|
Mogul mania: at a radical ski school in Aspen, a former Apple exec trains corporate types for the toughest slopes.(EXECUTIVE LIFE)(Bumps for Boomers)
Chief Executive (U.S.)
|
December 1, 2004|
|
COPYRIGHT 2004 Chief Executive Magazine. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.
(Hide copyright information)
Copyright
|
Sometimes a sport is transformed by a revolution in equipment design. It happened in tennis with oversize rackets, and in golf with titanium drivers. Over the past decade, it's also occurred in alpine skiing, with the advent of shaped, or side-cut, skis, which have an hourglass shape that makes turning much easier.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]
Skis used to be straight and long. In their typical macho fashion, ski bums would joke over who could control the longest pair. But such locker-room humor diminished with the arrival of shaped skis, because they were much ...
|
Colorado updates land surveying statutes: on May 30, Colorado governor bill ritter signed house bill 07-1225, which amends the Colorado revised statutes concerning land surveying.(newsline)
Magazine article from: Point of Beginning
; ...changes and clarify ambiguities in the land surveying statutes. "The PLSC Legislative Committee...the changing conditions placed on the surveying profession," says PLSC President John...language to define the terms "geodetic surveying" and "basic control" for engineering...
|
|
BACK ON TRACK.(surveying degree program at Metropolitan State College, Denver, Colorado)
Magazine article from: Point of Beginning
; How the only surveying program in Colorado made a comeback...was on the brink of losing its only surveying and mapping degree program. Metropolitan...The society realized that the local surveying industry needed a source of newly educated...
|
|
A body of knowledge: defining profession of surveying is paramount to reversing inaccurate public perception.
Magazine article from: Point of Beginning
; ...altering the licensing requirements for surveying in rural areas were introduced in the...profession should be of great concern to the surveying community. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED...profession, what the characteristics of the surveying profession are and what we need to do...
|
|
Achieving excellence: surveying programs across the nation are dedicated to finding and educating tomorrow's surveyors.
Magazine article from: Point of Beginning
; ...Carbondale, which offers 27 credits of surveying courses. "Getting an 'A' out of me...believes that demanding a lot from his surveying students is the way to get them to rise...learn more about what is happening at surveying education programs around the country...
|
|
Chance to study surveying in Wales; RICS Wales forms a partnership with the College of Estate Management in Reading.(News)
Newspaper article from: Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales)
; ...partnership to provide people who work within a surveying discipline in Wales, with access to the full range...open to Welsh students include degrees in building surveying, quantity surveying and estate management and a diploma in surveying...
|
|
My semester in elementary surveying: a university of Alabama-Huntsville student shares his learning experience.(Bob Baudendistel)(Cover Story)
Magazine article from: Point of Beginning
; ...my education in civil engineering, GIS and surveying. I have always believed that in order to succeed...learning opportunities. I thoroughly enjoy being a surveying student and know that surveying is definitely my long-term career goal. Here...
|
|
Frontier Surveying Announces Important Senior Staffing Changes and Additions.
PR Newswire
; ...PRNewswire/ -- Ivy Young, CEO of Frontier Surveying Company, and Robert Young, RPLS, President...enhance our progress in growing Frontier Surveying and its sister company Digital Mapping...30 years of experience in the field of surveying and mapping, including boundary surveys...
|
|
Where does surveying go from here?(thebusinessside)(Column)
Magazine article from: Point of Beginning
; I have been involved with surveying my whole life. I've gone from...ve served as president of a state surveying society and as a member of the board...directors of the American Congress on Surveying and Mapping. I've authored many...
|
|
New scholarship offers history students $1,000.(The Latest News Museum of Surveying and Michigan Society of Professional Surveyors create new scholarship)
Magazine article from: Point of Beginning
; Surveying students big on surveying's past may have a sizeable check in their future. The Michigan...Foundation Board of Trustees and the one-of-a-kind Museum of Surveying in Lansing, Mich., created the Museum of Surveying North American...
|
|
South Surveying & Mapping Instrument Co., Ltd.: South to take off.(2004 Editorial Spotlight)
Magazine article from: Point of Beginning
; South Surveying & Mapping Instrument Co., Ltd...professional and leading enterprise in the surveying industry in Mainland China whose five...manufacturing. We sell nine kinds of surveying products, including total stations...
|
Find more facts and information related to the
article "Mogul mania: at a radical ski school in Aspen, a ..."