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The Red Wings face off against an Edmonton Oilers team (7:30 PM, FSD/WXYT) which comes into town on a two-game losing streak, having lost 3-2 in a shootout to the Colorado Avalanche on Saturday.
The 8-7-and-2 Oilers were dressed down by Edmonton coach Craig MacTavish, and he plans on scratching Dustin Penner for a second consecutive game due to complaints about his on-ice production and a supposed lack of fitness.
TSN reports that the Oilers have won their last two games against Detroit, and have won five of their last eight regular-season games against the Red Wings, including going two-for-two at Joe Louis Arena last season. Shawn Horcoff and the Oilers know that the team that wins its special-teams battles will probably win the game, as the Edmonton Journal's Jim Matheson points out:
Novembre 17, Edmonton Journal: The Red Wings' lines and defence pairings will be on the board in the Edmonton Oilers' dressing room before tonight's game, but there might also be three words in block letters for the players to chew on: DON'T TAKE PENALTIES. The Red Wings have scored 23 power-play goals in 16 games, clicking on a league-best 33.3 per cent of their tries. Nobody else is close. St. Louis is second at a 24-per-cent success rate.
"The first penalty we take tonight, we're already down a third of a goal," preached Oilers coach Craig MacTavish.
The Wings haven't had that many power plays, only 69, just three more than the Oilers in the same number of games. But they've scored 23 and the Oilers only 12. Twenty-one teams have drawn more penalties than Detroit, but they don't need many chances to put the puck in the net, not with Nick Lidstrom and Brian Rafalski on the points and Pavel Datsyuk, Marian Hossa and Tomas Holmstrom up front on the first unit. Holmstrom and Henrik Zetterberg, who's on the second unit, have five power-play goals.
"We have two units and we compete against each other," said Johan Franzen, who's in the second group, and has eight goals in 11 games.
Unless the Oilers get their act together on the penalty kill, they could be road kill. They're 27th in penalty-killing efficiency. Only New Jersey, Atlanta and Toronto are worse. In only six games have they got through the night without giving up a powerplay goal.
Oilers captain Ethan Moreau told the Edmonton Sun's Derek Van Diest that he expects his team to play better on both sides of the puck tonight. His team has given up 8 goals over their last two games:
"We're going to have to play better than we have all year if we're going to be successful," said Oilers captain Ethan Moreau. "We're going to have to play a lot better defensively. We're going to have to do a lot better job in our own end."
MacTavish reiterated the importance of special-teams dominance:
"We have to be in the right spots and try to stay out of the penalty box," said Oilers head coach Craig MacTavish. "Their power play is operating at close to 33%, so you have to stay out of the box and you have to protect the middle of the ice. They try to get you on the outside, then they get you apart in the middle of the ice. We've had success against them in the past, but they're a tough team."
Credit that as an extremely astute analysis of the Wings' style of play...
And Ty Conklin's old friend will start against him tonight:
Dwayne Roloson is expected to get the start in goal again for the Oilers. He made 30 saves in the loss to the Avalanche.
"Roli's played well in Detroit in the past," MacTavish said. "I thought he played well (Saturday) night."
The Oilers play tomorrow night in Columbus against the Blue Jackets, so this isn't a true "home and home" from Edmonton's perspective.
The Oilers will play without defenceman Ladislav Smid, who has a concussion, but they're relatively healthy otherwise, and speedy Liam Reddox, who Van Diest notes scored his first NHL goal on Saturday, will sub for Dustin Penner tonight:
November 17, Edmonton Sun: Reddox finished plus-one on the night with over 15 minutes of ice time, which included some penalty-killing duty. He'll be back in the lineup tonight when the Oilers take on the Detroit Red Wings at Joe Louis Arena.
"He played great (Saturday) night," said MacTavish. "I was excited by what I saw. He made plays on the wall, he made the right play with the puck and he really added something. Hopefully he can continue that. Bucky (assistant coach Kelly Buchberger) seems to think - knowing him better than I do - that he can."
As is the key for all callups, Reddox has to show he's able to play at the NHL level on a constant basis. He was brought up in the hopes of helping jumpstart the rest of the club. And although he did score, it took more than just the goal to earn him another game.
"When the puck came around the wall, he didn't need three chances to get it out," MacTavish said. "He made the right play, whether he chipped it out under pressure, whether he controlled it and made a pass. It's just those little things positionally, he supported the puck well on the cycle. The play didn't die with him in the offensive zone, he took it to the net when he needed to. He's got good habits and he played a pretty good game."
Van Diest reports that Kyle Brodziak will sub for tough guy Jesse Boulerice up front, and he reiterates the Oilers' success against the Wings of late:
Tonight is the first of four meetings between the clubs this season. They'll face each other again in Edmonton on Thursday. Last season, the Oilers won two of the four encounters in a shootout, while dropping the other two in regulation. Traditionally the Oilers have had some success at the Joe Louis Arena in Detroit, winning a regular-season game there in each of the last three seasons
The Edmonton Journal's Jim Matheson says that Reddox will play on a line with former U of M star Andrew Cogliano and Erik Cole, and he notes that Ty Conklin's pumped about facing his former team:
November 17, Edmonton Journal: Former Oilers goalie Ty Conklin, who beat the Florida Panthers on Friday, will get the call in goal on tonight for the Red Wings, two days after wife Erika gave birth to their third child, a boy they named Nash. It's Conklin's first Wings home game. He's played five on the road. He may be a little tired as a new dad, but he'll also be seeing his old team, which should fire him up. "I'll stay at home, get some sleep and everybody's healthy so there are no worries," said Conklin.
He's 4-1 with a .902 save percentage. Chris Osgood will start in Edmonton in the Thursday return match.
Marian Hossa remains on a roll for the Wings...
Marian Hossa, playing right wing on the Wings' top line with Datsyuk and Holmstrom, has four straight two-point games. He's got points in 14 of Detroit's 16 games and leads them in scoring with 23 points, which puts him third in league scoring. Johan Franzen has eight goals in only 11 games, and four game-winners.
And Brodziak gets the nod over Boulerice for one specific reason:
Kyle Brodziak will be back in the lineup, in large part for his face-off prowess against Datsyuk and Henrik Zetterberg. However, Brodziak didn't get a ringing endorsement from his coach about the other parts of his game. "His penalty killing hasn't been great," said MacTavish.
The Oilers' website's Nick Conrad notes that Ethan Moreau, who plays on the Oilers' top line with Ales Hemsky, has ratcheted up his production:
November 17, EdmontonOilers.com: Ethan Moreau is third on the team with 10 points and will have to play another high-energy game to rally the troops.
Also of note from the Wings' side of the statistical equation:
Marian Hossa has six goals in 12 games versus Edmonton and is on a tear this season scoring 10-13-23 in 16 games...Pavel Datsyuk is always dangerous and has 18 career points in 23 games versus Edmonton...Former Oiler Ty Conklin is 4-1 this season with a .902 save percentage but gave up five goals in his last appearance versus Edmonton. ... Tonight is the 101st meeting all-time between the Red Wings and the Oilers. Detroit has won 44 games in the series. Edmonton has won 43 games. 13 games ended in a tie. ... Last season, Henrik Zetterberg led the Red Wings with 5 points in 4 games against the Oilers Chris Osgood was 1-0-1 with 1.92 GAA. ... Both the Oilers wins against Detroit last season were in shootouts. Both of those games ended in a final score of 4-3. ... Nicklas Lidstrom has 45 points and eight goals in 61 career games against the Oilers.
