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There's nothing like going to pack lunch for your kids and realizing that your refrigerator is almost as empty as your bank account. When you can barely cobble together a decent lunch and don't know what you're going to do about dinner tonight either, the pit that opens up in your stomach isn't hunger -- it's panic and dread and the frantic questioning of every decision that led to this moment.
After months of being too stubborn to apply for food stamps, letting bills go unpaid so I can buy groceries and hoping against hope that I'll land a decent job, that sickening moment of clarity in my kitchen finally spurs me to swallow my pride, gather up my birth certificate, social security card and financial information and head to the food stamp office.
I know I shouldn't feel so awful -- as a newly single mom, friends and family have been urging me to take advantage of every possible program that can help me until I get on my feet.
"You are the person these programs are meant for!" one of them said.
I swallowed the lump in my throat and tried to stop my mouth from twitching like it does when my feelings are hurt. I know it's true -- I just don't want it to be true. I don't want to be a member of my new demographic.
The office is crowded and noisy. Unsmiling security guards herd people into different lines and there is a loud argument going on at one of the service windows. My head swims with "I don't belong here," followed closely by "Who does belong here then, you classist jerk?" I feel ashamed, and then I feel guilty for feeling ashamed.
I shuffle along, smiling lamely at everyone and no one. I wonder if I have the right forms and documentation with me. I glance at the door and think about bolting into the sunshine, where I can make my way back toward my own familiar neighborhood and forget about this place.
Then I remember how much money I have in my checking account, and the pile of bills tucked into my pretty little mail holder at home, the one I got from Anthropologie as a wedding shower gift. It's carved with wooden birds and painted yellow. I think about my nearly-bare cupboards. I stay put and wait to be called to the window.
When I get there I'm given a number and a packet and told to go wait in the green room. I almost laugh, thinking about the green rooms of my acting days. Green rooms used to be for running lines, touching up makeup and scavenging the snack table. This one is just a fluorescent-lit room with walls painted pale green and folding chairs crammed full of people.
Some of them are sitting on the edges of their seats gripping their numbers, a few are sleeping, and the rest have their heads bent over paperwork. I squeeze into a seat next to an old lady who is squinting at her packet and shaking her head. She points to it and asks me something, but I can't understand her. I shrug and smile. My number is 135 and the screen says 67. Ten minutes later it says 68. I finish filling out all my forms and the screen says 70.
I have to pick my daughters up from school in two hours and I wonder how they can possibly get through all these people by the end of the day. I get up to find the bathroom and while I'm there I take a picture of myself. Here I am, this day, this place.
How did I end up here anyway? In school I was the winner of our classroom's speed multiplication tests every week and the spelling bee champion. I made endless lists of rules and goals for myself, like James Gatz aspiring to greatness. Yet after college I drifted from job to job -- actress, barista, office manager, accountant, substitute teacher -- never landing on a viable career path and lost in a fog of depression.
Not knowing what I wanted, except to be loved and to create the family I always wished for, I latched on to a boyfriend (starving artist -- not the best choice) and was pregnant and married in short order. Too insecure to pursue my own ambitions, I told myself I was content just being a mother. I championed my husband's career while I breastfed and changed diapers and prayed for a deus ex machina as we sank deeper and deeper into debt.
But kicking myself for every poor choice that's brought me here on this bright, sharp winter morning doesn't change my present predicament. I have to move forward. I go back to my plastic chair and wait. The crowd is getting restless. I hear someone say she was here until nine o'clock last night and they told her to come back this morning. I look at my number again. 135. The sign says 82. I look at the time. School will let out soon. Plus I'm starving. It's fitting, I suppose -- I'm at the food stamp office, and my stomach is actually growling.
Gathering up my things, I toss my number in the trash on the way out.
Later on, I figure out that I can apply online and do the interview over the phone. After that, I spend three more hours in another government building, waiting to turn in my documents and have my finger imaged. I actually like this part.
The young woman who does the fingerprinting places my finger on the imaging screen and presses it down firmly, trying to get a clear picture. The machine is glitchy and she has to do it again, but I don't mind. It feels reassuring to have my hand squeezed.
"You're done" she says, snapping her gum.
I go to Trader Joe's and load up my cart. When it's time to pay, I slide my EBT card (that's Electronic Benefit Transfer -- no more paper stamps) through the machine just like any other debit card. The checker grins and hands me my receipt, adorably friendly as always.
And just like that, I'm heading home with plenty of food to fill up my fridge -- and I can get more whenever we need it. I am so flooded with relief that I want to cry. I make potato soup and biscuits for dinner. My girls are laughing, smearing jelly on biscuits and stuffing their mouths full. The food warms our souls as well as our stomachs, and I feel ready to keep trying tomorrow. Trying harder, trying smarter. Always trying to do the best I can.

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With the prices of agricultural products, industrial and precious metals, as well as energy at all time highs; we certainly live in inflationary times. But what does the word inflation mean in economic terms, from whence does it come, and where does it lead? Think you know? Read on.
"It is well that the people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning." – Henry Ford (1863 – 1947)
Let's Define Our Terms
When we, here at The Falcons Lair, speak of economic literacy, the subject of inflation is perhaps the poster child that highlights what we are talking about. Today the general public typically has no clue as to what true inflation is, what causes it, or why they should be worried about it.
A provocative statement perhaps? Bear with me.
The mainstream media and politicians, along with their economists and modern economic text books and dictionary's, with the general public in tow, typically define Inflation as:
"a general increase in prices and fall in the purchasing value of money†– Oxford
I'm certainly not the first to point out the sleight of hand (or in this case sleight of definition) that has taken place with respect to the definition of inflation, but over time it seems it has been moved around on us. If you take any beginning economics course or review an older basic economics text book or for that matter look up the word in an older dictionary, you will discover that someone has changed their mind about what they want the word inflation to mean.
