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SHFG Annual Meeting
All participants should enter via the Special Events entrance on Constitution Avenue.
SHFG Members: $85
Non-Members: $125
SHFG Student Members: $40
Non-Member Students: $45
Conference Schedule (detailed schedule below)
Workshops: 9 a.m. to noon
Lunch Break: Noon to 1:30 p.m.
Business Meeting: Noon to 1:30 p.m.
Awards Ceremony: 1:40-2:45 p.m.
with opening remarks from Archivist of the United States David Ferriero: 1:30-1:40 p.m.
Workshop & Panels: 3-4:30 p.m.
Networking Happy Hour at Cedar Restaurant
Light Breakfast: 8:30-9:00 a.m.
Panels: 9-10:30 a.m.
Panels: 10:45 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
Lunch Break: 12:15-1:45 p.m.
Panels: 2-3:30 p.m.
Trask Lecture: 3:45-4:45 p.m.
Closing Reception: 5-7 p.m. at District Chophouse
JOBS WORKSHOP
April 25, 9 a.m. to Noon
Please Register separately; included with conference registration fee.
Professional Development Workshop
April 25, 10:30 a.m. to Noon
Networking Happy Hour
April 25, 4:30 to 6:00
Please RSVP.
Cedar Restaurant: 822 E St. NW
Thursday, April 25: Morning Workshops
Jobs Workshop, 9 a.m. to noon (Jefferson Room)
(Please register separately; included with conference registration fee)
Professional Development Workshop, 10:30 a.m. to noon (Washington Room)
Thursday, April 25: Afternoon Panels
3 - 4:30 p.m.
Oral History Roundtable
(Adams Room)
Jessie Kratz, Historian of the National Archives, and Richard Hulver, Historian at the U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command, will lead a professional development round table discussion for federal historians to discuss common issues and challenges with oral history projects. They will have a list of issues to discuss but please bring your own questions and concerns. This is designed to be the first step in updating SHFG's oral history guidance for federal historians.
Panel I: Internships in Federal History Programs: Different Perspectives
(McGowan Theater)
Chair: Carl E. Ashley, Chief of the Declassification Division, Office of the Historian, U.S. Department of State
Rachael Nicholas, "Internships in the National Park Service"
Michael J. Hancock, "Internships at the National Archives"
Erik Child, "Internships at the Department of State"
Panel: II: Balancing Audiences: Young Professionals in the Federal Government
(Jefferson Room)
Elizabeth Gonzalez-Wong, Public Information Specialist, House of Representatives, "Public History within the Office of the Clerk"
Anna Torres, Public Affairs Specialist, Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, "Using Public History Training in Science Communication"
Alexandra Kolleda, Archivist, U.S. Army Women's Museum, "Public History and its Relevance to the United States Army"
Matthew Wong, U.S. Capitol Visitor Center, "Public History at the United States Capitol"
Panel III: Federal History Matters
(Washington Room)
Chair: Lee Ann Potter
Lee Ann Potter, Director of the Office of Learning and Innovation, Library of Congress, "Learning and Innovation at the LOC"
Bill Barry, Chief Historian, NASA, "NASA History Outreach Efforts"
Lincoln Bramwell, Chief Historian, USDA Forest Service, "U.S. Forest Service Outreach Efforts"
Lauren Krizner Fischer, Education Program Specialist, U.S. Department of State, "U.S. Diplomacy Center and Simulations for Students"
Commenting: Judson MacLaury, Historian, U.S. Department of Labor, retired, and Curator, History@fedgov
Friday, April 26: Morning Panels
Session One: 9 - 10:30 a.m.
Panel IV: Department of What? Using Collections, Exhibitions and Digital Projects to Share Agency Histories
Tracy L. Baetz, Chief Curator, U.S. Department of the Interior Museum, "The Gallery Experience and Beyond"
Felicia Wivchar, Associate Curator, Office of Art and Archives, US House of Representatives, "Small Objects, Big Stories - Using Artifacts to Anchor Institutional Histories"
Michelle Strizever, Photography and Digital Content Specialist, Office of Art and Archives, US House of Representatives, "Open to the Public"
Panel V: Is It or Isn't It?: Meaning Making Through Object Research
Moderator: Susan N. Smith, Winton M. Blount Chair in Research, Smithsonian National Postal Museum
Daniel A. Piazza, Chief Curator of Philately, Smithsonian National Postal Museum, "Redressing the grievances of American Tars:" Uncorking a War of 1812 Bottle Letter"
Lynn Heidelbaugh, Curator, Smithsonian National Postal Museum, "Happy-Go-Lucky Lottie:" A Search for Meaning in Her Satchel"
Scott W. Devine, Paper Conservator, Smithsonian National Postal Museum, "Coffee for a Hundred: Creating and Preserving Value in a Rural Carrier's Notebook"
Panel VI: General Clifton B. Cates: A Case Study in Public Engagement with Marine Corps History (Washington Room)
Annette Amerman, Historical Reference Branch Chief, Marine Corps History Division
Alisa Whitley, Archives Branch Chief, Marine Corps History Division
Ben Kristy, Aviation Curator, National Museum of the Marine Corps
Session Two: 10:45 - 12:15 p.m.
Panel: VII: The Golden Door: Collecting and Interpreting Immigration History in the Federal Government (McGowan Theater)
Allison S. Finkelstein; Historian; U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
Zack Wilske; Senior Historian; U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, "Interpreting Immigration History from the Inside: The USCIS History Office and Library"
Owen Rogers; Liaison Specialist; Library of Congress Veterans History Project, "Over Here, Over There: Immigrant Veterans' Experiences at the Library of Congress"
Dr. Alison Mann; Public Historian; U.S Diplomacy Center in the Bureau of Public Affairs, "Guardians at the Gate: U.S. Passports and National Security in the Interwar Period"
Panel VIII: 'Wait, That's Online?': Digitization and Citizen Engagement in Federal Archives
Caitlin Haynes, Coordinator, Smithsonian Institution
Catherine Brandsen, Innovation Hub Coordinator, National Archives and Records Administration
Katie Munn, Education Specialist, National Archives and Records Administration
Dr. Victoria Van Hyning, Senior Innovation Specialist, Library of Congress
Panel IX: Reaching New Audiences (Washington Room)
Chair: Mircea Munteanu, Historian, U.S. Department of State
Jill L. Newmark, Exhibition Specialist, US National Library of Medicine, "Reflections on History and Harry Potter"
John Laurence Busch, Independent Historian, "Micro-Target, Hyper-Specialize: Reaching the Broadest Audience for the First 'Steamship' in History"
Eric C. Stoykovich, Historical Manuscripts Project Archivist, University of Maryland Libraries, "Spiro T. Agnew on Tape: Can a U.S. Vice President's Words Influence Political Opinion about the Federal Government?"
James David, Curator, Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum, "Why Can't We See Many Defense and Intelligence Records Still?"
Friday, April 26: Afternoon Panels
Session Three: 2 - 3:30 p.m.
Panel X: Focus on History: Administrative and Legislative Histories of and Unexpected Tools for Federal History Offices
Mattea Sanders, Historian, American Battlefield Protection Program, National Park Service, "Looking to the Past in Times of Transition"
Melanie O'Brien, Manager, National NAGPRA Program, National Park Service, "Looking Back in Order to Move Forward"
John Renaud, Historian, State, Tribal, and Local, Plans and Grants Program, National Park Service, "Relations, Explaining Why, and Unexpected Tools"
Panel XI: Reconstruction to WWI: New Research in Federal History
Chair: Julie Prieto, Historian, US Army Center of Military History
Mark L Howe, Cultural Resources Specialist, United States Section, International Boundary and Water Commission, "Explorations, History and Archaeology along the Rio Grande"
Neil Hernandez, Assistant Professor, Baruch College, CUNY, "Bureaucratic Reorganization: The Liberalization and Restriction of the U.S. Immigration System, 1906-1913"
David Goldman,Independent Scholar and Writer, "Charlie" Chaplains in the Great War: Chaplains' Experiences in the U.S. Army, 1917-1919"
Panel XII: Shared Authority and Shared Experience
Chair: Kristin Ahlberg, Historian, U.S. Department of State
Tristan Williams, West Virginia University, "'Shared' Authority: When Private Organizations Own American History"
Lina Mann, American University, "Keeping Public Lands in Alaska Native Hands: The Role of Alaska Natives in the passage of Subsistence Provisions in the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act"
Debbie Schaefer-Jacobs, Associate Curator in the Division of Culture and Community Life, National Museum of American History, "Americanization in the Classroom 1880-1915 and its Parallels to Today"
McGowan Theater
Marian L. Smith
3:45 to 4:45 p.m.
