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The "Hot N Cold" songstress dropped by a Catalina Island karaoke bar on Monday (July 16) where she signed up to sing under her name Katheryn.
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What a nice birthday gift! In spite of the recent negativity following his divorce from Katie Holmes, Forbes just announced that Tom Cruise tops its list of highest paid actors this year.
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Thanks to a second-half flourish, Barron's stock selections finished 2012 comfortably ahead of the market.
Shares of the 121 companies that were the subject of favorable articles during 2012 rose an average of 9%, more than double the 4.1% gain in their benchmark indexes, measured from the Friday before publication through year end. Including dividends, the bullish picks increased 9.8%, versus a 5.1% rise in the indexes.
Our bullish calls were faring badly at midyear ("Nothing to Write Home About," July 16, 2012), when they collectively were about six percentage points behind the market, but some big second-half winners, including Phillips 66 PSX -0.3865564265005906% Phillips 66 U.S.: NYSE USD92.77 -0.36 -0.3865564265005906% /Date(1448489011503-0600)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 1893068 AFTER HOURS USD92.77 % Volume (Delayed 15m) : 56457 P/E Ratio 10.81008646204759 Market Cap 49487227235.7666 Dividend Yield 2.4145736768351838% Rev. per Employee 7002430 More quote details and news » (ticker: PSX), Time Warner TWX 0.6586483390607102% Time Warner Inc. U.S.: NYSE USD70.3 0.46 0.6586483390607102% /Date(1448488962288-0600)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 3025874 AFTER HOURS USD70.3 % Volume (Delayed 15m) : 36126 P/E Ratio 16.0030959047554 Market Cap 56203445066.7724 Dividend Yield 1.9914651493598863% Rev. per Employee 1115780 More quote details and news » (TWX), German steel maker ThyssenKrupp TKA.XE 0.856793145654838% ThyssenKrupp AG ADR U.S.: OTC USD20.6 0.175000000000001 0.856793145654838% /Date(1447912800000-0600)/ Volume : 410 P/E Ratio 33.72626064178127 Market Cap 11736144183.6883 Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee 315424 More quote details and news » (TKA.Germany), and biotech outfit Sarepta Therapeutics SRPT 0.4555198285101822% Sarepta Therapeutics Inc. U.S.: Nasdaq USD37.49 0.17 0.4555198285101822% /Date(1448503186950-0600)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 3553373 AFTER HOURS USD37.35 -0.140000000000001 -0.37343291544411844% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 15450 P/E Ratio N/A Market Cap 1697209862.55356 Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee 132.353 More quote details and news » (SRPT), enabled us to pull ahead nicely. A few of our biggest gainers were smaller companies, such as coffee distributor Farmer Bros. farm -0.03395585738539898% Farmer Bros. Co. U.S.: Nasdaq USD29.44 -0.01 -0.03395585738539898% /Date(1448488800307-0600)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 31019 AFTER HOURS USD29.44 0.0300000000000011 % Volume (Delayed 15m) : P/E Ratio N/A Market Cap 490941466.425476 Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee 304564 More quote details and news » (FARM) and Big 5 Sporting Goods BGFV 0.7164790174002047% Big 5 Sporting Goods Corp. U.S.: Nasdaq USD9.84 0.07 0.7164790174002047% /Date(1448488800160-0600)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 198894 AFTER HOURS USD9.84 % Volume (Delayed 15m) : 159 P/E Ratio 15.375 Market Cap 216184796.595764 Dividend Yield 4.065040650406504% Rev. per Employee 111603 More quote details and news » (BGFV), written about by our small-cap maven, David Englander.
The strong 2012 follows a disappointing 2011, in which our 97 bullish stock selections fell an average of 6.9% -- 4.5 percentage points behind the performance of the market. Our favorable picks beat the market in 2009 and 2010. We've been doing these tallies annually since 2003. The updated, real-time performance of our stock picks and pans from 2007 through 2012 is available here. And here is a full listing of the 2012 picks and pans, including total-return calculations.
Our 23 negative stories from last year also beat their benchmarks, declining an average of 4%, versus a 5.3% rise in the indexes. We scored with bearish calls on ITT Educational Services ESI 3.9660056657223794% ITT Educational Services Inc. U.S.: NYSE USD3.67 0.14 3.9660056657223794% /Date(1448488921113-0600)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 227473 AFTER HOURS USD3.48 -5.177111716621253% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 1928 P/E Ratio 3.120482952129921 Market Cap 86883581.0221863 Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee 100066 More quote details and news » (ESI), Caesars Entertainment CZR 4.308093994778068% Caesars Entertainment Corp. U.S.: Nasdaq USD7.99 0.33 4.308093994778068% /Date(1448488800095-0600)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 337656 AFTER HOURS USD7.66 -4.130162703379224% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 4744 P/E Ratio 0.23700126657748222 Market Cap 1157814924.87152 Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee 83323.5 More quote details and news » (CZR), J.C. Penney JCP -0.3614457831325301% J.C. Penney Co. Inc. U.S.: NYSE USD8.27 -0.03 -0.3614457831325301% /Date(1448503187899-0600)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 10647756 AFTER HOURS USD8.3 0.0300000000000011 0.36275695284159615% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 13708 P/E Ratio N/A Market Cap 2526485139.8468 Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee 109842 More quote details and news » (JCP), Herbalife hlf 0.10321692757612248% Herbalife Ltd. U.S.: NYSE USD58.19 0.06 0.10321692757612248% /Date(1448488843750-0600)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 866667 AFTER HOURS USD58.4 0.210000000000001 0.36088675030073897% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 7237 P/E Ratio 13.88782816229117 Market Cap 5384611736.02066 Dividend Yield 2.0622100017185083% Rev. per Employee 577462 More quote details and news » (HLF), and Facebook FB -0.31208624929071305% Facebook Inc. Cl A U.S.: Nasdaq USD105.41 -0.33 -0.31208624929071305% /Date(1448503196377-0600)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 15060536 AFTER HOURS USD105.45 0.0400000000000062 0.03794706384593492% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 86349 P/E Ratio 106.47474747474747 Market Cap 298127528811.312 Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee 1732470 More quote details and news » (FB). We measure only returns from the initial article on a company, not subsequent stories, so as not to double count. That's why we use our original bearish call on Facebook shortly before its initial public offering in May, rather than our less prescient cover story in September, when the stock was at about $23. Our worst bearish calls were Radian Group RDN -0.20949720670391062% Radian Group Inc. U.S.: NYSE USD14.29 -0.03 -0.20949720670391062% /Date(1448488922455-0600)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 840176 AFTER HOURS USD14.32 0.2099370188943317% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 85447 P/E Ratio 5.332089552238806 Market Cap 2956200786.63361 Dividend Yield 0.06997900629811056% Rev. per Employee 713335 More quote details and news » (RDN) and Medifast med 1.0142630744849446% Medifast Inc. U.S.: NYSE USD31.87 0.32 1.0142630744849446% /Date(1448488924177-0600)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 59523 AFTER HOURS USD31.87 % Volume (Delayed 15m) : 100 P/E Ratio 30.35238095238095 Market Cap 374759334.276123 Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee 472822 More quote details and news » (MED).
Our tally includes company-specific articles in Barron's and excludes broad industry stories that touch on many companies. It also doesn't reflect the stock picks and pans of our many columnists, who do their own report cards.
We measure stocks against relevant benchmarks, using the Standard & Poor's 500 index for large companies, the S&P MidCap 400 for midsize companies, and the Russell 2000 for small stocks. We also benchmark foreign stocks against the S&P 500. In our weekly follow-up section, we sometimes declare victory on a successful bullish or bearish call, or admit defeat. When that happens, we run the return calculation through the follow-up date, not year end.
