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Game Day Decision.
Hello from Indianapolis! Many months ago, I signed up for the 500 Festival Mini Marathon and hoped that six months would be enough time to train and get back into racing shape.
Now just days before the race, I think six months is definitely plenty of time to build up that level of fitness if you have a dedicated training plan and stick to it.
I made the training plan. I didn't do it.
Postpartum running has been sort of a rollercoaster for me. When I was pregnant, I had all these high hopes and big ideas about what it would be like to bounce back into running shape.
I thought I'd be out there with the jogging stroller, gliding along and pushing myself just like I used to. My recovery from childbirth took longer than expected, but more than that, I found it really hard to get my mental shape back in focus to run.
Even though I love running, I find now that my motivations have changed. There are only so many free hours in the day, and when I have to prioritize and choose how to spend them, I often find myself choosing family time over solo runs. Of course that is a choice that I made, and I'm okay with that.
Even more so, I've found it really hard to re-learn how to push myself. For over a year, between recovering from my car accident, and then exercising through my pregnancy, my instincts were to dial back and take it easy. In that time, I've forgotten how to work through pain and really push myself to the next level.
Now six months postpartum, I think I'm slowly finding my way back to a point where I'm ready to start challenging myself again. I don't know that I'll ever have the same relationship with running that I had before, and that's okay. Now I have to share running with so many more parts of my life. But when I do actually hit the pavement and get those runs in, they feel that much more special.
When I first sat down to write this post (two days ago), my intention was to tell you that I'm not running the half-marathon this weekend. I didn't properly train for it – my longest run was seven miles. And after mastitis last weekend and a lot of stomach trouble this week, I don't feel very confident or prepared heading to the starting line.
We packed our bags last night, and I left my running shoes at home. And then just before our car pulled out of the driveway, I ran back in and grabbed my things. Just in case. We flew overnight last night from Seattle to Indianapolis. Cullen was really the only one that got much sleep!
But now that we're here, I'm feeling the itch to run. I know I'm not physically prepared, and that it will be very challenging. But I've run a lot of races before, and a small (foolish?) part of me thinks my body will remember how to do this like it used to. We headed to the expo this afternoon to pick up my bib number!
Casey is going to be out there cheering, and plans to meet me around the halfway point. I am motivated, but I'm not stupid. If I am feeling bad at the halfway point, I'll probably drop out. If I feel strong and confident, I'll keep going. At this point it's a game day decision.
I don't know what tomorrow will bring, but if nothing else, it has at least given me the motivation to train well for my next race in June. Wish me luck!


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This crazy Irish sunshine is absolutely incredible. 30 degrees today, did the Irish ever even think this possible?! Sunbathing at lunch time, ice-creams everyday and an acceptable 'get out' clause on all mundane chores which need to be done because 'ah sure the sun is shining better get out in it before the rain comes'. In light of all this new found heat, this evenings cake is a somewhat welcome reminder of the chill factor! Molly's Mam, my future mother in law's birthday was at the weekend and to celebrate I put together this 'frosty' lemon drizzle cake.
Although I used a basic lemon drizzle cake recipe (recipe to follow in the coming days) this cake could of course be made with any type of delicious centre. I used Tesco white roll out fondant icing to cover the main cake, using a wheel tool to add the ice cube detail on the sides.
The penguins are also made of solid fondant icing, using a combination of black white and yellow to form the bodies, with some striking orange to build the legs and feet. All the coloured fondant was coloured by hand (using Wilton gel food colourings) with the exception of the black which I always buy pre-coloured. I created the couch using fondant shaped into rectangles, and again using the wheel tool to add the little details which make it look a little more realistic.
E-D's Notes
When it comes to sugar craft and creating memorable cake toppers, often opting to put a character of animal sitting down cuts out a lot of heart ache. You don't need to be quite as accurate with proportions and size as a sitting figure hides a multitude! If your figure is sitting it also means you don't have to worry about how to support your figure in a standing position.

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There was a theme choice this month, but since I couldn't choose - I combined them!
I was planning on taking a picture of a good friend's engagement ring as the topic for my photo this month but the timing for that didn't work out and after thinking about it more 'Love or Leap' didn't necessarily mean that a photo 'pre' leap was necessary, haven't we all leapt into love at some point?
So there you have it, the proof that a year and a half ago on this past Valentine's Day, I too made that leap!
I don't know what is going to happen with Project 12 as there have apparently been accessibility issues for some people and things are changing to accommodate this. I haven't had any issues and found the system pretty user friendly for me, which was part of the reason that I elected to join up. I hope, for that reason, that the changes don't impact me too much and that I can continue to participate... I'll know more tomorrow.
Another thing; about that whole Oscar ballot? I suck! Seriously, the mister beat me for a second year in a row, but it wasn't difficult... I got 5. Yes, FIVE... out of twenty four!!! Oh dear.


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WASHINGTON, DC -- No doubt reassuring millions of Americans, President Bush on Jan. 4 defended his program of legally dubious wiretapping at home and strategically dubious regime change abroad for fighting terrorists by insisting he isn't in la-la land.
Terrorists want to use Iraq as a home base, Bush told reporters last week. He then added: "I'm not making this up."
So now you know: This time it's for real.
Fighting a credibility gap, the president has steadily insisted he needs the National Security Agency domestic wiretap program so as to ferret out information on terrorist plans and empower the government to prevent future attacks. But the kind of power Bush wants amounts to a family coup, carried under the pretense of defending the homeland.
"They attacked us before, they'll attack us again if they can," Bush said in San Antonio over the weekend. "And we're going to do everything we can to stop them."
If Bush is to be king, he'd better get his act and that of his courtiers up to par, at least. All the evidence is that the government knew in one case after another well before 9-11 that we were going to be attacked and did nothing about it.
The Zacarias Moussaoui fiasco is a prime example. In her letter to FBI director Robert Mueller of May 21, 2002, Coleen Rowley, the Minneapolis FBI agent who finally blew the whistle on the Bureau, points out the Minneapolis FBI agents figured Moussaoui was a terrorist threat in the summer of 2001. "The decision to take him into custody on August 15, 2001, on the INS 'overstay' charge was a deliberate one to counter that threat and was based on the agents' reasonable suspicions," she said in her May 21, 2002, letter to Mueller. These suspicions were reinforced by reports from French intelligence, but the FBI HQ refused to give the Minneapolis agents the go ahead on a search warrant. From the way Moussaoui was acting, the Minneapolis agents felt sure he was hiding something.
"The fact is that key FBIHQ personnel whose job it was to assist and coordinate with field division agents on terrorism investigations and the obtaining and use of FISA searches (and who theoretically were privy to many more sources of intelligence information than field division agents)," she told Mueller, "continued to, almost inexplicably, throw up roadblocks and undermine Minneapolis' by-now desperate efforts to obtain a FISA search warrant, long after the French intelligence service provided its information and probable cause became clear. HQ personnel brought up almost ridiculous questions in their apparent efforts to undermine the probable cause. In all of their conversations and correspondence, HQ personnel never disclosed to the Minneapolis agents that the Phoenix Division had, only approximately three weeks earlier, warned of Al Qaeda operatives in flight schools seeking flight training for terrorist purposes!"
The Moussaoui case again illustrates the inability of the FBI to take action in the face of obvious terrorist threats. The Bureau had been tipped off by one of its longtime Afghan assets in April 2001 of a planned attack on New York and Washington using commercial aircraft. It had an informant in San Diego, who actually socialized with two of the 9-11 hijackers when they arrived in the US in 2000 and even rented one of them a room.
None of this failing had anything to do with the slowness of the FISA court or a lack of intelligence or a lack of ability to gather intelligence. (The president has 72 hours to wiretap someone before having to get a search warrant and, in a time of war, 15 days.)
Instead, the falling down bore directly on the top officials of the Bureau, including both Mueller and his successor Louis Freeh, who did not act when confronted with clear evidence of a threat. Neither one of them has ever been held accountable for any of this disaster.
This is a reprint of Village Voice staff writer James Ridgeway's Monday Washington column.


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MADRID, Spain (Oct. 3, 2013) – The U.S. U-17 Men's National Team capped off its tour of Madrid, Spain, in grand fashion, topping La Liga side Rayo Vallecano's U-16 academy team 4-2 on the strength of a Haji Wright hat trick.
Wright helped the U.S. U-17s build a three-goal lead in the opening 35 minutes, scoring in the 20th and 35th minutes while adding an assist on Alejandro Zendejas' 24th-minute goal, as well. Rayo Vallecano pulled to within one goal with strikes in the 39th and 46th minutes, but Wright added his third goal of the match in the 69th minute to secure the final 4-2 score line in favor of the USA.
With the win, the U.S. U-17 MNT finished its three-match Madrid Tour unbeaten with an overall record of 1-0-2.
