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I learned how to play guitar by the time we were writing the music for Bringin' It Down. Chung King was a disaster. We ended up at Normandy Sound. We weren't trying to be metal, but we made a conscious effort to play a little slower and really find a groove. We didn't like how that Chung King recording turned out. I don't hear the metal in the Bringin' It Down record like people talk about. I guess the intro of "Like You" has a little bit of that. I don't think I wrote a complete song on that record, I just wrote parts. Porcell would finish everything off. It had a feel I suppose, but I just never thought it was metal.
There were a few differences in things from the Chung King recording to the recording of Bringin' It Down. Like, Porcell told me not to sing the "stay off the tracks" line at the end of the song "Bringin' It Down." He thought it was corny. But I sing that line when we do the song now. I like it.
When Jimmy left, we were in a pinch. Matt came into the band through Sammy and had little time to get up to speed. We were about to go to Normandy Sound. We needed a bass player and he was good, he could play really well. He was young, like Sammy's age, and I didn't know him. But nothing ever really bothered me about Matt. Once we got on tour he started smoking cigarettes, which annoyed the fuckin' shit out of me. One time on tour we stopped somewhere so the other dudes could go in a river. We were always stopping for that sort of thing. So we stop and Matt and I stayed at the van while the other dudes went swimming and I was laying in the loft. Matt couldn't go in the river because he had a fucked up toe. He got out of the van to smoke a cigarette with the van door's open. He was smoking it right next to the open door…it was like he was going out of his way for me to know he was smoking. I never said anything mean to Matt, because I loved him. But that time, I had to say, "Matt you are fucking poking at a tiger right now, and I will tear you apart if you blow smoke in this van one more time." As far as someone even smoking in Judge…see, I wrote all those lyrics. I couldn't expect those guys to come close to even knowing what I was talking about. Those weren't their lyrics and that was fine. Like, Sammy and Matt are so far from how I grew up it's not even funny. Sammy had a freaking elevator in his house in the city. I had a wood burning stove on a farm. But that's fine. I got along with those dudes, I love them. They were my vehicle in Judge and that wasn't lost on me.
That first Judge tour (summer '89) was tough because of how many rumors had gone around. Every town had a guy who wanted to prove that I wasn't all that tough. We would show up and all these exaggerated, blown-out-of-proportion-stories had already beat us to that town based on stuff that happened in the last town we had played. When we got to California, these dudes wanted us to come out and fight these racists at a Klan rally. We were staying at Mike Madrid's house and I answered the phone. This dude starts telling me, not knowing it's me, that they need Judge to come out and fight these dudes for them. Like, he really thought we were gonna come in there and just fight people left and right for whatever cause. I'm thinking, "what are we, fucking Navy Seals?" The rumors were insane. We would show up somewhere and we'd ask the local kids what they had heard, and then I'd be listening in on these "Mike Judge stories." There was all sorts of stupid shit. A good one was that I lived in Germany because I had killed a cop, and I rode around on a motorcycle in Germany with his head on my handlebars. Just far fetched ridiculous shit. But people said this stuff and believed it, or at least wondered about it.
We had met the Integrity guys when I was in YOT. We hit it off, especially with Chubby Fresh. Then we went out to Cleveland in Judge and those dudes love us. Dwid really loved us. After that, Dwid sent me a demo tape of his band Integrity. They had crossed baseball bats and "hard edge" written with their name, and I'm like "ohhh man, this is all my fault." Then Bringin' It Down comes out and not long after that Dwid is convinced that I'm a pussy and I sold out and all this shit. Every interview he did in a fanzine was the same thing with him talking all this shit. We left on tour and got out to Cleveland and when we pull into town Chubby Fresh runs up and he's like "hey what's up man!" He goes off with the other guys in the band. I tell Todd, "go find Dwid and bring him to the van." Todd comes back with Dwid and Dwid is like, "hey Mike what's up man, how's it going?! I love the new record bro!" I'm like, "come on into the van, man." So I handed him all the fanzines where he said shit about me. Me and Todd made him read all of the interviews to me out loud. All the parts where he said I was a sell out and a faggot and a pussy…I made him read it right to me. He was like, "awww man you know how it is! They always misquote me!" Todd and I were just laughing. I wasn't gonna kick his ass or anything. It was more fun to watch him read those parts and try to explain it.
The dynamic on the road changed with Todd there. I could relax and enjoy it because I wasn't watching my back anymore. On that first tour, I wouldn't even see the guy coming. I'd get suckered by somebody. It happened a few times, but it was stressful because every show had a guy trying to intimidate me, and you never knew when something was gonna go down. People wanted to knock off the "hard" New York guy. It was never the big cities. It was the little towns. We were on the road, we're not making any money, ten people are showing up at the gig and five of them are there to show off to their girlfriends and intimidate me. Like, come on. After that, I told those dudes in the band, "I am picking someone to come on the road with us next time." For the other guys in the band, they had a great old time. It was no worry to them.
(We asked Mike if he had any issue with Lars coming into the band given the fact that Lars played in Uppercut, who notoriously wrote the song "Am I Clear?" and obviously took a different stance regarding SE as a band than Judge ever did. Mike said he had never even heard Uppercut, didn't know anything about the song, and that Lars worked out fine.)>
Ryan Hoffman from Chain Of Strength had been out on the east coast, I guess before Lars, and he played a show or two with us on second guitar. I don't remember the circumstances but in YOT we had stayed at his house for weeks out in California. His family put us up, was really good to us, and we hung a lot. I don't know what the deal was with him playing in Judge but I think he moved back west. He's a really good guy.
With the "Where It Went" video shoot, I remember wondering, "are you sure we should be doing a video? Will anybody show up? City Gardens is a big place and we'll look really foolish if nobody shows." I remember being stoked because it was totally packed. We kept having to do the song over and over for the video and I was nervous because the crowd might not be digging that. The worst part was that we had to lip synch and act like we were doing the song. It was our buddy Eric doing the video. He was in film school and we had the idea to do the video, but he could do it cheap. There was no talk about what it would be like. We just hoped the crowd would go off for us and we could have good live footage in the video. Man, the City Gardens crowd went off for us that night. That was a great time and a great club.
Once Todd was in as our roadie, it was fun. On one tour we were headed home and stopped in the Rocky Mountains because it looked so cool. There was this Indian chick selling trinkets and shit on the side of the road. We hit it off with her and she gives us this thing to "bless our van for good travels." It was this bag of green shit that she tells us we are supposed to put on the muffler and it would smoke and bless the van. I'm like "uhhhh…thank you?" So I just put it in my bag. Then we get to Texas and are pulled over. I'm in the front passenger seat and there were two or three cops. They had chewing tobacco, bad southern hick accents, total typical Dukes of Hazzard shit. They are saying, "why loookee here, they're from New York! They're from New York!" They ask us all to get out of the van. They say "we're gonna look in the van." They started going through my bag and I'm not even thinking about it, but they find this baggie of green shit. He thought he hit the jackpot. The one cop is like "oh my god! Look at this! Whataya we got here yankee boys?!" Porcell whispers to me, "what's that?!" I'm like, "Oh shit…that Indian chick." So the hick cop wants to know what it is and where I got it, and I say, "Look…you're not going to believe this. Soooo, we met this Indian chick…by the side of the road…near the Rocky Mountains…and she said if I put this on our tailpipe, it would smoke and bless our van." The dude was not fucking laughing at all. He steps towards me and says, "boy…did you say, Indian, on the ride of the road, near the rocky mountains? Boy, listen here. Just tell me where the goddamn drugs are."
