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Global CoWorking Wiki

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Piers Fawkes, PSFK
  • 17 march 2008

One of the sessions we’re running at the PSFK Conference New York next week is one on collaboration and co-working where we’ve asked NASA and Etsy to discuss and compare their efforts to collaborate with partners, suppliers, consumers and the public. Greg Verdino is moderating the panel and points us to this very detailed Wiki that he’s using for research into the subject. The site has links to co-working ventures all round the world from Austria to Hawaii. They say:

Coworking is cafe-like community/collaboration space for developers, writers and independents. Or, it’s like this: start with a shared office and add cafe culture. Which is the opposite of most modern cafes.

The site even looks at issues like green co-working and healthcare for co-workers. As this concept grows, this is definitely a site to use as a resource if you’re a SpaceOwner, SpaceCatalyst, Coworker or just Interested party.

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Bratz: Girlz Really Rock
Score: 38%
ESRB: Everyone
Publisher: THQ
Developer: Blitz Games
Media: DVD/1
Players: 1 - 2
Genre: Family/ Rhythm

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The Bratz are back again. I swear Cloe, Jade, Sasha, and Yasmin are never going to grow older. In Bratz: Girlz Really Rock, it seems like they've taken a few step back actually.

The graphics look like a game that was made 10 years ago. I do realize that it is a PS2 game, but so was Bratz: Forever Diamondz and the graphics on it were quite well done. In Girlz Really Rock, the characters aren't fluid at all. Their movements are stiff and limited. You can't even run through the water. I guess that would have taken too much animation. You can even make your character stand on a raccoon if you get it at the right spot. Things like that just shouldn't happen in a well done game.

The sounds are just as bad. For a game that you have to play music as a part of it, the music is very tinny sounding. Since the Bratz have their own music, of which 8 songs are available at itunes, you don't get any other licensed music in the game.

If you've seen Camp Rock, then you already know the basic plot of Bratz: Girls Really Rock, only there are no real rock stars in the game. The Bratz have gone to an artistic summer camp. At the end of the camp, there will be a competition to see who is artistically the best (dancing, singing, etc.). The Bratz have to work on their moves during camp so that they will be able to be the Tweevils' new best friend and thus beat the Tweevils again.

While they are on their quest to improve their skills, Cloe, Sasha, Jade, and Yasmin are asked by their friends at camp to perform some pretty mindless chores for them, such as finding out what a certain girl's favorite music is for Dylan. You can do these in any order and take your time doing them. If you take too long, the person will send you a text message asking when you'll be done. You still can't skip the cutscenes, so be prepared to listen to everything they're saying before you can go talk to someone else.

You'll need to go to the dance studio and the music studio at a minimum to get your skills down perfect. The dance studio is going to require you to be dressed properly, though. Let's face it, the Bratz aren't dressed properly for camp at all, much less ballet. This means that you've got to go to the fashion designer to get the right clothing. To keep track of all this and your chores, you use your PDA cell phone. Under it, you'll see text messages from everyone that you need to go visit.

Bratz: Girlz Really Rock is even easier than the previous games in some ways, but harder in others. The tasks you have to complete are easier in my opinion. The camp is a bit smaller with fewer places and people to visit. If you need to go to a specific place, you can choose the map and then choose that place. When you leave the map, you'll see an arrow under your feet pointing you in the correct direction.

The more difficult part is finding any enjoyment for very long in the game. The choice of clothing and fabrics is more limited than before. I guess since you're at summer camp that is to be expected, but it is still disappointing. Moving your character is difficult at times too. You have to run across bridges instead of through the little stream, and it's not always easy to get your character on the bridge. The controls just aren't as responsive as I would like.

Game Mechanics:
The mechanics of the game are easy to learn, even if they don't always respond well. The left stick controls your character's movement. With it, you make the Bratz run to wherever you want to go. The right stick will turn the camera so that you can see the landscape better. It's not as if you usually need to though. Most everything you need to do involves talking to people, and they're easy to find. The (X) button will let you talk to these people.

The buttons and the D-pad will become more helpful in the mini-games. You can go skydiving, play music, play golf, play on a keyboard, and dance. All of these games feel like a crippled version of what you're expecting, however. The music game, for instance, simply has the notes roll on the top of the screen and the girlz jamming on the bottom. All you have to do is press the corresponding button when the note hits the center of the screen. Believe me, this is very easy to do since the notes don't scroll very fast and there's just not that many of them at once.

In the past, I've recommended the Bratz games that I've reviewed. Even though they probably weren't for your average male gamer, they were really well done for their target audience. Unfortunately, I just cannot say the same thing about Bratz: Girlz Really Rock. The game has now fallen into the trap of most licensed games. It feels thrown out there with minimal effort just to make money. If you're a Bratz fan, I recommend continuing to play your old games and waiting on the next one. Because we know there's always going to be a next one, and this one just isn't worth it.

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Initial Rave Reviews for New NIMH Director

The series of short-term and acting directors lasted more than a decade, but the wait may have been worth it. The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) finally got a new, permanent head in April, in the person of Harvard research psychiatrist Steven E. Hyman.

Hyman, 44, comes to NIMH from Harvard’s Mind/Brain/Behavior Initiative, where he directed an interdisciplinary faculty group drawn from medicine, public health, business, law, religion, philosophy, and psychology. According to his psychologist colleagues, Hyman understands and appreciates behavioral research along with the full range of basic and clinical aspects of mental health research.

NIMH is a leading supporter of psychology research, with approximately $180 million going to psychologist principal investigators (PI) and much more to behavioral and social science more broadly. The past decade or so has been somewhat tumultuous, though, for NIMH, particularly for its behavioral and social science programs. Hyman’s arrival brings new hope of a more stable funding outlook for these areas.

“The respect for him is universal,” said Alan Kraut, executive director of APS. “And he has gone out of his way to be inclusive in his initial fact-finding about the Institute. Even before became on board officially, he was consulting with us and other groups about our views and concerns about the Institute.”

“I have a real sense that we are already in agreement about some ways to position behavioral scientists, particularly a new generation of behavioral scientists, to be on the cutting edge of NIMH research issues,” said Kraut.

Psychologist Alan Leshner, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), was co-chair of the search committee that recommended Hyman. “The search committee recogn ized right away that Dr. Hyman was an ideal candidate,” said Leshner. “He’s a fine scientist and extremely broad in his perspective, and he laid out an impressive vision for NIMH that spanned the breadth of the field’s activities.”

Norman Anderson, a psychologist who heads the NIH Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR), was a member of the search committee and shares Leshner’s view. No single thing led to Hyman’s selection, according to Anderson, but “his overall vision for maintai ning and expanding the scientific excellence of NIMH research was critical.”

“He also had a good understanding of the many complex issues facing the Institute, including setting priorities in a steady-state budget, the needs of the intramural program, and trainingconcerns,” said Anderson.

Renaissance Man

The image of Hyman as a kind of scientific renaissance man is vivid in the comments of the APS members who worked with him in the Mind/Brain/Behavior Initiative (MB2). APS Fellow Steven Kosslyn knows him through his experiences as a member of the steering committee for the Initiative and as a collaborator on a paper on different perspectives on intelligence.  “I have nothing but the best to say about Steve Hyman,” said Kosslyn. “I have gotten to know his intellectual style well- he is remarkably broad in his approach, and a very quick study.”

“He is also patient in drawing out ideas from others,” continued Kosslyn, who thinks that Hyman’s involvement with the Initiative has contributed to his appreciation of the value of different perspectives. Kosslyn described Hyman as “a very fair, honest, and reasonable person,” adding that “we are lucky to have him in his current position” at NIMH.

These sentiments are shared by APS Fellow Daniel Schacter, another MB2 participant. In commenting on the selection of Hyman  as NIMH director, Schacter said “Psychologists should be delighted that the NIMH has appointed a superb scientist with a broad view of mental health research.”

