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covered; scope and nature of assigned readings (texts, authors,
frequency, amount per week); required course assignments; nature of any
student projects; and how students will be evaluated.
The University policy on credits is found under Section 4A of "Standards for Semester Conversion" at http://www.fpd.finop.umn.edu/groups/senate/documents/policy/semestercon.html . Provisional course syllabus information will be retained in this system until new syllabus information is entered with the next major course modification, This provisional course syllabus information may not correspond to the course as offered in a particular semester.
New: Bioproducts and Biosystems Engineering (BBE)
Course Title: BBE 4523/5523 Ecological Engineering Design
(3 cr; SP- EEB 3001 or EEB 4014 (recommended), CE 3502; upper div IT or grad IT major; A-F only; 3 lect per week).
Course Description: Application of the principles of ecological engineering to design of remediation systems for problems associated with environmental degradation. Much of the course is driven by analysis of case studies of the construction of artificial ecosystems or restoration of natural ecosystems. Applications include wetland restoration, constructed wetlands, biological engineering for slope stability, stream restoration, waste treatment using biological systems, restoration of ecological service functions of watersheds.
BBE 4523/5523 differential: Although the credit level is the same for both registrations, BBE 5523 is intended for graduate students and a higher level of work will be required of students (graduate or undergraduate) registered in BBE 5523. The extra level of effort will be manifested as: 1) higher levels of mathematical analysis in appropriate applications; 2) writing a critique of an assigned article on ecological processes and/or ecological engineering; 3) higher level of analysis in the assigned design problem; 4) perhaps an extra question on each exam.
Professor John L. Nieber, Room 203, BAE Building, 5-6724, firstname.lastname@example.com.
Course Outcome Objectives:
Students completing this course should be able to:
1. Describe the basic principles of ecology and the framework of complex ecosystems. Should be able to describe thermodynamic principles as they apply, and also how to quantify energy fluxes in ecosystems.
2. Construct algorithms for quantifying functions (storage, transformation, flux, adaptation) in complex biological systems.
3. Apply the principles of ecology and engineering to the design of artificial ecosystems and the restoration of natural ecosystems.
4. Apply economics (market and engineering) to cost/benefit analysis of ecosystem restoration.
No text required at present. The instructor is figuring out what might be a good text but that will occur for next year.
Reference Materials:
1. Kangas, P.C., Ecological Engineering, Principles and Practice, Lewis Publishers, 2004
2. Mitsch, W.J. and S.E. Jorgenson, Ecological Engineering and Restoration Ecology, 2003
3. Mitsch, W.J. and S.E. Jorgenson, Ecological Engineering; an Introduction to Ecotechnology, John Wiley, 1989
4. van Andel, J. and J. Aronson, Restoration Ecology, Blackwell Publishing, 2006
5. Schulte, P.C., R.A. Frosch, and P.G. Risser (eds), Engineering within Ecological Constraints, National Academy Press, 1996
6. Walker, B. and D. Salt, Resilience Thinking; Sustaining Ecosystems and People in a Changing World, Island Press, 2006
7. Gunderson, L.H. and L. Pritchard, Resilience and the Behavior of Large-Scale Systems, Island Press, 2002
8. Selected articles from refereed journals such as Ecological Engineering.
Semester Topics Covered:
1. Review of ecological principles; application to ecological engineering practice
2. Getting engineers to think in terms of ecological systems
3. Modeling complex systems
4. Treatment wetlands
5. Soil bioengineering
a. Slope stabilization
b. Bioremediation of contaminated soils
6. Restoration of watershed ecosystem functions
a. Natural wetlands
b. Streams
c. Ground water recharge
7. Control of exotic species
8. Quantifying economic benefits of ecosystem construction/restoration
9. Ecological engineering treatment of the solid waste problem
a. The consumer waste conundrum
b. Solid waste systems as ecosystems
c. Industrial ecology
Quality Control:
It is required that all materials turned in for credit by the student have to be of presentable quality. This means that the material presented has to be of a quality such that the instructor can decipher it easily. Any presentation requiring extra deciphering work will be returned to the student for correction. Also, material must be handed in on time to receive credit. Late papers will not be accepted for credit unless prior permission for lateness is granted by the instructor. The student can use the following guidelines in preparation of assignments.
Homework assignments:
1. All work done in pencil with legible printing.
2. Clearly defined problem statement.
3. Clearly defined solution steps and solution results.
Design project report format:
1. Table of contents.
2. Abstract, conclusion, and summary statements.
3. Clear statements of problem and problem solution.
4. All text material and tables prepared with a typewriter or word processor. Equations can be written by hand. All figures drawn clearly with adequate captions and legends. Computer output and other materials to be placed in appendices must be indexed.
Evaluation: The final grade for this course will be based on the following weighting of course components.
Category Final Grade
Homework 20
Design Project 30
Midterm Exam 25
Final Exam 25
Statement on Academic Honesty:
The following statement is from the IT Student Guide;
"The Institute of Technology expects the highest standards of honesty and integrity in the academic performance of its students. Any act of scholastic dishonesty is regarded as a serious offense, which may result in expulsion. The Institute of Technology defines scholastic dishonesty as submission of false records of academic achievement; cheating on assignments or examinations; plagiarizing; altering, forging or misusing an academic record; taking, acquiring, or using test materials without faculty permission; acting alone or in cooperation with another to obtain dishonestly grades, honors, awards, or professional endorsement. Aiding and abetting an act of scholastic dishonesty is also considered a serious offense".
This statement will be held to in BBE 4523/5523 as the definition for academic honesty. If at any time you have a question about what might constitutes an academically dishonest act, please feel free to contact me.
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The Taoiseach spoke to the British Prime Minister by phone this afternoon
Updated 18:05
The Government has confirmed that Ireland's position on Brexit will not be changing – with the Taoiseach suggesting that if no deal can be reached ahead of next week's EU summit, talks can restart in the new year.
A last minute intervention from Northern Ireland's DUP party on Monday scuppered an agreement between British and European negotiators that would have avoided any return to a hard border in Ireland following Brexit.
The British Prime Minster Theresa May has faced a torrid day in Westminster with opposition parties calling her approach to the negotiations a "shambles" after it emerged the DUP – her partners in government – were only sent the text of the agreement late on Monday morning.
Speaking this afternoon, she insisted her government will do what is right for the UK as a whole – and once again pledged that there will be no return to a hard border in Ireland.
Her insistence that the talks are progressing however was met with disdain by her fellow MPs:
"As President Juncker said on Monday, there are a couple of things we are still negotiating on and he is confident that we will be able to achieve sufficient progress," she said.
The British Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn said the DUP veto, minutes before Mrs May was due to announce an agreement, illustrated that the "tail really is wagging the dog here."
"This Government is clearly not fit for the future," he said. "If they can't negotiate a good deal wouldn't it be better if they just got out of the way."
The Taoiseach Leo Varadkar spoke to Mrs May about the impasse over the phone this afternoon.
A government spokesman said the Taoiseach reiterated his firm view that the text agreed on Monday should remain unchanged.
Following the call, a Downing Street spokesperson said both leaders had "agreed about the paramount importance of no hard border or physical infrastructure at the border between Ireland and Northern Ireland."
The spokesman said Mrs May told the Taoiseach that she recognised the "significance of this issue to the people of Northern Ireland and Ireland" adding that it remained a "joint priority for both Governments, and the EU, to resolve."
"The Prime Minister said we are working hard to find a specific solution to the unique circumstances in Northern Ireland that respects the integrity of the UK, the European Union and the Belfast Agreement," said the spokesman.
"She added that we are committed to moving together to achieve a positive result on this as well as restoring devolved Government to Northern Ireland.
"Both leaders looked forward to continuing relations as close neighbours and allies as the negotiations progress."
Speaking in Leinster House earlier, Mr Varadkar said it remains the Irish Government's "desire, ambition and wish" to move on to the next stage of Brexit negotiations dealing with the UK's future trading relationship with the EU.
"We want to move to Phase Two," he said. "But if that is not possible next week, given the problems which have arisen, we can pick it up in the new year."
He said he has already had confirmation from the European Commission that Ireland and Europe both stand by the text that was agreed on Monday.
He noted that Brexit negotiations are carried out between the EU task force, "into which we have a very strong input" and the UK Government - adding that there could be no "trilateral negotiation involving the Irish Government, the British Government and one of the parties in Northern Ireland."
