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CARL AZUZ, CNN 10 ANCHOR: Air, land and space are three of the places we're going today. I'm Carl Azuz. Welcome to CNN 10.
The Boeing Aerospace Company is working to restore confidence in its passenger planes. It hosted more than 200 pilots, technicians and rule makers at its facility yesterday in Seattle, Washington.
Boeing 737 MAX series planes, its most popular airliner, have been grounded around the world following two catastrophic accidents within five months.
Investigators believe sensors and software were factors in both of the crashes. And on Wednesday, Boeing detailed how it would overhaul its software system on 737 MAX planes and change the way pilots are trained on them.
Some pilots have said they weren't thought how to disable a computer system that might have played a part in the accidents. So, the company plans to add more pilot training. Some airlines say they're optimistic about these changes.
Tuesday. It didn't have passengers because the models have been grounded. But Boeing said the pilots reported a performance issue with one of the plane's engines.
One question being asked worldwide is how all this is going to impact such a major manufacturer of planes.
RICHARD QUEST, CNN AVIATION CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): If it ain't a Boeing, I ain't going.
Ethiopian 302. The ensuing crisis is sure to leave a mark on the company's profitability.
JOHN STRICKLAND, AVIATION EXPERT: Boeing certainly is going to take some financial hit as a result of the accidents. The question is how much.
QUEST: The Indian Airlines SpiceJet has been forced to ground its 13 737 MAX 8 jets as part of the worldwide grounding of the aircraft.
AJAY SINGH, CEO, SPICEJET: We're also flying our existing aircraft a little harder. And we've gone to few planes. So, we're trying to make do the best that we can.
QUEST: Now, the chief executive wants compensation for Boeing for the lost revenue.
But getting rid of Boeing planes altogether, Singh says, not anytime soon.
SINGH: Boeing is a world class company. They're one of the finest companies in the world, and we are confident that Boeing could fine a solution.
QUEST: In the age of this aviation duopoly, its Airbus or Boeing. And both are running backlogs on orders. Airlines wanting to switch from one to the other would find that very difficult.
STRICKLAND: Airlines tend to have fleet philosophies based on commonality of training for pilots, spares, holdings, engineering support, and that means that having made a decision to get it from one manufacturer or another, an airline would stick for it.
QUEST: Even Indonesia's Garuda, which this week said it would cancel an order of nearly 50 MAX 8s has no plans to replace them with Airbus.
If it ain't a Boeing, I ain't going. That mantra maybe at risk, Boeing's firm hold on the market is not.
Which of these international organizations has exactly 28 member countries?
NATO, World Trade Organization, European Union or World Health Organization?
Until the Brexit takes place, there are 28 members of the European Union.
AZUZ: And in three years, all new cars in E.U. member countries could be electronically prevented from speeding. The E.U. calls this intelligent speed assistance, and it wants it to be standard, along with other measures like vehicle data recorders.
percent. And if drivers needed to temporarily go over the speed limit to pass somebody for instance, they could do it by pressing hard on the gas pedal.
The rules still have to be approved by E.U. member countries and there could be some problems ahead. Different nations in Europe have different road signs and digital information isn't always current. So, the cars could have trouble detecting what the speed limits are.
Some critics are also concerned about privacy and drivers depending more on the car's computer systems than actual road conditions. But speed limiting technology is just another example of how cars are becoming more robotic.
WILL RIPLEY, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The Cetran testing ground in Singapore is almost like a mini town, with streets, cross walks, traffic signals and even this.
(on camera): This is the bus stop?
DR. DILLIP LIMBU, CEO, MOOVITA: This is the bus stop.
RIPLEY: Why do you call it a bus stop?
RIPLEY (voice-over): I am here for my very first ride in a self driving shuttle bus.
(on camera): So, you feel like within five years, this will be a regular part of our lives?
LIMBU: Yes, in three to five years, this kind of service is actually rolling around the world (ph).
RIPLEY: How long before I get in my car, I tell my car "take me to work", and it just goes?
LIMBU: For that to come, probably another decade.
RIPLEY (voice-over): Dr. Dilip Limbu's company, Moovita, or Move It Autonomously, is one of around a dozen firms testing vehicles here.
Singapore's government wants to use the findings for driverless transport. The goal is to reduce air pollution and chronic heavy traffic.
(on camera): How long did it take for you to get used to being driven around without a driver?
SUBODH MHAISALKAR, PROFESSOR, NANYANG UNIVERSITY: No, I don't think, I'm still very (INAUDIBLE).
RIPLEY: That's an honest statement, sir.
RIPLEY (voice-over): He says this technology might not be ready just yet. But it's coming much sooner than you think.
(on camera): So in just over a decade, what will our streets look like?
MHAISALKAR: We will have a mixed level of traffic between cars that are autonomous able as well as drivers.
RIPLEY (voice-over): He says self driving buses will solve Singapore's bus driver shortage, robotic street sweepers will work the undesirable graveyard shift, and fully autonomous cars like this BMW equipped with cameras and sensors will give new independence for those who can't drive.
MHAISALKAR: Cities which have extremely high sophistication of the infrastructure would be the first places that autonomous vehicles would be deployed.
RIPLEY (on camera): Like Singapore?
RIPLEY (voice-over): Self-driving technology still has its limits. A safety driver is necessary on our ride.
(on camera): What was that? Oh, the emergency brake.
RIPLEY (voice-over): Though this fender bender is a human error.
(on camera): We hit a curve there.
RIPLEY: This is like me when I was learning how to drive.
(voice-over): Developers say that software learns much faster than your average teenage driver, which means in just a few years, you could be sharing the road with a robot.
AZUZ: The leader of India says his country is now a space superpower. Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced that a missile fired from the ground had successfully destroyed one of India's own satellites in low orbit. He made that announcement yesterday.
This is significant because until now, only three other countries have done this -- the United States, Russia and China.
Prime Minister Modi called the exercise a historic feat and said having that capability to shoot down satellites would make India stronger. But his political opponents criticized as a publicity stunt with India's elections scheduled to begin on April 11th. Prime Minister Modi also said the missile operation was carried out only for India's defense and security.
But Pakistan, which is a both a neighbor and a rival of India, said that every country should avoid actions that could lead to the militarization of space.
India's space program has been steadily growing in recent years. It put a satellite into orbit around Mars in 2014 and India hopes to have a manned mission to space within the next three years.
AZUZ: After her last competitive dog show event, Gale, an American Staffordshire terrier, was supposed to be flying home to enjoy her retirement in Amsterdam, Netherlands. But she broke out of her crate as workers were loading it onto the plane. And the 22-month-old dog went missing at the world's busiest airport in Atlanta, Georgia.
Four days later, as her handler was calling for her at airport property, Gale appeared and jumped into his arms.
You think her owner would have been mad as a pit bull, but he didn't want to bite the hand that helped him. He said it was heartwarming, not heartworming, that so many people would assist in bringing her bark. Of course, he might have a bone to pick with the airline, but we'll bury that for now and just say that when it comes to digging up news stories, dog rescues are always best in show.
I'm Carl Azuz for CNN 10.