“I have been consistently amazed by the breadth of Steve’s perspective on central issues in neuroscience, psychology, and psychiatry,” said Schacter, predicting that Hyman “will appreciate and support the best that scientific psychology has to offer. His colleagues at Harvard will miss him, but the entire field of mental health will benefit from his appointment.”

A Busy Guy

In addition to running the MB’, Hyman also headed up a large and active research laboratory looking at the effects of drugs of abuse on the brain. This was funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse and the National Institute on Neurological Disorders and Stroke. Hyman taught neurobiology at the Harvard Medical School, trained psychiatric residents at Massachusetts General Hospital (where they voted him “best teacher” for several consecutive years), and, with the residents, saw emergency patients one morning each week.

Hyman also has authored and edited several clinical books as well as many other scientific writings. (News of his appointment in the Washington Post was accompanied by a teasing observation that he is the author of such “hits” as “6-hydroxydopamine lesions of the substantia nigra upregulate CREB phosphorylation in rat striatum.” Hyman’s response? “They spelled a word wrong.”)

And, there’s more: Hyman has an extensive record of service to the scientific community, serving on review sections, editorial boards, and expert panels across a broad range of topics. Among other things, he is a member of an ad hoc committee of the Institute of Medicine that is looking at ways to attract new investigators to research on drug and alcohol addiction. And in his spare time, he’s a father of a five- and a three-year-old, with another on the way in June. (Hyman’s wife, Barbara Bierer, is a prominent NIH-funded researcher in her own right.)

Spare Time?

In addition to Hyman’s impressive scientific achievements, he is described as a hands-on contributor to whatever project he’s working on. “Enormous amounts of energy,” observes Kosslyn. Here are some of the other adjectives his colleagues use to describe Hyman: impressive, clear-headed, knowledgeable, creative, and remarkably good with people.

Charter Fellow J. Richard Hackman, also at MB’, sums it up this way: “Steve has shown in his work- both as a scientist and as a research administrator-a healthy disregard for traditional disciplinary boundaries and guild-based thinking. When he goes to work on an intellectual or social issue, he draws on contributions that range from molecular biology and genetics to sociology and cultural anthropology.”

“Moreover,” said Hackman, “he has exhibited a remarkable ability to get scientists from all disciplines-very much including psychology- working together on significant human problems.” Hackman and the others are confident that Hyman will bring these same qualities to the job of NIMH director.

Some Tough Times

So what will Hyman be facing in his new position? Sure, it’s a $600-million agency with 850 staff supporting some hot science. But NIMH has had some tough times. In the 1970s, the Institute’s budget was declining while other federal research institutes were increasing.

In the early 1980s, the Institute was targeted by a Reagan Administration dead set on banning social research. (NIMH’s response, by the way, was to say, “okay, you’re right, we’ll just narrow our mission,” which was pretty much what they wanted to do then anyway. It was a huge setback for psychology and other disciplines in terms of research momentum and in training.)

Current troubles started in 1992, when psychiatrist Fred Goodwin, the head of the Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration (ADAMHA) and staunch defender of animal research, was demoted to the job of NIMH Director after being forced to resign from ADAMHA because of controversy generated by remarks he made that were seen as racist by the public and several influential people in Congress.

Goodwin, who presided over NIMH’s move to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), was the last permanent director of NIMH. From day one as director, he was steeped in controversy, and never able to shake it during his short one-year tenure, which, among other things, rendered him ineffective in dealing with Congress.

On either side of Goodwin, NIMH has had two outstanding acting directors: psychologist Alan Leshner, now head of NIDA, and psychiatrist Rex Cowdry, of the NIMH intramural program. But no matter how good an acting director is, any organization with a temporary leader ultimately suffers, particularly when the vacancy at the top becomes a permanent feature.

For NIMH, the situation was agonizingly prolonged by a stop-and-start search for a director, which three separate times reached the point where “short list” candidates were known and the official Washington-Area Gossip and Speculation (a.k.a. WAGS) network was calculating odds on who would be named.

Meanwhile, back at the Institute, dramatic policy decisions could not be made, important hiring decisions were deferred, a lot of things were basically on hold. Overlay this with the changes in Congress bringing in a seemingly less-sympathetic legislature, plus the general downsizing in the federal government, and you have a serious vulnerability problem. And that’s even before you get to the science and the fact that NIMH is dealing with issues that are stigmatized by much of society.

On the Defensive

During this period, it seemed like NIMH was on the defensive much of the time. One small example: Because of strong public objections, which no doubt capitalized on the Goodwin flap, the Institute was prevented from convening a conference on violence. In fact, during all of Goodwin’ s tenure, NIMH, the agency that should be most concerned with violence as a public health issue, was unable to touch the topic.

One big example: Last year NIMH was the target of a strident attack by a member of the subcommittee in the House of Representatives that determines the Institute’s annual budget (and that of NIH as a whole). Rep. Ernest Jim Istook (R-OK) took information fed to him by a coalition of groups that included the anti–psychiatry Scientologists, and attacked NIMH’s portfolio, singling out 30-plus grants, some of which were behavioral, as examples of government waste.

This was alarmingly reminiscent of the Reagan Administration attacks. Fortunately, NIMH responded differently this time. Under Cowdry’s leadership, NIMH mounted a strong defense of the targeted grants. NIH Director Harold Varmus also helped out by expressing the view that the attacks constituted an attack on all of science.

Ultimately, the attempt to pillory NIMH’s research backfired in a big way. The research was featured in a very positive light in a lengthy piece on Prime time Live. Investigative reporter Sam Donaldson said he started his inquiries assuming he would find the “mother-lode of government waste.” Instead, he said he came to appreciate the relevance and importance of the projects, and he ended up making a strong case for NIMH’s research.

During hearings on the NIMH budget this year, the chair of the House subcommittee called last year’s attacks on NIMH “mindless” and praised the Donaldson story, giving the strong impression that further attacks would not be acceptable. (See the article on APS congressional testimony on page 4 for more details.)

The problem has not quite gone away, however. NIMH’s portfolio is under attack still by some who want to narrow NIMH’s mission to focus only on schizophrenia and similar disorders. This effort is linked to a presumed hostile review of the awards in NIMH’s portfolio by the House subcommittee-reportedly undertaken with the help of organizations normally supportive of NIMH. At the same time, proposals have also been circulating for the creation of a “brain institute” at NIH by combining portions of NIMH with the neurology institute.

The idea doesn’t have much credence and has little chance of getting past the trial balloon stage, but the fact that such proposals are being made at all speaks to NIMH’ s continued vulnerability.

Home of Behavior

On another front, NIMH’s too-large intramural program is the subject of scrutiny by a blue ribbon committee of “outside” experts-in quotes because the committee is chaired by former NIMH director Herbert Pardes-which is expected to develop a plan for revamping the program. Hyman reportedly already told the committee he thinks that too much of the program’s research is “incremental,” and threatened the committee with replacement if they do not produce bold recommendations.

Hopefully, this will mean a broadening of the intramural program. However, there are other forces at work that might pressure for narrowing it and the rest of NIMH’ s portfolio in favor of biomedical research. Some are from outside forces, such as Congress or interest groups. Other pressure comes from within NIH. While APS’ s perspective is that NIMH is slanted toward biomedical research, the rest of NIH tends to refer to NIMH as the “behavioral” institute, driving the NIH wannabes at NIMH apoplectic. Whether Hyman feels comfortable with that behavioral image or will feel compelled to counter it remains to be seen.

“I’m not sure how Dr. Hyman will feel about that image,” said OBSSR’s Anderson. “I am personally ambivalent about it,” he added. “It is an acknowledgment of NIMH’s leadership role in behavioral science funding,” but it lets the other institutes off the hook by implying that NIMH is the ‘true’ home of behavioral science at NIH.”

