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The Mississippi Legislature recently voted to give $70 million to a Japanese company to build a tire manufacturing company in Clay County.
The company projects 500 new jobs at the plant and a company investment of $300 million. Long-term plans call for a total state investment of $130 million, a company investment of $1.2 billion and a total of 2,000 new jobs. The University Research Center estimates the state will recover its investment within 9-10 years through increased economic activity. The state Senate adopted the legislation unanimously. Two Republicans voted no in the House.
The math is pretty simple. In the short run, the state will spend $70 million to create 500 jobs, a cost of $140,000 per job. Over time, the state will spend $130 million for 2,000 jobs, $65,000 per job. Other states do the same.
Now comes an even larger economic development project at a much lower cost – the expansion of the state Medicaid program. Here's how. Mississippi will agree to add about 300,000 working Mississippians who currently have no health insurance to its Medicaid program. In exchange, the federal government will pay 100 percent of the medical costs of the expansion for the first three years. After that, the federal reimbursement rate will slowly decrease to 90 percent where it will remain. According to the same Mississippi economists who vetted the Clay County project, over the next 10 years Mississippi will receive nearly $10 billion at a net cost to the state of $368 million. The economists also project the creation of nearly 9,000 new jobs.
But there is more. Under the new Affordable Care Act, companies with more than 50 employees must provide health insurance to their employees or pay penalties of $2,000 to $3,000 per employee. Employees covered by Medicaid are not subject to the penalty. Jackson Hewitt, a respected nationwide tax preparation service, estimates that if Mississippi does not expand Medicaid, Mississippi employers could be subject to penalties ranging from $21.7 million to $32.6 million.
Mississippi's hospitals, including the University of Mississippi Medical Center, will lose up to $200 million per year to pay for the uninsured. Medicaid expansion will replace most, if not all, these dollars. If we reject the expansion, UMC will lose $100 million, and the state's other hospitals will share in the loss of the other $100 million.
The math is pretty simple.
1) Reject Medicaid expansion and subject small employers to substantial penalties, forego 9,000 new jobs, face the closure of local hospitals and the loss of hundreds of jobs and reject $10 billion of new federal funds over 10 years, or
2) Expand Medicaid, provide 300,000 working Mississippians with health insurance, and create 9,000 new jobs at a fraction of the cost per job that the Legislature just spent in the single county of Clay.
You don't have to be an economist or a mathematician to figure this one out.
CECIL BROWN, CPA/PFS, is a Democratic member of the Mississippi House of Representatives from Jackson. Contact him through Brandon Jones, email@example.com.


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The Boston Globe recently published an article in its Movies section about the Coolidge Corner Theatre's screening of the 1923 classic silent film Safety Last! on December 16 accompanied by the Berklee Silent Film Orchestra. The article discusses ArtsEmerson's decision to screen the film at the Cutler Majestic on December 31 as a part of Boston's First Night. The film will be preceded by a short documentary about the creation of the original musical score for Safety Last! by Berklee students, which was produced by Emerson MFA students.
The article also mentions Emerson student and filmmaker Connor Buso-Jarnis '15, who is going to Senegal December 26 with fellow members of the Salem-based nonprofit teen organization Spark 540U. During the two-week visit, Buso-Jarnis will collect footage and interviews for a trailer that will be used to promote a future feature documentary to be shot in Senegal, called "Project Senegal." A team of Emerson students, with Buso-Jarnis directing, will collaborate on a documentary about the interactions between teenagers in Senegal and the United States, with the overall purpose of advocating for sustainable education in Senegalese schools. The project is being partially funded by the crowd-funding site Indiegogo.
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Buy a canary, Place it in an eight cubic foot chamber with normal atmospheric pressure and current concentrations of gas mix at sea level. Make certain that your canary has ample food and water. Slowly introduce CO2 into the chamber. Note the CO2 concentration at which the canary begins to show side effects from the increased CO2. Note the CO2 concentration when the canary dies from the increased CO2. Return here with your report and then try to convince ANYONE that CO2 is not a pollutant.
CO2 is both beneficial and harmful to life. Concentration is key to determining which it is. CO2 introduced into the atmosphere from the burning of fossil fuels is absolutely a pollutant. The burning of fossil fuels also introduces other pollutants into the environment. Why is that information so difficult for your MassiveCranium to absorb???
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Chip maker Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) is getting underway with a conference call for analysts to update them on its outlook for a broad restructuring effort announced October 18th, involving the laying off of 15% of its staff.
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Analysts expect seller's market to continue
When rock musician Dave Mason hit the Top 40 in 1977 with "We Just Disagree" — the one that goes "There ain't no good guy ... there ain't no bad guy ..." — it's safe to say he wasn't thinking of plastics mergers and acquisitions deals.
But Mason's song is a good fit, since M&A pros contacted recently by Plastics News don't see eye-to-eye on the 2012 market, though most of them are optimistic regarding 2013.
(Actually, Mason does have a plastics connection. He helped to design guitars with polyurethane bodies in the early 2000s. Prior to his plastics work, Mason was a founding member of Traffic, joined Fleetwood Mac for a while and also played 12-string acoustic guitar on the Jimi Hendrix classic "All Along the Watchtower.")
Officials with P&M Corporate Finance LLC, Polymer Transaction Advisors Inc. and Deloitte Corporate Finance LLC each saw plastics deal volume grow 8-12 percent in 2012. But officials at Stout Risius Ross Inc. tracked a much larger gain at 26 percent, while their counterparts at Blaige & Co. LLC and Mesirow Financial Holdings Inc. saw 2012 as being flat to slightly down.
