By JOHN R. BECKER , The Leader Herald

AMSTERDAM - The owners of the Crystal Ristorante on Lyon Street have filed for personal bankruptcy to protect their personal assets during foreclosure proceedings against the restaurant.

Tony and Carolyn Centi filed a Chapter 7 petition in U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Northern District of New York. A summary of the petition lists $857,050 in assets, including the restaurant itself, which has a value of $611,000, and $2.14 million in liabilities, including more than $1 million on the mortgage they took out to build a new banquet hall, $110,000 owed to the Montgomery County Industrial Development Agency and $85,000 to Advance Me Inc., a Georgia-based company which gave Centi a personal loan.

The list of creditors includes several regional food and beverage distributors, among them Quandt's and Bartyzel's, both in Amsterdam. The amounts owed to many of these vendors are listed as unknown.

"I filed personal bankruptcy to protect my home," Tony Centi said Friday.

The foreclosure originally was scheduled to take place May 5 but was postponed by Ciena Capital, the bank holding the mortgage. Ciena Capital was formerly known as BLX Capital.

No new date has been set for the foreclosure. Meanwhile, business continues as usual.

"The restaurant is open just as normal, from 11 a.m. to closing," Centi said. "We're booking parties. Nothing's changed on my end."

Without a new date for the foreclosure, Centi doesn't know how long the restaurant will remain open.

"The restaurant is open until the foreclosure takes place," Centi said. "I don't have an answer that on such-and-such a date it's going to be closed."

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Rancho Santa Margarita, CA (PRWEB) May 11, 2012

From personal trainer career resources to business mentoring and from unique personal training business models to personal coaching, a brand-new website at http://personaltrainerbusiness.biz/ was created as the go-to resource for personal trainers interested in growing their fitness business.

The personal training career and business solutions site offers a variety of targeted programs for personal fitness trainers of all levels across the globe.

Whether you want to make more money as a personal trainer, develop a specific niche, build your social media presence, earn a new personal fitness training certification or focus more on nutrition and exercise, this site is designed to help you reach your personal training business goals, said John Spencer Ellis, founder John Spencer Ellis Enterprises, a fitness and personal development solutions company. We want to help personal trainers find the coaching and business models they need to grow their business, their clients and their overall success.

In particular, the website offers personal trainer business models, business coaching and business systems, including:

Fitness Fortunes: A personal trainer coaching and mentoring program that benefits personal trainers and other fitness pros interested in career growth, Fitness Fortunes offers a blueprint for success that helps personal trainers boost their business. In addition to full-length online training videos which provide a proven, step-by-step blueprint for unlimited financial success in personal training and fitness businesses, the program includes a variety of special bonuses and is now available for just $1 for the first month. FitNews.TV: A fitness marketing solution for personal trainers, coaches and fitness instructors, FitNews.TV offers social media integration for trainers who want more leads, connections and business. This business system includes email newsletters, text campaigns and complete mobile marketing outreach for personal trainers.

The NESTA Personal Fitness Trainer certification: The online, self-paced certification, which costs about 30 percent less on average than other certifications and is valid for four years, rather than just two, is approved and recognized by all major gyms and health club chains. In addition, the training includes easy-to-follow blueprints for launching and running a successful personal training business.

Boot camp, martial arts, nutrition programs and more, all designed as a complete personal training business and career resource.

All of the information on personal training business systems and coaching is available at http://personaltrainerbusiness.biz/.

About John Spencer Ellis Enterprises John Spencer Ellis Enterprises is a solutions provider for fitness and coaching professionals around the world, providing education, turn-key business programs, coaching and resources for new and advanced fitness and coaching professionals. For more information about John Spencer Ellis Enterprises or personal trainer business ideas and resources, please visit http://personaltrainerbusiness.biz/

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Incoming President of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA), Tom Murray, said today that any further delays in publishing the Personal Insolvency Bill will harm business development and job creation.

His comments were made to senior financial professionals at the ACCA's Annual General Meeting, which was held in Dublin today.

In his address, encouraging the Government to publish the legislation no later than the revised June deadline, Tom Murray stated that he recognised the Government's need to get the Bill right, and accepted that there are a significant number of issues that need to be considered in the drafting of what could be the single most important piece of legislation that this Government enacts.