Hyman’ s appointment “bodes well for behavioral and social science as a whole,” said Anderson, whose forecast is that  psychology will continue to be the top-funded discipline at NIMH” while “interdisciplinary research will gain in importance.” Even there, notes Anderson, “psychologists are heavily involved in development of models for that kind of research.” Some of Hyman’ s thoughts about psychology and interdisciplinary research are presented in the box below.

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Prices of the four major commodity thermoplastics are projected to be a bit lower or remain flat (especially in the case of PE) as the year comes to an end.

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Prices of the four major commodity thermoplastics are projected to be a bit lower or remain flat (especially in the case of PE) as the year comes to an end. Slowed seasonal demand, relatively tight to balanced supplier inventories, and lower feedstock costs are key driving factors. That’s the view of resin purchasing consultants at Resin Technology, Inc. (RTi) Fort Worth, Texas, and Michael Greenberg of The Plastics Exchange, Chicago.

Polyethylene prices were flat through October and into November. This was the first such period this year that no industrywide price hikes were on the table, according to Mike Burns, RTi’s v.p. for PE. In early November, The Plastics Exchange’s Greenberg speculated that a little relief was possible for November PE contracts, noting that “there is plenty of margin to be shared on both a spot and contract basis.” He noted that processors were seeking a price decrease and were drawing down their resin supplies for year-end inventory accounting. RTi’s Burns noted that resin availability, the driving factor behind PE resin price hikes this year, “appears to be improving,” with no product allocations over the last few months and the emergence of some export activity after a lengthy hiatus. “Off-grade resin prices have come down a bit, and there is more inventory and less panic about getting material,” he observed.

Still, Burns does not see PE contract resin prices dropping, noting that PE processors have been able to pass along this year’s resin price hikes to their end-use customers, and resin suppliers are quite cognizant of that. Processors will buy as needed through this month, regardless of any end-of-year price-increase announcements. Burns expects an increase to emerge in the first quarter of 2014.

Polypropylene prices in November were likely to roll over or drop by 0.5 ¢ to 1¢/lb, depending on propylene monomer contract settlements. For this month, prices were projected to remain flat. Although there has been some scheduled downtime for propylene production facilities in the last couple of months, generally soft demand means that these temporary phenomena were not expected to result in higher monomer or polymer prices.

Having been tight for most of this year, PP supplies began to loosen up little by little as we entered the fourth quarter. Supplier inventories are reported to be building up, and plant operating rates dropped from the low-to-mid 90s to the mid-to-high 80s percentile by last month. After several months of premium prices, spot PP material dropped below prime resin cost. Says Scott Newell, RTI’s director of client services for PP, “Sellers initially held firm on price and there was no movement. As they started to lower prices a bit to generate some demand, there was little response until they lowered prices by 2-4¢/lb.” Greenberg reported spot prices dropping by up to 7¢/lb within the six weeks leading up to Nov. 1, a period in which there was a steady flow of well-priced off-grade material.

Demand for PP in the fourth quarter was expected to register an increase. Newell explains that this does not represent “real demand,” but indicates year-end railcar deals that producers offered to move product and which were snapped up by processors. “Historically, processors have seen price increases announced for the first part of a new year. But this is not necessarily going to be the case this time,” Newell notes.

Polystyrene prices moved up 3¢/lb across the board in October, owing largely to planned and unplanned monomer and polymer production disruptions. By early November, however, a price drop of 2-3¢/lb looked very likely, according to Mark Kallman, RTi’s director of client services for engineering resins, PS, and PVC. Prospects of price relief before year’s end are bolstered by a drop of 27¢/gal in November benzene contract prices, along with the possibility of a 1¢/lb drop in ethylene prices for October contracts.

Vinyl resin prices dropped by 1¢/lb in October and were expected to be flat or down another penny last month. Two major planned PVC plant shutdowns were completed by last month and had no impact on the market due to the domestic seasonal slowdown, according to RTi's Kallman. Lower ethylene monomer contract prices would also point to slightly lower resin prices. However, there has been increased interest from export markets, which could tighten up domestic supply a bit.


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Scientists from the Commerce Department's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration are working with two Australian groups to improve coral reef monitoring and help promote early warnings of future bleaching events, NOAA announced today. The scientists are making extensive use of satellites and computerized expert systems.

The reefs are extremely important and fragile ecosystems. They thrive as long as temperatures remain at or below certain temperatures for a given site. An increase of one or two degrees above the usual maximum temperatures can be deadly to these animals. The temperature range for corals to thrive varies from site to site by only a few degrees. While many corals normally recover from short bleaching events, long-term or frequent bleaching may severely weaken the corals, leaving them more vulnerable to disease, damage or death.

Current NOAA satellite and expert system observations indicate that temperature conditions around the Great Barrier Reef have been close to the bleaching threshold temperatures since mid-January. But, scientists from the Australian Institute of Marine Sciences (AIMS), the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority (GBRMPA), and reef users have not reported any major bleaching so far.

Al Strong of NOAA's National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service uses satellites to measure sea surface temperatures and identify HotSpots, warmer- than-usual areas in the oceans where bleaching could take place. Strong has been able to predict coral reef bleaching events over large ocean areas since 1997.

Part of the collaboration with the Australians aims to see how precisely satellites can predict the location of bleaching. Terry Done, AIMS senior principal research scientist, said, "The strength of the NOAA HotSpots is in locating the broad general areas where one might look for bleaching. Our teams are seeing great patchiness in bleaching within these broad areas, so with NOAA, we are going to see how far we can push the satellite technology to explain what we actually see on the reefs."

Jim Hendee of NOAA's Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory in Miami, Fla., has developed a suite of computerized "expert systems" to automatically
scan weather data from U.S. and Australian weather stations. One system provides an alert via e-mail or the World Wide Web when conditions are thought to be conducive to coral bleaching.

"Coral reefs -- the rainforests of the sea -- are some of the oldest and most biologically diverse ecosystems on earth," NOAA Administrator D. James Baker said. Baker will address attendees at the second Coral Reef Task Force meeting on Maui, Hawaii, later this week. "Important assets to local and national economies, they produce fisheries for food, materials for new medicines, and income from tourism and recreation, as well as protect coastal communities from storms."

Coral bleaching can be a sign that the coral is being stressed by a number of factors, including pollution, sedimentation, high light levels, reduced water levels, or changes in salinity. Increases in water temperature of one degree or more for one month above the summer maximum often result in extensive coral bleaching, making coral reefs under these HotSpots prime candidates for bleaching events.

About 50 countries have reported coral bleaching to some degree in their reefs since 1997, Strong reports. He is among several authors who are publishing these unprecedented results, primarily over the Eastern Hemisphere coral reefs, in an upcoming issue of the scientific journal Ambio. During the El Niño of 1982-83, large areas of coral reefs around the world, including the Great Barrier Reef, were severely damaged by high water temperatures associated with coral bleaching.

Bleaching and other problems facing coral reefs were discussed at the first meeting of the Coral Reef Task Force in Key Biscayne, Fla., last October. The Coral Reef Task Force was created by an executive order signed June 11, 1998, by President Clinton.

