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Average Ratings
5 out of 5 people recommended this car.
Consumer Reviews
Very reliable but something may need attention
by RL fan from Los Angeles, Ca | April 23, 2012
All my cars are acura, starting from the my Sterling, then legend and RL. I have had 3 RLs, my opinions toward this car is : reliable on engine and trans. Let me remind you where the problems are easily from (1)rear coil springs (2)transmission (many idiots don't know they should use HONDA/ACURA trans fluid ONLY) (3)passenger sides window regulators (strangely, not driver side). I frequently helped friends' buying/selling cars, I really recommend this car, 1996~2002, almost same, parts not expensive. I am still driving it nowadays.
Purchased a new car
Uses car for Commuting
Does recommend this car
Very Reliable
by Multiple Acura Owner from Central, VA | May 16, 2011
The '97 Acura 3.5 RL had 154,000 miles when I bought it and 168,000 when I sold it. I only had to change a couple of fan belts that were old and dried/cracking, and some type of exhaust sensor ($150). I got around 24-27 mpg on highway, and it rode smooth as can be, just like a two year old car. Some knobs and pieces in the interior were falling off/cracked/faded, etc. but ALL functions worked. It was a 14 year old car! Great reliability and performance for that year car. Great Car!
Purchased a new car
Uses car for Commuting
Does recommend this car
215,000 miles and still rolling strong
by Acura fan from Fort Worth, TX | October 12, 2010
I have owned my 1997 Acura RL for about 5 years now and it is at about 215,000 miles and driving great. It has been very reliable especially considering the mileage, except for a known reoccuring issue with the car's EGR emission system. This issue haunts this year's model vehicle but is about the car's only real problem. It is somewhat easy to do self maintanence on and has a lot of features for an older , now, inexpensive car. Features like power windows, locks, leather seats, sunroof, keyless entry, and good power.
Purchased a new car
Uses car for Commuting
Does recommend this car
Such a sweet ride
by Anon from Seattle | May 23, 2007
I bought the RL premium used in 2003, already 6 years old and not a problem since.. it is now 2007! Clean quiet ride with supurb handling and performance is there when I need it! Excellent comfortable drive for long distances and through the mountains. I would definately recommend this car!
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Does recommend this car
Not worth buying new.
by College Man from Virginia Beach, VA | June 23, 2006
Don't get me wrong, the car is fabulous, but those who spent $41,000 for it brand new is crazy. The car is just as nice, luxurious and dependable used (like i bought it) as it is new. This is my second car. I bought it 7 months ago when my 1991 Ford Probe decided to quit. This is definately a step up.
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Thursday at Canalside
Concerts are from 5 to 9 p.m. and are free.
June 6: The Hold Steady and Hollerado Indie-rock double bill.
June 13: Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros Brilliant chamber pop.
June 20: Steven Page Pure pop gems from former frontman of Barenaked Ladies.
June 27: Teddy Riley and Blackstreet The "king of New Jack swing."
July 11: G. Love and Special Sauce and the Joy Formidable Tasty mixture of funk, blues and soul.
July 18: Los Lonely Boys Texican rock 'n' roll and blues.
July 25: The Fixx Return of 1980s alternative band.
Aug. 1: Yonder Mountain String Band and Railroad Earth A night of bluegrass and Americana.
Aug. 8: Halestorm Hard rock from central Pennsylvania.
Aug. 15: An Evening with Todd Rundgren Rock icon.
Aug. 22: Adam Ant and The Good, the Mad & the Lovely Posse British New Romantic favorite.
Aug. 29: Lotus Instrumental electronic jam sounds.
Buffalo Place Rocks Canalside
Concerts are from 6 to 11 p.m. Tickets are available at the Buffalo Place box office (671 Main St.), www.tickets.com or charge by phone at (888) 223-6000. For more information, visit buffaloplace.com.
June 28: Counting Crows and the Wallflowers Rock with a rootsy touch.
$16 advance, $20 day of show. June 29: KEM Smooth mix of R&B, soul. $15 advance, $20 day of show.
July 26: The Wailers and Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad; free. Reggae at its finest.
July 27: Bel Biv Devoe; free. More R&B.
Aug. 30: Pat Benatar and Neil Giraldo with Eric Burdon Classic rock royalty. Tickets are $15 advance; $20 day of show and go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday.
Aug. 31: To be announced


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BAYFIELD � Mercy, mercy, mercy.
The Bayfield High School football team made sure Coal Ridge�s first visit to Wolverine Country Stadium was a memorable one.
The No. 4-ranked Wolverines shut out the stunned Titans 42-0 on Friday night in a mercy-rule shortened Western League game.
�We had a good week of practice,� BHS senior Joe Zink said.
�After (Grand Valley last week), we didn�t have much contact in practice this week. I think it helped a lot. Our bodies were really fresh,� said Zink, who used his fresh legs to break a 47-yard touchdown run in the second quarter when the Wolverines scored three times.
