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Michigan Memorial Day Runup

The lighthouse at Frankfort MI by OddZen It's time to cast our net around the state and see how the media is promoting the big travel weekend. The Lansing HUB has decided that the best way to encourage travel given the high price of…
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Piston's Tayshaun Prince to play for USA Basketball

In ESPN's Daily Dime for May 23, Rick Bucher writes: The lip service USA Basketball has paid to selecting more than a glorified All-Star team to represent the country has finally taken a turn with the addition of Pistons small forward Tayshaun…
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Blogs We Dig: Detroit BikeBlog

While some photo blogs might skimp on the number of photos or size, Mac over at Detroit BikeBlog serves up your photos as big and tall as the internet can handle. "When heading out to Lansing I again realised how little Detroit sometimes…
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Detroit Pistons / Cleveland Cavaliers NBA Eastern Conference Finals Preview

I was going to scour the web, looking for all the best posts on the NBA Eastern Conference Finals between the Detroit Pistons and the Cleveland Cavaliers which start tonight. Fortunately, my first stop was Matt Watson's Detroit Bad Boys post…
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Kite Cam at the Kite Festival

DigitalSkyPilot.Com took some great aerial photos taken with a kite-mounted camera at the Grand Haven Kite Festival. Click to see his photos from the Grand Haven Kite Festival.
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Photo Friday: Barred Owl by Through Joanne's eye

Joanne writes: It is hard to top my photo I posted yesterday, but this is what I saw on my lunch hour walk. I walked in the Grand Woods nature trails in Lansing, Michigan. I saw this owl, actually two days in a row, but was able to get a…
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Who will answer the call of the Great Lakes?

Rocky by Jessie Turner From the editors of the Sudbury Star who warn that Superior's lake levels have been below average now for almost nine years - a situation not seen in 100 years of record-keeping, and well beyond a statistical blip,…
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Five Things you need to know about Michigan for Monday, May 14, 2007

Been a while since I got the old 5 out of the bag. Great Lakes Blogger Dave Dempsey gets a stand-up double with this stunning satellite view of the Great Lakes, of which NASA says: At the very top of the image is a round white patch - this…
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Great Lakes Kite Festival in Grand Haven

KITES! by yerffej9 (updated April 9, 2008!) The annual Great Lakes Kite Festival will be held May 16-18, 2008 at Grand Haven State Park in Grand Haven, Michigan. The event benefits the Children's Leukemia Foundation and features: Giant…
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Michigan events, calendars and things to do

If you came to this page searching for a current Michigan event calendar, head to the Absolute Michigan home page and look for the current calendar Ferris Wheel at Night by Karen McG But is there anything to do in Michigan? If you've…
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Blogs We Dig: Bootstrap Analysis

Today on Michigan in Pictures we have a post on the Michigan Bird Breeding Atlas II, so it probably makes sense to go bird crazy today on Absolute Michigan. I don't know what to say about Bootstrap Analysis. According to its author, nuthatch,…
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Shop Michigan: Birdola Plus Cake from Birdola

The Birdola Plus Cake is a two pound cake filled with sunflower seeds, safflower, peanuts, millet, calcium, and grit. The cake also has vitamins, minerals, and electrolytes to help keep the birds healthy, happy, and coming back for more. In…