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For the perfect walking holiday in Ireland join Sean Byrne at Lough Dan House for guided walks along the Wicklow Way. Five generations of the Byrne family have lived on the Wicklow Way, so Sean knows the area well, with many a story to tell.
Stay at Lough Dan House, an award-winning bed & breakfast, where the welcome is warm and the craic is mighty. Lough Dan House is the perfect base for your walking holiday in Ireland. Your accommodation is of the highest standard, located 300 metres up in the Wicklow mountains enjoying spectacular views of nature, lakes and landscapes. Laundry and drying room is always available. Delicious home-cooked meals served each evening at a time to suit you. And we also provide trips to a variety of excellent pubs and entertainment in the evenings.
The Wicklow Way (132 km) is the oldest established walking route in Ireland, situated in the Wicklow Mountains National Park, which is the largest upland region in Ireland and rises to a formidable 925m at Lugnaquillia peak. You will appreciate the rich nature and heritage, flora and fauna, and unique habitats. You will learn the folklore of the area, listen to stories of people and characters that lived here and indeed still live here.
A hiking vacation in Ireland for 3 to 10 days on the Wicklow Way and other remote paths in the uplands is the perfect way to really discover Ireland. You are away from the crowds and busy places. The people you meet have time to greet you with a friendly word. Enjoy the solitude and appreciate the nature and the beauty of the landscape.
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Los Santos Riots
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The Los Santos Riots are the final events of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. A major event in the Grand Theft Auto series, the riots started because of the acquittal of Frank Tenpenny during "Riot."
The Riots Start
At Tenpenny's trial, he is acquitted of all of charges against him and Eddie Pulaski (who is dead due to the events in High Noon but is presumed by the media to be on the run) due to lack of evidence (due to the events seen in Misappropriation). The charges include corruption, sexual assault and the murder of fellow officer Ralph Pendelbury. This sparks mass public outrage, leading to city-wide riots, yet these are mostly centered on the lower-class areas in eastern Los Santos. During the riots pedestrians will attack other characters including CJ without provocation.
The Riots End
In the final mission of the game, Carl Johnson takes down Big Smoke in his crack-den in Los Flores/East Los Santos. After Big Smoke's death, the building is blown up by Tenpenny, who then escapes in a fire truck, attempting to escape to the airport. Sweet grabs onto the firetruck, with CJ pursuing him in a white Feltzer. After Sweet is pushed off the truck by another officer, it is pursued through Los Santos, with many of the rioters throwing molotov cocktails and creating blockades. In crossing a bridge over Grove Street, Tenpenny loses control of the truck, crashing it into the road below and dying on the pavement. It is thereafter apparently looted by the homeless and later recovered. Due to his death, justice is seen to be done and the riots subside.
In the end, Smoke and Tenpenny were killed, and the crack palace in East Los Santos was destroyed. Many buildings and property were damaged, as well as numerous people killed. The riots were the largest and most dangerous event depicted in the Grand Theft Auto series to date.
- The riots are clearly a reference to the 1992 LA Riots. These were caused by the acquittal at a trial of several police officers accused of unfair treatment to African-American Rodney King. No charges were levied against the officers, sparking outrage, clearly forming the inspiration for the Los Santos riots, both events also having taken place in the same year.
- If the player attacks a looter with a TV the TV will drop and fall through the floor, if this is done on a bridge, the player can go to the water under the bridge and see the TV floating in the water.
- When you enter any emergency vehicle, then go to an area where the riot occurred, the following dialogues on the police scanner has changed. While listening to one of the conversations, you can hear screaming, people shouting, sirens, explosions, alarms, etc.
- When a train passes where the riot is started, its engineer will get out, even though the train is indestructible.

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The Vegetarian Option: Chennai Garden Still Serves Excellent Indian Fare
Dining out meat-free.
There are some New York restaurants that stand the test of time: places that, no matter what trends storm the city—and then, inevitably, retreat—make excellent food, and stay true to their style regardless of what the times dictate.
Chennai Garden, the vegetarian Indian restaurant on Manhattan's Curry Hill, is one of those spots. For over a decade, it's been serving up southern Indian specialties like dosa, those huge, conical, paper-thin rice-flour crepes wrapped around savory fillings; vegetable curries in a variety of hues and styles; and flaky grilled breads. Though Lexington Avenue is lined with dozens of Indian options, Chennai Garden consistently sets itself apart with the freshness and intensity of flavor of its food. When eating the restaurant's rich dishes, you can tell that the spices the kitchen used were ground recently and toasted just right, and shreds of fresh cilantro and mint show up where other restaurants might not use the herbs at all.
Chennai Garden offers an expansive menu of appetizers, dosas, utthappam, or savory, spongy pancakes, vegetable curries and rice dishes, and when ordering, it's pretty much impossible to go wrong. But given that we reviewed the restaurant back in 2009, on this most recent trip, I chose some dishes we haven't written about on the site before.
Iddly ($6.45) are light rice- and lentil-flour cakes that arrive afloat in sambar, a tangy lentil broth studded with diced potatoes and zucchini and flavored with black mustard seeds that pop in your mouth. A sweet, hot chutney made with fresh coconut is served on the side.
If you like sourdough pancakes, you'll love mushroom utthappam ($8.95). It's basically a large pancake, the batter made with gram bean and rice flours, with sautéed mushrooms and cilantro cooked right into the top. Fluffy and stretchy, it, too, is accompanied by the aforementioned sambar and coconut chutney.
Chennai Garden offers over 20 varieties of vegetable curries. Navaratna koorma ($9.95) is a truly addictive mix of potatoes, carrots, onions, flat green beans, and tomatoes in a rich, buttery cream-based sauce. The vegetables are perfectly cooked, tender but not overdone, and are accented with just a touch of garlic and ginger.
Good Indian food tends to do well by the humble chickpea, and Chennai Garden is no exception. Its chana saag ($9.95, pictured at top) features the tender legumes and creamy fresh spinach in subtly spiced tomato gravy. It's wonderful spooned over the restaurant's fluffy, pea-studded basmati rice, or scooped up with any of its breads.
Southern Indian food is always a great option for vegetarians, and Chennai Garden's fare is a cut above its competitors.
Chennai Garden
129 East 27th Street, New York, NY 10016 (map) 212-689-1999
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New Yorkers are considered the the world's best tippers for a reason.
A 20% tip is the norm at Manhattan restaurants (some restaurants in tourist-heavy areas even go so far as to include tips in their totals just in case travelers stiff them).
But 14-year-old Japanese restaurant, Sushi Yasuda, is breaking the mold and banning tips altogether, reports food critic Ryan Sutton on his blog, The Price Hike.
Instead of a tip line, patrons now see this message at the bottom of their bill:
'Following the custom in Japan, Sushi Yasuda's service staff are fully compensated by their salary. Therefore gratuities are not accepted. Thank you."
"We are just taking tipping out of the equation," explained restaurant owner Scott Rosenberg.
But even though diners can get away without tipping, they aren't exactly getting a cheaper meal. Rosenberg has also raised the prices on menu items to make up for his no-tip policy.
Daisy Chung, executive director for Restaurant Opportunities Center of New York, a nonprofit that supports restaurant workers, told ABC News they're totally behind the idea.
