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The owners of the Framingham pharmacy blamed for the fungal meningitis outbreak that has killed dozens of people and sickened hundreds more pulled millions of dollars out of the company in the last year.
Bankruptcy records show the four family members who cofounded New England Compounding Center received more than $16 million in wages and profits from the firm from December 2011 through November 2012 — roughly equal to half its sales during this period.
The filings also show the family members racked up $90,000 on corporate American Express credit cards, including charges made after the company shut down in early October. The company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy just before Christmas.
An attorney involved in the bankruptcy case said he felt "shock and amazement" when he saw the list of payments for family members.
"It's tremendously unusual," said William R. Baldiga, a partner at the Boston law firm Brown Rudnick who is representing the committee of unsecured creditors owed money by the company, including people who were sickened by the company's drugs. "This is not a large company."
Members of the unsecured creditors committee plan to meet Tuesday to discuss what, if anything, to do about the money paid to the company's owners in the past year.
The compounding pharmacy suspended operations after government investigators tied the outbreak to contaminated steroid injections made by the company — largely to treat back pain — and shipped to clinics across the country.
At least 44 people have died and 678 have become ill in 19 states from fungal meningitis or other complications after receiving the shots, according to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
State and federal investigators who inspected the facility last fall have said they found that the company ignored signs that the "clean rooms" where the steroids were prepared were contaminated and did not do enough to test the drugs before shipping them to pain clinics.
Lawyers representing victims have filed hundreds of lawsuits and estimate the potential damages are likely to total hundreds of millions of dollars — far more than the company has in assets.
In documents filed in US Bankruptcy Court in Boston late Friday, the pharmacy reported it had just $1.3 million in cash and owed nearly $900,000 to unsecured creditors such as FedEx, not counting potential legal costs. The company also indicated it had insurance, which could potentially cover a portion of claims to victims.
The records show that Barry Cadden, the lead pharmacist and main executive in charge of the company, and his wife, Lisa, together pulled $6 million out of the company from late December 2011 through November 2012, in wages and shareholder payments. Lisa's brother Gregory Conigliaro received $1.6 million during this span. And Carla Conigliaro, the majority shareholder and wife of Lisa's brother Douglas Conigliaro — a doctor who cofounded the company's marketing and sales affiliate — pulled out $8.7 million.
The company reiterated its plans Monday to work with creditors to establish a fund to compensate victims, saying in a statement from its bankruptcy lawyer that it would meet with creditors this week to discuss the fund. The company did not respond to questions about the payments to family members.
Fredric Ellis, a Boston attorney representing several victims, said there is no evidence that the founders "raided" the company's coffers shortly before it filed for bankruptcy protection. But he said the records show that the company was growing rapidly and generated enormous profits for the owners before it shut down.
"They were clearly taking a lot of money out while it was operating," Ellis said. "They cashed out, no doubt about it."
The records show the company's revenue skyrocketed as it supplied a growing number of clinics and hospitals across the country with specially formulated medications, some in short supply. The company's sales jumped from $19.9 million in 2010 to $27.3 million in 2011, an increase of 37 percent. And last year, the company's sales reached $32.4 million — even though it shut down operations and gave up its pharmacy license in Massachusetts about three-quarters of the way through the year.
Baldiga said he was concerned that the company continued to pay the company's owners hundreds of thousands of dollars in October and November — including credit card charges at Whole Foods Market, Panera Bread, and Barnes & Noble — even after the company was linked to the meningitis outbreak and recalled the tainted steroids on Sept. 26. He also flagged a $190 charge at the MGM Grand at Foxwoods, the Connecticut casino, on Sept. 28, just days before the shutdown.
"After this tragedy unfolded, the company was still paying for the personal lifestyles of the owners of the company even after the company was clearly insolvent," Baldiga said. "It shows a cavalier attitude" toward victims who are waiting to be compensated.
Overall, the company paid more than $72,000 in American Express charges for the Caddens and more than $18,000 for Carla Conigliaro. The company also paid $30,000 over the past year for two leased luxury cars and $4.7 million to affiliated companies.Todd Wallack can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com. Follow him on Twitter @twallack.

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The Carmi-White County girls basketball team kicked off its season on Tuesday night with a 48-30 win over West Frankfort.
Coach Scott Conner's team jumped out to a big lead, but had to hold back a surging Lady Redbird team.
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Update: Mourners on Saturday gathered at Broadway Baptist Church in Fort Worth for a visitation to honor legendary pianist Van Cliburn, who died Wednesday at his home in Westover Hills.
FORT WORTH -- Van Cliburn's talent alone might have earned him a place among the 20th-century giants of his instrument, alongside classical pianists like Arthur Rubinstein and Vladimir Horowitz. But after a magical Moscow spring in 1958, Mr. Cliburn's fame eclipsed even those musical contemporaries, rivaling that of another young superstar of his time, Elvis Presley.
Mr. Cliburn was "The Texan Who Conquered Russia," according to a Time magazine cover. At the height of the Cold War, the lanky 23-year-old from East Texas traveled to Moscow and won the first Tchaikovsky International Competition, an event created to showcase Soviet cultural superiority. Mr. Cliburn's unlikely triumph was thus said to bring a thaw in tensions between the rival superpowers and created a mythic parable about the power of art to unite mankind.
The man at the heart of that parable died Wednesday morning at his mansion near Fort Worth. It had been announced Aug. 27 that Mr. Cliburn, who turned 78 in July, was suffering from advanced bone cancer.
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"In 1958, he proved to the world that music is a transcendental force that goes beyond political boundaries and cultural boundaries and unifies mankind. He was a very concrete example of that," said Veda Kaplinsky, head of the piano department at the Juilliard School in New York. "Beyond that, his legacy is that of a person who personified grace, humility, talent, kindness and sincerity. He was a human being first and foremost. He never lost that."
He is survived by his longtime friend and manager, Thomas L. Smith.
While the world mourns a cultural icon, many in North Texas remember a friend -- a shy man of uncommon graciousness.
A friend to American presidents, foreign leaders and Hollywood celebrities, Mr. Cliburn also became a fixture in the life of Fort Worth. In the 1980s, he moved from a New York City apartment to a mansion in the exclusive Fort Worth suburb of Westover Hills. In the decades since, he was often seen at local cultural events or handing out medals to winners of the prestigious Fort Worth piano competition that bears his name.
A famous night owl, Mr. Cliburn was well-known for his off-hours visits to the Ol' South Pancake House on University Drive, always dressed in his trademark dark suits. A man of deep Christian faith, he was a member at Broadway Baptist Church, sneaking into a back pew just before services began each Sunday he was in town.
