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In August 1995, I was 11 years old and starting sixth grade. Alanis Morissette's Jagged Little Pill was on heavy rotation in my cassette player even though I didn't understand most of the lyrics. I was still obsessed with The Baby-Sitter's Club and saw the movie in theaters over the summer. I was also into one of the biggest fashion trends: sunflower and daisy prints.
My grandmother took my younger sister and I back-to-school clothes shopping at the mall. She let us pick out two outfits each, and one of them was a sunflower print dress. It even came with a denim vest and a small fake sunflower pin. My mom also made me a dress for the new school year, and it was totally cool because I picked out the fabric, and it was sunflower and daisies. I was ready for sixth grade and middle school. It was going to be so awesome.
It wasn't.
I tried my hardest to make friends with the cool kids, but to no avail. One day while wearing one of my sunflowers dresses, this cool girl, Pippa, looked at my legs and loudly said, "Ew, you don't shave?"
Even after I started shaving, I was still super-insecure about my body. Puberty came early for me and I gained a lot of weight. I was the only girl in my PE class wearing a regular bra, not a training bra, and there was no hiding that in the locker room. I slathered cocoa butter on my bright red stretch marks hoping they'd go away. Girls walked up to me in the hallway between classes asking if I was pregnant. This one boy, Don, who rode the same bus I did constantly called me Shamu.
The National Junior Honor Society sold Valentine's Day lollipop cards. I thought I'd be cool and send one to Sean, the boy I had a crush on. They delivered it first period, where he sat across from me. Upon seeing it was from me he looked at me disgusted and didn't talk to me again. The bullying got worse as middle school went on. Several of the popular girls befriended me in seventh grade only for me to find out they made fun of me behind my back by calling me a fat lesbian.
I still loved my sunflowers and daisies, but as I dieted and exercised, I grew too thin for those outfits. By eighth grade, I'd dropped two sizes, and suddenly everyone thought I was pretty. This made me even more self-conscious about my body. I'd grown accustomed to negative comments about my body; positive ones made me squirm for I didn't believe they were sincere. I was always waiting for the backstab.
Ever since then, my weight has been a struggle. I kept the weight I'd lost off through most of high school, but by the start of my senior year, I'd slacked majorly on my diet and exercising and gained it all back. I spent almost all of my college years with excessive weight. My therapist at the college's counseling center often told me I was using my weight as a barrier. She was right; by staying heavy, I knew those who talked to me were interested in me for me, not my body.
My senior year of college, I joined Weight Watchers and lost a good 30 pounds. I kept it off for a few years, gained some back, joined Weight Watchers again, lost it again, gained it back. The last time I left Weight Watchers, I was the skinniest I'd ever been. However, I gained it all back and then some.
Cut to today. I'm 30 years old working in the offices of a nonprofit, but the 1990s still linger for me. The new deluxe reissue of The Smashing Pumpkins' Adore is in heavy rotation on my iTunes and I'm watching X-Files in chronological order on Netflix. Nineties fashion is in full-swing comeback. I see more and more daisy and sunflower-print stuff and make jokes about how 12-year-old me would be all over this.
The more I saw, the more I wanted it again. I'd look at the pieces and lament how I was too fat to fully enjoy this trend the second time around. But one day in TJ Maxx, a cute little tunic with daises on it caught my eye. The sixth-grader still in me whispered, "Try it on. All that matters is that you love it."
It came home with me.
With every new daisy or sunflower-print item that came out, 11-year-old me would demand it. 30-year-old me tried to talk her out of it, but 11-year-old me always won; and the more I gave her, the more I learned about myself. For as much as I loved daisies and sunflowers, they were intertwined with all my unresolved body issues.
By allowing myself to wear daises and sunflowers again, I finally fully faced these unresolved issues. There were no more Pippas to point out body hair or Dons to call me Shamu in my life. I'd spent most of my twenties weeding toxic people out of my life and building up the relationships with people who supported me.
And even if somebody popped out of the woodwork to call me fat, I wouldn't care. I'm 30 years old and know what I love and don't care what the "cool" kids think. Besides, if Facebook posts to mutual friends are any indicator, they aren't doing any better than I am.
When people pay me compliments on my appearance or clothes now, I take it at face value and thank them. I have a second draft of a novel to complete and charm bracelets to make; I don't have time to worry about alternative motives. I have friends to have tea with; I don't have time to worry about if somebody will see the five-day stubble under my arms. And even if somebody does see and makes a big deal, that's a reflection on them and not me.
I've resolved to never diet again and am working on accepting my body at its current size and that I might never be "skinny" again. I focus on eating when I'm hungry. I am hypoglycemic and focus on eating little meals throughout the day, high in protein and complex carbs. I don't worry about the new stretch marks on my stomach. I use the money I would have spent on cocoa butter to buy lipsticks I love.
I've been in and out of therapy since I was 14. The bullying I experienced was a major contributor to the first time. Therapy has helped me through a lot of my issues, but I've never addressed the lingering body-image issues. I was a just a chubby, insecure girl — what was there to address? I didn't have an eating disorder or health issues because of my weight. But it was something that needed addressing.
We're supposed to move on from the past, learn from it, and heal. However, I found sometimes you need to relive it to reclaim yourself. In being able to wear daisies and sunflowers again, I am able to own my body in a way I would have never been comfortable with when I was in middle school. The second time around, I am able to untangle the flower prints from the body issues. I can look at my stretch marks, stomach, double chin, and breasts, and accept them as they are. I don't look at them disgusted and hate myself anymore.
I'd be lying if I said I don't have days on which I wish I was skinnier, but I am now able to recognize the feelings for what they are, and not allow them to turn into a hatefest. In these moments, I'll open my closet and look at all my cheery daisy and sunflower pieces and smile. I don't have to have a certain body type or weight to wear what I want or love myself.


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Copyright 2001 by Bureau of Business Research, University of Nebraska.
The latest economic forecast for Nebraska by the Nebraska Business Forecast Council appeared in the January 2001 issue of Business in Nebraska, and reported a 0.9 percent growth in nonfarm employment this year and a 6.1 percent growth in nonfarm personal income. The 0.9 percent employment growth rate is well below the average annual growth rate of 2.1 percent during the 1990s. This forecast largely reflects the state's extremely tight labor market, not the current national economic slowdown.

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iPad HD with Retina screen 'set for grand unveiling by Apple today'
Apple is expected to unveil a high definition version of the iPad – the iPad HD – today in the company's first major launch since the death of
Steve Jobs.
The new tablet, said to include a super sharp HD Retina screen similar to the iPhone 4S and a high-powered quad core processor, will be unveiled by CEO Tim Cook in San Francisco, say insiders.
Journalists in the UK have been invited to 'a special event' in York Place, north London, later today, where it is expected the new Apple product will launch in conjunction with the main announcement in California.
