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This article covers creating and editing road segments. Be sure to read this whole article to ensure you fully understand all aspects of how segments operate in Waze before you start to create and edit roads on the map.
Creating a new road
If you find a road missing from the Waze map, such as a recent suburban development, follow the screenshots and instructions to add a road to Waze. The example is from Little Rock, Arkansas, USA, and we will add the missing roads in the highlighted area:
Zoom the map display so you can see the entire area where you need to add the road, if possible. Setting the zoom level appropriately allows you to follow the curves of the road as you draw it.
There are five essential steps to add roads to the Waze map:
- Draw the road.
- Set or confirm the road properties.
- Connect the road with junctions to existing segments.
- Set allowed turns at junctions.
- Save the changes.
For more detail on creating road segments, see Create a Road.
Drawing the road
Hover the cursor over the curved road with a cross/plus sign icon at the top of the screen in the toolbar and click Road. You can also use the keyboard shortcut, which is the letter i, for Insert. Move the cursor to the location you want to start drawing the road. This can be an empty location, or it can be on an existing segment where you want the intersection with this new road. The cursor has a small blue circle to indicate it is in drawing mode.
When you hover over an existing segment, it highlights showing that if you click there, a junction is automatically added.
Move your mouse along the path of the road, following the aerial view or GPS points for the new road. Every time you click, a geometry node is added, aligning your new road with your cursor movement. When you reach the end location for the new road, double-click the mouse. You exit drawing mode, and the new road displays in orange to signify that it is unsaved. Don't worry if you made a mistake in drawing the shape of the road. Just click on the segment again and you can add, remove or reposition geometry nodes. If you want to remove the road just drawn, you can press the ESC key on the keyboard before you exit drawing mode.
In our example, there is another road in this same view which is missing. We can add another road to the map without saving the first one. The next image shows the second road already added, and auto-junctioned to the first segment we just created.
At this point, you can save the newly added roads if you wish. However, the process of properly adding the roads is not complete. All new roads are set as 1-way, with no associated city and no street name. Adding these details to the road is required before they show up in the Waze client app.
Note: When creating special roads like roundabouts and loops, be sure to follow the special considerations for those roads in those linked sections.
Confirm the road by updating details
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Newly paved roads (recorded from the app using "Pave road") are not displayed on the Waze app until they are confirmed, meaning an editor updates them. In the map editor, roads are displayed in red when city and name properties have not been set. An editor should set the country, state (for the US), city, street name, road type, and direction.
Paved roads do not appear until being "touched" in the editor; roads created in the editor, even if missing key properties, do appear on the map in the Waze app. |
To confirm a road, select one or more segments with the mouse. Because you can add only one name at a time, an efficient practice is to select all segments which should have the same road name. Notice below that for the first road there are now two one-way segments. This is because the second road we added has cut the original road into two segments.
To edit the address details, click the Edit Address link under the Properties tab. This enables editing of the fields above it. When multiple segments are selected, you need to select Country (and State, where enabled) then enter the city and street name information. If this segment is outside a municipality, use the "No City" check box. For streets with no name, such as private roads or parking lot roads, use the "No Name" check box.
For roundabouts, do not enter a street name (check the "none" box) to allow proper navigation routing through the roundabout.
For segments that link between two one-way roads, do not name the segment. The city name is fine if the segment is clearly inside the city limits.
When complete, click the Apply button
Set Road Type, Direction, and Elevation
Set each of the fields Road Type, Direction, and Elevation. For neighborhood streets in these examples, Street is appropriate, they are 2-way streets and they have no roads above or below them, so elevation Ground is correct.
Review the article determining one-way streets for more information on directionality.
- Please be aware the the directionality type 'Unknown' does not prevent Waze from routing onto a road. 'Unknown' really means 'Undefined'. When the direction is set to 'Unknown', Waze automatically adjust the directionality of the road as Wazers drive it. This is the initial directionality of all roads after a base map import. In addition, locking the segment does not prevent the directionality from changing on 'Unknown' roads as Wazers drive it.
You may choose to save now, but there is one more step before we can call this process complete: setting the allowed turns.
Set allowed turns (connections)
We've added our roads and confirmed them, but we haven't set the legal directions to and from this segment. In the real world, there are barriers and signs which prevent travel in a certain direction, even though the roads connect to each other. In our suburban neighborhood example, none of these blockages exist, but our screenshot shows red arrows, meaning that Waze generally won't navigate that direction from the selected segment. Click on the red arrows to turn them green, and permit navigation in that direction. This needs to be done for each segment that is added to the map, as the default setting after connecting a new segment is to disallow all turns to the new segment.
In situations where not all turns are allowed, click on the arrow to turn it red for the disallowed direction from that segment.
If all turns are allowed at a junction, the fastest way to enable all turns is by selecting the junction and not the individual segments. Select the junction and it changes from an orange circle to a red circle with a white border. Note that if you have already selected a segment connected to that junction, click elsewhere on the map, or hit the ESC key to deselect that segment before you can select the junction.
The Properties drawer shows action links for the selected junction. Depending on the current state of the junction, one or both of the links Allow all turns or Disallow all turns links appear. For example, if all turns are currently allowed, then only the Disallow all turns link appears.
To enable all turns at an intersection, click the Allow all turns link for the junction. Alternatively, you can use the keyboard shortcut w to allow all turns and the shortcut q to disallow all connections. A best practice when allowing all turns on a junction is to disallow all turns first, as it cleans up some legacy problems with the map.
Other helpful turn arrow keyboard shortcuts are:
Shift+Z - Toggles between: 1) showing the enabled and restricted turn arrows for the selected segment, and 2) showing all restricted turns (red arrows only) for every junction on the visible map (up to zoom level 4 or 500 ft in the lower left map legend). |
a - Toggles between making the turn restriction arrows directly selectable (opaque) or transparent. Transparency enables selecting objects below the arrow on the map. |
s - Toggles between separating turn arrows so they don't overlap or leaving them overlapping. This can also be used to refresh the screen when you have toggled visibility for all restricted turns, and you are modifying turn restrictions. |
To see all keyboard shortcuts, press the ? on the keyboard.
