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By: Lauren G. Goetzl
On December 12, 2016, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ("EEOC") released a new publication detailing the rights of employees with depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, and other mental health conditions in the workplace. Although the EEOC's publication focused on employees' rights under the Americans with Disabilities Act, employers who have employees suffering from mental health conditions should be aware of their potential obligations under other federal laws as well, including the Family and Medical Leave Act ("FMLA") and the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act ("GINA").
There has been an uptick in charges of discrimination based upon mental health conditions and the EEOC resolved almost 5,000 charges of discrimination based on mental health conditions and obtained approximately $20 million for those claimants in 2016 alone. As a result, EEOC Chair Jenny R. Yang noted that the EEOC released this new publication to remind "[e]mployers, job applicants, and employees . . . that mental health conditions are no different than physical health conditions under the law," and to "clarify the protections that the ADA affords employees."
Employers should refrain from asking medical questions, including questions about an employee's mental health, in all but five situations:
- When an employee asks for a reasonable accommodation;
- After the employer has made the employee a job offer, but before employment begins, as long as everyone entering the same job category is asked the same questions;
- When it is engaging in affirmative action for people with disabilities (such as an employer tracking the disability status of its applicant pool in order to assess its recruitment and hiring efforts, or a public sector employer considering whether special hiring rules may apply), in which case the employee may choose whether to respond;
- On the job, when there is objective evidence that the employee may be unable to do his job or that he may pose a safety risk because of his condition; and
- To establish eligibility for benefits under other laws, such as leave under the FMLA.
In addressing reasonable accommodations for employees with mental health conditions, employers should follow the same processes that they would in accommodating employees with physical disabilities. First, the employer should obtain information from the employee and/or his or her health provider to establish that the employee has a disability, a condition that, left untreated, would "substantially limit" the employee's ability to concentrate, interact with others, communicate, eat, sleep, care for himself, regulate his thoughts or emotions, or engage in any other "major life activity." The EEOC notes that mental health conditions need not be permanent or severe to be substantially limiting but rather may qualify by "for example, making activities more difficult, uncomfortable, or time-consuming to perform compared to the way that most people perform them." The EEOC also notes that "[m]ental health conditions like major depression, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, and obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) should easily qualify, and many others will qualify as well." As with all interactive processes, employers should limit the number of people with access to information about the employee's mental health condition to minimize exposure to claims of ADA or GINA discrimination.
After establishing that the employee's mental health condition is a disability, the employer should engage in an interactive discussion with the employee about the essential functions of his position, as well as what accommodations the employee needs. The EEOC offers several examples of possible reasonable accommodations for employees with mental health conditions, including altered break and work schedules (e.g., scheduling work around therapy appointments), quiet office space or devices that create a quiet work environment, changes in supervisory methods (e.g., written instructions from a supervisor who usually does not provide them), specific shift assignments, and permission to work from home. If the employee cannot complete the essential functions of his current position even with an accommodation, an employer should look at whether an employee can be accommodated in a vacant position or whether the employee can be accommodated with unpaid leave, including leave under the FMLA.
Outside of the reasonable accommodation framework, employers should treat employees with mental health conditions the same as all other employees. Employers do not have to excuse an employee's failure to meet standards that are consistently applied, even if the failure was caused by an employee's health condition or the side effects of medication. However, an employer should be sure to document employees' failures and to ensure that it is acting consistently with regard to all employees before it takes an action against an employee with a mental health or other disability, including terminating, selecting another employee for a job or a promotion, or forcing an employee to take a medical leave of absence. Employers also do not have to employ people who pose a "direct threat" to safety, namely, employees who pose a significant risk of substantial harm to themselves or others. The EEOC notes, however, that employers "cannot rely on myths or stereotypes about [an employee's] mental health condition when deciding whether [he] can perform a job or whether [he] pose[s] a safety risk," rather, an employer "must have objective evidence that [the employee cannot] perform [his] job duties, or that [he] would create a significant safety risk, even with a reasonable accommodation."
Employers will likely continue to see an increase in the number of employees seeking accommodations for mental health conditions, and the EEOC is paying close attention to such matters. Employers are highly encouraged to seek counsel from employment attorneys well-versed in employment law to ensure compliance with current legal authority.


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The ads that you're about to see all emanate from the pages of the February 1989 issue of Inside Wrestling, featuring a great cover shot of the newly-christened Brainbusters--Tully Blanchard and Arn Anderson. I'm not including this as an edition of our "From The Musty Yellowed Pages" series, as we aren't really looking into the magazine but rather just the ads. Most of these ads can be found in multiple magazines of the time, but this seemed like a good issue to look at with a wide variety of merchandise spanning several promotions.
Right inside of the front cover are two fantastic ads. The first is one of two ads in the issue from "The Wrestling Ring" company which was based out of Baltimore, MD. A search on any Internet wrestling forum will likely yield at least a couple of nostalgic stories from fans who ordered from "The Wrestling Ring." No longer in business, the mail-order company seemed to have capitalized on the time of the "Rock N Wrestling" era. This ad focuses on WWF digital watches. You can choose from Hulk Hogan, Randy Savage, Miss Elizabeth, Jake "The Snake" Roberts, Koko B. Ware, and Ricky "The Dragon" Steamboat, who was already gone from the WWF. Also in this ad are two early NWA foam belts which are relatively in demand these days. Note the wrestling ring that the fist is "bursting" through is fashioned using posts and turnbuckles from the LJN WWF ring.
The Weston or Apter Mags were never shy about ads for back issues of their various publications. Here we see that for a time the company was even bundling back issues together focusing on one particular superstar. This time we get "A Special Offer For All 'Hulkamaniacs'" featuring ten different cover stories of Hulk Hogan. Pictured is a somewhat husky young Hulkamaniac, decked out in a 1985ish "Hulkster" headband, Pro Wrestling Illustrated t-shirt, and one of the aforementioned foam NWA Championship belts. He's representing '80s rasslin' to the max. Just $19.95 got you all ten issues. In 2016, the smart wrestling collector could obtain those same ten issues for just about the same price with enough searching.
What a collection of '80s gems! It all goes back to the old saying "If I only knew then what I know now..." That, of course, gives way to another phrase, "Hindsight is 20/20." Nevertheless, even if we don't own all of these great items, we still have these great advertisements to look back on. Perhaps one day we'll take a look at some wrestling magazine ads from even earlier decades. Then again, maybe not. After all, I prefer to keep this blog "family friendly."


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This year my friend Jonathan McKee has become a regular guest blogger on this site and I'm so grateful. I'm away on vacation this week and I asked him to do a 4-part series on what he looks for when hiring a youth pastor! It's very solid! Jonathan is the author of numerous books including the brand new Candid Confessions of an Imperfect Parent, as well as youth ministry books like Connect: Real Relationships in a World of Isolation. You can find his excellent blog here.
This week we kicked off the 7 Qualities I'm Looking for Hiring a Youth Pastor where I suggested the first quality that churches should look for. Yesterday I provided two more. Today, I continue the list.
4. Big Picture Thinker
Why do you do what you do?
I hope that any youth worker, volunteer or paid, could always answer that question with clarity.
Give it any context—a Wednesday night at a church, for example. I can't even count the amount of times I've asked a youth worker, "Why do you do Wednesday nights?" and the answer is something like, "Well, we've always done Wednesday nights."
Churches need to hire a youth pastor who sets a vision, and then determines what ministry models are required to achieve that vision.
So many youth pastors get that bass-ackward. They start with a cookie cutter program and then figure out the "why."
Mark Oestricher said this well. He told me that he would always look for a youth worker who has "a desire to learn the context and create ministry that makes contextual sense, rather than importing a pre-packaged program idea." I think that's also part of the genius behind Doug's Purpose Driven Youth Ministry it doesn't begin with a program. It starts with the "why"… "Why are we doing this? Is it evangelism, discipleship, ministry, fellowship, worship? Or, a combo."
