Word Academy Answers, Cheats and Solutions for iPhone, Android and iPad is an interesting guess game made by Scimob and is available on iTunes and Google Play. Here you have to find the correct word. If you get stuck and need help than use our walkthrough guide to find all the correct answers here at wordacademyanswers.org.
Most of us play a word game in order to enrich our vocabulary and at the same time make sure that we known the meaning of as many words as possible. Games such as Word Academy are very popular because not only they allow us to test our knowledge but at the same time we can easily acquire new words and implement them into our vocabulary, all of this being done while playing.
Word Academy is a nice word game mainly because it has a highly polished interface and tens of thousands of words that you can play with. You will need to find hidden words in the increasingly large game world, and the best part about it is that each level of the game comes with an order and a theme. The difficulty does increase as you complete levels, but this is exactly what makes Word Academy challenging, the fact that it can take a little while sometimes to develop the necessary skills to move on.
What's fun in Word Academy is the fact that you can always retry the levels for as many times as you see fit, until you complete everything. Starting from scratch can bring in a new approach towards things, and the result is definitely well worth your time.
You do have hints that you can use in order to help you, and these are great specifically for those situations in which you feel that you are stuck. The more you play, the larger the game board and the longer the words that you can create here. Thankfully, there are hundreds of levels to play, so you will never get bored as there is a ton of content to go through, and checking it out is just a ton of fun.
You do get diplomas when you advance levels, and the game does get even more fun as a result because of that, something that is really cool and exciting to say the least.
For many word game lovers, this one is a must because it does offer a challenge, so it doesn't get boring, instead the more you play, the longer you will stay in front of the board to finish the levels, something you will surely enjoy doing.
It's really cool to see how Word Academy manages to put boredom at bay, and I have to say that the gameplay here is just filled with challenges, so you can rest assured that there is a ton of fun to be had as you play.
Graphically, Word Academy is minimalist but it looks really well and it does provide a wide range of interesting graphical fidelity additions. The interface is intuitive, the game boards are professionally created and the title is just a lot of fun.
All in all, Word Academy is a wonderful word game with a ton of levels and which also manages to bring in quite a lot of challenge. If you are looking for an interesting game with a nice gameplay mechanic and which has leaderboards so you can always feel challenged, then Word Academy is well worth a try, and we encourage you to download it now, especially since it's a free game to begin with.
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Sixties Scoop: Aboriginals Adopted Into White Families Seek Apology
By Chinta Puxley, The Canadian Press
WINNIPEG - Some aboriginal people who were adopted into white families during the so-called Sixties Scoop say it's their turn for reconciliation and are calling for a formal apology from the federal government.
Dozens of adoptees gathered in Winnipeg on Monday to tell their stories — many for the first time — and figure out how to get justice.
Coleen Rajotte was taken from her Cree community in Saskatchewan when she was three months old and raised by a Manitoba family. Adoptees were robbed of their real families and feel someone has to be held accountable, she said.
"If someone came into your home today, took your children and shipped them to the United States and around the world, we would want answers," she said. "That's what we as adoptees are asking for. Someone has to take responsibility for this."
From the 1960s to the 1980s, thousands of aboriginal children were taken from their homes by child welfare services and placed with non-aboriginal families. Many consider the adoptions as an extension of the residential school system, which aimed to "take the Indian out of the child."
Rajotte said she was lucky enough to be placed into a loving home, but she lost her language, her culture and her connection to her ancestral home. When she recently went to the home she would have grown up in had she not been adopted, Rajotte said it was overwhelming.
"I was physically ill for days just trying to process all of that," she said.
But while residential school survivors have had a formal apology and are the subjects of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, adoptees haven't been formally recognized.
"Personally, I would like to see some kind of formal apology to all adoptees that were taken from their homes," Rajotte said. "That's a lot of children — 20,000 children across Canada."
A spokeswoman for federal Aboriginal Affairs Minister Bernard Valcourt said there would be no comment.
"As this case is currently before the courts it would be inappropriate to comment further," she said in an email.
A class-action lawsuit launched by some survivors in Ontario in 2009 is slowly making its way through the courts. The lawsuit was certified, but Canada recently won leave to appeal that decision.
Manitoba Aboriginal Affairs Minister Eric Robinson said it's time adoptees were given the same opportunity for reconciliation as residential school survivors. Some adoptees were put with families where they were treated as farm hands or subjected to horrific abuse, he said.
"It's not an easy thing to talk about the hurts that many of them endured as children, not knowing who they were, being a brown face in an all-white school as an example," said Robinson, a residential school survivor who organized the two-day gathering.
"Those things are very difficult to talk about in this current day but they have to be addressed."
Those adoptees at the gathering hope to emerge with a strategy for recognition and a sense of what supports they need to heal, he said.
"Compensation no doubt will come up," Robinson said. "There's got to be a certain degree of accountability by governments."
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#WWEmoms is going to be holding a fabulous twitter party on Thursday February 6, at 7pm and you are invited!With emphasis on the 2014 Wrestle Mania Reading Challenge you can get together with your most beloved Wrestle Mania star, read and win by heading on over here for more info!
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Three years in Malaysia, a moratorium on the mining of bauxite. His term expires April 1 of the current year. Thus, local businesses can once again begin to work. However, to resume production, they will not immediately.
New investment project of the Group CHTPZ completed. It concerns modernization of the industrial complex «Cold pipes». It was implemented at Pervouralsk new pipe plant. In the process had installed the new equipment.