He said it is important to listen to all parties in Northern Ireland adding that he does not accept the idea, "which seems to be gaining prevalence in some parts of London and perhaps other places, that there is only one party in Northern Ireland which speaks for everybody there."
He urged the DUP to get onside with the British negotiating team:
"We should remember that in Northern Ireland there are many voices," he said.
"There are even Unionist voices who are very much behind the proposals that were taken to Brussels in the days gone by and that is something I think we need to bear in mind.
"There are a lot of different voices in Northern Ireland and we need to listen to them all."
He said he remains mindful of the fact that Mrs May is managing a number of difficult issues, as she attempts to manage her confidence and supply agreement with the DUP alongside differing views on Brexit within her own party.
"It is now the role of the United Kingdom to come back to us," he said.
"I accept that Theresa May wants to come to an agreement and is acting in good faith and I want to give her time to speak with her party and partners in the confidence and supply agreement before we move things forward."
In a statement this afternoon, the DUP's leader in Westminster Nigel Dodds warned that further delays to the movement of talks towards Phase Two increase the chances of a 'no trade deal' outcome.
He claimed Ireland would "suffer far worse economically" from a no deal scenario than the UK adding that he believed Mr Varadkar was "playing a dangerous game - not with us but with his own economy."
Speaking this afternoon, the Minister for Justice Charlie Flanagan acknowledged the impasse was straining relations between Dublin, London and Belfast – but warned that Ireland's position on Brexit will not be changing.
"Oftentimes among neighbours and friends, frank talking is necessary," he said.
"But I would hope that over the next few days we can see a successful conclusion to these negotiations.
"Ireland's position being such as we are not moving from our stated position."
European leaders will have to sign off on any agreement at next week's European Commission summit in order for talks to move forward.
With the clock now very quickly ticking down there is, as yet, no sign of a breakthrough.


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Banking Revolution - 1977
I can see cash and checks playing a role for decades, but as decreasing components in a generally electronic payments system.
Norman Bromberger, Saskatchewan Credit Union Central general manager, IBM publication, n.d.
A plastic card connecting people immediately and directly to their bank accounts was unheard of in Canada in 1970. By the end of the decade, that had changed. And the change began in Saskatchewan.
In 1976, Sherwood Credit Union, at the urging of their Controller Ed Gebert, tested Canada's first automated teller machine or ATM. The next year, other credit unions in Regina and Saskatoon installed the new devices. By 1979, credit unions around the province were investing in ATMs.
It took a while for ATMs to win over customers. How could people learn to operate such new fangled machines? But practice makes perfect, and today who can imagine life without ATMs?
Debit Card Revolution - 1985
After their success with the Automated Teller Machine, Credit Union innovators in Saskatchewan went on to their next revolutionary idea–the debit card.
A pilot project was set up at Pioneer Co-op in Swift Current. The two-year test was hailed as a success. Combined with the development elsewhere of shared ATMs and merchant terminals, by the early 1990s, debit cards were introduced across the country.
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text: Yankton County 911 received a call reporting a body in the river within the park last Saturday afternoon. The county SAR team retrieved it about a mile east of Discovery Bridge. An autopsy was set for earlier this week in an effort to identify the victim. The victim was wearing clothing similar to those of as person who is known to suffer from short term memory loss and was reported missing in Yankton on June 10th. Yankton County Search and Rescue was assisted by the Yankton Police Department, Cedar County Sheriff's Office, Crofton Police Department and Nebraska and South Dakota Game and Parks. National Park Service staff will remain involved until the incident is concluded.


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pride (n.) — 1. the quality or state of being proud as a: inordinate self-esteem: conceit; b: a reasonable or justifiable self-respect; c: delight or elation arising from some act, possession or relationship (parental pride) …
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"Pride" is one of those words I wrestle with from time to time, especially as it pertains to something of which I'm now part. ("Courage" is the other, which will be another post sometime.)
Since I now huddle unequivocally under the back end of the LGBT umbrella (in more ways than one), and since this is the big Pride weekend in San Francisco — and since I'll be heading up there in the morning to take part in the Trans Rally/March in the late afternoon, and maybe I'll return for the big Pride Parade on Sunday morning as well — it's inevitable that the word comes to the forefront.
I have a feeling I have a slightly different interpretation of the word "pride" than a lot of people taking part in this weekend's festivities, which might or might not put me at odds with a few. But just as Thanksgiving makes many think of all the things for which they're thankful, this last weekend of June makes me think of what I have to be proud of.
I'm still trying to figure it out.
I've long had a problem with people being "proud" over something over which they have no control. Over the way they were born. That pertains to ethnic background, sexual identity, gender identity, whatever.
You can't be proud to be Italian, or gay, or straight, or black, or transgender any more than you can be proud of being born with 206 bones. We had no say in the matter. We were born the way we were born, period — random, accidental collisions of the right one of a million sperm with the right one of a million eggs, at a certain time, in a certain way, in a particular place.
We can't, logically, be proud of the way we were born. But what we can be proud of is what we do with what we were born with.
As it pertains to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender matters, I certainly understand the history and the reasons for the Pride parades and celebrations. Anyone who has endured the taunts of the ignorant — or ostracism, or outright violence, or laws created to suppress us — certainly understands.
But it's what you do with the situation with which you're dealt. That's where the pride comes in.
The queens who fought the cops at Compton's Cafeteria and the Stonewall had reason to be proud — they said "Enough!" to decades of a status quo of fear and institutionalized violence.
Harvey Milk goes without saying — though, from what I've read and seen of the man, I'm sure he'd be prouder of the people who've carried on his work.
Everyone who has worked an LGBT-related cause can be proud.
The military personnel who have suffered silently under Don't Ask, Don't Tell — fighting for the same country that's discriminating against them — should give themselves a figurative medal.
Every person who has had the back of an LGBT person, and has stood up to someone else's ignorance, deserves to be proud.
Every person who has come out and have simply been themselves — living their everyday lives — amid great fear, both internal and external, can give themselves a hand.
That's where the pride comes in.
Personally, though, in the early-to-mid stages of my own gender transition, I'm not sure I really have much to be proud of yet.
I'm certainly not proud of the way I've handled my unemployment situation. Of the utter despair I feel sometimes. Of how I let my dark moods really get the better of me from time to time. That, I'm certainly not proud of.
But I guess I am proud that I followed my inner voice 2 1/2 years ago — the voice that asked me out of nowhere, sitting on the bed one night, "Can you do this?" The inner voice of reason that said, "Are you gonna find out for real or are you gonna be fat, miserable and in the closet the rest of your life?"
I guess I'm proud of the way I came out to everyone around me — building my way outward slowly, organically, making sure this radical life change wasn't a freak-show, Jerry Springer surprise to the people I care most about.
I guess I'm proud that, more than halfway through my life, I've decided to say "Screw it" and stop worrying about what other people think and just live my life — a good and decent life — the way I feel I always should have, and let the chips fall where they may.
If I have to be proud of something this Pride weekend, then OK; it's those three things.
And one more.
What I'm really proud of is the people around me.
I'm proud of the friends and family who have embraced and accepted me — or, to put a finer point on it, accepted something they didn't understand. Something they might have read about or seen in a TV documentary or at the movies, but a concept that was abstract, even flat-out foreign, to them.
I'm proud of my friend Heather — Lucy to my Ethel — the first person I came out to. Who told me early on in my transition that I'd be surprised at how people would react when I did get around to coming out. Who told some people early on, "If you have a problem with Frannie, then you have a problem with me."
I'm proud of my dearest friends back home in Connecticut — the first people I came out to after Heather. People who told me, "That's great!" or "I'm so happy for you!" or "What took you so long?"
I'm proud of my parents, devout Catholics, who have accepted me and are trying to understand and deal with something totally strange and unexpected to them in their twilight years. Of my brother Ken for having the instinct and foresight to start, without me knowing, laying down the paving bricks that led to me coming out to the family.
I'm proud of my friends in the Tower District. True, it's the only real alternative area of a very hidebound, right-wing, so-called Christian cowtown, but it doesn't necessarily mean everyone's in liberal lockstep. From the folks at the Million Elephant and Revue, to my favorite local bands and their fans and loved ones, I heard a lot of "You look great!" and "Well, you're still Fran" and "We like you regardless of how you look" and a heaping pile of other kind and wonderful words when I first stepped out.