Since Hurricane Katrina hit, entities vital to disaster preparedness in Stone Cojnty identified needs and made improvements and upgrades. The following represents reports from the Stone County Emergency Management Agency, Stone County Sheriff's Department, Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College at Perkinston, and Mississippi Power Co.
The county upgraded its county fire and radio equipment by installing a new VHF 100-watt repeater and dipole antenna.
Interoperable communication equipment (ACU1000) was acquired to connect others frequency radios.
The county purchased 10 additional portable VHF and UHF radios.
In addition to these upgrades, the county is upgrading the sheriff's department from low band (UHF) to hi band (VHF) communication.
The county is implementing a warning system to alert citizens to impending danger.
Three warning sirens* placed near school campuses in Stone County provide severe weather and other danger-warning coverage for Stone Elementary, Stone Middle, Stone High and Perkinston Elementary and surrounding communities.
*The sirens will give students and school personnel adequate time to take protective measures to get to predetermined safe places in the school buildings, thus increasing the chance of saving lives. Residents surrounding the schools will have sufficient warning to find safe places. The warning sirens are high-powered systems with battery backup and two-toned activation. The sirens will be placed on 55-ft.-tall poles, and the warning signals will cover a one-mile radius.
Portable generators are designated each site.
Provide a safe shelter for evacuation for Stone County citizens.
Give the citizens peace of mind about being safe from disasters.
Provide a safe harbor for school students, faculty and staff from severe weather and other disasters.
Give parents of students peace of mind knowing the students have a shelter designed to protect them from disaster during the school day.
School officials would be able to exercise these buildings on a frequent basis at no cost to the county.
The shelters can accommodate 2,000 people.
**These shelters will provide near absolute protection as described by FEMA. They will be constructed to maintain structural integrity in three-second bursts of 200-mph winds, as well as withstanding a missile impact test of a 15-pound 2 x 4 traveling horizontally at 100 mph. These shelters will be constructed to meet the FEMA design wind speed of 200 mph for community shelters in the Stone County area.
A new 5,000-square-foot building built to house 50 joint county/state inmates can be utilized for emergency purposes.
Agreements are in place with numerous agencies to provide designated staging areas on the Perk campus during an emergency.
MGCCC received a $1.7 million grant from the Mississippi Department of Health to renovate facilities and purchase backup generators on the Perkinston Campus and at the George County Center. These renovated facilities will house Special Needs Shelters in the event of an emergency and will be occupied by citizens designated by the Mississippi Department of Health as special needs Patients.
MGCCC purchased CONNECTED, an emergency notification system that allows the college to text, e-mail and communicate with students and employees in the event of an emergency.
The college relocated the campus's emergency siren system in order to notify more individuals.
Perkinston Campus has been certified as NIMS (National Incident Management System) compliant, which means that the college has developed an Emergency Response Plan and that its team members have been through all of the required NIMS training. This enables MGCCC to partner with local responders in the event of an emergency.
The campus has backup generators on its wells.
Established a new Perkinston/Silver Run Substation to help with the growing demand in the south part of Stone County and as a backup for the Wiggins Substation.
Added a new control building in the Wiggins Substation with state-of-the-art technology to improve reliability to customers in Stone County.
Increased presence in Stone County by adding two new positions, a lead lineman and a lead journeyman, in the Wiggins office.
The county added a new, 7,300-square-foot health department building to be better prepared in an emergency for health care and environmental concerns.


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President Barack Obama has chosen federal prosecutor Loretta Lynch to be the next attorney general amid a power shift in the Senate.
Obama plans to announce Lynch's nomination Saturday in a White House event.
Lynch would be the first black woman in the job. The outgoing attorney general, Eric Holder, served as the first black head of the Justice Department.
White House officials say they will leave it up to Senate leaders to work out the timeline for her confirmation and simply urged it to be as soon as possible.
The 55-year-old Lynch is the U.S. attorney for Eastern District of New York, which covers Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island and Long Island. She held the same position under President Bill Clinton.


I'm happy to welcome Kylie Nash from Bubs In Arms Gift Boxes to our site as the latest in our Professional Parents People series, sharing her own experiences of balancing family and a business. A qualified CPA Accountant (B.Bus ACC), Kylie is 36 and started her business in 2010, which is set up as a Family Trust. She is mum to two girls, aged 4 & 2. she is based on the Sunshine Coast, Australia, and has offices in Brisbane and the Gold Coast.
So how was Bubs in Arms Gift Boxes born?
My husband and I decided to have our family straight after marriage and I agreed to take 5 years off work. I got a little restless and decided to look for "something" to do. Bubs In Arms Gift Boxes came about from a need to purchase locally a baby gift box for delivery to a friend that had just had a baby. I didn't want to send flowers, but practical baby clothing and gifts in the form of a bouquet. I found that the options were predominately Sydney and Melbourne based baby gift businesses. Hence, I found my "something" to do.
Blissful, not a care in the world! I was very career orientated being an Associate of a Accounting, Tax and Business Advisory firm on the Sunshine Coast. I loved travel, meeting new people and seeing new places. I worked hard but really enjoyed holidays with my husband to overseas locations.
Similar, just a lot busier with parenting duties instead of office duties and no overseas holidays (yet). I can't wait until they get older.
Do you find your qualifications/training relevant now you're a parent?
I'm a qualified CPA Accountant (B.Bus ACC), so yes I can still complete my own tax returns! And having business knowledge assists me day to day to know how my business is performing. It doesn't help me get the kids dressed and fed and ready for an outing, but when I am in the office it helps a lot.
Something unexpected about becoming a parent?
How happy you feel when you step back and take a look at your childs achievements. It is cliché, but they really do grow up so fast!
One of the biggest challenges in business?
Keeping up with the changing landscape of the world wide web and the social media platforms and strategies that are available.
Advice to others starting out in business?
Keep moving forward with your plans despite minor setbacks. We all have days when it is easier to go and "get a real job". But be strong, persistent and determined to follow through. Ultimately, if you have a sound business strategy and plan you can make it work.
Some of your favourite resources?
Electrician & Accredited Solar Panel Installer. We have our own Electrical Contractor company; Nashcom Electrical, based in Caloundra, Australia.
Is he supportive of your business?
Yes, although some late nights can get him questioning what I am doing on the laptop!
A favourite Professional Parents business?
Extremely organized! A spot for everything. I don't function well with a disorderly desk.
What do you love about being a Professional Parent?
Freedom! Being able to leave the office and play with the girls when they need me.
What's a myth about being a working parent?
That you can do what you want, when you want. Although this is correct to a certain extent, you often have obligations or to do lists to complete that will assist your business growth. So although you can do what you want when you want, you ultimately do have to do it!
How do you juggle work with children in terms of childcare etc?
The youngest is with me full time. The eldest is at daycare 2 days per week between 10am and 3pm.
Do what feels right for you and your family. Everyone is different; we all run on different agendas and work better at certain times. Keep adjusting your routine until you get it "just right" for YOU! Take time out to recharge even if only 1 hour when you can. Using spare time to catch up means you are always catching up. Refresh and get more productive so you don't need to.
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Frustrated James Harden: "You can't have two officials" for NBA game
By Kurt HelinDec 29, 2017, 7:58 AM EST
During pregame warmups Thursday night in Boston, referee Mark Lindsay hurt his back. He couldn't go for the game, leaving two officials — Tony Brothers and Gediminas Petraitis — for a nationally televised showdown between the Celtics and Rockets.
All night long both teams were frustrated with the officiating — Boston coach Brad Stevens picked up a rare technical arguing a call — but James Harden was called for two offensive fouls against Marcus Smart in the final 7.3 seconds, which helped the Celtics secure a come-from-behind 99-98 win.
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After the game, Harden vented about there only being two officials.
Harden: "First of all, I wonder how you only have two officials on a national TV game. That's the first question. But, a lot of grabbing, a lot of holding. How else am I supposed to get open? The guy has two arms wrapped around my whole body."
— Jonathan Feigen (@Jonathan_Feigen) December 29, 2017
Harden: "You can't have two officials in a professional game. There were a lot of no-calls that needed to be called because that changes the dynamic of the game. It's a professional game, national TV. It can't happen."
In the first half, Harden had 17 points on 10 shots and got basically what he wanted where he wanted it on the floor. In the second half, Boston stopped switching picks-and-rolls on Harden, got more physical with him (especially Smart), denied the ball, and while Harden had 17 points again in the half he was 3-of-17 shooting getting there. It worked. And in a game with two officials and less stuff being seen, Boston adapted to the situation and Harden did not.
Harden has a point about two officials in an NBA game, but that wasn't the issue in the final seconds.
On those two final offensive foul calls, referee Tony Brothers is right there, less than 10 feet away — those calls had nothing to do with there only being two officials on the court. Those were calls Brothers had a clean look at and called against Harden. Smart was physical, he was denying the ball and grabbing some jersey, but Harden extended his arm in both cases, and that is going to get the foul called almost every time. Without Chris Paul the Rockets didn't have another option to get the ball to for the final seconds, Boston knew it and played it well.
Remember, if your team blows a 26-point lead in the third quarter, the loss isn't on the officiating.