Since there are no official statistics for plastics M&As, there is no real way to settle the argument. But M&A pros contacted for this story did share their insights on the market and what the future may hold.
In the 8-12 percent growth camp, Southfield, Mich.-based P&M saw global plastics deals jump from 347 in 2011 to 381 in 2012. All of that growth came in the second half, when deal volume surged more than 30 percent vs. the second half of 2011.
That 381-deal total was the second highest in the 2006-12 period, trailing only the 393 total of 2010, when many distressed deals took place as the market moved out of a global recession.
Based on end markets, P&M saw deal volume growth of almost 40 percent in industrial end markets. On the other end of the spectrum, the number of construction end-market deals fell 33 percent.
In individual sectors, P&M reported a surge of more than 70 percent in blow molding, while film deals fell 9 percent. In product segments, the number of custom injection molding deals also shot up more than 70 percent, as building product deals tumbled 33 percent.
"The first half and second half [of 2012] were similar," said John Hart, plastics and packaging group director at P&M. "The market is pretty strong for sellers right now. There are a lot of strategic buyers and undeployed capital out there."
"There's still a supply/demand imbalance with more buyers than sellers," he added. "But as long as the economy continues to recover and we don't experience a recession, we see conditions being strong in 2013."
Tracking mostly North American deals, Newbury, Ohio-based PTA saw a 10.6 percent jump in plastics deals volume in 2012.
"The cost of borrowing is less, particularly if you're a private equity group," PTA owner Bill Ridenour said. "With cheaper financing, buyers can afford more than they could in the past."
At Deloitte's Chicago office, Managing Director Will Frame said 2012's 8-12 percent growth "was good, but people were more optimistic at the start of the year."
"Conditions were decent in 2012 after a couple of tough years," he said. "And we expect 2013 to be a solid, strong year, but without radical growth."
The hefty 26 percent increase reported by Chicago-based SRR for 2012 plastics M&As includes a jump of 47 percent in the number of plastic packaging deals. The firm also reported big jumps in deal involvement from financial buyers (up 52 percent) and private equity sellers (up 65 percent).
"When we look at the medical and packaging markets, there's higher quality because they're less cyclical," SRR Managing Director David Evatz said. "There's a flight to quality.
"And even if you look at cyclical, we were on the upswing of a cycle in 2012," he added. "We caught the automotive market on the upswing."
Conversely, Blaige's president, Thomas Blaige, and Mesirow analyst Louis Mitchell were less than excited about 2012 plastics M&A results.
"There were more broken deals in 2012 than in any other year in the last decade," Blaige said. "There was a lot of uncertainty because of the [U.S. presidential] election and some sellers got back in too soon.
"Those [sellers] that were hammered in the financial crisis tried to get back [into the market], but there weren't enough good financial results," Blaige added. "A lot of them only had one good year. So sellers pulled out of deals when they didn't get the price they wanted.
"There was a gulf between buy and sell expectations and, as a result, a lot of deals weren't completed."
"Our data shows that the [plastics M&A] market was flat, but that's better than other markets that were down last year," Mitchell said. "People were concerned about the fiscal cliff and tax issues.
"Things weren't as bad [in 2012] as 2009, but we still haven't recovered to pre-recession levels."
A capital stampede?
As if lack of a consensus of 2012 results weren't enough, M&A pros contacted for this story also had differing opinions on how changes in U.S. tax rates affected plastics M&As last year. The capital gains tax rate increased from 15 percent to 20 percent in most cases. Costs associated with the Affordable Health Care Act — often called Obamacare — also could increase businesses' operating costs by almost 4 percent, said PTA's Ridenour.
Some M&A pros believe that a rush to avoid these higher taxes led numerous deals to be consummated by the end of 2012.
"The capital gains tax was a huge factor in 2012," PTA's Ridenour said. "On a $40 million transaction, you're talking about an increase of $2 million in taxes. And Obamacare would add another $1.6 million."
Blaige cited two deals that his Chicago-based firm was involved with that happened because of the tax change: the Bicknell family's sale of can-liner maker Pitt Plastics Inc. to Inteplast Group, and ILC Dover's purchase of industrial packaging maker Grayling Industries Inc.
Chicago-based Mesirow advised Trinity Packaging Corp. on its purchase of flexible packaging maker Cello-Pack Corp. — a deal that Mesirow's Mitchell said was dictated by the tax change. But Mitchell added that "nobody was saying, 'Don't sell in 2013 because the tax environment is going to be bad.' "
Ridenour and Blaige each said the number of plastics businesses up for sale so far in the first half of 2013 might be lower than normal because of the number of deals that were closed in late 2012. But others said the tax change isn't as big a deal as it's made out to be.
"Taxes were a factor [in 2012], but not a gigantic one," said Terry Minnick, president of Molding Business Systems in Florence, Mass. "A good deal is still a good deal. If the rate had gone to 50 percent, people would have looked at [selling] more."
"Capital gains clearly was a driver to get deals done, but it wasn't a fundamental," added Hart at P&M.
SRR saw some activity from capital gains, but "it didn't drive a lot of business," according to Evatz. "You would have had to start much earlier in the year with a specific goal," he said.
Deloitte also saw some tax-driven activity and closed a couple of deals where taxes played a role, Frame said. But he added that taxes were "only one of a number of factors that influenced year-end deals."
To market, to market
Packaging remained a popular investment area for plastics M&As in 2012, as did higher-margin markets such as medical. The same might hold true for 2013.
"Packaging is less subject to fluctuations like industrial and automotive markets are," said Elliott Farkas, managing director at William Blair & Co. in Chicago.
