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The BioMicro Center supports a broad set of computational services for CORE members including hardware, software and informatic support.
The BioMicro Center Supports a number of storage and computational services for CORE members. These services are built on a full cost recovery model where the total cost of the servers and services is expected to be recovered over three years. Charges for the equipment are billed on an annual basis.
STORAGE: BMC-PUB servers
The BioMicroCenter Public Server (BMC Pub) is a data storage service offered by the Center. The server is designed to provided low cost server based storage for labs and facilities at MIT accessible easily from Linux, Windows and Macintosh operating systems. Space is available in 1TB increments. The servers use a RAID6 architecture to accommodate drive failures and are backed up routinely by MIT's TSM service. Currently the BioMicro Center supports 128TB storage within the BMC-Pub system. More details on how to use the BMC-pub1 system are found HERE. Pricing for the servers is on the pricing page. Users who would like data storage on the BMC-pub systems should contact Stephen Goldman.
STORAGE: Koch Institute Isilon Cluster
For users with appointments in the Koch Institute, storage is also available on the KI's Isilon server, Rowley. This Isilon cluster was purchased in September 2010. The server is named after Janet Rowley, a pioneer in the field of chromosome translocations in cancer and winner of the 2009 national medal of science and 2009 presidential medal of freedom. The cluster currently consists of seven 36NL nodes and three 108NL nodes with a total capacity of over 500TB and is accessible from any networked computer. Rowley serves as the primary storage device used by the BioMicro Center for Illumina Sequencing and data delivery. Users who would like data storage on Rowley should contact Charlie Whittaker.
COMPUTATION: BMC/BCC Computation Cluster (ROUS)
Rous is a Linux cluster, initially purchase in September 2009. Rous, named after the Nobel prize winning cancer researcher Peyton Rous (and not Rodents Of Unusual Size) is equipped with a wide range of bioinformatics software. It uses x86 architecture with 160 processing cores and over 500 GB RAM. Rous is the primary server for handling data analysis from Illumina sequencing and for the GALAXY instance at MIT. Users of Rous must have an account on either BMC-PUB or on Rowley.
Currently, we are reworking the way the queues on Rous work. In addition to a general queue, similar to what is on Rous now, the new system will have lab specific queue where jobs from that lab will have priority on a specific node (or nodes) of the server. Similar to the data storage model, access to these nodes will be on a charge back basis to recover the cost of the instrumentation. We are currently in the testing phase of this project.
Some additional useful facts about Rous:
- Rous uses Sun Grid Engine (SGE) to manage jobs.
- Rous uses Modules to handle software packages.
- Currently, users are limited to 24 simultaneous processes on the server.
- Requests for software changes to Rous should be made to Stuart Levine and Charlie Whittaker.
Galaxy is an exciting new bioinformatics platform that is designed to bring complicated informatics tools to bench scientists. Galaxy allows you to do analyses you cannot do anywhere else without the need to install or download anything. You can analyze multiple alignemnts, compare genomic annotations, profile metagenomic samples and much much more. For many users, the public Galaxy instance at Penn State can provide a very robust tool.
To make things even easier, in collaboration with the Bioinformatics and Computing Core Facility at the Koch Institutewe have created a GALAXY INSTANCE here at MIT. This version is still in ALPHA but is available for MIT researchers and it works. Feel free to explore and to begin using it. Some rules:
- GALAXY is for MIT researchers ONLY. Anyone else on the server may have their data deleted at any time -- Just don't do it.
- File paths, etc, are likely to change.
- GALAXY use will eventually require purchase of storage as part of the BMC-PUB or ROWLEY networks.
- GALAXY runs on the same rous nodes as our Illumina sequencers. Jobs may be deleted if they are abusing the resource.
These rules are in place for the ALPHA phase and are subject to change without notice. Please email Stuart Levine or Charlie Whittaker with comments and suggestions.
The BioMicro Center collaborates with the Koch Institute Bioinformatics Computing Core and the MIT Libraries to support a number of software packages that are available for members of the MIT community
Desktop Software
- Agilent 2100 Expert This software package is used to control the Agilent 2100 Bioanalyzer and to perform analysis of the output, including microfluidic and electrophoretic assays for RNA, DNA and proteins, as well as two-color flow cytometry. The software can be installed on your desktop to allow users to do additional analyses.
- Tecan EvoWare Standard This software is available as part of our robotics service. Identical to the software used on the Tecan EVO 150s, the software contains a simulator that can be used to design your robotics experiments at your bench.
Server-Supported Software
- Spotfire is a widely used data analysis and visualization tool. It can handle a number of clustering functions and statistical tests and has very robust graphical capabilities. The BioMicro Center operates a Spotfire server that is available to anyone at MIT. Licenses for Spotfire are available through the BioMicro Center on a yearly basis.
- MATLAB A mathematical programming language used for mathematical modeling, as well as analyzing and visualizing data.
- BioBASE The BIOBASE Knowledge Library (BKL) contains comprehensive sets of protein databases such as HumanPSD, WormPD, GPGR-PD, PombePD, and MycopathPD in addition to analysis tools such as TRANSFAC, TRANSPATH, and ExPlain. BKL brings together curated data, analysis tools, and gene-centered information. BKL is one of the best ways to quickly assess a vast set of protein properties for a given protein or set of proteins.
- GeneGO Metacore GeneGo is a leading provider of data mining & analysis solutions in systems biology. MetaCore, GeneGo's flapship product, is an integrated software suite for functional analysis of experimental data. MetaCore is based on a curated database of human protein-protein, protein-DNA interactions, transcription factors, signaling and metabolic pathways, disease and toxicity, and the effects of bioactive molecules.
- INGENUITY PATHWAY ANALYSIS software that helps researchers model, analyze, and understand complex biological and chemical systems relevant to their experimental data. Researchers can search the scientific literature and find insights most relevant to their experimental data; analyze and build pathway models related to thier experimental data;and share and collaborate with colleagues. IPA is currently licensed through June 2012.
- MacVector a comprehensive Macintosh application that provides sequence editing, primer design, internet database searching, protein analysis, sequence confirmation, multiple sequence alignment, phylogenetic reconstruction, coding region analysis, and a wide variety of other functions.
- Lasergene v8.0 A software package that provides sequence assembly including next-generation sequence analysis; simplified primer design, and expanded SNP reporting and management.
- COMSOL Multiphysics This software package creates a simulation environment that facilitates all steps in the modeling process.
The BioMicro Center staff supports four license servers for desktop use. Please contact Stephen Goldman for more information about using these software packages.
Server Software Installed on ROUS
A large amount of software is installed on our cluster server including:
- Bowtie
- GenePattern
- Genome Analysis Tool Kit
- Illumina Pipeline/CASAVA
- Tophat
- Velvet
A critical aspect of providing our users with genomic data is providing our users with the bioinformatics support to interpret their data readily and to assist them in analyzing data for publications and grants. To accomplish this, the BioMicro Center has a team of informatics scientists on staff able to assist labs with experience in a broad number of methodologies. Bioinformatics consultations are available by appointment for MIT scientists affiliated with MIT CEHS or the departments of Biology and Biological Engineering. Bioinformatic projects are undertaken by the BioMicro Center on a collaborative basis. Prices for Bioinformatics support are available.