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College Lecture On 'White Language Supremacy'
Rob Shimshock
Asao Inoue, a University of Washington academic, purportedly "investigates racism in writing assignments (e.g. writing programs, writing placement, etc.), which includes classroom writing assessments. About half of [his] work is theoretical, while the other half is empirical in nature." Inoue is traveling across the country to American University in D.C. next month to give a workshop to faculty entitled "Grading ain't just grading: Rethinking writing assessment ecologies towards antiracist ends," reported The College Fix.
Inoue will teach faculty about "the ways that White language supremacy is perpetuated in college classrooms despite the better intentions of faculty, particularly through the practices of grading writing."
"White language supremacy." What are these people on? Like "oh hey, what language do you speak?" "I speak English." "Oh, yeah? Well, I speak white." And American University isn't the first school where Inoue has introduced this absolute hogwash, either. No, he's also the director of the University of Washington at Tacoma's writing center. In fact, the first time I ever got on the Drudge Report as a journalist was when I covered a poster that the UW writing center hung, which insisted that American grammar was a "racist," "unjust language structure."
The poster said "We promise to emphasize the importance of rhetorical situations over grammatical 'correctness' in the production of texts" and "We promise to challenge conventional word choices and writing explanations."
Not following objective standards of English might not result in UW Tacoma writing students being very happy when they apply for jobs.
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Pro-Life Cross Vandal Compares Pro-Life To Flat-Earth
A guy recently ripped crosses representing aborted babies out of the ground at Whatcom Community College in Washington state, according to Campus Reform. He also compared pro-life claims to flat-Earth, which, putting aside the gap in scientific evidence for those two views, also doesn't bear much water statistically: two percent of adult Americans believe in flat-Eath whereas nearly half are pro-life. Just in case, for some reason, you needed some kind of logical refutation to that.
So it looks like the pro-life students were able to get a hold of a campus authority, who made the student put the crosses back, but remember that this isn't the only time we've witnessed this kind of behavior. Remember Texas State?
And back to Washington state, the flat-Earth comparison wasn't the only insane birth-related remark to be made recently. University of Washington professor Stephen Warren responded to someone saying "In terms of carbon emissions … there's probably nothing worse we can do on an individual basis than take an intercontinental flight" by saying "Actually, there is something worse: having a child."
Because you know, planes…children, these things are completely analogous. Professor Warren said "By choosing to reproduce, you're responsible for some fraction of the carbon-dioxide emissions of your children and grandchildren, and all their descendants. This is your 'carbon legacy.'"
Mhmmmm. That's, of course, the same logic that has now made reparations a serious part of political discourse.
Eighteen-year-old Ezra Benner tried to use a chain to lock the University of Washington College Republicans inside a room where they were holding an event, according to Campus Reform. Benner was charged with disorderly conduct and the College Republicans are trying to pursue another charge of unlawful imprisonment.
Before that, a local Antifa chapter had posted to Facebook, encouraging people to come and deplatform the event, taking issue with the College Republicans' association with the Proud Boys and the YouTube man-on-the-street channel Operation Cold Front. Emerald City Antifa said "some useful tactics might [be] to sit in using large items that take up additional seats, maybe with headphones in so you don't have to hear their garbage, or noise demo tactics such as whistles to make it difficult for them to speak over."
And the UW chapter wasn't the only College Republicans group to have some problems this week. Western Oregon University's chapter had an event with Joey Gibson that was protested.
This is the quality of opposition you get at these events: "f*** you, Nazis" from people who probably couldn't define national socialism and "hate speech is not free speech" from people who probably haven't read the First Amendment.
The University of Washington's College Republicans chapter sued the school after UW tried to charge the group $17,000 in security fees for the rally, according to The Seattle Times. And now, the school has to pay $122,500 to two law firms that defended the students, as well as strike down the policy it used to charge security fees.
The conservative students' argument was pretty straightforward: the security fees violated their free speech rights. They had backup from UW's own law school: 23 professors there asked the university to settle the case.
This is one occasion you'll hear me agreeing with professors. Security fees are discriminatory because they're based on how likely a speaker is to attract political violence and as we all know, one side of the political aisle is a LITTLE bit more inclined to use political violence. This is largely why when Lewis Farrakhan, who called Hitler a "very great man," came to UC Berkeley, the school charged a security fee of $1,900, but when Ben Shapiro visited, the school charged the Berkeley College Republicans over $15,000.
And it was no different with UW. Patriot Prayer leader Joey Gibson has been assaulted at rallies in the past and has received death threats, facts the school mentioned when justifying its $17,000 security fee. Fortunately, a US district court judge stepped in with a restraining order, letting the College Republicans carry on with their event.
Now, I do take exception to one part of the settlement, this weird caveat which allows UW to create "constitutionally permissible security fees." We'll have to find out what those look like, but one thing's for sure: STUDENTS shouldn't have to shoulder the cost for other people's inability to counter speech with more speech instead of fists, pepper spray, and bike locks…but who should foot the bill?
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While the shelters remain full, many thousands more children who've crossed the border in recent years are now living with parents, relatives, or guardians and are attending schools. But it can often take weeks or months for migrant children to feel comfortable. Opening up to teachers and school staff about the experiences that have brought them to the U.S. can take even longer, if it happens at all, said Jinni Forcucci, the 2018 Teacher of the Year from Delaware. "Some of my immigrant students, they're taught not to tell their white teachers what they're going through," she said.
While many migrant students have profound social, emotional, and academic needs, most school administrators I interviewed welcome these children. John King, the former U.S. Secretary of Education, said communities have a "constitutional and moral obligation" to educate migrant students. And the educators I spoke to really believed this.
But I also encountered a lot of reluctance to talk about migrant students, including in districts such as Dallas, Miami-Dade, and Florida's Palm Beach County, where many migrant children are enrolled.
One of the most open superintendents was Cade Brumley in Jefferson Parish, La., a politically conservative community just west of New Orleans. In this school year alone, Brumley said approximately 800 undocumented students have enrolled in his district of 50,000 children. He says he tunes out the rhetoric about immigration and what's been happening at the border.
Like any child coming to a new school, migrant students are encountering new peers and new teachers. But the fraught nature of being the new kid is compounded by a different language, a completely foreign culture, and, often, a fractured family life. For most of them, it's total upheaval. Teacher Karine Welsh tries to imagine the dissonance for children who've gone from tending chickens with their grandparents in rural El Salvador to a giant high school in Arlington, Va., an affluent suburban district outside Washington where she teaches.
Schools are making small, but important gestures to communicate to migrant students that they are welcome. Some have hung flags of different countries in hallways, some are stocking school libraries with Spanish titles, and others are making visits to migrant students' homes to show they care and build trust.
In some communities, the enrollment of undocumented students has been constant this school year. That's what Nicole Mitchell, the coordinator for a center that assists families with enrollment, health needs, and legal services in Los Angeles Unified, has seen. "We're enrolling kids every day," she said.
But steady numbers of arrivals aren't just happening in large districts where you'd expect them. In the small, upscale resort town of Jackson, Wyo., Eastman said his dual-language school went from two migrant students to 14 in just five months. With that growth, and the state's class-size rules, he had to add the equivalent of a new classroom midyear and the district reassigned staff from other schools to help.
"It's definitely been a pretty significant strain on our system, one that we welcome, but it's definitely been a strain," Eastman said.
Brumley, the Jefferson Parish superintendent, said his team has made spending choices to help support this new population. They are working to hire bilingual staff for schools' front offices and bilingual teachers to expand dual-language options.
"Your budget is simply an expression of your values and what you believe in," he said.
Even still, recruiting teachers who are certified to teach English-as-a-second-language has been nearly impossible. Last school year, he had 15 vacancies for ESL teachers in the district's high schools. Not a single person applied.
And during their journeys to the U.S., many are exposed to additional trauma. Students have reported seeing women being raped and fellow migrants left behind on the journey when they couldn't keep up.
Eastman agrees. Some students are so resilient and show no signs of what they've endured, he said. Others are "very, very fearful of everything," including a 6-year-old who didn't talk for months.
Teachers in the Prince George's County school district in Maryland have been receiving specialized training for working with traumatized children and how to handle students' emotions and behavior that may escalate quickly, according to Jennifer Love, a supervisor of interpreting and translation in the district. "Things can go from 0 to 100 very fast. We don't want teachers to take that behavior personally," Love said.
In teacher Karine Welsh's school in Arlington, Va., students are given "flash passes" by the school psychologist, which allows them to leave the classroom without asking permission. Mitchell said Los Angeles Unified has placed psychiatric social workers in some schools, wellness centers at different sites, and different kinds of assessments and counseling for children.
In one case an advocate told me about, a migrant student came to school wearing an El Salvador soccer jersey. The school's police officer saw the shirt and questioned the boy about possible gang connections. Upset, the student insisted he was wearing the jersey because he likes soccer and is from El Salvador.
In the Prince George's County district, where more than 5,000 migrant children have enrolled since 2014, officials are making investments in training for all staff. There are English-learner coaches for mainstream teachers, cultural sensitivity training for bus drivers, and basic Spanish-language training is offered for all school employees. And the district's roughly 100 interpreters have undergone specialty training in vocabulary associated with emotional and sexual abuse.
Given the scale of the district's migrant student population, professional development has been across the system.
Educators told me that when it comes to building trust and links to the families of migrant students, there are some big challenges and they must try different strategies to connect. Of course, many families are poor, and parents are working jobs that don't allow time off to come to school events. Many come from traditions in their home countries where teachers and principals are authority figures who are not to be questioned.
Mitchell, in Los Angeles Unified, said being a reliable source of help and accurate information, is how her district builds trust. Last year, it launched a campaign called "We Are One," a website and workshops where the district partners with a legal organization to educate immigrant parents about their rights regarding housing, health, and education.
And educators see the effects of this when migrant students come to school. Chiacone said parents of migrant students have told her they are dealing with deep feelings of guilt for leaving a child behind. Some tell her they are angry that their children don't express gratitude for the sacrifices they've made to support them—whether through years of sending money home or saving up enough money to bring them to the U.S. At the same time, Chiacone says some students are angry and resentful of being torn away from family and friends in their home country—the same people who looked after them after their parents left.
In an after-school club for students who've recently reunited with a parent in the U.S., Chiacone said students were asked to mark the level of conflict in their recently reunified households on a scale of 1 to 10. One girl, without hesitation, wrote "11." Another educator told me about a 14-year-old boy who kept pulling the fire alarm in school. When counselors talked to him about the behavior, he told them he didn't want to be in the U.S., that he missed the family and friends he'd grown up with. He was angry at his mother, who'd left him behind in El Salvador when he was 7.
Many migrant youths had adult responsibilities in their home countries, including taking care of younger siblings, and if they could, working. The pull of earning money is strong for many, especially older unaccompanied youth who don't want to be a burden. Paty, a high school student in Virginia, works at least 50 hours a week as a server in a restaurant to cover rent, food, and fees for her immigration lawyer.
Another student in Paty's school, who is 16, lives alone since her parents were deported. She cleans buildings at night to pay her rent.
All the educators talked to me about the many positive attributes migrant children bring to the classroom. Karina Castillo, the executive director of English-language equity and acquisition in Jefferson Parish, said meeting them, getting to know them, and understanding their stories gives her deep insight and a personal connection to what's bringing thousands of children to the border.
"When you see the face of a child, you will have a different perspective," Castillo said.


