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Back at the central terminal, the Covenant House's Perold Pierre believes Allie is in a dangerous situation on the street. He signals her, and she leaves a group of kids draped over a bench to talk privately with him. He hopes it's the beginning of trust. "My heart goes out to that girl," he says. "I feel so bad for her. And if something happens to her, who is going to be responsible?"
He asks Allie why she doesn't stay at a shelter and get her life back on track. He tells her the Covenant House has counselors.
But she is enamored of the excitement of street life. "I can tell if someone does crack," she says. "I can tell if someone is a drug dealer just by looking at them. The police can't even do that. You learn a lot out here. You learn to be independent, for one thing."
Allie says she isn't looking to hook up with a guy. "A lot of the girls here are dirty," she says. "They have sex with everybody."
She believes she'll return home, finish high school, go to college, and study forensic science or become a police officer, "strange as that may seem." That way, she would be able to nail men like her father who murder their wives. In March, DCF removed her from her father's house, she says, after discovering she had bruises on her neck. Reached by telephone, William Boatwright declined to comment on his daughter's situation or why she is in state care. "Frankly, I don't trust the lady," he said of Allie's caseworker.
Every time Allie runs from a shelter, she returns to her father's Lake Worth home. Like the child she is, she believes that if she takes off enough, DCF will give up on her and let her go home. Lately, she's been showing up at her father's house around 2 a.m., she says. At that hour, her father lets her inside. He gives her something to eat and lets her sleep, but then he forces her to leave.
She says she hates her father, although the relationship is clearly more complex that that. Asked about it, she says tersely, "He's not a nice man."
It's not family love that she longs for, she claims. It's the bed at her dad's place. "I can go to sleep there whenever I want to. I can sleep all day and all night. And that's pretty much what I like to do."

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For every year you drive without making a claim on your car insurance policy, you gain a No Claims Bonus. The benefit of a NCB usually plateaus at five years, but some companies offer further discount for six or more years. A No Claims Bonus (NCB), sometimes called a No Claims Discount (NCD), is a car insurance discount recognised by insurers.
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Of course, here is where it gets interesting: Credit ratings (i.e., the creditworthiness of nations) should matter in determining bond prices and interest rates. There are only two possible explanations as to how/why the credit ratings of Western sovereign debt have been totally worthless for at least 40 years:
- The bankers working for the credit ratings agencies are utterly incompetent or corrupt.
- Western bond markets are so heavily manipulated they simply do not respond to economic fundamentals.
Readers can choose the explanation they find most plausible. Note that neither is mutually exclusive.
However, such revelations pale in comparison to the recent work of German propaganda outlet Der Spiegel. While Bloomberg's apologists were merely trying to explain/defend the absurdly corrupt U.S. bond market Der Spiegel was attempting to defend/justify investment banking as a whole.
Obviously even the propagandists know it is impossible to defend the psychopathic gamblers generally lumped under the category of "traders" who spend half their time making extremely risky/insanely leveraged bets and the other half of their time scamming clients with the banksters' notorious fraud scams.
Thus Der Spiegel acknowledges these people are nothing but psychopath-gamblers, and then presents us with a myopic, tip-of-the-iceberg look at their litany of crime. However, it then attempts to differentiate these bad bankers from the good bankers: the "M&A consultants and IPO specialists". Out come the rose-colored glasses as Der Spiegel proclaims:...All of thisHowever, as frequently takes place with these serial-apologists, the writers were unable to maintain their Grand Illusion through to the end. A little later on, the truth comes out about these "professors":insane gambling and scamming clients has little to do with traditional investment banking, say so-called M&A consultants and IPO specialists. They arrange mergers and acquisitions, plan initial public offerings and embody a completely different kind of banker. They come complete with a broad job profile and multiple foreign languages, and they've often had years of training in management consulting firms. In fact, the people working in the trading rooms are about as foreign to them as car salesmen are to professors.emphasis mine