So they start walking around. They see an anti-klan sticker on the van and they start saying, "ohhh why look at this! These yankee boys are a bunch of nigger lovers!" Now they're looking at me. They say, "so what's it like in New York? Ever have a nigger chick?" I'm like, uhhhh…I don't know what to say. I'm just disgusted. He spits out chewing tobacco on my Vans. It was like a bad movie. They start this thing with each other then. "Hey Roy, ever have a nigger?" "Naw I never had no nigger. What about you Bob, you ever have a nigger?" "Naw, I never had no nigger."
(Todd: They find this thing of patchouli oil in one of Porcell's bags. They say, "oh boy!!! Jackpot!" I jump in and I say, "officer, it's nothing. It's patchouli. It's like cologne." Porcell is giggling. I'm like, "Porcell, dude…stop giggling. We're about to get ass fucked RIGHT NOW." The cop looks at us and says, "if I smell that, and I get fucked up, ya'll are gonna die." So he smells it and he says, "GODDAMNIT BOY! You smell like a mothball!!!" Then the other cop says "does this shit get you laid in New York?")
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BLODGETT - Glen Allen Rice, 79, died at 4:30 a.m. Feb. 25, 2005, at his home.
Born Aug. 2, 1925, in Dyersburg, Tenn., son of the late Charles Rupert and Bonnie Avis Robert Rice, he served with the U.S. Air Force in World War II and had attained the rank of corporal radar mechanic and was honorably discharged on Feb. 14, 1946. He was an electrical utility lineman with REA for 32 years before retiring in 1987. Rice also served as an elder for the Blodgett Church of Christ for many years, where he was a Bible class teacher for the congregation for over 50 years. His knowledge of the Bible and his Christian life was an example and inspiration to all hew knew him.
On Nov. 23, 1961, in Sikeston, he married Christine Wade who survives of the home.
He was the father of eight adopted children, two sons, Russell Rice and Walter Rice of Blodgett; five daughters and three sons-in-law, Sue Fodge of Sikeston, Rita and Lynn Vaught and Angela Rice of Blodgett, Emily and Don Hutchinson of Cape Girardeau and Mary and Bobby Hicks of Corning, Ark.; and is also survived by 10 granddaughters and three grandsons.
Preceding him in death were a special daughter, Reneé Rice, on March 3, 1997; and one brother and one sister.
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Services will be conducted at 2 p.m. today at Blanchard Funeral Chapel in Sikeston. Lloyd Boley of Sikeston and Herbert Knight, minister of the Walnut Ridge (Ark.) Church of Christ, will officiate.
Burial will follow in the Blodgett Cemetery.
Pallbearers will be: Earl Wade, Kelles Wade, John Byrd, Mike Barnes, Bill Leeming and Tim Wade.
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Seanie Johnston's deadly finishing worked the for a resurgent Cavan team, his five classy points earning Tommy Carr's men a place in the Ulster SFC semi-final.
Fermanagh went into the Breffni Park tie as favourites, but their famed workrate was no match for the endeavour and passion displayed by the home side.
The Erne men went into this derby tie seeking their first Ulster Championship win over their neighbours in 95 years, but the jinx continues to torment them.
There was only a point in it at the end, but Cavan were deserving winners of a game which has landed them with a semi-final crack at either Donegal or Antrim.
Cavan went into the game on the back of a disappointing league campaign, but in front of their own fans at Breffni Park, they started with a flourish, putting the visitors on the back foot right from the start.
Fermanagh struggled to make any headway while playing with the wind in the opening half, but did get a lifeline in the form of a seventh minute Eamonn Maguire goal, punched home past a helpless James Reilly from Daryl Keenan's quickly taken free out on the left wing.
It was Tommy Carr's Cavan who had shown all the early enterprise and hunger, easing ahead with points from Seanie Johnston, who scored his side's first two points, one from a free, Martin Reilly, from a '45', Cian Mackey and Sean Brady.
The Erne men looked nervous and lacked the composure that had carried them through a preliminary round tie against Down.
Even with the wind in their backs, they chose to play wing forwards Ciaran McElroy and Mark Little in withdrawn roles, and moments of uncertainty were highlighted by the defensive hesitancy that allowed Brady in to regain the lead in the 24th minute.
Johnston, who had earlier pulled up with a twinge from the hamstring injury which had threatened his participation, steered over another free, but following a number of disappointing efforts, the Erne men finally began to find the range late in th lamnf, and scores from Ryan Carson, daryl Keenan and wing back Ryan McCloskey lifted their challenge.
Cavan held a narrow 0-8 to 1-4 lead at the break, and gave their long-suffering fans further cause for hope when they stretched the advantage through Johnston and Reilly
early in the second half.
Fermanagh's famous work ethic was now under serious scrutiny, and it was challenged by the willingness of Cavan's defender, particularly Michael Brides and Dermot Sheridan, to put their bodies on the line.
Even the introduction of Barry Owens for his first appearance of the season 16 minutes from the end failed to inspire an Erne revival
Instead, it was Cavan who tightened their grip as Fermanagh's old failing came back to haunt them, with a handful of straightforward frees sent wide of the posts by Daryl Keenan and Maguire.
Mark Little and Carson finally found the range, and the difference was down to a mere two points.
Owens punched over another to narrow the gap to one, but a Johnston gem, floated over from wide on the left, but man of the match Johnston clinched it with a gem from wide on the left.
Cavan: J Reilly; M Hannon, D Sheridan, M Brides; J McCutcheon, E Keating, P O'Reilly; N Walsh, C Galligan; S Brady (0-2), R Flanagan, C Mackey (0-2); S Johnston (0-5, 2f), R Cullivan, M Reilly (0-4, 3f, 1 '45').
Subs: R Dunne for P Reilly (63), D Givney for Galligan (63), L Reilly for Brady (66), G Pierson for Mackey (71)
Fermanagh: C Breen; N Bogue, S Lyons, H Brady, R McCluskey (0-1), S McDermott, T McElroy, M McGrath, J Sherry, R Keenan, C McElroy, M Little (0-3, 2f), D Keenan (0-1, f), R Carson (0-3, 1f), E Maguire (1-0).
Subs: P Sherry for Lyons (31), M Murphy for D Keenan (43), B Owens (0-1) for J Sherry (54), D Kelly for McDermott (56), D Kille for R Keenan (68)
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ART/ARCHITECTURE; Regime Change Takes Effect At a Persian Gulf Biennial
By GRADY T. TURNER
Published: May 4, 2003
SHARJAH, United Arab Emirates— AS American ground troops were entering Baghdad last month, a risk-taking international art exhibition opened here on the Persian Gulf, roughly 400 miles south of Iraq.
