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Measles At A Rock Concert Goes Viral

If you went to see the Kings of Leon concert on March 28 in Seattle, lets hope you came home with nothing but great memories.

A young woman at that concert in Seattle has come down withmeasles, which can be spread for days by a person whos infected but not yet sick. Thats bad news for the thousands of people who shared the concert hall with her, or were at the many other places she went that week.

And thats why the Washington State Department of Health has published the unidentified womansscheduleonline.

"The reason were doing this is that its so highly contagious," saysDr. Jeffrey Duchin, who is chief of communicable disease control for Seattle and King County Public Health, which investigated the measles case. It can stay in the air for hours after the contagious person has left. If we dont treat these people, the chain of transmission can continue.

The young woman became contagious on March 26, after visiting a family with measles cases that were linked to an outbreak in British Columbia. Unaware she was infected, she went to work at a bakery, filled her car up at a gas station, went to the concert, went to Pike Place Market and went out for sushi. All the while she was spreading viruses in the air.

So if you were at the Starbucks at 102 Pike Street between 11:15 a.m. and 2 p.m. on March 29 and youre not sure if youre immune to measles, theWashington State Department of Healthwants you to see a health care professional immediately. You may be in the market for a quick shot of vaccine or immune globulin.

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Photo:This ones virus-free: Matthew Followill, Nathan Followill and Caleb Followill of Kings of Leon performed in Los Angeles in December. (Kevin Winter/Getty Images for Radio.com)

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McGill med school defends process

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MONTREAL The top brass of McGill Universitys medical school had a very pointed message about its admissions procedure at a town-hall meeting Tuesday afternoon: This is the way it has to be.

Meeting mainly students and faculty at a full-house meeting, medicine faculty officials laid out the reasoning for their push for diversity, acknowledged there may be ramifications that not everyone is happy about, but strongly defended their process and the rationale behind it.

They were grilled about why McGill eliminated the MCAT as an admissions screening tool; why they dont have a language proficiency test for potential students; and what their responsibility is to provide accessibility for the English community.

As a medical school we have a responsibility to the people of Montreal and its environs, but we also have a responsibility to Gatineau and Abitibi, said Dr. David Eidelman, the dean of medicine. I feel very strongly that using language tests as a basis for accepting students is wrong. The fact that some of our sister schools have decided to do this is something I think people should take up with them.

But there was a hint at one possible concession that the title of Admissions, Equity and Diversity (it is the only medical school in North America to include equity and diversity in the title of its admissions office) may have been a mistake and may be changed.

We should have two offices one for admissions and one to promote the ideals of diversity, suggested Dr. Barry Slapcoff, a family physician who recently ended a long association with the admissions committee. Many refused candidates and their families may come to the conclusion they were rejected because they were not the right type of diverse.

Eidelman said the faculty, in fact, probably will move in that direction.

Although the external review said not to do that, its clear from a lot of feedback that it leads to confusion, Eidelman said. I think the decision to do that was made rather hastily a number of years ago. but certainly were very open to that suggestion.

Having taken a lot of heat for focusing on creating diversity in the faculty and courting francophone applicants sparking resentment this has been done at the expense of its traditional anglophone cohort medical school officials reiterated to a sometimes hostile crowd gathered in an amphitheatre of the McIntyre Medical Science Building that their strategy was both necessary and desirable.

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UNLV taps planning dean for proposed medical school

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Wednesday, May 7, 2014 | 5:15 p.m.

Barbara Atkinson

UNLV officials announced a new dean who is charged with shepherding a proposed UNLV medical school into reality.

Barbara Atkinson, who formerly served as emeritus vice chancellor and dean of the University of Kansas School of Medicine, will become the planning dean for the UNLV School of Medicine, effective May 19.

Atkinson, 71, will work with the university campus to develop a vision for the first public allopathic medical school in Southern Nevada. She will oversee preliminary planning for curriculum, raise funds for construction and establish a community advisory committee to align regional needs to the schools mission.

Barbara is a dynamic leader with a unique mix of research, academic and administrative experience, John Valery White, UNLVs executive vice president and provost, said in a statement. Were confident in her ability to develop a comprehensive vision for the UNLV School of Medicine that will serve the health care and workforce needs of Southern Nevadans.

Atkinson comes to UNLV after leading the University of Kansas medical school for a decade, from 2002 to 2012. Under her tenure, the University of Kansas medical center campus adopted a new curriculum, opened a state-of-the-art research building and medical office building and increased research funding and doubled donations to the school.