The invitation, which remains cryptic and gives away very little, says simply: 'We have something you really have to see. And touch.'
It also includes a close-up picture of what appears to be a touch-screen device with some iconic Apple logos and apps.
Although originally touted by market analysts as the iPad 3, the latest speculation suggests the name will be iPad HD to reflect the biggest change in the tablet device – its screen resolution.
Otherwise, the device is expected to look a lot like its predecessor, the iPad 2.
With the release of the latest incarnation, Apple is expected to increase its market share among tablet users to 70 per cent from 62 per cent, according to analysts.
Approximately 70million iPads are expected to ship in 2012, which would represent a 71 per cent year-on-year growth.
'There is a large customer base loyal to Apple products that have been waiting for the latest tablet,' said Gerry Xu, PC market analyst at IMS Research.
'Many owners of the iPad 1 are also expected to upgrade to the latest release.
'In addition to this consumer demand, growth is also forecast as a result of sales into enterprise and education.'
As of January Apple had sold 55million iPads worldwide, including 1m in the first 100 days after launch in the US alone, so expectations are that the latest design will continue the company's impressive figures.
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Well with only two and a half months left there is no way I will reach 700 on Equifax. Although I did break 700 with the MyFICO TU98 score.
Where I'm at now
I've still got two negative items on my reports, both are collections agencies.
EQ and TU have identical reports with one exception, EQ reports Palisades as an actual account with a 120-day+ late payment history.
These collection accounts are due to age off in January and February. Other than these I have no other derogatory accounts, so in March of 2011 my credit report should officially be blemish free.
Since I started working on my credit in March of this year I've seen a huge improvement as a couple other baddies aged off and I got some new healthy accounts under my belt. Unfortunately, I'm not going to join the 700 club this year.
My story
Because of bad decision making on my part I got in way over my head in credit card debt about 9 years ago. With no financial security or support at the time, and without fully understanding how important credit will be to my life I just said f--k it and let all of my accounts go to collections. To this day I do not answer the phone at my home because only creditors call that number.
For the last 6 years or so I've enjoyed a relatively stable financial life. With zero credit I've learned how to live on cash, and cash alone. Looking back, this culmination of stupidity and arrogance has been an excellent lesson on how to live within one's means.
Since all of my debts were legitimate, but old and beyond the California Statute of Limitations there was only one plan that made any sense: let them all age off. Don't do anything that could bring down the lion or re-up the last-activity dates.
For the last three years, about once a year I've been checking my credit report estimating when the last of the bad accounts were going to start aging off. Early this year I figured that the last bad accounts were going to be gone by the middle of 2011, so it was finally time to take action and get on the path to good credit.
How I've been working on my credit score
I started here at MyFICO, by checking my scores, signing up for the Equifax Score Watch service, and reading... reading, reading, reading and more reading. These forums have taught me everything I know about credit. I've logged 6,967 minutes (4.8 days) on these forums so far.
I then went to Wells Fargo and got approved for a $300 secured card. At first this didn't help my score at all, in fact it dropped 11 points the day it reported. But in the long run this was the best credit move I could make.
Less than three months later, with a new healthy active account under my belt I pulled the trigger on the Chevron/Texaco gas card and got approved for a $350 unsecured limit. By all accounts it's a crappy little card with a terrible APR and a low limit, but it was my first unsecured card in nearly a decade, and it saves me 10¢/gallon so I was happy to get it.
My score had gone up 12 points when I applied for the gas card (1 point above my starting score). Low and behold, getting the gas card saw my score shoot up 24 points the day it was reported. I believe because the bad balance on my report was finally less that my available credit.
Three months after that I got a pre-approval from Citi for a Platinum Select MasterCard. I figured "no freak'n way" they'd give someone with my score a prime card, but I decided to pull the trigger. I got an instant approval with a $2,000 unsecured limit. I absolutely love my Citi card and am very greatful to Citi for pulling me out of sub-prime hell.
Where I'm at now
Right now I have 3 inqs on EQ and 2 on TU. My oldest account was opened 9 years and 10 months ago (sole survivor of my stupid age). My average age of accounts is 2 years. I have 4 accounts total and just under $3,000 in credit. And in the next 3-4 months I will have a perfectly clean report.
At this moment my Equifax FICO score has gone up 35 points and my TransUnion FICO score has gone up 53 points.
Where I'm going
I hope to get a Costco AMEX after the baddies fall off, but that's going to be a hit or miss. If they really do back-date the account to the Costco membership date then that account will be back-dated to 2003 which will be a very nice boost to my AAA. Probably dreaming, but that would just be fantastic.
Thank you MyFICO community!
Don't say you failed; say you didn't quite reach the goal you had set.
Goals are nice to have because they can focus our attention but don't let it get you down if you fall a little short of a particular goal. It sounds like you know what needs to be done and how to get there.
Keep your focus and you'll do fine IMO.
From a BK years ago to:
EX - 9/09 pulled by lender 802
You can do the same thing with hard work
Congratulations on your progress. You are well on your way. Do you remember how many inquiries you had when you applied for your Citi Platinum Select?
Keep up your work!
I had to chuckle when I read "Palisades." That collections agency would call our house and ask for a guy named Anthony (I cut out the last name here). I kept telling them that the guy doesn't live here. I started asking them who they were and they would not give me a name or just hang up. Some of the rudest people I've ever had to endure. Their behavior is borderline unlawful, just surfing a tad shy of it, I guess. My wife would then get so ticked off, she would call them back right away for twenty times in a row and just hang up on their reps because she was mad from all their calling. It stopped eventually! So very, very stupid!
I remember working on my thesis (I was a graduate student not long ago) and the phone would faithfully ring every morning. I came to hate these calls! Since I didn't have a cell phone then, I needed to be available through the landline, otherwise I would have unplugged the phone altogether.
Great Job!!! Where are you now? You give so much hope to us all
Grats on your improvements! Even though you might not hit your goal tomorrow, it looks like you're well on your way and have taken all the right steps to get there very very soon (that FICO sure can be fussy)!
I don't see that you "failed" anything. The FICO Fitness Challenge gives us the opportunity to set goals, which I think is a good thing. It helps us to stay focused if we have something concrete to work towards. It appears to me that you made quite a bit of forward progress. You may not have reached your goal this year, but there is always next.
FWIW, I do understand your feelings... It seems quite certain that I won't reach my goal of 700+ by the end of this year. But my scores have made tremendous progress over the course of this year, so I'm confident that if I stay on my current path, I will get there sometime next year. With any luck at all, you will too!
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Imagine getting up in the morning feeling refreshed and alive, ready to take on the day. You've slept like a baby, and there's absolutely no sign of that groggy, listless feeling you once used to have.