At Mesirow, Mitchell also said his firm "saw growth in all different types of packaging in 2012."
"Flexible packaging and films are very robust, but the market is fragmented," Mitchell said. "Companies are still trying to take market share away from each other. Rigid packaging is a little more consolidated than flexible."
Evatz said the packaging sector "continues to see larger deals," and higher multiples are being paid for medical plastics businesses.
"There's always going to be interest in packaging and medical … more so in some type of niche or proprietary product, where you have only a few suppliers vs. 50-100 suppliers," Evatz said.
Frame identified personal care and health care as "the most resilient sectors" in the plastics market in the last few years, saying that they've benefited from improved business conditions and markets. The auto market also has shown continued improvement, he added.
Industrial deals also could continue to shine in 2013, according to Minnick at MBS. "There's a lot of uncertainty about the economy, but manufacturing in the U.S. is on the upswing," he said. "The small and midsized molders we're talking to feel business is pretty good right now."
Minnick added that specialized injection molders are more attractive to potential buyers.
"It's harder to sell an undifferentiated molder," he said.
P&M's Hart said the number of industrial market and custom molding deals could increase again in 2013 because of pent-up demand from both strategic and financial buyers.
Hart added that the big gain seen in blow molding deals in 2012 might have been caused by an unusually low number of such deals in 2011. The 2012 total was closer to the multiyear average, Hart said.
And in spite of improvement in the number of U.S. housing starts in the last couple of years, M&A pros aren't expecting a big increase in deals in that sector.
"We'll see some building and construction deals because people think that market has bottomed out, but not a huge number," said Evatz.
Deals that stood out
In the second half of 2012, Platinum Equity LLC's acquisition of rigid packaging maker Bway Corp. topped the plastics M&A market with a valuation of $1.2 billion.
Farkas at William Blair said he was somewhat surprised by the deal because Platinum "isn't known for paying fairly high multiples." He described the purchase as "a good example of a financial buyer being aggressive."
Onex Corp.'s $732 million acquisition of plastics machinery maker KraussMaffei group also drew interest.
Onex, a Toronto-based private equity firm, had owned a stake in machinery firm Husky Injection Molding Systems Ltd. until 2011. Shortly after selling that stake, Onex bought extrusion equipment supplier Davis-Standard LLC.
Onex had bought KraussMaffei from another private equity firm — Madison Capital.
"Madison Capital bought KraussMaffei before the financial crisis — and then [KraussMaffei] went into a tailspin," Blaige said. "But they came back strong. The moral of the story is to buy a quality business."
At PTA, Ridenour said machinery firms are attractive to private equity firms because of their cyclicality, adding that as the world emerges from the global recession, "people are starting to buy machinery again." Andrew Petryk, managing director and principal at Brown Gibbons Lang & Co. in Cleveland, added that equipment makers "are good indicators to what people expect the market to do."
"People aren't going to buy equipment if things aren't that rosy," he said.
P&M's Hart pointed out that firms looking to be market consolidators — like Hillenbrand Inc. — also are attracted to the plastics machinery market, even if they weren't previously involved. Since late 2010, Hillenbrand has acquired equipment firms Rotex Global LLC, K-Tron International Inc. and Coperion GmbH. Prior to those deals, Hillenbrand had manufacturing assets, but none in plastics machinery.
Another example of the attraction to plastics machinery, according to BGL's Petryk, is manufacturing firm Nordson Corp. buying screw and barrel maker Xaloy Superior Holdings Inc. and flat-die maker EDI Holdings Inc.
In the medical sector, private equity firm Berwind Inc.'s purchase of medical packaging maker Oliver Products Co. was named Deal of the Year by M&A Investor magazine for deals valued at between $250 million and $500 million. Oliver previously was owned by private equity firm Mason Wells. Mesirow Financial served as an adviser on the deal.
P&M's Hart also cited Mold-Rite Plastics LLC's recent purchases of Weatherchem Corp. and Stull Technologies Inc. as deals that "represent significant consolidation within the closures space." P&M served as adviser on both deals. Mold-Rite is owned by private equity firm Irving Place Capital.
Some acquirers struck multiple times in 2012. Private equity firm Arsenal Capital Partners led the way with six plastics-related deals, picking up firms with around $600 million in annual sales. Hedstrom Plastics wasn't far behind with four plastics deals in 2012 — three in sporting goods and one in trash bins.
And serial acquirer Engineered Plastic Components Inc. continued its ways in 2012, buying a plant from Oneida Molded Plastics LLC. That deal was EPC's 14th injection molding-related deal since 2007. In 2011, the firm made five such deals.
Name your price
Valuations were on the upswing for many plastics-related deals in 2012, and M&A pros expect that trend to continue in 2013. PTA's multiple data for 2012 ranged from four times earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization for custom injection molders with annual sales of $10 million or less, all the way to six to 12 times earnings — or more — for makers of performance additives.
"We should still see mid- to high single digits in multiples," said Frame at Deloitte. "They're getting back to pre-recession levels."
"We saw modest improvement in multiples as [2012] went on," William Blair's Farkas said. Multiples "were coming from a pretty good spot in 2011." Farkas and others said a rate of seven times earnings is the midrange for many recent plastics deals.
Plastics products deals tracked by BGL during 2012 had multiples ranging from 3.7 to 12.6 times earnings. In containers and packaging deals tracked by the firm, the range was 5.2-9x.
"There's been a steady increase in valuation multiples," said Petryk of Brown Gibbons Lang. "You don't have to sacrifice on price to get a deal done."
Looking for right time
The big question faced eventually by all plastics business owners — especially entrepreneurs who have given most of their working lives to building up a company — is simply: Should I sell?
