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Collaborations, Best Practices, and Collection Development for Born-Digital and Digitized Materials
Date: 2007
Creator: Murray, Kathleen R. & Phillips, Mark Edward
Description: This paper discusses collaborations, best practices, and collection development for born-digital and digitized materials. Abstract: The University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries is a collaborative partner in the Web-at-Risk project, one of eight preservation projects funded by the Library of Congress under the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP). Early in the project, UNT conducted a needs assessment to identify web archiving issues facing curators and librarians. Key findings in three areas are reported: current challenges, organizational issues, and collection development concerns. These findings informed the development of guidelines and a template for the project's curators to create web collection plans. In addition to the Web-at-Risk project, the Digital Projects Unit at the UNT Libraries has several digital library initiatives with government agencies at the Federal and State levels to preserve and provide access to important collections of born-digital and digitized materials. The library also houses The Portal to Texas History, a digital gateway to the rich collections held in Texas libraries, museums, archives, historical societies, and private collections. Collaborations, best practices, collection development, and key lessons learned from these initiatives are identified. The DPU is also involved in trialing emerging tools and solutions for the libraries' storage ...
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Comparison of Digital Asset Management Systems (work area E)
Date: March 21, 2007
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward & Polyakov, Serhiy
Description: This paper includes examinations of various digital asset management systems' (DAMS) capabilities and functions. Evaluation is based on the documentation relating to each package.
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The Cybercemetery: Prolonging Usable Afterlife
Date: 2004
Creator: Hartman, Cathy Nelson; Hastings, Samantha Kelly & Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw
Description: Abstract: This paper discusses issues related to digital resources management when capturing and preserving Web-based, heterogeneous digital materials produced by a variety of software in various versions. Despite the current inadequate digital preservation solutions, the writers explore various methods and tools that facilitate the efficient management of vast quantities of dynamic and heterogeneous digital information resources. The CyberCemetery project at the University of North Texas (UNT) is used as an example of this type of endeavor. It specifically demonstrates the efforts being made by UNT to implement digital preservation strategies for prolonging the usable life of such heterogeneous digital resources. This paper also highlights the potential role of metadata at all levels in the life cycle of a digital resource (creation, management, use, and preservation).
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Expanding the Search for Digital Preservation Solutions
Date: 2009
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw
Description: This paper discusses expanding the search for digital preservation solutions. Abstract: This paper will present some preliminary results on factors that affect the adoption of PREMIS in cultural heritage institutions. The study employed a web-based survey to collect data from 123 participants in 20 countries as well as a semi-structured, follow-up telephone interview with a smaller sample of the survey respondents. Roger's diffusion of innovation theory was used as a theoretical framework. The main constructs considered for the study were relative advantage, compatibility, complexity, trialability, observability, and institutional readiness. The study yielded both qualitative and quantitative data, and preliminary analysis showed that all six factors influence the adoption of PREMIS in varying degrees.
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Installation and Testing of Selected Digital Asset Management Systems (work area E)
Date: April 3, 2007
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward & Polyakov, Serhiy
Description: This document contains installation procedures for the Digital Asset Management Systems (DAMS) identified as the most suitable candidates for the deployment by the Texas Heritage Digitization Initiative (THDI) partners. Procedures include prerequisites, installation steps, problems and solutions. Also this document contains final recommendations about implementation of the Digital Asset Management System (DAMS).
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Integrating Controlled Vocabularies into Cultural Heritage Digital Collections: The Portal to Texas History Experience
Date: 2007
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw; Phillips, Mark Edward & Belden, Dreanna
Description: This presentation paper is based on the University of North Texas Libraries' digital libraries' implementations experience. It discusses various scenarios and strategies for integrating controlled vocabularies in the uncontrolled digital library world.
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Maintaining Quality Metadata: Toward Effective Digital Resource Lifecycle Management
Date: 2008
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw
Description: This paper discusses maintaining quality metadata. Quality is a multidimensional concept. Abstract: Quality is a multidimensional concept. The two aspects of digital library data quality are the quality of the data in the objects themselves, and the quality of the metadata associated with the objects. Because poor metadata quality can result in ambiguity, poor recall and inconsistent search results, the existence of robust quality assurance mechanisms is a necessary feature of a well-functioning digital library. Recognizing the strategic benefit of quality metadata as a means of ensuring long term access to its digital resources, the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries employ a number of metadata quality assurance procedures, tools, and associated quality assurance mechanisms. This paper discusses issues related to digital resources management and describes how UNT approaches metadata quality issues at various levels of the digital resources life cycle.
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Meeting the Demands of Digital Scholarship: Challenges and Opportunities
Date: 2005
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw; Hartman, Cathy Nelson & Hastings, Samantha Kelly
Description: This paper discusses meeting the demands of digital scholarship. The synergies of numerous emerging trends such as the development of open standards and open source software, geometric growth of blogs and podcasts, peer-to-peer networking, cross discipline collaborations, etc. provide new directions for scholarship. Likewise, digital libraries and supporting technologies have now matured to the point where their contents are incorporating complex and dynamic resources and services. Powered by network capability and fueled by digital developments, research is becoming more data intensive in almost every discipline. The rapid pace of development poses new threats and problems. Many of these innovations, for example, may have come at the expense of simplicity, sustainability, and other commonly understood applications in the life cycle management of digital resources. Based on the University of North Texas Libraries' "Portal to Texas History" implementation experiences, this paper provides a general overview on the emerging trends and innovative usage of digital library technologies. This paper provides an overall scenario in the areas of aggregating a variety of digital formats; deploying, maintaining, and archiving digital contents; and other innovative uses of digital library technologies.
