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Rob Thomas Getting Another Chance at "Party Down"?
Rejoice, Tim! /Film is reporting that Veronica Mars and Party Down creator Rob Thomas creator is moving to NBC with a new TV project dubbed "Temps." It's revolves around the lives of recent college grads, struggling to find livelihoods in the post-bust economy (a subject I have a special affinity for) and the hilarious, deadpan hijinks that will certainly ensue.
Currently, the pilot has been greenlight by NBC and is in production. Hopefully, the wider audience, national attention, and critical success of his previous projects will catapult "Temps" into new territory for Thomas – although, as /Film points out, the change from Starz to the more lowest-common-denominator-pandering NBC likely means the rehash will have to lose some of its ascerbic wit… and maybe some of the family-unfriendly drug use. Let's hope the ratings meet the acclaim at least halfway, this time around.

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Harry Carey Jr., an actor best known for his work in Westerns, died Thursday at the age of 91. Like many long-lived character actors of both silver and small screen, he was nothing if not prolific, and it's likely that anyone who watched much TV since the '40s managed to see him at some point, somewhere.
Why, just as a guess, you might remember him from his military and lawmen roles: Cpl. Morrison, Capt. Gregson, Capt. Ward, Sgt. Shaker Schuker, Trooper Travis, Trooper Daniel "Sandy" Boone, Trooper Smith (uncredited), Major Jim Blythe, Marshal Fred White, Lt. Chuck Roundtree (uncredited), Lieutenant Vaughn, 2nd Lt. Ross Pennell, Lt. Ord, Lt. Hudson (uncredited), Lt. John Pritchett, Cpl. Peterson, District Ranger Frank Deane, Deputy Lee, Deputy McCafrey, Deputy Sheriff Will Masters, Sheriff Pike, Sheriff.
No? Well, perhaps you remember Carey best from his red-blooded American roles: Cliff Eastland, Ralph Hunt, Griff Rhys, Dice Dawson, John Tarwater, Cort Hayjack, Ortho Clegg, Wally Finnegan, Joe Pogovich, Fitz Bragg, Dwight Eisenhower, Snappy Tom, Jimmy Biff, Arley Stamper, Cowboy (uncredited), Taxi Driver (uncredited), Bartender, Poker Player, Saloon Old Timer, Cashier, Prospector, Ellie's Father, Pa Traven, Grandfather Cross, Tanner, Bert, Barney, Dobie, Dumper, Dusty, Anderson, Mr. Anderson, Hank, Harry, Red, another Red, Johnson, John (uncredited) and, in Rio Bravo, Harold (scenes deleted).
Regardless of your favorite Carey character, the sports world will best recall his work as Winslow – Olympic Team (uncredited) in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and as player in dugout in a 1962 TV drama called Flashing Spikes, in which Jimmy Stewart starred. Of course the sports world can be said to include this guy, so it's not at all clear that the sports world has a clue.
Harry Carey Jr., Western character actor known for '3 Godfathers,' 'Wagon Master,' dies at 91 [Washington Post]


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Before her passing the wealthy widow told her daughter that she would inherit her considerable fortune but her condition was that she must go to a particular yeshiva and ask its head, the rosh hayeshiva, to match her in marriage with his best student.
The young woman did as told and the rosh hayeshiva without hesitation identified Reuven as his number one student. After a couple of meetings Reuven and the young woman were engaged. But soon some rumors reached the young woman that the report she received about Reuven being the best student in the yeshiva was exaggerated and that in reality it was Shimon who deserved that title. The girl began to have second thoughts as to whether she was fulfilling her mother's wish and her bad mood showed on her. Reuven became aware of the reason for the change in their relationship and graciously allowed her to break their engagement.
A short while after her marriage to Shimon the rosh hayeshiva who had recommended Reuven was approached by the head of another yeshiva who was looking for the best student to whom he wished to offer a prestigious position as a teacher. Of course it was Reuven whom he recommended, but Reuven refused to accept this once-in-a-lifetime offer. His explanation was that should his ex-fiancee hear that he received this much sought after position because he was really the top student, she might feel pain at having lost the opportunity to marry him because she refused to believe the rosh hayeshiva. Even such a position, he said, was not worth causing such pain to another.


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"Girls" executive producer Judd Apatow took issue with a reporter's question that actress Lena Dunham faced on Thursday, chastising a male reporter after he questioned the need for her frequent nudity in hit TV series "Girls."
The pair was taking part in a panel discussion for the show at the Television Critics Association press tour in Pasadena, Calif., on Thursday, when "Girls" creator and star Dunham found herself being quizzed about getting naked onscreen.
The journalist asked, "I don't get the purpose of all the nudity on the show, by you, particularly. I feel like I'm walking into a trap where you go, 'Nobody complains about the nudity on Game of Thrones, but I get why they're doing it.' They are doing it to be salacious and, you know, to titillate people. And your character is often naked just at random times for no reason."
Dunham, who plays Hannah Horvath on the drama, took the comments in her stride and responded, "It's a realistic expression of what it's like to be alive, I think, and I totally get it. If you're not into me, that's your problem, and you're going to have to kind of work that out with whatever professionals you've hired."
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Players of the week (April 6-16)
Player: Bobby Scales, a switch-hitter who has played 2B, 3B and the OF for Scranton-Wilkes-Barre, hit .424 in 10 games with 14 hits, including 3 doubles, 2 homers and 7 RBI. Scales, 29, was signed as a minor league free agent by the Phillies last December.
Pitcher: LHP Gio Gonzalez of the Reading Phillies. In 2 starts, 0-0 record, 0.00 ERA, 12 innings, 7 hits, 4 walks, 13 strikeouts. The 20-year-old was acquired last November from the White Sox in the Jim Thome trade.
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C Carlos Ruiz homered and drove in 2 runs on Wednesday, followed with 2 homers and 3 RBI the next day and capped his week with his fourth HR on Sunday . . . RHP Yoel Hernandez was 3-for-3 in saves . . . LHP Matt White pitched 2-hit shutout ball for 7 innings in a 6-0 win over Norfolk on Saturday; 52 of his 79 pitches were strikes . . . SS Danny Sandoval has been placed on the 7-day disabled list with a left hamstring strain. SS Angel Chavez has been promoted from Reading.
Reading Phillies
LHP Gio Gonzalez combined on a 1-0 shutout in Reading's home opener on Thursday; Gonzalez allowed 5 hits and 2 walks in 7 innings while fanning 6 . . . 2B Tim Moss ended a season-long hitless streak of 25 at-bats with a first-inning single on Friday night. Moss last year at Clearwater had 52 extra-base hits (30 doubles, 5 triples, 17 homers), second-highest total in the Phillies minor league system. His first extra-base hit at Reading was a triple on Saturday . . . CF Michael Bourn made the play of the game on Friday with a leaping catch high off the fence in left-center to take extra bases away from Altoona's Craig Stansberry in the first inning. Offensively, Bourn is 8-for-8 in stolen base attempts for the season.
