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“All it takes is one good guy with a gun…..” – ‘Georgia man flaunts gun at local Little League field intimidating parents and children’

The Last Of The Millenniums

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Yeah!!! That’s showing ’em.

Protecting his 2nd Amendment Rights!!

‘A Georgia man panicked parents and children at a local park and baseball field by randomly walking around and displaying his gun to anyone he encountered in the parking lot’.

‘According to witnesses who spoke with WSB-TV, the man wandered around the Forsythe County park last Tuesday night showing his gun to strangers, telling them “there’s nothing you can do about it.”

“Anyone who was just walking by – you had parents and children coming in for the game – and he’s just standing here, walking around [saying] ‘You want to see my gun? Look, I got a gun and there’s nothing you can do about it.

He knew he was frightening people. He knew exactly what he was doing,” said parent Karen Rabb’.
From :http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/04/26/georgia-man-flaunts-gun-at-local-little-league-field-intimidating-parents-and-children/

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MAYDAY: Art Workers’ Pride Visual Archive

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This Thursday is May Day, international workers’ day. 

Across the globe workers will celebrate May Day in various ways, organizing street demonstrations and protest marches in their communities, demanding justice and freedom for all oppressed people. 

With this occasion, ArtLeaks will inaugurate a visual archive dedicated to art workers’ pride, which will continue to gather material throughout the year. 

We invite you to submit visual documentation of protests/performances/comics/banners/short texts related to art and cultural struggles. Please send the material to artsleaks@gmail.com or @Art_Leaks, including the credit information and a title or very short description. Both signed and anonymous entries welcome. 

Our aim is to create a visual archive of different actors and movements around the globe focused on art labour. We think this is will grow into a great resource and encourage all persons working in art and culture to submit their materials to this public archive.

Happy May Day International…

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MERS: Mortality Over Time

Mens et Manus

As I’ve been investigating MERS, I’ve noticed that the mortality rate associated with the disease has seemed to drop off recently. To test whether this was actually the case, I made three graphs. In the first, I plotted all cases of MERS since it was first documented in 2012 to present day; I also included deaths over that same time period:
mers_mortality_monthly_alltime_4.26In this time frame, the mortality is a little over a quarter. However, upon creating this chart, it looked to me as if the mortality associated with this past month was significantly less than its been in the past. So, I decided to take the current outbreak – which began somewhere between the end of March 2014 and beginning of April 2014 – out of the time series:
mers_mortality_mar12thru14_4.26Apparently, prior to April 2014, the mortality rate associated with MERS was a whopping 39%. To bring the total rate from…

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Supposedly unemployed British builder used in UKIP poster is an Irish actor

Pride's Purge

(not satire – it’s the UKIP!)

Oh dear.

Turns out the supposedly unemployed British builder used in one of UKIP’s election posters isn’t British at all:

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And he’s not unemployed either. Or even a builder.

In fact he’s an EU immigrant – an Irish actor called Dave O’Rourke. Here he is in a film called ‘Mordere‘:

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Oops!

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If you think about it, this means UKIP have used a migrant worker instead of a British worker to play a British worker whose job has been taken by migrant workers in a poster attacking migrant workers for taking British jobs.

Which is why when it comes to satire – I’m a BIG fan of UKIP.

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Please feel free to comment.

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MERS: Healthcare Workers

Deadly but more so among those who are vulnerable because of other serious health issues. And, it seems, that close contact with ill people is now a more important source of contracting the virus.

Mens et Manus

After working on my last visualization, I wanted to explore MERS in healthcare workers a little further. I was especially curious about how much healthcare workers have contributed to the total case count we’ve seen since MERS was first documented in 2012, as well as since the onset of the ongoing outbreak in the Middle East. These two graphs illustrate what I found:
monthly_mers_hcwgp_4.26daily_mers_hcwgp_4.26Note: Temporal data indicates date of onset, hospitalization, diagnosis, or public reporting. 

As I stressed while creating the MERS visualization series, case data are incomplete and likely to change. However, I do think it’s fascinating that such a large proportion of cases have been healthcare workers – and that this fact has especially been the case during the current outbreak (3/20/2014 to present). I’m beginning to wonder how this finding might be related to some other factors I discovered while working on the visualization series…

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