Jesse Kornbluth: Dear Mr. President: Will You Please Speak Up About Police Assaulting Protesters On College Campuses?

Dear Mr. President,

I know you're halfway around the world, doing very important things, but we've having some trouble here at home that your staff may not have told you about.

It's the police --- especially the police at the University of California, Davis.

In this video --- it's long, but you only need to watch the first minute or two --- a policeman walks up to seated protesters and, at close range, covers them in a cloud of pepper spray. [Huffington Post has a more complete account here.]

Let me set aside the distressing irony that protesters in, say, Tahrir Square in Cairo last spring were, in the main, better treated by repressive authorities than protesters on a California campus.

Let me just talk politics.

Specifically, this: What would I do if I were President and running for re-election?

Let me go a bit further...

What would I do if I were running for re-election and I knew the Republicans were mounting a nationwide campaign to disenfranchise as many minority voters as possible?

What would I do if I were running for re-election and knew that many of my core supporters in 2008 felt disrespected and ignored by my Administration?

And, finally, what would I do if I were running for re-election and I had even the vaguest idea how many kids go to college and how many families back home were worrying about them --- and how many of those kids and parents considered themselves Democrats?

In that situation, I think --- again, I'm just making a political calculation here --- I'd take the opportunity to speak out about what happened at UC Davis.

I'd say something like this:

My fellow Americans:

I'm out of the country, dealing with some thorny issues in Asia, but I have seen the video of students demonstrating peacefully at the Davis campus of the University of California and police blanketing them in pepper spray.

I don't want to get into the particulars of this incident.

I do want to affirm some principles that may be getting lost in our national conversation.

1) Americans have an absolute right to assemble and present their grievances.

2) The authorities have an obligation to guarantee public safety.

3) That obligation may include arresting demonstrators who are violating the law.

4) The authorities must respect the rights of non-violent demonstrators.

This isn't rocket science. It's not even politics. It's Democracy 101, and I hope we'll see more of it --- and fewer videos like this.

Thank you.

Mr. President, making a short speech like this should not be a tough call.

Consider: Forbes Magazine --- Forbes! --- has condemned the police.

Do you really want to be the last to speak up?

Or is it your intent to say nothing?

There comes a time, sir, when we must stand up and be counted --- or have our silence counted as its own kind of speech.

I'm sure there are many Americans --- not just college kids, their parents and their professors --- who would be grateful if you would remind us all of the right to assemble peacefully.

Some, perhaps, might even see that as a reason to vote for you.

Sincerely,

Jesse Kornbluth

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Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jesse-kornbluth/dear-mr-president-will-yo_b_1102970.html

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Chicago mayor rallies Obama support in Iowa

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel delivers the keynote speech in support of President Obama, at the Iowa Democratic Party's annual Jefferson Jackson Dinner, in Des Moines, Iowa, Saturday, Nov. 19, 2011. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel delivers the keynote speech in support of President Obama, at the Iowa Democratic Party's annual Jefferson Jackson Dinner, in Des Moines, Iowa, Saturday, Nov. 19, 2011. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel delivers the keynote speech in support of President Obama, at the Iowa Democratic Party's annual Jefferson Jackson Dinner, in Des Moines, Iowa, Saturday, Nov. 19, 2011. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel delivers the keynote speech in support of President Obama, at the Iowa Democratic Party's annual Jefferson Jackson Dinner, in Des Moines, Iowa, Saturday, Nov. 19, 2011. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel delivers the keynote speech in support of President Obama, at the Iowa Democratic Party's annual Jefferson Jackson Dinner, in Des Moines, Iowa, Saturday, Nov. 19, 2011. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel delivers the keynote speech in support of President Obama, at the Iowa Democratic Party's annual Jefferson Jackson Dinner, in Des Moines, Iowa, Saturday, Nov. 19, 2011. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)

(AP) ? Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel launched an ardent defense of President Barack Obama in Iowa on Saturday, telling local Democrats that in order to create security for the middle class, "we just can't cut our way to prosperity."