"One of the most profound truths that has characterized my life is St. Paul's advice to 'pray without ceasing,'" Mr. Cliburn told Brent Beasley, his pastor at Broadway Baptist, shortly before his death. "That's how I have lived my life."
Beasley and others who spent time with Mr. Cliburn after his recent diagnosis described a man bent on reminiscing from the moment he woke updaily, but a person unafraid of the end.
"He actually made the comment, 'I'm more afraid of living than dying,'" Beasley said.
For all his local familiarity, Mr. Cliburn largely belonged to the world. Through much of the 1960s and 1970s, he was among the most sought-after soloists and recording artists of his generation. But he would always be, first and foremost, the humble young man of the Tchaikovsky triumph, which came when the cloud of nuclear confrontation hovered over the world.
From childhood, the musician born in Shreveport and raised in the East Texas town of Kilgore seemed to channel the Russian soul, an affinity that was quickly obvious in that first trip to Russia. Max Frankel, then a Moscow correspondent for The New York Times, began to hear of Russian audiences at the competition that were completely enthralled by the one known as "Cleeburn."
"Especially the young girls were going absolutely crazy about Van's performances, heaping flowers on him," Frankel, who eventually became the Times' executive editor, said in 2008. "And there were long lines to get in [when he played], even longer than usual."
Frankel sought out another American in Moscow, Mark Schubart, dean of the Juilliard School.
"Is this kid really so phenomenal, or is this just another case of Frank Sinatra bobby-soxers?" Frankel asked him.
"No, he's a hell of a musician," Schubart said. "He's well in line to win this thing if the Russians ever let him."
After a series of historic performances before rapturous throngs -- playing works by the Russians' best-loved composers, Rachmaninoff and Tchaikovsky -- jurors voted to award first prize to Mr. Cliburn, first finding it necessary to obtain the blessing of Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev. Later, Mr. Cliburn and Khrushchev, himself a classical music aficionado, became good friends.
The triumph was front-page news around the globe and earned Mr. Cliburn a ticker-tape parade in New York City on his return to the United States, the only classical musician ever afforded that honor.
He eventually performed for every American president from Harry S. Truman on. He began every performance by playing The Star-Spangled Banner. In 2003, Mr. Cliburn was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President George W. Bush. In 2004, Russian President Vladimir Putin presented Mr. Cliburn with the Order of Friendship. In another White House ceremony in 2011, President Barack Obama presented Mr. Cliburn the National Medal of the Arts.
"He understood the role music could play in the lives of diverse people," said Robert Blocker, dean of the Yale School of Music. "He just saw music as a vehicle of hope. He lived that out, whether it was with [President] Carter or Khrushchev. I see him as being one of the world's great cultural leaders. The message he carried to presidents and to children was that music is important."
"Old when I was born"
Mr. Cliburn's path seemed fated, a destiny that he recognized early.
"I was old when I was born," he said in May. "I told my parents when I was 5, 'I am going to be a concert pianist. They thought I was crazy. I played in public when I was 4, then made my debut with the Houston Symphony when I was 12, and my debut with the New York Philharmonic, I had just turned 20. I had so much ambition, but first of all I loved the music."
He was born in Shreveport on July 12, 1934, to Harvey Lavan Cliburn, an oil company executive, and Rildia Bee O'Bryan Cliburn, herself a classical pianist with an impeccable pedigree. The daughter of a lawyer and former mayor of the small Texas town of McGregor, Mr. Cliburn's mother had gone away to study piano at the Cincinnati Conservatory, and then to New York. Her teacher there was Arthur Friedheim, who had been a pupil of piano legend Franz Liszt.
Rildia Bee Cliburn's piano career would consist mostly of teaching, and her most prominent pupil was her talented and precocious son. In the recent interview, Mr. Cliburn remembered his mother as a very demanding instructor.
"I was about 9 or 10 and she was taking me through the Transcendental Etudes of Liszt," Mr. Cliburn said. "She said, 'Oh, no, dear.' I said, 'I can't play this because I don't have perfect hands like you.'"
His voice became stern as he remembered his mother's reply.
"No one has perfect hands!" she said. "Everyone has problems. Your responsibility is to solve your problems."
Mr. Cliburn graduated from Kilgore High School at age 16, and from Juilliard three years later. Jerome Lowenthal, another American pianist and a classmate at Juilliard, remembered that Mr. Cliburn was famously innocent, even then.
"We had a class together in Renaissance music, and one of the things we would do is sing," Lowenthal recalled in 2008. "Van was special because he would always put a lot of emotion into it. I can see it to this day with his eyebrows going up. We were all too self-conscious to do that.
"I remember once meeting him on the street in New York. He was coming back from a Billy Graham evening, and he was very excited, and he talked with great enthusiasm and emotion," Lowenthal said. "He was just different than other people I knew. And he was a wonderful artist. He was the Van you know today, only much less sophisticated."
Well before his victory in Moscow, Mr. Cliburn seemed headed toward classical music stardom. In 1954, he won the prestigious Leventritt Competition in New York City, which led to performances with major orchestras across the United States and a debut with the New York Philharmonic at Carnegie Hall on Nov. 14, 1954.
His playing also attracted the attention of Sol Hurok, a leading music impresario of the time, who became Mr. Cliburn's longtime manager.
A Moscow night
When he was 5, Mr. Cliburn's parents gave him a child's picture book of the world. When the boy came to the photograph of the colorful, onion-shaped domes of St. Basil's Cathedral in Red Square, he gasped.
"Take me there," he said.
Eighteen years later, it was that desire to see Russia, as much as anything, that caused Mr. Cliburn to enter the Tchaikovsky competition.
"Everything else was just ice cream," Mr. Cliburn once said.
The trip to Moscow was his first on a jetliner. He was met at the Moscow airport by the woman who was to be his guide and interpreter.
"I said, 'Oh, ma'am, wheresoever I am to stay, is it possible to drive past the churches?' I saw [St. Basil's] that very night, and it was snowy and it was beautiful," Mr. Cliburn remembered four years ago. "It will never be as beautiful as it was that night. It took my breath. I had a dream come true that very moment."
He checked into the Hotel Peking and quickly became friends with a handful of other young pianists, many of them Russian. Late one night, it was his turn to try out the piano in the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory.
