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Our Hotel
A Vibrant Downtown Hotel in Boston, MA
Immersed in the city's cultural energy in the heart of the Theater District, our downtown Boston hotel seamlessly intersects commerce with leisure. Relax, work, and play in our beautifully designed guestrooms and suites, or enjoy farm-to-table New England cuisine and seasonal drinks at Avenue One. We have everything you need to stay comfortable and productive, from a state-of-the-art business center to our StayFit™ Gym. When it's time to unwind, our heated, indoor saline pool is open year round.
Travel Tips
There's history and culture around every bend in Boston—skyscrapers nestle next to historic hotels while modern marketplaces line the antique cobblestone streets.
But to Bostonians, living in a city that blends yesterday and today is just another day in beloved Beantown.
Exploring a new city can be daunting. Our concierge is happy to help should you have any additional questions!
Things not to miss in Boston:
- Faneuil Hall is one of the most exciting attractions in Boston. Explore restaurants and shops while you watch live street performances. Also make sure to check out the famous Quincy Market.
- In the mood for some shopping? Then head over to Newbury Street, where you'll find eight blocks of boutiques and brownstones.
- Relive history at the Boston Tea Party Museum.
- Take a walk through the stunning Harvard University campus grounds at Cambridge.
Travel Services:
- Nearby airport is Boston Logan International airport
Weather Conditions:
Boston is a four-season destination. Along with the most reliable sunshine, summer brings sailboats to Boston Harbor, concerts to the Esplanade, and café tables to sidewalks. Summer is prime time for a shore vacation, but advance planning is imperative.
Even winter has its pleasures. The cultural season heats up when it's cold, and Boston gets a holiday glow, thanks to the thousands of lights strung around the Common, Public Garden, and Commonwealth Avenue Mall.
Hyatt Regency Boston FAQ's
Does the Hyatt Regency Boston have an airport shuttle?
While our hotel does not have an airport shuttle, it's super easy and inexpensive to get to Boston's Logan International Airport. You can catch the Blue Line train at the State Street stop, 5 blocks from our downtown hotel, to the airport. A taxi is only $25 each way to BOS.
Is there a charge for Hyatt Regency Boston Parking?
Located in the heart of downtown, steps from the Financial and Theater districts, our hotel offers convenient self and valet parking in the garage near the front entrance of the hotel with in and out privileges. Self parking is $38 for 24 hours and valet parking is $55 for overnight. If you're visiting for dinner or a show, self parking is $16 an hour and valet is $36 for up to 3 hours.
What restaurants are at Hyatt Regency Boston?
Our hotel offers a vibrant food culture in downtown. Enjoy farm-to-table New England cuisine and seasonal drinks at Avenue One. Executive Chef, Kelly Armetta creates innovative dishes with locally sourced, seasonal ingredients. Avenue One Lounge serves artisan cocktails and creative share fare. For travelers on the go, Avenue One Express is a casual place for coffee, breakfast, lunch and hot-off-the-press panini.
Hotel Features
- 502 stylish guestrooms with sitting area and city views
- Complimentary standard Wi-Fi in guestrooms, unlimited devices
- 30,000 square feet of flexible event space
- 24-hour StayFit gym
- Indoor, saline pool with connecting terrace
- 2013 Meetings Focus "Best of the East Award" winner
- Les Clefs d'Or concierge
- Luxurious Hyatt Grand Beds®
- Fast Board
- PDA Check-In
- Connected to Macy's department store
- 2014 TripAdvisor Certficate of Excellence recipient
- 2014 TripAdvisor Green Leader recipient
- 2013 Pinnacle Award winner, Successful Meetings magazine
- Avenue One Restaurant and Lounge
- Avenue One Lobby Bar
- Avenue One Express, serving breakfast and lunch on-the-go
- Complimentary Fitness Classes
Hyatt Regency Boston is committed to ensuring that we meet and exceed all of the requirements for the Americans with Disabilities Act. Our associates are trained to accommodate guests with special needs, so that all of our guests, including those with disabilities, are able to have an enjoyable and safe stay in Boston.
The following ADA room types are available for persons with disabilities:
- ADA King Bed with Shower
- ADA King Bed with Tub
- ADA Two Double Beds with Shower
- ADA Two Double Beds with Tub
The following facilities are available for persons with disabilities:
- Audio-visual smoke detectors
- Wheelchair accessible doors
- Wheelchair accessible peepholes
- Wheelchair accessible climate controls
- Bathtub benches or seats
- Raised toilet seat with grab bars
- Grab rails are in all ADA bathrooms
- Wheelchair accessible closet poles
- Wheelchair accessible sinks and vanities
- Wheelchair accessible towel racks
- Fitness Center in wheelchair accessible
- Telecommunications device for the deaf (TDD)
- TDD telephones
- Lounge
- Restaurants
- Public restrooms
- Front desk
- Concierge desk
- Public telephones
- 25 ADA rooms
Business Services
Are you planning to host or attend a meeting at Hyatt Regency Boston? Conveniently located on the first level, the business center offers the following services, 24-hours a day, and seven days a week. Our hotel has the perfect business travel accommodations right in the heart of Boston.
- Copying
- Faxing
- Printing
To contact the business center, please call 617 912 1234.
Choose our Business Plan Guestroom to start the day right with a full breakfast daily for one adult, one bottle of water per room daily and daily newspaper. Enhance your productivity with a sitting area, Wi-Fi internet access, free local and 1-800, phone calls, calls within the United States, Canada and Hawaii and Desk phones with data port hook-ups and voice mail, plus one shirt or blouse pressed per room, daily.
Guest Services
Experience the elegant accommodations, deluxe amenities and expansive guest services that typify Hyatt Regency Boston. Impeccable service in our smoke free, green, family and pet friendly luxury hotel ensures comfort no matter who you are. As a proud member of the International Gay and Lesbian Travel association, our hotel is friendly to all lifestyles. Our expedited luxury services include PDA Check-in, FastBoard™ and Touch & Go® Automated Check-in – all designed to make your stay easier than ever before. Discover everything there is to see and do nearby with the help of our knowledgeable Concierge, or plan ahead using our helpful E-Concierge service.
Internet Access
Internet Access
#InAHyattWorld, Wi-Fi is free. For all guests. No strings attached.
Stay connected at Hyatt Regency Boston with fast and reliable Internet service. See below for the type of access and availability. Wired high speed Internet access is available only in select guestrooms.
Guest Rooms
Standard Internet
- Complimentary standard service wired and wireless Internet
- Unlimited number of devices
Premium Service
- Upgraded service $12.95/24 hours
- Unlimited number of devices
- Complimentary for all Gold Passport Elite Members, including Platinum, Diamond, Diamond Premier and Courtesy Card holders
Public Area
Lobby and Avenue One Restaurant
- Complimentary standard service wireless Internet
- Unlimited number of devices
Meeting Rooms
- Wired: $300/day for 1 hardwired Internet line
- Wireless: $350/day for up to 50 devices
Map & Directions
Directions to Hyatt Regency Boston
4.4 miles from Hyatt Regency Boston. Follow directions for Ted Williams Tunnel. Go through tunnel and follow signs for exit 25, South Station. At top of ramp, take a right onto Congress Street, follow to "D" Street, take a right onto "D" Street, and your 2nd right onto Summer Street. Follow Summer Street to Kingston Street, turn left into Kingston Street then right into Bedford Street. Take next left onto Chauncy Street then right onto Avenue De Lafayette. Hyatt Regency Boston is on your right.
From South
Going 93N, take exit 20 "I-90 /Logan Airport/Worcester/South Station". Stay in left lane and follow sign for "South Station", then signs for "Chinatown" (about 1 mile). At bottom of ramp, take a left onto Kneeland Street. After 5 blocks, take a right onto Washington, then 3 more blocks; make a right onto Avenue De Lafayette. Hyatt Regency Boston is located half way down the block on left.