Closing Reception
Friday, 5 to 7 p.m. in the Brewer's Lounge upstairs at the District Chophouse
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Hello all! Just a quick post today before I hit the road. I leave tonight for NOVA, though I will be spending tomorrow working and enjoying some sights with family. As such, I wrapped up my efforts for getting my full 1,850 point army together.
The last weekend before NOVA has come and gone and I accomplished nothing. Not a single thing. I went out of town, leaving Friday immediately from work and arriving late last night. That said, this wasn't a surprise and has been incorporated into my planning. I will also be leaving for the DC area on Wednesday evening, and so, expect to have only tonight and tomorrow night to work on finishing up. Tuesday might be a late night.
Before leaving town, I did get a bit more done on the board, namely the pathway and plinth, which was then secured in its spot.
Inevitably, in every game I forget to perform an action in the correct order. Now, in friendly games, opponents often allows you to go back and perform the action if it's within reason. The problem with that is that it doesn't make you learn a lesson, so you'll forget to do X before Y again.
In a tournament setting, I don't want to forget something, and I'm not going to ask forgiveness for forgetting something and doing it out of order. I would be reasonable with my opponent, but I'm not going to expect over-kindness if I forget to cast Iron Arm on a monstrous creature. As such, I've decided to put together a turn checklist, trying to call out steps I often forget. Now, keep in mind that this is tailored to NOVA and my list, so I've included some specifics to me. That said, feel free to use this list, and point out things I may have missed or just gotten plain wrong.
Just a small update from last night. I didn't take too many pictures of the early stages, in part because it was tedious and boring; namely, drybrushing nearly 4 square feet of black paint with grey paint. In the end it's fairly patchy and I'm not all that happy with it yet. I then went about applying my static grass. I started with a band of green bordering the road, which gives way to a thin band of green and brown, followed by many patches of brown.
Last night I got started on my display board. To boil down my pretty terrible clip-art shape sketch, the plan is to have the Mawloc's road in one corner at an angle, with a tiled path set back from the road which my Tervigon, Trygon, and Flyrant will be crossing. The road will be bordered by green grass that is quickly dying before the advance of the Swarmlord. On to the project!
Like with Book 2, I bought Galaxy in Flames immediately after finishing False Gods (review here) and started reading just about straight-away. This novel more or less ties up the first trilogy that started with Horus Rising (review here). As with previous reviews, I'll try to avoid spoilers, but this one might make it tougher; at this point there's no way to avoid mentioning some events of Book 1 and 2, so if you haven't read them yet, maybe wait until you have.
My productivity this weekend surprised myself. I can now see the light at the end of the tunnel. Most importantly, I finished the Mawloc conversion that has been scattering around in my head for nearly a year.
This weekend I finally finished my Mawloc. I'll go into the final details after the fold, but first, a side by side comparison with a normal Trygon.
As you can see, despite not using a tail, with the Space Marine victim, he's actually taller than a normal version.
As +Chandler D mentioned in his post yesterday, I asked him to put together a Nid-Killer list to give me a prep game against a worst-case scenario list, as much as possible. While Space Wolves are no longer exactly a top tier army in the tournament scene, I was hoping facing a fairly tailored list would tilt the scale a bit more in their favor.
We decided to roll randomly to determine which of the three lists Chandler would bring and wound up with List 1: Bug Zapper Armored List.
+Evan S came to me the other night with a very interesting request. As you all know he is prepping for NOVA and he wanted to have some practice. So I agreed to put together a few lists to challenge his Mighty Bugs. I figured for all bugs they hate three things: Blasts, Templates, and Armored Vehicles. With that in mind, I created three Bug Killer Lists to take on the Full Force of Evan's Tyrannids.
I wanted to take a quick opportunity to plug a 40k forum started by Fritz a few months ago: http://thewarmaster.com/index.php. While the community is fairly small at the moment, I've really been enjoying the discussion in both Army Specific, General, and Hobby sections of the forum.
Also,. there are some pretty good giveaways and contests each month, which is pretty awesome as well. So check it out.
For today I only have a small painting update. After the update I figure I will also address some of the Tyranid rumors floating around and weigh in a little.
I'll start off by by announcing that I may have squealed like a little girl when I read Faeit's post this weekend with the rumor that Nids will get a new codex in November, not January. Ok, that might be an exaggeration, but I'm pretty sure I danced around a little. Then it set in that that would cut two months of saving/budgeting from my ability to purchase new releases. I am curious what new kits they'll get, but the only things I know for certain I'll be getting is the glorified dust jacket edition and possibly a second copy in either digital or regular edition, though the second version can wait. Not a huge need for budgeting just for those.
I thought I would put together a mini update of rumors, releases, and hobby progress. My weekend began with these bad boys arriving from Moridian7th. These two models were more or less why I started following his blog in the first place, so I couldn't resist. Also, it's nice to know that I'm helping out a fellow hobbyist with my impulsive purchases.
Once I finished Book 1 of the series I was hooked and immediately bought Book 2: False Gods, at around midnight on a weeknight. As with Horus Rising, the first line is a heck of a hook: "I was there the day that Horus fell..."
Fritz recently posed this question on his blog and forum (so all credit to him): what is more powerful, a group of Grots, or Terminators? The crux of the argument stems from how to define "powerful" and that Grots, as troops who will be largely overlooked, are more likely to win games than Terminators.
I decided to take this idea and look at my Tyranids; who are my Terminators? who are my Grots? It seems obvious, but part of why Fritz brought it up is because the obvious answers (like Terminators are more powerful) might not be as clear cut as you first think.
This last weekend saw the release of the servants of the Old Ones: The LIZARDMEN. This is the only fantasy army that I play and as such I went all out and bought the Limited Edition Codex. I am thoroughly excited to get this codex, see what models and pictures are in there, and most importantly the new signature powers for the Priests.
So without further interruption, I present Warhammer: Lizardmen.
Between family visiting last weekend and a new puppy who has gotten a minor health problem, I've managed about 30 minutes at the gaming table. This was spent finishing the assembly of 10 hormagaunts and then moving forward on the basing for the Mawloc.
I started by using superglue to attach a few small pebbles in various places. I followed that up with PVA glue for my typical sand.
So yesterday, (Sunday), my friend John and I ventured to our LGS Fun N Games for their monthly Warhammer 40k Tournament. John has Orks at his home but here in Blacksburg, he's got nothing but us and +Evan S's armies; Evan set him up with an in your face Ork army, while I came there with 2 lists ready for hopefully a fun day. My Lists were basically the same with a few minor exceptions. I had one list that was a Monster Hunter list while the other was Bjorn making another appearance for the Wolves (Three Player Game). Upon arriving at the store I was greeted by a wonderful sight of 7 other players besides John and myself and a variety of armies, including Tau, Dark Angels, Tyranids, 2 Orks, Imperial Guard, Chaos Marines, Space Wolves, and another army that I can't recall.
I was (un)lucky to draw Tau, Chaos Marines, and Imperial Guard. It was a fun day full of surprises.
The final edition of the NOVA GT Primer was posted yesterday, and while the final FAQ won't be up until around August 6, I thought I would run through some thoughts and questions I had (any NOVA Veterans or Rules Lawyers please chime in).