...It only gradually emerged that the bankers, with their murky forecasts, were often wrong. In fact, studies now show that every other merger was a failure. Nevertheless, the volume of such transactions increased tenfold from 1990 and 2007, to almost $4 trillion worldwide. Investment bankers, it would seem, can be very convincing - especially when they're banking on high fees.Again, what is presented here is completely unequivocal: Half of all the mergers put together by the Western banking cabal were/are failures. As with credit ratings, corporate clients could have obtained equally competent "merger advice" by flipping a coin -- meaning that as with credit ratings M&A banking is (in aggregate) a 100% worthless service. What is unclear from Der Spiegel's more-realistic characterization of investment banking is whether, like the "traders", the M&A consultants were deliberately scamming their clients for their gigantic fees or whether they were merely recklessly fleecing their clients with their gigantic fees. Presumably the same also applies to the "IPO specialists" (since Der Spiegel made a point of grouping them closely with the M&A consultants). However, we could always seek a second opinion on this topic from Facebook (FB) shareholders. The more general point made here by Der Spiegel -- and much, much more damning -- is clear. The services of the "good bankers," the M&A consultants (and IPO specialists?) are totally worthless in that equally competent "advice" can be obtained from a coin toss.emphasis mine
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I find it difficult to tell which image from the plant diseases photos really matches. But I think I have narrowed it down to Leaf Mold. Perhaps there is more than one problem??? Brown dry patches, purple underleaf, on upper leaves..some yellowing of lower leaves, some yellowing/whitish around the edges. Very evident in the potato leaf varieties..perhaps because of the size of the leaf? My qustion is what can I do now? These toms are from 5 to 7 inches tall and under lights. I have removed the self watering mat some were on, as I suspect it makes the room to damp. I have 175 hopeful tomato plants indoors until the first of June... I don't use chemicals in my garden, but am feeling desperate and want tomato plants to survive. Martha/zucchini thank you...
Do you have pics? It might help to see the problems. Parts of you description sounds like normal stuff to me. Plants will have yellowing leaves and such because they are not being grown under ideal or perfect conditions.
Sometimes we fret over our babies for no reason other than we are trapped inside the house and can't get out. LOL
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No digital camera...so no pics...Yes, I do get overprotective with my tomato plants, even calling them mine has that sound! However, last season was the first time I had this type of problem. It started then, when I first planted them out, and by the end of the season there were very few plants with a leaf. (I had taken them off as they became infected).. This year all has been started a fresh...clean soilless mix, washed and disenfected pots and trays all seeds saved using the fermentation method as Carolyn suggests. I did use some seeds from a previous year as last years crop was not abundant. This does not look normal to me, but perhaps I am being too much of a mother hen...;-) martha/zucchini
Martha, with such small seedlings Leaf Mold is not a reasonable diagnosis. That would really only be seen when plants are outside and in our area isn't usually seen until late in the season when nights turn cool.
Seldom do inside seedlings show any of the more common foliage infections that are seen after plants are put out. Except for CRUD,and what you describe for the leaves is not CRUD.
Does this look like an infectious problem to you as in it spreading to unaffected plants?
Is this affecting ALL of your seedlings? Potato LEaf varieties would be the last ones I would expect folks to have problems with.
Hi Carolyn..I do think it is spreading..It looks more obvious on the potato leaf as the leaf is large. Not affecting ALL..hope it wont go any further. Some yellowing of others, but they may be a bit crowded and some leaves in shade from others. I see it on a few here and there and snip off the leaf. The brown area becomes brittle, some have a pale yellow around the darker area..but not concentric circles. I just thought of something. I have no digital camera but I can scan a few of the infected leaves and post them! Will do that today...thank you,


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With a blanket pardon to political prisoners, President Mohamed Morsi looks like he's on the revolution's side. But will anyone believe him?
Armed with heavy weapons from Libya and elsewhere, militants have set up shop in the Sinai Peninsula.
Or is it being airbrushed? Cairo's city government is cleaning up Egypt's symbolic center of protest.
Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi is expected to use his speech at the United Nations General Assembly to further restore Egypt's status as a global player and to distance himself from the pro-US policies of Hosni Mubarak.
The anti-American furor that gripped Cairo last week may say more about local political rivalries than anyone's views about the United States or Islam.
The protesters may have dispersed, but a serious debate over America's role in the Middle East has just begun.
Analysis: While anti-Islam film was a trigger, longstanding grievances against US influence and deep, unaddressed socioeconomic problems appear to be fueling the unrest.
Egyptians and Libyans denounce the "extremist" fringe responsible for attacks on US missions in their countries.
Syria's conflict, already beset by meddling from foreign powers like Iran, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and others, appears to have garnered yet another external player.
The US is suddenly competing for influence over its most stalwart ally in the Middle East.
Morsi's appearance at the NAM summit in Tehran marks the first symbolic shift in Egypt's foreign policy since Mubarak's ousting.
Mohamed Morsi has subdued the military. Taming the country's electricity problems may be a tougher challenge.