From North
Route 95S to Route 93S. Take Exit 20A "South Station". Off the exit, proceed straight onto Purchase Street. At the 1st set of lights, take a right onto Summer Street. After 2 blocks turn left onto Kingston Street. Then take the 1st right onto Bedford Street, left onto Chauncy Street and right onto Ave De Lafayette. The Hotel entrance is on your right.
From Mass Pike Rt 90E
Take exit 24a "Downtown/South Station". At the bottom of the ramp turn left at the light onto Kneeland Street. After 4 blocks, turn right onto Washington St. Follow until the 3rd set of lights then right onto Avenue De Lafayette. The Hotel entrance will be on the left.
From Storrow Dr.
Take the Copley Square Exit, putting you on Clarendon Street. After 5 blocks, turn left on Boylston and follow past the Boston Common. Turn left onto Washington then right onto Ave De Lafayette. The Hotel entrance will be on your left.
Exiting the parking garage on the Chauncy Street exit. Take a Left onto Chauncy Street, take your first right onto Summer Street, Follow Summer Street for about a mile passing the Boston Convention Center and take a Left onto D Street. Then take your first left onto the Ramp following sign for the Ted Williams Tunnel. Logan airport is on the other side of the Tunnel.
Onsite Services
- 24-hour in-room dining
- Valet Parking in attached 1,000 space garage
- PDA Check-in
- FastBoard™
- Free Wi-Fi in guestrooms
- Concierge
- Hyatt E-Concierge
- Currency exchange
- Hyatt Meeting Connection®
- Laundry and dry cleaning
- Multilingual associates
- Safe deposit boxes at front desk
- Soda, ice machines
- Coffee makers with complimentary coffee and tea
- ADA accessible rooms
- Pet Friendly accommodation
For outdoor enthusiasts, view our jogging/walking map.
Hyatt Has It
Hyatt Regency Boston understands the lifestyle and needs of travelers. We recognize the dilemmas that people face while traveling or working away from home and realize that traveling light is not always an option. Our goal is to simplify your travel experience. Whatever you need, whatever you lost, or whatever you just forgot, our Convenience Collection has it and we'll deliver it right to your door.
Choose from a selection of complimentary items that are for you to keep and a variety of everyday selections for you to borrow during the length of your stay.
Items such as yoga mats, chargers, mouthwash, sewing kit and more are at your fingertips!
Hyatt. You're More Than Welcome.
Items to Borrow or Buy
- Curling iron
- Flat iron
- Foam pillow
- Free weight set
- Hair dryer
- Humidifier
- Phone and computer chargers
- Power adapter
- Robe steamer
- Tea kettle
- Yoga mat
Complimentary Items
- Baby shampoo
- Deodorant
- Hairbrush or comb
- Hairspray
- Lint mitt or roller
- Makeup remover wipes
- Mouthwash
- Nail polish remover wipes
- Razor and shaving cream
- Sanitary products
- Sewing kit
- Shower cap
- Slippers
- Tea package
- Vanity kit (cotton swabs, emery board, cotton pads)
- Woolite
Valet Parking
0-1 hour $22.00
1-3 hours $36.00
3-24 hours $55.00
Overnight $55.00
Parking is available until 5:00PM the next day
Valet parking is located in the parking garage near the front entrance of the hotel and includes in and out privileges
.5 hour $8.00
1 hour $16.00
2 hours $32.00
Up to 12 hours $38.00
24 hours $40.00
Hourly public parking is available in the public garage adjacent to the hotel.
Vehicles with clearance over 6'4", oversized vans, and busses cannot be accommodated in the parking garage. Local open air lots can certainly be recommended, contact our Concierge at 617 422 5550.
Rates are subject to change.
From Logan International Airport (BOS):
Approximately $25 each way
Silver Line Bus
From the airport terminals to South Station, approximately 0.5 miles from the hotel.
The MBTA costs $2.50 to ride anywhere in the city and surrounding suburbs. The Blue Line train is available from the airport to the State Street stop which is approximately 5 blocks from the hotel. From here you can walk, or transfer to the orange line and get off at the Downtown Crossing stop.
Explore Boston
By Bike
Hubway is your bike sharing system providing more than 1,300 bikes at 140 stations throughout Boston, Brookline, Cambridge, and Somerville.
Grab your bike via these close Hubway stations:
South Station - 700 Atlantic Ave.
Chinatown Gate Plaza - Surface Rd. at Beach St.
Boylston St / Washington St
Always wear a helmet and be aware of your ride time.
On foot
Boston is a walking city and can easily be explored on foot. Grab a map from our front desk or Concierge.
Pet Policy
Meet Remington "Remi" Regency Hyatt Regency Boston's very own CEO, Canine Executive Officer.
Remi is in charge of welcoming guests, both two and four-legged, to Hyatt Regency Boston.
On average Remi welcomes over 800 guests per day, so you can imagine that he is quite busy. In between bringing a smile to the faces of each person passing through, Remi makes it a priority to make appearances in associate meetings.
He leaves no department unturned, taking part in placing amenities in guestrooms prior to check-in, lending his culinary approvals to chef and touring meeting spaces with our event planners.
Hyatt Regency Boston is pet-friendly!
Remi especially loves welcoming other pups to Hyatt Regency Boston. Each one of our new furry friends is privy to top-of-the-line amenities, including a welcome letter from Remi himself, a complimentary doggie bed and a New England-inspired lobster treat.
• Breed: Boston Terrier
• Birthday: April 4th
• Color: Aubergine
• Treat: Lobster-flavored dog bones
• Best friend: Wally the Green Monster
• Player: Tom Brady
• Known to wear his slippers in the lobby
• Is first in line at the breakfast buffet
• The Boston Common
• The Public Garden
• Walks along the Freedom Trail
• Runs along the Charles River
• Peter's Park Dog Run
• Back Bay Fens/The Fenway
• The Esplanade
Named one of Boston Business Journal's "Hardest Working Dogs in Boston"
Freedom Trail Foundation's Tourism Ambassador
Remi loves to hear from his friends! Feel free to email Remi with all of your Boston questions! firstname.lastname@example.com
See Remi around the hotel? He loves pictures! Tag Remi on social media with #RemiBoston.
Images courtesy of Heather Parker Photography
Hyatt Regency Boston is certified by Pets Can Stay as one of the leading pet-hosting hotels. The Pets Can Stay Standard designation signifies that our hotel has met the following mandatory certification criteria:
We are a pet-friendly hotel
- Equal Service
- Acceptable Accommodation and Non-Smoking Options
- Fair Kenneling Policies
- Safe Environment
- Pet Policies Available Upon Request
- Food/Water Bowls
- Licensed Accommodation Provider
Pets Can Stay is the North American certification body for pet friendly hotels, motels, bed and breakfasts, resorts, and extended stay lodging establishments. $100 + tax for stays from 1-6 days and $200 + tax for stays 7+ nights will be charged upon check in. The dog has to be 50 pounds or less and if there are two animals then they must weigh a combined 75 pounds or less.
Check-in Time: 4 p.m.
Check-out Time: 12 p.m.
Upcoming Local Events
Explore Boston like a local!
Meet Remi, Hyatt Regency Boston's Canine Executive Officer
Remington "Remi" Regency is in charge of welcoming guests, both two and four-legged, to Hyatt Regency Boston.
Meet #LarrytheLobster
Meet Larry The Lobster, Hyatt Regency Boston's Lovable Mascot
Hyatt Regency Boston Donates Over 500 Pairs of Shoes in Honor of One Boston Day
Hyatt Regency Boston donates over 502 pairs of shoes, one for every guestroom in the hotel to charity.
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Review: Making Fictions with Claire Stigliani
Claire Stigliani gives herself permission to love the things she shouldn't, the gratuitous pleasures of beauty, sex and girl-dom offered up by trashy TV and angsty Fiona Apple songs, among lots of other things.