Obama's former chief of staff rallied about 1,300 people during the Iowa Democratic Party's largest annual fundraiser in Des Moines. Emanuel told the crowd that Republicans want to solve the nation's debt problem only through spending cuts, while Obama favors a balanced approach of cuts and tax increases.

"To create true middle-class security, we can't just cut our way to prosperity," Emanuel said. "We must out-innovate, out-educate and out-build the world."

Emanuel said Obama has made crucial, tough decisions based on his principles to help the country ? and not in an attempt to lay the groundwork for a second term in the White House. And he asked the crowd whose judgment they wanted leading the country during such a critical economic time.

"In the next four years, there will be more challenges and more crises that will determine the economic vitality of the middle class and the economic future of this country," Emanuel said. "Whose character, whose judgment do you want in that office?"

Obama has a solid history in Iowa. His surprising win in the state's precinct caucuses four years ago launched him on the road to the White House, and he easily carried the state in the 2008 general election.

Emanuel's appearance in the key early-caucus state was a chance for Democrats to grab attention from Republican presidential candidates making their case to social conservatives just across town, and he used the opportunity to criticize GOP candidate Mitt Romney.

The mayor cited the sharply different views that Obama and Romney had on rescuing the auto industry and propping up the nation's financial system. He argued that Obama's views have been proven right, while Romney's stance to not offer federal financial assistance would have destroyed the two key industries.

Emanuel also said Romney has flip-flopped in his political views, such as taking a more conservative stance on abortion and gun control.

"Mitt Romney says he's a man of steadiness and consistency. If that's true, then I'm a linebacker for the Chicago Bears," said the slim, 5-foot-8 ? mayor.

In an interview before the event, Emanuel said he was looking forward to the prospect of a lengthy, heated Republican primary race ? and the exposure it gives to the GOP candidates.

"I think a lot of people want to see it over quickly, and I don't think they're going to get that," he said.

Sounding the populist theme that Obama has been offering in recent weeks, Emanuel also said the president is focused less on the difficulty of his tasks as president and more on the struggles of the American middle class.

"He continues to help them try to get their feet back on the ground. That's the struggle he's worried about, not his struggle," Emanuel said.

Associated Press

Source: http://hosted2.ap.org/APDEFAULT/3d281c11a96b4ad082fe88aa0db04305/Article_2011-11-19-Iowa%20Democrats-Emanuel/id-8969c79dc0bc4412943f67a1f53d4617

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Los Angeles Dodgers sue to keep Fox from blocking team sale (Reuters)

(Reuters) ? The Los Angeles Dodgers sued Fox Sports on Wednesday to stop the broadcaster of the baseball team's games from interfering with plans to auction the bankrupt franchise.

The lawsuit comes just four days after the Dodgers sought court permission to sell future media rights as a way to boost the value of the team as it heads to the auction block.

The Dodgers said in the lawsuit that Fox, a unit of News Corp, had sent a "cease and desist" letter to the Dodgers' adviser, who Fox said had solicited bidders for a media rights auction.

"The issuance of the Fox Letter was intended to interfere with the sale of the Dodgers and their assets in bankruptcy," said the lawsuit, filed in Delaware's bankruptcy court.

The Dodgers are seeking an injunction against Fox Sports and unspecified damages.

Fox said in its letter that the Dodgers' adviser, Blackstone Advisory Partners LP, had violated Fox's right to an exclusive negotiating period by reaching out to potential bidders of the media rights.

Fox, Blackstone and Major League Baseball did not immediately return calls for comment.

The Dodgers filed for bankruptcy in June after the league rejected the team's proposal to sell the rights to broadcast its games for $3 billion.

Until they reached a settlement this month, the bankruptcy pitted team owner Frank McCourt against league commissioner Bud Selig. Then two weeks ago, the league agreed to remain neutral on the media rights sale if the team were put up for auction.