I know I am way behind the times, but the Horus Heresy books were first released in my time away from the hobby. I am an avid reader, but always found Black Library novels fairly hit or miss in terms of enjoyment, some being absolutely atrocious while others being fun. My interest in the Horus Heresy series was piqued when +Chandler D lent me a copy of the audio Prospero Burns to listen to at work. I was thoroughly impressed by scope and quality of the writing, pleasantly surprised to find that the novel not only went far beyond an action, hack and slash story, but that I enjoyed a Warhammer novel that couldn't be recreated on the table top. As I read through, I plan on doing short little reviews for anyone who is interested. I will do my best to avoid spoilers, which means the review may have to be fairly generic.
I was sucked in, from the very first line, preceding even the first chapter: "I was there, the day Horus slew the Emperor..."


Probably one of the easiest ways to identify a fake Rolex is by the caseback. Counterfeiters will often use a clear display, or "skeleton" caseback, thus allowing you to view the inner workings of the watch. The problem is Rolex does not make such a watch, therefore, these models are easily identified as counterfeit. In addition to the "clear casebacks" listed above, engraved casebacks are another easy way to identify counterfeit Rolex watches. Again, Rolex does not engrave the caseback with logos, hallmarks, or designs. Genuine Rolex models will have a "smooth" caseback, and are free of these engravings. Genuine Rolex models are shipped new from the factory with a Hologram-encoded (3-dimensional) sticker on the caseback. This sticker features the trademarked Rolex "crown" positioned above the watchs case reference number. The hologram can be easily identified by viewing it from different angles, thus causing the background pattern to change. However, "most" counterfeit stickers are not holograms at all, but rather simply a repetitious "Rolex" pattern which does not change in appearance when viewed from different angles. It is worth mentioning that the genuine Rolex hologram stickers did not feature the "crown logo" as a part of the hologram until (around) 2002, when the sticker was redesigned. At that time, the Reference number was also changed from gold lettering to black, as it is currently.


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Saving time and improving data quality for the National School Lunch & Breakfast Program
By Julia Lindpaintner , Mike Gintz
10x data access open data
In March of 2019, we published a post describing the ambition of the 10x U.S. Data Federation project: our work was motivated by the goal of making it easier to collect, combine, and exchange data across government. We hypothesized that this could be done by making reusable tools and repeatable processes more available across government.
To test this hypothesis, we built one such tool called ReVal, a reusable validation library, and partnered with the USDA Food & Nutrition Service (FNS) to put it into production. Two additional use cases at the U.S. Department of Transportation and the Census Bureau helped us feel confident in ReVal's reusability. One year later, we are excited to share the results of the pilot of the FNS Data Validation Service (DVS), which uses ReVal to streamline data validation for the National School Lunch and Breakfast Program: the FNS DVS resulted in time savings,reduced stress, and greater efficiency for the pilot states, as explained below.
Before the FNS DVS: "Tedious and frustrating"
To appreciate the impact of FNS DVS, here's some context about the previous status quo:
Once a year, program rules require institutions participating in the National School Lunch and Breakfast programs to verify eligibility for a small percentage of approved and participating households. The results of this verification process are reported by the school district-level institutions via the FNS-742 form to their state (usually via a state-provided online system). States in turn collect the responses and submit the data to FNS via the Food Programs Reporting System (FPRS).
Though the standards for the data are set by FNS, state offices have primary responsibility for ensuring data quality. Historically, automated data validation only happened when data were submitted to FPRS; when errors arose, states had to undertake an often lengthy remediation process to resolve the errors with their school district contacts. Over time, many states created their own automated and manual data validation processes to anticipate and resolve errors that would be returned from FPRS. But because states' processes and systems vary, there is significant duplication of effort as individual states code and maintain validation checks in their systems. State contacts characterized the process as "tedious and frustrating."
As shown in this diagram, the previous process was characterized by a heavy burden on states to conduct data validation and resolve errors with school districts:
While FNS collects data through other forms throughout the year, the dataset derived from the FNS-742 is a critical source of administrative data—the most important one that provides school district level data. It's used to answer policy questions, to provide technical assistance to Congress in the legislative process, and as a sampling frame for millions of dollars of research conducted by FNS every year. Accuracy is important!
Implementing the FNS DVS
FNS saw an opportunity to use ReVal to power a process, called the FNS Data Validation Service (DVS), that would build upon existing state and federal validation checks, maintain these validation checks at the federal level, host them in the cloud, and allow state systems to access them via Application Programming Interface (API). With this approach, when school districts submit their verification data through their state's online system, those data are checked against a comprehensive set of rules maintained by FNS. Any errors are returned in real time, allowing the administrators at the school district level to resolve the majority of errors before completing the submission process. And because the DVS is maintained by FNS, the agency was free to increase the number of validation checks without imposing new burdens on the states. The result is a far more rigorous process than the one it replaces.
Here's an illustration of the new process with ReVal (aka the FNS DVS) in place, offering 110 checks across 73 fields:
FNS anticipated this solution would result in:
reduction in the burden of the verification process on states during and after the verification season,
increased confidence by school district staff in data reporting as a result of the more comprehensive validation process,
time savings and cost avoidance going forward, since changes to validation would happen only at the federal level, and
higher quality data to support program administration and agency research.
The U.S. Data Federation team worked closely with FNS partners in the Office of Program Integrity (OPI) to adapt ReVal to serve this purpose and published the code as an open source project on GitHub. Meanwhile, FNS spread the word about the DVS to states over the course of 2019 and the U.S. Data Federation team provided support to a few state teams experimenting with setting it up. The last pieces of the puzzle—securing Authority To Operate (ATO) and setting up the DVS in a cloud environment managed by FNS—were completed in September, making it possible for Kansas and Arizona to pilot the FNS Data Validation Service during the fall 2019 verification season. A third state, while unable to connect to the FNS DVS in time, implemented the expanded set of validation checks provided by the DVS locally.
After the FNS DVS: "Ridiculously, tremendously easier"
In February 2020, the pilot states reported back on their experience implementing and using the FNS DVS and its new set of validation checks during the fall of 2019. They confirmed that the FNS DVS had significantly improved the data collection and submission process for their teams, citing time savings, fewer errors returned, greater ability to plan ahead, and lower stress.
Here are a few examples of the benefits, in their own words:
"We had a reduction in errors from 96 last year to 2 this year. In terms of time, that's days of work. It used to take at least one person a week—40 hours—to get all the data back fixed."
"In the past I would have run the data [to prepare it for submission] 6-8 times. … This year I ran it twice."
"The benefit to my site is it flags the warnings before we upload the data to FPRS so we already have the information and data we need. … I used to have to track what errors were appearing when I uploaded to FPRS—but now I don't have to do that anymore, which is amazing… we're skipping an entire back-and-forth now."
"Having the results and knowing what warnings are going to be—so I can have the explanations for those things ready to go—saved time and also lowered our stress level so, so, so much. … It even helped us find a few small bugs in our system because we knew what to expect."
Another noted advantage of the FNS DVS was that instead of states interpreting federal guidance and creating and maintaining separate validation rules, FNS is now essentially providing that guidance as code, prompting one partner to comment:"As far as I'm concerned, when the federal government passes regulations, this should be the model… this is how it should be done."This approach should also reduce the risk of discrepancies as processes and forms are updated, allowing for more sophisticated and consistent data validation, ultimately resulting in higher quality data.
While the FNS DVS is maintained at the federal level, its design still allows states to adapt it to suit the needs of their users. For example, states may create translations for some of the automated error messages to make sense in the context of their systems. One state that had a multi-step interface for data input got creative to make sure errors resulting from incomplete data weren't displayed. Despite the effort involved in making these adaptations, however, the states were satisfied and even suggested that they'd like to see a similar service made available for other forms in the future: "DVS doesn't currently provide us with validation for [another form]—we did that ourselves… But if FNS's tool did [that] someday, we'd just swap ours out and use yours instead."
