Democratic senators call on DoJ to investigate Clarence Thomas | Clarence Thomas | The Guardian

Source: Democratic senators call on DoJ to investigate Clarence Thomas | Clarence Thomas | The Guardian

Counting the dead in Gaza: difficult but essential – The Lancet

Armed conflicts have indirect health implications beyond the direct harm from violence. Even if the conflict ends immediately, there will continue to be many indirect deaths in the coming months and years from causes such as reproductive, communicable, and non-communicable diseases. The total death toll is expected to be large given the intensity of this conflict; destroyed health-care infrastructure; severe shortages of food, water, and shelter; the population’s inability to flee to safe places; and the loss of funding to UNRWA, one of the very few humanitarian organisations still active in the Gaza Strip.

In recent conflicts, such indirect deaths range from three to 15 times the number of direct deaths. Applying a conservative estimate of four indirect deaths per one direct death to the 37 396 deaths reported, it is not implausible to estimate that up to 186 000 or even more deaths could be attributable to the current conflict in Gaza.

Source: Counting the dead in Gaza: difficult but essential – The Lancet

♫ Sloop John B ♫ | Filosofa’s Word

According to pop historian Joseph Murrells, this was the Beach Boys’ fastest selling record to date – over 500,000 within two weeks in the US alone.

During a discussion and performance at the Grammy Museum in Los Angeles in January 2009 Wilson said that Pet Sounds was named using Phil Spector’s initials. Wilson’s approach to the producing of the album was influenced by Spector’s “Wall of Sound” technique.

This one reached in the UK and Canada, in the U.S.

Sloop John B

The Beach Boys

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