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Le lac Winneway est un plan d'eau douce situé dans le territoire non organisé Les Lacs-du-Témiscamingue, dans la municipalité régionale de comté (MRC) de Témiscamingue, dans la région administrative de l'Abitibi-Témiscamingue, au Québec, au Canada.

Ce lac est situé entièrement en zone forestière. La foresterie constitue la première activité économique du secteur ; les activités récréotouristiques, en second. Une route forestière dessert le côté Est du lac et une autre le côté Ouest.

Ce plan d'eau est généralement gelé de la mi-novembre à la mi-avril, néanmoins la période de circulation sécuritaire sur la glace est généralement de la mi-décembre à la fin mars.

Géographie
Le lac Winneway couvre une superficie de  et sa surface est à une altitude de . Ce lac comporte huit îles. Il reçoit ses eaux de la rivière Winneway et de deux décharges de lacs en amont.

D'une longueur de  et d'une largeur de , l'embouchure de ce lac se situe à :
 au Sud-Est de l'embouchure de la rivière Winneway ;
, au Sud-Est de l'embouchure du lac Simard (Témiscamingue) ;
 au Sud-Ouest du réservoir Decelles ;
 au Sud-Ouest de Val-d'Or ;
 à l'Est du lac Témiscamingue.

Les principaux bassins versants voisins du lac Winneway sont :
côté Nord : rivière Winneway, lac Nodier, lac des Fourches, réservoir Decelles, rivière des Outaouais ;
côté Est : lac Fayard, lac Bay, Lac Pierre, lac Winawiash ;
côté Sud : lac Soufflot, lac Fayard, rivière Marécageuse ;
côté Ouest : rivière Marécageuse, ruisseau Klock, rivière Guillet, rivière Blondeau, rivière des Outaouais.

La partie supérieure de la rivière Winneway se décharge sur la rive Est du lac Winneway. Puis, le courant parcourt  vers le Nord en traversant le lac Winneway. En amont, les eaux de cette rivière proviennent d'un ensemble de lacs dont lac Fayard, lac Pierre, lac Bay, lac McLachlins, etc.

L'embouchure du lac Winneway se situe du côté Nord et ses eaux se déversent dans la partie inférieure de la rivière Winneway. En amont, un barrage a été érigé refoulant les eaux sur . La rivière Winneway est un affluent de la rive Sud-Est du lac Simard (Témiscamingue) lequel est à son tour traversé dans sa partie Nord-Ouest par le cours de la rivière des Outaouais. De là, le courant de cette dernière rivière traverse successivement les lacs Grassy, le "des Quinze", puis le lac Témiscamingue.

Toponymie
D'origine amérindienne de la nation algonquine, le terme « Winneway » signifie « Eaux vives ou eaux sales ». Cette désignation toponymique est indiquée sur une carte de 1961.

Le toponyme "lac Winneway" a été officialisé le  à la Banque des noms de lieux de la Commission de toponymie du Québec, soit à la création de cette commission.

Voir aussi

Rivière des Outaouais, un cours d'eau
Lac Simard (Témiscamingue), un plan d'eau
Rivière Winneway, un cours d'eau
Les Lacs-du-Témiscamingue, un territoire non organisé