A 1983 version of Webster's Dictionary defines inflation as:
"An increase in the amount of currency in circulation, resulting in a relatively sharp and sudden fall in its value and rise in prices…â€
Follow the link below for a more thorough discussion of the change of definitions over time.
So let's sum up. Since the beginning of modern economic study (i.e. during the 18th and 19th centuries) until let's say the 1980's, inflation was defined as an increase in the money supply, which in turn caused prices to rise and thus the dollar to fall in value. The current definition and use has left out the cause (i.e. the increase in the money supply) and only focused on the effect (i.e. the rise in prices and the dollars loss in value). Thus, the cause has been ignored and the effect has become the definition.
The Federal Reserve's Contribution
Well how and why did this happen? Let's have a brief Q&A session:
·        How does the money supply get increased? Answer: The Federal Reserve has a legal monopoly to create money and thereby increase the money supply.  This legal right was granted by Congress in the Federal Reserve Act of 1913. The Federal Reserve can create money legally, while anyone else will go to jail for a long time.
·        How much have they increased the money supply? The short answer is,… a lot! Here are the approximate amounts of money (in M3 terms) in existence during recent history as reported by the Federal Reserve:
o  1960 – $     315 Billion
o  1970 – $     677 Billion
o  1980 – $   1,996 Billion (or $  2.0 Trillion)
o  1990 – $   4,155 Billion (or $  4.2 Trillion)
o  2000 – $   7,118 Billion (or $  7.1 Trillion)
o  2006 – $ 10,299 Billion (or $ 10.3 Trillion)
o  Care to guess how this story is going to end? You don't have to.  See the next section entitled, "The Past as Prologueâ€.Â
Footnote: In Feb 2006 The Federal Reserve stopped publishing the M3 money supply statistic because, according to them, it was no longer needed. No matter, you can plainly see where this is headed. If you are really interested, John Williams at http://www.shadowstats.com/ has continued to track M3 and has recently reported that it is growing at an annual rate of 18%. The US economy is growing at 1%. Lots of fresh new dollars but very few new goods and services to buy with them, Hmmm, what will this lead to? It's your turn to answer.
·     Is it possible that the reason for the subtle (or not so subtle) change in the definition of the word inflation is because increasing the money supply causes an increase in prices and the Federal Reserve is solely responsible for increasing the money supply? Answer: Yes
·     Why would our political leadership, wall street, academia and the main stream media go along with this subversion of the definition without ever examining, in depth, the causes of rising prices? Answer: Maybe because they all benefit from increases in the money supply. The money that is created has to go somewhere.
 "Give me control of a nation's money and I care not who makes it's laws†–Mayer Amschel Bauer Rothschild (1743 – 1812)
The Past as Prologue
From the realm of "been there done thatâ€, this is actually well traveled economic history. Since the beginning of time governments and/or powerful interest groups have wanted to control the money supply for obvious beneficial reasons. For one, it eliminates their need to rely on taxes or other sources to fund an agenda. This in turn allows them to spend recklessly on budget deficits, pet projects, wars and corporate bail outs without constraint or accountability to the general public.
These actions are not without consequences however, and the pages of history are littered with the economic debris and social upheaval which results from rampant money creation.
Here are but a few examples as addressed in a fabulous book on the matter, "The Penniless Billionaires†by Max Shapiro:
- Roman Empire (the end came about 476 AD) – Since they didn't have paper money, the government accomplished the same ends by coin clipping. That's right, shaving a little bit of metal off the edges of coins, hoping the general public, and vendors in particular, didn't notice. There are a few more wrinkles to the story of course, but suffice it to say that the public did notice. It is universally suggested that the Roman Empire simply slowly disintegrated until it finally ceased to exist for various reasons. Funny, historians have an odd way of ignoring the most important aspect of any person or groups survival. Hint: The economic model they operated under was deeply flawed and finally collapsed.
- The French Assignat Era (1787 – 1799) – The French experiment with abandoning metallic money for the printed kind. It ended in hyper-inflation, the starvation of the masses, the collapse of the country and the capitulation to Napoleon. When it was over, the engraving machinery, plates, and paper used in printing the Assignats were smashed and burned in public. For all his faults, Napoleon understood the nature of the problem and declared, "While I live, I will never resort to irredeemable paperâ€. He kept his word, and Frances economy recovered.
- The German Hyperinflation (1922-1923) – This was the era when wheel barrels full of money were required to buy every-day items. Between January 1922 and November 1923 the wholesale price index went up by a factor of 7 billion, as extraordinary as it sounds. They actually printed 500 Billion Mark Notes. The German population was thrust into starvation and abject poverty.
In Closing
I think that intuitively people ultimately understand this phenomenon. Â Although it can be obscured by certain dynamics, such as the definition swap described above, a generational lack of experience with inflation, or the failure of our political leadership and the main stream media to explore these important questions in depth.
A dramatic increase in the volume of anything is going to naturally decrease its value relative to other things. This is no less true of an increase in the supply of the US dollar, or any other fiat currency for that matter. However, the dramatic increase in the US money supply is particularly responsible for commodity price increases due to the fact that it enjoys a status as the world's reserve currency (although perhaps not for much longer). This means that most of the world's commodities are priced in US Dollars and thus most countries must first purchase dollars before they can purchase the things they need. The end result has been the printing of substantially more US Dollar than would have been necessary for US use only.
The ramifications of this explosion in the volume of US dollars and more recently derivatives goes far beyond a discussion of price increases alone. These issues will be a fruitful source for future Falcon discussions. In the meantime, people have begun to awaken to this long dormant monster called Inflation and it will be drawn more and more to center stage, as ones quality of life is dramatically impacted by the rising cost of living, stagnant wages, a lack of savings and credit, along with a contracting economy.
