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We are requesting written testimonials regarding the benefits the CST Program has brought to you. The CST Board will review the submittals and present a $100 gift certificate card to each of the three authors whose submittals are deemed to the best. The testimonials will then be published in the NSPS News and Views. Please limit your testimonial to three paragraphs. Send your testimonial via email to trisha.milburn@nsps.us.com. Please be aware that all submittals may be published.
Also, please renew your CST dues if you haven't done so already. If you need a renewal notice, please contact trisha.milburn@nsps.us.com.
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Join host Curt Sumner and his guest for a discussion on a the topic of the day.
If you are unable to listen to the show when it is being broadcast, listen to the archive of the show at americaswebradio.com/nsps-radio-hour. Archives for each show are typically available for listening within a few days after the show airs.
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Samsung for Business
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As businesses adopt mobile technology at an unprecedented pace, the need for best-in-class mobile devices, support and services is growing rapidly. Samsung Mobile is committed to supporting businesses' mobile-first initiatives, offering a comprehensive portfolio of enterprise solutions.
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Brain Portwood, Federal land rights expert and historian of land rights law
Land surveyors often have occasion to address title issues along with boundary issues, making education pertaining to other forms of title (aside from fee ownership of land) relevant to surveyors, in particular those who perform ALTA/NSPS surveys and who wish to provide their clients with a complete and highly informative product. The proper identification and categorization of land rights has become a matter of high importance to our society, and effective documentation of land rights is vital to that task, but verification of federal land rights can be highly problematic, often requiring judicial resolution. This article represents the next in a series on easement issues that arise in the federal context emphasizing the importance of understanding federal land rights, from the perspective of a professional land surveyor. This series is being produced and published for the educational benefit of all those who are employed as professionals in the many branches of the title and land acquisition industry, as well as professional land surveyors.
Stan Emerick, Missouri Surveyor, June 2016
This article tells of a project initiated to recover evidence of the Osage Treaty Line. This line was run in 1816 and originally intended to serve as the western boundary of Missouri. But shortly after its running, the boundary was moved to the west, and this line dropped off the map. This line happened to be run by the surveyor honored last year with a monument, Joseph C. Brown.
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NSPS
The Small Business Administration (SBA) published its final rule, effective 30 days from publication on July 25, establishing a mentor-protégé program for all small business concerns, which will be separate from, but similar to, SBA's current 8(a) Business Development program. The government-wide program will significantly expand the pool of companies that can qualify as protégés and for which mentors have unique investment and joint venture opportunities to leverage on set-aside procurements.
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U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx announced recently that the Department established the Build America Bureau (The Bureau), which will drive transportation infrastructure development projects in the United States by streamlining credit and grant opportunities while providing technical assistance and encouraging innovative best practices in project planning, financing, delivery, and monitoring. The Bureau is responsible for driving transportation infrastructure development projects in the United States. The Bureau will streamline credit opportunities and grants and provides access to the credit and grant programs with more speed and transparency, while also providing technical assistance and encouraging innovative best practices in project planning, financing, delivery, and monitoring. To achieve this vision, the Bureau will draw upon the full resources of the Department to best utilize the expertise of all the modes within the Department while promoting a culture of innovation and customer service. Video for the 30 minute launch of the Bureau is now available.
NSPS
A recent Government Accountability Office (GAO) report found that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) have made little progress in implementing key national levee-safety-related activities required in the Water Resources Reform and Development Act (WRDA) of 2014. More specifically, the USACE has been working to develop a national levee inventory, but the agencies have taken no action on the remaining key national levee-safety-related activities for which they are responsible under the act. Agency officials identified resource constraints as a primary reason for their lack of progress in implementing such activities, and USACE officials said that not implementing these activities could potentially result in safety risks and federal financial risks for disaster relief, among other impacts. However, the agencies have no plan for implementing the remaining activities required by the act. Without a plan that includes milestones for accomplishing these activities using existing resources or requesting additional resources as needed, the agencies are unlikely to make progress implementing the activities under the act.
Employment opportunities
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Employers interested in posting job opportunities on the NSPS website should visit http://www.nsps.us.com/networking/.
Upcoming seminars/conferences
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Due to the volume of requests we received to publish information about State Society conferences, use this link to access the information from the NSPS website.
The American Surveyor
By J. Robert Keating: My father loved talking to people about land surveying. Among other things, he would often say, "When I started in this business, I used the same instruments as George Washington." He would further explain that over the years everything changed. He would then click down the list: calculators, theodolites, USGS topographic maps, aerial photos, EDM's, total stations, GPS receivers, computers, etc.
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The FAA finally has moved on Part 107, the sUAS regulations allowing sub-55 pound UAS to perform commercial work without those pesky Section 333 exemptions. Even though the regulations don't go into effect until the end of next month, if you want to add sUAS capabilities to your firm, now would be a good time to get started.
Before you move into this arena, you probably need to think about the relevancy of this technology for your business and how it could be incorporated into your geospatial workflow.
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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 www.nsps.us.com for details.
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GPS World
Chaminda Basnayake, Principal Engineer, V2X Systems, Renesas Electronics: "In the basic V2X concept of operation, everybody will be talking to each other, will be aware of each other. Any car will be broadcasting BSMs, pedestrian or personal devices will be broadcasting an equivalent message, called personal safety messages, and then all the control devices like traffic control will broadcast signal-based timing information, SPAT messages, intersection maps and GPS correction data."
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Directions Magazine
Esri, the world's leading developer of GIS software, announced that Pokévision, a third-party app for the viral mobile game Pokémon Go, uses Esri's award-winning location-based data and mapping platform ArcGIS to help players of the game find Pokémon around them.
A web map powered by ArcGIS services, Pokévision shows all Pokémon near user-requested locations.
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