How many churches do you know who have the exact same cultural setting, same economic conditions, same kids, same spiritual needs, same weather, same facilities… need I go on? If a youth pastor ran a small group format on Thursday night's in one small town, that doesn't necessarily mean that the same small group format is going to work in a suburban church even just 100 miles away. Instead, this pastor should be able to see why he developed this small group ministry in the first place (maybe a need for spiritual growth and fellowship) and discover a tool or ministry model that might help him accomplish that goal in this new context.
We need youth ministry leaders who can observe and adapt. I often show youth workers this basic video about the six different types of kids we encounter in youth ministry then point to one of the "types of kids" and ask, "How do you reach this kid?"
Does this potential hire understand the difference between outreach and spiritual growth? Do they have the patience to watch and observe a new environment, in search of ministry models that will reach young people for Christ and help believers grow in their faith?
We need to hire big picture thinkers, not cookie-cutter programmers.
5. Discernment
It's hard to even label this quality. It's street-smarts mixed with concern and restraint. It's wisdom mixed with responsibility.
Julie, a youth pastor I met in Michigan last year describes it as the "plans for responsibility and risks that involve working with teens." She asks, "Do these youth pastors just know how to have fun, or do they know how to protect students while growing with them?"
Yes, wisdom often comes with age. But I've met 45-year-old imbeciles who I wouldn't trust with my goldfish, and 19-year-olds I'd trust my kids with.
I don't want to be biased, but personally, I almost prefer a youth pastor who has kids of their own. I don't make this a hard fast rule, but typically, a person with kids of their own thinks a little bit differently before risking the lives of other people's kids. Youth workers are renowned for sticking 20 kids in a 15 passenger van, breaking speed laws… the list is endless (a few years ago I actually had people send in stories of the stupid mistakes they made in youth ministry) I'm not saying that all youth workers without kids are more dangerous, I just want to see any youth worker showing the same discernment, and even restraint, with their youth group kids as they would with their own kids.
Youth pastors need to show discernment in more than just safety practices. What do they talk about with kids? What music do they play? What topics do they address? How do they address parents? (More about that in my next quality tomorrow)
Some of this comes with experience. I committed a cornucopia of stupid mistakes in my early ministry years that I wouldn't even fathom committing right now. Years of looking parents in the eyes and having to tell them why their daughter is in the hospital have changed me. Sending 12 people down a snow hill stacked onto one inner-tube just doesn't seem as fun anymore.
When interviewing a youth pastor, ask:
1.What lessons of discernment and even safety have you learned from your past experiences in youth ministry?
2.What are some ways your tongue has got you in trouble in the past?
3.How have those decisions shaped your choices today?
Churches want to hire someone fun, but with discernment beyond their years.
More qualities coming! Stay tuned in this blog!
Question:What about you?
How can you apply big picture thinking in your own ministry?
What are some hard lessons you've learned in the area of discernment? Share your thoughts.


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but until that law is enacted, i'm going to do the same damn thing that everyone else with an interest in politics does and keep right on talking until i run out of oxygen and my fingers fall off.
four days in philly with the democratic party had a decidedly different feel than the republican shindig in cleveland a week earlier. i don't mean just the messages flowing from the podia, either, but just the way that things were organised, or not organised. republican nominee donald trump had said that he normally found conventions boring and that he wanted to make this one a little more wild, to bring a little of that atlantic city glitz to the proceedings. instead, it looked like the parts of atlantic city left holding the proverbial bag after trump declared bankruptcy and ran off in a cloud of other people's money.
by contrast, the democrats put on a show. unlike their conservative counterparts, the dems ran a tight ship, making sure that each night had a clear theme and built to a crescendo at the peak of their primetime programming. where the republicans had scott baio [a living metaphor for the dissolution of reagan-era optimism], the democrats had sarah silverman. the republicans booked third eye blind only to find the band had booked the gig just to mock them, while the democrats confidently booked katy perry.
whatever one's opinion on the politics espoused or the candidate selected, the dmc was a slick production. whereas the rnc got blindsided by melania trump's plagiarised speech and ted cruz's non-endorsement, the democrats waded through days of heckling and fractious infighting, and yet somehow, despite protesters blocking the entrances, or booing the speakers, or wearing tape over their mouths to show how they were being silenced, the headlines the next day were always about the speeches, the speakers and the elements that the behind the scenes wizards wanted you to see. a lot of people would probably argue that that's a result of press bias towards the higher neoliberal echelons of the democratic party, and there's probably something to that. but if a disaster had occurred, it would have been in the news. if anything, outlets like cnn and msnbc were more restrained in their evaluation of the convention than a lot of republicans. i doubt those opinions will mean anything to trump supporters, but they might mean a lot to independent voters.
but the effect on voters is something that we'll have to put off until another time. for now, as i did last week for the republicans, i've put together a little list of winners and losers from the dnc:
losers ::
bernie or busters :: many of us went into the convention proud of what senator sanders had accomplished and eager to see him continue to exert influence over the coming elections and over the democratic party. already, he's affected the party platform [the usefulness of which will be seen in the future], drawn young people into the fold, made financial reform enough of a topic that candidate clinton said in her speech that she would pursue a constitutional amendment if necessary to overturn citizens united. and sanders' supporters have grounds to be pissed off, in the wake of the democratic party email hack. it may not have cost them the election, but it's more than enough to raise suspicions. so the protests and walkout that took place are understandable.
what wasn't understandable was the vitriol directed at everyone, including sanders himself. being disappointed is one thing, throwing a tantrum in a convention where you can't possibly change anything is quite another. sanders was booed. elizabeth warren was booed. leon panetta was booed. but even that might be understandable [although rude]. what was truly risible was the protesters insistence on booing the non-politician speakers, who were undeserving of any of that criticism. shouting anti-war slogans during the speech of a former soldier, a high school track champion, who lost both his legs saving several of his comrades [american and afghani] by tackling a man with a suicide vest isn't brave, it's sick.
rather than accepting the result, retrenching and focusing on down-ballot candidates across the country [which is how you build a grassroots movement to begin with], the hardcore sandernistas spent the week showing everyone that they cared about nothing but the presidency. they've done a lot of damage to their movement.
elizabeth warren :: aside from the fact that the parliamentarian who's done the most to hold big finance responsible for its messes was taunted with chants of "you sold out" and "goldman sachs" for supporting mrs. clinton, the senator had the misfortune to speak right after michelle obama. she isn't tremendously diminished by the whole affair, but she isn't quite the hot ticket she was just a little while back. here's hoping she'll rebound quickly.
donald trump :: there is no doubt that, after a decidedly mixed convention last week [although one that still gave him a little bump in the polls], the republican candidate was hit big time. and while the democrats undoubtedly had worked long and hard at honing their arguments against him, they could never have anticipated receiving a priceless gift from the man himself:
i alone can fix it
i'm not sure if that line in trump's acceptance speech was the product of a misguided speechwriter or a suggestion by the man himself, but it was the cherry on the cake of the democratic case that trump was a little martinet, dreaming of absolute power rather than public service.
the line was incorporated into numerous speeches at the democratic convention, held up as proof positive of trump's autocratic aspirations.
winners ::
michelle obama :: it's not like we didn't know the first lady was a great speaker [insert line about melania trump plagiarism here], but i don't think any of us knew she was that great. hearing her talk about her anxieties moving her young family into the white house and the life that accompanied it humanized not just the first family, but the office of the presidency itself. these are human beings like everyone else, thrown into a situation that could generously be called alien, people who love and fear for their children and each other. it was a personal reflection and it was also an indirect way of praising hillary clinton, who has been in the political spotlight for decades. likewise, her statement that when "they go low, we go high" was something she embodied with her classy, pointed takedowns of trumpism without ever mentioning him by name. but undoubtedly her most pointed line was aimed at those in her party who were embittered that the progressive wing had once again lost out to the establishment: i wake up every morning in a house that was built by slaves. at those words, i felt like every heart in the room stopped beating with the force of the revelation. in the time of our grandparents' grandparents, people like barack and michelle obama were property and now they are the president and first lady. it is a long, hard, continuous struggle, but sometimes you look away from the fight, if only for a moment, to appreciate how far you've come.