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Metadata: Batch Editing of MARC Records (work area D)
Date: May 2, 2007
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward & Polyakov, Serhiy
Description: This document describes workflows developed for the conversion of two sets of metadata records and serves the following objectives: research different avenues for the batch import and export of MARC records from popular integrated library systems, identify tools/software which aids in batch editing of MARC records, and document workflow for batch editing MARC records.
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Metadata Quality: A Phased Approach to Ensuring Long-Term Access to Digital Resources
Date: 2009
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw
Description: This paper discusses metadata quality. Maintaining usable digital collections necessitates maintaining high quality metadata about those digital objects. An effective metadata management approach can help institutions improve consistency, clarity of data lineage and relationships so that institutions can better use, reuse, and integrate resources. The metadata quality characteristics depend on various factors, including: type of resources, user perspectives, needs and priorities, which vary across groups of users. The metadata quality issue is particularly acute if there are multiple institutions participating in collaborative digital projects, where a high level of interoperability is an important element. This paper demonstrates metadata quality assurance mechanisms by examining different quality assessment criteria, including metadata record completeness, consistency, accuracy, provenance, conformance to expectations, and other known substantive factors.
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My 2011 GoRuCo talk, Less - The Path to Better Design, is at Vimeo.
It's mostly about reducing object coupling and is full of example code. If you occasionally find yourself forced into a corner where you have to write case statements that switch on class, have a look, this will help.
Plus, the last two and a half minutes are full of bicycles; what's not to like?
The slides are on Heroku.
Thanks again to all the GoRuCo organizers. The conference is great and is an accurate reflection of their commitment to the community.
Sandi Metz
So many rants, so little time...
Thursday, January 12, 2012
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
SOLID Design Talk at GoRuCo
My GoRuCo talk on SOLID Object-Oriented Design has been up on Confreaks for a while. They did a great job recording all the talks; very professional.
Friday, June 12, 2009
Ruby case statements and kind_of?
You're an object - Stand up straight and act like one!
Imagine you have this code:
Code 1
1 | class MyView |
It does just what you'd expect.
Output 1
1 | >> MyView.new('aaa').double |
You're probably familiar with this pattern. Its everywhere in Rails and you likely use it in your own code.
I want to say, in the nicest possible way, that this style of code is wrong, wrong, wrong and that you should do a different thing.
Okay, now that I have your attention, I'm not trying to start a fight. I'm not the best Ruby person around and I'm definitely not the best OO designer, but I do have an alternative pattern to suggest.
I'm aiming to start a discussion, not a religious war. Strong opinions are welcome.
What's happening up there?
MyView needs to operate on several other objects. It knows:- the classes of all the objects that it can interact with, and
- the behavior that should occur for each of those classes.
I object to this code because:
- use of 'kind_of?' is a code smell that says your code is procedural, not object oriented, and
- if you write procedural code your application will gradually become impossible to change and everyone will hate you.
Why is it wrong?
If I change how 'double' works on any of these classes, MyView must change, but that's not the real problem. What happens if MyView wants to double some new kind of object? I have to go into MyView and add a new branch to the case statement. How annoying is that?But that's the least of it. If I'm writing code that follows this pattern, I likely have many classes that do stuff based on the classes of their collaborators. My entire application behaves this way. Every time I add a new collaborating object I have to go change code everywhere. Each subsequent change makes things worse. My application is a teetering house of cards and eventually it will come tumbling down.
Also, what if someone else wants to use MyView with their new SuperDuper object? They can't reuse MyView without changing it since MyView has a very limited notion of what kinds of objects can be doubled.
MyView is both rigid and closed for extension.
What should I have done instead?
Something like this.Code 2
1 | class Numeric |
Using this new code, Output 1 will be the same as before, but now we can also:
Output 2
1 | >> 'aaa'.double |
That statement is deceptively simple but incredibly important. Objects ARE what they are so they do what they do.
It is not the job on any object to tell any other object how to behave. Objects create behavior by passing messages back and forth. They tell each other WHAT, not HOW.
WHAT is the event/notification/request and it is the responsibility of the sender.
HOW is the behavior/implementation and it should be completely hidden in the receiver.
Code 2 is object oriented because it relies on a network of interacting objects to produce behavior. Each object knows its own implementation and it exhibits that behavior when it receives a message.
No object in your system should have to know the class of any other object in order to know how to behave. Everything is a Duck. Tell the Duck WHAT and the Duck should know HOW.
This way you can change how any object is doubled by changing its own specific implementation. More importantly, MyView can now collaborate with any kind of object, as long as the object implements 'double'.
This is a nice theory, but it seems impossible in practice.
Nah, it's easy. But it means thinking about objects in a more Object Oriented way.In order to write code like Code 2, you have to believe in objects.
In Ruby, everything is an object. I know that you know this, but I suspect that you don't feel it in your bones. You came from those languages where you couldn't change String so now you operate as if String (and Symbol and Array and ...) are static types.
Throw off your shackles. Ruby is a network of interacting objects and you can add behavior to all of them. When you find yourself saying, if you're this kind of thing, do this, but if you're that kind of thing, do that, it's your cue to push the behavior back into those individual objects.
Sound bites.
Always send messages if you can.Implement behavior only when there's no one left to ask.
The last object that could possibly receive the message is the object that should implement the behavior.
MyView should not know how Numeric implements 'double'.MyView should just ask target to double itself.
All possible targets must implement 'double'.
Object should implement 'double' to help you get your Ducks in a row.
Lest you think this is all academic...
Here's the code to use this Pattern in some of the form_for methods in ActionView::Helpers. Ponder the implications.Diff of the changes.
Saturday, March 21, 2009
SOLID Design Principles - Dependency Injection
Not as Painful as it sounds...
Nothing is more pleasing than beautiful code. And nothing is more heart-breaking than watching beautiful code get destroyed.Lately, I've been paying particular attention to SOLID Object Oriented Design (OOD) principles and their interaction with TDD. I'm finding that, while TDD is an essential first step, it just isn't enough. If I want my code to survive the rigors of change and be useful for a long time I need to armor it by following SOLID principles.