Clearwater Threshers
LHP Cole Hamels had a second straight strong start on Tuesday, 5 innings, 2 hits, 0 runs, 2 walks, 9 strikeouts . . . Then, there was a 4-3, 20-inning marathon win in Ft. Myers on Thursday night, a game that lasted 5 hours and 2 minutes. LHP James Happ gave up 3 first-inning runs. The Miracle was held scoreless for the next 19 innings by Happ (5.1 IP) and 7 relievers. 3B Mike Costanzo delivered the game-winning single in the 20th inning, his only hit of the game in 9 at-bats. Combined totals: 130 at-bats, 19 hits (16 singles), 11 walks, 30 strikeouts . . . LHP Derek Griffith allowed 1 run on 2 hits in 6 innings in going 2-0 and lowering his ERA to 0.75 on Friday.
Lakewood BlueClaws
While the BlueClaws were in the midst of losing their ninth straight game to start the season Friday night, GM Geoff Brown and some of his staff decided they would guarantee a win in their next game (Saturday afternoon). "We decided on the spur of the moment during Friday's game to guarantee a win on Saturday and give every fan a free ticket when that happened. It was difficult to get the word out because Saturday was a 1:05 afternoon game but the people who came Saturday seemed to be aware," explained Brown. Attendance on Friday was 4,737. Saturday's was 4,990. Every fan got a free ticket because the BlueClaws won, 8-7, in 13 innings. A 4-run ninth inning sent the game into extra innings. RHP Andrew Barb picked up the win with 4 scoreless relief innings.
To promote Lakewood's May 15 game at Citizens Bank Park against the Delmarva Shorebirds, the BlueClaws abandoned their normal uniforms and wore Phillies uniforms on Saturday. Any chance they would continue wearing the Phillies uniforms? "No, they are washed and ready to be sent back to extended spring training in Clearwater," stated Brown.
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(Updates to add that Nate Silver said that of the likely scenarios, the most likely was Obama winning with 332 electoral votes.)
President Obama wasn't the only big winner Tuesday.
A handful of prognosticators won in the race to correctly predict Obama's victory, among them Nate Silver's 538 blog for the New York Times, the Huffington Post, Politico and ABC News' Matthew Dowd. Among those who were off was Unskewed, a conservative blog that has personally mocked Silver.
Republican strategist and Fox News analyst Karl Rove was out of step even after results were in, cautioning his Fox News colleagues that they were too quick to call the election for Obama. He noted his own experience with the Florida recount in the 2000 election.
NBC, meanwhile, thrived in the moment-to-moment challenge of deciding when to call states and the election. The network was more aggressive than its rivals in calling contested states and the presidency. And its projections have so far held up.
Also read: Bill O'Reilly: 'It's Not a Traditional America Anymore… The White Establishment Is Now a Minority' (Video)
The Florida vote is still out, leaving the final Electoral College count uncertain, but Mitt Romney's concession in the race makes it very unlikely that his campaign will challenge the results in other states. The popular vote, meanwhile, is still being counted.
The current Electoral College count stands at 303 to 206, with Florida's 29 votes still up in the air. If Obama wins Florida, that would bring the final Electoral College tally to 332-206. If Romney wins Florida, the final tally will be 303-235.
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The latter result would make Dowd and Politico this election's most on-the-nose masters of prognostication.
On ABC's "This Week" Sunday, Dowd, President Bush's top strategist in 2004, predicted a 303 win for Obama. None of the other panelists had that number. Conservative columnist George Will was the furthest off, predicting 321 electoral votes for Romney.
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On Tuesday, Politico, which used Real Clear Politics polling averages, joined Dowd in putting Obama at 303 votes.
If Obama wins Florida, Stanford political science professor Simon Jackman, who created HuffPo's Pollster tracking model, can claim that he called it. But he only did it with some hedging. His last blog post before polls closed had Obama winning by either 303 or 332 Electoral College votes. He was right: Obama will win by one of those numbers, depending on which way Florida goes. But he offered two scenarios, rather than doubling down on one.
Silver, whose data was perhaps the most closely watched of the campaign, again came very close to nailing it. But he won't be as close to perfect this time around.
In 2008, Silver predicted the popular vote within one percentage point and predicted every state correctly except for Indiana, making himself perhaps the most celebrated statistician in America in the process.
This year, even as Romney and Obama appeared neck-and-neck in the polls, Silver predicted a very high probability of Obama winning. The president's supporters staved off their anxiety by embracing the meme, "Keep Calm and Trust Nate Silver."
As of Tuesday, he said, there was a 90.9 chance of Obama winning again. He forecast a 313-225 Electoral College count based on an averaging of the most likely outcomes (see his chart, left). But he also said that of those outcomes, the most likely was Obama winning with 332 electoral votes. If Obama wins Florida, Silver's 332 projection will be right on the money. Silver said there was a 20 percent likelihood of Obama hitting 332.
Silver's popular vote projection, 50.8 percent for Obama to 48.3 percent for Romney, is also very close to current vote totals.
Conservative blogger Dean Chambers tried to position himself as the anti-Silver with his UnskewedPolls.com, a new website that emerged during the summer and vowed to "unskew" what Chambers saw as liberal-leaning polls. In a post late last month, Chambers went personal on Silver (right), describing him as "a man of very small stature, a thin and effeminate man with a soft-sounding voice that sounds almost exactly like the 'Mr. New Castrati' voice used by Rush Limbaugh on his program."
"In fact, Silver could easily be the poster child for the New Castrati in both image and sound," Chambers added. "Nate Silver, like most liberal and leftist celebrities and favorites, might be of average intelligence but is surely not the genius he's made out to be. His political analyses are average at best and his projections, at least this year, are extremely biased in favor of the Democrats."
So how did Chambers do in his prognostications? Not nearly as well as the "effeminate" target of his ire. As of Tuesday, Chambers had Romney winning by 275 electoral votes to 263 for Obama.


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"Angelina Jolie stepped out with her man Brad for her "A Mighty Heart" premiere in a $26 vintage dress but dressed it up with a pair of $1000+ Christian Louboutin shoes. Jolie told Access Hollywood that she found the crushed velvet black frock at the vintage store Wasteland on Melrose Avenue in LA." source: Hollyscoop.com
From Sharon Harvey Rosenberg: A Return to Frugal Living
Wednesday, June 20, 2007
Angelina Jolie's $26 Dress & My Best Cheap Fashion Tricks
Angelina Jolie recently wore a $26 dress to a Red Carpet event. Her shoes, however, cost over $1,000, according to press reports. Nevertheless, I give Jolie high marks for her frugal fashion choice and she picked a great dress.
