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5 Things Nobody Tells You About Being Poor
Being poor is like a game of poker where if you lose, the other players get to fuck you. And if you win, the dealer fucks you.
A bunch of you reading this are among the 45 million "working poor" in America, and if you're not, you know somebody who is. Like me.
Or 60 percent of all retired NBA players, according to this site.
I'm not blaming anybody but myself for getting into this situation (I was drunk for two straight decades) and I'm not asking for anybody's sympathy. What I am saying is that people are quick to tell you to pick yourself up by your bootstraps and just stop being poor. What they don't understand is the series of intricate financial traps that makes that incredibly difficult.
If you're not poor, that's awesome. I'm not mad at you, or jealous. Hopefully you'll never find out that ...
You Get Charged for Using Your Own Money
This is the future, where many businesses no longer accept cash as payment. That means you are required to have a checking account to function in the economy. And if you're poor, that means at some point you're going to get bank-fucked.
Because having a checking account while poor doesn't just mean you have to be responsible and good at math -- you have to be perfect. Meticulous, flawless record keeping is the difference between surviving and having the bank seize your next paycheck.
Let's say you're running late for work and hurriedly stop to get gas, paying with a bank card. In your haste you forget to write the $55 down (gas being $4 a gallon, you know). So while you spent the last week until payday thinking you had $50 in your account to absorb minor purchases, you actually were $5 in the red.
So payday comes. You go to the bank to deposit your check, at which point the bank takes it, sticks it in their pocket and says, "Thank you very much! I'm buying myself a new pair of shoes with that shit!" They then inform you that your account was at -$200 at the moment you deposited your check.
Oh, it gets a lot worse, stock photo woman.
The bank can hit you with a $35 fine for every charge that comes in while you are in minus territory. The bank will not tell you they charged you this money. You will have no idea anything is wrong.
It's a silent chain reaction in which every charge that comes through during those few days before payday draws the $35 fee. The $8 you spent at the gas station for cigarettes, the $24.99 that automatically comes out for your Internet access ... for each, the bank silently zaps out the charge and $35 on top of it, until your next paycheck is gone. Five seconds of oversight gave the bank the right to take away a week's worth of your labor.
Some of you are saying, "Fine, just tell the bank to go fuck itself. Walk out the door and just do everything by cash or money order." Ah, but now when you get paid, you have to go somewhere to cash your paycheck -- and businesses charge up to $8 to do it. If you're working in the service industry, congratulations -- an hour of your labor just vanished ... just so you could use your own money. Some describe this as a "poverty tax." Others refer to it as a "Because fuck you, that's why" fee.
The one piece of advice I can offer here is that you'll be surprised how many businesses will give you some leeway if you just call them and beg. Banks are run by human beings (as of the writing of this article) and if you get a person on the phone you can get them to waive overdraft fees, particularly if it's a first offense. Even businesses waiting on a payment will give you an extra week or two if you call and explain it. In this economy, they're so used to people just taking the money and disappearing that they're happy to hear you're operating in some kind of good faith.
Otherwise, you're going to be in a bind. And this is when you'll find out ...
There is an Industry That Profits by Keeping You Poor
Think you're too smart to ever use one of those shady "payday loan" places? Well, you should know that nobody thinks they're a good deal. People go there because they're choosing between which fucking provides the most lube.
Yeah, when you're done choosing, just stay in that position, buddy.
Say the gas bill is a month past due, and they're threatening to turn it off (if so, it's $150 to get it reconnected). Or you're about to be late on a credit card payment (which would be a fee and a doubling of your interest rate). Or your favorite S&M whip broke, and Whipfest is coming up (entry fee is nonrefundable). That is when you find yourself swallowing your pride and heading to the payday loan place.
A standard 14-day "payday" loan charges $15.50 per $100 borrowed. So a $500 loan ends up being $577.50 (or 1.5 tanks of gas in interest). But if you don't have it after 14 days, that's fine -- they offer to extend your loan to 180 days. It makes the payments miniscule. Oh, and you'll be paying back $1,275 at 403.10 percent APR.
Yes, you got fucked, in the name of your financial asshole avoiding the credit card company's bigger, barbed dick. And it's a hell of a lot better than going over on your checking account again and starting up their infinite circular fuckatron.
Via Travelblog.org
Using this.
All right, let's say you wisen up. You save and cut back. You resist an offer to, say, buy a computer on Best Buy's finance plan, because you're too smart to take on more debt. And no monthly cell phone payments for you, oh no. You're not going to put yourself in a hole again!
Congratulations. You just did. It turns out ...
No Credit Can be Just as Damaging as Bad Credit
On the spectrum of financial responsibility, from "that billionaire who drives an old Dodge Dakota" down to "MC Hammer," you'd think that the next step up from being overdue on a bunch of bills would be to have no bills at all. Don't buy it if you can't afford it, right?
You'll find out the problem the next time somebody does a credit check -- having no credit will stop you from getting a loan or an apartment just as fast as having bad credit. And more importantly, if you have old bad credit due to a bunch of previous fuckups, simply vanishing off the credit map doesn't do anything to fix it.
It sounds good in theory, though.
It took me six months to find a place to rent after applying for every property that appeared in the paper across five towns. I was denied each time. It was my lack of credit due to years of me and lenders deciding to just stay out of each other's hair, like those old sitcoms where roommates would draw a line down the middle of the house. I even used a prepaid cell phone where I'd just be buying minutes off the shelf rather than get locked into a contract with all those termination fees and shit. When I needed something big, like a computer upgrade or furniture, I'd wait for a windfall, like a tax return, and pay cash. It's called financial responsibility, motherfucker!
Now hand over the heroin, bitch!
Nope. It turns out that to a business, a customer with no credit is like a girl giving you the silent treatment -- they assume something is wrong.
And everybody checks your credit -- if I want to get Direct TV, I have to pay $310 worth of startup fees (the size of your up-front payments/deposits depends on your credit history). Utilities are even more -- which means trying to move to a new place costs hundreds of dollars in deposits (remember the $150 to get my gas turned on). If I need a new car, well, let's just say I need to show up at the dealership with a shoebox full of cash.
The last two kids I bought on the black market virtually wiped out my life savings.
So repairing credit means opening accounts (having a cell phone plan is a good one, having your utilities in your own name -- as opposed to the landlord's -- is another) and, you know, making sure to pay your fucking bills on time. And don't bother trying to shortcut the system by saving the shoebox full of cash, getting a loan, then paying it all off the next month. Length of credit is part of your credit score. They want to know your ability to make steady, long term payments without missing a month or being late.


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TCR Donation Drive
So we've escaped the clutches of MVN, poked fun at Sam Zell's misguided attempt to sell naming rights to Wrigley Field and we have Arizona Phil. You're probably asking yourself right now, how can I help support this amazing website and make sure it lasts longer than Jason Marquis will as a Cub? Well, you can dress up in a Cubbie Bear costume, put on a sandwich board that says "Visit the best Cubs site on the web, THECUBREPORTER.COM" and stand outside Wrigley Field during each game of the next homestand. Be sure to get pictures if you do indeed go that route. We suspect that might not be your style, so if you're looking for a simpler alternative, you can just send us a bit of pocket change.