- U.S. U-17 Men's National Team Match Report -
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Date: Oct. 3, 2013
Competition: International Friendlies
Venue: Rayo Vallecano Training Complex
Kickoff: 8 p.m. local
Weather: 65, cloudy, cool
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Scoring Summary: 1 2 F
Goal Scorers:
USA-Haji Wright (Luca De La Torre) 20th minute
USA-Alejandro Zendejas (Haji Wright) 24
USA-Haji Wright (Christian Pulisic) 35
RAY-No. 11 39
RAY-No. 16 46
USA-Haji Wright (Pierre Da Silva) 69
USA: 1-Kevin Silva (12-Abraham Romero, 41), 2-Mathew Olosunde, 14-Tyler Adams, 17-Danny Barbir, 3-John Nelson, 8-Luca De La Torre (7-Pierre Da Silva, 54th), 16-Eric Calvillo (18-Brian Zelaya, 41), 9-Haji Wright, 10-Christian Pulisic (19-Joe Gallardo, 41), 11-Josh Perez (15-Logan Panchot, 68), 20-Alejandro Zendejas
Subs not used: 4-Tanner Dieterich, 5-Hugo Arellano, 6-Thomas McCabe, 13-Edwin Lara
Head Coach: Richie Williams
RAY: (Lineup not available)
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CD Group, Inc. today announced that it has been chosen to present six educational sessions at the annual JD Edwards INFOCUS Conference, which will be held December 2-4 in Denver, Colorado. The conference is presented by the Quest International Users Group(Quest), and is designed to provide a deep dive into new technology, techniques and tips for Oracle's JD Edwards EnterpriseOne and JD Edwards World users. CD Group is a Quest Gold Sponsor and will have a presence at the Booth #101 of the Exhibitor Showcase, in addition to its conference presentations.
CD Group's sessions will include four regular conference sessions plus two vendor sessions, and will highlight how businesses are benefitting from new cutting edge technology designed for JD Edwards users, including several proprietary applications developed by CD Group.
"Along with the great new tools inherent to JD Edwards, we are excited to be showcasing CD Group's brand new solution for proactive monitoring, as well as the innovative approaches we are taking to help our customers in the areas of mobility and business intelligence," CD Group CEO Larry Campbell said.
The first CD Group session, titled "The Demystification of the Vast Oracle Reporting and Analysis Plethora for JDE!" will be presented at 2 p.m. on Tuesday, December 3.
The remaining CD Group sessions will be held on Wednesday, December 4, beginning with a session at 8 a.m. titled "JD Edwards 9.1.3 Tools: Empowering the User Experience." At 9 a.m., "Transforming Your Organization with Proactive Monitoring for EnterpriseOne," will feature CD Group's new proactive monitoring software and managed services offering. Then at 1:30 p.m., CD Group will walk conference attendees through the options for leveraging their JD Edwards data on the go with a session titled "JD Edwards & Mobility: A Deep Dive." At 2:30 p.m., a panel of JD Edwards experts will discuss the key project success factors and benefits of transitioning from World to EnterpriseOne in a session titled "Key Considerations in Making the Move from JD Edwards World to JD Edwards EnterpriseOne." CD Group's final session will be "UPK 11.1 - Leveraging User Productivity Kit for Testing and Training" at 3:30 p.m.
CD Group will be at Booth #101 of the Expo to discuss customer needs for JD Edwards and business intelligence consulting, managed services and projects such as implementations and upgrades.
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Hello, i am off on my holiday in less than a month and need a bit of help about opening up an English bank account.
I am also a British citizen with a British passport, so will this make it easier for me to walk into a bank and open up an account? And i will have an address where i will be staying also.
And my friend, she has Australian passport only, whats the best way for her to open up an account before we leave? (Preferably not with high fees in the processing!)


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- David Pollock
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It used to be a genre almost exclusively beloved by chavs, shitkickers and the odd ironic student, but the NME are leading the rave revival charge with a prefab movement succinctly titled New Rave. This debut Club NME tour sees a few of their favourites join together, including Datarock, Simian Mobile Disco, Glasgow's own hugely entertaining Shitdisco, and tricky-to-categorise New Cross trio Klaxons.
'The elements of rave that we try to incorporate are the fun aspects,' explains Klaxons' keyboard player James Righton, taking a break from recording the debut album Myths of the Near Future on the south coast of England. 'We want our audience to enjoy themselves, we want every gig to feel like an event - of course there are musical elements of rave to our sound, but we wouldn't strictly classify ourselves as that.'
While they incorporate vaguely cheesy keyboard stabs and looped female vocals amidst their guitar-based sound, and cover rave classics like Grace's 'Not Over Yet' and Kicks Like a Mule's 'The Bouncer' (Righton and fellow bandmembers Jamie Reynolds and Simon Taylor formed over their plan to record a version of the latter), Klaxons do indeed offer a whole lot more. Their songs take as much from urgent indie-pop as rave, and are filled with geekish sci-fi references - the album title is from Ballard; the single 'Atlantis to Interzone' references Burroughs.
'Again, we have fun with the lyrics,' says Righton. 'The Smiths did that well, putting words in pop songs you wouldn't hear anywhere else. But that's what we're about - when we first came to London the place was full of dire indie bands, and we just want to fight against that boredom.'


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Question: I have a set of dishes in the Wedgwood Quince pattern. The pieces are 45 years old, but still very serviceable. However, in the past 10 months, I dropped one mug on a stone countertop and the handle snapped off cleanly. Then a few months later, a second cup slipped out of my hand and hit the counter. Yes, you guessed it, the handle on this one also snapped off cleanly. I found a place to buy replacements, but they cost $50 each. Is there a way to reattach these cup handles securely enough so I can use the cups for coffee again?
— Woodbridge
Answer: Professional restorers usually use two-part epoxy to mend broken ceramics, but they shy away from repairing ceramics used for serving food because the epoxy is neither food-safe nor sufficiently heat-resistant.
However, the fact that your cup bodies are intact makes the food-safety issue less of a concern, said Tammy Haslage, a technical service representative for Henkel, which makes Loctite Epoxy Instant Mix 5 Minute and other two-part epoxy products under several brand names. "We would never recommend epoxy for the actual cup where it would be in contact with the food," she said.
The heat-resistance issue isn't so easy to dismiss. Loctite epoxy stands up to only 120 degrees, Haslage said. Very hot coffee would exceed that, though it's possible the heat wouldn't transfer through the ceramic enough to cause the epoxy to fail. But cleaning the cups in a dishwasher would definitely be a problem. So would using the cups to warm drinks in a microwave.
If you were to use the cups for only slightly warm drinks and always hand-wash them and keep them out of a microwave, a two-part epoxy would work, Haslage said. You'd also need to make sure everyone in your household followed those rules. Given the risk of a handle falling off and showering someone with hot coffee, it's probably not worth it.
There is a professional work-around. Maudud Alam at M. Alam Restoration & Repair Services in Sterling, Va.
(703-450-4222; www.alamrestorations.com) would insert a steel pin to strengthen each joint so the cups could be used for hot drinks. He would warranty the repair for life. However, the same limitations about dishwashers and microwaves would still apply. And his minimum fee — $150 — makes the $50 replacement cost seem a bargain. If you check online sales outlets such as Etsy and eBay frequently, you might even find replacement mugs for less.
Definitely do not use Super Glue or other cyanoacrylate adhesive for a repair like this. It doesn't fill gaps as well as two-part epoxy and isn't so resistant to sideways pull, an important factor for a cup handle.
Question: I purchased a stained glass panel (approximately 16 by 32 inches) at a craft fair years ago. There, a lighted lamp behind it illuminated the colors of the glass. In my home, I was able to hang it in front of a window so that sunlight could show through. Now, in my apartment, this is not possible. Can you recommend someone who can build a lightbox for it so that the bulbs inside will illuminate it when I hang it on a wall like a painting?
— Montgomery County
Answer: You have a few options. The simplest, though probably not the brightest, would be to buy a white LED rope strip and attach it to the back, along the frame. Depending on the glass, the window dimensions, and the light output of the string, you might get only a warm glow, or you could get an effect that's quite vivid. A multi-pane, circular window at www.superbrightleds.com turned out great.
That site sells the high-power strips in lengths considerably longer than you need, but if you do a Web search for "LED rope light," you'll find numerous other options, and home centers also sell kits. Get an LED strip, which stays cool, not one with incandescent bulbs, which gets hotter. Look for a string with tightly spaced LEDs, 1 inch or closer. Light ropes made for holiday decorations often have only one light every 2 inches.
Another idea is to take advantage of a design that Erwin Timmers at Washington Glass School in Mount Rainier (202-744-8222; www.washingtonglass
school.com) has made. If you sign up for a welding class at the school, he will teach you to make your own. The next opportunity will be on three successive Wednesday evenings beginning April 2. Besides winding up with the lightbox, you'll learn fundamentals about joining, bending and finishing metal. The fee is $350, which includes the metal you'd need.