"It is no secret that a significant number of people are waiting to see the final Bill in order to understand what options they may possibly have. Experienced business people are in limbo due to personal debt, which in many cases arises from personal guarantees given to support businesses. As it stands the options available are bankruptcy under the current archaic system in Ireland or the availing of 'bankruptcy tourism' in the UK. In this context, without the timely introduction of the Personal Insolvency Bill, many experienced business people in Ireland remain paralysed by the uncertainty, and as a result are not in a position to contribute to the overall recovery of the economy. Unfortunately, this is having a negative knock-on effect on the SME market and its capacity to create sustainable employment," he said.

Calling on the Government to prioritise the matter and ensure that the deadline date does not slip any further, he said that there is a real danger that Ireland could lose many talented and experienced people to the UK and beyond, which in turn will only continue to slow down the process of job creation and recovery.

A Chartered Certified Accountant, Tom Murray is a leading corporate recovery specialist. A partner with Friel Stafford, he also specialises in Forensic Accounting and is a Certified Mediator.

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exposition of the blessed sacrament/adoration: National Shrine of Our Lady of LaSalette Church, 947 Park St., Saturdays in May, 1-4 p.m.

portuguese healing service: National Shrine of Our Lady of LaSalette Reconciliation Chapel, 947 Park St., Sunday, May 13, 2 p.m. with the Rev. Almir Urbano, M.S. (Brazilian Portuguese).

st. padre pio prayer meeting: National Shrine of Our Lady of LaSalette Reconciliation Chapel, 947 Park St., Monday, May 14, 7:15 p.m. Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament. Led by the Rev. Brother Bob Russell, M.S., S.D.

33-day novena: National Shrine of Our Lady of LaSalette Church, 947 Park St., Monday, May 14-Friday, June 15, 7:15 p.m. St. Louis de Montfort "Total Consecration to Jesus through Mary" will be led by Anna Rae-Kelly. You must attend all 33 days to gain all the graces from this novena. Bring your family!

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mosque prayer service: Masjid al-Ehsan, 2 Cove Road, Fridays, 1-2 p.m. Contact Sherif El Wakil for more information.

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coming of age Sunday: Unitarian Memorial Church, 102 Green St., Sunday, May 20,10:30 a.m. The youth will offer their religious beliefs and their thoughts about the world at this time in their lives, as they move into young adulthood.

connecting for change film series: Unitarian Memorial Church Parish House Auditorium, 102 Green St., Thursday, May 24, 7 p.m. "Journey of the Universe" is the final film in the series. Narrated and co-written by author and evolutionary philosopher, Brian Swimme, this film takes us from the Big Bang theory to the epic impact humans have on our planet today. In a period of growing environmental and social crisis, "Journey of the Universe" is designed to inspire a new and closer relationship with the Earth.

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11-05-2012 07:30 The Mind series is an American English course that caters to young adults from a pre-A1/beginner level to a C1/advanced level. Watch this demonstration of our online content.

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Purdue University on Friday formally kicked off a new online education initiative that it hopes extends the Purdue brand globally and even pulls in additional revenue down the road.

PurdueHUB-U will offer courses via an Internet portal that offers video lectures, online interaction with other students and electronic submission of homework and tests.

Purdues initiative, which will be funded with $2 million over its first four years, is similar to an initiative announced May 2 by Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Those schools pledged a combined $60 million to launch edX, which will offer online courses and give students a certificate of completion at the end. Such a certificate from a well-regarded institution couldproponents of online education predictbecome valuable among employers.

Purdue hopes demand for its HUB-U initiative becomes self-sustaining in five years.

Purdue offered a certificate of completion recently for a HUB course in nanotechnology. The course was taken by 900 students from 27 countries, most of whom paid $30 each.

"Online education is transforming higher education, flipping classroom dynamics and reaching into the farthest corners of the world," Purdue President France Cordova told the universitys board of trustees, according to a statement released by Purdue. "The winners will be those who have the platform, can be cost competitive and capture the imagination of the learner.

The HUB-U technology also will be used to transform on-campus courses at Purdue, according to Provost Tim Sands. In those courses, students would watch lectures online outside of class and spend class time for what used to be homeworkproblem-solving and group activitieswith the aid of professors.

PurdueHUB-U is one of several revenue-boosting initiatives Cordova has launched in her final year as Purdues president. The university is expected to name her replacement this summer.