The sixth Sharjah Biennial, which closes Thursday, has differed from its predecessors in many respects, most having little to do with the distant war. It was marked by a regime change of its own, as a new director -- a 23-year-old female art student, no less -- attempted to transform a quiet local art show into an exhibition of cutting-edge work by a global retinue of artists.
''It was a great challenge,'' conceded the director, Sheikha Hoor Al-Qasimi.
Never mind that this was the first exhibition she organized. The real challenge was to represent current international art practices without running afoul of Shariah, the Islamic code that governs most aspects of daily life here, and the local censorship council that enforces it. Of the seven sheikhdoms that make up the United Arab Emirates, including Dubai with its glittering hotels and shopping malls, Sharjah is among the most conservative. Business and errands are conducted around calls to prayer, and practices tolerated elsewhere in the country -- like the sale of alcohol -- are forbidden here. Many images commonplace in art magazines simply would not play well in Sharjah.
As she spoke about the biennial, Sheikha Hoor fidgeted with the headscarf of her burka. ''I'm afraid I'm out of the habit of wearing these,'' she said apologetically, in a British accent. She was sitting in the Sharjah Art Museum's new cafe, created at her behest for the exhibition.
Having recently completed her undergraduate degree at London's Royal Academy of Arts, Sheikha Hoor was appointed director last October when her complaints about the limitations of the five previous biennials led her father to suggest that she do something about it.
The Sheikha's father is Sheikh Sultan bin MohammeD al-Qasimi, who since 1972 has been the ruler of Sharjah. Under his patronage, Sharjah has emerged as the cultural center of this oil-rich country, with several museums dedicated to art and history, ranging from a touristy heritage center to the marble halls of the Sharjah Art Museum.
''At first, I was made a member of the biennial's organizing committee,'' she said. ''I was much younger than the rest, and the only woman, so my voice was not really heard. Then I was made head of the committee, but still, I was not heard. Finally, the committee was dissolved, and I was named director.''
Now that her voice had been heard, she had less than five months to create an international exhibition from scratch. The sheikha turned to British friends. Peter Lewis, a lecturer at Goldsmiths College, University of London, agreed to curate the biennial and tapped colleagues with expertise in specific areas. Working from several locations, the organizers sought to transform a biennial that had ignored contemporary practice in favor of late modernist styles, as realized by local artists.
''Bringing the biennial into the international fold was a very bold move,'' Mr. Lewis said. ''Sheikha Hoor may be young, but she sees art from the perspective of an artist, and her intuitions are very good. My job, really, was to help her to realize those intuitions.''
The resulting exhibition -- titled ''Art in a Changing Horizon: Globalization and New Aesthetic Practice'' -- is an ambitious undertaking. Handsomely installed at the Sharjah Art Museum and the city's expansive new Expo Center, it is much larger than previous biennials. Culled from more than 2,000 submissions, and bolstered by numerous invited artists, it includes 116 participants from more than two dozen nations.
It is touted as the first exhibition to put artists of the Persian Gulf region into an international context emphasizing new media. While some artists here have long created installations and videos, among other recent forms, those media have not been widely embraced by curators or critics. Museums here have virtually no track record in showcasing such art.
The biennial is strong in art from Great Britain and the Middle East, with a smart selection of artists from Europe and China. But the United States seems an afterthought, with roughly a dozen artists offering a scattershot perspective on American contemporary art.
The Palestinians are represented by several artists working on political themes, ranging from Rula Halawani's grisly and strident photographs of Israeli forces in Ramallah last year to Rashid Masharawi's video, commissioned for the biennial, in which a woman hums and knits in a leaky room as she contemplates the Israeli flag outside her window.
In an exhibition so inclusive of Middle Eastern artists, the absence of art from Israel, which the Emirates do not recognize as a state, stands out. ''It is a regrettable circumstance,'' Sheikha Hoor said.
While American artists are few, the American landscape is a frequent subject. The British artists Charlotte Cullinan and Jeanine Richard, who collaborate under the name Art Lab, recorded a languid drive through the Mississippi Delta in the weeks after the attacks of Sept. 11, as if finding solace in a road trip.


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In 1902 Dr. Amos Wilson Abbott established a small hospital for women in a former house at 10 East 17th Street. In 1910, grateful for the care Abbott had provided to his wife Kate, industrialist William Dunwoody allocated funds for a new building to be built for Dr. Abbott's hospital. This 1910 hospital building, sometimes called the Dunwoody Building, recognizable by its pitched roof, front balustrade, and rows of windows, sought to maximize natural light in its interior.
In 1919 Thomas Janney had a four-story Children's Hospital constructed on the same block, just north of the Abbott Hospital for Women. The Janney Hospital became a part of Abbott Hospital upon Janney's death in 1921. In 1929, 1939, and 1957, additions funded through the Hospital's affiliation with Westminster Presbyterian Church a few blocks to the north connected the two buildings and extended the hospital along 18th street to Stevens Avenue, and filling an entire city block. The main hospital entrance was moved to 110 East 18th Street, and the entrances on 1st Avenue were closed.
Archer-Daniels-Midland Company (ADM) is one of the world's leading processors and distributors of agricultural products for food and animal feed, with additional operations in transportation and storage of such products. Its principal operations are in the processing of soybeans, corn, and wheat, the three largest crops in the United States. ADM also processes cocoa beans, milo, oats, barley, and peanuts.
The company's feed products are sold to farmers, feed dealers, and livestock producers, while its food products are sold to food and beverage manufacturers. Among ADM's better-known products are NutriSoy, a soy protein; Novasoy Isoflavones, an ingredient used in dietary supplements; xanthan gum, a thickening agent used in food products such as salad dressings; citric acid and lactic acid, both used as food additives in food and beverage products to increase their acidity; natural vitamin E; and ethanol, an additive made from corn that is added to gasoline to improve the fuel efficiency of vehicles.
With 247 processing plants (including those owned, leased, or operated in joint ventures) in the United States and 121 overseas, Archer-Daniels-Midland calls itself the 'Supermarket to the World.' For most of its history, ADM was quiet and conservative; however, in the mid-1990s the company hurtled into the headlines through its involvement in price-fixing schemes involving citric acid and the livestock feed additive lysine.
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For most of the 20th century, the U.S. Bureau of Mines (USBM) was the primary United States Government agency conducting scientific research and disseminating information on the extraction, processing, use, and conservation of mineral resources.
Founded on May 16th, 1910, through the Organic Act (Public Law 179), to deal with a wave of catastrophic mine disasters, the mission of the Bureau of Mines expanded over the years to include:
The conduct of research to enhance the safety, health, and environmental impact of mining and processing of minerals and materials.
The collection, analysis, and dissemination of information about mining and processing of more than 100 mineral commodities across the Nation and in more than 185 countries around the world.
Analysis of the impact of proposed mineral-related laws and regulations upon the national interest.
Production, conservation, sale, and distribution of helium for essential government activities
Cameron Transfer & Storage Co. 07/09
The Cameron Transfer and Storage Building is a four-story warehouse designed and engineered by Claude Allen Porter (C.A.P.) Turner, the internationally famous, Minneapolis-based structural engineer.