A committee of unsecured creditors has asked a judge to end the Dodgers' exclusive control of its bankruptcy should the team be unable to make progress on an exit plan by February.

Losing the exclusive right to propose a bankruptcy plan would clear the way for other parties to present plans. Fox, for example, could ask the court to approve a plan that took a very different view of the media rights sale.

The Dodgers have asked for exclusive control through April 25. The exclusive period expired on October 25.

The Dodgers said in a statement on Wednesday that the media sale was the best way to maximize the value of the team and exit bankruptcy.

The Dodgers still have not said how they would run an auction that satisfied both Selig and McCourt, who acquired the Dodgers for $430 million in 2004.

One adviser who is discussing a possible bid with several interested groups said it was unclear how the process was going to move quickly.

This person, who declined to be identified, said it would be impossible to value the team until the media rights sale was completed, which could take months.

(Reporting by Tom Hals in Wilmington, Delaware, editing by Gerald E. McCormick)

Source: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/sports/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20111116/sp_nm/us_losangelesdodgers_fox_lawsuit

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Skype adds Facebook video chatting to software

Internet phone service Skype said Thursday that it will let users of its software make video calls to their Facebook friends and receive them, too.

The free feature, released Thursday in a "beta" test version of Skype's software for Macs and PCs, expands on an existing partnership between the companies.

Since July, Facebook has allowed users with webcams on their computers to make Skype-powered video calls on the social-networking site. And it had already been possible to chat with your Facebook friends through Skype's instant-messaging feature, though there wasn't yet a video component.

Skype lets users make calls, conduct video chats and send instant messages over the Internet. Its basic services are free, while users pay for services such as calling regular phones from a computer.

Jonathan Rosenberg, Skype's chief technology strategist, said the company wants to help a billion people communicate, particularly with video. Working with Facebook "is really taking us a big step closer to that goal," he said.

Facebook, which is based in Palo Alto, California, has more than 800 million users worldwide. Skype, which is located in Luxembourg, has more than 170 million.

Skype was bought by Microsoft Corp. for $8.5 billion earlier this year. Microsoft owns a small stake in Facebook.

Source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45340700/ns/technology_and_science-tech_and_gadgets/

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Analysis: Botched Mars mission shows Russian industry troubles

MOSCOW | Wed Nov 16, 2011 10:06am EST

MOSCOW

(Reuters) - Russia's unsuccessful launch of a Mars moon probe points up the problems of a once-pioneering space industry struggling to recover after a generation of brain drain and crimped budgets.

An unmanned craft, launched last Wednesday in what was meant to be post-Soviet Russia's interplanetary debut, got stuck in Earth's orbit and may drop down into the atmosphere within days.

The failure rattled Russian space officials but came as no surprise to many industry veterans who saw the ambitious mission to bring back dirt from the Martian moon Phobos as a pipe dream.

"Unfortunately, no miracle occurred," veteran cosmonaut Yuri Baturin quipped to the state-run newspaper Rossiiskaya Gazeta.

Despite improved budgets and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's pledge to restore pride in the sector, the Russian space industry is saddled the legacy of a lost generation of expertise, in many cases obsolete ground equipment and outdated Soviet-era designs.

It is plagued by the same corner cutting, decaying infrastructure and lack of effective quality control that are blamed for frequent disasters across Russia's industries, from coal mine and dam explosions to air crashes.

The Soviet Union began the space age over half a century ago by launching the satellite Sputnik, but Russia has been entirely absent from space beyond Earth's orbit for 20 years, while U.S. probes have voyaged into the farthest reaches of the solar system. Even newcomers India, China and Japan have sent unmanned missions to the moon and beyond.

Post-Soviet Russia's sole attempt to strike out to other planets ended in the spectacular breakup of its Mars-96 probe in the atmosphere in 1996.

