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62 Meetup Groups match "Acoustic Music" near Paramus, NJ
Play acoustic rock, pop, folk, and blues music, 60s to present in the open air. Open to all levels. Share ideas, talent, and fun. Meet other musicians who love acoustic music.
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Looking to meetup with folks interested in playing acoustic music, all levels welcome.
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This Meetup offers yoga instruction with live, supportive acoustic music. We meet usually once a month, on the first or third Saturday, at the New York Insight Meditation Center, 28 West 27th street, 10th Floor, buzzer #27. We invite various yoga instructors to lead the asanas. Danielle Katz, a certified yoga instructor at the 200 hour level and an experienced teacher, has lead our first meetups. Danielle incorporates breath-work and the spirit into her classes, which vary from vinyasa to restor …
The Greenwich Acoustic Music Circle (GAMC) is a monthly play/sing along jam for acoustic instrumentalists and for singers. We welcome people at all levels of ability. It's simply an evening of sharing great songs with others in a friendly and supportive environment. How it works: We go around in a circle and every person has an opportunity to lead, suggest, or request at least one song, though usually we get to two or three go rounds. For the first two times around, we ask that everyone look …
Get together with other like-minded musicians, any level. Meet and perform together on all types of acoustic music; roots, traditional, folk, bluegrass, old-timey, Americana, whatever songs the group brings for the night. Mostly, its to have fun and play in a relaxed atmosphere.
The Bergen County Acoustic Musicians group is back! If you love acoustic rock and folk/rock guitar music and enjoy singing, you will find a welcoming group of fellow musicians. We have an outstanding venue locally, with great food and drinks, upstairs at the Westside Village Tavern, Ridgefield Park, NJ. Please join this group to get updates and for a relaxed & fun night of music. Stay tuned for more details. Larry
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Three of my favorite things to do are: figure drawing, making music, and playing games--all while sipping wine and and eating fancy cheeses with like-minded creative and fun people. To that end I am opening my house in Windsor Terrace Brooklyn for a once-or-twice-a-month get-together to anyone who would like to share in these activities. Whether you are an accomplished gamer, artist, and musician, or a novice that can barely play an instrument or draw, and never played Scrabble or Boggle in your …
Holidays come and go. Clothes wear out. Bank accounts go up and down. But learning to play the Guitar last a lifetime! In this Meetup group you will find an Acoustic Guitar Workshop Curriculum of 12-week courses where you learn and master the fundamentals of reading and playing notes and chords. The courses range from beginner to advanced levels. You'll also have access to Jam Sessions, where you can develop and expand your ability to play with groups of other musicians. I have been success …
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This group is about the joy of music, especially when you are making it and even more especially when you are making it with others. My goal in starting this group is to allow people to come together and play music. To get the ball rolling, I envision this being a monthly to weekly thing where we could get together, play, and socialize at member's apartments (hopefully some people with lots of space will join and we can all be merry together. Otherwise, my apartment will hold about 5, as long as …
This group is for people who work in the web startup industry who play or are learning to play acoustic instruments in old time, folk, or bluegrass style music. Vocalists are also welcome! We will learn from one another, practice together, and jam. Please respect that this group is currently only for web startup people and is only for old time / folk / bluegrass music. If you do not work for a web company and have no interest in playing that type of music, please do not apply to join. Thanks …
Folk Music NYC celebrates, supports and carries on the traditions of folk music of all flavors, presenting concerts, musical get-togethers, singing parties, musical weekends and classes. Folk Music NYC is sponsored by the Folk Music Society of New York, Inc. / New York Pinewoods Folk Music Club. The club is a non-profit 501(c)(3) educational corporation, an affiliate of the Country Dance and Song Society of America run by a volunteer Board of Directors.
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Introduction This group is for anyone who likes producing electronic music using software, and/or wishes to learn new production skills, other software products, find out about various plug-ins, and take their mixes to the next level. There is no particular skill requirement to join the group. However if you are a beginner, we recommend you at least try a demo version of a popular DAW software package, and watch some free tutorials on youtube before coming to your first meeting. We mostly concen …
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Jalopy Theatre offers 5 series per year of music classes for mandolin, ï¬?ddle, banjo, guitar and ukulele for adults, in a class setting of a maximum of 7 students. We offer beginner, intermediate and advance levels of instruction. We hope to make learning an instrument both approachable and fun. With a light-hearted, song based learning style, students begin learning songs immediately. A class series runs for 8 weeks for $245 prepaid or if you don't have an instrument, you can rent one from us …
This is a group for all interested musicians of any and all levels living in the Bayside/Whitestone/ College Point area of Queens. I'm tired of having to schlep to Manhattan or Williamsburg (tres chic, I know) simply to meet and play with people who want to enjoy making music. So let's see what we can find here in Queens.
This is a group for people looking to play bluegrass music with other people! I have been playing bluegrass for a couple years now and I'm getting lonesome playing it by myself. It's hard find fellow pickers around here. Hopefully this group brings some of us together.
Hey everybody, My name is Murat. I am guitar teacher at the University of Pennsylvania and teach and perform in New York. I love music and have been playing and teaching for most of my life. I am starting to give group guitar classes out of my place in Crown Heights on thursdays and sundays in a fun, relaxed atmosphere. I teach and play a lot of different styles, from rock/pop to classical, basic jazz, and Middle Eastern music. I will start with one beginner class and one intermediate. In the in …
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This group is for musicians who want to get together and play Klezmer and other related music genres. We welcome musicians of all levels and those who have experience playing Klezmer music as well as those who want to learn to play Klezmer music.
Welcome to the New York City Classical Guitar Society! We are central to the New York City classical guitar community, and we would love to have you involved! We offer many events for guitarists and others who love guitar music. At the heart of the Society is our monthly meetup, where we share music with one another and have special presentations from guitarists, composers, and luthiers on topics of interest to guitarists. We also have a fast-growing guitar orchestra open to all that performs ne …
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We're a diverse group of musicians and music lovers, representing ALL styles and ALL skill levels. We have many different types of events, and meet regularly to network, collaborate, workshop, share ideas/tips/knowledge, perform, jam, songswap and give/receive feedback. Come join us!
Hudson Valley - Gardiner NY Irish Music Trad Slow-Session exists to bring together beginner, intermediate and advanced players in a convivial, non-threatening environment to play trad music. We aim to meet at people's homes or other local private spaces where we don't need to "perform" for our listeners, we can just play for ourselves and our own enjoyment. If you are not playing music but wish to join our group as a "Listener" there are Meetups that you can attend as well. We often mention open …
Good music and good food come together. We'll be going to different places in the area listening to great live music and depending on the venue, there may be food and/or dancing, where ever we end up there will be loads of good times.
