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The latest Get Kids Into Survey! Forestry and Civil posters are now available through NSPS! Posters can be ordered at www.getkidsintosurvey.com.
Contact Trish Milburn if you have any questions or would like larger quantities.
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Joe Fenicle will join host Curt Sumner to discuss his series of articles in The American Surveyor magazine, as well as workshops he presents during state society conferences.
Archives for each show are typically available for listening within a few days after the show airs. To listen to archives of previous shows, visit americaswebradio.com/nsps-radio-hour.
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NSPS Executive Director Curtis Sumner wrote the White House staff this week requesting that President Trump issue a proclamation recognizing "National Surveyors Week" for the week of March 17-23, 2019. The letter stated, "Establishing a National Surveyors Week will call on the people of the United States to observe with appropriate ceremonies and activities the contributions to society of the surveying profession. In addition, this will invite the American people to look back at the historic contributions of surveying, as well as look forward upon the new technologies which are constantly modernizing this honored and learned profession."
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| Treasury Department final rule on pass-through deduction aids surveyors
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The U.S. Department of Treasury released its final rules on the 20 percent pass-through deduction under 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act passed by Congress and signed by President Trump. Treasury will uphold its proposed rules, thus including surveying with engineering services as firms eligible for the benefit. The 247-page document outlines how to determine the amount of deduction available to the owners of businesses that operate as sole proprietorships, partnerships, S-corporations, trusts and estates. As mentioned last week in News and Views, NSPS Government Affairs consultants, John M. Palatiello & Associates, Inc., provided an analysis finding that surveying firms operating as a pass-through (PT) entity would be eligible for a new 20% deduction on 'qualified business income' (QBI).
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Representative Guy Reschenthaler (R-PA), a newly elected member of Congress from the 14th District of Pennsylvania, recently met with NSPS lobbyist John "JB" Byrd. After law school, Guy fulfilled a lifelong dream and joined the U.S. Navy Judge Advocate General Corps and volunteered for duty in Iraq. Stateside, he served as a Navy lawyer in Norfolk, Virginia, Texas and Oklahoma. Back home in southwestern Pennsylvania, Reschenthaler worked in a private law practice and was elected Magisterial District Judge, winning the nomination of both parties. Reschenthaler previously served in the Pennsylvania State Senate representing portions of Allegheny and Washington County.
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American Surveyor
GSSI, the world leading manufacturer of ground penetrating radar (GPR) equipment, is continuing their partnership with the Jamestown Rediscovery Foundation. GSSI archaeologists Dan Welch and Peter Leach brought new GPR equipment to remotely sense what lies beneath Jamestown.
Jamestown — known for being the first permanent English settlement in the New World — will be commemorating the 400th-anniversary of the first representative government and arrival of the first Africans in 2019.
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Geospatial World
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has proposed new rules that would allow small, unmanned drones to fly without a permit over people and even at night.
"The department is keenly aware that there are legitimate public concerns about drones, concerning safety, security and privacy," stated U.S. Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao.
According to the FAA report, requests to operate at night are "by far" the FAA's most common waiver request.
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Land Survey Party Chief needed for high rise construction projects in the Greater Boston Area. MORE
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While at InterGeo in October, POB had an opportunity to sit down with Mark Richter, director strategic marketing, Real Time Networks and Services Trimble Advance Positioning. Surrounded by technology and innovation, we tried to put things into a real world perspective.
Though hardly an old-timer, Richter recalls learning basic surveying with manual tools (prisms and chains) as technology was coming to the fore.
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By Lucy Wallwork
 When it is not being sent up for its bike karaoke and ironic mustaches, Portland, Oregon, is being held up as the city that threw out the rule book for conventional city growth patterns in the U.S. It is distinctly more walkable, bike-able and compact than other cities in the country and has become the poster child of "smart growth" in the U.S. Some of that is down to a not particularly glamorous land use policy introduced in the 1970s that essentially drew a circle around the city to stop sprawl in its tracks, and to reflect development back toward the downtown area.
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Microdrones has acquired Aircam UAV Technology, a 64-employee Chinese company with its main location in Foshan, an hour-drive from Guangzhou in southern China, and a branch in Beijing. Aircam has developed a large Chinese and Southeast Asian customer base with a focus on surveying and mapping, utilities, and oil and gas industries.
Aircam will be fully integrated with the Microdrones business, brand and leadership team.
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No matter what the future holds, prepare to meet challenges head on. Future-proof your resume by becoming a Certified Survey Technician (CST). This unique four-level certification program indicates official recognition by NSPS that a person can perform surveying tasks at a specific technical level.
Show what you can do! Decide between the field or office track. Visit http://www.cstnsps.com for details.
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Did you know that the CST Program has four levels of certification?
| President, Kim Leavitt (ID) |
Director, Bob Akins (OH) |
| President-Elect, Lisa Van Horn (WI) |
Director, Danny Martinez (NE) |
| Vice President, Mark Sargent (NH) |
Director, Cotton Jones (WY) |
| Immediate Past President, Jan Fokens (MI) |
Director, Thomas Brooks (AL) |
| Treasurer, Bob Miller (PA) |
Executive Director, Curt Sumner (MD) |
| Secretary, Tim Burch (IL) |
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Note: NSPS members may receive calls from MultiView sales associates regarding advertising opportunities in News & Views. MultiView, a partner of NSPS, produces the News & Views newsbrief each week.
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