The biggest winner among bullish articles, Sarepta Therapeutics, released favorable results in October from a clinical trial for a drug designed to stimulate the missing protein in boys suffering from Duchenne muscular dystrophy, a fatal muscle-wasting disease. Those results have raised expectations that the Sarepta drug will gain regulatory approval and generate significant revenue for the formerly obscure company. Our worst bullish calls were Cliffs Natural Resources CLF -2.9535864978902953% Cliffs Natural Resources Inc. U.S.: NYSE USD2.3 -0.07 -2.9535864978902953% /Date(1448488853992-0600)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 2856182 AFTER HOURS USD2.4 0.0299999999999998 4.3478260869565215% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 18151 P/E Ratio N/A Market Cap 352872902.23012 Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee 512050 More quote details and news » (CLF), the iron-ore producer; Deckers Outdoor deck 1.9492025989367985% Deckers Outdoor Corp. U.S.: NYSE USD51.78 0.99 1.9492025989367985% /Date(1448488838494-0600)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 821261 AFTER HOURS USD51.78 % Volume (Delayed 15m) : 929 P/E Ratio 12.270142180094787 Market Cap 1674150958.45703 Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee 536836 More quote details and news » (DECK), the maker of Ugg boots; and toy maker Jakks Pacific jakk 3.4739454094292803% JAKKS Pacific Inc. U.S.: Nasdaq USD8.34 0.28 3.4739454094292803% /Date(1448488800182-0600)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 159784 AFTER HOURS USD7.87 -5.635491606714628% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 100 P/E Ratio 15.735849056603774 Market Cap 186590816.669159 Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee N/A More quote details and news » (JAKK).
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Urbane Franco-Italian performer, on stage from the late 1940s and in routine screen character roles through the 50s. Piccoli gained prominence in the following decades with roles as sophisticated bourgeois types in films by Bunuel, Hitchcock and Chabrol. He has since cemented his reputation as one of France's most prolific and acclaimed performers, working through the 1990s with directors including Bertrand Tavernier ("Spoiled Children" 1977), Louis Malle ("Atlantic City" 1980) and Leos Carax ("Bad Blood" 1986).
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- 12 ounces uncooked ziti or small tube pasta
- 2 pounds ground beef
- 1 jar (24 ounces) spaghetti sauce
- 2 large eggs, beaten
- 1 carton (15 ounces) ricotta cheese
- 2-1/2 cups (10 ounces) shredded mozzarella cheese, divided
- 1/2 cup grated Parmesan cheese
- 1. Cook pasta according to package directions.
- 2. Meanwhile, preheat oven to 350°. In a large skillet, cook beef over medium heat until no longer pink; drain. Stir in spaghetti sauce.
- 3. In a large bowl, combine eggs, ricotta cheese, 1-1/2 cups mozzarella cheese and the Parmesan cheese. Drain pasta; add to cheese mixture and stir until blended.
- 4. Spoon a third of the meat sauce into a greased 13x9-in. baking dish; top with half of the pasta mixture. Repeat layers. Top with remaining meat sauce.
- 5. Cover and bake 40 minutes or until a thermometer reads 160°. Uncover; sprinkle with remaining mozzarella cheese. Bake 5-10 minutes longer or until cheese is melted. Let stand 15 minutes before serving. Yield: 6-8 servings.
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Calgary, AB (SportsNetwork.com) - Ben Bishop stopped 19 shots for his fourth shutout of the season, as Tampa Bay topped Calgary, 2-0, at the Saddledome.
Ondrej Palat and Nikita Kucherov scored for the Lightning, who have won four of their last five games in southern Alberta since 2004.
"I feel like every game, my confidence is getting better," Palat said. "Maybe it's because I play with Marty (St. Louis) and Johnny (Tyler Johnson)."
Karri Ramo made 27 saves for the offensively-challenged Flames, who skidded to their fourth straight loss and eighth in the last nine.
Calgary has been blanked in three of its last four games, scoring just once in that span.
"We are wasting great goaltending performances," said Flames head coach Bob Hartley. "I thought we played a decent first period. We managed to stay in the game then a few bad penalties. The sad part of this is we killed them off and they got us a few seconds later so that put us right on our heels. As we all know we are a very fragile group right now."
Palat produced the game's first goal at 5:23 of the second period. Mark Barberio forced a Matt Stajan turnover along the left-wing boards and chipped the puck to Teddy Purcell, who fed his linemate for a successful high shot from the left wing.
Kucherov one-timed a Palat cross-ice feed past Ramo for a 2-0 game just after the midway point and the Lightning defense did the rest.
The visitors limited the Flames to six shots in the final 20 minutes, and a hooking call on Calgary defenseman Mark Giordano with 1:29 to play denied any hopes of a comeback for the hosts.
Tampa improved to 7-6-1 all-time in Calgary ... Palat extended his point
streak to a career-best five games ... Bishop matched Boston's Tuukka Rask for
the NHL lead in shutouts.
Pope Francis' visit to Philadelphia in September has altered the date of the Penn-Villanova football game.
Kyle Busch won Sunday's road course race in Sonoma, California, but he still has a long way to go to become eligible for a spot in the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship.
NFL players have a very short shelf life to make significant amounts of money so it's tough to fault anyone who has outperformed a contract when they go knocking on the door to ask for more.
Pete Mackanin will remain interim manager of the Philadelphia Phillies for the remainder of the season, the team announced Tuesday.
The Oklahoma City Thunder have reportedly retained restricted free agent forward Kyle Singler with a five-year contract extension.
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With a keen eye for trends and an insatiable love for pop culture, Andy Cohen helped reshape television viewing in the new millennium. As an executive of original programming and development for the Bravo network, Cohen oversaw the creation and production of a number of hit series, from the groundbreaking makeover program "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy" (Bravo, 2003-07), to the Emmy Award-winning reality competition series "Project Runway" (Bravo, 2004-08; Lifetime, 2008- ). In addition to his work as an executive producer, Cohen also hosted various Bravo reunion specials, including the provocative "The Real Housewives of " franchise (2006- ). In 2009, Cohen's late night talk show "Watch What Happens: Live" premiered, with the witty and charming host providing off-kilter commentary on various shows, trading punch lines with Hollywood's A-list, and interacting with loyal viewers. The top-rated program, much like the slew of others he launched on Bravo, established the hardworking Cohen as one of the most visionary and formative television personalities of his time.


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Mass spectrometry has long served as an invaluable tool for detection of type and concentration of chemicals present in carefully-prepared laboratory samples. Click here to read more about Dr. Mark Domin's latest work, Ambient Ionization Mass Spectrometry.
New Faculty Publication Highlight
Professor David Twomey researches & publishes in the area of labor & employment law. His research & publication interests also extend to contract law, intellectual property rights, business organizations, corporate governance, franchising & international business transactions. Read more about our interview with Professor Twomey.
Summer BC Library Newsletter!
May 13, 2015 -
Read Tom Wall on some Library changes, initiatives, programs and partnerships; Chris Staysniak & Kasper Volk on the New Sommervogel, an online bibliography covering Jesuit Studies; Jane Morris on a new affordable course materials initiative; These articles & more from the Boston College Libraries Newsletter!
New Issue of The Levantine Review now available
May 7, 2015 -
We are pleased to announce the publication of the latest issue, Vol 4. No. 1, 2015, of The Levantine Review, Boston College's flagship Near Eastern and Mediterranean Studies journal, published by the department of Slavic and Eastern Languages and Literatures and the Program in Linguistics, and in conjunction with the Boston College Libraries.
Faculty Publication Highlight
May 5, 2015 -
The Companion to Ignatius of Loyola aims at placing Loyola in a broader context of important late medieval & early modern movements that have been appreciated too little by historians. Learn more about Professor Robert Maryks' latest publication.
Affordable Course Materials
April 29, 2015 -
Affordable Course Materials Initiative grant applications are due May 8.
New BC Libraries Web site
A beta version of the new Libraries Web site is available at http://library.bc.edu. Please take a look and tell us what you think.
Submit your Undergraduate Thesis
April 17, 2015 -
The Boston College Libraries encourage undergraduate honors students to make their senior theses available online through eScholarship@BC. Please see the deposit instructions for more information.
New Faculty Publication Highlight
In Losing Touch with Nature, Professor Mary Crane examines the complex way that the new science's threat to intuitive Aristotelian notions of the natural world was treated and reflected in the work of Edmund Spenser, William Shakespeare, and other early modern writers. Click here to learn more!
Faculty Publication Highlight
April 7, 2015 -
In this analysis, James Cronin explores the reconfiguration of western foreign policy that was necessitated by the interlinked crises of the 1970s and the resulting global shift toward open markets. Click here to read about Global Rules: America, Britain and a Disordered World.