"The Great Hall is on a higher floor. There is an endless, humongous marble staircase to the anteroom of the hall," Mr. Cliburn recalled. "There was [another contestant] inside playing. She was playing the E-flat minor Opus 33 Etude-Tableau of Rachmaninoff, which is a divine piece anyway. It was empty, and there was a pin light on a statue of [composer Modest] Mussorgsky. It's something that I still can't believe. It's hallowed ground. So much famous music had been performed and written there. That was thrill enough."
But Mr. Cliburn himself would write one of the most historic chapters of the storied venue. After playing a Bach prelude and fugue from The Well-Tempered Clavier and a Mozart sonata in the Tchaikovsky's preliminary round, the tall American was forced to stand up twice and acknowledge the cheers.
"I stood up to take a bow, and I sat down, but they kept clapping," Mr. Cliburn remembered in 2008, still sounding incredulous.
'So many vitamins'
A phenomenon was taking shape.
"I was watching this thing with Van with a half-cynical detachment, but at the same time realizing that something wonderful was happening," said Lowenthal, Mr. Cliburn's Juilliard classmate and also a competitor at the 1958 Tchaikovsky. "Russian women started coming to me, to tell me about Van, saying, 'He reminds me of my son.' It was his certain air of sweet vulnerability. I think what that remark meant, and I heard it a number of times, was that he brought out the maternal feelings in them.
"Everybody fell in love with him, and that increased constantly through the competition," Lowenthal said. "He played wonderfully and projected something that obviously was quite new to the people there."
On a Friday night, April 12, 1958, New York Times correspondent Frankel fought his way through the adoring crowds to a seat near the front of the Great Hall. It was standing room only. Frankel listened to Cliburn's magisterial performance of Tchaikovsky's First Piano Concerto, followed by Rachmaninoff's Third. The journalist had always loved classical music but had no formal schooling in the art. With Mr. Cliburn's playing, he said, that was not necessary.
"It was magnificent, romantic but so clean," he remembered. "The technique was extraordinary. The size of his hands was extraordinary. He had this very boyish manner and looks, of course. But when he was playing, it was with extreme authority and confidence."
Frankel was also stunned by the pandemonium inside the hall, cheers that went on for nearly 10 minutes, and the scores of glassy-eyed women rushing toward the stage with large bouquets of roses. Cliburn embraced his acclaimed conductor, Kiril Kondrashin. The young pianist was allowed to take a curtain call, in violation of competition rules.
Sitting next to Frankel was an elderly Russian, a musician of some sort, who had jumped to his feet the moment Mr. Cliburn's performance concluded.
"Just like Rachmaninoff! Just like Rachmaninoff!" cried the man, who clearly had listened to the great Russian pianist and composer perform.
"Did I hear you right?" Frankel asked.
"Maybe even better," the man replied.
But Frankel knew that the significance of what he had heard transcended classical music. Joseph Stalin had been dead only five years and Khrushchev had been in his position as leader of the Soviet Union for a matter of weeks. The United States was still reeling from the launch of the world's first man-made satellite, Sputnik, the year before. The Tchaikovsky was meant to prove that the Soviets were superior in the arts, as well.
Cliburn's performance inspired a great question implicit in the article Frankel filed to New York that night.
"Would the Russians dare to let an American, who on artistic grounds would clearly be the favorite, would they allow him to walk away with the victory?" Frankel said. "That tone caused the Times to put the article at the bottom of Page One. That was clearly a political question, and it was a political act by the Times to put it on the front page."
The answer came April 14, chronicled in another front-page article under Frankel's byline.
"What I didn't know at the time is that they [the jury] went all the way up to Khrushchev," Frankel said. "Whether the Times contributed to the Russians using this as a political message, wanting better relations with the West, who knows? But it was a major question and the answer from Russia was received in that spirit."
Mr. Cliburn, meanwhile, seemed to have little inkling of his achievement's impact.
"When I got the prize, I had a few rubles and I could call home," Mr. Cliburn said in the May interview.
In that first telephone call, he asked his mother to phone a family friend and let her know what had happened.
"She knows, darling," Rildia Bee Cliburn said. "She knows."
Days later, before returning to the United States, Mr. Cliburn attended a Moscow reception for Queen Elizabeth of Belgium. Amid a huge crowd, a side door opened and a short, bald man stepped into the room. Cliburn and Khrushchev quickly found each other.
"You are so tall," Khrushchev said.
"I guess because my father gave me so many vitamins," Mr. Cliburn famously replied.
The American pianist was stunned by what he heard next.
"I listened to what he was saying through a translator, and I couldn't believe it," Mr. Cliburn said. "He [Khrushchev] said, 'I was listening to you in the second round on the radio. I loved the way you played Fantasia F-minor Opus 49 of Chopin.'"
That was not a piece the average person would know. Mr. Cliburn was shocked that the head of Soviet communism was clearly a classical music devotee.
"I could not believe it," Mr. Cliburn remembered. "I wanted to know if my ears had deceived me. So at a later concert, Mr. Khrushchev, and [Nikolai] Bulganin and [Alexei] Kosygin and all the government people were in their box, and I dedicated to Mr. Khrushchev as an encore [the Chopin piece]. We have film of him listening. It just thrilled me to death."
At another Moscow party around that time, Lowenthal overheard a comment Mr. Cliburn made to the American ambassador.
"I heard Cliburn say, 'I said to Mr. Khrushchev that in this post-Sputnik age we have to love each other,'" Lowenthal said. "I was just astonished. I think you can't do better than that. He just felt the situation so perfectly."
Hero's welcome
Mr. Cliburn returned to a hero's welcome, a ticker-tape parade through the streets of Manhattan, and, among other national television programs, an appearance on the Tonight Show with Steve Allen.
"He had the package that everyone wants," said Yale's Blocker. "One of the real interesting things is that he was so photogenic and television was coming of age. Here is this tall, handsome Texan, gregarious, young, incredibly talented. He was a rock star."
Another surprising accolade came in the fall of 1958, when Irl Allison, founder of the National Guild of Piano Teachers, announced at a Fort Worth dinner that he would offer a $10,000 first prize to the winner of a new piano competition named for Mr. Cliburn. Local piano teachers and civic leaders took up the challenge, offering to make Fort Worth the event's home. Mr. Cliburn was embarrassed by the gesture.
"Oh, don't worry," his mother told him then. "There will be one and that will be it."
Rildia Bee Cliburn could not have been more mistaken. American pianist Ralph Votapek won the first Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in 1962. Since then, the quadrennial competition has become one of the world's most prestigious, drawing the finest young pianists from around the globe to Fort Worth. Mr. Cliburn made a tradition of greeting each visiting contestant, attending many of the performances and announcing the winners.