If you are looking for informatics support, the easiest way to begin is with an email to firstname.lastname@example.com with a brief description of your experiment. One of the members of our informatics staff will reach out to you to schedule a one on one meeting. This meeting is free for CORE lab members. Once an experimental plan is approved we will begin work on your project, checking in with you at regular intervals to be sure the project is on track. The project can be paused at any time by the researcher.
More information about bioinformatics support through the BioMicro Center is available HERE.
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Two Men Allegedly Threatened & Chased Out Of NYC McDonald's By Homophobic Cashier, Customers
We're not lovin' this story out of Hamilton Heights in New York City, where two men were allegedly run out of McDonald's after they were perceived as gay by an employee and a few customers.
Willis Washington Jr. and Horace Stevenson III were in the Hamilton Heights Mickey D's at 2:30 a.m. last December when a fellow customer assumed the two men were gay, they claim.
The customer "started to say he had a problem with gay people and that the gay lifestyle was not what God wants," according to their Manhattan Supreme Court lawsuit.
They ignored the loudmouth, but when they got to the counter, Washington and Stevenson say the cashier joined in the homophobia and refused to serve them, the lawsuit alleges filed last week.
The customers began pushing the two men to the back of the store, prompting a panicked Stevenson to dial 911 before the cashier "actually handed one of the customers a metal pipe from behind the counter and motioned to him that he should hit plaintiffs with it," according to the lawsuit.
The angry bigoted mob chased the guys out of the restaurant, the men claim. They returned to the scene once the police had arrived only to be put in handcuffs, arrested and blamed for causing the entire incident!
They were later released and charges dropped after the NYPD's mistake became clear.
The men have filed a lawsuit against the Colley Group, which owns that specific McDonald's franchise.
Now I seriously believe that McDonald is homophobic Company. Remember they have not budged out of their Sponsorship of Sochi 2014. I am a junkie and loved the McD's burgers and french fries. Yet, I ditched this brand for my second choice. They should realize that their main product depends on the "will" and "like" of customers. It's a choice not a necessity. For such Companies they have lot to lose when they neglect such incidents. It's no brainer that their Alliance with LGBT Community was a marketing stunt, not based on higher morales.
I am disgusted at this horrific incident of homophobia. As a queer person, who grew up eating that this very McDonald's on W145th St. and Broadway, I hope that cashier is fired and that McDonald's/Colley group ensure that this type of harrassment never occurrs again by making sure sensitivity training is provided for all their employees!
What the HELL is going on in NYC, since when have New Yorkers become so ignorant as far as diversity and tolerance goes? This is NYC not the south, are they going to start acting like the bible thumping hicks of the south? This type of attitude and ignorance was NEVER seen in NYC as it is today.
It is a very unfortunate incident. This should never happen in today's world. All businesses are responsible for sexual harassment training of their employees and their employees' actions. I say sue the hell out of them even though I'm not in favour of lawsuits. It just seems that this is the only solution to get the problem addressed.
This is not the first time McDonald's has been involved in this kind of blatant homophobia and it IS the companies responsibility to make sure the employees are trained properly in how to deal with all types of customers therefore it is McDonald's fault, no question...A company is responsible for the people they hire that represent said company
Of course Mc Donald's had something to do with it! I'd be curious to know what awareness training the owner of this franchise offers to its employees; further what discipline action the franchise took with the employee who handed the customer the steel pipe?
The same for the NY POLICE Dept.
I suspect one look at the video recording would solidify the two claimants argument.
The franchise - (yes who have the money) as an obligation to safety of all it's customers. . .
in any other situation if a customer was harassing other customers it is a fair expectation that staff would call the police - NOT join in the harassment!
What do you mean you find it repulsive that these two feel McDonald's is responsible?!! That employee is a direct representative of McDonald's and if that employee feels he can treat people in this manner, that restaurant should be ready to feel the consequences!! These victims should not only be going after McDonald's but should be going after NYPD!!

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Let there be light! And there it was, in my head. I see many pages on Facebook where people are signing up for. Things they are against, things they love, things they want to save, things they wanna hold back, ... it never ends. So, what's the idea?
The We want to see 'I Love You, Phillip Morris' in theatres ! Facebook Page. So everyone can sign up and become a member, invite their friends to join and ... you know. Get it under attention. Not that it's my style to do such things, but hey, maybe it helps? Since the internet is such an important thing in the media these days.
I would do it myself right now, but I realy don't know how to make such a page.
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Evo Vader and Bespin Sculpt Vader both kneel perfectly. I think my Bespin one I have in a kneeling pose with his head tilted down like he's bowing to the holographic image... This is awesome news I think... Some of the coolest stuff out of TF this year. Kickin' rear end on that. I've always felt that was iconic, and would dig a display for that moment.
an exclusive Executor Chamber set featuring Vader and a light-up Holo Emperor.
Jeff, was this shown at all? Or simply announced? I just can wait to see this.
...While I think MM's are the dumbest things ever making an exclusive fits the audience. I would have preferred a real figure repaint or something but this will be one less headache to obtain.
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My local Goodwill has "50% off" day every Friday.
That's the only day I'll go there now.
Yes it's true, I'm so cheap that I won't even pay full price at Goodwill.
The last time I was there I was looking for some old books to use in a project.
It didn't matter what the book was about as long as it looked old.
And slightly intellectual wouldn't hurt. :-)
I came across these two beauties.
My aunt owns a used bookstore and I have a feeling
she's scandalized at the thought of me cutting up old books.
Doesn't the top one look homemade?
I googled the title and it is a book that was first published in 1933.
I'm not sure how this one ended up with this cover.
The book is full of handwritten notes and newspaper clippings
from Canadian papers dated 1934 and 1935.
It leads me to believe that this is one of the original printings.
The second is a more common book.
I was focusing on the aging though.
I was planning on tea-staining pages for my project, but just look at these
Aren't they gorgeous?
The first is definitely not going to be changed.
I don't believe it's valuable but it's so interesting that I just have to keep it.
Buuuut, I've now decided to try something different
with the aforementioned project, so I'll just have to come up with
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|2012-03-18, 05:59
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❤Ichigo 100%❤
Join Date: Jan 2011
What wrong with a tiny time skip?
|2012-03-18, 06:13
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Supreme Ruler of Crowatia
Join Date: Jun 2009
Age: 28
As an anime first watcher to be honest that whole training thing did seem a bit weird. We weren't really told how long they were taking and in the end they couldn't even do it without all 3 of them. Seems a bit silly they would attempt to make it to the mansion when none of them could open the gate themself. They know the guard, just the freaking guard, could open 1 by himself. Killua opened 3. They should realize how strong the butlers and the rest of Killua's family must be and go train some more.
I did like it though. Gon's dedication to seeing his friend is heartwarming. Crazy, but heartwarming.