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Now, we understand not everyone has the means to help us out with a straight cash donation, so there are a few other ways to support the site. One is by clicking some of the ads on the left and right sidebars or the bottom of the page (and soon on the top of the page). We've been instructed that we cannot directly solicit clicks by our readers, so only click on ads that interest you (lots and lots of times). And if you're wondering why are we asking for donations if we have advertising, well the answer is they don't pay much. You also have to reach a certain threshold before they pay out and we're not on pace to reach those for a few months.
If you like fantasy baseball, consider creating a free team on Rotohog as we get a little kickback from each new registrar from that referral link. Or what about opening a savings or checking account on ING Direct? With an initial deposit of $250 or more, they'll deposit $25 into your account and we get $10 put into ours. Unfortunately they don't have a direct link that works, but drop me a note and I can send you a referral email. It costs you nothing (you actually make $25) and you'll get some of the highest interest rates available on a standard savings or checking account. You can also visit our "TCR Approved" Amazon store and buy one of our recommended items. And this isn't just all the Cubs crap we can find on Amazon. All the items found there are items someone on the TCR staff has owned or viewed and endorsed.
Or just send us $20(or whatever you can afford)....
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Isn't my witty charm payment enough?
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Oh that whole thing.
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If Izturis costs that much, I wonder how much Manny owes you for Dusty?
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You can't charge for the Internet, maaaan. It's free and ethereal, like music.
No, I'm in.
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Hmm... I really want those DVDs. Is Rob willing to pony up for the s&h?
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Hmm... you could have just won the Free Agent contest. :)
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On a just barely related note, how come all of Pittsburgh's first seven runs yesterday were earned w/ Cedeno throwing it into the stands & Ramirez throwing it underground & all? Not to defend Teddy's ERA since he too was culpable, but if either of those plays had been made the inning would have ended w/ less blood lost, right?
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Yea... I was wondering the same thing, but I think it is because they called the Cedeno play a hit+error, so it wasn't "supposed" to be an out. That would explain the first two two runs.
But I have no idea why the last three runs were considered earned.
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I know it's 'tradition' and all, but it doesn't seem right posting "Go, Cub's Go!" after a game like the one we saw yesterday. That thing should have been a 3 or 4 run win in the 9th.
And how about some love for Lieber? Dude had a couple 3-minute innings (I'm exaggerating, but you get the idea).
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Both Ronny's and Rammy's errors in the inning were scored H+E's.
Those runs only become unearned when they score on a play they normally wouldn't score on because they were either one or two bases further from home plate. Por ejemplo, a runner is on third base on a single as opposed to second base, where he would be without the H+E. Only then is that run unearned to the pitcher.
Since the runs all came in on the McClouth triple, they would have scored after being on base anyway, so they are all earned.
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Rob, one tip on the google ads to the left - it would be great if they could open in a new window or tab like the larger picture ads on the right do. I'm happy to click them a couple of hundred times during each Cubs game since I normally just sit with my computer on my lap anyway - but not if I have to keep using the back browser. I suppose you are not allowed to tell us the thresholds for the payouts on partiuclar ones?
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i'm with wiscgrad, i be a clickin
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I am a poor college student, or else i would. But i'll do my part by clicking on the ads in new tabs so i can just do it for the whole 90 minutes i sit in class and NOT watch the cubs game
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Yeah we can definitely organize a "Poor Students Click Drive" to rack up the hits for those who can't afford to donate. Rob, are we talking hundreds or thouands or what for you guys to start getting paid?
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i've known people who had sites that have click ads and get paid at X amount. However, for example the google ads they had, tracked the IP addresses of the clicks and disregarded clicks from repeat IP addresses within the same week (or some timeline) to avoid...well...what we're proposing to do...
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You're right. I have Google ads on many websites I run and if you have repeat clicks from the same IP address not only will Google not count them but if they occur often enough Google will warn the publisher or even suspend/terminate them for fraud. So don't encourage people to click on the ads multiple times. No more than once or twice a month, maximum.
Rob, another good supplementary source of income is Kontera. Kontera does in article advertising, simply by highliting a word and turning it into a link. They do that for 6-10 words per page, so it's not intrusive. Of course the regular readers won't click on them, but they aren't likely to click on any of the ads.
One other source of income TCR should sign up for is to be a Stub Hub affiliate. You can sign up on Stub Hub or if you're a Commission Junction affiliate you can sign up through there. CJ runs the Stub Hub program anyway. I know the Google ads often come up with links to Cubs tickets, but with Stub Hub people can actually get decent tickets at normally competitive prices, to any sporting event, concert, etc. That's one of the affiliate programs that actually would be of value to the regular readers here - and casual readers.
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The Public Broadcasting News team......Taking a break from our pledge drive........ to Kick some Burgundy Ass
My Solicitation
The authors of TCR not named "trans" really do bust their assess,
and the switch to an independent site required them to front a good
amount of startup costs without any guaranteed return on it.
Please respond to this message with suggestions for how I might sweeten the pot for potential. contributors. Personally,
I am thinking along the lines of taking whomever finishes just outside
of the top three donation spots, and incoporating them into a Very
Special Game Recap or Very Special Letters from the TCR E-Mailbag.....
Something like
Inning 5 - Top
- Before the inning begins, Dr. Aaron B, that generous and quite
good-looking TCR donor, streaks the field, doing cartwheels out to the
pitching mound where he gives Zambrano a high-five. Isn't Dr.
Aaron B the coolest guy around?
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At least you are truthful in all you assessments. Nobody could ever take that away from you sir.
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Maybe CarlosRubi can smuggle some sort of Contriband to LA for Rob G? That could be his contribution to the TCR cause.
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Which do you prefer: Snow White or Green Marvel?
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Have you guys considered BlogAds? They differ from traditional web advertising in that they aren't click-based. I have no idea what kind of traffic TCR is pulling or how much your current ads make you, but it looks like Dodger Thoughts is selling one ad space for $75/week and Baseball Think Factory is pulling $150/week each for two ads.
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Just sent my donation based solely on the fact that you guys busted your asses taking us away the evil lords at MVN -- thanks for the hard work!
Don't spend the dough on Angels tickets, Rob. Please.
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BTW how about adding a donation-o-meter to the right sidebar right below Go, Cubs, Go?
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I don't know. I'm not sure I've ever seen a successful donation drive that didn't have a large thermometer that could be colored in...
Alternatively, maybe we can do a WGN TV-spot. We can all make mean faces and say things such as "Don't write me off" like we are really pissed off. And then Rob can say "TCR posters are our posters, please donate generously."
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Is MVN evil? What happened?
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By and large, MVN treated us just fine. Frankly, we're a rather
hard-headed bunch of folks, and the Little Things just built up to the
point where going independent was the logical thing to do. Our
most strident loyalists like playing it up, and we tend to encourage
that "renegade" notion a bit. But it really was about as amicable
of a parting as you could expect, on all sides.