The Free Press's Helene St. James notes that the Oilers' have other significant statistical contributors:
November 17, Detroit Free Press: Ales Hemsky has a team-high 17 points in 17 games, while defenseman Sheldon Souray and Tom Gilbert lead with seven goals each. The Oilers are 18.6% on power plays but only 74.7% on penalty kills.
The Oilers' website posted video/audio clips from Bob Stauffer and Louie Debrusk, who frame the game from the colour commentators' points of view (5:16, and the audio's available here), as well as Liam Reddox, Kyle Brodziak, Tom Gilbert, Dwayne Roloson, and Craig MacTavish (1:52 video, or 13:04 audio), a discussion with Dustin Penner (0:46 video, 1:20 audio, and comments from Red Wings players Marian Hossa and Ty Conklin (0:53 video, 5:41 audio)...
As far as the Red Wings are concerned, they need to continue their war against "cute" hockey, as MLive.com's own Ansar Khan reported. Nicklas Lidstrom told the Macomb Daily's Chuck Pleiness that the Red Wings need to simplify, simplify, simplify:
November 17, Macomb Daily: So far this season, playing at home has not been kind to Detroit. The Wings are just 3-1-2 and have allowed 22 goals in those six games.
"It seems that we try to make the extra pass when it's not there at home," Detroit defenseman Nicklas Lidstrom said. "Sometimes we're forcing it. On the road you play with more [patience]."
One thing the Wings, who have a league-best 17 points on the road, have done well on home ice is being productive on the power play. They rank first in the league with eight goals on 24 power-play opportunities.
The Wings discussed their war on "cute" hockey in depth with the Detroit News's Dave Dye:
November 17, Detroit News: Coach Mike Babcock thought his team tried to get a little too fancy instead of concentrating on playing shut-down defense with the lead.
"We haven't had that problem here in the past," Babcock said following Sunday's practice. "We've had the problem a bit this year. I think one of the best reminders you could ever have was, not listening to the coach, but seeing what happened last game. I think that should have just about looked after it."
It wasn't the first time the Wings failed to put away an opponent impressively at home. They had a 3-2 lead over the Canucks in the final period, but lost in overtime. They led the Rangers 3-1, but needed overtime to get the victory. And they needed an empty-netter to finish off the Thrashers after leading 4-1 at one point.
"You try to do some fancy stuff for fans," Kopecky said. "You get the lead and you get yourself comfortable."
Captain Nicklas Lidstrom said, "Playing in front of your home crowd, you try to make that extra pass and it's not there sometimes. We're trying to force it. It's costing us turnovers. On the road, we're playing patient, we're laying the puck in a lot more. That's the way we have to start playing at home, too."
"It's really important to try to make [Joe Louis Arena] the kind of place it's not fun for other teams to come," forward Valtteri Filppula said.
The Macomb Daily's Bruce MacLeod reported that Babcock reunited the Grind Line, put Mikael Samuelsson back on Henrik Zetterberg's wing, and demoted Valtteri Filppula to centre his former Griffins linemates, Jiri Hudler and Tomas Kopecky.
Babcock also told the Detroit Free Press's Carlos Monarrez that he wants his team to kick an addictive habit tonight, too:
November 17, Detroit Free Press: It looks like a favorable strength vs. weakness matchup for the Wings tonight. Their power play is churning at 33.3% efficiency and leads the league by a wide margin -- St. Louis is second at 24% -- and they're 33.3% at home. Edmonton's penalty kill on the road is sixth-worst at 77.4%
Naturally, Babcock is pleased with his power play, but he does not want to rely on it too much.
"I think it becomes a part of your success, there's no question about it," he said. "You don't want to become dependent on it. My first year here we were dependent the first half on the power play and in the end sometimes that lets you down. We'd like to have more five-on-five scoring. We work on that on a consistent basis and ideally we'll get some here tonight."
FYI: Paul Devorski and Eric Furlatt will referee tonight's game.


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SAGINAW TWP. -- When Hank Haney set out to write a book about his six years as Tiger Woods' swing coach, he intended to focus on golf and stay away from the personal issues.
But writing a book about being close to Woods in late 2009 and early 2010, when the world's then-No.1 golfer went through his public scandal and divorce, Haney knew there was no way to completely separate his personal life from golf.
"It's a big part of the story, it's part of how his mindset was when he was coming back from the scandal," Haney said. "What I tried to do was keep it to golf, I tried to be fair and honest. If I did that, it wasn't all going to be positive."
Haney's book, "The Big Miss", reached No. 1 on the New York Times bestseller list soon after its publication in early April, and has been a hot topic in the golf world ever since.
Six weeks after the book's release, Haney will be in Saginaw to put on a golf clinic Thursday morning at Saginaw Country Club, preceding the Third Annual Great Lakes Bay Charity Pro-Am.
The one-day event will feature 21 of the top Michigan PGA Club professionals and 63 amateur golfers and $8,000 in prize money. The event will also raise money for the Chidren's Zoo at Celebration square.
Before his visit -- which will also include speaking at a banquet Wednesday night at Horizon's Conference Center -- Haney conducted a conference call Tuesday morning to discuss Woods, his career of more than 30 years as a golf coach, and the current professional golf scene.
His time with Woods was the most popular topic during the session, and Haney said he's asked about Woods everywhere he goes.
Shortly before the book's publication, Woods told ESPN.com that it was "unprofessional and very disappointing" that Haney published the book. He vowed not to "waste my time reading it", and Haney said he and Woods have not spoken about the book. The two split ways in May, 2010.
Haney said most of the criticism he received came before the book was published, and called the tone of the book "overwhelmingly positive." He said he still considers Woods "arguably the greatest ever."
"I knew there'd be some negative reaction, and frankly I don't worry about it too much," Haney said. "I wanted to write about my memories. I feel great about it, I have no regrets."
That doesn't mean, though, that he doesn't have plenty of thoughts about the current state of Woods' game.
Since Woods tied for 40th in the Masters the first weekend in April, he missed the cut at the Wells Fargo Championship two weeks ago and finished tied for 40th at last weekend's Players Championship. Before the Masters, he had a win and a runner-up finish in six tournaments.
Haney said Woods' putting "isn't as good as it used to be, and it's been that way for a while now," that he's shying away from his driver and missing fairways on both sides, and that his wedge play has regressed.
As he writes in his book, Haney said that he harbors doubts that Tiger will ever return to his pre-scandal level of golf.
"Tiger's kind of held to a different standard, a standard he helped create himself, and obviously his game is not where it was," Haney said. "But by the same token, where it was was someplace we might never see again.
Haney, a Chicago native who said he has family in Michigan and has visited Saginaw before, first started teaching touring professionals after a chance meeting with Mark O'Meara when he was a 23-year-old teaching professional at Pinehurst Golf Club.
From there, Haney went on to teach more than 200 touring professionals, open multiple golf facilities and host summits for other golf instructors. He currently hosts a television show, The Haney Project, on the golf channel where he teaches celebrity golfers.