I leave you with the following comforting thought:
"The central bank is an institution of the most deadly hostility existing against the Principles and form of our Constitution. I am an Enemy to all banks discounting bills or notes for anything but Coin. If the American People allow private banks to control the issuance of their currency, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the People of all their Property until their Children will wake up homeless…" – Thomas Jefferson (1743 – 1826)
There are solutions but they require sober minded assessment in the cold light of reason, a return to economic sanity and a strong dose of common sense.
Stay tuned.
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Obama Lands in MO, Pauses for Photos, Then Heads to Joplin For 10 Minute Speech… And More Photos Before Flying Back to DC
Obama landed in Missouri moments ago one week after the deadly tornado killed at least 139 people.
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U.S. President Barack Obama greets Missouri Governor Jay Nixon and his wife Georganne after arriving in Joplin, Missouri, May 29, 2011. Obama travelled. (REUTERS/Jason Reed)
Obama posed for pictures then boarded an aircraft for Joplin.
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He will speak with the tornado victims for 10 minutes.
He will then give a 10 minute speech at Missouri Southern University.
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Driving for the SV Racing team Ant Whorton-Eales won the season's opening race at Brands Hatch after taking the lead at the very last bend. Team BMR Restart with Pyro's Ashley Sutton was second and his team-mate Ash Hand third as the three of them flashed across the line separated by just 0.508 of a second – the closest top-three finish ever recorded in the Clio Cup.
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That was almost equalled a fortnight later at Donington Park which hosted three races. In the first of them Sutton achieved his maiden Clio Cup race win from Whorton-Eales with 20Ten Racing's Jordan Stilp next up – the top three this time covered by a mere 0.513s. Pyro's Brett Smith in fourth was himself only 0.618s behind winner Sutton it should be noted!
Hand retired from that race but bounced back immediately with victory – his first in the Clio Cup – in the next one ahead of Whorton-Eales and WDE Motorsport's triple champion Paul Rivett. Whorton-Eales won Donington's third race from Sutton and SVR's Jack Mitchell.
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Lord McCarthy asked Her Majesty's Government:
The Ministry of State, Department of Social Security (Lord Mackay of Ardbrecknish): My Lords, the Government have no plans to introduce such a link.
Lord McCarthy: My Lords, I thank the Minister for that reply, which is even more unsatisfactory than that which his noble friend Lord Caithness gave me three years ago. Does he agree that it is disgraceful that the Government are now forcing performance-related pay on to everyone who receives government money, from the Civil Service to the Tate Gallery? They are forcing neurosurgeons, lighthouse keepers and others on to performance-related pay. Apparently, the only group to which that does not apply is the Government. How can that be?
Lord Mackay of Ardbrecknish: My Lords, I am sorry that the noble Lord feels that my performance was not adequate. He has probably given me nothing out of 10 on his score sheet. But, as my noble friend Lord Caithness said when the Question was last asked, the roles of government Ministers would be very difficult to quantify and relate to performance. In any case, unlike most of the other groups that he mentioned, the Government carry a fairly drastic performance-related index, which is a kind of political snakes and ladders. You can climb up the ladder from junior whip to senior whip, to parliamentary under-secretary to minister of state and maybe even higher; then, with a bit of bad luck, you fall off and go down the snake to the Back Benches. That is a fairly dramatic way to judge performance.
Lord Hailsham of Saint Marylebone: My Lords, having regard to the fact that all Ministers of whatever government hold their office during pleasure, that is to say, without any right to notice at all, is not this Question the silliest that has ever been asked in recent years?
Lord Mackay of Ardbrecknish: My Lords, my noble friend makes roughly the same point that I made but is slightly blunter. Indeed, Ministers in another place can find themselves having to serve two masters: one, the Prime Minister; and secondly, their electorate. Sometimes that can cause very sudden falls from grace.
Lord Avebury: My Lords, can the Minister say why the Home Secretary and the Minister who deals with
Lord Mackay of Ardbrecknish: My Lords, I recall that the noble Lord found more or less the same kind of snake as I once found. With regard to his more substantive point about the Home Secretary and Ministers at the Home Office, they take the policy decisions regarding the whole question of penal policy and the Director of the Prison Service runs the service itself. It is a perfectly understandable division of responsibilities.
Lord Boyd-Carpenter: My Lords, will my noble friend confirm that the difficulty in adopting the proposal suggested in the Question is that it would involve paying Ministers enormous increases in salary, which would be rather embarrassing?
Lord Mackay of Ardbrecknish: My Lords, my noble friend makes a very good point. I might have to declare an interest in this matter. If performance were judged on the amount of legislation in this Parliament, for example, I might hit the top of the league.
Lord Eatwell: My Lords, is the Minister aware that the salary of the Governor of the Bank of New Zealand is linked inversely to the rate of inflation? In a week which has seen a sharp rise in inflation in this country, does he agree that it would be appropriate to reduce the Chancellor's salary? Or does he feel that perhaps it would be even more appropriate to reduce the salary of the man who really runs Britain's economic policy; namely, Mr. Eddie George?
Lord Mackay of Ardbrecknish: My Lords, I shall not take any lessons on the levels of inflation from a member of the party opposite, given the fact that for many months now our inflation rate has been at quite historically low levels. When looking for performance indicators, we might, for example, see how successful a Minister is in controlling and reducing public spending. Indeed, the party opposite might consider that the proper indicator is by how much public expenditure has been increased. That is what they would do if ever they had the chance to sit on this side of the House.
Lord Renton: My Lords, is my noble friend aware that the British people will continue to expect Ministers to do what is in the people's interest, irrespective of its effect on the Ministers' interests?
Lord Mackay of Ardbrecknish: My Lords, my noble friend is absolutely right. All Ministers carry out their responsibilities in a way that they believe will further the interests of the British people.
Lord Molloy: My Lords, does the Minister agree that many skilled artisans and professional men and women believe that they do not get a fair deal when the work that they do is compared, not necessarily with Ministers, but with some senior civil servants whose rises seem so easy to get?