Built in the early 1900s this historically significant building has sat vacant for the past decade.
Schafer Richardson is excited to begin the historic rehabilitation of this unique building in the summer of 2014.
This project will redevelop the former warehouse into 44 units of workforce housing.
The first of this kind of development in the North Loop Neighborhood since 2001.
In 1912 the first assembly and sales activities were started in a former warehouse in Minneapolis by Ford Motor Company. Nowadays Twin Cities Assembly Plant is located next to the Mississippi River in the Highland Park neighborhood of St. Paul. It was in operation from 1925 to 2011. At the time of its closure it was the oldest Ford plant still in operation.
The plants final products were the Ford Ranger pickup truck and the similar Mazda B-Series. Previously, the plant had manufactured the Ford Model T, Model TT truck, Sportsman convertible, Galaxie, and LTD.
From 1926 to 1959 the plant produced glass for vehicle windows with silica mined from sandstone on site. The resulting tunnels underneath the plant remain.
The plant produced its last vehicle on December 16, 2011.
ConAgra was founded in 1919 by Frank Little and Alva Kinney, who brought together four grain mills as Nebraska Consolidated Mills. Initially headquartered in Grand Island, Nebraska, it moved to Omaha in 1922. The company ran at a profit until 1936, when Kinney retired. In 1940, the company began producing flour at its own mill, and in 1942 ventured into the livestock feed business.
After researching new uses for their flour, Nebraska Consolidated Mills (NCM) funded the establishment of Duncan Hines in 1951 as a way to market more flour by selling cake mixes. This venture was very successful, leading the company to its current place as the third largest flour miller in the U.S. However, this did not lead NCM to consider other food ventures, and instead they sold their assets in Duncan Hines to Procter & Gamble in 1956. As American households purchased more and more prepared and instant foods in the 1950s and 1960s, NCM chose not to expand into the businesses that used their flour, instead turning in the opposite direction and focusing more on raw foods like poultry and expanding its livestock feed business.
Nebraska Consolidated Mills later in 1971 changed its name to ConAgra.
Grandma's Restaurant Company was founded on the legend of Grandma Rosa and based on the principle of pleasing customers one at a time. Legend has it a young Italian immigrant named Rosa Brochi opened her first boarding house to lonely sailors in the Great Lakes port of Duluth, MN, near the turn of the 20th century. It was here that she started a lifelong commitment to customer satisfaction.
Although its no longer boarding house, founder of Grandma's Restaurant Company, Andy Bord and Mick Paulucci, have based their success on the principle of Customer Safisfaction. Continuing in Rosa's tradition, her "Grandsons" ensure that each employee receives detailed training that focuses on warmth, knowledge, teamwork, sincerity, respect, and above all, customer service.
Executive chefs in every restaurant make Grandma's recipes an experience rather than just a meal. Since the "conversion" of the original restaurant on shores of Lake Superior in 1976, Grandma's Restaurant Company has expanded its operations to include nine casual dining concepts and two retail operations throughout the state of Minnesota.
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The Saint Paul Municipal Grain Terminal, also known as the head house (a six-story grain elevator) and sack house, sits on piers over the Mississippi River in Saint Paul, Minnesota. It was built between 1927 and 1931 as part of the Equity Cooperative Exchange and is a remnant of Saint Paul's early history as a Mississippi River port city. The Saint Paul Municipal Grain Terminal was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.
The structure is nationally significant as the first successful grain terminal elevator owned and operated by a farm cooperative in the United States. At one time the facility included 90 grain silos, a small mill, the head house for loading grain onto barges and train cars, and the sack house for sacking milled flour.
Currently the complex is unused and in serious disrepair. There have been plans to restore the buildings and turn them into a restaurant and interpretive center.
The brewery's history is almost synonymous with that of St. Paul.
In 1865, German immigrant Theodore Hamm became the owner of a small brewery overlooking Swede Hollow when the previous owner defaulted. Hamm had no experience in the trade, but his brewery grew over the next 20 years to cover 4 acres.
The family business stayed there for another century, overseen by three generations of Hamms and eventually a lovable mascot, the Hamm's Bear.
The company went through a series of sales before landing under the auspices of Stroh's, its final owner. Over the course of 30 years, Hamm's and a string of neighboring employers vacated the East Side, including Whirlpool in 1984 and 3M in the latter half of the last decade. Hamms stopped production at the end of 1997.
Now, Flat Earth Holdings, LLC, the company better known as the Flat Earth Brewing Co., has signed a licensing agreement with St. Paul to locate in a portion of the old brewery site.
The company will move into buildings No. 7 and No. 8 in a long-vacant section of the Hamm's Brewery off Minnehaha Avenue. Company president John Warner said he plans to occupy about 50,000 square feet.
"We're not doubling our space," said Warner, whose brewery now occupies a modest site by Pearson's Candy on West Seventh Street. "We're 14-timesing our space."
High Bridge Coal Power Plant 08/08
The High Bridge generating plant has been a fixture and visible presence in St. Paul since 1923, and it remains a critical source of electricity for downtown St. Paul and the surrounding community. The High Bridge MERP project involves replacing our existing coal-powered facility with a natural gas-fired combined-cycle unit.
A natural gas-fired, combined-cycle plant produces electricity from two sources of energy instead of one. Natural gas is used as a fuel in a combustion turbine, similar to a jet engine. Exhaust from the combustion turbine also is used to make steam in a heat recovery steam generator. Both sources of energy then drive turbines and electric generators to produce electricity. Integrating combustion turbine and steam turbine technology provides an extremely efficient electricity production process.
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Island Station Power Plant is a decommissioned coal power plant on the Mississippi River less than a mile up-river from downtown Saint Paul, Minnesota. St. Paul Gas & Light Company commissioned construction of the plant in 1921. In 1923, before construction was even complete, a more efficient technology for burning coal was developed, rendering the plant obsolete before it even opened.
The plant came online in 1926 and operated at three-fourths the intended capacity until 1943 when it was shifted to an off-peak use and only produced power 6-10 weeks per year. In 1975, Northern States Power Co. (who acquired the plant shortly after it was finished) decommissioned the plant and used it for storage.
Plans for redevelopment have hit road blocks, the most recent being a city study of the historical significance of the building.
NSC Plant aka Potatoland 07/11
For over 100 years, the Michael Foods family of businesses has been growing and coming together to provide specialized resources in order to offer the finest products and solutions to our customers and consumers.
Today Michael Foods, Inc. offers a full line of dairy case and refrigerated potato products and is the world's largest supplier of processed eggs. You'll find quality and great taste in our family of consumer and food service brands.
Northern Star®, a leading producer of refrigerated potato products, was founded in 1951. Northern Star specializes in a variety of refrigerated (but never frozen) potato products for both the foodservice and consumer markets. In 1987, Northern Star joined the Michael Foods Family.
In 1879, after five years of secret planning, Charles Alfred Pillsbury announced to the public that he would build the largest and most advanced mill the world had ever seen. He had traveled to mills all over the world, searching for the best technique for milling flour on a large scale. Despite the convention of the time, Pillsbury decided that he wanted his new mill to be designed by an architect in order to make the building visually appealing. An architect named LeRoy S. Buffington, with the loose advice of several engineers, carried out the design.