Timmer would coach you about how many LED light modules to buy, via Amazon or eBay. The modules usually run on 12 volts, which means you'd also need to buy a low-voltage power supply if you don't have one from a discarded electronic gadget that you can repurpose. The idea is to arrange the modules inside the box to create lighting that is as even as possible.
With either rope lights or modules, add a thin, translucent plastic cover to diffuse the light. Then top that with the window.
Another option is to purchase a custom-made lightbox from a sign company. Blue Water Signs in Forest Hill (410-420-2400; www.bwsigns.com) could help you, said Scott Bachman, the owner. He estimated the price would be $300-$400.
And, finally, you could go to a stained-glass company. When he builds lightboxes, Wayne Cain at Cain Architectural Art Glass in Bremo Bluff, Va. (434-842-3984; www.waynecain.com), focuses on creating the type of light that works best with the specific kinds of glass in the window. The more transparent the glass, the more important it is to have even light behind the glass, he says.
"Bars of LED lighting can be used around the frame, with the interior painted white to reflect the light in a softer fashion. If hard reflection is wanted, a reflective surface can be used on the interior of the light box, or more directional lights used. If a center focus is wanted, a spotlight, directed to a point on the wall inside the light box, and reflected back at the window is a possibility."
Have a problem in your home? Send questions to email@example.com. Put "How To" in the subject line, tell us where you live and try to include a photo.
The Checklist: Read Jeanne Huber's month-by-month roundup of home-improvement tasks at washingtonpost.com/home.


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President Barack Obama is enjoying a very low profile following holding the top job in the nation. Can you blame him? After eight years of unrelenting stress, he's entitled. Now when spotted out and about, his wardrobe is seemingly more casual and GQ than we've ever seen before. He finally tossed his mom jeans, regularly sports a tie-less ensemble and has a swag on 10.
Michelle and Barack Obama are hands-down the most popular, and youngest, post-White House couple in US history and now that they're staying in D.C. until Sasha graduates high school, they're constantly thrust back in to the spotlight. But who's mad about that? We aren't at all.
In a recent Washington Post article, a reporter described how informal Barack Obama's first cocktail party at his new office was. Not only was it potluck-style but attendees found themselves rubbing elbows with former vice president Joe Biden at the cheese plate. I would have loved to be a fly on the wall that day.
The Obamas are undeniably enjoying their time as private citizens. From having lunch in very public places to working out at a busy Soul Cycle location to visiting museums in town, the Obamas are simply enjoying life.
Mr. Obama is planning to extend his stay in Tetiaroa, a South Pacific island once owned by legendary Hollywood actor Marlon Brando, as he begins to write his memoir about the last eight years he spent as president. The Obamas inked a multimillion-dollar book deal last month.
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DABNEYv.CHASE NAT. BANK OF CITY OF NEW YORK.
Author: Hand
Before SWAN, Chief Judge, and L. HAND and CLARK, Circuit Judges.
L. HAND, Circuit Judge.
When this case was before us after trial - 196 F.2d 668 - we held that there were two questions on which we wished the parties to present arguments, because they had not been discussed. First: for what part of the payment of $4,000,000, collected in the spring of 1932, must the bank account? Second (really one aspect of the first): who of the bondholders were entitled to share in the payment? When the case had been before us on the first appeal,*fn1 we had held that the second and fourth counts of the complaint stated valid claims; and on the second appeal we held that, although the plaintiff had not proved the case stated in the fourth count, he had proved that stated in the second. The court was divided on both points: Judge CLARK and I concurring as to the second count; and Judge SWAN and I as to the fourth. Regarding the second count we had said on the first appeal, 137 F.2d at page 801: "Even though the absence of a res may make the word 'trustee' inapposite, Chase was at least an agent equally obligated to refrain from competing with its principals, the debenture-holders. There was certainly a fiduciary relation to which the obligation generally applicable to trustees would apply." Judge Conger had held that "Ageco" was insolvent in 1932, when the loan was paid, but that the bank did not have such notice as was required to make the payment a voidable preference in bankruptcy; but there remained the question whether, notwithstanding the absence of such notice, the bank's collection of the loan was a breach of its fiduciary duty; and we held (1.) that, it was, provided the bank had notice in 1932 that there was a serious likelihood that "Ageco" would not be able to pay the bonds at their maturity; and (2.) that it did have such notice. We then held that it was not necessary to decide whether the payment of $4,000,000 in 1932 had resulted in lessening the dividend in reorganization of the bondholders in 1940, because if it had, their loss would be the same as the bank's gain, and the bank, like any other fiduciary, was accountable for any gain that came to it as a result of its breach of duty.*fn2
That duty was not to increase the risk that the bonds might not be paid at maturity by collecting the loan at a time when "Ageco" was in danger of insolvency, although the bank would have been free to force a payment of the loan at any time when it did not know "Ageco's" solvency to be doubtful. The indenture had given it the right to lend to "Ageco," and that implied the right to collect; but it was not free to exercise that right if in doing so it brought itself into competition with its beneficiaries. On the other hand, since the right to collect was tolled only when its exercise did compete with the bondholders we might perhaps have held that the bank's liability for collecting in 1932 would have ended, if at any time between then and 1940 there had been a period during which the risk ceased, even though it later reappeared. Since the bank did not show that there had been any such period, we need not decide that question; and we shall therefore dispose of the appeal on the assumption that it was under a continuous duty to the bondholders until 1940, when "Ageco's" assets were distributed. The parties differ as to the proper computation of the gain that the bank derived from this default: i.e. whether it should be the whole difference between the sum collected - $4,000,000 - and the bank's dividend in reorganization; or only that fraction of this difference that the bonds, outstanding in 1940, bore to all "Ageco's" indebtedness at that time (including not only the bonds but the loan). The plaintiff's position may be most forcefully stated as follows.Since it was impossible in 1932 to know by how much the sum withdrawn would lessen the bondholders' dividend, it was not lawful for the bank to collect any part of the loan, and the gain from this breach of duty was the whole difference between $4,000,000 and the bank's dividend.
This misconceives the nature of the remedy, when the beneficiary seeks to recover the fiduciary's gain. It is granted on the theory that the beneficiary may adopt the fiduciary's transaction as though it had been made on his behalf. In the case at bar the sum collected upon its receipt by the bank in 1932 became subject in its hands to a constructive trust; but it was a trust in which the bondholders had no immediate, but only a future and contingent, interest; i.e. that it should be available in the event of "Ageco's" insolvency to bring the bondholders' dividend up to the amount it would have been, had the bank not collected the loan. Whatever part of the payment that addition turned out to be was all that the bank would be obliged to repay, for it was as free to keep the remainder in 1940 as it had been free to collect it in 1932. The fact that it had all along been impossible to forecast how great this addition would be, did not enlarge the bondholders' interest in the payment, or give them the power to adopt as their own the collection of any part of it that could never be theirs. It is another matter whether the interest, contingent as it was, would be enough to allow the bondholders to "avoid" the whole payment (of which more in a moment). The plaintiff answers that this conclusion runs counter to McCandless v. Furlaud, 296 U.S. 140, 56 S. Ct. 41, 80 L. Ed. 121, but he mistakes the scope of that decision. It was no more than a holding that the consent of all the shareholders of a corporation to a series of steps in a fraudulent flotation of its securities, was no defence to an action by its receiver against the promoters of the scheme. No one questioned that the flotation had been a fraud on those to whom the securities were issed; but the defendants' argument was that the receiver had no standing to recover on behalf of the victims, because he could speak only in the name of the corporation, and the corporation by its shareholders had consented to the transactions at their inception. In the case at bar the only persons against whom any wrong was committed were the bondholders, and we are holding that the reorganization trustee may enforce all remedies to which they would be entitled in any action or proceeding. For the foregoing reasons we hold that, unless there be something in the Bankruptcy Act to the contrary, the measure of the bank's gain is the fraction we have described of the difference between $4,000,000 and the bank's dividend in reorganization.