Editor's Note: Maps showing twice-weekly distributions of HotSpots are available at:

Movie/animations are posted at:

Maps showing the annual distribution of bleaching from 1969 through 1997 are posted at:

For information on NOAA's Coral Health and Monitoring Program, go to:

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Based on a 1950 Academy Award-winning motion picture by Dr. Seuss, the board book Gerald McBoing Boing Sound Book tells the story of a toddler with an unusual way of communicating: ""When he started talking,/ you know what he said?/ He didn't talk words-/ he went boing boing instead!"" A sound chip in the back of the book makes the titular sound, and is accessible from all spreads through a die-cut hole in the sturdy pages. Retro artwork adapted by Mel Crawford adds a funny, nostalgic appeal to this book previously published in a longer picture book form.
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The Best American Mystery Stories 2013

Edited by Lisa Scottoline. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt/Mariner, $14.95 trade paper (448p) ISBN 978-0-544-03460-0
Twenty stories—remarkable in their diversity—comprise this 17th installment of Penzler's annual anthology of the best American mystery stories. The plots and settings are more varied than a reader might expect, but what surprises is how literary many of these stories are, like the opening entry, "Smothered and Covered," by Tom Barlow, about a down-and-out guy who sees a young girl just before her mysterious death, an encounter that prompts reflection on the loss of his own daughter. The most literary of the bunch is Randall Silvis's "The Indian," about a small-town vendetta between a lowlife and his teenage best friend, though it's much too long. Michael Connelly supplies a terrific Harry Bosch story, "A Fine Mist of Blood," which reminds the reader of just how great a character Bosch can be—and the author's storytelling prowess. In "Drifter," Emily St. John Mandel tells the bizarre but compelling story of a young widow traveling in the wake of her husband's death, from the Arctic Circle to Venice, Italy, where she meets a very mysterious stranger. O'Neil De Noux, a New Orleans writer, offers an intriguing "AK" ("after Katrina") tale, "Misprision of Felony," about an investigation into the murder of a shopkeeper—a terrific setting, great prose, and an artful look at the sociology of crime. Hannah Tinti's "Bullet Number Two" is a noirish story set in the middle of nowhere in the southwest—a powerful and shocking narrative. The only element that's missing from the volume is a sense of what this selection says about the state of crime fiction in America. In his foreword, Penzler focuses on the changes that have occurred in the publishing world over the past 17 years, and guest editor Scottoline supplies a breezy, personal introduction, but neither offers much in the way of analysis or insight about the themes of contemporary crime fiction or where it might go in the future. (Oct.)
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The Rug Merchant

Meg Mullins, Author . Viking $23.95 (258p) ISBN 978-0-670-03481-9

New York City teems with quiet desperation in this lucidly written but languid debut novel. The titular carpet salesman, Ushman Khan, has left his mother and his wife, Farak, in Iran in order to make a new start in America. Told from Khan's perspective, the narrative traces his subtle acculturation into Western life while he sets up shop and develops loyal customers like the wealthy socialite Mrs. Roberts. He plans for his wife to join him, but learns that she has divorced him for a Turkish salesman. Crushed, Ushman buys plane tickets to Paris he will never use and finds temporary, self-loathing comfort in a prostitute. Only when he meets Stella, a Barnard freshman, does he begin to see a way out of his isolation. Like him, Stella is an outsider struggling with loss and looking for connection, but Ushman must first resolve his conflicted feelings about women and sex and American culture. Originally developed as a short story that appeared in The Best American Short Stories 2002 , this melancholy novel droops under the weight of a sympathetic but tentative, passive protagonist who can find no real solution to his profound alienation. (Mar.)

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Evil Librarian

Michelle Knudsen. Candlewick, $16.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-7636-6038-3
Knudsen (The Princess of Trelian) jumps from picture books and middle-grade fiction to YA with this self-aware supernatural dramedy, which sees an ordinary teenage girl caught up in a war between various evil factions, with the souls of her schoolmates at stake. It starts when Cyn Rothchild’s best friend Annie inexplicably falls in love with the new school librarian, John Gabriel. Cyn’s no stranger to unrequited love—she has a thing for the handsome Ryan Halsey, even if she’s too awkward to talk to him—but Annie is acting downright weird. Before long, Cyn learns that Gabriel is a demon out to acquire the power needed to take the throne back home, and her immunity to his influence makes her a wild card. She teams up with Ryan to save Annie and everyone else from an infernal fate. The writing is clever, the tone wry, and the stakes high, with surprises that keep the plot unpredictable. Cyn’s internal monologue provides plenty of amusement, especially when her hormones threaten to overpower her common sense. It’s an entertaining tale with room for future installments. Ages 14–up. Agent: Jodi Reamer, Writers House. (Sept.)
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Poseidon’s Arrow

Clive Cussler and Dirk Cussler. Putnam, $28.95 (528p) ISBN 978-0-399-16292-3
The fifth Dirk Pitt novel from bestseller Cussler and son Dirk (after 2010’s Crescent Dawn) features expanded roles for Pitt’s two grown kids. Both Summer and Dirk Jr. help their dad try to corral ruthless Austrian entrepreneur Edward Bolcke, who runs a slavery compound in Central America where kidnapped sailors are forced into servitude to assist in his many criminal enterprises. In particular, Bolcke has managed to steal a crucial component of the U.S. Navy’s latest submarine technology—and he has found a way to hijack the world’s supply of rare earth minerals. The three Pitts, along with longstanding sidekick Al Giordino, use their usual mix of brains and brawn to see that justice is served. While some readers may have a problem with sluggish action sequences and a surfeit of story lines, ardent followers of the Pitt clan and their nautical escapades will appreciate the family dynamics and camaraderie. Agent: Peter Lampack, Peter Lampack Agency. (Nov.)
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What do you hope to achieve with Bones?

I wanted to do something more than a cookbook—I wanted to add those things that I thought were fascinating about bones. I don't think people realize how important bones are in our history. I'm surprised that most people don't know there is bone in their bone china. There's lots of bits of lore in the book that will tickle people's funny bone.

How did you get interested in bones?

I was just sitting down one day over a plate of roasted marrow bones, and I suddenly thought, "We're not cooking like this anymore." I love osso bucco, ribs, chicken wings—there's so many different kinds of foods cooked on the bone. I started to think about bones, and history—since man started cooking he had bones left over on the side of the fire. It just took off from there. I became a little obsessed with bones.

What do you think the likelihood of a bones revival is, in this day and age?

The phrase "the nearer the bone the sweeter the meat" is true. Many people seem to have forgotten about that. There's something primordial about eating meat off the bone. I'm not advocating that you eat bone marrow every day; it's like eating foie gras, it's a delicious treat. But the taste and flavor is in the bone. Each time you buy a boneless chicken breast, you've bought the bones, you've paid for them. There's a wonderful expression, "Bones bring the meat to town." You might as well take advantage of those bones. Add that flavor to your meal.

What's your favorite thing to cook on the bone?

I think one of the best examples of cooking with bones is chicken stock. I love the transformation of bones and a few vegetables turning into stock, and a few more steps and it's consommé.

What's one of the most unusual things you learned about bones in your research?

One thing I learned is that fish scales are bones. They are actually chemically bones. Fish scales are kind of annoying to us, but they are very important to the fish; they are like an armor. They're what makes fish look so great in the store, makes them look shiny and bright and beautiful.

You're optimistic that meat on the bone can become popular again in North American home kitchens. Are there are dishes, however, that you think will never gain traction here?

Perhaps I won't increase the sales of pigs' tails, but maybe some people will try them. And I think people like reading about dishes they'll never cook.

Like Spicy Steamed Chicken Feet?

Yes, clipping off the toenails is a little bit challenging.


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Scholastic today reported fourth quarter earnings of $545.8 million, up 1% from 2010, and overall annual revenue for the fiscal year, which ended May 31, of $1.91 billion, roughly level with last year. Results for 2011 reflected lower sales of educational technology in comparison to FY 2010, when earnings were buoyed by federal stimulus dollars, officials said, as well as increased strategic spending on digital initiatives in its children’s book business, including its recently released READ 180 Next Generation reading program.

Scholastic revenues were paced by Children’s Books, the company’s largest segment, which posted revenues of $922.0 million, up from $910.6 million in fiscal 2010, driven by bestselling series The Hunger Games and Harry Potter. Increases in capital expenditures included approximately $30 million for “e-commerce and e-book initiatives.” The report also referenced “a one-time bad debt expense of $3.5 million ($0.06 per share) in the current period related to Borders' bankruptcy filing."