Zink, one of three rotating fullbacks in the Bayfield triple option, credited the blocking up front as the Wolverines amassed 317 rushing yards. He finished with 85 yards on 14 carries.
�I couldn�t do it without them. They blocked well (Friday night). They did their work,� said Zink, son of Faith and Pat Zink.
�We were keeping our feet moving and getting to the second (blocks),� senior tackle Nate Goddard said.
�The backs ... were coming over and cheering for us, encouraging us,� said Goddard, who teamed with Jon Roberts, Kevin Donahue, Austin McMenimen and Blane Barnes � among others � to control the ball against upstart Coal Ridge, which had shut out Pagosa Springs 27-0 last week.
�It was amazing ... seeing our backs run up in there,� Goddard said after blocking for 103 yards from TJ Pazell on 18 carries.
Pazell, who scored three times in Bayfield�s road win at Grand Valley last week, scored the Wolverines� first touchdown Friday night at Wolverine Country Stadium.
He took a handoff from quarterback Matt Knickerbocker and powered 15 yards off right guard to conclude Bayfield�s first drive of the game � 63 yards in nine plays.
Coal Ridge�s first drive of the game ended when Ian Sandrey recovered a Titans� fumble at the Coal Ridge 33-yard line.
Seven plays later, Allec Rodriguez took an option pitch and scored from 8 yards out.
Trailing 14-0, Coal Ridge opened the second quarter by attempting a double pass. But the Titan�s initial lateral was bobbled and scooped up by Drake Rhodes of the Wolverines, who ran � untouched � 32 yards for a touchdown.
After Zink scored on his 47-yard run up the middle, the Wolverines managed one more second-quarter score when they drove 68 yards in the final 50 seconds of the period.
Using three timeouts, the BHS offense moved into Coal Ridge territory, helped by a 25-yard run from sophomore speedster Anthony Chamblee.
Knickerbocker hooked up with Rodriguez on a 15-yard touchdown pass to end the drive and put the Wolverines ahead 34-0 at halftime.
Chamblee scored Bayfield�s final touchdown on an 8-yard run with 8:15 to play in the third quarter.
Once the Wolverines hit the 40-point mark, the Colorado prep football mercy rule took effect with a running clock for the remainder of the game.
Rodriguez, who scored twice, added 50 rushing yards to the BHS total.
�We worked hard all week. We knew we had to pick it up,� said Goddard, son of Jeff and Susan Goddard.
Goddard helped the Wolverines� offense pile up 17 first downs Friday night.
The BHS defense limited Coal Ridge (4-2, 3-1 Western League) to 124 yards and five first downs.
Michael Shaw led the Titans with 43 rushing yards on eight carries.
Quarterback Gunnar Pagni completed 5 of 9 passes for 40 yards.
�We realized we needed to step it up (on defense) this week,� Zink said. �Execution ... we had to execute.�
�Hats off to coach (Shawn) Tucker,� Bayfield head coach Gary Heide said of the BHS defensive coordinator. �That was a fantastic coaching job.�
He also credited his team�s intensity and hard work in Friday night�s victory � Bayfield�s sixth consecutive win without a loss.
The Wolverines, 4-0 and the Class 2A runners-up at the state tournament from a year ago, are alone in first place in the new Western League.
�We had another great game by our quarterback (Matt Knickerbocker),� Heide said of the BHS sophomore signal caller.
�He checked off at the line more in this game probably than in any other,� Heide said. �And 90 percent of those checks were right on.�
With the league lead in hand, Heide warned the Wolverines that every team will be out to beat Bayfield.
That will start with Gunnison, due into Wolverine Country Stadium for next Friday�s homecoming game.


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I have come to beleive over the years, that pro coaches should never be in the same place over 10 years. After that length of time their message tends to get stale and players tune out. That may have happened in Buf. At least that is the feeling from some of the things I have read. But some of the guys complaining the loudest are some of the guys not performingie Miller. he is not the G he was 3 years ago. father timeis starting to catch up with him-still very good but not great anymore. For team like Buf the relies on the G that is not a good thing.
Might be wishfull thinking, but let's hope for a fire sale. There are a few guys there that could help us over the next 5 years.


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9 Tips for Surviving While Stranded at the Airport
I was recently stranded in an airport for the better part of two days. It happens. It doesn't help to bitch about it, or try to sue somebody, or start some kind of boycott campaign. The occasional absence of modern amenities is just the price we pay for zipping about the world in logic-defying sky missiles. Think of it like this: The trip I was stranded on was one flying from Oregon to Connecticut. Even including setbacks, I was only out about two extra days. They made an entire video game about how many people died trying to take that same journey just two hundred years ago.
Press "X" to die of starvation!
What did happen was that I missed a day of work and went two nights without brushing my teeth. What did not happen was me dying of dysentery as my wagon flipped over during a river crossing, freezing water laced with my own uncontrollable diarrhea slowly filling my lungs. That's undeniable progress, folks. We have no right to complain about sleeping outside a closed-down airport Chili's for a night or two -- but still, it's not exactly a pleasant experience. That's why I'm here to help you: With a few simple tips and a little preparation, you can make the best of your next travel delay ...