Enter the 2015 GIS Contest
March 16, 2015 -
Share your work with Geographic Information Systems in our 6th Annual GIS Mapping Contest. Winning posters will be displayed in the O'Neill Library. Prizes of Amazon gift certificate will be awarded to entries. Submissions deadline extended until April 10! Read our PDF to learn more!
New Faculty Publication Highlight
March 24, 2015 -
For many goods & services such as electricity, health care, or cellular phone service, the price of the next unit of service depends on past usage. As a result, consumers who are inattentive to their past usage may remain uncertain about the price of the next unit. Click here to read Selected Articles on Regulation & Cellular Phone Bill Shock by Michael D. Grubb.
Public Lecture 03/24: Outside the Empire
March 24, 2015 -
The Center for Irish Programs and the Boston College University Libraries cordially invite you to attend Professor Bracken's lecture in the Thompson Room of the Burns Library on Tuesday March 24 at 4:30pm.
Study Space Survey, O'Neill 3rd Floor
March 12, 2015 -
Have you used the tables near the O'Neill 3rd floor printing & technology area? We would like to know how that works for you, in order to make spaces in the library serve users better. Please fill out this online survey or a paper survey (available on the study tables and at the technology help desk until 3/17/15).
Affordable Course Materials
March 10, 2015 -
In order to address the escalating cost of academic resources, the Provost & University Libraries are piloting an initiative to support faculty who revise their curriculum to include high quality affordable materials to support student learning at minimal cost. Click here to read more.
New Faculty Publication Highlight
March 10, 2015 -
Tracing the origins & development of the Minaret, Professor Bloom reveals that this iconic element of Islamic architecture, long understood to have been invented in the early years of Islam, was actually invented some two centuries later to be a visible symbol of Islam. Click here to learn more about The Minaret.
Faculty Publication Highlight
February 23, 2015 -
The Catholic Church in the United States & Europe has seen declining numbers both in regular attendance & in clergy. Scandals have torn at people's allegiance, & feelings of disappointment, disillusion, & anger have become widespread. Read more about The Crisis of Confidence in the Catholic Church by Raymond G. Helmick, S.J.
Spring 2015 BC Libraries Newsletter
February 9, 2015 -
Read Tom Wall on the new eScholarship@BC, BC's digital repository; Enid Karr on user-created "collections" in HathiTrust; David Richtmyer and Kathleen Williams on two fascinating Irish related volumes recently acquired by Burns Library; David Horn on the Emmet Larkin Papers, a large and varied collection of the papers of the famous American historian of nineteenth century Irish Catholicism; Brendan Rapple on a recent digital acquisition: the Loeb Classical Library. These articles & more from the Boston College Libraries Newsletter.
Look Behind You!
February 23, 2015 -
Join us for a multimedia performance on Northern Ireland's Troubles by Steafán Hanvey. Monday, February 23, 2015 at 7:00pm on the Brighton Campus.
New Faculty Publication Highlight
January 14, 2015 -
Many of today's most troubling environmental & economic issues have come to seem insoluble: carbon emissions, overshoot, inequality, joblessness, & a dysfunctional food system. Through a fascinating array of illuminating case studies, Sustainable Lifestyles and the Quest for Plentitude: Case Studies of the New Economy - edited by Juliet B. Schor & Crag J. Thompson - affirms that we can. Click here to learn more!
Browse Journals on Browzine
January 13, 2015 -
Stay current in your field of study. Download BrowZine to read scholarly journals from your tablet or smartphone.
2014 News Items
Faculty Publication Highlight
December 17, 2014 -
Leaving Russia: A Jewish Story by Maxim D. Shrayer is a memoir of coming of age & struggling to leave the USSR. Shrayer chronicles the triumphs & humiliations of a Soviet childhood and expresses the dreams & fears of a Jewish family that never gave up its hopes for a better life. Click here to read more!
New Faculty Publication Highlight
December 11, 2014 -
When Abraham Lincoln helped create the Republican Party on the eve of the Civil War, his goal was to promote economic opportunity for all Americans. Yet, despite the egalitarian dream at the heart of its founding, the Republican Party quickly became mired in a fundamental identity crisis. Read more about To Make Men Free: A History of the Republican Party, by Heather Cox Richardson.
New Open Access Journal
December 9, 2014 -
Romance eReview is a peer-reviewed graduate journal of literary &cultural criticism, published annually by the Department of Romance Languages & Literatures at Boston College. The journal is edited & managed by the graduate students of the Master's program. It is also among the growing number of open access publications now published in collaboration with the Boston College University Libraries. Check out our complete list of Open Access Journals.
Faculty Publication Highlight
December 9, 2014 -
What does the heroine seek from the hero in a romance – self enhancement or self-sharing? Submission or dominance? A place in this world or a world apart? Read more about Women Writers and the Hero of Romance, by Judith Wilt.
Brand New Faculty Publication Highlight
December 3, 2014 -
Can romance novels offer insight into how Jamaicans living outside of Jamaica come to know themselves as "Jamaican" & as part of a Jamaican diaspora? Rhonda Frederick's essay, Making Jamaican Love: Colin Channer's Waiting in Vain and Romance-ified Diaspora Identities, tackles these questions. Click here to read more!
24 Hours Begin 12/01
December 1, 2014 -
O'Neill Library is now open 24/7 through Sat, Dec. 20 at 5pm. Gargan Hall begins 24/7 on Fri, Dec. 5 at 8am & it continues through Fri, Dec. 19 at midnight. Additional study space will be available at O'Neill Library during the 24/7 period. Click here for a list of rooms and times available for student use.
New Faculty Publication Highlight
December 1, 2014 -
In Handbook of the International Political Economy of Trade, David A. Deese brings together leading researchers & writers from different countries & disciplines in a coherent framework to highlight the most important & promising research & policy questions regarding international trade. Click here to learn more!
Faculty Publication Highlight!
November 18, 2014 -
Conflict Bodies: The Politics of Rape Representation in the Francophone Imaginary, by professor Régine Michelle Jean-Charles, explores the relationship between rape & narratives of violence in francophone literature and culture. Click here to learn more.
New Faculty Publication Highlight
October 27, 2014 -
Michalczyk and Helmick have a particular interest in conflict resolution, and in Through a Lens Darkly: Films of Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing, they combine their expertise to create a well-crafted, informative collection of essays on the role of film in conveying the horrors of genocide and myriad human rights violations over the past two centuries. Click here to read more!
Celebrate GIS day at the O'Neill Library
November 19, 2014 -
Browse posters on the 2nd and 3rd floor of O'Neill with samples of GIS applications and its use at Boston College. Learn more about Geographic Information Systems and how this powerful data mapping tool can enhance your research. Pick up a flyer with details for entering our "Sixth Annual BC GIS 2015 Contest" at the reference desk. Click here for more!
Fall Libraries Newsletter
October 3, 2014 -
Read Tom Wall on the Library's support for the digital scholarship of faculty and students; Dr. Sylvia Sellers-Garcia on her Spring 2014 "Making History Public" class and its collaboration with Burns Library; Emily Toner on the move of eScholarship@BC, BC's institutional repository, to a new online platform later this fall. These articles & more from the Boston College Libraries Newsletter.
Faculty Publication Highlight!
October 16, 2014 -
Through close analysis of these seven cases, legal historian Alan Rogers explores the conflict between religious principles and secular laws that seek to protect children from abuse and neglect. Click here to learn more about The Child Cases: How America's Religious Exemption Laws Harm Children.
Latest Faculty Publication Highlight
October 1, 2014 -
The Credo Series, by Professor Thomas Groome, comprises eleven textbooks – seven already published and four in progress – that together constitute a comprehensive presentation of the Catholic faith for use in high schools and youth ministry programs. Click here to learn more!
New Open Access Journal
October 1, 2014 -
Lingua Frankly: Boston College working papers in linguistics is a student-run, open access journal showcasing original research papers, book reviews, and other works of interest by both graduate and undergraduate students in topics related to Linguistics and the study of language.