There's a delightful symmetry in the feedback loop between TDD and OOD. TDD in isolation is not guaranteed to produce well designed code, but if you follow the OOD principles while writing the code you're testing, TDD gets easier and your tests get better.
In case you feel like pushing back already, let me add an early caveat. If you
- have an extremely simple application
- with a specification that's 100% complete
- that will never ever change
I say good luck with that. Let me know how it works out for you.
But if you're living in my reality, have a listen to Uncle Bob. In Design Principles and Design Patterns he describes good software as
'clean, elegant, and compelling', with 'a simple beauty that makes the designers and implementers itch to see it working'.But then goes on to say:
What goes wrong with software?There's more, but if I told you all of it I'd have to send you to the dermatologist.
The software starts to rot. At first it isn't so bad. An ugly wart here, a clumsy hack there, but the beauty of the design still shows through. Yet, over time as the rotting continues, the ugly festering sores and boils accumulate until they dominate the design of the application. The program becomes a festering mass of code that the developers find increasingly hard to maintain.
If you have good tests, you can protect the reliability of any smelly pile of software, even if it makes you cry when you have to change the code. $$'s fly out the window but it all still works.
If you have good tests AND good design, the software will be reliable and changes will be an economical pleasure. You'll look forward to adding new features so you can undertake big refactorings and make the code do even more.
But, enough with all this talk. Let's do something.
Dependency Injection
Bob [1] calls it Dependency Inversion and you could definitely argue that the two concepts are slightly different, but don't quibble with me about this. I'm being practical here.
Example 1:
Class Job is responsible for retrieving a remote file, cleaning it up and then storing it locally. It uses two preexisting classes, FileRetriever and FileCleaner, which themselves have thorough tests.1 | class Job |
The Job class is dirt simple. If you wrote it test first, you might have a spec like:
1 | it "should retrieve 'theirs' and store it locally" do |
Mocks/stubs to the rescue, right? I could stub FileRetriever.get_file and FileCleaner.clean and bypass both of those problems. However, even if I stub those methods, my code still has a bad smell. Stubbing improves the test but does not fix the flaw in the code.
Because of the style of coding in Job, it contains dependencies that effect my ability to refactor and reuse it in the future. Let's move some code around.
Example 2:
Now I'm injecting the dependencies into Job. Suddenly, Job feels a lot less specific and a lot more re-usable. In my spec I can create true mock objects and inject them; I don't have to stub methods into existing classes.1 | class Job |
That stylistic change helped a lot, but what if I want to provide some, but not all, of the arguments? It's easy, just change the initialize method. It wouldn't bother me if you also wanted to simplify run.
Example 3:
That feels really different from example 1. A simple change in coding style made Job more extensible, more reusable and much easier to test. You can write code in this style for no extra cost, so why not? It will save someone pain later.1 | class Job |
Example 4 - Pain:
Here's some code from Rails that generates xml for ActiveRecord objects. (Please, I'm not picking on them, this just happens to be a good example that I dealt with recently.)
1 | module ActiveRecord #:nodoc: |
The to_xml code does exactly what it's supposed to do and in that way cannot be faulted. The person who wrote it isn't bad, they just never imagined that I would want to reuse it this way.
Let me repeat that.
They never imagined how I would reuse their code.
The moral of this story? The same thing is true for every bit of code you write. The future is uncertain and the only way to plan for it is to acknowledge that uncertainty. You do not know what will happen; hedge your bets, inject your dependencies.
TDD makes the world go 'round. It lets us make unanticipated changes with confidence that our code will still work, but SOLID design principles keep the code 'clean, elegant, and compelling' after many generations of change.
1) I don't mean to be overly familiar; it's not like I know the man. But he's an icon, how can I avoid calling him 'Bob'?
1) I don't mean to be overly familiar; it's not like I know the man. But he's an icon, how can I avoid calling him 'Bob'?
Friday, November 21, 2008
Where is everyone?
How was the Voices That Matter Professional Ruby Conference?
It was a cross between being thrown in a geek-fest mosh pit and putting on a sweater that was warm from the dryer.
The Ruby crowd is a fierce meritocracy where everyone is scary smart and each believes that everyone else is slightly smarter. They're chasing perfection and claiming ignorance. They love a good idea. They want to change the world.
The conference was 96% men.
There may be places in IT where women aren't welcome but, despite that disparity, this ain't one of them.
I ended up there with a speaker flag on my badge and it's remarkable how many men stopped me to say how much they missed us and how they wanted us both in the seats beside them and on the podium in front of them.
I'm inspired to stand up and be counted. (Short though I am).
But seriously, where is everyone? There was a time when I had to wait in line in the women's room at conferences and now it echoes in there.
While you ponder this question, you can get an actual tech update of the conference at Liana's Wrap Up and Obie's Summary.
It was a cross between being thrown in a geek-fest mosh pit and putting on a sweater that was warm from the dryer.
The Ruby crowd is a fierce meritocracy where everyone is scary smart and each believes that everyone else is slightly smarter. They're chasing perfection and claiming ignorance. They love a good idea. They want to change the world.
The conference was 96% men.
There may be places in IT where women aren't welcome but, despite that disparity, this ain't one of them.
I ended up there with a speaker flag on my badge and it's remarkable how many men stopped me to say how much they missed us and how they wanted us both in the seats beside them and on the podium in front of them.
I'm inspired to stand up and be counted. (Short though I am).
But seriously, where is everyone? There was a time when I had to wait in line in the women's room at conferences and now it echoes in there.
While you ponder this question, you can get an actual tech update of the conference at Liana's Wrap Up and Obie's Summary.