#9. Be Patient
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Look, everybody knows a flight delay is inconvenient. You have places to be and people to see -- by which you mean "home" and "watching Sons of Anarchy on Netflix until that little pop-up window asks if you're really super sure that you don't have anything better to do with your life." Your time is important, at least to you, and of course any derailment of your routine is going to frustrate you. But if your flight is delayed, it's important to keep in mind that nobody responsible for that inconvenience is likely anywhere near you. That asshole pilot who doesn't have the balls to fly through one measly ice hurricane is stranded all the way over in Chicago (it's always Chicago), so taking it out on the nice Eastern European stewardess with the broken radio and the tired eyes isn't going to do any good. Cut Gergana some slack. She probably lost her foot in a civil war, and it's doubtful her country even exists anymore -- she is not going to sympathize with your "ran out of stuff to read" plight.
#8. Stock Up on Supplies
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When everything goes right, you don't need to do shit. You touch down, grab your bag, and stroll off your plane with a little bit of secret pride in your heart that our race has so thoroughly subjugated the world that we can jaunt across its entire surface in less time than it takes to watch all of The Lord of the Rings. But that's not what you need to plan for: You need to plan for the two days squatting in the corner of the terminal like a meth addict in an abandoned Denny's. You'll find supplies in the airport stores, but your real-world money is like arcade prize tickets at those places. You'll walk in with two fistfuls of the stuff and walk out with a little pewter ring that says "badical" across the front.
And airport stores are not for necessities. I don't care what your battery life is, your charger stays in your carry-on bag. You are bringing several days' more medication than you need, and always, always with the bear mace. They won't let you bring a can of mace through security, of course, but you're allowed liquids in virtually any mystery container as long as they're less than three ounces. And brother, three ounces of bear mace in a travel-sized shampoo bottle is more than enough to secure the prime spot next to the drinking fountain.
#7. Avoid Airport Food
No matter how much it costs or how good it looks, all airport food comes out of the back of the same inexplicably wet, room-temperature delivery van. Everything is soggy. Always. Even the soup. That $20-a-plate brewpub is serving the exact same moist, vaguely food-shaped protein as the fast food joints. If you're going to eat airport food, you need to buy one of those C-shaped neck pillows and use it for the toilet seat. You might as well be comfortable, because you're going to be starting a new life there.
#6. Stake Out Your Territory
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The first thing you need to accept is that you might be stranded here for a very long while. So while the rookies will be murdering each other for chairs like a Game of Thrones episode, don't make that same mistake. You can't lie down or stretch out on an airport chair, but you can put plenty of padding down on a floor. While the suckers are lining up to become slaves for Big Recliner, you go ahead and stake out a prime section of filthy airport carpet and start laying your pants out end to end -- yes, even the ones you're wearing. When society's rules are no longer applicable, comfort becomes king. Just make sure that your space is by a power outlet -- those airport-designing bastards are cruel, and they always put the outlets far away from the chairs. The power outlet is power. In every sense of the word. When those iPads start dying, the people will come to you. First you get the power, then you get the women, then you get ... like two women? I'm not sure where else you want to go with this.
#5. Find a Common Enemy
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People will be upset by your phone-charging monopoly at first. Sure, they could just use the "complimentary charging stations" the airport provides, but those things are always situated awkwardly in the center of the terminal and usually super crowded. Plus, some jerkwad crammed soggy pizza into all the battery compartments and now they're out of order. Don't let this discontent get out of hand. You need to find a common enemy to rally your people against, and once that anger is externalized, your citizens will accept virtually any hardship happily. Again, this is not the time to turn on the stewardesses, no matter how tempting a target they are. Stewardesses are powerful, and better swayed to your cause. No, this is not the flight crew's fault: This is Steve's fault.
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"Hello, I'm Steven Franklin, and I'll be your scapegoat today!"
That's right: Steve. That smiley bastard from Duluth who proudly announced that he was returning from Africa after doing some "charity tourism." That smug motherfucker thinks he's better than you -- better than all of you. But you'll show him. Your people are strong and will not be crushed by the oppressive condescension of the Steves of the world. The road to destroying Steve will be long and rough, but if everybody just buckles down and deals with the new energy rations, history will remember us all as heroes.


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Graham School of Management Advisory Council
Planning and delivering relevant business programs depends on meaningful input from the corporate community. The Graham School of Management Advisory Council is an important vehicle for obtaining advice and assistance in the development and implementation of appropriate professional curricula.
- William F. Cunningham
Cunningham, Meyer and Vedrine, P.C
- Sean Dauber
Senior Vice President
Horton Healthcare
- John Federico '12
TNG Network Technologies
- Stephen M. Hallenbeck
Adjunct Faculty, GSM
- James Hedderman '00
True Partners Consulting, LLC
- William W. Keyser
Chairman and CEO
Florida Plastics International, Inc.