New Faculty Publication Highlight
September 18, 2014 -
Keith's Radio Station offers a concise and insightful guide to all aspects of radio operations, explaining the functions performed within every professionally managed station. Now in its ninth edition, this book continues its long tradition of guiding readers to a solid understanding of who does what, when, and why. Click here to read more.
Databases System Downtime on Friday
October 25, 2014 -
Metalib (the Online Databases system) is back online.
New Open Access Journal
September 10, 2014 -
The University Libraries are supporting a new open access journal on our publishing platform. The International Journal of African Higher Education is peer-reviewed and aims to advance knowledge, promote research, and provide a forum for policy analysis on higher education issues in the African continent. More...
New Faculty Publication Highlight
September 3, 2014 -
Cynthia Young in Black Ops: Black Masculinity and the War on Terror" argues that pop culture representations of black masculinity over the last ten years have worked to justify the US war on terror by paradoxically linking the civil rights movement and the larger history of US racial oppression to US Empire. Click here to learn more!
Bapst Opening Late, Sunday 9/14
September 11, 2014 -
Due to an electrical shutdown on Sunday September 14, 2014 Bapst Library will not open until 4PM. This work is needed for the St. Mary's construction. We apologize for any inconvenience.
O'Neill 24/5 Study Space
September 1, 2014 -
O'Neill Library will replace Gargan Hall in the Bapst Library as the BC Libraries' 24/5 study space. The O'Neill Library will be open continuously Sundays - Thursdays. It will close at 10pm on Fridays & Saturdays. This change will provide late-night access to a variety of study spaces as well as our extensive collections & services.
Faculty Publication Highlight
August 19, 2014 -
The Spanish Empire is famous for being the realm upon which "the sun never set." Yet we know relatively little about how Spain managed to move that crucial currency of governance over such enormous distances. Click here to read about Sylvia Sellers-García's book, Distance and Documents at the Spanish Empire's Periphery.
New Faculty Publication Highlight
August 1, 2014 -
Rekindling the Christic Imagination: Theological Meditations for the New Evangelization, by professor Robert P. Imbelli, discusses the Second Vatican Council which marked the beginning of the New Evangelization. It sought to communicate the Gospel's perennial newness to the contemporary world in a spirit of joy and hope. Click here to learn more.
Latest Faculty Publication Highlight
July 22, 2014 -
Missing Class: Strengthening Social Movement Groups by Seeing Class Cultures By Betsy Leondar-Wright is the first comprehensive empirical study of US activist class cultures, it looks at class dynamics in 25 groups that span the gamut of social movement organizations in the United States today. Click here to read more!
New from Professor Hoang
July 15, 2014 -
Sociology Professor Kimberly Hoang is the editor of a newly published book, Human Trafficking Reconsidered: Rethinking the Problem, Envisioning New Solutions. She has also published the following article in Gender & Society: "Competing Technologies of Embodiment: Pan-Asian Modernity and Third World Dependency in Vietnam's Contemporary Sex Industry"
Faculty Publication Highlight
July 9, 2014 -
Professor Peter Krause explains variation in the use and effectiveness of political violence in the journal International Security, in his article The Structure of Success: How the Internal Distribution of Power Drives Armed Group Behavior and National Movement Effectiveness.
VPN & Remote Access Changes
June 30, 2014 -
With the move to Eagle VPN you will need to use proxied links to access online resources from off-campus. Learn about the Proxy Bookmarklet and other great tools to help.
Databases System Downtime on Friday
October 25, 2014 -
Metalib (the Online Databases system) will be down for maintainence from 7am to 8am on Friday, September 26. Access to all online databases will be unaffected. Users can search for a database in Holmes and connect directly to the native database interface.
Faculty Publication Highlight!
June 5, 2014 -
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam and Women, editing by Professor Natana J. DeLong-Bas, provides current information on the major topics of scholarly interest within the study of Islam and women. Organized around the central conceptual themes in research on Islam and women, this work examines the scholarship on Islam and women that has expanded over the past 20 years. Click here to read more!
A New Home for IHE
May 23, 2014 -
International Higher Education (IHE), published by BC's Center for International Higher Education, is now hosted by the Libraries at eScholarship@BC. IHE joins the growing number of open access publications now published in collaboration with the Boston College University Libraries. Check out our complete list of Open Access Journals. Click here to read more.
New Faculty Publication Highlight
May 29, 2014 -
Roman Jakobson: Critical Assessment of Leading Linguists, edited by Professor Margaret Thomas, brings together the best analysis of the work of one of the 20th Century's most versatile and influential language scholars. Click here to learn more!
Summer Libraries' Newsletter!
May 14, 2014 -
Read Tom Wall's reflections on the accomplishments of BC Libraries over the past 5 years; Brendan Rapple on the database The Letters of Matthew Arnold; Justine Sundaram on the 1000+ students who visited the Burns Library over the past year for instructional sessions. These articles & more from the Boston College Libraries Newsletter.
New Faculty Publication Highlight
May 13, 2014 -
Vulnerability is not often associated with virtue. Yet to be vulnerable is central to human experience. In Wounded Heroes: Vulnerability as a Virtue in Ancient Greek Literature and Philosophy, Marina Berzins McCoy examines ways in which Greek epic, tragedy, and philosophy have important insights to offer about the nature of human vulnerability and how human beings might better come to terms with their own vulnerability. Click here to read more!
Faculty Publication Highlight!
May 6, 2014 -
As any homeowner knows, the prospect of embarking on a renovation project is both exciting and scary. Will the finished space function as it was envisioned? Will it be both comfortable & aesthetically pleasing? Will the project be completed on time & within budget? Innovations and Renovations: Designing the Teaching Laboratory by Lynne A. O'Connell discusses these questions & more!
24 Hours Begin 04/21
April 21, 2014 -
O'Neill Library, will be open 24/7 beginning on Monday, April 21 & continue through Tuesday, May 13 at 11pm. Gargan Hall begins 24/7 starting Monday, April 21 at 5pm through Tuesday, May 13 at 5pm. Additional study space will be available in O'Neill Library during the 24/7. Click here for a list of rooms & times that will be available for student use.
2014 GIS Contest Winners!
April 14, 2014 -
It is with great pleasure that the Boston College Libraries announce the winners of the Fifth Annual Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Mapping Contest at Boston College. The response this year was impressive in the relevance, variety of topics and the attention to social justice and environmental issues. Prizes were awarded to both graduate and undergraduate entries with a third place tie for graduate submissions. Click here to read more.
Inspired Menu
April 24, 2014 -
Tonight, as part of their Featured Chef Series, Dining Services is offering a menu inspired by the Burns Library's "Are You Being Served? Historical Menus From the Archives" exhibit. Drop by the Burns Library to see what's on the menu, then make a reservation at the Faculty Dining Room to find out what mock turtle soup really tastes like!
Faculty Publication Highlight!
April 4, 2014 -
Hope: Promise, Possibility, and Fulfillment - edited by Professor Richard Lennan and Professor Nancy Pineda-Madrid - addresses both the possibility that hope offers and the capacity of hope to respond to the challenges that life presents to us all. What is particular to this book is that it offers a theology of hope. Click here to learn more!
Losing Sleep over Bibliographies?
April 1, 2014 -
If keeping track of citations and making bibliographies are stealing time from your other pursuits, sign up for these workshops coming up at O'Neill Library:
Citations: Why, When, How
RefWorks: Automate Citations!
Workshops begin April 7 & will be offered weekdays at various times through April 16.
BC GIS Contest deadline April 2nd, 2014
March 27, 2014 -
There is still time to submit your GIS project and win an Amazon gift certificate! Click here for contest rules. For more information click here.
Java Popup Issues
March 28, 2014 -
Users trying to access Blackboard or Agora from library computers may get a pop-up telling them to upgrade JAVA. This will be corrected during the summer when Blackboard is replaced by Canvas. In the meantime, users can just click through all of the messages & will be able to access the sites.
Faculty Publication Highlight
March 21, 2014 -
The Barber of Damascus: Nouveau Literacy in the Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Levant by Dr. Dana Sajdi is about a barber, Shihab al-Din Ahmad Ibn Budayr, in Damascus in the 18th century. The barber may have been a "nobody," but he wrote a history book, a record of the events that took place in his city during his lifetime. Click here to learn more!
