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On the Cover: Javier Bardem
Michael Paterniti talks to the gifted chameleon actor and new Bond villain, who happens to look killer in a suit
If Rome is the Eternal City, then Madrid is the infernal one on this Monday afternoon at the very end of July, sun lasering, mercury pushing one hundred degrees. And yet hell is not entirely a temperature this season in Spain: Over a month ago, the prime minister asked the EU to bail out the country's failing banks, a move that has done little to quell the feverish pitch of protest. The youth, facing 50 percent unemployment, have set up makeshift camps in the Puerta del Sol. Government workers, buckling under pay cuts, have blocked city thoroughfares and railway lines, while miners, on the verge of layoffs, have marched on the capital from the Spanish countryside. Their convergence on a ministry building has sparked a violent melee with police that has left over seventy injured in a spray of rubber bullets. In the days leading up to my visit with Javier Bardem, the masses have marched almost daily to protest the government's new austerity measures, including Bardem himself, who took to the streets with his brother, Carlos, to remonstrate against tax hikes.
And so, on the eve of Spain's monthlong summer vacation, a time when Madrileños flee their city en masse to escape the Meseta's swelter, Javier Bardem has briefly vacated his role as movie star to return home and be a Spaniard for a while. He has also been seeing family and friends; spending time with his wife, Penélope Cruz, and their son, Leo; trying to keep the world at arm's length before he gets sucked back into the machinery: rehearsals for a new Ridley Scott movie in London, The Counselor, in which he'll co-star with Brad Pitt and Michael Fassbender; the premiere of Terrence Malick's To the Wonder at the Venice Film Festival, in which he plays an exiled priest; and then a two-month publicity tour for November's James Bond film, Skyfall, in which he's Raoul Silva, an effete archvillain who emanates a threatening air of angular doom and who the makers of the Bond franchise promise will be unlike any other bad guy in the 007 catalog. (Unwilling to confirm rumors of a physical seduction between Silva and Bond—the plot of Bond is itself an MI6 secret—the film's director, Sam Mendes, says, "He's a peacock of a character unlike anything Javier's played before, canny and witty and flirtatious in a disturbing way that even I didn't expect.")
On a narrow street off the Plaza de Santa Ana, Bardem appears in the flesh, head poking out beneath the metal shutters of La Bardemcilla, a restaurant owned by his elder sister, where we've planned to meet. Wearing dark jeans and a pressed plaid shirt, he looks as if he's taking a low bow. Today the restaurant is closed so we can gab and eat in peace, free of doting fans. Inside, he introduces his sister, Mónica, as a former actress who played opposite him in the 1995 movie Boca a Boca. ("The customers are my audience now," she says. "I don't miss it.") She and her husband, Alfonso, a kinetic, stick-thin man, flutter and fuss: Is there anything I won't eat? Um, sheep ears—an acquired Castilian taste; I tried them once and nearly barfed. And I don't want to barf on Javier Bardem. Bardem turns to his sister, clutching her elbow, and says, without a trace of smile or irony, in that low, slurry baritone that is one of Hollywood's most distinctive voices, No sheep ears.
Perched on a stool at a table near the bar, Bardem, 43, hunches his shoulders, winching himself smaller than his six feet. His nose is mesmerizing, crushed at 20 in a bar fight, marked by a black divot. His nostrils, when he tilts his head up, make a lopsided infinity sign; his eyes are heavy lidded; his face bears the crowbar profile, the lantern jaw. It's a face that by my own flash polling evokes two different reactions, divided by gender: Women swoon, men respect the effect. It just so happens that we sit below a print of one of Picasso's Minotaurs, himself posed with his back to the painter, hoisting a wineglass, seducing a nude woman. Later Carlos will tell me, "Yes, he is the Minotaur, the weakness and the strength, that's his power."
Javier Bardem has been called a chameleon, and critics and award juries have tended toward the gaga when lionizing his physical and emotional transformations from role to role, be it a persecuted gay poet (Before Night Falls), a quadriplegic with a death wish (The Sea Inside), or an artiste Lothario (Vicky Cristina Barcelona). What partly separates him from the other actors of his generation—or as his buddy Josh Brolin points out, leaves him in the rarefied company of only a few, like Sean Penn, Daniel Day-Lewis, and Mickey Rourke—is a versatility bordering on the schizophrenic. But it's more: Mendes says Bardem often conveys the brooding, animal sense that "he's carrying an unexploded bomb inside." And yet the emotions flicker, are wrestled down, resurface in the glint of an eye, the pressed lips, the slow blink. Just when you think he's going to blow, he conjures some deeper emotional mystery.
In interviews, Bardem presents a good-natured, self-deprecating front that is as deflective as it seems genuine: About his Oscar-winning turn as evil incarnate, Anton Chigurh, in the Coen brothers' No Country for Old Men, he makes jokes about the character's haircut. About Penélope, Bardem does the opposite of couch-jump, stanching the inquisition with "You know I don't like to talk about my personal life." About being spun as a sex symbol, he offers some version of "Really? Look at this face!" He's not the kind of movie star to take you bowling or boast about his various crash pads in Madrid and New York. (He and Cruz recently sold their Balinese-style home in West Hollywood for $2.8 million.) He isn't going to speed you around the capital in his sports car (because he doesn't drive) and then take you home for moo shu chicken, to address the summer rumors that Cruz is pregnant again.
But in the city where he grew up (and where another rumor has it he and Cruz will soon take up permanent residence), in the dining room of his sister's restaurant, slurping gazpacho, what Bardem will give you is a healthy dose of Iberian honesty. "Many people I love and adore, who belong to my life, are going through a very horrible situation," he says. "The government raised tas on paper and pencils," he says. "That's fucking crazy. The middle and working classes are paying the debt that the financial markets created." He ticks off the stats: "A quarter of Spaniards are -unemployed. One in ten families are completely out of work: It's fucking dark, it's brutal."
Even as his celebrity has grown, Bardem hasn't shied from showing a vibrant contrarian streak. In a deeply Catholic country, he's an atheist. ("I've always said I don't believe in God, I believe in Al Pacino.") When gay marriage was legalized in Spain in 2005, he was quoted as saying that if he was gay, "I would get married tomorrow, just to fuck with the Church." At the 2011 Oscars, he wrapped lips with Brolin, an incident that critics claimed was deliberately edited out by Disney-owned ABC. And most recently, he's produced and narrated a documentary about the Sahrawi people of the West Sahara (the sandy land between Morocco and Mauritania), titled Sons of the Clouds, which places blame squarely on Morocco for human-rights abuses against the tribe in the former Spanish colony.
A few days earlier, after being photographed at that protest with his elder brother, his picture was beamed round the world. When I ask Bardem if he feels that some may look askance at his political activism, assuming it to be just another phase of his movie stardom, an attempt at gravitas or a cliché of fame, he vigorously shakes his head no. "I've always belonged to the street, and I always will. It's in my DNA. I don't think about it. I'm really proud of this country: People say what they feel, until they're heard."
Bardem's own upbringing wasn't exactly of the silver-spoon variety. Divorced just after his birth, his mother, Pilar, struggled to make ends meet in their single-parent home. While his family tree is lousy with thespians, writers, and directors, he qualifies what that actually once meant in Franco's Spain. "My grandparents were actors in a time when actors weren't allowed to be buried on sacred ground because they were considered heretics and homosexuals. My mother, who's acted all my life, was called a prostitute. I saw street fascists chase and threaten her when I was a kid."