There remains the plaintiff's other argument that, as the claim arises in bankruptcy Moore v. Bay, 284 U.S. 4, 52 S. Ct. 3, 76 L. Ed. 133, controls, the effect of which was that § 70(e) of the Bankruptcy Act made the "transfer" in 1932 - i.e., "Ageco's" payment of the loan, - "voidable" in toto, because it was "voidable" by the bondholders. In Moore v. Bay the bankrupt, a corporation, had executed a chattel mortgage in California where the statute required it to be filed within seven days. The mortgagee had delayed filing it for some time beyond the limit, so that the mortgage was confessedly invalid as to those creditors whose claims had arisen before the filing date; but the mortgagee insisted that it was good against those whose debts had arisen later. The Court of Appeals, 9 Cir., 45 F.2d 449, so decided; but the Supreme Court held that § 70(e)*fn3 made the mortgage invalid as to all the creditors, if it was invalid as to any one of them. The section has been amended since then, but its substance is still the same, and it now declares that a "transfer made * * * by * * * a bankrupt * * * which, under any Federal or State law * * * is fraudulent as against or voidable for any other reason by any creditor * * * shall be null and void as against the trustee"; and that every "such transfer * * * shall be avoided by the trustee for the benefit of the estate." There are two answers to the argument that this interpretation of the section governs the case at bar. First, even verbally, the facts do not fit the text; and second, the purpose of the section does not extend to "transfers," to "avoid" which a creditor must resort to a right, acquired by virtue of a transaction between himself and the transferee, and not between himself and the bankrupt.
In the case at bar no creditor except the bondholders could have challenged the payment, and the answer to the first question depends upon whether they could have "avoided" it "under any Federal or State law." We think that they could not have done so.As we have said, the bank was always entitled to the immediate payment of that part on the sum collected that would not be distributed to the bondholders in insolvency; and incidentally that was certain to be very substantial. On the other hand it is quite true that this part of the payment was not only indeterminate in 1932, but was certain to remain so until either the bonds were paid in full, or "Ageco" became insolvent. Moreover, it is of course a well recognized doctrine, especially in equity, that a court will ordinarily throw upon one who has committed a wrong, the burden of answering any doubts as to the measure of restitution.*fn4 Thus, at first blush it might appear that the bondholders could have successfully invoked this principle, and thus have "avoided" the whole payment at any time after 1932. On the other hand, like any other equitable remedy, "avoidance" of the "transfer": i.e., rescission, is a remedy dependent upon balancing the relative interests involved, and in a case where the injured party has another and a complete remedy and where rescission will deprive the wrongdoer of rights which are his in spite of his wrong, a court of equity will not grant rescission.*fn5 Nor does it matter that in the case at bar the claim, being upon a "trust," would before the Rules have rested, not upon the "auxiliary," but upon the "original," jurisdiction of equity; for equity, which could pass a decree for the payment of money,*fn6 has always adapted its relief to the needs of the occasion. Therefore, rescission would have exposed the bank's loan to the continued risk of "Ageco's" insolvency until the bonds were paid; and, although that would indeed have been right and necessary, so far as concerned that part of the payment that would in the end go to the bondholders, to expose the remainder to the same risk would have denied the bank its right to the immediate and unconditional payment of that much. If therefore there would have been available a remedy other than rescission that would at once have protected the contingent interest of the bondholders and have preserved the bank's right, the bondholders would not have been entitled to rescind.There was such a remedy. Since the bondholders were entitled to no present payment in 1932 or until 1940, all that they needed until then was assurance that in case of "Ageco's" insolvency their position could be the same as though the bank had not collected the loan. In short, all they needed in the interim was security. Considering how small, compared with the bank's resources, any recovery could be, it is conceivable that a declaratory judgment might have been the only relief granted; but in any event the remedy would have gone no further than to require the bank to give security for any eventual payment that might be required of it. To grant a rescission would have enforced the unnecessary surrender of rights that it had not forfeited.
So much for the literal meaning of § 70(e). We think that its purpose also precludes its application to the facts at bar. The bondholders' claim arises because the bank's collection of the loan was a violation of a fiduciary relation that they derived, not from "Ageco," but from the bank. They not only had no right in 1932 to "avoid" the payment merely as creditors of "Ageco"; but they had no such right by virtue of any interest that "Ageco" had given them as security for their rights as creditors; they remained simple creditors. Their right to treat the payment as a constructive trust had as little to do with any right derived from "Ageco," as though the bank had made an outside agreement with them that it would not collect its debt until the bonds were paid. It seems likely that the proper interpretation of the section is that it applies only to occasions where the "Federal or State law" "under" which the "transfer" is "avoided" directly nullifies it ex proprio vigore, and not indirectly by creating rights (e.g. a lien) out of some transaction between one creditor and the bankrupt which the "transfer" would defeat, if it were valid; in short that the "creditor's" right must be conferred upon him simply because he is a creditor. One can see how the Bankruptcy Act might wish to provide that the benefit of such a "law" should redound to the benefit of all creditors; but to go further seems to us to impute to Congress a most improbable intent. Suppose, for example, that the bankrupt borrows money from A upon an agreement that A shall have as security a one half interest in the bankrupt's stock in trade, or the whole interest in a specified part of that stock; and that the bankrupt then "transfers" the stock to B, who takes with notice of the agreement. A can "avoid" the "transfer" as to his interest in the stock; but may the bankrupt's trustee reclaim as part of the estate, not only that half, but the half which A was free to "transfer" and B to receive? If so, B has lost what he was confessedly free to acquire as a penalty for taking from A what he was not free to acquire. However, the question is not before us, because, as we have said, the bondholders may not invoke any "law" that created rights arising out of a transaction between them and the bankrupt. To make the section apply we must say that all creditors of a bankrupt share in property that the transferee ought not to have accepted because of an agreement between him and one creditor, but that the bankrupt was free to convey so far as concerned any right that that creditor had against him. We cannot agree that anything in Moore v. Bay, supra, 284 U.S. 4, 52 S. Ct. 3, 76 L. Ed. 133, justified such a conclusion.
Having so disposed of the first question on which we asked briefs, we come to the second: i.e. whether all bondholders whose bonds were outstanding in 1940 are entitled to share in the recovery, or whether only those are so entitled who held their bonds in 1932 and continued to hold them until 1940: in short, whether the right against the bank passed with the bond, or remained in the transferrer. This question came before us several times while it was still the law of New York - now changed by statute - that the claims of "series" bondholders against a trustee do not pass to the transferee of the bond, in all situations when they arise out of a breach of the trustee's duty. We need refer only to Elkind v. Chase National Bank, 259 App.Div. 661, 20 N.Y.S.2d 213, affirmed without opinion, 284 N.Y. 726, 31 N.E.2d 198, and Smith v. Continental Bank & Trust Co., 292 N.Y. 275, 54 N.E.2d 823. After a detailed analysis of the first of these decisions in Manufacturers Trust Co. v. Kelby, 2 Cir., 125 F.2d 650, we concluded that in New York if the claim was for restitution for a surrender of the res, it accompanied the transfer of the bond, being the equivalent of the original security itself.And we held that the contrary doctrine was limited to occasions where the trustee had defaulted in some duty of care or management in his administration that did not amount to a surrender. This interpretation we have reaffirmed in Brooklyn Trust Company v. Kelby, 2 Cir., 134 F.2d 105, 111, and President & Directors of the Manhattan Co. v. Kelby, 2 Cir., 147 F.2d 465, 476, 478, and we are not disposed to reconsider it. Therefore, the only question here is whether the plaintiff's claim is for restitution of a security which the trustee surrendered or appropriated; or whether it is only for failing properly to administer the trust. As we noticed at the outset of this opinion, Clarke v. Chase Nat. Bank., supra, 137 F.2d 797, declared that there was no "res" in the case at bar, and that was true, not only when the indenture was executed, but it remained true until 1932, when the bank collected the loan. Strictly, it remained true even thereafter: that is, if one confines the meaning to an express trust; but it is not true, if one includes a constructive trust. As has already appeared, we hold that when the bank received the payment there attached to it a trust to preserve it as security for the contingent benefit of the bondholders; but whether that constructive trust required the bank to keep the sum intact, we need not decide. If it did, the bondholders' claim was literally for the restitution of a security held for the beneficiary and appropriated by the trustee. If on the other hand, in view of the bank's individual interest in the payment, the constructive trust did not require it to keep the payment intact, its appropriation by the bank was certainly conditional upon its assuming an obligation to make restitution if restitution ever became necessary. It would be altogether gratuitous to import a distinction between the transfer of such an obligation to the transferee of a bond, and the transfer of the obligation to make restitution for an unauthorized appropriation of the res. All the considerations which determine the second apply equally to the first. For these reasons we hold that all bondholders who held unpaid bonds in 1940 were entitled to share in the prescribed fraction of the difference between $4,000,000 and the bank's dividend in reorganization.