M&A pros contacted for this story said 2013 might be a good time to think about doing just that.
"If you're the founder of the company, and you're in your late 50s, you have to look at [selling] long and hard," said Petryk at BGL. "You have to ask yourself if you want to ride out another [business] cycle, because you know that industrial businesses are cyclical.
"At some point, there will be another downturn," he added. "So you have to have a view of what you want to do. It's not unreasonable to assume there will be another downturn in the next two to four years, and you want to sell before that downturn."
"In terms of there being a market for quality companies with good track records, 2013 should be very good," Blaige said. "Companies that missed a connection [in 2012] will reconnect."
At MBS, Minnick said his firm was contacted by four plastics companies wanting to test the market during a 10-day period in January. Those firms had annual sales ranging from $7 million to $35 million, he said.
According to Hart at P&M, 2013 will present a good market for plastics firms with "aging ownership, that might not have an option for a second or third generation."
"If that's the case, you have to ask if you want to make more investments," he said. "If you're a large plastic company with limited economic growth, you have to innovate or make acquisitions. If you're in a mature market, you have to go into acquisitions to spur growth."
At Deloitte, Frame said, "If it's the right time for you to sell, you're going to get more than fair valuation on your business in 2013. Strong market conditions aren't going to disappear overnight, but history tells us they don't last forever."
Overall, M&A pros expect 2013 to remain a sellers' market — and for interest in plastics from private equity firms to remain high. Most pros contacted for this story referred to the high amount of unspent funding still available in private equity markets.
At PTA, Ridenour highlighted another reason why plastics might benefit from money looking for a home in 2013: the lack of a better option.
"Plastics growth is good compared to some other businesses, especially in the U.S.," Ridenour said. "One of the things driving investments in plastics is asking if there are there alternate investments.
"There aren't a lot of alternate investments right now, so people are investing in equity businesses like plastics."


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I hopped on the phone with the guy who calls himself Your Baby Daddy's Favorite Baby Daddy to talk about his new track with Trinidad James, why it has taken so long for "Purp, Wind and Fire" to drop, and how awesome the Hall and Oates Pandora station...
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I usually don't feel bad if I'm the last one to get hip to a dope rapper. First of all, thanks to the internet, there are just too many pimply-faced 17-year-olds out there with cryptic music videos on YouTube filled with white girls wearing Jordans and fake mounds of cocaine to keep up with. Also, I have a lot of other serious interests outside of rap music that keep me busy—like nude body painting and jerk chicken. So, when my hommies over at Ballers Eve came to me raving about this hipster-hating MC from Atlanta named Grip Plyaz who they couldn't believe I hadn't heard of before, it didn't really phase me—until I actually listened to his shit.
I'm into Grips for the same reasons that I fell in love with VICE magazine when I was a pimply-faced 17-year-old—he's so ignorant, he's actually brilliant. Like southern rap pioneer Juicy J, there is a lot more going on in his seemingly repetitive verses than what is apparent on the surface. He shows he's got a sharp sense of humor with songs like "Died in Her Pussy," which is about croaking while you are balls deep in the pink. He also possesses a masterful flow that floats over beats and gets stuck in your head on infinite repeat. And he's experimental, unafraid to spit over instrumentals that are speckled with peculiar flourishes—like the power tool percussion that closes out "Fuck Dat Hipster Shit." The propulsive racket at the end of that track almost reminds me of M.I.A.'s "Steppin Up."
What's weird to me is how someone who has the mic skills and charisma that Grip boasts could float under the radar for so long. He started out in the mid-90s with a group called the Nobodies and later went solo around '97. Since then he's dropped two projects: CUMGITSLUM and Grip Hop. A lot of people have been impatiently waiting for his upcoming third effort, Purp, Wind and Fire, which has suffered through countless delays thanks to some serious trials and tribulations he's gone through.
But things seem to be back on track for Grip. He's finally got a hard release date for Purp, Wind and Fire (December 12), and today he just dropped the banging single "Fukk Off" on Noisey, our sister music site. The track features Trinidad James—one of my favorite MCs to emerge this year—and Go Dreamer, with production from the Flush. It sounds like the kind of shit that plays in my head when I'm having one of those dreams where I'm using a weedwacker to brutally mow down every asshole in high school who ever called me a faggot for wearing slim jeans.
The other day, I hopped on the phone with the guy who calls himself Your Baby Daddy's Favorite Baby Daddy to talk about his new track with Trinidad James, why it has taken so long for Purp, Wind and Fire to come out, and how awesome the Hall and Oates Pandora station is.
VICE: How'd this track come together?
Grip Plyaz: When my homeboy played me the beat it sounded so grimy and gangster. When I heard the hook, the first thing that came to my mind was "Get the fuck up off of me." And that's how I came up with it. I'm tired of people hating on me.
How did you hook up with Trinidad for this song and just in general?
I've known Trinidad for a minute. He used to work at this clothing spot called Ginza in the Five Points area of downtown Atlanta. So, I used to see him out on the scene. He told me he was going to start making music and he sent me some of his tracks to see if I would like it or not. I heard it and I was like, "Hell yeah, my dude is going in." I liked his work and what he was doing, so I asked him to hop on some shit with me.
Trinidad is is pretty new to the game. What's it like to work with younger rappers?
I look at them as my nephews. I'm proud of the new rappers coming up on the scene because I see a lot of myself in them. They don't give a fuck and they are doing different shit. I like that.
You've been in the hip-hop game since 1995. How did you become an MC?