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A concert featuring works by Berlioz, Mozart, Mendelssohn and Tchaikovsky at 3 p.m. Sunday, July 15. For tickets, visit www.artpark.net.
The BPO's free First Niagara Summer Concerts in the Parks starts June 26! Concerts include music from "Spiderman," "Pirates of the Carribean," "Indiana Jones" and "Chicago," and much more! Enjoy your BPO in these bucolic settings:
Goat Island State Park, Niagara Falls, 7 p.m., Tuesday, June 26
Knox Farm State Park, 437 Buffalo Road, East Aurora, 7 p.m. Wednesday, June 27 (Tapas on the Terrace, a benefit for the park, precedes this concert.
Buffalo and Erie County Botanical Gardens, 2655 South Park Ave., Buffalo, 7 p.m. Friday, June 29
Lancaster Band Shell, Artel Metz Drive off Aurora St., 7 p.m. Saturday, July 7
BPO commemorates the War of 1812
The Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra is honored to join the Olmsted Parks Conservancy in remembering the events of the War of 1812. At 8 p.m Friday, July 6, they will perform a free concert in Delaware Park, capping off a commemoration featuring dignitaries from the United States, Canada and the Seneca Nation, a military flyover, a dove release, and a parade. Events begin at 5 p.m. The concert will feature the 1812 Overture, and the national anthems of the United States and Canada, among other works. Fireworks will follow the concert.
"Sugar Magnolias" meets symphony
Echoing their historic 1970 performance with the Grateful Dead under music director Lukas Foss, the BPO will perform the music of the Grateful Dead. Paul Ferington will conduct the free concert, part of the Hard Rock Cafe Niagara Falls' "Hard Rock Rocks Old Falls Street" series. The show begins at 6 p.m. Saturday, July 14, with the BPO taking the stage around 9 p.m. Forever Young will be a special guest artist. Come hear why Ferington compared this music to that of the Beatles, and why he feels it will remain popular for years to come.
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nothing could be worse than a flying zombie cat though
It is not always the amount of details that makes a good wallpaper. Sometimes, a simple yet unique idea (in this case to find a certain screenshot from an anime) can create a lovely wallpaper for Valentine's day. popiahime's "Pikachu's Valentine" is funny to look at (I totally love the bottle's design!), and it composes a sweet design for people's desktops. Even though I'm not a big fan of white backgrounds, this one fits really well to the composition and the rest of the colours.
what kind of maniac in a chopper would even go near a zombie pile like that though?


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Secretary of State John Kerry hailed the idea of reviving the 2002 Arab Peace Initiative put forward yesterday in Washington by a delegation from the Arab League. Kerry, who reportedly is hoping to host a multi-party peace conference this spring, was pleased that Qatar's foreign minister had suggested that the proposal might be modified from its original take-it-or-leave-it demand that Israel return to the 1967 lines to one that allowed for a mutually-agreed "minor swap of land" that would modify the border.
This is progress of a sort, and should not be entirely dismissed. But before those advocating for more Israeli concessions in response to the proposal get too excited, it's important to remember why this initiative flopped the first time around: it's not really a peace proposal.
While the Arab Peace Initiative continues to be cited by Israel's critics as proof that the Jewish state really does have partners, this idea has always been more about polishing the image of the Arab world in the United States than anything else. Conceived in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks when the Arab states, and in particular Saudi Arabia, were viewed with disgust by most Americans, the initiative was part of an effort to rehabilitate their image. But despite the fact that New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman (who claimed it stemmed from a conversation he had with Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah) and others in the foreign policy community promoted the idea, it fizzled. Why? Because it was not an invitation to negotiate, but a diktat. Even worse, it contained a vital poison pill: the return of Palestinian refugees to Israel that would, in effect, mean the end of the Jewish state, not peace with it.


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My question involves labor and employment law for the state of: Virginia
The name I am using as my login is not me. It is the name of one of the persons fired from the office he worked in. I am simply an outside party attempting to remain anonymous. This course of events have been taken up the proper chain of command (both on the contract side, and the government side) with no solution other than Mr Mills being fired. Any further attempts have resulted in people being "reminded" of what happened to Mr Mills. This was also reported to 7 local media stations, as well as the Virginia Dept. of Labor, with not a single response. The employees affected now feel helpless under the severely corrupted management.
The case is as follows: (Names have been altered, can be provided if legal action is taken.)
These incidents involve an office within the United States Department of State in Springfield, VA
1: Contract radio technicians are split between Company C and Company P. All contract radio technicians are Exempt employees. Comp Time is used by both companies by billing "Administrative Leave" for Overtime hours worked that this office is unwilling to fund (technicians were allowed to take up to 16 hours of paid Overtime per installation trip). Company C has no manager at this office as she was let go because she was "not needed". Company P has a manager in this office, Mr. D. Ms. N is the government Contract Representative. Morale at this time was reasonably high.
2: Government Contract Representative Ms. N and Company P contract manager Mr. D engage in a physical, sexual relationship dating back to an unknown time. Their relations are video taped by Mr. D and somehow get put online. During the time of their sexual relationship, the contract for this office was awarded to Company P, Mr. D's company. All contract radio technicians were changed to Non-Exempt employees. All Overtime pay was eliminated, but Comp Time (calculated as straight time) was continued.
3: A contract radio technician stumbles upon the video of the sexual relationship between Ms. N and Mr. D on an adult website. Naturally, this information spread very quickly through this office and the entire Department of State. Company P employee Mr. X brought this information to Company P through program manager Mr. K. Others within this office and outside of the office bring the video to the attention of Diplomatic Security and a formal investigation of the incident begins. (This video has been saved and can be provided, as well as found online)
4: Contract radio technician and Company P employee, Mr. C, leaves this office for a different position citing his disgust for Mr. D and the inter-workings of the political scene at this office for his reason for leaving. Mr. C had kept documentation of any misdeeds and illegal activities by Mr. D for the prior year and he took that information to Company P HR on his last day. Company P HR informed Mr. C that they were well aware of almost all of these incidents, but that they were threatened by an unnamed government employee that if Mr. D were to be fired that Company P would be removed from any and all U.S. Department of State contracts.