With state support not keeping up with inflationand actually declining in recent yearsPurdue is turning to out-of-state and international students to help. During Cordovas tenure, the percentage of out-of-state students at Purdue has risen from 40 percent to 50 percent. Thats significant because out-of-state tuition is $27,000nearly three times as much as for in-state students.

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Massive open online courses combine the best of college -- exceptional instruction -- with the best of technology -- online interactive learning. Is this the future of efficient, effective education?

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In the historic sweep of technology, higher education stands apart as a bastion of old-fashioned thinking. But in anticipation that the information revolution is coming for colleges, Ivy League colleges are competing to create online classes without the Ivy League price tag and without the Ivy League admission hurdles. In a recent article in the New Yorker, the President of Stanford, John Hennessy said, "There's a tsunami coming."

Daphne Koller, a professor of Computer Science at Stanford University and the co-founder of Coursera, a free online classroom, believes that Hennessy is right. "The tsunami is coming whether we like it or not," she said. "You can be crushed or you can surf and it is better to surf."

Coursera is a massive online open classroom -- or MOOC -- that operates in conjunction with four top universities - Stanford, University of Pennsylvania, the University of Michigan, and Princeton. Co-founded by Koller and Andrew Ng, Coursera currently offers forty classes on topics ranging from poetry to robotics. Like a traditional class, each online class is comprised of a series of video lectures with PowerPoint slides. Students can participate in discussion boards and are graded on the assignments. Students who complete the course with passing grades receive a certificate of completion.

Earlier this month, Coursera was joined by another Ivy League MOOC, edX. EdX, a joint education venture run by MIT and Harvard, will begin offering online classes in Fall 2012. About 120,000 students signed up for the first MITx course, "Circuits and Electronics,'' in March. In a video on their website, President, Anant Agarwal, explained that like Coursera, edX classes will be open to anyone.

Students who complete the course would be offered a certificate, rather than college credit.

Coursera and edX have more in common with the Khan Academy than with the typical online classes offered by most colleges and for-profit enterprises, like the University of Phoenix. The Khan Academy began as a series of lectures given by Sal Khan, a hedge fund manager, to help his cousin with her math homework. He uploaded his explanations to algebra problems to YouTube and was surprised when his videos began to attract a huge following. With backing by the Gates Foundation and Google, the Khan Academy now features 3,200 videos on everything from math to history.

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Tuesday, May 9th, 2012, Harvard and MIT announced the creation of edX. This is a new partnership in online education. These top schools have partnered together to officer online classes that are completely free. With the explosion of online learning, the site, Aspiring Nurse, will be able to help students earn online degrees.

Lehi, Utah (PRWEB) May 11, 2012

Two of the top college institutions, MIT and Harvard, have announced their collaboration and creation of online courses. Distance education has gained popularity in the last decade, and this is one of it's crowing achievements. These courses are of no charge, and students will be able to earn certificates in mastery. For students that have decided that they want to earn a degree through online education, Aspiring Nurse, will help them get a competitive education.

Online education is continuing to rise. Over 8 million college students have taken an online course in 2011. Online education has changed the way that students learn. Almost 70% of academic leaders call online eduction 'absolutely critical' to their institution's academic strategy. This is an opinion that has grown more than 20% over the past 8 years. More than of instructors believe that the learning outcomes from online classes are the same as face-to-face courses.

Potential students who want to to enroll in nursing programs just have to go the the site to find all of the information that they would ever need on this career. Aspiring nurses will also be able to follow links to be able to find a lot of all of the online certified nurse programs, and even by state. They can choose which school they think would best fit them. The site also offers great tools to help aspiring nurses by selecting options from a drop down menu, students can also choose courses by their interest in major. Aspiring nurses now do not have to spend long hours looking through information on how to become a nurse, where they can get their online degrees, or what they should expect when taking online nursing courses.

About Aspiring Nurse Aspiring Nurse is focused on making sure that prospective medical students get the education from the school that they will benefit the most from. For the majority of these students, online programs are the types of programs that they need to be able to accomplish all of their responsibilities. Online programs allow students to choose where and when they complete their coursework. The tools and services that are offered on the Aspiring Nurse website have helped thousands of students find the perfect school, get the medical career of their choice, and start their new career with a competitive nurse salary.

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09-05-2012 09:14 Approximately 2000 soldiers from 2 Canadian Mechanized Brigade were in Simcoe County to practise maneuvers essential to succeed on any mision . This is something they have not been able to do in recent years because they were focused on skills specific to the Afghanistan mission .

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