Elizabeth Hayward Collection of Ursuline Academy
March 14, 2014 -
A collection of primary source documents regarding a nineteenth century Boston-area fire is now online. The Elizabeth Hayward Collection of Ursuline Academy material held by the John J. Burns Library was recently digitized. Click here to learn more.
Faculty Publication Highlight!
March 6, 2014 -
Andrew Sofer's new book, Dark Matter, maps the invisible dimension of theater whose effects are felt everywhere in performance. Examining phenomena such as hallucination, offstage character, offstage action, sexuality, masking, technology, and trauma, Sofer engagingly illuminates the invisible in different periods of postclassical western theater and drama. Click here to learn more!
New issue of the Libraries Newsletter
February 13, 2014 -
Read Tom Wall's announcement of the establishment of an Open Access Publishing Fund, a pilot program funded by the Provost's Office and administered by the University Libraries; Bridget Burke on the performance of Christobal de Morales' Missarum Liber Primus; Brendan Rapple on the database The Vogue Archive; Kevin Tringale on the growing number of exhibits sponsored by BC Libraries. These articles and more from the Boston College Libraries Newsletter.
New Faculty Publication Highlight
February 20, 2014 -
Dr. Amy Boesky and the contributors to The Story Within: Personal Essays on Genetics and Identity share powerful experiences of living with genetic disorders. Their stories illustrate the complexities involved in making decisions about genetic diseases. Click here to read more!
Faculty Publication Highlight
February 3, 2014 -
Peter Skerry's research focuses on social policy, racial and ethnic politics, and immigration. His writings have appeared in a variety of scholarly and general interest publications! In this interview Professor Skerry talks about immigration and his proposal to break the U.S. deadlock on immigration reform. Click here to learn more!
Music Score Exhibit in O'Neill Lobby
January 22, 2014 -
Visit the new exhibit of music scores in the O'Neill Library Lobby. The exhibit includes a facsimile of Beethoven's 9th symphony, examples of scores and recordings by the BC Music Faculty, and more. Click here for the accompanying webpage.
Faculty Publication Highlight!
January 23, 2014 -
Beyond government structures, the relationship between the political realm and Christianity has always involved the important questions of how we ought to live together. In his new book, Christianity and the Political Order: Conflict, Cooptation, and Cooperation, Kenneth R. Himes notes that politics must be "guided by considerations of national and global justice and peace and, for Christians, by the teachings of Jesus," as interpreted by tradition. Click here to learn more!
New Issue of The Levantine Review now available
January 6, 2014 -
We are pleased to announce the publication of the latest issue of The Levantine Review, Boston College's flagship Near Eastern and Mediterranean Studies journal, published by the department of Slavic and Eastern Languages and Literatures and the Program in Linguistics, and in conjunction with the Boston College Libraries.


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Port Elizabeth - A man has been arrested for allegedly killing his colleague in Zwide, Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape police said on Wednesday.
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Today on the Senate Floor, Senate Budget Committee Ranking Member Jeff Sessions (R., Ala.) discussed a variety of issues associated with the SNAP program (food stamps), as well as issues regarding USDA as it relates to the Department's administration of this nutrition program. (Complete remarks from Senator Sessions can be read here (from the Congressional Record)).
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The Third International Conference on Knowledge and Systems Engineering (KSE'2011) - Updated 1stCFP
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- Hanoi, 14-16 October, 2011
Conference Venue: Hanoi University, 9th Km Nguyen Trai, Hanoi
First Call for Papers
About KSE 2011
KSE 2011 provides an open forum for intensive discussions and
interchange of the latest advances in Knowledge and Systems
Engineering research. The Third Conference on Knowledge and Systems
Engineering invites submission of papers to its annual meeting to be
held in Hanoi, Vietnam in October, 2011. Invited papers are of
original and unpublished research on the indicated conference topics
and related areas of application.
This year, the conference is co-organized by Hanoi University, the
University of Engineering and Technology, Vietnam National University,
and the Faculty of IT, Hanoi University of Science and Technology.
Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam, is a 1000 year old city famous for its
sacred lakes, 36 ancient streets, and the old-world atmosphere of its
French quarter. The three-day KSE'2011, conference will be held in
this city, from 14th to 16th of October, 2011.
Publication Details
As with the previous KSE conference, proceedings will be published by
the IEEE Computer Science Society (to be confirmed). Submitted papers
should be prepared using the IEEE 2-column conference style and should
not exceed 8 pages. Papers should be submitted through the conference
website - submission menu/tab
Important Dates:
Papers Submission Deadline: June, 14, 2011
Author notification: July, 29, 2011
Camera-ready papers due: August, 12, 2011
Early registration deadline: August, 12, 2011
Registration deadline: October, 7, 2011
Conference dates: October 14-16, 2011
Relevant Research Areas
KSE 2011 solicits contributions dealing with any aspect of Knowledge
and Systems Engineering. The topics include, but are not limited to:
Natural Language Processing
- Machine translation and multilingual processing
- Question answering, information extraction, text summarization and
information retrieval
- Corpus-based language processing
- Spoken language processing
- Knowledge acquisition and knowledge management systems
Bio-medical Information Processing
- Medical image processing
- Biological data modeling and integration
- Molecular sequence analysis
- Protein structure prediction and molecular simulation
- Biomedical signal analysis
Evolutionary Computation
- Genetic Algorithms
- Genetic Programming
- Swam intelligence
- Artificial Immune Systems
- Applications of Evolutionary Computation to real-world problems
Real-World and Security Applications of Information Technology
- Modeling and Simulation
- Sensors and Image processing
- Sensor fusion, Programming languages and man machine interfaces
- Multimode trackers for fire and forget systems
- Image stabilization techniques for robotic vehicles
- Security of Web-based applications and services
- Anti-malware techniques: detection, analysis, and prevention
- Intrusion prevention, detection, and response
- Security for collaborative applications: teleconferencing and
- Applied cryptography and provably-secure cryptographic protocols
Knowledge Representation and Reasoning
- Default logics, Conditional logics, Paraconsistent logics, Argumentation
- Representations of vagueness, Many-valued and fuzzy logics
- Algebraic foundations of knowledge representations
- Reasoning, planning, or decision making under uncertainty
Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
- Biomedical data mining
- Text data mining
- Visual data mining
Knowledge Management
- Knowledge Management Systems
- Competitive intelligence
- Ontology.
- Content management systems
Network System Engineering
- Network applications and services
- Network architectures
- Peer-to-peer networks and applications
- Wireless Communication and Network
- Multimedia Communication and System
- Ubiquitous/Pervasive Networks and Computing
Software Systems Engineering
- Software Metrics and Measurement
- Program Analysis and Understanding
- Software Architecture
- Requirements Engineering
- Software Project Management
- Testing, Verification and Validation
- Formal Methods
- Quality Management
Human Machine Interaction
- Embodied Conversational Agent
- Pattern Recognition
- Virtual Reality
KSE 2011 Conference Committee
General Chairs
Dinh Luan Nguyen, Hanoi University (HANU), Vietnam
Ngoc Binh Nguyen, Vietnam National University (VNU), Vietnam
Programme Co-Chairs
Tu Bao Ho, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
R.I. McKay, Seoul National University, Korea
Xuan Hoai Nguyen, Hanoi University, Vietnam
Local Co-Chairs
Quang Anh Tran, Hanoi University, Vietnam
To Chung Nguyen, Hanoi University, Vietnam
Workshop and Publication Chair
Nhat Quang Nguyen, Hanoi University of Science and Technology, Vietnam
Publicity Co-Chairs
Bao Son Pham Vietnamese National University, Vietnam
Tuan Hao Hoang, Le Quy Don Technical University
Financial Chair
Van Hau Trieu, Hanoi University, Vietnam
Web Masters
Luyen Thu Trang and Ha Quang Minh, Hanoi University, Vietnam
Programme Committee
Akira Shimazu, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and
Technology, Japan
Achim Hoffmann, University of New South Wales, Australia
Alexander Peter Whigham, Ontago University, New Zealand
Anh Cuong Le, Vietnam National University, Vietnam
Anh Hoang Truong, Vietnam National University, Vietnam
Arndt von Haeseler, Center of Integrative Bioinformatics Vienna, Austria
Chin Wei Ngan, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Daryl Essam, University of New South Wales@ADFA, Australia
Duc A. Tran, University of Massachusetts, USA
Ha Nguyen Tran, NICT, Japan
Hiroakira Ono, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
Hiromitsu Hattori, Kyoto University, Japan
Hirota Kaoru, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Hoai Son Nguyen, Vietnam
Huong Le Thanh, Hanoi University of Science and Technology, Vietnam
Kenji Satou, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
Khang Tran Dinh, Hanoi University of Science and Technology, Vietnam
Lam Bui Thu, Le Quy Don Technical University, Vietnam
Le Minh Nguyen, Japan Advanced Institute Of Science and Technology, Japan
Linh Trung Nguyen, Vietnam
Long Tran Van, Hanoi University of Transport and Communications, Vietnam
Merouane Debbah, Supelec, France
Michael O'Neill, University College Dublin, Ireland
Naijun Zhan, United Nations University, Macao, China
Ngoc Hung Pham, National University Vietnam
Ninh Thuan Truong, National University, Vietnam
Phuong Thai Nguyen, Vietnam
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One of the more popular "long" hikes is up to Hooker Lake at the base of Hooker Glacier. From the Hermitage it may take 1.5~2 hour minutes depending on your fitness, each way. The trail is well groomed and easy to walk, but there are still many rocks and is not entirely flat. Once you get to Hooker Lake, there will be large rocks you will have to navigate and possibly some water you will have to cross.