Here are the details from Hollyscoop.com:
Her fashion choice sparked rave reviews. Here are a few samples:
Unlike Jolie I can't combine frugal fashion with expensive shoes, but here are:
My Best Five Cheap Fashion Tricks
1. Borrow clothes from a friend with a great closet or try the HMD (Hand me Down) store. Get give-aways from well-groomed, fashion friendly pals.
2. Find second-hand (thrift, consignment, vintage) stores in upscale neighborhoods. I know an older woman who loves to go the Goodwill and Red, White & Blue stores in wealthy areas. Her reasoning: Better Zoned Donations.
3. Shop off-season for classic garments. I found a well-made $129 skirt for $29 and a $99 outfit for $9 at Anthropologie during an end-of-season sale.
4. Make friends with the salesclerks. One store manager gave me her markdown schedule and once tracked down a past-season tweed skirt that a customer had returned. The skirt (still new) was unworn, but marked down to $6 because it was a year-old.
5. Stop stressing about the clothes and buy a great tube of lipstick, a cute hair ornament or unusual jewelry. I've even dressed up an old dress with a new hair cut or hair style.
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Vintage rocks! My mom recut an old $25 prom dress from a size ?? to a 2 for me when I was in high school. I looked GREAT! I wore it again my senior year when a bunch of us girls decided to go stag. (or is it 'doe'?)
I saw no reason to spend more money on a new dress, so I got a really large bouquet of flowers for myself. Instead of a limo, I drove us all to a really nice Thai restaurant for dinner another girl recommended and ordered everything I wanted to try. We had a great time! Everything combined was probably still less than $125.
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For years we've been keeping a close eye on UK-based Soner Ozenc, of SOPDS (Soner Ozenc Product Design Studio), who has wowed us repeatedly with his electroluminescent designs. But it is his latest work, a high-tech illuminated prayer rug, that is poised to catch on throughout the Muslim world. Devout Muslims pray towards Mecca five times a day, sometimes using a small and portable mat that rolls out. SOPDS' EL Sajjadah is a rug that illuminates when it is pointed to the holy city of Mecca – and they just launched a Kickstarter campaign to support it!
With 1.6 billion Muslims living across the world, many of whom do not have access to the neighborhood mosques that are readily accessible in countries from Egypt to Indonesia, the potential for this thin, lightweight and ultramodern mat is huge. EL Sajjadah is not only easy to carry around, but can also be hung on a wall as an art piece.
EL Sajjadah displays the correct direction in which to pray using electro luminescent fibers that brighten as the rug points closer to Mecca. The mat's design combines modern technology with traditional Islamic art. Easily portable, EL Sajjadah can operate using rechargeable batteries or it can be plugged into a power supply.
The bright teal colored patterns reveal timeless elements including a mosque at the heart of heaven, the light of God (Allah) just below the crescent, and markings for the mat's owner to place his or her hands and feet. The bright teal is one of Islam's holy colors, which contrasts with the black representing the Holy Kaaba in Mecca. The Mosque pattern is reminiscent of the Blue Mosque in Istanbul, one of the most stunning places of worship in the world.
SOPDS just started its Kickstarter fundraising campaign and it needs pledges totaling $100,000 by August 14 if this project is to move forward. Considering the long history and sublime beauty that marks Islamic art, this modern take on a centuries-old tradition is a project that makes it easier for Muslims to practice their faith while building bridges to cultural understanding from which the world could still very much benefit.
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- Fang Lizhi, 76, a famed Chinese democracy activist, has died in the United States
- He was of three intellectuals criticized during "anti-bourgeois liberalization" campaign
- Fang continued to speak out for democracy
- Fang was a physics professor at the University of Arizona in Tucson
Fang Lizhi, a famed Chinese democracy activist, has died in the United States, where he fled in exile more than 20 years ago, fellow activists said.
He was 76.
Fang died Friday in Tucson, Arizona, according to Wang Dan, a prominent student leader of the 1989 Tiananmen Square student protests.
"My most, most respected teacher Fang Lizhi has died," Wang wrote on Facebook. "I am immensely sad. I hope that the Chinese people will forever remember him, that in our history there was a thinker named Fang (Lizhi) who inspired a 1989 generation and awakened the people to aspire to human rights and democracy."
He added, "Sooner or later, there will be a day when China will be proud of Fang Lizhi."
Fang, an accomplished astrophysicist, served as vice president of the elite University of Science and Technology at Hefei, Anhui province. He was dismissed from his job and expelled from the Communist Party in 1987, blamed for sympathizing with student protesters.
He was one of the three noted intellectuals who were publicly criticized during the "anti-bourgeois liberalization" campaign at that time, though Fang continued to speak out for democracy.
In early 1989, he wrote an open letter to Communist Party leader Deng Xiaoping, calling for the release of Chinese political prisoners.
After the bloody crackdown during the Tiananmen protests on June 4, 1989, Fang and his wife Li Shuxian sought refuge inside the U.S. embassy in Beijing.
A year later, they were allowed to leave China for Britain and were soon after granted political refuge in the United States.
Fang spent the past years doing research at the University of Arizona in Tucson.


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SAN FRANCISCO, CA/ATLANTA, GA, June 1, 2010 - Shionogi Pharma, Inc., a U.S.-based group company of Shionogi & Co., Ltd., today presented data summarizing the results of two pivotal studies of the investigational new drug PSD502, a topical metered dose spray being developed for the treatment of primary premature ejaculation (PE). These data were presented at the 2010 American Urological Association (AUA) Annual Meeting in San Francisco.
Evaluating a combined total of 556 (randomized) and 536 (treated) men with primary PE in the United States, Canada and Europe over a three-month period, with more than 23,000 exposures to PSD502 recorded, the data demonstrated that men who were treated with PSD502 five minutes before intercourse by applying PSD502 via a topical metered dose spray had a time to ejaculation 5.5 times longer than those who used a placebo spray with the actual average measurement in minutes for drug and placebo.
A co-primary endpoint also looked at ejaculatory control and satisfaction. Point differences of 6.1 and 5.3 were observed between the PSD502 group and placebo in ejaculatory control and satisfaction domains, respectively (p<0.0001 for all).
"Combined results from the PSD502 pivotal studies are very exciting and this is a significant milestone," said Ira D. Sharlip, MD, clinical trial investigator and clinical professor of urology at the University of California, San Francisco.
The exact incidence of PE is not known, as a widely accepted definition of PE has only recently become available. Depending on the definition used, ranges from 5% to more than 30% incidence of PE or ejaculatory control issues have been reported in the literature. For example, according to a large national study, approximately 30% of men suffer from ejaculatory control issues, including climaxing too early, while data from the National Health and Social Life Survey (NHSLS) states the prevalence as 21% in men ages 18 to 59 in the United States.