Despite the turmoil, Bardem says life in that house with his elder brother and sister was one full of humor. And what his mother bequeathed was a certain freedom that makes him an actor today. "When I was born, there was a very isolated idea of what it meant to be a man or a woman, and you belonged to one gender or the other," he says. "I was raised not to be afraid to show emotion or imagination.... I have a man and a woman in the same body; I have the male and female values in the same body. 'Be a man'—what do you mean by that?"
The struggles of his mother seem to have left another lasting imprint, persisting for Bardem in an afterimage that still haunts: the unringing phone. "It was black and old, with a rotary dial," he says. "That fucking phone was like a monster, and we waited for it to roar, one month, three months, sometimes a year between acting jobs. Eventually my sister painted it pink. Employment was an issue for my mother from the day I was born. Even for me: Until ten years ago, I couldn't jump from one job to another. You think it's going to be forever—I hope—but each job is just one more chance."
He leans into the brick wall, hugging himself. "It's the actor's insecurity: One day you're liked and the next it's ah, nah, not that guy. My mom told me, 'Just keep doing your job.' You get something gold, thank you. You suck, thank you. You keep on moving."
You suck. Those words make me laugh when he first says them at the restaurant; they aren't exactly the descriptors that come to mind when conjuring Bardem's talent. Bardem occupies an enviable place in the Hollywood constellation—his dignity remains intact—even though, as he points out, his career has been more like an anti-career. ("What career?" he says. "I've always been like, 'We're here now. Let's do this.' ") Where other Spanish actors left home early to try out American film, sometimes filling the token-Latin slot in a cast, Bardem's theory was simple if audacious: Pick great Spanish parts and eventually Hollywood would come calling.
Bardem's approach, then—to make his characters, however big or small, indelible—has made him pickier than most. "Even when he was poor," says his brother, Carlos, "he said no to roles all the time." When Steven Spielberg approached him to play Colin Farrell's part in Minority Report, Bardem offered a simple assessment of why the film wouldn't work for him: "I don't see myself running on roofs," he said. If he didn't believe in the role, he felt no one else would, either.
Bardem builds his characters with obsessive fidelity, most often in conjunction with his acting coach, Juan Carlos Corazza, whom he calls "a fucking genius." Their partnership is legend among the tight circle of actors in Madrid: Roughly twenty-five years ago, Corazza opened an acting school in Madrid, and Bardem, all of 18, with spiky hair and intact nose, was the first person through the door. Says Bardem's brother, "Juan Carlos is the best player, and Javier is his best instrument, his masterwork." Bardem returns to Corazza's acting school once a year, even now, usually for a month, to take classes.
"You see actors of 17, 18, 20 doing stuff, and you think, 'How old my tools are, how old I am,' " says Bardem. "It's a place where I can go to do it wrong, and after the others see me fail onstage, they say, 'He's got the same fucking issues that we do.' "
The brothers Bardem have a word for trying not to suck. "When we go to acting class, we're like bors: We say, 'Let's go train,' " Carlos says. "My brother brings such ease to his roles, but that doesn't show the months, and sometimes years, of training to get it right. And he can be a pain in the ass: If you're his director, get ready for a thousand questions."
Mendes, with whom Bardem spent eighteen months on-set filming, confirms the actor's obsession: "He does want to work very hard, to go over every full stop, every comma, every word. He would take his lines from the Bond script, translate it to Spanish, understand it, feel it, mold it, and translate it back again into English." In the instance of his other archvillain, Anton Chigurh, Brolin, his co-star in No Country, says: "He gained twenty-five pounds for that role, and he quit smoking. He was trying to get the accent right; I was trying to do a movie without speaking. He kept asking questions and getting back monosyllabic answers. All our insecurities were there, and we became very, very close. Later, when my kids were backpacking around Europe, he and Penélope took them in."
Bardem says that Corazza asked him what essence he was trying to convey through Chigurh. "That was the first character ever that I didn't try to build as a human, but as an idea," he says. "We arrived at the fact that I was violence. You call for it, and it has my haircut."
It was Alejandro González Iñárritu's Biutiful, however, in which Bardem found himself overmatched. Playing a clairvoyant thief named Ual, he entered the "hardest, most honest role" of his life, an actorly platitude that can mean many different things, but in Bardem's case means he crossed a dangerous line between "being artistic and being delusional." ("The artist goes and comes back," he says. "The deluded person goes and stays.")
In the film, for which Bardem received a Best Actor nomination, Ual wanders the gritty back alleys of Barcelona with long, flyaway hair and a drawn face the color of bruise and olive, providing illegal-immigrant labor to shady construction companies at cut-rate wages even as he discovers he's dying of pancreatic cancer. His descent is stark and brutal. "In Biutiful, I saw the wolf's ears," Bardem says, shoveling steak from a shared plate. "Before it attacks, you see the ears go up, when you're"—here he holds his thumb and forefinger a fraction from each other—"this close to being eaten by your situation. I wanted to find out what it would be like in someone else's shoes, so I pushed it a little more. The sickness is to feel there's something there and then push it a little harder to make an entertainment, turn up the volume on the pain to make it entertain. But that's extreme reality, that's not acting, that goes against the acting laws: Don't fucking show it. Hold it."
In the aftermath, Bardem agreed to the romantic lead in Eat Pray Love. "I needed to give myself a cake. That's why I said, 'Take me to Bali—light, flowers, sea, a beautiful lead actress, a love story.' " And yet he can barely watch it, or any other of his films for that matter. "The fact that I like to make characters doesn't mean that I like to watch my characters being made, my performance," he says. "I can't even watch that fucking nose, that fucking voice, those ridiculous eyes. I can't handle that. But when I'm doing it, I don't see my nose or hear my voice; it's like there's something stronger, bigger than that. And I need to express it."
The following afternoon, I meet up with Carlos Bardem and a couple of Javier's close actor friends at Café de Oriente, directly opposite the royal palace. Carlos has just come from the bar he owns, having had to lay off five employees who've been with him for many years. Looking wrecked, he at first waves off alcohol because, as he says, "If I start drinking whiskey now, I'll cry." Like his brother, he's outraged by the precipitous events in Spain, calls it "an economic genocide." "The reason why we haven't had a revolution," he says, "is because of the Spanish belief in family and friends. We see each other every day: That's what keeps our society together now."
Carlos is a bit of a Renaissance man, author of three novels, an actor with his own Hollywood agent, a screenwriter of a new film, Alacrán Enamorado, that includes a role for his brother, that of a neo-Nazi. "It was chilling, the way Javier transformed," he says. "You see six different films and you never see the real Javier. Tom Cruise is Tom Cruise, but Javier changes every movie.
"I was sitting next to him at the premiere for No Country for Old Men," Carlos continues, "and when I saw Chigurh, I didn't see my brother: the weird walking, the blank face, the loose eyes, the haircut. When they turned the lights back on, I said, 'Get the fuck away from me, man!' "
The two others nod knowingly. One, the actor Juan Carlos Vellido, showed up in a photograph the other day on gossip websites, hanging out with Javier and Penélope at a café. It seems odd to have friends who are stalked like this, but as Vellido reminds me, regardless of rank and fame, they're part of a tight-knit group, all of whom have taken their place in a long line of cómicos, the old tradition of Spanish actors to whom Bardem dedicated his Academy Award.
