," said a nominator. "In an environment that is congested with constant stress, he allows his personable and sunny demeanor to lift us all up when we're having rough days."
"Servicing these future dentists and interacting with faculty, staff and students is by far the most enjoyable part of my 27 years working for Marquette," Karabon said. "I feel my service helps the students on the ground level of their dental education in support of the overall mission of the university."
Smith, deputy chief information officer, oversees e-mail, Lync, PeopleSoft, Oracle e-business, D2L and IT-related projects. "It is amazing to me how dependent organizations are on technology, and Marquette is no different," said Smith, who was commended for his leadership, technical expertise and problem-solving abilities by nominators. "I enjoy helping people understand how to use new technology to make their jobs easier or more efficient, as well as the 'keeping the lights on' aspect of IT Services."
An example of this occurred on Marquette's Feb. 2 "snow day" when the air conditioning systems of the data center failed, threatening to shut down the hub of the university's information technology. "After working over the phone with numerous departments and his own staff, Dan trudged in to assist, climbing over furniture and using a sledge hammer to help open stuck windows in a valiant effort to cool the data center," said a nominator.


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The phenomenal poet, Adrienne Rich, who died this week at age 82. I'm glad she was with us for as long as she was. I found her work to be tremendously beautiful and profound. I found this interview from 1994 on Tumblr:
Q: June Jordan has this great remark in one of her poems, "I lust for justice." You have that, too. Where does it come from?
Rich: Sometimes I think it's in all of us. It gets repressed. It gets squashed. Very often by fear. For me, I know it's been pushed down by fear at various times.
Q: Fear of what?
Rich: Fear of punishment. Fear of reprisal. Fear of not being taken seriously. Fear of being marginalized. And that's why I think it's so difficult for people on their own and in isolated situations to be as brave as they can be because it's by others' example that we learn how to do this. I really believe that justice and creativity have something intrinsically in common. The effort to make justice and the creative impulse are deeply aligned, and when you feel the necessity of a creative life, of coming to use your own creativity, I think you also become aware of what's lacking, that not everyone has this potentiality available to them, that it is being withheld from so many.
A great article in the New York Times last week about creative writing as therapy: "What matters is that she and her comrades have found a way to face the toughest truths within themselves, to begin to make sense of them, and maybe even beauty. In a world that feels increasingly impersonal and atomized, I can't think of a more thrilling mission."
Sinead O'Connor on Trayvon Martin, Racism & Popular Culture, (h/t Davey D.)
My heart goes out to the family of Rekia Boyd, a 22-year-old who was fatally shot by an off-duty police officer in Chicago.
I'm didn't have a chance to read this lovely, important essay by Teju Cole when it was first published, but I urge you to read it. One of my favorite sentences: "Marginalized voices in America have fewer and fewer avenues to speak plainly about what they suffer; the effect of this enforced civility is that those voices are falsified or blocked entirely from the discourse."
Lots to think about. Kind of a heavy week. Maybe this will lighten the mood: Gentlemen, a cocktail may inspire your creativity.


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