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Toms River: How a Small Town Fought Back Against Corporate Giants for Toxic Dumping Linked to Cancer
A DAILY INDEPENDENT GLOBAL NEWS HOUR with Amy Goodman & Juan González
Environmental reporter Dan Fagin joins us to discuss his book, "Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation," which has just won the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction. Fagin tells the story of how a small New Jersey town fought back against industrial pollution and astronomical rates of childhood cancer, and ultimately won one of the largest legal settlements in U.S. history. "We don't look for patterns, we don't analyze those patterns. That is a terrible tragedy," Fagin says of the failure to examine environmental and industrial data gathered by local, state and federal agencies. "People are dying because we do not do effective public health surveillance in this country."
NERMEEN SHAIKH: We spend the rest of the hour looking at a fascinating story of a small town ravaged by industrial pollution, a town suffering from astronomical rates of childhood cancers scientifically linked to local air and water pollution, a town that ultimately came together, fought back and won one of the largest legal settlements in the annals of toxic dumping. That town is Toms River in New Jersey, and it's the focus of a new book that has just won the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction. In Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation, environmental reporter Dan Fagin recounts the 60-year saga of rampant pollution and inadequate oversight that makes Toms River a cautionary example for industrial towns, not just in the United States, but also in other countries like China.
Two of the Toms River residents who share their ordeal in the book are Linda Gillick and her son Michael, whose fast-growing tumors decimated his body. This is Linda, followed by Michael, speaking to the show Earth Focus.
LINDA GILLICK: I was 30 when I had Michael. You know, the first 30 years of our lives were carefree, like any young couple, you know, trying to pay your bills, enjoy life and doing things. And then you get a child that has cancer, and your whole life changes completely. It now is surrounded and revolves around your child that is sick.
MICHAEL GILLICK: I was diagnosed with neuroblastoma, which is a cancer of the sympathetic nervous system, and still have effects of it today.
LINDA GILLICK: Michael is alive. He's a miracle. He's received the last rites many times. He is 34 years old, has very limited normalcy to his life.
MICHAEL GILLICK: The tumor is pushing my spine pretty much out of my body, like it's wearing away the skin. It's also encompassed—like it wraps around, like, all my organs—my heart, lungs, kidneys, all that. And there's no surgical way to remove it without me either bleeding out on the table or becoming a vegetable, I was told.

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For some reason, most people don't feel neutral about cats. They're either a cat fanatic or a cat hater. I definitely fall into the first category — as soon as I moved out of my dorm, I adopted Sookie.
Sookie's a special cat. Her previous owners weren't the best. They left her de-clawed and a bit damaged after a year with large dogs and small children. She can't stand other animals or, really, most people.
I thought that with a loving home and some isolation from other animals her temperament might improve.
It's not the first time I was wrong about cats.
I didn't see Sookie for two weeks after I brought her home. I knew she was in the apartment, but I had no idea where. I assumed she was coming out to eat and use the litter box while I was at work — either that or I had some other animal lurking around.
I eventually found her hiding place on the top shelf of my closet. After that, she became a bit more social. By "more social," I mean that she left the closet so she could pee on everything I love. Over the course of a month, she peed on the middle of my mattress, my clean laundry (regularly), my book bag, my couch (every part of it), my computer chair and literally anything she could find that was somewhat soft.
I started leaving her in the bathroom with her food, water, and litter box when I wasn't home, bu I made the mistake of leaving a hand towel on the counter, so she peed on that, too. I didn't know if it was behavioral or something more serious, so I finally saved the money and took her to the vet.
She received an injection, and I started her on a new (expensive) low-sodium diet. Don't worry though — she's still a nightmare. What Sookie enjoys: pushing things off tables, meowing me awake in the wee hours of the morning, breaking my blinds.
Have a livint with pets nightmare to share? Leave it in the comments.