As the beers inevitably begin to flow, the topic lurches between Javier's success and the Spanish economy. As part of the new austerity measures, the government recently raised tas on movie and theater tickets, among other things, from 8 to 21 percent, which is what motivated the Bardem brothers to protest the other day. "There's no protection of culture anymore," says Vellido.
"The government is full of former Franco people and their children," adds Carlos. "And for some reason, they seem to want to devalue my brother because he's one of the most famous Spanish actors in history, and he's speaking out against them. There's a right-wing paper that said he was making $10 million a film, which is a lie.
"Javier was so mad he wanted to sue them for libel," Carlos continues. "He gets upset. We can be hot people. But I said, 'Don't miss a second of your life on this, Javier. Don't get on the Internet, don't worry if they take pictures of you drinking a beer with friends'—he has a sixth sense for cameras—'or leaving a movie with a beautiful woman who happens to be your wife.' "
Carlos pauses, flashes those same lugubrious Bardem eyes. "He's an artist and sensitive guy. He becomes a prisoner of himself sometimes, but he knows that what's much more important than this job is being a citizen, a Spaniard. It's everything that really matters."
At La Bardemcilla, when I ask Javier where he thinks the inspiration comes from for his varied roles, he says, "Life, love, and death, right?" He cites "the strong moment" of his father's death when he was 26; his mother; Penélope—whom he won't mention by name. "I'm happily married. I breathe and stay in peace. I truly thank whoever's up there for giving me the opportunity to be loved." Mendes describes Cruz visiting the set, and despite the distraction of the crew, he says, "you see them together and you think they're meant to be together. They're remarkably grounded. "
And then there's Bardem's son. "You feel like you know shit," the actor says, "and you discover everything again, through his eyes."
As we leave the restaurant, he listens to his brother-in-law describe hard times ("A party of five came in the other day, and they ordered one beer and five tap waters and then left"), hugs and kisses his sister good-bye (they make funny smooching sounds as they buss cheeks).
There's a Hollywood story that Carlos tells about his brother. Though a huge star in Spain and a multiple winner of that country's Goya Award when he came to Los Angeles, Bardem started anonymously. The brothers were standing at a Hollywood party, drinking, working up the nerve to say hello to a hero of theirs, Sylvester Stallone. When they finally approached and asked Stallone for his best acting advice—it being unclear if Stallone knew Bardem from the valet out front—Stallone paused and then said, "Never forget about the money."
"We laughed about it," says Carlos, "but Javier was kinda shocked. Because he's the exact opposite."
And yet one wonders whether, with the colossus that is Bond, Bardem can continue the delicate balancing act between art-house and major releases, Spanish- and English-speaking parts, dark and light characters. Or to tap the strength derived from the particularity—even the regionality—of certain roles. Shrouded in the usual secrecy, the Terrence Malick film, To the Wonder, which brought Bardem to Oklahoma for a month of shooting, seems to offer a counterbalance to the Bond spectacle. "I have no idea how much or little of my character will end up in the final cut. But you don't do a Terry Malick film for that, you do it to have the experience," he says.
And then we're walking the sunstroked streets of Madrid, Bardem wearing dark glasses against the bright, hot light but otherwise doing nothing to hide himself. It's rare that he wanders in public without causing a commotion, but today the city is hauntingly quiet, except for the police. "Where is everyone?" he says.
Near my hotel, bells peal on the hour. From the porch of a nearby building, a group of mechanical figures emerge from the face of a medieval clock: the matador, the painter, the flamenco dancer—symbols of Spain's past glory even as the country expects to ask the EU for a second bailout and harder times loom ahead. We say good-bye there, Bardem headed down to the taxi stand by the Prado, back to his family.
The figures bow, gesture, and disappear. When I look down the street in the direction of the taxi stand, Javier Bardem has vanished into the heart of the city, too.
Michael Paterniti is a GQ correspondent.


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Accredited Online Colleges and Online Universities
Whether you are initiating your education or advancing it, attending one of many online colleges or online universities may be the convenient 'going to school' alternative. Online college degree programs are available at so many levels today – certificates, associates, bachelors, masters and doctorate degrees, that there should be no hemming and hawing about achieving your academic goals. Online schools and virtual classrooms make it possible to take college courses while balancing other obligations.
DID YOU KNOW? Out of the 18.6 million students enrolled in college in 2015, 5.5 million is the number of them who conducted at least part of their studies online—which is 30% of all enrolled students—meaning that online colleges are definitely growing in popularity!
So you might ask yourself, what else is up with online learning? Well, the student body itself is changing. In fact, it's getting younger. According to a 2016 study released by The Learning House and Aslanian Market Research, the percentage of online students aged 18 to 24 years old has doubled since 2012.
Another interesting fact, despite classes being online, many still choose online colleges close to home. And, the most important thing these folks consider when deciding which university to attend is still money: "How much will all of this cost me?" Read our infographic to the right to find out more interesting details about online universities and student facts and statistics about colleges online!
Motivated? Read on and we will walk you through a few important issues about attending online colleges and earning your degree online!
As technology improves to make online education more and more sophisticated, and as employers become more accepting of degrees from an online university, the number of students choosing this route is increasing. One estimate has online enrollment nationwide growing at 1% per year. Online students are increasingly younger, and some may not even consider going to on campus colleges as offerings online deliver sufficient levels of course programming. If you're looking to join the growing ranks of online college students, then take a look around here on eLearners.com and apply the filters we've discussed to find a college program that is perfect for you. The future is now!
What Are Online Colleges?
Some online colleges and universities are traditional learning institutions who have adapted curriculum to make their degree programs accessible to more students. Others are modern operations with no campus center. In fact, you may want to choose a college or university that has a well-established identity and reputation that has been administering online programming for several years, rather than choosing one that is still experimenting. You could feasibly take online classes out of state, or even log into online college courses at midnight if you are a night owl. You could even consider trying self paced online courses and learn at your own pace. An online college degree is one that may be earned without, in some cases, setting foot on campus, though 75% of students select a campus within 100 miles of their home.[i]
Take away: Some online universities are traditional learning institutions that make their degree programs available through web-based technology and digital tools.
Who Attends Online Universities?
With the growing popularity of online universities the number of online degree programs continues to grow. People who may find attending an online college best for them are likely people who need flexibility and have other life responsibilities to tend to, which makes an online education a wise choice for them.
- Currently working professionals
- Those who want to upgrade their skills
- An adult learner with family
- A young student wanting a potentially cost-efficient education
- Someone who cannot relocate
DID YOU KNOW? 90% of students feel their online education is "about the same" or "better" than their past classroom experiences. AND more than two-thirds of online students feel their online college program was worth the investment of their time.[iii]
Distance Learning Defined
Distance learning uses technology to "free learning from the limits of time or space"[iv] to make college education available to more people. Is there one set format for distance-learning? No, but here are some potential features of online schools:
- Asynchronous Learning: Online courses are pre-recorded (think MP3) or video recorded versions of live lectures. These are posted to a web-based course management system. Students may access them 24/7. Possible benefit: Self-paced study.
- Synchronous Learning: Online courses are live-streaming at specific time that you join via computer, with the possibility of participating. Possible benefit: Experience the classroom.
- Technological Tools: Online courses are delivered through the worldwide web which means you need some type of computer device, but not necessarily a table top computer (think laptop, mobile device). You may correspond through emails, standard mail, telephone, IM, special software, video conferencing and online group discussion forums that are available through your school's e-learning platforms. Possible benefit: Portability and convenience.