But what he will forever be known for are his six years with Woods, during which the golfer recorded 31 tournament wins and six major wins.
His decision to document all that is something he doesn't regret.
"These are my memories, and I want to share them," Haney said. "I'm not the first swing coach that's ever written a book. I think if I had been I might feel differently. I knew I was in a unique situation. I've made observations on every student I've ever had. The ones about the person that I think is the greatest ever, or arguably the greatest ever, I wanted to share them."

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A less painful way for the government to save money would be to revise the refundable child tax credit guidelines. The qualification for the "refundable" portion of the credit should be 15% of income over $15,000 instead of the current $3,000.
This credit should pick up where the earned income credit leaves off.This would not be a "tax increase" because the people who qualify for the "refundable" child tax credit owe zero taxes any way. Between this credit and the Earned Income Credit, the government is currently giving away up to $8,500 to a family with 3 kids that pays zero income tax. I'm all for helping the less fortunate, but $8,500 is more than the government can afford right now. Reducing theses credits to a combined total of $5,500 will save the government a lot of money and still help a lot of people.
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DES MOINES - The Fort Dodge boys tennis team swept Des Moines North here Tuesday night, 11-0.
Jon Bowser, Caleb Hendrickson and Andrew Stover all earned 6-0, 6-0 victories at the top three varsity singles spots, while Nick Pecka matched them at No. 5.
Rob Leigh and Steve Liao each added wins in singles action.
"It was great to see us getting some solid production out of different parts of our lineup," FDSH head coach Jared Feddersen said. "This was a nice win to get under our belt as we head into a busy stretch over the next week."
Bowser and Stover, Hendrickson and Ben Ahlers, Leigh and Pecka, Liao and Tim Hatton, and Spencer Lee and Preston Nerhus each earned wins in doubles.
Fort Dodge (3-1 overall) returns to action Thursday vs. Ankeny.
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Singles - Jon Bowser, FD def. Mike Pham, 6-0, 6-0; Caleb Hendrickson, FD def. Kevin Le, 6-0, 6-0; Andrew Stover, FD def. Brennan Whisler, 6-0, 6-0; Rob Leigh, FD def. Calvin Lovan, 6-2, 6-1; Nick Pecka, FD def. Ben Doan, 6-0, 6-0; Steve Liao, FD def. Nick Lovan, 5-7, 6-2 (10-5).
Doubles - Bowser/Stover, FD def. Pham/Lovan, 6-1, 6-1; Hendrickson/Ben Ahlers, FD def. Le/Whisler, 6-0, 6-0; Leigh/Pecka, FD def. Doan/Lovan, 6-2, 6-1; Liao/Tim Hatton, FD def. Jalin Newsome/Thomas Gomez, 6-4, 6-2; Spencer Lee/Preston Nerhus, FD def. Cesar Marfal/Galvin Thiphavong, 6-0, 6-2.
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AMARILLO -- City Council members have approved street closures for the upcoming Coors Cowboy Club Cattle Drive.
The fundraiser is taking place in June.
Some downtown streets will be closed for the fundraiser, including Polk Street.
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Friday, January 20th, 2006
Toddler Sock Test
Question: What is the difference between these two socks?
Answer: The white pair becomes useless once your toddler learns to say the word "blue" and decides she only likes to wear colors she can say. Little Miss is wearing a lot of blue and purple this week.
Question: what size is this pair of socks?
Answer: I don't really know. Little Miss and I are wearing the same pair of socks in the above photo. The pair was a hand-me-down and looks to be a 12 to 24 month sock, but it fits me pretty good.
Tip: Buy some emergency multi-colored socks to use when you are behind on doing the laundry. Sooth your fussy toddler by pointing out all of the colors she likes that can be found in the cool sock before her. These grey socks feature yellow, orange, green and blue spiders.


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Former Harrisburg City Islander Yu Hoshide is back from his knee injury. Not only is he back but he is making an impact. Hoshide netted a goal for Joe Public in the 27th minute as he and his team went on to beat Walking Boys (Suriname) 5-0 in the Caribbean Football Union Club Championship.
They will now face System 3 from St. Vincent. If they win that match I believe they will move on to the final round of the tournament in Puerto Rico.


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Police Beat
by Andrew Walgamott
Officer injured: A King County Police officer required stitches to her elbow after another vehicle collided with hers in the early morning hours of Sept. 27. According to police, a 1984 Toyota Camry driven by a local 18-year-old male crossed the centerline in the 16900 block of 124th Ave. N.E., striking the officer's car. Speed was not a factor. The boy was charged with a minor traffic infraction.
Safe stolen: A new, free-standing safe was stolen from a building products business in the 19200 block of Woodinville-Snohomish Rd. Sept. 28. The safe reportedly only contained invoices. Company officials believe it would've taken two people to lift it.
Checks forged 1: Two stolen checks totaling more than $1,000 were deposited for cash at a bank in the 13200 block of N.E. 175th St.
Checks forged 2: A 16-year-old Woodinville female may be charged with forgery after she allegedly stole checks from her mother between Aug. 29 and Sept. 26. According to a confession, the suspect gave two checks to a friend who made them payable to herself in the amount of $50 each. The second bank the pair approached cashed the checks.
Coins stolen: Unknown suspects broke into a home in the 17400 block of 165th Ave. N.E. and stole a coin collection and a CD player while the homeowner was away at work Sept. 26. The victim suspects his teenage runaway daughter.
Residential burglary: An undisclosed amount of cash was taken from home in the 17300 block of 133rd Ave. N.E. Sept. 22. Unknown suspects broke into the home again several days later though nothing was taken.
1-900 out of a job: A 43-year-old male employee of a pizzeria in the 14100 block of Woodinville-Duvall Rd. didn't deny using customer credit card numbers to make 1-900 calls during the past three months. The suspect apparently used his employee code to enter the business in the early morning hours to make sex and astrological fortune calls. He has since been terminated.


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TEWKSBURY — John F. Parker, a lifelong New Jersey resident and experienced leader in land and water protection, has been elected president of Raritan Headwaters Association, based in Bedminster.
The largest watershed organization in New Jersey, Raritan Headwaters protects, preserves and improves water quality and other natural resources of the Raritan River headwaters region through efforts in science, education, advocacy, land preservation and stewardship.
Parker is director of shipping/energy/offshore sales at DNB Markets, a global investment firm. His business experience also includes previous senior positions with other major financial services companies, including Jefferies and JP Morgan. He is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and holds a master's degree in physics from Drexel University.
Parker has served on the Raritan Headwaters board of trustees since 2005 and has played leadership roles in land preservation and development efforts. He serves on the board of trustees of Victoria Foundation in Newark, and is actively involved in the foundation's environmental program.
He is a former board member and vice president of New Jersey Conservation Foundation.
Since 1996, Parker, his wife and three children have lived in the Raritan Headwaters region, on the banks of the Cold Brook in the town of Oldwick.
Parker is a second-generation New Jersey conservation leader. His father, Franklin E. Parker III, who died in 2008, was an early environmental activist who dedicated more than five decades to protecting land and ecosystems throughout the state.
"John Parker is the ideal leader for this organization," said Christina Chrobokowa, outgoing president of Raritan Headwaters. "I'm thrilled to be handing the baton to someone who has both business expertise and an in-depth understanding of conservation."