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Banyan is the self-titled debut album from Stephen Perkins' jazz/fusion side project Banyan. It was released on May 6, 1997 on CyberOctive Records. This album also features Mike Watt on bass, Nels Cline on guitar and Money Mark, who is credited as The Freeway Keyboardist, on keyboard.
This album was dedicated to Stephen Perkins' deceased brother Marc.
The following blurb is taken from the back of the CD:
Banyan founders Stephen Perkins and Dave Turn experiment in sound drawn on a diverse range of inspiration for their debut album – from Miles Davis to Stravinsky and points in-between. This largely instrumental tour de force also features the talents of Mike Watt, Nels Cline and The Freeway Keyboardist. Recorded by the Dust Brothers and mixed by John King of the Dust Brothers.
Track Listings:
Baby Grace and the Indians
People Find It Hard
At The Blowhole
Christmas Tree Park
What's Left of Autumn
Looking For Now
The Roots of Banyan
A Good Looking Couple
Released By: CyberOctive Records
ID Number(s): COCD2005
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I'm am personally loving the materials for this yacht interior project I'm working on— maybe because they look right at home on my kitchen counter.. And this carpet option from Stark might be what pulls it all together!
Construction officially starts today at #deerhaven_craftsman! This is phase one of at least two that will take a family gathering house and increase and finesse its ability to function with crowds or a party of two. The image is of the beautiful Green Iron #soapstone that is so brilliant for the rich elegant color palette and natural inspiration in this house.
Would you believe that this is located in Orange County, California? A more peaceful setting for this multi-function guest house may not exist. In fact, when it's not housing members of a large extended family, it may also play host to lucky brides as they prepare to walk down an aisle on the property grounds! It's just getting finishing touches now.
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Four New Directors Join Oklahoma Watch Board
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Oklahoma Watch has added four new directors to its board who bring decades of journalism, communications and business experience to the organization's leadership team.
The new board members are Gerald Adams, Ed Kelley, Vince LoVoi and Brett Wesner.
Oklahoma Watch Board Profiles
Adams is a consultant at the Henry-Adams Companies LLC. Adams was a reporter, columnist and editor at the Shawnee News-Star before managing Robert Henry's successful campaign for attorney general of Oklahoma in 1985. Adams subsequently served three Oklahoma attorneys general in communications and policy positions for a total of 15 years before joining the administrative staff of the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation. In 2002, Gov. Brad Henry asked Adams to become his chief of staff, a position he held throughout the governor's two terms. Following completion of the final term, Gov. Henry and Adams established the Henry-Adams Companies LLC, a consulting firm headquartered in Norman.
Kelley was named director of experiential learning at the Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Oklahoma in May 2015. He is a veteran news executive, coming to OU from Salt Lake City, where he was senior contributing editor at the Deseret News. He also has served as editor of The Washington Times in Washington, D.C. and The Oklahoman in Oklahoma City. Kelley has held a variety of other news positions in his career, including that of Washington bureau chief, managing editor and editorial page editor. He was named Editor of the Year in 1996 by the Washington-based National Press Foundation for overseeing The Oklahoman's coverage of the Oklahoma City bombing.
LoVoi is publisher of This Land Press LLC, a new media company, founded in 2011. This Land Press was noted as "probably the best for-profit local journalism startup in the country" by the Columbia Journalism Review. This Land Press also operates This Land Films, a film production company that was invited to premiere its first feature-length documentary at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival. LoVoi also serves as managing partner of Mimosa Tree Capital Partners LLC, an investment firm in Oklahoma focused on socially responsible startups and turnarounds.
Brett Wesner is the founder of Wesner Publications Co., which publishes 10 newspapers and two magazines in rural communities across Oklahoma and Texas. He previously served as a press officer for OU President David Boren's 1984 U.S. Senate campaign in Oklahoma. Following Boren's landslide election, Wesner joined Boren's Washington press office, becoming press secretary in 1987, at the start of the senator's service as chairman of the Senate select committee on intelligence and as a member of the special committee investigating the Iran-Contra scandal. A native of Cordell, Wesner returned to Oklahoma in 1990 to serve as executive director of the Oklahoma Foundation for Excellence.
Other Oklahoma Watch board members are Co-Presidents Jim East, George Kaiser Family Foundation consultant, and Bob Ross, president and CEO of Inasmuch Foundation and Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation, and Sue Hale, journalism consultant. Stepping down from the board are Saxum CEO Renzi Stone and outgoing OU Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication Dean Joe Foote.
Oklahoma Watch Response to Epic Commentary
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Now that the tickets for the latest Yfn Lucci tour are available, you can secure the best spots almost instantly.
Everybody's favorite band is already causing a lot of ruckus and sparking interest from lovers of quality music. There is plenty of evidence for that. Every concert sees a huge number of fans gather around the stage in anticipation of a wonderful experience. It is no wonder that the best venues are always being selected for their concerts. Our service is also offering Yfn Lucci VIP packages for dedicated fans.
Everybody can now experience an incredible show from their favorite performer. This is going to be the most interesting tour of the year by far, and this is the best place to get your tickets right now. On our website you will find exclusive ticket offers.
Every Yfn Lucci concert is a unique event that does not disappoint. This is exactly why fans keep travelling together with the band to many destinations around the world. They won't be able to get the same level of excitement and emotion from listening to a concert and just looking at the computer screen. You can check the details of every concert right here and decide whether that's exactly what you've been looking for.
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London: John Murray, 1859 Stock Code: 138146
Ushering in a new era of thought about the nature of man
First edition of "the most influential scientific work of the 19th century" (Horblit) and "certainly the most important biological book ever written" (Freeman), in which Darwin explained his concept of evolutionary adaptation through natural selection, which would become the foundation of modern evolutionary theory; 1,250 copies were printed.
"The publication of the Origin of Species ushered in a new era in our thinking about the nature of man. The intellectual revolution it caused and the impact it had on man's concept of himself and the world were greater than those caused by the works of Copernicus, Newton, and the great physicists of more recent times Every modern discussion of man's future, the population explosion, the struggle for existence, the purpose of man and the universe, and man's place in nature rests on Darwin" (Ernst Mayr).
This copy has the bookplate of Thomas Cope (1827-1884), a prosperous manufacturer of cigars and tobacco products in Liverpool in the mid-19th century. He was the first person in England to hire women to make cigars and was the speaker of the Liverpool Parliamentary debating society.
Octavo gathered and signed in 12s. Original green diagonal-wave-grain cloth, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, covers ornamentally blocked in blind, pale brown coated endpapers, binder's ticket of Edmonds & Remnant to rear pastedown. Housed in a green cloth book-form slipcase and chemise.
Folding diagram lithographed by W. West. 32-page publisher's catalogue at rear dated June 1859.
Engraved bookplate of Thomas Cope, Huyton, to front pastedown; later ownership inscriptions of George Taylor and Alexander Glass, Darien, CT (the latter dated 4-15-62) to half-title, a few small pencil marks in margins. Cloth lightly marked on front cover, spine ends and inner hinges neatly restored, a little light spotting to early leaves, chiefly marginal, overall a very good copy.


Bhagwan Swaminarayan was a strong patron of literature and ethnic languages. In the same legacy, the BAPS Swaminarayan Sanstha strives to sustain Indian culture by promoting the use of Sanskrit, Hindi, Gujarati, and other Indian languages. This attracts several renowned scholars from across the globe. And on 29th of September, one such scholar - Sh. Satyavrat Shashtriji visited the BAPS SVM Randesan campus.
Sh. SatyaVrat Shashtriji is world renowned Sanskrit scholar felicitated by institutions and governments across the world (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satya_Vrat_Shastri). He was accompanied by his daughter who is also Professor in Delhi University, Dr. Indu Vrat Dua.
Their visit was in continuance to eminent scholars visiting the campus. They were welcomed by students reciting "Ishavasya Upanishad" shlokas which touched them and moistened their eyes! They were so happy to see the conservation of Sanskrit language among the new generation. He visited entire campus and blessed several students who sang Birthday song for him - in Sanskrit.
Before leaving campus, he prayed and wished everyone on campus and especially the officials.