The new president appears to be taking a page from the old strongman Hosni Mubarak.
It started as a democratic uprising. Now, it's a transnational war on Syrian turf.
Muslim Brotherhood-backed President Mohamed Morsi boldly seizes power from Egypt's powerful military. Can he survive?
The air assault on militants in Sinai was the first time Egypt's military has scrambled its air force in more than 30 years.
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MONDAY, March 24, 2014 (HealthDay News) -- Where you're treated for ovarian or other gynecologic cancers makes a difference. Women with these conditions live more than a year longer on average if they're treated at hospitals that deal with a large number of these cancers, according to a new study.
Researchers looked at data from more than 860,000 patients with ovarian, cervical, uterine, vaginal or vulvar cancer who were treated at nearly 1,700 centers across the United States.
Median survival was about 10 years and three months for patients treated at the highest-volume hospitals (nearly 300 gynecologic cancer patients a year) and a little more than nine years for those treated at the lowest-volume hospitals (fewer than 20 gynecologic cancer patients a year), a difference of more than a year.
The survival gap was even larger among women with cancers that are rare or require complex management. Median survival time was more than four years for ovarian cancer patients treated at high-volume hospitals and about two and a half years for patients at low-volume hospitals.
Vaginal cancer patients treated at high-volume hospitals had a median survival of six years compared to a little more than three years for those treated at low-volume hospitals, according to the study, which was scheduled for presentation Monday at a Society of Gynecologic Oncology meeting in Tampa, Fla.
There are a number of possible reasons patients treated at high-volume hospitals live longer, said study lead author Dr. Jeff Lin, a physician in the division of gynecologic oncology at the Magee-Womens Hospital at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.
Those reasons include better coordination of care, greater access to clinical trials that provide the latest treatments, and a better chance of being treated by gynecologic oncologists, who specialize in these types of cancers.
The researchers also found that the number of patients treated at high-volume centers increased from less than 200 per year in 1998 to nearly 300 per year in 2011.
But they also found that elderly patients and those with more advanced disease were less likely to be treated at high-volume hospitals. For example, a 75-year-old patient was 20 percent less likely to be treated at a high-volume hospital than a woman of 50.
Data and conclusions presented at meetings typically are considered preliminary until published in a peer-reviewed medical journal.
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Volume 37-493 (For Immediate Release)Contact: Renee Bungart
JEFFERSON CITY, MO., DEC. 21, 2009 -- The Missouri Department of Natural Resources is investigating a sewer overflow in Columbia that resulted in the release of more than 50,000 gallons of untreated wastewater into an unnamed tributary to Cedar Lake Friday.
The Boone County Regional Sewer District officials reported to DNR Friday that grease and rags blocked part of the sewer line causing untreated wastewater to overflow a manhole that serves the Rock Bridge Estates. The district discovered the overflow at 1:30 p.m. Friday. The district notified the department shortly before 5 p.m. about the overflow and reported it had stopped.
Investigators from the department's Northeast Regional Office in Macon have been dispatched to the scene to collect water samples and investigate the incident.
The discharge of untreated or partially treated sewage from sanitary sewer collection systems, known as sanitary sewer overflows, or SSOs, are a significant threat to public health and the environment.
SSOs occur for several reasons. As sewer systems age they develop openings where excessive rainfall or snowmelt can enter and cause the water and sewage to exceed the sewer's capacity. SSOs also occur when a community has an undersized sewer system, which means the sewers and pumps are too small to carry sewage from residential or commercial areas. SSOs also contaminate lakes and streams, causing serious water quality problems.
Communities across Missouri produce millions of gallons of wastewater that must be properly transported and treated before being released to waterways. However, some communities are facing SSO challenges in accomplishing this. In order to protect public health and the environment, the department requires communities to take appropriate action to eliminate their SSOs issues. To do this, communities should develop a system to track information about SSOs, including the date, time, location and size of SSOs, weather data, who notified them, when they notified the department and the measures taken to respond. The community can then use this data to aid in developing a plan to inspect the collection system and plan and finance upgrades the system to reduce SSOs.
For more information on sanitary sewer overflows or other water quality issues, contact the Department of Natural Resources' Water Protection Program at 573-751-1300 or 800-361-4827 or visit the department website at www.dnr.mo.gov/env/wpp.
To report an environmental emergency, including sewage overflows, please contact the DNR spill line at 573-634-2436. For more information contact the department at 800-361-4827 or 573-751-3443, or visit the department's Web page at dnr.mo.gov.