I'm proud of my former Fresno Bee colleagues. (And, for that matter, my old New Haven Register colleagues as well.) I was only out to one person at The Bee while I was still employed, but everyone I've told since, or who has seen me since, has been great. (Except when the sports/poker crew is spanking me at the card table. And I do mean that most figuratively.) And that includes my dearly departed friend and cubicle neighbor Tom, who told me last summer, "Are you happy? That's all that matters."
I'm proud of the total strangers who have embraced the new girl in school — maybe said hi, introduced themselves, said very complimentary things out of the blue. I've made many friends out here over the past year or so, and it's not because I'm a novelty or anything like that — it's because they actually like and enjoy me for me. And for the first time in my life, at the risk of getting all Sally Field, I feel comfortable saying that.
All of them have made an incredibly difficult step in my life a lot easier to take. And each step I take on the streets of San Francisco this weekend, they'll all be walking along. And I'll be pretty damn proud to walk with them.
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Whenever you change the founding principles of an organization, you announce its doom!
So what's the purpose of having the Boy Scouts anymore? Leave it to liberals to ruin everything.
The Boy Scouts of America have caved to political correctness, bowing to radical feminists and effectively neutralizing their identity and purpose altogether. What a horrible, horrible shame.
This is just crazy! There is no reason why a group can't be all male, and a group be all girls, scouting is only for that. We are losing people; we are losing! If they wanted a group of both then make one for both and leave the ones alone that have been there forever!
The US Boy Scouts will now welcome girls into some of its initiatives. https://t.co/wZWjINSXn2
— Twitter Moments (@TwitterMoments) October 11, 2017
Source: KHOU
Today, the Boy Scouts of America Board of Directors unanimously approved to welcome girls into its iconic Cub Scout program and to deliver a Scouting program for older girls that will enable them to advance and earn the highest rank of Eagle Scout. The historic decision comes after years of receiving requests from families and girls, the organization evaluated the results of numerous research efforts, gaining input from current members and leaders, as well as parents and girls who've never been involved in Scouting – to understand how to offer families an important additional choice in meeting the character development needs of all their children.
"This decision is true to the BSA's mission and core values outlined in the Scout Oath and Law. The values of Scouting – trustworthy, loyal, helpful, kind, brave and reverent, for example – are important for both young men and women," said Michael Surbaugh, the BSA's Chief Scout Executive. "We believe it is critical to evolve how our programs meet the needs of families interested in positive and lifelong experiences for their children. We strive to bring what our organization does best – developing character and leadership for young people – to as many families and youth as possible as we help shape the next generation of leaders."
What the hell is this crap @boyscouts ?
Girls have GIRL SCOUTS!
Can the boys have nothing of their own?#BoyScouts https://t.co/2cbnpyJt5D
— SparkleMAGA?? (@SparkleSoup45) October 11, 2017
Boy Scouts lost me a long time ago when they banned water fights because they are "unkind." Wouldn't want to promote hyper masculinity!
— Katie Pavlich (@KatiePavlich) October 11, 2017
So let me get this straight, the boy scouts are now going to allow girls to join the boy scout organization because some families want their girls to be boy scouts instead of girl scouts right?
Hopefully, all churches affiliated with the BOY Scouts will drop their support immediately. Good luck to parents trying to bring up boys with manly skills while avoiding hormonal distractions.
Little by little they are forcing us to stop thinking regarding "boy" and "Girl" and accept this new gender-neutral world. Frightening isn't it.
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Author: M. Andrews
Series: Gambling on Love #2
Release Date: March 17, 2016
Rating: 2/5
Source: Digital copy purchased from Amazon
At the age of five, Ryder Callahan knew without a shadow of doubt that Lucky Flanagan was his lucky Strike. But for twenty five years Lucky kept Ryder at arms length, not wanting to destroy the one stable relationship in her otherwise turbulent life.
In a moment of weakness the two acted on their feelings for one another.
Only to have Lucky do what she does best when she can't deal with her emotions, she ran.
Leaving Ryder completely broken hearted.
Now Lucky is back and ready to fight for the love of her life. Even if it means fighting herself.
Lucky Strike is Ryder and Lucky's story. Ryder Callahan is a cop who's a friend of Lucky's/Nadine's when they were kids. Their first meeting was kind of full of hate (at least for Lucky) because boys would be boys regardless of age. But they came to a truce and from then on, they became each other's go-to person. It's just that Lucky's got some serious baggage and the moment Ryder confessed his love for her, the girl ran the hell away. Ryder took the hit badly but he's not going to give up until he could bring Lucky back home.
Honestly, I couldn't give the book five stars because of that rough start. For me, it's totally unnecessary but I get why it had to be done. Because the hero's life's in shambles, so—of course. Doesn't mean I like it though.
The book had a lot of potential had the author dug in deeper to the conflicts thrown all throughout the book. The friendship that bloomed between Ryder and Lucky had when they were still kids could've been a springboard to the present but the story only got a few glimpses on what they had been like before. I wish it offered more childhood memories so I'd get Lucky's character. Because I didn't. She seemed inconsistent to me (though I do love her alpha female-ness) because of the way the story was told—fast-paced and just when I expect things to get serious, I was met by the sudden change of course. It was like I couldn't savor every moment of it. You know that feeling when you're waiting for a thing so badly and the moment it landed on your lap, it was quickly snatched away? That's how I felt.
The other thing was Lucky's d-bag of an ex, Jackson. His appearances could've made the story interesting but it was like he was placed there just because. And nothing more.
I wish I could love Ryder. I mean, he could really be sweet and alpha all at the same time but the beginning of the story quickly turned me off. I loved the way how he handled Lucky and her bullcrap but I didn't think it's enough to love him that much at all. Ryder and Lucky though? They're good together, they're good for each other. And I definitely loved them together.
Overall, I think the book was fine (there were still awww-moments and OMG the steamy scenes were steamy!!!), the author's writing was still freaking good (save from the few typos I spotted) and I'm eagerly waiting for a book of hers that I'd truly love.


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Roisin Loughran
Post Doc Research Fellow Lvl I
School Of Business
Blackrock Block D
Carysfort Avenue, Blackrock
Co. Dublin
Tel: +353 1 7168093
Email: email@example.com
My Bachelors degree was in Electronic Engineering in UCD. As a musician with 10 years of classical training in violin and piano along with a keen interest in guitar, bass and local bands I combined my passions in music and technology by studying for a Masters in Music and Media Technology at Trinity College Dublin. After completing this, I continued my higher education into musical sound analysis by undertaking a PhD at the University of Limerick entitled `Musical Instrument Identification with Feature Selection Using Evolutionary Methods¿ under the supervision of Michael O¿Neill and Jacqueline Walker.
I returned to UCD in 2013 to a technical role as the IT & Media Coordinator for CASL. While there, I collaborated on a project researching speaker verification on a part-time basis. In November 2014 I returned to research full-time as part of the Applications in Evolutionary Design project (App¿Ed) under SFI. Here I am a member of the Natural Computing Research and Applications (NCRA) group who examine the application of algorithms based on naturally occurring phenomena to real-world problems. I specialise in using evolutionary methods to better understand creative problems such as music composition and music cognition.>>
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Conference Publications
|Roisin Loughran, Jacqueline Walker and Michael O¿Neill (2008) The Use of Mel-frequency Cepstral Coefficients in Musical Instrument Recognition International Computer Music Conference (ICMC) [Details]
|Roisin Loughran, Jacqueline Walker, Michael O¿Neill and Marion Farrell (2008) Musical Instrument Identification Using Principal Component Analysis and Multi-Layered Perceptrons the International Conference on Audio, Language and Image Processing (ICALIP) [Details]
|Roisin Loughran, Jacqueline Walker, Michael O¿Neill and Marion Farrell (2008) Comparison of Features in Musical Instrument Identification Using Artificial Neural Networks Computer Music Modelling and Retrieval (CMMR) [Details]
|Roisin Loughran, Jacqueline Walker and Michael O¿Neil (2009) An Exploration of Genetic Algorithms for Efficient Musical Instrument Identification Irish Signal and Systems Conference (ISSC) [Details]
|Roisin Loughran, Jacqueline Walker, Michael O¿Neill and James McDermott (2012) Genetic Programming for Musical Instrument Identification EvoMUSART [Details]
|Róisín Loughran, James McDermott and Michael O¿Neill (2015) Grammatical Evolution with Zipf¿s Law Based Fitness for Melodic Composition Sound and Music Computing Conference (SMC) Maynooth, Ireland, [Details]
|Róisín Loughran, James McDermott, Michael O'Neill (2015) Tonality Driven Piano Compositions with Grammatical Evolution IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC) Sendai, Japan, [Details]
|Roisin Loughran (2010) Musical Instrument Identification with Feature Selection Using Evolutionary Methods. Dissertations/Theses [Details]
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My main research interests are in algorithmic composition, sound analysis, computational creativity and evolutionary computation. As a member of the Natural Computing Research and Application (NCRA) group in UCD, I am part of a team that applies algorithms based on naturally occurring phenomena to real-world problems. I specialize in applying evolutionary methods such as grammatical evolution to composing music. This raises questions, not only in relation to music composition, but also in music perception, cognition and appreciation and in subjective evaluation in general. Defining and measuring subjective evaluations in a creative domain such as music is paramount to the understanding of computational creativity. Understanding and enumerating these subjective and aesthetic criteria plays a critical role in the development of creatively intelligent and more generally artificially intelligent systems.>>


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"It is on the very ground of suffering that we can contemplate well-being.