What's next for FNS & the U.S. Data Federation
For the FNS DVS to fully deliver on its promise, the team at OPI hopes to see full adoption of the tool across all 50 states. Towards that end, OPI
created a "marketing group" that finds and creates opportunities to promote the DVS,
promotes the DVS at government and partner conferences, and
is participating in webinars and other events as appropriate to get the word out.
Meanwhile, the U.S. Data Federation team is using its last phase of 10x funding to return to the underlying ambition of the project. We recognized a synergy between our goal of ensuring that reusable tools and repeatable processes are made available across government and the mandates and recommendations within both the Evidence Act and the recently published Federal Data Strategy 2020 Action Plan. In response, we're collaborating with ongoing efforts by the Office of Management and Budget, the Office of Government Information Services at the National Archives, and other teams inside the General Services Administration to enhance and relaunch resources.data.gov as a key repository for data-related tools and resources for federal staffers. Having conducted user research with over 30 data workers across more than 14 agencies—from Chief Data Officers to developers to data managers—we learned that this will require changes to the organization of the site and a robust content strategy to ensure the repository's continued development and relevance. We are prototyping approaches to both of these in the hope that we will be able to demonstrate the need and a model for ongoing investment to support resources.data.gov. By making resources.data.gov as useful and user-friendly as possible, we hope to make success stories like FNS' more common.
Many have contributed to the U.S. Data Federation project over the course of several phases, including Philip Ashlock, Catherine Devlin, Tony Garvan, Chris Goranson, Mark Headd, Ethan Heppner, and Joe Krzystan. The current team includes Mike Gintz, Julia Lindpaintner, Amy Mok, Princess Ojiaku, and James Tranovich. We are grateful for the collaboration of our partners at the USDA Food and Nutrition Service, their state partners across the country, data.gov, the U.S. Census Bureau, and the U.S. Department of Transportation.
"A token of our affection - A field guide to USWDS 2"
The U.S. Data Federation wants to make it easier to collect, combine, and exchange data across government
The U.S. Data Federation Project is an initiative of the GSA Technology Transformation Services 10x program, which seeks to address the need for knowledge sharing, repeatable processes, and reusable tools for federated data efforts.
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A dashboard for privacy offices
Through work funded by 10x, a team from 18F investigated how technology can help busy privacy offices manage your PII, and make their work more accessible and understandable for the public.
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Brian Eno to Release New Album Lux
A thorough evaluation of Eno's contributions to music would have to be exhaustive and would take more pages than you have patience for. Suffice it to say, that Brian Eno is well-traveled musically.
Smarten Up Your TV with FAVI Entertainment's SmartStick
FAVI Entertainment has announced the availability from November of an HDMI stick for anyone with a lower end or older HDTV who wants access to higher-end SmartTV features.


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I worked in a lovely, small nursing home for 12 1/2 years. For many years, I loved it. I had my own staff and could create programming however I wanted. It was a lot of work, but I was happy except... that there always seemed to be somebody who was verbally abusive about something. And there was another big issue. The boss had divorced his wife to marry one of his subordinates. They "claimed" that this did not affect their work relationship, but the truth was that she ruled the place. If she had a fuss about somebody, it was believed 100% no matter how crazy it was or if it was detrimental to the people we served. Because of the fear, the culture of the facility deteriorated. Not only was bullying protected (because he couldn't call out anyone who did the same things as his wife) but it was rewarded.
The real beginning of the end for me came when I asked for more staff and one of my co-workers forced a claim on the position I was asking for. I did get the position, but to make it fair (Huh!) I then had to hire the person she wanted into my department. This was someone I knew and had learned to trust (She came from sales. What a mistake!) so I thought it would be alright. Little did I know that those two were "best friends" and there was a plan.
Everything was fine until the end of this individual's probationary period. Then the isolation and the picking, the passive-aggressive behaviors began. I didn't realize until later, that whenever I was out, they would hold gripe sessions against me to get everyone else mad at me. Even my supervisor manipulated me. The funny thing was that I thought the problems were being caused by one of my other staff -- a very narcissisitic sort of person, but previously very harmless. I didn't realize it was my newest employee (who has the same degree as I do by the way). Her goal was to convince everyone else how awful I was, while she would be seen as the nice one who everyone could get along with. She was setting me up as a bad guy (her projection) while she positioned herself to take my job and my 12 years of work and development for herself.
I have a journal from that time. There's an entry about how I was holding my weekly staff meeting one day and wondering who this person would show up as... By this time, I was on to the game. Here's the way she played it: First, she would do something that made a problem for me. This was a passive way of picking a fight because I would have to respond to it. Then she would have a temper tantrum and act in a completely irrational way. Then, she would go to my superiors and act innocent about the "horrible things" I had done to her and the other staff. Because she had gotten the bosses wife on her side, no one would question what she said.
Back to the staff meeting. This employee had 3 outward personalities. It was Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. In this case, there were two Hydes. She would show up at meetings as one or the other. Hyde #1 was a "sullen teenager." She would sit off from the group and not participate, staring at the floor. If asked her thoughts, she'd just say "That's fine" in a whiny voice. Other meetings she would show up as an "angry 5-year-old", sitting right up front with the other staff with her arms folded across her chest and this smirky grin on her face. Anytime I would ask for the feedback of the group she would call out "no" as sharply as she could to shut off all communication. (I have a 5-year-old granddaughter by the way and I can tell you that there is a 6-month period where kids do this EXACT behavior.) How bizzare to see this in a 40-year-old woman!
So, on this particular day I thought, who will she show up as? And, how can anyone in their right mind behave like this and have any self-respect? It was then that I realized that I was dealing with someone with no conscience. Just like Dr. Jekyll to Mr. Hyde. Despite the fact that they were manifestations of the same person, Jekyll used Hyde to do his dirty work but then took no responsibility for him. My God, what do you do as a manager in a situation like that? Well, I decided my only option was to report it to the higher ups, which I did with plenty of documentation. When I showed it to the administrator and asked for his assistance, he said that he would have to talk to this other employee. Well, apparently she had a laundry list of complaints about me...none of it substantiated. In fact, the list really wasn't even complaints, but vindictive judgments and projections.
Well, when it came time for me to meet with the administrator again, he said that he was taking this employee away from me. With an "I gotcha" smile on his face, he listed her judgments against me and stated that they had to be facts because there had been "complaints" about my management style the entire time I had worked there! (Wow! Thanks for telling me a little late.) Of course, none of this was about me. It was about his wife who wanted me to be replaced by "Dr. Jekyll", who was more "popular". It had nothing to do with work or the well-being of the people we cared for. It was about his wife.
Well, of course, then everyone knew that I had had an employee taken out of my department for my supposed "incompetence" as a manager. (But I knew who the REAL incompetent manager was.) Then, everyone wanted to take a chunk out of me. The authority and the respect I had garnered over the years was suddenly up for grabs to whoever could be the meanest or could get others to believe that my work should be dismantled. Fortunately, I had had the foresight to start looking for a new position several months before. After a particularly bad interaction with my narcissitic subordinate who cried and cried because I didn't make her needs #1 and didn't treat her like she was more special than everyone else (another person in her 40's, by the way), I looked up at the sky and said, "God, get me out of here, these people are insane." Two hours later I got the offer for the position I wanted! When I left, only a couple of people said good-bye, but, you know what? I didn't care. Who wants to be someplace where people are insane?
But the story doesn't end here. Several months into my new job, I had an experience with post-traumatic stress. Fortunately, I recognized what it was and was able to get past it with help from the right professionals. Hypnotherapy was particularly helpful.
I also was led to start reading the literature about workplace bullying. I had no idea that my experience was so common. Words like mobbing and serial bullying really hit me between the eyes. It was such a relief.
I also started meeting people who had worked with my "three-headed snake" in other jobs. No one had had such a bad experience, but the stories about childish behavior were the same. One guy even called her a "bizarre freak". Boy, I had been so fooled.
