The Whistler
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What I learned was to NOT schedule classes Friday afternoon.
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You actually and purposely scheduled classes on Friday???
What can I say, I went to college to learn.
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Your 1st point shouldn't be an expectation of your #1 goalie, your 2nd point should be though.
Well true enough, but rock solid goalies are hard to find and unfortunately it's the one position that we seem to struggle on more than any other.
I remember Blais saying the position is so important that they should call the game "goalie."
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My spring semester of my senior year was built around buck pitchers.
How about 35 centers on Thursday nights??
I watched the Sioux beat the Badgers for the NC in '82 at The Spud.
Dean Martin is still one of my favorites, thanks to my many visits to Whiteys as a kid.
I'll admit that I cut some classes on Friday to make it in time to get a pitcher.
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Totally with you. There were times last year where I almost felt UND was down 1-0 before the pucked dropped because BE seemed to always give up a soft one.
With that said, I'd like to see BE get some ice time, but with the race for Cup on and Dell in total control game in and game out, I don't see that happening.
Eids did always give up the soft one, then he'd make some terrific saves. He wasn't losing games for us, but he wasn't stealing them either.
A comment on Dell's performance this weekend. If he wasn't on his game we would have been in danger of losing at least the Saturday night game even though we dominated the game.
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A trip to The Spud and Whitey's in Oct 1980. Yikes, is that really over 30 years ago?
Buck pitchers followed for 2 for 1's. Not telling my kids about that.
No way could it be 30 years ago.
So how about the in booth juke boxes that didn't work but still had Dean Martin and Patti Page on them.
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Something a bit overlooked was the fact that Aaron Dell won his 20th hockey game with the victory over Anchorage on Saturday. Dell has just been a reliable consistently good goaltender this eason, and has been amazing on the road. I expect the same from him this weekend, and another solid couple of starts.
The goalie situation has been quite a turnaround from last year. Dell couldn't break in last year. When he got a rare chance he wasn't that good and Eids was generally very good. Now the skate is on the other foot.
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Yes, I know this.....but I have also read countless studies that say the exact opposite of that they are dying....we were actually just debating this in class on Friday night.
Access to the internet needs to be provided for those who can not afford or get it.....Unless Midco started delivering internet to those who can't afford it or the homeless since I left GF that is still an issue. Most job apps now require some form of online app...which you can't do if you can't get on the internet where you live and you can't afford the internet if you don't have a job. It is always an unmet need because there is always going to be a wait time.
As someone has already pointed out the current library already has computers. But I'd also bet that Job Service has computers to use to apply for jobs.
And finally I'll say it again. The library board did a survey and reported that 98% of the public had access to the internet. Are you going to tell me that everyone who wants internet doesn't have it?
I also agree that we have no obligation to provide internet to everyone. But if we did, then there are a LOT of more cost effective ways to do so. Why do we need to build a 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26 million dollar building just so a few freeloaders can do Facebook?
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Alaska Anchorage will make anyone look good.
I disagree. At least to how they usually play the Sioux. We usually wind up winning but it's not easy and we haven't looked as good doing so.
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while I don't see that we need to provide access to the net that point is already moot.
We do provide the internet in the existing building. In the future we will have more space as there are less printed materials.
Also the study the library did showed 98 percent had internet access. There is no unmet need.
There is just unmet greed.
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It's irrelevant for everything but bragging rights, but I see UND has moved into #1 on the KRACH.
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Well now the city council want the tax for 36 months cuz they dont think we can get it the 20.8 in 30 months.
Last year the new library was 10 million 1/4 percent, then it went to 15 million and finally ended at 21 million and one percent. Of course that won't be the final cost. The 9 mills the library gets has a surplus that can be tapped for the add-ons.
The book industry is changing. Borders is in danger of bankruptcy. Very soon most books won't even be published on paper, although available as a print on demand.
Mike Jacobs today said that we need meeting rooms. Don't we have them sitting empty pretty much all the time at the Alerus?
The "scientific" study the Library Board commissioned, with our money, said that 98% of the people had internet access. I'm guessing the other 2% don't want it.
The only reason why the library thing is coming up is because Fargo built a new one. I'm sick of the GF people needing my money to build up their egos.
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Some of us made that tour on our 19th birthday.
The law hasn't always been 21.
12am on my 19th Birthday. Was kinda a let down as I'd been drinking there for a year.... I did make the barkeep card me.
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It was about a mile north of the Buxton exit. There was a lot of great "artwork" on that building over the years.
If you're traveling North from Buxton it was right before the first tree claim.
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I think it went down around 1997 or '98. Probably vandalize by NDSU students.
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There was more than one study done before the voting on the Alerus Center stating it would lose money.
With that knowledge the majoriy of people still voted for the Alerus Center.
Yes there were studies. The Alerus gang said that the study was flawed and didn't include things like charging for parking. Then they had John Schmisek, the city finance guy, adjust their figures to account for the alleged errors in the study.
That brings up another interesting item. Why is it that they assumed parking fees in their study but took seven or eight years to implement them?
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When was the last time the Engelstad held a business convention? I think the two facilities have different roles in the community...One is a convention center that can be used as an athletics facility and one is primarily a hockey arena for the Fighting Sioux...to compare the two and say one could have sufficed versus the other is comparing apples to oranges in my mind.