It is exactly in the muddy water that the lotus glows and blooms."
~ Thich Nhat Hanh ~
A family member's descent back into alcoholism/addiction can raise the emotional soup of the family to boiling point. The same is true for an eating disorder or mood disorder relapse. In families, we are exquisitely sensitive to what is happening with one another and have the ability to set each other off on a hair trigger, so when something as anxiety-provoking as a relapse occurs, the perception of threat can be very high. Once our threat system is activated, it becomes difficult to settle down, think clearly and respond wisely. Emotionally charged reactions rather than considered responses tend to dominate relationship encounters and we are subject to behaving in ways that fuel the problem, rather than settle it.
When members feel threatened, good connection can get very compromised. Isolation, disconnection and emotional cutoff can fuel destructive behaviour to no end, as can the lack of emotional space and poor quality of connection that arise from being intensely and anxiously over-focused on. There is some evidence to suggest that the counter-point of alcoholism/addiction/eating disorders/mood disorders is connection, and working to preserve the capacity for connection in families during a relapse turns out to be a very powerful intervention indeed.
In the face of a family member's relapse, we can either be swept up in the emotional storm or anchor ourselves firmly in it's eye. There are pockets of calm, respite and safety that we can step into, and create for ourselves, if we get enough support and are willing to work at it. In these pockets, we can ground and settle ourselves so that we have some chance of responding rather than reacting, and retaining the capacity for connection when it is most challenging, and most vital.
Below are 10 tips for anchoring yourself in the eye of the relapse storm and preserving as much capacity for connection throughout. (For simplicity's sake, this list references specifically the experience of addicts and their families, however exactly the same dynamics and principles apply where eating disorders and mood disorders are concerned).
1) Be open to what seeds of change may lay in the relapse
Relapse does not always mean the death of recovery. Relapse can be fertile ground for reflection,….an opportunity to get clear about what needs and triggers require better management next time round, and to come at recovery with renewed energy and commitment down the track. Few things motivate people in recovery like a relapse, and many a solid recovery foundation has been built on the back of a relapse. The fertile ground that exists here is on offer for both the addict and his family members,….whoever chooses to use the experience as an opportunity to grow.
2) Hold a realistic perception of recovery outcomes and pathways
Recovery is a process.Those who get clean and stay clean for the rest of time are amongst a small minority. The addict's brain is wired for using, his pleasure and reward centres primed for chemical relief. It takes a long time and a lot of hard work to create alternative neural circuitry, and for reliable alternatives to be found when seeking relief, pleasure and reward. Because of this powerful neurochemistry, slips and struggles are very often par for the course.
3) Seek out good support for yourself
Families of addicts often underestimate how much support they need, and focus on getting their loved one support, but one of the best ways to support your loved one is to be well-supported yourself. Whether it be through friends, a therapist, an Al-anon group, a sponsor or some other healing community, support is everything. Good support, and the relief and connection that flows from it, releases chemicals in the brain which are natural anti-depressants and buffers against the experience of feeling threatened and flooded with stress hormones.
4) Respect your own limits and set some boundaries
Boundaries are critical to both family members and the addicted person. When we don't protect ourselves by setting limits, we are likely to feel particularly fearful, vulnerable and threatened, and when we allow ourselves to be harmed and depleted, not only do we feel terrible, but the addicted person tends to carry a heavy burden around that harm, which fuels further using. Boundaries can be tricky for families and this is an area where getting the right support can help immensely.
5) Actively attempt to lean into hope rather than despair, faith rather than fear
Fear and despair are inevitable during a relapse, so they need to be honoured, but also carefully managed and contained. Develop a daily practice for cultivating hope and faith, because both can be places to rest in and draw strength from. A family member who can operate more from hope and faith, rather than fear and despair can be a hugely settling, anxiety-neutralising force for both themselves, and others in the family, including the addict.
6) Practice exquisite self care….daily!
In circumstances like these, it can seem like self-care is an unnecessary luxury, but few things keep us grounded, sane, settled and responsive rather than reactive, like taking good care of ourselves. Sleeping when we are tired, eating decent food when we are hungry, doing some exercise and even having some fun are important, especially during a family crisis. And for those who feel guilty about taking good care of themselves when their loved one is struggling, consider this…wellness sparks wellness. We don't invite wellness by compromising our own. We inspire wellness by being well.
7) Stay focused on your own life responsibilities and leave the addict's to him
Instinctually, we can be moved to abandon our own needs and life responsibilities, and in turn pick up the addict's. This inevitably leads to feeling exhausted and resentful, whilst the addict feels like a hopeless burden, which is great fodder for using. When you can, stay in your own life space, so that the addicted person can occupy his. When we stay focused on our own life, we leave an open invitation for the addict to get focused on his. If we dive in to take over his responsibilities, whilst we may feel helpful, and temporarily relieve our own anxiety, we remove that invitation, disempower him and deplete ourselves.
8) Practice calming down and staying mindful
Calm is indeed a super-power, and nowhere more so than during a relapse. Cultivate calm. Become a mindful observer of yourself in this set of life circumstances. Just the act of observing ourselves, rather than being completely lost in all the emotion, increases our executive functioning, including our capacity to manage strong emotion. At the same time, activity in our limbic brain, where strong emotion arises and our threat system is housed, decreases. Whatever helps you breathe deeply, calm down and be mindful in the present moment,….meditation, yoga, surfing, bushwalking…it really doesn't matter what it is. All that matters is that you do it!
9) Surrender control. Having any was only ever an illusion anyway.
One of the most difficult things about a loved one's relapse is the experience of being powerless. Our fight against the reality of how little control we have over so many aspects of life is wired into us in such primal ways, and human beings will do anything and everything in order to avoid this inescapable fact of our existence. Family members of relapsed addicts can access a grace that is all too often illusive, if they are able to accept that they cannot control the situation. We have power over ourselves, but attempting to control the addict or determine his outcomes only intensifies things, and can invite a reciprocal push-back against control from him, in the form of increased using. As much as possible….surrender, accept, let go…as counter-intuitive as they are, these tend to yield far better outcomes than control.
10) Steer clear of criticism, blame, lecturing and character assassinations. Opt for kindness and respect instead.
This seems like a no-brainer, but it really can seem like a good idea to tear strips off the addict. The impulse to 'wake them up' or 'knock some sense into them' with a good ear-bashing can be strong, but the result can be devastating. Just below the surface of the anti-social behaviour and questionable choices of your addicted love one, is a fragile person who already feels absolutely awful about themselves, and is desperately trying to find a way to feel better. Any attempts to reach the person via criticism or verbal beat-downs more often than not serves only to further shatter an already shattered person. Kindness and respect go an awfully long way, and open opportunities for connection rather than shut them down.