- Elizabeth J. Kosky-Harn '86, '92
Executive VP
Marquette Bank
- James A. Longo
Paramount Wealth Advisors/Lincoln Financial
- Mike Maloney
Director of Missions Advancement
Resurrection College Prep High School
- William J. O'Connor
Retired Officer
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
- Carl Pettigrew
New Venture Realty, LLC
- Alex J. Pollock
Resident Fellow
American Enterprise Insittute
- James Rybarczyk, CRP, GMS
Director of Corporate Business Development
- Joseph Scheurich
Capital-Facilities Finance (Field Auditing)
City Colleges of Chicago
- Richard M. Schwer
Senior VP/Group Publisher
Scranton Gillette Communications
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Mauro Gregorio is president of the Energy Solutions business of The Dow Chemical Company, which includes Energy, Oil & Gas, Mining and Solar Energy. In this role, he is responsible for driving profit and growth strategies across those four global business units.
Previously, Gregorio served in a dual role in Dow's Performance Plastics division. He was business vice president for the global Hygiene & Medical business and commercial vice president for North America.
Gregorio joined Dow as an intern in the Technical Service and Development (TS&D) department in Brazil in 1984. Since then, he has served in numerous leadership roles, including vice president for Plastics in Europe, global business director for Alternative Feedstocks; global business director for Engineering Plastics; director of the Plastics Commercial Distribution Channels in North America and product director for High Density Polyethylene and Propylene in Latin America. Gregorio has also served in functional leadership positions such as the Plastics Supply Chain manager for Latin America.
Gregorio earned a Bachelor of Science degree in chemical engineering from Escola de Engenharia Maua in Brazil and a Master of Business Administration degree from Northwood University in Michigan.


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Rooted in mythology, legends, and folklore, the prospect of re-growing body parts has fascinated humanity since ancient times. One mythical creature from ancient Greece, the nine-headed Hydra, was able to grow two heads in place of one.
And Prometheus, whose liver regenerated overnight, often prompts questions on whether early societies were aware of tissue repair and regeneration.
The field of stem cell biology opened the attractive possibility to use cells that can be obtained from adult organisms to generate any cell type. However, translating basic research advancements into clinical benefits presents challenges at multiple levels.
"In any kind of cell replacement therapy, I believe the integration of the cells made in the laboratory into a patient is going to be essential, and one of the most challenging problems to be solved is to find out how to get laboratory-made cells to integrate into a patient," says Sir John B. Gurdon, Ph.D., emeritus professor at the University of Cambridge, distinguished group leader in the Wellcome Trust/CRUK Gurdon Institute, and co-recipient of the 2012 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Research efforts in Dr. Gurdon's group are focusing on understanding cellular and molecular mechanisms that allow cells to reach and maintain the differentiated state, and on unveiling the intricacies of embryonic gene reactivation. While regenerative medicine has the potential to impact virtually every clinical area, its promises are particularly important for diseases that have therapeutic options that are currently limited, ineffective, or nonexistent.
"Clearly, any advances in the field of neurodegeneration would be of maximum importance, but any other field that looks really promising, like the restoration of vision, would greatly improve the lives of very many people," says Dr. Gurdon.
Advances in stem cell biology not only brought therapeutic promises through innovative approaches, but have also created the need to revisit long-standing concepts.
"For years, we have defined bone marrow stem cells in terms of their ability to differentiate along a specific lineage, but we missed the possibility that the bone marrow could be a resource to generate adult tissues," says Richard A. Lerner, M.D., professor of immunochemistry at The Scripps Research Institute.
Investigators in Dr. Lerner's lab recently reported the possibility to transdifferentiate CD34+ human myeloid bone marrow stem cells into neural progenitor cells using antibodies, in an approach different from those employed to date. To identify a large number of agonist antibodies that each can bind to a different region of the G-CSF receptor (G-CSFR) molecule, Dr. Lerner and colleagues designed a two-step selection strategy.
First, antibodies derived from a phage combinatorial library, which had been converted to a plasma membrane-binding format, are selected based on their ability to bind a membrane-bound version of G-CSFR. Second, based both on binding and function, selected agonists are enriched for those possessing unusual or rare functions.
This strategy favors the selection of antibodies that are generally not identified in solution and provides the opportunity to explore a large number of agonists, each of them binding to a different region of the receptor. Additional strengths of this approach are the presentation of the receptor in its natural environment, where it assumes physiologically relevant conformations, and its ability to test for direct binding.
Among the antibodies they generated, Dr. Lerner and his colleagues identified one that, unlike the natural ligand G-CSF, was also able to activate CD34+ stem cells and initiate neurogenesis.
"What we found is a special antibody to a known receptor whose activation generates more white blood cells but, in this case, the antibody stimulated differentiation into brain cells," Dr. Lerner explains.