"It started a good conversation about tips and restaurant compensation," Chung said. "We definitely feel there shouldn't be a separate system where tip workers rely on tips to subsidize their wages ... Workers should be fully compensated."
Rosenberg hasn't revealed how much his waitstaff are paid, but his restaurant is no dive. A meal for two at Sushi Yasuda could easily top $200 ( Yelp gives it four $ signs) — and potentially net a sizeable tip for a friendly waiter or waitress. Hopefully, their new salary is making up for the difference.


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All that $$! What to do with it?
DRAWING BY DEBORAH DERR McCLINTOCK
Q. Imagining the old expression "If I had all the money in the world, I would..." were taken literally, how much would you have? What might you buy? –D. Warbucks
A. First, you need to define what you mean by "money," says Fordham University economist Derrick Reagle. You might mean currency, or the kind of money you can put in a big pile and jump into.
Most products aren't bought with this kind of money, though. Checks, credit cards, and debit cards are fast outpacing the use of cash money. Add to this the multiplier effect whereby currency put in the bank can be reused by the bank making loans, and the amount of physical currency needed to sustain the economy dwindles.
In the U.S., cash money accounts for roughly $550 billion. Cash plus checking accounts (referred to as M1) equals about $1.5 trillion, and cash plus checking and savings (M2) is over $6 trillion. Total goods and services sold, however, are over $10 trillion.
"So maybe instead of asking for all the money in the world, you should ask for all the stuff, or to be king or emperor or something," Reagle says.
Now, to the world total: M1 here is roughly $6 trillion. The U.S. ratio between currency and M1 is about 1:3, smaller ratios for countries with less developed financial systems. Assuming a worldwide multiplier of 2, that's about $3 trillion worth of currency– or some 30 million S-class Mercedes, says Reagle.
Total goods and services is over $31 trillion worth. Therefore, you'd be able to buy only 1/10th worldwide production, "even less if you needed some money left over to buy a place in which to put it."
Q. If money is your motive, in which nation (currency) would you want to be a millionaire (1,000,000 or more)? U. Scrooge
A. Clearly something like the Japanese yen– one yen equals about $0.01 US– would be bad, says University of California-San Diego economist Richard Carson. A yen millionaire would have about $10,000 US, so forget buying that sporty new car.
The Turkish lira would be worse: one lira is about $0.0000007 US, so a million of these would be only $.70 US. Only a handful of currencies at the time of writing are worth more per unit than the US dollar: the Jordanian dinar at $1.41, the British pound at $1.67, and the Cyprus pound at $1.96.
"You would also rather be a millionaire in Euros, the new multi-nation European currency: One Euro = $1.15 US." For a universal currency converter, see www.xe.com.
Q. What is it about the frigid, barren Antarctic that has so many meteorites landing there? E. Shackleton
A. In fact, they fall about equally everywhere on Earth. It's just that the typical black-fusion meteorite crust stands out more against barren ice and snow, so tens of thousands of specimens have been found there, says the University of Pittsburgh's William Cassidy in Meteorites, Ice and Antarctica.
Also, without cars or people to disturb them, meteorites accumulate there in great numbers, often following ice "flows" into sample-rich areas. Antarctica is a meteorite hunter's heaven! But a second heaven is certain sandy desert regions, the Sahara and others, where for similar reasons more and more meteoritists have gone a-hunting in recent years.
In general, most meteorites are fragments of asteroids, "leftovers" of planet formation, so scientists can learn about the origin of the Earth, says University of Hawaii astronomer Joshua Barnes. A few are from the Moon or Mars, blasted into space by giant impacts on those worlds. Not just stony, a small fraction are iron with nickel mixed in. Rather rare are the carbonaceous meteorites, representing the oldest and best-preserved of the early Solar System.
BTW, what's a "meteoroid" in the high heavens becomes a fiery "meteor" ("shooting star" or "falling star") amid the frictions of Earth's atmosphere, and finally a "meteorite" at ground level if it gets this far.
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Microsoft is making changes to OneDrive storage plans for consumers and is committed to making this transition as smooth as possible. Changes include the following:
Plan to no longer offer unlimited storage to Office 365 Home, Personal, or University subscribers. Starting now, those subscriptions will include 1 TB of OneDrive storage.
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Free OneDrive storage will decrease from 15 GB to 5 GB for all users, current and new. The 15 GB camera roll storage bonus will also be discontinued. These changes will start rolling out in early 2016.


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Spirit Song: A Collection of Aboriginal Poetry
Omnibus Books, 1993 - Aboriginal Australian poetry - 78 pages
A collection for children of the work of 35 contemporary Aboriginal poets. Contributors include Oodgeroo of the tribe Noonuccal, Jack Davis, Archie Weller, Bobbi Sykes, Eva Johnson, Kevin Gilbert and Ruby Langford Ginibi. The compiler is an Aboriginal film maker and writer who acted as a cultural consultant for the films TThe Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith' and TThe Fringe Dwellers' and the TV series TWomen of the Sun'.
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I quit
Following from That Jess Ho's recent article, I think I can safely say that I quit foodblogging. That's not to say I've quit blogging altogether, more to say that blogging on one topic regularly is something that I'm simply not inspired to do anymore.
You can still find me on Twitter, or you can read my very sporadic posts over at Daily Trifles.
The Arrival
A Hiatus
A hiatus of sorts. If it wasn't already obvious, I'm about to have a baby. It's been rather distracting and poor little blog here has suffered. So I will be clear: I won't be posting unless I feel an overwhelming urge or desire. It may mean no posts for a year, or no posts for a few weeks. Who knows?
I would, however like to thank all you lovely people that have commented or emailed me over the years I've had this blog. It's been extremely gratifying.
The opportunities and the people I've met via this blog have truly enriched my life, and I hope it continues into the future.
Happy Eating!
So I haven't posted in a while, not because I don't want to but it just seems so much effort! With work piling on the pressure in my last few weeks, my sleep diminishing, my mobility reduced due to my ever expanding belly, poor tummyrumble has been neglected.
This is not to say that there hasn't been any eating or cooking going on. Far from it! Apart from hitting my regular haunts like Fix St James, Cafe Mint, Coast and newcomers Xanthi
and the relocated Becasse , and getting to know my local area with visits to Faheem Fast food
and Plunge Cafe and there is lots of cooking going on, albeit of the simpler kind.
One of the delicious treats on regular rotation at my house at the moment are these fantastic muffins from Bill Granger's Holiday Cookbook. A great, easy recipe that you can whip up super fast with just about any fruit going. I've tried the original recipe with it's pear, and have also used strawberries. Now a warning, these are not very sweet, but you can make them sweeter by adding a sweetened yoghurt or just adding more sugar. I also haven't added the topping which is where the additional sweetness comes from as I don't think it's necessary with the fruit.