When turns or parts of a road are restricted certain times of day or days of the week, you can use the scheduled restrictions feature.
See the section turn restrictions for more information on all turn arrows.
If you have saved your progress or not, click the Save button (or use the Ctrl + s keyboard shortcut) to send all of your updates to the Waze servers for processing. After the save is complete, and if there are no errors, you are presented with a view of the final product of this process:
It is a good practice to save your changes often, and certainly when you get more than 10 unsaved changes pending. Sometimes you may run into a save error that you cannot determine what is wrong, and you have to undo many prior edits. Sometimes you have to undo all the way back to your first edit. Saving regularly limits chances of lost work in case of unresolvable errors.
Editing existing roads
Editing an existing road segment is not very different from creating a new road. Once a road is drawn from scratch, before it is saved, all of the editing functions described here work.
Adjusting road geometry (nodes)
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Adjusting road geometry is changing the shape or appearance of a road segment. Real-world roads may be realigned, or mapped roads may be in the wrong place because the data from the basemap import was wrong. Sometimes we need to realign roads to improve navigation or spoken instructions in the Waze mobile app.
The instructions here, while written for an existing road segment, also apply to a new road segment you just created, but have not yet saved. The editor treats them the same.
To start adjusting the geometry of a segment, click on it. When you hover over the highlighted segment, geometry nodes (black squares white circles) and inter-geometry nodes (white dots circled in blue) display along the segment. Both of these are draggable so that you can reposition them wherever you need. When you drag an inter-geometry nodes from its default position half-way between two geometry nodes, it turns into a node.
To delete a node, hover the cursor over a node and hit the d key on the keyboard. This only works with nodes, not inter-geometry nodes.
Tip: Straighten segments quickly If you have a segment that you need to clear all the geometry node quickly, select the segment and hold down the d key. Then move the mouse pointer near the geometry nodes you want to remove. With the d key held down it will automatically delete the node when the mouse hovers over it. To stop deleting nodes, stop pressing the d key.
When you have a long, straight stretch of road, and there are geometry nodes located along its length, delete these nodes. It simplifies the road segment if you have to adjust it later, lightens the load on the database, and makes it easier to display on the Waze client app.
When your moves are complete, save, and the segment appears in the map with the new geometry. To see these operations in action, you can watch a video of adjusting segment geometry.
Fix the end-node on culs-de-sac and dead-ends
In order for the Waze Application to properly route from a location on a cul-de-sac or dead-end road, the end of the last segment must have an end-node. Without this end-node, Waze gives the instruction Proceed to the highlighted route. In the image to the right you can see a small blue diamond at the end of the long court, and no blue diamond at the end of the short court. The short court is missing an end-node at the end of the segment.
When you select each segment, putting them into an edit mode, you can see the difference between the two roads. The long court has the end-node (small white circle) and the short court has a geometry node (large black square) at the end of the segment.
To add an end-node to the short court, a temporary road segment must be added to the current road. Start by not having the road selected (make sure it is white by clicking elsewhere on the map). Hover the cursor over the large + icon at the top of the screen in the toolbar and click Road. You can also use the keyboard shortcut which is the letter i, for Insert. Position the cursor so the blue circle appears at the end of the segment and Left-click the mouse to start the road.
Click some distance away from the end of the current road and double click to end road creation. Select the newly created segment and press the Delete key or the Trash Can icon from the toolbar.
Save the changes and the result shows the small court now has the proper end-node as a small blue diamond (when not being edited or selected).
Note that most cul-de-sac should not terminate in a roundabout or loop, but as a dead end as drawn here.
Before making any change to a junction, be sure to review the Junction Style Guide for information on the best practices for creating junctions. There are many times when a junction may be drawn in a way that does not seem logical, but it is very important to the navigation engine in Waze.
Moving junctions
Moving a junction is as simple as dragging the junction to another location, however there are geometry nodes (the white circles seen when editing a segment) that might need to be moved or removed.
First use the mouse to select the intersection of the road segments. This puts a red dot, circled in white, on the junction. This indicates you are moving all the segments connected to this junction. Note that if the red dot appears transparent, it means that one of the attached road segments is locked above your editing rank, and the junction cannot be moved by you. Release the mouse button and move the mouse away until the cursor appears as a 4-way crossed arrow .
With the cursor as a crossed arrow, select the junction again and drag it to the desired location. The harsh angles in the segments in this example are caused by the geometry nodes and need to be adjusted. It is important to position the junction in a location that is not on top of a segment. This makes it difficult to adjust the geometry nodes, and in some cases tells the editor to merge junctions if one is present below the junction you are moving.
The black geometry nodes can be moved, removed, or added as explained in detail above. Adjust them to align with the aerial views or the GPS tracks.
Moving one junction onto another junction
If two junctions are disconnected from each other, but should be joined into one junction, then dragging one of the junction nodes until it "snaps" to and connects to the other junction node will bring them together. Warning! Only use this technique if the two junctions are disconnected from each other. If there is a segment connecting the two, you could accidentally delete the segment in the process. This would also delete any traffic data and house numbers associated with the deleted segment.
Removing junctions with only two segments
There are times when only two segments are joined at a junction. In general this is not a problem, but it can slow down editing and it may be the source of incorrect turn restrictions and bad routing. So the best practice is to delete these junctions when found. However, it is very important to study the two segments before merging, to ensure the junction is not there for a purpose.
Legitimate Reasons for Two-segment Junctions |
Once you are certain there is no reason to have the extra junction, there are three methods to remove it. One method highlights the junction and deletes it, one highlights the two segments and bridges them together, and the last method drags one junction on top of the other junction.
Delete key or trash can icon
This method is the preferred method, because it enables the WME to alert you when there are legitimate differences between the segments. With the mouse select the junction point between the two segments. Look for the trash can icon at the upper right corner of the WME screen. If it appears press it to remove the junction. Alternatively, the Delete or Del key (not Backspace) removes the junction.