Citing lower sales of educational technology, sales in the educational publishing segment dipped to $428 million in 2011, compared to $476.5 million in 2010, when federal stimulus spending bolstered sales. Media, licensing and advertising revenues dipped slightly for the year, in at $111.2 million, compared to $113.8 million in 2010. International results, meanwhile, rose sharply, with 2011 revenue of $444.9 million, compared to $412.0 million in the prior year, primarily reflecting a $23.9 million positive foreign exchange impact.

In addition to reporting 2011 results, the company also released its 2012 forecast. Scholastic CEO Richard Robinson said that initiatives like READ 180 and an expansion of the school customer base were expected to “drive strong growth in the higher margin education segment,” and that the company would also move forward with e-book and e-commerce strategies, including the “expanded roll-out” of a children’s e-reading app and e-bookstore.

Robinson also said the company was focused on “reducing costs,” with the company “taking steps to reduce costs in non-digital areas across the business…starting in fiscal 2012.”


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Looking to expand the capabilities of its Lightning Source print-on-demand unit, Ingram Content Group has reached an agreement with EPAC Technologies to license its printing technology. In addition Ingram is also acquiring two EPAC print facilities in the U.S. as well as a technology development and support group in Germany.

Incorporating the use of EPAC technology is expected to increase the number of copies Lightning can print cost effectively.The two EPAC print facilities located in Ohio and New Jersey will become part of Ingram’s North American operation, which includes plants in its headquarters in La Vergne, Tenn. and a plant in Allentown, Pennsylvania. Ingram Lightning Source printing plants around the world include facilities in England, Australia, France (in partnership with Hachette) and partnerships with POD printers in Brazil and Germany.

Ingram Content Group president and CEO Skip Prichard, said the deal will, “ultimately help bring more books to more readers around the world by manufacturing content closer to the end user. This is a major advantage for publishers today as they navigate the shifting p and e market.”

John R. Ingram, chairman of Ingram Content Group, called EPAC’s digital printing technologies “groundbreaking” and said “ with our years of print experience, Ingram will take the promise of print-on-demand to the next level. We believe that print on demand is a growing part of the future of the physical book. This transaction will allow Ingram to serve more publishers with the digital print solutions they need today and tomorrow.”

This is Ingram's second major announcement this week; Wednesday it signed a deal to assume warehousing and fulfillment for Cambridge University Press in North America.


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Booksellers have the industry connections to publish their books just about anywhere, and some do, like fiction writers Emma Straub at BookCourt in New York City (Other People We Married), Ellen Meeropol at Odyssey Bookshop in South Hadley, Mass. (House Arrest), or Joan Drury at Drury Lane Books in Grand Marais, Minn. (Silent Words). But for some bookstore owners, self-publishing is preferable to going the traditional route, whether it's a single title like Chuck Robinson of Village Books in Bellingham, Wash., or an entire series like that from Dr. John Hutton of Blue Manatee Children's Bookstore and Decafé in Cincinnati.

Poet Laura Hansen of Bookin' It in Little Falls, Minn., likes the control over the entire book, from writing to production and design, that self-publishing offers, although she is considering going with a traditional press for a gift book that she recently completed. Chris Livingston of the Book Shelf in Winona, Minn., turned to self-publishing to fill a need for a coffee-table book about his community, and is now considering publishing other books rooted in the area.

While Robinson chose to print his book himself through his print-on-demand book machine to reduce costs and cut down on storage, it may take some time for Hutton, who printed 1,750 copies of each of three books, to keep his inventory down. And Livingston has already scheduled a second printing two months after publication, to bring the in-print total of Winona to 2,000 copies.

Chris Livingston, The Book Shelf, Winona, Minn.

Chris Livingston, owner of the Book Shelf in Winona, Minn., and president of the board of the Midwest Booksellers Association, says he never wanted to become a publisher or author: he's always been content to sell books written and published by others. Repeated requests for a book that didn't exist, however, inspired Livingston to launch a publishing imprint from his store last fall, Book Shelf Editions.

"For years, tourists, local college professors visiting their sister university in China, and others would come into the store and ask for a quality book of photographs of Winona that they could give as gifts," Livingston says. After he complained to a longtime customer about the lack of a coffee-table book showcasing the picturesque college town situated on a bluff overlooking the Mississippi River, the customer responded, "Why don't you publish this book?"

The customer and a retired publisher, who once headed St. Mary's Press, volunteered to assist Livingston in producing Winona: Minnesota on the Mississippi, a 96-page book with 261 full-color photographs taken by 63 photographers. The images were selected from 2,500 submissions received in response to the store's call for photographs. Livingston wrote a one-page foreword, the only text in the book, which he compares to "a bound postcard."

Winona, which was released in hardcover on April 29, retails for $35, and is available in the store and on the store's Web site (, which offers free shipping. The book sold out of its 1,000-copy first print run within six weeks. Livingston says that customers came to the store and purchased as many as 10 copies at a time; online orders came from all over the country.

"We haven't even gotten to tourist season yet," says Livingston, who is going back to press for an additional 1,000 copies. More than half of the book's initial printing was presold, which enabled him to finance the printing costs. Three local organizations—Winona State University, St. Mary's University, and Winona National Bank—prepaid for a total of 400 books with customized title pages. Another 140 copies were sold to store customers who received a three-page sample via e-mail.

Livingston is considering publishing more Book Shelf Editions titles, including a poetry anthology by local poets and other projects. He's reluctant to embark on another large-scale project like Winona, however. "It put a lot of stress on me, financially and organizationally," says Livingston. "And I don't have a [production] staff, only volunteers."
—Claire Kirch

Laura Hansen, Bookin' It, Little Falls, Minn.

The Book Shelf isn't the only Minnesota bookstore that's become a de facto publishing company. Over the past five years, Laura Hansen, the owner of Bookin' It, in Little Falls, has published two poetry chapbooks under her store's eponymous imprint: Diving the Drop-off (2006) and Why I Keep Rabbits (2010). Both are sold at Bookin' It, as well as at several MBA member stores and at the Little Falls arts center. Diving the Drop-off is also available at a New Age store in neighboring St. Cloud. Hansen estimates that the novel has sold about 150 copies in three print runs, while Why I Keep Rabbits has sold at least half of its initial 100-copy printing.

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Yakuza 5 is taking a step closer to its spiritual predecessor Shenmue by incorporating playable Virtua Fighter 2 cabinets into its Club SEGA arcades. The fighter will be available in its 2.0 and 2.1 revisions, providing a tantalising treat for fanatics who can tell the difference between the versions. Other arcade cabinets will include Taiko Drum Master, and, of course, various different UFO Catchers. No sign of Boxcelios just yet, though.

Elsewhere, the franchise’s famously flirty table-tennis mini-game will be replaced by an equally degrading air hockey title. Other new activities will include cooking, rooster racing and first-person snowball fighting. We're lost for words...

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The first trailer for upcoming PlayStation 4 zombie slayer OneChanbara Z2: Chaos doesn’t serve up too many surprises, as it appears to be just as outrageous as previous instalments. Once again, you’ll play as a scantily clad samurai, carving through Satan’s spawn in swimwear. This version seems to boast DualShock 4 specific features, such as touchpad quick-time events.

It’s not exactly a next-gen showpiece by any stretch, but we’re just stoked to see Japanese developers and publishers actually supporting the system with original software. Alas, let’s be honest: as neat as this seizure-inducing trailer is, the console’s going to need much bigger releases if it hopes to improve its fortunes in the East.

