NoiseInsideMyHead

The Committee was presented with thousands of public suggestions, and (after scrubbing for vulgarity and other formalities) it was the Committee that -- very publicly -- winnowed the list down to the finalists. Are you suggesting that the Committee was steered in a particular direction by someone and if so, based on what information? The hired "facilitator" (or whatever term was used) didn't have a vote.

So, it turns out Ed had all the answers -- including, it would seem, a bulletproof and uniquely "professional" approach to name selection. Yet, nobody bothered to ask him, and now he's content to throw everyone under the bus? Interesting tactic. #mondaymorningquarterbackmuch

For a minute I thought that was an Indian remake of Mambo No. 5.

Don't disagree, but have you seen the condition of the parking lots surrounding the old mall? Holy potholes, Batman! It'd be easier - and safer - to drive across an asteroid.

Every law enforcement officer, ever. Standard procedure is to let the car run, near as I can tell, at least for short-ish breaks. I've seen ambulance crews do the same thing getting lunch between calls.

Would love for someone here who is able to attend to report back and let us know how it goes.

And so began a lifetime of petty hijinks and near misdemeanors...

Fitting that the final home stand goes the way it did...NMSU with the sweep. 6-0, 4-0, 7-2. A rather subdued Senior Day celebration post-game, and if you were wondering like me whether UND would do anything - anything at all - in observance of the obvious, not a peep. UND Baseball goes out with a ridiculously anti-climactic thud. No appearance by the President or AD (Saturday's "Fire Faison" sign was absent today), no words, no acknowledgment. Nothing. Mind you, I wouldn't know the first thing to say under the circumstances, but I was looking to UND to find some way to make it special, to do something classy. They will give more thought to table centerpieces at the umpteenth hockey celebration banquet than they gave to the demise of an entire program. And I think that's sad.

No can do...I'm allergic to those. And I don't like dogs, either.

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.