This revealed a new paradigm, an agonist antibody binding, in a population of identical cells, the same receptor as the ligand, but inducing a distinct cell fate, by biasing signaling to specific downstream pathways. While antibodies that can generate other cell types, such as red blood cells, platelets, or dendritic cells, have previously been described, in each of those examples the respective differentiated cells represented a known potential of that specific cell lineage. "In this case, what we observed is not a known potential, and the broad question that emerges is whether we have missed the overall capacity of the bone marrow," he says.
One of the key questions is making choices in terms of the many available sources of stem cells and the different approaches that exist to grow and select for them," says Edward L. Field, COO at Cytomedix.
Historically, the identification of stem cells has relied on surface markers characteristic of each cell type. "What makes Cytomedix unique is that we select stem cell progenitors based on an intracellular marker, the enzyme aldehyde dehydrogenase," Field says.
A fluorescent aldehyde dehydrogenase substrate allows the prospective isolation of stem and progenitor cells in which this enzyme is upregulated. "We are using this population of ALDH-bright stem cells that we believe are very potent in tissue repair and regeneration," he explains.
Another distinguishing feature of the Cytomedix technology is that the ALDH-bright stem cells are a heterogeneous population that include hematopoietic, mesenchymal, neural, and endothelial stem cells. The ability of each of these cell types to participate in tissue repair and regeneration in very specific ways promises advantages over other approaches that rely on homogeneous stem cell populations. "Investigators are increasingly finding that it is the complementary activity of these stem cell types, that provides most benefits," Field says.
The company recently became part of the first Phase II randomized trial exploring the benefits of autologous stem cell therapy in patients with intermittent claudication, an NIH-funded initiative managed by the Cardiovascular Cell Therapy Research Network.
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Some local kids facing a hungry holiday
December 20, 2013
Local charitable organizations and volunteers have worked many hours to help feed the needy this holiday season....
The compassionate thing to do would be to 'teach' their parents how to care for their children by GETTING A JOB and working and supporting their own children. But no; democrats think others should do it for them. Although I agree the left are too stupid to take care of their own children; we still should not be doing it. STOP catering/enabling these lazy bums and they'll go to work.
Extending unemployment checks does NOT give incentive to seek a JOB.
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Democrats so love the poor; they created MILLIONS more!
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Of course they are. And not just at holidays. Thanks to those democrats that pretend they 'care' about the poor and middle class working folks, there are a whole lot more under this administration starving than ever before.
Obama so loved the poor; he created MILLIONS more!
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Really, TruthSeeker? Name the "democrat politician" you are referring to assuming you read the IM article which was written on 12/20.
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Just another democrat politician trying to get attention for next election. It's the ONLY time they come out and "pretend" to care about people!!
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FYI - Wiki excerpt: The Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act (79 P.L. 396, 60 Stat. 230) is a United States federal law that created the National School Lunch Program (NSLP) to provide low-cost or free school lunch meals to qualified students through subsidies to schools.[1] The program was established as a way to prop up food prices by absorbing farm surpluses, while at the same time providing food to school age children.[2] It was named after Richard Russell, Jr., and signed into law President Harry S. Truman in 1946.
The majority of the support provided to schools participating in the program comes in the form of a cash reimbursement for each meal served. Schools are also entitled to receive commodity foods and additional commodities as they are available from surplus agricultural stocks. The National School Lunch Program serves 30.5 million children each day at a cost of $8.7 billion for fiscal year 2007. Most participants are also eligible for food during the summer thr
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The so called tea party should be happy they feel people should be on their own , so what's the problem, it still amazes me how something that has been a problem for decades is somehow the Presidents fault the tea party are such bigots they just have to blame everything on Obama !! There will be hunger in the world and poor it's how we deal with the least of us says slot about the rest of us!
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You don't lie well? Maybe not, but it's not for dems lack of trying. lol. Responses are always humorous though. You only deceive yourself with your liberal responses. Everyone else has already seen through the many disguises of the DNC.
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Just the leftists treating you like you're just too stupid to know you must 'feed your own children.'
Don't worry; govt is feeding them most of the year; feeding them radical communist propaganda!!!
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It takes a village says the radical liberals. And it also takes an idiot to make such a remark!
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Notice how govt is attempting to take more and more of your 'parental rights' away from you? Parents beware! Govt trying to get into your private lives more and more. Soon, like Hillary CLinton believes.....govt owns your children; not YOU! It takes a village she says. Communistic? Yeah! Hillary; a memeber of the Democrat Socialists of AMerica.
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Parents! Beware of govt officials 'saying' they're only interested in 'helping' you. It comes with a big price tag!
I see the left is continuing with their exaggerations again. Please.......
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Simple concept: we all have a dream game. One that probably never will be made but probably should be. Pitch it for the forum to judge.
Mine is this: It'd be either an adaption of or an homage to The Borrowers, the classic story about tiny people that can fit in the palm of your hand that live in the walls of humans (referred to by the Borrowers as "beans"). The Borrowers survive by doing what their namesake implies: borrowing. They go out at night and "borrow" the things from the house they need, like sugar, milk, toilet paper, etc.