Lord Mackay of Ardbrecknish: My Lords, I am not entirely sure whether senior civil servants or civil
Lord McCarthy: My Lords, do the Government deny that every single voluntary organisation receiving government money, as a condition of continuing to receive that money, now has to introduce some system of appraisal and performance-related pay? They all do it and they all hate it. The only place where it does not apply is in the Government. Is the only argument they can offer that their jobs are uncertain? Everyone's job is uncertain but only the Government have no performance-related pay.
Lord Mackay of Ardbrecknish: My Lords, with due respect to the noble Lord, he overstates his case. In fact, there would be very few people not running to someone like the noble Lord if they suddenly found themselves sacked by evening time. Government Ministers and Members of Parliament are in exactly that position. All Ministers could be out of a job by the end of the evening without recourse to an industrial tribunal or the employment protection that other people have.
Lord Dubs asked Her Majesty's Government:
The Minister of State, Department of Trade and Industry (Earl Ferrers): My Lords, the export of leg shackles is controlled and export licences would not be granted. It is impossible, of course, to control the use to which perfectly legitimate goods may be put in other countries.
Lord Dubs: My Lords, in view of the "Dispatches" programme on Channel 4 television last month which indicated that leg shackles and electric shock batons were being exported by this country, will the Minister look again at that vile trade and give us an assurance that it will stop immediately?
Earl Ferrers: My Lords, I understand that the Channel 4 programme, to which the noble Lord referred, consisted of a person who set up other companies to try to supply various pieces of equipment. He tried to get the Royal Ordnance and ICL Technical Plastics to supply electric batons. The Royal Ordnance offered to supply from abroad but did not do so. ICL Technical Plastics offered to supply various equipments and
Baroness Jeger: My Lords, can the Minister confirm that this country is not exporting land-mines, which continue to kill and maim indefinitely? We should all be relieved to know that we are not playing any part in the export of those instruments.
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OYSTER BAY, N.Y. (AP) — FBI divers and New York police attempting to retrieve a capsized yacht that sank, killing three children, ran into difficulty securing the vessel in murky waters 60 feet below the surface of Long Island's Oyster Bay on Tuesday. They planned to resume efforts to bring it to the surface on Wednesday.
Investigators want to retrieve the vessel, which sank July 4 following a fireworks display, to assist their probe into how it capsized. Police have said a variety of factors, including overcrowding — there were 10 children and 17 adults aboard the 34-foot Kandi Won — weather and possible mechanical malfunctions could have caused the accident.
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James Mercante, an attorney for the boat's owner, Kevin Treanor — whose 11-year-old daughter, Harlie Treanor, was among those killed — insisted at a news conference Tuesday that overcrowding was not a cause of the accident. He said the vessel was equipped with the required number of life jackets for all 27 passengers.
The children who died were not required to be wearing life jackets because they were in the boat's cabin, authorities said. Adults are not required to wear life jackets, but all vessels must have one available for every passenger.
Sal Aureliano, who was at the helm of the vessel, has said he saw two lightning bolts and then a wave suddenly hit the boat. The National Weather Service said a thunderstorm moved through the area about 20 minutes after the first 911 call at 10:10 p.m., and winds never exceeded 10 to 15 mph.
Aureliano's 12-year-old nephew, David Aureliano, was also killed. The third casualty was a friend of the Treanor and Aureliano families, Victoria Gaines, who would have turned 8 on July 6. A funeral for David Aureliano was held Monday and the two girls were buried on Tuesday.
Mercante said Treanor is "a very, very distraught and bereaved man right now. It's a very, very terrible tragedy."
The attorney, who said he is a former Navy captain and graduate of the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy, disputed suggestions that overcrowding was a factor in the accident.
"This is a 34-foot boat," he said. "It's not like it was an 18-foot boat with 27 people on one side. The people on the boat were all distributed evenly throughout the boat."
He added: "Sometimes weight helps stability."
Detective Lt. John Azzata, commander of the Nassau County homicide squad, who is leading the investigation, said divers were attempting to secure the vessel with a network of straps that would be placed underneath the boat. Large inflatable air bags were then to be inflated, raising the boat to the surface, where it would then be placed on a barge and transported to a police department marine facility for further investigation.
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Herbert Hoover High School students see portable classrooms for first time
Herbert Hoover High School students got their first look at the portable classrooms where they will learn this school year, after the deadly floods last June ruined the school.
The students and teachers have been through quite a lot since the floods and now they finally have a place to call home.
They were skeptical about going to school in portable classrooms but after taking a look at them during an open house on Friday, they're excited to get back to school on Monday.
The new hallways are very different from what Herbert Hoover students are used to.
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Students will hit the books starting Monday in the portable classrooms in the Elkview Middle School parking lot, after the June 2016 floods destroyed their high school in Falling Rock.
"I loved it there, I really miss it a lot," Oxley said.
Students recall going inside the school after the floods and seeing mud and water all over the place where they made memories with friends.
"It was sad, it was devastating then going down the road and seeing everyone in Clendenin and seeing all the houses flooded," said Austin Stafford who will be a Senior.
On Friday, students went room to room with their new schedules in hand and parents by their side to talk with teachers.
At first, most students were concerned about going to class in portables but they were pleasantly surprised at what they saw when they went inside the classrooms.
"They're nice, they are a lot bigger than I thought they would be," Stafford said.
"It's a lot better than the regular classes in the school," said Zach Spencer who will be a Junior.
"They're really nice, good air conditioning, big classrooms," Oxley said.
Last school year, the Huskies had to share the Elkview Middle School building and each school had half days.
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People are more savvy than ever before about the ways shops get them to spend their money, but the retailers are always coming up with new tactics.
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Widespread Panic, Independence Arena, Charlotte, NC- 11/16 & 17
The Queen City
There's something about seeing Widespread Panic in the Southeast.