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|2012-03-18, 11:24
|Link #967
Amor Fati
Join Date: Oct 2011
For those of you Hunters out there, you can now figure out the name of one of Killua's younger siblings. Try to crack the code.
|2012-03-18, 11:49
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Amor Fati
Join Date: Oct 2011
Sort of disappointed, but mostly because of Gon's face and some of the other artistry. Togashi does some really great things in the manga when he directed this scene. I loved the sequencing and the atypical art choices.
But it was still a decent episode. Canary was cute. I personally liked it better than the 1999 series' adaptation.
|2012-03-18, 12:18
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Join Date: Jan 2012
So, again, this remake shows that this is indeed way less dark than the original. Seeing Gon with that bloodied face in the original had an great impact on me, as he got beaten down.
But regarding the adaptation of the original material, this is sticking way more to the manga. Which is very good news.
|2012-03-18, 13:12
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Age: 32
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|2012-03-18, 13:29
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One-Eyed Dragon
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: NJ, USA
So they got past the testing gate. Liked how Killua had faith in Gon. So wee get to meet a little bit of the family this ep. Figured they would kill a servant if they went against their wishes. I'm thinking that message is a fake.
|2012-03-18, 22:41
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Carpe Diem
Join Date: Dec 2009
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Age: 28
Small changes from the manga with the gate aside, I was really digging the music in this episode. I was half expecting Bolero to start playing somewhere in all of that training.
|2012-03-18, 23:03
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Junior Member
Join Date: Jan 2012
Regarding episode 23, there was a needless, pointless set of changes (them only opening the door all together) alongside there being too much time spent on the trivial (training montages, multiple failed cooperative attempts to open the door) while too little time was spent on important things (Canary; she sure cracked fast, and I didn't like the placement for her memories, which also just felt rushed, rather than a real, meaningful response to Gon's conviction, and that's underwhelming to me, no matter what arguments others may give). Looking at censoriferous trees instead of Gon being hit wasn't fun, either (I need to keep even a reasonable portion of the dying impact alive after seeing him take little damage), and he didn't even seem that damaged from that (this will have to be "fixed" later to avoid more problems), cheapening the impact of the part with Canary via cheapening the demonstrated depth of his conviction. This is the worst episode for me in a while...
|2012-03-18, 23:50
|Link #978
Amor Fati
Join Date: Oct 2011
For those of you new to the series, was anyone else surprised when Killua made his first appearance since the end of the Hunter Exam? I remember not expecting him to have been treated in such a cruel way. He's being flogged in his family's personal torture chamber...his life must have been terrible.
|2012-03-19, 01:23
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Wasn't really that impressed with this episode. The changes from the manga were jarring and had some subtle impacts on the plot at large.
The first cut to Killua with Milluki, Kikyo (Killua's mother), and Kalluto was added and juxtaposed some parts from the second cut (that we saw the first part of). This makes that second cut really lose impact, because Kikyo suggests that Killua is predisposed or otherwise voluntarily choosing not to see Gon, which is then cut to showing him actually imprisoned against his will. At this point we now already know he's imprisoned. In the manga Kikyo calls Milluki and tells him about the intruders after she meets them - here it begs the question of why she'd even know. There's no reason why Gotou (the head butler) would have informed her that people are trying to enter. I'm pretty sure they'd avoid bothering Zoldycks with something this as of yet inconsequential.
The lines in this scene are also heavily changed - here Killua says that he has faith in Gon's ability to enter the mansion. Ironic considering that Gon is never actually able to do it alone (unlike in the manga). In the manga, when he's told of the news he only responds with a startled but fascinated look. Milluki then threatens to have the three killed, at which point Killua says he'll kill Milluki if he does that. This is really important in showing that Killua is only willingly subjecting himself to the torture and has little regard for much of his family. Of course they can still show it, but it's going to look out of place in the next episode.
I'm not really sure what Madhouse was thinking in making it necessary for all three to open the door together. Maybe they thought having them open it individually was too much for the characters at the time, but given it was established that Killua can open 3 I don't think this was too overblown. Moreover, the point that Leorio was the strongest physically of the three was completely lost, and this is supposed to come up in the plot later. The sense of time was completely lost too, along with it the sense of urgency given that Gon and company could only stay there for 1 month due to using a temporary visa - again, this is significant to the plot a few chapters later (Kaito is also supposed to be mentioned soon, it will of course be scrapped).
Maybe Madhouse changed this to strengthen a theme of unity among the three. Call me cynical, but I think they did it to cut time, because I think that's what they do when they're rushing to a more interesting part of the story. That, and to facilitate rebalancing the episode with montage shots that are cheap to animate. The 1999 anime added a lot of buildup vs the manga, but I felt that it did a lot more to show their growth. One other thing that really bothered me in this episode was how Gon just threw his sling off and was, like that, able to push full strength to budge a really heavy door. Arms don't heal that way. Even if you heal unnaturally quickly like Gon, you would still go through a rehabilitation process, or not be so stupid as to use the arm at full strength first thing after taking off a cast, when he has absolutely no idea how it'll be since he hasn't moved it since the injury. In the manga his healing and the training is skipped over, but the timeline is still referenced (with it being known that Gon's arm at least healed four days ago). The 1999 anime added a nice touch by showing him move to lighter splints (or at least, I remember it being this way, but I don't have the anime to check)
I also appreciated how it showed Kanaria taking far more to crack in the old anime. In the manga the fight didn't last particularly longer (although they did cut a line with Kanaria yelling at Leorio and Kurapika for not helping) but it was a lot more brutal and made it clear that Gon's face was all swollen up. This too is supposed to be a plot point very soon. Here it just looks like he's closing the eye, and it's going to look awkward if they go the same route. I really liked how the 1999 anime showed Gon (as well as Kurapika and Leorio) spending so much time on Kanaria. She was supposed to be a very stoic/mechanical character and a loyal servant on the surface (that was the entire point of Gon saying she isn't Mike), who only cracks after ridiculous lengths. Here it felt like she folded pretty quickly. They also pretty needlessly made it look like Kikyo killed her (going so far as to make it look like she was using a gun), which is going to look like a total fakeout soon..
The music was decent this episode, but I felt like it didn't really fit the scenes that great. But I've felt that about all the music direction. One thing that bothered me a lot more was Milluki's voice. If you're going to cast an adult woman to play an obese early-20s male at least try not to sound like an adult woman. What's worse is that her voice was almost identical to Kikyo's, which is especially jarring when they're shown replying to each other.
|2012-03-19, 02:15
|Link #980
Junior Member
Join Date: Jan 2012
Toto y Moi, I'll just PM you (by the way, you still haven't made your promised PM, so I advise all to just ignore her complaints with whatever that she said she'd PM me about in a post that's now well back from the very "top" of the thread) what I think about your repetitious focus on the ostensible equivalency of literal flashbacks, no matter the narrative style or timing, but suffice it to say for observers that she was just talking past me in her last post, which focused on things I already clarified myself deeply on, and also simply assuming that her interpretations trump mine (somehow). None of these things are relevant to me, and anyone else may feel about Kaito's absence as they wish, up to and including being ecstatic about it. But my feelings are still 100% legitimate (for myself, and consequently hers are 0% legitimate for me except in cases where they overlap), and her thoughts (from her perspective) are quite pointless as a "counter" when I already explained things quite well. There's really nothing more to explain about my feelings on Kaito's placement unless someone asks me specifically what I meant about something, rather than coming from some position that I'm just wrong (about an opinion and interpretations related to it; subjective things; ridiculous!), and looking at things differently is "superior" or "objective", or anything between those two.