I discovered today that image resizing wasn't working for the blog. Amazingly, I'd never had an occasion where I cared about resizing an image until just now. But, when I did, I discovered a frustrating thing. In the "what you see is what you get" (WYSIWYG) editor for WordPress, the images were appearing correctly and looking good according to my sizing. But in preview mode, they were rendering at their original size.
After a bit of poking around, I discovered that my style.css was defaulting image height and width to auto. I removed this (under #content img), and everything was as I would expect. This seems obvious if you're just talking about the CSS of some page, but I didn't think of it off the bat, since the theme's handling of this seems to run completely counter to wordpress.
In a bit of a reversal, I'm going to cut right to the chase and post my solution, followed by the back-story for those interested. I'm posting it right at the top because this would have saved me an hour or so had I stumbled across it last night, and I'm hoping it helps someone else later. So, without further to-do (points to anyone who can name the movie reference), here's how to create a placeholder menu item in WordPress, without using the control panel's menus (i.e. just the default menuing used by your theme).
The basic idea is that I wanted a menu at the top that had sub-menus, but without the menu item itself being clickable. The default in my theme (as well as twentyten and twentyeleven) is to have pages with no parent as menu-items and pages assigned a parent as sub-menu items. This is perfect, except for the fact that every menu item is a page, meaning that adding a page as the placeholder menu item forces me to add a navigable, empty page, which is kind of low rent from a design/UX perspective.
So, the interesting thing here is that wordpress picks up a page theme from a file by parsing its content for the commented line. I pieced this together from some blog and forum posts that I read (described in more detail below) and learned only through trial and error/deduction that WordPress picks up the fact that this is a page theme from the comment containing "Template Name" and the display name.
All this actually does is redirect the user to the home page if he or she happens to click on the menu item. It is perhaps not the most elegant possible solution (I would say that it would be more elegant to have the link not clickable in the first place), but it's better than directing people to an empty, useless page and I like it better than another solution I found which was redirecting them to the first child. If clicking the menu item was a miss-click when going for first child this makes sense, but if not, I think this would be confusing.
This is ultimately a hack. After all, I'm still actually creating a wordpress page and all that goes with it just to get the menu item. However, the page is empty and it does nothing but route the user elsewhere. This is the magic behind the hack.
So, use in good health – I hope someone finds this helpful. It's not the most elegant solution in the world, but it's one that clearly works within the confines of WordPress and doesn't require modification beyond adding things to the theme. I prefer adding to the theme rather than modifying it, and I prefer either of those to modifying WordPress source, and this requires only adding to the theme. Furthermore, it doesn't require using the WordPress menu structure, the motivation for which I'll cover below.
Up until recently, I've had no need for a menu item place holder, as the only menu/sub-menu situation I had was one where clicking on the main menu item made sense. However, I'm in the process of prototyping a new menu layout for daedtech locally and the need to have a simple place holder came up. So, the first thing I did was follow the built-in menu-by-page paradigm, and that left me with the empty page. I looked in the wordpress control panel for a way to make the page non-navigable but this functionality is (understandably) not supported. I then tried making the page private, but I tried this half-heartedly, figuring it wouldn't work. It didn't.
So, I alighted to google to see what I could find. The first thing of note I found was in a lot of places, such as here, here, and here. WordPress has a built-in, customizable menu functionality. Great – problem solved!
I could see how most people had solved this problem, and I followed suit. I diligently created a menu from the control panel using the pages that had previously been auto-menued by the theme. This took a while, and the API was intuitive if a little slow and cumbersome, but I finally had my menu structure in place. I saved it and viewed it on the actual site and saw that I had made a few mistakes. So, I went back in and modified a couple of things and saved again… only to get an error 500. I reloaded the page and tried again. 500. I closed my browser and tried again. 500. I restarted apache and tried again. 500. I tried other browsers. Yup, you guessed it… 500. Apparently, the menu structure save operation was passing too many post variables or some such thing.
Alright, time to take a break. I went and got some water and then decided to go back to google again. I read a few pages like this one and saw that the WordPress menu feature works great until you have about 24 menu items. Then glitchiness starts. As you increase it, the glitchiness becomes more apparent until, at 70 or so, there is nothing but glitchiness. I was closer to 24 than 70, but this apparent complete lack of scalability did not bode well for my future plans.
The general consensus in defenders of what was going on seemed to be "why would you want more than 20 menu items?" I view this kind of response as a non-starter and, in fact, a conversation ender, so I decided that if this was the prevailing attitude, I'd chalk the menu system up as worthless and seek another solution. I have to say that (1) I use WordPress and for free (2) the people from WordPress that I saw commenting on it did explain that this was an ongoing technical challenge that they plan to address in future releases. So, I'm not complaining at all – just a dispassionate assessment of the situation.
At this point, I figured I'd exhausted my options for using the WordPress GUI and I started looking at plugins. These are so numerous and searching for them can be sort of exhausting, so I gave up on that. After a fruitless half hour or so of poking around, I stumbled on this blog post, by Bruce Header. He had borrowed a solution from here and linked to it.
Now, I was really onto something! This wasn't really the behavior that I wanted, but it gave me two important pieces of information: this is how the page templates get incorporated and it's possible to use your themed page to do a redirect. So, from there, I mustered my own solution of redirecting to home out of my limited knowledge of the WordPress codebase. Then, I created the place holder page as an empty page and set it to this new "Go Home" theme. I was finally in business.
In the interest of non-clickability, this is the most promising thing I've found so far. However, it appears only to be for making the menu items non-clickable if you use the WordPress custom menu scheme and set the placeholder links to "#". This isn't actually possible when using pages, so the solution would require some modification here. I have no doubt that this is doable, but I don't know if this rates high enough on my list at the moment to go poking through the theme and WordPress PHP until I can figure out how to do this. If I have some downtime, it might be interesting, and I'll make another post about it if I do.
I was looking around for ideas about what to do for 404 redirect for the site. My personal favorite is the "You 404'd it–gnarly, dude" message, but copying that seemed in poor taste for some reason. As I was looking, I stumbled across a solution that didn't occur to me. It's simple, elegant, and easy to put into place.
I'm not sure if ilook is Christopher Carey or not, but kudos to both if they are not one and the same. This is a solution to a problem that I wasn't aware of. I personally think redirecting to home is a more elegant solution than a 404 page in and of itself, even if you provide a nice message and search on that page.
If you're wondering where to stick that PHP in a word press site, it goes in your active theme's folder in the 404.php page. You can edit this through SSH or, if you don't have access, through the word press control panel's theme edit section (clicking the 404 page editor on the link at the right).