In 1997, a Cliburn gold medal catapulted pianist Jon Nakamatsu to a robust performing and recording career that continues today. But what Nakamatsu most remembers about the competition namesake was an encounter the two of them had when he was a boy. At age 9, Nakamatsu's mother took him to a recital by Mr. Cliburn, and then to meet the famous man backstage.
"Van knelt down and signed my program and talked to me," Nakamatsu said. "I was just some kid, so inspired and so moved that this giant of a person would take the time to shake the hand of a young boy. That stuck with me. I attribute a lot of my behavior today to that moment. As important as it is to be a great musician, it's more important to be a great person. That makes even more of an impact."
Nakamatsu said that in 1997, he told Mr. Cliburn of that memory.
"Of course he didn't remember that, but he was grateful to hear it," Nakamatsu said. "That was just one of countless experiences he provided for people over his whole career. He was never one to shun the public. Every time I've met him through the years, I've had the thought that I was meeting one of the last of the Southern gentlemen, making people feel very warm and respected and valued just by his demeanor."
Though Mr. Cliburn is now gone, Nakamatsu said he hopes "the one thing that the [competition] retains is his spirit. That's what drove the organization in the first place. It was to honor the man. It's not just about who is going to win the next gold medal. That's just a side product of the celebration of this figure who has touched so many people."
Some time off
In 1978, after the death of his father and Sol Hurok, and weary from two decades of almost nonstop performing, Mr. Cliburn began a hiatus from the stage.
"I felt I was losing contact with my friends," he said. "I wanted to go to the opera more often. I wanted some time off."
The Soviet Union would again figure prominently in his eventual return. In 1987, during a summit between President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, Mr. Cliburn was invited to play a recital. He began the short program with the Russian national anthem, followed by The Star-Spangled Banner, then classical pieces.
Raisa Gorbachev, the leader's wife, had an additional request. That panicked protocol officers, but not the pianist. Mr. Cliburn turned back to the keyboard and played Moscow Nights, a popular Russian ballad. The Gorbachevs robustly sang along.
For 15 more years, Mr. Cliburn played engagements around the world. While he was in New York for a performance at the Metropolitan Opera, Mr. Cliburn received word that his mother, then 97, had suffered a serious stroke.
"I had an excruciating pain in my head during the concert," Mr. Cliburn recalled. "There was terrible trouble in my right arm. I knew she was going."
He rushed from the hall to a charter flight back to Texas and was with Rildia Bee Cliburn when she died Aug. 3, 1994.
"I was holding her," Mr. Cliburn remembered. "She went oh so peacefully. Oh so beautifully."
In the years to come, the number of his performances began to dwindle, though he remained active both in Fort Worth cultural life and as a frequent traveler around the globe, including many return trips to Russia, where he remains an icon.
In May, 150 pieces of Mr. Cliburn's jewelry, silver and furniture were auctioned at Christie's in New York. In an interview a few days earlier, he roamed from room to room in his mansion, remembering his remarkable life. Among his recollections was a return trip to Russia a few years after his 1958 triumph and renewal of his friendship with Khrushchev.
"He gave me his house for the weekend on the Black Sea. ... He took me on his boat from his dacha and we motored into the middle of Moscow so we could look up at the palace of the Kremlin," Mr. Cliburn said. "It was just one of the most exciting things of my life.
"He was telling me that they had watched me for two years. He said: 'You're very wise. You don't engage in politics.' I said, 'If I did, my grandfather would come back from the dead and kill me, because he told me, 'Politics is a great art, but it is divisive. Great classical music is for everyone all over the world.' [Khrushchev said,] 'Oh!' He agreed. He said, 'I'm proud of you because you love classical music.'"
That recent spring evening, Mr. Cliburn paused outside his mansion.
"Did I really live through that?" he said. "I'm very grateful for all the many things that have come my way."
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Protecting the vulnerable during crisis and disaster: Part II Ethiopia's Productive Safety Net Program
The following post is a part of a series that discusses 'managing risk for development,' the theme of the World Bank's upcoming World Development Report 2014.
Despite more than 19 episodes of severe food shortage in Ethiopia since 1895, it was the dramatic images of famines in 1972 and 1984 which came to the world's attention and (wrongly) made Ethiopia synonymous with drought and famine. Despite consistent food shortages in Ethiopia for decades, it only became clear in the run-up to the 2002/3 drought that, while the humanitarian system appeared to be saving lives, it was proving to be ineffective in saving livelihoods and managing risks effectively. In essence, rural Ethiopians had faced chronic food insecurity for decades, but were receiving 'treatment' for transitory food insecurity. In part as a result of this misdiagnosis, rural Ethiopians were becoming increasingly less resilient to drought and were unable to manage risks effectively. This realization prompted the birth of the Productive Safety Net Programme (PSNP).


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What can Congress actually do about Russia and the election hacks?
WASHINGTON (CIRCA) - There's a battle brewing on Capitol Hill over Russia's alleged involvement in the 2016 election. Lawmakers are calling for a swift investigation, but President-elect Donald Trump and his team say there isn't enough evidence to support one.
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Oh, my pregnant friends, are you sitting down? A new study brings some news that, while not unsurprising, may yet be tough to hear, especially for those of us who, unaware that we were pregnant during the first few weeks of pregnancy, maybe had a glass of wine or two in the days before seeing those twin lines appear on that tell-tale stick: It's never safe to drink alcoholic beverages during pregnancy -- and it can be particularly harmful to your fetus during the first trimester.
On the (relatively) bright side, it's actually drinking alcohol at the end of the first trimester that puts your fetus most at risk for developing physical, behavioral, or cognitive problems, this new research, published in the journal Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research, has found.
According to the study's authors, women "who are of childbearing age and who are contemplating or at risk of becoming pregnant" are advised to avoid alcohol. Those who are pregnant shouldn't touch anything alcoholic (not a glass of champagne, not a sip of beer) throughout their pregnancies.
Of course, the risks of drinking during pregnancy are serious and not something any mother would desire. But here's some perspective from a mother who, unaware I was pregnant with my first child, did have a few glasses of wine the first few weeks of my pregnancy. Once I learned the thrilling news, I of course stopped drinking anything stronger than orange juice, but I was pretty freaked out about the potential effects of those first unknowingly irresponsible weeks until I held my perfect baby in that delivery room. So here's the message I want to convey: If you had a glass of wine or two -- a cocktail, or a beer -- in the early days of your pregnancy, before you realized you were pregnant, DO NOT PANIC.
