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Ellas McDaniel Jr. was just a year old when his father went from relative obscurity, driving an asphalt truck and playing rhythm and blues on the street corners of Chicago, to worldwide fame.
"He was trying to put diapers on me and my sister. That's what led him to play on street corners," McDaniel said last week from the home of Chiefland friend Duane Schwingel. "My mother (Ethel) worked for the Polo Meat Co., cuttin' up chickens."
Life was hand-to-mouth when his father, influential R & B stylist Bo Diddley, hit it big with the release of "I'm a Man" in 1954 and walked through a door of opportunity that few blacks in America at that time had experienced.
It was troubled times for America.
McDaniel said he remembers seeing blacks being beaten and dragged down the street by police dogs. At his father's shows, blacks and whites were forced to stand apart on opposite sides of the room. Still, the fans kept coming, proving the power the music had to break down racial barriers. "We started to idolize this man," McDaniel said. " He was God to us."
There was only one book ever written about Diddley, a biography put together by George R. White in the 1990s called "Bo Diddley: Living Legend," but McDaniel said it leaves out a lot of important parts.
"The book describes everything he went through, the injustices. But it never mentions his family life, the man behind the music. So, there's just half a story out there."
McDaniel wants the world to have a more complete picture of the man named Bo Diddley. He's trying to publish a book called "I knew Diddley," co–authored with his long-time friend Schwingel. McDaniel and Schwingel are hoping to self-publish the book once they've acquired the $85,000 they say is necessary to get it in print.
Last week, they launched a campaign on kickstarter.com, a site devoted to "crowd funding" endeavors measured as worthy by the general public. Schwingel said he and McDaniel have been approached by a few publishing companies about the book, but he said the goal is to keep it out of the hands of as many middlemen as possible.
Diddley, also known as the "Originator," has had influence on some of the most famous musicians of the 20th Century. He's credited with helping bridge the gap between the Blues and Rock and Roll, paving the way for such artists as the Rolling Stones, Jimmy Hendrix and Eric Clapton. He was honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Rhythm and Blues Foundation, a Grammy and induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Born in Mississippi as Ellas Othas Bates, Diddley was famous for his shuffling beat, known as the "Bo Diddley Beat," and his trademark rectangular guitar. He continued to produce hits throughout the 50s and 60s and even played shows a few months before his death at his home in Archer, where he lived for the last 13 years of his life.
McDaniel describes his father as a musical genius, deserving of the accolades, but admits there was another side to the man that few ever witnessed. He wasn't abusive, McDaniel said. He just wasn't around much, gone because of the "nature of the business."
"When he turned to Bo Diddley, from Ellas McDaniel … it transformed him into someone we didn't know anymore.
"I almost wish he had been a brick mason … or a sanitation worker, because I did a lot of growing up alone."
Diddley divorced McDaniel's mother after a few years and had been in several other relationships, often putting the success of later children ahead of McDaniel and his sister, Evelyn, he said." 'Mommy Dearest' would be nothing. 'Flowers in the Attic' would be nothing."
It wasn't until McDaniel was in his late 20s that father and son would begin to come to terms with the wall that had been thrown up between them.
"My story's gonna' be bizarre," he said. "It's gonna' be a shocker," adding that, overall, the book would be positive, emphasizing the importance of family.
To learn more, go to www.facebook.com/I.Knew.Diddley.
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2015, length: 1:49:32. Documentary explores the cycle of neglect, violence and exploitation which each year leaves thousands of girls and women feeling that prostitution is their only option to survive.
2015, length: 1:49:32. Documentary explores the cycle of neglect, violence and exploitation which each year leaves thousands of girls and women feeling that prostitution is their only option to survive.
Documentaries About Abuse:
Documentaries about abuse inflicted on a child (someone under 18yo) by an adult. It can be physical, sexual, emotional/verbal, or neglect.
|Child of Rage
A classic documentary based on the true story of Beth Thomas, who suffered from reactive attachment disorder as a result of being sexually abused as a child. CBS, 1992, length: 00:27:28.
|Out of Darkness, Into Light
An Emmy award winning documentary which delves into the lives of three adult survivors of child sexual abuse.WLRN, 2012, length: 00:28:25.
|The Trouble With Evan
Documentary about the effect emotional abuse had on an 11yo boy from Canada. The Fifth Estate, 1994, length: 1:24:20.
|A Mother's Love
Real Stories, 2017, length: 48:29. A documentary about a woman who liked to pretend that her 7yo daughter had cancer, gave her sleeping pills, and arranged counseling for her, to convince her of her upcoming death; except the child was healthy.
|Just, Melvin: Just Evil
A documentary about three generations who were sexually abused by their relative, Melvin Just, while they were children. 2000, length: 01:14:35.
|3,096 days in captivity
2013, length: 00:51:13. Documentary about Natascha Kampusch, an 8yo Austrian girl who was kidnapped and kept in a 54 sq ft cellar for more than eight years.
|Men Surviving Sexual Abuse
Five men discussing the impact of sexual abuse on men.Shatterboy, 2012, length: 27:15.
Documentary confronting Child Sexual Abuse in the Cayman Islands.The Cayman Story Company, length: 1:03:30.
|The Lost Girls Of South Africa
In a country where a child is raped every three minutes, and where AIDS continues to spread with epidemic ferocity, we follow four girls aged 11-13 as they struggle to come to terms with the crimes committed against them and fight the social stigma that comes with the abuse. Real Stories, 2017, length: 1:15:52.
|Selling The Girl Next Door
Documentary about child sex trafficking in the US. CNN, 2011, length: 42:42.
|Children Of The Sex Trade
This film follows two young sisters in the Philippines who help former Australian police and Special Forces officers rescue underage girls from sex bars. Real Stories, 2016, length: 57:02.
|Cambodia: The Virginity Trade
Zealot Films, 2009, length: 58:50. A compelling and utterly alarming account of the lives of girls and women affected by the virginity trade that exists in Cambodia today. Many Asian men believe that obtaining a virgin girl for sex will grant them extra health and luck. Subsequently, there is a huge demand for young Cambodian girls, and the demand feeds the country's sex industry. 'Cambodia: The Virginity Trade' documents all sides of this nightmarish story of Cambodian girls in crisis. Intimate and revealing interviews are held with the men who buy the virginity of young girls, politicians, the police, senior NGO's and the victims themselves.
|My stolen childhood: understanding the trokosi system
BBC News Africa, 2018, length: 25:41. Thousands of women across West Africa have been enslaved by a centuries old practice called 'trokosi'. Girls are forced to live and work with priests in religious shrines, for the rest of their lives, to 'pay' for the sins of their family members. Although the practice has officially been banned in Ghana, it's still happening. Twenty years after she was freed from this practice, Brigitte Sossou Perenyi goes on a journey to understand what trokosi really is and why her family gave her away.
|America s Medicated Kids
BBC, 2010, length: 1:00:50. Louis Theroux documentary about parents who have turned to medication to keep their children under control. BBC, 2010, length: 1:00:50.
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Documentaries about abuse inflicted on one adult by another, while both share the same household. For example, physical abuse by an intimate partner, or abuse of elderly parent by their adult child.
|Behind Closed Doors
Shot over 12 months, and starting from the moment an emergency call is received, the film follows three brave women who each waive their right to anonymity to show how insidious and terrifying domestic abuse can be. BBC, 2015, length: 59:01.
|Love You To Death
86 women were killed by their partners in 2013 in UK. This documentary names each of them, and, through interviews with families, friends and neighbours, tells the stories of seven of them in detail. BBC, 2015, length: 1:34:44.
|Against My Will
The stories of three women who took refuge at the Dastak women's shelter in Pakistan founded to help women fleeing abusive and murderous families. Humanist Broadcasting Foundation, 2003, length: 50:19.
|Living in Fear
Domestic violence through the eyes of survivors, supporters, and abusers. NPT Reports, 2013, length: 57:06.
|Faces of Fear
Examines the crosscultural phenomenon of domestic violence and looks at how the medical community and law enforcement agencies are helping to end the silence. PBS, 1996, length: 56:08.
|Abused In Silence
A true story of a Muslim woman abused by her husband. Length: 46:55.
|Untouchable Love
Real Stories, 2018, 59:11. A documentary about inter-caste marriages: interviews with five couples who rejected their culture to be together, and what this choice resulted in for them, their families, and their villages.
|What Price - Bride Price?
