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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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Laissez les bons temps rouler!

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.

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

The Christmas season’s Hallmark specials and other heart rending presentations serve to exacerbate feelings of frustration. This year’s Scrooge character is played by Hedge-fund manager venture capitalist Philip Falcone, Senior Managing Director of the Harbinger Capital Partners® Funds, and his outfit called LightSquared.

There is a scene repeated in many heroic cinematic dramas that have the wimpy committee (city fathers, board of education or corporate trustees) throw the hero to the wolves in the face of some illegitimate force that threatens, exemplifying their cowardice. The hero proceeds to face the evil on their behalf either to defeat it [...]