Notes et références

lac Winneway
Lac en Abitibi-Témiscamingue
Témiscamingue

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Tag Archives: stop sign
The 'how' of stopping at a stop sign
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The in basket: George Bolton says the intersection of Enchantment Lane and Dickey Road west of Silverdale is difficult because of reduced visibility for those stopped on Enchantment.
"When you pull up to the stop sign here, you can't see up Dickey Road at Enchantment. Three years ago, someone put in a sewer or water line and added more dirt to the berm.
"Does state law require a line of sight when you're stopped behind the stop sign?" he asked.
The out basket: It's not hard to see up and down Dickey from Enchantment unless you are overly worried about stopping only once, at the stop sign. There are a lot of places like it where one has to move forward past the stop sign to get a good view.
Deputy Scott Wilson of the Kitsap County Sheriff's Department called it a common question and cited a state law.
It says that unless a police officer, firefighter or flagger directs otherwise, "every driver of a vehicle approaching a stop sign shall stop at a clearly marked stop line, but if none, before entering a marked crosswalk on the near side of the intersection or, if none, then at the point nearest the intersecting roadway where the driver has a view of approaching traffic on the intersecting roadway." It goes on to require that entering the other street must then be done safely.
The state driver's manual says, "Make sure you can clearly see crossing traffic before entering an intersection. If you were stopped and your view of a cross street is blocked, edge forward slowly until you can see. By moving forward slowly, crossing drivers can see the front of your vehicle before you can see them. This gives them a chance to slow down and warn you if needed."
Finally, Scott offers some common sense advice in a Q&A format.
Q1. How far from the stop sign should I stop?
A1. There should be a white line painted across the road. You have to come to a complete stop before you cross that line. Once you have come to a complete stop, you may inch forward a little bit in order to see whether or not it is safe for you to proceed.
Q2. If there is a distance between stop sign and stop line, should I stop before the stop sign or the stop line?
A2. Before the stop line. If needed, you can slowly pull up a little and then stop again when you have a good view of traffic in all directions.
Q3. How close should you get to the stop sign before stopping completely?
A3. If there is a crosswalk at the intersection, you should stop before crossing it. If there is no crosswalk, stop short of the intersection with enough space that other cars can safely turn in without hitting you.
Q4. Where do you stop if the stop sign is before the white line?
A4. Stop before the white line. You should stop within two feet of it, so the bumper does not go over the line.
December 1, 2016 UncategorizedDickey Road, stop sign
Doctored stop sign is illegal
The in basket: Tom Baker sent along a photograph of a stop sign at Anderson Hill and Old Clifton roads in South Kitsap to which someone had added the letters "SPEEDING" beneath the word stop. "Is this an allowed modification or have the county sign techs not noticed it?" Tom asked.
The out basket: Following Tom's lead, I asked county public works about it, and got the following answer from Doug Bear, their spokesman.
"The stop sign at that location is maintained by the city of Port Orchard," Doug said. "Our sign technicians called to let the know and they will remove the "speeding" legend.
"Altering traffic control devices (signs) is illegal," he added. "RCW 46.61.080 states 'No person shall, without lawful authority, attempt to or in fact alter, deface, injure, knock down or remove any official traffic-control device or any railroad sign or signal or any inscription, shield or insignia thereon, or any other part thereof.'"
November 25, 2016 UncategorizedAnderson Hill, Old Clifton, stop sign
Fourth & Torval in Poulsbo part of a much larger plan
The in basket: Norm Mundhenk wrote nearly a year ago, saying "In Poulsbo, Torval Canyon Road runs into Fourth Avenue, forming a sort of T-junction. However, Fourth Avenue ends in a short cul-de-sac as soon as it crosses Torval Canyon.
"The signs at this junction strike me as very strange." he said. "There is no sign at all for cars leaving the cul-de-sac. One assumes that this happens very rarely, but whenever a car does leave, it is apparently free to drive right out without stopping. However, cars approaching from the south or east have stop signs, even though the corner is basically just a continuing road for such cars.
"I wonder why it would not be possible to do something at this junction such has been done where Hillcrest runs into Central Valley Road (in Central Kitsap). There Hillcrest (which functions rather like the cul-de-sac on Fourth Avenue, although surely it has more cars using it) has a stop sign, with another sign underneath the stop sign informing drivers that 'Oncoming traffic does not stop'. Cars coming south on Central Valley are allowed to continue without stopping even though it is a left turn.
"Surely something like this could be done instead of the stop signs at Torval Canyon and Fourth Avenue," he concluded.
The out basket: The stub of Fourth Avenue strikes me as more of a tiny parking lot than a cul-de-sac and I thought it might be missing a stop sign. But it turns out that that traffic alignment is intentional and arises from a six-year-old traffic study.
Michael Bateman, senior engineering technician for the city of Poulsbo, says "The stop signs on Fourth and on Torval Canyon are based upon recommendations in the City of Poulsbo's Transportation Demand Management (TDM) Study of 2008.
"They are a part of a larger strategy and were considered essential in concert with additional stops placed on Front Street. Without the additional all-way stops in the downtown core at intersections such as Fourth and Torval Canyon, through-traffic not intending to stop in the downtown core would seek alternate routes as cut-through bypasses to avoid the stops on Front, without re-routing to the desirable Highway 305 route.
"This results in both undesirable volumes and undesirable speeds in the downtown core street network.
Removal of the stops at 4th and Torval without simultaneous removal of stops on Front Street would create additional traffic and additional speeds on this route, a very undesirable result," he said.
A consultant looked at the strategy in 2010, when traffic counts were updated, and it was found to be working well, Michael said, "with no action to add or remove TDM measures recommended."
"As we still get feedback from the neighborhood that the stops are not 100 percent effective at controlling traffic and speed in the neighborhood, and have recently installed additional speed tables on Fourth in order to combat the excessive speeds as demanded by local residents, removal of these stops is not recommended."
The intersection was identified in the study as an all-way stop, he added, and at one time there was a third stop sign, controlling those exiting the Fourth Avenue stub. "It was removed in response to a citizen complaint that it should not be there," he said.
September 29, 2014 UncategorizedPoulsbo, stop sign, Torval Canyon
Flashing stop sign deployed at CK intersection
The in basket: Paul Werner of Central Kitsap told me in a phone call that stop signs with flashing lights had turned up at on Fairgrounds Road where it crosses Old Military Road.
I had seen those solar powered signs at a trade show at Sea-Tac last winter and the county said afterward that they might use them, but were noncommittal.
I asked the county about their first use here (other than one on the Bangor Navy base) and whether we'll be seeing more of them.
The out basket: Jeff Shea, the county's traffic engineer replied, "We have, in fact, installed a solar-powered flashing light stop sign on the two legs of Fairgrounds Road at Old Military Road. "This intersection was being considered for an overhead flashing beacon due to its collision history. We are evaluating the effectiveness of these flashing stop signs in lieu of the overhead beacon.
"The flashing sign is less expensive (approximately $1,600 each for the signs versus about $10,000 plus ongoing electricity costs) and installation is significantly easier than the overhead beacon.
The signs will flash continuously as long as the solar power keeps them going. Jeff said a version activated by an approaching vehicle exists but is more expensive. They'll know more about how the solar power will do in the dark of winter after it goes through one. The location of Fairgrounds Road has pretty good exposure to the sun, he said. If the signs stop flashing, they'll still be stop signs.
"We are not currently looking to install these signs at any other location," Jeff said. "The proximity to residential housing was another consideration. In residential areas, flashing lights can be annoying to homeowners near the intersection. This location doesn't have homes near it."
October 1, 2013 UncategorizedFairgrounds, Old Military, solar-powered, stop sign
Flashing stop signs come at a high price
The in basket: Sharell Lee read the Road Warrior column about drivers not realizing McWilliams Road in Central Kitsap ends at East Boulevard and crashing into what's across the T intersection, and she had a suggestion.
"In California they sometimes use stop signs
mounted with a small solar panel," she said. "The stop sign itself has bright flashing lights around the circumference. Such stop signs are very noticeable and attention getting.
"I'm wondering if this type of sign is ever used in Washington," she said. "I realize our climate is less sunny, but small solar panels don't really require that much sun. Where I work, we run a small electric car with them, which I'm sure requires a lot more power than lights on a sign would.'
The out basket: I'm told there is such a stop sign inside the industrial area at Bangor's sub base, and Sharell says the one she saw also was on a military base. She wondered if vandalism discourages there use outside a secure area.
