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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.

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 [...]

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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 [...]

Did you know the English alphabet has had more than 26 letters?
Do you know the name of the symbol “&”? Most would call it “ampersand”.

Philip M. Hannan, retired Archbishop of New Orleans, former chaplain with the famous 82nd Airborne in WWII, counselor and friend to President and First Lady Kennedy, hero, pastor and personal friend died this morning (September 29, 2011) at the age of 98 years.