Pivotal Study Details
Men selected from 70 centers in the United States, Canada and Europe with primary PE and an Intravaginal Ejaculatory Latency Time (IELT) of less than one minute were randomly placed in one of two groups, two-thirds in the PSD502 group and one-third in the placebo group. Participants were instructed to apply PSD502 or placebo to the glans penis five minutes before intercourse. Efficacy was assessed from changes in IELT and in the domains of the Index of Premature Ejaculation (IPE), a patient reported outcome questionnaire, over a period of three months.
The baseline IELT in both study groups was less than 0.6 minutes which increased 5.5 fold and 1.6 fold in the PSD502 and placebo groups, respectively (p<0.0001), resulting in a mean IELT of 3.3 minutes in the PSD502 group. There were greater improvements in all domain scores of the IPE in the PSD502 group compared to placebo resulting in 6.1, 5.3 and 2.6 point differences between PSD502 and placebo in ejaculatory control, satisfaction and distress domains respectively (p<0.0001 for all).
In the PSD502 group, 6.1% of patients reported treatment-related adverse events versus 0.6% in the placebo group. There was one treatment-related adverse event greater than or equal to 3% (loss of erection; 3.1%). Almost 7 percent (6.7%) of partners reported adverse events compared to 1.7% in the placebo group. The most commonly reported adverse event in partners was vulvovaginal burning sensation (5%).
About Premature Ejaculation (PE)
For years, experts debated about the definition of premature ejaculation. In 2008, the International Society for Sexual Medicine presented an evidence-based definition of PE as agreed upon by a consensus of the world's leading sexual health experts: a male sexual dysfunction characterized by ejaculation which always or nearly always occurs prior to or within about one minute of vaginal penetration; and inability to delay ejaculation on all or nearly all vaginal penetrations; and negative personal consequences, such as distress, bother, frustration and/or the avoidance of sexual intimacy. Currently, there are no prescription therapies approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to treat premature ejaculation.
About PSD502
PSD502 is a proprietary formulation of the two marketed drugs lidocaine and prilocaine dispensed as a topical metered dose spray that is currently under investigation for the treatment of primary premature ejaculation. PSD502 works primarily on non-keratinized skin on the mucosa of the glans penis.
About Shionogi & Co., Ltd.
Headquartered in Osaka, Japan, Shionogi & Co., Ltd. is a major research-driven pharmaceutical company dedicated to placing the highest value on patients. Shionogi's Research and Development currently targets three therapeutic areas: Infectious Diseases, Pain, and Metabolic Syndrome. The Company has provided such innovative medicines as
Crestor and doripenem, which have been successfully delivered to millions of patients. In addition, Shionogi is engaged in new research areas such as allergy and cancer. Contributing to the health of patients around the world through development in these therapeutic areas is Shionogi's primary goal. For more details, please visit www.shionogi.co.jp. For more information on Shionogi Pharma, Inc. based in Atlanta, Georgia, please visit www.shionogipharma.com.
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The Facebook page is named "You know shes [sic] playing hard to get when your [sic] chasing her down an alleyway," and many say that it's advocating rape. They're also saying that Facebook is refusing to take down the page despite several protests and online petitions.
Facebook is a funny animal, because although it does have a Terms of Service agreement that says, "You will not post content that: is hateful, threatening, or pornographic; incites violence; or contains nudity or graphic or gratuitous violence," it seems to arbitrarily enforce it. It did yank an Arabic page that asked men to whip women, a Ku Klux Klan page, banned photos of breastfeeding babies and the album cover photo of Nirvana's "Nevermind," which features a naked baby swimming (it then changed its mind and re-allowed the cover.) Yet it still allows rape jokes and similarly themed Facebook pages.
Although Facebook didn't respond immediately to Press:Here's request for comment, a spokesman previously told the Telegraph (U.K.) that outrageous and offensive content doesn't mean it's hateful or incites violence.
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"It is very important to point out that what one person finds offensive, another can find entertaining," a spokesman said. "Just as telling a rude joke won't get you thrown out of your local pub, it won't get you thrown off Facebook."
The problem is not just the pages, but the sentiment expressed on the pages -- especially when someone decides to protest. If the poster is a woman, she will frequently be subjected to insults or threatened with rape. Of course, it's clear reading the postings that most of the users and possibly creators of these sites are 13-year-old boys trying to be shocking, but it still can be threatening and offensive.
So we have to wonder if this is truly a sexist double standard, or does the Facebook hive-mind find adolescent rape jokes really funny?


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Whether you enjoy grilling out year round or just on special occasions, it's important to keep in mind basic food safety practices to help make sure that foodborne illness doesn't spoil your grilled dinner.
Start With a Clean Kitchen
According to an NSF germ study, the kitchen sponge and kitchen sink are the germiest places in the home, and these very items are typically used many times while cooking and cleaning.
Avoid spreading germs and bacteria by placing wet sponges in the microwave for two minutes once per day and replacing them often. Using towels and rags that can be sanitized in the clothes washer's hot water cycle is also a good option. The sides and bottoms of sinks and countertops should be washed and disinfected once or twice per week with a disinfecting cleaner or bleach solution (5 tablespoons (1/3 cup) bleach per gallon of water or 4 teaspoons bleach per quart of water). Spray the surface and allow it to sit for one minute. Rinse thoroughly and allow to air dry.
Defrost Foods Safely
Bring perishable foods straight home from the store and place them in the refrigerator or freezer. Frozen items can be thawed either in the microwave (if cooking immediately) or overnight in the refrigerator. Never leave food out at room temperature to thaw.
Most frozen meats can be cooked from the frozen state, but will usually take up to 50 percent longer to cook.
Practice Proper Marinating
If marinating food, marinate in a refrigerator overnight and dispose of any leftover marinade that has touched raw meat. If you need some marinade for basting, set aside a small amount of prepared marinade in a separate dish before adding raw food.
Keep Hot Foods Hot and Cold Foods Cold
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Avoid Cross Contamination
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- Whole or ground poultry: 165°F
- Ground meats (other than poultry): 160°F
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- Fresh whole (not ground) pork, beef, veal: 145°F with a three-minute rest time
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A former chief executive of a Maryland county near Washington, D.C., has been sentenced to 30 days in jail for misconduct in office, which included having another county employee empty his urinary catheter bag.
John Leopold, a former Anne Arundel county executive who has back and urinary problems, was led handcuffed from sentencing Thursday to a detention center.
The judge also ordered the 70-year-old Republican to 30 days of home detention after jail time and to pay a $100,000 fine.
Leopold resigned last month after conviction on misconduct in office charges, which also included forcing members of his security detail to perform campaign work.
He apologized in court for his actions, adding it was insensitive to have an employee empty the catheter bag.
The judge called Leopold's conduct "outrageous."


