Eric D. Colburn, PLS

For the next week I’m offering a Special Reduced Price 20% OFF the regular price if you purchase the Traverse Control Sheet before the end of the day, Midnight, Friday, May 21, 2010!

You can also learn more about this professional land surveyor productivity tool digital download at this link:

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Traverse Control Sheet Professional Land Surveyor Productivity Tool

Today I’m excited to announce the first publication of my Professional Land Surveyor Tools series I’ve been working on, called the Traverse Control Sheet.

To kick things off, I’m also having a promotional price which is 60% off of the regular price if you purchase the Traverse Control Sheet before the end of the day, Midnight, Friday, March 26, 2010.

After Friday, the promotional 60% off price of only $1.99 will go back up to the regular price of $4.99. I am offering this promotion because I want all of you to benefit from using it like I have over the years.

This Digital Download is one of the many self-made forms and tools I’ve created and used over the years in my own professional land surveying business solving my day to day problems and frustrations.

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This Professional Land Surveyor Survey Party is brought to you by EricColburn.com – Professional Land Surveyor Source – showing a few pictures I snapped while carrying out land surveying field work somewhat recently.

Most of these pictures were taken within the last few weeks, which you might be able to tell by the snow and/or stark cold looking locales, but a couple are from a few months ago when the climate was a little warmer (and greener). Right after the most recent pictures were taken we got hit with that blizzard most of you along the eastern seaboard got hit with too, getting 18-20 inches of snow. The good news is that today, most of that snow is gone!

GPS Base Station

Did I Mention It's In A Cemetery

NGS Control Disk Chepachet 1968

GPS Rover Station

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International Space Station. Credit: NASA

HOUSTON — As America celebrates its 233rd birthday this holiday weekend, there will be an extra light in the sky along with the fireworks. Across the country, Americans will be treated to spectacular views of the International Space Station as it orbits 220 miles above Earth.

Many locations will have unusually long sighting opportunities of as much as five minutes, weather permitting, as the station flies almost directly overhead.

To find out when to see the station from your city, visit:

http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/sightings

Expedition 20 Commander Gennady Padalka works in the Harmony node of the International Space Station. Credit: NASA

The largest spacecraft ever built, the station also is the most reflective. It will be brighter than most stars at dawn and dusk, appearing as a solid, glowing light, slowly traversing the predawn or evening sky. It is visible when lit by the sun while the ground below is not in full daylight. It moves across the sky too fast for conventional telescopes, but a good set of binoculars can enhance the viewing experience, even revealing some detail of the station’s structure.

The station circles Earth every 90 minutes. It is 357 feet long, about the length of a football field including the end zones, and 45 feet tall. Its reflective solar arrays are 240 feet wide, a wingspan greater than that of a jumbo jet, and have a total surface area of more than 38,000 square feet.

An international crew of six astronauts, including American flight engineer Michael Barratt, is aboard the complex conducting research and continuing its assembly. Other crew members are from Russia, Europe, Canada and Japan.

For more information about the station, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/station

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Professional Land surveyor Source: NASA