christianity :: american-style christianity has been the property of the republican party for thirty years and they have used it in the ugliest possible way, stoking hate against homosexuals, transsexuals, women, other religions, the poor, the arts, and to rewrite the history of their own, originally agnostic country. however, the pendulum does seem to be shifting back in the other direction [where it had been in the sixties]. the gentle decency of tim kaine, whose faith propelled him to help the poor in honduras, is like the separation of church and state made flesh: he is a devout catholic with a 100% rating from planned parenthood, something that had liberals so confused, they assumed it was a joke.
after the speech of rev. william barber, i lost count of the number of tweets that started "i'm not even religious, but..." i seriously thought people were going to collapse and start speaking in tongues, such is the power of this man's words. his is a very different breed of southern christianity, one that is all about the new testament and not the rules of leviticus, about jesus being love and how religion must be practiced through generosity, kindness and activism. whatever the usual beliefs of the people in that hall or the people watching on television, for a little over ten minutes on thursday night, there were no atheists in the audience.
islam :: i'm deeply uncomfortable with parading out bereaved family members to make a point at a political convention. even though the family members are often happy to speak, and deserve every moment that they are given, there is always something pornographic about it. the raw, howling grief of patricia smith, whose son died in benghazi, made me feel sick to my stomach last week. even though the dnc did a better job of disguising the exploitativeness at work, it still hovered nearby.
but sometimes, you get a moment so incredible, so real and so jarring that it somehow justifies its means. and never in the history of political parties using the stories of victims of their opponents has there ever been a moment that matched the image of khizr khan, standing with his stoic wife, in front of a larger than life image of their late son, strikingly handsome in his military uniform, brandishing a copy of the u.s. constitution and condemning trump with the words "you sacrificed nothing!"
yes, it may have been planned and choreographed [i'm not sure to what extent], but that doesn't make it fake. khizr khan is as real as it gets and everyone watching him knew it. i felt thrilled to have watched it unfold.
obama/ biden :: yes, i'm combining two, but this list is getting long and i think it's fitting to pair these two, because they have been paired for eight years and because they have made such an uncannily good pair. obama is enigmatic, inspiring, intellectual, while biden is earthy, emotional and relatable. even their speeches struck a perfect balance in taking down president-aspirant trump. biden was all feelings and passion and blaring the sort of patriotism that normally makes my toes curl in embarrassment, but damned if he doesn't pull it off. [and far better than former new york mayor and current crazy old man rudy giuliani.]
biden's words get into your heart, even though you know you're listening to a career politician who's very aware of how these things work. perhaps because it's that his own life has been shaped by losses that would have flattened a lesser person. or perhaps his habit of, as he puts it, meaning everything he says, but sometimes ill-advisedly saying everything he means, allays our fears that what he says is a put-on. running off-script, the vice president leaned on the podium, and asked the audience to really think about what it meant that donald trump enjoys telling people "you're fired", what it meant to take pleasure in delivering devastating news to others, even in the context of a television show. he didn't even need to complete the thought, because everyone listening felt the answer in their guts: you would have to be some kind of monster.
obama doesn't elicit a response from the gut that way. his appeal is in the way he can take words that others use every day and make them into magic. during his speech, i felt like i was developing a weird sort of headache, like the back of my head was just opening up a vent because what i was watching/ hearing was too good. there were too many high points and i felt like i couldn't catch my breath, i couldn't process what i'd heard because there was just more and more and more coming at me.
dovetailing nicely with his wife's speech at the beginning of the convention, obama, in his own humble way, reminded everyone of the progress that has been made and of the threat to even that small amount of progress posed by someone as ungainly and mean-spirited as donald trump. is that fear-mongering? well, yes. but more often than not, obama and others used candidate trump's own words to stoke that fear.
obama also latched on to something that i've been waiting for someone to say for weeks if not longer. everyone is calling him a dictator-in-waiting, but no one has made the obvious point that goes along with that: dictators are antithetical to the idea that americans have of their country. the creation of america as an independent nation can be boiled down to one simple notion: autocratic rulers are bad. americans pride themselves in being fundamentally ungovernable and it should be a travesty for them to consider ceding their treasured independence to a man so clearly bent on restricting freedoms. this is the rhetorical equivalent of calling someone lazy: it generally has the effect of making them desperate to prove you wrong.
hillary clinton :: a bit obvious, sure, but the convention was just four days of win for the woman of the moment. up until now, the democrats have played a dangerous game of responding to donald trump's attacks on clinton's work and her character. but at the convention, a new narrative emerged: that of an extraordinarily hardworking public servant whose greatest accomplishments were unknown, despite her having been in the public eye for three decades. her husband's speech was the apogee of this, when he talked about so many of the things that she had done, while being a full-time political wife and mother. nearly everyone was a little slack-jawed at the litany of accomplishments, and the changes she had inspired on a federal level, back when she was an attorney in little rock. the tragic story of her incredible mother's upbringing, the "undercover" work she took on personally to expose unequal treatment in arkansas schools, even her fight to compensate 9/11 first responders. it should be an issue that, after so many years of seeing her in politics, the public had never heard these stories, but at least they've heard them now. and thus is the narrative of hillary established: no, she is not the natural politician that her husband is, or the inspirational leader that obama is. but she is a worker and she gets things done. she instigates change when it needs to happen.
already, in the two bloody days it's taken me to bang out this post, there have been developments. trump's response to khizr khan may have done him more damage than the speech itself. and now he seems to be trying to back out of debates that were scheduled by an independent body [as they always are] a year ago. the initial polls conducted just after the debate show clinton with a significant bounce among voters in virtually every demographic. there's plenty of time yet, but let's just say that the republicans have more work to do at this point. aside from needing their polling numbers up, they need to strategically flip several states without losing any they currently hold, in order to offset the fact that the democrats hold a huge advantage in the most populous areas of the country.
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Eastern Michigan University is classified as a college or university with a large master's program. Colleges and universities with a large master's program typically award over 200 master's degrees and less than 20 research doctorate's during the academic year. This very large four-year institution has an estimated annual full-time enrollment of 10,000 students or more. Up to 50% of degree-seeking students are enrolled full time, and fewer than 25% of undergraduates reside on campus. This institution awards 60-79% of its bachelor's degrees within professional fields. Graduate degrees are available in over half of the fields available to undergraduate majors, and the school awards research doctorate degrees in a variety of fields. Most of these graduate degrees are awarded in professional fields other than engineering, such as education, health professions, social work, or public policy. According to data for fall enrollment, 60-79% of undergraduates are enrolled as full-time students. This institution has a high transfer rate, with at least 20% of its undergrad students entering as transfers. Enrollment data shows that both graduates and undergraduates are enrolled at this institution, with only 10-24% of students enrolled in the graduate program.