This is a group of musicians, singers, songwriters that get together in a variety of settings to jam acoustic, electric, write music, exchange ideas, learn from one another and just have fun. All levels welcome.
A home for all acoustic players, singers, and people who like to play unplugged in general. While all levels are welcome, we are an Intermediate to Advanced group. We currently have two main alternating Meetups: - One is a "Chord jam" where we all play and sing the same song at once, and the experts get a chance to solo. - The other is a "Performance Night" where we each take turns playing a song solo or with a friend. These are usually blues, rags, bluegrass, country or also folk/modern, d …
STUDIO TWO is ANTONIA ART's home for the performing arts DANCE, MUSIC, POETRY & THEATER. This is our Meetup group for the Music Open Mic. The Music Open Mic is held at the Bean Runner Cafe Located at 201 South Division Street, Peekskill, NY – 914.737.1701 Please come out and share your talents or enjoy those of others. Join our MeetUp to stay informed about upcoming events. Thanks and welcome! Scarlet Antonia - Director, Antonia Arts at Studio Two
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CONGRATULATIONS TO 2010 GRAMMY WINNER ZAC BROWN, WHO WON THE 2010 GRAMMY FOR BEST NEW ARTIST! THE NEW YORK CITY LIVE MUSIC MEETUP ATTENDED A PERFORMANCE BY ZAC AND HIS BAND, AND THEN PERSONALLY MET ZAC AND HIS BAND, AT A MEETUP ORGANIZED BY RICH CASELLA ON AUGUST 26, 2008. CHECK OUT THE PHOTOS. How often have you wished for more live music in your life? Finding good live music is like a tourist in NYC finding a good restaurant to go to. Unless you know the right areas to search, you will be rele …
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Our purpose is to have a great time singing and playing all kinds of folk music as a group. Anyone who loves folk music -- from the 60's Woodstock era to the present, including roots music, Irish music and folk/country -- will enjoy this group. We welcome those that can sing and/or play wonderfully and those who like to sing along or just listen. We welcome all acoustic musicians who love the genre and enjoy having others sing along. If as a result of this meetup, other gatherings emerge …
Enjoy great indie musicians performing LIVE for you... in the comfort of a cozy LIVING ROOM! This group is run by seasoned indie scene-makers who are also experienced meetup organizers. We've been putting on countless Living Room-style concerts for years, and are well-connected to a thriving indie music scene consisting of hundreds of local musicians, venues and fans. PAST VENUES: - Hayko's Turkish Carpets, Amber's Place, Frank's Apartment, The Meta Center, Rockwood Music Hall, Prospect Park, C …
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This group is for people who love the process of making music from scratch. If you love Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros, Mumford & Sons, or anything in between the style of these artists and want to make the kind of music that moves your mind and body the way these guys do for me, I'd love to collaborate with you. I am a singer/songwriter looking to meet musicians who want to move and shake things up a bit. We'll meet once a week and talk about what kind of goals we have and the kind of sound …
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Music and Dance Circle is the name of the meetup group of the Open Music Circle which meets in Manhattan. It is a gathering place for acoustic improv musicians, vocalists, dancers and others; an opportunity for all to explore and create together. The Open Music Circle has met regularly since 2004, joining Meetup in 2010 . Musicians, singers and dancers of all backgrounds and traditions and others are invited to explore new territory, expand their skills, and deepen their performance abilities. T …
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This group is for intermediate level guitar players, but really all levels of guitar players are welcome to join in and play with us in a casual outdoors setting. We are also looking for singers who want to participate in the group. The genre of music ranges from contemporary to classic rock, pop, alternative, and R&B. You should like to play covers from the Beatles, Neil Young, Coldplay, Radiohead, Rolling Stones, U2, Foo Fighters to name a few. We also have some great songs for female vocal …
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A group to come together and "jam" on the Ukulele (all ages, skills and Ukulele sizes welcome). No particular level of experience is needed, just play the notes and chords that you can manage. The Ukulele is a great instrument for beginners and experienced players alike. (Many times easer to learn to strum than the the guitar) Within a few minutes you can learn a few songs. And playing with a group will push you to learn more, while meeting new friends.
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This group would serve anyone in rockland county or nearby interested in a no stress/easy going beginner to intermediate level bluegrass jam session.
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Funny how some sports execs in this city are given a long rope, others not so much.
J.P. Ricciardi, for example, was the boy genius when he arrived in 2001, and only now, with so much mediocrity behind him, is he being seriously questioned as the proper man to lead the Blue Jays.
John Ferguson Jr., on the other hand, was widely branded a dope from Day One of his brief tenure.
Which brings us once more to the sainted Bryan Colangelo, a sports suit so accomplished that MLSE simply believes it has to locate a "Colangelo of hockey" to turn around the tarnished Maple Leafs and all will be well.
Well, you sure about that?
Colangelo comes from a famous sports family, yes, and he is a stylish, athletic young man who speaks well.
Last season, his Raptors came up with 47 wins, followed by a mildly disappointing first round loss to the New Jersey Nets. Every move he made seemed to pay off.
Last night, the Raps bowed out meekly to Orlando in five games, ending a season that mirrored, in some ways, the season of the Ottawa Senators; strong start, lousy second half, early exit. This year, every move Colangelo made seemed to fizzle.
When I questioned Colangelo's supposed infallibility in mid-March - never suggested he should be fired, mind you, just wondered what the fuss was all about - the comments from readers poured in, many wondering how I had the nerve to even wonder aloud about the great man.
Well, is it okay to question now?
There are a variety of problems with the Raptors, of course. Some say its all Sam Mitchell's fault, others lament the decline of Andrea Bargnani and the disintegration of the point guard tag team, all about T.J. Ford's apparent determination to be designation the starter surely had something to do with it.
Last night's loss was like a replay of so many in the second half, with the Magic making the shots down the stretch and the Raptors not only missing theirs, but either making bad decisions or having players on the floor unwilling to take charge. When you look at how Atlanta is competing against mightly Boston, with that series tied 2-2, the lack of true competitiveness on the part of the Raps in the mediocre Eastern Conference really is brought into vivid relief.
So surely, even to his greatest supporters, the bloom is off the rose now for Colangelo. What matters now is how he fixes this team, how he makes it better.
He's never won an NBA championship or managed this Raptor team into the second round, yet MLSE has tried to dress him up as the genius of basketball and the model for a modern executive in any sport.
Maybe he is. Now would be a good time to show it.