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Heather Prosser will have more than a college degree when she accepts her diploma from Stevenson University on Friday. By then, Prosser also will have the first week of her first job under her belt.
A computer information systems major, Prosser had two job offers before she graduated — one from Lockheed Martin and another from Johns Hopkins HealthCare.
She went with Lockheed Martin, where she began work on Monday as a software engineer. Landing a job in the post-recession — but still rocky — economy was a big relief. "It's definitely a weight lifted off," Prosser said. "Job searching can be stressful."
For recent college graduates, the prospects of landing a job are improving, reflecting cautious optimism among employers after several dismal years, employment experts say.
Two recent national surveys show that companies expect to hire more recent college graduates this year than last. Local college career centers report greater interest from employers in hiring recent grads. And graduates with in-demand majors say they are getting multiple job offers.
Employers plan to hire 19 percent more new college graduates this year than in 2010, according to companies polled in a survey released last month by NACE, the National Association of Colleges and Employers. Those results mark the first double-digit increase in spring hiring projections since 2007, the association said.
"Employers are looking to bring in entry-level workers to build their work force," especially in areas of information technology, customer service, sales, finance, accounting and marketing, said Brent Rasmussen, president of CareerBuilder North America. "Companies … need fresh, educated talent to fill those roles."
An annual college job forecast by CareerBuilder, which runs an online job-placement site, shows a gradual year-over-year increase in projected hiring. The share of employers planning to take on recent college graduates grew to 46 percent this year, up from 44 percent last year and 43 percent in 2009.
Meanwhile, the number of job applications sent to employers surveyed jumped 45 percent over last spring, but the total number of openings tripled, according to NACE. Employers in most industries represented in the association's poll said they expected double-digit increases in hiring, but decreases were projected in the government, retail and professional services categories.
Systems Alliance Inc., a Hunt Valley-based consulting firm that designs and builds websites, is keen to hire recent college graduates. The 55-employee company has increased hiring to keep up with growing business from its health care and higher education clients and over the past six months has brought eight new staff members on board, including recent college graduates.
"Obviously, hiring a more junior resource tends to be somewhat more economical than a more experienced person commanding a higher salary," said Mark Dabrowski, vice president of the company's Web effectiveness practice.
Beyond the economic benefits of hiring young workers, though, the company appreciates entry-level employees because they don't have preconceived notions or entrenched bad habits, he said.
"We can train them in our processes quickly and effectively," Dabrowski said. "We've definitely had more hits than misses."
Instead of candidates with lengthy resumes, Systems Alliance seeks people who are motivated, intelligent and willing to learn, he continued.
Davis Miller had a business management degree from Clemson University and little technical background when he was hired by Systems Alliance in 2009, the year he graduated. Now a business development executive for the company, he credits his summer internships selling educational products door-to-door with helping him land the job.
"I think my boss liked that I could demonstrate I knew how to work hard," he said. "I knew how to be independent and motivate myself."
Directors of local college career centers say they have seen an increase this year in the number of companies visiting campus to recruit job candidates, as well as more calls from employers seeking candidates. A record 130 employers attended a career fair hosted by Loyola University Maryland this spring, up from 100 last year, said Jen Rowley, director of the university's career center.
The Johns Hopkins University, too, reports more interest from companies. "We're seeing increased employer participation in several of our career services, including the number of interviews on campus," said Mark Presnell, director of Hopkins' career center. "I think it certainly is a better market than [in] previous years for recent college grads."
Though the job prospects for new graduates have improved, the market has not rebounded to prerecession levels, when CareerBuilder surveys typically showed that about 70 percent of employers planned to hire grads — a far cry from this year's modest 46 percent, said Allison Nawoj, a CareerBuilder spokeswoman.
"I would say my experience with students is it's still a pretty tight labor market," said Art Taguding, executive director of career services at Stevenson University. "We're seeing it opening up a little bit, but there are still [fewer] opportunities than there were in the past and it's still very competitive."
Graduates' majors can have a big impact on their chances of finding a job.
Michael Wilson, a senior theater major at Coppin State University who returned to school after serving in the military, said he switched from a nursing major because he wanted to pursue his dream of being a director. Now about to graduate, he's uncertain about his future, as are many of his theater-major friends.
"We're all soul-searching," he said. "It's not like [graduating] from high school, where you can go live with your mom and dad. It's time to get a career going and start your life."
Stevenson's Taguding advises students in the job market to focus less on broad economic trends and more on their own skills and attitude.
"They have to have strong persistence and a positive mental attitude to get them through this process," he said.
Seeking work can be nerve-racking regardless of the state of the economy — especially for the uninitiated.
Eleanora Abram, a senior accounting major at Loyola University, said she felt nervous about finding a job, even though her professors expressed confidence about career prospects for accounting majors.
"That put me at ease, but at the same time I had to consider everyone saying how bad the economy was and friends not being able to get jobs," Abram said.
Abram, who enrolled in a career center program that stressed interviewing skills and resume writing and offered on-campus interviews, said she was pleasantly surprised when half of the dozen companies she applied to called her for interviews. Of those, three made offers last fall, including two after she had already accepted a job.
"I was shocked," said Abram, who will graduate on May 21 and start working in September as an audit associate for a downtown accounting firm. "I went through the whole process and was grateful to have one [job offer]. That was my goal. I'm more excited about graduation because I have something to show for all the hard work I've been doing the last four years."


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It is amazing to consider how many soldiers beat the odds to survive so many terrible and infamous battles during the 1914-18 First World War.
One such north Derbyshire hero was Pte Charles Willie Wells, of the Essex Regiment, whose story has been immortalised in Martin Middlebrook's book First Battle of the Somme.
His proud son Frank Wells, 83, of Lancaster Road, at Newbold, Chesterfield, told how Charles survived the failed Gallipoli landings, The Battle of the Somme and Flanders before he was captured and spent the last few weeks of the war as a prisoner of war.
Frank has been reflecting during this 100th commemorative year since the start of the war in August 1914. He said: "Dad joined the Royal Artillery at Newcastle before joining the Infantry. He landed at Gallipoli and they had to fight their way off the beach head. Instead of digging trenches, he said if they had been allowed to keep going they could have gone all the way to Istanbul. They dug-in in the valley and got flooded before the area was eventually evacuated."
Frank said his dad was transported with others as if they were animals in cattle trucks and he was thrown into the Battle of the Somme. Charles suffered three bullet and shrapnel wounds and nearly lost an arm.