Drug overdose deaths account for a 3-and-1/2-month drop in American life expectancy, according to a new CDC analysis of life-expectancy trends between 2000 and 2015.
As the opioid epidemic escalates across the country, scientists at the Scripps Research Institute have debuted promising new research on a combination vaccine that offers protection from the effects of heroin and fentanyl.
The failure of up to 1/4 of death certificates to detail the specific drug responsible for opioid and heroin-related fatalities complicates the US response effort, but new research published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine outlines a method for improvement.
Editor's Note: This week we will highlight 5 takes on whether or not supervised drug-consumption spaces should be used to address the opioid/heroin epidemic, from the summer issue of Hopkins Bloomberg Public Health Magazine. Read the complete set here.


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ASHA NEWS: Call for papers – People and the sea
By Web manager / 20 January 2018 20 September 2021 / ASHA News, Australia, Conference, Maritime Archaeology, New Zealand, Pacific, Research Archaeology, Waterfront
Call for papers: People and the sea: current research on maritime interactions between Southeast Asia and the wider world
Session Chairs:
Dr Jennifer Rodrigues, Western Australian Museum ([email protected])
Ms Abhirada Pook Komoot, University of Western Australia ([email protected])
The interconnections of two major Oceans—the Indian and Pacific Oceans—have dominated Southeast Asian maritime heritage for thousands of years, enabling movement of, and interaction between, people, ideas and goods. Confirmation of the relationship between Southeast Asia with other regions is evidenced in the dispersal of Austronesian languages, spoken widely in Southeast Asia. Due to the sea providing travel routes to distant regions of the Pacific and Indian Oceans, the expansion of the languages suggests that people from Southeast Asia migrated to both sides—eastward to Oceania and Africa to the west. Furthermore, influences of maritime activities have spread beyond ports and maritime settlements. Research has revealed that mainland Southeast Asia including Myanmar, Thailand, Lao PDR, Cambodia and Vietnam also benefited from nautical skills through their complex riverine networks. Material traces from the hinterland and along coastal rims of both oceans, show that Southeast Asia has long been a dynamic region with an intense mix of cultures in its geographical crossroads. In ancient times, Southeast Asia was the only maritime gateway to China from the west. Research on maritime history in Southeast Asia, therefore, is crucial in defining the foundations of modern economic patterns.
This session welcomes researchers and young scholars from a wide range of fields and disciplines to share their work on Southeast Asia's maritime past. It aims to gain, and discuss, new insight into the maritime history of the region's connections with the wider world. Papers may include, but are not limited to, studies in material culture, traditional practices, and awareness-raising programmes through preservation and interpretation of the archaeological resources. Raising public awareness of the importance and potential of our maritime heritage can enrich our understanding of the past, and help forge cooperation and common ground for preserving and appreciating our shared heritage.
IPPA: Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association
Please send presentation abstract proposals (approx. 250 words) to both Session Chairs by end January 2018.