Presumably, at this point, knowing you're pregnant, you've already stopped drinking, but if you haven't, stop now and stay dry for the rest of your pregnancy. It's never too late to start. And the odds are still in your favor that everything will be OK and you'll soon be celebrating the birth of your happy, healthy baby -- with a glass of sparkling (non-alcoholic) cider, of course.
Did you drink in the early days of your pregnancy, before you realized you were pregnant?
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As kids all of us had fantasies about what we would be when we grew up. While most boys typically dream of playing professional sports, I dreamed of being a cowboy.
Admittedly, I don't have a six-gun and holster. I don't have much desire to see how fast I can handle a pistol. And sleeping in a bedroll on hard ground has by now lost its appeal. Still, no matter how many talks I give about the importance of a business approach to cattle ranching and embracing technology, I still love the romance of this business.
As I grew older, my career goals changed. Instead of wanting to be known as a cowboy, I gradually evolved more toward cattleman and horseman. Regardless of the terminology, I've always responded with pride in telling folks I'm a rancher. Even doctors and lawyers can't always say that.
Business guru Peter Drucker wrote: "Work is an extension of personality. It is achievement. It is one of the ways in which a person defines himself, measures his worth -- and his humanity." Every time I read that quote, I can't help but think there's literally no profession I'd rather associate myself with than ranching.
When I headed out to the barn this morning to saddle my horse and check heat on heifers, I would have told anyone who asked that I was heading to work. Yet, even on the worst of days, I can think of very few things I'd rather do. In fact, I like it so much I might even say I'd do it for nothing.
Ranching offers the unique challenge of working with Mother Nature, animals and a few really good people. And, while the environment may be ultra-competitive from an economic standpoint and the effort required, people have never entered or stayed in this business for purely economic reasons. That defines our business.
We have a moral responsibility to our family and children to make as good a living as possible, and there are tremendous opportunities for sustainable profitability in the new marketing environment that's emerging, but we aren't in this business for the money. It hurts me to make that confession, because I tend to think of myself as a rabid, free-market, entrepreneurial capitalist type. The most I can say, however, is I've chosen this life and am going to try to make as good of a living as possible from it. -- Troy Marshall


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Summer's Made for Iced Tea — And A Food Gal Giveaway
I am not a soda gal.
Too sweet and too many unnecessary calories for me.
When I want to quench my thirst in summer, I reach for a glass of iced tea instead.
I don't add any extra honey, sugar or artificial sweeteners, either. I like the tannic nature it has all on its own. If I really want to get fancy, I'll muddle some fresh fruit, mint leaves or even cucumber slices in it.
That's exactly what I did when Mighty Leaf Tea sent me some samples to try recently. Its over-sized tea bags make it easy to brew a big pitcher of iced tea in minutes. I steeped a bag of Ginger Peach Iced Tea for 5 minutes, then added some ice cubes to chill it down. Since I'd just come back from the farmer's market, I sliced up some nectarines and added them to the iced tea for a pretty — and pretty delicious — gulp on a warm day.
CONTEST: One lucky Food Gal reader will win samples of Mighty Leaf Tea's four iced teas: Sunburst Green, Ginger Peach, Calypso Mango and Organic Black. What's more, the winner also will receive the Takeya plastic iced tea pitcher and Takeya glass water bottle, both pictured above.
Entries, limited to those in the continental United States, will be accepted through midnight PST June 29. Winner will be announced July 1.
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Hayward's New Salt & Swim 3C Brings Bold Change To Salt Chlorination.
Salt & Swim 3C delivers the 3 Cs of salt chlorination: Comfort, Convenience at a Cost the trade and pool owners will love.
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ELIZABETH, NJ (November 06, 2012) Hayward Pool Products is taking salt chlorination to an unprecedented level with the introduction of Salt & Swim™ 3C. According to company officials, the technological advances represented in the new product will heighten pool owners' comfort and convenience at less than half the cost of other forms of traditional chlorine.
Hayward Industries Global Product Manager, Sanitization and Chemical Automation, Ray Denkewicz said, "Salt & Swim 3C maximizes comfort and convenience, while minimizing the cost to pool owners. This product really delivers on all three levels. Our customers have come to expect the comfort and convenience associated with salt chlorination, and Salt & Swim 3C delivers that. But what is unique is that Salt & Swim 3C also delivers cost savings to consumers over traditional chemical forms of chlorine. Equally important is the fact that Salt & Swim 3C delivers gross margin profitability to retailers and servicers that can be greater than profitability associated with chemical forms of chlorine. Salt & Swim 3C now makes salt chlorination an attractive revenue stream for retails and servicers alike."
The company reports that a single Salt & Swim 3C Cell produces 200 pounds of 100 percent pure-available chlorine. This is equivalent to 225 pounds of Trichlor (90 percent); 208 gallons of liquid chlorine (10 percent), which weighs more than one ton; 308 pounds of Calcium Hypochlorite (65 percent); 333 pounds of Dichlor (60 percent); or 571 pounds of Lithium Hypochlorite (35 percent).
The cost savings of more than 50 percent is unprecedented, Denkewicz said. "In short, Hayward has found a way to make salt chlorination more affordable for everyone. Finally, pool owners, who simply couldn't afford it before, have a viable salt chlorination option available to them."
About Hayward Pool Products
Hayward Pool Products, a division of Hayward Industries Inc., is the largest manufacturer of residential swimming pool equipment in the world. Headquartered in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Hayward designs, manufactures and markets the Totally Hayward® System, a full line of residential and commercial pool equipment including pumps, filters, heating, cleaners, sanitization, automation, lighting, safety and energy solutions.
The company, which has built its brand on innovation, energy-efficiency, safety and reliability, includes such brands as Salt & Swim™ 3C, EcoStar®, TriStar®, SuperPump®, ProLogic®, AquaConnect®, HeatPro®, ColorLogic®, AquaRite®, Navigator® Pro, PoolVac XL™, TigerShark®, among others. Hayward products are sold through a network of distributors and 3,000 Totally Hayward Dealer Partners throughout the U.S., Canada, Asia, Australia, Latin America and the Middle East. For more information, contact Hayward at (908) 351-5400 or visit hayward-pool.


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Have I mentioned that October is one of my favorite months? October means that fall is definitely in full swing, even if we don't get much of true fall color in Southern California. (Fall color being one of the other reasons I like October). Not only are October days shorter and cooler, they are busier. I am back in the rhythm of school days with homework, projects, after school events, and of course Nico and Erica's school Fall Festival.