Eastern Michigan University
, Ypsilanti, MI 48197
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General Information
Student Body SizeUndergraduate17,780
Student Age% Under 2559%
% 25 and Over40%
% Age Unknown0%
Attendance Type% Full-time61%
% Part-time39%
Race/Ethnicity% White65.3%
% Black18.8%
% Asian2.6%
% Latino2.3%
% Native American0.7%
% Race Unknown6.5%
% International student4%
Student ServicesCareer CounselingYes
Student Employment ServicesYes
Graduate Placement ServicesYes
Study AbroadYes
Day CareYes
Religious AffiliationNO
Campus settingSuburb
Intitution typePublic
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Art-Related Areas of StudyFilm, Video, TV
Art Degrees OfferedBachelors Degree
Distance Learning AvailableYes
Calendar SystemSemester
Admissions Information
Open AdmissionNo
% Admitted53%
% Admitted Who Enrolled41%
Application RequirementsHigh School GPA
High School TranscriptRequired
High School RankingNeither required nor recommended
College Prep CoursesRecommended
Letter of RecommendationNeither required nor recommended
Demonstration of CompetenciesNeither required nor recommended
Admissions ExaminationRequired
Test of English as a Foreign Language (International Students)Required
Standardized Tests% of Applicants Submitting SAT10%
% of Applicants Submitting ACT94%
Admitted Student SAT Scores 25th Percentile75th Percentile
SAT Critical Reading / 800580 / 800
SAT Writing430 / 800560 / 800
SAT Math450 / 800580 / 800
Admitted Student ACT Scores 25th Percentile75th Percentile
ACT Composite18 / 3624 / 36
ACT English17 / 3624
ACT Writing / 12 / 12
ACT Math17 / 3624 / 36
Tuition and Financial Aid
Tuition & FeesUndergraduate Application Fee$30
Graduate Application Fee$35
In-State Tuition & Fees$8,378
Out-of-State Tuition & Fees$22,283
Financial Aid% Undergraduates with Financial Aid92%
% Undergraduates with Loans70%
% Undergraduates with Grants82%
Average Undergraduate Financial Aid Award$ 0
Other CostsBooks and Supplies (Estimated)$900
Typical On-Campus Room and Board Cost$8,020
Off-Campus Room and Board Cost (Estimated)$6,880
On-Campus Living Expenses (Estimated)$2,158
Off-Campus Living Expenses (Estimated)$2,498
Living with Family, Living Expenses (Estimated)$3,258
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Median Age24.6
Median Household Income$33,699
Total Population19,880
Age/Gender % Men % Women
Total49.0% 51.0%
Age 0-949.6%50.4%
Age 10-1737.7%62.3%
Age 18-2447.9%52.1%
Age 25-2955.5%44.5%
Age 30-3956.2%43.8%
Race/Ethnicity% White63.8%
% Black26.8%
% Asian4.4%
% Latino3.0%
% Native American0.2%
% Pacific Islander0.0%
% Indian (South Asia)0.9%
On Campus Housing ProvidedYes
Meal Plan ProvidedYes, number of meals in the maximum meal plan offered
Typical On-Campus Room and Board Cost$8,020
Off-Campus Room and Board Cost (Estimated)$6,880
Median Rent (Rental Units of Any Size)$630
Rental Price Distribution StudioOne BedroomTwo Bedroom
Under $50045.2%21.6%10.2%
$500 to $74943.0%63.5%0.0%
$750 to $9998.9%10.8%46.2%
Over $10002.9%4.1%15.4%
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Salmon Day
I love learning new expressions. Harry Newton, author of Newton's Telecom Dictionary, defines salmon day as, "[o]ne of those days where you swim upstream all day only to get screwed and die in the end."
Today I am a man
I blew off an opportunity on Saturday night to go to a party and meet the peripatetic lsc in order to go for drinks at Dieu du Ciel with someone whom I met awhile ago. We had a blast, and what was supposed to be for only an hour lasted until much late. We then dropped by my place, since Frances the cat had been left outside and J suggested that I should probably let her in. Well, that's what she suggested, and I'm normally too dense to read anything into stuff like that.
So, we get to my place, J looks arounds, laughs uproariously at the fact that I have a climbing wall, and then states that, "You have such a guy apartment!" Strange, I never thought of it as such. Granted, I don't have throw pillows, nor do I have posters of nekkid chicks on the wall (I took them down beforehand), but there was never a conscious effort to project any supposed masculinity. Damn, I'm a stereotype. Must now learn to burp and scratch my balls in public. I foresee a steep learning curve.
That's just so wrong
Coming into work, a panel truck drove by, with the following painted on its side: "Kershey, fresh cheese every morning."
Heaven forbid there be any aging process.
Wow, I was so wrong
Okay, so I stated earlier that, on the new Survivor Thailand show, there was a contestant who had previously been a soft-core porn star. (In fact, one of the local TV stations, the one owned by Ma Bell, has been airing his movies on Saturday nights recently.) Anyhow, he turned out to be a shrewd player, and ended up walking off with the grand prize last night. Too bad he got the crap beat out of him by his wife a few days ago.
This guy. This is the guy
To make up for the cancelled Xmas party, the company served up a holiday lunch for the proles today; your typical Christmas dinner. Consequently, I'm presently buzzed out on turkey tryptophan, Cuvée du Château Box-o-Wine, and chocolate-covered coffee beans. Right now I'm bouncing off the walls, not feeling a thing, and being very tired.
I've got you, next to my skin
Although I don't think these would fit with my low-rise jeans, I'm sure someone would appreciate them.
Bad idea
Picking up
astroglide, um, stuff from the drugstore the other day, I noticed, in one of the bargain bins at the front, a whole bunch of condoms on sale, at a good price at that. Ultra thin and sensitvive, and only $5 (Can) for a dozen. I thought of picking up a box (yeah, dream on), but realised that buying condoms on sale probably ain't the smartest thing I could do.
Is that it?
For the first time in the past 15 years that I've living in this little town of ours, mostly around St-Laurent blvd, I had never been to Schwarz's. I make it a point to never enter a club, a resto, a movie, etc., where I have to wait in line. Nothing is that good, is my motto. Well, that and "blame someone else." So, anyhow, I'm walking past the place last night, and strangely enough there were available tables. Didn't give it much of a thought, and continued on my way to the bus stop. Stand around waiting for about 10 minutes, feeling my testes slowly retract into my body cavity, my nips getting hard enough to cut glass, it was that frickin' cold/windy last night. Screw this, might as well get it over with. Head back down the boulevard, grab a stool at the counter. Order their "world famous" smoke meat sandwich, along with the requisite fries and Cherry coke.
I'm given this hunk of pinkish flesh, served on what amounts to crusts with a spit of mustard on each side. Cherry coke? Screw that, the waitron hands me a can of Cott's black cherry, which I love but I asked for that stuff out of a tap. Then, I'm almost finished my sandwich before the fries arrive.
World famous Schwarz's, my ass.
There was a joke, back in the '80s, that went like this: Q: Who's killed more Indians than John Wayne? A: Union Carbide. Nothing like morbid humour, I say. I remembered the joke this morning while reading the paper, because there was a story about today being the 18th anniversary of the gas leak in Bhopal, India, back in 1984.
It seems that, although 4000 people died immediately, nearly 11000 have died in the aftermath from various disaster-related illness. That's almost 15000 people! And still, Warren Anderson, who's accused of gross negligence in the cyanide leak, refuses to go to India to stand trial. Honest, who cares? Just a bunch of dead poor hindus.
Had the strangest dream on Friday night. Now, I normally look forward to nightmares; I love the rush of waking up drenched in sweat, panting, my heart trying to pound itself out through my ribs. Friday night's, however, has left me wondering.
I was walking down University toward La Gauchetière, on my way to the Windsor station, when I realise that a rocket is docked in front of the station, flames shooting out of its tail. Now, this wasn't a toy rocket, but an honest-to-god Gemini rocket from back in the '60s. I could even make out the black ridges in the tail. So, in other words, the rocket was warming up for take-off. How I was able to get so close to it is beyond me; it was a dream, after all. I'm at the corner when the rocket takes off, the flames and fuel rushing out the back. Then, like one of the earlier Gemini/Apollo launches, the rockets gets about 100 feet into the air before falling back onto itself. I only had time to think, "Oh shit, this is going to be bad" before turning around and taking off running. By the time I had made about three or four steps, I realised the futility of the situation and simply threw myself to the ground, hoping that the intense heat would finish me off before I felt any burning.
So, I'm lying face-first on the grass of the church in front of the Windsor station, and the time is dragging. The force of the rocket's explosion is blowing across my back, whipping up my clothes, I keep expecting to feel the heat, but nothing is happening. "Oh shit, this is going to burn," I'm thinking, and force myself to be calm. Strangely, I felt myself sinking deeper and deeper down the levels of consciousness. Still nothing.