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This reward level is for retail store owners only (backers must provide documentation). Backers at this level receive 10 copies of the game ($25 retail price each).
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Why Shifting Does Work
By Ben Jedlovec
Renowned Baseball Prospectus researcher Russell Carleton wrote an interesting article earlier this week on Baseball Prospectus that utilized the Baseball Info Solutions shifts data made available by the great folks at FanGraphs and questioned whether defensive shifts are actually an effective technique. However, there are a couple of small flaws in the technique that lead to misleading results.
Carleton came up with a very good approach to apply hitter batting averages on balls in play (BABIP) in non-shifted situations to their number of shifted balls in play. This allowed him to compare hitters' actual totals of hits to their expected totals of hits, finding that the actual hits exceeded the expected hits and concluding that the shift has been detrimental in net.
However, Carleton's choice of technique creates a few problems. His technique considered single season BABIP in non-shift situations with a minimum of 100 such plate appearances in that individual season. Unfortunately, this eliminates a large number of the most shifted batters in baseball. In 2012, for example, the most shifted batters in baseball were Carlos Pena, Adam Dunn, and David Ortiz. None of them reached Carleton's threshold of 100 balls in play in non-shift situations, meaning Carleton is leaving out the three players facing the shift the most. In 2015, when shifts were much more prevalent, this approach throws out 7 of the top 11 shifted batters.
More importantly, this approach relies on single season BABIPs based on as few as 100 plate appearances. Contemporary analysis has taught us that while hitter BABIP is more stable than pitcher BABIP, even full season samples should be regressed heavily towards the league BABIP or hitter's historical BABIP.
For comparison, we can tweak Carleton's approach ever so slightly, which will lead us to reach the exact opposite conclusion. Instead of treating each season individually, we can group the full 2012-15 sample together and apply the same 100 no-shift plate appearance minimum over 2012-15. This will allow for more stable non-shift sample sizes to help calculate the Expected Hits and allow more players into the sample.
Shifts Data 2012-15 (from FanGraphs)
Hits (Expected) Hits (Actual) Difference
Individual Seasons 9,177 9,222 -45
Combined Seasons 12,540 12,053 487
As you can see, this small change of approach leads us to a much stronger conclusion in the opposite direction, demonstrating that shifts have in fact been working on a large scale.
Neither of these is a perfect approach, of course. You can focus on groundballs and short line drives specifically, for example. We've tried this and many other approaches (some of which were previously published Stat of the Week articles here, here, here, here, and here and in the four volumes of The Fielding Bible), and have unanimously reached the conclusion that the shift works. In fact, the results of this tweaked version of Carleton's study match up quite well with our previous research. In this case, a slight flaw in Carleton's technique seems to be skewing the results and conclusions, but that should encourage, not detract, from the larger discussion. Carleton is a fantastic analyst, and we're thrilled to see him dig into a topic so near and dear to our hearts.
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Ben, yes the data that showed up-the-middle ball-in-play averages climbing includes all balls in play, not just grounders, and is from the Hit Location table in BB-reference's batting splits.
8:20 PM May 12th
jedlovec3
I'm not sure why the pulled and up the middle BABIPs have changed the way that you cite. Is that including all BIP, not just grounders? There could be many factors in play there, just like there are many factors more powerful than shifts impacting the league's decreasing BABIP.
6:59 AM May 12th
Brock Hanke
chuck - Thank you very much. I understand why you can't report on things that no datbase tracks conveniently. Given that, you've done a fine job of responding to me. Thank you!
Here's another small chart of in-play shift data vs. non-shift.
These are the rates of singles to balls-in-play and (doubles+triples) to BIP.
Same deal- shift average / non-shift average, times 100.
Year .. 1b .. 2b+3b
2010 . 104 . 100
As before, it's apparent the shift cuts down on hits- just not all kinds of hits. It reduced single/BIP average by about 5%. Pro-rated to the number of PA's with shifts, the averages are:
95.5 for singles (reduces singles in play by 4.5%)
102.8 for doubles and triples (doubles and triples increase by 2.8%)
It would be great to see the home run data, to see how much, if any, players have compromised their HR/PA or HR/batted ball rates in adjusting to shifts.
10:51 AM May 9th