You would play as one of the Borrowers, and each mission would involve you sneaking out of the wall and finding and borrowing the things needed for survival. The entire house would be open for exploration and would have multiple paths to each goal. A typical scenario would involve getting a plate for your kitchen. You would need to find some way to the upstairs to get to the girl's room where a dollhouse is. Along the way, you'd run into various obstacles, such as cats, sleepless beans, etc. There would be areas where you could take an alternate path through a crack in the wall, but would need to climb a perilous path to get there. The game would use a stamina system like in I Am Alive, which actually made climbing a possibly lethal venture. After you got the object of your desire, you'd have to get back.
Every so often you'd need to move houses, presenting newer areas to explore. The plot reasons as to why you would need to move are beyond me, but I'm not a writer so shut up. The visual style would need to be storybook-ish. Think Winnie the Pooh or My Neighbor Totoro. An emphasis would be made for fluid, dynamic animations and tight controls. Something like Uncharted's smooth animations mixed with Max Payne 3's procedural animation system. So, yeah. That's my idea. I would get Arkane Studios, who just made the stellar stealth game Dishonored, which also had an emphasis on exploration and choice.


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It seems the real summer has finally stood up: hot and steamy. And though most of us live comfortably in air-conditioned homes, we are loathe to turn on the oven and yield even one degree to the thermostat.
So reach for the slow cooker instead. We tend to think more of these appliances during colder months, but there's no reason not to enjoy their convenience all summer long.
My co-workers recently asked for slow cooker recipes with summertime appeal using either chicken or beef.
You may know one of the people I heard from: former food editor Ann Thrash.
"Here's a summertime slow cooker recipe," she writes. "It popped up in an online ad the other day, and the idea of doing short ribs in the slow cooker grabbed me. The recipe is from Kraft, so naturally it calls for that brand of barbecue sauce, not my usual choice, but I tried it since this was my first time out with the recipe, and I got good results. I'm sure any number of other bottled sauces would work just as well.
"This and a few ears of microwaved sweet corn on the cob made an awesome summer supper and kept the kitchen (and the cook) cool. Great leftovers, too!"
Slow-Cooker BBQ Short Ribs
Serves 6-8
4 pounds beef short ribs
1 large onion, coarsely chopped
1/4 cup all-purpose flour
1 cup Kraft Original Barbecue Sauce
1/4 cup honey
1 tablespoon yellow mustard
Kosher salt, to taste
Place the ribs in the slow cooker. Sprinkle chopped onions on top. Combine all the remaining ingredients in a bowl, stir well to blend and pour on top of the ribs. Cover and cook on low for 6-8 hours or high for 3-4 hours.
Remove ribs from cooker and cover to keep warm. Skim excess fat from sauce, then return ribs to cooker and stir gently until evenly coated with sauce.
Neva Gadsden of Charleston also sent some recipes our way. I liked the sound of this one:
Southwestern Chicken Stew
Serves 8
3 pounds bone-in skinless chicken thighs
2 teaspoons cumin
1 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon black pepper
2 tablespoons olive oil
1 teaspoon smoked paprika
1 cup chicken broth
1/2 cup salsa
2 teaspoons minced garlic
6 medium sweet potatoes, peeled and cut into chunks (see cook's note)
2 (15-ounce) cans black beans, rinsed and drained
1/2 (12-ounce) jar roasted red bell peppers, cut into thin strips
1/2 cup chopped cilantro
Tortilla chips, rice and lime wedges for garnish
Cook's note: Neva says 3 sweet potatoes work just fine.
Sprinkle chicken with 1 teaspoon cumin, 1/2 teaspoon salt and 1/8 teaspoon black pepper, In a skillet, brown chicken in oil for about 10 minutes.
Remove chicken to a platter. In a small bowl, stir together the paprika, broth, salsa, garlic, 1 teaspoon cumin, 1/2 teaspoon salt and 1/8 teaspoon pepper.
Line a large slow cooker with potatoes. Place chicken on top of potatoes. Cover with beans and top with broth mixture. Cover and cook for 4 hours on high or 8 hours on low.
Stir in bell peppers. Place chicken on a platter and spoon potatoes and sauce over it. Sprinkle with cilantro. Add garnishes.
Conyers Bull writes, "Just wanted to let you know that I just checked out a cookbook that you, or your co-workers, might find helpful. It is 'The Mediterranean Slow Cooker' by Michele Scicolone.
"There are recipes like Balsamic Chicken With Capers, Roast Chicken With Tapenade, Beef Stew With Cinnamon and Tiny Onions, and Beef Short Ribs With Mustard and Red Wine.
"The cookbook also has soup, pasta, seafood, pork, and dessert recipes.
"I have just made the Spiced Carrot Soup ... and it is delicious! I am really not a fan of cooked carrots. But, the spoonful of sour cream added to the bowl really smooths out the carrotty-ness for me. And, it's pretty refreshing chilled."