At Nico and Erica's catholic school the Fall Festival is a huge deal. It's a great fundraiser for the school and there's something for everyone. There are all kinds of game booths, a cake walk, haunted and bounce houses, and of course, what would a Catholic festival be without Bingo? This year, my friend Rosemary won a new IPad during one round of Bingo. When she told us that she won the IPad, Diego chimed in, "Well, I won two whoopee cushions!" See? I told you there was something for everyone. Ahh, the Fall Fest! The kids absolutely love it! Me? I have a love/hate relationship with the Fall Fest.
The look of delight and joy as I see my kids and their classmates having the time of their lives as they tear with through their former school-yard-turned-carnival, playing games of chance and the opportunity to win an endless supply of stuffed animals, whoopee cushions, inflatable hammers, and SILLY STRING.
The fact that my kids and their classmates run wild through their former school-yard-turned-carnival, playing games of chance, and winning endless supplies of stuffed animals, whoopee cushions, inflatable hammers, and SILLY STRING.
Silly String is fun. It is also sticky, messy, and requires WD-40 or paint thinner to remove it when it gets on clothing. After 8 years of consecutive Fall Festivals, I have had a lot of experience with Silly String. I now know that my kids should wear caps to the Fall Fest, lest their hair become sprayed with the sticky stuff. Silly String also burns when it gets in the eye. SillyString can result in physical injury. Three Fall Festivals ago, Erica was being chased by a boy with an inflatable hammer. The school yard was filled with land mines of empty Silly String cans, tossed haphazardly by kids whose cans had run out of the sticky stream of fluorescent string. As Erica ran from the boy with the hammer, she tripped over an abandoned empty Silly String can and sprained her wrist. The evening's festivities were cut short with a late night trip to the emergency room. This incident also resulted in me sending an email to the school festival committee proposing we abandon the Silly String altogether. Hah! Like that was going to happen! Nevertheless, the next year the festival committee came up with the cleaver idea that the kids bring three empty Silly String cans in exchange for one new can. The result was a school yard free of empty Silly String land mines, and a lesson in recycling.
With this year's Fall Fest in the can, (pun intended) I am both sad and happy. I am saddened by the fact that now that Nico and Erica are in the 7th grade, there will be only one more year with them at this school and at the Fall Fest. I am also happy that we only have one more year with Nico and Erica at this school and at the Fall Fest. Although, something tells me that I won't be missing the Fall Fest for too long. Diego is in 1st grade at a different school. This coming weekend Diego's school is holding its own First Annual Fall Festival.


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Broncos wide receiver Wes Welker has avoided making comparisons between Peyton Manning and the guy who used to throw Welker passes in New England, but that doesn't mean he won't talk about what it's like to play with Manning.
It shouldn't come as much of a surprise that Welker overflows with compliments when he does. We may be in the dark about whether Welker thinks Manning or Tom Brady is the better quarterback, but Welker left no doubt that he's found Manning to be every inch the quarterback he used to watch the Patriots defense try to beat.
"It's everything you thought," Welker said, via the Broncos website. "The balls are just so accurate and you come out of your break and the ball is just there. It's almost like a long handoff sometimes. He definitely makes it easy on you."
Having a quarterback that makes life easier for you isn't the only thing that's contributed to a smooth transition from New England to Denver. Manning says the Broncos have taken things from tape that the Patriots did with Welker and installed them into their own playbook, something that only adds to the feeling that the Broncos offense is poised for a big 2013 season with the Manning-Welker connection playing a prime role.


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Steve Ward needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 105 designs submitted by 21 freelance designers.
High Performance
High Performance Sports provide a specialist sports psychology and lifestyle management service for youth sports athletes/players. We work with young sports people, teams, clubs, coaches and parents to teach key sports psychology skills (motivation, confidence, focus, resilience, composure) and lifestyle skillls (time management, communication, life balance).
We are passionate about helping young sports people to perform to their full potential and to achieve their sporting goals. We believe in holistic development of athletes - physical, technical, tactical and mental/emotional.
This company is devoted to providing positive and successful sports experiences for young people, and supporting the elite performer to achieve at the highest level.
The target audience is going to be young sports people, their coaches and parents. Organisations and clubs.
Logo needs to be catchy and 'funky' and fresh.
It should have a sports/performance feel to it.
Colours are orange and silver.
Wording - High Performance Sports
Possible sub heading/other text - sports psychology - performance lifestyle OR maximising sporting potential
See High Performance Trading logo - attached - as this is part of the same brand and was done for our Financial Trading arm.
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A recent post by Dixie & Linda of Funky Junk Sisters regarding vintage signs reminded me of my "issue" with signs. "Hello, my name is Debi . . . and I'm addicted to signs!" Is there a 12-step program devoted to this alarming addiction??
In this post, I will show you many wonderful signs I have for sale that will make their way to Farm Chicks, Funky Junk Sisters, Expo and Barn House! Help me, I've fallen for signs; and I can't get up!!!!
My own kitchen is nearly wall-to-wall with cool, vintage signs that provide a one-of-a-kind experience. I'm not particularly interested in everyday "art" but prefer the surprises in the kitchen (later post)!
I grew up in Walla Walla, Washington, having worked on nearly every type of produce farm that existed in the area. As a child, I hated the work back then; but time and memory loss (no doubt) have contributed a feeling of sentimentality and longing for the simpler times of my youth . . . reflected in this "farm art."
I love it, don't you!?
Speaking honestly, though, working on farms in my younger day left me with a strong work ethic, enduring physical strength, and a sincere appreciation for natural beauty . . .eventually leading me to the tough but intensely rewarding path I'm on today!


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Ajmal to miss first 2 ODIs vs Sri Lanka for tests on action
Pakistan's leading off-spinner Saeed Ajmal is set to miss the first two one-day internationals against Sri Lanka as he has to fly to Brisbane to undergo tests on his bowling action.cricket Updated: Aug 22, 2014 09:57 IST
Pakistan's leading off-spinner Saeed Ajmal is set to miss the first two one-day internationals against Sri Lanka as he has to fly to Brisbane to undergo tests on his bowling action.
Saeed, 36, will head to Brisbane from Colombo on August 23 with his test scheduled the next day.
The second one-dayer is scheduled for August 25, and if the tests take longer he will miss the second match as well, a Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) official told PTI.
Dr Sohail Saleem who heads the PCB medical panel will accompany Saeed to Brisbane.
In the past, Pakistani bowlers reported for suspected bowling actions have undergone tests at the University of Western Australia in Perth and most of them were cleared, including Saeed who was first reported for his bowling action in 2009.
