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Welcome to this week's edition of the POB eNews...
What do you get when a prominent land surveyor meets an influential journalist? Thanksgiving.
Here at POB, it's our job to showcase the land surveying and mapping professions and provide the information you need to thrive. From stories highlighting new applications and products to the Highlights in Surveying contest to our new PDH-earning Webinars focused on honing entrepreneurial skills, POB's goal is to position you for success. And this mutually beneficial relationship between journalists and surveyors has an impressive historical precedent.
Journalist Sarah Josepha Hale was one of the most prominent trendsetters in 19th-century America. As the editor of the extremely popular
Godey's Lady's Book, she had the ear of men and women alike, and her persuasiveness set the course for not only fashion but also architecture, social issues and more.
 Hale was a prolific writer and an untiring activist for a number of causes, including the establishment of a
national thanksgiving, and she utilized the pages of Godey's to make it happen.
Over the years, she wrote letters to five different presidents-Zachary Taylor, Millard Filmore, Franklin Pierce, James Buchanan and Abraham Lincoln-advocating for a national celebration. But it was land surveyor Lincoln who was finally convinced. In 1863, President Lincoln supported legislation establishing a national holiday of thanksgiving, and the rest is history.
So there you have it. As you sit down to your holiday meal, remember that it was the collaboration between a wise land surveyor and a visionary journalist that made the national celebration of Thanksgiving happen. 
Happy holiday,
Wendy Lyons, eNews Editor
P.S. If you're near Baltimore next week, the Mason and Dixon and the Defining of America: Iconic Treasures from the Maryland Historical Society, Independence Hall and the Maryland State Archives
exhibition opens 6 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 3, with a preview reception and lecture by David S. Thaler, PE, LS, F.ASCE, F.NSPE. Registration is required; tickets cost $50. To register, call 410/685-3750 x 321, e-mail abeiter@mdhs.org or visit www.mdhs.org.
This month, we want to know how you think your business will be impacted by the Department of Defense's decision to end support of codeless and semi-codeless access to GPS on Dec. 31, 2020? Take a moment to vote in our quick poll at www.pobonline.com.
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POB Launches 2009 Highlights in Surveying Contest
Highlights in Surveying recognizes great surveys and surveyors around the world. The contest winner will not only hold bragging rights but also a $2,000 check from POB. We've completely revamped the competition format for easier entry. Visit http://his.pobonline.com to learn more. |
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Sight Lines: Thanksgiving Origins
A Blog by Christine Grahl, 11/25/08
A reader wrote to me this week regarding Thanksgiving proclamations made by two prominent surveyors in history-George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. I'm sure many of you have seen these proclamations before. However, as we prepare to honor this day set aside for giving thanks, it seemed fitting to share both the reader's comments and the proclamations themselves. To read on, click to Sight Lines.
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Joke of the Week: The Silver Lining to the Burning Question: You Burnt the Bird?
A Dozen Reasons to be Thankful!
1. Salmonella won't be a concern.
2. No one will overeat.
3. Everyone will think it's Cajun Blackened.
4. Uninvited guests will think twice next year. ...
Problem: Surveying Instruments and Procedures: Field Notes
When a number has been recorded in a field book in error, the correction of the entry is best accomplished by which of the following procedures?
(A) erasing the error and rewriting
(B) writing the correct number over the error
(C) voiding the entire page
(D) drawing a line through the error and rewriting the proper value above
Cool Link of the Week: Plymouth Colony Archive Project
The Plymouth Colony Archive Project presents a collection of fully searchable texts including: maps dating back to 1605, town and fort plans, court records, colony laws, seventeenth century journals and memoirs, probate inventories and wills; research and seminar analyses of numerous topics; biographical profiles of selected colonists; and architectural, archaeological and material culture studies.
Click to POB's Fun & Games page to access the rest of this week's posting. |
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Land surveyor: Engineers using wrong formula to widen U.S. 425
A professional land surveyor says the engineers who designed the four-laning of U.S. 425 in Lousiana are apparently using a wrong formula in determining that their work won't exacerbate flooding during high-water years like 1991 and 1958.
Surveyors seek to re-establish Mich.-Ind. border
It has been 25 years since Ruby and Richard Evans moved from the Hoosier State to southwestern Michigan, but the retired couple could one day find themselves back home in Indiana without having left their current house.
The house that maps built
Maps have been a figurative building block of society for thousands years. Now, they are taking on a literal role
Click here for more national headlines related to surveying and mapping.
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Exhibition Showcases Artifacts from the Mason-Dixon Survey
Beginning in December, The Maryland Historical Society in Baltimore will host an exhibition titled Mason and Dixon and the Defining of America: Iconic Treasures from the Maryland Historical Society, Independence Hall and the Maryland State Archives.
ILMF 2009 Registration Now Open
The ILMF is the premier event for the LiDAR industry attracting professionals from all over the world with the next event scheduled for Jan. 26-28, 2009. in New Orleans.
Microsoft, ESRI to Help Improve Homeland Security Operations
Microsoft and ESRI together are driving Homeland Security innovations to more effectively help protect citizens, prevent and solve crimes, and enable counter-terrorism through software.
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