Resnik delivers shattering portrait of Judy Garland in Rep's 'Rainbow'
In "I Could Go On Singing," which would be her last film, Judy Garland plays Jenny Bowman, a dead ringer for Judy Garland: a gifted but troubled singer who both resents and craves her time in the limelight.
"I don't want to be rolled out like a pastry so that everybody can get a nice big bite of me," Jenny insists at one point. »Read Full Article
Rocky Horror team says 36-year streak not broken by shuttered Oriental
Records, like boilers, are made to be broken. When the boiler at the Landmark Oriental theater, 2230 N. Farwell Ave., broke during the recent cold snap it closed the theater until further notice.
Which means this month's 36th anniversary showing of "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" tonight is canceled. »Read Full Blog Post(3)
Warhol's 'geniuses' on view at Jewish Museum Milwaukee
When it was first unveiled in 1980, Andy Warhol's series of images of famous Jews, called "Ten Portraits of Jews in the Twentieth Century," was greeted with some of the most shrill criticism Warhol ever got. »Read Full Article(1)

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This is even more off topic, but people are really bad at predicting the future (often worse than a coin toss). This is one of the issues that the Aggregative Contingent Estimation Program is trying to work on. (Best place to learn about it is: http://goodjudgmentproject.com/blog/?p=87 which is one of the teams.) Some of these teams are predicting events well due to training regarding biases, some research, and a fair number of people.

Also on the subject, although not always the best source, generally a good lay source: http://www.freakonomics.com/2011/09/14/new-freakonomics-radio-podcast-the-folly-of-prediction/

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More than 1,600 people showed up Tuesday night (Dec. 4, 2012) at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City for the 55th Annual National Football Foundation Awards Dinner, where the NFF welcomed the 2012 College Football Hall of Fame class. But members of the class weren't the only ones receiving high praise at the big event.
It was there that Denison alumnus George Bodenheimer '80, executive chairman of ESPN, received the foundation's Distinguished American Award, an honor that recognizes leaders who have maintained a lifelong interest in football and have made a significant contribution to the betterment of amateur football in the United States.
Bodenheimer joins an impressive group of individuals, including Bob Hope, Vince Lombardi, and Tom Brokow, all who have received the Distinguished American Award, one of the NFF's highest honors.
Bodenheimer, who was awarded Denison's Varsity D Association Athletic Citation for achievement in sports in 2006, started at ESPN in an administrative role in 1981, eventually working his way through the ranks of sales and marketing. He became president of the global cable network in 1998, a position he held until January of 2012, when he assumed his new role as executive chairman. Throughout his more than 30-year career in the sports industry, he's held many titles, including president of ABC Sports and co-chairman of Disney Media Networks.
A longtime authority, innovator, and opinion leader in the areas of sports entertainment and amateur athletics, Bodenhiemer has been named by The Sporting News as its "Most Powerful Person in Sports," and Sports Business Journal named him "Sports Executive of the Year."
"I would like to again thank all the men and women of ESPN. It is truly their work over the last three decades that has made tonight's award possible," said Bodenheimer of the NFF award. "As the world, and certainly our business, will inevitably continue to evolve, one thing will remain forever the same. ESPN is all in for college football, and we look forward to continuing to work with you to grow this great game."


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Green River Ordinance's straightforward, radio-minded pop/rock is shaped by frontman Josh Jenkins, bassist Geoff Ice, drummer Denton Hunker, and guitarists Josh Wilkerson and Jamey Ice. Formed in Ft. Worth, TX, the band recorded its first EP in a church basement and supported its release with a grassroots campaign, which led to shows alongside the likes of Collective Soul, Eisley, and Mutemath. The Beauty of Letting Go further expanded the teenagers' audience in 2005, and Green River Ordinance's similarity to such bands as the Fray and Matchbox Twenty helped them secure a contract with Virgin Records. Issued in early 2009, Out of My Hands marked the band's first release for the major label.


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R. Leiton, C. Aguilera, R. C. Smith, S. Points (NOAO/CTIO), Y.-H. Chu (University of Illinois), P. F. Winkler (Middlebury College), MCELS Collaboration
We present the optical identification of several new supernova remnants (SNRs) in the Large Magellanic Cloud. These SNRs have been identified by the high [S II]/Halpha ratios shown in optical emission-line images from the Magellanic Cloud Emission Line Survey (MCELS, see Smith et al. poster). For several of these candidates, we have obtained long slit low resolution optical spectroscopy to confirm the high [S II]/Halpha ratios. We present the list of candidates, discuss the characteristics of these new objects, and also include some preliminary measurements of electron densities and initial energy of the explosion based on the optical data we have obtained.
If you would like more information about this abstract, please follow the link to http://www.ctio.noao.edu/~mcels. This link was provided by the author. When you follow it, you will leave the Web site for this meeting; to return, you should use the Back comand on your browser.
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Forget your people and your father's house;
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Because He is your Lord, bow down to Him.
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The rich among the people will seek your favor.
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14 She will be led to the King in embroidered work;
The virgins, her companions who follow her,
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what does this error mean ?
hello all ,
I am new to C programming and trying to learn by working some online tutorials.
I am working on a linux OS ( Ubuntu ) .
so the program is to calculate a table of sine values and I typed in the code pretty much the way it was show in the tutorial, the code is shown below:
/* Written: Winter 1995 */
$ gcc program_name.c
I get the following error :
/tmp/cciKZE0g.o: In function `main':
sine.c:(.text+0x58): undefined reference to `sin'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
what does this mean ?? what should I do ? can any one help ?
thanks ,
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Have proper code blocks when you post code snippets in the posts.
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In C, which you are using, sin takes a double as an argument, not a float. Use sinf for floats. In C++, the functions are overloaded, so will work. Refer to your documentation for the functions you use.
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So avoid a situation of double jeopardy, state police withdrew drug charges in one case against two men who are already on trial for similar drug offenses.
Since identical evidence was expected to be presented in both cases, police dropped charges Tuesday in one case against Steven E. A. Lopez-Temple and Derrick Vincent Draft Jr.
Lopez-Temple, 25, of 650 Fourth Ave., and Draft, 20, of Philadelphia, were charged following an incident at Elmira Street and Center Place in the city on March 30. Lopez-Temple was charged with conspiracy to possession with intent to deliver 180 grams of crack cocaine and conspiracy to possess drug paraphernalia.
Draft was charged with tampering with physical evidence, criminal trespassing and possession of drug paraphernalia. Police dropped the charges against both men at the office of District Judge James Carn.
Also before Carn, city police dropped charges against two other men in separate cases after the victims failed to appear for court.
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Retail Videogame Sales Slump Ahead of New Consoles
Continued success of "Grand Theft Auto V" drove modest growth for the videogame industry in October, but consumers kept holding back hardware purchasing ahead of this month's new console launches.
Researchers at NPD group on Thursday said U.S. retail sales of new videogame hardware, software and accessories rose 5% last to $791.1 million.
The sales bump was dramatically smaller than the 27% growth recorded in September, caused by the blockbuster debut for Take-Two Interactive Software's new addition to the Grand Theft Auto franchise. Still, software sales rose 12%, primarily due to GTA V's popularity, and the release of two new "Pokémon" action adventure games for Nintendo's 3DS handheld videogame device. Those three titles represented the top games sold this month, NPD said.
"This is the third consecutive month that total physical software sales increased versus the year-ago time period," Liam Callahan, an NPD analyst, said in a statement.
The results were largely mirrored in Internet-download sales as well, in which sales of traditional boxed videogames rose 2.8% to $247 million, according to SuperData research.
