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Puerto Ricans Rally Against Monsanto and Genetically Modified Foods
MERS: Impact of comorbidity on mortality, revisited
While the MERS outbreak in Saudi Arabia has been winding down, I’ve been retroactively adding newly announced deaths to previously reported cases. (Given the ~15 day lag time between onset of symptoms and death, I expect that there’ll be more deaths to add to the tally in the days ahead.)
Recently, I was able to match the vast majority of deaths announced thus far to their respective database case entries, giving us a clearer picture of what case fatality rate has really looked like in recent weeks. As of today – May 27th – only 5 deaths remain unmatched, all from the KSA. It’s certainly possible that I’ve mismatched some of these retroactively-added deaths, despite stringent triangulation using age, gender, location, and (more recently) reporting date data. This said, I feel confident enough in the data as they stand today to share an up-to-date “redo” of the comorbidity/mortality relative risk…
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When down and asked to help and give – it brings you up again – maybe the most valuable learning in your grad school experience. Good on you!
Compassion
”pulls at your heart” So true
Yurumein: Homeland now available for purchase
Texas woman files federal lawsuit after birth in solitary confinement results in baby’s death
The claim further goes on to describe Guerrero’s night in solitary confinement, where she tried in vain to get medical attention all night and ended up delivering a baby that was not breathing and had its umbilical cord wrapped around its neck.
Though shocking, I wish I could say this news is surprising. Given what we know about access to reproductive health care in prison and the criminalization of drug-addicted pregnant women, it really isn’t – it is a mere continuation of the long list of degradations and indignities people suffer when imprisoned. I’ve quoted Cece McDonald on this and before and will do so again: prisons aren’t safe for anybody.
via Texas woman files federal lawsuit after birth in solitary confinement results in baby’s death.
Jimmy Carter’s Call to Action – Women, Religion, Violence and Power – Look to the Stars
“It’s kind of a subtle thing that men enjoy their superiority in getting the best jobs, the best opportunity to go to university and that sort of thing,” says Carter. “Two of the most revered institutions in the United States of America is our university system and our military. Sexual abuse or assaults on campuses in our major universities, like Harvard and Yale and Emery University where I teach, is really horrendous and only four percent of the rapes on college campuses are reported. There are about six times as many reported in civilian life outside of universities, and this is primarily because presidents of colleges and universities and deans and so forth don’t want to bring discredit or a bad reputation on their own institution. So they encourage girls not to report.
“And soon, a few boys on the campus who are students realize that they can commit these crimes with impunity. So they become serial rapists and get away with it. The department of defence found that in the US military alone, 26 thousand sexual assaults took place, and only about 300 actually resulted in anybody being punished. That’s about one percent.
“You see, there’s an aversion to admit what goes on even in our most cherished institutions.”
via Jimmy Carter’s Call to Action – Women, Religion, Violence and Power – Look to the Stars.
The Hindu fundamentalists: request to ban the Muslim call to prayer in India – Fides News Agency
Feeling big after win of fundamentalist to lead India – shame!
The protest follows a series of incidents in Mangalore in recent days, in which groups of thugs threw stones against two mosques. In another incident, some Hindu extremists entered a madrassa (Islamic religious school) in the village of Vittla, shouting slogans of victory. In other cases, the individual Muslim citizens were beaten by radical militants.
via The Hindu fundamentalists: request to ban the Muslim call to prayer in India – Fides News Agency.
Mississippi Judge Accused of Striking Young Black Man, Then Yelling ‘Run, Nigger, Run!’ and being as abusive to a female vendor| Hatewatch
“I do not care if this young man was being a nuisance,” said the first witness, who is white. “I do not care if he were breaking a law, I do not care if he were loitering, but I do care that a man of authority, one that is sworn to protect and serve, was slapping a young man.”
She added that she also saw Weisenberger verbally assault a female vendor at the market, threatening to make her move her car to a distant location before she could unload. When the woman asked him to change his tone, he reportedly replied that he would only deal with her husband, “because he didn’t take orders from a woman.”
The executive director of the state Judicial Commission, Darlene Ballard, told Mitchell that if the allegations are true, they would “violate multiple canons” of the state’s Judicial Code of Conduct.
Former Canton Mayor William Truly, president of the Canton branch of the NAACP, led a press conference Friday denouncing Weisenberger.
“This is 2014, not 1960, where someone could slap a young man and call out, ‘Run, nigger, run,” Truly said. He called on Weisenberger either to simply resign or to step aside from hearing cases until the matter is resolved.
“No citizen should have to face justice before a judge who holds such a high degree of racial animus and hatred,” Truly said.
via Mississippi Judge Accused of Striking Young Black Man, Then Yelling ‘Run, Nigger, Run!’ | Hatewatch.

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