Chrobokowa served as president for the past six years, helping guide the emergence of today's Raritan Headwaters Association, created through the merger of Upper Raritan Watershed Association and South Branch Watershed Association, both founded in 1959.
"I'm looking forward to working with John and his leadership of a strategic planning process that will allow our organization to achieve even greater impact in watershed protection," said Cindy Ehrenclou, executive director.
"It's an exciting time for Raritan Headwaters," Parker said. "If we are going to fulfill the promise that inspired our merger in 2011 and achieve the next level of effectiveness, we must invest in the vision and strategic direction that will build our strength as a conservation force."
About Raritan Headwaters Association
Since 1959, RHA has been working to address water quality issues and has served as an effective advocate for conservation throughout the 39 communities in Hunterdon, Morris, and Somerset Counties that make up the Raritan Headwaters watershed region.
The 470-square-mile watershed plays a critical role in meeting the demands of more than 1.5 million residential, commercial, agricultural and municipal water users within the region and beyond, into New Jersey's urban areas.
To learn more about the Raritan Headwaters Association, visit raritanheadwaters.org or call 908-234-1852.
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While most of the attention in the Chevy Volt was focused on the electric battery and power train, several close-to-commercialization materials technologies shown in the concept car provide significant other environmental and design benefits.
The headliner is the new thermoplastic composite hoods and doors, which will go on to a production model next year, but not of a GM car. GE Plastics, the chief technology developer on all of the concepts shown on the Volt, has several partners in the process, most of whom are confidential. GE Plastics is considering three different processes, including one using electromagnetic induction heating of tools developed by a French company called RocTool. The advantage: speed. The process heats a tool section that is just 0.2 mm deep. One of the licensees is Azdel, which is a joint venture of GE Plastics and PPG Industries, which has been testing the forming of SuperLite glass mats made with polypropylene and Xenoy polycarbonate/PBT composites.
The key issue is the ability of the process to achieve a high-gloss Class A finish for automotive surfaces. GE Plastics has tested the process on a Krauss-Maffei injection and compression machine at its Plastics Polymer Processing Development Center in Pittsfield, MA, with good results, according to Robert Butterfield, global market director for design innovation for the GE Plastics automotive business. Butterfield says the process produces parts with comparable stiffness to hoods made from steel or thermoset sheet molding compound, bus they weigh less than half as much.
Azdel hopes to commercialize conductive (for electrostatic painting) and nonconductive grades later this year. Butterfield says the best option, long-term, may be a composite covered with a high-gloss film.
The materials used in the composite can be made from regenerated plastic bottle scrap. In a proprietary GE Plastics process, bottles are reduced to their chemical constituents, which are then recovered for the manufacture of Xenoy iQ resins, which were first announced last July. As a result, there is no sacrifice in physical properties of the material, as can be the case with recycle resins. Denso, a Tier One automotive supplier, based in Kariya, Japan, has been validating applications.
Another materials innovation in the Volt creates an interior that makes significant use of ambient light.
The Volts roof, side glass and beltline are made of transparent, glazed polycarbonatethat is said to provide the scratch resistance and gloss surface of glass. The windshield is the only glass in the Volt. The transparent upper roof provides the Volt with more natural light than most other vehicles, comments Wade Bryant, GM design director. Its very distinctive and appealing.
There is also a big change on the wire coating used in the Volt. Flexible Noryl replaces polyvinyl chloride for environmental and weight-saving reasons. The average car has over a mile of wiring, which is typically made with PVC coating, says Butterfield. PVC is not great for the environment because it has halogen and gives off dioxins when it burns. The Noryl coating is also smaller in diameter than the PVC, making it easier for engineers to manipulate wires in the car. The main developmental partner for the Flexible Noryl wiring is Delphi Automotive.
Explore our exclusive Chevy Volt coverage for more behind-the-scenes engineering information.


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FLINT, MI – University of Michigan-Flint retiree Robbie Grier has had most of her apartment packed in boxes since November 2011, waiting on a phone call telling her that she can move into her new Smith Village home.
The problem: Not the city of Flint, nor the current developer – Ginosko Development Co. – nor the potential residents of Smith Village know when a move-in date will be set.
Emergency Financial Manager Ed Kurtz said that the homes should be ready for occupancy by "late spring or early summer."
Elaine Simpson, a marketing consultant for Ginosko Development Co., said that people should be able to occupy the homes "soon," and that the company has been "working to overcome challenges."
The people who have been approved to purchase the homes, though, say they've been hearing the same promises from the city and from the developers – three different developers since 2010 – for about 15 months.
Grier, a 68-year-old Flint resident, is one of the many potential buyers who said she has been waiting on the day when the city of Flint and the developers of Flint's Smith Village housing project can let her know that the house she's supposed to buy is ready for occupancy.
"My house was built and move-in ready in November of 2011. I have been waiting on it for almost two years. I was told by Metro Housing that I was the first one to take their course and to qualify for the (Smith Village) homes," Grier said.
"I haven't been told anything by the city recently, but I'm definitely still waiting on them. They're always telling me that 'It's going to be soon and we're working on it,' but my 'soon' has yet to come."
The home that Grier is set to purchase was toured in December 2012 and showcased as a model home for the public during a city press conference that announced Smith Village homes would ready for occupancy before the end of January 2013.
"That date came and went like so many others in the past and I'm still not in my home yet," Grier said.
The houses, which are financed in part by federal grant money and in part by the city of Flint, are deeded to the Ginosko developer to market and sell, Kurtz said.
"(Development on Smith Village) has started and stopped and started and stopped, and it's been going on for 16 years. The developer is still under contract to complete the homes. (The city of Flint is) still very actively involved, but we don't own the properties," Kurtz said.
"It's certainly in the city's best interest to see these homes sold because the proceeds from the sales go back into the city, but there isn't a hard and fast deadline. We're shooting to have that whole thing done by late spring, early summer, but in Michigan, with frost laws and things, we can't even finish paving the roads until spring."
There are 25 Smith Village homes, 10 of which have been certified with certificates of occupancy, but none of the homes are currently occupied.
Theresa Allen, the primary broker for Smith Village homes, said that there are plenty of qualified buyers for the home, but there is a lot of "red tape" to clear before people can start to move into the homes.
"We do have some qualified buyers that are ready to move in and I'm meeting with four or five other buyers who will be qualified to move in very soon. There's just been so much red tape. The developer had to take a subdivision over from two previous developers, so there were things he had to get cleared up so he could move forward with his operation," Allen said.
"We are really close to getting these people into these houses. It's just been a long, drawn-out process on both ends with the city and the developers, but we do have qualified people."
Simpson agreed with Allen, saying that the company suffered a lot of setbacks, having to take over and fix problems that originated from the two previous developers.
"There are a lot of hoops that have to get gone through. (Ginosko) had to change some things to overcome from the previous developers," Simpson said.
"They had to go through and get new permits and there was a lot that had to be re-done from the first developers. That's all caused problems with the closing process. We are all frustrated and we are all moving as fast as we can."
She said that there are about 10 move-in-ready homes, coinciding with the 10 certificates of occupancy that they have received.
When asked about why there are qualified buyers and close to 10 move-in-ready homes, Simpson said that sometimes things happen at closings that can delay the process.