Bill Granger's Crunchy Top Pear Muffins
- 1 cup plain flour
- 1/2 cup wholemeal flour
- 3 tsp baking powder
- 2 tsp ground cinnamon (with the strawberry I substituted some vanilla bean paste)
- 1 cup rolled oats
- 1/2 cup brown sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 cup plain yoghurt
- 1/2 cup grapeseed oil
- 1 pear, peeled and diced
- 1/4 cup brown sugar
- 1/3 cup pecans, finely chopped
Preheat oven to 180° and line a 12 hole muffin tin
Sift the flours, baking powder and cinnamon into a large bowl, add the oats and the 1/2 cup of brown sugar and stir together. Make a well in the centre
Whisk together the eggs, yoghurt, oil. Pour into the well in the dry ingredients and stir until just combined. Fold through pear, don't overmix.
Spoon into muffin tin.
To make crumble topping: mix pecans with remaining brown sugar and sprinkle over muffins
Bake for 20-25 minutes until golden.
Homemade Wagon Wheels
I'm now around 6 months pregnant, and really feeling it. Carrying around a large weight strapped to your front is disconcerting in so many ways, from trying to do up your shoelaces to sleeping. One of the odd things I've discovered about pregnancy is how my taste has changed. I used to be one of those people who looked at you disapprovingly if you added salt to your food without tasting it first, and though I taste my food first, I'm adding salt! I'm also consuming one small packet of Smith's Salt and Vinegar chips per week. Can't get enough of that salty goodness!
Conversely I'm also finding my taste for sugar has gone a little screwy. Things seem too sweet to me now. Recently I decided I needed a wagon wheel. I used to love these as a kid and my irrational pregnant mind compelled me to procure one to satisfy the desire. Stormie came home with two, and I popped one in my handbag in anticipation of devouring it at the movies. At the movies, I got ice cream instead, but I tried eating the Wagon wheel when I got home. I couldn't eat more than half of it. I was SO disappointed. It was so sweet it made my teeth hurt! To my tastebuds, the biscuit was too crumbly with what seemed like whole sugar crystals contributing to the biscuit's crumbliness. I then determined that I had to make my own.
In combination, I had also been musing on making marshmallows. Don't know why exactly, but it was probably inspired by David Lebovitz and Raspberri Cupcakes…So using this basic marshmallow recipe from Gourmet Traveller I set to making my own homemade wagon wheels!
A couple of tips before you get started:
- Make sure you have a sugar thermometer. Make sure it isn't a massive one like I have, as I couldn't actually use it properly without tipping the pot full of boiling sugar syrup so it would be deep enough to submerge.
- Make sure you oil every utensil you use: spatulas and spoons and palette knives etc…I just created a sticky mess everywhere and wasted about 1/4 of the marshmallow cause I just couldn't get it out of the bowl.
- Make sure you have everything ready to go; I found I got a bit flustered with this marshmallow recipe as it had instructions dependent on the syrup reaching a certain temperature. I managed, but I would have managed better if there was someone else in the kitchen!
When it comes to the biscuits themselves, I took a shortcut and decided against making them myself. So I bought two kinds after some discussion on twitter. I bought Marie biscuits and Granita biscuits. I prefer the Marie biscuits, as they're less sweet, crumbly and they're thinner than the Granita, but you can use whatever you want.
After making the marshmallow, lay out your biscuits ready to go and get to spreading that marshmallow. Don't go too thick as then there will be too much space round the edges for the chocolate to have to get into…with the other half of the biscuits also have them laid out and ready to spread with your choice of jam. I used the Anatoth raspberry jam and think it's perfect.
I ended up using 4 blocks of Lindt 70% dark chocolate, which is a perfect foil against all the sweetness.
So, the verdict? WAY better than the store bought kind. Less sweet, more tart from the good jam, and the darker, better quality chocolate makes a world of difference.


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An upgrade moves your PC from a previous version of Windows—such as Windows 7 or Windows 8.1—to Windows 10. An upgrade can take place on your existing device, though Microsoft recommends using Windows 10 on a new PC to take advantage of the latest features and security improvements. This FAQ is intended to answer questions about upgrading to Windows 10.
An update ensures you have the most recent features and security improvements for your current version of Windows. If you want to update your device and need more info, see Windows Update: FAQ.
If you're looking for info on a specific error code or having problems with product keys, see Get help with Windows activation errors. There, you can press CTRL+F and type or paste the error code or "product key" into the search box to find specific information about your code and how to resolve it.
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Blue Jays or vultures?
Toronto general manager Alex Anthopoulos not only circled the Miami Marlins and plucked some key elements for a win-now approach to 2013, he also positioned his team to swoop in on a suddenly vulnerable American League East.
Tuesday's 12-player trade hardly makes the Blue Jays favorites over a New York Yankees team that finished 22 games ahead of them this year — let alone the Baltimore Orioles and Tampa Bay Rays, who finished in between — but what better time to seize the moment?
BLOCKBUSTER: Blue Jays, Marlins pull off massive trade
STANTON: Unhappy with the Marlins trade
The Blue Jays suddenly have filled two-fifths of an injury-ravaged rotation with Josh Johnson and Mark Buehrle and added All-Star Jose Reyes at shortstop, a significant speed threat in Emilio Bonifacio — probably at second base — and catcher John Buck.
They've given up some prospects, but the only one who was in a position to help next season was infielder Adeiny Hechavarria.
They've taken on payroll — probably bumping up $25 million from this year's $83.7 million once they're done dealing with arbitration-eligible players.
But the long-term commitments aren't overwhelming, with Reyes costing them at least another $86 million for four seasons beyond next year's $10 million salary and Buehrle getting $37 million over the two seasons beyond 2013.
That's a significant investment but not one the Blue Jays aren't prepared to handle and hardly the kind of payroll angst the Yankees could be facing if their playoff swoon was less an aberration and more the aging of a pricey roster.
Factor in a Tampa Bay team that battles — albeit remarkably well — to remain competitive on a low budget, the partially gutted Boston Red Sox and the overachievers in Baltimore, and the time has never been better to make inroads in the division.
Even before the deal, health was at the root of any gains Toronto might make.
Home run champ Jose Bautista was limited to 92 games last season, though the 27 homers he hit and Edwin Encarnacion's career-high 42 without the protection of Bautista in the lineup for the final third of the season are quite the tease for what could be coming.
No matter how much offense the Blue Jays might muster, they weren't going far without starting pitching after injuries took away four of their starters. Johnson, with one year left on his contract, and 33-year-old Buehrle at least provide a bridge for the Blue Jays to find out if Kyle Drabek and Drew Hutchison will be healthy and up to speed come 2014.
Plus, they didn't touch the core of a vibrant clubhouse, keeping blossoming star Brett Lawrie at third base and catcher J.P. Arencibia, one of their emotional leaders.
Arencibia and Buck provide protection until top catching prospect Travis d'Arnaud arrives in next year.
The Blue Jays might already have arrived.


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Super Bowl XLVII will be the final game for Baltimore Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis. San Francisco 49ers wide receiver Randy Moss possibly could go out on top as well. But don't bring up the "R" word with Ravens safety Ed Reed.
"I'll be playing next year. Next question," Reed said, via The Baltimore Sun.
Reed made it clear this won't be his "last ride."
"I just bought a bike," Reed said.
Reed has waffled on retirement in the past, but he seems definitive here. Still, there's no guarantee that Reed will continue playing with the Ravens. Reed has done an effective job helping to prevent big plays against Denver Bronocs quarterback Peyton Manning and New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady this offseason.