Well a convention center is what the Alerus gang wanted in the first place. They promised us concerts and things that we'd make money on.
The thing is the public didn't want a convention center. The public voted one down before the Alerus scam. And why should they want to spend an enormous amount of money. After all you and I don't own a hotel so why should our money be spent dragging in customers for them.
That brings up an interesting point. At an informational meeting for the convention center it was revealed that the hotels absolutely would not tolerate a lodging task to pay for the convention center. Now restaurants and shopping get a little business off of that, but nearly everyone attending for a convention rents a hotel room. It seemed to me that if the people getting the biggest advantage out of the convention center were unwilling to pay for it, then there really was no reason to build it. And of course that place was never built.
I see no moral reason to make me pay for someone else's convention business. The fact that the Alerus sits empty for months makes it very hard to come up with a complimentary business. That's why all the non subsidized hotels are being built down by the shopping.
I've studied the matter and financially the Alerus is a huge loser for the city..http://sayanythingblog.com/entry/what-kind-of-idiots-spend-3-6-million-in-cash-to-bring-in-1-7-million/
The Ralph could host the large conventions like the teachers or political parties no problem. The hotels could host nearly every business convention.
The place should never have been built. But it was because of the lies the Alerus gang made to get it approved. It seems to me that the first thing to do to turn it around is to get some new people in there instead of the liars that screwed it up to start with.
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Duluth loses 8-2 against SCSU, what happened? At home too, yikes.
Amsoil curse.
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Been here before kinda like the Friday Robert morris game .
Hope they don't take 7 games off in the motivation department again.
So you're a glass half empty kind of guy.
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I saw them in the Hyslop(in the late 80's-early 90's) so the Betty would be good for it unless the Alerus does end up selling more seats. My parents never voted for the Alerus simply because it wasn't needed. Sioux football---Memorial Stadium, concerts Hyslop, Chester Fritz. Or even Memorial Stadium could have had an outdoor concert that would have been fun. Now you have the REA and of course the Alerus is NOT going to make money. But people didn't know the REA would've been built at the same time as the AC.
That's not completely true. Ralph Englestad had announced his gift (in 1997 I think) well before ground was broken for the Alerus. The powers that be refused to consider not building it. In fact one citizen (ok he's kinda a goofball) put together a petition that was rejected by the council on technical grounds. OK fine, but the city council could have called a vote based on the intentions of those that signed the petition.
The fact is that the Alerus gang seems to be quite hostile to the Ralph. They are always falsely blaming the Ralph for their own failure in the concert business. Last year the Ralph had concerts when the Alerus didn't hold any. The year before the Ralph didn't compete during the time frame of the disastrous Britney Spears concert.
Either way, they knew the Ralph was coming and it would have saved us the seven or eight million a year the Alerus costs us. (Two sales taxes plus various other subsidies.)
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I agree with this. I don't care that the Alerus Center loses money because restaurants and hotels make money when events are scheduled there. The sales tax from the hotels, restaurants, and stores in GF go right back in to the the city budget. I think if you look over the last few years, you'll city sales tax revenues to be very good.
Maybe the "building" loses money but the "city" makes money. That works for me!!!!
Even at the exaggerative economic impact the Alerus claims they don't come close to paying for the costs associated with the building.
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According to the auditors in the CAFR report on the city website, the Alerus lost 2.7 million dollars last year 2009 over and above the cost of financing the construction bonds. The Alerus claimed they lost under $200,000.
According to the Alerus Center packet available on the city website attendance has been falling each of the last four years (they only list five on their report).
The Alerus hasn't had a profitable concert for years. But they say the reason why they are losing money is that they don't have enough concerts.
Last year the attorney general scolded the Alerus Commission for having an illegal secret meeting. The purpose of the illegal secret meeting was to cover up the fraud of the Executive Director the the Alerus going on non related travel, running up extravagant bills and charging the city for them.
The city was forced due to the scandals to have an Alerus Task Force to restore credibility. They were supposed to have a system of the city evaluating risk on concerts rather than having a surprise bill stuck on the taxpayers. Now I'm not against the McGraw concert, but we must have guarenteed a payment to him of between 500k to a million. (Spears was $800,000 I believe.) I recently looked through the Alerus Commission, the City Finance Committee, and the City Council minutes and didn't see any assumption of that risk by our "leaders." I don't see how the Venuworks can pledge our money without authorization of the city council.
These are just a few of the problems at the Alerus. Some say the quality of life has been improved by the Alerus. I say that the quality of life has been harmed in this city by the lies and misrepresentations and mismanagement surrounding the Alerus Center.
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I actually understand the trap to a certain degree. (What's not to understand about 2-1-2 or having your winger cover the left wing....)
But what I don't understand is exactly how that changes what a team has to do to make it through the neutral zone (aside from playing dump and chase if the D is playing up.)
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I enjoyed this in todays Souhan column. The topic of the column was how to fix the world of sports.
"College hockey: Install the "Fairness Doctrine,'' preventing superpowers such as Union and Holy Cross from beating up on upstarts such as the University of Minnesota.
When will they let that go.
Too many out of staters?
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What do our Universities exist for? I would say they should exist to give OUR kids the best education we can give them to prepare them in whatever they choose to do.