Jeff Shea, Kitsap County traffic engineer says, "Yes. The cost of one stop sign with blinking lights and solar panel is $1,700. A regular stop sign is $80.
"There are over 3,000 stop signs in Kitsap County. Replacing all the stop signs in the county with this type of device would cost more than $5,000,000.
"The challenge," Jeff said, "is determining which intersections warrant this type of upgrade, so that deploying this device is consistent throughout the county. The Manual of Uniform Traffic Control Devices does not currently contain a warrant that sets that level.
"We would consider this as another tool in our toolbox for a solution to a problem location. A tool like this would be used where a documented number of motorists are simply not seeing the sign, and less costly countermeasures have not worked.
"There are other factors considered when installing new signs. Each year we replace about 2,000 signs that are damaged through accidents and vandalism. The more unique the sign, the more likely vandalism occurs. You see this with street name signs that are popular.
"Adding an electric feature to a device requires additional maintenance and inspection to ensure solar panel and batteries operate correctly.
"We also have to consider how this type of application impacts neighbors. After installing flashing devices, we do get complaints from nearby neighbors that the constant flashing is a nuisance," Jeff said..
May 30, 2013 Uncategorizedflashing, McWilliams, stop sign
14th and Winfield gets a fourth stop sign
The in basket: Merilee Kuklinski of East Bremerton was surprised when a stop sign went up early one day in mid-August on Winfield Avenue in its downgrade at 14th Street in Bremerton. She was even more surprised that no warning of the change was made, such as a red flag on the new sign.
She said the fellow who installed it before sun up that day was yelling at drivers who blew through it without stopping. She thought to herself, 'Hey, you just installed it!"
I was curious about the reason this intersection, a three-way stop for as long as I can recall, now is a four-way stop. Another stop sign, stopping Winfield traffic at Lower Wheaton Way, is a short distance ahead. You can see it rising like a moon over the new stop sign as one drives downhill on Winfield.
The out basket: Though on a city street, the modification was done by the state as part of its detour route during closure of the Harkins-Lower Wheaton intersection for construction of a roundabout at the east end of the new Manette Bridge.
But it was visible sooner than expected, said Jeff Cook, project engineer on the bridge job.
"The sign should have been covered until the detour went into effect on Sept. 6," he said. "Unfortunately it was not. It was brought to our attention, and the contractor took immediate corrective action in covering the sign.
"I will review the temporary signing and, based on user feedback, look
into providing advanced warning signs to avoid confusion when the switch is made," he said.
"The Wheaton/Harkins intersection closure will last approximately 5-6 weeks and is necessary to finish construction of the underground
utilities as well as build the new roundabout.," he added. "The detour will utilize 14th and Pitt Avenue."
September 13, 2011 UncategorizedBremerton, Manette bridge, stop sign, Winfield
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"Judith Shatin is a composer and sound artist whose musical practice engages our social, cultural, and physical environments. She draws on expanded instrumental palettes and a cornucopia of the sounding world, from machines in a deep coal mine, to the calls of animals, the shuttle of a wooden loom, a lawnmower racing up a lawn, the ripping of tape. Timbral exploration and dynamic narrative design are fundamental to her compositional design, while collaboration with musicians, artists and community groups are central to her musical life.
Shatin's music has been commissioned by organizations including the Barlow and Fromm Foundations, the McKim Fund of the Library of Congress, the Lila Wallace-Readers Digest Arts Partners Program, Music-at-LaGesse Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts and the Virginia State Arts Council. It has been featured at festivals including Aspen, BAM Next Wave, Grand Teton, Havana in Spring, Moscow Autumn, Network for New Music, Seal Bay, Ukraine, Soundways (St. Petersburg) and West Cork, while orchestras that have presented her music include the Chesapeake, Denver, Houston, Illinois, Knoxville, National, Minnesota and Richmond Symphonies. Shatin has held residencies at Bellagio (Italy), Brahmshaus (Germany), Stiftung Dr. Robert und Lina Thyll-Dürr, Casa Zia Lina (Italy), La Cité des Arts (France), Mishkan Omanim (Israel) and in the US at MacDowell, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and Yaddo.
"Paul Dresher is one of the foremost and most internationally recognized composers of his generation. Noted for his ability to integrate diverse musical influences into his own coherent and unique personal style, he is pursuing many forms of musical expression including experimental opera and music theater, chamber and orchestral composition, live instrumental electro-acoustic chamber music performances and scores for theater, dance, and film.
He has received commissions from the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Spoleto Festival USA, the Kronos Quartet, the San Francisco Symphony, Walker Arts Center, Meet the Composer, University of Iowa, and the American Music Theater Festival. He has performed or had his works performed throughout North America, Asia and Europe. Venues have included the Munich State Opera, the New York Philharmonic, the Festival d'Automne à Paris, the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Next Wave Festival, the Minnesota Opera, Arts Summit Indonesia 1995, Festival Interlink in Japan, and New Music America in 1981, 1983, 1985, 1988 and 1989.
His evening-length collaboration with choreographer Margaret Jenkins, The Gates, premiered at Jacob's Pillow and opened the 1994 Serious Fun Festival at Lincoln Center. In 1993, Dresher premiered his new "electric chamber band" on a five city tour of Japan as part of Festival Interlink. This ensemble performs the works of a broad range of contemporary composers utilizing a hybrid orchestration which combines both acoustic and electronic instrumentation. This Ensemble and has since commissioned several works from some of the most innovative of today's composers and has toured the U.S. and to Europe and Indonesia.
As Artistic Director of the Paul Dresher Ensemble, he has guided the creation of the "American Trilogy", a set of music theater works which address different facets of American culture, in collaboration with writer/performer Rinde Eckert. The trilogy began with Slow Fire (198588), developed with Power Failure (198889) and was completed in 1990 with Pioneer, a collaboration that includes visual artist Terry Allen, actress Jo Harvey Allen, tenor John Duykers and director Robert Woodruff.
Recordings of his works have been released on the Lovely Music, New World, Music and Arts, O.O. Discs, Starkland and New Albion labels. In 1993, New Albion released Dark Blue Circumstance, containing both chamber and electronic works. Opposites Attract, his collaboration with multi-woodwind performer Ned Rothenberg, was released by New World Records in 1991, Minmax Music/Starkland released Slow Fire in 1992 and in 1995 Starkland released Casa Vecchia, containing both electronic and chamber compositions. He has worked as producer on several recording projects and he was the consultant for engineering and production on John Adams' 1993 Nonesuch release Hoodoo Zephyr.
"Alex Shapiro (b. New York City, 1962) composes genre-defying acoustic and electroacoustic solo, chamber and symphonic pieces known for their lyricism and drama. Published by Activist Music, her works are heard daily in concerts and broadcasts across the U.S. and internationally, and can be found on over twenty commercially released recordings from around the world. Ms. Shapiro is sought after for her seamless melding of live and recorded sounds that often employ striking visual and physical elements, and known for her innovative uses of technology in her music for wind band ensembles.
"Miriam Gideon had a notable career as a musical educator and as a prolific composer whose works have been widely performed and published.
She was born in Greeley, Colorado, on October 23, 1906. She displayed early musical talents, which were encouraged with piano studies. She continued her studies in Boston, with Hans Barth, and with her uncle Henry Gideon, a composer and conductor. After settling in New York City, she continued studies with Lazare Saminsky and Roger Sessions. She also earned a B.A. degree from Boston University, an M.A. from Columbia University and, in 1970, a Doctor of Sacred Music degree from the Jewish Theological Seminary of America (JTSA). She joined the faculties of Brooklyn College and CUNY, the Manhattan School of Music, and then in 1955 the newly formed Cantors Institute of JTSA.
In 1949, Gideon married writer-educator Frederic Ewen, a colleague at Brooklyn College. He died in 1989.
Her roster of over fifty compositions includes selections for full and chamber orchestras, instrumental solos and ensembles, piano music, vocal solos, choral works, cantatas, and a chamber opera. Among Gideon's honors are the Ernest Bloch Choral Prize and awards from the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP), the National Federation of Music Clubs, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She received commissions from the New York Camerata, the Da Capo Chamber Players, the Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Foundation in the Library of Congress, and Park Avenue Synagogue in New York City, as well as a composer's grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. A strong interest in literature guided her settings of poetry by Robert Burns, Cyril Connolly, Heinrich Heine, Robert Herrick, Friedrich Hölderlin, James Joyce, John Keats, Amy Lowell, Archibald MacLeish, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Christina Rossetti and William Shakespeare.