Following Charles' recovery he fought at Flanders and survived to be captured by the Germans while he was helping a wounded soldier. Charles's story was included in Martin Middlebrook's book after the author tracked Frank with an advert in the DT.
Soldier Charles Wells sadly had to plead poverty before the courts like so many returning from the First World War due to the lack of jobs.
His son Frank said Charles had to go before magistrates and plead for money because there was no welfare or benefits system.
Charles, who married Eva and had four sons, rebuilt his life and worked at Staveley Company, in the building trade and became a bus conductor.
He rarely talked about his ordeal.


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Democratic lawmakers in Washington are maneuvering for an increase in the federal minimum wage.
Democratic lawmakers in Washington are maneuvering for an increase in the federal minimum wage.
The main proposal — the Fair Minimum Wage Act — would boost the rate from the current $7.25 an hour to $10.10 an hour. The bill would spread out the increase over three years, in annual increments of 95 cents an hour, and allow for subsequent yearly cost-of-living adjustments.
If passed, it would be the first minimum-wage increase since July 2009, which was the last year of three consecutive annual increases enacted by former President George W. Bush in 2007.
The plan, however, faces a challenge in gaining Republican support in the Senate — opposition that is reflected among local GOP lawmakers.
Bloomberg.com pointed out in a recent report that the federal minimum wage hit its peak purchasing power in 1968, when it was $1.60 an hour.
Had it been indexed with inflation at that time, the report noted, today's rate would be $10.77 an hour — or $22,402 a year.
As it stands, a full-time worker making the current minimum wage pulls down $15,080 a year.
The proposed jump contained in the Fair Minimum Wage Act would lift that worker's salary to $21,008 a year.
Hundreds of local workers could benefit from a higher rate, government data indicate.
Federal census estimates for incomes in 2012 show that about 7,450 full-time workers in Marion County made $14,999 or less last year.
That's about 9.7 percent of the 77,000 full-time workers who cashed a paycheck in 2012, reports show.
The Census Bureau notes that 8,655 families in Marion made less than $15,000 in 2012, or about 9.9 percent of those who reported income last year.
In Alachua County, according to government estimates, roughly 5,530 families — or 10.9 percent of the total — earned $14,999 or less in 2012.
Among individual full-time workers in Alachua, about 4,680 employees — or 6.3 percent — made less than $15,000 last year.
Critics have longed maintain that raising the minimum wage, which began in 1938 at 25 cents an hour, costs jobs.
In the past, the rationale was that employers would lay workers off to counteract higher personnel costs.
Lately, though, the so-called job-killing aspect has taken on a new wrinkle.
In Washington, D.C., for example, Mayor Vincent Gray earlier this year vetoed a measure that would have required large retailers to pay workers 50 percent above the local minimum wage.
Gray did so after Walmart, which opposed the plan, threatened to halt construction of new stores in the district.
Proponents of a higher minimum age, however, have started disputing that argument.
They point to studies by economists that show a higher minimum wage has little impact on employment of workers who rely on it, typically those considered low-skilled or young people in their first job.
Last February, for example, the Center for Economic and Policy Research, a progressive think tank in Washington, released a report that reviewed results of two studies that analyzed the aggregated findings of dozens of previous studies on the minimum wage conducted since the early 1990s.
The research, the report said, "concludes that the minimum wage has little or no discernible effect on the employment prospects of low-wage workers."
"The most likely reason for this outcome is that the cost shock of the minimum wage is small relative to most firms' overall costs and only modest relative to the wages paid to low-wage workers," the paper continued.
Employers, it concluded, opt for other "channels of adjustment" to compensate, such as reducing hours or non-wage benefits, cutting pay of higher-paid workers, increasing productivity or prices to consumers, or just accepting smaller profits.
The report noted that the "most important" influence for workers and employers alike was that employee turnover was reduced, which produced "significant" savings to companies.
U.S. Rep. Rich Nugent, a Brooksville Republican whose district includes the city of Ocala and most of Marion County, invoked federalism in expressing his skepticism toward a minimum wage boost.
"This is a classic example of when I think certain policy decisions are best left up to the states," Nugent said in a statement to the Star-Banner.
"Every state in the Union has a different cost of living and a different set of economic challenges to overcome. The constant one-size-fits-all approach to policymaking in America tends to have enormous unintended consequences. It's just not a good way to do things."
Some believe Nugent is right.
At the beginning of the year, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 19 states and the District of Columbia had adopted a minimum wage that was higher than the federal level.
The highest was in Washington state, which called for $9.19 an hour and will up that to $9.32 an hour on Jan. 1.
Florida, which mandates $7.79 an hour, was also among them.
Bloomberg.com reported on Tuesday that five states — New Jersey, New York, California, Rhode Island and Connecticut — all adopted minimum-wage hikes this year.
New Jersey, where voters on Election Day overrode Gov. Chris Christie's January veto of a new rate, and New York now will join the other states with a minimum wage that exceeds the current federal level.
In a statement to the Star-Banner, U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown, a Jacksonville Democrat whose district encompasses part of eastern Marion and Alachua counties, called the minimum wage "stagnant" and argued it was overdue to be raised as income inequality widens.
"No one who works hard, takes responsibility and plays by the rules should be forced to live in poverty or struggle to pay the bills. Passage of the Fair Minimum Wage Act will strengthen our economy, enhance the economic security of our families and put more money in the pockets of those who need it most," Brown said.
Brown added that raising the rate was crucial for women, who make up almost two-thirds of minimum-wage earners, and said tying future increases to inflation would mean that the issue would no longer be "held hostage by partisanship in Congress or powerful special interests."
"Beyond a doubt, America's workers are the most productive and most innovative in the world, and they all deserve to earn a living equal to their efforts," Brown said.
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It Takes A Village
Well friends, it has been a long time; nearly six months to be exact. I have thought a about putting pen to paper, or pixel to screen, to be more exact, at least a hundred times. But I just couldn't muster up the motivation I needed to do so. And writing isn't like one of Kim Kardashian's orgasms, it can't be faked. But now I'm ready to give it a go again. Elly has started Montessori, summer is over and I'm ready to tell some stories. So here we go...
There's an expression that I suspect you have heard before - "It takes a village to raise a child." While I was familiar with it before Elly, now that I'm a parent, the sentiment behind those words really resonates with me. And coupled with the loss of some special people in my life, I find myself thinking about it even more introspectively.
In my last column, I shared a story about a dear friend's passing. For my foray back to writing, I'm going to touch on that theme one more time. I am mildly reluctant to strike the melancholy chord again. But as much as I love to share upbeat and chipper quips about my life, and how I so adore being deliciously vicious, there is a softer side to CattyDaddy as well. A side that is sensitive, sincere and sentimental. (Thank goodness that I'm not Cindy Brady during her lisp phase right now.) So bear with me one more time as I tell this story. And with one hand over my heart and the other snapping in a zee formation, I do promise you that the more jovial, sometimes bitchy columnist that you've come to know, will be back, with funny things (I hope) to say.