Bride Price or lobola is both a cherished but highly controversial culture practised throughout Africa. It is the price paid in cows or money by the groom to the parents of the bride. This inspirational documentary tackles important side effects of bride wealth, namely child marriages, domestic violence and poverty. It features a cross-section of survivors of domestic violence, judges, community leaders, policy makers and rights activists. MIFUMI, 2013, length: 47:13.
|Four Corners: Forced Marriages
Documentary about what happens when young, educated, Australian-born girls are forced into unwanted marriages - often with relatives overseas. ABC, 2012; length: 44:20.
|I Escaped A Cult
National Geographics, 2012, length: 44:28. Four people including Brent Jeffs discuss how they fled dangerous and brainwashing cults, and what it was like to live in a world of fear and abuse.
|House of Shafia
The Fifth Estate, 2012, length: 45:14. Documentary about the honour killing of three teenage girls and their stepmother by their family.
|Elder Abuse Lecture
Attorney Paul Greenwood has prosecuted more than four hundred felony cases of elder and dependent abuse, both physical and financial. He examines what constitutes elder abuse, how we handle these cases in our judicial system, why incidents of elder abuse are on the rise, and how you can protect yourself and your loved ones. UCTV, 2012, length: 59:28.
|Men Dont Tell
TV drama based on the true story of a loving husband who is terrorized by the violent behavior of his wife. CBS, 1993, length: 1:32:08.
Classic drama about emotional abuse: a husband convinces his wife that she is insane by making her doubt her reality. MGM, 1940, length: 1:24:01.
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Documentaries about non-consensual intercourse (vaginal or otherwise), where the perpetrator forces it on the victim against their will and the victim is helpless to escape.
|The Unspeakable Crime Rape
Documentary exploring rape, from forensic medical to police investigation, court and beyond. BBC, 2013, length: 1:43:41.
|I Never Said Yes
BBC, 2012, length: 48:37. Pips Taylor examines why so many rape victims fail to receive justice in the UK. With powerful interviews with victims, lawyers and police officers she explores who is to blame for this failure and discovers a system which favours the accuseds right over those of the victims.
|Rape on the Night Shift
Frontline, 2015, 53:09. A joint investigation into the sexual abuse of immigrant women who clean the malls where you shop, the banks where you do business and the offices where you work.
|The Real Sex Traffic
Real Stories, 2017, length: 48:32. A documentary about human trafficking from Eastern Europe to the West, includes an interview with a convicted trafficker, victims, relatives, and a husband who's trying to rescue his trafficked wife.
|Inside The World Of Human Sex Trafficking
2015, length: 1:49:32. Documentary explores the cycle of neglect, violence and exploitation which each year leaves thousands of girls and women feeling that prostitution is their only option to survive.
|Rape and sexual assault investigation
BBC, 2005, length: 59:42. An hour long documentary on one rape investigation, showing how each step of it works, all the way to conviction.
|False Accusation
2015, length: 22:40. A story of how one woman falsely accused someone of rape, he was sentenced to 20 years of prison, but two years later she admitted no rape took place.
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Documentaries about neglect, physical, or sexual abuse of people who are institutionalized, by the staff of the institution they are at (e.g. prison, nursing home, psychiatric facility, etc).
|Elder Abuse: The Crime of the Twenty-First Century?
Documentary about abuse in senior homes. BBC, 2014, length: 56:41.
|The Silent Epidemic - Nursing Home Care Abuse
Insider Exclusive, 2014, length: 49:04. What's nursing home abuse, what to do about it, and what are your rights as a resident.
|Sex in a Cold Climate
Channel4, 1998, length: 49:29. The documentary interviews four women, three of whom were incarcerated in Magdalene asylums in Ireland, about the abuse they underwent.
Channel4, 2008, length: 1:36:32. This BAFTA award winning film deals with a subject often whispered but rarely spoken about - the sexual abuse of boys by teachers in Britain's private schools. 2013, length: 00:51:13.
|30 Years A Slave
Unreported World, 2015, length: 23:07. A moving report from South Korea where the police have rescued hundreds of modern-day slaves tricked into working on salt and seaweed farms on a chain of remote islands. Shockingly, many of those rescued have learning disabilities. Marcel Theroux traveled to the Shinan Islands to investigate the lives of these vulnerable people, some reuniting with families who for years believed they were dead.
|Predators And Prey - Prison Documentary
National Geographics, 2014, length: 40:41. Interviews with inmates, new and old, and a prison warden, about inmate on inmate abuse.
|Turned Out: Sexual Assault Behind Bars
Jonathan Schwartz, 2004, length: 54:12. Estimates are that 20 percent of all men serving in US prisons have been raped. This film looks at the social system within prisons that allows this violent sexual behavior to occur.
|Kids Behind Bars
Documentary about abuse of children in prisons around the world. Length: 1:38:34.
|The Shame of the Catholic Church
BBC, 2012, length: 58:50. Documentary about child sexual abuse by Catholic priests in Ireland.
|Cult Witness
Arthio Films, 2010, length: 56:25. An intelligent exploration of how cults attract and manipulate their followers, sharing the disturbing firsthand experiences of Cult Witness director Samuel Stefan and six others who have freed themselves from cults.
|Children Of Darkness
Documentary about mentally ill and emotionally troubled children and young adults living in various private and public residences, and state institutions. PBS, 1983, length: 57:16.
|The Quality of Life
Infinite Spiral, 2015, length: 34:16. The film explores what people with intellectual disabilities go through, what their families go through, and the negative aspects of group homes/institutions which include physical abuse, sexual abuse, and over-medication.
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Documentaries About Mental Health:
Documentaries about therapy: how to choose a good therapist, what to talk about in their office, and when to quit.
|What is psychotherapy anyway?
Dr. Gerald J. Gargiulo and Dr. Amira Simha-Alpern, 2012, length: 22:10. A down to earth discussion between two psychoanalysts of what deep therapy is all about: how growth in self awareness is basic to living a satisfying life.
|A Former Therapist's Critique of Psychotherapy
Daniel Mackler, 2014, length: 59:33. What makes a good therapist, how to assess a therapist's quality, why he thinks most therapists are not so good, boundaries in psychotherapy, the value in self-therapy versus therapy, and the subjects of diagnosis and psychiatric drugs.
|Open Dialogue: an alternative Finnish approach to healing psychosis
Daniel Mackler, 2014, length: 1:13:59. documentary film on the Western Lapland Open Dialogue Project, the program presently getting the best results in the developed world for first-break psychosis - approximately 85% full recovery, a far majority off antipsychotic medication.
|BPD: Back From the Edge
Lichtenstein Creative Media, 2010, length: 48:11. Documentary film featuring three people who are living with and recovered from Borderline Personality Disorder. The production also features leading experts in the field.