So, now its almost 2 years later. I'm realizing that I have many opportunties at my new job to build something else new and exciting. And I work in a healthy environment. Its not that there aren't bullies. The difference is that when they show up, it is stopped right away. If the bully is then not happy, they are not fired, but offered an undesirable transfer. That usually shapes them up or they ship out.
I have also realized that workplace bullying is not caused by individuals. My "3-headed snake" was not the cause of the bullying. Rather, it was the culture that allowed her to manifest bullying behavior and even rewarded her with more money, prestige and the fruits of my 12 years of hard work to develop that department. (Alright, so do you still detect a bit of bitterness?)
I'll admit that I'm not done with resentment, but I did have an experience earlier in the week where I realized that I was not mad at the snake, but at my supervisor. After 12 years, she completely betrayed me. I reported to her on numerous occasions that I was being assaulted. She not only did nothing, but manipulated me into believing that she liked me and that she valued me as a friend. Then, when the big boss came down on me, she took no responsibility, despite the fact that I had carefully gotten her feedback on all my managerial decisions. I didn't really have any choice because she had taken away my ability to "write staff up", the only tool we had for disciplining staff. And guess why? She was afraid of being fired because the boss's wife liked my subordinate better than she liked me -- for more irrational reasons, I might add. Yeah, I did know I was being fed to the wolf, but had really stopped caring by that point.
So, tomorrow I am going to a session on "radical forgiveness". My goal is to be able to see this situation through the eyes of love. And why not? I do know that I am better off. And that's the truth. Thanks for listening.
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You certainly have been "through the mill." I believe you are right in feeling your situation was "insane." The longer I live, the more I realize that we do have a lot of insanity in this world because of what we eat, how we abuse our bodies and minds,the electronic world feeding us toxic subjects, and those who we associate with (not a lot of choice, sometimes.) It took me a long time in life to learn that the insanity raging around me was causing the problem, not something I "did wrong." It also took a minister to help me see that I did not have to race around begging "forgiveness" from these bullying people (and there seem to be many bullies today, everywhere) but rather, accept myself, sidestep them, and "let it go." It is impossible to forgive people who do not ASK to be forgiven. Most people do not have the emotional ability to see their wrong doing so it is impossible to MAKE or force a forgiveness. (And let's be realistic--there are a lot of really sad, ignorant, dumbed-down people out there) I have seen too many times where a victim thinks they have to do the forgiving, so they grovel, begging the bully to forgive them for crying, being upset, showing anger, feeling pain. All you are doing is coddling and enabling the bully to continue on their path of destruction, knowing they can walk right over you and you will always come groveling back. Stand tall, cling to Hope, and tell them to "stick it", walk away and find some intelligent people to associate with. A therapist once told me that only 5% of the people are "the creme"--the people who enrich our lives and have something to contribute to make the world a better place. (In those days they didn't yet use the words "bullies") He said, "You are the creme--don't try to mix with those who are not as they will destroy you." Those words saved me from suicide as I could see that the 95% I was wasting my life on trying to "love" them and "forgive" them, would never change and indeed, were destroying me. It is hard to find that tiny 5% of the creme but keep on looking--they are out there, and they are the most beautiful people in this world! There aren't many but I cherish each and every one, and work to keep the relationships alive. Sometimes I must work with the 95% but I put a very tight emotional, but polite, distance between us, and I don't linger. Nature is causing my body to self-destruct over time--I certainly don't need them to hasten the process!
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Yes, I have been dealing with a bully at work for about 3 years now. At first I too thought I had done something or said something to cause the problem, but soon realized this person was after my job and was out to destroy me and take my years of developing a program away from me. Like you, I have other workers who are part of the problem including my boss. Management is somewhat corrupt and creates an environment of deception and manipulation. This past week there were some errie events that gave me some extra stress and yes I dreamt of a 3-headed snake last night. I wondered what it meant and did a search on the Internet that led me to your story on this site. Information I have read from the Internet and a strong belief in God and myself has helped plenty. I am trying to beat it, but I may have to do as you did and find another job. Jobs are scarce these days but keeping your sanity has to take priority.
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CINCINNATI (CN) – A duty-free gas station situated near the Ambassador Bridge on the U.S.-Canadian border must comply with U.S. gasoline volatility requirements, the Sixth Circuit ruled Wednesday.
(AP photo/John Raoux)
The Cincinnati-based appeals court upheld a lower court decision that required Ammex Inc., the gas station owner, to comply with Michigan's so-called summer fuel law, which outlaws the sale of gasoline with a vapor pressure of greater than 7.0 psi between June 1 and September 15.
The law was eventually codified under the Clean Air Act, or CAA, and became part of the state's improvement plan, abbreviated in court records as SIP.
Ammex argued in February the law is unconstitutional under the Foreign Commerce Clause and also violates the Supremacy Clause, but the district court found that because the CAA is federal in nature, the station's constitutional claims would fail.
U.S. Circuit Judge Helene White wrote the Sixth Circuit's majority opinion that upheld the lower court decision, and explained why the court considers the fuel law a federal regulation.
"Although the CAA places primary enforcement responsibility with the states, it vests ultimate enforcement power in the EPA. The EPA may enforce the law against non-compliant retailers…the EPA also holds the power to sanction Michigan for failing to enforce the SIP," she wrote. "Additionally, the EPA has the ultimate authority over any changes to the summer fuel law. Because the Reid vapor pressure standard is part of Michigan's SIP, Michigan cannot amend the standard without EPA approval."
White said the fuel law had no effect until it was ratified by the federal government, and that SIPs have routinely been treated as federal laws by the court system.
Ammex argued that the state law, House Bill 5508, and the eventual EPA regulation are "parallel provisions," but White rejected that theory.
"As an initial matter," she wrote, "the Michigan statute and the federal regulation are not independent of each other. The two are interconnected because the EPA regulation incorporates by reference the state bill containing the statute setting the summer RVP standard, and the interpretation of one necessarily affects the interpretation of the other."
The judge continued, "Moreover, the interconnectedness of the state statute and federal regulation is reinforced by the CAA's enforcement scheme, allowing for enforcement of the same standard by both the EPA and the state and providing the state with the primary enforcement responsibility."
White was joined in the majority by U.S. Circuit Judge Richard Griffin.
U.S. Circuit Judge John Bush wrote a partially concurring opinion, but disagreed with the majority regarding the federal nature of the gas vapor law.
He questioned White's decision to label the restriction a federal law, and agreed with Ammex's argument that the RVP laws are parallel regulations.
"When EPA 'incorporat[ed] by reference,' Michigan's summer fuel law, that federal agency at most adopted a parallel federal regulation and thereby incorporated the requirements of the SIP into federal law," Bush wrote. "Michigan officials' enforcement of SIP itself, however, remains the enforcement of state law, though it is identical to a federal provision."
Bush admitted that if Michigan sought to change the SIP and conflicted with federal law, the EPA's regulations would likely preempt the enforcement of the state law, but called such a situation a "frequent occurrence" that does not transform state officials into "enforcers of federal law."
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It handles all 273 cards of Guilds of Ravnica, the most recent Standard set as of now.
What's it good for? For nothing, because the Wizards Fan Content Policy prohibits fans from using Wizards' "gameplay" in their content, which, I suspect, includes Magic: the Gathering rules.
But suppose we weren't limited by the policy. The Magic Arena team isn't. They are using a parser, similar to the one I created, to generate code from rules text.
The idea is that, from this syntax tree, you can generate the code above automatically. A syntax tree is no longer arbitrary English text incomprehensible to a rules engine, it's an object that can be, in theory, unambiguously converted into code. The hope is that this way, it will be easier to add new cards (because nobody needs to script them) and that there will be less bugs (because nobody can make bugs in the scripts because the code is created automatically). There could be "bugs" in the rules text, but that's unlikely. Wizards of the Coast pays attention to editing. I've only encountered a single editing error in the entire Guilds of Ravnica set (there's a missing space between the end of the rules text and the reminder text for surveil in the card Mission Briefing).