Brock, I agree. ALL data recorded when a batter is in a shift is worth putting into that basket: balls in play, home runs, walks, strikeouts. Then a full comparison can be made between those PA's and his non-shifted ones. Does his power diminish? Does he walk or strikeout more, or less? How does his runs created / 27 outs change?
I just took a look at league splits on the Fangraphs pages, and they only show what happened on balls in play during shifts. From that set of data, one can see the differences, at least, in ball-in-play (BIP) average, BIP slugging and BIP isolated power, for when traditional shifts are used vs. not. They also have a category for non-traditional shifts, which I think is mostly when the infield is playing in to stop a runner at 3rd. There are a lot of SF within the non-traditional shift, and the averages in play are higher.
But the traditional vs no shift comparisons look like this for BIP average, slugging, and isolated power. (SF included, but not SH). I'll show it where the shift averages are divided by the non-shift averages, and multiplied by 100. So anything below 100 is more effective for the defense.
Ball-in-play only
YEAR . AVG . SLG . ISO
2010 . 103 .. 101 . 098
Certainly it appears to work at cutting down average on balls in play. It's more of a mixed bag when looking at the effect it has on in-play power. Last year had the most shifts ever, and isolated power was a tiny bit higher with the shift on.
But you're right- until we can see the data for walks, K's and home runs this is only part of the picture of its effects.
I don't understand, at all, trying to evaluate shifts by BABIP. The alleged point of a shift isn't to decrease BABIP. It's to cut down on the hitter's total effectiveness. One big example - shifting against Ted Williams - was designed to keep him from hitting home runs by getting him to hit to left field, at least as much as it was designed to cut down on batten average. Ty Cobb showed Ted how to develop a swing that would hit the ball where it was pitched, but that only produced singles and doubles. Williams said something to the effect that he'd just blast hits past the shift. This, I would think, is a VERY important concept in shifting. I don't care if your shift INCREASES BABIP by twenty points, if it strips a power hitter of his power. In general, if I had the database to actually analyze shift effects, I wouldn't use BABIP at all. I would use the whole suite of hitting accomplishments. Does shifting increase or decrease homers? How about walks, since we know that pitchers pitch differently (focusing on inside) when the shift is on? For a small thing, does shifting increase runners already in place going from first to third or second to home? Just using BABIP is just scratching the surface. Until the people who analyze shifts get over just using BABIP they really aren't telling anyone anything very useful.
2:30 AM May 9th
jollydodger
I wouldn't just shift, I'd place my 4 infielders in the 4 most hit-to spots on each batter's spray chart, no matter where they happened to be (understanding a defender can reach his spot and the 2 spots on either side of his portion of the spray chart).
Ben, I was looking at ball in play averages over the past 8 years or so. It looked like left-handed hitters, when they pull the ball, are hitting for a somewhat worse average than they used to, which suggests the shift's effectiveness. But when they hit balls up the middle, they're hitting for a higher ball-in-play (BIP) average.
I put these numbers up under another article recently, but here they are again:
When lefties pull the ball, their BIP average has gone down from .351 in 2010 to just .290 last season. However, their BIP average on balls up the middle has gone from .273 to .302 over the same period.
When righties pull the ball, their BIP average has dropped from .385 to .351; but when they've hit it up the middle it's risen from .262 to .283 (2010 to 2015).
For both lefty and righty hitters, the majority of balls are hit up the middle, so those increases have offset the big decrease in lefty-pull BIP average, keeping overall ball-in-play average from going down.
Assuming shifting is taking away more hits than if no shifts were employed, why the increases on BIP averages up the middle?
5:51 PM May 7th
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Weren't DeKalbs some kind of energy converters in Heinlein's story, "Waldo?"
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And in his spare time he debunked property tax data claims made by advocates of the creation of the city of LaVista Hills in DeKalb County, Georgia, helping lead to its defeat by fewer than 150 votes. Russell Carleton, makin' a difference!
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The Buddha of Suburbia es una banda sonora del músico y compositor británico David Bowie grabada para acompañar a la serie de televisión de cuatro partes The Buddha of Suburbia de la BBC2 (una adaptación de la novela The Buddha of Suburbia de Hanif Kureishi).