Preserving the lifeline of connection allows us to stay open to love, and relapse in the family offers us the seeds from which we can grow the capacity for a type of love that dispenses with control, clinging and fear, and slowly replaces them with grace, maturity and hope. Anyone in the family who is willing to work on this effort is an incredible asset to their relapsed loved one, whether they be suffering from alcoholism, an addiction, an eating disorder, or a mood disorder. This kind of love and connection become possible when we anchor ourselves in the eye of the relapse storm, where we can settle down, ground ourselves and become mindful. This is the place from which we can respond rather than react, and be part of the solution, rather than part of the problem.
About Anna Lloyd
Anna Lloyd is a Family Therapist at Byron Private and a Clinical Psychotherapist in Private Practice in Sydney's Inner West, working with individuals, couples, families and groups. Trained in Gestalt Psychotherapy, Bowen Family Systems Theory and Systemic Family Constellation work, Anna is passionate about family systems and the power of systemic approaches to recovery and wellness. Specialised in Addiction Recovery/Addictive Family Systems, Anna brings 15 years of experience living and practicing the work. She is strongly committed to trauma-informed therapeutic approaches, and values warm, holistic, body-inclusive, life-affirming therapy grounded in mindfulness, practical wisdom, and the science of relationship systems and the brain.


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Found an article which lists the All-Stars in the history of the Alexandria Aces, including the 2009 CBL All-Stars. That link was added to the Aces page here:
2008 CBL Home Run Derby Winner Video Added
Nick Shay won the 2008 CBL home run derby in McKinney, Texas in July 2008. Nick represented the Corpus Christi Beach Dawgs.
A video of his round in the Derby is now added to the page for that event here:
Former Bay Area Toros Staff Member Now Working With Auburn
A recent article came out about Auburn's assistant athletic trainer, Andrew Crane, who was with the Bay Area Toros. Here is the link to the article:
Texarkana Gunslingers Baseball Card Images Added
Thanks to former Texarkana Gunslingers player Brendan Rubenstein for sending us his photos of the front and back of most of the 2008 team's baseball card set. Those images are now on the Memorabilia page here:
Texarkana Gunslingers And Big Bend Cowboys Catcher On MLB.com And ESPN
Ryan Powell played a few games in the CBL, in 2008 with the Texarkana Gunslingers and 2009 with the Big Bend Cowboys. He got injured but returned in 2011 in the Pecos League to be a player-manager with the Carlsbad Bats and then finished his time with the Trinidad Triggers in 2012.
He joined the Baltimore Orioles in 2013 as a scout for the independent leagues, but then was able to honor his ailing mother by playing a spring training game with the Orioles. Here are the links (including from MLB.com) and a video clip of him on ESPN (all rights go to ESPN, the video was uploaded to Ryan's YouTube channel) about the story. In some of the articles, the Big Bend Cowboys are mentioned:
- https://www.mlb.com/news/orioles-scout-ryan-powell-plays-for-mom/c-169669498
- http://www.baltimoresun.com/sports/orioles/bs-sp-orioles-spring-training-0401-20160331-story.html
- http://www.baseballessential.com/news/2016/03/25/orioles-sign-ryan-powell-one-last-inning/
Texarkana Gunslingers Baseball Card Set Information Added
We found 2 photos of baseball cards from the 2008 Texarkana Gunslingers set. Those have been added to the Memorabilia page here: http://www.cblproball.com/memorabilia/
We also found a Beckett.com listing of all of the cards from that baseball card set. The link to that page has been added to the Gunslingers' page here: Texarkana Gunslingers
Several Big Bend Cowboys Articles Added
Just added several random articles about the 2009 and 2010 Big Bend Cowboys. Some include fan reviews of the stadium, a brief bio on the team's last manager – Ryan Stevens, review of the logo and uniform when they were made public and more.
All have been added to the Big Bend Cowboys page here:
Conclusion of 2007 CBL All Star Game Video Clip
Just uploaded a short video clip taken from the 1st base dugout as the 2007 CBL All-Star Game concluded. It showed players and coaching staff members from the North team after it won the game. The team was comprised of players and coaches from the Lewisville Lizards and the Tarrant County Blue Thunder.
Tom Goodwin (manager of the Lizards), Curtis Wilkerson (manager of the Blue Thunder) and Kieran Mattison (pitcher and coach for the Lizards) are featured in this clip.
That video clip has been added to the 2007 CBL All-Star Game page here:
May 2008 Game Photos Between Toros And Blue Thunder Added
Just added 20+ photos taken from a May 31, 2008 game between the McKinney Blue Thunder visiting the Bay Area Toros at Robinson Stadium in Texas City. All photo credits go to Flickr user "Stephen" (click here) and this link takes you to that user's album specific to the Blue Thunder-Toros game (click here).
Those photos have been added to the bottom of the Toros page here:
New 2007 CBL Home Run Derby Video Added
Just added a video clip featuring Jesse Longoria, of the Lewisville Lizards, batting during the 2007 Continental Baseball League home run derby. The event took place at Clear Creek High School in League City Texas in July 2007.


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New Study Reveals How Scarce Food Must Be for Big Cats To Kill Livestock
Every outdoor enthusiast worth their salt knows that when other food sources aren't available, big cats kill livestock.
What kind of big cats are we talking about? Well, lions, tigers, pumas, cheetahs, snow leopards, jaguars, you name it. These carnivores in particular are cited as hazards to livestock, but this new study released from Biological Conservation details the index of wild prey biomass that leads these cats to move to livestock, such as cattle, goats, and sheep.
A German university recently put together a team of researchers to determine just how low the wild prey index must reach before big cats move to killing other viable options of food. The central point of study was "at what prey levels attacks on livestock are triggered," and the team ended up with "107 studies spanning dozens of countries" that looked into wild prey density and livestock predation from 2004 to 2014.
The study found that cattle is typically the first to become new prey, and it is found to be very high when the biomass drops to 1,790 pounds per .4 square miles. They require less energy for these cats to take down, which then results in a higher energy level, enabling the cats to kill more cattle at once than other types of livestock.
However, the cats move outward from cattle predation when the biomass drops to 1,1999 pounds per .4 square miles and begin to hunt sheep and goats. All of the big cats, except for tigers, are found to want to kill sheep and goats when the prey mess dwindles that far.
To confirm their findings, the team then mapped out known prey biomass in a comparison with actual livestock predation, and found that the predictions they had made were indeed reliable. Some areas, specifically in India, Nepal, and South Africa, contain enough wild prey to sustain an overeager cat population, but in the other regions sampled, "the probability of livestock predation is moderate to high."
The bottom line to this study is big cats that are skillful predators cannot survive when prey biomass drops to a certain level, an event that is caused by many natural events, ranging from overpopulation in cats to unsuitable mating conditions for prey populations.
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Gooding & Company moved over $50 Million worth of classic cars at Pebble Beach
It has been a week since the Champagne poured and the confetti flew over the 18th green at the world's greatest car show, Pebble Beach, and the event's official auction house, Gooding & Company, has just finished tallying their sales receipts to find out that they moved over $50 Million worth of classic cars selling 129 lots, two of which sold over $4 Million each and setting three world records over the Monterey weekend.
The star of the show happened to be Lot 135, a silver 1962 Ferrari 250 GT SWB California Spider that sold for a record $5,115,000 on Sunday followed by a beautiful 1933 Alfa Romeo 8C 2300 Drop Head Coupe which went home with a new owner for $4,180,000. Guests at the auction on Sunday night were also privy to the sale of the very first Bentley Mulsanne which sold for half a million dollars.
Bentley's newest luxury sedan, which is proclaimed to be the "pinnacle" of high end automobiles, made its debut at the 2009 Pebble Beach Concours. The car is named after the infamous 200+ MPH straight at the Circuit de la Serthe at Le Mans. The Mulsanne is set to replace the dearly departed Arnage and is being billed as the up-and-coming challenger to the Rolls-Royce Phantom for luxury car supremacy. It looks like we will have to wait until the world's greatest car show rolls around again next year to see if any more of these records can be broken.
Press release after the jump.
Gooding Sold 129 Exceptional Lots with Two $4+ Million Cars and Achieved Three World Records in 2 Days
Gooding & Company, the official auction house of the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance®, sold 129 total lots over both Saturday and Sunday auction events, collectively earning more than $50 Million* in sales. Continuing its successful presence at the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance and as the leading auction house in Monterey, Gooding & Company attracted thousands of collectors and enthusiasts from around the world last week.