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The bungalows are very clean and away from the main road. John makes the best bacon and eggs breakfast and gives very useful advises on the island. Perfect for couples and families. Really close to the best beach (quiet and beautiful) of Ko Chang.
The bungalows are very clean and away from the main road. John makes the best bacon and eggs breakfast and gives very useful advises on the island. Perfect for couples and families. Really close to the best beach (quiet and beautiful) of Ko Chang.
( April 2013 ) After travelling around southern thailand we made our way to Koh Chang. After all the hussle and bussle of bangkok and phuket it was like travelling back in time as soon as we stepped off the ferry. From being recommended and contacting John via facebook, to arranging are Thai wedding ceremony, John and Lan were fantastic... More
Spent the month of March 2013 at the Elephant & Castle and it is without doubt still the place to be on Koh Chang. The site has matured since I was last there and looks even better, can't say the same about John though, and Lan has put in a new concrete driveway. Stayed in one of the top bungalows... More
Just returned to the chilly Highlands after a wonderful few weeks at the elephant and castle. Koh Chang is a lovely friendly island off the coast of Trat. Half of the island is uncommercialised and the other half is a low key easy going mix of pubs, bars and restaurants with amazing low prices and excellent food. The elephant and... More
Me and my partner checked in to the Elephant & Castle for a week in April and we found it to be homely, welcoming and peaceful. The hospitality of John and his wife Lan was second to none, and they made us feel like part of the crew as soon as we arrived. Indeed, as soon as we set foot... More
This place is a real find. Clean bungalows with hammocks and balconies. Jungle setting away from the road side. Only 5 mins drive to the beach which means you're close to the action but far enough to be out the hustle and bustle. Fresh fruit off the trees. Dogs to pet and protect you. Plenty of tea on tap. But... More
Got to the Elephant and Castle a few days into my Thailand trip. Couldn't have found a better spot after two nights of the madness of Bangkok. Travelling on my own for the first time, I jumped off the back of a pickup on what I thought was roughly the right part of the island, weighed down and tired after... More
Where to begin, Last year me and my wife came to Koh Chang and stayed at the elephant and castle for 2 weeks, mostly due to the previous great reviews. We were welcomed with open arms and hearts and loved the warm hospitality offered by John and his Thai wife Lan. Great western style cooking when John is in the... More
We stayed at John and Lan's for two weeks over the Xmas and New Year period. A good friendly welcome chatting over a cup of tea before settling into the top bungalow with a hammock that has good sea and sunset views. The bungalow was nice and big with a TV, fan, nice comfy bed and blankets as it can... More
Best place to stay on Koh Chang. I came for 3 days and stayed for 20 Best ambiance Great conversation Awesome football arguements FFP Sound medical advice " I told him to keep it in the sling" Monkeys in the forest Clean spacious bungalows Violently hot chillies growing in the garden John the owner is the soundest person I have... More
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People Hear with Their Skin, as well as Their Ears from Scientific American
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President of the European Central Bank announcing a widely anticipated program to step -- and buy the bonds of countries in Europe.
That well are struggling with their debts trying to keep those interest rates from soaring.
Market certainly likes it today and -- Webster's covering it live in Frankfurt Germany today with more -- Yeah hey Connell and -- well the interesting thing is there's absolutely no limits on the number of bombs that will be bought.
Up to three years maturity this according close to ECB president Mario Draghi.
He says say does a lot further than the previous two bomb buying programs and -- says quote it will create a fully effective backstop.
It's -- ONT -- outright market transactions and it does go further if a country wants help from this program I have to officially requested.
They will be -- subject to strict conditions and those conditions will be monitored by the IMF -- all of this comes.
As a Euro zone's economy continues to struggle.
Economic growth in the Euro area -- is expected to remain weak.
And sentiment.
Well certainly -- have remarks Sunday confidence is a big issue for the Euro zone we have seen that the Spanish ten year -- -- as a result of this announcement down to close to 6%.
Which is a three month low by the way is as high as seven a half percent back in July idolize.
Guys likely will be on Spain now and the assumption that they may need a -- the question is how much and -- they willing to on the go the kind of conditions outlined today.
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The entire dilemma started a week ago when my 5 yrs old Seagate 7200.11 500GB crap out. I lost 90% of data. Good thing is my PC has 2 hdds. Second hdd is wd black 1.5tb which I bought in 2011 to expand storage. So i went ahead and used my WD to install system. Things runs fine for 3 days. Until this morning my PC again refused to boot up like normal. It took almost 20 mins to boot up. HDD activity light was constantly on. But I cant hear the drive operating like usual. When it finally boot up. I couldn't access one of my volumes on the HDD. Used HDTunerPro and get a SMART warning of "Current Pending Sector" The value is 15. My system is super slow. So my question is, how can both HDDs fail at about the same time? Or is it my power supply that is failing which caused the HDD problem? For the SMART warning, should I RMA the drive? Is "Current Pending Sector Warning" fixable or unfixable? Thanks guys!
You will need to use the WD warranty Drive testing tool http://support.wdc.com/warranty/index_end.asp If your thinking about RMAing the drive. Really doesn't latter what HDtune says for a RMA. If the results were yellow then its most likely good. As far as your problem now. You probably have a problem with your install if not a clean install or you have a peace of hardware that's causing the hang at start up. Did you do a clean install on your WD ? First run the WD tool on your current drive. Then try a clean boot see if that helps I don't think your PSU has anything to do with this problem BTW the Seagate 7200.11 is a bad drive with a high % of failures. Im surprised it lasted 5 years
I checked my HDD's serial number. It says I am out of limited warranty. WTF? Newegg says it has 5 year limited warranty! I read some reviews and it seems this drive is known for having failing after a year of service. And WD is going to do is basically tell its users to f*uckoff. I did a super clean installation. Used Windows 7 SP1 installation DISC downloaded from MSDNAA. All partition were reformatted prior to install. I used all WHQL driver. I really dont understand this. And yes. I am also surprised my 7200.11 last that long. I did have to update the firmware once though
Also, there is no download for the link you give me. Can u give me a direct link? I only saw warranty statues check.
Tried 2 different cables. Problem still exists. Used HDTune full scan. I get multiple bad sectors. Total bad sectors are about 400MB on my E volume(which I cant access any more) Data Life Guard shows 4 drive health warnings: Current Pending Sectors RAW Read Error Spin-up time Relocated Sectors Error Is this drive about to die?
Well I kinda expected that. Gonna go ahead and RMA it. I just figured I put in the wrong number for the serial check. So I do have warranty until 2016. Seems like a good time to pick up a SSD as well. Do you guys have any good suggestions! Thanks in advance!