Reed is headed for unrestricted free agency after the season, and he would attract great interest from teams around the NFL, including the Patriots. The Ravens could use the franchise tag on Reed, but they might need to save it for quarterback Joe Flacco.
To prepare for San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick in the Super Bowl, Reed has been watching film on Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Michael Vick. Reed might have to help more in run support while also trying to shut down Kaepernick's deep passes up the seam.
This could be Reed's last game as a Raven. He's still one of the big keys to their defense.
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Datawind, a British manufacturer producing wireless web-access products, has developed a new Android tablet computer that has reviewers buzzing. The Aakash 2 uses an LCD touchscreen display that can browse the web and hold up to video gaming.
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SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO, CA. – Capistrano Unified School District is serving nutritious meals every school day under the National School Lunch Program and School Breakfast Program. Effective July 1, 2017, through June 30, 2018, children are eligible for free or reduced-price meals if the household income is less than or equal to the federal guidelines below.
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Any household member receiving benefits from CalFresh, CalWORKs, or FDPIR should receive a notification letter stating all children within the household will automatically qualify for free meals. Children who meet the definition of foster, homeless, migrant, or runaway and children enrolled in their school's Head Start program are eligible for free meals. Therefore, the household does not need to complete a meal application. Contact school officials if any child within the household is not on the notification letter. The household must inform school officials if they do not want to receive free or reduced-price meals.
Applications will be sent to the household with a letter about the free and reduced-price meal program. Households wanting to apply for meal benefits must fill out one application for all children in the household, and give it to the Food and Nutrition Services office at 32972 Calle Perfecto, San Juan Capistrano, CA 92675. For a simple and secure method to apply, use our online application at https://www.lunchapplication.com. Contact Food and Nutrition Services at (949) 234-9509 for help filling out the application. Food and Nutrition Services will let you know by letter if your application is approved or denied for free or reduced-price meals.
Households may turn in an application at any time during the school year. If you are not eligible now, but your household income decreases, household size increases, or a household member begins receiving CalFresh, CalWORKs, or FDPIR, you may turn in an application at that time. Information submitted on the application will be used to determine eligibility, and may be verified at any time during the school year by school officials. The last four digits of the Social Security number from any adult in the household (or noting on the application that you do not have a Social Security number), is required if you include income on the application.
Households receiving the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) benefits, may be eligible for free or reduced-price meals by filling out an application.
Foster children are eligible for free meals. Foster children may be included as a household member, if the foster family chooses to also apply for the non-foster children on the same application. The foster children, as a household member, may help the non-foster children qualify for free or reduced-price meals. If the non-foster children are not eligible this does not keep foster children from receiving free meals.
Your child's eligibility status from last school year will continue into the new school year for up to 30 school days, or until the school processes your new application, or your child is otherwise certified for free or reduced-price meals. After the 30 school days, your child will have to pay full price for meals, unless the household receives a notification letter for free or reduced-price meals. School officials do not have to send reminder or expired eligibility notices.
If you do not agree with the decision or results of verification, you may discuss it with school officials. You also have the right to a fair hearing, which may be requested by calling or writing the hearing official: Kristin Hilleman, 32972 Calle Perfecto, San Juan Capistrano, CA 92675, (949) 234-9501.
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A Sussex Police Chief Inspector has issued an update on the ongoing haze incident – which police have speculated could be chlorine.
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Donors Needed for Blood Drive in SeaTac Monday, Feb. 4
A Blood Drive will be held at Peace of Prince Lutheran Church in SeaTac on Monday, Feb. 4th, and donors are needed.
This is a walk-in event – no appointments are necessary – and will be in the Fellowship Hall of Prince of Peace Lutheran , located at 19030 8th. Ave. S. in SeaTac.
Please note earlier than usual blood drive hours:
- 12:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. (closed 2:30 pm to 3:30 pm)
Blood center employees were notified of the following patients receiving blood transfusions this past week:
- A 30 year old male at a local hospital underwent open heart surgery and needed 10 red blood cell units, 18 plasma units and 6 platelet units.
- A 35 year old female needed 10 red blood cell units and 6 plasma units after hemorrhaging following a routine C-section.
- A 60 year old male has so far used 12 red blood cell units, 11 plasma units and 1 platelet unit while undergoing a liver transplant.
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The 2016 Mercedes-Maybach S600 is a stately land yacht with features such as six-way massaging seats and an optional Champagne cooler with silver-plated Champagne flutes, and it's powered by a 6.0-liter V-12 biturbo engine in a ride so smooth that the kids fall asleep within minutes. It elicits awe if not outright envy. And the $200,000 tag is actually a value.
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Spin Alternative Record Guide
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America's premiere alternative music magazine presents a book of outrageously opinionated reviews of the essential albums of punk, new wave, indie rock, grunge, and rap. Its abundantly illustrated, full-color pages provide in-depth and informative record reviews on the widest possible scale of alternative music. National ads/media.
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NEW YORK — This week, the streets of midtown Manhattan will once again swarm with TV executives trying to woo ad buyers to their upcoming fall lineups with splashy presentations, star-packed cocktail parties and plentiful swag.
But there's an air of urgency for the suits at the legacy networks — CBS, NBC, ABC and Fox. They've been rocked by an ominous first: A basic cable program — AMC's zombie apocalypse drama "The Walking Dead" — outperformed every scripted show on television this season in the advertiser-coveted 18- to 49-year-old demographic.
And zombies are the least of it. Competition is closing in from every corner and on every device. DVRs are frustrating advertisers by allowing viewers to skip ads. Netflix, Amazon and a host of online Web services are producing original fare. Aereo, mogul Barry Diller's new service that allows broadcast signals to be watched on hand-held devices, poses another threat that the networks are trying to extinguish with litigation.
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In this environment, TV executives at the annual upfronts starting Monday must pitch their new shows after a season most notable for its failure to produce a single hit. Not surprisingly, most analysts expect tepid advance sales for prime-time commercials, with possibly zero growth over last year's $9.2 billion. Meanwhile, analysts predict cable's share of the pie will continue to grow, up as much as 7%, to an estimated $10 billion.
"I don't think it's an exaggeration at all to say this season was a tipping point," said Matti Leshem, chief executive of the brand strategy company Protagonist. "If I were a network executive right now, I'd be very nervous, because we have finally reached a point where everyone is questioning the efficacy of television as a medium for reaching audiences, which is really what this is all about."
What can the networks do? Some expect broadcasters to borrow from basic cable's playbook next season to help reverse their sagging fortunes.
Like cable, the broadcast networks may experiment more with shortened seasons, down to a number where creative quality is easier to maintain. Also, as with cable, the networks may turn more toward a format that they abandoned years ago — the miniseries, which has brought cable record-setting numbers with productions such as "Hatfields & McCoys" and "The Bible."
The greater pressure, however, is to generate a breakout prime-time program on the new fall lineups — something the networks were unable to do this season despite dozens of attempts with dramas, comedies and reality shows. In the fall, NBC seemed to have a bona fide sensation going with the freshman post-apocalyptic drama "Revolution," but after a four-month hiatus, ratings slid more than 40% from the premiere.
