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Get it all at the thirteenth annual Sturgis on the River motorcycle rally from June 14 16, 2007. This event in downtown Davenport, Iowa, is the largest gathering of motorcycles in the Midwest. The free event takes place along the Mississippi River on the showgrounds west of the Centennial Bridge, John O’Donnell stadium, and LeClaire Park. The showgrounds are located at 215 S. Marquette Street. All makes and models of motorcycles are welcome.
Join the Big Schwag from the Discovery Channels Monster Garage all weekend at Sturgis on the River as he is the emcee for the three-day event.
You and your group travel club can watch the motorcycle stunt shows of Ball of Steel featuring freestyle motocross and back flip finales. Visit the American Veterans Traveling Tribute Wall. The nation’s largest traveling Vietnam Memorial will be setup in LeClaire Park. In addition, it includes the Vietnam Remembered art collection of 90 original paintings by Norm Bergsma.
There are different rides scheduled for each night to see the most of the area from rides along the river, on the Great River Road, and through the countryside. Ride maps will be available that show attractions, casinos, and places to stop and get a bite to eat. Choose from a 4, 6, or 8 hour ride.
Enjoy powerhouse bands until midnight on all three nights! Sturgis on the River also features over 100 product vendor booths to help complete the perfect setting for a perfect weekend. General gate admission is $5.00 per person or FREE to motorcyclists who ride in.
Hours: 12 noon to midnight on Thursday and Friday, and 10 a.m. to midnight on Saturday. For more information about Sturgis on the River, call 309-799- SHOW (7469) or check out their website at http://www.sturgisontheriver.com
For more information on other events in the Quad Cities and lodging ideas, contact the Quad Cities Convention & Visitors Bureau at 800-747-7800 or visit their website at http://www.visitquadcities.com
The Quad Cities is a great group tour, student travel and sports group travel destination, located on the Mississippi River and is made up of the riverfront cities of Davenport and Bettendorf in Iowa, and Moline, East Moline and Rock Island in Illinois. The area is just a 2-½ hour drive from Des Moines, Iowa, and Chicago, Illinois. It is easily accessible via I-80, I-74, I-88 and several major state highways.
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Illinois Map by admin on March 14th, 2010 3:10 pm
Local Microsoft Great Plains Dynamics GP support is preferred in the case of complex accounting and business processes: manufacturing, warehouse management, inventory control, shipping and receiving, transportation and logistics, precise and process production and assembly, non for profit accounting, wholesale and retail, consignment, barcode automation. Local support also gives you advantages of complex Great Plains customization and programming projects to have higher success rate, comparing to outsourced Dynamics GP software development. We would like to give you typical technically challenging Dynamics GP implementation projects highlights:
1. Precise Dynamics GP modules selection. Great Plains Dynamics is matured ERP and MRP system, where you can select from large basket of modules, as well as add-ons from Dynamics GP ISV partners. When you are planning Great Plains Dynamics GP software license purchase, you should map majority of your required business processes into proposed modules, as well as consider current legacy systems integration to Great Plains: Microsoft, CRM, Lotus Notes Domino, Oracle Database applications, EDI, Franchise Business Management System
2. Dynamics GP modifications. Here we recommend you to consider first modules settings, work out procedures, setting up user defined fields – all these should help you in staying with standard Great Plains ERP logic. If your business is so unique, that it is unlikely to find any ERP or MRP system on the market to cover your business processes, or when your business is relatively small to purchase rich business logic ERP (such as Oracle eBusiness Suite, SAP AllInOne, PeopleSoft) – modest customization may be appropriate approach. Please, note here, that Dynamics GP programming typically requires long term and very trusted and good relations with your Great Plains Technology partner, as there will be long way to go through Great Plains customization upgrade, adding new features
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Illinois Map by admin on November 21st, 2009 1:34 am
Since its incorporation in June of 2000, Western Pipeline Corporation has been involved in oil and gas exploration in 5 states including six multi-well projects in the Illinois basin.
The Illinois basin is an oval depression containing Cambrian through Permian sedimentary rocks. A basin in geologic terms is a large-scale structural formation of rock. They are geologic depressions, the opposite of domes.
Three to five hundred million years ago Illinois was a shallow tropical ocean located near the equator at that time. The ocean left huge thicknesses of sand sediment behind which became sandstone. It also left behind billions of seashells. These shells and fragments of shells made of calcium carbonate combined to form limestone. During the Paleozoic Era the rocks were periodically bent and folded. The earth’s crust periodically sank, creating the broad, depression called the Illinois basin.
The Illinois basin began as a failed rift. A failed rift occurs when continental rifting (when the Earth’s crust and outer layer are pulled apart) began, but then failed to continue. After the rifting episode, the basin began to form as a thick succession of sandstone and carbonate rocks deposited above the center of the rift.
Basins appear on maps as almost circular or elliptical, with concentric layers of strata. The layers dip toward the center. If you look at the strata of a basin the oldest rocks are on the outside and get younger as you go in towards the center. Structural basins like the Illinois Basin are sources of coal, petroleum, and groundwater. The oil producing area of Illinois is part of the Illinois Basin. The Illinois Basin covers southern Illinois, western Kentucky and western Indiana.
Oil and natural gas have been produced in the Illinois basin from Paleozoic rocks. Most of the basin’s hydrocarbons have been produced from sandstones, carbonate rocks as well as Devonian, Silurian, and Ordovician rocks.
The first attempt at drilling oil wells in Illinois was near Champaign in 1853. These wells produced “swamp gas” or “drift gas” from glacial fill but no oil. Since 1853, about 155,000 oil, gas, and injection wells have been drilled in Illinois.The first oil wells were drilled in the early 1860’s. Commercial oil production began in Illinois in 1905. Most oil produced in Illinois from 1894 through 1937 was produced in shallow areas of less than 1000 feet. In 1937 deeper zones were discovered from 2,500 to 3,500 feet. The deepest well ever drilled was over 13,000 feet deep. Peak oil production occurred in Illinois between 1955 and 1963 with an average yearly production of 80 million barrels. The current yearly production is approximately 10-12 million barrels.