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Recently this question was asked and put on hold as off-topic: In a futarchy, how do you measure the success of a specific proposal?
Using futarchy to measure the success of a specific proposal is a technique likely to be used by smart contracts - for example, it's likely that Gnosis will have have a futarchic mechanism to govern its upgrades. An good answer would likely point to some Ethereum code to show how people are using this mechanism for their Ethereum contracts. However, this is a general design technique not a specific code question.
There are probably a lot of other questions that fall into a similar category, particularly game-theory related.
Should these be considered off-topic for Ethereum? If so, is there somewhere more appropriate we could suggest people take their questions?
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N.B.: I am personally against the concept of a futarchy, so keep this in mind.
Unfortunately, it's not quite on topic, but I don't think there's anywhere else either.
The help center currently lists philosophy as a disallowed topic. In this case, I don't know what objective answer could really be provided, since it's philosophical. What exactly makes one style of futarchy better than another? Is it all right if it's inaccurate, as long as the group benefits as a whole? Or does the system need to correctly award and punish the users so that the future uses of the futarchy are more accurate? Do you trust the proposers enough that they can select what indices their proposals are measured by? These questions aren't answerable objectively.
If someone could point straight to an algorithm or algorithms, then said algorithm could be straightly pointed, and the question would be objective. If the question was "How do I lazily evaluate a bunch of indices in Solidity with a given algorithm and match them to proposals?" then it would also be objective. Otherwise, it's a kind of "recommend me a tool" question.
Additional example: Someone making an auction contract asks about the different kinds of auctions and their theoretical advantages and disadvantages. Certainly we can provide code on how to implement any given method, or even suggest another if the one offered is difficult to implement. (Hidden bids, for example.) But asking for a general answer is stretching the boundaries.
Bigger picture question: At what point does "How do I architect my dapp?" go from legitimate question to too broad for this format? I personally am happy to explain the trade-off between using structs versus separate contracts, or avoiding race conditions, or the like. But there's more border cases like this one.
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What tag should we use for questions relating to developing/designing smart contracts?
Who should the moderators be?
Ethereum Stack Exchange Spring Challenge 2016
Are questions about books and tutorials on-topic?
"Do it for me" - How to deal with open ended questions?
Are questions about Hyperledger Fabric on-topic?
How should we handle questions which are potentially malicious in nature?