"We have not been hiding anything from anybody or keeping information from anyone, but there was a lot of work that needed to be done," she said.
"We just want to get people in their homes. They've been extremely patient and we appreciate that. It's been a challenge for everyone and I think we've overcome most of those challenges."
Alice Evans is another resident who has been awaiting a move-in date from the city.
Evans, who is blind, said that she feels like the city is constantly giving her the runaround.
"They've wasted two years of my life. They always give me expectations and never come through, and this has been going on for two years," Evans said. "The city of Flint should be embarrassed because they don't know what they're doing. I'm sick of hearing this blame stuff."
Evans said that she was told as recently as the week of March 12 that she would hear about a closing date "within a week or so."
Grier said that Evans isn't alone in her disappointment.
"I'm 68 years old and I was looking for the energy efficiency, a new build with certain warranties that are insured, and I love Flint and appreciated that it was new downtown. I am not all that happy with somebody mangling two years of my life," she said.


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Balenciaga, Carine Roitfeld, and Max Mara?
Amidst all the foggy mystery that surrounds that whole buzz about Balenciaga banning Carine Roitfeld at a fashion show, something seemingly plausible surfaced, attempting to answer the biggest and most exciting why that has happened in the fashion industry in a very long time.
According to a report by Fashionista.com, master couturier Balenciaga was under the impression that Madame Roitfeld was instrumental to Max Mara copying the design of one of the French fashion house's coats, which was, allegedly, briefly loaned to the French Vogue editor.
Balenciaga was quick to conclude that Roitfeld was the only link that connected them to the Italian brand, as she is/was a bit of a consultant at Max Mara.
The argument is logically valid, but largely, and ridiculously, unsound. While it may be true that Roitfeld might have been the only way the coat had ended up in the hands of Max Mara's designers, it is also true (perhaps even more so) that a coat, however beautiful and outworldy it could be, is not, and never will be, worth risking a successful fashion career for. Carine Roitfeld has been rumored to succeed La Wintour at American Vogue for years, for crying out loud!
Why would she throw everything away, including at least a decade more of heading the most influential fashion magazine in the world, just for a coat? This "explanation" raises more questions than it answers.
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Hamas Chief: Cease-Fire a Tactic
Carter blames Israel for denying Gazans food, water; says Hamas won elections 'fair and square'. This despicable Jew hater is blaming Israel, yet again, for the violence of Islam jihad. Hey shit-for-brains! Read the Hamas charter.
Hamas disrupts fuel supplies to Gaza
Hamas blocks fuel to Gaza hospitals
If this proves anything, it's that the effects and actions of a disastrous president has decades long repercussions, not just the four terrible years the incompetent fool is in office. Obamacide!
UPDATE: Hamas stole 60,000 liters of Gaza fuel' (was dhimmi Jimmi riding shotgun?)


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Thirty years ago, pheasants were plentiful on the unused acres of the Muskegon County wastewater site in Egelston and Moorland townships.
But over time, the loss of habitat and the handiwork of predators like coyotes and foxes decimated the population, and today few of the birds can be found there.
Now the local chapter of Pheasants Forever, headed by former State Rep. David Farhat, wants to lure the birds back to the area by restoring their natural habitat. That would involve the planting of hundreds of acres of prairie grasses, wildflowers and other conducive vegetation.
The Muskegon County Board of Public Works, which oversees the wastewater property, likes the idea. Board members voted unanimously Thursday to allow wastewater officials to negotiate an agreement with Pheasants Forever to restore the habitat on unused portions of land.
The final agreement will need approval of the public works board.
The 11,000-acre county wastewater site is ideal for habitat redevelopment for a number of reasons. While farming takes up about half of the property -- processed wastewater is used to irrigate crops like soybean, alfalfa and corn -- there are about 1,000 acres of open grassland that could potentially be used by Pheasants Forever.
A few county commissioners wondered if the group wants to restore the pheasant population to accommodate hunting.
Farhat insists that his group is only interested in habitat redevelopment, and any decision to allow hunting would be left to wastewater officials and the owners of surrounding properties.
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Posted by Newt on October 27, 2002 at 13:32:13:
In Reply to: Re: cotton rose cuttings posted by Newt on October 27, 2002 at 13:27:14:
: : I live in Northwest Florida and the Cotton Rose trees are in full bloom. I very much want to take a cutting to root but do not know how to do this. Can anyone help me? Also, can a cutting be successful if the tree is blooming or should I wait. Please be VERY specific in your directions as I have never done this (i.e. type of branch...young/older, with sprouts, leaves?, length/diameter, EXACTLY where to cut, at an angle?, do I remove any leaves, put in water or soil, how long before I can tell if it was successful, etc). I read a bit about this technique, but the directions were too general. Thank you.
: Hi Laura,
: I did a search at google for cotton rose tree and got nothing. Do you have a Latin or botanical name for your tree?
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After I hit the post button, I thought that maybe you mean cotton rose. I did a search at www.google.com and put in quotes like this: "cotton rose" and here's one of the sites I got. It tells how to propogate it.
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Registration open for Carnation preschool
The Carnation Cooperative Preschool (a Bellevue Community College preschool) has announced registration dates for the 2002-2003 school year.
Jan. 28-Feb. 3 - Open to siblings of previous students and students wishing to transfer from another BCC co-op.
Feb. 4 until full - Open to anyone from the community who is interested.
There is a $65 registration fee. Classes are held on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday from 9:30-11:45 a.m. The preschool serves children who are three before Sept. 1 and are potty- trained. The 3-year-old class meets only two days per week (T. and Th.); the 4-year-old class meets three days per week.
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HUNTSVILLE, Alabama -- A memorial service will be held Wednesday at Sci-Quest for Christian Adamek, the 15-year-old Sparkman High School student who committed suicide last week.
The service itself will begin around 7:15 p.m., but the space will be open at 5 p.m., according to an email being circulated by friends of Christian's father, Daniel Adamek. Friends are encouraged to arrive prior to the service to visit with the family.
Sci-Quest is located at 102 Wynn Drive.
"Christian loved the color orange and Vans shoes, so you are welcome to come 'representing' as you desire and are able," wrote Jay Newkirk, chair of the Energy Huntsville Initiative and one of the friends supporting the family.
The teen's favorite chocolate cookies will be served.
The Adamek family's friends have also set up a memorial fund at Redstone Federal Credit Union. Anyone can go into any branch of the bank, ask to see its website donation page and find the Adamek Memorial Fund account number.
Donations from outside the Huntsville area can be sent to Jay Newkirk, Chair of Energy Huntsville Initiative, 103 Spring Meadow Drive SW in Huntsville, zip code 35824, or to the Adamek Memorial Fund c/o Redstone Federal Credit Union, 220 Wynn Drive, Huntsville, zip code 35893.
Christian Adamek died Oct. 3, a day after hanging himself. His death came less than a week after he found himself in trouble for streaking naked across the Sparkman High football field during the Senators' Sept. 27 game against Grissom High School.
Though details of his discipline by the school district have not been made public, Adamek's sister indicated on Twitter that he faced expulsion.
Sparkman principal Michael Campbell last week told WHNT News 19 that the incident had also been referred to the Madison County court system to determine if criminal charges should be filed.