Tamra Sattler PhD, 2013, 26:49. A compassionate documentary on Borderline Personality Disorder, focusing on experience of Debbie Corso, an author/blogger from the San Francisco area living with BPD, and how Dialectical behavior therapy(DBT) changed her life.
|Treading Water
From Here To There Films, 2015, length: 1:06:36. Independent Documentary about depression, interesting, and not patronizing.
|Depression: The Misunderstood Epidemic
2010, length: 56:47. One by one the topics are addressed in candid detail: symptoms; suicide; the stigma and lack of understanding; the stress in families and relationships; the loss of ability to work. The film also discusses the pros and cons of medication, different types of therapy, and support groups.
|Ride the Tiger: A Guide Through the Bipolar Brain
PBS, 2016, length: 54:24. Documentary about that tells the stories accomplished individuals who have been diagnosed with bipolar, and explores treatment options.
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Documentaries about how to ground when you're triggered, dealing with panic attacks and flashbacks, managing phobias, etc.
|Resolve: A Guide To Post Traumatic Growth
Greg Storm, length: 1:21:02. Ten trauma survivors offering practical advice for millions of trauma victims, their families and friends worldwide.
|Childhood Trauma and the Process of Healing
Daniel Mackler, 2011, length: 58:54. Topics covered: denial in the family system, addiction to comfort, self-therapy and healing childhood trauma, four stages of emotional healing, and suicide - the trap of the family system.
|Healing Minds, Changing Attitudes: PTSD
AETN, 2014, length: 1:57:31. The first hour features a documentary about PTSD in children and youth. Following, a panel of experts discuss what PTSD is, the causes, signs and symptoms, diagnosis, and treatments.
|Afraid Of People
APT, 2011, length: 1:29:25. Documentary about Social Anxiety, a disorder affecting 19.2 million Americans.
|The Man Who Loved The Number 12
ITV, 2005, length: 1:29:33. A remarkably intimate and moving film that offers an insight into the extreme Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. Hugh is trapped in a world of endless order and repetition, which places a huge strain on him and his family.
|House of Agoraphobics I
Barcroft TV, 2006, length: 47:38. Three agoraphobics move into a house together where they will face their worst fears, hoping to find a better life.
|House of Agoraphobics II
Barcroft TV, 2006, length: 48:33. Second part of the above film.
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Documentaries about Dissociative Identity Disorder (aka Multiple Personality Disorder), where it comes from and how we live with it.
|Multiple Personality Disorder
HBO, 1993, length: 58:58. Emmy award-winning film is a look into how people can develop multiple personalities to survive abuse through the splitting off of personalities. Usually taking hold in childhood, DID/MPD is thought of as people's way of shutting out abuse and trauma from their formative years. During this film we get to see some people who suffer from the disorder, whilst exhibiting their various different personalities.
|Mistaken Identity
Length: 45:57. Documentary about the controversy surrounding Dissociative Identity Disorder, previously known as Multiple Personality Disorder.
|What it's like to live with DID
MedCircle, 2018, 59:34. An hour long interview with a woman who has Dissociative Identity Disorder, talking of what it's like to live with it.
|The Woman With 7 Personalities
Barcroft TV, 2017, length: 47:51.
This film follows Helen and her seven different personalities over a period of months to explore how she copes with life and to investigate what exactly has happened to her friend. We see Helen 'switching' between her various personas and seek the views of different psychology camps as to why she suffers from this condition.
|DID Talk
Informal university lecture, 2013, length: 1:18:30. Abuse survivor who has DID, sharing her thoughts on what it's like (and what it isn't like).
|Dissociative Identity Disorders and Trauma: GRCC Psychology Lecture
Colin A. Ross, MD, 2016, length: 2:13:28.
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Documentaries about suicide, self-harm, eating disorders, addictions, or any other non-accidental behaviors that are harmful to your body.
|Suicide And Me
BBC, 2015, length: 57:06. World-famous rapper Professor Green takes an intensely personal journey to uncover the truth behind the suicide of his father, and why suicide is the single biggest killer of men under 45.
Length: 41:45. Documentary about depression, suicide, and self injury in teens.
|Boy Interrupted
HBO, 2009, length: 1:32:16. The intensely personal story of every parent's worst nightmare: the death of a child by suicide.
|Life After Suicide
BBC, 2014, length: 58:23. Dcumentary about how suicide affects your loved ones.
|Cut Up Kids
BBC, 2008, length: 59:36. Documentary which gives an insight into the phenomenon of self-harming teenagers by following three young people who have resorted to it as a way of coping with what life has thrown at them.
|Anorexia Nervosa: Being Too Thin - An Inside Story
BBC, 2015, length: 1:35:48. Documentary about Anorexia Nervosa, an Eating Disorder characterized by restricting one's food intake in order to lose weight.
|Rain in my heart
Paul Watson, 2006, length: 1:38:16. Gritty, very real and heartbreaking, it is an upfront, unapologetic glimpse into the world of addiction and alcoholism.
|Heroin: The Hardest Hit
VA State attorney's office, 2016, length: 43:13. A very involved film providing a graphic and up close look at heroin addiction and prescription pain pill abuse.
Michel Negroponte, 2005, length: 1:27:50. Methadonia is the borderland between high and straight, where recovering heroin addicts on methadone "maintenance" exist.
|The City Addicted to Crystal Meth
BBC, 2009, length: 56:44. Louis Theroux documentary about how drug addiction has torn apart the city of Fresno in Central Valley, California.
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A city of contradictions, Hong Kong's steel and glass exteriors belie its traditional heart. Fast-paced, innovative, and ambitious, this is also a city where Buddha has his own mountain, noodles are slurped in alleyways, and Cantonese opera is sung on the streets. Here, Shama offers residents a choice of serviced apartments in the city's most happening neighbourhoods: hip Hollywood Road, exciting Central, thrilling Tsim Sha Tsui, convenient Fortress Hill, and lavishing Midlevels. Each offers an enviable location, supreme style, and all the comforts of home.
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A town hall meeting was held Tuesday at the Honeyville Community Center to discuss Sacred Heart Hospital�s reopening of the Wewahitchka Health Department facility.
A town hall meeting was held Tuesday at the Honeyville Community Center to discuss Sacred Heart Hospital�s reopening of the Wewahitchka Health Department facility.
The center was scheduled to reopen in July, but a reduction in staff at Sacred Heart called for all positions to be reapproved, said Roger Hall, president of Sacred Heart Hospitals.
All positions requested were saved and Sacred Heart intends to reopen the center in mid-September, Hall added.
In attendance during the Tuesday meeting were County Commissioners Warren Yeager, Ward McDaniel, Carmen McLemore, and Tan Smiley.
Also in attendance was Marsha Lindeman, from the Florida Department of Health in Gulf County, North Florida Medical Centers CEO Joel Montgomery and Hall.
During the meeting, Lindeman detailed the services previously offered at the center prior to it being closed June 30 due to funding cuts from the state.
She said that the goal between the Department of Health and Sacred Heart was to look at the needs within the community and ensure that there were no gaps in services.
The core services offered by the Health Department when the facility reopens will not change, she said, and they would continue to provide dental, birth certificates, WIC, Healthy Start, tobacco prevention and school health.
Nurse practitioners will be staffed 7 a.m. � 4 p.m. CT on weekdays.
Immunizations will be available the first and third Friday of each month and volunteer family planning will be offered the first Tuesday.
Hall said that the medical center would mark the 22nd Sacred Heart-established facility and reminded those in attendance that SHH is ranked in the top 1 percent in patient experience nationwide.
He said that Sacred Heart�s Charity Care would be open to those who qualify at the medical center, a program that to-date had provided �$4 million dollars in compensated care.�
Dr. Angel Cortes from Tallahassee and Physician�s Assistant, Ann Rubin were hired as medical providers for the center, which will double the capacity to serve the local population.
Sacred Heart will offer same-day appointments and overnight lab work, though mental health services are on pause until a licensed clinical social worker can hired.
McLemore asked if the center would close when the grants that keep specialized services operating run out, but Lindeman assured him that they would renew the grant for 10 more years.