Deletion of a node automatically places a geometry node at that point. If you need to remove the point, you can do so by highlighting the segment and hovering the mouse over the point of the prior junction. The WME displays the point and you can press the d key to remove it.
If the trash can icon does not appear, something about those two segments is different, possibly the city name, street name, road type, or direction of travel.
Bridge segments
Generally do not use this method because it has two additional side effects that are not generally desired.
- It increases the elevation of the resulting single segment by one.
- It disconnects any other segments at that junction point, but leaves it directly below the geometry node potentially causing automated map problems if not moved.
With the mouse, select one of the segments. Then, while holding down the multi-select key (Control for Windows/Linux and Command for Mac) select the second segment. If the two segments have the same properties including direction, a small bridge icon appears above the junction. Click the bridge to merge the two segments, eliminating the junction between them. A geometry node is placed where the junction was previously located. To remove the node (if necessary), select the segment and hover the mouse near the old junction. The geometry node should be displayed. Then, press the d key to remove the unwanted node. When the segments are different, the bridge icon does not appear at the junction.
Cut a segment to create a new junction
If it is necessary to change road information in the middle of a segment (road name, direction, city, type, or other information changes at that point), you need to create a junction at that point. One way to do this is to create a new road connected to the previous road. Begin or end the new road on the previous road to create a new junction. Then delete the new road -- the junction remains, and the previous road segment has been cut at the point where you created and deleted the road.
Allow/Disallow connections
Changing the allowed and disallowed turns in a junction follows the same procedure for controlling them when updating a road segment described above.
(Re)Moving a road from a junction
Updating road details
The details of a road can be entered as discussed with regard to confirming the details of a new road above. The procedure is the same for updating the details of an existing road segment.
To update details, first, select the segment(s) you need to update. Click on the segment and the segment turns blue.
Multiple segments may be selected by holding down the modifier key and clicking additional segments. The modifier key for Mac is the command key, for Windows the control key and for Linux the control key. Each selected segment turns blue.
Once selected, if the General tab is visible on the left side of the editor.
Address Properties
At the top of the properties toolbox are the address fields. The address fields include the street name, city name, State (currently only in the United States) and country. To edit the address details, click the Edit button (or press the 'e' shortcut key). This enables editing of fields above it.
The Country (and State) fields may be updated by selecting a different country (or state) from the dropdown selections. Selections are provided only for countries (or states) that are present on other nearby road segments.
The city and street names may be updated by typing a new name. See the naming guidelines for guidance on choosing the correct street name. As a name is typed, Waze provides a list of similar names. These similar entries can be selected by clicking them. If the segment is in a location outside a city, the "None" check box should be selected and the city name left blank. If the road does not have a name, the "None" check box should be selected and street name left blank. Entries must be present for each address property. To eliminate a city name or street name the appropriate "None" boxes must be checked. When complete, click the Apply button. If no changes are to be made, click the Cancel button.
If the above Address Properties are not set for a segment, the road displays as a red line in the editing map only and does not appear in the Waze client app after the next update. This process is part of the road verification process. When the Waze client app uses the pave option, the road is created in the edited Waze map only. That Wazer or another Wazer who is editing the map in that area must set these properties in this section in order for the road to be seen in the client.
Alternate street names
The subsection Alternate street names: lists the other names associated with all currently highlighted segments. It does not isolate individual alternate names for each segment, so if you want to be sure all the highlighted segments have a specific alternate name add it all the segments. For any segments that already have the alternate name, it will not be duplicated.
The hyperlink titled Add alternate name brings up two selection boxes for the City name and Street name. If the City name is not applicable, select the None check box. Enter the street name and press Apply or hit the Enter key on the keyboard. This adds that name to the currently highlighted segments.
To delete an alternate street name, click the next to the alternate name to be deleted. This deletes the alternate name for the highlighted segments.
A future version of the Waze Map Editor is being considered to include road shields as part of the alternate street name field.
Road Properties
Below the address properties on the General Tab are the road segment properties.
Road Type
The road type is changed by selecting the appropriate road type from the drop down box.
See the Road types and names for your country for further guidance on selecting the correct road type.
Toll Road
Select the box for toll road if the segment meets the requirements as outlined under toll roads.
Road Direction
The direction of the road is changed by selecting the appropriate direction from the drop down box.
If traffic may travel both ways on the road, select "Two way." If traffic may travel only one-way on the road in the direction from the toward the select "One way (A→B)." If traffic may travel only one-way on the road in the direction from the toward the select "One way (B→A)."
After the road properties are saved, the direction is indicated by blue chevrons on the road.
Base mapped roads are originally assigned the direction of unknown. When the direction is set to "Unknown", Waze automatically adjusts the directionality of the road as Wazers drive it. When editing, make every effort to determine the correct direction of the road and choose either "Two-way" or the appropriate "One-way" direction.
See the article determining one-way streets for more information on determining the direction of a road as being one way or two way.
Road elevation
The Road Elevation should be changed where one road passes over another. By default, the Elevation of a segment is Ground (zero). When two segments overlap but do not actually connect in the real world, the value of Elevation for each segment must be different. This ensures that the Waze problem detection system doesn't flag the spot where two segments overlap as a location where a junction might be needed.
The visual representation of the relative Road Elevation is different when viewed in the Waze Map Editor (WME) and the Client application.
1. The Client App displays segment elevation based on the road type only, meaning Freeways are always on top, Major Highways are next, followed by Minor Highways, Ramps next, Primary Streets below all those, and finally Streets are at the bottom. This is the same order seen when setting the road type in the editor.
2. The WME uses the Road Elevation setting to display the relative elevation of the road. It displays the road with the highest "elevation" number at the top of the visual stack and works its way down as would be expected.
Although the client application does not benefit from the Road Elevation setting, it is recommended to set the Road Elevation relative to the physical mapping in the real world to enable possible future Client application updates to show the same visual representation as the WME.