In the entire path, you may only climb about 200m vertically, which makes it one of the less strenuous of the long hikes in Mount Cook. At the end of the path, you'll find yourself looking directly over the length of Hooker Lake, at the calving end of the glacier with Mount Cook straight ahead. You can walk along the side of the lake as far as you want, but be careful since rock slides and avalanches are possible.
It is a good place for a picnic and a swim if you like the cold water.
Equipment: Good traction footwear is recommended. Water, hat and sunscreen are too.
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Kea Point
One of the more popular "short" hikes is up to Kea Point. From the Hermitage it may take 30~50 minutes depending on your fitness, each way. From the camping area is may take 20~35 minutes. The trail is well groomed and easy to walk, but there are still many rocks and is not entirely flat.
In the entire path, you may only climb about 100m vertically, but will still get your exercise. At the end of the path, there will be a nice lookout where you can see the glacial moraine lake at the bottom and its respective moraine wall of rock debris. Off in the distance over the light blue water, you'll see Mount Cook.
Another short path is Governor's Bush which is about 45 minutes round trip, mostly under the canopy of trees. This trail starts just below the gasoline pump station, below the Hermitage.
Equipment: Good traction footwear is recommended. Water, hat and sunscreen are too.
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Muller Hut
One of the most physical of the trails in the park is the 6~7 hour round trip up to Mueller Hut. This trail follows the Sealy Tarns trail and continues where those taking their picnic lunches at the Tarns stop. From that junction, it is still another very physical 1.5+ hours up.
There are some sections with loose rocks and the trail is marked with posts. There are also several snow/ice patches that will be present all year long. After you pass the Sealy Tarns, there are no trees to protect you from the sun or the weather, so plan accordingly.
Many people choose to hike up, spend the night at the hut and hike down the next morning. Spaces are limited, but the hut has very nice furnishings considering you're at the top of the Alps.
Equipment: Good traction footwear is recommended. Water, hat and sunscreen are highly recommended. A jacket too since weather can change rapidly.
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Sealy Tarns
There are two trails in Mount Cook which will take you to two different "tarns" which are small alpine lakes.
The lower trail which is "Red Tarns" is still a very steep climb of 45~70 minutes, but does not offer as nice of views.
Sealy Tarns, which is accessed off of the Kea Point trail is a steep and physically demanding trail which will be about 1.5~2 hours each way. Once your at the sign post for the Tarns, there will be a small one to both your left and right. From either of these small ponds, you'll have great views and the perfect place for a picnic lunch.
If the weather is nice, you can take a quick dip in the cool water and refresh yourself. The water may be slightly colored, but it will not stain.
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Aramco, Shell Appoint CEO for Gas Venture in Saudi Arabia
South Rub Al Khali Co., a joint venture between Royal Dutch Shell Plc and Saudi Arabian Oil Co., named a chief executive to run the company that explores for natural gas in Saudi Arabia.
SRAK, a 50-50 venture, appointed Saleh Al-Dawas as CEO, a company spokesman said in an e-mail. Al-Dawas replaces Kamal al-Yahya, who retired in July.
SRAK is one of four ventures exploring for gas in the Rub Al Khali desert in Saudi Arabia, which holds the fifth-largest gas reserves in the world. The venture is the only one of the four to announce a "promising" discovery.
The venture is expected to complete its second exploration for natural gas in Saudi Arabia's southern Rub Al Khali desert in 2015. It's currently drilling in the greater Kidan area near the Saudi border with the United Arab Emirates.
Before taking his new role at SRAK last month, al-Dawas was manager of the Production and Facilities Development Department at Saudi Aramco since May 2006. SRAK said today in an e-mail that he has 33 years of industry experience working in various areas of the Saudi Aramco upstream organization.
Al-Dawas graduated from the King Fahad University of Petroleum and Minerals in 1979 with a degree in petroleum engineering and was a board member of EniRepsa Gas Ltd., one of four gas exploration ventures in Saudi Arabia. The venture is owned by Italy's Eni SpA, Repsol YPF SA and Saudi Aramco.


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Heather Coates
Heather Coates, MLS, MS
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My background is in clinical and behavioral research, specifically focusing on movement disorders and Autism Spectrum Disorders. My research experience has spanned roles from undergraduate research assistant to program coordinator to investigator. My role within the Center for Digital Scholarship is to provide data services to the IUPUI campus. I also serve as the subject librarian for the Fairbanks School of Public Health. My research interests include research data literacy, the intersection of data management with data integrity and the responsible conduct of research, evidence based library and information practice, and bibliometric analysis and use of altmetrics in evaluating scholarly outputs.
Areas of Expertise: Data literacy, data management, data sharing, data citation, scholarly communication, evaluating research outputs, evidence based practice
Research Interests: The role of data management and curation in promoting transparency, accountability, and public access for academic research. Educating and advocating for open science, open data, open access.
Selected Projects & Publications
Coates, Heather L. (2014). "Building Data Services From the Ground Up: Strategies and Resources." Journal of eScience Librarianship 3(1): Article 5. doi: 10.7191/jeslib.2014.1063.