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NCAA says athletic departments must not interfere in sexual assault cases
After a Senate survey found 22 percent of colleges give their athletics departments oversight over sexual assault allegations against athletes, the NCAA Executive Committee has issued a resolution saying it expects that practice to stop.
The resolution, approved unanimously on Friday, specified expectations about how college athletics programs should try to prevent sexual violence and handle allegations of assaults.
It called for them to "cooperate with but not manage, direct, control or interfere with college or university investigations into allegations of sexual violence ensuring that investigations involving student-athletes and athletics department staff are managed in the same manner as all other students and staff on campus."
The survey that found that many athletics departments have been handling the cases was commissioned by U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., a former sex crimes prosecutor. The survey covered range of questions about how schools investigate and resolve sexual assault claims (story here). It was released on July 9.
"You cannot expect the athletic department, which is in charge of giving scholarships, or depends on the athletic prowess of young men or women, that they will be fair, or at least have the appearance of being fair," McCaskill said at a news conference the day the survey was released.
Later that same day, at a previously scheduled Commerce Committee hearing, McCaskill said she was shocked that the survey showed that among Division I, II and III schools, 30 percent let the athletic departments handle allegations against athletes. She raised the finding with NCAA President Mark Emmert, who was testifying at the hearing. Emmert told her he was "equally dismayed and surprised."
"I am floored that he's surprised," McCaskill said later, outside the hearing. "Because it seems to me that if you were in charge of the NCAA and you were truly trying to provide guidance and enforcement on a code of conduct you would know that a third of your schools are not even allowing their athletes to go through the process that any other student would go through, that they have their own special process within the athletic department. The fact he didn't know that until our survey is probably an indictment as to how serious they have been about this problem."
The NCAA Executive Committee is the organization's highest decision-making body and has oversight over how all the divisions operate. It passed the resolution during a quarterly meeting.
"The Executive Committee recognizes the importance of addressing the abhorrent societal issue of sexual violence, especially when it occurs on our campuses," the resolution said. "The Executive Committee acknowledges that it is our members' collective responsibility to maintain campuses as safe places to learn, live, work and play."


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A year ago Martin Scorsese brought an unfinished film to the New York Film Festival and showed a group of jaded critics an entirely new possibility for 3D. Today Ang Lee may have done it again. Introducing this morning's screening of Life of Pi (in advance of tonight's Opening Night gala at NYFF), Lee focused on its story, how author Yann Martel handed the story to him, and how Lee was now handing the story to us, the audience. But while Life of Pi tells a satisfying yarn of survival and faith and human grace, it's the visuals-- both the spectacular CGI and the game-changing use of 3D-- that elevates it well above Martel's wildly popular book.
Like Scorsese did with Hugo, Lee uses Pi's simple story to spin off in bold visual directions, balancing on the razor's edge between fantasy and outright surrealism that provides some of the most gripping and gorgeous images on screen this year. And it's not all just glittery poetry like seen in the image above-- Life of Pi contains several sequences of sheer terror, including an amazing shipwreck scene, and like the Bengal tiger with whom our hero Pi (Suraj Sharma), you never know when it might rear back and devastate you.
The film's opening sequence, set at the Pondicherry zoo where Pi lives with his family, is a lyrical and beautiful introduction to the combination of CGI and real animals who populate the film, as well as the 3D effects, which are brilliantly sharp. We spend some time seeing Pi-- full name Piscine Molitor Patel-- grow up and experiment with following every religion he comes across, as well as get training in the dangerous life of a zookeeper-- especially to stay well clear of the tiger, incongruously named Richard Parker. When Pi is a teenager his family decides to sell the zoo and move to Canada, bringing the animals with them on a cargo ship to sell in North America. The ship sinks in a violent storm, and Pi is left as the only human survivor in a lifeboat that, at first, contains a hyena, an injured zebra, an orangutan… and Richard Parker.
Pi's story is initially introduced to us in a framing device, in which older Pi (Irrfan Khan) tells the story to a Martel-like author (Rafe Spall), but the framing drops out as soon as the ship sinks, leaving us alone with Pi and Richard Parker and the vast, often terrifying expanse of the ocean. Lee nimbly moves between the ocean's threats and its potential for beauty, sometimes in a single shot, like a humpback whale leaping gorgeously through the ocean's phosphorescence… and swamping Pi's raft in the process. And while the tale of a boy on a boat with a tiger sounds like a children's fable, it's Richard Parker's inborn viciousness, and Pi's constant fear of him, that provides the movie's tension, and makes the tale of survival and inter-species communication all the more meaningful.
But like I said, the story-- and especially the religious overtones that come to play in the end-- are far less important than simply being consumed by this world of Lee's creation. I don't know if the actual 3D effects make a film more immersive or if it's the physical fact of wearing those clunky glasses, but Life of Pi is uniquely gripping, its lush visuals sweeping over the screen and, yes, occasionally popping out at you. Lee takes constant gambles with the film's look, diving into Pi's mind and the deep ocean with a fantasy sequence in which fish turn into zebras, layering shots over one another to create montage, or depicting the ocean as clear and perfectly reflective, as if Pi and Richard Parker are bobbing among the stars. Everything in it looks fantastical but true, an incredible balance that can only be achieved by a filmmaker with confidence like Lee's, who has spent a career hopping genres and styles but managed, once again, to utterly surprise us.
Life of Pi will dominate in the Academy Awards's visual effects category, and it's not hard to imagine it making progress elsewhere-- like Hugo as well, it's a movie cinema lovers can rally behind and gawk at forever. Even though its story is hamstrung by the same tripped-up ending that deflates Martel's book, Life of Pi works wonders in its best moments. Early on Pi's tale is billed as one that will "make you believe in God." I'm not so sure about that. But it will certainly make you believe in movies.


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Artwork depicts history of Cincinnati's fire department
A salvage operation is under way at the old Fire Tower in Eden Park, which will be converted to a brewing operation.
A dozen long-forgotten murals that tell the chronological story of Cincinnati's fire department are being carefully preserved in the tower. Their artist is unknown.
"That's part of the mystery," said Matt Alter, president of the firefighters union. "We're learning, we're learning as we're bringing them down."
The tower served as a pump station for the nearby reservoir until 1908, and then it was a police and fire department communications center.
The building has stood empty for decades.
An old map embedded in the wall will be preserved, and a stained glass window will also remain.
Architect Jack Martin envisions the historic building as a brewery, if an estimated $5 million funding can be found.
"We really want to save the building," Martin said. "It's just a cool building, and we really couldn't think of anything else the building could be right now. I mean, it couldn't be a store or hotel or workout center. It's perfect."
Plans include a beer garden behind the tower, which offers 7,000 square feet in potential space.
Fire historian George Brederstege said he'd hoped the murals could be displayed at the fire museum, but there's not enough room there. They will instead be shown at the firefighters union headquarters.
"I didn't realize they gave the entire history of the department around these walls, and the thought that went behind that to put these up is outstanding," said Fire Chief Richard Braun.
Most of the murals are about 4 feet by 6 feet, and they'll be ready for display on April 1, the 160th anniversary of the nation's oldest fire department.


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WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama has ordered that the U.S. flag at federal buildings and military facilities in Texas be flown at half-staff Thursday in memory of the victims who died in the fertilizer plant explosion last week in the town of West, Texas.
Obama signed the proclamation Wednesday.
Obama will attend a memorial service for the victims on Thursday at Baylor University in Waco, Texas. He had already planned to be in the state for the dedication of former President George W. Bush's presidential library at Southern Methodist University.
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The Wittenberg Tigers got back to basics after suffering their first regular season loss since 2008, and the results were encouraging in a 45-7 defeat of North Coast Athletic Conference (NCAC) rival Kenyon.