3. Elevation -5 is used for non-drivable roads to help ensure that the routing engine does not try to connect or route drivers from roads onto non-roads by mistake. It acts to prevent false system reporting that the roads should be connected.
See Bridges for more information on elevation.
See Locked Segments for information on road ranks.
Locked Box
The segment is locked by checking the locked check box which is associated with the segments lock rank. For information on the effect of checking the locked box see Locked Roads.
Changing turn restrictions
Each intersection of two or more segments keeps track of the allowed directions you can turn from one segment to another. Changing these turn restrictions follows the same procedure as outlined above in the section on Set allowed turns.
Separator line (disabled)
The original map editor before the Waze Map Editor had the ability to add a black separator line down the middle of a road segment. It caused difficulty with map editing and was removed as a feature from the updated WME. There was a time when the line appeared in the WME, but could not be removed. It has since been disabled and no longer appears.


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Nearly every day, we read about problems caused by invaders like the emerald ash borer killing trees across New York, West Nile virus killing people across the United State (1,499 so far), zebra mussels clogging water intakes and changing the Great Lakes and Hudson River ecosystems and Burmese pythons eating everything in the Everglades. If you're like us, you are upset by the billions of dollars in economic costs, thousands of human deaths, and deep and irreversible ecological damage that these species cause. But what can any of us do to solve the problems caused by invasive species? Here are a few suggestions.
Don't add to the problem by releasing potentially harmful new invaders into the wild. Don't buy exotic new plants for your garden, unless they are already widely planted in your region or have been shown to be harmless. Many of our most problematic invaders started out as "desirable" garden plants, or as insects or diseases hitchhiking on those plants.
Likewise, don't release pets into the wild or dump your aquarium or bait bucket. Every year, thousands of unwanted pets are dumped into the wild. Besides being cruel to the pets, some of them (like the Burmese pythons in the Everglades and the snakeheads that turned up in Orange County) end up creating big problems.
And don't try to smuggle fresh produce, live plants, or cute pets past the customs officials into the U.S. Some of these smuggled items, or the diseases that they carry, get into the wild and cost us big bucks.
Don't move dirty stuff into clean environments. For example, moving insect-infested firewood (most firewood is insect-infested) or boat trailers festooned with aquatic plants into regions not infested with pests are good ways to speed the spread of problematic invaders. Don't move firewood, and always clean your boat and trailer before launching them into a new lake or river. And use common sense about other practices that may move items contaminated with invaders from place to place.
Here are a few things that you needn't worry about. You don't need to go out and kill all of the non-native species in your yard, if they are harmless or already widely distributed in the region. It's OK to plant non-native species that are already well-established in the region. Even though invaders like oriental bittersweet and Japanese barberry cause problems, they are so widely spread through the Hudson Valley that one or two more or less in your yard won't make any difference in the bigger picture. You don't need to bother with weed pulls intended to rid the world of well-established species. However, you could help with campaigns that have specific, attainable goals, like removing an aggressive plant from a sensitive nature preserve, or pulling water chestnuts from a bay to allow boat access.
But we are not going to solve the invasive species problem with just these individual actions. Too many harmful species are coming into the country through pathways like ballast water and the pet and horticulture trades, which are not easily controlled by our individual actions. We need collective action to adopt and enforce laws and regulations.
You can help spur these collective actions by writing to your elected representatives or to advocacy groups that are concerned with protecting the environment. Tell them you're concerned about our inadequate responses to the challenges of invasive species, or express your opinions about specific proposals for new laws or regulations. If you don't know what laws or regulations are being discussed, visit the website of the National Environmental Coalition on Invasive Species at www.necis.net, which keeps track of important news about invasive species.
Your letters can serve as an important counterweight to powerful industry forces that are looking out for their own narrow interests at our expense. Even if you don't know about specific legislation, your expressions of concern can at least get your elected official to start thinking about (or maybe even fixing) this problem. You can help solve this important environmental problem.

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Obama's Inauguration Day Is A Day For Martin Luther King, Jr. Too
Monday's inaugural may be President Barack Obama's big day, but Martin Luther King Jr. will loom large over the festivities.
A quirk in the calendar pushed Obama's public swearing-in onto the national holiday honoring the slain civil rights leader, and inaugural planners have taken pains to acknowledge that fact. Going into his second term, Obama seems to have put King at the front of his mind, too.
The president has referenced King in speeches, and a weekend of inaugural festivities opened Saturday with a National Day of Service in King's honor. Obama and his family helped spruce up an elementary school in southeast Washington. The Obamas also have performed community service work on the King holiday in each of the past four years.
Obama spoke at the 2011 dedication of a memorial to King on the National Mall and is likely to include King in his inaugural address on Monday.
The president has said King is one of two people he admires "more than anybody in American history." President Abraham Lincoln is the other. In a nod to that admiration, Obama will take his ceremonial oath of office Monday using Bibles owned by both men. Lincoln's Bible, which Obama also used in 2009, will rest on top of King's, which is larger.
"The movements they represent are the only reason that it's possible for me to be inaugurated," Obama said in a video released by inaugural planners.
Obama is perhaps the most high-profile result of King's quest for civil rights and racial equality in the U.S. He credits King for his own political victories, particularly the 2008 election win that lifted him over the highest hurdle for minorities in American politics.
Even with that, there are distinctions in their styles. While King was a staunch advocate for the poor and downtrodden, Obama has been faulted by critics who say he's been reluctant to push issues of concern to black people and take steps to reduce high rates of black unemployment. Where King opposed wars in general and was an unwavering advocate of nonviolence, Obama has shown himself to be willing to target and kill leaders of terrorist groups overseas.
Fredrick Harris, director of Columbia University's Center on African-American Politics and Society, argues that Obama's reluctance to bring black issues to the forefront undermines the work of King and other civil rights leaders whose efforts made his presidency possible.