Yes WD lowered there warranty some time back , maybe you can get lucky and complain to Newegg that you got the drive of them partly due to the warranty and that you just found out that there site was \ is? incorrect about this.. Try make them understand how angry you are but with out insults or raising voice and that you will think twice about using or even recommending newegg to others. Others have gave other options i would try and if it just a bad part of the disk a full format might fix all the errors if the area is not growing which anyways makes it unsafe for your data till you know more. You could try another sata cable too. Good Luck..
Will be using it for system drive only. 160GB~240GB will be perfect. I have never used any SSD before. This thing is completely new to me...
Thanks man! I called WD and it turns out I put in the wrong serial number. I do have a RMA case going on right now. All I wish is they DON'T send me a refurbished drive. Because I fear that will continue the drama. I am going to order some new SATA cables from newegg now. And a SSD hopefully. My rig is really old. 5yrs old! X38+QX9650. I just wish it can hang in there it a little longer without me spending too much. It surely costs a lot to build a new one from ground up.
SSD's will increase your boot time drammatically. There are sales all over on SSD's. You can get a 60G as low as $60 but most get 120/128/256G drives. The best way to utilize a SSD is put your OS and most common used programs on it and use a platter drive for data storage. I got a PCIE 256G Revo SSD drive which is much faster than a sata SSD but also more expensive. You can find a great 128G sata SSD OCZ Vertex (4 VTX4-25SAT3-128G 2.5" 128GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)) for as low as $140 US.... and it has some great read and write speeds. Performance Sustained Sequential Read Up to 560 MB/s Sustained Sequential Write Up to 430 MB/s 4KB Random Read Up to 90,000 IOPS 4KB Random Write Up to 120,000 IOPS Seek Time 0.1 ms MTBF 2,000,000 hours
Nice. That is some good spec there! I am looking for something larger. At least it needs to be 160GB. I will check around! Thanks for telling me the model. Gonna look for some OCZ SSD now.
Well on second thought I give up. I might as well save the money towards my next rig built. This pc is too old to invest a SSD in it. Thanks for all your suggestions!
I know. I just dont have that much money for a SSD drive right now. I will leave this build as what it is now. My next rig will be getting SSD for sure.
If it's a pretty old system you probably won't get anywhere near the advertised speed out of the SSD anyway. I have an ASUS P6X58D-E MB that was popular when the Nehalem CPUs were all the rage, but it came out when SATA 3 was just trickling into MB tech. It's Marvell SATA 3 controller cripples my write speed to slower the the Intel SATA ports, so I just put it on SATA 2. My SSD is a Plextor M5P 128GB, which just got a firmware update that increases 4k reads and writes. Even with the crippled speed I can do a full reboot in as low as 35 seconds now, whereas with my old WD Raptor 74GB it took at least a 1:15. This drive also has very consistent speeds at all times due to a proprietary firmware it uses.


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Surveillance for Ventilator-associated Events (VAE)
NOTE: ***July 2013 Protocol, Calculator and FAQ UPDATE*** Based on user feedback and discussions with the VAE Surveillance Definition Working Group, a modification has been made to the VAE surveillance protocol. Daily minimum PEEP values of 0-5 cmH2O will now be considered equivalent for the purposes of VAE surveillance and making VAC surveillance determinations. Please review and use the revised protocol dated July 2013 when performing VAE surveillance. You do not need to modify VAE reports that have already been completed and entered into the NHSN. For events not yet reported, and for ongoing surveillance for the remainder of 2013, please use the July 2013 protocol.
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- Device-associated Module: Ventilator-Associated Event Protocol [PDF - 900 KB] July 2013
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- Identifying Healthcare-associated Infections (HAIs) in NHSN [PDF - 74 KB] July 2013
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- VAE Update [PDF -389 KB] December 2012
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- Magill SS, Klompas M, Balk R, Burns SM, Deutschman CS, Diekema D, Fridkin S, Greene L, Guh A, Gutterman D, Hammer B, Henderson D, Hess D, Hill NS, Horan T, Kollef M, Levy M, Septimus E, Vanantwerpen C, Wright D, Lipsett P (2013). Developing a new, national approach to surveillance for ventilator-associated events. Crit Care Med. 41(11):2467-75.
- Developing a new national approach to surveillance for ventilator-associated events: Executive summary. Am J Infect Control. 2013 Nov;41(11):1096-9.
- Developing a new, national approach to surveillance for ventilator-associated events: Executive summary. Chest. 2013 Nov 1;144(5):1448-52.
- Developing a new, national approach to surveillance for ventilator-associated events: Executive summary. Respir Care. 2013 Nov;58(11):1985-9.
- Developing a new, national approach to surveillance for ventilator-associated events: Executive summary. Am J Crit Care. 2013 Nov;22(6):469-73.
- Developing a new, national approach to surveillance for ventilator-associated events: Executive summary. Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology. 2013 Dec; 34 (12).
- Muscedere J, Sinuff T, Heyland DK, Dodek PM, Keenan SP, Wood G, Jiang X, Day AG, Laporta D, Klompas M, on behalf of for the Canadian Critical Care Trials Group (2013). The Clinical Impact and Preventability of Ventilator-Associated Conditions in Critically Ill Patients Who Are Mechanically Ventilated Chest. 144(5):1453-1460.
- A New Approach to Surveillance for Ventilator-Associated Events, November 2013 Chest Podcast Moderator: D. Kyle Hogarth, MD, FCCP, Podcast Editor, CHEST Participants: Shelley S. Magill, MD, PhD; Craig M. Lilly, MD, FCCP
- Lilly CM, Ellison RT (2013). Quality Measures for Critically Ill Patients: Where Does Ventilator-Associated Condition Fit in? Chest. 144(5):1429-1430.
- van Mourik MSM, Klouwenberg PMC, Ong DSY, Horn J, Schultz MJ, Cremer OL, Bonten M (2013). Electronic Implementation of the Ventilator-Associated Events Algorithm: the Solution for Variability? Abstract # 562, ID Week, San Francisco, CA, October 2-6, 2013.
- Drees M, Silverman B, Protokowicz N, Adkins L, Freeman L, Briody C, Wroten K, Depietro M (2013). Implementation of New Ventilator-associated Event Surveillance in a Community-based Academic Healthcare Center. Abstract # 1067, ID Week, San Francisco, CA, October 2-6, 2013.
- Lewis S, Li L, Murphy MV, Klompas M (2013). Risk Factors for Ventilator-Associated Events: A Case-Control Multivariate Analysis. Abstract # 1075, ID Week, San Francisco, CA, October 2-6, 2013.
