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BREAKING NEWS:
Geode Fest shifts location to Montebello Access
HAMILTON, Ill. - Geode Fest is a guided hunt for Keokuk geodes that has drawn hundreds of people to the area in the last three years. This year, Geode Fest is moving from Keokuk to the Hamilton, Ill., riverfront. The fourth annual event is scheduled Sept. 26-28 at the Montebello Access Area just upriver of the Keokuk-Hamilton Bridge. Last year Geode Fest headquarters operated from the parking lot at Hy-Vee in Keokuk. Mike Shumate of Hamilton and president of the Hancock County Worthen Earth Searchers said Monday he's wanted to bring the event “back to Hamilton” for a while. “There are no (geode hunting) sites in Iowa,” Shumate said. “We have sites in Illinois and Missouri.”
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Zim diamonds lose their sparkleSenior Zimbabwe government officials, including the police, have been sucked into a diamond smuggling scandal, which is believed to have cost the country about US$30-million in lost revenue in the past eight months. In April last year, thousands of villagers descended on Marange, a district in the eastern Manicaland province, to pan for diamonds with the permission of the political leadership in the province. Police officers probing the diamond racket told the Mail & Guardian the country had lost millions of dollars because the “whole mining of the diamonds wasn’t properly controlled, hence everyone joined in, including police officers in the province”.More......
Rakon Develops World's Smallest Receiver:
The quest for ever smaller GPS-enabled equipment, such as mobile phones, PDAs and even watches has just taken a giant step forward with the development of the world’s smallest GPS radio frequency receiver module by a New Zealand company.
Auckland electronics company Rakon has just developed a module, as tiny as a baby’s fingernail, and is already fielding calls from GPS manufacturers keen to imbed the product in their own new developments.
Brent Robinson, Rakon’s Managing Director, says the tiny radio receiver is a complete ‘plug and play’ unit, which makes it uniquely simple for GPS designers to embed into their devices. “It will mean GPS manufacturers can meet market demand to miniaturise devices, while offering improved capability.“ says Robinson. More......
Now you can
investigate two dozen impact craters using new interactive satellite
images.
Featured craters include: Meteor Crater in Arizona, USA; Chicxulub on the
Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico; Aorounga in Chad; Roter Kamm in South West
Africa / Namibia; Mistastin Lake in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada; Manicouagan
in Quebec; Clearwater Lakes in Quebec; Deep Bay in Saskathchewan; Bosumtwi
in Ghana; Grosses Bluff in Northern Territory, Australia; Kara-Kul in Tajikistan;
New Quebec in Quebec, Canada; Goat Paddock Crater in Kimberley Plateau,
Northwestern Australia; Gweni Fada Structure, Chad; Acraman Structure, South
Australia; Vredefort Dome in South Africa; Teague / Shoemaker Structure
in Western Australia; Ouarkziz Structure in Algeria; and Ramgarh Crater
in Eastern Rajasthan, India.
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Many firms in West don't have disaster plans, survey finds. - The Arizona Republic
Petsmart has one. So does Phelps Dodge.
But many other companies based in the Western United States don't have emergency plans, according to a survey released Wednesday by AT&T Inc.
The report, which looked at businesses in Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada and Utah, found that about half of them had a business continuity plan to deal with disasters. AT&T surveyed 100 senior technology executives with business-planning responsibilities in the Western states. More......
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Mystery of Arizona's Meteor Crater Solved
The space rock that carved Meteor Crater in Arizona hit the planet much more slowly than astronomers once figured, but still 10 times faster than a rifle bullet.
The new analysis, announced today, explains why there's a lot less melted rock in the crater than expected. The mystery has dogged researchers for years.
The big hole in the ground -- 570 feet deep and 4,100 feet (1.25 kilometers) across -- was blown into existence 50,000 years ago by an asteroid roughly 130 feet (40 meters) wide. To read more click here......
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