Sunday's totals were north of the competition with $29+ million for 55 lots sold out of 70 offered. Nine exceptional cars sold for more than $1 Million each. The evening's top five sales were the 1962 Ferrari 250 GT SWB California Spider at $5,115,000, the 1933 Alfa Romeo 8C 2300 Drop Head Coupe at $4,180,000, the 1935 Duesenberg Model SJ Roadster at $3,300,000, the 1954 Ferrari 500 Mondial Series I at $1,540,000 and the 1934 Mercedes-Benz 380 Sport Roadster at $1,078,000.
In contrast with many of the evening's award-winning classics, guests at Sunday night's auction event witnessed the historical sale of "Chassis Number One" of Bentley Motors' Mulsanne, the new flagship grand tourer model that was conceived, styled and engineered entirely at Bentley's headquarters in Crewe, England. Selling for $550,000, proceeds are being donated to the Pebble Beach Phil Hill Scholarship.
Gooding & Company's top ten sales results from both Saturday and Sunday include:
|·1962 Ferrari 250 GT SWB California Spider at $5,115,000 (Sunday Lot 135)
|·1933 Alfa Romeo 8C 2300 Drop Head Coupe at $4,180,000 (Sunday Lot 139)
|·1935 Duesenberg Model SJ Roadster at $3,300,000 (Sunday Lot 130)
|·1958 Ferrari 250 GT LWB California Spider at $2,750,000 (Saturday Lot 37)
|·1953 Aston Martin DB 2/4 Drop Head Coupe at $1,650,000 (Saturday Lot 62)
|·1954 Ferrari 500 Mondial Series I at $1,540,000 (Sunday Lot 117)
|·1938 Bugatti Type 57C Special Coupe at $1,375,000 (Saturday Lot 31)
|·1934 Mercedes-Benz 380 Sport Roadster at $1,078,000 (Sunday Lot 149)
|·1954 Aston Martin DB2/4 Competition Spider at $1,045,000 (Sunday 126)
|·1929 Rolls-Royce Phantom I York Roadster for $946,000 (Sunday Lot 116)
Three world record-breaking sales were achieved on Saturday night – the 1953 Aston Martin DB 2/4 Drop Head Coupe's sale at $1,650,000, the 1953 Jaguar XK120 SE Roadster's sale at $192,500 and the 1938 Buick Limited Series 80 Opera Brougham at $506,000. Saturday's highest sale was the red hot 1958 Ferrari 250 GT LWB California Spider at $2,750,000. A highlight for many enthusiasts was the sale of Ettore Bugatti's own 1938 Bugatti Type 57C Special Coupe that passed hands to its new caretaker at a price of $1,375,000.
Gooding & Company will be conducting its annual Scottsdale auction on Saturday, January 23, 2010 in Scottsdale, Arizona.
* The prices are in US Dollars, include the buyer's premium and are rounded to the nearest dollar. Gooding & Company is not responsible for typographical errors or omissions.
About Gooding & Company
Gooding & Company provides unparalleled service for those in the collector car market, offering a wide range of services, including private and estate sales, appraisals and collection management. At its previous four auctions, Gooding & Company sold a combined total of more than $178+ Million in collector automobiles, with 55 vehicles selling for more than $1 million and nine vehicles selling for more than $3 million. As the official auction house for the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance®, Gooding & Company sold more than $64 million worth of collector automobiles in August 2008. For more information, please contact (310) 899-1960 or visit www.goodingco.com.
About Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance
First conducted in 1950, the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance® (pebblebeachconcours.com) has grown to become the world's premier celebration of the automobile. Only the most beautiful and rare cars are invited to appear on the famed 18th fairway of Pebble Beach Golf Links®, and connoisseurs of art and style flock to see these masterpieces.
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Indians among worst affected by TB in Britain
By IANS
Nov 4, 2006, 19:31
Tuberculosis (TB) showed an alarming rise in Britain last year with ethnic South Asians, especially Indian, Pakistani and Bangladeshi, accounting for most cases.
According to figures released by Britain's Health Protection Agency (HPA), there was a 10.8 percent increase in TB cases in Britain, with 8,113 cases in 2005 as against 7,321 in 2004.
The highest proportion of cases, 38 percent, was reported among people from Indian, Pakistani and Bangladeshi ethnic backgrounds.
"The largest increase was seen among patients not born in the UK, who accounted for 5,310 cases," John Watson, head of the HPA's respiratory diseases department, said.
According to the figures, London had the highest proportion of cases in 2005 (43 percent), having increased from 3,129 in 2004 to 3,479 in 2005. The regions with the highest number of new cases were the North West (588 in 2004 to 757 cases in 2005), East Midlands (443 in 2004 to 556 in 2005) and the East of England (395 in 2004 to 483 in 2005).
The sharp rise in TB cases in Britain has raised concern among health workers.
TB was the biggest killer disease in Britain during the 19th century.
The disease is preventable and treatable. It usually spreads when somebody with the infection coughs or sneezes. It affects the lungs and sometimes other parts of the body. The symptoms include fever and night sweats, a persistent cough, losing weight and coughing or spitting blood.
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"If you're over 40 and you've never had a failure, you've been deprived." Gloria Swanson
Failure. The dictionary tells us it is a lack of success, an insufficiency or a deterioration of sorts. It is what not to become, what is subnormal, and therefore undesirable . And yet Swanson is not wrong. Most of us will experience failure in some capacity and multiple times throughout our life. It is not inherently a bad thing; and from it we will either rise like the phoenix or fall to the floor, retreat ,lick our wounds and possibly even throw the odd pity party for ourselves. Such reactions are neither better nor worse and not all failures lead to some mythical or inevitable higher success; some are simply that, a flop, a fiasco, a lemon and no amount of squeezing them will produce even the tiniest drop of lemonade. You can of course still learn form it, even if the lesson learned is despite feeling like you have gone twelve rounds with Katie Taylor, you can still stand and you will still get up in the morning, turn on the radio and make breakfast.
Swanson, despite being a huge film star in the 20s, was no stranger to failure. In both her career and her personal life she experienced failure many times over, and here I'm thinking of you Joe Kennedy; a lesser mortal might not have endured and survived the way she did. Nor could they have taken the role of Norma Desmond and produced such a sublime and fascinating character from what was essentially a pathetic, and decrepit character. Desmond, the decaying silent movie star bore so many similarities to Swanson it must have taken a lot of balls to play her. But she did, and she brought in even more of herself, the film includes some of her personal belongings and shows clips from her films, including the bomb that was Queen Kelly. To say she was able to laugh at herself doesn't even come close and for this alone I take my hat off to Mz Swanson. What a sight it is to behold when in the final moments of the film, she descends that grandiose staircase and declares, "All right, Mr DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up". We know the only thing she is getting close to is the inside of a jail cell, but we also know that although Norma Desmond may be lost in her own imaginings, Gloria Swanson is anything but lost.
Granted accepting failure still doesn't sit well with me. I can honestly say that had some of them not happened, I wouldn't complain or feel deprived in any way. I think I've learned to accept that failure doesn't mean defeat; but what I'm still working on is accepting that neither does it always mean you will rise from the ashes, reborn and renewed, a better person. That failure can simply be that, a bust, with no promise of a boom.
Swanson lived to the ripe old age of 84. She was a business woman, a fashion designer, a film and tv star, a health food nut before there was even such a thing and was married six times. I think we can safely say failure never stood in her way or stopped her having a sufficient and successful life. If that is subnormal, why would anyone want to be normal?


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Title: Why the Scout Hates Rainbows
Premise, or Lack Thereof: A few of the Team Fortress 2 classes as Sailor Senshi
Reason for Banishment: More or less jokefic written on a whim
It was official. Jack Cunningham hated his life.
It started when he sort of "saved" a cat from some bullies; he didn't even know the thing was there, he just wanted to scare off the assholes who were trying to get a piece of his territory. He was trying to shoo it away from him, because his family was already so large that having pets were forbidden—not that Jack didn't feed his share of stray dogs who responded to him and even did tricks on occasion—when, hand to God, it talked to him. In a motherfucking British accent, no less.
"Well, you're not what I expected, but beggars can't be choosers, I guess."
Jack blinked at the cat produced what looked like a cheap plastic pen (or maybe what his mom kept in her sock drawer for when she didn't feel like bringing a man over for, ah, "tea", like she was fooling anybody) and tossed it at him. "Um—?" He, meanwhile, was still staring at the cat and trying to figure out if he was dreaming or not.