- van Mourik MSM, Murphy MV, Klompas M, and for the CDC Prevention Epicenters (2013). Risk-Adjustment for Ventilator-Associated Events Using Electronic Medical Record Data. Abstract # 1076, ID Week, San Francisco, CA, October 2-6, 2013.
- Klompas M, (2013). Complications of Mechanical Ventilation — The CDC's New Surveillance Paradigm N Engl J Med. 368:1472-1475.
- Prospero E, Illuminati D, Marigliano A, Pelaia P, Munch C, Barbadoro P, D'Errico MM (2012). Learning from Galileo: Ventilator-associated Pneumonia Surveillance. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 186(12):1308-9.
- Klompas M, Kleinman K, Khan Y, Evans RS, Lloyd JF, Stevenson K, Samore M, Platt R; CDC Prevention Epicenters Program (2012). Rapid and reproducible surveillance for ventilator-associated pneumonia. Clin Infect Dis 54(3):370-7.
- Hayashi Y, Morisawa K, Klompas M, Jones M, Bandeshe H, Boots R, Lipman J, Paterson DL (2012). Towards improved surveillance: the impact of ventilator-associated complications (VAC) on length of stay and antibiotic use in patients in intensive care units. Clin Infect Dis [Epub ahead of print].
- Klompas M, Magill S, Robicsek A, Strymish JM, Kleinman K, Evans RS, Lloyd JF, Khan Y, Yokoe DS, Stevenson K, Samore M, Platt R; for the CDC Prevention Epicenters Program (2012). Objective surveillance definitions for ventilator-associated pneumonia. Crit Care Med 40(12):3154-3161.
- Klompas M, Sinuff T, Jiang X, Day A, Muscedere J, for the Canadian Critical Care Trials Group (2012). The Morbidity and Preventability of Ventilator- Associated Conditions Impact of National Policy on HAI Reporting and Prevention. Abstract #1232, ID Week, San Diego, CA, October 17-21, 2012.
- Klompas M, Khan Y, Kleinman K, Evans RS, Lloyd JF, Stevenson K, Samore M, Platt R, for the CDC Prevention Epicenters Program (2011). Multicenter Evaluation of a Novel Surveillance Paradigm for Complications of Mechanical Ventilation. PLoS ONE. 6(3): e18062.
- Klompas M, Kleinman K, Platt R (2008). Development of an Algorithm for Surveillance of Ventilator-associated Pneumonia With Electronic Data and Comparison of Algorithm Results With Clinician Diagnoses. Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, 29(1):31-7.
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A Chilliwack woman was punched in the chest after speaking to two men in an underground parking garage last week, Mounties say.
The 64-year-old woman was walking through the underground lot when she spotted two suspicious men standing next to her vehicle, according to police. The woman questioned the men, one of whom then punched her hard enough in the chest to leave a bruise.
The victim fled the scene without further injury.
"An assault like this leaves the victim feeling very vulnerable and unsafe," RCMP spokesperson Const. Tracy Wolbeck said in a news release. "This is something that we take very seriously and hope that someone saw something that can lead us to the suspects."
One suspect was described as five-foot-nine and 160 pounds and in his early- to mid-20s. He had a short brush cut and wore a white-hooded sweatshirt, blue jeans, black runners and had a scar under his right eye. Both he and the other man were described as First Nations.
The second suspect was around the same age and about five-foot-four and 200 pounds. He had a stocky build and a reddish brown mohawk with a ponytail. He wore a sleeveless shirt, grey sweat pants and had tattoos down his arms. He also had a tattoo resembling a snake around his neck.
Anyone with information is asked to contact the Chilliwack RCMP at 604-792-4611 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 (TIPS).
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Landscape architect George Kessler saw the problem clearly in 1907. The young landowner and attorney Hugh Ward and his even younger land developer, J. C. Nichols, wanted Kessler to create a boulevard that would surpass in value all other residential streets in Kansas City. The reason Kessler could envision what they wanted so easily was that he had planned almost all of the high-value residential boulevards and parkways throughout the city some fifteen years earlier. Indeed, he planned to connect the new boulevard directly with the southern terminus of Kansas City's widely recognized landscape system.
There was little in twenty-seven-year-old Nichols' background in 1907 that would have led Kessler to the conclusion that he was someone who could help perpetuate the land values the landscape architect created. J.C. Nichols grew up in the Johnson County, Kansas, county seat town of Olathe. Nichols graduated from the University of Kansas in 1902 with a reputation as a campus organizer who made good grades. The latter capability won him a Phi Beta Kappa key and a scholarship for a postgraduate year at Harvard University.
Nichols returned to the Kansas City area in 1903 just after a devastating flood had forced many to flee the river bottom's residential neighborhoods near the packing houses in Kansas City, Kansas. Over the next two years, he and a young assistant, John C. Taylor, bought land and built quite modest houses with money borrowed from Nichols's father and Johnson County farmers associated with the senior Nichols through his work at the Grange supply store in Olathe.
In 1905 Nichols bought ten acres of Missouri land almost directly south of William Rockhill Nelson's growing upper-income neighborhood, which the publisher had dubbed "Rockhill," his mother's maiden name. Nichols constructed the Missouri houses on a somewhat more elaborate scale than the simple $1,000 houses he sold across the river in Kansas. Still, they amounted to only $3,000 to $4,000 houses, designed to appeal primarily to strictly middle-class buyers.
Nichols and his new financial backers from the Kansas City Board of Trade continued to buy land during the next two years in plots adjacent to his initial investment. He opened new subdivisions, trading on the name "Rockhill" as used by Nelson to create a sense of greater prestige and value. All of these early Nichols subdivisions were located along or near the route high-status people from Kansas City had to travel to get to the exclusive pleasure grounds of the Kansas City Country Club, which included a golf course and polo grounds. In the process, Nichols created a distinct community unlike any other residential section of Kansas City.
Hugh Ward had leased the country club its site in 1896 and built his own residence across the roadway from the grounds. He owned over five hundred acres, by virtue of inheritance from his almost legendary father, sometime mountain man and later, improbably, Kansas City banker Seth Ward. Indeed, his father's pre-Civil War house still stood on land west of the polo grounds area of the country club site. Eventually, the boulevard laid out by Kessler at the request of Ward and Nichols undulated to within one building lot of the Seth Ward house, leading later Kansas Citians often to suppose, incorrectly, that Ward Parkway was named for the old pioneer. The fact that Hugh Ward died in 1909 before his fiftieth birthdaywhile the project was still in the planning stagesled Nichols and the grieving widow, Vassie James Ward, to name the planned grand avenue after him.