To address Kansas physician shortage, Atkinson opened a new campus in Salina, Kan., and expanded the Wichita, Kan., campus from a two-year program to a full, four-year program. In 2012, the University of Kansas School of Medicine became the 67th school nationally to earn National Cancer Institute designation.

From the moment I engaged in discussions about this position and the UNLV School of Medicine, it was clear that the university and the Nevada System of Higher Education are deeply committed to expanding public medical education in Southern Nevada, Atkinson said in a statement. There is no doubt we need to enhance health care capacity in Southern Nevada, and I believe that by fusing the passion of Nevadas higher education leadership with an increasingly engaged medical and business community, we can turn this vision into reality.

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Obstacles push student toward medical school

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All Jessica Ulrich could think about that day was her Medical College Admission Test scores.

She pinched her nose and forced the large cup of glue-thick, reeking, yellowy liquid past her gag reflex. Her empty stomach protested, but her mom was waiting with a tried-and-true half-stick of gum to kill the taste. Two more cups to go.

With an IV pumping into her veins, she lay on a plastic board, hands above her head and rolled into the familiar tunnel of beeping and knocking sounds of the Magnetic Resonance Enterography machine.

But this time, Ulrich wasnt worried about the complications of her Crohnsdisease.

I was thinking the whole time, My scores are coming out right now, Ulrich said.

After it was over, her shaking hands grabbed her phone. As nurses wheeled her from one room to another, she typed in her password and cried when the slow hospital Internet finally brought her to the page.

The disease couldnt stop the 23-year-old from getting into the University of Minnesota Medical School.

Not an easy diagnosis

Ulrich was dissecting a human cadaver when her anatomy lab group, and closest medical school friends, learned of her Crohns disease. She was having trouble using the scalpel because of a reaction to her medication that made the joints in her fingers sore.

The students in her group, including her good friend Madeleine Roberts and her current boyfriend, understood the disease from their studies, which came as a relief to Ulrich.

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Libertarian socialism – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Libertarian socialism (sometimes called social anarchism,[1][2]left-libertarianism[3][4] and socialist libertarianism[5]) is a group of political philosophies that promote a non-hierarchical, non-bureaucratic society without private property in the means of production. Libertarian socialists believe in converting present-day private productive property into common, while retaining respect for personal property, based on occupancy and use.[6] Libertarian socialism is opposed to coercive forms of social organization. It promotes free association in place of government and opposes the social relations of capitalism, such as wage labor.[7] The term libertarian socialism is used by some socialists to differentiate their philosophy from state socialism,[8][9] and by some as a synonym for anarchism.[1][2][10]

Adherents of libertarian socialism assert that a society based on freedom and equality can be achieved through abolishing authoritarian institutions that control certain means of production and subordinate the majority to an owning class or political and economic elite.[11] Libertarian socialism also constitutes a tendency of thought that promotes the identification, criticism, and practical dismantling of illegitimate authority in all aspects of life.[12][13][14][15][16][17][18]

Accordingly, libertarian socialists believe that "the exercise of power in any institutionalized formwhether economic, political, religious, or sexualbrutalizes both the wielder of power and the one over whom it is exercised".[19] Libertarian socialists generally place their hopes in decentralized means of direct democracy such as libertarian municipalism, citizens' assemblies, trade unions, and workers' councils.[20]

Political philosophies commonly described as libertarian socialist include most varieties of anarchism (especially anarchist communism, anarchist collectivism, anarcho-syndicalism,[21] and mutualism[22]) as well as autonomism, Communalism, participism, libertarian Marxist philosophies such as council communism and Luxemburgism,[23] and some versions of "utopian socialism"[24] and individualist anarchism.[25][26][27]

Libertarian socialism is a western philosophy with diverse interpretations, though some general commonalities can be found in its many incarnations. Its proponents generally advocate a worker-oriented system of production and organization in the workplace that in some aspects radically departs from neoclassical economics in favor of democratic cooperatives or common ownership of the means of production (socialism).[28] They propose that this economic system be executed in a manner that attempts to maximize the liberty of individuals and minimize concentration of power or authority (libertarianism).