- 100% Online vs. Partially Online: Some online colleges offer 'fully online' degree programs where student and instructor are in different places. Partially online college degree programs (hybrid format) require on-campus intensives, meetings or courses. This is often found in human-centered disciplines or ones where you need the in-class demonstration or supervision. Possible benefit: access to laboratory or other campus facilities, face-to-face instruction, interaction, team-building.
Choosing an Online College: Getting Started With Online Colleges
Several factors are important in choosing an online university. You may need to look at things such as how to:
- Understand accreditation
- Find legitimate online schools
- Figure out financing an online education at online colleges
- Assess online universities
You may wish to pursue an online education for the convenience of learning via web-based technology, using your computer instead of being a regular commuter. You wouldn't be alone. Recent reports indicate that today's student is deliberately choosing distance-learning as their modality of choice.[v] But apart from that you want to make sure that the college education you receive is quality, so make sure you find out the above.
A is For Accreditation: Find Accredited Online Colleges
If you are wondering whether an online university is legitimate (everyone has heard of "degree mills") you are already on track to researching accredited online colleges. In general, accredited schools may be widely accepted by employers but don't "give assurance of acceptance of graduates by employers"[vi] (per the U.S. Department of Education). In regulated professions (e.g. counseling, psychology, education, accounting) where you might need to sit for state licensure exams, you usually need to show that you earned your degree at an accredited online university (i.e. reputable).
This is certainly the case with accreditation for engineering schools and programs[vii]. ABET accredits engineering and engineering technology degree programs, and most employers say they prefer to hire those who have come out of an accredited degree program. In fact, people pursuing a career as a licensed professional engineer must—in most cases—have earned a degree from an ABET-accredited degree program, according to the U.S. BLS.
Take away: Search for online accredited colleges to verify whether your online college degree may be legitimate
What Is Accreditation?
Accreditation is like a stamp of approval that means an institution maintains standards "requisite for its graduates to gain admission to other reputable institutions of higher learning or to achieve credentials for professional practice"[viii]. The goal is quality control. Accreditation in the U.S. is carried out by private, nonprofit organizations. Since an institution needs to upkeep their accredited status, you are always better off doing your due diligence by looking on an official database rather than checking a prospective online universities website.
How Accreditation Works
Essentially, accreditation is at 2 levels: the schools and the programs. Colleges, universities, and specific programs (not people) are accredited. In the United States, the Secretary of Education is required by law to publish a list of nationally recognized accrediting agencies that the Secretary has determined are reliable authorities in terms of quality of education and training[ix]. The database of accredited institutions and recognized State authorities (accreditors) is available on:
- The U.S. Department of Education website. The USDE primary purpose is to assure that federal student aid funds are purchasing quality courses and programs.
- The Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA) website. CHEA's primary purpose is on quality improvement for courses, programs and degrees.
Different Types of Accreditation for Online Colleges
There are 3 main types of accreditation in the United States:
- National Accrediting Organizations operate throughout the U.S. and review entire institutions. Nationally accredited colleges are usually focused around a single area of study and the majority are non-degree granting, for-profit schools.
- Regionally Accrediting Organizations operate within specified boundaries in six regions throughout the U.S. accrediting agencies and review entire institutions. About 98% of regionally accredited online colleges are degree-granting and nonprofit.
- Specialized Accrediting Organizations also operate throughout the country a review specific programs and some single purpose institutions. Usually this applies to an evaluation of professional programs, department or schools that are parts of an institution. AACSB[xiv] (business), ABET (engineering) CAEP (educator preparation) are some examples.
8 Tips for Financing Your Degree at an Online University
Accreditation may even play a role in receiving financial assistance since only a USDE-recognized accrediting organization is eligible to receive federal financial assistance for their students.[xvii] If you have checked that box and found an online university, there are different options you might consider for covering tuition costs (scholarships, grants, loans). Applying for financial aid may vary between schools so here are 8 tips to help you navigate financing your online education.
- Don't wait, start before you need to because the financial aid process may take time;
- Take note of application deadlines on a spreadsheet or put them in your digital diary;
- Accumulate info from prospective online colleges or universities by speaking to a counselor at the school who is savvy about all things tuition based;
- Check out the USDE for programs that provide financial aid;
- Fill out a FAFSA (Free Application for Federal Student Aid);
- Keep a paper trail of everything you do so you have your own records;
- Be real both in terms of honesty on applications and the amount you borrow (loan=repayment)
- Apply for our exclusive $1000 Online College Essay Scholarship
Assessing Online Universities
Choosing an accredited online universities that meets or exceeds your expectations may take a little virtual legwork. Here are 7 points you may wish to clarify with prospective online schools.
- Experience in Online Education
Some universities offer an online college degree program that mirrors its residential one, meaning same faculty and courses but delivered through current education technology and online instruction methods. There is often a section "about" the institution that will have this information.
- Formats and Flexibility
Review the actual format of the online degree program you are considering. Sometimes a school will offer an online degree but there are on-campus requirements or a combination of synchronous and asynchronous learning. If you have a busy schedule you want to make sure the program is flexible enough for you, for instance, makes use of virtual lectures, electronic textbooks, adaptive learning systems.
- Orientation and Advising
Earning a degree online is not the same as face-to-face learning where you can stay after class and talk to your professor or teacher's assistant. Many online universities support students transitioning to distance education by assigning them an enrollment advisor. Some online schools, some online colleges, may also have an orientation for online learners or a trial period where you may try out online learning at a school without committing.
- Program Diversity and Availability
Online schools may offer a broad range of programs which may mean you get to choose from a variety of electives or seamlessly switch majors if your goals change. Some online schools also offer full degree paths (associate-bachelor-master-doctorate) or certificates where the credits might be transferred later. You do want to make sure that you don't lack access to classes required for graduation so speak with an enrollment advisor to create a roadmap of courses.
- Student Support and Resources
You may want to evaluate online universities based on its student support services. This means technical support teams, academic support, online library tools, and career counseling. Some schools have internship or study abroad features as well, so get a clear sense of what it means to be an online student at a few prospective schools.
- Learning Environment
Earning a degree online does not mean that your education will be easier. Set yourself up for success by checking into the online college's technology to see if using their online learning environment makes sense to you or is well-explained. You may want to look for schools with web platforms where it is intuitive how to interact with classmates and professors, and some online colleges do offer mobile access. While you may have to purchase some software or a digital camera, you want to make sure you aren't going into it frustrated.
- Transfer Credits
If you plan to transfer credits from another college, make sure prospective online colleges will do so. Sometimes you may need to make up some course requirements so remember to stay prepared and inquire early.
Lists, Rankings & Ratings: Comparing Online Schools
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Alternative Names
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Tissues in different parts of the body release histamine and other substances. This causes the airways to tighten and leads to other symptoms.
Some drugs (morphine, x-ray dye, aspirin, and others) may cause an anaphylactic-like reaction (anaphylactoid reaction) when people are first exposed to them. These reactions are not the same as the immune system response that occurs with "true" anaphylaxis. However, the symptoms, risk for complications, and treatment are the same for both types of reactions.
Anaphylaxis can occur in response to any allergen. Common causes include:
Drug allergies
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Pollens and other inhaled allergens rarely cause anaphylaxis. Some people have an anaphylactic reaction with no known cause.
Anaphylaxis is life-threatening and can occur at any time. Risks include a history of any type of allergic reaction.