This time the International Cricket Council (ICC) has changed its protocols for testing bowling actions reported by umpires and match referees so the tests are going to be held in Brisbane, the official said.
Saeed, Pakistan's leading bowler in recent years with 178 wickets in 35 Tests and 182 one-day international (ODI) and 85 Twenty20 wickets, was reported after the first Test against Sri Lanka at Galle earlier this month.
The official said umpires and match referee have reported at least 30 to 35 deliveries bowled during the Test in their report.
It is a worrying situation for us because too many deliveries have been reported over the span of the Test and these include his stock off-breaks and not just the 'doosra', he said.
The official said the PCB would get the report from the tests in a week's time.
Depending on the results, the ICC can stop him from playing cricket until he works on his action or it can clear him. The world cricket governing body may even ask him to refrain from bowling some of his deliveries.
Apparently, the ICC decided to change its protocols for testing suspect actions after too many bowlers were cleared by the biomechanics in Perth.
Pakistan could also be without left-arm pacer Junaid Khan in the first ODI on August 23 as he is still recovering from his head injury sustained while hooking a bouncer during the second Test at Colombo.
Junaid has started training with the team but doctors will give him final clearance to play before the match. He might be advised to take more rest, he said.
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Gadgets for a Hot Backyard BBQ
From a grill with an MP3 connection to a portable outdoor speaker, Tech Launch Pad's Andrew Felix joins digits. Photo: Brookstone.com
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What Independents WantFred Barnes | Weekly Standard | February 1, 2011
If the House were composed solely of independents, it would pass the same conservative legislation as Republicans on Obamacare, the individual mandate, purchasing health insurance across state lines, spending, offshore oil drilling, and Social Security reform.
That's the finding of Resurgent Republic, a Republican polling outfit that applied the views of independents to the House. For instance, 63 percent of independents opposed the mandate to buy health insurance in Resurgent Republic polling. That translated into 276 House seats, a solid majority.
The views of independents are crucial because they represent the nation's critical bloc of swing voters. Their switch away from Democrats in 2010 produced a Republican landslide. Independents overwhelmingly voted for President Obama in 2008 and Democratic congressional candidates in 2006 and 2008.
The Resurgent Republic analysis found that independents favored conservative policies on 37 of 40 major issues. Only on three education issues – teacher certification, aid to private schools, and merit pay – were independents in the liberal camp, though the polling was mixed on merit pay. The most recent Resurgent Republic poll found them siding narrowly with conservatives on basing teacher pay partly on student performance.
The overall finding in Resurgent Republic's mid-January poll was that independents have warmed a bit to President Obama personally but don't agree with his policies, especially on health care.
Applying their views to the House, the right to purchase health insurance across state lines – which is currently illegal – would pass 334 to 101. Repeal of Obamacare would be approved 244 go 191, almost identical to the 245 to 189 vote for repeal in the House in January. Removing the individual mandate would pass 267 to 168.
On fiscal issues, the views of independents are remarkably conservative. Were they in charge, the House would vote 231 to 204 to cancel unspent economic stimulus funds and use the money to reduce the deficit. A measure to freeze total federal spending at 2010 levels would pass 260 to 175. The requirement of a two-thirds majority to pass new spending would be approved 282 to 153.
According to Resurgent Republic polling, independents began moving toward conservative positions as early as April 2009, three months after President Obama took office. The result was "a huge shift of the middle" from voting Democrat to voting Republican, says Resurgent Republic pollster Whit Ayres.
And that shift has "fundamentally not changed." Independents remain today "where they have been – that is, closer to Republicans than Democrats," Ayres says. But Obama's job approval rating jumped to 53 percent in the mid-January nationwide poll conducted by Resurgent Republic. This was the first time it had broken the 50 percent mark in many months.
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There are 83 coaches in college basketball's seven power conferences, and these 10 coaches do Twitter better than anyone else. We suggest you click the 'follow' button next to their name if you haven't already done so.
COACHES' TWITTER RANKING BY CONFERENCE: AAC | ACC | Big East | Big Ten | Big 12 | Pac-12 | SEC
1. John Calipari (@UKCoachCalipari), Kentucky
Like many of his current players, Calipari's twitter feed is 5-star caliber. The leader of the #BBN uses his 140 characters to promote the program, stay close with former players, interact with passionate supporters and give fans a glimpse into his hectic life. He's funny, he's witty, and he's brutally honest. What makes Calipari so great on Twitter, similar to what makes him so great as a person, is that he doesn't pull any punches. With over 1.2 million followers, Calipari has more followers than all other BCS conference coaches combined.
2. Chris Mack (@CoachChrisMack), Xavier
While he's not the brand ambassador that Calipari is, you would hard pressed to find a coach with a more personable and entertaining Twitter feed than the Xavier head coach. After all, this is the guy who parodied Carly Rae Jepsen's "Call Me, Maybe" with his wife and daughters. Mack is self-deprecating, funny and witty. His personality and humor was made for the Internet.
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3. Tim Miles (@CoachMiles), Nebraska
Nebraska basketball is on the up-and-up, and so is Miles' Twitter game. In fact, Miles is a known commodity on the interwebs. He's not just a mouthpiece for his program. He has the wit and snark to hang with the keyboard legion. Miles gets it. He mixes snark with humor, and adds a dash of insight. Miles is a must-follow.
4. Tom Crean (@TomCrean), Indiana
Next to Calipari, Crean is the most popular and prolific tweeter among college basketball coaches. His feed is filled with motivational quotes and pictures of his travels. Always the promoter, Crean uses his Internet voice to promote the good word of the Hoosiers and interact with fans and alumni. A lot of coaches do this, but not many do it as often or as well as Crean. Indiana basketball is as popular as ever, and it's due in large part to Crean's hard work.
5. Frank Martin (@FrankMartin_SC), South Carolina
We all know Martin for the legendary scowl, but behind the rough exterior is an engaging and thoughtful interior. He's extremely active on Twitter, updating followers on his daily thoughts and life lessons. Whether he's exchanged friendly barbs with former-Missouri star Kim English or providing positive words of wisdom, Martin is definitely one of best college basketball coaches to follow.
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6. Greg McDermott (@CUCoachMac), Creighton
McDermott is like your friend's cool dad. He understands pop culture and is up to date on social media happenings within the sports world. He's quick with wit and is both active and engaging. Along with his All-American son Doug, the McDermotts are the top father-son duo on both the hardwood and on Twitter.