Joost van Dreunen, head of SuperData, said some of the expansion came from an up-tick in buying of additional game content like maps and story lines. The top game was GTA V, followed by Ubisoft Entertainment's "Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag" pirate adventure game, which was released Oct. 29 alongside Take-Two's wrestling entertainment game, "WWE 2K14," which ranked third.
Sales of videogame hardware, such as the consoles, fell 8% to $171.7 million. Sony on Friday is releasing its next-generation videogame machine, called the PlayStation 4; Microsoft's new Xbox One will be released next Friday.
The latest sales data suggests the videogame industry may finally be finding its way out of the protracted slump that has dogged it for years. U.S. sales in particular had contracted for more than a year until recently.
The game industry's troubles fell hard on THQ, which declared bankruptcy a year ago and was split up. Other companies, such as EA and Activision responded by thinning the number of titles they each make, placing increasing importance on their blockbuster titles.
Nintendo, once a titan of the industry with its Wii and DS videogame machines, has struggled to recapture the same momentum with its new Wii U device. It responded by cutting some prices and offering new games.
Now, analysts and investors have been watching to see if the industry can return to the double-digit worldwide growth following the release of the last bevy of videogame consoles in 2005 and 2006. Both Sony and Microsoft have indicated pre-orders for their new devices are at historic levels, but how the holiday season will shake out beyond the initial sales period is still unclear.
"Growth in video game software sales over the last few months has reversed negative year-to-date trends," Callahan said. "With the launch of the PS4 and Xbox One, we hope to see positive trends over November and December which would lead to an increase in software sales for the year."
A survey by Raptr, a videogame community, said 32% of new videogame console buyers will purchase the devices at launch, and 63% will buy within the next six months. Only 17% plan to buy both a PS4 and Xbox One, Raptr said.
Sales of digital items and other products for free-to-play games offered on social networks and mobile devices, for example, continued to grow. Sales jumped 18% to $698.7 million in October, according to SuperData. Sales of videogame accessories, such as companion toys that interact with games as well as gift cards, rose 1% to $136.9 million, according to NPD.


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As an LGBT individual or couple, it's especially important to work with an attorney to document your wishes and identify someone you trust to speak for you. Your attorney can also help you develop an estate plan that addresses your unique needs so your assets are distributed as you wish.
1. Develop a Will
Should you die without a will, the laws of the state in which you live will determine who your heirs will be and how your assets will be distributed, regardless of your wishes.
2. Name a Guardian
If you have children, and if something happens to you or your partner, you'll want to ensure that your children are raised by the person of your choosing, especially when one partner may not be recognized as the legal guardian.
3. Create a Durable Power of Attorney
In the event you become incapacitated, a Durable Power of Attorney permits the named agent to act on your behalf, typically with respect to financial decisions.
4. Create a Health Care Proxy
The agent named in your Health Care Proxy can make health care decisions for you.
5. Develop a Priority of Visitation Document
Even with the April 2010 signing of a presidential executive order granting gay and lesbian visitation rights if their partner is in the hospital, a Priority of Visitation document allows you to name the people you want to have visit you if you become hospitalized.
6. Get an Advance Health Care Directive or Living Will
If you are ever seriously incapacitated, you may be unable to make medical decisions about your care. An Advance Health Care Directive or Living Will allows you to specify the particular treatments to be provided or withheld.
7. Consider Creating and Funding a Living Trust
It's important you have in place legal direction on how you want things handled both during your lifetime and at your death. A living trust can be used to transfer assets at your death, and assets owned by the trust avoid probate. Plus, you can designate yourself the trustee, access the trust assets during your life and elect your partner as the successor trustee.
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If you own a life insurance policy and you want to exempt the policy from your estate's total worth for estate tax purposes, consider using an Irrevocable Life Insurance Trust (ILIT).* For more affluent individuals, this life insurance can provide liquidity needed to pay taxes and other expenses at death.
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Mercyhurst launches first Ph.D. program
Mercyhurst University is breaking ground once again, this time in the creation of its first Ph.D. program.
The university has launched a doctoral program in anthropology, becoming the first school of its size in the state and perhaps the nation to offer the degree. The school already offers both master's and bachelor's degrees in anthropology.
The Ph.D. program will admit six students, two each in three tracks: archaeology, geoarchaeology and forensic anthropology. Students are expected to enroll in fall 2013.
The program is unique in that students will be able to conduct the same high-level research they'd be able to do at much larger research institutions in a much more personalized setting, said Provost James Adovasio, who has helped lead the effort.
The school offers better laboratories and equipment than "virtually any other school that teaches archaeology," Adovasio said, and students have the chance to work with renowned leaders in the field.
"It allows you to be trained in the highest possible way by people you know very well and who you interact with on a daily basis," said Adovasio, who is also dean of the Zurn School of Natural Sciences & Mathematics and director of the Mercyhurst Archaeological Institute.
The announcement comes as Mercyhurst celebrates its first full year as a university.
"This is an exciting development in 'The Year of the University,'" President Tom Gamble said in a news release. "There's a sense when Mercyhurst does something, we do it all the way. We already have an international reputation in anthropology and archaeology, and this new degree program will serve to further expand that."
Adovasio said the creation of a doctoral program in anthropology is the culmination of an investment the school first made in creating an anthropology department just over two decades ago. It was a risk, designed to capitalize on a niche that might attract students and bolster Mercyhurst's reputation, he said.
Since then, Mercyhurst has invested more than $10 million into constructing and outfitting its science labs with state-of-the-art equipment.
One example: In October 2009, the school dedicated the $1.2 million Hirtzel Human Anatomy and Forensic Anthropology Laboratory at Mercyhurst North East, with dedicated space for forensics and a cadaver lab.
And the Mercyhurst Archaeological Institute is internationally renowned, sought after to conduct archaeological and related field work all over the U.S., Europe and the Middle East. The university's forensic anthropology program also works around the globe on crime scenes, human rights investigations and natural disasters.
"What we're trying to do here with (the doctoral) program is simultaneously attract high-end graduate students but also enhance, locally and more further afield, the quality of the program and, by extension, the quality of the school," Adovasio said.
It seems to be working.
Seven potential students already have applied.
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Another small reprint alert, this time in the form of Magic the Gathering Duel Decks: Knights vs. Dragons. This one, as all of these do, features two pre-constructed themed decks, ready to play with. In this case, they also include my Lorwyn illustration for Fire-Belly Changeling in its first reprint.
As with all of these, they are produced in rather limited numbers, so grab one while you can. Meanwhile, I'll be back in a couple of days with a lengthier post.


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An Oldham County murder trial has been pushed back to next year.
Gail Kelley is accused of killing her boyfriend with a hatchet.
She's charged with murder and tampering with evidence.
Michael Evans was found in bed, covered in blood, at Kelley's home in Pewee Valley last summer.
Thursday in court, the judge moved her trial from September to February.
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At this time there are paths winding through the spacious lawns and superb views of the Bernese Alps from the long beach. The large grassy area on the shores of the lake and the pebble beach are ideal for relaxing with family or friends. Two beach volley ball courts and a children's play area are available to visitors.
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Though it is just five minutes from the town centre, I feel as though I am on holiday in Park Jeunes-Rives. The huge park right on the lakefront is one of the town's ongoing development projects. It has footpaths leading through its expansive lawns, beach volleyball courts and a long beach with breathtaking views of the Bernese Alps.


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Do you have questions about local history and geography? The web mapping
site maintained by the Brown County Land Information Office is
a great place to start.
Some web-based geographic information systems that we've found
useful are described below.
Digital Watershed is a tool for science
based watershed management from the Institute of Water
Research at MSU http://www.iwr.msu.edu/dw/
Surface Water Information Management System
provides access to the Michigan DNR's hydrography databases http://www.mcgi.state.mi.us/miswims/MapPage.aspx
Surface Water Data Viewer provides
access to the Wisconsin DNR's hydrography and wetlands
databases http://dnrmaps.wi.gov/imf/imf.jsp?