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Although, it must be said they didn't like us cussing so fucking
much. We kept asking to be exceptions to the uniform policies MVN
was foisting upon other blogs, on the grounds that it'd cramp what we
do and your enjoyment of what we do, and for the most part MVN
relented. But not on the cussing, those butt-assed shit-flingers
held firm.
So if you like your TCR occassionally rated PG-13, chip in a few bucks for that. :)
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Good thing they never hung out in parachat... :)
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Although, I can see a case for running a clean site. I've found myself using the f-word entirely too much on TCR lately. Yesterday, for example:
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Will you guys accept a 3rd party Out of State Check as a donation? I can send you one if you promise to hold it til next tuesday.
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Here's a quarter.
Go downtown and have a rat chew that thing off your face.
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For the most part, Trans is right. However, MVN's advertising scheme, their tech support and their president, Evan Brunell, are God awful. They act as if writing for MVN was a privilege, not a hobby or --maybe-- resume-filler. I swear, if I had a dime for every time I was promised something that never arrived, I'd own the Cubs by now.
I have a lot of respect for mr. Brunell; he's a very talented and successful young entrepreneur, but he has no people skills whatsoever. What is worse, half his top collaborators (like an anonymous former MVN baseball director) would rather deal with bloggers by themselves than to forward the issues to Brunell and they openly comment that with everyone who is willing to listen. MVN has all the makings of a web-dictatorship, a la Al @ BCB.
I'm so glad TCR went independent. So friggin' glad.
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You all should have organized and formed a union. :)
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We did. It's called The New TCR. Now pay your dues,
because I was designated the torpedo, and I'll come visit if need be...
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Well damnit... I am going on strike until I get health insurance.
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Done. Can I have the $20 back if Silent Towel returns?
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Rob is holding ST at an undisclosed location, and eventually will
use it to shake down our readers: pay up, now, or he releases ST
back onto the message boards.
Ok, this has been fun, time to run.
(and thanks, Tito)
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Done. Can I have the $20 back if Silent Towel returns?
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You folks need Senator Barack Obama or Congressman Ron Paul raising money for you. Those guys can rake.
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Or... if you don't mind shady, silhouettey-type people giving you money for a favor to be determined later, then Hillary Clinton can make you money, too. :p
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Michael Barrett on the 15 day DL with a right elbow injury...word is he might be facing Tommy John surgery.
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Barrett and Prior together again on the DL. It just feels so..... right.
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I blame Dusty.
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Damn you, Michael Barrett!
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Wouldn't it just be easier to sell out to Motorola?
Prior -Possible 3/44
Tightness in shoulder after throwing last week, was to pitch yesterday.
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That IS 3/44.
Anyhow...with quotes like "Mark Prior, who had to end his throwing session on Tuesday halfway into it after experiencing tightness in his surgically repaired right shoulder" and "We just want him to keep feeling good about his shoulder" and "Prior was told by doctors that the tightness he experienced on Tuesday was not unusual"...
...I'm not going to go and call him a pussy like other people have, but doesn't this indicate to people that Prior is a lot more sensitive to twinges and pain than his peers? This indicates to me at least part of his injury problems over the years have been mental.
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but doesn't this indicate to people that Prior is a lot more sensitive to twinges and pain than his peers?
You would be sensitive too if you had gone through what he has with his injuries.
He SHOULD be sensitive, and he SHOULD be extremely careful with how he comes back. The last thing he wants to do is try to pitch through any tightness or pain right now.
Jerome Williams
Former Giant, Cub, and National great Jerome Williams is out of affiliated baseball. He's headed to the independent Golden League where he'll see such great baseball cities as Calgary, Edmonton, and St. George, Utah.
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Glad to help out. Keep up the great work guys.
Recent comments
Meh, I messed that up. Mets are in.
Cards and Giants can still tie though.
Kershaw gets hurt by his defense and gave up 2 more runs. Blach has 8 shutout innings.
Mets already won as did Cards.
tomorrow is gonna be helluva fun if Giants hold on. We're all rooting for a 3-way tie I presume.
good news is now 5 K's for Lester through 4 (in a quest for 200 for season). Bad news is he's already at 86 pitches.
be curious how long Maddon sticks with Lester to try and let offense get back into it and get him the win (4-2 as I type, was 4-0)
Fwiw, he needed 2.1 IP to cross 200 for season so he got that at least. He also needs 9 K's for 200K's on season and he has 4 through 3.
cubs score 2 runs thanks to predictable reds pitching and horrible CIN defense...cubs only down by 1 now. heyward even got a gift 2rbi double out of an easy popout. neat.
something named Ty Blach has outpitched Clayton Kershaw through 6 innings (1-0 Giants).
not that finishing 2nd place will matter much nor did this game, but have to think if Hendricks pitches well tomorrow, he could leapfrog Lester in Cy Young voting. Don't see anyway Scherzer doesn't win it regardless and it doesnt' look like Lester has any incentive clauses that matter. Also might give Cueto some votes.
Rather remarkable how many teams have really good 1-2 options this year.
Nats: Scherzer and Roark (and Strasburg was great before injuries)
Cubs: Lester and Hendricks (and Arrietta is still damn good just not as consistently lately)
pretty much what I'm gathering from this thread is that it doesn't matter who you play in 5-game series, but no one wants to have to deal with Cardinal fans if we end up losing.
I can respect that.
first game for lester giving up more than 2 runs since july 24th. hell of a run.
doh, yes...dunno what happened there. jake arrieta is all "bro wut?"
lester going for #20...cubs haven't had a LH (thanks jpep for the correction) 20 game winner since d.ellsworth in 1963.
fwiw, all the games are free on mlb.tv
Short rest for MadBum would be 2 days. WC game is Wed., Games 1 & 2 are Friday/Saturday.
A left-handed one...
J-Hey not finishing with an offensive onslaught.
If Geoff Blum could be a Playoff hero, there is hope still...
Giants scare me. I think you're wrong about Bumgarner, he would pitch on short rest for Game 2 and then full rest for Game 5. Cueto would go Game 1, then short rest in game 4. Add in some really tough outs in that lineup and I want nothing to do with them. With that rotation they can easily steal a series.
Cards are a tough matchup. The rivalry evens out their comparable lack of talent. And like someone said, they love HRs, which is how to beat the Cubs. The upside is that I would feel really good about Lester twice against STL.

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I have a good deal of experience (as a mother of 5) with wrapping, and with kids and a spouse who'd rather drop a gift in a bag than wrap a box any day. I have seen orders that appeared to be a rare bargain, but failed to note the dimensions of the largest bag, or the fact that if the bag is plastic, it's going to be really tacky, no matter whether there's tissue included or not. That said...take a look at the largest bag offered here. Now look at the price. Go to your favorite drug or variety store, and I think you'll find that for this whole set, you can only buy two of that size bag, at least if you live in an expensive part of the country, as I do. Even if yours is not a pricey area, this will still be a bargain. These bags are as nice as any you will find in a famous name-brand mall gift store. They're just a lot less expensive, and you do get duplicate designs (but they are not ALL alike). This was a terrific buy...and I did a lot of comparing w other catalog and online sources before making the purchase. Do it!