"Just hold up the wand and say the words 'Moon Power Make Up'. Please. It's very important."
That snapped him out of it. "No. No fucking way. Not even if it's the end of the world. I'm not doing any of this 'Moon Power Make Up' bullshit—"
One sound and light show later—what happened to his clothes? Or his pride and joy, for that matter? Oh, hey, he had boobs now, that was kind of sweet–Jack was in a skirt so short he might as well have been in his underwear and whose neckline would have caused street walkers to express their disapproval.
The cat, meanwhile, was dashing back out into the streets. "The monsters are already attacking. You must hurry!"
"You've GOT to be kidding me," Jack muttered, but he decided to humor the creature for the time being. He figured that the sooner he humored the beast, the sooner he could get out of this mess.
But he was so not about to try running in high heels. He kicked those off and bounded after the cat in his bare feet.
A single red rose shot through the air and embedded into the ground, shedding a few petals. "Gentlemen."
Jack stared. Above them, perched on top of a phone pole, was a man in the most impractical, expensive looking suit ever, his face obscured by a ski mask even though holes had been cut out for his eyes and mouth. He tipped his top hat at the group gathered below, his cape fluttering in a breeze Jack didn't feel on the ground below. "Hey!" Jack called up to the man. "You gonna just stand there and hog the spotlight, or are you gonna do anything useful?"
The man bowed to his waist. "It is only proper that I make a dramatic entrance, is it not?" He smirked at Jack, pulling a cigarette out of a slim silver case. "Besides, you seem to be doing just fine."
Jack almost stamped his foot—even if he had a body of a girl at the moment, hell if he was ever going to act like one—but managed to settle for flipping the bird instead. "Oh, yeah? Well, fuck you and the horse you rode in on! Let's see if I ever help your useless ass if you land in hot water."
The man tsked. "Such language! I hope you do not kiss your mother with that mouth."
"Told you not to touch the darned thing!" Sailor Mercury chortled, refilling the shells on a contraption that just screamed overcompensation and gestured in what Jack hoped was not a gang sign.
"Huh. So you can shoot a monster to death after all." Jack smirked, an idea blossoming in his mind.
The next battle saw Jack chasing after the monsters with a dented aluminum bat in hand, grinning a mile wide, while Luna chased after him screaming that he was supposed to be purifying their hearts instead. Jack just made a face at Luna and kept running.
"Huddah huddah huh!" The red-clad girl—or boy, or boy-turned girl, it was impossible to tell with that full body hazmat suit, complete with gas mask—moved in a manner reminiscent of those old martial arts movies. Then a ball of flame erupted from between his/her/its cupped hands, spiraling outward to consume the enemy.
Jack gaped. This was so unfair. How come everyone else got the cool powers? Okay, so all Sailor Mercury's spray thing was make it foggy and cold as fuck for a few minutes, but it was better than the sparkling light show that Jack could shoot out of his wand (and it wasn't even THAT kind of wand, sigh) when it felt like cooperating with him. Seeing Sailor Mars be able to shoot goddamn fire made him wish he could quit the whole fighting evil by moonlight thing.
But where else would he be able to bat his enemies to death and not get in trouble over it?
Jack was sure he was going to be sick. Sailor Jupiter somehow squeezed into a leotard at least too sizes too small without popping a single stitch out of place, and every inch of her jiggled with nauseating rhythm when she moved.
Sailor Jupiter noticed Jack and waved. "Hi! I am the Sailor from Jupiter! Let us kill many monsters together, yes?"
Jack made a mental note to exchange some very strong words with Luna as soon as he saw that scrawny little cat again. "Yeah, whatever." He pulled on Sailor Mercury's sleeve to break her gaze. "Come on, let's get this over with before either of us blow chunks."
Jack was, to say the least, a bit suspicious. The gross Australian bum living under the bridge was both Sailor Venus and the reincarnated Moon Princess? "You sure? I mean, I'm Sailor Moon, right?"
"The Princess had many bodyguards to protect her," Luna said with an imperious air, as if that explained everything. "Besides, he has to be the Princess. He has an accent."
"So does the rest of the team," Jack muttered. "And that creepy Tuxedo Mask guy."
"That may be so, but he is the only one with the right accent." Luna sighed, her eyes dreamy. "And he's so handsome."
Jack raised an eyebrow. "We are talking about the same dude, right? Drunk as fuck all the time, doesn't takes baths, pees in a jar?"
"He drinks because he's had to shoulder a lot of pain," Luna insisted. "And where would he take a bath? Plus, don't you think he's being very considerate by not relieving himself into the river?"
Jack shook his head. There was no accounting for taste, not even when it came to magical moon cats, he guessed. "Well, if you're sure." He snickered. "Good luck trying to tell him you're not just a hallucination."
Nothing much surprised Jack these days, not since he met the talking cat and became a girl for hours, sometimes even days at a time and chased after monsters in an outfit that just wasn't practical for anything.
So when, in the middle of a pitched battle where everybody was being tossed about left and right like ragdolls and Jack's mind was a constant stream of fuck we're going to die and all I have is a goddamn bat, the lame-ass looking brooch pinned just high enough on Jack's outfit to cover cleavage began to glow, Jack was not alarmed in the least. He did let out a very undignified scream, though, when a very large, very pointy crystal began sprouting from there.
Hey, man, sudden, inexplicable gemstone growths hurt.
By the time the stabbing pain stopped, the monsters were dead (how convenient), everybody was still alive even if all of them would be too sore to walk the next day, and Jack was in a dress.
A white, frills up the wazoo, glittering dress. Oh, and was that a crown on his head? Yes it was. A very heavy crown that, if Jack could somehow pawn without getting too many questions asked, could feed his whole family forever and Mom wouldn't need to work overtime at the factory.
Tuxedo Mask dropped to one knee and kissed Jack's gloved hand, looking dead serious about this. "Princess. I have been searching for you for so long."
Okay, now Jack was freaking out a little, because he wasn't a fag and he didn't want a dude hitting on him. "Uh—"
Except Tuxedo Mask had already rose, quick as lighting, and held Jack in what looked like a tight hug. "I do not like this any more than you do, young Jack." He murmured against Jack's ear. "But these are the roles we must play until the stage is set."
"How did you—" Jack's question was stopped by a deep kiss on the mouth—oh, God, there was tongue, too, ew ew ew.
"I know a great many things, my darling."
Fuck this. Fuck everything. Everything Luna told him, about the Power of the Moon, the Power of Friendship, the Power of Love—lies, all of it.
They had walked right into a goddamn slaughter.
Now, his team—his friends—were all dead. Even that slippery Tuxedo Mask jumped in front of Jack at the last possible moment to take a blast of dark energy, claiming that his body had moved on his own accord.
And the Thing was still there, laughing, mocking. "What will you do now, Princess? You have no allies left. And you lack the purity of heart to wield the Millennium Crystal to its full potential." The Thing stretched out a gaunt hand, blood still dripping from its manicured claws. "Just hand it over already and I will make your death quick an painless."
Jack's hands curled around the crystal. "Yeah, right. And I'm the Easter Bunny." He pointed it at the Thing, ignoring the blinding pain shooting through his arms. "I don't need Purity of Heart. I just need to want you fucking dead bad enough, even if using this thing kills me and everything else." He was close, so very close. "And guess what—I do."
It leered at him. "Go ahead and try, Princess. I look forward to our battle in your next life."
It was getting hard to stay conscious, but somehow Jack held on. All he needed to do was point the crystal in the right direction. As if he could miss that stupid giant lightning bolt in what one could call the Thing's hair.
The crystal was charged. With his last bit of strength, Jack aimed it and let the beam of energy fly.
Then, there was light.
Light. The Scout saw light.
"—hey, I think he's finally coming to."
Everything was a vague blur, like he'd just drank a whole case of Bonk.
"Scout. Scout? You there, buddy?"
The Scout blinked a few times, and the vague blur settled into the Engineer, who was hovering over him like some mother hen, and the Medic, who was standing off to the side aiming his Medigun at him.
"Sup?" he greeted, the fog from his mind lifting. Now he remembered. He had downed a can of Bonk, running in front of the Sentry as a distraction while the Spy sneaked around back to sap it. Except the Spy didn't plunk that Sapper down quite fast enough and the effects of the drink was running out just as a rocket was headed straight for him. He'd blacked out, of course, and then–and then what? "You guys got that Sentry, right?"