Campbell's interview aired the day before Adamek hanged himself.
In the interview, Campbell specifically mentioned public lewdness. Under Alabama law, public lewdness is a Class C misdemeanor with a maximum penalty of three months in jail.
A funeral for Adamek was held Monday in Hopkinsville, Ky., near the home of his maternal grandparents, John and Kay Smithson.
Christian Adamek is also survived by his father, Daniel; his mother, Angela Smithson Adamek; his siblings, Nathaniel and Danielle Adamek; and his paternal grandparents, Paul and Carol Adamek of Dayton Beach, Fla.


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A Willingboro man wanted for murdering a township gas station attendant and robbing a convenience store earlier this month is now charged with robbing a gas station in Delran on yesterday, the Burlington County Prosecutor's office said.
Zedrick Johnson, 34, is accused of using a knife to hold up an attendant at the National Fuel gas station on Route 130 north and Tenby Chase Drive. The robbery happened at around 5:30 p.m. yesterday, the prosecutor's office said.
The attendant was pushed to the ground during the robbery, officials said.
Officials said Johnson murdered Willingborough gas station attendant Bal Krishna Karki, 46, at the Lukoil gas station at Route 130 north and Charleston Road on Feb. 11.
Officials have withheld specific details about how Karki was killed.
The next morning, Johnson robbed the Sunny Food Mart on Vansciver Parkway, they said.
Officials said Johnson put his hand in his pocket, pointed it at the cashier as if it were a
gun, and demanded cash. Johnson then fled in a stolen vehicle, officials said.
Johnson was described as 5 feet 9 inches tall and roughly 265 pounds.
Anyone with information about Johnson's whereabouts is asked to call the Willingboro Township Police at (609) 877-2253 or the Burlington County Prosecutor's Office Major Crimes Unit at (609) 265-5059 during work hours or after hours at (609) 267-8300.


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Trail Blazer Greg Oden, the talented rookie center who was selected No. 1 in this year's NBA draft, is expected to undergo exploratory arthroscopic knee surgery Thursday after enduring ongoing pain in his right knee.
Blazers officials would not comment beyond a four-sentence news release issued Monday evening that said Oden underwent a magnetic resonance imaging last week and results revealed that he might have cartilage problems.
We sat down with Dr. Jim Chesnutt, medical director of OHSU Hospital's Sports Medicine Program, to talk about the procedure. OHSU is not treating Oden, and Chesnutt spoke in general about the procedure, which is relatively common among athletes, especially basketball players.


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The National Frozen & Refrigerated Foods Convention isn't your typical industry meeting. While there are breakfast speakers, an industry workshop and an awards banquet, most of your time spent at the Convention will be in one-on-one business meetings with the companies of your choice. The real value of this Convention is that all the major companies in the industry – retailers, manufacturers, sales agents, logistics providers, suppliers – are all in one place. So it's possible to hold dozens of meetings in just a few days.
Keynote speaker
Veteran broadcast journalist Chris Wallace is the host of FOX News Sunday with Chris Wallace (FNS), Fox Broadcasting Company's Sunday morning public affairs program. He also contributes to the network's political and election news coverage.
Patrick Buchanan has been a senior advisor to three Presidents, a two-time candidate for the Republican presidential nomination and was the presidential nominee of the Reform Party in 2000.
Veteran Democratic political strategist Donna Brazile is an adjunct professor, author, syndicated columnist, television political commentator, Vice Chair of Voter Registration and Participation at the Democratic National Committee and former chair of the DNC's Voting Rights Institute. Last, but never least, she is a native of New Orleans.


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Championship teams need unsung heroes as well as stars to achieve their success, and winter sports teams in Cranford were bolstered by players making contributions outside of the spotlight.
Winning its first Winter State Sectional Championship last March, the Cranford girls' track team needed a gutsy fifth place finish by senior Katia Oltmann to give their strong 4 by 400 relay the points it needed to overtake Voorhees for first place. The relay team finished first to give Cranford the first sectional indoor team championship in its rich history.
"She had a great senior season and came through for us with a personal best of 11:52, Coach Pete Kane said of Oltman. "On the final lap, Katia looked like a sprinter with her brand new neon spikes that she bought for herself that season and sprinted the bell lap, toasting the girl in pursuit and securing our team the positioning that we needed to go and make school history."
Kane also recognized another distance runner for the boys as an unsung but invaluable athlete.
Without running a race, senior Tom Feeney still made a major impact in the success of the boys track team. Sidelined by a stress fracture in his foot from cross country, Feeney attended practice every day, riding the stationary bike and lifting, in addition to attending every meet and cheering on his teammates.
"His actions as a leader when he couldn't run are what make Tom our unsung hero," Kane said. "He was the strength behind the team under the coaching staff that willed three of his teammates from the Sectional Championship on to the Group Championship, including Connor McMahon who won the N2G2 Sectional Championship 3200."
The other sectional champion among Cranford's winter teams was the girls basketball team, which won for the second time in the past four years. One of three seniors, who also played on the 2009-2010 titlists, senior Kaitlin McGovern filled the role as unsung hero, although she was not a top scorer, McGovern gave the team strong defense, rebounding and an innate sense to anticipate where the ball was going to next.
She averaged nine points, six rebounds and three blocks per game, and though her intangibles can't be measured, they're appreciated by Dyer. One of McGovern's finest defensive efforts came in one of the biggest games of the season when she shut down all county Erin Ferguson of Governor Livingston to help Cranford win the section title on the road.
"She may not have scored the most points each game, but she did an amazing job defending the paint and shutting down some of the county's best post players," Dyer said. "She did a phenomenal job of defending Ferguson all year."
Coach Barb Kolesa's powerful swimming program enjoyed another landmark year, led by sophomore swimming sensation Julie Byrne, who set two more school records and placed sixth in the 200-yard individual medley (2:07.4) and fifth in the 100-yard butterfly (56.78) at the Meet of Champions. Kolesa chose senior captain Brian Leu as the unsung member of the team.
"Brian always came through in a clutch, gave us the points in his races when we needed them. He was an inspiration to our younger swimmers, modeled for them dedication, commitment, and hard work," said Kolesa of Leu, who was also a member of the Cranford tennis team.
Coach Rich Hurley's ice hockey team enjoyed one of their finest seasons, and defense was one of the keys. Senior Jack Nunziato played defense for his entire varsity career. While not flashy, Nunziato was a solid defenseman who was virtually never caught out of position.
"He is a stay-at-home type of defensemen who never rushed the puck up the ice and rarely jumped into the offense when we were attacking. Because of this, his offensive statistics were always behind most of the other defensemen," Hurley said.
"He was the one defensemen we could count on to cover and clear out the front of the net and he also had excellent positional play in the defensive and neutral zones," Hurley continued. "Low scoring, stay-at-home defensemen rarely get the recognition that they deserve, but Jack certainly deserves it after his years of being the anchor in our defensive zone."
The 2012-2013 wrestling team was the highest winning team in school history and received contributions from a multitude of wrestlers in all weight classes, but Coach Pat Gorman chose to cite his heaviest wrestler, junior Jon El-Khoury. Nicknamed "The Elk," El-Khoury came to the program a year ago with no previous wrestling experience but a tireless work ethic, which helped him shed close to 60 pounds and got himself into shape for the grueling competition he faced. In only his second season, El-Khoury amassed a solid 25-8 record.