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on November 18, 2012 - 10:23 PM
Maybe we should cut Miami some slack. It's a city, after all, under the heat of Tom Wolfe's portrayal of the metropolis as full of social climbers steeped in sex.
"In Miami, everybody hates everybody," one of Wolfe's characters proclaims in his latest epic, "Back to Blood."
Its reputation is, well, a bit plastic. There's a reason reality shows like "Housewives of Miami" and "Bad Girls Club: Miami" have gravitated to Dolphin territory.
So it's hard to get too worked up when a couple of Miami radio hosts bait Dolphins running back Reggie Bush into a cheap shot at women in Buffalo.
It started with a forecast for Thursday night's National Football League game at Ralph Wilson Stadium, with one host on the Paul and Young Ron Show suggesting that "women will be out there topless in that weather."
"You don't want to see that," one of the hosts said. "No, God, no," the other added.
To which Reggie Bush so eloquently added, "not Buffalo women."
Cue the indignation. And the flashback to Tom Brady's off-the-cuff slight at Buffalo's hotels. And didn't Willis McGahee sputter about Buffalo's nightlife after leaving town?
The interesting thing is the umbrage over Bush's remarks seemed fueled not by people in Buffalo, but by reporters looking for a story of a city scorned. Buffalo-as-punchline never seems to get old for the rest of the country.
Most of us ladies up here in Buffalo just yawned. We know better than to get worked up over the cloddish comments of a man whose off-field accomplishments revolve around having formerly dated reality starlet Kim Kardashian.
We also know there are plenty of beautiful women in Buffalo, but that's not what matters. We're not skin-deep.
Irving resident Lonna McCary, 23, found herself in the middle of the whirlwind after she was drafted the unofficial spokeswoman for Buffalo's beautiful women when a writer for Yahoo Sports plucked her picture from the Web in response to Bush's comment.
A graduate student at Hilbert College, McCary is working toward a master's degree in criminal-justice administration. Oh, and she won Miss Buffalo 2012 and Miss Thousand Islands 2013.
"Personally, my classmates, friends, family, fellow pageant competitors, they're intelligent, caring, kind people, and we really don't deserve to be pigeonholed into the negative stereotype that Mr. Bush's radio interview depicted," McCary told me.
But she really isn't all that concerned. She knows plenty of accomplished women in Western New York who have too much confidence to dwell on 13 seconds of clichéd chatter.
"Let people say their ignorant comments," McCary added. "We're bigger than that."
Bush, meanwhile, started backpedaling not long after he got off the air. "Lol it was a joke!" Bush tweeted. "GET IT! No? Nobody? Ok... Crickets." At least he caught on to one thing about Buffalo women: We know a dumb joke when we hear one.
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SOMERSET - There's no love loss between the Bedford Bisons and the Somerset Eagles boys soccer teams.
The teams battled for the third time this season - the previous two were 3-1 Bedford victories - and for the sixth time in two years Thursday for the District 5 Class AA boys soccer championship. Bedford claimed the title with a hard-fought 2-1 win.
It is the Bisons' first District 5 title after winning District 6 gold the previous two years. They defeated the Eagles last year in overtime of the District 6 title game.
Bedford's Blake Baer blasted the game-winner into the near corner on a rebound of a Lalo Munzo shot with 8:41 remaining in the game.
"I was just hungry for the ball," Baer said. "We needed the ball and it popped to my feet. God blessed me with a really good shot that found the back of the net. My calf was cramping so I came out for a bit. I could still feel the cramp when I took the shot. I knew our team needed that goal. This is our third district title win in a row and it holds a special place in our hearts."
The top-seeded Bisons (18-1) drew first blood with 19:20 left in the first half. Garrett Thomas beat the Eagles defense and put a shot in low under goalkeeper Sam Hayward.
Somerset countered with 14:58 remaining in the half. Seth Law sent a perfect through pass between defenders, and Kody Williams buried it in the back of the net under Bedford goalie James Jeffries.
Bedford had a flurry of shots just over two minutes later that resulted in nothing as the Eagles defense came up huge stuffing the box.
The Bisons controlled the tempo and possession much of the game.
"We talked at halftime about shoring up a hole in the middle that they were getting through balls in," Bedford coach Jeff Thomas said. "That was how they scored on us.
"This has to be special. There aren't too many teams who can say they won three straight championships."
Bedford will take on District 9 representative Bradford Saturday at 7 p.m. at Northern Bedford in a subregional playoff game for the right to go to the PIAA state playoffs.
"I'm still envisioning the ball going into the net with less than two minutes to go," Somerset coach Mark Wassilchalk said. "But it just didn't happen. After what we lost last year, not many people gave us a chance to even be competitive in this game. We are very proud of what this group achieved this year. It's not going take the pain away now. You wish them luck as they advance, but at the same time I really want to be in their shoes right now."
Somerset finished the season with an overall record of 11-5-2 and will lose three seniors and two exchange students to graduation.
Somerset1 0 - 1
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FIRST HALF: B-Thomas (unassisted), 19:20; S-Williams (Law), 14:58
SECOND HALF: B-Baer (unassisted), 8:41
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The Summerville boys got out to a fast start Friday and never looked back as they earned a 78-33 win over Berkeley.
This was just a great team win, Summerville coach Greg Elliott said. Everybody played and everybody contributed. In our first three games we really didnt have any hostility, but I thought we did tonight. Im pleased with our intensity and we rebounded much better tonight.
John Jenkins hit a three-pointer with 3:52 remaining in the opening period to give the Green Wave an 11-2 lead. Berkeley gained some momentum at the end of the period, pulling within 11 on a three-pointer by Jaudin Brown at the buzzer.
But Summerville got 3s from Jenkins and Brandon Wilkerson early in the second to pull out to a 15-point lead. The Wave entered the half up 40-17.
Summerville then did a good job of shutting the door, taking a 63-30 lead into the final period.
Summervilles Tyler Palmer also hit a shot from behind the arc. Berkeley sank six 3s in the game to account for more than half of its points, but Summerville shot 55 percent from the floor.
Wilkerson finished with 16 points to lead all scorers. Both Jenkins and Christian Kalacanic chipped in 15 for Summerville while Timmy Singleton finished with 12.
The Stags were led by DAndre Richardson, who scored 11 points. Jayden Brown chipped in 10 points for Berkeley.
Summerville improved to 4-0 on the season with the win while Berkeley fell to 0-4.
The Wave traveled to Wando Tuesday after press time for a rematch and will host another rematch with Military Magnet Friday.
Berkeley (33): Jayden Brown 10, DAndre Richardson 11, Mason Edwards 5, Jamarl Francis 2, Molik Meggett 5
Summerville (78): John Jenkins 15, Brandon Wilkerson 16, Christian Kalacanic 15, Timmy Singleton 12, Tyler Palmer 9, Chris McKinnon 2, Xavier Robinson 4, Malcolm Holland 2, Dre Cobb 1, Isaiah Kinloch 2
Berkeley 8 9 13 333
Summerville 19 21 23 1578
Records: Berkeley 0-4. Summerville 4-0.