Smarting from the crash, Russia withdrew from deep space for 15 years. The $165 million Phobos-Grunt probe, first conceived in the 1990s, was to be its comeback mission.

The troubles cap a humiliating string of costly botched launches that marred this year's celebration of the 50th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's pioneering human space flight.

"It's very sad but it's a result of the difficult period we lived through in the 1990s. We are working almost from scratch," lead Phobos-Grunt mission scientist Alexander Zakharov said.

Space agency Roskosmos largely survived the funding crunch by selling tourists and foreign astronauts seats on its Soviet-design space capsules and lofting foreign satellites on rockets converted from Soviet-era missiles.

Since the U.S. space shuttles retired this summer, Russia's Soyuz are the only ships flying crews to the International Space Station (ISS), at a cost of about $350 million a year to NASA.

But Russia has nothing to be proud of in this, its new space agency chief told lawmakers last month in a gloomy speech outlining "deep" sector problems at the root of recent mishaps.

"While other countries are developing new things, we're forced to focus on ... old spacecraft," Vladimir Popovkin said.

Moscow has over-prioritized human space flight, he said, and must shift focus back to deep-space exploration and Earth observation, offering greater science and technology returns.

While Russia carries out some 40 percent of global space launches, it held only 3 percent of the $267 billion dollar global space industry market in 2010, Popovkin said.

The industry's great weakness is electronics, crucial to a satellite's lifespan, said expert Rachel Villain of Euroconsult, a consultancy tracking the space sector for over 25 years.

"That's why they have such a big launch experience. In the '90s, their satellites lasted six months, compared to the United States' 10 years," she said.

"They had to keep launching new ones to replace them."

Now Russia mainly buys its electronics from Europe. Up to 80 percent of the equipment on its spacecraft is imported, former Roskosmos head Anatoly Perminov told state-run news agency RIA earlier this year.

BRAIN DRAIN

Years of low funding stripped the industry of a generation of talent, while salaries averaging 26,000 roubles ($850) a month fail to attract new blood.

"Before we didn't work for money but we were in the limelight, at the front lines of our country's pride," Soviet cosmonaut and engineer Georgy Grechko, 80, told Reuters.

Of some 250,000 people employed by the sector, 90 percent are either older than 60 or younger than 30, experts say.

"The middle, a whole generation of engineers, has left," said Igor Marinin, editor of space journal Novosti Kosmonavtiki.

"This is the generation that should be in the top management positions right now. We have a real lack of experience."

With the Soviet breakup, Moscow woke up to find the maker of its workhorse Zenit rocket in newly-independent Ukraine and its main launch facility in Kazakhastan. The new borders raised costs even as many small industry suppliers went belly up.

Roskosmos also lost an extensive network of ground tracking sites and fleet of telemetry ships, leaving Russian controllers to scramble to contact the wayward Phobos-Grunt only once an orbit when it passes over Russia. [ID:nL5E7MA01B]

The problems have clouded what were to be the space program's biggest triumphs this century.

Months after Russia launched Elektro-L in January -- its first major high-altitude weather satellite in 17 years -- the country's chief meteorologist said its data was ineffective.

Last year, Russia promised the completion of its much-touted Glonass satellite navigation system to rival the U.S. GPS, but a botched launch crashed the last three $160 million orbiters.

Its reputation for commercial launches also took a hit with the loss this year of a $265 million, European-built communication satellite that was to service Russia for the next half decade.

Even Moscow's ability to guarantee space station operations was in doubt after it crashed a cargo flight bringing supplies to astronauts in orbit in August, delaying the launch of a new crew, now due to leave on Monday morning

The mishaps prompted Putin to order an overhaul of safety checks on Russian rockets and Roskosmos to announce the creation of an independent quality-control body.

Russia has boosted its budget for space by some 40 percent per year over the last five years, spending $5.5 billion in 2010, according to Euroconsult.