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A fast-moving fire in a house on Saunders Settlement Road in Lewiston claimed the life of an elderly woman, according to state police.
After the fire was extinguished, the body of Florance Placek was located in the doorway of the master bedroom on the second floor.
Troopers responded to the residence at about 5:30 a.m. and found smoke coming from an air conditioner located on the second floor, but could not gain entrance because of fire and smoke.
Firefighters from Lewiston 2, Niagara Active, Sanborn and Upper Mountain responded to knock down the fire.
Niagara County fire investigators determined the cause of the fire, which started in the master bedroom, to be electrical.
The fire appears to be accidental, and no foul play is suspected, state police said.
The fire was reported at about 5:15 a.m. The house is located on Saunders Settlement near the intersection with Hewitt Drive east of Military Road.
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Like we noted last week, the Queens County Republican Party is once again fighting amongst itself for control of the party, an event that apparently happens every two years. It's as regular as the Olympics.
The feud includes the same players as in the past: Phil Ragusa and his camp and the Haggerty Brothers. Both sides held separate elections last week to elect a new head of the party, and both Ragusa and former councilman Thomas Ognibene were "elected" to fill the post.
And both filed their respective results with the Board of Elections, so it looks like the dispute will end up in court. Again.
But now we're getting word from some on-the-ground Republicans who are getting a little fed up with constant power struggle, and are now starting to ask the question, "why do we have to choose between either?"
Instead, they're pinning their hopes on a fresh face in the Queens County Republican Party: newly elected Congressman Bob Turner.
Taking their cue from the Queens Democratic Party, which has strong leadership and solidarity and, coincidentally, a congressman as their head, some Queens GOP members are discussing among themselves that it might be time to go in a completely different direction and name Turner head of the party.
While discussing the idea with one GOP member, it gradually started to make sense. The move would put a political figure with some clout at the head of the party, instead of someone with little political power.
And the move could also help to up the profile of the Queens County Republican Party in Washington, D.C. Who knows, with a little bit of help from the Republican National Committee, maybe Queens could start to move a little to the right. At least in some parts of the borough, it certainly appears to be headed that way already.
Unfortunately for this middle-of-the-road faction, it doesn't look like Turner – the self-anointed "citizen-candidate" – has much interest in getting down in the political muck, at least not yet. That might change if his seat isn't eliminated in redistricting and he faces a formidable Democratic foe in the next election and needs some help.
So, it looks like once again a judge will decide who heads the Queens County Republican Party.


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OK now that apologies are out of the way let me give you all an idea of what this game is about. The house is a game about vampires, not shiny frilly silly boys and their hyperventilating girlfriend, no the blood lusting demons that have no choice but feed the endless hunger. The players who I will introduce in the next installment... ( not a ploy to keep you reading Honest) all made human beings that were fro one reason or another desperate for another life. Whether it is the rock star with burns
I started a Game about six months ago, and made the foolhardy plan to create a blog that would chronicle the trials and tribulations of my players. Now I start. Better late than never and by the time I catch up maybe I will have learned my lesson.


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GRAMMYs On The Road At SXSW With Hey Marseilles And Ximena Sariñana
The Recording Academy Texas Chapter played host for GRAMMYs On The Road At South by Southwest during the conference's 26th annual installment from March 9–18 in Austin, Texas. The Chapter conducted exclusive backstage interviews with artists participating during the music portion of the conference, including seven-piece chamber pop group Hey Marseilles Latin GRAMMY-nominated singer/songwriter Ximena Sariñana.
Hey Marseilles vocalist Nick Ward discussed performing in the band's hometown of Seattle, musical influences, the band's formation, social media, and their biggest career moments, among other topics.
"Social media has been pretty instrumental in helping us get the word out," said Ward. "Most recently, our Twitter followers and Instagram followers have all really allowed us to connect pretty well with fans. It's always fantastic when you can get emails or online music orders from other parts of the globe."
Formed in Seattle in 2006 by Ward and guitarist Matt Bishop, Hey Marseilles eventually grew to a seven-piece outfit featuring cellist violist Jacob Anderson, Samuel Anderson, multi-instrumentalist Patrick Brannon, pianist/accordionist Philip Kobernik, and drummer Colin Richey. In 2010 the band released their debut album, To Travels & Trunks, featuring 13 orchestrally augmented tracks. Hey Marseilles have performed live at other festivals such as Bumbershoot in Seattle and the CMJ Music Marathon & Film Festival in New York. The group is currently on tour throughout the Pacific Northwest, with select dates scheduled through May, including a performance at the upcoming Sasquatch! music festival in George, Wash.
Sariñana discussed her career beginnings, performing at South by Southwest, musical influences, social media, and music she's currently listening to, among other topics.
"Creatively, I'm influenced by everything," said Sariñana. "Everything [I] see, what [I] read, what [I] watch, who [I] surround yourself by, [and] traveling. All of that really influences [me] and makes me grow as an artist."
Mexico native Sariñana was born into a creative family as the daughter to both a screenwriter and film director/producer. She began acting at age 4 and appeared in several Mexican films. Inspired by jazz artists such as Ella Fitzgerald, at 15 Sariñana began studying at Mexico's Academia de Música Fermatta. Two years later she attended a five-week program at Boston's Berklee College of Music. After relocating to Los Angeles, Sariñana released her debut album, Mediocre, in 2008, peaking at No. 10 on Billboard's Latin Pop Albums chart and earning her a Latin GRAMMY nomination for Best Latin Rock Or Alternative Album. A self-titled release followed in 2011. Sariñana is currently on tour throughout the United States and Mexico, with select dates scheduled through June.
Come back to GRAMMY.com on Monday for more exclusive backstage interviews from GRAMMYs On The Road At SXSW.


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In late July and early August in the Mayo Lemie and Chari Baguirmi regions of southwestern Chad, poachers slaughtered 63 elephants. The government launched a massive land and aerial search with 200 soldiers to track down the perpetrators. After several skirmishes, the team caught five of the horsemen responsible for the killings. Three others fleeing gunfire drowned while attempting to cross the Chari River.
It appears that the poachers came from Sudan because their horses wore blankets found only in that country. Government forces also recovered 65 elephant tusks, three horses, one of which had drowned, a donkey, three assault rifles, and 400 rounds of ammunition.
At an August 21 press conference the Secretary-General of Chad's Ministry of Environment and Fisheries Resources, Mr. Sandjima Dounia, named the five suspects—Mahamat Ousman Abadai, Markhani Brahim, Mazou Mainou, Adam Mahamat, and Yerima Hadjar—and said they would need to answer for their crimes. He also noted that the government was intensifying its search for additional poachers to prevent a resurgence in elephant killings.
