NoiseInsideMyHead

State licensure would seem to be the obvious answer. Gotta have the right courses and then pass the required exam(s), or else insurance companies won't cover.

Okay, genius. Let's follow your plan and send everyone to MDs for every possible clinical and sub-clinical intervention and reimburse them at the highest rate, all so you can belittle the allied health professions and have a bash-Obamacare circle jerk.

Beats playing on the subway platform for spare change, don't it? Besides, like many allied health fields, if it decreases overall dependence on Rx meds and more costly practitioners/treatments across an aging population, hard to quarrel. I'd like to think I'll have care options some day when I need them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_therapy http://arts-sciences.und.edu/music/music-therapy/history.cfm http://arts-sciences.und.edu/music/music-therapy/clients.cfm http://www.musictherapy.org/faq/

Absolutely worthless degree. How does one study to become an entrepreneur? Like so many traits, you're either born with it or you're not. You don't become entrepreneurial by sitting on campus for four years. What percentage of start-ups fail...90%? 95%? More? Might as well offer a degree in Texas Hold'Em, because the odds of success are about the same. Yet Music Therapy, an up-and-coming field with local demand and which boasts mind-blowing job placement numbers and viable careers, gets the axe? Something reeks here.

Firehouse Subs coming to GF. Old Quizno's location at 32nd & Columbia. 'Bout damn time, too.

If he doesn't mind the short drive to Cooperstown, I strongly recommend both parts of the Ronald Reagan Minuteman Missile Site. Also, since he is old enough to be a cold war kid, he can appreciate the numerous missile silo sites and launch control centers that still "exist" and can be spotted in one form or another throughout the region, as well as the mothballed anti-missile missile facilities near Cavalier and Nekoma, and the still operational Cavalier Air Force Station that is a fantastically curious block of stone on the prairie. The USAF used to have open houses and let people tour, but I don't think they've had one in a while. And if he drives up towards Cavalier, there's no excuse to miss the Pembina Gorge and the Walhalla scenic overlook.

Bump. Last weekend of UND Baseball in Grand Forks. Get out and support 'em. http://www.undsports.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=13500&ATCLID=210944424

I floated this question on here a month ago, but I have seen and heard nothing. Is anyone aware of planned events this weekend? I predict decent to overflow crowds, even though the weather forecast is lousy for Fri/Sat. Sunday looks better, 65 and sunny.

Not sure that gender makes my Top Ten. 1. Some years, due to weather/wetness, no home games until May. 2. Home game weather often iffy (cold, wind). 3. Too far from campus to draw casual students. 4. Too many day games to draw casual adults. 5. No marketing (unless you call the little two foot gameday sign on the ground at 17th & Columbia "marketing"). 6. Not hockey. 7. Bizarre conference affiliations (NJIT?); too few quality (i.e., local/regional/traditional) rivalries. 8. No marquee alums (that I can name). 9. No recent winning tradition. 10. It's baseball, a notoriously fickle fan sport, and one that too few area parents wanted to immerse their kids in as spectators (based on personal observation over the years).

OUCH! At least the university found out sort of early, but aren't housing and schools things a professional/executive would typically investigate BEFORE accepting a $185k job and being introduced to great fanfare? Something darker lurking beneath the surface?

Just couldn't let this one die, could you. What's your point? So you found an executive who eschews the front of the airplane for ostensibly noble purposes. That makes other executives villains? Sorry, but a billionaire flying coach is a quaint novelty, not a valid business principle or a solution to perceived class inequality and rank envy. I can only imagine how much reading this story warmed the hearts of his employees who live paycheck to paycheck. And until somebody shows me what the same flights in coach would have cost NDSU -- purchased at the same time with the same advance notice, fully-refundable, plus baggage fees and meals -- the Bresciani dustup remains a non-story. As I recall, the prices quoted in the press were the "lowest available fares" at the time the reporter went to the airline website, and were thus totally irrelevant for purposes of comparison. And I'm not even an NDSU apologist. Let it go. Not even the Port-ophiles are talking about the India trip anymore.

No firm would EVER throw a client under the bus. I'm assuming that SME's reps spun this about as positively as they could, and that UND was, for better or worse, simply AWOL at one or more critical junctures. The cause was probably 99% budget and 1% hockey results, but that too is just a guess.

Developments in Illinois. http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/college/ct-university-of-illinois-mascot-chief-illiniwek-20160502-story.html

I have the headpiece to the staff of Ra...you're digging in the wrong place.

Except for those stairs. Something has to be done about the stairs.

Not all space is created equally. Seems like many are assuming that the old med school represents thousands of useable, Class A, move-in ready, square footage, but I wonder if that's really the case. It's an old building that has been significantly repurposed at least once. And the retrofitting costs could be enormous. There's a reason (or $130MM reasons) the med school wanted out, I reckon, and it probably had nothing to do with the old building's mint condition. Does the administration need cadaver storage or a fume hood? Wait...don't answer that.

Canada isn't hosting, so their reputation for supporting hockey is not at issue. But if you're asking whether a few more of them could have been expected to make the trip...I would say so. Their team was loaded, and well worth a drive from Winnipeg. Not like Manitobans need much of an excuse to come to Grand Forks anyway. Not sure why you seem intent on defending Grand Forks. People flat didn't turn out for this event, and that is pitiful. World class hockey, world class arena, all that was missing were world class hockey fans who recognize the importance of supporting not only the sport but also the community. Those are apparently in short supply around here.

Fair enough. But my concerns have far more to do with civic pride and getting value for Grand Forks. The REA was always going to be just fine. What took a huge blow was GF's rep as a hockey town.

3 points: 1. Paid attendance and butts in seats are wholly unrelated figures, so comparisons to Fargo are misleading. Jaw-dropping photos from this event are everywhere; your eyes don't lie. 2. If an event is only going to draw 2-3k on a "good" day, placing it in a 12k seat arena is just plain stupid. 3. Three days before the puck dropped on the U18s, on a work night with relatively little notice, somewhere north of 6k "hockey fans" packed the REA to look at a trophy. Less than 2 weeks later, only 3k watched Team USA play a meaningful game on the world stage. Something ain't right.

Not sure that's going to be a sentiment shared by many. Take away the scouts, the schoolchildren, and the players' parents, and you have more naked leather than a bovine Pride parade. A real black eye for the region.

Two giants slain. Unreal stuff.

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I am calling out GF, Fargo, and beyond: get to the Ralph and support this event. Please. The overall quality of life here depends, in part, on drawing cool stuff, and drawing cool stuff IN THE FUTURE depends on whether people go to stuff NOW. Empty seats are ugly. For all of our fun and mocking at the expense of the B1G joke, the Ralph is now at risk of being the saddest show on TV. Prove to the WORLD that this is a hockey town, and not just a UND men's hockey town.

Rather than a standard backlit, static sign (like is on the HPC and elsewhere), I think a dynamic, virtual flame logo/LED, similar but smaller in scale to what is on the Target HQ in downtown Minneapolis, would be cool.