5: Mr. D and Mr. K began a campaign of misinformation directed at the contract radio technicians and government employees of this office. They goal was to convince the staff of this office that the newly awarded Contract V was creating a financial strain that would have to be alleviated by layoffs throughout the government Division.
6: Mr. X was fired from Company P by Mr. K who referenced the need for lay-offs as the rationale behind him being let go. Approximately a week later, Company P e-mailed Mr. X and asked him why he quit. Mr. X informed them that Mr. K had fired him and that he had not resigned his position. Company P, fearing a wrongful termination lawsuit, quickly offered Mr. X his old position back. Mr. X declined this offer.
7: Mr. M, the government employee at this office in charge of site access was informed by DS that Mr. D and Ms. N were to be removed from the access list for the building, indicating that more than likely their security clearances had been revoked. Ms. N was also placed on a 90 day unpaid suspension. The employees in this office were told by Mr. D and by Branch Chief Mr. G that Ms. N's absence was due to her mother's illness.
8: Contract radio technicians began to realize the fact that Comp Time payment to Non-Exempt employees for Overtime hours worked is illegal. These concerns were raised and immediately shot down. Mr. D and Mr. K required employees to work Overtime for Comp Time reimbursement despite their objections. Several employees to include Mr. H and Mr. W had their employment threatened by Mr. K and Mr. D (respectively) for raising concerns about this. Mr. H and another contract radio technician were even required to work a total of 164 Overtime hours on one trip, only getting paid with Comp Time. Mr. W told Mr. G that the Comp Time payment is illegal and Mr. D even admitted to Mr. W that he knew that the Comp Time arrangement was illegal and that he was doing it at the request of Mr. K.
9: The morale within the office is at an all-time low and it is an absolutely hostile work environment. After all of the misdeeds by Mr. D, Mr. K and Ms. N, they all have retained their positions and power of authority. The three of them know that all of the contract radio technicians are aware of their misdeeds and have created an environment whereby employees feel that if they say the wrong thing or raise any concerns about Mr. D, Mr. K or Ms. N to anyone with Company P or the U.S. Department of State that they will be let go in a similar manner as Mr. X was.
10: In the past 3 months, the internal wireless network used for work had become considerably slower. After running scans of the network, it was found that Mr. D has been "ARP poisoning" the network. This has been traced to his cellular telephone by means of his MAC Address. ARP poisoning is a means by which a person can run a scan of a network and retrieve data from it. The inherent flaw with doing this is that it requires extensive bandwidth to operate. Not only was Mr. D illegally intercepting internet data but also was affecting productivity. The more disturbing fact is that it allows the person doing it to see EVERYTHING on the network and what users are doing, up to an including password capturing and being able to access private accounts like email, social networking sites, and bank accounts. The user is even able to send emails from these accounts, or make posts on the social networking sites, as if they were the person whom the account belonged to.
11: Mr. D has intentionally destroyed several chairs in the office by slicing them with a razor, calling them "unserviceable" and then throwing them away. The most recent was the second week of April 2012, where he said he caught an employee sleeping in it, when that was simply not true. In fact, the employee was out of the office on travel for work when the incident occurred. Mr. M sent out an e-mail to all of the office about the incident and how the destruction of government property will not be tolerated. Shortly after this e-mail was distributed several employees questioned Mr. D and he retorted with "Yea, I cut the ****ing chairs up. I don't give a **** what Ron says. I'll cut 'em all up".
12: On 5/29/2012, Mr. D told Mr. M "Yea...the contract stuff is coming back up again. They want us to let 3 more people go". It is the same thing that was done just before Mr. Mills was fired, and falls within the 6 month time frame Mr. K states in an email later in this post.
Early in 2011, a video was found by an employee of Company P on an adult website, of United States Civil Service employee Ms. N and Company P contractor Mr. D, performing sexual acts in Ms. N's office. Due to the daylight, it is possible that this may have occurred during business hours as the two always close and lock their office doors when in each other's offices. From watching the video, it is clear to see that Mr. D is the one recording, most likely on a cell phone camera. The office can be, and has been positively identified by several employees, as well as the persons involved. Mr. D was identified by a birthmark on his leg. (Shortly after the incident, a search of the video online found only dead links with a notice that stated "This video has been removed due to law enforcement request". Slowly the video is showing up again and can be provided).
Ms. N is the contracting officer for RPB for the V contract. During the same time the video was found, the office was between contracts as the majority of contractors in the facility belonged to Company C. The new contract came down to Company C who was sub-contracted under Company G, and Company P who was subcontracted under Company S. Company P ended up winning the contract, and all Company C employees were transferred to Company P. Shortly after, Mr. D was made a "manager" by Company P Project Manager Mr. K, and was to remain in the building (two years earlier Mr. D fought to have a Company C manager removed from the building because there "was no need for a contracting manager in the office").
It did not take long for word of the video to circulate the entire State Department, as contractor Mr. X reported this issue to his chain of command.
Near the end of 2011, Ms. N, Mr. D, and Mr. K started to build up a lie that there were serious budget problems due to the fact there were " issues in the contract that [Company S] did not foresee". They stated that "one or two people may have to be let go". Early in 2012, Mr. X was "laid off" in what was supposedly a string of layoffs affecting all of [the government Division], up to and including upper management and human resources.
Management told the remaining employees that Mr. X was "let go because it would have the least impact". Yet his duties had to be split up between 3 people, in addition to their current duties. Mr. D took on none of the duties, even though he produces no work and only spends his time on his personal business or harassing employees.
