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4 hours ago, The Sicatoka said:
Famous Dave's and Carino's in Fargo both closed: staffing.
Almost a year ago. They closed late Nov of last year. Not seeing any news about the takeout-only location attached to Granite City closing and their online ordering system is still up.
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On 9/28/2022 at 1:37 PM, The Sicatoka said:
WIN ... or else, at Utah.
Today I learned that the University of Utah actually has a tiny nuclear reactor on campus. Produces a whopping 100kW and, when running full out, is able to raise the temp of the cooling water from 65 to 80 degrees. It's used to teach nuclear engineering students how to understand and safely operate nuclear reactors.
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17 hours ago, NoiseInsideMyHead said:
Twitch is basically just someone else’s pirated stream, right?
No. Twitch is owned by Amazon.
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For lack of a better place to put this...
If you enjoy aviation, blancolirio should be on your short list of aviation YouTube channels(along with Mentour Pilot and maybe 74 Gear). Juan recently did a video interview with the pilot of a dead stick landing that took place in fog onto a Pacific beach near Watsonville, CA last month. The pilot was a UND aviation grad and had a couple nice things to say about the program and how it helped him in what could have been a really, really, really bad situation.
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12 hours ago, The Sicatoka said:
Seems like the decision is made based on the memo from Dean Kraus, specifically:
" ... had already begun the process of ... seeking approval of a new one ..."
" ... waiting for release of one from another organization and if/when that happens, we will file the appropriate paperwork for approval."
My guess is it'll still take a while.
Probably have to route the paperwork through like Swaziland or something.
Sounds like the one they have in mind is already registered and in use by somebody else, but that they might be willing to give it up to UND.
The process:
Step 1: Determine preferred new call sign. (completed - choice unknown)
Step 2: Determine if preferred call sign is currently in use. If yes, proceed to Step 3. If no, proceed to Step 5. (completed - it is already in use)
Step 3: Contact holder of preferred call sign to get them to release use to UND. (pending)
Step 4: If Step 3 succeeds, proceed to Step 5. If it fails, return to Step 1.
Step 5: Apply for FAA approval of new call sign.
Step 6: Report new call sign to ICAO.
Step 7: Begin use of new call sign.
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20 minutes ago, The Sicatoka said:
In summary:
- check the official schedule for the correct broadcaster
- know your (in my case Midco ISP) username/password*Always sound advice. Thanks Hammer.
*I've had the situation where I wasn't home but put in my username/password and could get a game anyway.
I don't think I've ever had to enter my ISP login/password at home, but I've done the same as you before and watched a game away from home because I was able to enter my ISP credentials. Very useful if you're watching on the road or over at friends/family and they don't get ESPN3.
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ESPN3 confirmed. I went to ESPN's website and found the game on their schedule.
To those not super knowledgeable about the difference and expecting to get the game because you're signed up for ESPN+, this doesn't necessarily mean you're not going to be able to watch the game, but it might mean one extra step to be prepared for. ESPN3 is linked to how you get your internet. If your internet service provider(ISP) subscribes to ESPN3, you get it(also if you have Xbox Live). If they don't, you don't. Most of the time, the ESPN video player is able to detect your ISP and unlocks access automatically. However, in some cases, you might have to log in to your ISP account as part of the process. I know I sure don't remember my ISP login and password offhand, so this is something I would test prior to gametime so I wouldn't be panicking at kickoff trying to get access under pressure.
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8 hours ago, The Sicatoka said:
Dear UND FB team,
For your bulletin board:
https://huskercorner.com/2022/08/24/nebraska-football-national-prognosticators/
Nah, use the twitter thread he links to instead. (UND fans with a history of high blood pressure and/or anger management issues should avoid it.)
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1 hour ago, The Sicatoka said:
Point of order: Your "CUSA school" announcer has never announced a conference CUSA game and his CUSA school isn't CUSA until 2023. Details matter.
Meanwhile our television announcer gets stolen away to do national broadcasts for CBS Sports.
I think I worded it that way just for you. Was wondering if someone was going to point that out.
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1 hour ago, UNDColorado said:
LOL you ate that bait right up.
You realize I was joking right back, right? lol. You take this stuff too seriously.
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3 hours ago, UNDColorado said:
You know it's good since no bizun trolls have come over here to try and minimize it.
Nah. We're busy feeling good because of another indication of our lofty place in the world. We just hired a radio announcer away from a CUSA school after our last announcer was hired by an ACC school. Just another piece of evidence that we're really a top-third G5 program. Bow, puny mortals.
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4 hours ago, SIOUXFAN97 said:
marketing 101...who what when..............WHERE!!!!?
Yeah, it's buried way down the page when it should be front and center. RRV Fairgrounds in West Fargo.
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23 minutes ago, Nodak78 said:
Like a congressman sleeping with a Chinese spy.
Like college professors selling info to chinese
Like stealing copywrite material even Dougie's
Even a VP's son accepting money for Chinese to gain access. 10% for the big guy. Now president.