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School had to teach teen because his parents didn't
I am in total agreement with Donn Esmonde's column of Feb. 17 regarding the West Seneca student. Instead of calling WIVB-TV about the five-day suspension, the parents should have decided on additional punishment of their own.
First, he was kicked out of a school hockey game for getting rowdy, and then he f-bombed the teacher on Twitter. Now the parent sits there in front of the TV camera as if her son is being mistreated. He needs to be taught respect and good manners. Obviously it must be done by the school, because the parents have failed to do so.
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"I can't believe I'm here!" she told the VIP crowd at the invitation-only preview opening of "Miranda Lambert Backstage Access." "When you're a little girl standing in front of your mirror singing into a hair brush you never could imagine something like this. Even when you start having success, you think something like this is way down the line."
"This" is a linear exhibit behind glass on the Museum's second floor, chronicling a year of her professional life in gowns, costumes, boots, accessories, photos, awards, guitars and merchandise – narrated by the singer's own printed-out Tweets. "Whoever thought Tweeting could lead to the Country Music Hall of Fame?" she said, laughing. "I don't remember saying a lot of those things but none of them are embarrassing. Be careful what you Tweet!"
The exhibit begins with the plunging Roberto Cavalli gown Lambert wore on the red carpet of the 2013 Grammy Awards and ends with another glamorous style statement: the The Blonds gown she donned for the cover of her upcoming album, Platinum, which will be released June 3.
In between are the dresses she wore in her "Mama's Broken Heart" video, a rolling pink wardrobe case from her 2013 Locked and Reloaded tour with Dierks Bentley, the pink-flame embellished corset she wore onstage at the 2013 CMA Music Fest, bottles of wine from her private label, a Double J Saddlery leather belt with "Mrs. Shelton" in rhinestones and a re-creation of her backstage Vibe Room with a set list, tour laminates and a day sheet.
"The last year-and-a-half of my life has been such a whirlwind and things that happen in that time seem like a dream almost. Seeing the exhibit made it real and brought back such great memories of those nights, those moments," Lambert said.
She admitted that finding the items the museum curators requested was challenging.
"I am not the most organized person in the world," she said. "It was scary where I found some of the clothes they asked for, kind of wadded up in the back of a closet. They had some work to do to make them look as pretty as they do here, but the way they displayed everything on the mannequins, the way the light shines on everything, the way the bling sparkles, I just love it."
Though their work schedules prevented Lambert and Shelton from spending their third anniversary together, nothing could take away from her big night.
"Spending time apart because of work has always been part of our relationship, so we're fine with it. This is the first anniversary we've spent apart, but we knew it was coming with everything going on. We'll celebrate us when we're together."
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In January 2009, the FDIC sponsored a special supplement to the U.S. Census Bureaus Current Population Survey (CPS) to collect data on the number of U.S. households that are unbanked and underbanked, their demographic characteristics, and their reasons for being unbanked and underbanked. Teamed with the rich demographic and geographic data available through the CPS, this survey presents a wealth of previously unavailable data on unbanked and underbanked households are available at the national, state, and large metropolitan statistical area (MSA) levels. It is hoped that these survey results will help better inform policymakers and the industry about economic inclusion issues, and promote the goal of ensuring that all Americans have access to basic, safe, and affordable bank services.
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WPU Speaker Series: Korrel Kanoy, Ph.D.
Leggett Theatre, Main Building
Sat Dec 7th, 2013
02:00 p.m. - 04:00 p.m.
The Everything Parents' Guide to Children's Emotional Intelligence
William Peace University is delighted to welcome back Korrel Kanoy, Ph.D., Professor Emerita, to William Peace University to present on emotional intelligence in children.
Kanoy will discuss her book, "The Everything Parents' Guide to Children's Emotional Intelligence: How to Raise Children Who Are Caring, Resilient, and Emotionally Strong" (from her "Everything" series) and sign copies of her books after the Q&A session.
Kanoy notes that a child's emotional intelligence has been shown to be one of the strongest factors in whether or not that child will be successful later in life. A child with high emotional intelligence (EQ) has good self-control, resilience, and empathy--all factors that help build a foundation for a more grounded, satisfying, and successful life.
With "The Everything Parent's Guide to Emotional Intelligence in Children," you will learn how to help your child:
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- Improve self-confidence
- Build inner resilience
This hands-on guide shows you exactly how to promote core EQ skills in your child and provides you with all you need to help your children achieve their greatest potential.
Dr. Korrel Kanoy joined the Peace faculty in 1981. Rising through the ranks, she became Professor of Psychology, and served in several administrative roles, including Dean of Academic Affairs from 2006-2009.
During the 2011-2012 academic year, Kanoy provided leadership to the university's Institutional Research area, helping increase the use of assessment and other data, contributing directly to preparing for the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS) review for reaccreditation.
In addition to her academic ties to Peace, Kanoy was also connected to the institution through her late mother-in-law, Peace College alumna Betsy Fields Kanoy '41.
Through over 30 years teaching psychology, child development and emotional intelligence, Kanoy maintained an active scholarly life, writing books and articles on parent-child interactions, emotional intelligence, and retention.
In 2011, higher-education publisher Jossey-Bass invited her to write a textbook, facilitation guide and student workbook titled The Student EQ Edge: Emotional Intelligence and Your Academic and Personal Success – all released in February of 2013. Seeking a new challenge, Kanoy noted the writing, "stretched me in ways that I had not been stretched before." She also published The Everything Parent's Guide to Emotional Intelligence in Children in 2013. (All available on Amazon.com.)
"Emotional intelligence is the capacity for recognizing how one's emotions are affecting behaviors and then managing those emotions more effectively to improve outcomes (such as better decision making or more effective communication) which is associated with healthier relationships and more academic or work success," she explained.
In 2008, first-year Peace students were required take a test measuring emotional intelligence. According to longitudinal research Kanoy did, the students with the highest EI scores as first-year students were more likely to graduate four years later, even though they did not have better high-school GPAs or SAT scores than non-graduates.
In 2004, Kanoy co-founded, with former Peace professor Dr. Heather Lee, Developmental Associates, LLC, a consulting firm that specializes in developing emotional intelligence and leadership skills for individuals working in education, government and non-profit settings. What started as part-time work that she described as interesting and fun became full-time after she retired from Peace in July 2012.
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According to the site, on June 22, the Keeping Up With the Kardashians star, 31, spent the night drinking heavily at 1Oak nightclub in the Hamptons before entering Southampton Hospital, where he was diagnosed with alcohol poisoning.
All of this happened a day after longtime girlfriend Kourtney Kardashian, who's pregnant with the couple's third child, hosted niece North West's first birthday party back in Calabasas, California.
A source confirms the story to PEOPLE, adding that the reality star – dad to kids Mason, 4½, and Penelope, 2 – is now "doing great."
Earlier this year, both Disick's mother Bonnie and father Jeffrey died, and the losses have left quite an impact on the E! star.
"He's had an unimaginable year losing his parents," the source says. "There have been highs and lows, and he's just doing his best trying to work through everything. He's really making progress."
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WAILEA - The statistics say Shane Victorino is the best baseball player ever from Hawaii.