Following a delicious breakfast, you saunter to your closet and pick out your clothes for the day. You slip on your favorite shirt or blouse, and notice that it feels a lot "breezier" than it did just a week or so ago.
The snug, tight-fitting feeling you used to have has disappeared (you lost weight)! There's more room in the arms and waist area, giving you the freedom to move about without hindrance...and without embarrassment.
You smile to yourself, thinking "Wow, this program really works." But that's not the half of it. Not by long shot!
You reach for a pair of pants and slip them on, fastening them just like you have every day for as long as you can remember....
Bewildered, you reach down and pull them up again, thinking you may have missed the button somehow. But to your astonishment, you see that yes, they are fastened securely.
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All humans use language, in one form or another. As the scientific study of human language, linguistics is almost universally relevant.
The Applied Linguistics Minor prepares students for a wide variety of fields and gives them excellent critical insight into and fluency with the world's foremost currency. Students benefit from the minor in several ways: foreign language majors will have a better foundation for and grasp of what it means to learn another tongue; Study Abroad students will have practice conversing and working with international students as tutors and/or conversation partners; those interested in teaching can hone their skills with second language learners in the English Language Programs; and students interested in any career with an international communication component will develop strong cross-cultural sensitivities and instincts.
As an Applied Linguistics minor, you'll come to understand what human languages have in common, their relationships with and influences on societies and cultures, and a deep understanding of grammar and its meaning.
Applied Linguistics minors will cover subjects such as phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics, first and second language acquisition, and representation in the mind. Courses include:
Applied Linguistics Minor Requirements
Ph.D. State University of New York at Buffalo
B.A. Teachers' Training University, Tehran, Iran
I am the chair of the Applied Linguistics Department (ALD) and a professor of Applied Linguistics/TESOL. My areas of research interest are in second language acquisition, reading and writing in a second language, the application of discourse/error analysis in teaching reading/writing and developing communicative instructional materials for ESL/EFL students and teacher trainers. Over the years, I have taught a variety of both graduate and undergraduate courses, including second language acquisition, grammar, discourse/error analysis, teaching reading/writing in a second language, and theory and method in teaching a second language.
I am also interested in peace and justice issues, teach a first-year seminar on peace and justice every year, and coordinate the Peace and Justice Minor Program at Saint Michael's College.
B.A. University of Trier, Germany
M.A. University of Mainz, Germany
M.B.A. University of Vermont
M.Ed., University of Missouri
Online learning and teaching; teacher training; teaching English as a second language; English for special purposes (business and academic); content-based and sheltered instruction
B.A., Journalism and Mass Communications, Saint Michael's College
M.A., Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages, Saint Michael's College
Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages
Placement and Assessment
Educational Technology
Second Language Teacher Education
Intercultural Communication
Advanced English Grammar
English for Academic Purposes
Core, Oral Skills, and Special Topics
Intercultural Communication
Independent Study
Bachelor of Journalism, University of Missouri
M.A. and PhD, University of Texas at Austin
Dan started his long career in English language teaching as a Peace Corps volunteer in South Korea in 1971-73 and has been involved in the field ever since. He is delighted to be able to continue his relationship with Peace Corps by administering two Saint Michael's programs – Peace Corps Master's International and Peace Corps Prep. Before joining the faculty of Saint Michael's College, he spent 10 years teaching in South Korea and Japan.
Second-language acquisition theory and methods, attitudes and motivation in second-language learning, acquisition of suprasegmental features of pronunciation, English phonology, and pronunciation teaching.
Theory and Method in Language Teaching
Teaching Oral Skills in ESL/EFL
Practicum II
Peace Corps Orientation Seminar
Various language courses within the English Language Programs
M.A., Linguistics, University of Utah
Ph.D., Linguistics, University of Utah
Raichle Farrelly is an Assistant Professor in the Applied Linguistics Department. She earned her PhD in Linguistics from the University of Utah. For several years she taught English as an additional language (EAL) to international students in an Academic English Language Program. She also taught community-based EAL courses for adult refugee-background and immigrant populations. Prior to SMC, she worked as an Assistant Professor in the MA TEFL Program at the American University of Armenia. Her professional interests include second language teacher education, reflective teaching, curriculum design, internationalization of higher education, and second language acquisition by adult emergent readers. She has presented extensively on a range of pedagogical topics at national and international conferences. She has published work in peer-reviewed journals and co-authored the book Fostering International Student Success. She is the co-editor of a new book, Educating Refugee Background Students: Critical Issues and Dynamic Contexts, which is being published by Multilingual Matters in 2018.
Language Teacher Education
Reflective Teaching
Curriculum Design
Teaching Refugee-Background Students
Visit her website: https://raichlefarrelly.com/
Visit her LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/raichlefarrelly/
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GSL 542/AL 310 Introduction to Language Teaching
AL 250 Intercultural Communication
GSL 500 Foundations of Linguistics
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GSL 688 Practicum II
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GED 655 Student Teacher Supervision
B.A., M.Ed. Saint Michael's College
I hope my St. Edmund's Hall office, which I've been in for 15 years, is a welcoming space for students, faculty and staff, many of whom stop in for a cup of coffee (I brew a 50-cup coffee urn every day) regularly. In addition to the coffee pot, there's a blackboard (yes blackboard, not whiteboard) on one of my walls which students have signed in on, almost ceremoniously, for years at some point during their stay. Of late, I have lots of gardening tools in my office that we are all using to help plant and maintain the International Garden. One corner of the office is beginning to look like a garden shed!
MATESOL, Saint Michael's College
B.S. Psychology, Saint Michael's College
Practicum 1
Intensive English Program
Academic English Program
B.A., University of Massachusetts, Amherst
T.E.F.L. M.A., American University in Cairo
Educational Technology
Academic English
Presentation Skills
Speaking and Listening
Core Academic Skills
Ph.D., Michigan State University
M.Ed., University of Massachusetts, Amherst
M.A., UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies
A.B., University of Miami
Pedagogical Grammar, Second Language Acquisition, Cognitive Linguistics, and Sociocultural Theory
M.A., Ph.D. University of Colorado at Boulder
M.A. New Mexico State University
B.A. University of Lancaster, England
Elizabeth O'Dowd is a professor in the Applied Linguistics Department and Director of TESOL Programs. Her PhD in Linguistics comes from The University of Colorado at Boulder. She has taught English to speakers of other languages for many years in a variety of settings ranging from K-12 to farm workers to higher education. Before coming to SMC, she lived and taught in England, the Spanish Basque Country, and the Southwest U.S. She has also presented or provided teacher-training workshops in many countries around the world. Her research interests are functional grammar, academic reading and writing, and World English. She is author of Prepositions and Particles in English: A Discourse-Functional Account with Oxford University Press, and co-author of a textbook, Grammar Links 2, with Houghton-Mifflin. She has published articles in peer-reviewed journals, most recently including 'Tackling text types through grammar' for the journal Writing and Pedagogy, forthcoming in Winter 2017.