So, where were we? Oh yeah, the "village" story. As we progressed out of this last winter (you remember, the one that really was more of a mild fall) into the full awakening of springtime, I began to face the reality that my grandmother was not going to be with us much longer. It didn't come as a total surprise but it was/is still a tough reality. Nonna was nearly ninety and she was my last living grandparent. During the winter, she had open-heart surgery that was intended to elongate her life. The surgery itself was successful. But, the complications of being elderly and the effects of having a major surgery played out her hand a bit differently than anyone had hoped. As the following few months progressed, she took a turn for the worst and passed away just fifty-two days shy of her ninetieth birthday.
As a first generation Italian-American, many of my compatriots will be able to appreciate my upbringing. I grew up in a duplex. My grandparents, aunts and uncles lived on the second and third floors of the house, and my parents and I (and later my sister) lived on the first floor. As the first-born grandson, I enjoyed the likeness of princehood for a number of years - four years to be exact, until my sister came along. Then even though I needed to share the spotlight, I was still the prince. And I suppose in this tale, princes sometimes grow up to be queens but once again, I digress.
My grandmother was like a second mom to me. As a kid, we spent tons of time together. As soon as I could do the stairs on my own, I'd wake up and scramble upstairs. There, when not tormenting my then teenage aunts and uncles, I'd cook with my grandmother or watch my grandfather sketch something that he'd later turn into an intricate wood carving. One of my favorite childhood memories was taking the train into Boston with my grandmother and going to an Italian pastry shop. I even took my first trip to Italy with my grandparents.
As an adult, Nonna supported my marriage to Greg and welcomed Elly no differently than any of her other seven great-grandchildren. Elly absolutely adored her. Nonna always had a plateful of biscotti on hand. They appeared almost magically at times. She also had copious supplies of Kit Kats and a bowl of pastina (baby pasta) was always no more than ten minutes away. She was the consummate grandmother.
On Nonna's final day, I struggled with whether to let Elly say goodbye. Greg felt we should. I was unsure. But we ultimately decided that Elly was at an age where she still had the innocence of youth and the benefit of not truly understanding what was imminent. So we took her in to my grandmother's hospital room to give the two a minute together. While it was one of the most difficult moments I have had to endure, it gave me solace to know that my grandmother had one last chance to see my little girl. And that my daughter could give the woman who helped shape the man that I am, one last kiss.
Explaining death to a three year old is no easy feat. One doesn't want to frighten them, so it is necessary to choose the right words, judiciously and as precisely as one can. For example, telling a three year old that someone died because "they were sick" can come back to haunt you. We chose to tell Elly somewhat simply that "Nonna went to heaven." But in order for her to somehow grasp the finality and permanency of things, we also told her that from now on "we will only see Nonna in pictures."
"Why did she got to heaven?" Elly would ask.
"Because it was her turn. And everyone has a turn to go to heaven some time."
"Is she baking cookies there?" she'd ask.
"You know, Elly. I bet she is," I replied, being thankful for the innocence at which a child looks at the world.
My entire family gathered on what would have been Nonna's ninetieth birthday. That night, after we arrived home and got Elly ready for bed, she and I were "huggling" in her bed. (Huggling is Elly's word for the combination of hugging and snuggling.) As we talked about the day's events she asked "If today was Nonna's birthday, why didn't we sing "Happy Birthday" to her?" I sighed and smiled as I stroked her curly locks. I asked her if she wanted to sing "Happy Birthday" to Nonna. She nodded her little head. And so we did. We sang it. With tears streaming down my cheeks, my little angel took a moment and made it precious without even knowing that she did.
While losing Nonna was a recent occurrence, there are two other folks that are in the forefront of my mind right now. They died a day apart from each other but with twenty-three years between them. Just this past week, marked the twenty-fifth anniversary of the passing of my Aunt Babs. She died suddenly at the very young age of forty-nine from a few unexpected heart attacks. At the time of her death, I was only nineteen. Now, I know, gentle reader, those of you who have a command of math are thinking, how can this be? If I'm adding things up correctly, that must make our CattyDaddy, forty-four?! But he looks so youthful! Yes, yes, I suppose, technically, it does make me forty-four. But, thanks to the good people at Kiehl's and my Mediterranean skin, I don't look a day over forty-three. And I certainly don't act a day over eighteen.
But on a more serious note, now that I am closer to the age in which my aunt passed, I have better perspective on how young she really was when she passed. While I understood then, that forty-nine was indeed a young age to die, reflecting on her passing while I myself am in my forties, is quite different. She was truly taken in the prime of her life.
I was very close with my aunt growing up. We saw each other a few times a week. I loved to spend time with her and have sleepovers at her house. She was an incredible baker. I can still taste her German Chocolate cake today. And her cream cheese squares are probably responsible for at least two or three pounds of my total body weight. Auntie Babs was a warm woman, who loved her family and had a great laugh. I can only imagine the shenanigans that she and Elly would get into together if she were alive today. The two have a similar sense of humor. I could picture them teasing each other endlessly. And Elly scarfing down that cake!
And while Auntie Babs passed away more than half of my life ago, just one year ago, we lost my Uncle Enzo. He was also taken from us too soon at fifty-eight. When my Aunt Jenny started dating Enzo, I was Elly's age. (Because I can remember their early dating years, I hold some hope that Elly may remember Nonna. That she'll remember Uncle Enzo is less likely since she was only 2 1/2 when he passed.) As a kid, I remember taking trips to Wright's Pond or the Mystic Lakes. In the winter, they would take me ice-skating at Laconte Rink.
Enzo loved classical music and rock and roll. He also had quite a green thumb, loathed squirrels (see green thumb) and he was a great cook. He was also the life of the party. As I grew up, the age difference between us diminished. We would go to concerts together - Paul McCartney, Fleetwood Mac, The Rolling Stones. I'll never forget the fun that we had tailgating at the Stones concert in Foxboro! We certainly had the best food in the parking lot. Not everyone has aunts and uncles who are close enough in age to be a contemporary. For those of us who do, it's a wonderful gift. It's a cross between having an older sibling but one who you respect like a parent.
I miss them all. And they're not alone. They are with the ranks of other loved ones who I didn't mention today. Each of them is a person who made a difference in my life. Though these anniversaries are specific days that remind us of how we miss someone, the feeling of their loss isn't limited to these individual dates on a calendar. Just as I wish that I could have had more time with each of them, I wish Elly could have, too.
Elly will one day reflect on her "village." When she does, I hope that she feels that Greg and I filled it with people who will help us shape her into the woman that she will become some day. And I will also do my best to keep the legacy of my villagers alive. For Auntie Babs, some day we'll bake her German Chocolate cake together. For Uncle Enzo, we'll listen to classical music or the Stones and plant in our garden. And for Nonna, we'll cook and cook and cook...


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Don Moustache Hostel
Bon Moustache! is a hostel in the city centre, between El Gotic and El Borne quarters, four blocks away from the central Plaza Catalunya and the mythical Ramblas, and two metro stations away from the beach of la Barceloneta. From the hostel you can visit many sights by taking a walk but it is quiet enough to relax after a busy day.