It's kind of like eating pizza-by-the-slice on the streets of New York City or watching a baseball game at Wrigley Field in Chicago – it's just one of the finer things in life. Panic on its home turf below the Mason-Dixon Line is where it's at. No doubt about it.
Want proof? Check out the setlists from this past weekend's two-night run at Charlotte's Independence Arena.
11/16/01 Independence Arena, Charlotte, NC
1: Sometimes, Space Wrangler, Dyin' Man, This Part Of Town, Greta > Blight > Henry Parsons Died, Let It Rock, Thought Sausage
2: Arleen > Bear's Gone Fishin', Conrad, Don't Tell The Band, E on a G, Flat Foot Flewzy > Drums* > I Walk On Guilded Splinters* > Hatfield > Imitation Leather Shoes
E: Chainsaw City**, Chilly Water**
- with Brad Rosen on percussion
- with Brad Rosen on percussion, Jerry Joseph on guitar/vocals
The band opened the first night by tackling "Sometimes", their cover of a fireHose song that appears on their newest studio release, Don't Tell the Band. Despite some sound gremlins, the band plowed through "Sometimes" and drifted into the opening notes of "Space Wrangler." This Wrangler was big and beautiful, with a nice jam on the end that welcomed late-comers as they arrived in the arena following some serious hang-ups in the venue's security personnel. "Dyin Man" was next and the sound problems started creeping in again- which meant I was headed for the concession stand for a Budweiser and a trip to the bathroom. I returned as keyboardist JoJo Hermann tickled the ivories for the opening of "This Part of Town". The arena was filling up to its 10,500-seat full capacity at this point and the crowd was sliding into the groove laid down by guitarist Michael Houser.
While the first half the set was plagued with inadequate sound, the second half had no such problems. "Greta" got it off to a rocking start and the boys followed it up with a nasty "Blight." I love Blight and I love Vic Chesnutt for writing it. This song has long been a favorite of mine and Panic's basszilla Dave Schools tore this one apart. Schools' bass line and percussionist Sunny Ortiz's congo work twisted and twined through this one and led into a full-on "Henry Parsons Died". Over the last few years, I've never been a huge Parsons fan. In past tours, Parsons has frequented the setlists more often than not and I grew tired of it. I always felt the song needed to be shelved for a while- a little aging would do it some justice. Not that I don't like Bloodkin's Danny Hutchens songwriting abilities- he's good, but the song's presence at shows had lost its thunder. Fast-forward until ChiWeen 2001 just a few weeks ago. As those familiar opening notes hit the crowd at UIC Pavilion, it was the same song but an entirely new Parsons. Big and burly, like a 300-pound gorilla sitting in the middle of your living room floor- just the way it's meant to be. Charlotte's Parsons got the same treatment. This Parsons was HEAVY and MEAN and was out to kick some ass. Which lead perfectly into the Chuck Berry classic, "Let It Rock". The band was on fire for this one as everyone onstage seemed to be getting off. As "Let It Rock" wound down, I thought the set would surely be over eight songs and an approximately 50-minute first set but as the song closed, Houser's guitar screamed the opening notes of "Thought Sausage". A nasty set closer for a nice first set. This was no 50-minute set Northeast Panic: it was the real-deal, the six-headed beast rockin' full-on in North Carolina.
Second set is what Panic is all about- loud rock n roll and in your face.The band also tinkered with some silliness and threw a curveball to the crowd: The Alphabetical Setlist will be notorious for Panic fans for years. Arleen was just nasty, plain and simple- it's rare that she opens a set and this was one for the ages. John Bell had a nice little rap in here and Schools responded with some impromptu rapping of his own. The jam out of Arleen segued nicely into Bear Gone Fishin, which slid into the biggest Conrad I've ever been witness to. The Panic was firing on all cylinders- it still amazes me that Conrad was one of the first songs J.B. wrote. Great lyrics for such a raw poet. This was the highlight of the two nights for me.
Don't Tell the Band was next and it never really gets me going. I headed for a Bud and some smoke. And I was welcomed back into the arena with the soothing jam intro to "E on a G". Right on time. This was pure magic.
Saturday night's are the normal spot for NRBQ's Flat Foot Flewzy, but the band needed an F to continue the alphabetical theme. The band nailed it and Sunny and drummer Todd Nance took over for Drums. Brad Rosen, from Jerry Joseph's Jackmormons, came out to lend a hand. Guilded Splinters was driven by Bell's vocals and slide work and led into one of craziest versions of "Hatfield" that I've ever laid ears on. J.B. was in fine form here, leading the band through the epic rainmaker's tale and into the Schools-driven "Imitation Leather Shoes."
Jerry Joseph was summoned for the rocking "Chainsaw City->Chilly Water" encore, a monster encore for a monstrous show.
11/17/01 Independence Arena, Charlotte, NC
1: Little Lilly > Blackout Blues, Party At Your Mama's House > Stop Breakin' Down Blues, Down, Radio Child > Little Kin, Barstools and Dreamers, Dream Song
2: Papa Legba > Ain't Life Grand, Cortez the Killer* > Drive* > Climb To Safety* > Drums** > Papa's Home, Red Hot Mama > Give
E: City of Dreams, Porch Song
- with Brad Rosen on percussion, Jerry Joseph on guitar/vocals
- with Brad Rosen on percussion
['Let's Get It On' rap by JB during 'Barstools and Dreamers'; Jerry Joseph & the Jackmormons opened; Mike sat in with Jerry Joseph & the Jackmormons for 'The Fastest Horse In Town' and Mike and Jo Jo sat with Jerry Joseph & the Jackmormons in for 'Road To Damascus' > 'We'll Be Fine']
"Little Lily->Blackout Blues" opened the second night in Charlotte. No sound problems and the crowd filled the arena by the time Hermann screamed, "Movin' back to Mississippi, before I lose my mind." "Party at Your Mama's House" was next and was another welcomed instrumental. I love Panic's songs they write great lyrics and deal with a variety of themes but their instrumentals is where they shine in my eyes. The jams. No words required.