DNR Interactive Web Mapping Applications is a
directory to the Internet geographic information systems hosted by
the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources http://dnr.wi.gov/maps/gis/applist.html
Pre-1989 Well Construction Reports
Web Soil Survey, hosted by the Natural
Resources Conservation Service, is a great tool for getting at the
information contained in the Soil Survey Geographic (SSURGO)
databases. The application allows users to define an area of
interest, extract key metrics and print an informative map
Long-Term Hydrologic Impact Assessment
(L-THIA), developed by Purdue University, is a
suite of region-specific modeling tools that estimate impacts of
land use change on water resources https://engineering.purdue.edu/~lthia/
OneGeology Portal advertises that they are
"Making Geological Map Data for the Earth Accessible" http://portal.onegeology.org/
EarthNow near real-time LANDSAT imagery http://earthnow.usgs.gov/
Earth Observatory http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/
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New video shows Seffner sinkhole that swallowed man
Sinkhole killed Jeff Bush, 36
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New video has been released showing the sinkhole that swallowed a man in his Seffner home in February.
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The video was taken using a pole camera that was placed through the window of a home, directly into the victim's room.
Jeff Bush, 36, was sleeping in his bedroom when the hole opened up and swallowed him.
The video shows a deep hole in the floor of the room. Officials said it was up to 60 feet deep.
The home had to be demolished, and two nearby homes were condemned.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) - Four passengers who died on Flight 93 during the Sept. 11 attacks will be honored with the ESPY's Arthur Ashe Courage Award.
Todd Beamer, Mark Bingham, Tom Burnett and Jeremy Glick all had sports backgrounds and will be recognized Wednesday night at the ESPY Awards.
Actor Dennis Franz will present the award to each of the families, while actor Tom Hanks did the voiceover for a video tribute that will be shown during the ceremony at Hollywood's Kodak Theatre.
"When I got this call from ESPN, I thought, 'Todd, you are so happy right now,"' said Beamer's widow, Lisa. "To be on ESPN is something that he never would have dreamed of."
Beamer played baseball and basketball at Wheaton College in Illinois. Bingham was a two-time college rugby champion at California.
Burnett was a star high school quarterback in Bloomington, Minn. Glick was a national collegiate judo champion in 1993 at Rochester.
"I know that Jeremy would have been so enthusiastic to be here in person, but I know that he will be there in spirit, which does make it an emotional event for me," said Glick's widow, Lyz.
All four were aboard the airliner, bound from Newark to San Francisco, that crashed in rural western Pennsylvania. Many have speculated that the passengers, including Beamer, Bingham, Burnett and Glick, kept the hijackers from plunging the jet into a populated target.
The ESPY Awards, created by sports network ESPN, were moved from February to July so the show would not compete with the Super Bowl, which was rescheduled because of the attacks.
Previous winners of the Arthur Ashe Courage Award include Jim Valvano, Howard Cosell, Muhammad Ali and Dean Smith.
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National briefs
Meteorologist: Weather OK for supersonic sky-dive
ROSWELL, N.M. -- The weekend weather in New Mexico appears to be cooperating this time for a daredevil trying to become the first sky diver to break the sound barrier.
Meteorologist Don Day said the weather forecast is still favorable for the jump, scheduled for early today near Roswell, N.M.
Former Austrian paratrooper Felix Baumgartner will be prepared at sunrise to launch his 30 million cubic foot helium balloon to hoist a 3,000-pound capsule that will carry the jumper 23 miles up in the sky. The jump has already been canceled twice due to high winds. Baumgartner will try to break the 1960 high-altitude parachuting record.
Weapons charges dropped in Madonna stalking case
NEW YORK -- A New York City judge has dismissed weapons charges against a former firefighter who was arrested outside Madonna's apartment building two years ago.
Police said Robert Linhart parked his SUV outside the Material Girl's Central Park West apartment, laid out a tarp and spray-painted poster boards with love notes. One said, "Madonna, I need you." Another read: "Tell me yes or no. If it's yes, my dream will come true. If it's no, I will go."
Manhattan state Supreme Court Judge Analisa Torres ruled Friday that police improperly seized a gravity knife and an ice pick from Linhart when they arrested him.
Suspect charged in death of missing N.H. college student
DOVER, N.H. -- A martial arts instructor active in community theater was charged Saturday in the death of a 19-year-old University of New Hampshire student who disappeared days earlier.
Elizabeth "Lizzi" Marriott is believed to be dead but law enforcement officials continued to search for her body, Assistant Attorney General James Vara said Saturday. Her car was found in a parking lot on campus in Durham.
Police charged Seth Mazzaglia, 29, of Dover, with second-degree murder, but Vara declined to say how the two knew each other or what led to his arrest.
U.S. surgeons examine dog injured while saving girls
DAVIS, Calif. -- A dog that lost its snout while saving two girls in the Philippines has been brought to the University of California, Davis, where veterinarians will try to fix its injuries.
Surgeons at UC Davis' veterinary medical teaching hospital looked over the mixed breed dog named Kabang.
The San Francisco Chronicle reported that Kabang became a star in the Philippines after it got in front of a speeding motorcycle, saving the dog owner's young daughter and niece.
The crash took off the dog's snout and its upper jaw, and veterinarians in the Philippines were unable to treat the injury.
Surgeons determined that the dog will need at least two surgeries over the next six weeks -- one procedure to focus on dental work and another to close the gaping wound on her face.
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In just three short years, the Cashiers Mountain Music Festival has become one of the most respected music festivals in the southeast. The event has been honored to have such world class performing artists as The Isaacs, Sierra Hull, Lizzy Long, Little Roy Lewis, Dehlia Low, Balsam Range, the Steep Canyon Rangers, two memorable surprise appearances by bluegrass legend Earl Scruggs, and last year's headliners, David Holt and Doc Watson.
This year, the fourth annual Cashiers Mountain Music Festival will be held on Saturday, June 30 and Sunday, July 1. This years two-day event promises to continue the tradition of bringing top notch regional and national mountain music to Cashiers, N.C.
The 2012 event will feature a special two-night appearance by Grammy award winning bluegrass superstar Tony Rice. The legendary guitar player has earned the International Bluegrass Music Associations (IBMA) Guitar Player of the Year award six times, the IBMA Instrumental Group of the Year award three times with two different bands, and the IBMA Instrumental Album of the Year award once.
Rice will headline the event on Saturday, June 30 with his phenomenal band The Tony Rice Unit, and return to headline on Sunday, July 1 with nationally known and regionally loved Balsam Range and legendary fiddler Bobby Hicks. Hicks is a 10-time Grammy award winner with over 50 years of bluegrass experience, including playing alongside the father of bluegrass music, Bill Monroe. Balsam Range has produced multiple number one songs in bluegrass and recently earned the 2011 IBMA award for Song of the Year.
Other performers scheduled to appear are bluegrass supergroup Blue Highway, which has earned two Grammy nominations and multiple IBMA awards over 17 years. The festival also welcomes Acoustic Syndicate, Larry Keel and Natural Bridge, the Songs of Jackson County Band, the Darren Nicholson Band, Whitewater Bluegrass Company, the Wild Hog Band, the Him's, Glenville Train, Jacob Jones, Will Howell and the Smoky Mountain Highlanders, Rafe Hollister, and a special tribute to Tuckasegee's Benny Messer by the Boys of Tuckasegee, featuring members of Sweet Tater.
This years festival will again utilize the Village Commons area, adjacent to the Village Green grounds where the first two events were held. Music will be featured at both the Village Commons stage, and the original Village Green gazebo stage as well.
The Cashiers Mountain Music Festival isnt just about the music. In addition to the top-notch performances everyone will enjoy, there will be delicious food and beverages available, a children's zone, arts and crafts vendors, and fireworks on Sunday, July 1.