Construction started in 1880 and was finished in 1881 under a contractor named George McMullen. The mill was built to put out 5,000 barrels a day when a 500-barrel mill was considered large. It attracted a lot of attention from many people who thought that there was no practical need for a mill to ever exist due to the demand of flour in the day. For some years the mill was not run at its intended capacity. Part of the building was used as a warehouse and for other purposes.
Due to vibrations of milling machines and poor design in 1905 the mill was fortified and certain sections were rebuilt. To this day the walls bow 22 inches on the top. Unlike other similarly large mills in the area, most notably the Washburn A Mill, the Pillsbury A Mill never exploded or caught fire. And as a result, it still contains its original wood frame.
As the years progressed, mill output picked up due to technological advances in the milling industry. However other larger mills were created elsewhere and the sparkle that once surround the great mill left.
The building is a National Historic Landmark and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1966.
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Purina Mills, Inc. is the largest manufacturer of animal feed products in the United States, producing more than five million tons of feed each year. Through its 50 feed mills, the company produces thousands of feed formulations specially designed for various types of animals, including beef and dairy cattle, goats, horses, sheep, pigs, poultry, pets, and lab and zoo animals. Purina also operates more than 35 retail outlets, which sell animal feed, lawn and garden supplies, hardware, and related items.
1894: The Robinson-Danforth Commission Company is founded.
1902: Company name is changed to Ralston Purina Company. Company adopts the red-and-white checkerboard logo.
1986: Ralston Purina sells its Purina Mills subsidiary to British Petroleum.
1993: British Petroleum sells Purina Mills to a management group led by the Sterling Group, of Houston, Texas.
1997: Purina Mills rolls out America's Country Store retail chain, begins buying and reselling hogs in an effort to bolster swine feed sales.
1998: Koch Industries acquires Purina Mills.
1999: Purina Mills files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization.
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Ramada opened its first hotel – a 60-room facility – on U.S. Route 66 at Flagstaff, Arizona in 1954 and set up its headquarters in Phoenix, Arizona, where the chain built the Sahara Hotel on North 1st Street downtown in 1956 (which later became the Ramada Inn Downtown) and a 300-room Ramada Inn in the 3800 block of East Van Buren in 1958 that would become the chain's flagship property and headquarters. Mr. Isbell, like his contemporary, KemmonsWilson, the founder of the Holiday Inn hotel chain, devised the idea of building and operating a chain of roadside motor hotels while he was on a cross-country trip with his wife, Ingrid, and their three children. On that trip, Isbell noted the substandard quality of roadside motor courts along US highways at the time. He saw the possibility in the developing market for a chain of roadside motor hotels conveniently located along major highways which would provide lodgings with hotel-like quality at near-motel rates plus amenities such as TV, air conditioning, swimming pools and on-premises restaurants.
The name "Ramada" is derived from the Spanish term "rama" (meaning branch) and was applied to temporary open air structures called Ramadas that were made of brush or branches (similar to an arbor) and were popular in Arizona during harvest time. Company websites commonly refer to the structure as a "shady resting place."
The original company, Watab Pulp and Paper, was conceived by a group of lumbermen from Wisconsin and Michigan and was formed on May 10, 1905. The plant started operations with No. 1 paper machine in September, 1905. No. 2 paper machine was built in 1910. The company then produced newsprint until 1930, when the conversion to groundwood book and magazine papers began.
During the 1930s, recycled magazines were a prime source of wood pulp. The waste magazines were brought by rail from Chicago in bales weighing up to 2,000 pounds. In the "sorting room," paper clips and staples were removed. The waste was then sent to the cookers for deinking and bleaching. The conversion plant operated through the 1930s until the end of World War II.
At the end of the war, the mill closed the finishing operation where paper was sheeted and cut to size. Since that time, all paper manufactured at Sartell has been shipped in roll form.
On May 29, 2012, there was an explosion at the paper mill that resulted in a large fire. It killed one man and injured 4 others. It took fourteen fire departments to put out the fire. The mill has been around longer than the city of Sartell.
Sadly, on August 2, 2012, Verso announced that the Sartell mill would remain shut down permanently, putting about 260 employees out of work and ending over a century of papermaking in Sartell.
The old Silgan Containers factory is a sprawling heavy manufacturing complex covering eight acres on ——— just north of ———- — in ——-. The oldest building dates to 1889, and by 1926 4 more additions increased the floor space to 150,000 square feet. Three more expansions in the mid fifties added another 300,000 square feet, and at that time the ——- — Company was the largest supplier of metal cans in the US, with dozens of factories around the country.
The complex is currently owned by Silgan Containers Corporation, a company founded in 1987 that bought out the metal food can manufacturing operations of Carnation, Campbell's Soup, Del Monte, and American National Can, and winner of The Canmaker magazines "Can of the Year" award in 1999 for it's 2-piece Spam can. Silgan has discontinued production at this facility and is gutting it in preparation for sale.
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Superior Plating, Inc. has been in business for over 90 years, and has grown to be one of America's largest finishing job shops. Superior Plating's main plant occupies the entire block facing First Avenue NE at University Avenue NE in Minneapolis. This plant is 110,000 square feet which contains the reception room, offices, laboratories, all employee facilities, plant utilities and the factory area.
As recently as September 2011, all 35 production lines were humming, manned by about 100 workers. But with a tough economy and its business going to cheaper foreign metal platers, the company decided to close its doors.
Superior got a reprieve a few months ago when its unionized workforce agreed to wage concessions, said President Michael McMonagle. But when a plan to raise new capital faltered, Superior had no choice but to file Chapter 11 bankruptcy in November.
Bankruptcy court records show that CCGS Finance LLC has agreed to pay $2.5 million for the land, which includes a 110,000-square-foot building and an adjacent parking lot. The sale also is subject to the cleanup of the land, which has been listed since 1984 by the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency as a Superfund site. Groundwater there is contaminated with solvents. Because Superior doesn't have the money to pay for the cleanup, a parent company of CCGS has agreed to loan Superior up to about $1.3 million in debtor-in-possession financing, using the property as collateral.
This is The Port of Minneapolis, a city-owned barge terminal that is operated by River Services, Inc. Truck traffic makes this a dangerous place. Almost any non-hazardous commodity may be present at this terminal, including grain, lumber, phosphate fertilizer, seed oil, steel, twine, paper, pipes, and salt. The igloo-shaped storage tanks are used for solids, and some are insulated to keep stored products from freezing into one large chunk. Several very large insulated liquid storage tanks are near the road. These tanks are not currently used, note the vegetation taking root on their roofs. These tanks were for asphalt oil and other heavy oils which need the insulation to keep stored product warm enough to be pumpable. Note the dike around the large tanks, required to keep the contents of the tanks from flowing to the river and streets if the tanks ever should rupture.