Within a week of his firing, Mr. X received an e-mail from Company P HR department wondering "why he quit his job, and if there was anything that he was unhappy with to cause it". Mr X stated he was fired by Project Manager Mr. K. In a panic, Company P offered him his job back, but he did not accept because "he would not work another day with [Mr. D]". Mr. K offering his job back was an apparent form of blackmail so he would not report any further illicit activities. Upon Mr. X denying a re-hire offer, Mr. K threatened to "destroy his security clearance" if he would ever report their actions.
Immediately, people from different parts of [the government Division] began talking, and it was soon found out that not a single person from any of the other branches were fired. Mr. D tried to tell the contract staff that "even [another Company P employee] up in HR was let go", when it was known for a fact that employee left the company on her own accord in October 2011 to take on a new position elsewhere.
Shortly after, an email was sent to the RPB staff by Mr. K,
To all, as we have all unfortunately witnessed first hand, DoS budgetary cutbacks have directly impacted the [Contract V], resulting in staffing cutbacks throughout [the government Division].
[Company S] is currently in the process of awarding [Company P] a six-month extension to our [Contract V] sub-contract. Please note that since this award is based on our existing staffing plan, no additional staffing cutbacks are expected during this extension.
Please feel free to contact me if I can provide additional information and/or assistance. Thanks,
-[Mr. K]
[Mr. K]
Program Manager / Support Contractor
The email was written to include all of [the government Division] on Contract V, yet the only people on the email it was sent to, in respect to the "Sent" block on the email, was the staff in this office.
In a recent WAR ([the government Division]'s Weekly Activities Report), the following was found:
[Contract V] Contract Negotiations Produce $63M Cost Reduction:
[The government Division] just completed the negotiations for [Contract V] Option Year 1 with [Company S]. This contract consolidated 46 separate labor contracts during the base year. The transition went well and over ninety-five percent of incumbent working level contractors transitioned. There has been a minimal amount disruption to the day to day work of [the government Division] operations. [The government division] successfully negotiated $63 million in cost reductions over the next nine years of the contract with most of the savings front loaded in the early years, and changed the contracting mechanism for managing projects from firm fixed price back to time and materials to improve project management under this contract.
This put all the traveling employees into a frenzy because for months they were told that the reason they were not allowed to take overtime, was because Contract V was still performance based and needed to be time and materials. They were also told that the budget was not there and Company S would not approve the overtime. This report showed both reasons were lies, and after speaking with Company S HR and finance department, it was found that "[Company S] will never turn down overtime requests".
In turn, Mr. D, Ms. N, and Mr. K forced people to take "comp time" instead. Due to the fact all employees are non-exempt, they legally MUST be paid for any time worked and could not "bank" hours. So to get around that, Mr. D and Ms. N willingly forced employees to illegally and fraudulently record hours on their timesheets that they did not work so they could use this comp time.
They currently still push people to take comp time, and Mr. K has begun to threaten peoples jobs if they continue to remind him that forcing the employees to take comp time is illegal. Another employee was threatened to be removed from a high profile Secretary of State Protection Detail because he simply asked for Mr. K to put in writing that he said the employee must take comp time. Mr. K stated that people need to "stop undermining his authority, and just take the comp time".
Mr. K has on several occasions, asked people to change hours on their timecard even after they have been processed. Also, upon one employee bringing up this obvious concern relating to comp time, Mr. D said to him "if you keep kicking up dust, it may be you getting dirty".
Late 2011, contract employee Mr. C left the company, due to Mr. D. Upon his leaving, he went to Company P's HR to state why he was leaving, as well as state his grievances he had with Mr. D. He was told that they knew about all of them and supposedly wanted to fire him, but that influences outside the office told them that if Mr. D were to be fired, they would "make sure Company P and all its employees would be fired and removed from the contract".
Not only is Mr. D involved in this, he also uses his work time and government materials and equipment to make and modify carburetors for high performance race cars. He currently runs a business selling these carburetors online. More recently, he also began to use time, materials and equipment for his Remote Control car hobby, which he also does work for other people selling his services.
Mr. C, in the months leading to his quitting, began to keep a very detailed log of the government owned vehicles Mr. D and Ms. N would use. These are only meant to be used for official business, and it was found that Mr. D and Ms. N would be putting themselves on the calendar for one hour, but would be gone in upwards to four hours. They would also use the vehicles to go to lunch.
Mr. X was also the facilities maintenance contact and was in charge of many things, including the vehicles. If there was any issue with them he would be called. In 2011 he had received a call asking "why the government vehicle was parked outside of an apartment complex in Stafford, VA." At the time, the only person in the office living in an apartment in Stafford was Ms. N.
Both Mr. D and Mr. K are constantly harassing the contract technicians saying they will be fired. It is not uncommon to be threatened numerous times daily. Since the discovery of the video, and it being reported, the atmosphere has become extremely volatile. Many of the contractors are actively searching for new jobs, one is leaving in August, and a few have actually started their own businesses and are hoping they will take off so they too can leave. The morale of the employees because of Mr. D and Mr. L has become almost non-existent.
Mr. D has kept his job in a managerial position and Ms. N was been put on a three month suspension without pay, which ended in April. Branch Chief Mr. G has stated Ms. N has resumed her role as Domestic Radio Officer and Contract Officer as if nothing happened.
Mr. D has currently been leaving early several days a week to visit Ms. N in Stafford. He does not put himself on the calendar nor take leave most days. His vehicle has been spotted in her apartment complex several times during and after business hours. It is believed he may be living with her as in his own words "me and my wife are going through rough times." This is due to the fact that shortly after the incident was reported, someone had also sent the video to his wife.
Is there anything the current employees can do to protect their positions, while seeking punishment for offenders?