Following the capture of the poachers, Chadian communities have gathered to support the country's elephants. The wildlife organization SOS Elephants, traditional leaders, and administrative authorities together have initiated an education campaign to explain why elephants deserve protection and how creation of a safe corridor could help. Poaching has made the elephants in this region extremely aggressive, so much so that they will charge without provocation.
Chadian communities and SOS Elephants are also working to create a 145-square-mile protected area along the Chari River. Most of the necessary administrative steps have been completed, and the designation will be made as soon as the environment ministry gives final approval.
According to Stephanie Vergniault, President of SOS Elephants, this relatively small area is home to about two-thirds of Chad's remaining 1,500 elephants. Classifying it as protected will make it easier to keep track of the elephants, and an aerial counting is planned for November.
In the meantime, local communities and wildlife department officials monitoring the herds report that over the last eight months elephant numbers in Mayo Lemie-Chari Baguirmi have increased dramatically, from 300 to around 1,000, as herds flee poaching in other parts of the country and seek a safe place to live.


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(visited by Gray Tappan and Matthew Cushing)
23-Oct-2006 -- Although Matt and I are seasoned travelers in West Africa, we were novice confluence-seekers. Taking advantage of a two-week business trip to Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso, we set our sights on not one but two Confluences: 12N 1W and 12N 2W.
My good French friend Richard loaned us his 4X4 Toyota and driver, and we set out for 12N 1W. I knew from our Landsat satellite images that it fell squarely within a forest reserve, the Forêt Classée de la Nakambé, and that driving to the actual Confluence might be a challenge. I also knew that most forest preserves in the West African Sahel are often degraded, open shrub and tree savannas. We hoped to get close enough to hike through the bush on foot. This was not to be. We found a serviceable track into the "forest", but it petered out 20 km from the Confluence. We were unprepared for the 40 km roundtrip hike in 100°F heat. Alas, we had to turn back to Ouagadougou without the prize. We do plan to make a second attempt to reach 12N 1W in the near future.
Undeterred by our first attempt, a few days later we headed for the second target at 12N 2W. We took the highway towards Bobo Dioulasso, then headed south on a dirt road past Bourou. 12N 2W lies within a transition zone between the Sahelian and Sudanian ecological regions. In the early 1900s, an extensive wooded savanna draped the land, interrupted by dense gallery forests and a few widely scattered villages. Today it is an agricultural region, but it still preserves vestiges of its former natural glory – magnificent baobab and locust bean trees, lily-covered wetlands, and shoulder-high elephant grass.
We pushed ahead along narrow cart trails among towering stalks of sorghum. At 2.5 km from the Confluence, the track disappeared into a stream. We dared not cross the stream by car. While turning around, the driver got us hopelessly stuck in mud. Spinning wheels and engine noise attracted the attention of local farmers. We knew that with their help the driver would be able to extricate the vehicle from the mud, so Matt and I headed to the Confluence on foot. Despite the late rainy season humidity and heat, it was a beautiful hike. Twice we forded streams, and then made our way through the swaying elephant grass, stopping occasionally in the shade of a mango tree. Grey hornbills flew from tree to tree.
I had fears that the degree intersection would fall in the midst of a sorghum field with 6-foot visibility, but to our relief, the Confluence was fairly open. We got our zeros, took our pictures, and celebrated the prize with lunch under a magnificent shea nut tree (Vitellaria paradoxa). We then enjoyed the hike back to the muddy ruts where the car had been. We were pleased to find the car and driver not far away in the shade of a mango orchard. We had bagged our first Confluence – one of many we hope. A special thanks goes to Bruce back in South Dakota for turning us onto the Degree Confluence Project.


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Luncheon always seemed a faintly ridiculous term to us, when the simple word lunch was available. Then we started to experience Palm Beach lunches, and quickly realized these were events that definitely merited the extra syllable.
So when the Society of Four Arts approached us to design an invitation for one of their luncheons, we leaped at the chance. It would celebrate Alex Hitz and his splendid new cookbook, "My Beverly Hills Kitchen" (see above).
The brief was to be bright and sunny and glamorous, so we decided upon colonnades of Palm trees to evoke the famed boulevards of Beverly Hills, and paired them with a playful art deco font called VIP (naturally).
A majestic pair of bronze peacocks (above) stood sentry at the gates to the Four Arts garden where the event was held last week.
A beautiful breeze found us inside the shade of the Pannill Pavilion (above) in the garden.
The theme of invitations carried through to place cards and menu card, the latter which was designed to be a bookmark and memento of the day. And yes, the food was as delicious as it reads. Bloody Mary aspic? Fiendishly tasty. (Alex chose these recipes personally from those in his new book.)
The prettiest of pale turquoise shades banded the plates (above, holding the fresh and delicious dessert) …
… and matched the gift bags that sat on the back of the gold chairs. Those 5 numbers? The Palm Beach zipcode of course.
Alex's book is now available everywhere, and learn more about Alex from his own website, .
The Society of the Four Arts has a wonderful program of lectures and exhibitions, see their schedule . And any visitor to Palm Beach should not miss a stroll in their renowned sculpture garden.


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I'm Deleting a Lot of My Facebook Friends and You're Probably Next — The [Fairer Se]X Files
When I got on Facebook way back in 2004, it was a network created specifically for college students. In order to join, you had to have a college email address. We all migrated over from Myspace and Friendster and left "testimonials" on each other's walls, because we had no idea what we were supposed to do. Today, Facebook is getting really creepy, and so last night I decided to start making some edits.
Before I started de-friending I had almost 1,000 Facebook friends. Maybe it sounds silly, but the task of editing seemed really daunting. I kept putting it off, wondering what it really meant to delete someone in this new era we live in, where Facebook seems to be the default way to both disperse information and keep in touch with people. "I posted it" has become the only language necessary, everyone knows where.
For a while, facebook events were a pretty good way to find out about things going on in your city, or in your group of friends. After roughly 600 invitations to events titled: "I LOST MY PHONE!!," though, I turned off notifications, because that is really, really annoying.
Facebook is it's own world with it's own still-developing set of rules and customs. It has a lot of pretty great uses, but in order to get anything out of it, you have wade through a sea of over-sharing, instagrammed brunch photos, and cryptic breakup lyrics posted by your best friend from middle school, who still lives at home. Facebook is pretty embarassing right now, y'all. We need to tighten up.
For a while, if someone requested my friendship and I knew them, I would accept. It made sense at the time -- sure, I'll connect with you, why not? Now, though, I'm realizing that the tool that I used to share things with my close friends and family who are far away has also shared them with people who I'm not sure I want looking. Last night I began the process of taking back control, and culled my list from 900-something to a little over 750. I woke up this morning, and guess what? Pretty sure I haven't missed anything awesome.
Here are some of the people I deleted, who you should probably also delete, ASAP:
1. My 5th Grade Teacher
She was awesome -- I know that because I still remember her name, and not many others. When I found out she was on Facebook, though, I requested her friendship for one reason, and one reason only: to clear my conscience.