PAYMH ran smoothly into the Stones classic, "Stop Breaking Down Blues." I saw the first version at NOLAWEEN 00 and have seen many since the band keeps improving on this one, especially J.B. His slide work is becoming essential to the Panic sound. I think he's taking lessons from Warren Haynes. "Down" was nice, but the heat of the two nights was the "Radio Child->Little Kin, Barstools and Dreamers, Dream! Song" that closed the first set. The Barstools was HUGE. J.B. made Marvin Gaye proud with a sweet "Let's Get It On" rap and tease in the middle and the subtle whine of "Dream Song" was music to this fan's ears. This one normally falls in the second set closer/encore category and for it to rear its head in the night's first hour of music was bliss, through and through.
What better way to wake up the dreamy crowd after setbreak than the Talking Heads' "Papa Legba". Loud, voodoo craziness that led into "Ain't Life Grand." Bell welcomed back Jerry Joseph and Brad Rosen to the stage and launched into the band's second attempt at Neil Young's "Cortez the Killer". Panic debuted the song at this year's Halloween show and I was very disappointed. J.B. missed some of the lyrics, the eerieness of the song wasn't right and the venue's sound sucked.
Saturday's version was THE HEAT. Jerry Joseph made this version, simply because he is as hard-nosed, balls-to-the-wall as they come. Houser and he caught fire during this one and J.B. was on top of the vocals. It was eerie, which is actually how this tune should feel. Neil Young is a bad ass and those who cover his songs should heed caution but Panic nailed this Cortez. I hope they never play it again. It wouldn't compare.
Cortez jammed right into a Jerry Joseph original, "Drive", which featured a "Whole Lotta Love" tease by Joseph that nearly ripped the roof off Independence/Cricket Arena. "Climb to Safety" followed and although those who love this song said it was a great version, I wouldn't know I grabbed a Bud and headed for the bathroom.
The "Papa's Home" that followed out of Drums was tight and gigantic- I love hearing the band play this as they head down the home stretch of a long tour. Gives me goose bumps. The "Red Hot Mama->Give" was just what the doctor ordered rock n roll. Just the way to end a two-night run.
The "City of Dreams->Porch Song" encore was a great example of the one-two punch that Panic so often delivers. The eloquent Talking Heads cover and Panic's anthem if there ever was one. Doesn't get much better than that.
Don't miss seeing these guys when they return home to the comfy confines of the Southeast. They'll knock your Aunt Connie's socks off.


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Eons ago I managed a high end apartment community and our housekeeper shared this tidbit with me. I have been hooked every sense! Step one, clean with your normal shower cleaner. Step two, spray the oven cleaner nice and thick over your shower. I do this with my marble, tile and fiberglass showers. I let it set about 10 minutes then scrub and rinse. It will cut through any soap scum you have. Note: you can use any brand of oven cleaner. Just make sure to turn your overhead vents on before spraying. I like to think of it as my deep clean conditioner and use it about once a month. Happy cleaning!


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Today June 18 Llagaron me packages with purchases made this nice dress, I like and meet the expected expectations is just as shown in the picture.
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When I let it go, my health improved.
I remember when my life was not calm, serene or spiritual. Honestly, I have had my fair share of difficulties. I watch some of my friends who are still stuck in it and I started thinking about it: How did I actually change in my life? If I put it into actual words, will it help others?
Let's start with the obvious, I'm older. My kids are grown up and living on their own, mostly. I don't have to play the school game anymore. Our children don't realize that as they are going into the school battlefield each day parents are in the trenches with them. It can be like going back to school ourselves.
When I was younger, I tended to be more of a "me" person than a "we" person. I judged others. When I realized that my opinion of someone else didn't mean a hill of beans to the world, I started to actually listen rather than talk. This gave me more perspective on each persons' actual situation in their life. When you judge you hurt yourself more than anyone else.
A big thing for me was learning to change my words and my thoughts. I vividly remember several instances in life when I wasn't even looking at the issues facing me. I was blaming everyone and expecting a miracle. Looking back, I see that my despair and my thoughts were bringing more of the same into my life then. It really is the old adage, "what a man thinketh". Our very thoughts are co-creating our lives daily.
In studying various aspects of metaphysics, I learned how our emotions really negatively impact everything in life. I started forgiving. I let go. I didn't hold on to it anymore, holding on wasn't making my life any better. When I let it go, my health improved.
The future is not written yet. The past is a page we read yesterday. When we take pen to paper today, that is what we need to be aware of.
So how can my story help you? Let's see if we can make a formula out of it.
- If you have children in school it is impossible not to be a part of the drama. Schools are filled with lower level energy. Do your best to rise above, listen objectively and be the bigger person.
- If your children are all grown up, love them, but this is their experience.
- Life is like a trip to the grocery store. Experiences we have are items we have pulled from the shelves and placed in our carts. You don't have to take everything to the check out with you.
- Take a few simple words completely out of your vocabulary and you will take the tribulations associated with them out of your life. First quit trying, then stop thinking about it. Actively participate in things in your life and take the measures to get it done.
- What are you thinking about? Our thoughts are like dropping a pebble in a calm lake. They are beamed out like the ripples and attract things to us. Negative self-talk attracts negative experiences. Positive self-talk attracts positive experiences.
- Let it go! Forgive yourself. Everything you hold on to holds on to you as well. Life is a cycle and we follow patterns. When we break the cycle, things change for the better.
- Find your joy in the now. The past is gone, future isn't happening. Be present, participate in your life.
- Health is about learning what emotion you have carried around until it hits you in the physical body and requires you to notice it. Once you face the emotion and start to release it you will see your health improve.