Finally realise that I'm not yet shuffling off this mortal coil, and decide to wake up. The cat's looking at me, waiting for her breakfast.


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Myrtle Beach sets aside $300,000 to build sand volleyball court facility
Myrtle Beach is moving forward with plans to construct a $300,000 three-court sand volleyball area that could be used for NCAA women's beach volleyball, though the details of the facility – including its location – still are being worked out.
Coastal Carolina University representatives have said they are looking at adding beach volleyball to its varsity offerings and Myrtle Beach City Council members believe the facility also could bolster the city's sports tourism efforts. The facility could host traveling events, charity events, youth and adult tournaments and other recreational events.
The city is expected to have four sand volleyball tournaments this year, with one held on the beach at Ninth Avenue North last weekend during the Salt Games and the East End Volleyball Big Shot Volleyball Series being held at Ocean Dunes Resort and Villas in October.
"It's been picking up," assistant city manager John Pedersen said of sand volleyball tournaments being held in the city. "A few years ago we only had one."
City Council included $300,000 in its $156.7 million budget for next fiscal year to construct the facility at Pebble Beach on vacant land just south of Damon's Grill on South Ocean Boulevard. The figure is down from the proposed $355,300, which could have included nine courts. The fiscal year begins July 1.
The land is owned by Burroughs & Chapin Co. Inc. A spokeswoman for B&C said the company had no comment.
"The biggest obstacle right now is the site,"assistant city manager Ron Andrews said. "We need to draw up an agreement to use that land."
Andrews said he wasn't aware of another vacant piece of land in the city that would work for the sand volleyball courts, adding that no timetable for construction – or even site design – will be put in place until city staff knows it can use the land.
"Right now it's on hold in terms of site planning," he said.
Interim CCU athletic director Matt Hogue said the university is continuing to look at the possibility of adding beach volleyball.
"We have no specific timetable right now for adding the sport," he said. "It's on the table for discussion."
There is a procedure that the university has to follow when adding a sport, including surveying the interest of students and putting together a proposal that would include a budget and implementation plan.
Hogue said that if the school chooses to add beach volleyball to the sports offered at Coastal, implementation could move quickly.
"It's not the typical sport addition – we'd use the same coaches and the same student athletes would participate," he said, referring to the school's varsity women's indoor volleyball team.
The facility would feature three courts as well as shower facilities and a storage area for equipment, Andrews said. He said they might initially use port-a-johns, before constructing permanent restroom facilities when more funds are available.
He also said it was possible that the city could construct three courts at first, and then add courts in the future. When CCU representatives and the Myrtle Beach Area Chamber of Commerce initially proposed the idea to City Council in March, they asked the city to build nine courts.


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It's Only Murder if You're Sane
The Gothamist reports that:
On Wednesday, police found the body of a nude woman in Marcus Garvey Park in Harlem. Although initial reports suggested the woman may have been emotionally disturbed, last night police announced that they were treating Nina Rivera's death as a homicide.
So, it's one or the other is it? I don't know whether this little blurb is a statement on the Gothamist's "journalism" or the NYPD's approach. Either way, there's a severe problem of perception here.
It's Been Quiet Around Here
But I intend to be back at it. My life has been interrupted in a number of ways and my energy has had to be focused elsewhere. That's ok, that's life for most of us but I've found myself in a position to use some of my time differently. It may be a little sporadic at first while I feel things out but if there's still anyone paying attention to this thing, you can expect new posts to become a regular occurrence.
I don't mistake activism and blogging for being one and the same or even necessarily related though I have found that my posting here and my activism in the real world have dropped off simultaneously. I don't think anyone being swindled by pharmaceutical companies, abused and neglected by the system or ostracized by their neighbors is waiting for my next post any more than abused children are waiting for a million people to post cartoons on their facebook profiles. There is a real world change to be brought about. That said, I see power in getting a message out and its ability to ignite people, myself included, to be a part of that change. Besides — if you look around long enough, you'll see that some things just can't go unsaid.
Hard Times in Toyland
No more pretend ECT for Barbie's depression or antipsychotics for GI Joe's PTSD — finally, the line of toys every budding psychiatrist has been waiting for — toys with specific mental illnesses already laid out from the German "asylum" that pumps them out.
These plush "patients" are the idea of Martin Kittsteiner from Hamburg, Germany. Each of the five toys from Paraplush has a specific psychiatric disorder presented in distinctly psychiatric terms on Paraplush's online store — or as their website calls it, The Asylum: Psychiatric Clinic for Abused Cuddlytoys. Dub is a turtle suffering from depression, Dolly is a sheep suffering under the delusion that she's a wolf and Kroko is battling paranoid psychosis and so on. Maybe the "asylum" can better relay the plight of these troubled toys. For example, Kroko, a crocodile:
The patient's hypersensitive hallucinatory perception is a symptom of a paranoid psychosis. The signs are a mental block and a Gestaltzerfall (disintegration of structure) of the habitual field of experience. The consequence is a compensational reactivation of archaic reaction patterns.
The patient needs your help!
For the kid that just can't help enough, they are available as a set — you know, for group therapy sessions.
The psychological dynamic of a group will challenge your analytic skills and leads to a complete new understanding of therapeutical treatment. Notice the relationships between different patients and discover the structure of a collective plush-subconscious.
Kittsteiner says of his creation,
"Children and grown ups like their vulnerability and find something in them that gives them a great sense of comfort in helping to heal them."
Just like Cabbage Patch Kids come with adoption papers from Babyland General Hospital, these dolls are shipped out to your kids complete with medical histories and treatment plans. It is, after all, their new little owner's job to treat them — and really, who doesn't like to revel in the vulnerability of the mentally ill?
It's bizarre on so many levels and only becomes more so when you poke around on their website a little. There are illustrated posters detailing the theory of "plushtoy psychoanalysis" and treatment options and there's even a game.
At least we can still count on Germany to offer up healthy approaches to mental hygiene.
What's Beyond…Beyond Meds?
We shall see. Gianna Kali has announced that her popular and informative blog, Beyond Meds, has reached its end.
Thank you to all my readers for being part of this transformative journey with me. It's time for me to move on and do other things.
This blog, depending on which ranking system you look at, is between number 1 and number 5 or so of non-pharma funded mental health blogs. I feel good about leaving and that the work has been a success. — Gianna Kali
It was one of the few blogs that I checked regularly and I know many people (myself included) have found it to be of use in so many ways — news, information, inspiration, encouragement or to know they weren't the only ones experiencing an intensely harsh withdrawal from psych drugs, particularly benzos. It was a great blog and I'll miss seeing new posts from Gianna. Past posts, however, will remain as a resource — and with such a wealth of information and personal experience, it's one hell of a resource.
For something as simple as a self-supported means of relaying thoughts and information to have a direct and positive effect on people's lives is remarkable — maybe the best we can hope for — and she's done it many times over.
Gianna is ending Beyond Meds to move forward with her life beyond the keyboard and I'm glad she's at a point in her recovery to even approach that next step. At some as yet undetermined time, we can expect another blog from her, focused on more positive things and free from the heavier issues that make up the broken mental health world. I can't wait. It's not one topic that makes her blog what it is, it's her openness and perspective. I look forward to seeing what she approaches with these qualities next.
I wish her well, both in the "blogosphere" and beyond. I'm sure good things are to come as she determines her own future. If she clues us in, great. If not, I'll assume she's out living life — beyond meds and beyond the internet.
Spit, Bristle and…Ad Space?
I've just discovered some ads right here on this weblog, selling some of the very things I'm railing against. I'm sorry if anyone has seen any of them and found them to be exploitive or offensive. I've found them to be both.
I have contacted WordPress about the ads and if necessary will pay for an upgrade to keep them off my page and out of your sight. Please disregard them until I get the issue resolved. I understand the supposed necessity of ads on a free service but we shouldn't have to pay to keep from having a part in promoting what we are opposed to.