You see, there was something in our classroom called the "prize apple," a big, red hollow apple-shaped box that was full of cheap toys and delicious snacks. If you had the most gold stars that week, you were permitted to choose something from the prize apple. I never got to choose, ever, because I was a bad kid. In true form, three of us stole some Hostess cupcakes from the unattended stash, and were promptly ratted on. My two accomplices confessed, but I never did. Until she accepted my friendship, and an opportunity presented itself, by way of the kind of Facebook status only your mom and your elementary school teacher would ever post:
2. Dude I Made Out With in San Juan This One Time
He was all of 23 years old, and on a solo backpacking adventure through Puerto Rico. I was a 28-year-old on vacation who had escaped her pregnant traveling companion for the afternoon, so I was drunk on freedom. We met in a dive and he got me even drunker, and we explored the slums of San Juan together all afternoon. Eventually, we made out at end of a pier while the cruise line repeatedly called my cell number, threatening to leave without me. We ran to my ship and he yelled "You might be the last one, but you have the best story!" as I tripped over my own drunk feet, on the long sprint down the dock to the boat.
Some things best left in Puerto Rico.
3. Racist, Conservative Family Member
I don't even really want to talk about it. Just, no. Maybe it's because I am a child of divorce, but I just don't feel the need to keep in touch with jerks just because we share a bloodline. Thanks but no thanks; see you at the next funeral.
4. People I Hated in High School
I didn't like them then, and I don't want to see pictures of their weird, fat little Long Island babies with bows on their heads, now. A few years ago, I received an onslaught of friend requests from these people when our 10-year reunion approached. I accepted them under the idea that a lot of time had passed, and it was wrong to judge people based on their 18-year-old selves, since we were all pretty terrible.
Once I joined the reunion group on FB, though, it was clear that nothing had changed and that they were still gross spoiled brats. I got banned from the FB group after posting these two things on the wall, which were promptly deleted, and thank god I took screenshots:
5. Creepy Dude Who I Barely Remember
Two nights ago I was on Facebook chat, scheming a visit with a friend, and I got an alert that this dude I vaguely know from my past "liked" this profile photo:
Okay, sure, thanks. But then, I kept getting alerts as he "liked" a LOT of my profile photos, and I started to feel weird. So I attempted to make it less creepy and passive by sending him a chat message: "You creepin' on me? :)" Nope, no response. He just kept right on liking photos.
I de-friended him right quick, because I realized that I could not stop him from looking at me, and it was weird and gross and I felt oddly violated and exposed. It made me wonder: How many other people on my list are people who I absentmindedly accepted, who are being creepy voyeurs or otherwise judging/assessing me, without ever talking to me? Gross, not interested.
After work tonight I have a date with one of my best friends to drink a lot of wine and sit on our laptops, de-friending. Not busy tonight? Do the same. Let's take it back! A little self-editing is good for the soul.
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Furloughs and an extended pay freeze await federal employees in 2013.
Mother Nature tricked Washington again. As of midafternoon on Wednesday, a much-anticipated late winter snowstorm had largely bypassed the District, despite shutting down the government in the region for the day. Fortunately, we can always count on Congress for drama when the weather fails to deliver.
The big news this week? While sequestration looks like it's here to stay, at least there (probably) won't be a man-made government shutdown at the end of the month.
The House voted on Wednesday to keep the government running through Sept. 30 and uphold the sequester with some flexibility for the Pentagon, Veterans Affairs Department and other programs. But, unfortunately for federal employees, lawmakers also included a provision in the continuing resolution that extends the current civilian pay freeze through 2013. Lawmakers froze their own pay too, but it's cold comfort at this point to most feds.
The continuing resolution in its current form likely will become law, despite the White House's objection to maintaining the sequester with most agencies remaining at fiscal 2012 spending levels. Then again, President Obama said that if policymakers hewed to the spending levels outlined in the 2011 Budget Control Act, he would sign a bill funding agencies that reflected that law. "I think it's fair to say that I made a deal for a certain budget, certain numbers," Obama said during a briefing with reporters on March 1, the day the sequester went into effect. "There's no reason why that deal needs to be reopened. It was a deal that Speaker [John] Boehner made as well, and all the leadership made."
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Hugo Chavez The People's "Fiery" Commander Dies
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The headlines of corporate newspapers proclaim the death of a "fiery" leader, Hugo Chavez, the Venezuelan president who today succumbed to a long struggle with cancer.
But is that reference necessarily a bad thing?
Coming from corporate media outlets who are the trumpeters of monopoly capital isn't that actually a compliment?
This week The New York Times reported on its front page that that even as unemployment remains high in the U.S. with millions of Americans out of work corporate profits are at an all-time high.
In other words, the top executives of American corporations continue to pay themselves hundreds of millions of dollars while millions of victims of the corporate-created recession still remain unemployed.
Yet there's no reaction to this perverse state of affairs. It's treated as normalcy. The way of life in the United States. The very few can accumulate capital from ordinary Americans to fuel companies and pay themselves millions of dollars whether the companies are profitable or not.
And when things go awry as they did in 2007 and 2008, these top corporate executives will also make a sacrifice by reducing the number of millions they pay themselves and deferring bonuses.
Who will speak up for the millions of unemployed who had nothing to do with the toxic products sold on Wall Street that helped start the economic slide? Are only Oligarchs entitled to the Good Life and the pursuit of happiness?
In Venezuela, many years ago Hugo Chavez posed these same questions. Venezuela was run by an oligarchy and the oil wealth benefited only the elite.
Chavez changed all this. After his attempt to seize power failed his popularity grew even more because the majority in Venezuela, the non-elite, had also been asking these same questions: Are only Oligarchs entitled to the Good Life and the pursuit of happiness?
Hugo Chavez ran in democratic elections and won. A few years ago, Oligarchs encouraged by the United States attempted a counter-revolution but it quickly fizzled when the masses of Venezuelans came out on the streets and rescued their Chavez.
Chavez empowered the poor by building housing and health clinics and by providing scholarships for education. Now Afro-Venezuelans felt they were a part of Venezuela.
Chavez steered several billions of dollars of the country's vast oil wealth towards social services and he battled with oil companies to increase the share of profits that would remain in Venezuela. He fought to remove the tentacles of external monopoly capital from total dominance of the country's oil industry.
Chavez knew that capital unregulated was dangerous, just as many Americans, ironically, have also come to the same conclusion in this country following the Wall Street excesses that pushed the U.S. economy to the brink.
It's clear from the outpouring of grief that millions of Venezuelan will miss this man, this non-elite who came out of nowhere and now departs like a soldier who has fought his share of the good fight.
Cancer? No cancer can erase what Chavez has already accomplished -- he has inspired millions globally.
