A gibbous moon hangs over Traverse City Sunday, May 15, 2011
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Soon this summertime boat rental and parasailing shop will reopen
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Sunrise over the Old Mission Peninsula, Monday, May 16, 2011
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Just for the heck of it, the house on South Maple Street in Traverse City my wife and I rented when I worked for the Record-Eagle back in the 1980s
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Blossomtime on the Old Mission Peninsula
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The staff of Big Daylight/Fine Design and Social Vision Marketing gathers with GLITR Editor Matt Roush around the Tech Tour Volt, courtesy of LaFontaine Automotive Group
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Carly Wujcik, director of marketing at Oneupweb, shows off the company's amazing new conference room.
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Carly Wujcik, director of marketing at Oneupweb, shows off the company's amazing new conference room.
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George H. Schaller, laboratory technician at Savant Group in Midland, with some of the company's oil testing equipment, a stop on the Spring 2011 GLITR Tech Tour
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Robert Beyerlein, engineering manager for noise and vibration at Saginaw-based Nexteer Group, with some of the test equipment he uses to check the operating noise and vibration of the company's electric power steering units
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Kevin Ross, product line executive of the global steering business line at Nexteer Automotive in Saginaw, with some of the company's electronics, built in house
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Claude Brown, president, and Kevin Nichols, research director, of Eovations LLC in Bay City, with some of their engineered synthetic wood
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Joan McMahon, laboratory manager at QuadSil INc. and Raven Analytical Laboratory in Midland
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The new Michigan State University medical school and a Lutheran church along Michigan Street in Grand Rapids, shot from the Van Andel Institute
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A spectacular sculpture of DNA in the spectacular lobby of the Van Andel Institute in Grand Rapids
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The new Helen DeVos Children's Hospital in downtown Grand Rapids, shot from a walkway over Michigan Street just north of the Van Andel Institute
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David K. Dorner, president of Dorner Works in Grand Rapids, with the prototype of a new automotive control touch screen
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David Dorner, president of Dorner Works in Grand Rapids, with an automotive crash recorder box designed by the company
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Mike Faupel, president of Alumilite in Kalamazoo, with some of his company's resin products for the hobby market