Coates, H. L. (2014). Critical Thinking Exercises in the Classroom are Helpful but not Sufficient for Improving Critical Thinking Test Scores. Evidence Based Library and Information Practice, 9(2), 25-27. [http://ejournals.library.ualberta.ca/index.php/EBLIP/article/view/21578]
Coates, H. (2013). Academic historians in Canada report both positive and negative attitudes towards e-books for teaching and research, Evidence Based Library and Information Practice, 8(4). [http://ejournals.library.ualberta.ca/index.php/EBLIP/article/view/20499/15960]
Coates, H. L. (2014). Ensuring research integrity: The role of data management in current crises, College & Research Libraries News, 75(11) 598-601. [http://crln.acrl.org/content/75/11/598.full]
Coates, H. L. (2014). Teaching data literacy skills in a lab environment. Presentation at the annual meeting of the International Association or Social Science Information Services & Technology (IASSIST), Toronto, CA. [http://hdl.handle.net/1805/4538]
Coates, H. L. (2014). Building the future of research together: Collaborating with a CTSA-funded translational science institute to provide data management training. Presentation at the annual meeting of the Medical Library Association, Chicago, IL. [http://hdl.handle.net/1805/4537]
Coates, H. L. (2014). The web content of North American academic libraries reflects a variety of approaches to outreach and instruction. Evidence Based Library and Information Practice, 9(4), 61-63. [http://ejournals.library.ualberta.ca/index.php/EBLIP/article/view/22986/17745]
Durrant, S. & Coates, H. (2013). Improving user engagement in a data repository with web analytics. Paper presentation at the 2013 LITA Forum, Louisville, KY. [http://hdl.handle.net/1805/3665]
Coates, H. (2013). Developing a data management lab: Teaching effective methods for health and social sciences research. Lightning talk and poster presentation at the Data Information Literacy Symposium, West Lafayette, IN. [http://hdl.handle.net/1805/3569]
Coates, H. (2013). Exploring the disconnect between information literacy skills and self-estimates of ability in first-year community college students, Evidence Based Library and Information Practice, 8(2). [http://hdl.handle.net/1805/3370]
Coates, H. L., Konkiel, S., Witt, M. (2013). Data Services: Making It Happen. Panel presentation at the biennial conference of the Association of College and Research Libraries, Indianapolis, IN. [http://hdl.handle.net/1805/3278]
Coates, H. L. (2013). Practical data management: Enabling graduate students and staff to function as ethical actors. Poster presentation at the biennial conference of the Association of College and Research Libraries, Indianapolis, IN. [http://hdl.handle.net/1805/3273]
Coates, H. L. (2013). Clinical Data Management: Strategies for unregulated data. Presentation at the annual ASIS&T Research Data Access and Preservation Summit, Baltimore, MD. [http://hdl.handle.net/1805/3279]
Coates, H. L. (2012). Opportunities in data curation: Integrating the library into the research process. Presentation at the annual Electronic Resources and Libraries conference, Austin, TX. [http://hdl.handle.net/1805/2789]
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"Hands Off Syria" Applies to Russia Too—An International Statement
October 15, 2015 § 14 Comments
The following statement was authored by Gail Daneker of Friends for a NonViolent World, Brian Slocock of the Syria Solidarity Movement, UK, and the blogger and activist Clay Claiborne
"Hands Off Syria" Applies to Russia Too
As people and groups from many countries, united by a common commitment to peace, justice and human rights, we condemn the military offensive that began with air strikes launched by Russia in Syria on 30 September 2015 and accelerating subsequently.
While the Russian government has said that these operations were directed against the Islamic State (ISIS), most were on areas with no ISIS presence. The focus of the Russian military offensive appears to have been on opposition communities in the northern Homs region, a continuing center of resistance to the Assad Regime.
The victims of the Russian aggression on 30 September were predominantly civilians, including many children. Humanitarian conditions were dire in the area before Russia launched its offensive because it has long been under siege by the regime for its resistance. « Read the rest of this entry »
Why Iranian Dissidents Support the Nuclear Deal—In Their Own Words
July 25, 2015 § 1 Comment
In my new article for In These Times magazine I discuss the important International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran report High Hopes, Tempered Expectations: Views from Iran on the Nuclear Negotiations, which features interviews with an array of Iranians—former political prisoners, filmmakers, political scientists, civil rights lawyers, playwrights, journalists, actors, economists, novelists, publishers, theater directors (some of them belonging to two or more of these categories, former political prisoner being the most common)—about the nuclear agreement.
Go here to read the article. If you tweet it, please give the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran a shout-out (@ICHRI).
Israelpolitik, the Neocons and the Long Shadow of the Iraq War—A Review of Muhammad Idrees Ahmad's book 'The Road to Iraq: The Making of a Neoconservative War'
January 30, 2015 § Leave a comment
This essay first appeared in The Drouth ('The Thirst'), a quarterly magazine published in Glasgow (Issue 50, Winter 2014/2015). I wrote it in December 2014.
The Road to Iraq: The Making of a Neoconservative War
By Muhammad Idrees Ahmad
Edinburgh University Press
Reviewed by Danny Postel
I was reluctant to review this book. With all the dramatic developments in the Middle East today—the ISIS crisis, the siege of Kobanê, the deepening nightmare in Syria, the escalating repression in Egypt, the fate of Tunisia's democratic transition, the sectarianization of regional conflicts driven by the Saudi-Iranian rivalry—delving back into the 2003 invasion of Iraq seemed rather less than urgent. It's hard enough just to keep up with the events unfolding day-to-day in the region. Reading—let alone reviewing—a detailed study of the internal processes that led to the United States toppling Saddam Hussein over a decade ago seemed remote, if not indeed a distraction.
But I'm glad I set these reservations aside and took the assignment. This forcefully argued and meticulously researched (with no fewer than 1,152 footnotes, many of which are full-blown paragraphs) book turns out to be enormously relevant to the present moment, on at least three fronts:
- ISIS emerged from the ashes of al Qaeda in Iraq, which formed in the immediate aftermath of the 2003 invasion and occupation of Iraq. Without the 2003 invasion, there would be no ISIS as we know it—and the region's political landscape would look very different.
- The US Senate report on CIA torture has brought back into focus the rogues gallery of the Bush-Cheney administration—the same cast of characters who engineered the 2003 Iraq invasion. This book shines a heat lamp on that dark chapter and many of its protagonists.
- There is talk of a neoconservative comeback in Washington. This thoroughly discredited but zombie-like group are now angling for the ear of Hillary Clinton, who might be the next US president. Ahmad's book provides a marvelously illuminating anatomy of the neocons, which has lessons that apply directly to this movement's potentially ominous next chapter.
The central question Ahmad attempts to answer is: Why did the 2003 Iraq War happen? In one of the book's most valuable sections, felicitously titled 'Black Gold and Red Herrings', he goes through several prevalent explanations/theories and takes them apart one by one: « Read the rest of this entry »
Should We Oppose the Intervention Against ISIS? An Exchange of Views
December 22, 2014 § Leave a comment
Should We Oppose the Intervention Against ISIS?
Most U.S. leftists say yes. But voices we rarely hear—Kurds and members of the Syrian opposition—have more ambiguous views.
ISIS (or ISIL, or the Islamic State) sent shock waves through the Middle East and beyond in June when it seized Mosul, Iraq's second-largest city. The organization has now laid claim to a swath of territory "stretching from Baghdad to Aleppo and from Syria's northern border to the deserts of Iraq in the south," in the words of Patrick Cockburn, author of The Jihadis Return: ISIS and the New Sunni Uprising.
In August, the United States assembled an international coalition (eventually including more than a dozen countries) to conduct a campaign of air strikes on ISIS positions in Iraq, coordinating with Iraqi and Kurdish Peshmerga forces. Then, in October, the coalition expanded the intervention into Syria, coordinating with Kurdish fighters on the Syrian-Turkish border and Free Syrian army forces.
American progressives have been relatively uniform in opposing the intervention against ISIS. But to most Kurds and many Syrian activists, the intervention is more welcome. Turkish and Syrian Kurds along the border watch the battles against ISIS from hilltops, breaking out in cheers and chanting, "Obama, Obama." Within the Syrian opposition, one finds a range of perspectives—some support intervention, others oppose it, and many, like the Syrian leftist intellectual Yassin al-Haj Saleh, are torn. In late September Saleh told me, « Read the rest of this entry »
Sectarianization: Steven Heydemann & Joshua Landis on the Trajectory of the Syrian Nightmare
October 18, 2014 § Leave a comment
Earlier this month I had the opportunity to interview two of the leading Syria experts in the world, Steven Heydemann and Joshua Landis, about the "big picture" of the Syrian conflict and the wider crisis engulfing the Middle East today, as part of the CMES Conversations series produced by the Center for Middle East Studies at the University of Denver. Landis, while best known as a blogger and commentator on Syria, is an historian. Heydemann is a political scientist who has written an influential study of Syrian politics covering the years 1946-1970.
The two interviews offer contrasting perspectives, but both take us several steps back from the news cycle and place the events unfolding in the region today in a wider historical, comparative and global lens. This was the focus of the forum that brought them to Denver, "Sectarianization: ISIS, the Syrian Conflict & the Future of the Middle East". Sectarianization will be a central focus of our in the coming months, and is the theme of the book my colleague Nader Hashemi and I are currently co-editing (our last book being The Syria Dilemma).
Steven Heydemann is Vice President of Applied Research on Conflict at the United States Institute of Peace (USIP). He's the author of Authoritarianism in Syria: Institutions and Social Conflict, 1946-1970, the editor of War, Institutions and Social Change in the Middle East and co-editor of Middle East Authoritarianisms: Governance, Contestation, and Regime Resilience in Syria and Iran.
