Fellow nairalanders, pls help me out with project topics in "Land Surveying and Geoinformatics".

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I'm in final year in the Department of Land Surveying and Geoinformatics and about to write my project. The project topics I had submitted were not approved for a number of times now. I don't know what to do and time is not on my side.

Please fellow Nairalanders, help me out with list of project topics in Land Surveying and Geoinformatics.

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A group of sports fishermen struggling for an hour and a half to land a Fraser River sturgeon suspected it was big — but they had no idea how big until they got it to shore near Mission.

The five men took turns with the rod and 130-pound test line, spelling each other off every 10 minutes, to eventually wrangle the monster.
It measured out at almost twice the length of two of them, and outweighed three or four of them put together.

“It’s ridiculously huge,” said Warren Calderone, who works in heavy construction and lives in Abbotsford and was treating his Vancouver clients to a day of sturgeon fishing — their first time at the sport.

“The guide figured it was eight to 10 feet [while we were playing it]. He had no idea it was going to be as big as it was.”

It was so large that it took 10 grown men to hold it up for the photo shoot.

“It was so thick around the middle, you couldn’t get your arms around it,” said Calderone.

Officially, it measured 11 feet, three inches, or 3.4 metres — the length of a compact car. And it likely weighed more than 700 pounds, or 320 kilograms, based on its girth.
Calderone, Norm Young, Charles Belanger, Brad Allan — the one who hooked the fish — and guide Tom Pearce shared in the glory of the trophy during the quick catch-and-release, required for the designated “species of concern” caught on the Fraser.
“We let it go after about two minutes,” said Calderone. “And they were always splashing it with water.”

The average sturgeon is two to four feet long, although fishermen regularly catch seven- to eight-footers, according to STS Guide Services owner Vic Carrao.
This latest catch was shy of the all-time record of 11 feet, nine inches, he said.
There have been fewer than 20 sturgeon of 11 feet or more tagged since the tag-and-release program began in 1994, a program that helps monitor the growth and migration of the fish, said Carrao.

“There have been stories of 13- and 14-foot sturgeons, but I’ve never seen [evidence of] one,” he said.

White sturgeon — which can grow to 18 feet, 1,300 pounds and live 150 years — is covered with large bony plates rather than scales. It has a flattened nose, no teeth and four fleshy whisker-like projections used to detect food on river bottoms. Fossil records show they’ve remained unchanged in 175 million years.

“It’s the ugliest fish you’ll ever see,” said Calderone. “They’re just prehistoric.”
Calderone was also struck by how docile the monster was when brought to shore.

“Unlike salmon, they don’t fight themselves to death after they’re caught,” said Carrao. “They just lie there, they don’t stress themselves out. That’s why they’ve lived 200 million years.”

As fat and ugly as the prize was, it won’t stop the lucky fishermen from reliving the glory for years to come.

“We went out for lunch later and it was all we could do to wipe the smiles off our faces,” said Calderone.

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/16092010/73/bc-s-ridiculously-huge-fraser-river-fishermen-net-massive-sturgeon.html

What do you get if you cross a coach with a tunnel?

Well, the answer may well be the '3D Express Coach', an innovative new design idea from Chinese engineering company Shenzhen Huashi Future Parking Equipment which aims to cut traffic on the country's heavily congested roads.
The bus will allow cars drive underneath while the upper level is carrying passengers.

The design is for an electric bus that is almost 15 feet high and solar-powered. It will be able to travel at speeds of up to 37mph but will be able to carry as many as 1400 passengers at one time.
Unveiled at the 13th Beijing International High-tech Expo in May, the design firm behind it say that it will reduce traffic jams by up to 30 per cent.

While it will cost 500 million yuan (4.6 million) to build the bus and the tracks along which it will run, the firm claims this is only 10 per per cent of the cost of an equivalent subway system.

The huge bus will be able to carry up to 1,400 passengers at a time
Song Youzhou, chairman of Shenzhen Hashi Future Parking Equipment, gave a presentation on the '3D Express Coach' at the Expo and said that any cars that drove too close to the bus would automatically set off an alarm.
Cars driving underneath the bus' arch would be warned as they drive when it was about to make a turn.

Radar scanners inside the bus would also warn cars if they were driving to close to the bus' wheels.
The 3D bus would use an inflatable escape ladder similar to on passenger aircraft in the case of emergencies, Mr Youzhou said.

A pilot scheme for the bus will take place in Beijing’s Mentougou District, with construction on the first 186km of track due to begin at the end of this year.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/article-1300512/3D-Express-Coach-Chinese-bus-lets-cars-drive-underneath.html#ixzz0vkgvogHp

Hi Nairalanders,

I want to inquire from you guys whether the results of Abia State University screening exercise is out.

I've tried to access the website but wasn't connecting.

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Hi Nairalanders,

does anyone has info on how to make money with Liberty Reserve?

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Nairaland Members,

Did any of u know the cut off marks for U.N.N. post UME screening exam they have conducted this year.

What i mean is their cut off mark one would know whether one pass the screening exam or not.

because in our results of the screening exam, they only write our scores and JAMB score without any inform that u pass or not.

Nairaland members pls inform me if u get any update, particularly in medical science course about U.N.N.