Libertarian socialists are strongly critical of coercive institutions, which often leads them to reject the legitimacy of the state in favor of anarchism.[29] Adherents propose achieving this through decentralization of political and economic power, usually involving the socialization of most large-scale private property and enterprise (while retaining respect for personal property). Libertarian socialism tends to deny the legitimacy of most forms of economically significant private property, viewing capitalist property relations as forms of domination that are antagonistic to individual freedom.[30][31]

The first anarchist journal to use the term "libertarian" was Le Libertaire, Journal du Mouvement Social and it was published in New York City between 1858 and 1861 by French anarcho-communist Joseph Djacque.[32] "The next recorded use of the term was in Europe, when "libertarian communism" was used at a French regional anarchist Congress at Le Havre (1622 November 1880). January the following year saw a French manifesto issued on "Libertarian or Anarchist Communism." Finally, 1895 saw leading anarchists Sbastien Faure and Louise Michel publish La Libertaire in France."[32] The word stems from the French word libertaire, and was used to evade the French ban on anarchist publications.[33] In this tradition, the term "libertarianism" in "libertarian socialism" is generally used as a synonym for anarchism, which some say is the original meaning of the term; hence "libertarian socialism" is equivalent to "socialist anarchism" to these scholars.[2][34] In the context of the European socialist movement, libertarian has conventionally been used to describe those who opposed state socialism, such as Mikhail Bakunin.

The association of socialism with libertarianism predates that of capitalism, and many anti-authoritarians still decry what they see as a mistaken association of capitalism with libertarianism in the United States.[35] As Noam Chomsky put it, a consistent libertarian "must oppose private ownership of the means of production and wage slavery, which is a component of this system, as incompatible with the principle that labor must be freely undertaken and under the control of the producer."[36]

In a chapter recounting the history of libertarian socialism, economist Robin Hahnel relates that thus far the period where libertarian socialism has had its greatest impact was at the end of the 19th century through the first four decades of the twentieth century.

Early in the twentieth century, libertarian socialism was as powerful a force as social democracy and communism. The Libertarian International founded at the Congress of Saint Imier a few days after the split between Marxist and libertarians at the congress of the Socialist International held in The Hague in 1872 competed successfully against social democrats and communists alike for the loyalty of anticapitalist activists, revolutionaries, workers, unions and political parties for over fifty years. Libertarian socialists played a major role in the Russian revolutions of 1905 and 1917. Libertarian socialists played a dominant role in the Mexican Revolution of 1911. Twenty years after World War I was over, libertarian socialists were still strong enough to spearhead the social revolution that swept across Republican Spain in 1936 and 1937.[37]

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I can't recall reading a single article with more tendentious claims in it than this piece at Crisis by Joe Hargrave defending libertarianism and capitalism from the charge that they are not consonant with Catholic social teaching. These sentences show the complete lack of human solidarity that stalks the piece and places it well outside orthodox Catholic teaching:

Among the poorest areas of the United States one will find high rates of crime, drug abuse, educational failure, sexual deviance, illegitimacy, and so on. This is not to say that people in these areas ought to be written off, but it is to say that no employer is obliged to subsidize their moral failingsand neither are we, the frugal, well-behaved wage-earners to whom Leo XIII refers.

Callous and cold and, just so, not very Christian let alone Catholic.

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POLITICS: Hunter a lock, but challengers plan spirited attack

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Rep. Duncan D. Hunter is broadly expected to cruise to re-election in November, but thats not keeping his two opponents from planning spirited, grassroots campaigns. James Kimber, a Democrat, and Mike Benoit, a Libertarian, are both working to end Hunters congressional career.

Hunter, though, has all the advantages of rich funding and incumbency, plus a name that resonates in the district, which ranges from Temecula in the north to beyond El Cajon in the south.

Hunter filled his fathers shoes in 2008, when Duncan L. Hunter retired from the seat he held from 1981 to 2009, rising to chairman of the House Armed Services Committee. In 2008, the elder Hunter sought the Republican Party nomination for president, but dropped out after failing to gain traction among voters in early primaries and caucuses.

Challenger Kimber, a physicians assistant, said he knows he is in for a rough race, but he believes its worth it because hes frustrated by a polarized, paralyzed Congress.

Its a daunting task (running against such an established candidate); so, people throw their hands up in the air, he said and decline to even try. I guess I believe in serving my country.

The younger Hunter coasted to victory in 2008, winning 56 percent of the vote. In his most recent general election contest in 2012, Hunter bested Democratic nominee David Secor, 68 percent to 32 percent.

University of Virginias Center for Politics, which analyzes races, calls it a safe Republican district. Hunters seat, Claremont McKenna College political science professor Jack Pitney said, remains a lock.

Unless it turns out that he has a secret life as a cat burglar, he has a pretty firm grip on his seat, Pitney said.

Pitney added that the district has the highest Republican share of voters of any district in California. Mitt Romney won it by 22 percentage points.

Additionally, Hunter is far ahead of his challengers in the money game. He has $398,979 on hand, while Kimber has spent more than he has raised and Benoit has not yet started fundraising. Benoit said he will start raising money after the June 3 primary, if he emerges as one of the top two finishers.

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