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"It's very simple," said Brad Adgate, an analyst with the ad firm Horizon Media. "They need to get a hit show and schedule it right."
The forces seem to be making the networks more conservative in their program development. The days of swinging for the fences are over. Executives seem more content to renew familiar shows, even ones with anemic ratings, rather than take a flier on risky new concepts.
Thus, modestly performing series such as NBC's "Parenthood," CBS' "The Good Wife" and Fox's "The Mindy Project" have already gotten nods for this fall.
Most of the new program announcements, including new shows, time slots and cancellations, will be made this week at individual presentations to ad buyers by the four legacy networks. But some details began coming out last week.
By Friday, Fox and NBC executives had already announced their selections for more than a dozen shows for next season. With few exceptions, the dramas and comedies were set on familiar territory — cops, lawyers and families. NBC will post the crime drama "The Blacklist" with James Spader at 10 p.m. Mondays, while a remake of the 1970s detective show "Ironside" will run on Wednesdays. NBC's Thursdays will be oriented around family-themed comedies with sitcom veterans Michael J. Fox and Sean Hayes.
"They don't have the tolerance for risk," said Kevin Aratari, managing director of the Los Angeles-based ad firm Mocean. "They can't put a million dollars or more an episode [on the line] and have a show flop."
FALL SCHEDULE: NBC releases upcoming prime-time lineup
TV bosses also hope their existing series will last long enough to catch on — much as "The Big Bang Theory" did for CBS. Once the sitcom about Cal Tech nerds found its way to syndicated reruns, the audience for fresh episodes exploded. As home of the hits "The Big Bang Theory" and "NCIS," CBS looks poised to win this season in both total viewers and adults ages 18 to 49, according to Nielsen.
But even with a victory, CBS' ratings will probably remain flat among viewers in that all-important demographic. Meanwhile, the other three major networks all saw their audiences shrink among 18- to 49-year-olds.
"This is an incredibly tough environment we're in right now, and even getting people to sample shows is much harder than even just two or three years ago," said Joe Earley, chief operating officer at Fox Broadcasting.
Although the broadcast networks may no longer have the benefit of being the first place viewers go to check out new shows, the sheer volume of programming they create compared to cable outlets continues to give them an edge, according to analysts.
"Broadcast networks have a deeper bench. AMC can have big numbers for 'The Walking Dead,' but it's just one show," Adgate said. "CBS has like 10 shows that do that number."
To attract viewers who might otherwise flee to FX, HBO or AMC, the networks may need to break some old habits. One way may be to abbreviate seasons for some shows, from as many as 24 episodes, as is customary now, to 13 or fewer, where it's easier to sustain a compelling narrative. Fox took a step in that direction midseason with 13 episodes of "The Following," an edgy serial-killer drama starring Kevin Bacon that was a modest hit.
After retiring the model years ago, the networks also seem ready to reembrace the miniseries format. CBS this summer has an adaptation of Stephen King's novel "Under the Dome." ABC and Fox have already announced their own miniseries projects, and NBC will soon hire an executive to find and oversee new long-form shows, according to a person familiar with the matter who spoke on condition of anonymity to avoid damaging relationships.
Still, even if these new strategies make inroads in the new season, it's unclear whether that would be enough to restore broadcast's place as the dominant entertainment platform — instead of merely a dominant one.
That's the kind of thought that could sober up any upfront party.
"It's like the Wild West a bit right now," Aratari said. "And no one has it nailed down."
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In what was billed as the pitching duel of the early season between two of the top pitchers in the Atlantic Sun, as well as the nation, Kiihnl prevailed 4-0 over USC Upstate's Morgan Childers. In game two Kiihnl, serving as designated player, led with three hits and three runs batted in, both game highs as the Lady Bisons won 6-1.
"Upstate brings a lot of challenges," Lady Bisons coach Kristin Ryman said. "The top of their order is as good as anybody in our league.
"We beat her but I will still say that Morgan Childers is one of the best pitchers in our league. They play the way it is supposed to be played. They play hard. They get after it. They don't run their mouths. I love playing competitors like that. They challenged us from the first pitch to the last."
Kiihnl entered the weekend ranked No. 1 nationally in the NCAA in hits allowed per seven innings (1.89). Childers was second with 2.15. Childers opened the weekend first in strikeouts nationally with 13.5 per game. She was also second nationally in earned run average (0.42).
Kiihnl, 16-2, allowed five hits on and struck out eight on the way to her seventh shutout of the season and her eighth complete game. It was the second shutout of the weekend for Kiihnl who blanked ETSU 5-0 Friday night.
The Lady Bisons have 15 shutouts this season, two short of tying their program record of 17 set last season.
Childers gave up eight hits. All four runs were earned. She walked two and struck out seven. Her record is 17-3.
It was a pitcher's duel until the bottom of the fourth inning when the Lady Bisons managed to score one run. Kellie Sirus was hit by a pitch to open the inning. She moved to second on a sacrifice bunt by Billington. Christen Campbell walked. Mollie Mitchell drove a ground ball single through the left side to score Sirus.
"We both knew that we had to make something happen as early as we could in the game," Ryman said. "We didn't have a ton of hits, but we put some things together at the right time that really helped us get on the boards."
They had stalled Courtney Billington on third base in the second after she tripled to center field with one out. In the third the Lady Bisons had runners on first and second with one out but could not score.
The Lady Bisons scored three runs in the fifth. Lauren Dortwegt led off with a single to deep center. She advanced to second on a sacrifice bunt by Mackenzie Tucker. Abby Keese singled to bring in Dortwegt. Sirus then doubled to left to send Keese across the plate. Campbell followed with a double to left that scored Sirus.
Campbell pitched a complete game for her sixth win in eight decisions. She scattered seven hits and struck out six. She did not walk a batter. The run she allowed was unearned.
"Christen is not going to wow anyone with her speed, but she has great movement," Ryman said. "She has really taken the movement on some of her pitches to the next level this year. That has made a world of difference for her.
"She has always been a competitor on the mound. She loves having the ball in her hand on the mound. Our team finds ways to win playing behind her."
The game was scoreless until the bottom of the fifth. Mitchell opened the inning with a double to left. With one out, Kiihnl singled and moved to second on the throw. Dortwegt grounded out to the shortstop, allowing Mitchell to score. Kiihnl also scored.
"Early on in both games we left runners in scoring position," Ryman said. "Ideally, you don't want that. But we kept after it and kept fighting to find a way to push some runs across."
The Lady Bisons added four runs in the sixth. Keese singled. The next two batters were out. Campbell then singled to right. Mitchell singled to center scoring Keese. Bree Thurman walked. With the bases loaded Kiihnl tripled to left, her first college triple, to bring in Campbell, Mitchell and Thurman home.
"When Mollie believes she can do something she can do some amazing things with the bat," Ryman said. "We tell her to quit thinking and to swing the bat hard. When she swings the bat hard very good things happen for her. "
The Lady Bisons are 4-0 in the A-Sun and have won four straight games. They are 24-7 overall. Upstate had an eight-game winning streak end. They are 19-6 overall, 2-2 in the conference.
