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Engineer helps property owners who want to create a junkyard (Pottstown Mercury)NEW HANOVER -- A civil engineer trying to help a township resident complete plans to start a junkyard testified about the property?s condition during a recent zoning hearing.

Voices of Acadiana: Former train engineer, city official reminisces (The Lafayette Daily Advertiser)F.V. "Pappy" Landry's first job was bailing out a pontoon bridge on the Vermilion River. He was just a youngster then and his father was the tender of the bridge that was opened and closed by hand each time a boat wanted to pass.

Oak Brook engineer fears Iraq prison time (Chicago Tribune)Ex-electricity minister: `I will certainly be killed' A Chicago-area resident who left his suburban life and a successful business to join other Iraqi exiles in rebuilding Iraq has been convicted of corruption in Baghdad and now could spend two years in an Iraqi prison.

Geodetic Engineer Licensure Examination Results (Philstar.com)The Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) announces that 148 out of 414 passed the Geodetic Engineer Licensure Examination given by the Board of Geodetic Engineering in Manila this September 2006.

Slain engineer squealed on mayor in drugs trade (Sun Star)THE engineer slain in Nova Tierra Subdivision in Lanang a few weeks back had at one time squealed on the Maguindanao town mayor now identified by intelligence reports as a drug lord, Davao Mayor Rodrigo Duterte said.

Rebranding Ask.com (Search Engine Watch)How do you engineer a major overhaul to your web site to increase traffic and user satisfaction? Ask.com's Senior User Experience Analyst describes the company's careful yet bold approach to its recent redesign in this wide-ranging interview.