I'm not saying any of this is easy. It has taken me about 30 years to get here. My hope is that perhaps some of you can speed up where you are now and have a smoother tomorrow. Let me make it easy: Let it go, be present, speak kindly to yourself and about yourself, be a doer, think good thoughts, love is not a 4 letter word.


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Thunderbolt! I've been waiting patiently for someone to announce a rollout of front or back-panel Thunderbolt headers and ports on motherboards for some time. Thunderbolt is a very flexible connection standard, allowing for two displays and five other devices to be daisy-chained on one cable system. Three competing motherboards have been launched in the weeks before Computex with Thunderbolt ports on their back panels: ASUS' P8Z77-V Premium, Intel's DZ77RE-75K and MSI's Z77A-GD80. All of them enable the kind of setup that Anandtech shows below, all running off of one cable and a wireless mouse and keyboard.
But the spotlight is on ASUS for now and they have a few things to share, starting with their open support for Thunderbolt and moving on to something I've always wanted to see – a phoneblet! Confused? Hit the jump to see more.
The P8Z77-V Premium comes with all the bells and whistles you can imagine. Its a full-sized ATX board with support for four graphics cards in PCI-Express 16x slots, a 32GB mSATA SSD for drive caching, nine SATA ports and a full complement of USB 3.0 headers, dual ethernet ports, Displayport, HDMI and Thunderbolt. The board should retail at a RRP of $450 (approx R3800) when it arrives on our shores. While the P8Z77-V Premium will be the only ASUS board available with Thunderbolt for now, there's a cheaper, $300-ish P8Z77V-Pro/Thunderbolt on the cards, which will also include the connection on the back panel and chop out the SSD and one PCI-Express 16x slot.
Thunderbolt enables the kinds of simplicity Apple users have enjoyed (bugs and all) for the last year and a bit, most notably the Cinema Thunderbolt 27″ Display. Picture using your Windows Ultrabook with a TB connection on two displays using TB along with a wireless keyboard and mouse, two NAS drives and an Ethernet connection. You disconnect the cable connecting the laptop to the setup and put it in your bag. On the way to work (if you ride a train or something where you're not the driver) you work on your whatever some more, saving it before packing the Ultrabook back into the bag for when you're walking to work. You get into the office, plug in your Ultrabook to your TB-packing monitor at work, again with a wireless keyboard and mouse and another Ethernet connection and you continue life as normal. With a Thunderbolt-connected Nvidia Quadro GPU for accelerating your Photoshop efforts.
Its seriously convenient to have everything work on one cable, instead of only having to choose Dell, HP, or Lenovo laptops with their overpriced desktop docks. I've always maintained that consumers (not us NAG readers, because we're more than just average consumers!) always favour convenience and ease of setup over something that might be cheaper but takes a bit more fiddling.
Moving right along, ASUS has another product in the pipeline – the ThunderboltEX PCI-Express card. Since Thunderbolt is a 10Gb/s bidirectional connection, it needs to have four PCI Express lanes for the add-on card to ensure that it runs at full speed. The ThunderboltEX features a single Displayport and a Thunderbolt port. The card will run on any motherboard which provides a working TB header on the board. However, without a Displayport signal, the connection cannot allow two displays on a single TB cable, thereby limiting the card's usefulness with a motherboard that doesn't have on-board Displayport.
The ThunderboltEX is the standard card, with the EX/Dual sporting two Thunderbolt ports with an additional Displayport to support up to two monitors on the second chain. While there will be other Thunderbolt add-in cards to choose from, its likely that the EX is going to be one of the few that offer the option to add displays to the chain as well. The ThunderboltEX is aimed at owners of the P8Z77-V Deluxe, P8Z77-V, P8Z77-V LE, P8H77-V, Sabertooth Z77, P8Z77-V Pro, P8Z77-V LE Plus, P8-Z77-V LK, P8H77-M Pro and Maximus V Gene motherboards.
And for ASUS Padfone owners (not that anyone has one right now) who were planning on using their phones connected to the compatible tablet and keyboard docks, here's something that might simplify your life a little more. More and more people are turning to smartphones for work purposes and the Padfone and Motorola Atrix at least enabled power users to get halfway there. The Transformer Prime family notwithstanding, the Padfone might be your weapon of choice thanks to a new monitor dock.
I like the idea already. The monitor is a 24-inch LED-backlit affair and features a dock for the phone at the bottom. It serves up HDMI, VGA and DVI connectors as well as four USB 3.0 ports. The keyboard and mouse you see are Bluetooth-connected and are optional extras. What's really interesting is that the monitor can also be used as a regular monitor, suggesting that it can switch on the fly to the Padfone. The dock also charges the phone, keeping battery life nice and high for power users. Oh, it also sits at 1920 x 1200 resolution. I sense a wave of people who never owned the Samsung T260 about to queue up to buy this one anyway. If you're not following me, its incredibly hard to find a cheapish monitor with a vertical length longer than 1080 pixels. While most content is in the default 16:9 ratio, 16:10 is a lot better and allows screens with higher clarity thanks to the extra pixels crammed into it.
That's all for now folks, although ASUS has a few more interesting announcements to cover, including a Transformer that is going to be the envy of many. Stay tuned!
Source: Tom's Hardware, Tom's Hardware again and Anandtech
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I made these for a few families this year - added the vinyl sayings on back and front, bow around top, and of course, the lollies!
Love that when it's empty you can see both designs.
The only complaint I have with these is that there is no lid! Self control I say!!!!! LOL, yep, who am I kidding right - just don't put chocolate in it and they are safe with me.
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Missouri's enticement package for a new Boeing assembly plant cleared its most daunting obstacle Wednesday as state senators passed a plan that could offer up to $1.7 billion of incentives over two decades.
The Senate's 23-8 vote in a special session sends the measure to the House, where final approval could come as soon as Friday.
Then it will be up to Boeing to determine how Missouri's offer stacks up.