"Dr. King died in 1968 fighting for low-wage garbage workers in Memphis, Tenn. He was starting a national poor people's movement to address the issues of poverty," Harris said. "With the president, a Democratic president for that matter, who has spoken less on race or the poor or poverty than any Democratic president in a generation, it is problematic when we think of that aspect of King's legacy."
On at least one foreign policy issue, the Middle East, Obama and King seem to be in accord. Lewis V. Baldwin, a religious studies professor at Vanderbilt University, writes in a new book that Obama's approach to Israeli security and empowering the Palestinians dovetails with King's thoughts on the matter.
On the jacket of Baldwin's book, "In a Single Garment of Destiny," Obama explained his take on King's idealism.
"When met with hardship, when confronting disappointment, Dr. King refused to accept what he called the 'isness' of today. He kept pushing for the 'oughtness' of tomorrow," Obama wrote.
Obama recognizes his role in U.S., and even world, history and how he has benefited from the work of King and other civil rights advocates. During his presidency, he has paid regular tribute to King, who was assassinated in April 1968 in Memphis, Tenn., when Obama was just 6 years old. America's first black president will deliver his second inaugural address looking out across the National Mall toward the Lincoln Memorial, where King delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech nearly 50 years ago.
One of eight floats scheduled to participate in the parade down Pennsylvania Avenue between the Capitol and the White House on Monday will honor King, featuring his image and a representation of his quote "out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope."
A wreath-laying ceremony was held Sunday at the King Memorial, though it was scheduled during Obama's swearing-in at the White House and the president did not attend.
Sandra Young, of Silver Spring, Md., said she was moved by the overlap between the two events.
"As an African-American, we think of the fact that we can do anything we set our minds to," said Young, who said she was in her 60s. "Being here, also, we think of the dream, and the dream is alive, and it's a real thing."
Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., a veteran of the civil rights movement who knew King and knows Obama, said the symbolism was overwhelming.
"It is almost too much to believe that we would commemorate this year, the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington," Lewis said. "I don't know what you'd call it, something about time and history and fate all coming together."
Lincoln issued the proclamation on Jan. 1, 1863, during the Civil War, declaring all slaves in states rebelling against the Union to be "forever free."
Vicki Crawford, director of Morehouse College's Martin Luther King Jr. Collection, said the inauguration falling in a year of civil rights milestones is a prime opportunity for the nation to re-examine its past and look ahead to the future.
"Obama is a part of the continuum of a history that began before Dr. Martin Luther King," she said. "It's a long history of struggle to make America the place it should be, to make real on the promise of democracy. This is a momentous time; 2013 is a crossroads."
Harris, the Columbia University professor, said that while King's moment in 1963 and Obama's in 2013 are evidence of how far the country has come despite persistent racial polarization, he would like to see Obama start to emphasize issues that were important to King.
"I would also hope that this won't be just a day of recognition but also that it will point in some direction in the second term that the president will begin to speak much more clearly and forcefully about the persistence of racial inequality in American life," he said.
Associated Press writers Eric Tucker in Washington and Kate Brumback in Atlanta contributed to this report.
This article was originally published on January 20, 2013.
This program aired on January 20, 2013. The audio for this program is not available.


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Raspberry Pi and real-time Linux
Let's have a look at the OSADL QA Farm data
The first (single-core) version of the Raspberry Pi* (BCM2708) has been monitored since long time at the OSADL QA Farm. It is located at rack #7/slot #3. Unfortunately, the network is not very stable, it has so-so real-time capabilities, and the system needs to be rebooted from time to time.
We, therefore, were curious to see how the next version, the four-core Raspberry Pi* (BCM2709), would behave. First attempts to run a PREEMPT_RT patched Linux kernel on it were frustrating, since the board did not boot at all. The best we could achieve was a patched kernel with configuration CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT_BASE=y but CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT_FULL unset.
A workaround
Recently, however, it was found that the boot failure was related to the FIQ exception handler that the driver of the Synopsis DWC host USB controller is using by default. Fortunately, this driver may be instructed not to use FIQ with the two additional kernel parameters
which works around the problem, so the board could be added to the OSADL QA Farm for further testing. It is located in rack #b/slot #3 and under continuous monitoring of all QA Farm standard variables. These are our initial findings:
- The board is stable, no crashes any longer.
- The real-time patch could be applied easily.
- The board has "reasonable" real-time capabilities.
- The RPi patch is far too large (more than 10 times larger than the real-time patch), why is there so little interest to get it upstreamed?
If you would like to try yourself this version, simply use the download script generator "Generate download and patch script" at the bottom of the profile page of rack #b/slot #3.
A final solution instead of a workaround
The solution, of course, would be to understand the crashes of the FIQ exception handler and to fix the underlying problem. We found that the lockup occurs when the IRQ handler thread gets preempted while it holds the FIQ spin lock. The solution, thus, is to disable the IRQ while the FIQ spin lock is held, irrespective of whether the interrupt handler is threaded or not. The patch that was created for this purpose introduces two new macros
to facilitate the implementation. The complete patch is available here. To better compare the two kernel versions – original kernel with FIQ disabled vs. patched kernel with FIQ enabled – a shadow system was installed at rack #b, slot #3 that runs the patched kernel. So far, everything runs well.
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"This album is far more personal than any I've made before," Thorburn explains. "I left New York after the end of a relationship and came to Los Angeles. There was a piano where I was staying and that's where I wrote these songs. This record deals with loss, with memory and forgetting and with dreaming."
Islands began in 2005, emerging from the ashes of Montreal pop sensations The Unicorns. In their previous incarnation, they had crafted a vibrant distinctly low-fi sound that quickly made them cult sensations. Popmatters heralded The Unicorn's distinct style as, "genuinely great pop music that's experimental, catchy, and, most of all, weird" while Pitchfork called the trio's sound as "totally natural and new."
With the Islands, Thorburn and his compatriots advanced a finely crafted futuristic pop sound. The group quickly became a sensation amidst the thriving Montreal rock scene. Their 2006 debut album Return To The Sea was recorded in the drummer's bedroom and featured guest appearance by members of fellow Montreal bands Arcade Fire and Wolf Parade. All Music Guide described the record as "a rich, exciting, and emotionally deep sounding album."