Spiced Carrot Soup
Serves 8
1 large onion, chopped
2 tablespoons olive oil
2 pounds carrots, peeled and sliced
2 garlic cloves, minced
1 teaspoon ground cumin
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
2 tablespoons honey
Pinch of cayenne pepper
6 cups chicken broth, vegetable broth or water
2 teaspoons fresh lemon juice
1/2 cup plain yogurt or sour cream
Chopped fresh mint, cilantro or flat-leaf parsley (optional)
In a small skillet, cook the onion in the oil over medium heat until tender, about 10 minutes. Scrape the onion into a large slow cooker. Add the carrots, garlic, cumin, cinnamon, honey, cayenne and broth. Cover and cook on low for 8 hours, or until the carrots are tender. Let cool slightly.
Transfer the soup to a blender and puree until smooth, or use an immersion blender. Add the lemon juice and taste for seasonings. Reheat the soup if necessary. Spoon the soup into bowls, top with a little yogurt and the herbs, if using, and serve.
Margaret Sams of James Island sends this recipe:
Crock-Pot Cola Roast
1 (4- to 5-pound) beef roast
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon pepper
1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
3 tablespoons vegetable oil
1 (12-ounce) can cola
12 ounces chili sauce
2 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce
2 tablespoons hot pepper sauce
In small bowl, mix salt, pepper and garlic powder and rub all over the surface of the meat very well.
In large pan on top of stove heat the vegetable oil and brown meat on both sides.
Move to a slow cooker that has been heating on high. Add other ingredients and pour over roast. Cook on high for about 2 hours then reduce heat and continue cooking for about 2-3 more hours, or until really tender.
Not to leave pork out, I searched in the "Slow Cooker Revolution" cookbook by America's Test Kitchen and found this:
Smothered Pork Chops With Onions and Bacon
Serves 6
4 ounces bacon, (about 4 slices) chopped
3 onions, halved and sliced 1/2 inch thick
4 teaspoons brown sugar
3 garlic cloves, minced
1 tablespoon minced fresh thyme or 1 teaspoon dried
1/3 cup all-purpose flour
1 cup low-sodium chicken broth
1/4 cup soy sauce
2 bay leaves
6 (7-ounce) bone-in blade-cut pork chops, about 3/4 inch thick
Salt and pepper
1 tablespoon cider vinegar
1 tablespoon minced fresh parsley
Cook bacon in a 12-inch skillet over medium heat until crisp, 5 to 7 minutes; transfer to slow cooker. Pour off all but 2 tablespoons bacon fat left in the skillet.
Add onions, 1 teaspoons sugar, garlic and thyme to fat in skillet and cook over medium-high heat until onions are softened and well browned, about 10 minutes. Stir in flour and cook for 1 minute. Slowly whisk in broth, scraping up any browned bits and smoothing out any lumps; transfer to slow cooker.
Stir remaining tablespoon sugar, soy sauce and bay leaves into slow cooker.
To prevent pork chop from curling, cut two slits, about 2 inches apart, into one side of each chop. Season chops with salt and pepper and nestle into slow cooker. Cover and cook until pork is tender, 6 to 8 hours on low or 3 to 5 hours on high.
Transfer pork chops to serving platter, tent loosely with aluminum foil and let rest for 10 minutes. Let braising liquid settle for 5 minutes, then remove fat from surface using large spoon. Discard bay leaves. Stir in vinegar and parsley and season with salt and pepper to taste. Spoon 1 cup sauce over chops and serve with remaining sauce.
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New York – Kena Miller, RN, MSN, FNP at Roswell Park Cancer Institute and member of the IMF Nurse Leadership Board, volunteered her time to meet with state Senators and Assembly members in Albany on Wednesday, June 1 to discuss the oral chemotherapy access bill. She participated in ten meetings to emphasize the importance of the bill and how crucial the passage is to her patients. Kena will be featured as July's Advocate of the Month. Stay tuned!
New Jersey – Thank you to Paula Van Riper, Central New Jersey Support Group Leader, who provided oral testimony Monday in support of A.2666/S.1834, a bill that would require equal coverage for orally administered chemotherapy and intravenous and injected chemotherapy. Paula shared her personal story with the committee and spoke on behalf of members of her group who suffer from the high out-of-pocket costs of oral anti-cancer medications.
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Evan and Jeremy are both 27. Daisuke is 26 (27 in March). If Evan comes back , he will be ready to compete and will do just fine. Has he announced his withdrawal from Nationals yet?
Evan and Jeremy are both 27. Daisuke is 26 (27 in March). If Evan comes back , he will be ready to compete and will do just fine. Has he announced his withdrawal from Nationals yet?
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scores at an international event to go to Worlds and I would think that door is closing rapidly. Anyone know which such events are still open?
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In any case, I don't expect Evan to be at US Nationals (though I didn't expect Sasha Cohen to show up at 2010 Nationals, and surprisingly she did). I'm rooting for Jeremy Abbott and Ross Miner.