Symptoms develop quickly, often within seconds or minutes. They may include the following:
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- Cough
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- Difficulty breathing
- Difficulty swallowing
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Palpitations Skin redness
- Slurred speech
- Swelling of the face, eyes, or tongue
- Unconsciousness
- Wheezing
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Signs include:
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Fluid in the lungs (
pulmonary edema)
Low blood pressure
Mental confusion
- Rapid pulse
Skin that is blue from lack of oxygen or pale from shock
Swelling (
angioedema) in the throat that may be severe enough to block the airway
Swelling of the eyes or face
- Weakness
The health care provider will wait to test for the allergen that caused anaphylaxis (if the cause is not obvious) until after treatment.
Anaphylaxis is an emergency condition that needs professional medical attention right away. Call 911 immediately.
Check the person's airway, breathing, and circulation (the ABC's of Basic Life Support). A warning sign of dangerous throat swelling is a very hoarse or whispered voice, or coarse sounds when the person is breathing in air. If necessary, begin rescue breathing and
- Call 911.
- Calm and reassure the person.
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- If the person has emergency allergy medicine on hand, help the person take or inject the medication. Avoid oral medication if the person is having difficulty breathing.
- Take steps to prevent shock. Have the person lie flat, raise the person's feet about 12 inches, and cover him or her with a coat or blanket. Do NOT place the person in this position if a head, neck, back, or leg injury is suspected, or if it causes discomfort.
- Do NOT assume that any allergy shots the person has already received will provide complete protection.
- Do NOT place a pillow under the person's head if he or she is having trouble breathing. This can block the airways.
- Do NOT give the person anything by mouth if the person is having trouble breathing.
Paramedics or other health care providers may place a tube through the nose or mouth into the airways (
The person may receive antihistamines, such as diphenhydramine, and corticosteroids, such as prednisone, to further reduce symptoms (after lifesaving measures and epinephrine are given).
Expectations (prognosis)
Anaphylaxis is a severe disorder that can be life-threatening without prompt treatment. However, symptoms usually get better with the right therapy, so it is important to act right away.
- Airway blockage
- Cardiac arrest (no effective heartbeat)
Respiratory arrest(no breathing)
- Shock
Calling your health care provider
Call 911 if you develop severe symptoms of anaphylaxis. If you are with another person, he or she may take you to the nearest emergency room.
- Avoid triggers such as foods and medications that have caused an allergic reaction in the past. Ask detailed questions about ingredients when you are eating away from home. Also carefully examine ingredient labels.
- If you have a child who is allergic to certain foods, introduce one new food at a time in small amounts so you can recognize an allergic reaction.
- People who know that they have had serious allergic reactions should wear a medical ID tag.
- If you have a history of serious allergic reactions, carry emergency medications (such as a chewable form of diphenhydramine and injectable epinephrine or a bee sting kit) according to your health care provider's instructions.
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Directors: Angela Christlieb, Stephen Kijak. With Jack Angstreich, Harvey Schwartz, Roberta Hill. (83 min)
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Director: Peter Jackson. With Elijah Wood, Viggo Mortensen, Ian McKellen, Orlando Bloom, Sean Astin, Billy Boyd. (201 min.)
Sterritt ** See review, this page.
Director: Mike Newell. With Julia Roberts, Kirsten Dunst, Julia Stiles, Maggie Gyllenhaal. (118 min.)
Sterritt ** See review, page 18.
Director: Monika Treut. With Yvonne Bezerra de Mello, Alváro Bezerra de Mello. (91 min)
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Sterritt * Dismal adaptation of Dr. Seuss's classic book, about a magical cat who coaxes two kids into having mischievous fun while their mom's away. Myers plays the title feline as if he were a borscht-belt comedian without a speck of talent, and Welch's frenetic style is more like a Freudian fever dream than a children's amusement. In all, jaw-droppingly miscalculated.
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Director: Mathieu Kassovitz. With Halle Berry, Robert Downey Jr., Penélope Cruz, Charles S. Dutton. (97 min.)
Sterritt ** Accused of murdering her husband, a psychiatrist (Berry) is forcibly committed to her own mental institution, where her colleagues have trouble believing her growing realization that an evil ghost is behind the whole tragic misunderstanding. Great cast, great atmosphere, little sense or first-rate suspense.
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Sex/Nudity: 1 instance of nudity, 2 innuendos. Violence: 15 instances of violence, including rape and sexual torture. Profanity: 5 profanities. Drugs: 3 scenes with smoking.
Director: Jon Favreau. With Will Ferrell, James Caan, Zooey Deschanel, Edward Asner. (92 min.)
Sterritt **** Buddy was raised at the North Pole by Santa but when he learns he's an adopted human rather than an everyday elf, he heads for Manhattan to meet his dad, a Scrooge-like executive. The cast is perfect, and David Berenbaum has written a smart and funny sugarplum of a screenplay.
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Sex/Nudity: None. Violence: 4 scenes of violence, including a beating. Profanity: 2 mild profanities. Drugs: 5 scenes with alcohol, 1 scene with smoking.
Director: Ron Minkoff. With Eddie Murphy, Marsha Thomason, Terence Stamp, Wallace Shawn. (88 min.)
Sterritt ** Hoping to land a commission, two married real-estate brokers and their kids visit a spooky old manor containing a mysterious young man, his weirded-out butler, and ghosts galore. While this uneven horror comedy may supply giggles and shivers to the preteens it's aimed at, grownups won't find anything they haven't seen before. Stamp's portrayal of the butler is fun, though.
Sex/Nudity: 1 instance of innuendo. Violence: 12 scenes. Profanity: 10 mild expressions. Drugs: 2 scenes of drinking.
Director: Edward Zwick. With Tom Cruise, Ken Watanabe, Timothy Spall, Billy Connelly. (144 min.)
Sterritt ** A down-and-out Civil War veteran accepts an offer to teach Japanese troops how to shoot so they can subdue Japan's remaining samurai swordsmen. But his loyalties shift when he's held captive in a samurai village overflowing with values of dignity, fidelity, and honor. The slow-moving movie puts more weight on pretty pictures than on historical issues.
Staff *** Flawed plot, 'Dances with Wolves' remake, beautifully shot, epic.
Sex/Nudity: 2 instances of innuendo. Violence: 21 scenes of bloody battle. Profanity: 4 instances. Drugs: 10 scenes of drinking, 2 scenes smoking.
Director: Nancy Meyers. With Jack Nicholson, Diane Keaton, Keanu Reeves, Amanda Peet. (121 min.)
Sterritt *** An aging businessman (Nicholson) realizes that the 20-something he's wooing (Peet) is less interesting, fun, and sexy than her mother (Keaton), but before he can cement a solid relationship with this mature woman, a young physician (Reeves) arrives to complete the love quadrangle. While it's a standard romantic comedy in most respects, Meyers's movie deserves extra credit for challenging Hollywood clichés about love across the generations, and for teaming up Nicholson and Keaton, whose chemistry positively bubbles off the screen.
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Sex/Nudity: 4 scenes with nudity, 2 sex scenes, 3 innuendos. Violence: None. Profanity: 19 profanities. Drugs: 14 scenes with drinking. 4 scenes with smoking.
Directors: Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly. With Matt Damon, Greg Kinnear, Wen Yann Shih, Cher. (118 min.)