The clutch performances, the 2008 World Series title with the Philadelphia Phillies, the two National League All-Star selections and the three NL Gold Gloves are solid evidence as well.
So, too, is the three-year, $39 million free-agent contract from the Boston Red Sox he agreed to on Tuesday - the most lucrative deal ever for an athlete from the 50th state.
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Shane Victorino, shown during his foundation's clinic on Saturday at Maui High School, is the leader or co-leader among major leaguers from Hawaii in home runs, hits, runs, stolen bases, doubles and triples.
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Shane Victorino posing for a photo with his first major league team, the San Diego Padres, in 2003.
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Shane Victorino's first major league home run, with the Philadelphia Phillies in 2005.
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Shane Victorino holding the World Series trophy after the Phillies won the title in 2008.
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Shane Victorino playing for the Los Angeles Dodgers earlier this year.
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Dayton Alexander, a minor leaguer in the Oakland Athletics' system shown directing Kainalu Opiana-aki from the Paukukalo Boys and Girls Club during Saturday's clinic at Maui High, said Shane Victorino is "for sure the greatest baseball player out of Hawaii."
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Victorino himself is not so sure. The 1999 graduate of St. Anthony High School chuckles when asked the question.
"Coming from me personally, I will never say yes," he said Thursday before taking part in a golf tournament that raised money for his charitable foundation. "I look at it this way: I always revert back to high school where people still tell me, 'You still own the record for the 100 meters, non-wind-aided,' and all those kind of things. I always tell people, my reply to them, is, 'Records are meant to be broken.'
"The things that I am setting and the things that I am accomplishing in the game of baseball, from a stand-point of that, I want some kid to come along from Hawaii - whoever is coming behind me, Kolten Wong, guys like that who are getting their chance - to surpass me."
In nine major league seasons, Victorino has a .275 batting average, and his 90 home runs are tied with Mike Lum for the most by a Hawaii-born major leaguer. Victorino's 1,060 hits, 195 doubles, 65 triples, 616 runs and 201 stolen bases all rank first among players from the Aloha State, and his 409 RBIs leave him 22 behind Lum.
"I know up to this point I have had a good career," said Victorino, 32. "And I hope this career continues to go for another 10 years, but at the end of the day it is about enjoying the game, it is about going out there and having fun. I always look at the guys ahead of me, the guys you mentioned, the Mike Lums, the Mike Fetters, the Benny Agbayanis.
"In fact, Benny texted me the other day congratulating me. I sent him a message back saying, 'I'm just following in your footsteps. In fact, you were a guy that I looked up to when I was in the minor leagues and I wanted to be like you when you were with the Mets.' I don't forget that. It was the guys ahead of me who set that path."
Agbayani had 39 home runs and 156 RBIs with three big league teams from 1998 to 2002. Fetters played for eight clubs from 1989 to 2004, recording 100 career saves.
"You could say that what I have done and been able to accomplish in the game might have surpassed and accomplished a lot more than what they have, but at the end of the day if I didn't see what they did and I didn't have something to follow, then I wouldn't have been able to do it," Victorino said. "Hopefully some kid behind me in the 808 state says, 'I want to be like Shane, I want to be better than Shane,' and goes after their dream."
In addition to Wong, a former University of Hawaii standout from Hilo who is now in the St. Louis Cardinals' system, the state's up-and-comers also include Dayton Alexander, a Kamehameha Maui graduate, second cousin to Victorino and sixth-round draft choice of the Oakland Athletics in 2011; and Branden Kaupe, a fourth-round draftee of the New York Mets out of Baldwin earlier this year - those two were taking part in the benefit event at the Wailea Emerald Course.
It was Kaupe's first time ever playing golf, an opportunity the 19-year-old said would not have developed without Victorino's example. Kaupe hit .173 with the Kingsport Mets rookie-league team, but had a .358 on-base percentage.
"He is doing all the right things, he proves it with his statistics, he comes back and gives back to the community," Kaupe said. "He is easily the best player so far that we have had for a long time. He has opened doors for us. When I go to the Mainland everybody calls me 'The Flyin' Hawaiian' because I'm from Hawaii and I know Shane."
Alexander, 21, has hit a combined .185 in two minor league seasons.
"Just seeing the way (Victorino) works hard, the way he plays hard, it is definitely a motivation to play like him, become like him," he said. "The way he plays the sport, he just plays it phenomenally. He's for sure the greatest baseball player out of Hawaii."
Josh Beckett, a 12-year major leaguer who spent six seasons in Boston, said Victorino will fit in with the Red Sox. Beckett and Victorino were teammates with the Los Angeles Dodgers for the final two months of the 2012 season.
"I think he is going to be a good acquisition, not only just on the field, but also in the clubhouse," said Beckett, who added that Victorino's foundation, which assists children's groups, will be well-received in Boston.
"It is unbelievable, the generosity that those people have," Beckett said. "I did the Beckett Bowl up there for six years - it is a special place where people really come out and really support the charity events. I'm sure that Vic's going to get involved with that."
This year, the money Victorino's foundation raised from the golf event will go to A Keiki's Dream, Adult Friends for Youth and After-School All-Stars Hawaii, and helped with a clinic that took place Saturday at Maui High.
"Every year it gets better," Victorino said Thursday. "I always say, 'Yeah, it is my name that is on it, but ultimately in the end it is those that support me, it's those who continue to support me and show that support for the foundation, and helping out the kids.' That's what it's all about."
Kanekoa Texeira, who grew up in Kula, is a distant cousin of Victorino, and pitched in the majors in 2010 and 2011 with the Seattle Mariners and Kansas City Royals. He says there is no doubt Victorino is the best ballplayer ever from Hawaii.
"By far," Texeira said. "World Series, Gold Gloves, All-Stars. I mean, by far the guy's got the rap to tell that he is the best ever from this state."
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When the national tour of "Priscilla Queen of the Desert" sashays into Shea's Performing Arts Center on Tuesday night for a six-day stop, keep an eye out for Jayme Coxx and her friends in the front row. They'll be hard to miss.
"I believe we're going in drag," said Coxx, director of the Thursday night drag shows at Club Marcella, next door to Shea's on Main Street. "So we're gonna scare a lot of the straight people."
On a recent Thursday night, Coxx was in the basement of Club Marcella, sitting in the cramped dressing room that she shares with fellow drag queen Robotica and an oversized water heater. Kelly Clarkson played on the stereo. With a bare torso, hair pulled back with a headband and face unshaven, Coxx (boy name: Kevin VanWagner) put off preparing for the evening's trio of shows to explain the unbridled excitement she and her fellow queens were feeling at the prospect of seeing the stage version of one of drag culture's most beloved films.
"It's one of my favorite movies of all-time," said Coxx, who was surrounded by racks of multicolored sunglasses, homemade jewelry and several pairs of sparkly heels. "I've been that person stalking YouTube, watching the clips that they have from actual shows [on the tour], and I'm like, oh my God, I need to see those costumes."