As I hope to resume regular updates this week and increase and rebuild readership, it will become increasingly important. For now I hope all ten or so of you have not been too put off by the ads!
It's Just Like You're One of Us (But With a Steel Strap and a GPS).
So this is what it's come to? We're willing to tag and track people based on a diagnosis? Oh that's right, we're not doing it to each other, only those sick ones we've so self assuredly separated out.
South London and Maudsley Hospital is trialling tracking of mental health patients. The tracker system involves fitting patients with a steel ankle strap linked to a GPS tracking system that can then monitor the location of the person.
As Gianna Kali of Beyond Meds wrote, "If you don't automatically think 'civil and human right violation' there is something wrong with you." I couldn't agree more and would go so far as to say that you are part of the problem. There are two reasons these things happen — people in power are willing to disregard our rights and the public is willing to allow it.
In response, a Department of Health spokesperson said;
'This is a locally led initiative, not a national pilot.
"Patient rehabilitation into a community is an important part of recovery, but it relies on good risk assessment, trust between the patient and the service and patient responsibility. There can be no substitute for staff knowledge of patients to properly assess risk and to make the right decisions to ensure safety".
Trust between the patient and the service? Is this what trust looks like — a steel strap with a tracking device? Maybe I'm reading this all wrong and they just mean the patient should trust the system. Personally, I have a problem trusting anyone with more power than regard for my interest. Similarly, rehabilitation only calls for patient responsibility. If it called for responsibility on the part of the system, we'd need a new one, rebuilt from the ground up.
What do you think this does for the idea of inclusion, by the way? I can't imagine that a person wearing a device that advertises their private struggles and places them socially between a criminal and an animal to be studied is very well received in public situations. Perhaps we could forego the cost and complication of these devices and just go ahead with a ball and chain and scarlet letter…oh yeah, rights. We better keep it digital.


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Industry News
EFOTOLAB.COM (www.efotolab.com) has agreed to distribute the full line of Renaissance Albums by AlbumX Corp. The distribution deal will enable Efotolab.com members to select a Renaissance album and order directly through their online interface. Photos are then printed and assembled and prepared for delivery directly to the photographer or drop shipped to the photographer's customer.
MILLER'S PROFESSIONAL IMAGING (www.millerslab.com) announced the Miller's $100K Charity Program. During the 2008 tradeshow season, convention attendees can register at the Miller's booth, and if their name is drawn, Miller's will donate $1,000 in the winner's name to the charity of their choice. Miller's will be awarding 100 different giveaways throughout the season, amounting to $100,000 in charitable contributions. Miller's will give away $15,000 each at both Imaging USA, January 6-8, and WPPI, March 17-19. For a comprehensive list of all convention contributions, visit the company's website.
PANTONE (www.pantone.com) selected Pantone 18-3943 Blue Iris as the color of the year for 2008. "From a color forecasting perspective, we have chosen Pantone 18-3943 Blue Iris as the color of the year, as it best represents color direction in 2008 for fashion, cosmetics and home products," explains Leatrice Eiseman, executive director of the Pantone Color Institute. Blue Iris is also one of the 3,000 colors available in Pantone's line of superior-quality, eco-friendly paint.
PHOTOKINA (www.photokina-cologne.com) alert: about 1,600 companies from 50 countries will present their products and services to the world of imaging at photokina 2008. More than 60% of exhibitors will be expanding their exhibition area in Cologne. All of the global imaging sector's leading companies are returning to photokina later this year to present to international trade visitors their increasingly diverse range of imaging technology and imaging application products for consumers and professionals.
Along with displays of new cameras, lenses, printers, services, and accessories, the event's organizers expect photokina to be dominated by the theme of mobile imaging, the presentation of simple and creative processes for producing and printing images, and a review of the new possibilities for displaying images in the digital age.
Book Corner
O'Reilly Media (http://digitalmedia.oreilly.com/) released Photoshop CS3 Photo Effects Cookbook (ISBN 978-0596515041) by Tim Shelbourne. The book features 53 easy-to-follow recipes, inspirational digital imagery, authoritative information and advice for digital photographers, designers, and artists. Photoshop CS3 includes how to's using Vanishing Point, Lens Blur, and B&W filters. The book guides users in working with lighting effects such as neon glows, lens flares, fire and flame; adapting traditional techniques such as film grain, contrast masks, hand-tinting, cross processing; and other special effects, as well as assembling multi-layered images and photomontages.
PEACHPIT (www.peachpit.com) announced Scott Kelby's 7-Point System for Adobe Photoshop CS3 (ISBN 0-321-53420-4), the Photoshop user's guide to the seven most important and essential techniques. Scott Kelby's 7-Point System for Photoshop CS3 breaks the Photoshop process down to just seven simple, yet powerful, techniques. Each lesson begins with an untouched, original photo and then takes the reader through each of the seven steps so they can see and learn in context. The 7-Point System gives Photoshop users a road map that they can easily apply to each and every photo they open, so they know exactly where to start, what to do next, and so on until they have a beautiful finished print.
OLYMPUS (www.olympusamerica.com) announced its inaugural "Photographers of Tomorrow" photo contest, which is specifically designed for aspiring professional photographers or photojournalists, and will enrich the resumes and portfolios of the participating students. Starting January 14, 2008, students will submit their best work captured with the Olympus E-3 digital SLR camera in three categories: Speed, Travel and Environmental Issues.
Student entries will be judged by a panel of award-winning photographers, comprised of Olympus Visionaries. Participating schools include Texas A&M University at Commerce; The University of the Arts, Philadelphia; Art Institute of Colorado; Brooks Institute; Rochester Institute of Technology; Hallmark Institute of Photography; University of Texas, Austin; Rockport College; and the Academy of Art University, San Francisco, among others. The winning images will be announced in April 2008. Complete rules and regulations can be viewed on the company's website.


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From what I can tell, most costumers love designing costumes. They're constantly besieged by inspiration and CADD, just overflowing with ideas! Finishing them, whether it's tedious construction or losing interest, is the harder part.
That is so not me.
I happen to enjoy construction. Sure, I get discouraged, especially with fiddly stuff or something that just doesn't work; but in general, I love putting things together. As my mother puts it: Sewing starts with one big piece of fabric. You cut it all up into little pieces, and the goal is to get it back together into one piece. I like that process. I hate testing muslins, but I'm good at layout and cutting.
Inspiration is the hard part. I can't make it happen! The best way to prime the pump is to look at as many pictures as possible. I'm very visual, so the more pictures, the more likely I'll see something I can go with. Pinterest has been invaluable for this alone.
Pictures only work when I have some kind of idea, though. In mid-May I finally realized that this theme was the best opportunity to make an Old Hollywood "historical" costume. Like Gone with the Wind. Very 1860s inspired, but also definitely a product of the late 1930s.
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I wanted the finished costume to be:
1. Pretty!
2. Have a big impact! (This is the Gala, after all - As Big As Possible is an unofficial theme.)
3. Recognizably inspired by Old Hollywood, whether a direct copy of a famous gown, or a semi-historical design clearly worn over vintage foundations with vintage hair.
I set up a Pinterest board, searched my memories for favorite old historical films, and finally went to some LiveJournal friends for advice. I thought about The Inspector General or The Pirate for crazy 1830s styles, which I've always been tempted toward. There's also The Court Jester with its brightly-colored princess-seamed 1950s interpretation of "medieval" dress.
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And while I was actually typing, I got the best idea. Maid Marian, played by Olivia de Haviland, from the 1938 Robin Hood with Errol Flynn.
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There are many other beautiful gowns in this film. Olivia has quite the wardrobe! The first one, called the "Forest Gown" in some places, is possibly the most recognizable and/or iconic. It's the audience's first view of Maid Marian, as well as what she's wearing when she meets Robin in Sherwood for the first time.