Sterritt ** Conjoined twins from New England have new problems in their relationship when one of them (Kinnear) decides to try for Hollywood stardom and the other (Damon) gets nervous about finally meeting an Internet pen pal he's never seen in person. The comedy is tooooo loooooong for the two or three jokes it has to play with, and Kinnear does the picture's only three-dimensional acting. Meryl Streep and Griffin Dunne are good sports in their small roles, though.
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Director: Mark Waters. With Jamie Lee Curtis, Lindsay Lohan, Harold Gould, Mark Harmon. (93 min.)
Staff *** Jamie Lee Curtis is a one-woman special effects team in this loopy delight, which surpasses the original 1973 Jodie Foster-Barbara Harris film. Curtis and Lindsay Lohan (who's making a career of Disney remakes - she also starred in 19987's "The Parent Trap") play Tess and Anna, a squabbling mother and daughter who become trapped in each other's bodies for 24 hours. The extras are strictly Disney Channel fodder (I'll let you decide for yourself if that's a good thing). Lohan giggles good-naturedly through a back-stage featurette, and there are one deleted snippet, two music videos, and a couple of alternate endings, none of which, sadly, features Curtis zooming off into the sunset on a motorcycle, electric guitar strapped to her back. By Yvonne Zipp


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Hi everyone! I just picked up a 1974 RA21 Celica GT project car. 20R motor, 5-Speed. A buddy of mine spotted the car in a driveway in San Jose, CA, and talked the owner into selling it to me. It's rough and needs some TLC, but looking forward to working on it with my 4 year old son as time permits (he loves cars).
I've been a long time fan of the early Celicas. My first car was a 1972 Celica that was a hand me down from my grandparents, with only 30,000 original miles. The car from my grandparents was rusted out real bad, so my dad bought a clean 72 body and we swapped the drivetrain into it. (this was in 1989). Then I used the rusted car as a parts car. I wish I still had both those cars today! I have many fond memories of learning to work on cars with my dad and my friends on the Celica.
My original yellow parts car ended up in a junk yard in Moss Landing, CA area in the late 90's. The red car was sold to an individual where I lost track of it. I think we heard this also ended up in a junk yard somewhere in the same area. Maybe one of you have seen them or own them now? If so I have a lot of history on them obviously.
1974 GT I just bought, as found in San Jose:
1974 GT pic 2:
1974 GT pic 3:
My original 1972 Celica, second body with 30K drivetrain, before I had it painted (circa 1991):
My original 1972 Celica after painting red (circa 1994):
Original 1972 celica pic 2 (circa 1994):
Original rusted car with 30,000 drivetrain, turned into parts car (circa 1994):
(Ouch! Makes me sick. I wish I still had this. Little did I know these would become rare and the parts hard to find).
Anyways, glad to be part of the 1stgencelica community!


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Why is the model t a revolutionary vehicle
I guess I'm pretty new to this, but I've heard reference to "Watts Clutch" a couple of times now. Could someone please explain what exactly this is and how it works? It sounds interesting. Thanks
I want to build a replica Ford Model T truck but I don't have the measurements and the dimensions and was wondering if anyboby did. If anyone has this information for me it would be greatfully recieved.Thanks.
I have a 1915 Model T Touring and 2 of the doors (front & rear passenger doors) don't fit properly (tight fit). Do you have any tips on fitting the doors?
Paul,Fitting doors is not rocket science. It's simply a matter of knowing what you want the door to do. If it sags or is to high to latch properly,you must bend the hinge (top or bottom) that makes it go up or down. If you have a lateral closure problem,then the hinge must be bent sideways. Picture it as a piece of card board the same size as door and the see what it takes to get it where you want it. Good luck.
Paul -- How is the wood in your car? The body is formed by a wooden framework with the sheet metal tacked onto the wood. Rotting wood often first shows up as ill-fitting doors. If the wood is getting soft and/or the wood joints are loose, it won't hold the body in the proper shape so it's impossible to get your doors to fit right and have them stay there. The old wood won't hold the hinge screws well either, so the doors will sag. If the car's 90-year-old wood hasn't been replaced, it may be time to do that.
On the other hand, if the wood is solid, you may be able to get the doors to fit right by following Jack's suggestions or possibly by changing the shape of the body slightly by using washers to shim the body where it mounts to the frame. You can make the door openings wider or narrower at the top by doing this. If the wood has been replaced, it may need some shims to get it properly aligned.
does anyone by chance know what the thread size is on the model T radiator cap (crown style cap)
Anyone having knowledge of 1927 Tudor with blue vases in rear seat area. Any info re the blue vases?
Wanted 1918 to 1920? Coupe body parts
Wanted 1918 to 1920? Coupe body parts
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Need windshield,Turtle deck lid and front door post. Also need doors if they are reasonably priced.
i have just been given a 22 model t touring car, a 29 model a Roadster pickup and a 36 ford flathead v8 chemical spill truck. they were all from my grandfather who is still around but too old to fiddle with them. Lucky me. i have been around them for years and consider myself very educated about a's and t's. they are all restored and run well, i think. the model t seems to be suprisingly quick with the ruxell. the model a starts and drives great at slow speeds. i know that the t's will go forty and i believe it. i also know that the a's will go sixty-five. mine seems to run out of power around forty and sounds like it is working really hard at only fortyfive. it runs great around twenty-five or thirty and has lots of power. they all had the same motors but could my pickup be geared differently. it's not a ton truck, just a roadster pickup. i love driving them all but i am curious about the A. i know this is a T sight but any information would be appreciated
p.s. i feel privelaged considering i now own these and can in fact drive a tin lizzie. i also plan on joining some a and t clubs. thanks
The Model A Ford pickup has a different gear ratio in the differential than the passenger cars. My 1931 (widebed) Model A Ford Pickup runs great at 30 and 35. Anything above 45 mph puts a strain on the engine.


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RIT/NTID alumnus Luke Adams and his mother, Margie O'Donnell, will be featured a record third time on the popular CBS reality show The Amazing Race when the 24th season kicks off on Feb. 23, the network confirmed Monday.
Adams, who received a bachelor's degree in criminal justice in 2008, became the first deaf contestant on the show when he and his mother raced around the world in season 14, which aired in 2009. The show features teams that are given clues that take them around the world, often to exotic locations. The teams are confronted with physical and mental tasks to complete to receive additional clues. The last team to check in each week is usually eliminated. The first-place team shares a $1 million prize.
In season 14, Adams slid down a hill in the Alps with a 50-pound wheel of cheese, ran in his underwear in sub-freezing temperatures in Russia, got bitten by a bird in China and carried a pig on a pole in Hawaii. He and his mother made the finals that season and came in third place, winning $10,000.
They were brought back to appear on the 18th season of The Amazing Race, featuring previous contestants who had "unfinished business." They finished in eighth place.
CBS said the 11 teams for this all-star season were "some of the most memorable duos." If they don't get eliminated, teams will travel through four continents and nine countries, spanning more than 35,000 miles. The race will take them on a mission high above the city in Guangzhou, China; rappelling down the roaring rapids of the Kiansom Waterfall in Malaysia; fighting with Gladiators in Rome; and fueling up vehicles in Sri Lanka.
No team has ever appeared on the show more than twice. Adams and O'Donnell are among three that will be in the race for a third time.
"It was a huge surprise. We did not see it coming," Adams said. "We got the call out of the blue last July. They were like, 'Hey, do you want to do the race again?'"
Adams works as an advancement associate at the Pennsylvania School for the Deaf in Philadelphia. His mother, a registered nurse, lives in Colorado Springs, Colo.