At the time Kessler commenced his planning, the entire area that would become known as the "Country Club District" served by Ward Parkway was south of the city limits. Consisting of mostly unimproved land aside from the Kansas City Country Club itself, the area appeared to have little potential value to most of the Kansas City real estate profession. It was Nichols's imagination, supported by Ward's financial backing and Kessler's design expertise, that transformed farmlands and hillsides into the most desirable residential section in the city.
The route Kessler determined for the parkway began with a connection to his overall boulevard plan just south of what would become Forty-seventh and Main Streets (Kansas City officially annexed the lands controlled by Nichols and the Ward family in 1911). Kessler decided that Ward Parkway should follow the bed of Brush Creek as it led southwest from the boulevard intersection almost to the point where the streambed crossed the Kansas-Missouri state line. The landscape architect noted that a ravine cut into the bluffs overlooking the Brush Creek Valley just east of the state line. He quickly saw that this natural incline provided a more accessible grade for an approach to the more southerly reaches of the Ward lands, which stretched south to what became Fifty-ninth Street. Once the ravine was scaled (between Fifty-third and Fifty-fifth Streets), it was possible to provide a gentle curve slightly back to the east, creating a slowly widening strip of land for residential building lots between the Parkway and the Kansas state line, which also served as the western boundary of the Ward holdings.
One of Kessler's design techniques resulted in a significant impact on the future grand avenue. Throughout almost all of Kansas City, Missouri, including the areas served by Kessler's previous boulevards, the blocks were oriented with their length running from north to south while the shorter width (usually two building lots deep) ran from east to west. Kessler changed all that in the earliest plats of Sunset Hill, the subdivision name applied to the Ward properties enclosed by Ward Parkway. In these sections, Kessler made the east-west direction dominant, with short north-south blocks. Because the house numbering and street naming were thought to need to conform to previous city patterns, blocks lying west of Main Street in land controlled by Nichols and the Ward estate (and affected by Kessler's plan) skipped a digit as they moved west from the Main Street demarcation. Hence, the first block west of Main was the "0" blockhouses were numbered in double digits such as "34" rather than "134"; the second block west of Main was the "200" block, with numbers like "234"; the third block west was the "400" block, and so on to State Line Road, which had the "1200" block between it and Ward Parkway to the east from a point south of roughly Fifty-third Street.
The change in orientation also meant that there were two blocks between the normal numbered street intersection distances as they existed in the rest of the city. Because Nichols was insistent that the new additions be made to seem as much a part of the city as possible, making the lots more salable, he hoped, a pattern of naming the intervening streets as "terraces" developed. This meant, for example, that the street running east and west between Fifty-fifth and Fifty-sixth was called Fifty-fifth Street Terrace, with the pattern repeated throughout Nichols's subdivisions as far south as Seventy-first Street (or Gregory Boulevard).
The direct impact of this pattern on the future of Ward Parkway as a grand avenue is clear because south of Fifty-third Street, Ward Parkway is a north-south thoroughfare. This means that only a relatively small number of lots were designed to face the boulevard directly. On top of that, Nichols specified in his deed restrictions, which were tied directly to the published plat maps and were legally binding on present and future purchasers, the direction each house on street corners was to face. In many instances he specified that houses would face the side streets intersecting with Ward Parkway rather than the roadway itself.
Nonetheless, Kessler and Nichols planned from the beginning for the fully developed Ward Parkway to be what it became"one of the great parades of America." An early advertisement noted that "the plaza treatment of Ward Parkway south of...Fifty-fifth Street lends an air of distinction to the individual homes which front the streets radiating from it." Nichols intended that the building sites on Ward Parkway would be dominated by houses "of the villa type," meaning large mansions, that "...will present a picture to see which travelers will come great distances and from which the people of our own city will receive great inspiration." The advertisement makes it clear that Nichols viewed Ward Parkway primarily as an attraction to raise values along the intersecting streets even more than he expected the roadway to have large numbers of high-value residences lining its path.
That Ward Parkway achieved that goal can be documented from a number of sources. In 1959 a former Kansas Citian published his first novel, set in the neighborhoods in which he had grown up. Evan Connell's Mrs. Bridge became a significant success, prompting a sequel from a male's point of view, Mr. Bridge (1969). Connell suggests the importance of proximity to (but not actual frontage on) Ward Parkway in Mrs. Bridge:
[Mr. Bridge] was as astute as he was energetic, and because he wanted so much for his family he went to his office quite early in the morning while most men were still asleep and he often stayed there working until late at night. He worked all day Saturday and part of Sunday, and holidays were nothing but a nuisance. Before very long the word had gone around that Walter Bridge was the man to handle the case....Consequently they were able to move to a large home just off Ward Parkway several years sooner than they had expected....
The fact that Mr. and Mrs. Bridge always "expected" to move nearer to Ward Parkway is taken as a truism. It was just a matter of time and effort.
Further documentation of the desirability of a Ward Parkway location comes from work done in the 1950s concerning Kansas City. A sociological research team from the University of Chicago discovered through a series of interviews with a cross-section of the population that the most recognizably desirable residential section in the metropolitan area was what they called "the Ward Parkway and Mission Hills Gold Coast."
The study concluded that many interviewees of various levels of social standing believed that "the streets leading off Ward Parkway were 'lined with mansions'...."
The "blue bloods," "the uppercrust," "the Society Crowd," and "the topnotchers" were said to live in this area. A man who could afford one of these mansions was assumed to be "one of the big industrialists," "a leading man of commerce," "a well-to-do executive," "a top-ranking lawyer or doctor" or "one of the big shots among the real estate boys and stocks and bonds brokers." This was the area thought to supply most of the members of the elite country clubs, leaders in the Chamber of Commerce, and board members of various cultural institutions.
The fact that the researchers encountered so many from such a variety of backgrounds who held similar views about the significance of an address near Ward Parkway demonstrates the continuing importance of the street as a symbol.
As recently as 1981, the Kansas City Star considered Ward Parkway a synonym for "money, power, and permanence." A reporter noted that "at first sight, it's apparent that Ward Parkway is something special. It's a road like no other in Kansas City. Living there is synonymous with prestige."'
That Nichols intended for his centerpiece boulevard to be the prestige address of the city is clear. Throughout the decade of the World War, his advertising emphasized the value of buying land and building a house near the prestigious people of the city. On several occasions in 1911 and 1912 he published large display advertisements in the Sunday Kansas City Star, listing the names and featuring drawings of residential structures either completed or under construction for prominent men of the city."
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in The Grand American Avenue, 1850-1920
Acknowledgements: This WebPage exhibit was original produced as the panel exhibit, "Ward Parkway: a Grand American Avenue," prepared by William S. Worley, Research Associate for Kansas City Regional History, Department of History, University of Missouri-Kansas City; and by David Boutros, Associate Director, Western Historical Manuscript Collection-Kansas City, with underwriting support from the William T. Kemper Foundation, Commerce Bank, Trustee.