Teaching English to speakers of other languages; English grammar and discourse structure; World English
Saint Michael's is a small enough community that you know most people you see when you cross campus. But it's large enough that we have a great variety of research interests and expertise, as well as the opportunity to hook up for cross-disciplinary work. The faith-based tradition allows faculty and students to explore moral issues and clarify their values more holistically than you would find at a public academic institution.
My students seem the most inspired when they are learning how different languages work - for example, how the same "word" said with different tones in Chinese or Vietnamese might mean five completely different things; or learning about "mystery" languages like Basque, which has no known relatives and is nothing like its neighboring languages, French and Spanish.
What I like most about Saint Michael's students is their commitment to service - at least 70 percent of them do some kind of outreach either through their coursework or voluntarily - and their close solidarity with each other.
Since the Applied Linguistics Department deals with teaching English as a second or international language, it is the best place to make friends with international students, whether graduate, undergraduate, or short-stay intensive English students. Because we're also a receiving center for Fulbright scholarships, some of our students come from countries that rarely send visitors to the U.S. - for example, Niger, Afghanistan, Mozambique, Iraq, Rwanda, Palestine, and Turkmenistan, to name a few.
Our Applied Linguistics minor enhances the academic experience of any student, especially those studying modern languages, English, education, and journalism, or those who are thinking about a career in teaching or writing.
If you want to pursue an advanced degree in the language or linguistics field, Saint Michael's offers a Master's degree in Teaching English as a Second Language. You can choose from six programs taught here: Master of Arts in TESOL, Peace Corps Master's International Program, Master of Arts in TESOL with ESL Licensure, Master of Arts in TESOL with ESL Endorsement, Additional ESL Endorsement, or Graduate Certificate in TESOL.
Applied Lingustics majors will necessarily achieve a deep understanding and facility with language. That understanding is invaluable in almost any career and directly applicable to important skill sets like communication and critical thinking.
Graduates go on to succeed in careers like teaching, writing, journalism, theatre, or Law, among others.


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Rising Demand for Environmentally Friendly Dyestuff to Shape Black Color Dyestuff Market for Textiles
The global black color dyestuff market for textile fibers is expected to expand at an 8.0% CAGR between 2014 and 2020. The market, which amounted to US$1.10 bn in terms of value and 416.0 kilo tons in terms of production volume in 2013, is predicted to reach US$1.88 bn by 2020. The swift growth of the global apparel industry, coupled with the enormous amount of research studies aimed at devising environmentally safe dyestuff materials, is the key force driving the global black dyestuff for textile market.
How chemical dyestuff became popular
The art of dyeing textiles is almost as old as human civilization. Remnants of dyed textiles found in a number of archeological excavations across distant corners of the globe prove the existence of dyeing practices in ancient civilizations. Earlier civilizations made use of a variety of naturally occurring substances of plant, animal, microbial, and mineral origin for formulating dyes with little or no processing. A variety of natural dyeing techniques emerged and dominated the textiles dyeing market until the nineteenth century. By the turn of the 20th century, the textile industry had gotten its first synthetic organic dye, mauveine, and a world of longer lasting and more diverse dyes with comparatively better physical properties than natural dyes came into being.
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As the textile chemical industry focused more and more of its resources on formulating innovative products and processes, chemical dyes underwent a phenomenal improvement in their quality and composition. Unfortunately, very little attention was paid to the consequences resulting from the introduction of newer chemicals on the ecological balance of the environment. Soon, the rising consumption of a variety of chemical dyes in textiles made this highly water-intensive industry a major source of water pollution. A variety of chemicals are used during the production and processing of chemical dyeing. Even when a textile reaches the end of its life, the chemicals in dyes are more or less in their active state, and continue to have an effect on the environment.
The Need to Shift Back to Roots
It took the world an enormous amount of time, a lot of observation, and many negative effects before it realized the consequences of dumping chemical effluents in nature and how it had slowly started disturbing the ecological balance. Chemical dyes today form a vast portion of all the chemical effluents released into nature. So much so that the dyestuff industry and its development have a huge influence on the overall growth prospects of the global chemical industry.
In recent years, the realization of the fact that chemical dyes constitute a major source of water and other forms of environmental pollution, and thus awareness of the need for controlling their widespread use by seeking better alternatives, has led governments to ramp up their efforts at controlling the type and extent of chemicals that are passed on into the environment. Many regulations are being drawn up and the legislations pertaining to these matters are being tightened the world over.
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Efforts at Increasing Production and Adoption of Natural Dyes are Rising
As a result, efforts are being made by major dyestuff producers at introducing environmentally friendly varieties of dyestuff products. Natural dyes are eco-friendly owing to their renewable and biodegradable nature and are also skin-friendly owing to the absence of chemicals. Thus, natural dyes are much sought after these days, not only by environmentalists but also the conscious consumers of today. Capable of being used for dyeing all kinds of natural fibers, research efforts are allowing natural dyes to be made suitable for dyeing some synthetic fibers as well.
The development of a variety of natural and other environmentally friendly dyes is important in today's world. A niche market for textiles colored with natural dyes may only form about 1-2% of the total dyed textiles market in the current scenario. Nevertheless, rising demand from environmentally conscious consumers has the potential of propelling the global natural dyes for textiles market rapidly in the near future.


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Travelling is a lot of fun, but doing it alone is a different ball game altogether. While most of us want to try it, not many have the courage to go ahead and take a trip alone.
Make sure that a few things like travel and accommodation are in place before you take off. Also don't get carried away, but that doesn't mean you have to be distrustful of everyone you meet on the way. For those who are still not convinced about going solo, we list out a few benefits of travelling on your own.
No time limit: A major drawback of travelling in a group is that you have to make sure that you make the most of a place within a given time. But when you are on your own, there won't be any such hassles.
Meet new people: It's great to be in touch with old friends, but making new ones can be a good experience.
Confidence booster: Making your own decisions, finding your own path and doing something new will definitely boost your self-confidence.
Learn to plan well: A trip definitely requires a lot of planning and when you travel solo you learn to make sure that everything is in place.
Get to know yourself: Many people who travel alone sometimes describe their journey as a semi-spiritual experience. With no one around, you get a chance to spend time by yourself.
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March 7, 2013 (CHICAGO) --Chicago police are urging witnesses to come forward after a woman was attacked near a CTA el stop.
Police released pictures of the person they say they are looking for in the attack on 4:30 a.m. on February 24.
The 22-year-old woman had just gotten off a Red Line CTA train at the Garfield stop and was walking east on Garfield when a man grabbed her jacket and threw her on the ground, police said.