The Engineer nodded. "We got it good, son. And Solly capped the intel, won the round."
"Aw, I missed Humiliation? That sucks." For some reason, the first thing the Scout wanted to do after regaining some control of his hands was to pat his chest, and was relieved to discover his dogtags but nothing else. What was he expecting to find?
The Medic scoffed. "You are lucky that you are even still alive. If the Engineer didn't put down a Dispenser in time, you would have bled out long before I could get to you."
"So? There's the respawn, isn't it?" The Scout got up and stretched, feeling sore all over, more than he ever felt after a grueling mission.
"You weren't waking up right away, not even after the Medic got here." The Engineer stayed nearby, as if expecting the Scout to pass out again. "You had us real worried."
"Well, I'm okay now, aren't I?" The Scout jogged in place a bit to work the strength back into his legs. "Come on, let's get some grub, I'm starving."
Kind of, Sort of Epilogue:
The Scout stared at the little pink-haired girl in an all-too familiar looking school uniform. "Hi, Mommy!" she chirped, waving up at him. "I'm your daughter, from the future!"
"Mommy?" the Scout repeated, horrified. "Do I even want to know who the dad is?"
The girl giggled and pointed at the Spy, who was doing an excellent job of staring at anything but her. "Him, of course! Like anybody else could be Tuxedo Mask!" She pulled on the Scout's hand. "Now, come on! We've got to save the world so I don't unexist and cause some kind of wacky time paradox or whatever!"


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The Department of Education put schools on notice this week that failure to police a pattern of bullying could result in a loss of federal funds. And while civil rights protections on harassment don't specifically protect gay youth, or youth who are perceived to be gay by peers, the department's guidance letter to schools spelled out a theory on how they are implicitly protected through Title IX's prohibition of gender-based harassment, which includes actions that either reinforce gender stereotypes or single out individuals who may not conform to them.
The guidance made headlines, and rightly so, because it is the first statement on the issue to emanate from a federal office. But it is worth noting that the theory has been tried in court a number of times, with some measure of success.
Several civil rights attorneys representing such victims over the last few years say their cases – due to resulting payouts, heightened public awareness or warnings from insurance companies – have led to more proactive responses from some school districts when faced with later similar complaints.
Though judges and juries have not always found for the plaintiff in gay bullying cases argued as Title IX sex discrimination, tales of those victims who have won in court – and the ensuing regulatory changes in those surrounding districts – illustrate the potential impact of the Department of Education's letter.
Dylan Theno, for instance, sued the Tonganoxie (Kan.) Unified School District under Title IX and a federal jury awarded the district to pay him $250,000 in 2005, leading to an eventual out-of-court settlement of $440,000.
Theno's counsel argued he was denied a proper education because from the time he was in seventh grade through when he dropped out of high school in 11th grade, his teachers and administrators ignored repeated complaints that students teased him, called him names such as "fag" and "queer," and directed crude sexual gestures at him.
"Within months after the Theno decision the Kansas Legislature adopted a statute requiring all school districts to have a policy governing bullying, including bullying based on sexual orientation or perceived sexual orientation," said Arthur Benson, Theno's attorney. "In addition, I have found in several instances when I get complaints that simply writing a letter to the school district reminding them of the Theno verdict causes the school district to jump up and salute and deal with the problem. So I have not filed any more lawsuits in Kansas."
New York
An unnamed teen filed a federal civil suit in 2009 against the Mohawk Central School District in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York. The teen claimed school administrators ignored his complaints that he was targeted because he was gay, was settled out of court this March. The settlement negotiated by the teen's attorneys from the New York Civil Liberties Union did not force Mohawk Central to admit wrongdoing, but it did require the district to install preventative changes, including staff training.
Corey Stoughton, a senior staff attorney at the New York Civil Liberties Union who represented the unnamed teen in the Mohawk case, said settlements like this can lead to the district's schools becoming "models for other schools, and then there is a ripple effect."
Part of that ripple effect in New York included the passage in September of the Dignity for all Students Act (DASA), which requires schools to adopt codes of conduct to create bully-free environments.
A Title IX case involving teenager Dane Patterson led to an unusual course of judicial procedures. David Patterson sued the rural Hudson Area Schools district under Title IX over verbal and physical abuse allegedly ignored by the school. Patterson was routinely called a "faggot," and the incident that triggered the lawsuit involved a fellow student rubbing up against him naked in the locker room.
Patterson reached an out-of-court settlement on the case, but the agreement was not finalized before the jury awarded him $800,000 in damages in March.
It gets stranger. In July, Judge Lawrence Zatkoff overturned the verdict based on his judgment that the discrimination from classmates was not based on gender but on social status and therefore did not apply to Title IX.
Ultimately, the original settlement agreement was enforced, but Patterson's expert witness, Glenn Stutzky, said the jury verdict and the ensuing rejection by the judge caused an interesting reaction.
"When the decision was first made by the jury [in favor of Patterson], school district blogs and websites and the different lawyers that represent the schools around the nation just lit up," said Stutzky, the expert witness who consults with Michigan schools on bullying prevention. "They were very interested in what it was the schools needed to do [to prevent gay-harassment and lawsuits].
Stutzky said he received more than a dozen requests for information from across the country after the jury's decision.
"Then when the judge reversed the decision," he said, "it got quiet. Nobody seemed to be as concerned anymore."
Stutzky said he does not know if any of the schools used the materials he sent them to establish a new policy. He only knows the information requests halted after the judge's decision.
Patterson's attorney, Terry Heiss, said he still files complaints in some areas that he thinks are not taking gay bullying seriously.
"From what I'm hearing, there does not seem to be filtering down to some of the more rural districts that need to get on top of this," said Heiss, who is reviewing two cases right now for possible action. "I'm having a lot of inquiries from families who are feeling like the local districts are stonewalling them when they're making complaints."
Obstacles to prevent gay bullying extend beyond lack of defined legislation or state policy, Stutzky said. Every school district is required to hire a Title IX coordinator responsible for addressing all discrimination complaints, he points out. But that task frequently is taken on by principals or vice-principal with a pile of other responsibilities to deal with.


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Open Day: Two weeks to go!
We're only a few weeks away from the Open Day and we're wrapping up the programmes and the layout of how the day will pan out.
It's the first Open Day that I'll be involved in and I've been told about some of the processes that are being introduced or changed from last year, such as introducing zones around the campus and how to make the registration process faster.
Each zone will have various people or social activity within them, for example, if you want to relax then you can find a sofa lounge zone. If you want to speak to people about accommodation, admissions or finance, they'll have a zone of their own so you'll find them in a large open room.
Guests will be provided with a day guide hooked onto a lanyard, which will have everything that's happening on the day, and what they can find around the campus and which talks and workshops are taking place at specific times. My colleagues are working extremely hard to wrap up these plans so watch this space.
In the meantime I've been getting a lot of phone calls from booked-on guests to find out what time Open Day will begin, when it will end and what takes place in between! So with all the charm and customer service experience that I have, I reassure each enquiry or person on the other end of the line that we'll publish an online programme a week or two before the event!
Whilst the team work on that, I've got to send a lot of postcards to guests that have booked on. In order to have a smooth start, guests will have a barcode in which they can use to scan when they arrive so every two days, I will print out labels from our booking system which will include names, addresses and course/subject of interest.
The system will calculate a barcode for each guest booked on, followed by a mad printing session then straight onto the postcards which basically say something along the lines of "You're booked on! Please bring this in with you to register on arrival". I've labelled up to 250 plus guests, so this will have definitely increased since that batch!
Anyway, enough of work talk-you're more interested about the lunch that we had on Tuesday at Pizza Express, aren't you? It's my colleague's birthday this week, so we thought it would be nice to get out of the office and have a decent lunch for once in town. I had the Al Forno Arrabiata pasta which had the tastiest spices the dish could possibly ask for, however when we got back to the office I just couldn't get going again!
It's that time of the year when there's a lot work going on behind the scenes, and I have to give credit to the marketing team. They do work hard for these events. We're a small office with low numbers compared to most universities but we have the ability to think outside-of-the box and come up with some nice surprises to be successful!


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