The win moved the 24th-ranked Tigers to 6-1 overall and, more importantly, 4-0 in the NCAC. It was Wittenberg's 17th straight NCAC win, dating back to 2008, and it was the Tigers' 20th win in a row over Kenyon, dating back to 1914.
Kenyon fell to 0-6 overall and 0-3 in the conference. The Lords have lost 19 straight games.
Wittenberg jumped on top less than one minute into the game on a 61-yard touchdown strike from senior quarterback Ben Zoeller (Louisville, Ky./St. Xavier) to sophomore Brendon Cunningham (Kettering, Ohio/Fairmont). Sophomore quarterback Reed Florence (South Charleston, Ohio/Southeastern) and senior tailback Conner Warye (Maineville, Ohio/Kings) added short touchdown runs before Kenyon got on the board with a 13-play, 62-yard drive.
The Tigers took a 28-7 lead into the locker room at halftime, however, responding to Kenyon's score with a five-play, 54-yard drive of their own that was capped by Warye's one-yard TD plunge. The second half was all Wittenberg, featuring three long scoring drives. Sophomore tight end Stephen Zumdick (Erlanger, Ky./Dixie Heights) caught his first collegiate touchdown pass, junior Sean Williams (Plainfield, Ind./Plainfield) chipped in with a 20-yard field goal and Florence capped the day with a two-yard scoring burst.
Wittenberg didn't just dominate on the scoreboard. The Tigers gained 26 first downs, compared to 10 for the Lords, and the difference in total offense was a whopping 544-201. For the first time in 2011, Wittenberg's offense featured great balance with 234 yards rushing and 310 yards passing.
Zoeller finished with 226 yards on 11-of-20 passing, while Florence contributed 7-of-8 for 84 yards. Warye has a career-high 130 yards on 18 carries, backed ably by sophomore JaVanh Sanders (Las Vegas, Nev./Centennial), who also posted career-highs with 60 yards on 13 rushing attempts. Senior Michael Cooper (Springfield, Ohio/South) led the receiving corps with five catches for 63 yards, with senior Josh McKee (New Carlisle, Ohio/Tecumseh) adding three receptions for 87 yards. He is now 12 catches short of the NCAC career record and 10 receiving yards shy of the top 25 in NCAA Division III history.
Defensively, the Tigers spread the statistics around. Sophomore linebacker Spencer Leno (Massillon, Ohio/Washington) led with seven tackles, including five solo stops, and a fumble recovery. Three other players finished with five tackles, including sophomore safety Mark Swope (Fairborn, Ohio/Fairborn), who added two tackles for loss.
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Tubbataha Reefs Natural Park, Philippines
Tubbataha is the only marine sanctuary in the Philippines. It is situated midway along the Cagayan Ridge in the Sulu Sea. It consists of three reef areas, the North and South Atolls and the Jessie Beazley Reef. It is considered to be the most intact and diverse marine reserve in the Philippines and one of its oldest ecosystems. Established in 1988, it became a World Heritage site in 1993. In 2006, the park was extended to a total area of 96,828 ha and was renamed the Tubbataha Reefs natural Park (IUCN Category II) It plays a key role in the process of reproduction, dispersal and colonisation of marine animals and fish in the Sulu Sea and helps support fisheries outside its boundaries. Tiger and hammerhead sharks are indicators of the ecological balance of the park and it offers a demonstration site to study the responses of a natural reef system to impacts of climate change.
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Size: 96,828ha
Flora and Fauna: The reefs of the park support 90% of the Phillipines' coral, cetaceans, sharks and fish including the Critically Endangered Napoleon wrasse and have the highest density known of white tip reef sharks. They are also an important nesting and development site for two species of endangered marine turtle, many seabirds including the Critically Endangered Christmas Island Frigate bird.
Threats: Illegal and destructive fishing practices are a major threat to the Park; not only local but international fishermen exploit the park for the international market. Fish aggregating devices outside the park are set to drawn fish from within it.
Tourism generates 70% of the Park's finance, and is acceptable at the moment, but with plans to augment the tourism in the park, guidelines need to be put in place to avoid potential damage to the values of the sanctuary.
Shipping is also a major threat as there have already been two groundings in recent years.
Oil exploration and exploitation in the Sulu Sea needs to be covered by an Environmental Impact Assessment to ensure that no impact is produced to the park.
Why should we protect the area? One of the most significant fish nurseries of the Philippines, Tubbataha replenishes the Sulu Sea, offering its inhabitants an abundance of fish, which are the basis of the Filipino diet. The tourism aspect is also essential offering many resources to indigenous people living within or in the immediate boundary of the park.


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Here's Kate Winslet, walking the red carpet at the UK film premiere of A Little Chaos in a figure-flattering Stella McCartney dress and a pair of Christian Louboutin Athena Alta Sandals. This leopard-print Louboutin style is a couple of seasons old and no longer available online, but you can shop a broad selection of Louboutin heels
A Little Chaos is a period piece in which Kate plays the landscape designer tasked with creating the gardens of Versailles. The film pairs Kate with her old Sense and Sensibility costar Alan Rickman, who plays King Louis XIV, and who also directed the film. A Little Chaos hits UK theaters this Friday, and will make its debut in the US later this summer on June 26th.


text: You know the old saying, "those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it?" No? Well, it's a pretty good saying. The above Pussy Galore bio pic by Michele O'Mara, however brings to mind the truism "history is best retold by persons who don't give a shit about accuracy or likenesses" (OK, I made that up myself). With all due respect to meme-tastic crazes like keyboard kitties and Alexyss Tylor, I see no reason why this video shouldn't top a million or more views by the end of the week. (thanks to Linda Wolfe for the heads-up about this astonishing video)


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The key foods to buy organically grown and/or manufactured from organic ingredients are:
My list for Ten Healing Foods To Buy Organically Grown includes:
Strawberries are red and energizing, rich in vitamin C and carotenoids (beta-carotene and others). But this fruit is the most heavily contaminated produce food in the U.S., according to data from a number of environmental groups, including a 1993 study by the Environmental Working Group (EWG of Washington, DC) and an analysis by the Pesticide Action Network of North America (PANNA). Strawberries in California are treated with more than 300 pounds of pesticides an acre, and some areas of the country use up to 500 pounds per acre. As a comparison, conventional farming currently uses about 25 pounds of pesticides an acre on the average crop. Also, some growers may be spraying the harvested strawberries for shipping. This adds to the amount of chemical concentration in the fruit. Strawberries were also found to have the highest level of hormone-affecting pesticides, including benomyl, vinclozolin, and endosulfan. Methyl bromide is another common toxic spray used on strawberries. Note that out-of-season strawberries may be even more heavily treated because they come from other countries and are sprayed before shipping.
Leafy Greens, such as Lettuces, Spinach, Kale, and Chard
These foods are considered vital and nutritious. They contain folic acid as well as calcium, iron and other minerals. However, sprayed chemicals tend to remain on the leaves of these vegetables, which is potentially more harmful since we eat those leafy parts. In FDA studies, spinach was the most frequently found leafy green to contain the more potent pesticides, especially the organophosphates (neurotoxins) and permethrin (noted as mildly carcinogenic).
All grapes contain cleansing fibers, B-vitamins and vitamin C, plus some minerals from the soil. Red grapes contain many phytonutrients, including the healthy proanthocyanadins, which appear heart protective. Unless they are organically grown, however, grapes may receive multiple applications of a variety of chemical agents during their growing period. Many fruits, including grapes, ripen quickly and attract insects and molds. Thus, they tend to be more heavily treated in order to get them to the market (and to protect the financial interest of the grower). FDA research indicates that imported grapes are even more heavily treated than the U.S. samples. During winter and early spring, almost all grapes available in the U.S. are from Chile, and these are found to have an exceptionally high percentage of pesticide residues (79%). They also have a higher percent of the carcinogenic pesticides, captan and iprodione. However, U.S. grape growers use high amounts of sulfites and the fumigant, methyl bromide, so these are all good reasons to buy organic grapes and grape juices.