Es el decimonoveno álbum de estudio del artista, lanzado entre Black Tie White Noise (1993) y Outside (1995). Se produjo y mezcló en los Mountain Studios de  Montreux, Suiza y según cuenta el mismo Bowie se compuso y grabó en solo seis días, mientras que las mezclas llevaron unos quince días debido a algunos "problemas técnicos".

A pesar de que el álbum se ha clasificado como una banda sonora, sólo la canción homónima aparece en la serie.

Dos de las pistas son instrumentales de música ambiental y de corte similar a los trabajos anteriores de Bowie con Brian Eno a finales de los años 70, mientras que otras de las pistas están dominadas musicalmente por el uso del saxofón, los teclados y el piano.

Banda sonora
A pesar de figurar en la portada que es una banda sonora, no es la banda sonora que compuso Bowie para la versión televisiva del libro de Hanif Kureishi, que nunca llegó a editarse. Después de componer la obra, Bowie decidió hacer algunos cambios y finalmente creó un álbum totalmente distinto. La única pieza que se mantiene de la composición original es la pista que da título al disco y a la serie.

Supresión
A pesar de que Bowie una vez lo calificó como su álbum favorito, tanto los lanzamientos de 1993 en Europa como los de Estados Unidos en 1995 fueron eliminados por muchos años. O, como lo expresó Bowie, "el álbum en sí sólo recibió una crítica, una buena como suele ser, y es prácticamente inexistente en lo que respecta a mi catálogo: fue designado como una banda sonora y no tuvo éxito en el sentido de generar ganancias. Una verdadera lástima".

Para confundir aún más las cosas, un sencillo de "Buddha of Suburbia" también se lanzó en varias formas, incluido un CD con impresión holográfica. Constantemente, el álbum en sí a veces se pasa por alto, a pesar de que se trata de una grabación de estudio de larga duración y presenta diez pistas que el artista no había lanzado anteriormente. Bowie tocó muchos instrumentos en el álbum, con la ayuda del multi-instrumentista Erdal Kızılçay. Mike Garson toca el piano en dos pistas y Lenny Kravitz toca la guitarra en la pista homónima en una versión alternativa.

El álbum fue reeditado el 17 de septiembre de 2007 en el Reino Unido y el 2 de octubre de 2007 en los Estados Unidos. El comunicado de prensa oficial mostró que la portada de la reedición sería similar a la portada de Estados Unidos de 1995 pero en color, con Bowie en una postura ligeramente diferente. Sin embargo, la portada real es sólo una versión coloreada de la portada original de los EE. UU. La nueva edición contiene tanto las notas de línea anteriores de Bowie de la edición original del Reino Unido como las ilustraciones internas de la edición original de los EE. UU.

Inspiraciones
En la versión europea del álbum, Bowie ofrece notas integrales, en el interior del disco, sobre los temas y las técnicas de producción involucradas, y revela una lista de "residuos de la década de 1970" como su inspiración para las canciones. La lista incluye las siguientes referencias:

Letras de asociación libre, Pink Floyd, Harry Partch, disfraces, clubs de Blues, Unter den Linden, Brucke Museum, Pet Sounds, amigos de los Krays, Roxy Music, T-Rex, The Casserole, Neu!, Kraftwerk, Bromley, Croydon, Eno, prostitutas y el Soho, Ronnie Scott's Club, viajes por Rusia, la soledad, O'Jays, Philip Glass en los clubes de Nueva York, Die Mauer, drogas.

Lista de canciones
Todas las canciones compuestas por David Bowie.

Créditos

Producción

 David Bowie
 David Richards

Músicos

 David Bowie – voz, teclados, sintetizadores, guitarra, saxofón alto, saxofón barítono.
 Erdal Kizilcay – teclados, trompeta, bajo, guitarra, batería, percusión.
 3D Echo – batería, bajo, guitarra en "Bleed Like a Craze, Dad".
Mike Garson – piano en "Bleed Like a Craze, Dad" and "South Horizon".
Lenny Kravitz – guitarra en "Buddha of Suburbia".

Referencias

Enlaces externos
 The Buddha of Suburbia Project

Álbumes de David Bowie
Bandas sonoras de programas de televisión
Álbumes de 1993

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Hebbronville Border Patrol agents arrested a U.S. citizen with connections to a gang and two undocumented immigrants during a human smuggling attempt on a ranch near Hebbronville.
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Andrejs Perepļotkins (ukrainska: Андрій Ігорович Перепльоткін, Andrij Ihorovytj Pereplotkin ryska: Андрей Игоревич Переплеткин), född 27 december 1984 i Charkov, är en ukrainskfödd (sovjetisk) lettisk fotbollsspelare som för närvarande spelar för FK Jelgava i Lettland.