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MadchesterManc said:

No mention of the new Zombie sisters, Anzu & Sayaka, that are glimpsed in this new trailer? Honestly the most intruiging aspect of this latest release so far with how it all might fit together when you consider that you spend about 95% of your time in the series slashing up zombies. Will they be friends? foes? are they playable? Who knows. Should be interesting finding out

Bad-MuthaAdebisi said:

Thought the trailer was a big turn off. May as well pick up a cheap zombie slasher on ps3 than bother with this.

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Looks somewhat interesting, bit I'll probably wait until down the road to try this out.

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I don't know but I was hugely turned on by the pulse pumpin' music! Loved it!

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OK Magazine recently spoke with Brie Bella to promote the return of WWE Total Divas. Here are some highlights:

OK!: First things first I wanted to congratulate you on your engagement! How’s wedding planning going?

Brie Bella: Well we actually, it’s so funny because our schedules are so crazy. We really have to plan around work. But I have definitely gone and tried on a bunch of wedding dresses. That was first on my list and it’s been so much fun. Bryan and I will be in Austin Texas towards the end of November and we are actually looking at a wedding venue there. We really want a rustic, country wedding so we feel like Austin would be a great place.

OK!: How do you think filming Total Divas has changed your relationship with Bryan?

BB: Like anything, when you kind of just open up your home and your personal life, the privacy aspect can affect the relationship. It hasn’t affected us too much but there are moments where I just kind of want to scream at him. But then I see the camera and I’m like, fake smile, fake smile. I am lucky that Bryan is such a low key guy. He has really been great for this whole process.

OK!: On a not as happy note, it seems like there’s lots of tension this half of the season with you, Nikki and Eva Marie. Is the feud real or played up for the cameras?

BB: The thing is, you are putting so many different personalities together trying to force friendships and it is like, we are still going for one spot. Especially in the first episode because it is Summer Slam, that is a big night for us and I was lucky enough to have a singles match but how can someone just walk in and try to capitalize off that?! We definitely have our moments where we get along great but you will see a lot more of Eva just kind of being herself and just trying to get ahead without working hard. She has her ways.

OK!: On the reunion show, it seemed like John Cena didn’t want to get married at all. Has that changed?

BB: Not really, but you will get to see too in the second half that John’s love for Nikki does grow stronger even though they have their ups and downs. We just don’t know if that love will be strong enough to put a ring on her finger. John is one of those guys that you never truly know, he sticks to something and then all of the sudden in one night he could change his mind. So I never think of it as a final no.

OK!: Were there any moments that were on the first half of the season that you hated watching and wished weren’t on TV?

BB: All my conversations with my sister make me laugh. You have your own language with your sister but sometimes it can come off that we are the most uneducated people in the world. Sometimes I’m like, “gosh do people think I’m dumb?” It’s kind of like those Jessica Simpson moments and I’m like, “oh my gosh are we the next Jessica Simpson?” I think sisters can relate.

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Ladder Match for the Vacant WWE World Heavyweight Title
Cesaro vs. Sheamus vs. Bray Wyatt vs. Randy Orton vs. Alberto Del Rio vs. John Cena vs. Roman Reigns

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    Is this really the entire card…..2 weeks before the show…..

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      It’s only updated. There will be a divas championship match probably, and a couple other rivalries ones. We still have two weeks till the show.

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FEMA Steps to SafetyExtreme weather poured down across the nation this past holiday season. From delays at the airport, to snowed-in roads, snow storms forced many holiday travelers to rethink their travel plans. However, it always seems as though some people miss their opportunities to rethink their survival plans. With Hurricane Katrina fresh on many people’s minds and earthquakes a looming threat throughout many areas of the country, the latest round of snow storms once again proves to us that it may be all too appropriate to reevaluate one’s own plan for themselves and their family in the event of radical weather and natural disasters.

December saw some debilitating weather throughout the country, particularly in Colorado. According to interviews transcribed on, the snow “wiped out airline schedules, cut off roads, and stranded thousands of people”. Things got so bad that the governor called in the National Guard to help ( Someone on the roads would have found themselves suddenly entrenched in a situation of unforeseeable consequences. People in their homes are suddenly bound by what they have in-house.

After 1994’s Northridge earthquake, gas and electric services were cut off to areas of the San Fernando Valley and residents learned the implications of disaster preparedness. Hurricane Katrina showed that even in recent times it is essential to be vigilant in stocking and planning. The most recent snow storms provide another example of when preparation can be the difference between life and death. Some government agencies have suggestions.

In publication #L-191, the Federal Emergency Management Agency devises “4 Steps To Safety”. Step one consists of evaluating the threats to you in your area. Contacting civic and emergency management authorities to assess what kind of disasters are likely in you area, and what warning signals are provided. The second step involves creating a well known plan with one’s family. Discussing why the meetings are necessary and what the risks are as well as creating safe meeting spots are all included in this step (F.E.M.A.). A checklist is the bulk of the third step and highlights action to be taken such as making all household members aware of where the gas shut-off is and how to use it. The final step stresses plan maintenance and communication amongst people.

We’re never sure what the exact calamity will be, but we can always maintain vigilance and preparation. Check out our emergency preparedness checklists to learn which emergency kits and supplies to keep in your home, car, school, and office.

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Accounting (BSc Hons) N400

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*Indicative Only. Please see the Course Entry Requirements section for details on subject specific or GCSE requirements.

Accounting is the process of summarising, analysing and reporting financial transactions to permit informed judgements and decisions by users of the information. Accountants analyse and interpret data and support others in decision making and problem solving.

The undergraduate Accounting degrees at Queen’s are designed primarily for students who intend to enter the accounting profession and as such contain considerable practical content, as well as essential theory in the various specialisations of Financial Accounting, Management Accounting, Auditing, Taxation and Finance. Many of our staff are leading international experts in their fields of research and a significant number are qualified accountants with many years of professional experience. 93% of accounting students go on to work and / or study within 6 months of the course with 90% going into a professional or managerial job.

Why Queen's?

The Accounting degree attracts the maximum examination exemptions available for any undergraduate degree from the Chartered Accountants Ireland, subject to meeting specified criteria. Exemptions are also available from the examinations of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA); the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA); the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy (CIPFA), the Association of International Accountants (AIA) and the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW).  The other degrees give partial exemptions depending upon the modules taken.

Employer Links:

Gaining your degree from Queen’s Management School will put you in a strong position among UK accounting and business graduates. The excellent standards of our education are recognised by employers who value the quality of our programmes and recognise the skills of our graduates.

The Accounting Group at Queen's liaises closely with employers to offer guest lectures, business games and on-site visits, amongst other activities. Accounting students also take part in tailored employability and skills workshops, developed with the Student Guidance Centre, and an annual Accounting Mini Fair, where representatives from accountancy firms and professional bodies meet students and provide them with information on placement and graduate opportunities. Each year we organise a range of skills-based workshops in partnership with the large accounting firms and the professional accounting bodies. The analytical and communication skills that are essential to accounting are also recognised as important attributes for careers in many other areas, so there are job opportunities in many fields for successful graduates.

The first year module, Accounting and Information Systems, provides students with the opportunity to use the Sage accounting software package. Students also have access to databases such as Bloomberg and Thomson One Banker.

Placement opportunities:

BSc Accounting students may choose to spend a year in relevant employment, or complete a summer placement. Students studying accounting with French or Spanish must take up a placement in their third year in an accounting firm or financial institution in a French or Spanish speaking country.

Did you know?

Accounting and Finance courses within the School are ranked 4th in the UK in the Complete University Guide 2017

Entry Requirements

Selection Criteria

In addition to the entrance requirements below, it is essential that you read the How We Choose Our Students pdf prior to submitting your UCAS application.

Entrance Requirements

A-level: AAB + GCSE Mathematics grade B

Irish Leaving Certificate: H2H2H3H3H3H3 + if not offered at Higher Level then Ordinary Level grade O3 in Mathematics

International Students

For information on international qualification equivalents, please click on Your Country in the International Students website.