But veterans say the industry is lagging years behind.

"The scariest thing is that in 20 years everything was brought to ruin, so now no matter what they do, no matter what they pay to save it, nothing will be accomplished in 20 days," Grechko said.

"You need at least 10 years to rebuild everything."

(Reporting by Alissa de Carbonnel; Editing by Steve Gutterman/Ruth Pitchford)

Source: http://feeds.reuters.com/~r/reuters/scienceNews/~3/PhuvYQLVsGg/us-russia-space-idUSTRE7AC0G120111116

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Withdrawal of care may occur too soon in cardiac arrest patients who receive hypothermia treatment

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Patients often regain consciousness 3 days or more after arrest

(ORLANDO) -- Physicians may be making premature predictions about which patients are not likely to survive following cardiac arrest and even withdrawing care -- before the window in which comatose patients who have received therapeutic hypothermia are most likely to wake up, according to two new studies from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. The research helps to better define the proper timeframe and manner in which doctors may be able to predict which patients will regain consciousness after the use of therapeutic hypothermia, which preserves brain and other organ function following cardiac arrest.

Patients treated with hypothermia often don't regain consciousness until three or more days after their cardiac arrest, according Penn research that will present today at the American Heart Association's annual Scientific Sessions (Abstract #10778. But in a separate Penn study published online this week in Critical Care Medicine, a chart review found that documentation of "poor" or "grave" prognosis occurred early on in 57 percent of cardiac arrest patients' treatment with hypothermia, with a quarter of those patients' care being withdrawn within 72 hours after their arrest. More than 20 percent of those patients whose doctors predicted they would die or suffer severe brain damage actually survived to discharge with a good neurological outcome, meaning they had mild or moderate cognitive deficits, but were able to live independently and often, resume their work and family responsibilities.

"Hypothermia improves survival after cardiac arrest, but it's changing our assumptions about how and when we should talk about withdrawing life support," said David Gaieski, MD, an assistant professor of Emergency Medicine, who led the research that will be presented at the AHA Scientific Sessions. "In the therapeutic hypothermia era, the timeframe for neuroprognostication needs to be prolonged, with decisions about withdrawal of care delayed until several days after the cardiac arrest -- at the earliest. Patients benefit from being managed by multidisciplinary teams that include experts in resuscitation as well as cardiologists, intensivists, and neurologists."

His study found that time to arousal following resuscitation and therapeutic hypothermia is highly variable and often longer than three days. Of 154 patients studied in three hospitals over a five-year period, the researchers found that 42 percent of patients studied survived to discharge from the hospital. Seventy two percent of those patients had a good neurological outcome. The mean time to arousal, which the researchers defined as the point at which the patient began following commands purposefully, was 3.8 days, with a range of 0.5 to 14.5 days. Even among those who were discharged in good neurological condition, the mean time to arousal was 3.2 days, indicating that efforts to predict a patient's outcome early during cooling are not likely to be effective. The study found that patients who had kidney problems prior to their arrest, had an initial heart rhythm that could not be shocked back to normalcy, and who did not receive paralytic drugs during their treatment were more likely to take longer to regain consciousness.

In an effort to better determine which tests might help pinpoint which patients may survive with fewer cognitive impairments, Merchant's team also studied the use of head CT, electroencephalography, and somatosensory evoked potential testing following arrest in the cases they examined. Although at least one of these tests were commonly used, they were used at a variety of different points following arrest, and are known to be less precise when the body temperature is below normal, partly because drugs that can impact test results accumulate in the body under those conditions. In addition, the researchers note that prognostication while a patient is paralyzed and sedated necessary during the hypothermia procedure to keep patients comfortable presents special ethical challenges.

"We need additional studies to better understand the optimal timing and diagnostic tools for post-arrest prognostication," said Raina Merchant, MD, MS, an assistant professor of Emergency Medicine and senior fellow in the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, who led the research published in Critical Care Medicine. "This work is essential for improving the care we provide for cardiac arrest survivors."