It remains to consider the position of those bonds that were "deposited" upon any of the three options open under the "Recap" plan. It is the law in New York as elsewhere*fn7 that the release of a principal releases the surety, and we will assume that the cancellation of any of the bonds here in suit would pro tanto have released the bank because its liability, as we have seen, was a partial security for the payment of the bonds. Therefore, we must decide whether the deposit of a bond under the "Plan" cancelled it, or was only a transfer, like any other transfer. The "Escrow Agreement" under which the bonds were "deposited," provided that, until the "retirement" of all the debentures that were to be issued pursuant to the plan, the "escrow agents" were "to collect the interest on the deposited debentures to the extent, but only to the extent that there shall be consolidated net income," of "Ageco" and "Agecorp"; and they were to apply it to prescribed purposes not relevant to this issue. Then followed a provision authorizing them to collect the principal of "any deposited debentures," and finally a provision that in case of the non-payment of the principal on any of the "deposited debentures," or of any other default, the "agents" were to have discretion to "take any action with respect to such default and the enforcement of the principal of such debentures as any other holder of debentures of such issue might be entitled to take." Thus it appears that the "deposited debentures" were not cancelled, but were transferred to the "agents," to whom passed the rights of the holders against the bank, exactly as they would have passed upon any other transfer. We are not here concerned with the proper disposition of any recovery by the "escrow agents" upon "deposited debentures" held by them; it is enough that they stood upon the same footing as any other bonds. Nor do we see any reason why the reorganization trustee may not represent them as well as the others.We therefore hold that any bonds deposited under the "Recap Plan" are to be included with the rest.
A final question is as to interest. Since the bondholders were entitled to no payment until 1940, whether their recovery be regarded as damages or trustee's gains no interest ran before petition filed, and, of course, none ran thereafter.
In view of the partial success of the appeal, the plaintiff should recover his costs and disbursements.
The judgment will be reversed and the cause remitted for proceedings in accordance with the two ...
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Platform: PC
Developer: Jason Rohrer
Inside A Star-Filled Sky hails from the quite remarkable and intensely worrying mind of veteran Indie architect Jason Rohrer. His work includes the hybrid freeform adventure Sleep Is Death, but at first glance, this latest effort seems to be distinctly out of character. In fact, it appears to be mainstream.
The WASD keys guide a small, randomly-generated creature around sprawling mazes whilst the mouse allows firepower to be independently targeted. Just like nearly every other 2D shooter on the market. The art design and music is both soothing and deeply attractive, but after a minute or two, you'd be forgiven for thinking that it hasn't managed to rise above the majority of its peers that glut the crowded genre.
And then everything clicks as you undergo a genuinely startling revelation. Inside A Star-Filled Sky is is a truly infinite game... because every enemy, powerup and even the player character is a procedurally-generated level in itself.
Highlighting any object and pressing the shift key causes the camera to suddenly zoom in, with the sprite in question ballooning outwards and becoming the level itself. Upon entering the monster or object in question (or even yourself), collecting item pickups in completely changes the attributes of your host. You can become stronger by entering your own body- but enemies and items can be manipulated in the same way.
This is very difficult to describe without a practical example. Imagine that you've encountered an opponent that's too difficult to defeat. Rather than engaging in a futile showdown, you can simply leap inside your adversary and completely change its attributes from within by collecting detrimental pickups. Those negative power-downs can be further enhanced by leaping inside them and collecting further pickups... and the enemies encountered within can be weakened by entering them... and your own character can then be strengthened by entering itself... and then...
... ad infinitum. Each layer becomes progressively more difficult, but the core concept essentially furnishes you with an experience that never truly ends. Hundreds of thousands of possible weapon and powerup combinations are available (including different fire modes, health states etc), and procedurally generated fractal-esque levels means that the term 'infinite' is neither inaccurate or overblown. It's very literal indeed.
This profoundly impressive level of content and extended playability is inevitably accompanied (and made possible) by a lack of focus. As you'd expect, there's no story or progression to speak of; rather, you'll keep playing just to enjoy the experience in all of its inexplicable, life-affirming glory. Many players will find it to be just a little too left field or quirky for their tastes, but it's absolutely perfect to dip into every now and again.
Performance-wise, Inside A Star-Filled Sky will run on practically anything with a screen and a hard drive thanks to attractive yet easily-rendered sprites. Whilst there's no way to alter graphical settings from within the game, you'll be able to mess about a fair few options by messing around inside some .ini files (possibly a clever allusion to the nature of the gameplay?). Slashing the frame rate to 30FPS allows it to run on even the most basic of netbooks, meaning that the morning commute is now the perfect opportunity for some existential shenanigans.
- Unprecedented and exciting core concept
- Colourful, attractive visuals
- Infinite replayability. Infinite scope. Infinite everything!
- Lack of focus
- Limited graphical settings
- The mind-blowing revelation might drive you insane
The Short Version: Inside A Star-Filled Sky is an unassuming Indie masterpiece that deserves your immediate attention. It may be Rohrer's most accessible and least prepossessing title thus far, but it also manages to be the most impressive. A remarkable achievement.


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Micromagnetics Workshop Held at NIST-Boulder
October 1998
Staff from EEEL, ITL and MSEL led a regional workshop of the Micromagnetic Modeling Activity Group (muMAG) at the NIST-Boulder Laboratories on August 27, 1998. MKE-Quantum co-sponsored the event, which drew about twenty-five participants including representatives from Maxtor Corporation, Roscamp Engineering and the University of Colorado. MuMAG is an organization of industrial, government and academic researchers investigating fundamental issues in micromagnetic modeling through two activities: the establishment of standard problems for testing micromagnetic simulation software, and the development of a public domain reference implementation of micromagnetic simulation software.
Robert McMichael of MSEL led off the workshop with an overview of muMag, and presented standard problem solutions submitted to NIST by several developers of micromagnetic simulation software. John Oti of EEEL gave a demonstration of SimulMag, a micromagnetic design tool he developed for personal computers. Michael Donahue and Donald Porter of ITL gave a demonstration of the Object Oriented Micromagnetic Framework (OOMMF), their portable, extensible software package containing a micromagnetic solver and associated tools.
The workshop concluded with talks by Pierre Asselin of Roscamp Engineering and Richard Lansky of MKE-Quantum Components. They presented two views on the future micromagnetic modeling needs of the computer hard drive industry, describing which problems are effectively solved using current techniques and which problems remain important challenges.
Access to standard problem specifications, submitted solutions, software, and further information about muMAG is available at the Micromagnetic Modeling Activity Group web page.


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13 (2010 film)
Theatrical release poster
|Directed by
|Géla Babluani
|Produced by
Rick Schwartz
Jeanette B. Milio
Valerio Morabito
|Written by
Géla Babluani
Gregory Pruss
|Based on
13 Tzaméti
by Géla Babluani
Jason Statham
Sam Riley
Ray Winstone
50 Cent
Mickey Rourke
|Music by
|Alexander Bubenheim
|Michael McDonough
|Edited by
Géla Babluani
David Gray
Magnet Media Group
Overnight Films
Barbarian Films
Morabito Picture Company
|Distributed by
|Anchor Bay Films
Release date
Running time
|97 minutes
|United States
|Box office
|$3,317,662 [1]
13 is a 2010 American remake of the 2005 Georgian-French film 13 Tzameti. The film, directed by Géla Babluani (who also directed the original), stars Sam Riley, Ray Winstone, 50 Cent, Mickey Rourke and Jason Statham.
Vincent "Vince" Ferro overhears people talking about a dead man who was going to start a well-paid job. Ferro, in need of money, steals an envelope containing the instructions for the job. He arrives at an event in a secluded place. He is ordered to strip, and his boot heels are cut off, in order to check for surveillance equipment. The organizers accept him for the job instead of the dead man. The job is participation in a series of Russian roulette games. There are several participants, identified by number. In each round, the participants have to spin the cylinder of their revolver, and shoot when the light of a special light bulb is switched on. The event is organized for the enjoyment of rich spectators, one of these spectators being Jasper Bagges, who places bets on who will survive. Bagges bets on his brother Ronald, who was brought from the mental institution.
In the first round, the participants each get one bullet in their revolver, they are arranged into a circle, and each has to aim his revolver at the man in front of him. Ferro tries to back out, but he is forced to participate. As #13, he survives the first round and fires his gun only after being threatened with death. In the second round, in which two bullets are placed in each gun, Ferro survives only because the man behind him is killed before he could fire. In the third round, with three bullets in each gun, Ferro again survives, along with four other men. Ferro is one of two survivors randomly chosen to participate in a duel. The three others are finished and get a large sum of money. One of them, Patrick Jefferson, who was brought from prison to compete, is surprised that he is free to go, and he is escorted out by Jimmy, one of the employees. Jimmy then tries to kill Jefferson, attempting to steal a map Jefferson has, leading to money he has stashed from a robbery. Another employee catches Jimmy in the act, and demands that he stop, insisting that nobody is allowed to harm the surviving players. Jefferson collects his belongings and leaves.
Against the odds, Ferro wins the duel and gets $1,850,000 (USD). He also learns that his opponent won his last 3 duels. He collects his winnings and sneaks away from the mansion, arriving at a train station. When he spots police closing in on him, he stashes his winnings in a garbage can. After being interrogated by the police, he retrieves the money and sends it to his family, via registered mail, and buys a toy for his sister's birthday. However, on the way home, he is shot by Jasper, partly in revenge for Ferro having killed Ronald, and partly to steal the money, as he thinks Ferro still has the money with him. Jasper escapes with the money bag, not knowing that it only contains the toy.