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# Hex to Decimal

## Description
Using loops implement a javascript function that converts a hex number to its decimal representation.

## Input
- The input will consists of a single line containing a single hexadecimal number as string.

## Output
- The output should consist of a single line - the decimal representation of the number as string.

## Constraints
- All numbers will be valid 64-bit integers.
- Time limit: **0.1s**
- Memory limit: **16MB**

## Sample tests

### Sample test 1

#### Input
```js
['FE']
```

#### Output
```
254
```

### Sample test 2

#### Input
```js
['1AE3']
```

#### Output
```
6883
```

### Sample test 3

#### Input
```js
['4ED528CBB4']
```

#### Output
```
338583669684
```

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" A lot of people believe that Americans were just here innocently minding our own business when we were suddenly attacked by a group of Muslim terrorists on 9/11, because they "hate us for our freedom and values." Part of that is true. Most of us Americans were sitting here innocently minding our own business."
How Dare You Question the Word of Government Authorities!
by Scott Lazarowitz
Thanks to anti-liberty militarists such as Lt. Col. Oliver North, a former employee of the White House basement, and socialist neocons such as George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and Irving Kristol (and don't forget Junior Kristol), America is now a police state.
And increasingly, those who criticize the government and its imbecilic bureaucrats and police goons are being made victims of an out-of-control Leviathan tyranny run amok.
During the Reagan years, Oliver North and his fellow police staters equated political dissent with treason. But it is really our current government bureaucrats who commit acts of treason with their militant suppression of dissent.
That is in addition to their starting wars of aggression that have done nothing but provoke foreigners to act against us.
Former Marine Brandon Raub was criminally abducted by federal Secret Service and local police authorities and detained illegally without charge in a psychiatric hospital, because some people didn't like his questioning the official government theories of 9/11.
Brandon Raub's lawyer, John Whitehead of the Rutherford Institute has stated that there are others who have been criminally abducted and detained because of their views. As witnessed in the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany, North Korea and China, when Leviathan grows and its minions' power and control grow, tolerance of dissent diminishes.
America's descent had begun long ago, but in more recent years it descends at a more rapid pace. That is what our giving authority and power to central planning bureaucrats gives us.
Washington's Blog details how others besides Raub have also been seized and taken to psychiatric wards for expressing doubts of government claims. And there Washington also writes about mental health professionals who assert that questioning the government's explanations for 9/11 is the sane thing to do.
Check out Brandon Raub's Facebook post of November 11, 2011, given to CBS 6 in Richmond, Virginia. Such words obviously do not pose any threat to others, but we can see how much closer Brandon Raub is to Thomas Jefferson and Patrick Henry than most of our current government bureaucrats are! That essay also includes assertions about the government's alleged involvement in 9/11.
But in the USSA, you can't say those things here.
As Washington's Blog also noted, the U.S. government planned indefinite detention of citizens long before 9/11. Thanks, Oliver North.
But here is some information on 9/11. For example, over 1,700 architects and engineers support the assertions made by the group Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth, that the World Trade center towers and Building 7 were brought down by explosives, not by planes or fires. Here is the group's evidence page. Specifically, here is a collection of videos with these scientists' explanations. Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth, by the way, does not blame any particular individual or group for involvement in 9/11.
And here, Paul Craig Roberts asks if the critics of the 9/11 truth movement have a case.
(Hmmm. I wonder what enabled a friend to warn comedian and activist Dick Gregory to cancel a trip to New York just before 9/11? And why did certain Pentagon officials also cancel trips at the same time? Why was San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown also warned to cancel a flight to New York the day before the attacks? Just wondering.)
A lot of people believe that Americans were just here innocently minding our own business when we were suddenly attacked by a group of Muslim terrorists on 9/11, because they "hate us for our freedom and values." Part of that is true. Most of us Americans were sitting here innocently minding our own business.
But our government bureaucrats – in their zeal to expand the U.S. government's grasp overseas, especially since 1990 – were intentionally provoking those people on foreign lands, particularly in the Middle East and Asia.
Speaking of warnings, even Ron Paul gave us warnings throughout the 1990s of possible terrorist attacks on American soil, because he was one of the few people in Washington to understand what the effects of an aggressively interventionist U.S. foreign policy would be. (But more recently, his wise advocacy of the Golden Rule in foreign policy gets booed by modern day worshipers of our national security central planning bureaucrats.)
And also, for further investigation on what actually led to 9/11, Eric Margolis and James Bovard have more on what might have motivated the terrorists to commit such terrorist acts.
Finally, independent journalist James Corbett produced this video that questions the official 9/11 explanation in less than 5 minutes. It is quite thorough.
Here is Corbett's transcript of that video that includes many, many helpful links. Take a look, if you have an open mind, that is.
It is indeed unfortunate that the government is targeting military vets now, and government criminals (sorry for the redundancy) will probably escalate their criminality against honest skeptics that will probably include non-military people. But jeepers, I hope I don't get criminally abducted and illegally detained by government goons, simply for providing readers here with some links to honest information that questions the government's official 9/11 conspiracies. But then, I've never been a member of the military. (It's against my religion – I'm a devout coward.)
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HomeNewsIsraeli firm reports first marijuana harvest from Uganda
Israeli firm reports first marijuana harvest from Uganda
Cannabis harvesting
Israeli firm, Together Pharma Limited has reported that it made a cannabis harvest from Uganda on Tuesday 18th, June 2019 despite a government announcement that the said license had been halted. This is according to a statement released to the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange Authority Ltd, yesterday.
The statement, which is signed by CEO Nissim Bracha, indicates that the company completed the first harvesting of cannabis inflorescences at its farm in Uganda on June 18 and sowed another 10 dunams on the company's farm in Uganda on the same day.
According to the statement, the harvested produce will be marketed to one of the European countries. Together Pharma Limited produces and exports medical cannabis around the world.
This report puts into suspicion, a pronouncement by state minister for Investment Evelyn Anite that the government had halted the company's license. Anite said when she was told about the company's license, she found that not a lot of research had been done before it was granted.
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The Health minister, Jane Aceng also told this publication in April that cabinet wants assurances from the company that growing medical marijuana wouldn't have a negative impact on the economy. The government said it had put a committee to look into the issue and report part back to the cabinet. That they would base on that report on whether to award licenses or not. This has not happened.
Initial reports indicated that the firm is working with a Ugandan company; Industrial Hemp Uganda Limited, which is linked to former Bunyaruguru County MP Benjamin Cadet.
On its website, Industrial Hemp Uganda Limited shows that it is already growing medical cannabis in the country. It states: "The company is primarily engaged in the growing and development of medical cannabis (medical marijuana) and cannabis products for industrial purposes in Uganda."
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The National Drug Policy and Authority Act, 1993 provides that "No person shall, without the written consent of the Health minister… cultivate any plant from, which a narcotic drug can be extracted".
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