7. Mark Gottfried (@Mark_Gottfried), North Carolina State
There aren't many coaches in the country with more swagger or style than the leader of the Wolfpack, and it translates well to his Twitter game. The NC-State fan base has a strong presence on message boards and blogs, so a strong Internet voice from the head coach is just what the program needs.
8. Rick Ray (@RickRay1), Mississippi State
The fact that the Bulldogs finished 8-21 in Ray's first season at the helm is unimportant when discussing the Internet, because Ray is a top-10 guy when it comes to Twitter. If you're a Bulldog fan, Ray gives you exactly what you want, a look inside the mind of a head basketball coach and a backstage pass to a Division I program. If you're not a Bulldogs fan, he still provides the entertainment that not all coaches are capable of. He also provides fun glimpses into his personal life, with his son Deacon making numerous appearances.
9. Sean Miller (@UACoachMiller), Arizona
Whether he's referencing Kendrick Lamar or supporting his hometown Pittsburgh sports teams, Miller stays fresh in a conference of predominantly older coaches. He touts his program about being all about the players, and he uses his Internet presence to raise awareness of past, present and future Wildcats.
10. Mick Cronin (@CoachCroninUC), Cincinnati
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The police managed to push the protesters 2 KM away from the Congress and I can not believe that this is happening in European country to be honest !!
Ironically and Sadly enough I know about the Catalonia's threats of independence and spilt from football manic in Egypt. I remember that our Spanish teacher at Instituto Cervantes in Cairo told us about the whole Catalan thing from several years ago.
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Request for placement testing at other institutions must have prior approval by the Institutional Test Administrator or designee.
Students who entered 9th grade in a Florida public school in the 2003-2004 school year, or any year thereafter, and earned a standard diploma from a Florida public high school. Refer to Appendix B.
Note: Home education students are not exempted from common placement testing and developmental education.
Students who are serving as active duty members of any branch of the United States Armed Forces.
Students who have earned an associate degree or higher from an institution recognized by MDC. Official documentation is required. Students with foreign degrees from non-English speaking countries must present passing International English Language Testing System (IELTS), or Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL), or Pearson Test of English (PTE) scores. Refer to English for Academic Purposes (EAP) for passing scores.
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Students who present FCAT test dates through March 2017, SAT, ACT, or CPT/PERT scores meeting State requirements in MDC's Course Placement Guides (FCAT test dates through March 2017, ACT, and SAT – CPT and PERT. If multiple test results are on record, the highest subtest scores are used. Any score presented which is lower than the score needed for exemption will require the student to be tested on the appropriate MDC Placement Test subtest(s). For students presenting passing mathematics scores in specific score ranges (ACT Mathematics = 19-20 and SAT Mathematics = 440-490 or 24-26), the CPT college-level mathematics subtest and the PERT mathematics subtest may be used to determine placement into advanced mathematics courses (e.g., MAC1105, MAC1106, MGF1106, MGF1107, STA2023, etc.).
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Developmental Education Strategies: A student whose score on the placement test indicates a need for developmental education must be advised of all the developmental education options offered at the institution and, after advisement, shall be allowed to enroll in the developmental education option of his or her choice. The following options are available at MDC: Modularized instruction, Compressed (or accelerated) course structures, Contextualized developmental instruction, and Co-requisite developmental instruction.
If scores on one or more of the subtests require developmental education placement, students must enroll in at least one developmental education course during their first term. Students who test into developmental education instruction and subsequently enroll in developmental education instruction must successfully complete the required developmental education studies by the time they have accumulated twelve (12) credits of college credit coursework or they must maintain continuous enrollment in developmental education coursework each semester until the requirements are completed while performing satisfactorily in the degree.
Students placing into developmental education course work in one skill area are required to enroll concurrently in SLS 1505; students placing in two or more skill areas are required to enroll concurrently in SLS 1510 (formerly SLS 1535). Students enrolled in a developmental education course may concurrently enroll only in college credit courses that do not require the skills addressed in the developmental education course.
All First Time in College (FTIC) Associate in Arts (AA) degree-seeking students who are college-ready in the reading, writing, and mathematics skill area are required to have registered by their 16th earned credit and completed SLS 1106, or its equivalent (SLS 1125, SLS 1502, SLS 1505, SLS 1510, or IDS 1044) by their 30th earned college credit.
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Alternative Placement Criteria for College-Level Placement for Non-Exempt, Recent *High School Graduates, Alternative Placement Options for Students with Military Experience and Alternative Placement Options for Students with Significant Work History. Refer to Appendix C.
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Students seeking college credit certificates in Health Sciences programs. Such students may not register for any credit course at MDC until they have a set of complete scores on file. This includes students who hold a career certificate.
College credit certificate-seeking students taking any course outside of their program.
College credit certificate-seeking students who register for any English, or mathematics course (excluding MTB 1103), or any course that requires college-level Reading and/or Writing placement.
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This is about family history research in Queensland, Australia. There are articles about sources, problem-solving research techniques, interesting items at Qld State Archives and elsewhere, and specific individuals (some of whom are mentioned in very unexpected sources). Explore the options in the tabs below, in the sidebar and at the bottom of the page, and visit my main Web site.
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History and Genealogy Expo, Brisbane, 25-27 June 2012
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Hi Judy This is wonderful news should help a lot of people with their brick walls and dead ends and it is on my side of town for a change great stuff I will be thereReplyDelete
Hi Judy, I hope one day you will be able to venture down to the Central Coast of even Sydney NSW, and not so far away.ReplyDelete
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Hello Angelina. Thanks for your interest. I have given talks in Sydney on several occasions, and I will probably do so again, so keep an eye on the lecture programme run by the Society of Australian Genealogists. I will be speaking at Coffs Harbour later this year (details have yet to be finalised). I am willing to do seminars anywhere in eastern Australia, and public libraries or genealogical societies are welcome to contact me to discuss my speaker's fees and travelling costs.Delete
Re the History and Genealogy Expo in Queensland on June 25th-27th: some people have told me that they are confused by Unlock the Past's emails and/or Web pages. For an explanation of the difference between 'Expo admission tickets' and 'Gold tickets for unlimited entry to the main talks', please see the update on http://qld-genealogy.blogspot.com.ReplyDelete
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This was the scene Sunday during the Anorthosis Famagusta-Omonia Nicosia match in Nicosia, Cyprus. Ricardo Laborde, one of the Anorthosis forwards, was receiving medical treatment when the flare came flying from the stands and exploded right next to him and the medical personnel tending to him. Somehow, no one was seriously injured.
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