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Monday, November 29, 2010
In my next life, I am coming back as a cat!!!!
If we want world peace, we must let go of our attachments and truly live like nomads. That's where I no mad at you and you no mad at me. That way there will surely be nomadness on the planet. Peace begins with each of us. A little peace here, a little peace there. Pretty soon all the peaces will fit together to make one big peace everywhere. -Swami Beyondananda
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2 comments:
- Cyrus Rumi said...
Love the picture!!!!!:)
Also, love that quote by Swami Beyondananda...how true and simple...
Have a great day, to you and family:)
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Hi Cyrus!!!!!!!
It is good to hear from you!!
I miss being able to leave a comment on your blog!!!!!
I am hoping you get a facebook soon!!!!!!!!
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Monday, March 10, 2008
Quintessential Me
27 comments:
- diamondcanopy said...
That is such a cute idea for the party! Your friend must have loved it!
I like this outfit, the colour of your dress is perfect! Oh, and of course, how can I forget the tres fabulous tights?! - March 10, 2008 at 12:48 PM
- jayne said...
you know, not that I really know you or anything, but judging based on the awesome photos you put up daily- this outfit does seem to be fully you! your best fashion elements all in one :)
awesome party idea - March 10, 2008 at 12:55 PM
- Aisha said...
You look very pretty (your tights are so pretty) and that clue game sounds fun!
♥ - March 10, 2008 at 1:51 PM
- Sarah said...
I think I'm going to have to steal the scavenger hunt idea, and I'm jealous that you've at least found one outfit that is quintessentially you. I feel like I've been searching for that for a while now
- March 10, 2008 at 3:28 PM
- Iheartfashion said...
Beautiful outfit! You look great.
- March 10, 2008 at 3:51 PM
- Secretista said...
I think it's awesome you wear dresses/skirts all the time. I wish I could do that, but it's just not me.
- March 10, 2008 at 3:55 PM
- enc said...
Very clever! You look great, as usual.
- March 10, 2008 at 5:12 PM
- WendyB said...
I always enjoy your cute poses.
- March 10, 2008 at 5:31 PM
- Tinsley said...
sounds like such a good idea - i love making collages so its perfect :)
- March 10, 2008 at 6:37 PM
- sridevi said...
The tights look fabulous! And those cards are very cool. I saw a girl a couple of days ago wearing tights, a simple dress, and a vest. It reminded me of you.
I'm creepy. :) - March 10, 2008 at 8:24 PM
- Alya said...
great idea! And yeah they do make a great collage.
- March 10, 2008 at 10:45 PM
- Nicola's Vintage Boutique said...
Forrest green looks wonderful on you and the tights are stunning!
- March 10, 2008 at 11:12 PM
- Anna Pope said...
I still can't get over the fact that those amazing tights are customized by you. You are very talented and have such a great sense of style, that's probably why I love your blog so much. And I agree that this does look like a very 'you' look :)
I love the scavenger hunt idea, such a nice birthday surprise <3 - March 11, 2008 at 1:30 AM
- Debbie Shiamay said...
Beautiful. I even love ur pose! The color of the dress is so lovely =)
- March 11, 2008 at 1:40 AM
- Charlotte said...
Cool outfit and great decoration!
According to your entry at my blog:
I've got two different glasses I wear: The one seen in the post yesterday is just for fun, but I got another pair from ebay, looking really cute and accidentally they fits perfect for vision aid. - March 11, 2008 at 2:35 AM
- miss milki said...
thats such a great birthday idea!
Like the dress too! :) - March 11, 2008 at 2:39 AM
- discothequechic said...
and there was me thinking I was too old for treasure trails!
Such a genius idea and the collages are very "veeesually pleasing".
Easter egg hunts, anyone? - March 11, 2008 at 4:36 AM
- Pratishtha Durga said...
LOL... Assassin shoes! Yup... that's a "killer" set, alright :)
Really, I don't know what I love more about your blog... your adorable rants, your cute poses, or your lovely clothes. You seemed to have cracked the trick for making a petite frame stand out.
Btw, not all guys are wary of girls with glasses. My husband noticed me because my glasses gave "character" to my face :) - March 11, 2008 at 5:35 AM
- susie_bubble said...
Cool idea for your friend's 21st.... bring back the Easter Egg hunt I say...
- March 11, 2008 at 6:28 AM
- Imelda said...
I love this outfit! That green dress is beautifull!
- March 11, 2008 at 7:36 AM
- Dahl said...
Scavenger hunt parties sound like so much fun. A nice alternative to surprise parties, which people usually see coming...
I sound like a terrrrible stalker, but I think this applies to most people who participate in daily outfit/street style communities - style seems to reside more in the attitude with which someone wears something rather than what exactly they're wearing. So your outfits might always seem a little kitsch, more from your way of posing or even posting, than from the outfit itself. Whenever I flick through wardrobe remix or fashion blogs I can always anticipate what someone's latest outfit will put me in mind of. - March 11, 2008 at 7:45 AM
- jeunedemoiselle said...
The idea for the party is lovely! And fo the style, I still don't know how to define it!
- March 11, 2008 at 8:19 AM
- ambika said...
Hmm, quintessential you...that's a good question. I don't know if I could say I have a style. I'd like to think it's evolving even now.
And you look fantastic, as always. - March 11, 2008 at 11:17 AM
- Jen (MahaloFashion) said...
Your tights are awesome, I want a pair just like them!
- March 11, 2008 at 1:58 PM
- Isa said...
if that´s you, then you´re adorable.
seriously, that´s so normal. people whould always think I have my very straight style but actually I haven´t. I´m always on the run. but I wear oxfords. ;) - March 11, 2008 at 2:40 PM
- dreamecho said...
i started admiring that perfect outfit (and pose!) before i even glanced at the text. reading that this look is very "you" wass almost unnecessary...it's very obvious from how comfortable you look.
i don't mean to say stop writing accompanying tales with your pics... love the "assasin shoes." :) and the scavenger hunt! - March 12, 2008 at 11:59 AM
- Soul Tanggg said...