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I believe that the promotion of Art and the emotional intelligence that comes with it is what truly has the power to guarantee our survival and save this world in the long run. So I create Art in the form of music, music videos, poetry and novels. Art costs money like everything else, and this makes its creation tricky sometimes, impossible other times; but I want to make as much of my and our Art available to you as possible. And with that, I'm asking for your help on Patreon, which is like an ongoing crowdfunding campaign and a very important and convenient tool enabling the creation of Art.
We all need each other's help sometimes. And now, I am asking for yours: Starting from only 1 Dollar, you can become a Patron and show your support on Patreon on a monthly basis with an amount that you specify. In return, I'll share my and our creations with you. Here on Patreon, you'll be the first ones to get them, and sometimes the only ones. You'll immediately and directly get my songs, my videos, my poems, my books when I publish them. No matter the amount of support that you wish to give. Even if it's 1 Dollar. And you can cancel at any time.
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River defines Neely's Bend neighborhood
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Carved out by a massive bend in the Cumberland River, the Neely's Bend neighborhood of Madison is a place that's stood the test of time.
Many of the houses, which vary in size and value along Neely's Bend Road, have lined the street for decades. And longtime residents will still use the phrase "upper Bend" or "lower Bend" to describe which part of the river-cut peninsula they're referring to.
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At the very end of the lower Bend, though, the neighborhood has undergone significant change in recent years. Since 2007, the city has added about 650 acres of park land and greenway along the river.
Former Nashville Mayor Bill Purcell invested funds in a master plan that turned 269 acres of unused open space into Peeler Park. Then Mayor Karl Dean and Metro Council purchased the old Taylor Farm for $2.7 million to add an adjoining 388 acres.
The result is a welcome change to a neighborhood that has mostly older residents but also includes an elementary school and a middle school off Neely's Bend Road.
"This park is one of the best things to happen to this community," said former Metro Councilman and longtime Neely's Bend resident Jim Forkum, who was instrumental in the city's purchase of Taylor Farm.
Forkum said a grand opening for the new Peeler Park is planned for July.
"It's one of the most amazing places where you have the bend in the river and the Stones River flows into the Cumberland at the tip," Forkum said.
Neely's Bend is home to many longtime residents, some of them with ancestry dating to the original European settlers. William Neely arrived in the Nashville area with the James Robertson settlers. He was killed by Native Americans at the Larkin Springs salt lick area, Forkum said.
"It's pretty amazing to be able to trace to the original settlers and still have families here who know the stories dating back to that time," Forkum said.
Reach Nate Rau at 615-259-8094 and on Twitter @tnnaterau.
About Neely's Bend
• Located along a bend in the Cumberland River in Madison.
• Home to families that trace their ancestry back to early settlers.
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Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church hosts free conference for young men, "Next Generation 100"
March 15, 2019	Category: Oasis	Posted by: Philadelphia Sun Staff
The Men's Ministry of Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church in Twin Oaks, will host a free conference for young men on Saturday, March 23, 2019 from 11 am to 1:30 pm.
Men of all ages are invited to attend the conference and lunch at 101 Washington Avenue, free of charge. In addition to college representatives being on hand to answer questions from young people, there will also be a lively panel discussion that will provide attendees with life resources, honest conversation, and tools for the future.
Courtland Bragg, associate producer for NFL Films, will give the keynote address. "I think it's so important for young people and anybody of any age to find your purpose and understand why you are on this earth," he said. Bragg plans to share his journey and explain how he overcame the roadblocks and storms in his life to become an award-winning producer in just a matter of months.
"Those who come to the conference will get a fresh perspective on how they can set goals and maximize their potential," said panelist Enrique Josephs, Jr., a voice actor whose done work for such notables as Harry Connick, Jr., Oprah, ESPN, Fox, CBS, and more. Other panelists will be able to talk about opportunities that cover a wide array of careers, including business and education.
"Our goal is to expose young men to positive role models, men who've been blessed in their careers. If they can see men doing well in their careers, it can help them envision themselves doing well. They need to get a vision, get a plan and start making it become a reality," said Mike Parker, who organized the conference. He urges any male, young and old, who wants to attend the conference and lunch to register for free online at: www.nextgen100.eventbrite.com.
Make a difference and register your son, grandson, nephew, godson, neighbor or student today!
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Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church exists to bring people to Jesus Christ and membership in His family, develop them to Christ-like maturity, and equip them for ministry in the church and life mission in the world in order to magnify God's name. For more information, visit: www.mountpleasanttwinoaks.org.
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Every country around the world is looking for and bending toward organic or green energy for the advancement and sustainability of industrialization and civilization as a whole. India, too, does not lag behind. Today renewable energy is a thriving industry of billions of dollars globally. According to the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion, in India, about US$ 42 billion has already been invested in the renewable energy sector since 2014.
The diverse climatic conditions in India come in handy to harness energy from different natural sources; may that be the wind, water or the sun.
Hydropower is one of the oldest renewable energy has been converted to electricity for both residential and industrial use. Because of the presence of numerous rivers with abundant capacity, churning out electricity from them has not been such a big deal. There are 7 major rivers in India along with its multiple tributaries and five biggest dams. Adding them all up creates a hydropower capacity of 148,701 MW making India the seventh largest producer of hydroelectric power in the world. Although, according to the International Hydropower Association, it is estimated that 660,000 TWh of potential annual hydropower is still untapped in India.
The newest arena in which India has set foot and excelled incredibly in just about four years is in the solar power industry. On an average, India experiences 300 sunny days around the year making it capable of producing 5000 trillion kWh of solar energy a year.
According to the report published by Mercom Communications India, India was ranked as the third largest solar power market in the world in 2017 with a CAGR growth of 170 percent since 2010.
The country created a record of installing 9.6 GW of solar capacity in 2017 alone. This spiked its overall renewable power to 19.6 GW by the end of last year. India witnessed the solar power capacity of 23 GW by June 2018.
Along with the establishment of extensive on-grid photo-voltaic farms, India is also striving to develop off-grid solar power. By the end of 2015, more than one million solar home lighting systems, solar cookers, and solar street lights were installed.
Kurnool Ultra Mega Solar Park: Spread across almost 6 acres of land, the Kurnool Ultra Mega Solar Park in Andhra Pradesh is the largest solar park in India with a capacity of 1000MW.
Kamuthi Solar Power Project: With a capacity of 648 MW the Kamuthi Solar Power Project in Tamil Nadu is the second largest solar park in the world.
With a capacity of 34.293 GW of wind power, India ranks as the fourth largest installed wind power capacity in the world. The harnessing of wind energy can be found predominantly in the southern and western parts of India.
Wind power makes about 10 percent of India's gross green energy generation. In the fiscal year of 2017-18 itself, the country generated 52.67 TWh of wind energy.
Out of the nine states in India, Tamil Nadu has the highest production of wind power. The Muppandal Wind Farm is the largest wind farm in India which is located in Tamil Nadu and has a capacity of 1500MW wind energy.
Apart from on-shore wind power, India has also aimed for establishing a 30GW offshore wind industry by 2030. Offshore wind farms are actually windmills that are installed on the seabed that has the capacity to produce far more energy than that of onshore wind power. Moreover, offshore wind farms also have the prospect to save land areas. India is estimated to have the potential of 127 GW of offshore wind power near the coasts of Tamil Nadu, Gujarat, and Maharashtra.
The first offshore wind energy project of 1000MW capacity is located at the Gulf of Khambhat near Gujarat. The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) is recently planning to install a 5GW offshore wind capacity by 2022.
With each passing year, India is developing into an important green energy producing nation along with the prospect of becoming the largest market for renewable energy surpassing the two giants of China and the U.S.


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The Roundabout Evolution of Traffic Circles
Wendy Lathrop, PS, CFM, CFS04.22.2020
The Mingzhu roundabout in Shanghai ranks high on my list of artistry in engineering and design.
In college, my friends and I loved listening to a spoof called "The Never-Ending Traffic Circle" by Firesign Theater about a driver who couldn't seem to find his way out to the other side. Not everyone had experienced one of these traffic calming and regulating wonders, but they all understood the concept. I, on the other hand, had driven them in New Jersey, where they eliminated the need for traffic signals, easing traffic into continuous motion without the need to stop (yielding still was required) and slowing traffic across the confluence of multiple intersecting roadways. For those who aren't sure they have seen a traffic circle is, look for aerials of Paris' Arch of Triumph, which is encircled by eight traffic lanes connecting twelve intersecting roads.
Traffic circles can trace their American origins to Pierre L'Enfant's street design for Washington, DC in the 1790s, allowing avenues running on a grid to intersect others coming in from 45-degree angles. Dupont Circle is possibly the most well-known of these. More than a century later, New York City gained its famous Columbus Circle. After a big surge in engineering popularity in the 1930s, circles fell out of favor due to being deemed dangerous because drivers didn't properly yield. At the time, entering traffic had the right of way and traffic in the circle was supposed to yield. Giving priority to incoming traffic can allow more vehicles into the circle than it can handle, resulting in congestion and more likelihood of crashes as a result of both crowding and impatience. In response, some places replaced traffic circles with traditional signalized intersections.
But it's time to put our geometry caps back on, because variations on traffic circles (also called rotaries) have been making a big comeback. Reversing who yields and who keeps going has made a big difference in safety: those entering now must wait. Still, not everyone loves them, as they can be confusing to enter and exit until used to them. The evolution from rotaries to what are now called roundabouts is infiltrating both residential and urban roadscapes, so refreshing our understanding is in order.
Roundabouts and traffic circles differ in several ways. On roundabouts, traffic control is by giving priority to circulating vehicles and making entering vehicles yield, while some traffic circles use stop control at one or more entries, and in some instances may still require circulating traffic to yield to incoming vehicles. Roundabouts allow pedestrians only to cross the intersecting roads, or legs, essentially prohibiting access to the central island, while some traffic circles allow pedestrian access to that inner circle, often via a signalized crosswalk or, a la Arch of Triumph, an underground passageway. As for parking, it is prohibited at roundabout entries or in the circulatory roadway, but allowed in some traffic circles. Finally, the direction of traffic is counter-clockwise in roundabouts, passing to the right of the central island, while some traffic circles allow vehicles to turn left just before entering the circle.
Additional design elements may apply to roundabouts. At vehicular entry points, splitter islands separate entering and exiting traffic while serving to slow down entering traffic (and providing a refuge for pedestrians). Entry ways may also include flares, widening the approach to multiple lanes to allow for additional traffic capacity both inside the roundabout and in the line of vehicles waiting for entry.
The planning and design of roundabouts merited several documents from the Federal Highway Administration. "Roundabouts: An Informational Guide" (Publication FWHA-RD-00-067, available online at https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/publications/research/safety/00067/00067.pdf) comprehensively addresses everything from planning to community outreach to traffic operation to landscaping to geometric design. It also cites safety statistics (for euphemistically named "conflicts" and more directly addressed crashes) for a variety of circumstances, including lessons learned from European counterparts. A shorter single point document is entitled "Roundabouts: A Proven Safety Solution that Reduces the Number and Severity of Intersection Crashes" (Publication FHWA-SA-10-005, Intersection Safety Brief 14, downloadable from https://safety.fhwa.dot.gov/intersection/other_topics/fhwasa10005/brief_14.cfm)
Keep in mind that the regularly-shaped roundabouts primarily described in these documents are not the only designs we may be called upon to survey and lay out. They may not even all be at the same elevation: see the elevated pedestrian roundabout in Shanghai, China, which gave me vertigo but fantastic views. Then there are "dog bone" roundabouts, which look like circles squeezed in the middle, and "dumbbell" roundabouts with two roundabouts connected by parallel traffic lanes. Configurations new to me are "hamburger" roundabouts in which the center island is crossed by the main road, "turbo" roundabouts with raised lane dividers or markings to keep drivers in their lanes, and "flower" roundabouts with slip lanes for right-hand turns. For more on these variations, see the National Motorists Association e-Newsletter posted at https://www.motorists.org/alerts/is-it-the-golden-age-for-roundabouts-nma-e-newsletter-367/. Those of us who weren't fond of calculating spirals may need to brush up on those skills to accommodate new traffic control construction.
Wendy Lathrop, PS, CFM, CFS
Wendy Lathrop is licensed as a Professional Land Surveyor in NJ, PA, DE, and MD, and has been involved since 1974 in surveying projects ranging from construction to boundary to environmental land use disputes. She is a Professional Planner in NJ, and a Certified Floodplain Manager through ASFPM.