So the parser sees the phrase "those creatures". Well, asks the parser, I wonder what those creatures are, I should look at the preceding sentence to figure that out. It does and it reads "one or more other creatures that spell could target" and joyfully presents to the player as possible choices all creatures that spell could target.
Comment from discussion Beamsplitter mage incorrect on mtga.
That's a small part of the script needed to make Beamsplitter Mage work. Obviously, it's error-prone. But I'm still on the fence. Magic Arena developers managed to make all cards in Standard work under a reasonable approximation of the Magic rules system, so this idea of generating code from rules text has merit. But while I was writing the grammar, it always felt so brittle. When you script individual cards, new cards you create don't often have an effect on old cards. But with a grammar, any change you make may produce a different syntax tree, with different meaning.
Maybe there are safeguards a developer can use to make those errors less likely. I would be interested in those. And I will be watching Magic Arena as it evolves, especially if developers continue to share behind-the-scenes details.
Flower reads, in part, "Search your library for a basic Forest or Plains card". The parser interprets it as "a basic Forest" or "Plains card", as opposed to the correct "a basic card that's a Forest or that's a Plains". This happens because it considers the words "basic Forest" and "Plains" to be of the same kind, when in fact one's already a compound of a supertype and a subtype and the other is a subtype only.
Thief of Sanity received undocumented, zero-day errata to its text which I noticed too late, and it's a pretty unique card, so the parser still works with the text as printed and not the Oracle text.
Aurelia parses, but incorrectly. It reads, in part, "that creature gets +2/+0, gains trample if it's red, and gains vigilance if it's white." Which the parser interprets as "if it's white, it gains vigilance" and "if it's white and red, it gains trample and +2/+0" as opposed to the correct "+2/+0 always", "vigilance if white", and "trample if red".
Pelt Collector reads, in part, "if that creature's power is greater than Pelt Collector's," which makes sense in English but is difficult to parse because the adjective-like 'Peltr Collector's' doesn't qualify anything. It would parse correctly if it said "greater than Pelt Collector's power".
I added an extra full stop (.) at the end of their ultimate abilities, because as printed, the full stop is inside the double quotes, which is, of course, proper style, just not easy to handle.
I thought that the template "[object] gains [abilities] until [something happens]" would work for all ability-gaining abilities, but Chance for Glory reads, "Creatures you control gain indestructible." There's no "until", not after, not in front. They gain indestructible indefinitely. Oh well.
I cheated a little on this one. The effect is very unique so I basically wrote a term that can only ever apply to Gruesome Menagerie.


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Jewish shouting: the last gasp, the club mix
As I'm well aware, there's not much more to say about the Jewish shouting mix. After the initial nudge from Melville House, the yappy little artifact made its way around the world, with coverage in the Guardian, the New York Times, the National Post, Gawker, and Harper's. There were hospitable responses from around the Web, with Jewish bloggers in the pole position: I tip my hat (or yarmulke) to Tablet, For Zion's Sake, and Jewlicious, from whom I've borrowed the stellar graphic in this post. Flavorwire and American Short Fiction flagged me down for short interviews. My pal Katy Evans-Bush at Baroque in Hackney sent up an amusing signal flare. And outside the English-speaking world, the Dutch, Germans, Romanians, Swedes, Italians, and French weighed in with presumably pungent commentary. (Say, what does merdique mean?)
So what's the purpose of this post? Well, after several weeks of tinkering, I finished the nine-and-a-half-minute Jewish Shouting Cantina Club Mix. It's got lap steel, church bells, a danceable beat suitable for your next bar mitzvah or Rotary Club meeting, and (again) the inimitable vocalise of Philip Roth. You can listen to it or download the convenient, spill-resistant MP3 file here. As always, feel free to pass it along: sharing is caring. And now I will resume normal broadcasting. I promise.
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The joys of Liebling
Over at CJR, I chat with Pete Hamill about the joys of A.J. Liebling, whose work has recently been reissued in two fat volumes by the Library of America. The older writer's raffish universe of lowlifes, bookies, flacks, and grifters (not to mention the elected governor of Louisiana) was already vanishing by the time Hamill began his career as a journalist. But there was a brief overlap, and a momentary pressing of the flesh in 1962. Here's a sample bit:
Marcus: Questions of style aside, then, what did you take away from him as a young reporter?
Hamill: His delight in the raffish. My second year at the Post, I pulled the 8:00-to-3:00 shift, covering Broadway. I'd go to Lindy's, where I would nurse a single cup of coffee because I was broke, and talk to the press agents and the flacks. These were the kind of characters that Liebling would write about. By 1962, of course, they had mostly disappeared. They had gone to Vegas to do legally what was illegal in New York.
Marcus: So you caught the tail end of that scene.
Hamill: I did. But it taught me to pay attention. Once I found a house detective at the Hotel Taft named Tiptoe Tannenbaum. If Liebling didn't invent him, Runyon did.
You can read the whole thing here. The conversation sent me straight back to Liebling's work, always a good thing. I read the first page of "The Earl of Louisiana," his 175-page portrait of Huey Long's kid brother, and just kept going. I defy anybody to turn away after this opening salvo:
Southern political personalities, like sweet corn, travel badly. They lose flavor with every hundred yards away from the patch. By the time they reach New York, they are like Golden Bantam that has been trucked up from Texas--stale and unprofitable. The consumer forgets that the corn tastes differently where it grows.
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Army leaders tell Congress controlling costs is key to meeting budgetary goals
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Testifying before the Senate Appropriations Defense Subcommittee Army Secretary John McHugh told Senators that "controlling requirements" is the key to avoiding failed acquisition programs. Testifying on the Army posture and the FY2012 budget request with Gen. Martin Dempsey, Army Chief of Staff, Secretary McHugh said the Army recognizes it must "control requirements" to be able to develop and field requirements effectively and control costs.
Responding to a statement by Subcommittee chair Sen. Inouye (D-HI) that the Army has spent large sums on programs that it later canceled, McHugh acknowledged that failure to control requirements has led to increased costs, delays in fielding, and in some cases program terminations. He said the Army is working hard to make systems requirements less reliable on "immature and unavailable technology." He pointed out that this change along with introducing more competition is proving effective in controlling costs in the Ground Combat Vehicle (GCV) program.
Secretary McHugh said the Army has embraced the recommendations of the panel established to review the Army acquisition process. He said that the Army is moving to implement all but 13 of the 76 recommendations of the panel and is taking another look at the remaining 13. He said the work of this panel as long overdue.
Gen. Dempsey told the committee the Army must do a better job of merging requirements to procurement objectives. He pointed out that the Army seems to fare well with rapid acquisition programs, but not so well with longer-term acquisitions. He said he thinks the Army should "pull the future forward" and limit the time to deliver programs to between 7 and 9 years, after which programs lack credibility.
In their prepared testimony on the FY2012 Army budget, Secretary McHugh and Gen. Dempsey said the Army has placed a renewed emphasis of cost management in general. They pointed to the implementation of training programs to improve cost management skills. (e.g., the Cost Management Certificate Course). In addition, they stated that the Army is providing better tools to manage costs. They cited fielding of the General Fund Enterprise Business System (GFEBS), a new business system that provides greater capability to manage program cost, schedule, and performance.
On another issue of keen interest to members of Congress, senators questioned the planned 27,000 troop strength reduction that is set to begin in FY2015. Sen. Mikulski (D-MD) asked how the Army can be sure that the security situation in FY2015 will allow such reductions given the current daily changes in conditions in the Middle East and elsewhere. Secretary McHugh assured the subcommittee the planned reductions are "conditioned-based" and he is confident these plans can change if future changes warrant it.
Their testimony also provided an overview of how the Army will continue to focus on four main imperatives in the FY2012 Army budget.
To sustain soldiers and families, the Army will increase time between deployments (dwell time) with an interim goal of at least two years at home for every year of deployment, recruit and retain quality soldiers and civilians, and provide the best possible care and services for servicemembers, families, and civilians.