My homeboy Larry was in this group called Proton. I went over to his crib one day, and they were doing some recording. I was sitting around listening to them work and I just started to mess around and write a rhyme. When they finished their session, I asked if I could lay my verse down. They looked at me like, "What?" I laid it down and they laughed at me like a motherfucker. But then they started listening to it and they realized it was pretty dope.
How did end up being called Grip Plyaz?
Larry was like if you're going to rap you have come up with a name. One day I was looking at a toolbox and I just saw a pair of grip pliers. I just thought it was kind of cool because they were the hardest tools in the box.
You're a pretty unabashedly unique cat. Was there a group that sort of opened the door for you back then and made you feel comfortable to do your own thing?
Outkast. They were tired of the gangster shit and the drug dealing and the booty shaking. They were different because they were some weirdos. And people laughed at them but they got the last laugh in the end. They created a whole new path for dudes like me, which I really appreciate.
It's cool that you like Outkast, yet you don't rap like them. What are you trying to do when you get on the mic?
I just keep it slow and try to ride the track. At the end of the day I like the slow rapping because if someone likes my song and I perform it, they can sing along with me.
How has your style evolved ?
I've grown a lot. I learned to make "I don't give a fuck" music. I don't care what you're doing and I'm not worried about the next person. I'm just focused on me.
I know there is a skate park across from your mama's house. Are you a skater or a biker or are you just cool with those kids?
I'm just cool with them. I grew up around that shit. I was raised on Boulevard, which is where the guys from Y'all So Stupid are from. They're an old-school rap group. They were the first skater-type dudes to come from the hood who I saw with my own eyes. They taught me to open my eyes up to some different things and to experiment with my music.
You're kind of notorious for bashing hipsters. Why is it bad to be a hipster?
There's nothing wrong with hipsters. I'm just tired of being labeled and categorized. Someone's always got to put you in a box. That's how my song "Fuck Dat Hipster Shit" came about. There are a lot of posers out there that skate, but don't really hardcore skate like real skaters and I don't like that. It waters down the real shit when people pose and flex.
How do you write your rhymes?
I just get fucked up. I get wasted and listen to instrumentals. Whatever it's saying to me that is what I come up with.
I've heard you like the sauce. What's your drink of choice?
I'm drinking a Colt 45 right now. I like MD 20/20. I'm old school, so I keep it strictly old school. I still drink 40s and PBR. I do it all. There's no sense in playing around.
I know you like a lot of other genres of music. What is some of the stuff you like to listen to that would surprise people.
I fuck with Death Grips and the Hall and Oates Pandora station. I like old-school shit too, like Boy George.
How has being a father impacted your art?
It taught me to keep grinding. And it motivates me to get off my ass and make moves. I can't just sit around, I have to create a future for my son. He's nine.
That's beautiful. I know it's been rough road for you to get to this point.
Yeah, I got locked up last year. And then, not long after that, my son and I were walking home and he was like, "Where is that smoke coming from dad?" We turned the corner and I realized my house was on fire. He was looking at me like what the fuck and I was looking at him like what the fuck. The house was just burning down. I didn't know what I was going to do.
Damn. So what did you do? How did you recover from that fucked-up situation?
I looked at it as a sign. God was telling me to sit my ass down and rethink my life. And that's what I had to do, that's why Purp, Wind and Fire took so long to finish. I had to stop and regroup and just think. This shit is not a game.
What is your living situation now?
My house is in the process of being rebuilt, so I've been couchsurfing. I've been building everything from the ground up. I lost clothes, memories, everything…
I'm really sorry to hear that, man. It's good to know you were able to rise up out of that and keep moving forward.
I appreciate it.
Despite your previous struggles, shit seems to be going in the right direction for you now. What was the moment when you were like, "Damn, I got it. I got this rap shit on lock?"
Pretty much when people started singing my songs and coming up to me and saying, "I like this song." That's when I was thought, I guess I got something going on.
So when will Purp, Wind and Fire drop?
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It came last Friday, I read it while camping over the weekend, and as a result I'm now slightly dizzy, wired, and not sure where the past day's gone.
Thing is, for yars I've used a spam filtering widget called NAGS. NAGS is really badly structured, but I couldn't be arsed to write my own spam filter. So I customized it slightly until I was comfortable with its results.
Then two things happened. The NAGS author says he can't maintain or support it any more, and I read the TPJ article about Mail::Audit.
So I'm now about 20-30% of the way into writing a first cut at a replacement for NAGS. Goals are to read the same configuration files (if you want to keep them), be a hell of a lot more modular and maintainable, and add extra checks (RBL, for example). A secondary goal is to plug into an as-yet-unreleased SMTP server that the ObT (inventor of CLC Intercal is writing.
So far, it's still pretty crufty -- but at least the parser isn't mixed in promiscuously with the taint checking code. In fact, once I've cloned the NAGS functionality missing from Mail::Audit I can probably move it out into a set of subroutines then add a configuration parser that lets me ascribe priorities to taint tests (and costs associated with them). Maybe.
This one could run and run. But it's time for me to scratch that anti-spam itch properly. (Which is why right now I'm dizzy, looking at the clock and wondering where the daylight'sgone, and why the cat is yelling at me from in front of an empty food bowl. Oops.)
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Friday, June 3, 2011
Inside USD-Shayla Hoheisel's big day has finally arrived. The operative word, ironically, is finally.
The University of San Diego's College of Arts and Sciences Commencement takes place at 9 a.m. Sunday, the first of two undergraduate ceremonies. That Hoheisel's graduation is scheduled to happen at the earlier time isn't a coincidence, rather it's fitting — she's earning a bachelor's degree in psychology in only three years time.
She's ready to move on to the next stage of her life and she's anxious to get there.