- Jason Statham as Jasper Bagges, a wealthy British man who bets on the competition and has a peculiar interest in one of the competitors.[2]
- Sam Riley as Vincent "Vince" Ferro; a naive young man who stumbles into the competition.[2]
- Ray Winstone as Ronald Lynn Bagges, a competitor who has been sprung from a mental institution to participate.[2]
- Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson as Jimmy, an employee assigned to escort Rourke's character to the bloody game.[2]
- Mickey Rourke as Patrick Jefferson (originally Jesse James Jefferson), a Texan Cowboy broken out of a Mexican jail and sold into the competition.[3]
- David Zayas as Detective Mullane, a cop on the trail of the illegal game. Ray Liotta was originally cast.[2] Zayas met with director Géla Babluani about a part but nothing came out of it. After Liotta dropped out, Babluani called Zayas back and offered him the role.[4]
- Emmanuelle Chriqui[5] as Aileen.
- Michael Shannon[5] as Henry.
- Ben Gazzara[5] as Schlondorff.
- Alexander Skarsgård[5] as Jack.
- Gaby Hoffmann as Clara Ferro, Vincent's sister.
- Michael Berry Jr. as William
- Chuck Zito as Ted
The film features Mickey Rourke, Jason Statham and David Zayas, who all starred in The Expendables which was released before this film.
The film was directed and written by Géla Babluani, who directed and wrote the original film.[2] A trailer was released in August 2010.[6] Filming began on November 17, 2008 in and around New York City.[7][8]
13 received critically negative reviews. On Rotten Tomatoes, it has an 8% rating, stating that only 1 out of the 13 reviews for the film was positive, with an average score of 3.8/10.[9] On Internet Movie Database, the film received an average user rating of 6.1/10[10]
The New York Times film critic Stephen Holden considered 13 "a blustering, bad cartoon."[11] V.A. Musetto of the New York Post criticized the film for being shot in color rather than the original's black and white, and for the addition of character back stories, "which serve only to slow the film's momentum."[12] The Hollywood Reporter said "Géla Babluani's English-language remake of his French debut loses the source's gritty, mysterious gloom."[13]
- ^ "13 (2010)". Archived from the original on April 9, 2015. Retrieved March 29, 2015.
- ^ a b c d e f Fleming, Michael (November 4, 2008). "Winstone, Liotta join Babluani's '13'". Variety. Reed Business Information. Retrieved March 3, 2009.
- ^ Worstpreviews.com Staff (December 14, 2008). "First Look: Mickey Rourke in 13 Remake". WorstPreviews.com. Retrieved July 4, 2010.
- ^ Hilary Rothing (August 20, 2009). "David Zayas on Dexter, The Expendables, 13 and Stallone!". Archived from the original on June 15, 2011. Retrieved July 4, 2010.
- ^ a b c d Kilday, Gregg (January 14, 2009). "Emmanuelle Chriqui joins '13'". The Hollywood Reporter. e5 Global Media. Retrieved February 2, 2009.
- ^ "13 English-Language Trailer | Rama's Screen". Ramascreen.com. Retrieved 2012-07-31.
- ^ "Filming locations for 13 (2010)". IMDb. Retrieved March 17, 2012.
- ^ Siegel, Tatiana (October 20, 2008). "Rourke, Statham join Babluani's '13'". Variety. Reed Business Information. Retrieved June 19, 2010.
- ^ "13 (2011)". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved February 10, 2014.
- ^ "13 (2010)". Internet Movie Database. Retrieved July 4, 2014.
- ^ Holden, Stephen (October 27, 2011). "13 (2011) Movie Review". The New York Times. Retrieved March 17, 2012.
- ^ Musetto, V.A. (October 27, 2012). "Hollywood remake's second-rate". New York Post. Retrieved March 17, 2012.
- ^ DeForce, John (October 27, 2011). "13: Film Review". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved March 17, 2012.
External links[edit]
- Official website (in Japanese)
- 13 on IMDb
- 13 at AllMovie
- 13 at Rotten Tomatoes
- 13 at Metacritic


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Paraprofessionals are offered a 10% preferred tuition discount for all education courses at Regis College. Contact an admissions counselor for details. After acceptance into the education degree program, you will be assigned an advisor who will provide specific course information. A student may take as long as seven years to complete the program of study. TOTAL DEGREE AND LICENSURE REQUIREMENTS: 120 CREDIT HOURS Undergraduate core requirements: 45 credit hours Major Lower Division Foundation Requirements: 30 credit hours Major Upper Division Requirements: 21 credit hours Professional Sequence Requirements: 21 credit hours General Electives: 3 credit hours Ranked #3 Best Online Bachelor's in Elementary Education Degrees for 2017 by College Choice. Printable Fact Sheet: To download a printable fact sheet with details about required classes, admissions requirements, and start dates, please visit our fact sheet library. Please note: The best source for the most current information is an admissions counselor. Program Requirements General Undergraduate Core Requirements (45 credit hours) ** Must be Taken at Regis Oral Communication Skills (3 credit hours): COM 210, COM 211 English Composition (3 credit hours): EN 203 Advanced Oral or Written Communication (3 credit hours): COM 406, COM 437, COM 455, EN 325, EN/PL 482, EN 475 Literature/Humanities (6 credit hours) Literature/Humanities (6 credit hours) (3 credit hours must be HU 366**) Literature/Humanities Elective (3 credit hours) Any 300-400 EN, all HU courses, all COM courses (excluding COM 210, COM 211, COM 406, and COM 437) Global Issues (6 credit hours): COM 400, COM 412, CR 466, EC 335, EC 400, CIV 410, CIV 420, HS 240E-W, HU 435E-W, HU 421E-W, SO 204, SO 340, SO 341, SO 446, SO 469F, SO 472, IRSH 410E-W, RC 450, RC 458, RC 459 Social Sciences (6 credit hours): CIV 410, CIV 420, CIV 430, CIV 440, COM courses (excluding COM 210, COM 211, COM 406 and COM 437), all EC, all ED, all HS, all PY, all SO courses, all CR courses Mathematics (3 credit hours) (College-level algebra or higher) MT 201, MT 204, MT 270, all 300-400 level MT courses Natural Sciences (3 credit hours): SCI 205E, SCI 206E, SCI 410E, SCI 411E, all CN, CIS or CS courses Philosophy (6 credit hours): All PL courses Religious Studies (6 credit hours): All RC, all RS courses Major Lower Division (30 credit hours) Math (3 credit hours) Science (3 credit hours) Social Science (3 credit hours) Educational Psychology (3 credit hours): EDFD 431 Lifespan Development (3 credit hours): PY 469 Child and Adolescent Literature (3 credit hours): EDEL 441 Literature/Humanities (3 credit hours) Fine Arts (Art, Music or Theater) (3 credit hours) Major Upper Division (21 credit hours) *Take in Order ** Must be Taken at Regis EDFD 404 Foundations of Teaching (3 credit hours)* EDFD 405 Perspectives in Education (3 credit hours)* EDES 403 Cultural Competence in Education (3 credit hours)* EDFD 448 Designing Instruction for All Learners (3 credit hours)* EDFD 445 Math for Educators (3 credit hours)** EDFD 470 The Effective Classroom (3 credit hours)** EDRG 444 Teaching Reading and Writing (3 credit hours)** Professional Sequence Requirements (21 credit hours) EDFD 420 Teaching the Exceptional Child in Reg Classroom (3 credit hours) EDTC 401 Technology for Educators (3 credit hours) EDEL 450 Assessment of Learning (3 credit hours)** EDEL 460 Elem. Methods I (3 credit hours)** EDEL 461 Elem. Methods II (3 credit hours) ** EDFD 497 Professionalism (2 credit hours)** EDEL 490 Student Teaching - Elementary (10 credit hours)** PLACE or PRAXIS exam in Elementary Education must be passed before moving on to student teaching. General Electives (3 credit hours) TOTAL DEGREE REQUIREMENTS: 120 credit hours Please note that recent course requirement updates may not be reflected in the list above and you should contact an admissions counselor at 800.944.7667 for recent changes and updates. To download a printable fact sheet with program details, click here. How to Apply Take the next step in your Regis experience and connect with a Regis admissions counselor for information and assistance. Apply Now! Students with prior college credit, military credit, professional licenses or certificates or several years of work experience may be able to translate this experience directly into college credit. Your admissions counselor will help evaluate your prior learning credit, provide information regarding financial aid and tuition assistance, recommend courses and help you get started with the application process. Applicants seeking a bachelor's degree from Regis College must possess: A high school diploma or equivalent (from a regionally accredited high school) AND Transferable credit from a regionally accredited college or university Materials Needed for Application and Admission Completed online undergraduate application Pay the $50.00 application fee. The fee is waived if you have applied to Regis previously or if you are a Regis graduate. Minimum overall GPA of 2.5 from all previously attended colleges and universities Request official transcripts from accredited institutions that you have previously attended. Download the transcript request form. Official transcripts are those that come directly from one college or university to another college or university. Official transcripts must be received no later than 30 days after the date of application. If not received, course registrations will be suspended. Three years of full-time work experience after high school preferred Essay Please ensure you disclose any and all offenses on your admission application. A background check may be required prior to starting classes at Regis. In addition, all applicants must submit a completed official fingerprint card ($33.50) as part of the enrollment process. Accepted students will be mailed instructions, along with a fingerprint card, to be taken to their local law enforcement agency to be fingerprinted. Fingerprint results should be received by Regis University within 30 days of starting your first class with us. See a list of disqualifying offenses when considering teacher licensure. It is important that you are aware of the Colorado Department of Education's guidelines for teacher licensure prior to pursuing a teacher licensure program. Click here for more information. Regis University reserves the right to dismiss any candidate from the Teacher Education Program whose offense precludes them from obtaining licensure or contact with youth. Initial Licensure seeking students must purchase a Taskstream account directly through Taskstream. Contact information for Taskstream will be sent to you after add/ drop date of your first course. Task Stream is a webfolio to document all of your evaluations, projects, papers and field hours. Once you have completed your program you can provide a link to principals when you apply for teaching positions. Additional admission requirements apply to international students who are non-U.S. citizens. Please remember: Applications that are incomplete and/or missing information will NOT be processed. Application Deadlines* Applications and supporting application materials should be submitted 30 days prior to your intended start date to provide ample processing time. 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Gaming Survey reveals Avatar Arcade Room
A survey has recently been sent to many Xbox 360 owners which details an indication that Microsoft may introduce an Arcade Room for Avatars on the Xbox360. Within this yet un-named space, Avatars can congregate together and play retro style arcade games.