Showing of the exhibit in Lawrence and Manhattan, Kansas, and in Kansas City, Missouri, in February-March, 1995, was partially underwritten by a grant from the Kansas City Chapter-American Institute of Architects, and in cooperation with the Kansas City Design Center, Michael Swann, Associate Dean and Director. The initial showing of this exhibit was in conjunction with the panel exhibit, "The Grand American Avenue," prepared by the Octagon Museum, Washington, D.C. and the American Architectural Foundation with underwriting from the Lila Wallace Reader's Digest Fund. Also produced in conjunction with the exhibit was the book entitled, The Grand American Avenue, 1850-1920, edited by Jan Cigliano and Sarah Bradford Landau, [San Francisco: Pomegranite Press] 1994, which is available in libraries and local bookstores.
The photograph of Vassie James Ward [Hill] is included courtesy of Pembroke Hill School. All other photographs, maps, and drawings in the "Ward Parkway--A Grand American Avenue" panel exhibit are from the J.C. Nichols Company Scrapbooks (KC0054) and Records (KC0106), the Hare and Hare Company Records (KC0206), and the Native Sons of Kansas City Archives (0590kc) in the Western Historical Manuscript Collection-Kansas City. Many of the photographs in the Ward Parkway exhibit appeared in The Grand American Avenue, 1850-1920, courtesy of the Western Historical Manuscript Collection-Kansas City.
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Thus 'The Rivers of Colorado Water Watch Network' was created with the philosophy of training private and public school teachers and students to collect and analyze samples, because schools will always be in a community and teachers always need to teach concepts related to river ecology. The program began with two primary goals that remain steadfast today. First, to provide a hands-on experience for individuals to understand the value and function of the river ecosystem. Second, to collect quality aquatic ecosystem data over space and time to be used for the Clean Water Act and other water quality decision-making processes.
Today, River Watch has achieved these goals and continues to grow with the dedication and commitment from thousands of volunteers. We started with those six schools on the Yampa and grew to cover all watersheds in Colorado and 350 schools. Since 1989 we have involved over 60,000 individuals in Colorado, provided data on 3,000 stations covering over 300 rivers. We have also grown to include individuals, watershed groups and other entities, besides schools, in our program. We have expanded our program to include biological and physical habitat parameters. We have also piloted a volunteer lake and wetland monitoring program. Some students have received college credit for their River Watch skills, others have acquired water-related employment from their interest and work in River Watch, and most have carried their knowledge and passion for the river environment where ever they go.


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Janet Yellen is the best candidate to succeed Ben Bernanke as head of the Federal Reserve, and gender should have absolutely nothing to do with it. That's the overwhelming consensus from a CNNMoney survey of top female economists.
Earlier this week, we sent a questionnaire to 100 female economists in academia and the private sector, several who have worked with Larry Summers and Yellen in the past. We asked them to choose: Which of these two top contenders is their preferred candidate for Federal Reserve chair?
Also, will gender have anything to do with the decision? A woman has never led the Federal Reserve, and worldwide, only 17 of 177 central bank leaders are women, according to the Central Bank Directory.
In order to encourage candid responses, we also gave the economists the option to remain anonymous.
Of the 45 economists who responded to our survey, 38 said Yellen should get the job, and one wrote-in that she would like former Fed chair Paul Volcker to return to the post. The remaining six participants declined to make a recommendation, with some noting they felt both Yellen and Summers were qualified for the job.
However, not one economist threw their full support behind Summers alone.
"Yellen is the most qualified candidate. If she doesn't become Fed chair it will be, in part, because she is a woman," said one respondent. "I don't think it would be because of overt discrimination. Rather, there is more subtle bias -- she is not a friend of the decision makers; a woman who is not aggressive is perceived as weak, whereas a man who is not aggressive is perceived as a thoughtful consensus builder."
Yellen, 66, currently serves as vice-chair of the Federal Reserve Board, and previously served as president of the San Francisco Fed. She has a Ph.D in economics from Yale and vast academic experience at the University of California, Berkeley. Plus, she served a two-year stint as the chairwoman of President Clinton's Council of Economic Advisers,
But she is not as well connected to the White House as Summers, who was Treasury Secretary under President Clinton and also the head of President Obama's National Economic Council. Several economists we surveyed perceived this as a big hurdle for Yellen.
Summers, 58, has his Ph.D. from Harvard. In addition to having Treasury Secretary on his resume, he is also well-known for being president of Harvard University (did you see "The Social Network?") and as one of the architects behind President Obama's 2009 stimulus package.
Of the 38 economists who said Yellen should get the job, 10 said they thought President Obama would nominate Summers.
"The old boys will make the call, and I think they will pick their insider," one survey participant said.
But many of the economists we surveyed stressed that Yellen is the better candidate because she has more relevant monetary policy experience.
Whereas Summers spent most of his career focused on fiscal policy, Yellen was number-two in command, as the Fed launched unprecedented policies to stimulate the economy. She has also led the Fed's recent efforts to increase its transparency.
Yellen is largely known as a Fed "dove," meaning she favors keeping interest rates low as a way to stimulate the economy and promote job growth. Fed watchers generally expect that she would continue Bernanke's policies, and therefore, she represents continuity for the Fed.
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Respondents also said they thought Yellen would be a better consensus-builder within the Fed, whereas a few expressed concerns about Summers' tendency to "put his foot in his mouth" and "poor reputation for not being a team player."
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We also asked a few questions about gender, since it has been such a hot-button issue.
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Barry Lyndon details
Format: | PG DVD |
Starring: | Patrick Magee, Andre Morrell, Gay Hamilton, Marisa Berenson, Ryan O'Neal, Leonard Rossiter, Philip Stone, Hardy Kruger, Steven Berkoff |
Director: | Stanley Kubrick |
Genre: | Drama |
Studio: | WARNER HOME VIDEO |
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Barry Lyndon |
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Run time: | 2 hours 57 minutes |
Rental release: | 10 Sep 2001 |
Main languages: | English |
Dubbed: | French |
Subtitles: | Arabic, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Spanish |
Hearing impaired subtitles: | English |
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Absolute masterpiece
By a customer from London. England , 18 Sep 2004[Highly rated reviewer]
You would think that adapting Thackeray's delightfully ironic book, maybe his best after Vanity Fair, would be a tall order. Indeed, it takes a Kubrick at the top of his abilities to make it justice. But what a result!