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From Depp to Hamm: 9 actors who could (or should) be Marvel's Doctor Strange
Tag: Jon Hamm
Tag: Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Tag: doctor strange
With everyone focused on all that Ant-Man drama, Marvel pulled a fast one and has apparently locked down a director for its long-rumored Doctor Strange flick. So, with that business out of the way, the big question becomes, who should play the Sorcerer Supreme?
There have already been a few names bandied around the rumor mill, from Johnny Depp to (most recently) Jared Leto, so we've decided to break down a few of the contenders — plus some actors we think should be contenders.
Whenever Marvel does get around to locking down an actor, this casting decision will prove to be a big one. Much as Guardians of the Galaxy plans to open up the cosmic edge of the Marvel Universe, Doctor Strange will be a doorway into the mystical corner that has yet to be explored. So they really have to get this right.
Check out our list below, and let us know who you're pulling for in the comments.
Adrien Brody (Rumored Contender)This one has been making the rounds for a few months, and remains...
Hugh Dancy (Wish List Option)If we were helping Marvel put that short list together, we'd...
Jared Leto (Rumored Contender)There's some unsubstantiated buzz making the rounds that the actor/...
Johnny Depp (Rumored Contender)Yes, Marvel reportedly has legit movie star Johnny Depp on their...
Jon Hamm (Rumored Contender)Hamm was reportedly a lock for the starring role in Doctor Strange...
Joseph Gordon-Levitt (Rumored Contender)For a brief moment, it seemed like Gordon-Levitt could be...
Pedro Pascal (Wish List Option)One name that's popping up a lot on fan wish lists is breakout Game...
Timothy Olyphant (Wish List Option)Yes, it's a bit outside the box, but hear us out. Olyphant has...
Viggo Mortensen (Wish List Option)He's best known for his turn in Lord of the Rings, and Mortensen...


Brite and Cadence plan to integrate the DDR PHY IP with I/Os for implementation on SMIC 130nm, 65nm, 55nm, and 40nm process technologies.
"The collaboration between Cadence and Brite places market-leading memory IP in the SMIC ecosystem providing SoC designers with easy access to this low-power, high-performance, technology," said Martin Lund, senior vice president of Research and Development, SoC Realization Group at Cadence. "We look forward to a close and on-going relationship with Brite to continue developing leading-edge memory solutions driving higher levels of performance and functionality in today's mobile devices." "We are pleased to extend our partnership with Cadence to deliver the superior wide range DDR PHY solution of our ASIC products," said Dr. Charlie Zhi, Chief Executive Officer at Brite Semiconductor. "To successfully deliver customized SoCs, we must have an area efficient, configuration flexible, and multi-standard support including DDR2, DDR3, LPDDR1, LPDDR2, memory PHY solution in current and advanced SMIC process technology nodes. This partnership is affording Brite the opportunity to seamlessly integrate DDR PHY, and corresponding features, into ASIC products and providing our customers a significantly competitive advantage. Furthermore, this collaboration would create the opportunity for rapid time to market execution, and reduce the entry barrier for designing in advanced process nodes."


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The Men's 15 kilometre classical event of the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2017 was held on 1 March 2017. A 10 kilometre classical qualification competition was held on 22 February 2017 for those participants that do not have enough FIS points to qualify automatically to other distances in the World Ski Championships.

Results

Qualification
The race was held on 22 February 2017.

Final
The final was started at 13:45.

References

Men's 15 kilometre classical

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As a parent or guardian, model good behavior and put away your phone when driving.
Richard Lichenstein, MD, is a professor of pediatrics at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, a pediatric emergency physician at the University of Maryland Medical Children's Hospital, chair of the Teen Safe Driving Coalition in Maryland and chair of the State Child Fatality Review Team.
Distracted driving is a growing problem with deadly consequences.
In the U.S., nearly 3,500 people were killed and 400,000 more were injured in car crashes involving distracted drivers in 2015. Today, our society is more connected thanks to cell phones and social media. They are so addictive and easy to use that these connections feel essential – to the point that drivers often become anxious if they receive a text or notification and do not see it or respond to it immediately.
This adds to other distractions such as eating, changing the radio, messing with a GPS, and anything else that takes your eyes off the road or your mind from driving. This problem is even worse for young drivers who are avid users of social media but are also inexperienced drivers who are more prone to crashes.
A distraction like texting or using social media is especially risky because it involves all three major types of distraction.
Many people falsely assume that performing other tasks while driving can be as simple as walking and chewing gum at the same time. But driving safely takes all of our attention when we are behind the wheel. A typical drive involves paying attention to the road and cars all around us, recognizing changes in light and weather, anticipating the actions of other drivers and road users, and planning and taking appropriate action when any of these factors change.
Unfortunately, the brain is not fully developed until the mid- to late-20s, so teen drivers are less able to handle these complicated driving tasks. Teens are also more likely to participate in risky behavior, and when you add in their inexperience, these factors could set the stage for disaster.
Consider how harmless it may seem to a teen to look down for 'just a second' at a text while driving. Studies show that a second is actually more like five seconds, and that at 55 miles per hour, the car is traveling the entire length of a football field. Even when a driver's eyes are off the road for a few seconds and the car is traveling at slower speeds, the unexpected can occur with serious consequences.
In Maryland, there are laws against distracted driving and using hand-held cell phones while behind the wheel. If you are found using a cell phone and/or looking down to text, you can get a ticket that carries an $83 fine for using the phone and an additional $70 fine specifically for texting. A distracted driving crash will also cost you three points on your license, and if that crash results in a fatality, you can be fined up to $5,000 and sentenced to one year in prison (Jake's Law). Your state may have differing laws and fines for cell phone use behind the wheel, but regardless of the law your teen must know that it is never okay to use a phone – even hands-free – behind the wheel.
In fact, the best thing you can do, as a parent or guardian, is model good behavior and put away your phone when driving. The primary objective is to get to your destination safely and no text or notification should get in the way of that. Have ongoing conversations with your teen about the dangers of distracted driving and always follow these rules yourself. Research has shown that parents are the most important influence on a teen's behavior so your actions can help keep them safe.