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It does your body good...
Paddling the pink canoe (or whatever you want to call it) not only feels ah-mazing, but it also has a ton of research-proven health benefits. That's because it releases feel-good endorphins, which do everything from ease stress to relieve menstrual cramps. One recent study published in Sleep Medicine even found that masturbation can treat restless leg syndrome (a neurological disorder that causes your legs to jerk around in bed). Uh, we'd love to see the doctor's prescription form for that.
...but not if you do it this way.
A University of Michigan study found that women who masturbate with saliva (i.e., wetting your fingers before you give yourself a hand) have a higher risk of developing frequent yeast infections. Researchers think it's because the saliva may disrupt the balance of bacteria down there. If you want to lube up before you get on with your horny self, choose the bottled kind instead.
We're still keeping it on the DL.
Apparently we can't let go and allow our self-love flag to fly. According to research from Penn State University, women talk more about sex than men do...except when it comes to masturbation. Men are more likely to trade info among themselves on how they do it and what they think about (or watch). We're not saying you need to start updating your Facebook status every time you give yourself an O, but occasionally discussing it with a few close gf's can help you figure out new ways to experience even hotter pleasure.
Lady monkeys need self-loving too.
Scientists have observed a wide variety of animals masturbating in the wild, including deer, monkeys, walruses, and squirrels. In fact, female apes and monkeys have been known to use sticks for, ahem, added pleasure down there.
That old wive's tale about masturbation causing acne? It's kinda true.
That's because when you climax, your body experiences a spike in the hormone testosterone, which can cause zits. The increase in testosterone is (very) small, though, so it's unlikely that you'll have a breakout.
It's possible to think your way to a party for one.
Researchers at Rutgers University have documented women who can climax without touching themselves. In a study, these women "thought" their way to climax while inside an MRI machine; scans revealed that their brains lit up during orgasm in the exact same spots as did women who peaked the old-fashioned way.
And, uh, exercise your way there too.
Some women can hit the high note just by doing crunches that include a leg raise — it causes the pelvic muscles to tighten and release, which can unleash a wave of blissful contractions down there.
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. – The Louisville Slugger National Fastpitch Coaches Association (NFCA) All-Region team was recently announced and Georgia College junior outfielder Whitney Okvist (Kennesaw, Ga.) was named to the second team in the Southeast Region. Okvist becomes just the second two-time NFCA All-Region outfielder for the Bobcats.
Okvist finished her junior campaign with a .296 batting average and led the team with 39 runs scored. She was 43-for-45 in stolen base attempts, giving her 119 for her career. Already holding the record for most stolen bases in school history, she is just 25 short of the Peach Belt Conference (PBC) record of 144, held by Danielle Peters of UNC Pembroke.
Of the 25 spots on All-Region First and Second Teams, 18 spots were awarded to a representative of the PBC, including PBC Pitcher of the Year Mollie Russell and Player of the Year Alexis Mercer.
The Bobcats have had 23 players selected to the NFCA All-Region all-time, including three during current head coach Jamie Grodecki's tenure.
Okvist and the Bobcats finished their season with 37 wins, the fourth most in school history. They also advanced to the NCAA Regional Tournament for the first time since the 2009 season.
The Georgia College Department of Athletics, two-time winners of the PBC Commissioner's Cup, sponsors 11 varsity athletic programs at the NCAA Division II level. As a Division II program, Bobcat Athletics prides itself on balancing the life of the student-athlete, evidenced by the teams' multiple appearances in post-season competition as well as documented academic success and community-service involvement. Sign up at www.twitter.com/BobcatSports and www.facebook.com/gcbobcats for up-to-the-minute reports, and visit www.GCBobcats.com for more information, and to nominate your favorite former Bobcats and Colonials to the GC Athletics Hall of Fame.


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Hi all,
me and my bro downloaded the marathon install unmodified and are using Iron's co-op script.
We beat marathon 1 and are now on Charon Doesn't Make Change, however we have hit a snag.
Whenever either of us try teleporting using that one phor terminal that takes you to that unreachable place with the spht war terminals, the game crashes. We've teleported successfully in other levels. Maybe teleporting using terminals causes the problem.
Here are my specs:
Windows 7 Professional (6.1.7601) 64 bit service pack 1
Intel(R) HD Graphics 3000 with Driver version: 184.108.40.20629
OpenGL (Classic)
We're using the Aleph One version that comes with the Marathon 2 install from this page.
The program crashes and I get a pop up that says:
Assertion Failed!
Program: ...
File: computer_interface.cpp
Line: 1162
Expression: !player->delay_before_teleport
For more information on how your program can cause an assertion
failure, see the C++ Visual documentation on asserts
(Press retry to debut the application - JIT must be enabled)


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Rihanna's new mega deal with MAC Cosmetics is unlike their past celebrity collaborations. In an unprecedented deal for both, Rihanna has been dubbed as a "creative partner" and will collaborate on multiple collections of color cosmetics that will roll out later this year.
MUST READ: Rihanna's New Fashion Line Leaves Critics Underwhelmed
"When you think of makeup, the brand that pops into your mind — for something legit — is MAC," said the singer, who was dressed in a black, strappy, curve-hugging dress of her own design and matching Manolo Blahnik heels during an exclusive interview with WWD. "Whatever color you want, it's like 'Let's go to MAC.' I've been using MAC on tour for such a long time it was a natural fit for me. I have always loved makeup, and I always said that if I do it, I want to do it with a credible brand."
RiRi Woo, a signature red lipstick from RiRi [Hearts] MAC collection, will be the first to launch on May 4th to coincide with her Diamonds Tour concert at the Barclays Center. MAC will also open a pop-up shop at the concert. The summer collection will debut two additional lipsticks, a Lustre Drops shade and a powder blush duo. The fall collection will debut four lipsticks, a deeply pigmented lipglass version of RiRi Woo, two multishade eye shadow palettes and false lashes.
I don't know about you beauties, but I am geeked and running circles in my mind at the anticipation of snatching RiRi's signature red lips! Are you all excited yet?
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With the Apostles' Fast at hand, Fr. Thomas reflects on the practice and rules for fasting.
Everyone who knows about the Orthodox Church, even in the slightest way, knows the Orthodox Church and in general the ancient Christian Church was a Church that attributed a great value and significance to fasting. Actually, as the Christian faith developed, there are very, very many fasting days. In the Orthodox Church, virtually every Wednesday and Friday of the Church year is a fasting day, and then there are special days which are strict fasting days, like, for example, the day of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross in September or the Beheading of John the Baptist is a fasting day on the 29th of August.
So there are days that are particular days of fasting, and during the Church year, there are four fasting periods that have grown up and developed within Orthodox Christianity. Everybody knows about the Great Fast, which takes place before holy Pascha. You have the 40-day fast that actually is eased into by a few weeks of preparation, even when the fast… You kind of ease into fasting, and then you have the 40-day fast, and then the fast continues right through Lazarus Saturday, Palm Sunday, and all of Holy Week so that the fast before Pascha is more like 50 days than 40. Then there is a 40-day fast before Christmas. Beginning on November 15 up until December 25, it's a fasting period. And then, in the summertime, before the summer Pascha—it's called sometimes the summer Pascha—the festival of the death and glorification of Christ's mother, Mary. There is a two-week fast, a 15-day fast from August first to the fifteenth.