The Cashiers Mountain Music Festival is a family and community oriented event sponsored by the Cashiers Area Chamber of Commerce for the benefit of the Cashiers Preservation Foundation. The foundation is a non-profit charitable organization dedicated to providing assistance to a variety of local needs. Proceeds from the festival will flow directly to the foundation.
For the first year in the event's history, the Cashiers Mountain Music Festival is a proud member of the International Bluegrass Music Association (IBMA).
So come beat the heat and enjoy this fun filled event with us in 2012.
The Cashiers Mountain Music Festival Team
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I like to save money on clothes just as much as anyone else does, so let's talk clothing prices. A reader would like to know why larger clothing sizes cost a few dollars more than the standard sizes.
Q: When shopping for shirts, whether T-shirts or casual button down shirts, I can wear XL, but for comfort I prefer to buy XXL. Why do the companies that make or sell these shirts price XL and XXL $2 more than the S, M and L sizes? Is there that much more material used from L to XL or XXL?
It seems that they are discriminating against us larger sized consumers. I am not fat, but I am over 6-foot tall, have a very slight belly and weigh about 250 lbs. It would be nice to lose some weight, but ...
A: At first glance, it does seem like manufacturers might be "punishing" larger consumers, but this isn't the case. If you have an understanding of how garments are cut from cloth, it might help you understand how larger sizes indeed do cost a little more to make.
When a manufacturer cuts the fabric for a single shirt from a bolt of cloth, they typically don't cut six identically sized shirts from the same piece of cloth. They cut a variety of sizes, as many as they can get from the same bolt of cloth. These will be arranged, puzzle-piece style on the fabric in the way that reduces as much scrap fabric as possible.
Think about rolling out a circle of cookie dough. Do you drop cookie cutters wherever you want, or do you arrange each cut as close as possible to the previous one, using large and small cookie cutters to utilize as much of the dough as you can? Clothing is laid out the same way.
The website Fashion-Incubator.com has a great explanation of this that includes graphics of how several shirts of different sizes can be cut from the same piece of fabric if you're having trouble envisioning this.
It notes that a medium size is typically the size that manufacturers sell the most of, so the patterns will be arranged to get more mediums than any other size out of that single piece of cloth.
Now, let's bring the XL and XXL shirts into the equation. When these shirts are laid out on the fabric, they take up more fabric than the smaller sizes do, that much is obvious. But the real reason that the price goes up for the larger sizes is the fabric that's wasted when larger sizes are cut. There's not enough left, width-wise on the bolt of the fabric to utilize for another shirt in any size, so it is scrapped.
Ultimately, not only do you pay for your shirt, you end up paying for that extra "waste" fabric that didn't actually go into the manufacturing of your shirt.
Rest assured, you're not the only one who has to pay a little more for a larger size. I've seen the size-based pricing on children's clothing, too.
I'd like to continue talking about clothing costs in next week's column too, as I've got another story to share about clothing prices and the costs of fashion.
This story started very simply: My son needed a new pair of sweatpants. This should have been simple. Go to any store and buy them, right? Wrong.
Next week, I'll share what happened next.
Jill Cataldo, a coupon workshop instructor, never passes up a good deal. Learn more about couponing at her website, www.jillcataldo.com.


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Many thanks to Erik for filling in for me on last week's Trailer Park. Now that I'm all rested and recreated, let's look at some films that take us to some weird place either internally or externally. This week on Trailer Park we're traveling from the inner mind to the outer limits.
Right at Your Door
In an all too believable scenario, several dirty bombs are detonated in Los Angeles, sending a radioactive cloud into the sky. Rory Cochrane -- who to me will always be that little stoner from Dazed and Confused -- plays Brad, a man whose wife has gone into the city and he wonders if he'll ever see her again. With the roads jammed, he attempts to make his home as airtight as possible, sealing up every crack and crevice. The radio warns against contact with anyone who was in the vicinity of the blasts as they will be highly contaminated, so when Brad's wife finally does make it back, it's not the happy homecoming we had all hoped for. As realistic as the premise may be, the trailer had me thinking about zombie movies. A large scale catastrophe which results in people barricading themselves inside for fear of the people outside? Sounds like Night of the Living Dead to me, which itself used radiation to explain the menace. Bleak and apocalyptic but fascinating as hell, I'm looking forward to seeing this one. The film starts its limited theatrical release to U.S. theaters on August 24. Have a look at the trailer right here:
The Nines
Usually I find myself gritting my teeth over trailers that don't actually tell you what the movie is about. Isn't that the whole point? This trailer plays its hand close to its vest, not really telling the viewer what's going on, but showing enough to really make me curious. Delightfully vague is how I would describe it. Ryan Reynolds plays three characters: a troubled actor, a television show runner, and an acclaimed videogame designer who find their lives intertwining in mysterious and unsettling ways. There appears to be some Matrix-esque reality bending at work here. Are these three different aspects of the same person? Are these characters in a computer game? Am I dying to find out? A resounding "yup" to the former. Cinematical's own Erik Davis posted an exclusive look at the poster here. The Nines goes into limited release on August 31. em>Spiderwick Chronicles
With The Golden Compass, Charlie and The Chocolate Factory and Arthur and the Invisibleson his resume, Freddie Highmore has really become the go-to kid for fantasy films. This time around he plays one of three siblings who discover an alternate world of fairies and other strange creatures. Looks like an exciting adventure with some way cool monsters, and with only two Harry Potter books left to adapt, I expect we'll be seeing more films like this in the next few years. Jennifer DeFilippo had this to say about the trailer. This one hits theaters on February 15.
Fierce People
Is it just me, or does Chris Evans seem to be getting a lot of work lately? This is the third film I've seen him attached to this summer, the other two being Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, and Sunshine. Not a complaint mind you, just an observation. Rather than join his father on an expedition to South America to study an indigenous tribe, a teenage boy (Anton Yelchin) finds himself joining his mother in New Jersey for a stay with an eccentric and rich family led by Donald Sutherland. Not to be deterred, he conducts his own anthropological study of his new acquaintances. Looks quirky and fun. Fierce People goes into limited release on September 14. Scope out the trailer here:
Lars and the Real Girl
Ryan Gosling plays Lars, a withdrawn and lonely man who introduces his new girlfriend to his brother and sister-in-law. They are delighted to hear he is seeing someone until they realize she is a life-size doll. Lars' shrink thinks he's working through something and asks everyone to play along. This looks like an interesting idea, I'm just hoping the premise doesn't wear thin half-way through. Yet another interesting looking flick that is getting only a limited release which starts on October 12.
There's a bumper crop of new trailers this week on AOL Moviefone:
- Rendition:Reese Witherspoon stars as a woman whose husband is being held by the CIA on suspicion of terrorism.
- Manda Bala (Send A Bullet): A documentary dealing with the violent disparity between social classes in Brazil.
- The Last Winter: An oil expedition to the arctic is stalked by an evil force.
- Beowulf: An all digital adaptation of the classic tale.
- Dedication: A neurotic children's book author begins a friendship with the young woman he hires to illustrate his work.
- Halloween: Rob Zombie directs this remake of the classic slasher flick.
- Self Medicated: Drama about a 17-year-old boy forced to enter a treatment facility to help him overcome his drug problem brought on by the grief of his father's death.
- The Man of My Life: French film about the relationship between a married man and his gay neighbor.
- The Hunting Party: Three journalists looking for a Bosnian war criminal are mistaken for a CIA hit squad.
- Ladron Que Roba a Ladron: Two thieves join forces to rob a crooked infomercial guru.
- The Seeker: The Dark is Rising: A young boy learns that he is the latest in a long line of immortal warriors.
- Dragon Wars: Korean special effects extravaganza in which giant monsters threaten mankind.