USA needs a strong presents or Taiwan will be taken over by China and USA will not lift a finger because of all the commerce between. Companies don't give a damn about Taiwan. If Taiwan falls so does Japan and S Korea.
What the hell it is only a corn milling plant!!!!
The Art of War continued to be consulted afterwards throughout China's history and eventually came to be considered one of the classics and required reading. From China, the work traveled around the world and, in the present day, is among the bestselling books of all time. Sun-Tzu's maxim that “All warfare is based on deception” (1.18) has been cited as an essential component of any military campaign as well as in business transactions, legal proceedings, and political campaigns.
Read what jdub said again. He's not arguing that China is not spying. He's saying the opposite; that China is definitely spying. But this isn't the 80s. China doesn't need a 300 acre corn milling plant in order to spy on drone activity at GFAFB. If they want to spy, they could fit all the equipment they need to do that in a small house. And something like that would make a lot more sense in covert terms than drawing national attention by building a $700 million facility.
Stopping the Fufeng plant isn't going to help or hurt China's espionage efforts around GFAFB. If they are interested in drone sigint, they probably already have equipment set up at Cirrus or some generic storage facility or house in town. It's very possible that the equipment might get moved to the corn plant once it's built, but it's not a case of no plant = no spying.
There are good reasons and bad reasons for opposing the Fufeng plan. Concern about espionage is way into the bad reason camp. Not because China doesn't spy, but because this would be a really stupid(obvious) way to go about it.
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3 hours ago, SIOUXFAN97 said:
when did the old westward ho motel actually close...i biked thru there the other day...holy crap...broken everything...dangerous!
was cool back in the day tho
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Sometime between December of 2020 and September of 2021. There was a murder at the hotel in December of 2020 when it was still open, and Google street view shows it empty in September 2021. I spent a few minutes searching, but couldn't get more specific than that.
The name changed to Budget Inn Express in the early 2000s. Don't know if there were any other names in between that and Westward Ho.
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Here's Matt Brown's (from Extra Points) current opinion about what will come out of the Transformation Committee this winter. Note: All this would apply to ALL DI, not just FBS.
(Matt talks to a lot of DI athletic directors in the course of his work.)
From CSNBBS:
QuoteThis would be my best, educated guess, at the moment:
* The committee won't make membership recommendations until Q1 of 2023.
* Schools will have a three-year waiver period to get into compliance of new recommendations. Nobody is getting booted tomorrow.
* Schools will need to commit to sponsoring somewhere between 18-20 NCAA sponsored sports, NOT including FBS football.
* Most sport-specific scholarship caps and staffing caps will be lifted, as conferences will decide how many scholarships to offer per sport.
* Benchmarks about stadium size and attendance will be removed
* Schools will need to commit to sponsoring X number of scholarships across all sports, unless they get an Ivy waiver
* Schools will need to commit to maintaining a certain ratio of coaches to scholarship athletes, trainers to scholarship athletes, mental health professionals to scholarship athletes AND academic support specialists. The increase in STAFFING will be a bigger financial lift than the requirement to sponsor additional sports.
* In an effort to get around antitrust issues, these guidelines will be set up in a way for schools to "self select" which levels to participate in, rather than entire conferences getting booted.
* In a related move, I believe the NCAA men's and women's basketball tournaments will expand, and that not every conference will be guaranteed championship access to every NCAA sponsored sport. -
He was standing on the grassy median between Demers and 6th Ave somewhere in front of Diamond Lounge about halfway between 16th and 17th Streets. Then he's using a lens that brings everything into focus no matter how close or far away from the camera; that throws your depth perception off. Sic was only a hundred feet or so off in his Google Streets link. The blue road sign in the picture is on the north side of Demers at S 15th, just as you enter the BNSF yard. It's actually right next to the billboard in the picture. The trees in the foreground are directly north of Express AutoGlass & Repair.
To make a super specific guess, I would say he was standing between the lightpole and the tree immediately to the east of it. Almost directly south of another billboard on the north side of Demers.
47.916301, -97.050273
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20 hours ago, NoiseInsideMyHead said:
So...Rydell is growing, huh?
Mainstream brands still not in ND:
- Lexus
- Acura
- Infiniti
- Genesis
- BMW
- Mini
- Volvo
- Jaguar
- Land Rover
Give Fargoans a reason to come up here for a change!
Lexus and Volvo, yes. Everything else, hard pass. Especially BMW, Mini, and Land Rover. Just terrible long-term build quality. BMW's are the absolute worst. Great to drive for the first three to five years, then you might as well install a credit card reader in them for the amount of repairs they'll need. There's a reason you can easily pick up a used 3-series dirt cheap.
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3 hours ago, SIOUXFAN97 said:
screenshot?
Just pull up google maps and go to Turtle River State Park. It's the second to last house to the west along highway 2 on the north side of the road.
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On 6/4/2022 at 2:22 PM, SIOUXFAN97 said:
anyone know what is/was just a mile or so east of turtle river state park?....look like a horse racing track from the air?