The casting and the acting are perfect; if Ryan O'Neal got on your nerves in Love Story, watch him here as an Irish boob making his way, half by scheming, half by accident, into english nobility. The photography, whether of landscapes across Europe, or of interior scenes in various castles, is simply breathtaking. And the soundtrack, a mix of irish folk tunes and classical music, is masterfully used to conjure up the delightful, if sometimes slightly melancholic atmosphere of late XVIIIth century Britain.
Truly a memorable experience. Rent it, watch it, and buy it to see it again and again.- Was this review helpful to you?
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(79)a masters painting comes alive
By ironstringvest (3 reviews) , 21 May 2013Breathtaking, I wanted to pause it at certain points just to look at it. The characters are wonderful the story is fascinating and political, and its got Leonard Rossiter in it. i found it utterly captivating- Was this review helpful to you?
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In it for the long haul so take popcorn
By Pamsvilla (7 reviews) , 13 Mar 2013I found it difficult to lose myself in this film. Despite the wonderful way we are transported into the 1700's with the costumes and the set, the pace of the story is unrelentingly constant and becomes a tad wearing. Like Vanity Fair, the story details with a rise and fall within social circles of the day and provides interesting social commentary, but I could not identify with the characters in the same way or really care about what happened to them. The most interesting character was perhaps the highwayman who had a bit part. Still, worth a watch if you like Ryan O'Neal or costume drama and have plenty of time to spare.- Was this review helpful to you?
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Watch Kubrick before you die
By cmarie (66 reviews) , 22 Feb 2013When watching this film you realise the greatness of Mr. Kubrick. Maybe not his finest film but what films he has made and left as legacy. Damn, hat off this man is an artist and I hate using that over-used word that people use to describe themselves! ha! We'll be the judge of that. Do see this. Do watch all of Kubrick's films if you can before you die. It's available here with one criticism - the aspect ratio, what a shame.- Was this review helpful to you?
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Good entertainment
By Violetolive (10 reviews) , 04 Jul 2012It is worth watching this one twice. Once for the story and a second time for the costumes. An engaging story,- Was this review helpful to you?
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Kubrick does Merchant-Ivory
By MAXIMILIAN (190 reviews) from BURNHAM , 07 May 2012Like A CLOCKWORK ORANGE (1971), BARRY LYNDON (1975) was the other Stanley Kubrick film that disappeared into a black hole. Kubrick probably made the film as a direct response to the fact that he was unable to get his beloved NAPOLEON biopic off the ground.
The film, based on the novel by William Makepeace Thackery is an odd choice for Kubrick to make, and it certainly was not as commercially successful as his other films had been up to that point. This is probably because the film has no central characters which are sympathetic. It is the story of an Irish conman and social climber and his eventual downfall. Redmond Barry (RYAN ONEAL) is cold, calculating and manipulative. Most of the other characters are too. LEON VITALI (Lord Bullingdon), Lyndons victimised stepson is cold and manipulative also, but you do get to see his point Redmond Barry has bulldozed his way into his mothers family, married Bullingdons mother and been very cruel to his stepson. So, you can understand when Bullingdon demands satisfaction in a duel.
From a technical standpoint, BARRY LYNDON is beautifully made. The cinematography is breathtaking it looks like a painting. Superb period detail and production design, a good soundtrack of Baroque classical music, and clear narration of the story by MICHAEL HORDERN. The mainly British supporting cast all left over from CLOCKWORK ORANGE, (Patrick Magee, Anthony Sharp, Godfrey Quigley, Philip Stone, Steven Berkoff) are all top notch. LEONARD ROSSITER pops up as Captain Quin in an early duel scene. German actor HARDY KRUGER is extremely memorable as an officer in the German army.
Kubrick has made a lush, lavish, sweeping, epic spectacle (rather like those Merchant-Ivory films, THE REMAINS OF THE DAY, A ROOM WITH A VIEW and HOWARDS END) but for all its technical brilliance BARRY LYNDON is a very drawn-out, slow and long film. Also the print of the film on this DVD is 4:3 aspect ratio, not Widescreen, which doesnt help the scale of the film. RYAN ONEAL does the best he can in the central role, but I cant help feeling that he was miscast. With such a strong British and European supporting cast already in place, would it not have been better to cast someone like ALBERT FINNEY in the role instead?
In conclusion, I would say that with BARRY LYNDON, Kubrick made a Good Film not a Great Film. And, despite what the films trailer on the DVD says it is certainly not a Classic or a Masterpiece.- Was this review helpful to you?
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Stephen Hamill '78 Honored as 2013 Alum of the Year
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Each year the graduating class, led by the Graduation Committee, comes together to continue a tradition of philanthropy at the USF School of Law. Graduating 3Ls and 4Ls create a legacy for their class and help future students for years to come.
The Class of 2013 gift campaign is led by the Graduation committee with goals of reaching 100 percent class participation and hopes to reach a pledge total of $5,000 toward the Law Assembly. The Graduation Committee, led by co-chairs Selby Abraham and Kasey Hawkins, Fundraising Subcommittee chair Jaclyn Falk, Grad Student Selection Subcommittee chair Alexia Mayorg, Speaker Subcommittee chair Natasia DaSilva, and Grad Party Coordinator and Grad Party Fundraiser: Molly LeGoy and Richard Yao, includes Jackie Duran - Robbie Mack - Christina Inciong - Alexandra Hoffman - Sarah Williams - Jeni Frudden - Tiffany Lee - Jessica Platt - Yael Nadel Cadaxa - Huy Vu - Lindsay McKasson - Jessica DeMarco - Gillian Emmerich - Dan Madow - Thayer Mullins - Molly Zimney - Tamika Lipford
The percentage of the class that contributes to the campaign is a direct indication of students' impression of the overall quality of the faculty, services, and administration of the USF School of Law. The participation percentage is a bellwether to alumni, peer law schools, prospective students, and other influential groups as they evaluate the quality of the law school.
If we achieve high participation, we can directly impact two important factors:
Taking into account the high debt incurred by many students, the law school offers modest gift levels to make it possible for you to participate. Our goal is to have 100% participation!
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The Class of 2013 has a unique and exciting opportunity to support the Law Assembly.
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The membership of the Committee on Fellowship shall consist of the Vice-President and three members appointed by the President-Elect to staggered three-year terms. The Vice-President shall serve as Chairperson. The Committee shall meet from time to time with the Division, Topical Group, and Forum representatives to discuss criteria for advancement to Fellowship and to ensure their equitable application. It shall solicit nominations and review the qualifications of candidates for Fellowship. It shall also consider appeals of rejection of candidates for advancement to Fellowship. | |
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