The attack took place in the 100-block of East Garfield.
Police say he tried to sexually assault her, but the woman was able to fight off her attacker.
Anyone with information should call Chicago police.


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MOOSIC -- What you're throwing out in your yard this winter could end up back in your yard this spring.
It confuses the senses to stand behind a garbage truck and smell fresh pine trees.
Moosic DPW picked up a lot of them on borough streets.
Crews will do so every Thursday and Friday this month on the days they usually pick up other types of yard waste.
"It actually works out, because there's less leaves this time of year and just trees, so you don't get those. It works out pretty good," said Moosic DPW worker Matthew Talerico.
The DPW workers only ask that you keep the trees out of garbage bags and of course, remove the ornaments first. The workers take the truck full of trees to be recycled.
"I think it's a good idea, otherwise they would just be laying around and everything, so it's good. We've gone up and got the mulch and put it in our yard a few times," said Georgann Quinlan.
All of those Christmas trees come to the Lackawanna County Recycling Center in Scranton. Moosic is just one of the municipalities that drop trees off to be turned into mulch.
"After it's all ground up into the pile that you saw, it's laid out in rows and after it's laid out in rows, we then screen it, and after it's been screened, that's when it really turns into the nutrient-rich compost," explained Stephen Chorba, Lackawanna County Recycling Center.
Chorba says the mulch comes in handy come spring. It's used for landscaping on county properties.
Lackawanna County residents can also buy it for their own yards.
Most municipalities in the county offer tree pick up but you can drop off your old Christmas tree on boulevard Avenue for free until the end of the month.


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Sabbath showdown in televised debate
Powerhouses grapple over Christians' observance of 4th Commandment
Do you believe in the Ten Commandments?
Do you try to follow them?
What about the Fourth Commandment?
Has that one been annulled or changed by God?
Should followers of Jesus observe the Sabbath today? If not, why not?
That's the topic of a debate between Passion for Truth Ministries pastor Jim Staley and pastor and apologist Chris Rosebrough Saturday, May 10, at 6 p.m. Eastern at Passion for Truth Fellowship in St. Charles, Mo.
The event will be livestreamed worldwide at WND-TV. WND founder Joseph Farah will serve as moderator.
Read WND's classic in-depth news report on the Sabbath controversy: 'Deception': Christians war over worship day
Staley's teaching are heard daily on radio stations around the country and are translated into many languages. Since 2007 he has dedicated his life to helping believers understand the Christian roots of their faith by diving into the original cultural context, language and idiomatic expressions of Scripture and teaching how to apply them today. His teaching videos are available through the WND Superstore.
Rosebrough is captain of Pirate Radio, host of the Fighting for the Faith radio program and pastor at Kongsvinger Lutheran Church in Oslo, Minn.
Besides founding WND as the first independent Internet news site, Farah is the author of or collaborator on 13 books, including "Taking America Back" and Rush Limbaugh's "See, I Told You So." He also founded WND Books, which boasts the highest percentage of New York Times bestsellers per release, and WND Films, producer of "The Isaiah 9:10 Judgment" and "Blood Moons," among dozens of other titles.
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Inflation in consumer prices saw a small increase in July, rising from 3.5 percent year-onyear (y/y) in June to 3.6 percent y/y. Inflation across all components, with the exception of food, either slowed or remained unchanged in July. Food inflation rose ahead of the Eid holiday, when the demand for food typically sees a stronger pick up. Food inflation is expected to subside in the near-term, amid an ongoing decline in international food prices.
Core inflation,which excludes food, remained steady at 3.5 percent for the third consecutive month in July as pressures from all components, excluding housing, have been retreating. Easing inflation across most components and a stronger dinar will ensure limited upward inflationary pressures going forward.
We expect annual consumer price inflation to average close to 3.5 percent in 2015. Inflation in the wholesale price index eased recently after upward pressures from its major components subsided(manufacturing and mining & quarrying, in particular). Against a backdrop of softer global oil prices, we expect inflation in the wholesale price index to remain in-check in the nearto medium-term and to help in easing inflationary pressures on consumer prices.
Inflation in food prices continued to inch higher in July, coming in at 4.1 percent y/y versus June's 3.6 percent y/y. The rise in food prices was mainly due to a stronger rise in food demand ahead of the Eid holiday, which is typical of that period. A hike in the cost of fish and seafood over the summer may have also pushed overall food inflation higher: fish and seafood prices rose by 12.2 percent y/y and 14.5 percent y/y, respectively, in June and July. However, prices in this subcomponent are expected to come in lower. In August, a local boycott against exuberant price hikes forced prices down.
Also, international food prices are declining; according to the Commodity Research Bureau global commodity index, prices were down by around 16 percent y/y in July; as a result, we expect upward pressures on local food inflation to remain limited over the coming months. Housing rent inflation accelerated to a six-year high of 6.5 percent y/y, though it appears pressures are easing following strong gains in 2014.
Rents rose by an annualized 3.2 percent during 2Q15, their slowest pace in almost a year. Further easing is expected in this segment especially with real estate activity cooling off substantially thus far in 2015. Inflation in clothing & footwear, and furnishings & household maintenance remained subdued in July. Clothing & footwear inflation remained unchanged from June's reading, declining by 1.5 percent y/y on the back of seasonal promotions and lower foot traffic due to the shorter opening hours during Ramadan.
Inflation in this segment has been trending downwards for nearly a year due to a high base and a stronger dinar (most goods in this segment are imported). Inflation in furnishings & household maintenanceappears to have steadied for now, after coming in unchanged from June's figure of 4.2 percent y/y. Inflation in the 'other goods & services' component continued to slow in July. Inflation in this component, which includes prices of personal care products and jewelry and certain business charges, has been trending lower since it peaked in April of this year.
The slowdown can be explained by the stronger dinar, given that the bulk of the goods in this component are imported. Tobacco & cigarette price inflation witnessed a large slowdown in July, sliding from 6.0 percent y/y in June to 1.5 percent y/y. This was mainly due to a high base around the same time last year when Kuwait's Ministry of Health was mulling over a potential tax hike on tobacco products.
This led to strong gains in demand for tobacco products (in anticipation of a potential tax hike) and ultimately tobacco prices. We expect inflation in this segment to gradually rise to its pre-2014 summer rates of around 6 percent y/y in the near-to-medium term.
Wholesale price inflation has remained rather steady since the start of 2015, on the back of stable manufacturing costs and a slowdown in mining & quarrying inflation. Inflation in the wholesale price index, which is typically more volatile than consumer price inflation, eased slightly in July, to 3.4 percent y/y.
Moderating inflation in the manufacturing, and mining & quarrying components helped offset the rise in agriculture, livestock & fishing inflation over the summer. The latter's rise was mainly due to hikes in fish & seafood prices.