"I like to challenge myself; I'm always up for it and being able to do it," said the 21-year-old who's a first-generation college student from Lakeville, Minn.
"I wasn't anticipating graduating from USD in three years when I got here freshman year," she said. "I started with SSS (Student Support Services) and I told them that school is so expensive that I didn't think I'd be able to graduate."
"Yes you will!" was the response she received from the TRiO/USD SSS staff. Academic Coordinator Rachel Acosta put Hoheisel on a rigorous three-year academic schedule that maxed out at 18 units per semester. Hoheisel would often take 21 total, factoring in a San Diego Mesa Community College course. Hoheisel also took summer classes at Mesa and in North Carolina to speed up the process.
But Hoheisel's USD experience actually began through SSS' Summer Bridge program, an orientation held in August that helps SSS students — those from low-income families, first-generation college students, underrepresented students and students with documented disabilities — adjust to the transition from high school or transfer students to USD. Students meet other USD students, take a mini-course with USD faculty members, go on field trips in San Diego and move into on-campus housing early.
"It was great for me to have a support group from the start," she said of Summer Bridge. "I didn't come to school the first day not knowing somebody. It was nice to get acclimated before everyone else — and to get my bunk bed first!"
Her student experiences grew exponentially after Summer Bridge. Despite the academic workload, Hoheisel's on-campus activities included participation in Student Alumni Association, Founders Club, Ambassadors Club and the Student Life Pavilion Committee. She went on University Ministry's day-trip to an orphanage in Tijuana, Mexico and attended a weekend-long Search Retreat. Hoheisel was a research assistant for a semester, a peer advisor to USD students on academic probation and she works in the Jenny Craig Pavilion's gym.
Off campus, she served as a mentor and tutor for the San Diego East Mesa Juvenile Detention Facility's Girls' Rehabilitation Facility, worked with a school counselor at Point Loma's Mason Elementary School, and volunteered at Active Care in Point Loma which works with Alzheimer's Disease and dementia sufferers.
Each of these experiences, albeit brief, shaped her, but Hoheisel may remember the Intersession trip she took to Duncans, Jamaica this past January the most.
"It was right up my alley," she said of the 10-day trip, a community immersion program led by USD Center for Community Service-Learning Associate Director John Loggins. "It was so much fun. It's a completely different culture. So much stood out to me. I just really loved it. My Mom told me it would be a life-changing experience. I told her at first, 'I don't know about life changing' but when I came back I was crying. … I've told everyone since coming back that they need to go. They need to experience it for themselves."
Jamaica's "life-changing" effect is likely to fuel some of Hoheisel's post-graduation plans. Engaged to a U.S. Marine currently stationed in Japan until this fall, she's moving this summer with another friend to Jacksonville, N.C., the U.S. base for her fiancé's unit. Hoheisel plans to get a job and live with her friend. Her fiancé's military commitment ends next summer and the couple is planning to travel extensively. She mentioned bungee jumping in South Africa, seeing the Great Wall of China, venturing to South America and perhaps visiting a friend in Uruguay.
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Don was married to Beverly E. (Dean) Young for 54 years until her passing on November 19, 2000. He is survived by a daughter, Susan P. Olstadt of Sun Prairie and a son, Donald F. Young, Jr. of Redmond, Washington; seven grandchildren, and three great grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his parents, daughter Nanette, a stillborn son John, and a sister Viola N. Boyd.
Don attended the old Washington School, Central Jr. and Sr. High School, the University of Wisconsin and the University of Oklahoma at Norman. He was a forty year employee of Wisconsin Power and Light Company, retiring October 1, 1987.
He served in the Army Air Corps and Army Air Corp Reserve from 1943 -1949 and flew from numerous bases in the U.S. He was stationed with the Twelfth Tactical Air Command at Bad Kissingen, Germany in 1945 and 1946.
Don was a long time member of Commonwealth Lodge #325 Masonic Lodge; ZOR Shrine where he played in The Noblemen Dance Band and Concert Band for twenty eight years. He was a longtime member of the ZOR Arab Patrol and a life member of The Royal Order of Jesters. He was a member for many years of 32nd Degree Scottish Rite, Valley of Madison.
He was a life member of Madison Elks Lodge #410, a past member of Capitol City Toastmasters and Area Governor of Area S-2 in Wisconsin.
Don was a Certified Economic Developer (C.E.D.) and served as a Regent on the Board of Regents for the American Economic Development Institute at the University of Oklahoma.
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NEED I tell you who the man was? For a second, I did not know myself; for a second, I stood paralyzed by terror; then he came close up to me, and I knew him; and a great flood of wicked, wonderful joy streamed into my soul and nearly drowned it; as I looked up at the young giant with the haggard, beautiful, angry face that was stooping over me.
"I have been prowling about like a thief or a poacher," he says, harshly; "I have watched that fellow, your husband, out; I was determined I would see you before I went." The cloud rack blots out the moon again; it is very dark.
"Is it you, Dick, really?" I say, falter‐ faltering page: 212 ing, and then I push back the window, and the light from fire and candle flashes on him, as he stands there, wet to the skin, big, shaggy, miserable. My heart goes out, with a great yearning pity to him; "come in," I say, hastily; "you're so wet; don't stand out there!" I step back into the warm, scented room, and he, after hanging back a minute, as if irresolute, follows me. We give each other no polite greeting; we stand by the crackling, cheery fire blaze, and say nothing for a while; only we look into each other's eyes, with passionate, desperate longing across the mighty chasm that yawns between us. At length Dick says groaningly, as if the words were wrenched from him—
"Oh, Nell! Nell! why did you do this? why did you jilt me when I loved you so?"