The survey initially starts by questioning gamers on their gaming habits, their favourite game shows including wanting an opinion regarding the recent 1 vs 100 beta on Xbox Live. The survey later hinted that a paid version of 1 vs 100 could be likely to offer better prizes in the future.
Finally towards the end of the survey it asked questions relating to a dedicated space for Xbox360 Avatars in which they can play retro games on classic Atari coin-op cabinets. They also asked applicants to vote on what name would fit the space best, giving suggestions such as "Game Room", "RetroCade", "AvatArcade", "RetroGame", "Classics LIVE".
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Find evening classes in your area on local school websites, local library websites or the Craigslist.org website near you. Find links to school websites on CampusExplorer.com, which allows you to search local schools for programs in particular subject areas.
At CampusExplorer.com, click a category tab on the pop-up window on the main page, such as College Student, Parent or Adult Learner, and then select a school type. Type a subject of study, and then make selections on the location drop-down menus. Click the See Results below link to display a list of programs. Click a listing to display program information, and then click the website link included in the program description to redirect your browser to the program or school website where you can typically find schedules for evening classes.
Many public libraries host evening classes, with offerings commonly including classes on computer usage, tax preparation, searching for a job, literary activities and languages. Many of these classes are free, and typically you find such classes by clicking a tab called Classes or Calendar on the library's main page. Call your local library for additional information; you can find their phone number on PublicLibraries.com.
Craigslist.org site's typically list classes on various subjects, including evening classes. Type "evening class" in the search box near the top-left of the Craigslist site for the city nearest you, and then select a category on the drop-down menu to display a list of classes in the category in which you're interested.


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Red Tail Ring at Mendelssohn Nov. 15
Staff Report
Saturday, Nov. 15, the Mendelssohn Performing Arts Center presents Red Tail Ring as part of the Charlotte's Web series at Mendelssohn Hall, 406 N. Main St.
Laurel Premo and Michael Beauchamp of Red Tail Ring perform traditional Appalachian and new Americana music with close harmony singing. Music begins at 7:30 p.m., and tickets are $15 or $6 for students. For tickets and more info, call Mendelssohn at (815) 964-9713 or visit www.mendelssohnpac.org.
Premo and Beauchamp, of Red Tail Ring, share a raw blend of original folk music and interpretations of old ballads and dance tunes from the southeast mountains. Whether rendering a traditional tune or one of their original compositions, they infuse each song with musical imagination, haunting harmonies and instrumental artistry on fiddle, guitar, banjo, mandolin, jawharp and plain-old foot stomping. Since 2009, Red Tail Ring has released three albums, and traveled increasingly farther in their musical ramblings — performing throughout the Midwest, Northeast and Southeast, as well as touring in Denmark and Germany. When they're off the road, Laurel and Michael enjoy playing for community square dances when in their hometown of Kalamazoo, Michigan.
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Proudly Supports Our Community
Classic GMC Buick is proud to partner with numerous Montgomery & River Region community events. We want our customers to have the very best car buying experience possible all while treating our customers respectfully, honestly & fairly. We believe that the well-being of the communities in which they work directly relates to the success of our dealership.
Classic GMC Buick is Joining the Red Dress Dash Feb. 27th
Stamp Idea Group helps Montgomery Area Food Bank
Stamp Idea Group held their annual Creat-a-thon charity event in helps to the Montgomery Area Food Bank this year. Capitol Chevrolet and Classic GMC Buick were proud to donate to the good cause and our donation got us the chance to play ping pong with the Mayor, Todd Strange. General Sales Manager, Otis Coles, represented both dealerships to take home the win All of the proceeds went to Montgomery Area Food Bank of Montgomery, AL.
March of Dimes Walk
On support of our local March of Dimes, Classic GMC Buick marched with the River Region for the annual March of Dimes walk. This day was filled with fun and laughter as we handed out goody bags to all of the walkers.
Cystic Fibrosis and Team Hillman
Capitol Chevrolet and Classic GMC Buick were proud to support Team Hillman at the Great Strides walk supporting Cystic Fibrosis. The day of the walk, the ladies from the Accounting office showed their team spirit with their personalized Team Hillman shirts.
Chamber Golf Classic
Classic GMC Buick was proud to be a sponsor for the River Region's premier business golf tournament. Golfers network on a beautiful golf course with Chamber Members, elected officials, community leaders and potential clients.
March Of Dimes
Capitol Chevrolet & Classic GMC Buick partnered again for our 2nd Annual Easter Egg Hunt to support the March of Dimes. Kids of all ages had a wonderful time at this event all while helping babies. While the event was free to the public, everyone was encouraged to bring a $1 donation for the organization. We were pleased to have River Region's ambassador family, The Jones', in attendance this year.
Jubilee Run
The Jubilee Run is an event to celebrate life, encourage survivors to continue fighting, and to honor those who lost their brave battle with cancer. Capitol Chevrolet and Classic GMC Buick GMC Cadillac were proud to be a sponsor for the run.
Dr. A. W. Watkins Scholarship Foundation
Since 2005 the foundation has awarded 58 scholarships to high school seniors living in Central, AL. Capitol Chevrolet and Classic GMC Buick were proud to be the exclusive automotive sponsors for their premier fundraiser, a golf tournament in its 8th year. Our two teams of golfers, comprised of technicians, service advisors & loyal customers really enjoyed themselves at the tournament as they golfed for a cause.
Purple Fridays & Saturdays
As an added way to promote March of Dimes month, dealership employees showed their support by wearing Sonic Automotive's March of Dimes polo each Friday and Saturday. This was a way to raise awareness for the benefit the of March of Dimes.
Relay for Life
Classic GMC Buick was proud to sponsor Relay for Life of Montgomery this year. Relay for Life is the American Cancer Society's largest fundraiser. The funds raised at Relay for Life go toward grants and research -- research that will hopefully cure the disease that has touched and impacted us all. Nationwide, the Relay for Life movement raises $400 million every year.
Vintage Affair: Supporting the American Cancer Society
This year Capitol Chevrolet and Classic GMC Buick were honored to participate in the 22nd annual Vintage Affair. Money raised at Vintage Affair is used to fund programs and services offered to cancer patients in the community, as well as towards cancer research and education.
Wright Flyers
On February 4, 2015, Classic GMC Buick served as the presenting sponsor at the annual meeting for the Wright Flyers. Alabama's capitol city and Classic GMC Buick have support for the military community that is legendary. The Wright Flyers is a membership-based committee made up of the leading business and elected officials in the Montgomery Area. The Wright Flyers function as a liaison and support group between local military and business communities. Monte' and Otis Coles, Sales Manager at Classic GMC Buick, were pleased to represent the store at the event, which included Montgomery's mayor and other esteemed military personnel from Maxwell-Gunter Air Force Base.
