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Lucy Kay Cavell, born 3/19/2012 to Michael and Dorothy Cavell.

Our destination was a ridge above Hines Creek, where Betchkal planned to assemble a station to collect a month’s worth of continuous acoustic data documenting an intangible, invisible and — increasingly — endangered resource: natural sound. Our mission was not only to trap the ephemeral but also to experience it ourselves …

  Join us in celebrating and promoting surveyors. National Surveyors Week is celebrated annually during the week in March that begins with the 3rd Sunday;  March 18-24 this year. Get the Surveyors Week Publicity Handbook created by the National Society of Professional Surveyors (NSPS) here.

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United grassroots efforts CAN work!
Federal officials on Tuesday struck a major blow to satellite venture LightSquared, saying the government plans to take away its permission to operate as a mainstream high-speed wireless network.

Ernest Joseph Alexander, Jr. died Tuesday evening January 17, 2012 from esophageal cancer. Funeral Services will be held at an 11:30 am Mass of Christian Burial on Friday, January 20, 2012 at St. Pius X Catholic Church. Entombment will be in St. John Cemetery. He was a native of Port Allen and a long time [...]

One of 2011′s most hotly contested political issues, the Stop Online Piracy Act, has spilled over into 2012. The language and far-reaching implications of the bill have caused high-profile workers within the entertainment industry to publicly oppose it; even supporters admit that it could vastly change the internet as we know it. Here are ten [...]

LightSquared Update
Federal Geodetic Control Subcommittee
Meeting
January 10, 2012

LightSquared Background & Spectrum Issues
NOAA Summary Testimony
NOAA Anechoic Chamber Test Results
The Way Forward