The blood rushed boiling, surging into my cheeks and forehead and throat. I was a mean‐spirited woman; till he said that, I had absolutely forgotten his ill‐treatment of me.page: 213
"How dare you ask that?" I cried vehemently, "you, who have blighted all my life for me; you, who have been crueler to me than ever man was to woman before; you, who never sent me word or sign, all through those weary six months; you, who had not even the bare civility to answer the letters I wrote to you in my misery!"
I stopped, suffocated.
"What—do—you mean?" said Dick, very slowly; he was spreading his broad hands to the blaze, and his drenched pilot coat was steaming in the warmth; at my upbraidings, no remorse, only intensest surprise came into his face. "I never had but one letter from you, and that one you most solemnly adjured me not to answer. Here it is! I have carried it about with me, night and day, ever since I got it."
He put his hand into his breast pocket, and pulled out a letter. I snatched it eagerly; it was like my handwriting, but it was not it; it was neater, carefuller, more ornate. I turned to the signature; page: 214 there was none; then I read it through:—
"My dearest,‐It seems so odd and so pleasant, sitting down to write to you; but oh! I'm grieved to have to tell you that this first letter must also be the last; at least for ever so long. Don't be angry with me, but I told papa all about you; you know how I love him, and I could not bear to keep anything from him. Well! he was very very angry at first; would not hear of it at all; said it was all nonsense, and that we had both behaved shamefully; but at last, after a great deal of trouble and begging, I got him to come round so far as to say, that if we both remained in the same mind for a year, he would then listen to us; only he stipulated that we must neither see nor write to each other during the year. I did my very best, as you may imagine, to make him chance his decision, but all to no purpose! It seems a little hard, doesn't it? and I cannot help crying a little sometimes, when I think of neither hearing from, nor seeing you for so long; but, after all, a year will soon be gone, and just think how happy we shall page: 215 be then. Good‐bye, my darling; God bless you!
"Ever your own.
"P.S.—I adjure and implore you not to answer this: I beg it of you as a proof of your love. Papa would be sure to see the letter, and then we should be in worse case than we are now even. Good‐bye again, my own darling."
"I never wrote a word of it," said I, compelling myself to speak very calmly, though I clutched hold of a chair back for support. "Never; it's all a forgery; this is Dolly's doing!"
"What?" said he, gasping, and his strong frame staggered as under a mighty blow; ".you never wrote this!"
"Never," said I, very solemnly. "I wrote you plenty of other letters to tell you how much I loved you, and to ask you why you never wrote to me, as you promised to do?"
"And I never got one of them," he said; and as he spoke, the blood retreated from his lips, and left them livid.page: 216
We stared at one another blankly; we were as if stunned.
Presently he asked, hoarsely, "What made her do it?"
"Oh, I see it, I see it all!" I groaned, wringing my hands. "She was determined I should marry him," (I could not mention his hated name), "and I've done it; I have fallen into the trap she laid for me! Oh! I cannot bear it! I cannot bear it!"
I burst into loud sobbing, and throwing myself on the ottoman, buried my head in the cushions.
"She‐devil," said Dick, grinding his white teeth, like a wild beast in his rage and agony, "I wish to God I had her here now, I'd tear her limb from limb, though she is a woman; by G— I would!"
"If my heartiest, bitterest curse," said I, vindictively, "can do her any harm, she has the comfort of knowing that she has got it;" and then I flung myself on the floor, and wept afresh—wept till I was exhausted, and till my eyes had nearly disappeared from their situations.page: 217
He, meanwhile, stood with his elbow on the mantel‐piece, watching me, with his angry, hopeless, passionate eyes; he did not attempt to give me any comfort; he could not give what he had not got, poor fellow! and besides was not I another man's wife? It was Sir Hugh's business to dry my tears, not his.
"And so it's all a mistake! all a mistake!" he said at last, very brokenly, as if to himself; and the gilt clock changed its tune, and went ticking on, "all a mistake, all a mistake!"
Then I rose from off the floor, and went and sat down on the ottoman again, and forgot Sir Hugh's existence altogether. The rainy wind still blustered and wailed and stormed outside; but yet the storm within our breasts was mightier.
"I cannot stand it any longer," Dick said, vehemently, clenching his hand, and bringing it down like a sledge hammer on the marble slab. "I must go, or I shall make a beast of myself. Nell! I'm sailing for India to‐morrow; say one kind word to me before I go. Oh, Nell! Nell! you page: 218 belonged to me before you belonged to him, damn him!"
Looking into his haggard, beautiful, terrible face, I forgot all I should have remembered; forgot virtue, and honour, and self‐respect; my heart spoke out to his. "Oh, don't, go!" I cried, running to him, "don't you know how I love you? for my sake stay; I cannot live without you!"
I clasped both hands on his rough coat sleeve, and my bowed head sank down upon them.
"Do you suppose I can live in England and see you belonging to another man?" he asked, harshly; "the world is all hell now, as it is; but that would be the blackest, nethermost hell! No, let me go," he said, fiercely, pushing me away from him roughly, while his face was writhen and distorted.
"If you go," I said in my insanity, throwing myself into his arms, "I'll go too. Oh! for God's sake take me with you."
He strained me to his desolate heart, page: 219 and we kissed each other wildly, vehemently: none came between us then. Then he tried to put me away from him.
"My darling," he said, "you don't know what you're saying; do you think I'm such a brute as to be the ruin of the only woman I ever loved?" and his deep voice was sorely shaken as he spoke.
But I would not be put away: I clung about his neck, in my bitter pain.