Adams worked at NTID in the summer of 2009 as a co-director of Orientation Assistants for NTID's Summer Vestibule Program, which welcomes incoming students to RIT. While here, Adams entertained audiences by talking about his experiences on the show. O'Donnell also visited Luke in Rochester and spoke to parents here about her experience raising a deaf child and sending him off to college.
Adams was named Deaf Person of the Year in 2009 by Deaf Life magazine and appeared on its cover.
On his first appearance on the show, Adams said he hoped to set an example that deaf people can do anything. "A lot of deaf people think you can't go on TV, or shouldn't apply to different things," he said. "I want to give deaf people hope. That's what I want to do."
For more information, go to http://www.cbs.com/shows/amazing_race/cast/214810/.


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March 31, 2007
Providence, RI - The Bulldogs (5-7, 1-0) won their Ivy League opener Saturday as they cruised to a 6-1 victory over Brown (3-8, 0-1) in Providence. Yale won matches at No. 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 singles in the win.
At No. 1 singles, sophomore Janet Kim cruised to a 6-3, 6-1 victory over Daisy Ames. Freshman Sarah Lederhandler pulled out a 6-2, 2-6, 6-3 win against opponent Michelle Pautler at No. 2 singles. Playing No. 3 singles, senior Christine Alford handled Sara Mansur 6-4, 6-4. Freshman Jessica Rhee also came away with a straight set victory at No. 4 singles 6-3, 6-3. Senior captain Olivia Nix battled back after losing the first set 6-1 to win the match in a third set tiebreaker 10-6.
Yale also came away with the doubles point as they won matches at No. 1 and No. 2 doubles. The senior team of Alford and Nix won 8-6 at No. 1 doubles over Pautler and Mansur. At No. 2 doubles, the freshmen team of Rhee and Lederhandler cruised to an 8-4 victory over Kelley Kirkpatrick and Emily Ellis.
The Bulldogs return home Tuesday to battle Connecticut at 2:30 p.m. Yale then resumes Ivy play at Penn Friday.
1. Janet Kim (Y) Def. Daisy Ames (B), 6-3,6-1
2. Sarah Lederhandler (Y) Def. Michelle Pautler (B), 6-2,2-6,6-3
3. Christine Alford (Y) Def. Sara Mansur (B), 6-4,6-3
4. Jessica Rhee (Y) Def. Alexa Baggio (B), 6-3,6-3
5. Olivia Nix (Y) Def. Emily Ellis (B), 1-6,6-2,10-6
6. Tanja Vucetic (B) Def. Lilian Nguyen (Y), 6-7,6-2,10-6
1. Alford / Nix (Y) Def. Pautler / Mansur (B), 8-6
2. Rhee / Lederhandler (Y) Def. Kelley Kirkpatrick / Ellis (B) 8-4
3. Ames / Kathrin Sorokko (B) Def. Lindsey Dashiell / Kim (Y) 8-2
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Friday, May 04, 2012
What colonial women wore: A Trip to the Past - Part 9
The first layer is a shift, which serves as slip during the day and nightgown at night. Her white shift shows at the sleeves. Next she wears stays (a corset) and petticoats of linen or wool.
Her outer layer is a carico jacket, an upper garment which is open at the front, revealing the petticoat. She could also wear a short gown or a bed jacket.
She ties an apron around her waist and tucks in a neckerchief to protect her skin from the sun and for modesty. Colonial women wore caps as a matter of course, but the straw hat she wears on top of it is optional.
Seventeenth century women didn't wear anything under their shifts. (Re-enactors, however, prefer modern underwear to a chilly November draft!)
For lots of details about what colonial Americans wore and how they lived, as well as simple patterns and instructions to make your own period clothing, I recommend Tidings from the 18th Century by Beth Gilgun.
If you're not very handy with needle and thread or don't have the time, vendors at re-enactments — like the lady with the blue straw hat — will be happy to sell you ready-made dresses, caps and other items.
Next week I'll return to the 21st century for bookish events in North Carolina and Pennsylvania. Fill out the "Follow by Email" box in the sidebar of this page to get posts delivered right to your inbox.
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- Julia Tomiak said...
I just finished a trip to Colonial Williamsburg with my daughter and enjoyed this post. So much great information for history enthusiasts! I'm giving your blog the "Liebster Award" - it's a "pay it forward" recognition for blogs that deserve more traffic! More information at my blog http://juliatomiak.blogspot.com. Good luck with your work!
Elizabeth,I am a MNINB challenge participant and I have awarded you the Liebster award. I too have English roots, I married an Irishman and have been to the castle my English ancestors constructed quite awhile ago. Anyway, just wanted to tell you I enjoy your blog and history lessons. writingonthesun.wordpress.com
- Elizabeth Saunders said...
Thank you, Julia and JLynn! I don't do memes because I'm trying to focus and brand this blog, a big challenge when so many topics are interesting. But I will find a way to pay forward the blog love - after my trip to Philly.
I'd love to hear more about your roots and historical travels!


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Rx for ProgressBy Samuel Greengard | Posted 2009-08-04 Print
In today's data-centric world, organizations are striving to do a better job of recognizing and containing risks.
Rx for Progress
Over the last quarter-century, regulatory requirements have become a fact of life for many organizations. And Sarbanes-Oxley is only the beginning. A dizzying array of initiatives—Basel II, the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, HIPAA, NERC, COBIT, COSO, RoHS, WEEE and many others—force a growing number of organizations to adopt policies and procedures that ensure compliance.
"It has gotten to the point where an organization's enterprise risk management strategies affect its credit rating," Huron's Kispert explains.
Mark Pfefferman, director and assistant vice president of identity management for Western & Southern Financial Group, is among those who clearly understand the gravity of risk management. The Cincinnati-based Fortune 500 firm, rated among the top 10 insurance companies worldwide ($2.78 billion in 2008 sales), must adhere to the Model Audit Rule (MAR), a body of regulations that dictates auditing requirements and data access rules. HIPAA and Gramm-Leach-Bliley regulatory issues also apply.
"We have to address regulations and requirements without pushing up our head count and overall costs," he says.
A data breach could result in the company losing the public's respect and, in a worst-case scenario, losing its charter to conduct business in Ohio and beyond. In the past, Western & Southern Financial had mostly manual controls in place.
"Unfortunately, humans are very poor monitors," Pfefferman says, adding, "There's a huge cost associated with having people dedicated to manual controls, and it's extremely difficult to audit the environment." In fact, an audit could require hundreds or thousands of pieces of paper or spreadsheets.
No longer. The company now provisions access rights and privileges based on roles and then certifies that individuals are slotted into the correct roles with the desired level of access. Using Novell Access Governance Suite, Western & Southern Financial is rolling out the system department by department, until all 4,000 employees are using it.
The advantages include better reporting, more granular access controls, improved auditing capabilities, and reduced administration and personnel costs, according to Pfefferman. The solution also has "a very tight system for terminating rights," he says. "We're able to avoid orphan accounts that could lead to unauthorized access to systems."
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- "We can only accept huntsmen whose heads have parted company with their bodies. You will appreciate that it would be impossible otherwise for members to participate in hunt activities such as Horseback Head-Juggling and Head Polo. It is with the greatest regret, therefore, that I must inform you that you do not fulfil our requirements."