And now, just right now in this time of year, the Church also had a fasting period from the day after the Sunday of All Saints, which is the Sunday after Pentecost, until the feast of Ss. Peter and Paul. Of course, that fasting period could vary in length depending on when holy Pascha was celebrated. So this year, for example, the feast of All Saints, the Sunday after Pentecost, would be June 22, then the 23rd would be the fast, and already the following Sunday on the revised calendar, the new calendar, would be the feast of Ss. Peter and Paul. So if you're on the new calendar, the fasting period would just be those five days. If you're on the old calendar, then you'd have an extra 13 days; [using] the old calendar, it would be the twelfth of July.
About fasting: first of all, we all know—we should know—that the Lord Jesus Christ fasted and taught people to fast; that he fasted after his baptism; he was driven into the desert and fasted for 40 days and 40 nights. And then we know that sometimes he went away and fasted. We know from the Book of Acts that the apostles fasted. We know that the Apostle Paul in [the] letter to the Romans, the Corinthian letters, he speaks about fasting, about eating, not-eating. Probably the most prominent teaching about fasting, the central teaching about fasting, would be in the Christian Torah: the Sermon on the Mount, which is the Christian law, the interpretation of God's law for Christians, that begins with the ten Beatitudes, which are like the ten words of the Ten Commandments, and then you have an interpretation of the Mosaic laws as understood and interpreted and fulfilled and commented on by the Lord Jesus Christ himself.
So in the Sermon on the Mount, you have the Lord Jesus saying, "When you fast." He doesn't say, "If you fast," [but] "When you fast." Then he tells what you do. Just like he says, "When you pray," and then he tells what a Christian ought to do and what a Christian ought to say. He also says, "When you"... In English we say, "When you give alms." Actually in Greek it would be, "And when you do acts of mercy, when you actually do charitable acts of helping and serving others," this is how you do it.
And in every case he says you must do it; it's simply part of the discipline of being a human being and being a Christian. Then he says that you do it in secret, you do it for the glory of God, you don't do it for the praise of men, you don't do it as an end in itself; it's a means to an end—but it's a very important means. It's a means by which we open ourselves to the grace of God. It is an expression of our faith in God. "We are saved by faith through grace, not by works, lest any man should boast." So we're not boasting in the works of fasting, but believing in Christ, obeying him, acting in his name, imitating his example, and opening ourselves to the grace of God that's given to us through him, then fasting—abstinence from food, change of diet, limiting the kinds of food and drink that we consume—that is part of the Christian life, and it's an essential part.
Of course, Jesus says, it's not what goes into a person that defiles, but what comes out. The kingdom of God is not meat and drink, as the Apostle Paul says, but peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. So we don't boast in our fasting. As the Church songs say, it's silly to boast in fasting, because the demons never eat, and they're the most evil beings that you can think of. But it is the teaching that, without fasting, we cannot really live a spiritual life, without that self-discipline, abstinence, controlling, not worshipping our belly, not simply giving ourselves over to satiety and food, not filling ourselves with the kinds of food that stir up the passions and so on.
That's just a normal thing, and virtually every ascetical tradition on the planet earth knows that, whether people are fasting because of some spiritualistic view of reality or whether they're fasting because they're athletes or dancers or artists. Football players and basketball players, they have to watch what they eat; they have to be careful about their food. That is simply part of human life.
When we look at the rules of fasting in the Orthodox Church, basically the rules are the monastic rules. So normally on a fast day, you wouldn't eat meat, but you also normally wouldn't eat milk or dairy, and sometimes you would not even have oil. During some fasting days, it'll say wine and oil is allowed for the monks. But these are norms; these are visions. Every person has to fast differently, and when you read the monastic literature…
And by the way, I just might mention, there's a very good book… For the sake of full disclosure, I have to say it was written by one of our daughters, Catherine Mandel, but there's a good book [published] by St. Vladimir's Seminary Press called When You Fast: Recipes for Lenten Days and Lenten Seasons. But in that book, which has recipes with and without oil and dairy and so on, there are a lot of quotations [which] were printed in this book from the Bible and from the saints and from the sayings of the Desert Fathers about food, about how Christians relate to food, how they relate to eating and drinking, how they relate to fasting and abstinence.
Bascially, they all say the same thing. They say: you must do it. Probably one of the most colorful expressions about this is from Theophan the Recluse, a Russian saint who said, "The whole spiritual life begins with the stomach," and in that he was being very traditional. In fact, St. Anthony the Great, the kind of quintessential, prototypical monastic teacher, he said that if you really want to be saved, what you must do beside always having God before your eyes, always acting according to the Scripture and never jumping around from place to place; he said what you also have to do is: don't trust in yourself and your own righteousness; don't worry about the past—the past is over—and then you guard your mouth and your stomach.
By mouth, he meant not only eating, but what you say, because you have to fast from words, but also your stomach. So St. Theophan the Recluse, he said, if our stomach is out of order, if we have the wrong kinds of foods or too much foods in us, then for sure, he said, you will have… If you have a full stomach, he said, you will have a hard heart, a stiff neck; you'll have a babbling mouth, you'll have itching ears, you'll have wandering eyes, and you'll have revolving and whirling thoughts, and the thoughts are the cause of all of our difficulty.
In fact, Maximus the Confessor said everything in life, in the spiritual life, all the difficulties, he said, are cause by four things. One is demons; demons are always attacking us, especially when we try to do good. Scripture says… The Apostle Paul, for example, he said: I find it to be a law that when I want to do good, the devil is close at hand. Or in Peter, it says the devil goes about like a roaring lion, seeking whom to devour. Or in the gospels it says that the devil's even going to appear like an angel of light to ensnare, if possible, and destroy even the chosen, the elect.
So the demons are always there, he said, but there are three other things that cause us all our grief: memories, things that have happened to us, our experiences, our childhood—that's constantly there, causing us all kinds of troubles. Then the other two things, he said, were the weather and food. He said when the weather goes up and down and it's hot and it's cold and it's humid and it's awful, that can really affect our spiritual state. And then he said food, though: too much food, the wrong kind of food, food that doesn't agree with you. How many of us have foods that we know, if we eat them, we're not going to feel well? We're going to be sick, and we go ahead and eat them anyway, and indeed we feel sick. Then we get grumpy and cranky and weak and sleepy and all those kind of things.
So food is critical, and the best way of dealing with it is by a disciplined rule of fasting: certain days of the week, certain times of the year that we just abstain. We just don't eat certain things, and we do it as a rule, and we change our diet, as a rule, to kill self-will. Abandonment of self-will is one of the main disciplines for doing the will of God, because the clash is: either God's will or my will. One of the places that we are the most willful is in our eating and drinking, so it's a very great training. It's an ascesis just to train ourselves to be in control of our eating and drinking. Then, of course, offering our strength and even the money that we save, that we wouldn't pay for certain kinds of foods, giving it away and doing the will of God. Our Lord Jesus Christ did this, and if anyone thinks they [shouldn't] do it, it means [they think] they're better than Christ; they think themselves better than Christ.
In the Church, which is a community of faith, because people live in communities, that's why it's necessary to have communal fasts from time to time, so that everybody would be in it together. A family would be in it together. It wouldn't be just an individual matter. Nevertheless, even though there can be community discipline, like, for example, for an Eastern Orthodox Christian, we will fast from June 23 this year to June 29. If we're on the old calendar, we'll have 13 more days to fast. We'll just do it by discipline, together with others within our community, but we still won't do it to be seen by men. We still won't do it to blow trumpets, so everybody says, "Oh, look how they're fasting." We still won't do it because we think fasting in itself is some kind of meritorious thing, because it's not. It's a means; it's not the end.
But we will do it together, and it makes it easier when you're doing it together. If you live in a community then you know what to put on the table. You usually, as St. Benedict said, you set the table for the weakest brother, and then those who want to fast more severely can do so, not showing off, doing it kind of in a hidden manner, discreetly, and limiting themselves by their own will. So it is absolutely necessary.