The Upper Harbor Terminal is one of only four remaining active barge facilities above the confluence of the Mississippi and Minnesota Rivers. The others are Holcim Cement (RM 857.4), American Iron (RM 856.3) and Aggregate Industries (RM 855.9). The According to its "Above the Falls Master Plan" Minneapolis' long-term plans for the property include converting the riverfront portion of the land to a new park and redeveloping the portion of the land further from the river as housing.
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West Publishing & Ramsey County Jail 09/15
Having outgrown a facility constructed in 1979, the Ramsey County Sheriff's office vacated the nine-story adult detention center in 2003.
West Publishing, which got its start in St. Paul in 1872, moved its headquarters to a new manufacturing campus in Eagan at the outset of the 1990s, where it remains a legal publishing unit of Thomson-Reuters.
Ramsey County Government Center West was home to the county attorney's office, property records and revenue, human resources and public health offices until the fall of 2008, when the county began moving staff to more modern facilities with better parking, such as 90 Plato Blvd. and the Metro Square building downtown.
By August 2013, the West complex was empty.


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By Jackie Nelson
On Monday, Nov. 18, Hesston Schools will come together to celebrate a belated Veterans' Day. Hesston Elementary School Counselor Stephanie Litton has worked in tandem with Hesston High Counselor Donna Schadler and Middle School Counselor Jill Toews to coordinate a district-wide event for students and veterans.
Together, the three counselors have traditionally coordinated a district-wide effort to engage students and veterans. Thus far, the three said the event has been very well-received.
"As of now we've had lots of interest and close to 40 veterans who plan to attend," they reported.
The event is not restricted to students and veterans.
"The morning begins roughly before 9:00 a.m. and will conclude shortly after 10:00 a.m. The event is open to any military person and/or Hesston community members who want to honor the people who serve our country.
The event is centered around encouraging students to respect fellow community members.
"Initially the idea began by counselors working toward teaching our students the meaning of respecting one another and developing habits of respect through gratitude. As a district and a community, service to others has always been important; this is just an addendum to fostering that conviction and intentionally modeling it to our kids," they said.
This year's Veterans' Day celebration is a continuation of the district's efforts to focus a week of learning on a particular topic.
"Each year the counseling team develops a district-wide assembly in an effort to promote a family-like or community atmosphere for our students. In the past those assemblies have been focused on Red Ribbon Week, Cyber-Safety and netiquette, Healthy Choices, and Service. This year the counseling team decided on honoring the people who serve our country and make sacrifices so that we may live and learn in the comforts that we do," the ladies said.
While planning the event, establishing a timeline for the event has been difficult.
"The biggest challenge has been location. The Hesston High School gym floor was complete for a large assembly by Veteran's Day. It was imperative for us to be flexible with our date, as that was the only area that would hold the number who plan to attend. In addition reaching, informing, and inviting veterans to attend has been a challenge because this is a first-time event for the district," they said.
The counselors said the event is a way to promote civic engagement and pride in the community.
"We hope students and community members take away A sense of pride and respect for the history of our country and the people who contributed to making America – and Hesston, Kansas - what it is," they said.


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Definition of dirndl in English:
1 (also dirndl skirt) A full, wide skirt with a tight waistband.
Example sentences
- By the time you reach your mid-30s you may no longer want to sparkle out in a patterned dirndl skirt, leggings and off-the-shoulder top.
- Mrs Anton arrived in a ruffly blouse and ribbon-trimmed dirndl skirt that made her look greyer than ever, and Michael wore a pinchy suit that might have been his father's.
- The fifties story continues too with brightly coloured boxy jackets, pretty frocks, knife pleat dresses and printed dirndl skirt dominating the summer scene.
2A woman's dress in the style of Alpine peasant costume, with a dirndl skirt and a close-fitting bodice.
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- The German population didn't like this move, and they showed it by wearing national costumes, like lederhosen and dirndls.
- She even admits to wearing dirndl, a traditional Bavarian costume with an embroidered bodice and a homely apron.
- While costumes such as kimono, dirndl and military uniforms are understood as national costumes, my definition of costumes in the cultural mapping process is much broader.
1930s: from south German dialect, diminutive of Dirne 'girl'.
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Should Vytoringate Cost Fred Hassan His Bonus?
Schering-Plough CEO Fred Hassan looked like quite the turnaround artist as he nursed the company back to health after it had been battered by generic competition for Claritin and regulatory problems.
Lately, though, things have taken a gloomy turn for Schering-Plough as cholesterol drugs Vytorin and Zetia — and the company's stock price — have taken a beating. Take a look at the chart and you'll see shares have fallen back to where they were about five years ago.
Does the mess mean Hassan should give back his bonus? Forbes makes a case that it should, arguing that Hassan received $13 million in cash that would have been endangered if the ill-fated Enhance study's results had come out in November 2006 or March 2007, as many cardiologists had expected. Forbes points out the payouts were heavily dependent on strong sales of Vytorin that might not have come to be if doctors had known sooner that the trial wouldn't turn out so well.
Schering-Plough took issue with the argument. For one, it denied the study could have been ready in 2006, when Hassan got $9 million of the cash bonuses. It also said Forbes didn't take into account that the company might have conducted business differently last year if Vytorin were in trouble then, for instance cutting costs more aggressively or emphasizing other products.
It's also tough to know exactly what would have happened to Vytorin's sales if the study's results had come out earlier. The Health Blog isn't one to blame the media for Vytorin's woes, but we wonder if the results would have gotten so much attention — and affected sales as acutely — if the long delay hadn't caused so much suspicion in the first place.


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The U.S. Census Bureau is counting on you.
At the beginning of each decade, the U.S. government surveys the American population to count how many people are living in the United States.
The census day is April 1, 2010.
The questionnaires will be mailed out in mid-March. The census bureau recently initiated an advertising campaign to educate citizens about the census and encourage people to fill out the 10-question form and mail it back to the bureau.
The owner of Mr. Biggs is facing charges of violating a county ordinance after a fashion show at the business involving topless women.
Meanwhile, Art Cormier, who purchased a share of the South Jeffco entertainment facility in October 2009, says he was in a coma at the time of the alleged incident.
Major activities, accomplishments
Inside a tiny flower shop opening Monday in Morrison, happiness and hope have found a place on the shelves alongside plump roses and ruby-red glass vases.
Christine Knowles plans to open Red Rocks Floral & Gifts on Feb. 1. For her, it's more than a dream — it's the best therapy money can buy.
Entrepreneurs aspiring to open medical marijuana dispensaries in unincorporated Jeffco were dealt a formal setback last week when the county commissioners approved a six-month zoning moratorium on the businesses.
"We are going to review this and make a decision within 180 days," Commissioner Kathy Hartman said. "And that decision could be that our current zoning ordinance is adequate."
"And he carries the reminders
"Of every glove that laid him down
"Or cut him till he cried out
"In his anger and his shame
"I am leaving, I am leaving
"But the fighter still remains."
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For me, hanging in our coverage areas is all about the happy little surprises that crop up and punctuate your day — and the unexpected connections that result from other, less-lighthearted encounters.
The Jeffco school board voted Jan. 14 to close only one school as part of its long-awaited plan to address a massive budget shortfall through building closures.