Tuesday the Lady Bisons are traveling to Bowling Green for a single game with Western Kentucky starting at 5 p.m.
Written by Mark McGee, Senior Publisher/Director of Media Relations.


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Google started rolling out Google+ custom vanity URLs to a limited number of verified and pre-approved Google+ accounts last week. According to Google, Google+ custom URLs are a short and easy way to remember web addresses for Google+ profiles and pages. In fact, Google+ vanity URLs are similar to existing profiles.google.com URLs, only shorter. Did you know that when Google+ Custom URLs are activated, in many cases profiles.google.com URLs stop working? Either way, here are a few things you should probably know about Google+ Custom URLs.
Google+ Custom URL: Customization
Believe it or not, Google+ Custom URLs allow for further customization because they can be used along with various Google TLDs and even domain names.
TIP: Unfortunately Google+ custom URLs are not currently accessible via G.co or Goo.gl however, you can probably expect to see a similar but shorter paid service like this in the future.
Google+ Custom URL: Deep Linking
Google+ Custom URLs allow for deep linking to "posts," "about," "photos," "videos" and "plusone" pages by simply adding the page name after the trailing slash in custom URLs.
- Google.com/+Google/posts
- Google.com/+Google/about
- Google.com/+Google/photos
- Google.com/+Google/videos
- Google.com/+Google/plusones
TIP: even though you can add "posts" as a deep link, that is not be necessary when "posts" are the same as the default page or when "posts" pages specify the default URL as the canonical.
Google+ Custom URL: Speed
Google+ Custom URLs take considerably longer to load than the actual page. When tested with WebPageTest.org using the default test, my custom URL took more than a second longer to load than the actual page. This issue is caused in part by the multiple redirects put in place by Google. (In fairness however, the default test used by WebPageTest.org originates from Dulles, VA using IE 8 via DSL.)
TIP: Technically capitalization does not matter for Google+ Custom URLs. At the same time, not capitalizing first letters in names of profile page URLs often results in the need for an additional redirect which slows page load speed even more.
Google+ Custom URL: Canonicals & Duplicate Content
Google+ custom URLs are short, easy to post, more recognizable to users and search friendly in some ways but not others. With Google+ custom URLs there is little need to worry about canonicalization, duplicate content or custom URL content appearing in organic search results. Behind the scenes, Google is using a series of 301 and 302 redirects in conjunction with the rel=canonical attribute to help ensure that preferred content and vanity URLs both appear in organic search results. The down side for PageRank fans, usually 302 redirects do not pass PageRank or link equity signals. That said, Google can treat on-site 302 redirects as 301s if it chooses.
Google+ Custom URL: Process
Google pre-assigns one unique and individual custom URL per user or organizations. Custom URLs should reflect real names and must be 6 characters long or more. Even though it is possible to appeal Google's pre-assigned custom URL, not everyone is currently eligible for this service. Currently you can only claim Google+ custom URLs via a desktop computer. Mobile devices and pads are not supported.
Google+ Custom URL: Invites
In order to claim a free custom URL for Google+, users and business accounts must be verified and enabled for this service by Google. Currently there is no way to enable custom URLs manually. As a result, there is no way to request an invite for Google+ Custom URLs and no way to invite others. Google will be rolling out Google+ custom vanity URLs over the next few weeks and months. For now, checking your Google+ profile regularly and monitoring your email for an invite are about all you can do. Either way, GOOD LUCK and please be sure to follow Google.com/+BrianUssery


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|Classic Southern Pecan Pie Muffins - 5 simple ingredients and tastes like pecan pie!
Southern Pecan Pie MuffinsI had a taste for these classic Pecan Pie Muffins the other day, so while it's practically a no-recipe, recipe that is in most every Southerner's recipe box, here they are. I'm afraid the younger generation has lost touch with these anyway so maybe somebody will come along who hasn't every heard of them! If that's you, they are rich, chewy muffins that tastes a lot like a piece of pecan pie. They really do!
It may seem odd to have a muffin with no added leavening. To be perfectly honest, I've tried them with self-rising flour and they are delicious but not quite the same. The recipe will work with either flour though. They are a little bit sticky and delicate, so until you make them a few times I advise using paper liners in your muffin tin just for ease of removal. Lightly spray the paper cups with non-stick spray though so that the muffin doesn't try to adhere to the paper making them crumble to pieces when you pull the paper off.
Look how nice and tender these are and of course, there's plenty of pecan. They are also very nice as mini muffins, just check them a bit earlier and remove them from the pan as soon as you possibly can.
Common on the potluck, funeral food and other social event circles, these delightful muffins are always a hit no matter where you take them, so be prepared to offer up the recipe, just in case somebody doesn't have it. They may not be like your usual classic muffins, but they're super easy to make - 5 simple ingredients is all there is to it.
Recipe: Southern Pecan Pie Muffins©From the Kitchen of Deep South Dish
Prep time: 10 min |Cook time: 25 min | Yield: 12 muffins
- 1/2 cup (1 stick) of unsalted butter
- 1 cup of light brown sugar, packed
- 2 large eggs
- 1/2 cup of all purpose flour
- 1 cup of chopped pecans
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Line a 12 cup muffin tin with foil muffin liners and spray the liners with Baker's Joy non-stick spray, or use a silicone muffin pan.
Cream the butter until smooth; add the sugar and beat until blended. Add the eggs, one at a time, and beat in. Add the flour and the pecans and fold in gently until blended; do not beat. Spoon the batter into the muffin tins a little more than halfway full. Bake at 350 degrees F for about 20 to 25 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the center muffins comes out clean. Transfer to a cooling rack.
Cook's Notes: These are a bit sticky and delicate, so until you make them a few times I advise using paper liners in your muffin tin just for ease of removal. Lightly spray the paper cups with non-stick spray, so that the muffin doesn't try to adhere to the paper, making them crumble when you pull the paper off. Doubles great for 24 muffins.
Variation: May also use dark brown sugar. Do these as bite sized mini-muffins, perfect for parties, but start checking those at about 12-15 minutes. You'll get about 2-1/2 dozen.
Tip: If you aren't using liners, allow the muffins to cool in the pan for about 10 minutes before removing, unless you are making mini-muffins. Remove those as soon as you can easily manage them and set on a cooling rack to finish cooling.