Karriär

Klubb
Vid 18 års ålder gick Perepļotkins till FK Metalist Charkiv, men de följande åren tillbringade han i flera olika klubbar som Fili Moskva, RSC Anderlecht såväl som i Southampton FC. På grund av problem med att få arbetstillstånd i Storbritannien kunde Perepļotkins inte spela några matcher för Southampton inför publik, vilket innebar att han inte kunde spela för A-laget.

Han fick istället sitt genombrott under tiden som utlånad till Dublinklubben Bohemian FC där han spelade 18 matcher, gjorde 3 mål och vann League of Ireland år 2003. Han släpptes dock av Bohemians säsongen 2004. Under början av säsongen 2004/2005 skrev han på för Skonto FC i Lettland. Under de kommande 6 åren spelade Perepļotkins 92 ligamatcher och gjorde 24 mål vilket bland annat ledde till seger i Livlandscupen år 2005 samt ligaseger år 2010. Innan säsongen 2011 dragit igång flyttade Perepļotkins till Nasaf Qarsji som spelar i Uzbekistans högstaliga, Olij Liga. Med klubben skrev han på ett tvåårskontrakt. Under hans första säsong spelade han 24 matcher och gjorde på dem 7 mål, med vilka han blev lagets bästa målskytt  och även lyckades vinna AFC-cupen med laget då han gjorde ett mål i finalen.

Internationell
År 2007 beslöt sig Lettlands regering för att bevilja Perepļotkins ett lettiskt medborgarskap, vilket accepterades av honom. Den 16 mars 2007 fick han sitt lettiska pass vilket möjliggjorde för honom att spela för Lettlands herrlandslag i fotboll.   Perepļotkins gjorde sin internationella under kvalet till EM 2008. Han har hittills gjort 28 landskamper och på dem gjort 3 mål.

Statistik

Per klubb

Landslag

Mål

Meriter

Klubb
 Lettisk mästare: 2004 och 2010 med Skonto FC
 Vinnare av Livlandscupen: 2004 och 2005 med Skonto FC

Individuellt
 Bästa målskytt i Nasaf Qarsji: 2011

Referenser

Noter

Externa länkar
Profil på transfermarkt.co.uk
National Football Teams
Profil på soccerbase.com

Födda 1984
Personer från Charkiv
Lettiska fotbollsspelare
Ukrainska fotbollsspelare
Levande personer
Män
Spelare i FK Metalist Charkiv
Spelare i RSC Anderlecht
Spelare i Southampton FC
Spelare i Bohemian FC
Spelare i Skonto FC
Spelare i Derby County FC
Spelare i JK Trans Narva
Spelare i FK Ararat Jerevan