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Penn Medicine is one of the world's leading academic medical centers, dedicated to the related missions of medical education, biomedical research, and excellence in patient care. Penn Medicine consists of the Raymond and Ruth Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania (founded in 1765 as the nation's first medical school) and the University of Pennsylvania Health System, which together form a $4 billion enterprise.

Penn's Perelman School of Medicine is currently ranked #2 in U.S. News & World Report's survey of research-oriented medical schools and among the top 10 schools for primary care. The School is consistently among the nation's top recipients of funding from the National Institutes of Health, with $507.6 million awarded in the 2010 fiscal year.

The University of Pennsylvania Health System's patient care facilities include: The Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania -- recognized as one of the nation's top 10 hospitals by U.S. News & World Report; Penn Presbyterian Medical Center; and Pennsylvania Hospital the nation's first hospital, founded in 1751. Penn Medicine also includes additional patient care facilities and services throughout the Philadelphia region.

Penn Medicine is committed to improving lives and health through a variety of community-based programs and activities. In fiscal year 2010, Penn Medicine provided $788 million to benefit our community.


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215-200-2313
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

Patients often regain consciousness 3 days or more after arrest

(ORLANDO) -- Physicians may be making premature predictions about which patients are not likely to survive following cardiac arrest and even withdrawing care -- before the window in which comatose patients who have received therapeutic hypothermia are most likely to wake up, according to two new studies from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. The research helps to better define the proper timeframe and manner in which doctors may be able to predict which patients will regain consciousness after the use of therapeutic hypothermia, which preserves brain and other organ function following cardiac arrest.

Patients treated with hypothermia often don't regain consciousness until three or more days after their cardiac arrest, according Penn research that will present today at the American Heart Association's annual Scientific Sessions (Abstract #10778. But in a separate Penn study published online this week in Critical Care Medicine, a chart review found that documentation of "poor" or "grave" prognosis occurred early on in 57 percent of cardiac arrest patients' treatment with hypothermia, with a quarter of those patients' care being withdrawn within 72 hours after their arrest. More than 20 percent of those patients whose doctors predicted they would die or suffer severe brain damage actually survived to discharge with a good neurological outcome, meaning they had mild or moderate cognitive deficits, but were able to live independently and often, resume their work and family responsibilities.

"Hypothermia improves survival after cardiac arrest, but it's changing our assumptions about how and when we should talk about withdrawing life support," said David Gaieski, MD, an assistant professor of Emergency Medicine, who led the research that will be presented at the AHA Scientific Sessions. "In the therapeutic hypothermia era, the timeframe for neuroprognostication needs to be prolonged, with decisions about withdrawal of care delayed until several days after the cardiac arrest -- at the earliest. Patients benefit from being managed by multidisciplinary teams that include experts in resuscitation as well as cardiologists, intensivists, and neurologists."

His study found that time to arousal following resuscitation and therapeutic hypothermia is highly variable and often longer than three days. Of 154 patients studied in three hospitals over a five-year period, the researchers found that 42 percent of patients studied survived to discharge from the hospital. Seventy two percent of those patients had a good neurological outcome. The mean time to arousal, which the researchers defined as the point at which the patient began following commands purposefully, was 3.8 days, with a range of 0.5 to 14.5 days. Even among those who were discharged in good neurological condition, the mean time to arousal was 3.2 days, indicating that efforts to predict a patient's outcome early during cooling are not likely to be effective. The study found that patients who had kidney problems prior to their arrest, had an initial heart rhythm that could not be shocked back to normalcy, and who did not receive paralytic drugs during their treatment were more likely to take longer to regain consciousness.