A Sleep & A Forgetting is the Island's fourth album and the follow up to their critically heralded record Vapours, which Black Book described as « infectious and weird….masterful." The new album was produced by Thorburn and fellow Islands member Evan Gordon in less than two weeks, the 11 songs recorded live with hardly a single overdub. It's a stripped down process and beautifully understated sound which only reinforces the confessional content of the lyrics
Island's latest offers all the shimmering sonic textures and irresistible melodies that have come to the band's enduring appeal, but there is a deeply personal cathartic undercurrent to the songs. Far from being self pitying, A Sleep & A Forgetting powerfully transforms personal unrest into affecting and soulful pop music. "It's kind of frightening," Thorburn reflects. "I've always hidden behind devices and humor but this album is just so much starker and open." And it's a risk that absolutely pays off. The new record features some of the most startling and memorable songs from a supremely talented band that has continued to both evolve or surprise.


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- Stephen Shore born 1947
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American Surfaces is a series of 312 colour landscape-format photographs depicting vernacular scenes that American photographer Stephen Shore captured while on a dedicated road trip across America in 1972–3. Informal portraits, photographs of city and suburban streets, and images of domestic objects, meals and street signage are all among the subject matter featured in these works, which can be displayed sequentially in smaller groups or as part of the series in its entirety.
This series is the earliest example of the road trip projects documenting the social landscape of America that have formed a central part of Shore's practice. At the first exhibition of American Surfaces at Light Gallery, New York in 1972, the series' snapshot aesthetic (achieved through the use of 35 mm film and glossy colour prints made at a high-street Kodak lab) and the unconventional hang (in a large grid of prints fixed directly onto the wall with backing tape) were thought radical and were badly received by photography critics of the time. Today, the exhibition is widely acknowledged as representing a key moment in the history of photography.
American Surfaces was first published as a book of seventy-two images in 1999. In 2005, consistent with his practice of revisiting and reworking earlier series through the medium of the photobook, Shore published the series in its entirety for the first time, and applied a cohesive structure to the works, grouping them by year and the state in which they were taken (see Shore 2005). These digital prints owned by Tate were made in the same year in an edition of ten.
Reflected in the title of the work, the details recorded in American Surfaces are superficial, yet together they build a bold and insightful portrait of the social and geographical landscape specific to North America at that time. Prior to making American Surfaces, Shore's work had focused almost singularly on New York, where he grew up. This project marked a formative point in his career when the concept of the road trip became – as it remains – integral to his practice: immediately after finishing this project he began his seminal series Uncommon Places (published 1982). Working in a photographic tradition established by American photographers such as Robert Frank (born 1924) and Walker Evans (1903–1975), in American Surfaces Shore established a new method of recording vernacular scenes of life in North America. The artist has stated that he set out to record 'everything and everyone' he came across (Stephen Shore, artist talk, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, 23 February 2012, http://www.americansuburbx.com/2012/01/asx-tv-stephen-shore-sf-moma-artist-talk-2012.html, accessed 21 November 2014). His approach – loosely diaristic and serial in nature – together with his non-hierarchical framing of the image and grid-like method of presentation, indicated links with minimalist and conceptual practices of the 1960s and 1970s.
Shore is recognised as being among the most influential post-war American photographers, and was included in the landmark exhibition New Topographics: Photography of a Man-Altered Landscape at the International Museum of Photography at the George Eastman House, Rochester, New York in 1975 (alongside photographers including Lewis Baltz, Robert Adams and Bernd and Hilla Becher). His work is closely associated with conceptual practices as a result of his time at Andy Warhol's Factory in the 1960s, and he is credited, along with William Eggleston (born 1939), with helping to establish colour photography as a valid medium.
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Stephen Shore, American Surfaces, New York 2005.
Michael Fried, Christy Lange and Joel Sternfeld, Stephen Shore, London 2007.
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The U.S. Supreme Court has announced that it will make available same-day audio of upcoming oral arguments later this month, arguments that could determine the fate of the Obama health care overhaul.
In a three-paragraph announcement, the court said it is making the same-day audio available because of the "extraordinary public interest" in the health care cases. The legal challenges to the law are to be argued for six hours over a three-day period at the end of March.
Ordinarily, the audio would not be available until the end of the argument week. Chief Justice John Roberts began the Friday postings online in 2010 in an effort to make audio regularly available.
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Chief Justice John Roberts sought to regularize the availability of audio by making it available each week online on Friday afternoons. That meant that the public could easily listen in a relatively timely fashion. The media could broadcast the audio if it wished, but delaying the availability by a few days also dealt with the objections of some justices that their words would be used out of context in quick news reports on the day of argument.
As the health care arguments grew near, however, the drumbeat for same-day access grew louder, and the court faced the prospect of people lining up around the building for days in advance, and sleeping there overnight, waiting to get one of the 400 seats in the courtroom.
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How to Reheat Soggy Leftover Pizza
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49 comments:
- Jimmy said...
omg chef John, I'm always drooling over your great recipes.
You have such a great taste!
Congratulations man :)
btw I was on facebook and I saw that Mozilla Firefox... well it's better if you see what I'm talking about.
cheers :) - October 26, 2011 at 2:28 PM
- [Myeon] said...
I know you want your moment...but I've been using this method for as long as I can remember, you know why?
Because I don't have an oven. - October 26, 2011 at 2:30 PM
- S/V Blondie-Dog said...
Hey Chef! I'm confused... no mention was made of using a microwave to reheat pizza.
In fact, I'd be willing to bet that the microwave was specifically invented to reheat leftover pizza. Just ask the folks at NASA.
In any event it was I who invented the idea of reheating pizza in a skillet.
I ain'ts got a microwave aboard my boat and had no other way of reheating my leftover pizza. - October 26, 2011 at 2:38 PM
- Chef John said...
