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EERC has received many grants lately, but very few in the area that EERC started in, namely clean coal technology and research. My sources in EERC tell me that the clean coal research part of the operation is actually short on things to work on. And I haven't heard of any new projects in that area for quite a while. Are they planning to close that part of the facility? Could that space be reused or renewed into one of these new areas of research like hydrogen? It seems that clean coal technology is something that EERC has moved away from under Groenewold's leadership. Considering the vast coal resources ND has and the potential benefits of clean coal technologies toward national energy independence, Groenewold must have some reason for that movement. But given the economic value coal provides to ND (the whole economy out in the Beulah and Hazen area, outside of fishing and tourism), shouldn't EERC remain somewhat in touch and true to its origins? And no, the preceding was not brought to you by the ND Lignite Council.

I could be completely wrong and falsely getting some folks' hopes up, but Cilz just signed three ladies to NLIs. She appears to be running the program during this period without a formally named head coach. No head coach will be named until Mr. (Colonel?) Buning takes office in two weeks. Patience. Buning knows soccer and other practices start just a month after he takes office. He knows there are puzzle pieces that have to be put in place quickly, smoothly and efficiently. (There always are whenever anyone starts a new job.) But someone has been taking care of business and controlling what she can control during the interim. That's the hallmark of Sioux Athletics and coaches. And that is a very positive mark in my book for Ms. Cilz.

Question: Do we want a hydrogen research facility (think: Hindenburg): (a) closer to the center of campus, Swanson (residence) Hall, the Columbia Road overpass, and (soon) a parking ramp, or (b) along railroad tracks in an industrial area on Dyke Avenue?

Yes, apartments are going in between MiniMart and Dagwoods along 42nd Street. The campus is land-locked: - Demers and the tracks - I-29, 42nd Street, and the English Coulee - Gateway Drive, the cemetary, and University Park The only direction available to increase the footprint is east, east of EERC. If EERC doesn't open that direction campus will be completely landlocked. And it will be Gerry Groenewold's fault.

Man, that's too much at once. Forget the job thing.

http://www.fightingsioux.com/sports/wsocce...RELEASE_ID=3943 Looks like Cilz is running the operation in the interim.

It's "Chorney, Jones, and Lee". It "flows" better that way, and sounds a little like a (lay down the) law firm, plus, it's alphabetical. "Chorney, Jones, and Lee: For the defense." The story: http://www.usahockey.com/usa_hockey/news/j...val_camp_rost//

What these guys wore last season (wherever they played): Alexander 2 Chorney 4 Marto 4* Jones 6 Toews 9 Watkins 9 Martens 14 Miller 15 Oshie 19* Duncan 22 Lee 22 (2 with USA) Kozek 26 VandeVelde 26* Walski 30 Open Sioux jersey numbers: 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 14, 16, 20, 22, 25, 29, 30, 31, 35. Looks like a connect the dots game to me. PS - Using the relatives or family angle: dad Marc Chorney wore 16, brother Matt Jones wore 3, uncle Ervin Martens wore 21 and 17, and dad Bob Duncan wore 11.

Too lazy to scroll back up to Post #81 of this thread. I hope for Zach Jones' sake he takes any number but 3. If not, no one will ever get his first name right.

You need a clue.

Firstly, the proprietor of this site has told all of us repeatedly that people from all over the country and world read this site. What is reported in the local news is just that, local news. Repeating those things here helps the folks who aren't in the local Grand Forks news media market. Next, putting "my sources" statements out there is great: No matter what unexpected development occurs you can claim that you knew it all along and who can prove you wrong because you never spilled what you claimed to know.

Are they waiting until Buning gets into place before making moves?

Let see, that would work out to be roughly (and rounding up to be safe) about $6 million for a 120,000 square foot building (say 400 x 300 -ish). Outfit it with field turf and locker room space, some seating (enough for soccer), and a few offices and you'd be looking at about $10 million for the facility. I think that's the number star2city was tossing about one time.

Someone should have asked Gerry, "Where? Point it out," when he said an indoor track could go anywhere. You'd think that someone with Groenewold's knowledge of engineering and geology would be trying to steer clear of building anything on a spongy old stream bed. And why does Groenewold seem so interested in providing EERC space to companies coming in to do work with EERC? Wouldn't it be better for Grand Forks (namely the tax base) if those companies were on privately owned (not publicly held) land and facilities? If there really are start-ups (with little money) that need space, isn't there space already out in the Center for Innovation?

Looking at a campus map, couldn't EERC expand north or east? And won't some of EERC's potential parking issues be solved when the ramps go in at University and Columbia? This previous story talks about using the east area as space for start-up businesses using the hydrogen development lab space. Wouldn't it be smart to put that lab closer to the east, like north of EERC? It seems like someone at EERC, for whatever reasons, wants that old Engelstad space just so they can tear it down, and put up a parking lot.

With the EERC, for this reason and others, and Athletics both having their eye on the old Engelstad site, what do you think should happen there? EERC presses for old Engelstad site The latest issue of Alumni Review (the one with UND alumnus HF "Sparky" Gierke, Chief Judge of the US Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces, on the cover) mentions how UND alumnus and former Sioux and CFL kicker Darcy Dahlem has been working on plans for an indoor track and football training facility for a while (page 10). Maybe the EERC needs the space, but there's no way that soil could support a parking ramp or other heavy structure. (See the story.) Something like a steel tent has to be lighter than concrete because essentially that's what old REA was.

EERC to head $21.4M study on CO2 reduction Award is largest energy center has received as a lead agency http://www.grandforks.com/mld/grandforks/11859304.htm

I'd see GVSU as being smart and patient enough to wait and see if the MAC is going to have to split into two halves, a DI-A part and a DI-AA part, for football (because of the 15000 average attendance requirements). They'd be able to stay together for other sports like BB. What that could allow GVSU to do is slip into the MAC as a DI-AA. That'd be a best case scenario of epic proportion. The catch is this: Other GLIAC teams probably have this same fantasy. Of course another catch is that MAC schools (led by the president of Kent State, who at the time is the president of the NCAA board of directors) have already started the effort water down that rule (see 2005.20 in the link).

What a beautiful first post. Thanks for coming out. Sorry, we don't validate parking. Have a safe drive.

You: Good catch. Me: Bad memory.

A. Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara (Three Affiliated Tribes); Chippewa (aka Ojibwe, aka Ashinabe (sp)), as well as a couple branches of the Oseti Sakowin (aka Sioux). B. "We ask that you cheer your team to victory and exhibit good sportsmanship, as well as respect for the American Indians and their rich culture and heritage." C. I'm not the Registrar. D. "The best team doesn't always win." -- Brendan Morrison, University of Michigan, 2000. E. F. I don't know. I'm not Dr. Kupchella.