In an effort to better determine which tests might help pinpoint which patients may survive with fewer cognitive impairments, Merchant's team also studied the use of head CT, electroencephalography, and somatosensory evoked potential testing following arrest in the cases they examined. Although at least one of these tests were commonly used, they were used at a variety of different points following arrest, and are known to be less precise when the body temperature is below normal, partly because drugs that can impact test results accumulate in the body under those conditions. In addition, the researchers note that prognostication while a patient is paralyzed and sedated necessary during the hypothermia procedure to keep patients comfortable presents special ethical challenges.

"We need additional studies to better understand the optimal timing and diagnostic tools for post-arrest prognostication," said Raina Merchant, MD, MS, an assistant professor of Emergency Medicine and senior fellow in the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, who led the research published in Critical Care Medicine. "This work is essential for improving the care we provide for cardiac arrest survivors."

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Penn Medicine is one of the world's leading academic medical centers, dedicated to the related missions of medical education, biomedical research, and excellence in patient care. Penn Medicine consists of the Raymond and Ruth Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania (founded in 1765 as the nation's first medical school) and the University of Pennsylvania Health System, which together form a $4 billion enterprise.

Penn's Perelman School of Medicine is currently ranked #2 in U.S. News & World Report's survey of research-oriented medical schools and among the top 10 schools for primary care. The School is consistently among the nation's top recipients of funding from the National Institutes of Health, with $507.6 million awarded in the 2010 fiscal year.

The University of Pennsylvania Health System's patient care facilities include: The Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania -- recognized as one of the nation's top 10 hospitals by U.S. News & World Report; Penn Presbyterian Medical Center; and Pennsylvania Hospital the nation's first hospital, founded in 1751. Penn Medicine also includes additional patient care facilities and services throughout the Philadelphia region.

Penn Medicine is committed to improving lives and health through a variety of community-based programs and activities. In fiscal year 2010, Penn Medicine provided $788 million to benefit our community.


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Heather Locklear and Jack Wagner: It's Over!


The wedding is off for Heather Locklear and Jack Wagner.

Just three months after the couple announced their engagement, news broke today that the couple has called off those plans, with no explanation given.

Her rep says, "Jack and Heather are no longer engaged."

Heather Locklear and Jack Wagner Photo

The two, who started dating in 2007 after she divorced Richie Sambora, were last seen together in September celebrating her 50th birthday in Hawaii.

Locklear stepped out solo to the Breaking Dawn premiere Monday night in Hollywood, walking the event's black carpet without her engagement ring.

Here's wishing them both the best going forward.

Source: http://www.thehollywoodgossip.com/2011/11/heather-locklear-and-jack-wagner-its-over/

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Roadside bomb kills 6 Afghan civilians (AP)

KABUL, Afghanistan ? A roadside bomb killed six civilians on Saturday in Afghanistan's eastern Laghman province, a provincial official said.

Faizanullah Patan, a spokesman for the provincial governor, said the explosion destroyed the car in which the six victims, five men and a woman, were traveling. He said it occurred just outside Mehterlam, the capital of Laghman.

In southern Afghanistan's Nimroz province, gunmen on Saturday shot and killed a village elder in the Khash Rod district, regional chief Hashim Norizia said.

Nimroz has been recommended for transition from NATO to Afghan security control later this year. The city of Mehterlam was transitioned in July.

A bicycle bomb in western Herat province's Injil district wounded two police officers and two civilians, the Interior Ministry said.

Many Afghan militants have traditionally had their strongholds in the south, but also carry out numerous attacks along the eastern border with Pakistan.

Meanwhile, 12 people were killed in a traffic accident in the Gereshk district of southwestern Helmand province when a car collided with a bus, provincial traffic director Abdul Rahman Azizi said. Another three people died in a second traffic accident in the same district, he said.

Source: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/asia/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20111112/ap_on_re_as/as_afghanistan

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Mexican president's sister seeks governorship (AP)

MORELIA, Mexico ? Mexicans voted in the western state of Michoacan in a crucial political test Sunday for President Felipe Calderon in his home state, where his sister sought the governor's post.