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MCD.ie presents
Saturday 5th July
DARLING [RESCHEDULED DATE]
[RESCHEDULED DATE]
THE DEAD HEAVYS
COLOR//SOUND
Darling have announced they will play their rescheduled gig in Whelans on Saturday 5th of July. All tickets for the previous show are valid for the new date. Tickets €11 on sale now from Ticketmaster outlets and www.ticketmaster.ie.
The band released their second track from their debut self-titled EP, "Sail Away" earlier this year. Check out the video here –
In the few months since making their debut, Darling have been featured by MTV's new music site MTViggy.com and been named on Today FM's 14 for 2014 ones to watch list. The blogosphere have been taking note too. Influential NY based Nylon Mag, Earmilk, Pigeons & Planes, Nialler9, The Thin Air, Alfitude, Harmless Noise and more have been singing the praises of the duo's musical talents.
Darling formed in 2013, after their previous band had fallen apart, Gary Harding and James McGuire, sat down in a cafe and scribbled down everything they wanted to achieve and everything they wanted to avoid in a new band. The next 12 months was spent working out of the spare room in Gary's parent's house, teaching each other the merits of songwriting and studying the greats.
The band recently supported White Lies, playing to a sold out crowd in the Ambassador Theatre to celebrate St.Patricks Day. See Darling on Saturday 5th of July.
€11 available online from WAV Tickets [Lo-Call 1890 200 078] (50c per ticket service charge applies on phone, internet or creditcard bookings)
Previous tickets still valid.
Whelan's Indie Club w/ Late Bar from 10:30pm or check out the bands playing The Midnight Hour in the upstairs venue (FREE ENTRY, 12am).
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Laser shock forming(LSF) is a new forming technique of sheet metal by applying a compressive shock wave on the surface of metal sheet. The plastic deformation of TA2 titanium metal sheet is performed under single laser shocking perpendicularly with Nd:Glass laser developed in Jiangsu University. The residual stress state in the horizontal and diagonal direction of the foursquare specimen, as well as the residual stress state in the radial direction of the circular specimen, was investigated with X-ray stress analyzer. The residual stress state of laser shock forming specimen is unique to some extent by contrast with traditional punch forming, which is influenced by the specimen shape and the deformation rate. The experiment results show that residual stresses value of TA2 Titanium Sheet Metal in laser shock area are up to 100MPa.Square specimen is more difficult to be formed than circular specimen, and the press value of cave is the larger than the one of convex.


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Q: is it possible to show widget only for a certain android version? is it possible to show widget in "Add to home screen > Widgets" Dialog only for a certain android version without uploading two APKs and assigning to proper SDK version numbers?

A: You can do it with the componentEnableSetting.
Just disable the widget you don't want to have listed.
The change will get active after phone-restart.
Context context = getApplicationContext();
String str1 = "org.classname.to.widget.provider";
ComponentName componentName = new ComponentName(context, str1);
PackageManager packageManager = getPackageManager();

int versioncode = Integer.valueOf(android.os.Build.VERSION.SDK);

//enable widget
packageManager.setComponentEnabledSetting(componentName, 1, 1);

//disable widget
packageManager.setComponentEnabledSetting(componentName, 2, 1);

A: I have a way to do it without any code e.g.:
In your res\values dir create a bools.xml file:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources>
    <bool name="honeycombOrAbove">false</bool>
</resources>
Create a values-v11 dir (for honeycomb or above values), copy the file to it and set the value to true.
Then in the manifest for the widget receiver use: android:enabled="@bool/honeycombOrAbove". I also used it in the configuration activity for the widget.
This means the widget is disabled at install time.

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SAN DIEGO — Jada, a familiar longtime San Diego-based classic wooden sailing yacht, has undergone a thorough restoration and is now sailing on San Diego Bay once again. The classic sailboat is available for charter, for both private and public dates.
Jada is a 65-foot yawl-rig sailboat. It was a local icon, and it was docked in front of the Marriott Hotel at the San Diego Convention Center for many years.
After its previous owner died, Jada dropped out of view for several years. However, the classic yacht was purchased by Carole Noska and Brad Maybury in May 2008, and the first order of business for the partners was a complete and thorough renovation.
The classic lines of Jada's Phillip Rhodes yacht design have become even more apparent as the renovation and refastening process has been completed, and new paint and varnish has been applied, according to the owners.
Designed originally for bluewater ocean racing, Jada was built more than 70 years ago as a solid and swift vessel. Even today, with the advent of modern fiberglass sailing vessels, Jada is still a nimble and fast sailboat — and the vessel has all the charm and beauty of a bygone era. Belowdecks, "there is liberal use of teak wood, providing a warm refuge from the weather while capturing the romance and essence of seafaring dreams," the owners said.
Coast Guard-certified for charters, Jada now does what she was designed for: sailing on San Diego Bay and offshore, offering public and private charters. Many different charter options are now available, including lower-priced "day ticket" cruising opportunities to experience the exhilaration and adventure of open-water yachting aboard Jada.
For more information, visit sailjada.com or call (619) 572-3443.


In an earlier blog I explained how the law had changed in April 2013, effectively weighted in favour of insurance companies and increasingly placing the burden of proof on claimants and their legal advisers. In a nutshell the changes meant that personal injury management companies could no longer pay organisations to harvest the details of people involved in accidents, then pester them with cold-calls or texts encouraging them to make a claim. It also meant that legal eagles had to take their fees from the injured person's compensation.
Well, it does appear that insurance premiums for most people have reduced a little, though the impact may not have been felt so much due to equal rights legislation entailing women have to be charged the same as men, despite showing up less in crash stats. It also hasn't helped the young. One client below the age of twenty has just paid £2,000 for a years insurance because he didn't want to be subject to the driving equivalent of martial law hours from 10pm to 5am, nor allow an Orwellian telematics black-box to be fitted to his car.
Anecdotally I've seen figures on various TV programmes stating that the number of claims management companies has reduced by almost half in less than eighteen months. After seeing the number of whiplash referrals to Lakeside reduce by 90% in a year, the number of referrals has been rising once more in the past six months, most probably through industry shakeout and consolidation. The legal profession still wants to be paid its certain poundage rate of flesh per hour however, and others 'further down the food chain' such as physios have been expected to swallow a 30% decrease in rate for treatment sessions, while being (from personal experience) subject to sharp and tardy payment practise.
Well, as outlined in an article last year the Justice Dept is making good on its threat to introduce medical panels. Effectively anyone wanting to bring a whiplash or personal injury claim will have to go before suitably regulated and accredited professionals and be assessed before the claim can proceed. Anyone felt to be trying it on or exaggerating for secondary financial gain could have their case arbitrarily dismissed. In addition clams companies are forbidden from incentivising people to initiate cases though gift giving in the form of free I-pads and such like.
It will be interesting to see whether more claims companies go out of business and physios receive less business as a consequence once again. However, as physios are among the professionals allowed to become accredited in assessing claimants it may become busier for clinics such as Lakeside. Particularly since fees for assessment are also going to be capped, insurers will always look to rationalise their bottom line, and they will quickly realise they can obtain physio opinions for less than those by a medic (especially an orthopaedic consultant).
For claimants with a genuine injury it will probably be a positive step in my opinion. The perennial gripe that most patients have is the 5-7 minute generic, 'sausage-factory approach' assessment they receive from medics and upon which a report is written that dictates compensation levels. It may well be that patients will now be correctly physically assessed, with a hands-on approach across a half an hour appointment, than the previous transitory and token observation consisting of toe touching and/or looking over one's shoulder.
Thanks again for reading, Jason.