"Jon has the heart of a champion and was great at soaking up all the instruction from his
coaches. Jon soon became a wrestler that the team could rely on" said Gorman, citing a heroic performance in a big team win against Roselle Park.
"Jon showed just how much heart he had when he fought off a headlock for the entire first period. In the next period Jon stayed low and forward working his way to a victory by
fall securing the long sought after win for the wrestling program."
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Studying at Teesside University helped Major Lawrence Crabb switch his career from training army recruits to teaching primary school children.
He completed the BA (Hons) Business Management part-time while posted to the infantry training centre at Catterick Garrison as the Officer Commanding, The Prince of Wales's Company.
Having served 17 years with the army, he is now embarking on a new career having secured a graduate teaching programme position in Worcester.
Lawrence said: "The work I did at Catterick was primarily leadership and management, overseeing the development of recruits and staff. Changing priorities and wanting to return to a more permanent base with my family led to my new career path.
"It's been an exciting time and the degree was the catalyst in my change of career. I wouldn't have been able to secure a place on the graduate teaching programme had I not completed the degree at Teesside. The degree gave me the confidence to embark on this new career path."
He added: "As I was based in Catterick from Monday to Friday, it provided the ideal opportunity to study, as during the weekends I was back in Worcester with my family."
Lawrence, who is from Worcester, added: "Although I had the leadership and management experience, I didn't have the academic qualifications to match those personal and professional skills and I had begun to think about life after the army.
"I was able to draw on my own professional experience and bring this to the degree. I was always the one in my family who hadn't been really academic, but doing the degree enabled me to prove to myself that I could do it.
"The degree really helped me to think about my job as it helped me to analyse the work which my staff were carrying out with the recruits. I could see and then shape things that needed to happen in the workplace, such as training theory. It led to different approaches in working with the recruits in order to get the best from them."
Within the Prince of Wales's Company there are seven platoons, each with 48 recruits and a staff of six. The recruits complete a 26-week programme of training before joining their battalions.
He said: "I did start a foundation degree back in 2005, but was then posted to Afghanistan. When I was posted at Catterick, it felt like the natural time to return to study, largely as it was something which I had always wanted to do and also at that stage in my career I was thinking about life after the army.
"I really enjoyed being able to experience being a student while also having a job, I found that study and work meshed together well and I was able to bring a lot of what I was learning from the degree to my work. I enjoyed the cerebral challenge and I'm now thinking about the possibility of working towards a master's."
He added: "I joined the army when I was 18 mainly as I didn't have the academic discipline to continue with study at that time. There is always time to develop yourself academically, no matter what stage you are at in your professional career. I had a really good experience throughout my time at Teesside University."
Norma Sutcliffe, of Teesside University Business School, said: "For students such as Lawrence, work based studies (WBS) provide an innovative way to gain a degree using valuable experiential learning gained through work as the basis of the programme of study.
"Assessments are work based, allowing practical application of theory to the work role and providing learning experiences to support professional development and enhance skills."
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Penn State's James Franklin checks in at No. 11 in Athlon Sports list of nation's top coaches [Dustin Hockensmith]
Harrisburg Senators can't answer the opening bell in 10-1 loss to the Altoona Curve [Mick Reinhard]
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After detecting what they describe as an increase in activity among local "angel investors" who support companies in their early stages, leaders of The Idea Village have announced an adjustment to their New Orleans Entrepreneur Week business festival in March, converting one event into a venue specially designed for connecting start-ups with investors based in the region around New Orleans.
More angel investing groups are launching in the region and more homegrown entrepreneurs are becoming sophisticated enough to seek them out, said Tim Williamson, chief executive officer of The Idea Village business support group. He said Entrepreneur Week organizers have noticed this anecdotally in the past two months and decided to make a late change to the festival schedule.
That means an event held in previous years, called the Power Pitch, will morph into a newly created event called Demo Day.
The Power Pitch was a business pitch contest in front of an audience of investors, many of them traveling from around the United States, during which judges named winning presentations. Demo Day will dispense with the judging panel and bestowing of first-place awards and focus on entrepreneurs presenting their ideas to investors based closer to home in a more open-ended forum.
"There's no winner," Williamson said. "This is an opportunity to showcase these entrepreneurs to the local angel community."
The event also will have a keynote speaker, Jeff Pulver, who helped pioneer the technology behind voice communication over the Internet, co-founded the firm Vonage and became an early investor in Twitter and Foursquare.
Demo Day will be invitation-only and take place on March 28, the last day of Entrepreneur Week, at the Ruth's Chris restaurant on Fulton Street.
The same six companies that already were registered for the Power Pitch will participate in Demo Day: the APMT online monitoring suite for polymer manufacturers, the SNAP Real Estate Photography service for enhanced real estate listings, the MobileQubes rental charging units for mobile phones, the Maritant online parts and materials marketplace for the shipbuilding industry, the education everytime musical cues program for managing school routines and the Your Nutrition Delivered healthy food service.
"The real change is the target audience," Williamson said, referring to the emphasis on locally oriented investors. "It's a positive pivot."
In the past, he said, the Power Pitch drew national investors partly because local counterparts were in short supply, a situation that now appears to be improving. A common topic of discussion in the rising entrepreneurship movement of recent years in New Orleans has been the availability of local investment capital and the pressure startups sometimes feel to move elsewhere to find investors or work more closely with the out-of-town investors that they do attract.
National investors still will participate at Entrepreneur Week, Williamson said, in the Coulter IDEAPitch, sponsored by billionaire San Francisco investor Jim Coulter, later the same day and during a private event called VC Office Hours, which refers to venture capitalists who generally provide greater amounts of funding to more mature startups, taking place at the same time as Demo Day.
"We decided in the last couple weeks to just shift the model," Williamson said about the debut of Demo Day. "We believe there's momentum in the angel groups."


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ALBUQUERQUE — Melrose junior Caley Barnard made a big splash in Class 1A state girls track competition on Friday at the University of New Mexico track.
Barnard accounted for 18 of the Lady Buffs' 19 first-day points, which has them in a tie for first place with Jemez Valley and one point ahead of Desert Academy.
Barnard went a stunning 11 feet, 4 inches for a victory of nearly 2 1/2 feet in pole vault. Eighth-grader Lakasey Mondragon added a point for Melrose with a sixth-place finish at 8 feet.
Barnard also exploded to win triple jump at 34-1, just over a foot ahead of Floyd junior Jasmine Gomez (second at 33-0 1/4). The Melrose standout added a third-place finish in high jump at 4-10.
The only other winner from the area on Friday was Fort Sumner senior Michael Giannini, who took 1A boys discus competition at 145-10. His seven points has the Foxes tied for fifth after the first day with Menaul.
"He's been throwing really well all year," Fort Sumner boys coach Matt Moyer said. "He had a little bit of a slow start (on Friday), but winning discus was really important to him."
Moyer said the Foxes will have to get some points from Giannini in shot put and javelin and do well on the track today to try to challenge first-day leader Cliff (23 points) and second-place Cimarron (22) in the team race.