If you are an international student and you do not meet the entrance requirements, you should consider a preparation course at INTO Queen's University Belfast, which will prepare you for successful study on these degree courses. INTO at Queen's is based on the University campus and offers a range of courses including the International Foundation in Business, Humanities and Social Science.

For students whose first language is not English

An IELTS score of 6.5 with a minimum of 5.5 in each test component or an equivalent acceptable qualification, details of which are available at: http://go.qub.ac.uk/EnglishLanguageReqs

If you need to improve your English language skills before you enter this course, our partner INTO Queen's University Belfast offers a range of English language courses. These intensive and flexible courses are designed to improve your English ability to entry to this degree. Please click the links below for more information:

  • English for University Study: an intensive English language and study skills course for successful university study at degree level
  • Pre-sessional English: a short intensive academic English course for students starting a degreeprogramme at Queen's University Belfast and who need to improve their English

How To Apply

How to Apply

Applications for admission to full-time undergraduate and sandwich courses at the University should normally be made through the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS). Full information can be obtained from the UCAS website at: www.ucas.com/apply.

When to Apply

UCAS will start processing applications for entry in Autumn 2017 from 1 September 2016.

The normal closing date for the receipt of applications is 15 January 2017.

For candidates applying to Oxford or Cambridge and for those whose choices include Medicine, Dentistry or Veterinary Medicine/Science the closing date is 15 October 2015.

Currently there are two intakes to Adult Nursing (one in September and the other in February).Those applying for entry in February 2016 should apply prior to 15 January 2015.

Applicants are advised to apply as early as is consistent with having made a careful and considered choice of institutions and courses.

Earlier applicants normally receive decisions more quickly, however, UCAS accepts that some applicants, especially those from outside the UK, may find this difficult. Late applications are, in practice, accepted by UCAS throughout the remainder of the application cycle, but you should understand that they are considered by institutions at their discretion, and there can be no guarantee that they will be given the same full level of consideration as applications received by the advisory closing date.

Take care to enter the details of the institutions and courses clearly and correctly on the application. For Queen's, the institution code name is QBELF and the institution code is Q75. These should be entered in the Choices section of your UCAS application. Please note a Campus Code is not required. For further information on applying to study at Queen’s, please click here.

Course Content (including module information)

The Single Honours Accounting degree comprises compulsory modules together with optional modules available in the School.

The modules are:

Year 1

  • Accounting Information Systems*
  • Introduction to Legal Study and Basic Contract Law
  • Introductory Financial Accounting*
  • Introductory Management Accounting*
  • Principles of Economics*
  • Statistical Methods*

Year 2

  • Financial Accounting*
  • Financial Decision-making*
  • Financial Market Theory
  • Management Accounting*
  • Managerial Behaviour

Optional Modules

  • Managerial Economics
  • Data Analysis and Optimisation

Year 3

  • Advanced Financial Accounting*
  • Advanced Management Accounting*
  • Auditing and Accountability
  • Law of Business Organisations*
  • Taxation*

Optional Modules

  • Business Analysis
  • Contemporary Issues in Management
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Issues in Not-for-Profit and Public Sector Accounting, Supply Chain Management

Note: Accounting with a Modern Language (French/Spanish) students substitute two core language modules each year for those above marked*.

Fees & Scholarships

There are different tuition fee and student financial support arrangements for students from Northern Ireland, those from England, Scotland and Wales (Great Britain), and those from the rest of the European Union. Higher education funding arrangements mean that students can study now and pay later.

Further details can be found on our fees and funding section.

Queen's works to ensure that all those who can benefit from a university education have the chance to do so, and a generous system of financial support is in place to help them. Each year Queen’s offer a range of scholarships and prize for new students. The most up to date listings are available here.

For international students, information on tuition fees, can be found here. Information on scholarships for international students, can be found here.

Learning and Teaching

Queen’s Management School is one of the largest Schools in the University with more than 1300 full-time undergraduate students and 300 plus postgraduate students.  The School has been delivering high quality programmes for more than 40 years and was one of the first schools in the UK to introduce undergraduate management education.  Since then, QMS has been developing and enhancing its teaching portfolio for both local and international students and boasts students from more than 20 different nationalities.

In recent years, the School has benefited from significant investment resulting in many new academic appointments and state-of-the-art facilities including computer teaching labs with specilaised software and a Trading Room in Riddel Hall.  In addition, the new McClay library houses an excellent selection of Management and related texts and there are extensive IT facilities throughout the campus.

At Queen’s, we aim to deliver a high quality learning environment that embeds intellectual curiosity, innovation and best practice in learning, teaching and student support to enable student to achieve their full academic potential.  In line with this, one of QMS’ primary objectives is to deliver innovative learning and teaching programmes that provide students with the competences and skills to make a positive contribution to business, economic and civic life.

On the BSc Accounting programme we achieve these goals by providing a range of learning environments which enable our students to engage with subject experts both academic staff and industry guest speakers, develop skills and attributes and perspectives that will equip them for life and work in a global society and make use of innovative technologies and a world-class library that enhances their development as independent, lifelong learners. Examples of the opportunities provided for learning on this degree programme are:

  • Lectures: these introduce foundation information about new topics as a starting point for further self-directed private study/reading.  As the module progresses this information becomes more complex.  Lectures, which are normally delivered in large groups to all year-group peers, also provide opportunities to ask questions and seek clarification on key issues as well as gain feedback and advice on assessments.  Additional lectures are also delivered by employer representatives and staff from a number of accounting firms are involved in the delivery of accounting workshops. In addition to the academic content of the lectures and workshops, this enables employers to impart their valuable experience to QMS Accounting students, introduces important local employers to our Accounting students and allows our Accounting students to meet and engage with potential future employers.
  • Seminars/tutorials: a significant amount of teaching is carried out in small groups (typically 15-20 students). These sessions are designed to explore, in more depth, the information that has been presented in the lectures.  This provides students with the opportunity to engage closely with academic staff who have specialist knowledge of the topic, to ask questions of them and to assess their own progress and understanding with the support of their peers. During these classes, students will be expected to present their work to academic staff and their peers.
  • Computer-Based Practicals: these provide students with the opportunity to develop technical skills and apply theoretical principles to real-life or practical contexts. For example, one of the compulsory Level 1 modules, ACC 1004 Accounting Information Systems, incorporates a weekly Sage software practical.
  • E-Learning technologies:information associated with lectures and assignments is often communicated via a Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) called Queen’s Online.  A range of e-learning experiences are also embedded in the degree programme through the use of, for example, interactive support materials, podcasts and web-based learning activities.
  • Self-directed study:  this is an essential part of life as a Queen’s student when important private reading, engagement with e-learning resources, reflection on feedback to date and assignment research and preparation work is carried out.
  • Work placements: The BSc Accounting programme does not have a compulsory placement year. However, the School actively supports any student who wishes to avail of an optional placement year, normally between the second and final year of the degree programme.  The School has a dedicated Placement Office which facilitates students in sourcing and securing appropriate placements which will augment their classroom-based learning experience.  In addition, the School encourages students to seek other work-based and/or educational related experiences, whether that is through the summer placement programme (a 3-4 month internship in a local organisation working on a very specific project), Erasmus programmes with other European Universities, or studying abroad in universities with which the School and/or University has an existing relationship.
  • Student Support Systems: QMS has an active and co-ordinated student support system to assist students in making the transition from school to university. This includes:
  • assigning each student an Adviser of Studies to assist with the choice of modules at the beginning of each academic year;
  • assigning each student a Personal Tutor (an academic member of staff) when they begin the degree programme.  The Personal Tutoring System includes individual scheduled appointments with personal tutors, small group tutor meetings (4-5 students) and e-mail contact to discuss academic matters, academic performance, skills development, careers and/or prospective placements and issues related to University policies and practices.  Students meet their Personal Tutor at induction and during the first and second year of study they are expected to meet with their Personal Tutor at least once per semester.
  • A Peer Mentoring Scheme whereby students in second and third year of their degree programme volunteer to mentor Level 1 students. Developing the programme themselves, with support from academic staff in QMS, the mentors organise informal meetings, regular contact and a series of events ranging from ice-breaker type events to employer-led sessions with the Level 1 students.
  • a formalised induction for all undergraduate students.  For Level 1 students, this includes several half-day sessions the week before the programme begins to allow students to familiarise themselves with the campus and the degree programme.  During Level 1 there are a number of follow-up sessions throughout the year. Topics such as academic writing, referencing, plagiarism, communication skills, examination preparation and managing time effectively are all covered in these practical sessions.
  • Personal Development Planning to encourage students to engage in independent learning.