Arvada's Russell Elementary will be shuttered after the end of the current school year. Students living within its boundaries will soon attend Arvada Middle School, which will become a K-8 facility. The board also voted in favor of closing and destroying all temporary classroom buildings at schools operating at less than 92 percent of capacity.
Gov. Bill Ritter paid a visit last week to a South Jeffco company that manufactures cutting-edge batteries that are about the size of a postage stamp and nearly as thin.
"It is great to celebrate a local company," Ritter said before a small audience of Infinite Power Solutions employees. "It's also great to celebrate a company that has and will have in the future a significant global impact. … It is absolutely exciting."
The girls earned the Chargers a rivalry split with Dakota Ridge after blowing up for 24 points in the first quarter and holding on in the fourth.
Chrissy Armstrong led the Chargers with 16 points, Emily Kotulak scored 10, and Cassandra Hanna and Kate Kurtenbach added eight points apiece.
Chatfield led 24-12 after eight minutes and extended its lead to 44-26 entering the fourth quarter.
Former county administrator Jim Moore is pursuing litigation against the commissioners and the county attorney through a potential wrongful-termination suit.
Lawyer Dennis Polk said the board gave a misleading rationale for Moore's Dec. 9 firing.
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By By Staff Sgt. Kyle Richardson, 41st Fires Bde. PAOOctober 20, 2010
FORT HOOD, Texas-The Rail Gunners master resiliency team taught its 14th master resiliency training class at the Fort Hood Education Center, here, Oct. 12-15.
"The 41st Fires Brigade is currently the only brigade on Fort Hood running a MRT program," said Sgt. 1st Class Bryant Trapp, native of Saginaw, Mich., an MRT instructor with 589th Brigade Support Battalion, 41st Fires Bde. "This class is important for Soldiers. With the rigors of everyday; life comes at you fast. With all the constant deployments, field problems or what have you, Soldiers need to have the ability to bounce back," said Trapp.
The average Soldier deploys three to four times during a single four-year enlistment with the deployments ranging from 12 to 15 months. During World War I and II, the average Soldier deployed for the entire length of the wars.
With the changing infrastructures around the world and within the U.S., the Army has encountered changes as well. Along with those changes more demands and stressors are placed on the today's Soldiers. The Army Chief of Staff, Gen. George W. Casey Jr., has enacted a resiliency program to help Soldiers overcome stressors within their lives.
"Resiliency training is important to the Army," said Sgt. 1st Class Ivan Geter, the brigade's master resiliency training instructor. "MRT embraces the ideology of the five dimensions of the Comprehensive Soldier Fitness."
The MRT program is an adaptation from the Positive Psychology Program offered at the University of Pennsylvania. The program began November, 2009 and is scheduled to be taught Army-wide by 2011.
"I believe this program will redefine areas within the Army," said Trapp. "This class will teach you how to have balance in your life. Trying to have a family, kids, or relationships in the Army is tough. Some people will get knocked down and won't know how to get back up. Teaching this course has even taught me that I have to check myself every day."
More than 20 Soldiers from the 41st Fires Bde. and several with the 1st Cavalry Division attended the latest 26-hour MRT course. The course is an interactive course broken down into four modules.
"Now-a-days, the Army asks so much of Soldiers, so it's important for them to be able to think clearly when no one is around," said Geter.
Geter also said they do reverse role play and allow the Soldiers a chance to become the leaders and for the leaders to assume a subordinate role.
"I'm not big on being in front of the class," said Spc. Hunter Shumard, from Paragould, Ark., a paralegal specialist with 41st Fires Bde. "I'm kind of timid, but I worked through some of that. This class is good; if everyone took this training serious, the Army could change tremendously, for the good."
From the first day of class, the Soldiers sat wide-eyed and began to receive newfound information about themselves said Trapp.
"I've learned to have better self-control and how to view situations from other people's perspectives," said Spc. John Scarver, of Pensacola, Fla., a forward observer. "I think this training is good for everyone; Soldiers and civilians. I think we all need to go back to the basics, take a good look at ourselves and see how much our negative thoughts and reaction influence a situation."
As resiliency becomes more important in Soldiers lives and today's society, the 41st Fires Bde. started a couples resiliency course, held in the Stetson Room in the 1st Cav. Div. headquarters, every Tuesday at 6 p.m.
"A resilient Soldier becomes more effective; therefore, a resilient family becomes a greater asset," said Scarver. "I've talked it over with my wife and we're going to try to make it to one of the couples' classes."


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This summer I challenged myself to try plein air painting, and specifically, to participate in the Denver Plein Air Arts Festival. 'Plein air' comes from the French expression 'en plein air,' which means 'in the open air.' It is used to describe artwork that is made directly from life outdoors.
The Plein Air Arts Festival organizers had a list of locations where participants could go to paint. Denver's City Park was one of the locations, and since it's so familiar to me, I did all of my painting in the Rose Garden there. I completed several plein air paintings at City Park, selected the best one, and entered it into the Festival's juried exhibition.
This is the painting I entered, and I am pleased to announce that it was juried in!
"A Rose From the Park" ~ 8×10 ~ Oil on Canvas Board ~ $420
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Roger showed a brilliant display in the semi-final of the French Open today, ending Novak Djokovic's winning run with a 7-6,(5), 6-3, 3-6, 7-6(5) victory and setting up a meeting with Rafael Nadal in the final.
"I've trained a lot during my whole life for these kinds of matches," Roger said. "There was an enormous amount of pressure on Novak and he really played well."
Roger had an answer to just about everything Djokovic showed on court today, even though cumulating 46 unforced errors on the way, five more than his opponent. After taking the first set in a tiebreaker, Roger managed an early break in the second and brought home the set smoothly. Djokovic came back in the third set as Roger also committed too many errors. Just like the opening set, the fourth was a tough fight with breaks on both sides, ending in a tiebreaker. That proved another immensely tight fight, but Roger eventually rode home the victory with his 18th ace.
Our champ will now face Rafael Nadal on Sunday in the final of the 2011 French Open in what promises to be another classic duel between the two players. It is the fourth time in six years that the two meet in the Paris final.
I was so sure you are going to win! Now, I ask myself:why? But you played well, he played better (some crucial points). You lost a great opportunity to win your 17th GS trophy. It's your fault. Anyway, thank you for the wonderful SF, for blowing off that NDj, but you should have won RN. He is not better player, just much happier today!
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BLYTHEVILLE, Ark., -- The Sikeston Bulldogs couldn't have asked for a better start to the season.
The Bulldogs rolled past Blytheville, Ark., Tuesday night 79-34 at Blytheville High School.
"I really thought we played well as a team," Sikeston head coach Gregg Holifield said. "We had good pressure on the basketball, we worked hard, we rebounded well and I thought we were physical.
"More importantly, I thought offensively and defensively we really played well together."
Vashawn Ruffins and J.T. Jones each led the Bulldogs with 16 points apiece. Ruffin added nine assists and shot 6 of 8 from the field while Jones grabbed 12 rebounds.
Markieth Bratcher added 13 points and four steals. Both Reese Porter and Jairius Ray hauled in eight rebounds as well.