Meantime, the Fort Sumner girls — looking for an eighth consecutive team title — currently stand tied for fifth with Jal, each with 10 points.
Senior Angelica Torres was second in discus for the Vixens at 102-6, while junior Codi Scovel-Wood and sophomore Allison Wilton went 4-5 in the event.
Along with the five points from Gomez, Floyd got three points from senior Tessa Nall for a fourth-place finish in the 3,200 in 13:02.97.
The only other area boys points in 1A came from Clovis Christian senior Nathan Turvaville, who placed fourth in the 800 in 2:05.40.
In Class 2A, Texico's girls are in a three-way tie for eighth with five points after the first day while the boys are in a three-way tie for 10th with three points.
Freshman Whitney Skabelund placed second in girls triple jump at 34-3 1/2, two inches behind Ramah sophomore Taea Hill. For the boys, senior Adrian Gomez, who should do well in hurdles today, picked up a fourth-place finish in triple jump at 42-11.
Santa Rosa had a two-point lead over Estancia with 14 points in the 2A boys division, while Ramah led on the girls' side with 15 to 13 for Bosque.


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The nation's second-largest bank has scaled back in mortgage and commercial lending, but it continues to bulk up in small-business lending. The bank has hired more than 1,000 small-business bankers over the last two years - a big reason why its total small-business loan portfolio increased 28% in 2012 from the previous year. (Image: Thinkstock)
Already the country's No. 1 home lender, Wells Fargo (WFC) is positioning itself for a full-scale housing recovery by hiring mortgage lenders in some of the states hardest hit by the real estate bust. In early January it announced it was hiring 900 lenders and support staff in Arizona and last week it said it will add another 200 in Georgia. It also recently announced it's looking to hire up to 450 employees to staff a new operations center near Dallas that will focus on mortgage underwriting. (Image: Thinkstock)
The U.S. unit of Toronto-Dominion Bank has designated Greenville, S.C. as its Southeastern hub. It plans to more than double its headcount there to 1,400, by the end of 2014. The Greenville campus houses a range of back-office operations, as well as a call center and training facility.
A new Ohio law that removes a cap on interest rates has persuaded the Columbus, Ohio, bank to move much of its credit card operations in-house, resulting in 250 new jobs in its home state. Huntington has also been adding tellers and other front-line employees over the last couple of years as part of its aggressive in-store branch expansion in Ohio and Michigan.
The Cleveland bank is committed to reducing overhead by roughly $200 million a year - partly through staff cuts - but it has added dozens of senior lenders over the last couple of years to focus on middle-market companies.
The New York City bank has thrived by sticking to a model that is all about stealing teams of lenders from rival banks. Signature has added 36 teams - each with three to five bankers - since 2008. Its strategy has helped Signature more than double assets to $17 billion. It's also a key reason why Signature has posted record profits for 13 straight quarters. (Image: Thinkstock)
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The day I met Rebecca Green, I was moving fast along South Division Avenue. I was in such a hurry that I almost didn't stop.
Green, who was studying illustration at Ferris State University's Kendall College of Art & Design, was sitting next to her mom and a whimsical display of the hand-painted magnets she calls "Little Fridge Friends" and a selection of illustrated note cards.
There was something about her brightly painted display and her mini-paintings juxtaposed with interesting text trailing off the edges that stopped me in my tracks.
I complimented her work, soaked up the great feast of color and detail and told the women that I hoped to start a magazine someday and that if I did, I would like to publish Green's work.
We exchanged cards, and I was off.
Green, now 25, has since graduated from college and is emerging as a rising star on the local art scene. Her first solo show, "We Live, a visual exploration of life's little happenings," is on exhibit through Feb. 10 at the Gerbens Art Loggia at the DeVos Center for Arts and Worship, 2300 Plymouth Road SE. She also is represented by Byrneboehm Gallery, 959 Lake Drive SE.
Melancholy themes
While Green's cheerful demeanor is a noticeable contrast to the often melancholy and subdued figures she creates, her work provides an interesting commentary on everyday life. Green describes her work as "timeless and muted" and says it often involves color, pattern and food. She likes to paint characters and give them names and personalities.
"I'm happy, but I don't feel like painting beautiful people or flowers," Green said, explaining that when she sits down to paint, more sobering images emerge on the canvas. "A lot of people are really lonely, and they want to connect with other people, and they really want friends. I just feel like there's a lot of emotions and experiences that people all over the world of all different backgrounds have this connectedness and they want to feel this community. ... When I'm drawing ... I think those thoughts come out."
Green said the characters that she paints are "aware of the harshness the world" and the colorful nature of her work indicates that "there's hope."
"I've been very lucky and grateful in that most of the work that I make is the work that people can connect with," she said.
Stepping away from the middle
Green's current work is much different that the realistic paintings she was creating roughly three years ago. While taking an illustration class, one of her professors challenged her to create art that was either realistic looking or not.
"If you're keeping this middle ground, people are just going to think you don't know how to draw," Green said, recalling the comment that led her to commit herself to creating figures that convey deep emotion without photorealistic qualities.
This creative shift seems to have led Green to a good place where even she isn't exactly sure what will come out of her paint brush next.
"It feels like every time I lay the paint brush down, it's new," she said.
In her artist statement, Green writes: "In my work, I try to portray the potential good that lies in every one of us, in every single day. I have a fondness for the individual, for those quiet moments."
Check out Rebecca Green's first solo show
Where: The Gerbens Art Loggia at the DeVos Center for Arts and Worship, 2300 Plymouth Road SE
When: 9 a.m to 3 p.m. Monday through Friday until Feb. 10
More details: Green's work also is available for purchase at Bryneboehm Gallery, 959 Lake Drive SE. Gallery hours are 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday and Saturday; 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesday through Friday; closed Sunday.
While Green has worked many side jobs over the years to make ends meet, she quit her job as a barista last year and works on her art full time. Her art ranges from commercial illustration to gallery work. Her primary media are painting and drawing, but she also does three-dimensional art.
Hard work, connections
One of the keys to her success appears to be her artistic versatility and drive to work long hours at the Grand Rapids studio she shares with six other artists.
Green advises other emerging artists "to get out there and do events in the local art community," crediting many of the artists she's met with helping her navigate the ins and outs of selling and showing her work.
Looking back to our first meeting, I now realize how odd it must have seemed given that fact that at the time I did not have a solid plan to start a magazine. I just had an idea I had been bouncing around since childhood. At the time, I didn't know if the magazine would ever happen. I was just throwing big dreams around on a street where many fantastical tales have been spoken loudly, only to dissipate into thin air.
Fast forward about 18 months to winter 2010, and we were looking at a proof of the first issue of CraftSanity magazine, featuring the very first paper doll in a series that Green illustrated and I wrote stories for.
It really happened.
My collaboration with Green, which has spanned more than a year and five issues, is evidence that interesting things can happen when kindred spirits meet on the street and share dreams.
This is your cue to collaborate, my friends! Collaborate!
Learn more about Green's work and read her blog at myblankpaper.com.
Email Jennifer Ackerman-Haywood at email@example.com or send story ideas to P.O. Box 888192, Grand Rapids, MI 49588. Read her blog at craftsanity.com, follow @CraftSanity on Twitter and check out the winter issue of her magazine at craftsanity.com/magazine.