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11-24 SEC Approves Consolidated FINRA Customer Order Protection Rule; Effective Date: September 12, 2011
09-14 SEC Approves Alternative Means for Calculating the Minimum Price-Improvement Obligations Under Certain Circumstances; Effective Date: February 11, 2009
08-49 FINRA Announces Effective Date for Expansion of NASD IM-2110-2 to OTC Equity Securities and Revised Minimum Price-Improvement Standards in IM-2110-2 Effective Date: November 11, 2008
08-31 SEC Approves Exemption from the Requirements in NASD IM-2110-2 and NASD Rule 2111 for Certain Regulation NMS-Compliant Intermarket Sweep Orders Effective Date: May 6, 2008
07-19 SEC Approves Amendments to Expand IM-2110-2 to Include OTC Equity Securities; Effective Date: July 26, 2007
05-69 SEC Approves New Rule 2111 Prohibiting Members from Trading Ahead of Customer Market Orders Under Certain Circumstances
05-64 SEC Approves Amendments to IM-2110-2 to Require Members to Provide Price Improvement to Customer Limit Orders in Certain Circumstances and to Expand IM-2110-2 to Exchange-Listed Securities
95-67 NASD Clarifies The Expanded Limit-Order Protection Interpretation
95-43 SEC Approves Expanded Limit-Order Protection Rule
90-37 Proposed New Rule Re: Handling Customer Limit Orders; Last Voting Date: July 5, 1990
89-39 Proposed New Rule Re: Handling Customer Limit Orders Last Voting Date: June 1, 1989
5320. Prohibition Against Trading Ahead of Customer Orders
• • • Supplementary Material: --------------
.01 Large Orders and Institutional Account Exceptions. With respect to orders for customer accounts that meet the definition of an "institutional account" as defined in Rule 4512(c), or for orders of 10,000 shares or more (unless such orders are less than $100,000 in value), a member is permitted to trade a security on the same side of the market for its own account at a price that would satisfy such customer order, provided that the member has provided clear and comprehensive written disclosure to such customer at account opening and annually thereafter that:
.02 No-Knowledge Exception
.03 Riskless Principal Exception. The obligations under this Rule shall not apply to a member's proprietary trade if such proprietary trade is for the purposes of facilitating the execution, on a riskless principal basis, of an order from a customer (whether its own customer or the customer of another broker-dealer) (the "facilitated order"), provided that the member:
.04 ISO Exception. A member shall be exempt from the obligation to execute a customer order in a manner consistent with this Rule with regard to trading for its own account that is the result of an intermarket sweep order routed in compliance with Rule 600(b)(30)(ii) of SEC Regulation NMS ("ISO") where the customer order is received after the member routed the ISO. Where a member routes an ISO to facilitate a customer order and that customer has consented to not receiving the better prices obtained by the ISO, the member also shall be exempt with respect to any trading for its own account that is the result of the ISO with respect to the consenting customer's order.
.05 Odd Lot and Bona Fide Error Transaction Exceptions. The obligations under this Rule shall not apply to a member's proprietary trade that is (1) to offset a customer order that is in an amount less than a normal unit of trading; or (2) to correct a bona fide error. Members are required to demonstrate and document the basis upon which a transaction meets the bona fide error exception.
.06 Minimum Price Improvement Standards. The minimum amount of price improvement necessary for a member to execute an order on a proprietary basis when holding an unexecuted limit order in that same security, and not be required to execute the held limit order is as follows:
.07 Order Handling Procedures. A member must make every effort to execute a marketable customer order that it receives fully and promptly. A member that is holding a customer order that is marketable and has not been immediately executed must make every effort to cross such order with any other order received by the member on the other side of the market up to the size of such order at a price that is no less than the best bid and no greater than the best offer at the time that the subsequent order is received by the member and that is consistent with the terms of the orders. In the event that a member is holding multiple orders on both sides of the market that have not been executed, the member must make every effort to cross or otherwise execute such orders in a manner that is reasonable and consistent with the objectives of this Rule and with the terms of the orders. A member can satisfy the crossing requirement by contemporaneously buying from the seller and selling to the buyer at the same price.
.08 Trading Outside Normal Market Hours. Members generally may limit the life of a customer order to the period of normal market hours of 9:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Eastern Time. However, if the customer and member agree to the processing of the customer's order outside normal market hours, the protections of this Rule shall apply to that customer's order(s) at all times the customer order is executable by the member.
Amended by SR-FINRA-2019-009 eff. May 8, 2019.
Amended by SR-FINRA-2012-027 eff. July 9, 2012.
Amended by SR-FINRA-2011-063 eff. Apr. 16, 2012.
Amended by SR-FINRA-2011-065 eff. Dec. 5, 2011.
Amended by SR-FINRA-2009-090 eff. Sept. 12, 2011.
Amended by SR-FINRA-2009-037 eff. June 29, 2009.
Amended by SR-FINRA-2008-064 eff. Feb. 11, 2009.
Amended by SR-FINRA-2007-023 eff. Nov. 16, 2007; amended by SR-FINRA-2007-038 eff. Dec. 21, 2007; amended by SR-NASD-2007-041 Nov. 11, 2008.
Amended by SR-FINRA-2007-039 eff. May 6, 2008.
Amended by SR-NASD-2007-039 eff. July 26, 2007.
Amended by SR-NASD-2005-146 eff. July 26, 2007.
Amended by SR-NASD-2006-134 eff. Dec. 8, 2006.
Amended by SR-NASD-2005-087 eff. Aug. 1, 2006.
Amended by SR-NASD-2006-069 eff. July 1, 2006.
Amended by SR-NASD-2006-035 eff. April 14, 2006.
Amended by SR-NASD-2005-139 eff. Jan. 9, 2006.
Amended by SR-NASD-2004-045 eff. Jan. 9, 2006.
Amended by SR-NASD-2004-089 eff. Jan. 2, 2006.
Amended by SR-NASD-2005-085 eff. July 1, 2005.
Amended by SR-NASD-2003-14 eff. January 31, 2003.
Amended by SR-NASD-2002-66 eff. Dec. 13, 2002.
Amended by SR-NASD-2001-27 eff. April 6, 2001.
Amended by SR-NASD-2001-09 eff. March 2, 2001.
Amended by SR-NASD-99-57 eff. Oct. 25, 1999.
Amended by SR-NASD-99-44 eff. Sept. 10, 1999.
Amended by SR-NASD-94-62 eff. June 21, 1995.
Adopted by SR-NASD-93-58 eff. July 7, 1994.
Selected Notices: 89-39, 90-37, 95-43, 95-67, 05-64, 05-69, 07-19, 08-31, 08-49, 09-14, 11-24.


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CrowdMapping the Chicago Blizzard
Last week Chicago experienced its third-largest blizzard on record. When we came into the newsroom on Monday morning, forecasters were warning us that it a big one was on the way. Our team considered various ways we could contribute to covering the story and decided to focus on implementating a variation on the Snowmageddon Cleanup project originally launched by PICnet with the Washington Post in the wake of the February 2010 DC blizzard.
Put simply, Snowmageddon Cleanup is a tool meant to help connect people who need shovels with people who have them. The tool is built on an open source application called Ushahidi which drew much attention after it was deployed to help with crisis response after the January 2010 earthquake in Haiti. The Ushahidi team provides a hosted solution at Crowdmap.com which makes setting up an instance quite easy, so we spent Monday configuring a basic setup modeled off of Snowmageddon Cleanup hosted at ChicagoSnow.CrowdMap.com. While we were setting up, our friend Justin Massa of the Metro Chicago Information Center volunteered to help with administration and outreach, including asking MCIC intern Resney Gugwor to serve as a report moderator as well. Deborah Shaddon, the Chicago city lead for CrisisCommons, also found us and introduced us to a number of enthusiastic volunteers from the wider community.