Many of his followers would say: "With Chávez everything, without Chávez nothing."
But that's not entirely true -- he has already shown the path and its hard to see Venezuelans accepting domination of the Oligarchs docilely again.
Chavez had empowered millions of Venezuelans who were once at the margins of society. He made them feel important; like humanbeings.
If that's what "fiery" means, then, rest in peace, "fiery Commander" Hugo Rafael Chavez Frías.
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Back in her youth, my mother belonged to a Catholic organization known as the Young Ladies' Sodality. Over the years when she would reminisce about the days of her her youth, she would always mention the Young Ladies' Sodality. It was an important part of her life for many years and she had many pleasant memories of her involvement with the group. She took great pride in being an officer of the group as well (treasurer).
I heard her stories many times over the years but I never thought to ask specifics of what the group was about. I know it was affiliated with the parish her family belonged to, Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Catholic Church, in Detroit, Michigan, but I don't know much else. So here I am reflecting back on her life and wondering why I didn't ask her for more information about the Young Ladies' Sodality (YLS). Since Mom is no longer with us on this earth, I'm left to do the research on my own. Here is what I've come to learn about the YLS…
The Young Ladies' Sodality was a Catholic church society for young ladies that had four components: 1) Religion, 2) Purity & virtue, 3) Charity, 4) Social. The emphasis on each of these four parts seems to have differed somewhat from parish to parish and from age to age. There is plenty of evidence of these societies being in existence in Catholic parishes in the U.S. back in the 1800s. They may well have existed before that.
First and foremost, the YLS was a religious group. As these groups were formed in parishes they would establish a spiritual relationship with the Virgin Mary as their patron. If the local YLS was affiliated with the Mother Soldality in Rome members could receive indulgences and privileges granted by the Holy See. Members were usually required to receive Holy Communion once a month with the group and attend Mass together on Holy Days. They were also encouraged to pray the rosary often. The YLS provided guidelines for Catholic living and taught morals in keeping with the church.
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In the 1800s and early 1900s there seems to have been an emphasis on purity and virtue and the societies promoted that in a number of ways.
For instance, there were "rules" of comportment. These were usually not written down and spelled out specifically but rather were known by the elder women who were the sponsors and guides for the young ladies who were members. YLS members were expected to conduct themselves in ways befitting a group that was under the patronage of the Virgin Mary. They would have been expected to dress demurely, maintain a pleasant attitude to those around them (especially those less fortunate), respect their elders, and refrain from lewd language and behavior. Those who broke the rules risked being censured or expelled from the group.
In many parishes the members of the YLS were granted special privileges. As a result of this it was something of a prestigious group and young women deeply desired to become members. Examples of these privileges included: marching with the group (usually dressed in white with blue ribbons) and carrying the society banner in parish ceremonies and processions, at her wedding a member might be allowed white satin kneeler covers, special candles or flowers, and be allowed to present a bouquet of flowers at the altar of the Virgin Mary, and if she chose a religious life instead of marriage she would receive special prayers and Masses from her fellow members.
Acts of charity seem to have been a common denominator of the Young Ladies' Sodalities and something they spent a good deal of time doing. They organized fund raisers most often to benefit their own parish. Often they would "sponsor" a stained glass window in the church, buy altar linens, ecclesiastical vestments, candlesticks, tabernacle curtains, nativity displays for Christmas, altar flowers, etc. They also worked to help those less fortunate. During WWI, at least one Detroit parish YLS sold and collected bonds to help victims in Poland. In older parish jubilee books it is common to find a list of items donated to the church by the YLS. These donations seem to be what the group was most appreciated for by the clergy.
Young Ladies' Sodalities provided a good many social opportunities for young Catholic women. I have not been able to determine any specific age range for members but it appears that young women commonly joined at about age 14 (typically 8th grade) and could remain members until they married or joined a religious order. My mother was the treasurer of her parish's YLS the year after she graduated from high school so I think it's safe to assume that membership did not cease with high school graduation.
YLS groups commonly hosted dances, theatrical performances, lectures, and group outings, all within the framework of the Catholic church. This is where young girls learned socially and religiously accepted behavior at social functions… how to interact with the opposite sex in appropriate ways. Often parishes that had Young Ladies' Sodalities also had Young Men's Clubs, which were the young men's counterpart to the YLS. The two groups would help each other out at events with such things as taking tickets at the door or in the coat check room. And it goes without saying that they interacted frequently at parish functions.
Membership in the YLS also provided a network of friendship and support. When my mother needed a third letter of recommendation (from someone with a title) to get a job she turned to a fellow YLS officer with her plight. That lady friend just happened to be dating a state Congressman at the time and she was more than happy to make a request on behalf of her "friend from church". My mother got the letter and got the job at the Federal Reserve Bank!
At the time of the Silver Jubilee of Assumption parish's Young Ladies' Sodality, they had 150 members. Fifty-five of those members are pictured below (my mother is circled). This photo appeared in the YLS Silver Jubilee booklet.
Here is a picture of the ladies that were officers in 1937 and who worked diligently to put on a celebratory dinner and evening of music to mark the Silver Jubilee.
Today, Young Ladies' Sodalities are virtually unheard of. There are a number of reasons for this but I think it's safe to say that the main reason is that they simply lost their usefulness and popularity. Catholic church attendance is down and so is memberships in all church sponsored societies. Young girls no longer value purity and virtue the way they once did so joining a group that proclaims that publicly is no longer desirable. There are social opportunities around every corner, and online, for young girls and no "rules" to have to learn for how to conduct oneself. And charity works for the needs of the church… well, it goes without saying that young girls today are not much concerned with that. More's the pity because the church still has needs… maybe more now than ever. They could use the energy and enthusiasm of youth to help with fundraising and prayer.
I suspect that Young Ladies' Sodalities fell victim to the rise of women's liberation in the 1960s and 1970s. A friend of mine was a member of her parish's Young Ladies' Sodality in the mid 1960s. I belonged to a parish just a short distance from her but I don't remember there being a YLS at our parish in the late 1960s or early 1970s when I would have been of an age to join. Our parish had a "Teen Club" which had some similar objectives, fundraising and chaperoned social activities, but it was a coed organization and lacked the emphasis on purity or religion that the YLS once had.
Were you a member of a Young Ladies' Sodality or was someone in your family? What were your experiences with the organization?


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Mike April 1st, 2012 | 11:25am
Please call Canada and tell them to come get their geese. aka the Canadian Poop Machine
Any on my property are promptly dispatched by a Wal-Mart .22LR Remington.
Lyle Soltek April 6th, 2012 | 9:04pm
Good thinking Mike. Maybe there is a job with the Crozet government in your future. Except then the reservoir would have putrefying goose corpses in addition to goose poop and the local population would have fewer Canadians and thus, propotionally, more Texans.