Career Prospects

Those pursuing a career in Accounting should enjoy working with numbers, be effective communicators and work well with people as they will have to analyse and interpret financial information to meet the needs of different users, including managers and investors. Accountants must be prepared to take on challenges and be able to adapt to a constantly changing and dynamic business environment.

Normally the majority of our students become qualified accountants.  However, many of the skills that students will acquire during their studies at Queen’s will be of great value in different career and life situations. Core transferable skills include the ability to learn independently, problem solve, understand financial information and work productively as part of a team.

The Accounting degree offers a firm base for either further academic study or taking the final examinations of the main professional accountancy bodies. It attracts students of the very highest calibre and is recognised by the accounting profession, industry and the public sector. As a result, Accounting graduates from Queen’s are much sought after throughout Britain, Ireland and further afield.

The Accounting course attracts the maximum exemptions available for any undergraduate programme from the examinations of Chartered Accountants Ireland, subject to meeting specified criteria. Exemptions are also available from the examinations of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants, the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants and the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.

The Accounting Group at Queen’s liaises closely with prospective employers and with colleagues in the Student Guidance Centre, particularly with respect to Careers, Employability and Skills. For example, details of the Accountancy Northern Ireland Milkround are included in the Financial Services Sector Recruitment booklet and dedicated Careers Employability and Skills’ events and workshops are provided for Queen’s Accounting students. These activities enhance the employability of our students and support graduate recruitment and selection. In association with the Student Guidance Centre, the Accounting Group organises an annual Accounting Employers and Professional Bodies Mini Fair. This is attended by representatives from the main accountancy firms and professional bodies, and it provides an opportunity to inform Queen’s Accounting students of the opportunities available after graduation and enable employers to engage with our students.

The Accounting Group at Queen’s hosts an annual Employer Liaison meeting which is attended by senior representatives from accountancy firms and other employers, together with student representatives. This meeting offers an opportunity to engage with employers to inform them of developments within the Accounting degree programmes and provides a forum for their input into future changes.

Graduate Careers and Achievements

A degree in Accounting from Queen’s offers a firm base either for taking the examinations of the main professional bodies or further academic study. Career options as a qualified accountant are extremely varied and the employment opportunities for our Accounting graduates remain strong, both nationally and globally. Queen's has traditionally provided a high proportion of graduate entrants to the Accounting profession in Northern Ireland and many of our former graduates have risen to the top of their fields.

If you choose to work ‘in practice’ for an accountancy firm you might be involved in preparing tax returns, tax planning, audit and forensic work, internal audit, corporate finance, consultancy or even preparing accounts. For more information on what these jobs entail, please visit the websites of both the local and international accountancy firms.

The majority of qualified accountants work ‘outside practice’; for example, in industry, in the public sector, voluntary sector or the banking sector. They are involved as financial or management accountants, internal auditors and often in senior management roles.

The Prospects website provides further information regarding the types of jobs that attract BSc Accounting graduates.

Further study is also an option open to BSc Accounting graduates. Students can choose from a wide range of Masters programmes as well as a comprehensive list of research topics, as shown on the Queen’s Management School website.

Other Career-related information: Queen’s is a member of the Russell Group and, therefore, one of the 20 universities most-targeted by leading graduate employers.  Queen’s students will be advised and guided about career choice and, through the Degree Plus initiative, will have an opportunity to seek accreditation for skills development and experience gained through the wide range of extra-curricular activities on offer.  See Queen’s University Belfast fullEmployability Statementfor further information.

Degree Plus and other related initiatives:  Recognising student diversity, as well as promoting employability enhancements and other interests, is part of the developmental experience at Queen’s.  Students are encouraged to plan and build their own, personal skill and experiential profile through a range of activities including; recognised Queen’s Certificates, placements and other work experiences (at home or overseas), Erasmus study options elsewhere in Europe, learning development opportunities and involvement in wider university life through activities, such as clubs, societies, and sports.

Queen’s actively encourages this type of activity by offering students an additional qualification, the Degree Plus Award (and the related Researcher Plus Award for PhD and MPhil students).  Degree Plus accredits wider experiential and skill development gained through extra-curricular activities that promote the enhancement of academic, career management, personal and employability skills in a variety of contexts.  As part of the Award, students are also trained on how to reflect on the experience(s) and make the link between academic achievement, extracurricular activities, transferable skills and graduate employment. Participating students will also be trained in how to reflect on their skills and experiences and can gain an understanding of how to articulate the significance of these to others, e.g. employers

Overall, these initiatives, and Degree Plusin particular, reward the energy, drive, determination and enthusiasm shown by students engaging in activities over-and-above the requirements of their academic studies.  These qualities are amongst those valued highly by graduate employers.

Assessment & Feedback

Assessment (general):  The way in which students are assessed will vary according to the learning objectives of each module.  Details of how each module is assessed are shown in the Student Handbook which is provided to all students during their first year induction. Accounting modules are typically assessed by a combination of continuous assessment and a final written unseen examination. Continuous assessment consists of:

  1. Student Tutorial Portfolio – this involves the completion and submission of workshop exercises on a weekly and individual student basis. These are collected in the workshops from students each week and assessed, with the mark awarded contributing to the continuous assessment element of the module mark. The mark awarded reflects timeliness, presentation, accuracy and completeness of the required work. Consistent with employer feedback, students are also required to prepare and make a small group presentation on a pre-assigned case study type or discussion-based topic. In addition students are required to submit a 100 word summary on the accounting significance of each of the presentation tutorial topics. The group tutorial presentation and summaries are assessed, with the mark awarded contributing to the continuous assessment element of the module mark.

  2. Small Group Project/Presentations – this involves the completion of a small group project/Presentation (three/four students per group) which is assessed and contributes to the continuous assessment element of the module mark.

Feedback (general):  As students progress through their course at Queen’s they will receive general and specific feedback about their work from a variety of sources including lecturers, module co-ordinators, placement supervisors, personal tutors, advisers of study and peers.  University students are expected to engage with reflective practice and to use this approach to improve the quality of their work. Feedback may be provided in a variety of forms including:

  • Feedback provided via formal written comments and marks relating to work that you, as an individual or as part of a group, have submitted.
  • Face to face comment.  This may include occasions when you make use of the lecturers’ advertised “office hours” to help you to address a specific query.
  • Placement employer comments or references.
  • Online or emailed comment.
  • General comments or question and answer opportunities at the end of a lecture, seminar or tutorial.
  • Pre-submission advice regarding the standards you should aim for and common pitfalls to avoid.  In some instances, this may be provided in the form of model answers or exemplars which you can review in your own time.
  • Feedback and outcomes from practical classes.
  • Comment and guidance provided by staff from specialist support services such as, Careers, Employability and Skills or the Learning Development Service.

Once you have reviewed your feedback, you will be encouraged to identify and implement further improvements to the quality of your work.

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