At one point, the Bulldogs (1-0) spouted off a 19-0 run in the first quarter on their way to a 26-9 lead after the first eight minutes.
"We were aggressive," Holifield said. "We came out and did some good things early. We set the tempo and were really working hard defensively.
"That allowed us to get the ball out and do some things which is to our advantage, no doubt."
Sikeston scored another 26 points in the second quarter while holding the Chickasaws to 12 for a commanding 52-21 advantage at halftime.
Ruffin scored 13 of his 16 in the first half. Jones had 11 points in the first two quarters.
The Bulldogs shot 50 percent from behind the arc. Ruffin was a perfect three for three.
As a team, Sikeston shot 57 percent from the field, totaled 17 steals and grabbed 45 rebounds.
"Our players have really been working hard and they've had some good practices," said Holifield. "We know we have to continue. It's every day. You cant' take plays, quarters, or days off. You've got to work as hard as you can every day and our players have been consistent so far."
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The Sikeston junior varsity team also pulled out a victory, 53-43 over Blytheville Tuesday.
Zach Harrison led the Bulldogs with 15 points. Dantrell Brown and Earnest Fobbs each contributed 11 and 10 respectively.
BLYTHEVILLE (34) -- Larry Bolden 8, Dmarques Evans 3, Jarrod Bates 3, Floyd Bolden 2, Jerrod Knowles 2, Johnae Guyton 1, Nordenes McKillion 4, Shaquille Smith 9. FG 13 FT 5-7 F 18. (3-pointers: Bolden 1, Evans 1, Bates 1. Fouled out: none.)
SIKESTON (79) -- Zach Jackson 2, Jairius Ray 9, Cord Sheehy 5, Tyler Anderson 3, Vashawn Ruffin 16, J.T. Jones 16, Reese Porter 7, Jeterrence Harris 8, Markeith Bratcher 13. FG 32 FT 9-20 F 13. (3-pointers: Sheehy 1, Anderson 1, Ruffin 3, Bratcher 1. Fouled out: none.)


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CSDL Home IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis & Machine Intelligence 2009 vol.31 Issue No.08 - August
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Sabri Boutemedjet , Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke
Nizar Bouguila , Concordia University, Montreal
Djemel Ziou , Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke
This paper presents an unsupervised approach for feature selection and extraction in mixtures of generalized Dirichlet (GD) distributions. Our method defines a new mixture model that is able to extract independent and non-Gaussian features without loss of accuracy. The proposed model is learned using the Expectation-Maximization algorithm by minimizing the message length of the data set. Experimental results show the merits of the proposed methodology in the categorization of object images.
Unsupervised learning, mixture models, feature selection, dimensionality reduction, generalized Dirichlet mixture, EM, MML, information theory, object image categorization.
Sabri Boutemedjet, Nizar Bouguila, Djemel Ziou, "A Hybrid Feature Extraction Selection Approach for High-Dimensional Non-Gaussian Data Clustering", IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis & Machine Intelligence, vol.31, no. 8, pp. 1429-1443, August 2009, doi:10.1109/TPAMI.2008.155


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Where Gaming Rules: Middle School Students Accept the Challenge at ChicagoQuest
12.20.11 | This is how seventh grader Tamiel McKee-Bey describes her new school: "I really like this school, because, last year we weren't interacting, and here I'm interacting and learning and not slouching in my seat."
You might not think a middle-schooler would be so effusive about interaction, but at the new ChicagoQuest charter school, getting out of your seat and collaborating with others is exactly the point. Here, games aren't add-ons to the curriculum—they are the curriculum.
Reporter Tom Mullaney visited ChicagoQuest, which is modeled after Quest to Learn in New York City, and wrote a story for the Chicago Tribune about the thinking behind using game design and digital media to teach skill development and problem solving along with traditional subjects like English and history.
The school opened its doors in September to 234 sixth- and seventh-graders, selected by lottery. African-American students make up the majority. By 2016, ChicagoQuest will serve students in grades 6-12.
Even the school's website sets itself apart. Visitors can see if the school is a right fit for them by dragging and dropping answers to questions into a virtual backpack. The School Day page gives an overview of the schedule, which includes a "home base" check-in with advisors several days per week.
Courses, called "domains," integrate related content and skills across subject areas. For example, "Being, Space, Place" combines English/language arts with social studies, while "CodeWorlds" integrates writing and math. Instead of grades, student performance is tracked on a scale that ranges from "novice" to "master of skills."
Katie Salen, executive director of Institute of Play, a nonprofit that focuses on games and learning, led a team that founded Quest to Learn, and she helped oversee the launch of ChicagoQuest. Now a professor in the School of Computing and Digital Media at DePaul University, Salen told Mullaney that it's the pedagogy, not the technology, that matters most.
Salen discussed how game design can help students explore systems during an extended video interview with PBS earlier this year.
Inititally there were worries that Quest to Learn would be too focused on competition and rewards, but in fact the gaming structure has prompted students to want to get better. Just as in all games, the quests get harder as students develop more knowledge and acquire more skills.
"They're proceeding through some kind of challenge and they're getting close to some kind of end goal," said Salen. "We have found that that's very motivating for kids—they know where they're are, they know how far they've come, and they know what they need to work on."
Or, as one student puts it, "Game design is about trial and error."
The extended interview is connected to the PBS special "Digital Media - New Learners of the 21st Century." You an watch the full hour-long show online or view more extended interviews with familiar faces, including Nichole Pinkard and Henry Jenkins. And in this Spotlight interview, Salen talks with Pinkard, founder of the Chicago-based afterschool program Digital Youth Network, about applying game design to classroom learning.
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Always putting off those home improvements? Well, now is the perfect time to begin as your efforts could help housing charity Shelter along the way.
Architect in the House is a fundraising project run each year by Shelter and the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA). It involves architects across the country giving up their time to offer hour-long consultations to the public in exchange for a �40 donation to Shelter.
TV presenter and property expert Sarah Beeny is a huge fan of the movement. 'I know how daunting it can be to embark on a home improvement project, but whatever the size and scope of your plans, consulting an architect can help you take that first step to turning your home improvement dreams into reality,' she says.
Architect in the House has raised over �1.1 million for Shelter, including over �110,000 last year alone. This year the scheme is sponsored by TV channel Home.
Beeny, founder of property website Tepilo, says: 'Whether it�s a newly-bought property you�re planning to renovate or want to create extra space for a growing family, architects can add huge value by sharing their design expertise advising on fixtures and fittings, and even finding builders to carry out the work.
'Architect in the House is a great way to make the most of their experience while raising money for Shelter at the same time.'
To get your hands on some quality time with an architect you can pre-register at: www.architectinthehouse.org.uk. Official registration will take place on April 18.
Participants will be matched with architects in early July and consultations can take place any time up to the end of November.
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Waterford United manager Paul O'Brien tendered his resignation prior to last night's 1-0 defeat to Wexford Youths and, in a statement released this morning, the club revealed it has been accepted.
The club, which currently lies sixth in the Airtricity League First Division, indicated there may be a role for O'Brien in the coaching structure.
An interim replacement for O'Brien, who was in the position for five years, is expected to be announced in the next few days.
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