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The Iditarod: it’s Alaska’s iconic 1,100 mile sled dog race from Anchorage to Nome. Competitors don’t get ready overnight. Kasey-Dee Gardner tracks how they do it.

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Think you know the difference between an asteroid and a meteorite? This week Kasey-Dee Gardner gets the answer.

Oryginal: Louisiana Sea Grant

During the Iditarod, sled dogs need checkups, medicine, and massages. Kasey Dee-Gardner caught up with the woman who’s job it is to care for the canine athletes.

Oryginal: Louisiana Sea Grant

Wayland, MA - April 14, 2008 - The members of the Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC) today announced the approval of the OpenGIS® KML Encoding Standard (OGC KML), marking KML’s transition into an open standard which will be maintained by the OGC. Developers will now have a standard approach for using KML to code and share visual geographic content in existing or future web-based online maps and 3D geospatial browsers like Google EarthTM.

The OpenGIS KML 2.2 Encoding Standard formalizes the KML 2.2 model and language while remaining backwards compatible with existing KML 2.2 files and tools. In comparison with the GoogleTM KML 2.2 Reference, the standard defines:

For more information, please visit the OGC web site.

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Anchorage’s annual Fur Rendezvous festival started a new tradition this year - the Running of the Reindeer. Kasey-Dee Gardner and Jorge Ribas find out if man outran beast.

Oryginal: Louisiana Sea Grant