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Your weekly news for Monday, May 12, 2008:

• In memoriam - Harold L. Gantzer - click here
• NYSAPLS 2008 Spring Workshops announced - click here
• British locals find ancient boundary marker dating to 1816 - click here
• Yemen News - land dispute leads to hostage/kidnapping - click here
• Origins of land ownership - click here
• SUNY/ESF Ranger School gets $39mil from NYS budget - click here
• GA/TN fight over water not over says TN Senator - click here
• OGS announces construction/consulting opportunities - click here
• VT towns mapping ancient roads - click here
• Guidance and control - the construction industry viewpoint - click here
• OSHA requires 10-hour construction safety public work projects - click here
• Changes to NY prevailing wage notification law effective Feb 24, 2008 - click here
• Cracking ancient Aztec codes to calculate land measurements  - click here
• In memoriam - Dennis E. Walden, LS - click here
• In memoriam - NYSAPLS member Albert Richard Sparaco, III - click here
• Albany County launches online crime mapping system- click here
• "Quack surveyors" feuling land conflicts in Uganda - click here
• Surveying your own land - understanding how boundaries are determined - click here
• Boulder, CO memorializes 49th parallel marker - click here
• Texas landowners slow border fence progress - click here
• Ravi Engineering and LS plans a move - click here
• Uganda challenges refusal to license surveyors - click here
• Albany Cty Clerk - beware of deed copy scam - click here
• AL bill seeks to loosen licensing requirements of rural LS- click here
• GA/TN Border dispute over water worth "gold" - click here
• China:  Investment in surveying mineral resources $10.5 billion - click here 
• GA legislature claims sliver of Tennessee river - click here
• Proposed adverse possession law amendment in Boulder, CO working its way - click here
• "Lord of the Manor" loses adverse case to UK Crown - click here
• In memoriam - Edward Van Kuren - click here
• Commercial real estate bust predicted - click here
• NYSAPLS members Hirani, Thayer honored - click here
• Limits on adverse possession legislation receives support in CO - click here
• TX landowners/Feds go to court over land - click here
• Lawyers warned - use 'common sense' in border fence suits- click here
• NY business leaders mixed on economy - click here Senior surveyor talks about career choice, positive experience - click here
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• Housing slump will force 30 layoffs at Schneider Corp - click here
• Tactics for tight labor market in Canada - click here
• Corning, NY land surveyor featured in news for unique collection - click here
• Employers note - federal I-9 employment form revised - click here
• VT state archives puts historical maps online - click here
• Surveyors call for density increases, sustainable development - click here
• GPS used to track movement of Yellowstone Park volcano - click here
• A new national Surveying Museum will open in new Illinois home -click here
• NYS DOT expanding NYS Spatial Reference Network  - click here
• Surveying industry has half of workforce needed - click here
• Univ of Buffalo geoscientist librarian develops NYS geographic database - click here
• Withdraw of eminent domain findings gives hope to Brooklyn preservationists - click here
• Boundary disputes over Artic - click here

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