More than likely a private dirt track owned by the farm next to it. Probably for cars or dirt bikes. Did a quick calculation and it appears to be between 3/4 mile and 1 mile in length.
A stranger shape is about two miles west. Looks kind of like the outline of a pair of goggles. Only thing I can think of is an old go-kart track. Looks like it was paved at some point, but it's such a small track, I can't think of what else it could be used for.
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On 5/27/2022 at 3:42 PM, Sioux>Bison said:
I’m confused what floor are these multi room suites on?
There will be three VIP suites with two bedrooms each that will be in the new building on floors 3, 4 & 5. The one-bedroom suites are going to be in the old building(Edgewood Plaza) on the third floor. That floor will contain the fitness room as well as nine hotel rooms(5 king, 1 corner double queen, 2 one-bedroom double-queen suites, 1 one-bedroom king suite).
According to the plans on the city's website, the Olive Ann will remodel and take over the 1st, 3rd, & 4th floors of the Edgewood Plaza.
Edgewood Plaza will be renovated this way:
First floor - hotel lobby, hotel bar, catering kitchen, retail food(like a hotel convenience store maybe?)
Second floor - Sky's Fine Dining(unchanged from current setup)
Third floor - hotel rooms and hotel fitness space
Fourth floor - hotel and tenant office space(maybe only a partial remodel of this floor)
Fifth floor - Cloud 9 Event Center(unchanged from current setup)
The new building will only have hotel rooms, the hotel laundry, and a room set up as a board room/small conference room.
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22 minutes ago, Cratter said:
I wonder what the thread count will be too?!
Sheets and pillow cases can be easily replaced. Walls and plumbing? Not so much. When you're building a boutique hotel(i.e. expensive as !@#$), it's kind of important to get the details right. If I'm spending serious money to stay with three others in a two bedroom VIP suite, I'm not going to appreciate sharing one bathroom in the morning. If I'm staying alone in an expensive one bedroom suite, I'm not going to appreciate waking up and having to cross the entire suite to get to the bathroom in the middle of the night or in the morning. If I'm putting down the cash for the best room in the building, I'm expecting one of the best views, not the worst. I'm not going to appreciate paying that money only to open the room door the first time and find I'm looking at a parking lot or the back side of another building(or no view at all since one of the two bedrooms in the VIP suites don't have any windows at all).
If the rooms are simply fancier versions of the same rooms you find at the local Super 8, why not just go there and spend Super 8 money instead?
https://www.grandforksgov.com/home/showpublisheddocument/41954/637749313846970000
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2 hours ago, forksandspoons said:
Glad there will be 80+ new hotel rooms downtown Forks
Olive Ann boutique hotel holds groundbreaking in downtown Grand Forks
I just don't understand the philosophy of the room layouts. The best rooms in the building have large banks of windows with views of only the back alley/parking lot. All of the regular suites have sitting rooms with no windows at all, and they're right over either the restaurant kitchen or bar(likely noise issues). The corners would be the best spots for the nicer suites, but they're using all but one of them for single king rooms. And in all the different suites, the bathrooms are near the entrances to the rooms rather than off of the bedrooms. Plus, all the bathrooms are a single room with a single sink; even the only bathrooms in the nicest two-bedroom VIP suites(instead of double sinks and separating parts of the bathroom off so multiple people can use it at the same time). It just doesn't make any sense compared to typical high end hotel room layouts.
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4 hours ago, northernraider said:
Have you looked at the roster of these power brokers?
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1 hour ago, NoiseInsideMyHead said:
Not to rain on anyone's parade, but if I were going to develop a year-round golf attraction a la Top Golf in Grand Forks, I would 100% not have the range face N/W/NNW/WNW, which is the most likely orientation using the existing RR range. The prevailing winds - especially coupled with cool temps from October to April - would make the site almost unbearable. Fargo's appears to be oriented downrange east (i.e., away from I-29), which (along with due south) is probably ideal in this neck of the woods. Although only time will tell if you can really sustain a viable 12-month golf operation in this climate.
Has anyone played Top Golf in MSP during the offseason? I know theirs is oriented to the north, and I have to believe that if their prevailing winds are anything like ours, it would tend to be somewhat unpleasant.
I think a pitch/putt bubble/dome would be far more useful.
I'm just guessing, but I suspect the winds aren't as bad as you'd expect at a Top Golf. At first glance, it would be easy to assume that the netting would be negligible as a wind shelter, but I wonder if that's the case. The netting needs to be tight enough to stop a golf ball so I wonder if it might not stop most of the wind. What could happen is that the wind getting hung up at the string could start to swirl, creating vortices. Those vortices would be much larger than the string itself and be what actually stops the wind. And the stronger the wind, the stronger the vortices. But that's just a guess. Could totally be wrong.
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Spuds need ... drivers?
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Each state is going to be slightly different.
ND - CDL Class B(full bus/coach) or Class C(van chassis), with S Endorsement.
MN - CDL Class C with Passenger and School Bus Endorsements.