We have a common room where you can cook and share good moments with the rest of guests; a sofa to watch movies or relax after an intense day in Barcelona and an area with computers and Internet connection.
Please note:
Cancellation Policy: 48 hours before arrival
Check-in: please contact us after booking to arrange your arrival time!
Method of Payment upon the arrival: Cash, Credit Cards
breakfast included.
City tax (1,00 € per night and person) not included
Registration Number AJ000540
Registration Number AJ000540
Availability & RatesTo view availability and prices please select dates and click 'Update Dates'
Hostel Facilities & Policies
- 24 Hour Reception
- Air Conditioning
- Board Games
- Book Exchange
- Free Breakfast
- Child Friendly
- Common Room
- Credit Cards Accepted
- Free City Maps
- Free WiFi
- Hair Dryers
- Hot Showers
- House Keeping
- Internet Access
- Self-Catering Facilities
- Laundry Facilities
- Linen Included
- Security Lockers
- Luggage Storage
- No Curfew
- Outdoor Terrace
- Reading Light
- Safe Deposit Box
- Taxes included
- Tea & Coffee Making Facilities
- Tours/Travel Desk
- Towels For Hire
- Vending Machines
- Washing Machine
Cancellation PolicyThis property has a 2 day cancellation policy. Failure to cancel within this time will result in a cancellation charge equal to the first night of your stay.
Must-Read Hostel InfoThis property has specific Terms & Conditions.
Registration Number AJ000540
Please note:
RECEPTION: 07:00 to 23:00
CHECK IN: 14pm (for late check-in, please inform us in advance so we can organize your check-in). If you arrive before, we will storage your bags for free.
SOCIAL ROOM and KITCHEN: from 07:00 to 23:00
Complete linen set for free (Top sheet, bottom sheet, duvet, pillow case, and pillow)
CANCELLATION POLICY: Cancellations or modifications to your reservation must be done by email or phone a minimum of 48 hrs before 10 A.M. on day of arrival. No shows or improper notification will result in charge equivalent to 2 nights stay.
LOCKERS: Free lockers (10 euros refundable deposit for padlock.)
LUGGAGE/BAGS: Free luggage storage.
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There are three metro stations, Urquinaona (L1-L4), Girona (L4) and Tetuan (L2), within a five minute walk from the hostel.
From the main airport Barcelona-El Prat
a) Airport shuttle pick up: from and to Barcelona Airport. Prices per person including one suitcase and one piece of hand luggage are as follows:
24€/per person from the airport to the hostel
9€/per person from the hostel to the ariport
b)Take the aerobus (operates form early morning till late night, almost every 5-10 minutes) to Plaça Catalunya. From there you can walk to the hostel walking up Passeig de Gracia then turning right into Caspe st (1st street) ; walk 4 blocks until you reach Girona Street and then look for number 33…there we are!
c) Take a train from the Terminal 2 El Prat to the station Passeige de Gracia and from there is only up to 15 minutes walk to the hostel.
d) If you decide to take a taxi from Barcelona airport to the hostel it will cost you about 30€ total.
From Girona Airport:
If you are flying with Ryanair to Girona Airport you will have to take a bus from there to Estació del Nord, in Barcelona. That will take you 1hour and 15 min. From Estació del Nord you can walk to the hostel and that will take you 20 min. Walk up Napoles street to Caspe street and then turn left and walk 4 blocks until you reach Girona street. Then look for number 33. You can also take a bus number 54 from the station to the bus stop 'Metro Tetuan'.
From Sants Estació (The main train station):
Take line 3(green) and go straight to Passeig de Gràcia. From there, look for Consell de Cent street, walk four blocks until you reach Girona street and then walk down until number 33.
If you are still not sure how to get to us, do not hesitate to contact us!
Located Near
We are 10 minutes walk from Plaza Catalunya, the favorite meeting point of Barcelona youth and the largest shopping area in the city.
The Borne, the coolest neighborhood of Barcelona is next to us and it is full of young and alternative designers stores, restaurants, galleries, cafes and museums.
The Parc de la Ciutadella, the market of Santa Caterina, the Picasso Museum and the Church of St. Maria del Mar, are just some of the sites that you can visit taking a walk from Don Moustache!.


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I know, I know – 3 weeks in and I already missed a couple of posts. In my defence, I've been pretty damn busy on a Sunday night but hey ho. As always, this entry is from a series of weekly posts highlighting a handful of interesting links I bookmarked each week(s). For the full archives visit the SEO Sunday category page.
- Automating and Scaling Keyword Research
While the techniques and tools discussed are a little bit harder without an Adwords API key, @richardbaxter provides some great insight into scaling keyword research and prioritising keyword targets.
- SEO P.I.M.P Music Video – T-Money feat. Craig
Probably the funniest SEO video you're likely to see this year – seriously good work by the master @ToryMcGill with the usual G.I.T. cameo by @animaxy. I'm hugely surprised this didn't go a bit more viral among the UK SEO scene.
- SEO/social reporting with Google Spreadsheets
This is so awesome. If you ever wanted a Google Docs Spreadsheet to use as a client dashboard then you're prayers have been answered. I can think of a few extensions but it's a fantastic first draft.
- Copy Detection Mechanisms for Digital Documents
This is a paper written by Sergey Brin way back in 1995, it's scary to think where Google could be 16 years on – and yet they still seem to fail massively on occasions (hat tip to @paddymoogan for sharing).
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Speaking of @paddymoogan, here's a post on Distilled covering 7 SEO wins for developers. In conclusion – "Love your developer!" and "Give developers credit where its due".
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A video from @wilreynolds (of SEER Interactive) for a talk given at Affiliate Summit to "help you understand where pockets of opportunity exist" with affiliate keyword research (slides here).
- Ex-Googlers Debut Zillabyte To Let Business Users Easily Analyze Big Data
Some ex-Googlers formed a company called Zillabyte and one of their 'off-the-shelf' datasets will include a full crawl of the web. Yes, you heard me right. Holy shit.
- Data Scraping Guide for SEO
Ultimate round-up of how to scrape every kind of data imaginable for your SEO campaign from @seohimanshu.
- Competitive Backlink Analysis
Fantastic post on the Ayima blog by Jane Copland on how to analyse your rivals strong and weak points in regard to their link building campaign.
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Past issues of the Bulletin are available here, or through the ASIS&T Digital Library.
Bulletin, February/March 2012
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Irene L. Travis, Editor
Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
The plenary sessions at the 2011 Annual Meeting, which are reported here, relate closely to other recent coverage on conservation of information (June/July 2011) and biodiversity informatics (August/September 2011). T. D. Wilson reflects on attempts to preserve information, past and present, and their likely outcomes while Steve Kelling of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology discusses using crowdsourcing and other information technologies to track, identify and protect birds.