When we think of the communal fast, there's something else that we might just want to point out. A lot of times we think—and I know that Orthodox Christians think—that fasting, especially the four fasts of the year—the Great Fast before holy Pascha, the fast before the Christmas-Epiphany season, the fast before the Dormition of the Theotokos, and the fast before [the feast of Ss.] Peter and Paul—are primarily exactly fasts before. People think of them as fasts before, kind of preparatory fasts, like: we're going to celebrate Pascha, so we prepare by fasting; we're going to celebrate the Nativity of Christ and his Epiphany into the world, so we prepare by fasting; we're going to have holy Communion, so we prepare by fasting, because, normally we fast before we receive holy Communion. It doesn't mean necessarily that we have fasting days, like a Saturday before a Sunday, but the Wednesdays and the Fridays are part of that discipline for the rhythm of receiving holy Communion on the Lord's day. So we're going to celebrate the summer Pascha, celebrating our resurrection with Christ in the person of his mother, Mary, so we prepare for that season by fasting.
However, I think that it would be accurate to say that fasting, especially the Church fasts, they're not just fastings before. They're not just fasting in preparation. I think that the fasting is often also a fasting after, a fasting after a particularly festal or particularly celebrating season. In the Egyptian Church and in the Armenian Church, there was the practice after a big festival, you would declare a fast. Some people even think that the Great Fast, especially as it emerged in the earliest Christianity and particularly in northern Africa and the Church of Alexandria, was as much a fast after the Nativity-Epiphany season as it was a fast before Pascha.
Of course, it was very convenient that the time after the Christmas-Epiphany season was exactly the time before Pascha, so it was like, so to speak, tailor-made to be a fasting season. In fact, very often in the Church year, the fasting season for the Great Lent or the pre-lenten season begins almost immediately after the leavetaking of the Christmas-[Epiphany] season. This year, in 2008, it was that way. We ended and had the feast of the 40 days after Christmas, the Meeting of the Lord in the Temple, and then immediately it was the [Sunday of the] Publican and the Pharisee and moving into the fasting season.
But some people think that the Great Lent was not just before Pascha and connected with preparation of catechumens, but it was a fast declared after having these big celebration days of Christmas and Epiphany, where you really didn't fast; you feasted. You had feast days, and you really ate, you really drank, you really celebrated. Then, when that was over and you took leave of it, then you had a fasting period, kind of to bring yourself back, to put yourself back in order, to take control of your life again.
I really also believe that this is probably more the origin of the Peter and Paul fast that follows Pentecost and the Sunday of All Saints. It's as much after Pentecost as it is before Peter and Paul. In fact, I have a hunch—I may be wrong on this; of course, I may be wrong on everything I say; you have to decide—but it seems to me that to have a preparatory fast for Peter and Paul all of a sudden doesn't seem too convincing. Why would that be?
But to have a fast after the 50 days of Pascha, and even more, because the week after Pentecost is a no-fasting week at all: not Wednesday and not Friday are fasting days of the Pentecost week. So actually, the end of the Paschal celebration season is actually the Sunday after Pentecost, which is the Sunday of all the saints. Then the fast begins on the next day. I think it's kind of a fast after. You have 57 days of festival time, feasting. Of course, most Wednesdays and Fridays during the Paschal-Pentecostal season are still fasting days, although there are certain Oriental traditions that don't have fasting days during that whole 50-day period, including the five days after Pentecost. Some traditions have the big fast before Pascha and no fasting until after the Sunday of All Saints after Pentecost. But the normative practice, certainly the monastic practice, is that after Bright Week, after the Pascha week, then the Wednesdays and Fridays during the Pentecostal days, the 50 days, are fasting days, but the week after Pentecost is not.
So I do think, honestly, that the Peter and Paul fast was more a fast following the great season of Pascha, where I have many friends who say, "All the weight that I lost by fasting during Great Lent I put back on during the 50 days of the Pascha-Pentecost season." If I weighed myself on the Sunday after Pascha and see I lost 10 pounds, usually if I weigh myself again on Pentecost, I see that most of that is back, if not all. That's how we live; we go up and down, but we have to have discipline. We have to have some narrow path where we're not going up and down in a grave manner.
It seems that this fasting season after All Saints' Sunday is actually a fast after the Paschal-Pentecostal season, and then the rule simply is: Well, you fast until you have Peter and Paul. When the festival of Peter and Paul comes, you celebrate it and then you go back to your normal eating and drinking habits until you get to the first of August and you prepare for Dormition. Even the fast before Dormition, certainly it's a preparation for that great festival in the summer, of the death and glorification of the Virgin Mary, Christ's mother, but probably also it is a time where summer, being a real time of picnics and eating and drinking and vacations and holidays, it could very well be that the holy Church also said, "Okay, summer's going to be over now. We're going to get back to our normal life again." The revised calendar, the 15th of August is the Dormition; it's 13 days later on the old calendar.
It's kind of a fast to end the summer, to end the picnicking, holidaying, vacationing summer and to get oneself back in shape to enter into the work life, the school life that begins again at the end of August and the beginning of September, to move into the fall, and then again, by the time you get to November 15, another fasting season will come. It's really very nice in the British sense of that term, very nicely crafted, clearly crafted, how you have these seasons of fasting and feasting through the Church year, eating and drinking and then cutting back, in order to maintain a good, clear, self-controlled disciplined life as given to us by God.
Human beings are creatures of habit and variation, and we are also, alas, creatures of excess, creatures of being immoderate, of being incontinent, of overdoing it, of letting ourselves go, of not being disciplined. It helps when you want to live a disciplined life when you do it with other people. I think most Orthodox Christians know that if it were up to themselves individually, they would have a harder time keeping the fast than when they're doing it with other members of their family or the other members of their monastery or of their school, and you do it together and you bear each other's burdens and you don't lead each other into temptation, but you still do it secretly. You still hide yourself; you don't flaunt it.
But it's wonderful to have, in the Ecclesia of Christ, the Church of Christ, as in the Bible itself, as in the Old Testament: there were the seasons of the fasting, declaring a fast, the fast of the first day, the fast of the seventh day. We find this in Joel, in Zechariah, in the Torah. There were the fasting days, and, as we already noted, the Messiah, the Lord Jesus Christ himself, fasted, and taught us to fast. The apostles and the saints all fasted, so fasting and abstinence is part of our Christian life, so Orthodox Christians have a little fasting period following Pentecost that begins on the day after the Sunday of all the saints, which is the Sunday after Pentecost.


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At the time, Chan was a young man studying to be an engineer and took his first trip to China and various parts of Thailand with a team of doctors to study healthcare delivery systems.
"When I was in Shanghai, we went to hospitals and saw acupuncture and how different doctors operated, but we had time to take breaks," Chan recalled. "I went out into the country and into the cities to look for my grandmother, and I was able to find her."
His grandmother was ill and in her last days as she had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. Chan did not speak the language, however he was able to speak with the help of a bedside nurse and meet his grandmother.
"I was very fortunate to make a trip just in time to see her," he said. "I stood by her bed, we held hands and cried and we shared lifetime moments with each other."
When he returned, he had a new purpose in life.
"It was awesome. I came back saying to myself, 'I don't want to be an engineer anymore,' what my father wanted me to do," he explained. "So I changed my path to the healthcare field. I'm a better person for that."
Chan received a master's degree from the School of Public Health in Chicago. In 1981, he came to New York and delved into his new passion as the assistant director of a family health clinic.
For the last three years as a business developer at Rockaway Homecare, Chan now travels to hospitals and health care facilities looking for new ways to provide home care and provide care-taking training courses.
"We take care of disabled elder persons and people with special needs," he said. "Anyone who fits into that category...we can figure out a way to get them the care that they need."