Our interview revolves largely around Heydemann's far-reaching report "Syria's Uprising: sectarianism, regionalisation, and state order in the Levant", published by the European think tank FRIDE. Have a look:
Joshua Landis is Associate Professor in the College of International Studies at the University of Oklahoma, where he is also Director of the Center for Middle East Studies. Widely regarded as one of the leading Syria experts in the world, he is the former President of the Syrian Studies Association. He writes and edits the widely-read blog Syria Comment.
Our interview revolves principally around two of his recent articles: "The Great Sorting Out: Ethnicity & the Future of the Levant" and "Why Syria is the Gordian knot of Obama's anti-ISIL campaign". Have a look:
A Lecture by Walter LaFeber
April 2, 2014 § Leave a comment
The following is a lecture given by the great historian of US foreign policy Walter LaFeber.
More on "Haqeeqat-e-Kashmir": India and Zubin Mehta's Psyop Concert in Indian Occupied Kashmir
September 6, 2013 § Leave a comment
Organizing Committee, Haqeeqat-e-Kashmir
Press release, 5 September 2013
On 22 August 2013, the German Embassy, New Delhi, issued a press release that Zubin Mehta would be conducting an orchestra on 7 September 2013, at the Mughal Garden, Shalimar Bagh, in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir. On 26 August 2013, civil society members of Jammu and Kashmir – from lawyers and businessmen to poets and scholars – registered a strong protest against the proposed concert and concerns were communicated to the German Embassy and the people of Germany – from political representatives to artists and activists.
The people of Jammu and Kashmir take immense pride in our rich history of resisting oppression. We also have historically cultivated a sublime tradition in, and love for, music. Music – which appeals to the higher values of love, justice, dignity, and peace; which genuinely acknowledges the long-suffering, yet bravely resisting, Kashmiris; and which is performed for the actual public – is wholeheartedly welcome.
However, legitimizing an occupation via a musical concert is completely unacceptable. Art as propaganda, as abundantly documented in history, is put to horrific use across the world. Art as propaganda in Jammu and Kashmir is unacceptable. The Zubin Mehta concert is organized and controlled by Government of India and the German Embassy, with extensive corporate sponsorship. It serves to build on the State narrative that seeks to dilute the reality of Jammu and Kashmir and peoples' aspirations. It seeks to promote an image of a "peaceful" and "normal" Jammu and Kashmir. The pain, suffering, courage and bravery of the resistance will find no place in this concert. Indian State operations that seek to support the occupation must be resisted. To build this Statist narrative of Jammu and Kashmir, an estimated Rs.100 crores [INR 10 billion or USD 16 million] is reported to being spent, and invitations have been sent to corporate India (Tatas, Birlas, Ambanis, Bajajs, CII, FICCI..), the film world (Amitabh Bachchan, Rajinikanth, Katrina Kaif…) and sportsmen (Sachin Tendulkar, Boris Becker…). It is most condemnable that the Government of Germany has chosen to be party to the Indian States' continued political machinations in Jammu and Kashmir. So far Indian army and various Indian institutions have been organizing psychological operations which are termed by Indian military as Sadbhavana Operation. We protest German government's joining the efforts of Indian army. It appears an attempt by the Indian State to outsource its military psychological operations to the international community. « Read the rest of this entry »


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24 Reasons Why P!nk Is The Role Model Every Girl Should Have
The singer proves it is okay to not be okay, to be yourself and to lift weights.
1. She believes in being true to yourself.
2. And that everyone is truly special.
4. And being strong for yourself.
5. Because she understands the ups and downs that many girls have.
6. She takes time for her hobbies.
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7. And to better herself.
8. While showing girls the importance of a fit lifestyle.
9. The results are pretty damn amazing.
10. And it looks like her little girl is following in her footsteps.
11. She believes in being loud, and present, and fearless.
12. She doesn't believe in gender "rules."
This is how SHE proposed to her husband.
13. She knows when to be serious.
14. But at the same time, isn't afraid of having a little fun.
Yep, those are the Ellen undies that she gives out and everyone says they'll wear but no one besides Pink proves it.
15. Or looking less than perfect.
16. Or poking fun at herself.
18. And isn't afraid to show herself without make up.
19. She's a loving mother.
Thank you @hartluck for giving me the greatest gift of my life, my reason to celebrate today.— P!nk (@Pink)
Thank you @hartluck for giving me the greatest gift of my life, my reason to celebrate today.
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20. Seriously, how cute are her and Willow?
Re-enacting The Walking Dead at the park #ilookcrazy #dc
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21. She's honest about her relationship.
Communication is key, guys!
22. But always works to make it better.
Spa day… Thanks @hartluck
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Union files wage complaint on downtown Bremerton garage project
BREMERTON - A local union has filed a complaint with the state contending that the contractor building the parking garage on Burwell Street and Park Avenue might not be paying prevailing wages.
Don DeMulling, an organizer with the Iron Workers Local 86 in Tukwila, complained to the state Department of Labor & Industries that Serpanok Construction of Tacoma was not paying its employees the correct wage for iron work needed to build the parking garage.
Igor Kunitsa with Serpanok said his company has worked hard to follow L&I rules and that the agency will be inspecting the project.
The 200-space garage property was the key infrastructure piece leading to the addition of a 10-screen movie theater at Fourth Street and Park Avenue. The movie theater is scheduled to open June 22.
The overall project also included a major street revamp on Fourth Street. That work was done by a different contractor.
DeMulling said he first started keeping a closer eye on the garage project when Serpanok filed its "Statement of Intent to Pay Prevailing Wage" form with L&I and didn't list any iron work at all. The form does list carpenters, masons and landscapers. Four power equipment operators were identified in the statement, paid at a rate of $49.48 per hour.
Journeyman ironworkers are paid $58.27 per hour in Kitsap County, according to the state L&I website. Rebar used in the parking garage would require ironworkers, DeMulling said.
Kunitsa said when the company first bid on the job its own employees were not going to do the iron work. "Originally we thought we were going to sub out that work, but the plans were rewired and changes were made," he said.
DeMulling said documents filed since then still leave him with questions about work done on the garage.
"The certified payroll obviously doesn't match up to what's been happening," DeMulling said. He said his 33 years of experience in the industry tell him a garage couldn't be built with the number of hours of iron work Serpanok said it did.
"They claimed they did all the iron work for that project in 200 hours. I know that's impossible," DeMulling said.
"That's his opinion," Kunitsa responded.
Ann Selover, program manager for L&I's prevailing wage program, confirmed a complaint was filed but wouldn't say any more.
Bremerton Mayor Patty Lent assigned former Public Works Director Katy Allen as project manager for the entire Fourth Street project April while Gary Sexton, who oversaw the project from the beginning, was let go temporarily when the Teamsters union declined to authorize his continued employment by the city. Allen, who has since left the city for the city administrator job in Liberty Lake, said the complaint came in after she took on the new role. She said she was not aware how payroll was handled before she took over, but that she mandated that no payments be made until the city received certified payroll statements outlining who was on the job under what labor classification and at what pay rate.
Allen also required random employee interviews by the city asking construction workers their names and their jobs to make sure what they were finding on site matched the payroll statements from Serpanok.
The Kitsap Sun requested documents detailing communications between L&I and the city and for payroll-related invoices for the entire project. The city estimated it will take until June 26 to provide a response to the request and that it must give L&I the opportunity to file a restraining order against disclosure.
State law does not demand contractors hire union labor on public projects, but it does demand that they pay prevailing wage rates. Those wages are established by L&I based on research of average pay and benefits in each county.
Funding for the project came from a federal Economic Development Administration grant and from state allocations over 25 years based on sales tax revenues for the $7.3 million parking garage.
DeMulling said if there are problems with how construction workers are being paid on the Park Plaza project, it's not a unique situation.
"The underground economy is thriving in the construction industry. It's rampant and out of control," he said.
DeMulling said a bigger issue is that L&I doesn't investigate potential problems until there is a complaint and that cities and other agencies don't have checks and balances in place to catch abuse.
Allen, however, said the processes she required are standard with public agencies to make sure everyone is in compliance. "This is the way cities or any public agency keeps the payroll legitimate," she said.
Kunitsa said his company continues to work with L&I and if the agency finds problems that he will be happy to fix it. So far, he said, the agency has not found anything amiss.
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