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TV is the New Reading
 Terry J. Aman |
Catch ‘The Prisoner’Wed, November 18, 2009 @ 6:39PM AMC creates a satisfying reimagination of the original In “The Prisoner,” an enigmatic all-powerful and capriciously destructive man called No. 2 pursues a lost, confused man called No. 6 through a Village he cannot escape, searching for answers about a life he can’t seem to get back to. That’s true of both the original 17-episode British production from the 1960s, and of the six-episode American Movie Classics miniseries remake. The similarities end right about precisely there, however. In the 1960s version, No. 6 was a government operative who resigned suddenly, and the Village in which he was imprisoned was entirely obsessed with discovering what he was up to. No. 6 quickly realized what was going on and treated every aspect of the Village that imprisoned him with contempt, foiling all his captors’ plans, turning their paranoid surveillance tactics on their ear and generally treating the whole situation as a game.
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Sometimes It Rains
 Chris Bieri |
Slip'n'Slide BowlFri, September 11, 2009 @ 5:29PM Looking forward to covering the Minot High School/Grand Forks Red River football game tonight. It's been pouring rain in Minot for the entire day and it's going to really be a mess out there, which should be at least mildly entertaining to watch. Actually aside from the fact that the field will be a 100-yard Slip'n'Slide, it should be a very competitive game. The teams are ranked No. 3 and No. 4 in the state through the first two weeks. Red River's got some guys that can really fly, including all four members of last year's 4x100 state championship relay team. The Magicians have some guys with get up and go as well. Donte Smart ran for over 200 yards last week and Jonas Tengesdal has two 100-yard games despite not getting a ton of carries. He's busted a 50+ yard run in each game so far. The key in this one will be limiting big plays and who can handle the conditions the best. Even if it stops remaining before kickoff, the field conditions are going to be slick.
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So it goes
 Craig Haupert |
Harvey at VelvaThu, October 15, 2009 @ 11:52PM The annual Harvey/Velva football clash is ripe with playoff implications again. Since it is such a big game I am dedicating the entire week's best blog to it. Enjoy. No. 5 Harvey (5-1 Region 3, 6-1) at No. 2 Velva (6-0 Region 3, 7-0) Why it's important -- Numerous reasons, but the biggest is that the winner will be the Region 3 champion and take the No. 1 seed into the Class A playoffs. This is the final game of the regular season and one of the most anticipated regular season matchups every year due to the history between the schools, its players and its coaches. Harvey coach Brad Sandy and Velva coach Larry Sandy are brothers. Recent history -- Velva has won four of the last six meetings between the two teams, although Harvey has won two of the last three. Velva beat Harvey 20-7 in the regular season last year, but Harvey turned around and beat Velva 27-0 in the state semifinals a couple weeks later. Championship history -- Harvey won Class A titles in 1998, 2007 and 2008.
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Andrea's Agenda
 Andrea Johnson |
Good teaching requires more than knowledgeWed, November 18, 2009 @ 6:51PM I come from a family of high school teachers and college professors -- great grandparents, grandparents, parents, several aunts and uncles, now my brother -- and I grew up hearing the shop talk. There were funny stories, sad stories, inspiring stories. One of my great-aunts still had artwork and photos of students going back about 40 years. Since she had no children of her own, I suppose her students became her surrogate children. Back in the day when there was such a thing as a smoking lounge in a high school and adults were less concerned about exposing children to carcinogens, a 6-year-old me sat in a corner inhaling those stories told by my mother and her colleagues like I did the smoke. I knew all about what teachers did. I also knew I didn't want to be a teacher. It takes a certain kind of person to be a good one and I suspected even back then that I didn't have the right kind of temperament to step in front of a classroom.
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Something about nothing
 Michael Linnell |
Clean the fieldThu, October 15, 2009 @ 2:36PM With snow in the area today but better weather on the way, Minot State University should be out cleaning its football field so it might be somewhat dry come Saturday. After all, MSU is built on speed and a mud wrestling match Saturday with Black Hills State doesn't help the Beavers. But it looked like the maintenance staff was just clearing off the lines so they could be painted. I asked one of the assistant coaches if the field was going to be cleared at all today. He rolled his eyes. We joked that the only way it would be done would to get the poor redshirt freshmen out there with shovels. That is unacceptable. This isn't the first time I have heard MSU coaches upset with something not being done. I understand they are busy, we all are, but things like that will have to be improved when MSU moves to Division II. We joke about it all the time in the office, oh that's an NAIA thing, but it is true. The move to Division II is a step up for everybody - everybod.
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