On Tuesday we configured our CrowdMap to accept reports by email and SMS in addition to the web form, and we worked with our colleagues around the Tribune to publicize the service. By midnight on our first day we'd approved 192 reports, and many more came in overnight. Things really picked up speed at the end of the workday on Wednesday: as our team went home and left the administration unattended for a couple of hours, more than 200 reports came in. We rallied the troops and spent the evening approving reports and looking for any reports which seemed to merit some kind of additional follow-up (more on that later), set up a project twitter handle (@ChiSnowMap), and wondered what we'd gotten ourselves into.
Thursday brought another nearly 300 reports, although spaced out more evenly through the day. By Sunday morning when we disabled submission of new reports, we had received about 1,100 reports, of which 1,053 were approved and posted on the site.
We were excited that so many Chicagoans heard about the map and chose to use it to report issues, offer help, and tell stories of "victories". However, looking back, it's hard to gauge just how much help the system provided. Here are a few things we've identified which we will do differently if we do something like this again.
More Partners
Erik Hersman, one of the creators of Ushahidi, observed that technology was only 10% of their solution. That sounds about right, especially because in our case we had only to do minimal configuration of an existing tool. In the future, we'd like to work more closely with government agencies, other media organizations, and independent civic groups to be more sure of connecting all the dots.
Specifically, even if we work more closely with the city, I don't think we are going to be dispatching plows based on crowd reports. Streets & Sanitation has a process, and they aren't looking to us to supersede the city's own 311 call center. I'd prefer a tool that is more clearly organized around helping citizens help each other in the many small ways that 311 could never handle. (Of course, it's also technically feasible that we could set up a bridge between a crowd-sourced solution and the city's 311 system so that calls they get which are not "actionable" could be routed to the crowd tool, and also administrators could forward requests which are for the city to cover directly into the 311 system.)
And if the site is more organized around neighborly help, it would be good to work with volunteer organizations like Rotary, Kiwanis, scout troops, churches, and the like to get more offers for help in the system and to have more eyes reviewing the site and helping to match offers for help with requests.
Finally, while we appreciated the story leads we gathered from the tool (see below), we're much more interested in making sure that everyone who could benefit from it knows about it. Next time we'll work with any interested local media organizations to set up a site in partnership, so that there are no obstacles to them promoting it widely.
Review Software Options
CrowdMap was a good solution because it didn't require writing any code, and only took a few hours to configure. However, the flip-side of easy-to-launch is that less customization is available. We might have liked to have a few extra pages of information or resources, or to put more specific text on the "submit a report" form. Ushahidi (CrowdMap's big brother) is also available for installation on our own servers, and if we went that route, we could almost certainly have added those kinds of customizations.
While Ushahidi and CrowdMap dominate the discussion of crowd-based crisis response applications, we began to wonder if it was actually designed to solve problems other than ours. Ushahidi's origin was in collecting reports of violence during elections in Kenya. Administrators would then edit the reports with assessments of "source reliability" and "information probability," with the ultimate goal of marking reports as "verified." We weren't particularly concerned with making those calls for the reports we received.
In retrospect, we were thinking of problem reports as bugs which needed fixing. (We are software developers, after all.) We were looking for ways to adapt CrowdMap to work more like a bug tracker, allowing us to indicate that a report had been assigned to someone, or that it had been resolved and could be hidden from the default view. We tried a few hacks using categories and editing report titles, but didn't quite find a strategy that satisfied. If Ushahidi will continue to be deployed in this kind of situation, it might benefit from building in a few concepts from the world of bug-tracking software.
One specific challenge we encountered was maintaining contact with people reporting issues. In some cases people made pretty specific requests for help, but did not provide any contact information, or if they did, they provided it in fields which are not public by default. Since we weren't going to be able to help each person making a request, it would have been better if helpers could directly contact people in need. We had at least one case where a helpful citizen went to a specific address which was posted, but couldn't reach the resident to establish exactly what help was needed.
Of course, there are conventional bug-tracker applications which I guess could be applied to a situation like this, although I don't know of any which integrate with a map or with SMS-reporting, and most bug-trackers would be intimidating to regular folks. There are also existing "civic bug trackers" like SeeClickFix which are in some ways closer to what, in retrospect, we wanted, although we'd have to do more development of our own to customize it for a specific event.
The News Angle
While it wasn't our primary goal, it's worth noting that reports to the Crowd Map did support some of the Tribune's reporting. Early on Wednesday morning, an editor identified about a dozen sources to contact for more detailed accounts of their blizzard experiences, and those supported several stories including this one.
In Closing
It's hard to tell just what impact we had with the crowd map. While they were a small fraction of our overall reports, we did have about fifty people offering help and another 50 reporting victories (my favorite: "Here in Logan Square, I went outside with my boyfriend to build a snowman and came back inside with a fiance. This blizzard's not so bad after all.") I'd like to think that even more people would have helped each other out if we could tune the tools and the process a little bit. And there was clearly a lot of enthusiasm for the general idea.
Major thanks are due to:
- my NewsApps teammates, Brian Boyer, Christopher Groskopf, Ryan Mark and Ryan Nagle, for all kinds of contributions to setting up and managing the application;
- Justin Massa and Resney Gugwor of MCIC, who also helped administer, and to Justin also for working his many contacts to spread the word about the site;
- Jessica Jackson for approving reports, researching and entering dozens of shelters and parking accomodations as 'solutions', and going out with a shovel when a "dig me out" report from her neighborhood came in;
- Jenni Prokopy for researching medical options for people who feared missing dialysis treatments if they didn't get plowed out;
- Daniel X. O'Neil for helping clear out reports during the Wednesday evening burst;
- Deb Shaddon and Heather Blanchard for connecting us to the CrisisCommons and CrisisCamp Chicago communities;
- the Ushahidi/CrowdMap team, for providing an out-of-the-box solution;
- Mobile Commons, for donating an SMS code;
- Laura Lanford and Daniel Edwards from Chicago CERT, Cathy Graham and Chris Thompson from Humanity Road, and Jus Mackinnon, from southern England for helping garcinia cambogia reviews reports and look for people in urgent need;
- @ColonelTribune and many other folks on twitter for helping to spread the word.
Things were moving fast most of the week, and I may well have overlooked other helpers; if so, I sincerely apologize.
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Hello Joe,
Thank you for sharing your thoughts, our team is glad that you found Crowdmap useful. We are available to work with you in future to do a mapping that is more geared towards neighbourly help, similar to what was accomplished with the snowmaggedon DC and BOS maps. Thank you also for the feedback, Crowdmap's elder brother is definitely more extensible with plugins that can provide more functionality beyond what comes out of the box. http://apps.ushahidi.com/
Kudos to your team!
Thanks for the behind the scenes look. Two thoughts specific to snow crisis mapping
– Is it possible to get details of the city's plow plans, or even some kind of semi-realtime updates on where plows have been dispatched?
– Out here in the burbs, there were kids going door to door looking to make a few bucks helping people shovel out. Could be another angle.
Joe, this post has been absolutely invaluable for us. Thank you for taking the time to delve deeply into your experience, and sharing it openly. This helps us figure out what to change/update on the platform.
Thanks for the postmortem, Joe, this is really valuable!
We've been keeping Ushahidi/Crowdmap in mind for future "seismic scenarios," and this helps plan a strategy (as much as you can plan anything against the very ground beneath your feet falling apart).
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