"I'd rather go to hell with you, than to heaven with him!" I cried, blasphemously. "Oh, don't leave me behind you! You're all I have in the world now. Oh, take me, take me with you!"
My hair fell in its splendid ruddy billows over his great shoulder, and my arms were flung about the stately pillar of his throat.
He set his teeth hard, and drew in his breath; it was a tough ordeal.
"I won't," he said, hoarsely; "for God's sake stop tempting me. I'd sooner cut your throat than take you. Do you think it would be loving you to bring you down to a level with the scum of the earth? Oh, Nell! Nell! you ought to be my good page: 220 angel. Don't tempt me to kill my own soul and yours!"
The reproachful anguish of his tones smote me like a two‐edged sword. I said no more; I lay passive as a log in the arms that must so soon loose me for ever, while the madness died slowly, frostily out of me.
"I'm very wicked, I know," I whispered piteously; "you don't hate me, Dick, do you, for wanting to go with you?"
"Hate you! my poor pretty darling; if you could but look into my heart, and see what it is without you!"
Great tears are standing in his honest, tender, agonized eves—tears that don't disgrace his manhood much, I think.
"Go now," I whisper, huskily, "I can bear it. God bless you, darling!"
"My little Nell! My own little snow‐drop!" he cries, and then he kisses me heart‐brokenly; and as he so kisses and clasps me, a great blackness comes over my eyes, and I swoon away in his arms.
When I come back to life—come back with trouble, and sighings, and pain, I page: 221 find myself lying in my long heavy black draperies on the sofa; find the candles burning low, and the fire nearly out; find that he is gone, and that I am alone—alone for evermore!


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You may have heard that Golden Glory's Nieky Holzken was in action over the weekend, and we were going to just give you the results, but, why do that when we could show you a video? That is really always the best way to go. Golden Glory Helmond ran an event this weekend which, by all means, was immense. For the full results, head over to here, but if you want to watch it, why just avert your eyes downwards or click Read More. [source]


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Have been reading Andrei Alexandrescu's book on Generic programming in C++. I've been getting ideas almost of 'Badvogato' proportions...:)
The the thing is...how to relate that to CORBA and IDL. IDL are by nature 'static' interfaces.
Bian McNamara and Yannis Smaragdakis have an interesting paper on oonumerics.org about static interfaces and generic programming that might be of use.
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- God Moves in Wondrous Ways: Broadway Church in Galveston Texas Recovers and Rebuilds From Hurricane Ike - a 360-Degree Panorama by David Engle
Note: The left-hand side of this panorama shows a church building and a congregation of people that have returned from the destruction caused by Hurricane Ike; the right-hand side view, when compared to tinyurl.com/Galveston002 shows that the oak trees that died because of tree-root salt-water saturation hav...
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Thanks ... there was not much patience here on this Sunday. In the first snapshot, you can see a young lady who is trying to handle looking into the sun and there are people standing in the shade (the dude holding his baby) because on the intense heat, and for the rest of us; well, anyone wearing a suit was covered with sweat. I took the Gigapan in about two minutes, which for most, was about a minute and a half too much. However, it stitched as a 360, which is amazing to me. Did you notice the absence of trees as what we can see in http:/tinyurl.com/Galveston002 ? (numerous trees in this panorama have now been vaporized). The tall palm trees survived, but the oak trees didn't
Wow this is a nice picture David. I envy you for your access to a group of people who are willing to be patient enough to pose for a gigapan :-)


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5.13: Continent-Continent Convergent Plate Boundaries
What do you see at a continent-continent convergent plate boundary?
Nowhere along the west coast of North America is there a convergent plate boundary of this type at this time. Why are there no continent-continent convergent boundaries in western North America? The best place to see two continental plates converging is in the Himalaya Mountains, the mountains that are the highest above sea level on Earth.
Continent-Continent Convergence
Continental plates are too buoyant to subduct. What happens to continental material when it collides? It has nowhere to go but up!
A diagram of two sections of continental crust converging.
Continent-continent convergence creates some of the world's largest mountains ranges. Magma cannot penetrate this thick crust, so there are no volcanoes, although the magma stays in the crust. Metamorphic rocks are common because of the stress the continental crust experiences. With enormous slabs of crust smashing together, continent-continent collisions bring on numerous and large earthquakes.
A short animation of the Indian Plate colliding with the Eurasian Plate: http://www.scotese.com/indianim.htm.
An animation of the Himalayas rising: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ep2_axAA9Mw&NR=1.
The Appalachian Mountains along the eastern United States are the remnants of a large mountain range that was created when North America rammed into Eurasia about 250 million years ago. This was part of the formation of Pangaea.
- Continental crust is too buoyant to subduct. If the two plates that meet at a convergent plate boundary both consist of continental crust, they will smash together and push upwards to create mountains.
- Large slabs of lithosphere smashing together create large earthquakes.
- The activity at continent-continent convergences does not take place in the mantle, so there is no melting and therefore no volcanism.
- The amazing Himalaya Mountains are the result of this type of convergent plate boundary.
- Old mountain ranges, such as the Appalachian Mountains, resulted from ancient convergence when Pangaea came together.
Use these resources to answer the questions that follow.
1. What happens when two continental plates converge?
2. What is the result of this convergence?
3. Where are the Himalaya Mountains?
4. When were the Himalayas formed?
5. When did India ram into Asia?
6. How fast are the Himalayas rising?
1. Compare and contrast the features of a continent-continent convergent plate boundary with the features of an ocean-continent convergent plate boundary.
2. What causes mountain ranges to rise in this type of plate boundary?
3. Why are there earthquakes but not volcanoes in this type of plate boundary?
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