Missouri is among more than a dozen locations invited by the company to bid on assembling all or part of its new 777X airplane. The cross-country competition includes states such as Alabama, South Carolina and Utah and comes after union machinists in Washington state rejected a proposed Boeing contract that sought concessions on benefits.
While his home state lawmakers were considering incentives, Missouri congressman Blaine Luetkemeyer met Wednesday in the nation's capital with Boeing CEO W. James McNerney Jr.
"He didn't tip his hand as far as whether Missouri was ahead or behind in regards to the decision to be made. Obviously, they're going to wait until all the proposals have been received," Luetkemeyer said. "But he was very supportive of the people who work for Boeing right now in St. Louis."
Missouri already makes military aircraft in the St. Louis area, and Boeing employs about 15,000 people in Missouri, making it the state's fourth-largest private-sector employer.
A Boeing spokesman has said the company isn't commenting about specific proposals being developed by states, which are due by next Tuesday.
Most other states are crafting their proposals privately. But Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon called a special session because he wanted to offer more incentives than now allowed under state law.
Under Missouri's plan, the amount of incentives Boeing gets would depend on the number of jobs created.
Supporters of the incentive package say Missouri could gain 8,000 additional Boeing jobs if it chooses to assemble the new commercial airplane in Missouri, and 2,000 to 3,000 jobs if Boeing decides to build only the airplane wing in St. Louis. Thousands of additional employees could be added at businesses that supply parts to Boeing.
Some of the senators who voted against the plan questioned the wisdom of tailoring tax breaks for a specific company instead of cutting taxes for all businesses or individuals. Nixon vetoed a broad-based income tax cut earlier this year.
"This public policy is not healthy for the long-term economic prosperity of Missouri," said Sen. Brad Lager, R-Savannah.
One of the key ingredients in Missouri's full-blast campaign to land The Boeing Co.'s 777X assembly line didn't even exist six months ago. The Missouri Works tax credit program was created by lawmakers just this spring to help streamline the state's massive menu of job-creation incentives. It combined four other programs and gave state economic development officials more flexibility to offer tax credits to smaller companies and high-tech employers.
Now just three months after its launch, Nixon wants to give Missouri Works a big boost to land a really big prize.
Nixon is proposing the addition of a combined $150 million per year to Missouri Works and a related job-training program, the Build Missouri program for infrastructure, and the state's version of tax increment financing.
Unlike some state tax credits, all of these are based directly on job creation and mostly refund withholding taxes paid by employers for new jobs. That gives the state some protection, Nixon points out. If Boeing creates no jobs, it gets no money.
Still, the tab to taxpayers could wind up quite large. An analysis issued by Nixon's office Tuesday projected that Boeing could receive as much as $1.7 billion in tax credits over the next 23 years, with a smaller number if it builds a smaller facility. To receive the full amount, the aerospace giant would need to create 8,000 jobs and pay an average wage of $95,000 a year.
As big as those incentive numbers are, they are dwarfed by the $8.7 billion package Washington state lawmakers approved for the plant last month, before Boeing's Machinists union in the Puget Sound area rejected a contract. Other suitors — especially big states such as California and Texas — are expected to offer packages that number in the billions, too. And some will be able to offer money up front, something Missouri law prohibits.
Missouri's package is designed to help get production up to speed as fast as possible, said a state economic development official who helped craft the proposal but wasn't authorized to speak publicly about it.
"This is assuming that they need to be in production by 2017 to deliver planes by 2020," he said. "It's a very short ramp-up time."
There are other ways Missouri is trying to sweeten the pot.
Nixon says five community colleges in the St. Louis area have formed a consortium to train workers for advanced manufacturing jobs at aerospace companies. The Missouri Aerospace Training Consortium will be made up of East Central College, Jefferson College, Mineral Area College, St. Charles Community College and St. Louis Community College. The schools currently offer programs in welding, aerospace production and assembly, and robotics and automation. They have also committed to working to have minorities account for at least 10 percent of those receiving training.
Nixon earlier this week announced a deal with St. Louis-area construction unions, which agreed to work three eight-hour shifts building the plant, should Boeing choose St. Louis, instead of the usual one or two shifts. That would reduce overtime costs and could slice two years off the construction schedule, Nixon said.
This deal makes a lot of sense with unemployment among St. Louis-area construction workers still hovering around 25 percent, said Jeff Aboussie, executive secretary-treasurer of the St. Louis Building and Construction Trades Council.
"We've got plenty of people available to work. What better way to get them back to work than shift work and completing a project in record time?" he said. "I'd think it would mean we could start making wings and fuselages quicker."
Meanwhile, Kansas Department of Commerce spokesman Dan Lara said Wednesday that the agency's staff was working on completing its own Boeing package, but he declined to disclose details. He said Boeing reached out to Kansas and other states to bid on the work after the Washington developments. The Kansas package would likely span several years and be worth tens of millions to Boeing through credits and other financial incentives.
However, Kansas is relying on existing economic incentive programs related to job training, workforce development and provisions that could allow the expensing of new equipment purchases over several years.
Gov. Sam Brownback has said Kansas would make a run at landing the contract, which could result in between 7,000 and 10,000 new aviation jobs in the Wichita area, which has been greatly affected by aviation industry layoffs over the past decade.
Jeremy Hill, director of the Center for Economic Development and Business Research at Wichita State University, said that while Kansas has a highly skilled workforce and lower labor costs than other states, the lack of a shipping port is a downside for locating a new plant.
Hill said even though Kansas is a right-to-work state, which factors in the comparison of overall labor costs, money still matters on the front end.
"In this environment of economic incentives, Kansas and Missouri are the least likely to pony up enough," Hill said. "Other states can throw a lot of money at this."
Gov. Robert Bentley said Alabama also will be among the states submitting a proposal to Boeing, and that package will stress more than just the money the state is offering.
"We are a right-to-work state, and that is vitally important," Bentley said Wednesday.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.