National Wear Red Day
In honor of the American Heart Association, Classic GMC Buick participated in the annual Go Red for Women movement. The first Friday in February, Classic GMC Buick donned their fiercest red to draw attention to the fact that heart disease is not just a man's issue. Each year, 1 in 3 women die of heart disease and stroke. National Wear Red Day is a special day to bring attention to this staggering fact and bring realization to the fact that 80% of cardiac events can be prevented with education and lifestyle changes.
Other area organizations, programs, annual events and community initiatives we support are:
Alabama Better Living Expo
East Montgomery Baseball & Softball
Corvette Club of AL
Montgomery Police Dept. Cops for Christmas
AL Sherriff's Department
Junior League of Montgomery
American Cancer Society
March of Dimes
Chamber of Commerce of Montgomery
Montgomery Zoo
Stamp Ideas
Mental Health Association of Alabama
Dance Generation
Dirty Dozen Softball
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We all took turns being sick on some level or another. Stephen never really got it and Tanner's was mild. Vance started it, then Porter, and then me.
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A squirrel's brain is said to be the size of a ping-pong ball. Thus, a squirrel theoretically can have a higher IQ than the bulk of radio hosts and TV pundits but likely lower than most members of Congress.
A squirrel's brain is said to be the size of a ping-pong ball. Thus, a squirrel theoretically can have a higher IQ than the bulk of radio hosts and TV pundits but likely lower than most members of Congress.
Some might dismiss or even take offense to such notions, but keep in mind the modifiers "bulk," "likely" and "most."
Less theoretical but still open to debate is what happened a decade ago to a number of people in western Kentucky who consumed squirrel brains.
Here's the skinny: They died, which itself is not remarkable among persons age 56 to 78. However, what they died from gave some learned folks reason to pause.
The deaths were caused by Creutzfeld-Jakob disease, wrote behavioral neurologist Eric Weisman in the British medical journal The Lancet. Creutzfeld-Jakob disease is the human variant of an incurable, brain-destroying malady known in its animal forms as scrapie in sheep and goats, mad cow in cattle and chronic wasting disease in deer, elk and moose.
Neither scrapie nor chronic wasting disease has been known to pass into humans. Mad cow, however, has killed people who ate diseased beef.
Eating squirrel brains is a not-uncommon practice in rustic parts of the South. Janet Norris Gates, an oral historian based in Frankfort, Ky., told the Associated Press that during her childhood in Tennessee, squirrel brain was haute cuisine.
"In our family, we saw it as a prized piece of meat," she said.
Weisman and a colleague reported treating 11 cases of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in four years. Because the disease typically affects about one in 1 million persons in a given year, only about one case in 10 years would have been expected in the population of western Kentucky.
All 11 of Weisman's patients in question had eaten squirrel brains, some of them years before the onset of symptoms.
Suzie Prange, a wildlife biologist with the Ohio Division of Wildlife, said she hasn't heard about additional victims in a number of years.
Whether the 11 cases of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in a relatively small population turned out to be a statistical anomaly or simply a bad batch of squirrels remains unanswered. Joseph Berger, a neurologist who co-authored The Lancet article, said it's probably best not to dine on squirrel brains -- or on any other animal brain for that matter.
Ohio hunters get their chance to say yea, nay or yuck to a fresh helping of rodent brain tissue beginning a half-hour before sunrise Monday. Many will settle for the meat and a squirrel tail or two trailing from a truck antenna. By sunset, a hunter may bag six fox, gray, red or black squirrels. The season continues through Jan. 31.
The first phase of the mourning dove season also begins at sunrise Monday and will end at sunset Oct. 22. Publication 298, issued by the Ohio Division of Wildlife and available as a download from the Web site ohiodnr.com, lists the daily sunrise and sunset tables. The daily bag limit is 15, and the possession limit is 30 after the first day. The second part of the dove season runs Dec. 9-26.
Rails and common moorhen may be hunted starting Monday from sunrise to sunset through Nov. 9. The daily bag limit is 25 rails and 15 moorhens, which also are known as gallinules.
Common snipe, also known as Wilson's snipe, may be hunted starting Monday from sunrise to sunset through Nov. 30, after which a second season runs Dec. 8-23. The daily limit is eight.
The special early Canada goose season runs Monday through Sept. 15. The daily limit is three.
The teal season runs Sept. 6-21. The daily limit is four.
Keep in mind that non-toxic shot must be used when hunting waterfowl, including rails, moorhens, snipe, teal and geese. Lead shot may be used when hunting doves and squirrels.
Waterfowl hunters must purchase the proper tags, which include a federal duck stamp, an Ohio wetlands habitat stamp and Harvest Information Program (HIP) certification on the hunting license.


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It is important that we need to understand the difference between the experience and the outcome of a certain situation. It is important that we need to try recreate a moment of confidence...a moment of belief, which will remain in the memory of the subject, and will help her/him to understand how she/he is wanted in our lives. While it is important to instill confidence, it is always important to understand the basis of such a belief. Life is a journey.. a journey where we need to make choices... choices which will influence how we which to decorate our lives...decorations which we wish to live with...It is a pleasant feeling to appreciate the emotion of being cared for, and it is always important to realize the necessity for us to keep the moment alive...with our sincere efforts..
Jealousy...is a dangerous emotion, if handled well, it will help us grow as a person to seek the beauty beyond doubt...if we do not happen to respect the emotion, it will be painful...possibly beyond human comprehension.
I dedicate this post to a friend of mine...I wish to draw your attention to a realization of mine, which I have to come believe in rather reluctantly, What we are as a person, is what we are...doubt and trust are important facets of any relation...what will be ...will be, it is important for us to understand the value of life and value of ourselves... and others in our life.


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Vancouver Whitecaps Round-up
Recent Results
The Vancouver Whitecaps are still steamed over their unfortunate exit from the Amway Canadian Championships at the hands (err, feet actually) of Toronto FC a week ago.
There was some small consolation with yet another come from behind effort, that this time provided a late draw (1-1) with regional rival Portland. But the team has gone without a win for five games now.
Next Match
On Saturday evening, June 2nd, Vancouver opens a three game home stand with a contest against the Houston Dynamo, the finalist that lost out to the LA Galaxy in last year's MLS Cup.
Houston sits sixth at present in the Eastern Conference.
International Round-up
There are a number of internationals taking place with the end of the European league season, and also with a series of friendly matches prior to the impending Euros 2012 tournament. None of the Whitecaps prominent players will be absent though.
Infirmary Report
Atiba Harris underwent successful surgery for a meniscus tear in his right knee. It is hoped he may recover to play again by the end of the summer. Third string 'keeper Brian Sylvestre has also undergone knee surgery recently.
Watching the Wave (Editorial)
It is an astonishing statistic but the Vancouver Whitecaps played a wearying eight games in May, with a full MLS slate and four matches in the Canadian Championships for the Voyageurs Cup and its Champions berth.
The month's mixed results clearly demonstrated the importance of establishing a deeper squad.
The team did fairly well in the Voyageurs Cup play, blowing out Edmonton, before taking the two legged Toronto final down to the last 8 minutes before finally succumbing to TFC.
The month also started off well in MLS with an unexpected 2-1 win over San Jose, before a 4-1 thrashing by New England.
However, the Whitecaps did recover somewhat to draw with both Cascadia rivals, Seattle and Portland.
Management and Coach Martin Rennie have worked hard to increase the team's depth, evidenced by the arrival of players such as Sebastien Le Toux.
The injection of more talent has also provided excitement with some late game goals to extract results. Vancouver also sits fifth currently in the Western Conference, with a game or two in hand on other teams.
But, weaknesses remain and the team must continue to strive for improvements in their player procurement and development.
The arrival soon of ex-Aston Villa midfielder Barry Robson cannot come soon enough, and that is great news, but more talent is eagerly anticipated in future.


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Code: UGANDAISLAND
Location: Entebbe, Uganda(
Price: $1.5 Million USD
Nsonga Island is a private island measuring 149 acres of land on Lake Victoria. This island is surrounded by white sandy beaches, forest and hill that has a good view of Entebbe.
It is approximately 15 kms away from Entebbe international airport and takes around 30-40 minutes to reach from Entebbe by boat. It is known to have a sizeable population of freshwater fish like tilapia and Nile perch.
This island is ideal for a holiday resort with a swimming pool, artistic bar, health and wellness spa. This would be the first of its kind in the region and would attract people of all walks of life.
An investor may also think to build a private airstrip and could easily attract a specific mass of visitors.
One can work around the greenery, hills and beach front on the island to form a spectacular resort.
The people of Uganda have always been known to be very friendly and hospitable. This is part of the reason why many tourists are tempted to stay and develop here!
The island is located 6 km from the town of Kinwante in Central Uganda.
Note the island has no occupants and is virgin land. Foreigners can hold land under lease hold for considerable time.
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