When new principal conductors arrive at an orchestra, it can take a long time for them to make any discernible influence. Programmes and soloists are often set in stone at least a year in advance of the actual concerts, and it can be difficult to tweak them.
That's why the recent brace of appearances by JoAnn Falletta in the BBC's summer Invitation series at the Ulster Hall was so compellingly interesting. Falletta came to helm the Ulster Orchestra 15 months ago, inheriting an inaugural season already substantially pre-planned for her.
These August appearances, however, are different: six separate works, all by American composers, four of them infrequently programmed rarities. For Falletta, an American herself, this is very much home territory, and a real opportunity to demonstrate her musical credentials to Belfast audiences.
Falletta doesn't disappoint them. In the best-known piece, Aaron Copland's 'Appalachian Spring', Falletta has a surprise in store, using the little-heard, original chamber version of the ballet suite, with just 13 players.
The results are strikingly different from the big-band, full orchestration normally deployed in concerts – more intimate, more subtly textured, more touchingly suggestive of the young pioneer couple's hopes and aspirations as they embark on married life together in the immensity of a vast new country.
Falletta's pacing of 'Appalachian Spring' is delightfully natural, the easy flow of her tempi enabling pointedly relaxed contributions from the outstanding wind trio of Colin Fleming (flute), Francesco Paolo Scola (clarinet) and Julian Partridge (bassoon). Ben Dawson's twinkling piano contributions ripple with vernal, al fresco prairie spirit.
The Ulster Orchestra strings take centre-stage for John Adams's 'Shaker Loops', described by Falletta in her articulate spoken introduction (she's a former Bernstein pupil, and knows how to talk engagingly about music) as a 'luminous, undulating, rippling landscape,' reflecting the qualities of 'pacifism, kindness, industriousness and simplicity' espoused by the Shaker religious sect.
It draws finely etched, shimmering playing from the orchestra, relaxing the tightly goal-directed perceptions of time which busy Western audiences habitually bring to their cultural encounters, and casting an almost hypnotic spell on listeners. It's American transcendentalism in music, a fascinating essay in alternative modes of development in music, and alternative modes of listening.
Samuel Barber's best-known vocal work, 'Knoxville: Summer of 1915', anchors the second concert. Jane Irwin is the soloist, replacing an indisposed Kate Royal at short notice. Irwin has recently converted from mezzo-soprano to the higher soprano register, and a couple of strained top notes early in the piece raise worries that's she's going to struggle a little with Barber's writing.
She settles quickly, however, and the light, girlish timbre and sense of impressionable innocence that Irwin brings to Knoxville is neatly matched to the gently nostalgic flow of childhood reminiscences in writer James Agee's text, and to Falletta's nimbly aerated accompaniment.
The three remaining pieces are all orchestral, and allow the Ulster Orchestra to really flex its collective muscle. There are jazz inflections from the woodwind section in Copland's jaggy, angular 'Music for Theatre', and the orchestra clearly enjoys the extensive work-out provided in Barber's emotionally charged ballet score 'Medea (Cave of the Heart)'.
David Diamond's 'Music for Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet' is something of a find – an elegant, distinctive suite of five movements, cleanly etched in Falletta's lithe, supple interpretation.
Throughout both concerts, Falletta is in her element, conducting repertoire from her native country with real verve and alacrity, her clear stick technique and balletic, elfin presence on the podium a distinct advantage in articulating its infectious dance rhythms and bounding syncopations.
The next opportunity to sample Falletta in Americana is when she opens this year's Belfast Festival at Queen's with more John Adams ('Short Ride in a Fast Machine'), and accompanies the rising young Belfast pianist Michael McHale in Gershwin's 'Piano Concerto'. That's on October 19 at the Waterfront, and is already firmly inserted in my diary.
After the troubadour revealed he has written a track inspired by the doomed liner for his forthcoming album, Ralph McLean asks: who else?


Warren Lemky surveys a mountain slope.
Highways and bridges are earthy matters and a geotechnical engineer is just the kind of person to delve into the deep subject of what's below ground. We spoke with a geotechnical engineer, one of our four types of engineers, during National Engineering Month to find out about his work on B.C. highways. Meet Warren Lemky, regional geotechnical design engineer, based out of the Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure's Prince George office.
Warren, what's your role as a geotechnical engineer?
My responsibility is basically to ensure the foundational integrity of the road system and to make sure the slopes above and below the highways are stable, so the roads are safe to travel.
Geotechnical engineering is the study of how soil and rock behave and the design of foundations, slopes and structures built upon them. As a geotech, I look at geological conditions along B.C.'s road network and how they may affect soil behaviour under changing circumstances.
I look at how rock and soil respond to different forces like those that occur naturally in the environment, and how they are affected by loads put on them. Typically, there are three main elements at play: ground water conditions, type of soil and/or rock, and the overall terrain of the area – what's above or below.
There is no average day in geotechnical engineering.
In winter, I'm usually designing projects for the upcoming construction season. In summer, often it's construction reviews to check that things are being built as designed.
Spring and fall, I'm typically involved in emergency response when the snow melts, or in the fall when rainstorms hit. Rockslides, landslides or debris flows can cause highway closures. They need to be dealt with immediately to reopen roads and ensure that people and industry keep moving. I get called in to assess the situation and find a solution.
The work of geotechs is very impacted by what happens with the weather. In 2011, the ministry was very, very busy across the north dealing with flooding issues and slope instabilities from heavy, sustained rains. Highways 37 and 37A near Stewart as well as highways in the Peace area had significant flood impacts – with some bridges damaged or washed away, and more than 280 sites affected.
Responding to emergencies, like the extensive flood damage of 2011 and a debris flow in 2012, is part of a geotech's work.
I get involved early in projects like bridges, new passing lanes or adding additional lanes to highways. I coordinate drilling to assess the ground conditions, then design the roadway foundations based on the conditions observed.
My last few years, I have been working on a lot of small bridge projects within the north. One that I'm quite excited about is fairly unique and in design right now. The foundation is proposed to be entirely sheet piles – continuous steel sheet panels that lock together like a tight wall – instead of our usual pipe pile foundation systems. Sheet piles are typically used for slope stabilization to retain lateral (horizontal) forces. However, at this site, we have underlying soft clay which poses both slope stabilization and bridge foundation issues, so we are using the sheet piles to stabilize the bridge embankments and be the foundation support for the bridge.
Damage from massive rainfall in the Peace area, in 2011.
What is the best base for roads or bridges?
Whenever you have competent, strong ground with good drainage, that's an ideal road foundation. Rock can be ideal but maybe not depending on its structure and the overall lay of the land.
Boggy or low-lying land, and areas that have been unstable in the past, are typically the most challenging places to build roads. Boggy projects have drainage issues and usually soft soil to consider. Often we may need to preload the site with sand, gravel or rock, to provide a base that can support a road structure and traffic. We haul the materials in, put them into place and monitor how the ground settles over time, before any further road construction can take place. Roadways built on historically unstable land are tricky because you don't want to recreate the past situation, so you may need to provide additional support systems to ensure stability.
Anything else that you do?
We have a significant network of slope monitoring instrumentation throughout the province where we have known instability or issues. Ministry geotechs monitor the instrumentation to ensure that the ground is either not moving or moving in an acceptable manner.
Our group is also involved in assisting the district offices with rural subdivision development approval applications. For instance, if the land proposed for development is on sloping ground or near a rock cliff, we'll assist in ensuring that proper assessments are carried out by the land owner, to identify if the land is safe for the use intended. Our group provides workshops to help development approval staff understand the work geotechs do, and identify what they should be looking for and when to call us for additional help.
From the ground up, Warren Lemky and other geotechnical engineers help keep B.C.'s highways safe and reliable. Is there anything more you would like to know about these foundational members of our team? Tell us below, or connect with us on Twitter or Facebook, and we'll try to answer your questions.


While in Austin, I went to a specific conbini often in downtown to get some drinks, and there, I found Pillsbury Brownies.
I've been to any kinds of shops like supermarkets, retail stores, and conbini, but it's my first time to see this and know that Pillsbury produces not only the baking goods and pre-made doughs but also baked items.
Like other Pillsbury merchandises, there's a blue Pillsbury logo and also Doughboy with a chef hat.
This is a Twin Pack as written under "Brownies."
When I opened the package, sweet and rich chocolate flavor came out.
The top was dried in a good way.
When I peeled off the paper wrap, the dough looked moist.
The inside was moister and richer when I bit.
It's got really rich chocolate flavor and it's a smooth yet dense and very simple brownie without any nuts.
It's so sweet that I thought this small portion was perfect.


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Q: One domain points to another kubernetes ingress host domain using CNAME I have setup as below:
One kubernetes cluster with nginx ingress for deployment A. Ingress to deployment has configuration for host example.com. I want abc.com to point to example.comusing CNAME but its always throwing SSL error.