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REPORT FROM THE EEOC – WASHINGTON – The Justice Department announced today the filing of a lawsuit against the state of Hawaii and the state of Hawaii Department of Transportation Airports Division (HDOT-Airports) alleging that the defendants discriminated against former employee Sherry Valmoja by subjecting her to sexual harassment in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. According to the complaint, Valmoja complained to the defendants about the harassment and was then subjected to retaliation, also in violation of Title VII. Title VII is a federal statute that prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex and religion, and prohibits retaliation against an employee who opposes an unlawful employment practice or against an employee who has made a charge or participated in an investigation, proceeding or hearing under the act.
The complaint, filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Hawaii, alleges that during Valmoja's employment as a law enforcement canine handler, she was subjected to sexual harassment in the form of lewd and unwelcome comments. Valmoja also suffered intimidation by a co-worker. The complaint also alleges that the unwelcome conduct and intimidation began as early as 2009, when both Valmoja and her co-worker were employed by a private company contracted to the defendants; after both Valmoja and the co-worker became employed by the state of Hawaii, the harassment and intimidation continued until Valmoja's ultimate termination in 2012.
The suit further alleges that the co-worker confronted Valmoja about her prior sexual harassment complaints and intimidated her after canine handler services were transferred to Hawaii. Despite timely complaints by Valmoja about her co-worker's conduct, the defendants failed to take reasonable steps to remedy the harassment. Instead, the defendants implemented an employment schedule that brought Valmoja and her harasser into close contact. When Valmoja objected to the continued harassment and retaliation by other HDOT-Airports employees, including managers, her employment was terminated.
Through this lawsuit, the United States seeks declaratory and injunctive relief requiring the defendants to develop and implement policies preventing their employees from being subjected to sexual harassment sex and retaliation. In addition, the United States seeks monetary damages for Valmoja as compensation for the employers' discriminatory actions.
"The Justice Department is committed to the vigorous enforcement of all federal civil rights laws under its jurisdiction, including Title VII's prohibition against sexual harassment and retaliation in the workplace," said Acting Assistant Attorney General Jocelyn Samuels for the Civil Rights Division. "This lawsuit should send a clear message that the department will take necessary action to eliminate and remedy the effects of unlawful sexual harassment in our public sector workplaces."
Valmoja originally filed her sexual harassment and retaliation charges against HDOT-Airports with the Honolulu Field Office of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), which investigated the matters, determined that there was reasonable cause to believe that discrimination had occurred based upon sex and retaliation and referred the matters to the Department of Justice. This lawsuit is brought by the department as a result of a project designed to ensure vigorous enforcement of Title VII against state and local governmental employers by enhancing cooperation between the EEOC and the Civil Rights Division.
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More information about Title VII and other federal employment laws is available at the division's Employment Litigation Section website. The continued enforcement of Title VII is a priority of the Civil Rights Division. Additional information about the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice is available on the division website.
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Caster Semenya loses IAAF testosterone legal case
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Lausanne - South African runner Caster Semenya on Wednesday lost her court challenge against IAAF rules forcing female athletes to regulate their testosterone levels, but judges voiced concern with the application of the "discriminatory" regulations.
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The decision by the Court of Arbitration for Sport means that women with elevated testosterone will have to take suppressive treatment if they wish to compete against women in certain events.
The verdict triggered emotional reactions following a charged legal battle over increasingly complex questions of gender, which are likely have far-reaching consequences for the future of women's sport.
In a 2-1 decision, CAS judges dismissed Semenya's appeal against the measures imposed by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) that compel "hyperandrogenic" athletes - or those with "differences of sexual development" (DSD) - to artificially lower their testosterone levels.
The judges said that although the rules are "discriminatory...such discrimination is a necessary, reasonable and proportionate means of achieving the IAAF's aim of preserving the integrity of female athletics in the Restricted Events."
In a statement issued by her lawyers, double Olympic champion Semenya said that "for a decade the IAAF has tried to slow me down."
"But this has actually made me stronger. The decision of the CAS will not hold me back. I will once again rise above and continue to inspire young women and athletes in South Africa and around the world."
South Africa, which has accused the IAAF of seeking to violate women's bodies, said it was "disappointed" with the judgement.
The IAAF said it was "grateful" for the verdict and that the DSD rules - first adopted last year but suspended pending the legal battle - will come into effect on May 8.
The athletics governing body has maintained that the rules are necessary to ensure all female athletes can see "a path to success".
It has stressed that DSD athletes with male levels of testosterone benefit from increased bone and muscle size in a manner similar to men who have gone through puberty.
While the court said there was insufficient evidence to throw out the regulations now, it "expressed some serious concerns as to the future practical application of these DSD Regulations."
Judges specifically raised the issues "unintentional non-compliance," given the difficulty of maintaining artificially suppressed testosterone levels, and possible side-effects of mandated hormone treatment.
The regulations must remain a "living document," which could be continually revised as new information becomes clear, the court said.
Some experts have argued that achieving excellence in sport is a combination of training and commitment as well as genetics, and that barring people from competition over a single genetic factor has no scientific basis.
In a rare intrusion into the world of sport, the United Nations Human Rights Council adopted a resolution in March branding the IAAF rules "unnecessary, humiliating and harmful".
Seema Patel, a senior lecturer in law at Nottingham Law School, called the CAS ruling "bitterly disappointing."
"A female who has naturally higher levels of testosterone in her body should not be prohibited from competing with women, just as a female who is naturally taller than the average woman should not be prohibited," Patel said in a statement.
Patel also questioned whether a sports court had the competence to deal with "human rights matters."
Semenya's testosterone levels are not publicly known, but she is unlikely to be the only athlete affected by rules compelling female runners in certain categories to cap their testosterone levels at five nanomoles per litre (nmol/L) of blood.
The two athletes who finished behind her in the Rio Olympics 800m, Francine Niyonsaba of Burundi and Kenya's Margaret Wambui, have also faced questions about their testosterone levels.
Semenya is weighing an appeal, her statement said. Such a challenge needs to be filed at the Swiss Federal Tribunal within 30 days.
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