I assume you are kidding about the microwave, as they are the WORST choice ever. It will not be crispy, and MV's make any bread product tough and chewy. Don't do it!
- October 26, 2011 at 2:40 PM
- Monica said...
What delivered pizza. It is so simple to make. in the time it takes to be delivered you can get it fresh from your own oven.
- October 26, 2011 at 3:05 PM
Chef Jean, you were about 2 hours too late. I just reheated some leftover pizza in the microwave for lunch... Then I come to food wishes and realize that I should have consulted you first! :(
- October 26, 2011 at 3:23 PM
Chef John, This is your moment in the sun! I have never used the foil cap. Brilliant. Today I am again making your Mushroom Burgers.Microve pizza is a mess in my mind. Thanks for all the months of great guidance. Best wishes, Terra in Colorado (9,700 feet in elevation.)
- October 26, 2011 at 4:39 PM
- MissElaineous said...
....trying so hard to just let you have your day as the "inventor" of this technique. I discovered this method as a teen when the power went out and I had to rely on the gas stovetop to reheat some Domino's. Regardless of when I first used this method, I must say, the foil cover blew my previous stovetop reheat technique out of the water!
- October 26, 2011 at 5:26 PM
- christopher andrew culley said...
So coming from a graphics person, with food secondary, that gaussian blur is like gouging my eyes out. I really love your blog. Seriously. I make my girlfriend watch your videos with me. Just, the fauxkeh.
- October 26, 2011 at 6:04 PM
Hey, that's a fantastic tip! Thank you!
Now if I could just figure out how to cook mushrooms on home-made pizza without them watering down the dang thing! - October 26, 2011 at 6:42 PM
...but I like cold pizza!
- October 26, 2011 at 7:38 PM
Could you make tiramisu??
- October 26, 2011 at 7:59 PM
Reheat pizza?
Surely you jest. One of the reasons I go out for pizza or make it for myself is for the leftovers the next morning.
Cold pizza for breakfast is food of the gods.
Just sayin'. - October 26, 2011 at 8:42 PM
- Chef John said...
For the record, I LOVE cold pizza and normally eat it like that, BUT in case you do want to reheat, or crisp up a freshly delivered one, this is the trick.
- October 26, 2011 at 9:04 PM
ewwe@cold pizza wtf
- October 26, 2011 at 9:25 PM
"Let me grab a fork ... huh no ... not to eat it [pizza] with. I am not a communist".
Hahahaha priceless.
I love your blog. - October 27, 2011 at 2:34 AM
- Jay M. said...
Cold breakfast pizza, ftw. Just out of curiosity though, would a blazing hot pizza stone do the trick for a box-steamed delivery pizza? Love me some crispy crust...
- October 27, 2011 at 2:42 AM
Geez, just use a toaster oven.
- October 27, 2011 at 3:17 AM
- Rita said...
cold pizza and rootbeer for brekkie. YAY! but when i do reheat pizza - i reheat it in the toaster oven.
- October 27, 2011 at 5:34 AM
I use this methud an so do my friend.
an a potaote is not a root! - October 27, 2011 at 9:09 AM
Mmm, cold pizza, or as I was told to call it when I was kid, "toast with the works!" My girlfriend, however, is of the reheated pizza mind. She used to use the microwave, which makes me cringe. I use the oven if the need arises. I will DEFINITELY try the stove top next time.
BTW, depending on where you get your pizza, cold pizza can be worse. I have a place near me that makes a special crust that isn't very good cold, but wonderful warmed in the oven! As any pizza aficionado worth their salt knows, it's all about the crust :-)
-Pyrofish - October 27, 2011 at 10:09 AM
To those of you who like cold pizza, my advice is to EAT IT COLD! Obviously this post wasn't meant for you. To those of you who already do this, do your own blog if you want to take credit.
I obviously didn't get enough sleep last night--I'm a tad grouchy.
PS My husband refuses to do anything but put it in a microwave. Some people are simply sick. But I still love him---go figure! - October 27, 2011 at 11:19 AM
- Healthy and Homemade said...
Haha, I've totally done this before when we didn't have a microwave. I usually use the toaster oven to reheat my hubbies pizza for him. I'll have to go back to this trick! =D
- October 27, 2011 at 6:20 PM
- October 27, 2011 at 9:50 PM
OMG. I just did this, and all I gotta say is, I'm converted. I used to use the toaster oven. I was happy with that, but this. This. This is elevated cuisine. What an excellent trick. Your crust will never be this crispy in the toaster oven, I promise. Thanks!
- October 27, 2011 at 10:12 PM
Hi chef john! long time viewer of your shows since... lrn2cook!
just as a general video and photography freak...
I think that when you're doing your videos... you leave the interlacing option in iMovie in the encoding part enable.
videos look great! but it's not really using the 720p your upload and a plus, it would also drop the size of your upload :D
http://vimeo.com/5244568 <-- but they could be as this in clarity... like your earlier 720p videos - October 28, 2011 at 11:46 AM
- Chef John said...
Thanks for the tip, but I just want to be sure, should I have the interlacing button on or off?
- October 28, 2011 at 12:16 PM
For the life of me, I can't find printable recipes for how to heat pizza and amazing mac & cheese! I read the comment suggestions on how to do it, but failed to find printable recipes.
- October 28, 2011 at 8:12 PM
- Darek W said...
I didn't know communist's eat pizza with forks. Learn something new everyday.
Along with that, great tip with this video, will try this at my next opportunity. - October 28, 2011 at 9:50 PM
- Darek W said...
I should clarify that my comment was to try and bust Chef John at the pop-culture reference, which I think he's done a better job with in past videos... don't think that came across now that I've read it back.
- October 28, 2011 at 9:55 PM
- Bil said...
best comedic line on food wishes ever.
that communist bit was hilar.
also, i'll try the pizza re-heat method too.
now i just have to find a way to plagerize that line and work it into normal conversation.
sweet. - October 30, 2011 at 8:27 AM
It never crossed my mind to reheat pizza this way since I have a microwave with a grill. But I tried the pan method last night and must say that even my "unbelieving" husband was very satisfied with the results. The first piece was a bit charred but reheating the second piece I turned down the heat to medium and it came out perfectly.