However, upward pressures from this component are expected to have subsided in August after the local boycott of the fish market forced prices to come down. Inflation in the wholesale price index is expected to remain steady in the coming months amid softer global oil prices and a stronger local currency. This, in turn, should help keep consumer price inflation in check and near our expectations of 3.5 percent.
Source: National Bank of Kuwait report
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Concerning the Colour of Men's Hair
It was a maxim of my Uncle William's that no man should pass through Paris without spending four-and-twenty hours there. My uncle spoke out of a ripe experience of the world, and I honoured his advice by putting up for a day and a night at "The Continental" on my way to—the Tyrol. I called on George Featherly at the Embassy, and we had a bit of dinner together at Durand's, and afterwards dropped in to the Opera; and after that we had a little supper, and after that we called on Bertram Bertrand, a versifier of some repute and Paris correspondent to The Critic. He had a very comfortable suite of rooms, and we found some pleasant fellows smoking and talking. It struck me, however, that Bertram himself was absent and in low spirits, and when everybody except ourselves had gone, I rallied him on his moping preoccupation. He fenced with me for a while, but at last, flinging himself on a sofa, he exclaimed:
"Very well; have it your own way. I am in love—infernally in love!"
"Oh, you'll write the better poetry," said I, by way of consolation.
He ruffled his hair with his hand and smoked furiously. George Featherly, standing with his back to the mantelpiece, smiled unkindly.
"If it's the old affair," said he, "you may as well throw it up, Bert. She's leaving Paris tomorrow."
"I know that," snapped Bertram.
"Not that it would make any difference if she stayed," pursued the relentless George. "She flies higher than the paper trade, my boy!"
"Hang her!" said Bertram.
"It would make it more interesting for me," I ventured to observe, "if I knew who you were talking about."
"Antoinette Mauban," said George.
"De Mauban," growled Bertram.
"Oho!" said I, passing by the question of the `de'. "You don't mean to say, Bert—?"
"Can't you let me alone?"
"Where's she going to?" I asked, for the lady was something of a celebrity.
George jingled his money, smiled cruelly at poor Bertram, and answered pleasantly:
"Nobody knows. By the way, Bert, I met a great man at her house the other night—at least, about a month ago. Did you ever meet him—the Duke of Strelsau?"
"Yes, I did," growled Bertram.
"An extremely accomplished man, I thought him."
It was not hard to see that George's references to the duke were intended to aggravate poor Bertram's sufferings, so that I drew the inference that the duke had distinguished Madame de Mauban by his attentions. She was a widow, rich, handsome, and, according to repute, ambitious. It was quite possible that she, as George put it, was flying as high as a personage who was everything he could be, short of enjoying strictly royal rank: for the duke was the son of the late King of Ruritania by a second and morganatic marriage, and half-brother to the new King. He had been his father's favourite, and it had occasioned some unfavourable comment when he had been created a duke, with a title derived from no less a city than the capital itself. His mother had been of good, but not exalted, birth.
"He's not in Paris now, is he?" I asked.
"Oh no! He's gone back to be present at the King's coronation; a ceremony which, I should say, he'll not enjoy much. But, Bert, old man, don't despair! He won't marry the fair Antoinette—at least, not unless another plan comes to nothing. Still perhaps she—" He paused and added, with a laugh: "Royal attentions are hard to resist—you know that, don't you, Rudolf?"
"Confound you!" said I; and rising, I left the hapless Bertram in George's hands and went home to bed.
The next day George Featherly went with me to the station, where I took a ticket for Dresden.
"Going to see the pictures?" asked George, with a grin.
George is an inveterate gossip, and had I told him that I was off to Ruritania, the news would have been in London in three days and in Park Lane in a week. I was, therefore, about to return an evasive answer, when he saved my conscience by leaving me suddenly and darting across the platform. Following him with my eyes, I saw him lift his hat and accost a graceful, fashionably dressed woman who had just appeared from the booking-office. She was, perhaps, a year or two over thirty, tall, dark, and of rather full figure. As George talked, I saw her glance at me, and my vanity was hurt by the thought that, muffled in a fur coat and a neck-wrapper (for it was a chilly April day) and wearing a soft travelling hat pulled down to my ears, I must be looking very far from my best. A moment later, George rejoined me.
"You've got a charming travelling companion," he said. "That's poor Bert Bertrand's goddess, Antoinette de Mauban, and, like you, she's going to Dresden—also, no doubt, to see the pictures. It's very queer, though, that she doesn't at present desire the honour of your acquaintance."
"I didn't ask to be introduced," I observed, a little annoyed.
"Well, I offered to bring you to her; but she said, 'Another time.' Never mind, old fellow, perhaps there'll be a smash, and you'll have a chance of rescuing her and cutting out the Duke of Strelsau!"
No smash, however, happened, either to me or to Madame de Mauban. I can speak for her as confidently as for myself; for when, after a night's rest in Dresden, I continued my journey, she got into the same train. Understanding that she wished to be let alone, I avoided her carefully, but I saw that she went the same way as I did to the very end of my journey, and I took opportunities of having a good look at her, when I could do so unobserved.
As soon as we reached the Ruritanian frontier (where the old officer who presided over the Custom House favoured me with such a stare that I felt surer than before of my Elphberg physiognomy), I bought the papers, and found in them news which affected my movements. For some reason, which was not clearly explained, and seemed to be something of a mystery, the date of the coronation had been suddenly advanced, and the ceremony was to take place on the next day but one. The whole country seemed in a stir about it, and it was evident that Strelsau was thronged. Rooms were all let and hotels overflowing; there would be very little chance of my obtaining a lodging, and I should certainly have to pay an exorbitant charge for it. I made up my mind to stop at Zenda, a small town fifty miles short of the capital, and about ten from the frontier. My train reached there in the evening; I would spend the next day, Tuesday, in a wander over the hills, which were said to be very fine, and in taking a glance at the famous Castle, and go over by train to Strelsau on the Wednesday morning, returning at night to sleep at Zenda.
Accordingly at Zenda I got out, and as the train passed where I stood on the platform, I saw my friend Madame de Mauban in her place; clearly she was going through to Strelsau, having, with more providence than I could boast, secured apartments there. I smiled to think how surprised George Featherly would have been to know that she and I had been fellow travellers for so long.
I was very kindly received at the hotel—it was really no more than an inn—kept by a fat old lady and her two daughters. They were good, quiet people, and seemed very little interested in the great doings at Strelsau. The old lady's hero was the duke, for he was now, under the late King's will, master of the Zenda estates and of the Castle, which rose grandly on its steep hill at the end of the valley a mile or so from the inn. The old lady, indeed, did not hesitate to express regret that the duke was not on the throne, instead of his brother.