To prepare forces for success in current conflicts, the statement described how the Army is growing responsibly to meet requirements, providing necessary training, providing forces with effective equipment on a timely basis, and providing a steady and sure flow of trained and ready forces through the Army Force Generation (ARFORGEN).
To reset units returning from current deployments, the statement said the Army must revitalize soldiers and families by allowing returning forces time to "reestablish, nurture and strengthen personal relationships," and by repairing, placing, and recapitalizing equipment as forces are drawn down in Iraq and Afghanistan.
To transform forces to meet future challenges, the Army will complete the modular reorganization plan to convert Army brigades and accelerate the fielding of proven technologies with an emphasis on versatile, affordable, survivable, and networked equipment, and institutionalize the investment in reserve components.
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Soon to be GFEBS user May 23, 2011 at 1:50 pm
In the statement above, the author states that: "the General Fund Enterprise Business System (GFEBS), a new business system that provides greater capability to manage program cost, schedule, and performance". I find this a particular confusing statement given guidance from the GFEBS team. As GFEBS is an SAP system, it is well known that the system can support project management and the measurement of cost, schedule, and performance. However, when the GFEBS team routinely briefs that GFEBS is not a project management system and cannot deliver true project management to installations deploying on the system, it becomes unclear how this is to happen.
So, it would be good to see a clear and consistant message from all levels of the Army as to what GFEBS will or will not do.
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Do you mean there is a new separate guide just for the SF to Half Moon Bay Walkabout specifically?
We are in the throes of planning that section for October. And eagerly looking forward to it.
Yes, there are new guides for each of the Northern California walkabouts. They are chapters of the new edition of "Walkabout Northern California: Hiking Inn to Inn" that was just published a few weeks ago. You can find the guide at the "NorCal Vacations Guides" tab of the WalkaboutCalifornia.com website.
Fly into San Francisco and take Lyft to hotel.
Breakfast near hotel. Pick up lunch supplies.
Your itinerary looks wonderful. I think you will have a fun walkabout.


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From the very beginning I was invested in Ava's story, I couldn't get enough of this sweet girl with rose-colored glasses clouding the truths of life. She's the most loyal character I've ever had the opportunity to read from, always giving her all to her family and her friends, ignoring herself. Like most young women, she's in love, hopelessly and desperately in love with a man who cannot feel the same for her. I could connect with her on so many levels because of this, the desire to hold onto something, to make it work, two love enough for two people. It's also heartbreaking, to read about a girl so willing to make things work that she hurts herself along the way. To watch her recognize that fairy tales are not always like the ones we are told as children. Then there's Luke and Liam and T. These men are like bookmarks in her life story, the monumental people that stand out in every memory. These relationships are good and bad, and when all are brought together it's turbulent, to say the least. In a short period of time Ava grows tremendously and as she recognizes fairy tales aren't always like the one she's imagined she finds happiness in a new way.
There is so much that went into Ava's story, you see her family, her youth, her teenage years, and all she's done to become the 25 year old she is today. We see how her family has shaped her vision of what love is, how her upbringing as a princess has spoiled her. We also see how stuck in her dreams she really is and how much it takes to break the habit of dreaming to see reality. Her relationships are somewhat funny, a bit dramatic, and absolutely heartbreaking in every way. You feel for her endlessly, you want to give her the happiness she so deserves, and once she has it you want to hold tight to it like she does. I certainly didn't expect M.J. Fields to take my heart and burst it into ten million little pieces. Luke and Ava are so hard to accept, you see the right and you see the wrong in them, you see how they just don't work. I sort of wanted to shake Ava and punch Luke. We see how Liam stands by her side, now as a friend. T bides his time, he wants the opportunity to show Ava he is Thomas, not just T, and that he can be her more. It was amazing what it took for Ava to open her eyes, to face the heartbreak and open her heart up for more. It was so easy to be swept up in this story, to forget everything but Ava and her desperate want to love and be loved. Just like Ava, we soon see that one of the men is the right one for her, and despite the jealousy, the drama, and the absolute angst we hold onto hope for their happiness. Of course, it wouldn't be an M.J. Fields novel with ups and downs and 27 Truths: Ava' Story has a lot of them. It truly was like riding a roller coaster of emotions the entire time I read this book. And the journal, the love journal, I wanted to have it for myself, to have their love for myself, to give up anything I had to for them to have everything they ever wanted.
If you are looking for an HEA, walk away, but if you are looking for a novel with every emotion a person goes through in life with relationships, this is it. Love is all encompassing in this novel, Ava has made it the center of her life, and with it comes some of the most agonizing, yet beautiful truths. It's an unforgettable story about timeless love, about life lessons and acceptance, about making the journey into your own fairy tale. The plot flowed perfectly, the writing was excellent, and the characters were exactly what I want out of a coming of age romance. It hurt my heart in the best way possible and I want to read it all over again.


Auckland Airport today welcomed the first passengers to arrive on Hainan Airlines' new direct service from Shenzen, in Southern China. The airline, one of China's largest, will fly three times a week, adding 81,000 seats a year to and from China and delivering an estimated $102 million annual boost to the New Zealand economy.
Auckland Airport has rolled out its first mobile self-service check-in kiosks, in preparation for expected record passenger numbers through the international terminal this summer.
Auckland Airport has welcomed its 29th international airline this morning, with the arrival of the inaugural Tianjin Airlines flight from Chinese cities Tianjin and Chongqing.
The NZ Transport Agency, Auckland Transport and Auckland Airport have established a taskforce to find immediate ways to improve travel times and congestion on the roads and state highways to, from and around Auckland Airport, and to review the timing of other projects already planned to improve the performance of the transport network.
Auckland Airport is advising passengers travelling internationally in December 2016 and January 2017 to allow an extra 30 minutes for their journey through the terminal building.
Auckland Airport has announced the appointment of Shakeel Adam as its new general manager aeronautical commercial.
Auckland Airport's Board announced today that it has selected Kiriwaitingi Rei to participate in the Future Director Programme during the 2017 financial year.
The annual meeting of shareholders of Auckland International Airport Limited was held today at the Vodafone Events Centre in Manukau, Auckland.
Auckland Airport's 2016 Annual Meeting will take place at 10.00am, 20 October 2016, at the Vodafone Events Centre in Manukau, Auckland.
Auckland Airport has signed a joint promotion and marketing agreement with Alipay, China's leading online payment solution. Alipay is owned by Ant Financial Services Group, which is part of e-commerce giant Alibaba Group.
Auckland Airport has been recognised for its commitment to employing and developing young Aucklanders at the annual 'Young at Heart' Youth Employer Pledge Awards.
Auckland Airport welcomes the announcement by Hainan Airlines that it will start flying to Auckland on 31 December 2016.
Auckland Airport has awarded 3 Wise Men its 2016 Retailer of the Year Award.
Auckland Airport today announced that it is to build a brand new 7000sqm warehouse and office facility for international freight forwarding specialist, Röhlig Logistics.
Auckland Airport announced today that it has further invested in New Zealand's tourism industry with the award of two $50,000 development grants for two regional operators.
Auckland Airport has today announced its financial results for the 12 months to 30 June 2016.
The Minister for Primary Industries Hon Nathan Guy, Minister for Food Safety Hon Jo Goodhew, MPI Director-General Martyn Dunne and Auckland Airport Chief Executive Adrian Littlewood today turned the first sod ahead of construction on a new multi-purpose facility for the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) at Auckland Airport.
Construction is advanced on a new helicopter terminal and hangar at Auckland Airport. The new facility will be built, owned and managed by local helicopter tour operator Helicopter Me, and will cater for the airport's growing number of affluent and adventure-seeking passengers.
Auckland Airport welcomes the announcement by Tianjin Airlines that it will start flying to Auckland from December this year.
Auckland Airport advises that its general manager aeronautical commercial, Norris Carter, will be leaving the company at the end of November 2016 to take up the role of CEO of North Queensland Airports Limited.