- November 2, 2011 at 3:16 AM
Hi Chef,
Maybe you are right that Communist is using fork to eat their pizza...LOL! I'm chinese and I'm using fork to eat my pizza...hahahaa (it's oily to hold the pizza, so that's why i'm using a fork) - November 4, 2011 at 7:40 AM
- Marcus said...
What an awesome tip! The most practical thing I've read on a food blog.
One question: I usually put my leftover pizza in the freezer immediately after finishing a meal. Will the skillet trick work on frozen pizza? Or do I need to leave it out to defrost first?
Thanks! - November 28, 2011 at 11:31 PM
- Chef John said...
No, it needs to be thawed.
- November 28, 2011 at 11:43 PM
What a great idea. I sent this link to a friend of mine who lives and breathes pizza! I must try this myself.
- November 29, 2011 at 12:45 PM
Did you make the pizza yourself? I real your pizza thin crust. Do you have a recipe?
Thanks! - December 9, 2011 at 6:26 PM
Did you make this pizza yourself? I really like your pizza thin crust. Do you have a recipe?
Thanks! - December 13, 2011 at 12:15 AM
- Asia.Samasia said...
I've always used this method and I honestly think that reheated pizza is waaay better than fresh pizza! If I could have my way, I'd let freshly baked pizza cool down and I would then reheat it on a frying pan on low heat, with some oil :)
- January 5, 2012 at 5:14 AM
- Lahore said...
Thanks Chef John. As usual, I enjoyed your video. I watch one or two when I have a few spare minutes... sometimes I learn something new, sometimes I don't but I always smile at least once during! To the people with nothing better to do than to criticize , this is a video that shows an alternative method for reheating a few slices of pizza, why all the negativity?? Relax and instead of looking for things and/or people to put down, take a few minute to learn and understand the difference between constructive and destructive criticism. Please.
salt lake city alimony - April 23, 2012 at 12:37 PM
I just tried this and after YEARS of mediocre reheating, I am blown away by how well this works!! Thank you, Chef John!! You're aces in my book. :)
- May 31, 2012 at 12:09 PM
- Ed the house chef said...
OMG! Chef John that was amazing, thank-you for that technique. I live in Italy and brought home pizza last night. This afternoon I tried re-heating it on the stovetop and it was better than fresh out of the brick oven in the restaurant.
- July 27, 2012 at 3:31 AM
- cookinmom said...
I have used this method for years and my kids thought I was crazy (husband included). THEN, one day my kid tried a piece of leftover of mine and was converted. Now, I have to wait my turn for the pan. The nerve! Jeeezzz...I should never have let him have my leftover!
- February 21, 2013 at 7:46 PM
- cookinmom said...
Forgot to mention...I also with nuke it to get the chill off and then put in the pan, works like a charm!
- February 21, 2013 at 7:55 PM
- Unknown said...
My son Ackson took some convincing but now is a believer!
- May 4, 2013 at 8:08 AM
- Alca said...
Since I have one, I use a sandwich grill/press because I think it uses less power than the stovetop. It's quicker and gives the same crispy base, but also crispy pepperoni on top :)
- October 13, 2013 at 1:23 AM
- Unknown said...
Saw this blog about a week ago. Tonight I brought home a nice pizza that was soggy in the middle. I fired up the cast iron pan and in a matter of moments, I had super deluxe crispy crust. Thank you Chef John, thank you, thank you. I don't know why I never thought of it before. All these years...
Did I say thank you? - November 16, 2013 at 7:32 PM
- Unknown said...
My cheese is still not hot. How do you guys make the foil cover? Is it imperative you leave it on the entire time?
- November 18, 2013 at 11:38 PM
- charlieb said...
Super simple with extremely surprising results... It makes reheated pizza a completely new food. I think I am going to do this with fresh pizza too.
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"I can't think of another example other than a place like the Vineyard that changes so dramatically," Mr. Broome said of his decision to base the show on Martha's Vineyard. "The population explodes and the look and feel of the Island becomes dramatically different between that three to four-month period of time. And because of that, there's this organic ticking clock; there's this limited period of time that our castmates have to go there, to find relationships, and then they're leaving . . . I find that to be a very interesting dynamic that Martha's Vineyard has to offer."
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As for who will be cast to take on the role of part-time servers and TV stars, that process is already underway.
Several weeks ago Ms. Yam contacted radio station WMVY to field leads for potential cast members. Word of mouth spread among the Island community, giving her the opportunity to speak with a pool of potential candidates. She then took her search to Facebook. "Now I'm hooked up on Facebook and pretty much know every kid on the Vineyard," she said.
Ms. Yam will hold an all-day closed casting call at the Mansion House on Friday, Feb. 22. The following two days, she will travel to Boston to meet with those who may summer on the Island but are currently living off-Island or away at school.
"We want residents of Martha's Vineyard and the kids coming into the Vineyard. It's really important to blend the two," said Mr. Broome.
In addition to the 18 to 24 year olds, Ms. Yam said she is looking for what she calls ancillary characters: parents, teachers, friends, even fishermen.
And the work of casting and scouting will continue in the weeks to come.
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Addressing concerns the show will mirror the controversial MTV hit Jersey Shore — vociferously voiced by Island residents on the show's newly-created Facebook page — Mr. Broome said that won't be the case. Instead, he says the show will be more akin to another MTV hit, The Hills, which employed high production values and sweeping panoramas to document the personal lives of Hollywood-area wealthy friends.
"This will be as far away from Jersey Shore as you can possibly get," he said. "Think ABC Family and you'll know the kind of show we're gonna make. It's Disney, for God's sake."
Those interested in being cast for the show may send an email with introductory information to 25/7 Productions vice-president Yong Yam at email@example.com. Viable candidates may be asked to appear at the Martha's Vineyard closed casting call, held at the Mansion House on Feb. 22.