"We know Duke Michael," said she. "He has always lived among us; every Ruritanian knows Duke Michael. But the King is almost a stranger; he has been so much abroad, not one in ten knows him even by sight."
"And now," chimed in one of the young women, "they say he has shaved off his beard, so that no one at all knows him."
"Shaved his beard!" exclaimed her mother. "Who says so?"
"Johann, the duke's keeper. He has seen the King."
"Ah, yes. The King, sir, is now at the duke's hunting-lodge in the forest here; from here he goes to Strelsau to be crowned on Wednesday morning."
I was interested to hear this, and made up my mind to walk next day in the direction of the lodge, on the chance of coming across the King. The old lady ran on garrulously:
"Ah, and I wish he would stay at his hunting—that and wine (and one thing more) are all he loves, they say—and suffer our duke to be crowned on Wednesday. That I wish, and I don't care who knows it."
"Hush, mother!" urged the daughters.
"Oh, there's many to think as I do!" cried the old woman stubbornly.
I threw myself back in my deep armchair, and laughed at her zeal.
"For my part," said the younger and prettier of the two daughters, a fair, buxom, smiling wench, "I hate Black Michael! A red Elphberg for me, mother! The King, they say, is as red as a fox or as—"
And she laughed mischievously as she cast a glance at me, and tossed her head at her sister's reproving face.
"Many a man has cursed their red hair before now," muttered the old lady—and I remembered James, fifth Earl of Burlesdon.
"But never a woman!" cried the girl.
"Ay, and women, when it was too late," was the stern answer, reducing the girl to silence and blushes.
"How comes the King here?" I asked, to break an embarrassed silence. "It is the duke's land here, you say."
"The duke invited him, sir, to rest here till Wednesday. The duke is at Strelsau, preparing the King's reception."
"Then they're friends?"
"None better," said the old lady.
But my rosy damsel tossed her head again; she was not to be repressed for long, and she broke out again:
"Ay, they love one another as men do who want the same place and the same wife!"
The old woman glowered; but the last words pricked my curiosity, and I interposed before she could begin scolding:
"What, the same wife, too! How's that, young lady?"
"All the world knows that Black Michael—well then, mother, the duke—would give his soul to marry his cousin, the Princess Flavia, and that she is to be the queen."
"Upon my word," said I, "I begin to be sorry for your duke. But if a man will be a younger son, why he must take what the elder leaves, and be as thankful to God as he can;" and, thinking of myself, I shrugged my shoulders and laughed. And then I thought also of Antoinette de Mauban and her journey to Strelsau.
"It's little dealing Black Michael has with—" began the girl, braving her mother's anger; but as she spoke a heavy step sounded on the floor, and a gruff voice asked in a threatening tone:
"Who talks of 'Black Michael' in his Highness's own burgh?"
The girl gave a little shriek, half of fright—half, I think, of amusement.
"You'll not tell of me, Johann?" she said.
"See where your chatter leads," said the old lady.
The man who had spoken came forward.
"We have company, Johann," said my hostess, and the fellow plucked off his cap. A moment later he saw me, and, to my amazement, he started back a step, as though he had seen something wonderful.
"What ails you, Johann?" asked the elder girl. "This is a gentleman on his travels, come to see the coronation."
The man had recovered himself, but he was staring at me with an intense, searching, almost fierce glance.
"Good evening to you," said I.
"Good evening, sir," he muttered, still scrutinizing me, and the merry girl began to laugh as she called—
"See, Johann, it is the colour you love! He started to see your hair, sir. It's not the colour we see most of here in Zenda."
"I crave your pardon, sir," stammered the fellow, with puzzled eyes. "I expected to see no one."
"Give him a glass to drink my health in; and I'll bid you good night, and thanks to you, ladies, for your courtesy and pleasant conversation."
So speaking, I rose to my feet, and with a slight bow turned to the door. The young girl ran to light me on the way, and the man fell back to let me pass, his eyes still fixed on me. The moment I was by, he started a step forward, asking:
"Pray, sir, do you know our King?"
"I never saw him," said I. "I hope to do so on Wednesday."
He said no more, but I felt his eyes following me till the door closed behind me. My saucy conductor, looking over her shoulder at me as she preceded me upstairs, said:
"There's no pleasing Master Johann for one of your colour, sir."
"He prefers yours, maybe?" I suggested.
"I meant, sir, in a man," she answered, with a coquettish glance.
"What," asked I, taking hold of the other side of the candlestick, "does colour matter in a man?"
"Nay, but I love yours—it's the Elphberg red."
"Colour in a man," said I, "is a matter of no more moment than that!"—and I gave her something of no value.
"God send the kitchen door be shut!" said she.
"Amen!" said I, and left her.
In fact, however, as I now know, colour is sometimes of considerable moment to a man.


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Environmental & Sustanaibilty Policy
- To ensure sustainability is integrated into the accommodation of the event
- To promote documentation of policies
Activities Implemented:
- Established an environmental and sustainability office at corporate headquarters to oversee the
implementation of environmental and sustainability efforts
- Property participates in Green Globe accreditation process
- To encourage and promote adoption of sustainable practices by all stakeholders
Activities Implemented:
- Property is currently using e-signages for communication purposes, but restricted to commercial use
- To reduce energy use and production of greenhouse gases through proper waste handling
- To advocate materials management hierarchy for waste in order of the following:
– Eliminate waste by reducing material use
– Minimise waste through reuse or recycling
– Minimise waste through composting
– Land filling and combustion or incineration for remaining waste
- To manage materials in a sustainable manner that conserves virgin resources that would otherwise serve as
raw materials for new products
Activities Implemented:
- Property has an extensive recycling programme throughout the property including guest rooms and operational offices
- Guests will have the option to forgo daily bed linen exchange. Property shall communicate this upon check-in
- Guests will have the option to forgo daily towel exchange. Property shall communicate this upon check-in
- Non disposable drinking ware and stirrers shall be provided in guest rooms
- To reduce use of energy in the operations, and thereby minimize the production of carbon dioxide as a
greenhouse gas.
- To promote the use of renewable forms of energy
Activities Implemented:
- Property uses "occupancy-based intelligence" programs to enable energy usage to be adjusted according to
building occupancy
- Property operates adequate scheduled lighting, escalators, lift, air-conditioning and other operational
requirements based on daily schedule of events
- Property uses energy efficient lighting systems
- To promote improvements in overall air quality
Activities Implemented:
- Property uses low and non VOC materials and non-toxic cleaning products
- To optimize the efficient use of water and energy associated with water use
- To reduce or eliminate chemicals added to water supplies
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1 Phonological Awareness and Reading Acquisition.- 2 Phonological Awareness: A Bridge Between Language and Literacy.- 3 Initial Enabling Knowledge and Skills in Reading Acquisition: Print Awareness and Phonological Segmentation.- 4 Inquiry into the Nature and Function of Auditory Segmenting Abilities: In Search of the Roots of Reading.- 5 Acquiring Recoding Competence: Toward a Meaning Driven Interactive Model.- 6 Phonological Awareness and Its Roles in Learning to Read and Spell.- 7 Phonological Awareness and Early Reading Ability: One Perspective.- 8 From Phonemic Awareness to Phonological Processing to Language Access in Children Developing Reading Proficiency.- 9 Epilogue.