There are also plenty of reference pictures for it! That's pretty important when copying a costume. ;)
This closeup was one of the best references for color, fabric, and design.
This is unfortunately black and white, but it's the only clear full-length view I could find. I printed it out and referred to it constantly.
Source: oliviadehavilland.net via Scene in the Past on Pinterest
Another close shot, especially good for jewelry detail.
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Next time: Shopping!


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Dinner Shows
The Outta Control Magic Comedy Dinner Show
This is one of our favourite shows and we go everytime we are in Florida. A meal is provided of unlimited pizza, salad, cakes,beer and wine. This show is hilarious and despite having seen it several times we still find it very funny. A mix of magic and comedy. If you only have time to do one dinner show then this is the one!! (make sure Tony Brent is on he is fab!!)
Arabian Nights Dinner Show
Capone's is a unique experience starting form the moment you are escorted to your tables by mobsters! Set in the 20's this speakeasy comedy drama will have you in fits of laughter with the banter between the stars and the guests. Includes an all you can eat dinner buffet and unlimed drinks.
A show set in the 11th century giving a glimpse into medieval royalty. Cheer on the brave knights on beutiful Andalusian Stallions as they compete in medieval tournaments. Included is a four course banquet and 2 rounds of beverages with a cash bar available.
This show is great for all the family. You will be in the middle of all the swashbuckling, side splitting musical Pirates Adventure. At the end of the evening join the crew at the Buccaneer Bash and party the night away. Included is three course dinner and complimentary drinks during the main show.
Enjoy the mayhem at this dinner show. Bring you investigative skills and be prepared to solve one of the many mysteries that this dinner show produces. Included is a meal with unlimeted soda, beer and wine.
Makahiki Luau Dining Experience at Seaworld
Set at SeaWorlds is this extravaganza, the Makahiki Luau. This Polynesian festival fills the air with exotic and untamed energy. The Seafire Inn transforms to bring the tropics to life for you and your family with Pacific Isle cuisine and astounding costumes. Includes incredible live entertainment and delectable island food. Each guest receives a flower lei and a tropical welcome drink.
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Check out this tasty Tortang Talong with Giniling na Chicken recipe also known as Rellenong Talong or Stuffed Eggplant Omelet. What I love about this recipe is you can use either ground pork or ground beef. With this one I used ground chicken so it's healthier and the taste is equally the same.
- 4 large size Japanese or Chinese Eggplant
- 4 eggs
- 1/3 cup chopped red bell pepper
- 1/3 cup chopped green bell pepper
- 1 large onion, chopped
- 3-4 cloves of garlic, chopped
- 1 lb. ground chicken
- salt and ground pepper to taste
- cooking oil
- Grill eggplant or broil until skin gets charred and can be easily removed from it's flesh.
- Feel eggplant and set aside. Discard skin.
- Heat 2 tablespoon of cooking oil in a wide frying pan in medium heat.
- Saute garlic and onion till caramelized. Add the ground chicken and cook until it changes to golden brown. Season with salt and ground pepper to taste. Add chopped bell peppers, toss well and cook for 2 minutes. Remove sautéed meat from the pan and set aside.
- Heat cooking oil on a clean wide frying pan in medium low heat.
- Beat 1 egg on a wide bowl. Place 1 eggplant and flatten it using the back of a fork. Make sure eggplant is fully coated with the egg wash.
- Place 2 tablespoon of ground meat mixture on top of the eggplant, slide the eggplant to the pan and start frying. If the bottom of the eggplant has set and cooked, flip it over to cook the other side.
- Fry until it turns to golden brown. Transfer to the serving dish. Serve with banana ketchup and slices of tomato.


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Worst Phineas and Ferb MomentsThis is a list of the worst things that has ever happened on Phineas and Ferb, which it always does.
The Top Ten
Eeew! GROSS! I was sick to my stomach seeing Isabella kiss Phineas. It made me wanna throw up. I loathed Phineas and Ferb, and I always will. I'd rather sit inside a cow's stomach watching grass be digested than to watch Isabella and Phineas kiss each other.
I just threw up my lunch! Oh my god, this is not good.
Ecchh! Disgustingly Gross! I puked seeing Isabella and Phineas kiss. It's worse than the Problem Solverz. I'd rather watch the Problem Solverz, paint dry, and get swallowed by a cow watching grass be digested.
WHAT THE S***! AND WHAT THE H***! I can't believe Dan Povenmire would even make a scene of that! HORRIBLE! *Just then I throw up when I look at the T.V. *
Why? Just why? Disney you took marvel, one of my favorite multimedia series ever, and put it in a blender with a crappy kids show. What was the logic behind this? This is Disney's second major F up with marvel. The first was when they canceled spectacular spider man and replaced it with that crappy ultimate spider man series, I mean did they even read the Ultimate comics?
Disney has gone too far. Why the hell did this happen? Who had the bright idea for this and if so what the hell was he smoking? Disney you took off spectacular spider-man for that crappy ultimate show and mission marvel only reassures the fact that Disney has no idea to use the marvel license well at all.
DISNEY CHANNEL, WHY THE HELL WOULD YOU DO THAT?! "Phineas and Ferb: Mission Marvel" made the Marvel Superheroes really unlikeable.
Look, I know Phineas and Ferb are trying to raise awareness of aglets, but did they really have to create a song about a plastic tip in a shoelace and how they're tying the world together
It makes no flipping sense. I just don't get it. I'd rather get caught watching the intro to Out of Jimmy's Head, as if anybody remembered that show.
This song makes me feel like I was in a psychiatric hospital.
Yeah, you all remembered "Rollercoaster: The Musical". You've heard Isabella put her catchphrase "Whatcha doing'? " in song. It was HORRIBLE! I loathed that song, and I still will forever. I give this song a -10/10 and a -5/5.
I don't know why this one isn't higher up... most of the things on this list are not "the worst" but this episode sincerely bored me.
Really, Phineas and Ferb? Okay, guys. That's just so bland. Phineas and Ferb practically made Kim Possible look like a holy grail.
There are 3 seasons and each season has like loads of episodes. Summer only has 104 days and in season two itself there are more than 104 episodes
They never go to school. It's summer forever unfortunately.
All of Phineas and Ferb's inventions are just pointless. They never build one good invention, and they never will.
Ugghh! Isabella literally hurt our eyes with her cuteness. She hurt Mitch's eyes. She hurt our eyes too. Mitch was the only likeable character in Phineas and Ferb, but there are no likeable characters anymore. CURSE YOU, ISABELLA!
Good GOD! This is horrible!
Isabella just annoyed the hell out of us, and now they decide to throw her a birthday party. It. Was, AWFUL!
"The Beak"? That is just not right. Worse than Ben 10.
The Contenders
Phineas and Ferb created a very stupid language called "Ferb Latin". Isabella thought it was "onderful-Werb".
This is just not right. Yes, I hate Perry the Platypus.
He did it in the movie.
It may be wise to rephrase this
Ew..! The inside of Candace is so gross!
The series ended June 12, 2015.
It sounded cool until they put songs in it
This is worse than teaming up with Marvel Superheroes.
UGH! I hate "Rollercoaster: The Musical! ". Seriously, I can't stand Isabella's singing. Aaagghh! Isabella even put her catchphrase in song! I loathe that song!
Worst ending that I seen in my life
I hated it it was just pointless just hottible
It's just stupid. Robots can't fall in love.
Related ListsBest Phineas and Ferb Characters Best Phineas and Ferb Songs Best Phineas and Ferb Episodes Most Annoying Phineas and Ferb Characters Most Annoying Things About Phineas and Ferb
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We are an approved CHILD, YOUTH & FAMILY program. CYFS provides standards for after school care for 5 to 13 year olds. It provides support via operating systems, policies and an approval process through Department of Child, Youth & Family (CYFS). All personnel are Police vetted.


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The HTC Sensation is one of those phones that has a huge range of connectivity on board, from Wi-Fi b/g/n to Bluetooth 3.0.