A: If I understand you correctly you need to use Rewrite annotations.
See the example below:
apiVersion: extensions/v1beta1
kind: Ingress
metadata:
  annotations:
    nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/rewrite-target: /$2
  name: rewrite
  namespace: default
spec:
  rules:
  - host: rewrite.bar.com
    http:
      paths:
      - backend:
          serviceName: http-svc
          servicePort: 80
        path: /something(/|$)(.*)

In this ingress definition, any characters captured by (.*) will be
  assigned to the placeholder $2, which is then used as a parameter in
  the rewrite-target annotation.    For example, the ingress definition
  above will result in the following  rewrites:
- rewrite.bar.com/something rewrites to rewrite.bar.com/
- rewrite.bar.com/something/ rewrites to rewrite.bar.com/
- rewrite.bar.com/something/new rewrites to rewrite.bar.com/new

Please let me know if that helped.
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Locals Have Their Say On Road Safety At Bendigo Forum
Minister for Road Safety and the TAC
Residents from Bendigo and the surrounding region will share their ideas and thoughts on how to make local roads safer at tonight's regional road safety forum.
It has been a devastating year to date on Victoria's roads, with 191 deaths, compared with 133 at the same time last year, with the majority of these deaths occurring on regional roads, where 105 people have died.
So far this year, 29 people have died on the roads in the Bendigo region including, Greater Bendigo, Campaspe, Central Goldfields, Gannawarra, Horsham, Loddon, Macedon Ranges, Mount Alexander, Mitchell, Northern Grampians, Strathbogie and Buloke.
Last year, 27 people died on roads in these regions and a further 70 people were seriously injured.
Bendigo Forum will be attended by road safety experts and government representatives but has been designed to ensure all attendees will have ample opportunity to have their say.
In addition to looking at local and regional road safety issues raised by attendees, the forums will invite the community to comment on the four areas that make up the Andrews Labor Government's Towards Zero strategy: safer people, roads, vehicles and speeds.
The first six of the eight forums were held in Ballarat, Marysville, Shepparton, Sale and Portland since early July, with hundreds of community members sharing the experiences and knowledge of their local roads.
The forums follow the Melbourne Road Safety Summit in May, where road safety experts and community leaders gathered to discuss what more could be done to address the horror start to the year on Victoria's roads.
The Labor Government will consider the ideas from the summit and forums as part of the development of the next Victorian road safety strategy.
For more information visit tac.vic.gov.au/regional-road-safety-forum
As stated by Minister for Roads, Road Safety and TAC, Jaala Pulford
"It has been a tragic year on Victorian roads and sadly the Bendigo region hasn't been spared with too many families mourning the loss of a loved one."
"It continues to be regional roads that are overrepresented and heartbreakingly it is mostly country people dying close to home."
As noted by Member for Bendigo East Jacinta Allan
"This forum will give us the chance to work with the Bendigo community as we look at the reasons behind the disproportionate number of country road deaths and how to prevent this senseless loss of life."
As noted by Member for Bendigo West Maree Edwards
"We want to hear from the Bendigo community about what more can be done to stop people dying or being seriously injured on the roads they drive every day."
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The fast fading ghosts of Ghost Island
The search for the ghosts of times forgotten takes me to some fascinating places. One place I found myself in recently was an island whose name hints of quite a haunted past, Pulau Hantu – Malay for Ghost Island. Long held with much superstition, why the island, which has remained uninhabited in recent memory, possesses its rather sinister sounding name seems to have been lost on many.
Dawn over an island abandoned by its ghosts.
One theory about how it got its name is that much of the island (when seen at low tide) seems to vanish like a ghost in the night with the rising tide, leaving no more than two coconut tree lined sandbars above the water. While that is quite plausible, it lacks the mystery and forbidding that many would think is more deserving of the title.
Less than ghostly apparitions … across the channel at Pulau Ular
A 1939 newspaper article written about stories and superstitions of old Malaya does provide a more disquieting take on the origins of the island's name, attributing it to Pulau Hantu's haunting by spirits of the dead connect to a "long forgotten story of death and cruelty", revealing some of the superstition with which the island was held by the people of the coast:
Pulau Hantu, though planted with coconuts, has no one living on it. There is no water to be got there by digging, but that is not the reason for no one desiring to live there. In the centre of the place are to be found many graves, and there is some long-forgotten story of death and cruelty which makes the place haunted by the spirits of these unfortunate people, so that it is but seldom visited by the Malays, and then only to collect ripe coconuts, which are the property of a man on the next island, to which one can wade at very low tides.
(More Stories And Superstitions Of Old Malaya: Tales related by an old Malay to "Yahya", The Straits Times, 9 April 1939)
An are of mangroves on the northern shore of Pulau Hantu Besar.
The island, or as it is more commonly taken to be today, two islands, Pulau Hantu Besar and Pulau Hantu Kechil, has since expanded in size. Additional land mass through reclamation work in the 1970s, enlarged its total area by some 12 times. While there may have been a reluctance to visit it amongst the people of the sea, it has actually long been known as a spot for recreation, and its sandy beaches and rich coral reefs have attracted many picnic goers and campers as well as divers as far back as the early twentieth century. Sentosa Development Corporation (SDC), under whose charge the two islands have come under since the mid 1970s, continues to keep the islands open for recreational activities.
The view across the lagoon between the two parts to Pulau Hantu towards Pulau Ular.
It is perhaps in keeping with the SDC sanctioned version of the tale behind the islands' names that sees the two parts to the island being considered as two individuals islets. This version has as much to to with the spirits dwelling on the islands as with the tale told by the old Malay in 1939, as it has with jinns and sea spirits, fitting quite nicely into the collection of stories once told of our seemingly turbulent seas.
Another view by night across the lagoon – towards the smoking guns across at Pulau Ular.
I am reminded of this coming ashore on Pulau Hantu Besar. This version of the tale is what all visitors are confronted with at the inshore end of the jetties on both islands, told from a prominently placed signboard marked with these words:
There were once two great warriors locked in a fierce battle at sea. Many people died and the blue seas slowly became polluted with human blood, upsetting the Jinns at the bottom of the ocean. In anger, one powerful Jinn created a whirlpool and sucked the two warriors deep into the sea to drown them. Undeterred, they continued their battle.
Suddenly, the Jinn sprayed water onto one of them. The other warrior, seeing his opponent blinded, thrust his sword into his abdomen. At the same time, the wounded warrior forced his sword into the other man. Both collapsed and died.
The gods felt it was wrong for the seas' spirits to interfere in human affairs, so the Jinn transformed the two warriors into islets so that their spirits could live on. As one of the warriors was smaller than the other, his islet was known as Pulau Hantu Kecil, while the larger one was named Pulau Hantu Besar.
Wandering around the shores of Pulau Hantu Besar, just a few hours past the witching hour, I am confronted not by jinns, sea spirits or ghosts but by the glare of the gods of the new age. It is from the angry stare of smoking chimneys and lighted towers of steel that now rise to the island's north that the jinns and sea spirits have retreated, leaving only footprints fading in the sand. With no more shadows left to hide in, it is in the echoes that we find the the ghosts of Pulau Hantu, echoes in which I can only hear, the evanescing whispers of words that will soon lose their meaning.
The angry glare of the gods of the new age.
The islands of many ghosts:
Singapore's islands, rich in the legends of a time we have been made to forget, have many fascinating tales to tell; hints of which are found in the names of many of the islands. The islands were once an integral part of a larger maritime based society that spanned across the Riau archipelago that through the enforcement of national boundaries, resettlement, reclamation and development, have broken their links to a centuries old past.
Among the tales that have survived the self-inflicted amnesia is that of the junk that was turned into the island of Pulau Jong, Junk Island, although it may not be for very much longer. The course that has been set for the junk, based on the 2013 Land Use Plan, will set it on collision course with a larger land mass that will have it aground by the year 2030.
Several islands, having been renamed, have also lost their ghosts. One that comes to mind is the former Pulau Penyabong (now Pulau Tekukor), where warriors were said to have dueled to the death. That tale also features Tekukor's northern companion, the former Pulau Blakang Mati, which in being re-branded as Sentosa – the isle of Peace and Tranquility, has been cleansed of what is possibly a gory past.
The islands that are the subject of this post, Pulau Hantu, were, interestingly not alone in being so named. The other Pulau Hantu, is to be found in Keppel Harbour (see post: A Sunrise from Ghost Island) and having had its ghost exorcised in 1983 after Keppel Shipyard gained possession of it, is now called Keppel Island. Keppel shipyard has since moved away from the area and the island is now where the Marina @ Keppel Bay is located.
The Pulau Hantu, or I should say Pulau-pulau Hantu, I found myself looking for ghosts on, are located in the south-west, just south of a more recently created island that has fused the previously individual islands of Pulau Bukom Kechil, Pulau Ular, and Pulau Busing – on which a petrochemical complex is being developed, together.
Apart from the hantu found in their names, there is little that is now ghostly about the islands. A popular dive spot, the islands are also where campers and fishermen, seeking an escape from the urban world, can head to. While the surreal glow from the monster of a petrochemical complex on Pulau Ular brightening up the northern shores of the two islands may not be what a camper seeking an escape might appreciate, the islands are probably as far out from urban Singapore one could practically run off to, while still remaining in Singapore.
More information on Pulau Hantu (Besar and Kechil), as well as the rich array of marine life found in its reefs can be found at the following links:
Sisters' Islands and Pulau Hantu (Sentosa Leisure Management)
The Hantu Bloggers
A special National Day at Pulau Hantu! (Wildshores of Singapore)
Lionfish on Lion City's birthday at Pulau Hantu!
Sea the hidden depths of Singapore (Asia One)
The view across the inter-tidal mud flat towards what would once have been Pulau Busing.
A different ghost in the night.
Tags: Changing Landscapes, Landscapes, Legend, Old Singapore, Photography, Points of Departure, Pulau Hantu, Pulau Hantu Besar, Pulau Hantu Kechil, Reminders of Yesterday, Seascapes, Singapore, Southern Islands, Southern Islands of Singapore
Categories : Changing Landscapes, Islands, Mangroves, Photography Series, Seascapes, Singapore, Singapore Landscapes
Boarding the junk at sunrise
An island that always seemed to me to have an air of mystery about it is the oddly shaped Pulau Jong. Set in an area of Singapore, the southern islands, that has much legend attached to it, legend does have it that Pulau Jong or "Junk Island" in Malay, had been a junk that had been transformed by the spirit of the sea into the island. The legend is described by H. T. Haughton in his 1889 paper, Notes on Names of Places in the Island of Singapore and its Vicinity:
Pulau Jong, "junk island", a small island of a conical shape to the North of Pulau Seking and Pulau Sebarok. The story is that Malay pirates one night attacked a Chinese Junk, which was anchored where the island now is, and just as the Malays got alongside, the Nakhodah of the junk awoke. On seeing the pirates, through terror, he uttered such a frightful yell that the sea-spirit turned the junk into an island much to the consternation of the Malays.
Pulau Jong at sunrise.
Lying east of Pulau Semakau (which has absorbed Pulau Seking or Sakeng) and northwest of Pulau Sebarok, the tiny mound of an island measuring some 0.6 ha., is fringed to its north by some of the deepest waters in the Singapore Strait. From afar, the island looks rather inhospitable – particularly at high tide when only it tiny cliff faces and the clump of trees rising some 23 metres on its mound are exposed. It is at low tide that the fringing reefs that surround the island expose themselves – the reefs extend as far out as 0.4 nautical miles (about 700 metres) south-east in the direction of Pulau Sebarok.
Junk Island at low-tide.
The fringing reef on the island's south-east reaching out towards the oil terminal at Sebarok.
A navigation chart showing water depths around Pulau Jong.
The reefs do make it difficult to land on the relatively untouched island – one of the last to resist human intervention in the waters of Singapore, but landing on it at sunrise was certainly a worthwhile experience, not just for the rich coral life found in the reefs, but also for the majestic perspectives one gets of the island being on it, the view of all that surround it, and an interesting look at the island's geology and the glimpses it offers into its bird life.
Heading on a dinghy towards the island.
Landing at sunrise – the reefs do make it a challenge to land safely on the island.
The island's rock formations are part of the are Jurong Formation that marks the geology of much of Singapore's west.
More rock formations …
A pair of collared kingfishers.
And another perched on a rock.
The junk, a very recognisable feature of southern Singapore's seascape, has long been identified as an island for possible recreational use. More recently however, it does seem from the 2013 Land Use Plan that it would be be lost to future land reclamation. From the plan we see that it would be part of a large land mass that would also include Pulau Semakau and Pulau Sebarok and like the junks that once featured in the seas around us, the familiar sight of the junk that became an island will soon one that is forgotten.
A northward view.
The coral fringed beach looking west towards Pulau Semakau.
Cliff faces on Pulau Jong.
I didn't spend much time in the reef, which has some rather nice looking hard and soft corals and sea cucumber. There were also sightings of nudibranchs and flatworms on the reef's edge. For more posts on what the reef revealed and also a wonderful drone's eye view of the island, do also check these postings out:
James Chua on Facebook
Travelled Paths (video shot by a drone)
Wildshores of Singapore
The visit to Pulau Jong is part of a series of visits to some of the lesser known shores of Singapore, in search of words and sounds for an IRememberSG funded project, Points of Departure.
A pano of the southern foreshore of Pulau Jong.
Tags: Birds, Collared Kingfisher, Corals, Forgotten Places, Islands, Junk Island, Land Use Plan, Legend, Low Tide, Marine Habitats, Marine Life, Natural Heritage, Offshore, Photography, Points of Departure, Pulau Jong, Sea, Seascapes, Singapore, Singapore Landscapes, Singapore Strait, Southern Islands, Straits of Singapore, Sunrise, Unseen Singapore
Categories : Forgotten Places, Islands, Myths and Legends, Photography Series, Singapore, Singapore Landscapes