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House prices rose £37 a day last year, with mortgage lending soaring, figures revealed today.
The average home shot up 8.4% in value to £175,826 in December, according to Nationwide.
Prices were up in every part of the UK last month, led by a near-15% surge in London.
Prime Minister David Cameron this week rejected fears that Government-backed funding schemes such as Help to Buy had fuelled a housing bubble.
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When Toby Keith's I Love This Bar & Grill paid back taxes owed to New York last week, they finally were able to wipe their slate clean.
As reported earlier this season, Toby Keith's I Love This Bar & Grill location at Destiny USA mall in New York owed more than $250,000 in sales taxes to the state. Their debt is from their second, third and fourth quarters last year.
Originally the company has settled on paying back the debt through an installment plan, but decided to settle it due to bad press.
"On Wednesday afternoon, CRGE Newport News LLC doing business as Toby Keith's I Love This Bar hadn't yet paid food and beverage taxes to the city for March and April, said Newport News Commissioner of the Revenue Priscilla Bele. Bele didn't reveal how much was owed because sales information could be derived from the numbers," wrote Tidewater Biz reporter Tara Bozick.
The company faults an accounting error that caused the payments not to go through. When the company heard what had happened, they remedied the situation by paying the city back later that afternoon. Additionally, they provided an email from the city to verify the payment, and "the payment for May taxes was overnighted to the city," wrote Bozick.
An Arizona-based chain, Capri Restaurant Group Enterprises (CRGE), owns and operates 16 Toby Keith I Love This Bar & Grill locations.
"Sales tax revenue from Toby Keith's I Love This Bar and the Paragon movie theater complex, which includes three restaurants, is supposed to help reimburse the city for its contribution toward the $26 million construction cost of the City Center buildings housing those businesses, according to a previous Daily Press report. The city is repaying $4.3 million in bonds while the developer – a group of investors managed by Harvey Lindsay Commercial Real Estate – financed the rest" wrote Bozick.
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Baby girl dead, mum and grandparents injured after stabbing in Brisbane's south
A two-month-old baby girl has died and her mother and grandparents are in hospital after a stabbing in Brisbane's south.
A Queensland Police Spokesperson confirmed the baby, who had been taken to Lady Cilento Children's Hospital, had died on Wednesday afternoon.
The baby's grandmother and grandfather - both visiting Brisbane from China - and mother were all also seriously injured in the violent incident.
The grandparents, aged in their 50s, are both in critical condition in Brisbane's Princess Alexandra Hospital, while the baby's 28-year-old mother is serious but stable.
Emergency services were called to a home on Watheroo Place, in Parkinson, about 2.30pm.
More than 20 officers, detectives and specialist police were on scene shortly after 4pm.
Neighbour Sun Gill was about to feed his dog when he heard screams coming over the back fence.
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Video footage seen by Fairfax Media shows the man dropping to the ground in the driveway of his home before police arrested him.
"He was just covered in blood, literally pouring out of him, hey," Mr Gill said.
"it was pretty surreal. Very, very surreal, just the blood itself, they had the garage door open.
"You could see all the blood in the garage and then the trail from when when they walked to the neighbour's house."
Acting Inspector Sean McKay said police had set up two crime scenes in Parkinson, one in Watheroo Place and one in nearby Mapleton Circuit.
"Four people have been injured and at this stage we're not prepared to say if someone's a suspect.
"Suffice to say, we're not looking for anyone else at the moment."
Peter Walsh was home with his nine-month-old son further down the street but didn't hear anything.
His wife, Natasha, thought the worst when she saw her sleepy, suburban street filled with police and ambulance.
"When I rocked up home, he (the man in custody) was in the driveway handcuffed and the baby was being put in the ambulance," she said.
"It's (usually) very quiet as you can see ... Not much happens around here.
"We didn't meet most of our neighbours until today."
- additional reporting by Amy Mitchell-Wittington and Cameron Atfield
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VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwired - May 10, 2013) - High Desert Gold Corporation ("HDG" or the "Company") (TSX VENTURE:HDG)(OTCQX:HDGCF) reports that an associate company, South American Silver Corp. ("SASC") has released its unaudited financial statements for the three months ended March 31, 2013, and that the unaudited financial statements of SASC contain certain summary financial disclosure related to the financial position of HDG. SASC's unaudited financial statements for the three months ended March 31, 2013 can be found on SEDAR at www.sedar.com.
HDG has not yet finalized its own unaudited financial statements for the three months ended March 31, 2013 and therefore the summary financial disclosure related to the financial position of HDG contained in the financial statements of SASC may not necessarily reflect the financial position of HDG to be included in the unaudited financial statements of HDG which the Company expects to release on or before May 30, 2013.
As at March 31, 2013, HDG had cash and cash equivalents of U.S. $4.2 million. The Company also owns 10.7 million shares of Highvista Gold Inc. (TSX VENTURE:HVV) (30.5% equity interest) which had a quoted value of U.S. $2.0 million as at March 31, 2013 (current quoted value is U.S. $1.2 million). These shares are subject to a time-released regulatory escrow agreement.
The Company is a mineral exploration company that acquires and explores mineral properties, primarily gold, copper and silver, in North America. The principal property held by HDG is an 82% interest in the Gold Springs gold project situated along the border between Utah and Nevada. The Company also holds direct interests in a number of other properties including the San Antonio project in Sonora, Mexico, the Gold Lake property in New Mexico, and the Kinkaid and Pinyon properties in Nevada. The Company also has a 30.5% interest in the Canasta Dorada property in Sonora, Mexico, through its equity interest in Highvista Gold Inc.
Certain statements contained herein constitute "forward-looking statements" including statements regarding the summary financial information of the Company as at March 31, 2013 which has not yet been finalized. These forward-looking statements are based on current expectations and entail various risks and uncertainties. Actual results may materially differ from expectations, if known and unknown risks or uncertainties affect our business, or if our estimates or assumptions prove inaccurate. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on the forward-looking statements contained in this press release or on the summary financial information contained in SASC's financial statements. Except as required by law, HDG assumes no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future events or any other reason. Unless otherwise indicated, forward-looking statements in this release describe the Company's expectations as of May 10, 2013.
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