Voters also were electing 40 federal congressional representatives and 112 mayors following dozens of drug cartel-related attacks over the last two years targeting local officials in the state.

The vote count was going very slowly Sunday night. With less than less than 4 percent of the polling stations reporting, the governor's race was a dead heat.

The election was being watched as an indicator for Mexico's presidential election next year, for which opinion polls have been indicating that Calderon's conservative National Action Party, or PAN, will struggle to retain the presidency.

The vote results also would reflect more clearly on the president, whose sister, Luisa Maria "Cocoa" Calderon, ran for the governorship in the family's home state where the president launched his offensive against drug cartels in late 2006.

Luisa Maria Calderon promised to advance her brother's anti-drug campaign and led in most opinion polls going into the vote, the last state election before the presidential contest in July. A victory would boost the morale of the PAN, which has held the presidency since 2000 but has been hurt recently by voter fatigue over drug violence.

Such violence has been a main concern in Michoacan and many people feared it could disrupt Sunday's vote.

Jesus Zambrano Grijalvo, president of the leftist Revolutionary Democratic Party, or PRD, said his party sympathizers in a mountainous zone plagued by drug violence were being intimidated by organized crime gangs and pressured not to vote. Zambrano did not go into details at a news conference Sunday.

Residents of the rural city of Cheran refused to let poll workers into their town amid demands for an election that they said would respect their customs and traditions. The indigenous Purepecha people who live in Cheran have in recent months wielded rifles and mounted roadblocks keeping out suspected illegal loggers and drug traffickers.

The Michoacan Electoral Institute said in a news release Sunday that officials were still unable to carry out elections in Cheran and were determining how the 16,000 residents there will elect their leaders. Voting continued elsewhere in the state, despite the problems in Cheran.

In the city of La Piedad, a local newspaper published on Sunday an unsigned note blaming the PAN for drug killings and threatening the party's supporters. News reports said the newspaper had been forced to publish the warning.

"Don't wear T-shirts or PAN advertising because we don't want to confuse you and have innocent people die," read the note, which was also circulated by email.

It was not immediately clear who sent the email or published the newspaper ad, which came 11 days after La Piedad Mayor Ricardo Guzman was shot dead while handing out leaflets for several PAN candidates, including Luisa Maria Calderon. No arrests have been made in the attack.

Twitter users claiming to belong to the "Anonymous" hackers movement said they were behind an attack on the website of a party backing Luisa Maria Calderon. The tweets also said hackers attacked the Michoacan Electoral Institute's website, the site where election results are announced and which had been down for hours.

The PAN has yet to win a governorship in Michoacan, and the PRD has dominated federal offices and the presidential vote there since 2000. Local offices have been a toss-up between the PRD and the Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI.

Calderon faced PRD candidate Silvano Aureoles Conejo and Morelia Mayor Fausto Vallejo Figueroa of the PRI.

The PRI sought a victory in Michoacan to build momentum for regaining the presidency, which it lost to the PAN in 2000 after 71 years of single-party rule. The PRI so far is fielding the most popular pre-candidate in the presidential race, former Mexico state Gov. Enrique Pena Nieto.

"Whoever wins, their party will claim it helps for 2012, especially the current underdogs ? PAN and PRD," said Shannon O'Neil, a Latin America expert for the U.S.-based think tank the Council on Foreign Relations.

The once-dominant PRD trailed the other two major parties in the Michoacan governor's race, according to opinion polls. As Michoacan's governing party for a decade, the PRD drew criticism for the state's drug violence, and some of its legislative candidates were accused of having close ties to drug cartels.

More than 40,000 people have died in drug-related violence across Mexico during the federal government's five-year offensive, according to many estimates. Calderon's administration hasn't released official figures since nearly a year ago, when it counted 35,000.

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Associated Press writer Adriana Gomez Licon contributed to this report.

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