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Ellen Philpotts-Page (born February 21, 1987), known professionally as Ellen Page, is a Canadian actress. Page received both Golden Globe and Academy Award nominations for Best Actress for her role as the title character in the film Juno. In 2008, Page was nominated for Time's 100 Most Influential People list and placed #86 on FHM's Sexiest Women in the World list, and moved up to #70 for 2010. In June 2008, Page was named on Entertainment Weekly's future A-List stars list. Page resides in her hometown of Halifax, Nova Scotia and has two dogs named Julie and Sprout. She is prone to walk and talk in her sleep. In 2008, Page was one of 30 celebrities who participated in an online ad series for U.S. Campaign for Burma, calling for an end to the military dictatorship in Burma. She describes herself as a pro-choice feminist. In the fall of 2008 Page spent a month living in an eco-village, studying permaculture at the Lost Valley Educational Center outside Eugene, Oregon.
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The morning desert safari gives you the opportunity to enjoy and experience the glories of the desert during daytime. The golden desert that stretches across miles is an interesting place to explore during daytime.
The dune bashing ride is the highlight of the whole trip, which goes on for around 45 minutes. You also get to enjoy the flora and fauna of the desert during this time. Apart from this, we also organise quad biking, sand boarding and camel riding for our customers.
The morning desert safari with eDubai Shopping Festival is great for those who love nature and adventure. We plan our tours in a way that ensures that everyone has a great time. And we assure that you'll never get bored while on our desert safari.
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A $60.00 fee per dog will be charged for impounding. A receipt will be issued upon payment at the Seward Police Department, 148 S. 1st Street. The receipt must be presented at the Cross Creek Animal Health Center office to show proof of payment before the dog is released.
Often individuals ask when is there opening at the Seward Police Department or am I qualified to become a law enforcement officer. The following information should assist you with your questions.
The Seward Police Department hires police officers via a Civil Service process and an eligibility list is created by our Civil Service Commission. The Commission advertises when it is in the process of creating a new eligibility list. There is no specific time of the year when the eligibility list is created.
When there is a need for a new eligibility list, the City of Seward advertises in our local news paper the Seward County Independent as well as Lincoln and Omaha newspapers. We also advertise at the Nebraska Law Enforcement Training Center web site, www.nletc.state.ne.us, within the Job Listing tab.
To become a Seward police officer you must be or become a Nebraska certified law enforcement officer. The Nebraska Law Enforcement Training Center web site provides current certification standards. This is where you can examine the requirements to become a law enforcement officer.
Thank you for your interest in becoming a Seward Police Officer and please apply with us when we are creating our eligibility list. If you have any additional questions please contact the Chief of Police.