YOU are an adorable friend!! I wish I had friends that did that stuff for me!
they all have boyfriends. haha. I'm always the 'single one'
Nice outfit, too, by the way. - March 12, 2008 at 11:45 PM


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From the begining..... 4 1/2 years ago I started to try to get pregnant. I thought it would be hard dure to the fact that I had Pelvic Inflammatory Disease. I tryed for 6 months un assisted, them took clomid for 12 months starting on low levels and increasing to very high levels in that period. When taking clomid I was not getting any reading with urine ovulation kits until I was on the highest levels.
I then booked to see a IVF specialist. She booked me in for a lapaoscapy where they found that my tubes where very scared, when they did the dye test no dye would go through. So the last year and half was a waste of time, which did not help me cause my age was against me as I was 35.
I did four full stimulated IVF cycles at monash IVF Gold Coast with no sucess, my Doctor changed clinics so I moved with her as she is a fantasic doctor. With my first 4 cycles I was lucky if I got 2 5day embros to transfer and none to freeze. We were always trying to grow them to a blastocyst which was not the right move for my embryos. I started to see a Acupuncturist that specialises is fertility. It really helped the number of eggs at pickup increased from 7 to 16 and they were better qualitity. From cycle 5 - 7 I was able to freeze some embryos. I also changed to the colardo Regime cycle as well for cycle 6 and 7. Cycle 7 I fell pregnant.... but then misscarraged at 7.5 weeks. I then did 2 frozen cycles next to no success. I then decided to try another fully stimulated cycle but my body would not let me. I would cry after each negative result but I never throught once that my body would not let me do it. Each month for the next 5 months I went to get a blod test and my body kept say no.
When my body came around I two frozen cycles to no success. Then did another FS cycle I fall pregnant on cycle number 8 (sorry I only count the FS cycles not the frozen ones). I am now 38 years old and 28 weeks pregnant.
I have written this today to give hope to all of you lovey stronge women out there. Don't give up. Don't just do blastocyst's. Don't just do the normal IVF try the Colorado Regime. Don't let the negative result keep you down for to long.


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The world as we know it ended on the 30. March.2012. Frankly it wasn't that spectacular, a accidental release of a airborne bio disease from one of the secret US military instillation, that turned those who were subjected to it into mindless flesh eating creatures. But of course the airborne could not work on everyone two percent of the population survived that first breakout. But the disease had an ugly cousin that was carried by the shambling monstrosities. This disease is carried in they're saliva and when it comes into contact with blood through biting it turns everyone into one of these creatures. So good luck and aim for the head!
So truly a simpel good old fashioned zombie RP?
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Instead of us concentrating of finding some sort of cure or having fights with the army because the secretly planned this or crap like that, our only true goal is to survive and the main focus is laid upon our interactions between each other and NPCs. So in this RP you are not a bad ass zombie killer who can wield every gun and use every weapon they find. You are a regular person with a very definite set of skills. Not that I wont allow you to know how to shoot a gun just explain how and why (Also the explanation should be logical not just "She then went to the gunrage and learned how to shoot"). I guess what I am trying to say is that make your character as realistic as possible.
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Pierre Étienne Théodore Rousseau, "Farm in the Landes" (House of the Garde), painted between 1844 and 1867. Oil on canvas, 25 1/2 x 39 inches. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts.
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has announced the acquisition of a major nineteenth-century landscape painting by Pierre Étienne Théodore Rousseau. The acquisition brings to the public one of the greatest Barbizon School paintings, Farm in the Landes (House of the Garde), which until now has been held in private collections and has not been widely exhibited since 1946.
"The painting is a moving testament to Rousseau's abiding love for rural life and unadorned nature," said Richard Rand, senior curator at the Clark. "This large scale picture transforms the Clark's collection of Barbizon pictures."
Rousseau worked on Farm in the Landes for nearly twenty-five years. The painting had its origins in a trip to a region just south of Bordeaux in 1844. At that time he made a composition drawing and oil painting nearly as large as the final work. Upon returning to his Barbizon studio, Rousseau worked on the canvas over the ensuing decades. The painting was one of three initially purchased in 1852 by Frédéric Hartmann, an Alsatian industrialist and one of the artist's most important patrons. Owing to Rousseau's obsessive work, Hartmann was unable to collect his picture until well after the artist's death in 1867.
One of the key figures of the Barbizon School, Rousseau wrote to Hartmann that Farm in the Landes was one of his best and most personal works. It depicts a region of southwestern France that the artist likened to Eden. Monumental oaks, silhouetted against an intense blue sky, dominate a scene of a humble farm warmed by late afternoon sunlight. A dusty path leads through a rustic gate into a busy farmyard where a dog sits patiently, a man repairs a wagon wheel while a child looks on, a woman feeds cows, and a second woman hangs washing before a barn with a great thatched roof.
In a series of remarkable letters, artist and patron debated the progress of the three pictures, particularly the question of the high degree of finish that characterizes Rousseau's late style. Rousseau explained that Farm in the Landes "is for me the object of serious thought and a study at once sweet and bitter." His long work on the picture finally brought pictorial form to his experience of the place itself, but the meticulous technique he had developed was at odds with the current fashion for quickly painted landscapes. Rousseau exhibited Farm in the Landes at the Salon in 1859, where it was criticized by conservative writers but admired by younger ones who saw it as a significant experimental work.
The painting is currently on view. On Thursday, January 14, Rand will present a Looking at Lunchtime Gallery Talk discussing the new acquisition.
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