The Wi-Fi is certainly a step up from the likes of the HTC Desire S, which had a very strange attenuation problem if you held the phone in a certain way. The Sensation is a lot better, and even a big improvement over the Samsung Galaxy S2, which is useless in mid-strength Wi-Fi signal zones.
Bluetooth connection strength and speed was very good throughout our review time, with wireless headphones showing no problems at all, no matter what we threw at them. The range was impressive too, with around 10 metres the maximum with walls in the way.
HSPDA is at an acceptable 14.4Mbps speed, with the upload speed bouncing in at 5.76 Mbps, both of which seem plausible in our tests - plus the lovely option of setting up your own Wi-Fi hotspot if you fancy chewing the battery in heartbeat.
HTC has chucked on quite a few options when it comes to connecting the phone up to the PC, with the main one being HTC Sync.
While this is more of an option to get your contacts and such backed up, it works well for keeping your calendar, document folder and even internet bookmarks safe should you lose your phone or transfer to a new one.
If you're after an easier way to get content across though, simply dragging and dropping media into the phone will work just as well - it zips across in no time at all, which is a blessing when you're getting movies ready for a long journey.
The HTC Sensation also offers connection to HTCSense.com, a portal that allows you to control your phone from afar.
If you leave your phone at home or misplace it, this website is designed to take the hassle out of that.
You can perform basic tasks like forwarding all your calls to another number and messages too - it works nicely and makes the hassle of people not being able to get hold of you a distant memory.
You can also ring the phone as loud as possible - it overrides the vibration setting as well, so even if you've turned the ringer off you can still hear where you've left your precious device.
But there's a lot more to this portal than just that - being able to send a message to your phone or lock it remotely means that if you think you're going to get it back you can protect it or entice someone to return it.
You can also see roughly where your phone is - handy if you think you might have left it at that restaurant across town but don't want to go over there on a wild goose chase.
And of course there's the remote wipe option, allowing you to protect any data that might fall into the wrong hands.
You can also see your messages and contacts on this offering as well, so make sure you sign up to the free service as soon as you get your shiny new Sensation out of the box to make sure it's easy to find it when you start panicking that last night's drunken fug resulted in a wasted £500.


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What Does 'Yoga Music' Even Mean?
What Does 'Yoga Music' Even Mean? I ask this question as much out of wonder as bewilderment. My days literally revolve around these two art forms—the teaching of yoga and the playing, listening and writing about of music. Where the two meet, I have devoted my life. Still a persistent yet undefined image of 'yoga music' continues to wield its confusing head, saturating studios with a vague and uncertain amalgam of styles that do not necessarily coalesce. If the children of early '70s acoustic nature folk studied poorly pronounced Sanskrit and prose about flowers blooming and sunrays beaming, you have 'yoga music.'
But we're so much better than that. India may be a starting point for this indescribable subset of music, though which system are we discussing? Kirtan, bhajans, Hindustani and Carnatic fall into the general category of what can possibly be described as 'yogic.' Do we then contemplate bhangra and Rajasthani folk? I've played Asha Bhosle in my classes before—would filmi make for good yoga music? I'm sure it has on some dreamed up bus or train ride in a long Bollywood montage. I just haven't been brave enough to drop a funked out Mohammed Rafi track during the flow; perhaps the fault is mine alone.
Just as America has immensely altered yoga—like any imports, there are very beneficial and very unfortunate consequences to this—we have created a musical form that really never existed before. With its emphasis on Sanskrit chants directly related to the mantras associated with bhakti yoga, kirtan certainly has its longstanding relationship to yoga. And I've talked to a handful of classical Indian musicians who say that their music is their yoga, which makes sense: classical asanas and pranayama were performed at certain times of the day, to attune the yogi to nature's rhythm. Ragas were invented with the same idea in mind.
There is something more relevant and global at play here, however. While this is hard to picture in today's constantly shifting and easily downloadable societies, all folk musics shared common qualities. The most predominant is that the songs reflected the culture that the musicians lived in and their natural environment and, not as common but important for our purposes, trance. First, cultures: In his travel masterpiece, The Middle Passage, V.S. Naipaul writes, "No song composed outside Trinidad is calypso. The calypso deals with local incidents, local attitudes, and it does so in a local language. The pure calypso, the best calypso, is incomprehensible to the outsider."
The curmudgeonly Naipaul cannot be blamed—the text is nearly a half-century old; his point is valid for his time. Calypso is certainly a product of its environment, and is best understood on its home turf. Perhaps this generates my own bias, with the beats and bass of hip-hop being New York inventions. This is why rap is as valid a 'yoga music' in my classes as anything. Our streets are sharp, angular and punchy, and the music originating here mimics that architecture. Yet few would consider hip-hop in these terms alongside Jai Uttal and the Mayapuris.
Language and environment are the specifics; trance is global, which is where music and yoga truly meet. The raga is a form of meditation, each piece defined by specific guidelines with room for 'coloring,' or improvisation, by the performer. This is why Ravi Shankar and Pran Nath can perform the same alap and each version sounds a world apart. Numerous musical forms seek the same form of meditation, from Gnawa and Voodoo to dub and flamenco—flamenco pre-guitar, when communities would gather and make songs out of thigh slaps, hand claps, foot stomps and voices. This form of meditation, in which the place where what we are doing, where we are doing it and how intently we are focused on the one thing we are accomplishing are the same, is the aim of the yogi: unifying all seemingly disparate elements into one continuous moment.
Sometimes this happens with Krishna Das. Sometimes, A Tribe Called Quest.
Which is why the term 'yoga music' seems so fleeting and undesirable. If the point is union, why are we judging the vehicle that carries us there? If I throw a sitar over a beat, does it qualify for this category? If I burn copal instead of Nag Champa, am I fooling myself? It certainly doesn't feel that way when I'm in the midst of the flow.
Below is a playlist specifically comprised of songs that you'll never find labeled as 'yoga,' all of which have proven themselves perfect for my classes, followed by a video with Strala Yoga owner Tara Stiles in which we discuss these very topics.
EarthRise Non-Yoga Yoga Playlist
1. Silent Song (EarthRise SoundSystem Remix) – Eccodek
2. Endangered Species (Raeo Remix) – Nickodemus
3. Gone Baby, Don't Be Long – Erykah Badu
4. Shine – Oum
5. Electric Relaxation – A Tribe Called Quest
6. Embe Ashafergne – Abyssinia Infinite
7. Ivat Idounia Ayasahen - Bombino
8. Tenalle Chegret – Tinariwen
9. A Few Good Words – DJ Center
10. The Tryst – Azam Ali
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Director: Dave Fleischer
Country: USA
Running Time: 76 minutes
Cast: Sam Parker, Jessica Dragonette, Pinto Colvig, Lanny Ross, Jack Mercer, Ted Price
Genre/Category: Animation, Children, Comedy
A legendary classic of all ages, see the outstanding story in this Classic 1939 Animated Film in 3D anaglyph. Based on Jonathan Swift's classic novel of the heroic traveling sailor stranded on a remote island. Gulliver is soon discovered on the beach by a thumb size town crier from the land of Lilliput and tied down by ropes by the tiny villagers. Gabby (the crier) runs to tell theKin g. But the King is planning the impending wedding of his daughter, princess Gloria to handsome Prince David from the nearby Kingdom. When the two Kings can't agree on which song to play at the wedding, Gulliver finds himself in the middle of a war. Using his common sense, Gulliver becomes a hero to the villagers by helping the 2 sides resolve their dispute.


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Macrovision lands All Media
EmptyDigital security company Macrovision said Tuesday that it has agreed to buy entertainment database company All Media Guide for $82 million in cash.
AMG is one of the world's largest providers of music and film information and holds a database of ratings, biographies and essays.
The deal is expected to help Macrovision -- which protects clients' copyrights by scrambling videos and music -- sell greater interactive content to consumers.