The 1994 Australian film "The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert," directed by Stephan Elliott and starring Hugo Weaving, Guy Pearce, Terence Stamp and an ever-growing collection of bizarre dresses and headpieces, follows two drag queens and a male-to-female transsexual on a trip across the Outback in a bus they've lovingly nicknamed "Priscilla." Along the way, the trio prompts plenty of double takes from confused locals, puts on some impromptu performances and ultimately moves their country a few hard-won centimeters forward in its acceptance of the drag lifestyle.
The many-splendored stage adaptation, which began in Sydney in 2006, went to London and made its way to Broadway in 2011 via an out-of-town tryout in Toronto the previous year. A costume-driven musical, it could help speed the evaporation of some stubborn puddles of bigotry and intolerance.
The show is all about spectacle, and dance numbers set to classics like "I Say a Little Prayer," "I Will Survive," "Shake Your Groove Thing" and others are more or less designed to show off its 500 or so costumes, designed by Academy Award- and Tony-winning designers Tim Chappel and Lizzie Gardiner.
For many of the performers at Club Marcella, some of whom performed during the announcement of Shea's 2012-13 season last March, "Priscilla" is more than just a movie. It is an indispensable piece of drag culture and a kind of guiding light that local performers, from the late beloved Viki Vogue to her protege Vanity Vogue, revisit again and again for inspiration.
For Bebe Bvlgari, a musical theater actor who has been doing drag at Marcella for the past five years, the story's message of acceptance hit home.
"It's a great time to bring it back, because this will give a different perspective to drag," said Bvlgari (boy name: Michael Blasdell), who as he spoke was furiously brushing foundation onto his face at a row of mirrors, along with three other performers. The strength of the characters in the film, she said, had given her more confidence. "Walking down the street when I have a gig at another bar, I'm not afraid to leave my house in drag."
And as for those costumes?
As Bvlgari gestured over to fellow drag queen Fantasia Thunderpussy three seats down – getting her wig situated for a performance of Whitney Houston's "Love Will Save the Day" – she said: "We're going to be sitting there front-row center, clocking every stitch, every hem, so we can get ideas and make our own costumes."
Nearly every aspect of the Marcella performers' acts and personas is self-made. Fantasia, for instance, painstakingly creates her own handmade jewelry, partially inspired by "Priscilla." She showed off a glittering pair of massive earrings, which she then actually glued to her ears before the performance so they didn't weigh down her earlobes. Her favorite costume from the film, she said, was the one cobbled together out of flip-flops by Terence Stamp's character. "Someday," she said, looking a little bit wistful. "Someday …"
Tossing on some makeup, a massive wig and a ridiculous costume is – strange as it may sound – a radical political act for the characters in "Priscilla," as it is for any drag queen.
"I think the idea of them driving across country on this big tour bus and being able to be as gay and open as they want to is what everyone in the gay world is still hunting and trying for," Coxx said. "In drag, you're able to be someone that you're not and you're able to live the life that you're creating for yourself. They were able to go cross-country as [people] that they wanted to be, not the sheltered, battered person that they were back home."
Learning curves
For the actors in "Priscilla," many of whom had no previous experience with drag, the show presented plenty of challenges.
Costume director Michelle Harrison, who is responsible for wrangling the show's 500 or so over-the-top outfits, described the process the cast underwent while the show was in rehearsals.
"We had a lot of grown men that had never worn makeup before, they had never worn eyelashes before, they had never danced in or even worn heels before," she said in a phone interview from Springfield, Mo. "They have to learn how to walk in heels, they have to learn how to put on makeup, they have to learn how to put on a bra, they have to learn how to take a bra off another human being. It's all of these things that you didn't think you would ever have to learn about."
Drag newbie Scott Willis, who plays the transsexual Bernadette, was slightly daunted by the prospect of getting his makeup perfect every day, but gradually came to accept the challenge. Dancing across the stage in Bernadette's 3-inch heels, after all, isn't nearly as much of a costume challenge as his other gig: playing Santa Claus in the touring version of the Rockettes' "Radio City Christmas Spectacular."
"I actually have more padding and more hair playing Santa Claus than I have as Bernadette, so it's much more comfortable to be Bernadette than it is to be Santa Claus," Willis said during a tour stop in St. Louis. Willis' audition experience, at an open call that attracted about 100 experienced New York City-based drag performers, opened his eyes to a side of drag he had never seen before.
"Being in a room with 100 drag queens, and seeing how they were friendly to one another, complimenting one another, complimenting me when I had absolutely no experience and I was keeping my mouth shut and just trying to concentrate on the lyrics to my song and painting my fingernails," he said, "to see the real honesty and friendship and humor was really eye-opening, and it raised my level of appreciation much higher than it had maybe ever been."
Harrison, along with performers from Club Marcella and across the local drag community who will be scattered throughout the crowd at Shea's on opening night, hopes that "Priscilla" will have the same effect on theatergoers.
"There is still a lot of the public that doesn't understand drag queens. They don't understand that whole culture, and it's very foreign to them," she said. "Once people get there, they'll start listening to what's actually happening and listening to the story. And hopefully they'll walk away with a little bit better understanding, they'll have a little more respect for a different way of life."
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UNIVERSITY PARK - Bill O'Brien puts a high priority on ball security and has often described its importance as, "You're carrying the hopes and dreams of the football team."
No one thought the visiting/1-9 Purdue Boilermakers could derail what's left of those dreams for this season, and they didn't, but Penn State's 45-21 victory Saturday again underscored a problem that has plagued the Nittany Lions.
And that's fumbling.
They do it way too much.
The Lions entered the game having lost a Big Ten-high 11 fumbles - which ranks them as the 110th worst team in the country at protecting the rock - and they added another to their total when starting tailback Bill Belton coughed one up early in the second quarter.
It was Belton's third lost fumble in three weeks and cued the re-emergence of Zach Zwinak, who entered the season as the starter but lost it thanks to his three fumbles.
He appeared to add a fourth Saturday that the Lions recovered, but it wasn't listed on the official statistics, even though the referee saw fit to signal that the Lions had retained possession.
We'll leave that for Penn State to sort out whether it's now 17 or 18 team fumbles this year.
O'Brien knows for sure it's too many.
He was all but doubled over, hands on knees, when Belton did it again.
"It's frustrating because they're good players, [and] they're great kids," O'Brien said. "They're better kids than they are players. They feel bad about it. I feel bad about it."
The issue was quickly raised in an otherwise feel-good locker room afterward.
"I told them the reason I get frustrated is I have high expectations for the players on this team," O'Brien said. "We'll continue to work with it. You don't want to overemphasize it because then you have got the guy thinking about it all the time.
"But we've got to stop putting the ball on the ground, bottom line."
After Zwinak's fumble turned a 21-10 lead against Michigan into a game the Lions had to fight like dogs to win in quadruple overtime, he only saw nine carries for the next 10-plus quarters before getting a chance to re-establish himself last week at Minnesota - after Belton fumbled on the game's first play.
Zwinak didn't want to address the topic Saturday, and Belton was not available to the media, but the Maryland redhead seemed pleased for a reprieve even if it came partially out of necessity.
"I just come out to work every day and take one day at a time," he said.
Zwinak has been wearing gloves as a possible remedy, and his left hand/wrist was wrapped in ice Saturday.