Topics less frequently covered are the focus of our two feature articles. In one of them, Howard Fosdick encourages readers to donate suitable machines to computer refurbishers, where such organizations exist, instead of immediately recycling them, thus providing computers to people who could not otherwise afford them. He also discusses some of the usual methods of recycling and their unfortunate environmental impact as well as how computers are refurbished to add to their useful life. In the other feature article, Jamshid Beheshti tackles the problem of improving the search skills of born-digital teenagers through game-style digital environments and in particular a virtual library. This topic is closely related to one of our most popular past articles (www.asis.org./Bulletin/Apr-06/branston.html), which was on gaming and libraries. From Game Studies to Bibliographic Gaming: Libraries Tap into the Video Game Culture by Christy Branston still draws many readers.
For our special section on Museum Informatics I am much indebted to our guest editor Layna White, who has kept us current in this area over the years. This issue contains her third special section, the previous ones appearing in 2004 and 2008 (www.asis.org./Bulletin/Jun-04/white.html and www.asis.org./Bulletin/Apr-08/AprMay08_White.html). In this effort, Layna focuses on museums making their information available to the public and the scholarly community. There are six excellent articles on a variety of aspects of this challenge, ranging from the development of new collections management systems to the use of particular technologies such as reflectance transformation imaging, video and open source, linked datatsets. For the full list and a detailed discussion of each article, please see Laynas introduction Museum Informatics: Something New, Something More.
Finally, in our regular columns, Thom Haller reflects on the quandary of the information architecture professional whose expert advice is not accepted by the client, while
ASIS&T president Diane Sonnenwald pays tribute to the efforts of our increasingly international cadre of volunteers as we prepare for our next Annual Meeting.
Articles in this Issue
Preservation: The Final Frontier
How to Identify Ducks in Flight: A Crowdsourcing Approach to Biodiversity Research and Conservation
Museum Informatics: Something New, Something More: Introduction
CollectionSpace: A Story of Open-Source Software Development and User-Centered Design
Unintended Consequences: Unlimited Access, Invisible Work and the Future of the Information Profession in Cultural Heritage Organizations
A Haystack Full of Needles: Scholarly Access Challenges in Museum Video Archives
Advanced Imaging Tools for Museum and Library Conservation and Research
OpenART: Open Metadata for Art Research at the Tate
The Future of Museum Scholarly Catalogues
Teens, Virtual Environments and Information Literacy
Computer Refurbishing: Environmentally Reducing the Digital Divide
IA Column: What Happens When Context Thwarts an Information Architect's Vision?
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Conference Coaches Honor Fisk, Ard
The Atlantic Sun coaches have voted sophomore guard Brian Fisk second-team All-Atlantic Sun and named forward/guard Eddie Ard to the All-Freshman team.
Fisk leads the Bisons in scoring and is 10th in the conference with a 14.3 points per game average. Fisk is eighth in the conference in assists with 3.56 per game. He sixth in steals with 2.04 per game. He leads the Bisons in both of those categories.
Ard has finished strong down the stretch for the Bisons, leading the team in scoring three times in the month of February. He set a new school record for blocks in a game with nine Feb. 17 against Campbell. He is averaging 6.9 points per game.


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Many people will know the feelings of anger and frustration when they try to take the plastic wrapping off a new CD and it won't come off. This feeling is known as wrap rage. It describes any feelings of anger caused by wrapping or packaging that is difficult to take off — not only the packaging of CDs, but also books, games, food, etc. It is also known as package rage, packaging rage, can't-open-the-package rage.


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M. Wells Dinette
The M. Wells Dinette at MoMA PS1 is a cafeteria-style restaurant by Hugue Dufour and Sarah Obraitis, the culinary masterminds behind the popular M. Wells Diner.
The dinette pays homage to the building's former identity as a schoolhouse with communal tables and a perpetually changing menu.
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text: John Carter may not have conquered the box office, but this groovy animator's-eye-view of the special effects workflow shows just how much effort it took to bring Mars to life. Watch as Blue Sky Studios animator Patrick Giusiano pushes around (folks who I'm assuming are) his family members to give the Tharks' baby rodeo some veracity. Also, behold the creation of John Carter's hostage massage!


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Modi moves to Centre stage, tainted aide Amit Shah in tow
Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi took the first big step towards larger national role on Sunday when he was elevated to the BJP's highest decision-making body after six years. Vikas Pathak reports. BJP team for 2014delhi Updated: Apr 01, 2013 01:29 IST
Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi took the first big step towards larger national role on Sunday when he was elevated to the BJP's highest decision-making body after six years.Gujarat strongman's aides, including his former home minister Amit Shah, who is battling several court cases, found a place in the team of office-bearers named by party chief Rajnath Singh.
Modi is the only CM to be nominated to the parliamentary board, clearly marking him out from competition — other party CMs Shivraj Singh Chouhan and Raman Singh.
In his elevation, Rajnath has looked to balance the growing chorus among party cadre seeking bigger role for Modi with ally Janata Dal (U)'s sensibilities as also the various factions within the BJP.
So, while Shah, Modi's confidante, has been named general secretary, another aide, Purushottam Rupala, has been dropped.
Balbir Punj, who as Gujarat in-charge said Modi would make an excellent PM, was promoted as vice-president. But, BJP insiders point out that Punj is close to LK Advani, who wanted an important post for him.
CP Thakur and Smriti Irani were among other leaders who broke with the party line to say Modi be named PM candidate. Both were made vice-presidents on Sunday.
Meenakshi Lekhi, inducted as an office-bearer and a spokesperson, is a known Modi loyalist. She had spiritedly defended the Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi's visit to the Capital's Shri Ram College of Commerce in a TV debate with Congress veteran Mani Shankar Aiyar.
Party leaders, however, say the team is more of a balancing act than an all-out Modi affair. In picking his team, Rajnath has tried to keep leaders like Advani, Sushma Swaraj and Arun Jaitley in good humour.
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Valle Luna in Phoenix has been named one of most popular restaurants in America.
According to Phoenix Business Journal, located at 3336 W. Bell Road, Valle Luna was ranked No. 14 by a restaurant gift certificate sight.
The list reflects that Americans steered away from gourmet offerings in favor of more familiar options like comfort food, steak and pizza. It was compiled from website search data, the number of certificates purchased, tenure on the program and Restaurant.com's Verified Diner Ratings and Reviews.
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Probably Nifedipine, for Raynaud's. Talk to your doc.
Mama, it really bugs me that your LC didn't make the connection between the Raynaud's and the low supply issues and the pain, all of which suggest that your baby's latch is not what it should be. Pain means compression of the nipple, and compression of the nipple can cause/exacerbate the vasospasms and can reduce milk transfer, leading to low supply. So I would see another LC, preferably an IBCLC, and I would get my hands on a really good pump. If you're supplementing, ideally you should be doing it with your own milk. That will keep your supply where it should be, for the future when baby is better at nursing and doesn't need supplemental bottles.
When you see the IBCLC, make sure you discuss the following:
- Milk transfer (she should do a weigh-feed-weigh test at your visit)
- Tongue tie (that could be causing all your issues)
- Your pump- you want a very good pump with correctly sized shields, and the LC should observe you using it to make sure all is as it should be.