- —Sir Patrick Delaney-Podmore to Sir Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington[src]
Head Polo is a game played by the Headless Hunt.[1] It presumably consists of a team sport played on horseback in which the objective is to score goals against an opposing team by driving their heads into the opposing team's goal using a long-handled mallet.
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Mentioned only)
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- ↑ Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Chapter 8 (The Deathday Party)


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And no matter how they manifest for you, they can be overwhelming and scary to experience.
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If you really are in a life-threatening situation, this can be invaluable. However, this extreme reaction doesn't only surface in extreme situations.
This is because your emergency response system can also become sensitive and be activated during inappropriate times, often when you're already stressed or somehow reminded of a traumatic event.
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The good news is that there are things you can do to lower the likelihood that you'll have a panic attack. A helpful strategy is to reduce your overall stress levels, and you can do this by:
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Bro, all of this what you're saying is just mental masturbation, too much focusing on numbers which are pretty much irrelevant. You do Rushen until you get a result, the same way with any practice. If a requirement is to do 100 000 of something and you do it but don't have any signs that means you have to do more (or that you're doing something wrong). It doesn't mean you're finished just because you completed some requirement someone else gave.Lhug-Pa wrote: I would guess that for the Outer and/or Inner Rushens specifically, not missing a single day until it is finished would be very important; and, even though missing a day would not necessarily eradicate all benefit accumulated up until that point, it would still most likely be best to start the Outer and/or Inner Rushen over if one misses a day, in order to make sure that it is done correctly. And if one thinks that it is likely that a day could get missed, then maybe it's better to wait until one can go on an actual away-from-home retreat (unless one doesn't mind starting over everytime a day is missed).... Just me speculating.
Now there are requirements in SMS so if you want to follow that program then you need to observe the numbers. Because that's part of how going to the next level is gauged. But even if you complete all the requirements there, if there are no signs you should do more. Otherwise you'll just be fooling yourself with some faulty idea of completion.
So stop obsessing about how much you should do of something and where and when and just start doing it. If you have the opportunity to do it one day or two and then not the next day or two, so what? It's much better than putting it off to some future personal retreat that may never come.


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Tom Clancy, the author of several best-selling military thrillers including "The Hunt for Red October" and "Patriot Games," died Tuesday at a Baltimore hospital. He was 66.
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Clancy's publisher confirmed the news to the New York Times. A spokesman for the author's literary agency William Morris Endeavor Entertainment did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
In a career that spanned three decades, Clancy became one of the most successful figures in publishing. His name above a title was a calling card that conferred best-seller status on his espionage and military thrillers and inspired a dizzying array of tie-ins ranging from movies to video games. His books reveled in the technological details of spy-craft and weaponry, spending paragraphs recounting the various features of a nuclear submarine or a fighter plane, for instance.
His most enduring creation may have been Jack Ryan, the patriotic and morally upright CIA analyst turned politician at the center of more than a dozen novels including "The Sum of All Fears" and "The Cardinal of the Kremlin." The character was notable because his life and ascent mirrored the tectonic changes taking place in American foreign policy throughout Clancy's writing career, as the country moved away from Cold War brinksmanship and turned its gaze to terrorist threats in the Middle East.
The character will appear once again in "Command Authority," an upcoming novel scheduled for release on Dec. 3 that finds Ryan returning to the hot spot where it all started and grappling with a new threat in Russia.
The printed page could not hold Ryan. His literary exploits inspired four big-screen adventures, with Harrison Ford, Alec Baldwin and Ben Affleck all portraying the intelligence expert in commercially successful films like "Clear and Present Danger" and "The Sum of All Fears." "Jack Ryan: Shadow One," a fifth Ryan film starring Chris Pine and directed by Kenneth Branagh, opens in theaters this December.
In addition to films, Clancy lent his name to a series of popular video games such as "Splinter Cell" from game maker UbiSoft. He was also a part-time owner of the Baltimore Orioles.
A political conservative and prominent supporter of the National Rifle Association, Clancy made headlines when he blamed liberal lawmakers for gutting the CIA and indirectly causing the attacks on September 11.
"The CIA was gutted by people on the political left who don't like Intelligence operations ... and as a result of that, as an indirect result of that, we lost 5,000 citizens," the author told Bill O'Reilly during a FOX News appearance shortly after the attacks.
Link to article: Tom Clancy, 'Hunt for Red October' author, dead at 66 - MSN Movies News
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Monday, May 21, 2012
Just another Denny story ....
I was in the kitchen, chopping veggies. I saw Denny from the corner of my eyes, lying there, waiting for some veggies to fall off the counter, as usual.
All was quiet, the White ones were downstairs, sleeping, not doing anything bad for sure, when it suddenly hit me!
Wait, that's not Denny!
Where the heck was Denny? Never a good sign, you can't let him out of your sight (still, maybe once he's 8 years old?).
Well, I found him in the dog bed in my studio, chewing a dish towel. No photographic evidence for that one. I asked him to join me in the kitchen, for real this time.
Anybody could have made that mistake, right? Meanwhile, Happy has come upstairs to check on things. I threw Denny a veggie, to keep him from getting bad ideas.
Celery? Are you kidding me?
That's not one of his favorite treats, that's for sure.
♥ ♥ ♥
edited: I forgot to say, and this is quite important to the story, that it was Denny who dragged the stuffed dog downstairs, from Maggie's room into the kitchen. Did he do that on purpose, to fool me? Placing a decoy, so he could slink off, to do bad stuff, with me off his back? ;o)
11 comments:
- adriene said...
Hahaha!! At least it was a toy DOG. I've often thought Rascal was sitting in the room with me, only to find it was actually my backpack/a pillow/some shoes/a shadow...
- May 21, 2012 10:57 a.m.
- Wanderingcatstudio said...
Oh - I totally think Denny put the stuffed dog there as a decoy - crafty as a fox that one is!
- May 21, 2012 11:20 a.m.
- CelticCastOn said...
He's a smart little weasel and it wouldn't surprise me a bit if he put the decoy there heheheh
- May 21, 2012 12:38 p.m.
- Andrea said...
Denny is such a handsome dog! And that's kind of the look I get when I toss my pups a healthy treat, like a slice of cucumber.
- May 21, 2012 6:36 p.m.
- illusions said...
He definitely did it on purpose...getting all set for a career in secret service I suppose :D
- May 22, 2012 1:49 a.m.
- 2paw said...
He's a trickster and who knows what other tricks he has up his sleeves. I love that The Whites are sticking together!! Gilly loves a piece of celery and will steal a bunch, Peri turns u her nose!!!
- May 22, 2012 8:13 a.m.
- lexa said...
He's too smart for his own good! lol Too cute. :)
- May 22, 2012 9:19 a.m.
- Virginia said...
Dogs are smart. So smart that they make you think they're not smart, just so they can outsmart you.
Glad you enjoyed the music I posted on my blog. :)
- May 22, 2012 8:15 p.m.
- Andi said...
It is Denny we are talking about...he put the decoy there! :) I love this post a whole lot!
- May 23, 2012 3:33 p.m.
- Mr. Puffy said...
It does look like Denny ~ an easy mistake to make :) He's a smart one and could well have placed that there to confuse and mislead you. No doubt about it. But I'm surprised he doesn't like celery. There isn't a vegetable that Simcha doesn't like.
- May 23, 2012 11:28 p.m.
- Tina said...
Knowing another heeler, I am pretty sure he did it on purpose, and I think you must correct your numbers, 8 is definitely too early for them to slow down :-)
- May 27, 2012 3:38 p.m.