Auckland Airport's 2016 annual results for the 12 months to 30 June 2016 will be announced on Monday, 29 August 2016.
Auckland International Airport Limited advises that the company's 2016 annual meeting will be held at 10:00 am on Thursday 20 October 2016 at the Vodafone Events Centre in Manukau.
Auckland Airport has welcomed today's guilty plea by a former non-executive employee, following the Serious Fraud Office laying criminal charges in the Auckland District Court. The Company dismissed the employee in February this year, following an internal review process which identified several unexplained financial transactions.
Auckland Airport has announced that 19 South Auckland primary, intermediate and secondary teachers and principals will receive funding towards their professional development as part of the airport's 50th anniversary $150,000 scholarship programme.
Auckland Airport has welcomed its 23rd international airline this morning, with the arrival of the inaugural American Airlines daily flight between Los Angeles and Auckland.
Auckland Airport has received the Commerce Commission's draft decisions for consultation on its review of input methodologies – the rules, requirements and processes that apply to electricity, gas and airport services, which the Commission regulates under Part 4 of the Commerce Act.
Auckland Airport's new travel app has won a silver award in the prestigious international Academy of Interactive and Visual Arts' Communicator Awards 2016.
Auckland Airport today revealed the new roster of taxi companies that will operate from the airport's domestic and international terminals for the next three years.
Auckland Airport welcomes the announcement by Hong Kong Airlines that it will start flying to Auckland from November this year. During the summer peak travel season, the airline will operate a daily non-stop flight using an A330-200 aircraft.
Auckland Airport has announced that it will invest another $100,000 this year to help tourism operators develop seasonally-themed regional tourism experiences.
Auckland Airport has installed two new Electric Vehicle (EV) rechargers at its domestic valet car park, and is installing a further two in its public car parks, allowing a growing community of EV and plug-in hybrid vehicle owners the opportunity to top up for free whilst away.
Auckland Airport advises that it has changed its ASX admission category from an ASX Listing to an ASX Foreign Exempt Listing, effective from 22 April 2016.
Auckland Airport is to build a state-of-the-art new distribution centre for Fonterra's New Zealand consumer business (Fonterra Brands New Zealand), the two companies announced today.
Auckland Airport has established two new standby bank facilities totalling NZ$200 million.
Auckland Airport announces the appointment of Scott Weenink as Company Secretary.
Auckland Airport has welcomed today's announcement by Air New Zealand that it will operate three flights per week to Manila from December 2016, using a B767-300ER aircraft.
The foreign exchange rate to be used for the Auckland Airport FY2016 interim dividend paid to Australian investors in AUD has been set at 0.8979. Dividends will be paid to investors on Thursday 7 April, 2016.
Auckland Airport is proud to announce that it is the overall winner of the 2016 Routes Asia Marketing Awards.
Auckland Airport yesterday welcomed the inaugural arrival of AirAsia X's new route from Kuala Lumpur via the Gold Coast. The new low-cost service – operated on an A330-300 aircraft – is the latest addition to Auckland Airport's expanding international network that has seen annual international passenger traffic grow to 8.4 million.
As part of its 50th anniversary celebrations, Auckland Airport is offering a group of 150 lucky New Zealanders the opportunity in April to experience first-hand a behind-the-scenes look at the country's largest airport.
Auckland Airport has today met with taxi operators to outline the changes it plans to implement to deliver consistently lower prices and better service for its customers.
Auckland Airport has welcomed the announcement by Qatar Airways that it will start a daily service between Doha and Auckland in December 2016. The service will operate using a B777 aircraft.
Auckland Airport has informed taxi operators that it intends to make changes to the way taxi services are provided to and from the airport through a new tender.
Auckland Airport is flying both the current New Zealand flag and the proposed Silver Fern alternative for the duration of the second referendum on the future of the New Zealand flag.
Auckland Airport has welcomed today's announcement by Air New Zealand that it will recommence three flights per week to Osaka, Japan in November 2016. The service will use a B767-300 aircraft and operate until March 2017.
Auckland Airport has today announced its interim results for the six months to 31 December 2015.
Following an internal review process conducted by Auckland Airport, the company has identified several unexplained financial transactions by a non-executive employee. Auckland Airport has dismissed the individual employee concerned and has referred the matter to the New Zealand Police. Civil proceedings have also been commenced against the individual concerned.
Auckland Airport's 2016 interim results for the six months to 31 December 2015 will be announced this Friday, 19 February 2016.
Auckland Airport has announced today that it will be reducing the operating length of its runway for the next eight weeks to enable maintenance work to be undertaken on a neighbouring taxiway.
Today, 29 January 2016, Auckland Airport celebrates the 50th anniversary of its official opening.
Auckland Airport has announced that it will celebrate its 50th anniversary by investing in three $50,000 scholarship programmes to support local primary, intermediate and secondary school teachers.
Today's announcement that Emirates will start a new non-stop service between Dubai and Auckland from 2 March 2016 means that Auckland Airport will now only be one stop away from the airline's 53 European and Middle Eastern destinations.
Auckland Airport has today announced the details of a major upgrade to its international departure area, including a new security processing zone and a new passenger lounge and shopping hub.
Auckland Airport welcomes the announcement that AirAsia X will start a daily service between Kuala Lumpur and Auckland, by extending its existing Gold Coast service. The year-round service will commence in March 2016, using an A330-300 aircraft.


HAVING the proposed Casement Park redevelopment completed before 2020 at the earliest is "ambitious" admits outgoing GAA president Aogán Ó Fearghail.
An application for planning permission at the Andersonstown Road venue was resubmitted in February, more than two years after the approval for the original design was overturned in a High Court legal challenge.
There was a fresh setback in September when transport submissions for the stadium project were deemed "unacceptable" by the Stormont department tasked with deciding whether to grant planning permission.
The redevelopment of the west Belfast venue has been in the pipeline since 2009, with work initially having been set to start in 2013 and completed in 2015.
That the proposed new stadium was still subject to approval of planning permission was cited as an issue by World Rugby's technical review of the Irish World Cup bid for 2023, which on Wednesday finished last behind South Africa and winners France in the race to host the tournament.
Speaking from the Irish team hotel in Perth yesterday morning, Ó Fearghail denied that Ireland losing the bid would have consequences on whether planning permission is granted.
"I don't know if it would accelerate because the block on Casement Park at the moment is judicial. It's going through a planning process, which is judicial and the rugby decision shouldn't have any influence on that, I don't think.
"I don't believe it should and I think there will be a decision on it quite soon on the planning element of it. Now if we get planning permission – and I'm quite hopeful but I don't know – then you get into a different stage and certainly from a GAA view we are committed now as we have always been to the provision of Casement Park.
"Look at the map of Ireland, we have a dearth of facilities north of a line between Galway and Dublin. We have a little bit of an overload south of that line but we need to keep those facilities strong but we don't need more but we certainly need more in that north half of Ireland and Casement is key to that.
"And the whole project of Casement wasn't just about Belfast and Antrim and Ulster. It's about that whole region, which needs a top-class facility.
Asked if there was a new timeline in place for the redevelopment, Ó Fearghail said that there wasn't and that to think the project would be completed two years from now was wishful.
"We're still committed to it. Nothing can happen until planning permission is approved. We all have to respect the process.
"There can't be a date. We had to go back and read and re-read the whole judicial review. Get our experts to do it. We weren't able to presume anything.
"We simply had to show why the stadium can happen, should happen and leave it open to the courts.


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A high school senior has been banned from her school's yearbook.
Teen mom Caitlin Tiller is already taking college classes in North Carolina while working part-time.
She says the school allowed seniors to submit pictures with a prop representing their achievements.
But when the teen submitted a photo of her and her son, school leaders banned it, saying it promotes teen-pregnancy.
School officials say they gave Tiller an option to submit another photo, but the teen decided if the school wasn't proud of her and her hard work – her newborn son – she didn't want to be a part of their yearbook.
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