"Just a bump, bruises," he said, downplaying an injury. "It was a physical game, and the [Purdue] defense came out, and they had a lot of hits."
Zwinak's 149 yards on 26 carries gave him two straight strong games; he had 152 on 26 tries last week.
His teammates did their part in keeping his spirits up after he lost his starting job, which he solidified last year by rushed for 1000 yards despite not becoming the starter until the fifth game of the season.
"I just tell them to keep his head up," senior leader and guard John Urschel said of when a teammate makes a key mistake. "There's a balance you have to have between learning from a bad play you've had earlier in the game but at the same time not dwelling on it. You can't let bad plays stay in your head because then you'll be off your game.
"I just try to encourage them and tell them to shake it off."
One the reasons for Zwinak's fumbles - he's got nine dating back to last year - may be his extra effort as he's always churning for extra yardage and almost never is downed by initial contact.
"Zach's a really hard worker," said junior linebacker and defensive leader Mike Hull. "He comes to practice every day with good intensity, and sometimes those fumbles happen when you're fighting for extra yards. Everyone's always just there to say, 'Keep your head up.'
"I feel like you can't get too high or too low. He's done a great job after what happened and he's come strong."
To finish better than 6-6, you would think the Lions can ill afford turnovers, especially fumbles, in the remaining two tests against Nebraska on Senior Day and at Wisconsin in the season finale.
Then again, the 1965 team, Rip Engle's last, fumbled a school-record 40 times and somehow finished 5-5.
And the school record for fewest fumbles? Eight by the 2001 team that finished 5-6.
Go figure.
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case you missed it, paleontologists, digging in South Africa
have discovered
the remains of a new species of hominid, Australopithecus
buried in a cave. This little discovery is of tremendous
importance as anatomical evidence points to the species being a close
evolutionary relative to man, perhaps even a direct ancestor.I
wrote a little story on the topic, analyzing the find, while briefly
touching on the pertinent creationism vs. modern evolutionary theory
debate that continues to rage to this day in America. I
expected the story to get a few comments. I never expected,
though that it would get over 575 comments, making it perhaps the
most commented on story in DailyTech's
history.I think it's great that so many people are chiming in
and sharing their thoughts, and I think its a real sign of our site's
diversity and popularity. However, amidst those comments I saw
some that really bothered me as a person who has worked in the fields
of engineering and biochemistry in addition to my time here
at DailyTech. Take
one reader, who writes:
Scientific Proof the Evolutionary Theory is Dead.A story about
two friends from day one.http://www.biblelife.org/creation.htm" rel="nofollow
comment was rated up to a 3, so obviously some people agreed with
it. However, the site and "proof" it cites, from a
scientific perspective, are utterly worthless.The site is full
of inaccurate and egregious jewels. Among them is the claim
that granite is called a "creation rock" by geologists and
can not be created on Earth today. This is patently false.
If such a term were ever used, it has no place in the field of modern
geology. Further, granite is to this very day being produced in
small quantities by metamorphism in amphibolite and granulite
terrains. There's nothing magical about it.The other
"friend" that the site refers to is polonium, a radioactive
heavy element. Polonium makes halos in granite, which a
researcher named Robert V. Gentry claimed, starting in the 1980s, were
proof that the Earth was only 6,000 years old, as the literal reading
of The Bible claims. Gentry was by all reports a decent
researcher who was blinded by his obsession in proving creationism,
which led to him reaching far outside his field of expertise
(physics) into foreign fields like geology.In this case, as
with most of his arguments for a "young Earth" his
"evidence" was shown to be completely wrong. There
was indeed uranium in the exact deposits Gentry sampled from, he just
failed to follow basic principles of geological sampling. Of course this is
understandable -- Gentry was no geologist. So his "proof"
was just another red herring.Here is a very informative read
on the topic: "The
Geology of Gentry's 'Tiny Mystery'".The site also
implies that there's something "magical" about polonium
making its way into granite. Consider that silicon dioxide, the
primary component of granite melts at 1925 K, while 527 K. Thus
polonium would be molten and could easily make its way into cracks
and crevices in granite that had cooled to a solid. Again, the
claims are patently false and there's nothing magical or unknown
here.Basic science invalidates many of the supposed "proof"
of creationism and a young Earth. Yet, while it's easy to
disprove a bad argument, its hard to kill one. As I mentioned,
here was an argument that was literally disproved over two decades
ago, but there's a site out there still using it as evidence and one
of our readers are referencing it as fact. And worse yet,
apparently some in our readership were misled enough that they rated
up the comment.I don't have the time or energy to rebuke
every falsehood set forth by a handful of the commenters in that
thread, so I hope this was an informative example.It's fine
to believe whatever you want when it comes to evolution. An all
powerful deity such as Xenu or the Christian God, could in theory
create a reality with evidence to the contrary of the creation
itself. Every single atom could have been set into motion
perfectly to deliver an elaborate, yet misleading picture. Yet
to scientists, we must interpret the picture that we see, and that
picture clearly points that evolution created the species we see
today and that the earth is billions of years old, not 6,000 years
old. Believe what you want, but try not to reference false
"facts" to justify your beliefs -- that's called spreading
misinformation, and it's disingenuous.
quote: Another thing I find odd, if God really did create the Earth and all life, why did he make it so complex?
quote: Hold on, science shows that the earth and it's contents are old and also shows how things form without "and poof there it was".
quote: Another thing I find odd, if God really did create the Earth and all life, why did he make it so complex? If I was capable of making stuff out of nothing and making it move on it's own, I'm making something that looks like a tofu block, not something that's made out of billions of small things that in turn form millions of other small things and so on. Oh wait, there is the "God works in mysterious ways" argument which immediately nullifies any logic one tries to use. A rock should be made out of ONE Rock Thingie, not tons of smaller particles that form it, now that would be something that's just created out of nothing.
quote: According to science there was nothing before the big bang then nanoseconds later there was all the matter in the universe. That sounds a lot like a "and poof there it was" explanation to me.
quote: Neither science or religion can tell you what existed before the universe existed except that religion says God existed, nothing more.
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"That is just annoying. People say I'm always dating so and so, and sometimes it's three people in one day," says the actor, 39.
"I'm trying to make movies, work hard and do my best. Then this kind of thing happens and people start to associate me more with that. It gets ridiculous."
Aside from those pesky rumors, Butler – who also stars with Heigl" in The Ugly Truth, opening July 24 – has nothing to complain about when it comes to his current gig.
Aniston Is 'Classy'"She is one classy lady," he says of Aniston. "Everyday I go to work with her I'm always surprised about how cool, easy and down to earth and real she is."
He adds, "I'm in New York right now filming and I'm in heaven. I can't always say that about movies, but to be filming this romantic comedy with Jennifer and a story that made my side split when I read it – I'm lucky. I'm happy as a pig in s---, as they say."
As far as Aniston's current love life goes – a source close to the actress, 40, says she's still happily talking to Bradley Cooper. But when it comes to working with Butler, "They get along really well, but Jen only likes him as a friend," says a source. "She can't see herself dating him."
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