- Lions for Lambs: Tom Cruise stars as a rising senator in his first drama in six years.
- Fierce People: Set during the 1980s, a teenage boy spends the summer with an eccentric and rich family.
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Richard Heene faced his own wild ride on Friday, battling rumors that Thursday's frantic rescue effort to save his 6-year-old-son Falcon – who was believed to be aboard a homemade helium-filled balloon that floated high over Colorado for more than two hours with National Guard and sheriff's helicopters in its pursuit – was the result of a publicity stunt.
Appearing on Friday's Today show, Heene said such accusations were making him angry. As he spoke to the NBC morning program's Meredith Vieira, Falcon, who had safely hidden in the rafters of the family garage while the balloon adventure played out on national TV, got sick to his stomach on camera.
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The LIS curriculum includes 6 required courses, one additional technology course, and several elective courses for a total of 13 courses (39 credits). Choosing the right courses for your degree is important, so the LIS Program has set up a system of advising to help you. You can learn more about this and the registration process in this section.
Also available in this section:
- Schedule – current and past course schedules.
- Descriptions – descriptions of LIS and relevant ICS courses.
- Advising – a guide for choosing your courses and meeting with your Faculty Advisor.
- Registration – how to register for courses.
- Internships – information about our LIS 690 program, internships for credit.
- Directed Reading – information about our LIS 699 Independent Study course.
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Expert techniques for getting more from Knoppix
Knoppix creator Klaus Knopper shares some tips for using Knoppix in the real world.
Knoppix is a full Linux system on a removable disk. You can plug your Knoppix disk into almost any Intel-compatible computer and boot Knoppix – regardless of what system is on the hard drive. But unlike many bootable Linux distros, Knoppix is not intended simply as a demo system or recovery disk. Knoppix is a real Linux distribution capable of many of the everyday chores you would commonly expect of a hard-disk Linux. Of course, most people think of a live distro as a tool for troubleshooting and data recovery, and Knoppix is certainly used for these tasks, but Knoppix is also capable of some equally essential but less exotic assignments.
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Nextcloud Announces Raspberry Pi-Powered Home Cloud Box
Innovative system adds a hard drive and Ubuntu Core to the RPi for an IoT hub.
Linus Torvalds Confirms the Date of the First Linux Release
Linux is two weeks younger than we thought!
End of OpenOffice?
The Apache Software Foundation considers retiring OpenOffice
Adobe Gives New Life to NPAPI Plugin for Linux
Adobe won't kill the plugin in 2017
LinuxCon North America Convenes in Toronto, Canada
Linux Foundation's big event celebrates the 25th anniversary of Linux
Linux Turns 25
Linux has evolved from "won't be a professional" project to one of the most professional software projects in the history of computers.
Mirantis Joins Hands with SUSE To Offer RHEL Support; Red Hat Not Happy
Competitors get in the game with RHEL without Red Hat
Linux on Windows 10 Poses a Security Risk
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Uveitis Fellowship Program
The Division of Ocular Immunology
The Wilmer Eye Institute
The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Ophthalmology Fellowship Match No. 851.51
Program Demographics
Name: Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Subspecialty: Ocular ImmunologyAddress:
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600 North Wolfe Street
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Fellowship History and Structure
The Ocular Immunology and Uveitis Fellowship Program at the Wilmer Eye Institute (www.wilmer.jhu.edu) was established in 1989 and is one of 12 such fellowships offered through the Ophthalmology Fellowship Match Program. This Fellowship program offers one-year of clinical training devoted to the medical and surgical management of uveitis and related ocular inflammatory diseases and is compliant with the Association of University Professors in Ophthalmology (AUPO) Fellowship Compliance Committee (FCC) standards. An optional second year devoted to research pursuits is available. In addition, there is an option for extensive training in clinical research leading to an advanced degree, which can be funded through a K award from the National Eye Institute (NEI). The flexibility of this fellowship has been viewed favorably by former fellows and has allowed for successful transition into academic or private practice. Of the 26 graduates of the Ocular Immunology and Uveitis Fellowship Program, 20 currently hold appointments as faculty in academic departments of ophthalmology.
The clinical fellowship year affords a strong educational experience in the treatment and management of uveitis, scleritis, and immune-mediated ocular surface disease such as mucous membrane pemphigoid, infectious uveitides, and the ocular complications of AIDS. Surgical experience includes placement of fluocinolone and ganciclovir implants, and cataract surgery in patients with uveitis. Training focuses on the effective pre-operative and post-operative management of patients with uveitis. Additional experience in trabeculectomy, secondary intraocular lens (IOL) placement, and penetrating keratoplasty is provided. Training is conducted at The Johns Hopkins Wilmer Eye Institute located at 600 North Wolfe Street, Baltimore MD, 21287-9217. The qualified applicant should have satisfactorily completed an accredited residency program, preferably within the United States, prior to starting this fellowship.
The program is directed by Jennifer E. Thorne, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor of Ophthalmology and Epidemiology. Other faculty in the Division of Ocular Immunology (DOI) includes Nicholas J. Butler, M.D., Theresa J. Leung, M.D. and Bryn Burkholder, M.D.
The weekly schedule for the clinical year for the fellow typically is as follows:
|Uveitis patients with Drs. Butler and Burkholder
|Uveitis patients with Dr. Butler
|Uveitis patients with Dr. Burkholder
|Uveitis patients with Drs. Thorne and Leung
|AM Meetings, clinical conferences, and administrative time
|PM Fellow clinic or operating room with Drs. Butler, Leung and Burkholder
THORNE, JENNIFER E., M.D., Ph.D.
Dr. Thorne is a professor of ophthalmology at the Wilmer Eye Institute and of epidemiology in the Center for Clinical Trials in the Department of Epidemiology of JHSPH, director of the Division of Ocular Immunology and director of the uveitis fellowship. She is an expert in the medical and surgical management of patients with uveitis and other autoimmune and infectious eye diseases. Her research interests lie in clinical trials and epidemiologic studies in uveitis, ocular inflammatory diseases, and the ocular complications of AIDS. She is the Deputy Director of the Coordinating Center (CC) for LSOCA and Medical Safety Officer for the CCs of MUST and LSOCA. She serves on the Executive Board and Steering Committee for the Standardization of Uveitis Nomenclature (SUN) Working Group and on the Steering Committee for the North American AIDS Cohort Collaboration on Research and Design (NA-ACCORD). Current research projects include analyses of clinical and treatment outcomes of patients with mucous membrane pemphigoid, juvenile idiopathic arthritis-related uveitis and multifocal choroidopathies, such as birdshot chorioretinopathy.
Dr. Butler is an assistant professor of ophthalmology in the Wilmer Eye Institute's Division of Ocular Immunology. Dr. Butler currently sees patients with intraocular inflammation in addition to general ophthalmological disease. His research interests include the pathogenesis and treatment of uveitic cystoids macular edema and infectious causes of uveitis. Dr. Butler has a continued interest in international ophthalmology as a volunteer clinician and as an educator and researcher.
Dr. Leung is an assistant professor of ophthalmology in the Wilmer Eye Institute's Division of Ocular Immunology, where she sees patients with intraocular inflammation in addition to general ophthalmic disease. She is a co-investigator in several studies utilizing wide angle photography to document disease progression in uveitic conditions such as retinal vasculitis and CMV retinitis.
Dr. Burkholder is an assistant professor of ophthalmology in the Wilmer Eye Institute's Division of Ocular Immunology. Dr. Burkholder specializes in ocular inflammatory and infectious diseases, cataract surgery and comprehensive ophthalmology.
Educational Program - Basic Curriculum
Clinical Operations and Patient Care Responsibilities
The fellow will spend multiple days each week in clinic diagnosing and treating patients with uveitis, scleritis, mucous membrane pemphigoid and other ocular inflammatory diseases. The uveitis clinics with various faculty will give the fellow a broad field of exposure to patients with anterior, intermediate, posterior and panuveitis, as well as scleritis and orbital inflammatory diseases. In addition, there are clinics devoted to HIV- infected patients who are followed regularly for ocular complications of AIDS. Many of these patients are participants in epidemiological studies and clinical trials, in which the fellow will participate. Fellows will become experienced in the medical and surgical management of ocular inflammatory disease and exposed to all modalities of treatment of ocular inflammation (including topical, periocular and oral corticosteroids, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, immunosuppressive agents and biologics) and with ocular complications of AIDS, especially CMV retinitis. The division also sees patients after bone marrow or solid organ transplants that may develop either infectious or inflammatory anterior and posterior segment complications.
A second year in the fellowship may be devoted to either clinical or laboratory research. Fellows pursing clinical research will be taught approaches to epidemiologic studies and/or clinical trials, including the use of appropriate statistical techniques. Fellows are encouraged to identify a preceptor and begin planning the project in their first year so that applications for financial support can be submitted well in advance of the start of the actual project. Projects in other divisions, such as the Dana Center for Preventive Ophthalmology, in other Departments or in the School of Public Health, may be developed as well.
Current clinical research studies within the Division of Ocular Immunology:
1. Multicenter Uveitis Steroid Treatment Follow-up Study (MUST FS): The MUST Trial was a multicenter randomized controlled clinical trial funded by the NEI and compared the fluocinolone implant to conventional therapy for the treatment of intermediate, posterior, and panuveitis. The trial has now been converted to a longitudinal study that will continue to compare the fluocinolone implant to conventional therapy
2. Industry-sponsored trials including studies sponsored by Abbvie, XOMA and Allergan and collaborations with the Department of Infectious Disease at JHU, the Department of Ophthalmology at UPENN, the FDA, and the NEI are ongoing or planned.
3. Retrospective studies in uveitis, scleritis, other autoimmune ocular diseases, and the ocular complications of AIDS are ongoing and supervised by members of the faculty.
Procedural Requirements
Patients are seen five days per week under the supervision of Drs. Butler, Leung, Burkholder and Thorne. Fellows will perform the initial evaluation for new patients as well as evaluating appropriate follow-up patients. Treatment for these immune-mediated disorders is largely medical. A small amount of anterior segment surgery, including cataract surgery and glaucoma surgery, as well as placement of pharmacological implants is performed, in which the fellow will be expected to assist when available.
Didactic Components—Conferences/CME
There is a monthly uveitis case management conference with division faculty, as well as faculty members from other divisions with an interest in uveitis. There are daily departmental lectures given each morning for the residents, which fellows also can attend, and these lectures have been found to be very helpful, particularly when studying for boards or medical exams. There is a weekly "grand rounds" on Thursdays, titled "Thursday Morning Conference," and a monthly Uveitis Journal Club with faculty, fellows and second year residents participating. The clinical schedule allows the fellow to attend these lectures and conferences.
Fellows are evaluated by the program director quarterly. Each faculty member will submit an evaluation of the fellow commenting on and rating the fellow's clinical and administrative capabilities (e.g., history taking, patient examination, surgical skills and timeliness of returning patient calls and dictating notes), teaching and presentation skills, and interactions with patients and colleagues. The program director will summarize these evaluations and discuss them with the fellow identifying strengths and areas for improvement.
Past Fellows
Fellows graduating from the Division of Ocular Immunology's Fellowship program have been extremely successful in securing academic positions or other employment they desire. Four fellows have been awarded NIH-funded K-23 training grants, 3 have been awarded R-01 grants, and 7 have been on faculty at the Wilmer Eye Institute. A list of former fellows since 1990 is provided below, including their current positions.
|Current Position:
|Thomas E. Flynn, M.D.
|Assistant Clinical Professor,
Department of Ophthalmology,
Mt. Sinai School of Medicine
|Nezih M. Coskuncan, M.D.
|Private Practice, Florida
|Mei-Ling Tay-Kearney, M.D.
|Senior Lecturer,
University of W. Australia
|Vincent F. Baldassano, M.D.
|Assistant Clinic Professor,
Department of Ophthalmology,
Temple University
|Daniel A. Johnson, M.D.
|Associate Professor,
Department of Ophthalmology,
Chief, Cornea Service
University of Texas HSC,
San Antonio
|Eva M. Rorer, M.D.
|Medical Officer
Center for Devices & Radiologic Health,
Division of Ophthalmic Devices,
U.S. Food & Drug Administration
|John H. Kempen, M.D., Ph.D.
|Associate Professor
Department of Ophthalmology,
Center for Preventive Ophthalmology & Biostatistics,
University of Pennsylvania
|Quan Dong Nguyen, M.D., M.H.S.
|Professor and Chair
Department of Ophthalmology,
University of Nebraska Medical Center
Paul A Latkany, M.D
Associate Professor,
Jennifer E. Thorne, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor and Chief, DOI
George B. Peters, III, M.D.
Private Practice in Maine
Faqir A. Qazi, M.B.A.
2002 - 2003
National Health Service,
Armando L. Oliver, M.D.
2003 - 2004
Assistant Professor,
Sanjay Kedhar, M.D.
2004 - 2005
Assistant Professor,
Susan Wittenberg, M.D.
2005 - 2006
|Houston Eye Associates
|Marie-Lynn Belair, M.D.
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Department of Ophthalmology,
University of Montreal
|Steven J. Kim, M.D.
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Department of Ophthalmology,
Vanderbilt University
|Anat Galor, M.D.
Department of Ophthalmology,
Bascom Palmer Eye Institute
|Henry A. Leder, M.D.
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Department of Ophthalmology,
Johns Hopkins University
School of Medicine
|Michelle E. Tarver-Carr, M.D.
|Medical Officer,
U.S. Food & Drug Administration
|Ricardo Stevenson, M.D.
|Department of Ophthalmology,
Santiago, Chile
|Yue Michelle Wang, M.D.
|Private Practice in Melbourne, FL
|Adam D. Jacobowitz
|Private Practice in Miami, FL
|Theresa J. (Gan) Leung, M.D.
|Assistant Professor,
Department of Ophthalmology,
Johns Hopkins University
School of Medicine
Bryn M. Burkholder, M.D.
Assistant Professor
|Trucian A. Ostheimer, M.D.
|Assistant Adv. Specialty Training
Department of Ophthalmology
Johns Hopkins University
School of Medicine
|Ashley E. Laing, M.D.
|Assistant Adv. Specialty Training
Department of Ophthalmology
Johns Hopkins University
School of Medicine
Requirements for Applicants
The Uveitis Fellowship sponsored by the Division of Ophthalmology (851.51) is part of the formal Ophthalmology Fellowship Match Program (OFMP) sponsored by the Association of University Professors of Ophthalmology (AUPO). The website for the match program is: www.sfmatch.org. The website contains pertinent information concerning application procedures and notification dates, including the new Central Application Service (CAS).
If you have fulfilled 3 years of ophthalmology residency, please register for the match at www.sfmatch.org and complete the CAS form, which requires three letters of recommendation (we prefer one from your current program director) and a personal statement explaining your interest in the program. Please include any research interests that you may have in your CAS personal statement. Additional information (if deemed essential to the candidate's application) may be forwarded to Dr. Thorne at the address below with a cover letter that includes the applicant's match number and the dates of the fellowship for which the applicant is applying.
A personal interview at Johns Hopkins is required and typically takes place between late September and November for the fellowship year beginning in July of the following year. Only the applicants with complete files will be invited for an interview. Accepted fellows who have trained in the United States may be eligible for a faculty appointment through the Advanced Subspecialty Training Program (ASTP). This more prestigious appointment includes faculty status in the hospital as well as a faculty benefits package. Please direct all questions and any additional documents to:Jennifer E. Thorne, M.D., Ph.D.
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