IMO The current (latest) Olympic medalists (gold, silver and bronze) should be exempt from the minimum tes score requirement.
I am not sure Olympic medals should bring you such entitlement. I know in the US it does but this could mean someone not afraid of being embarassed really could not skate for 3 or 4 years and get a guaranteed spot to say Nats or whatever. Their skating may have been up to snuff in say 2010 but not so 2014 - i am not saying Evan is that weak just saying in general. odd how he had no mentions of nationals and odd how so many comebacks get stalled for a multiple of stated and not stated reasons. It's hard to come back.
But surely a former olympic medalist would be able skate well enough to get the min tes, even if they weren't up to their Olympic standard, and most people, I believe, are reluctant to embarrass themselves in front of the world. To do that would really tarnish their medal and reputation. Of course, I don't think most people looked down on Boitano and Witt when they returned to the Olympics after their gold medals and placed 6th and 7th respectively.
I do not think that Boitano and Witt are good analogies to Lysacek in terms of the perception of their respective comebacks.
If Lysacek qualifies for Sochi 2014, he will be the defending champion. Those who pay attention to skating only when the Olympics roll around naturally might have some expectation that he would win (or at least medal) again -- no matter what commentary they hear or read about his hiatus from competition, injuries, etc.
Boitano and Witt won Olympic gold in 1988, and did not pursue their comebacks until 1994. After a six-year interval that included their absences from the 1992 Games, it was an accomplishment in itself for each simply to compete again in Lillehammer, I'd say.
The next year Evan switched agents to Shep Goldberg (Michelle Kwan's long-time agent). Goldberg knew the ins and out of the figure skating business and the problems were quickly ironed out.
Obviously I don't skate - as evidenced by my screenname. But I have athletes throughout the family. A couple of All-Americans and other award winning sportsmen. All were well-trained athletes at the top of their game. Even one year later, despite continuing to work out, not so much! There is a major difference between playing flag football and the NFL. There is a major difference between playing HORSE and the NBA. I think there is a major difference between skating show programs and competitive programs. That being said, taking 4 years off from the level of intensity required to medal in a major competition, not to mention the Olympics, is HUGE! I don't agree that a reigning Olympic champion should automatically get a bye from qualifying again. I do agree that each country's federation can pick and choose who they think the best representatives should be in each discipline. And the reason I say that is, a skater can be kicking butt throughout the season and have one "off" program and lose their chance. How many times have we seen that?
In Evan's case, until he proves himself again in a competitive setting, as far as I'm concerned all bets and "wishful thinkings" are off. It's just so much talk!
I'm backing Jeremy Abbott and either Jason Brown or Adam Rippon. Yeah, I know the last two are iffy but I think both are capable. If Evan should skate Nationals and should medal or even win - more power to him and I'll be happy for him. I just dont' think it's going to happen.
If Evan hopes to even make the US team next year he needed to start his comeback this season. Being 28 and having not competed in almost 4 years is asking a lot of someone that old and out of competitive shape. Even Yuna needed to start competing again this year to get ready for Sochi and she's much younger then Evan.
I'm backing Jeremy Abbott and either Jason Brown or Adam Rippon. Yeah, I know the last two are iffy but I think both are capable. If Evan should skate Nationals and should medal or even win - more power to him and I'll be happy for him. I just dont' think it's going to happen.[/QUOTE]
I'm okay with Jeremy (because of his pcs advantage even if he misses his jumps), but I still think Evan is our strongest chance at Worlds. Evan won't compete unless he feels that he's ready. He doesn't need to medal this year, just place high enough to earn the US two or in a perfect world, three spots.
As far as Jason and Adam, I love them both but not for this year's world team. Jason barely has a triple axel and Adam has had lots of chances to shine but just hasn't done it yet.
If Evan doesn't show up, I'd go with Ross Miner or Richard Dornbush for the second spot. I love Ross's consistency and Ricky's charisma and technical levels.


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Neighbors told KOCO-TV that they were asked to leave their homes.
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of Deutsche Telekom AG's (DTE) T-Mobile
USA phone carrier are already jumping ship. T-Mobile USA yesterday
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The bad news is that T-Mobile has officially killed its "unlimited"
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connection down to 2G and letting them languish at slow data speeds until the
billing quarter is over or they pay to upgrade their data plan.
To be fair, T-Mobile's "unlimited" data might not have been so
unlimited after all. The carrier was caught last August throttling its unlimited plan connections and
sued in California court. After the news broke, T-Mobile confessed that
it indeed intended to throttle "unlimited" connections if they were
used past 5 GB.
II. Family Plans
To soften the blow of killing unlimited data; T-Mobile is unveiling some pretty
competitive family deals.
Individual plans currently have tiered pricing for voice allowances of 500,
1,000, or unlimited minutes. The new family plans will have voice
allowances of 1,000, 2,000, or unlimited minutes.
Similarly, the individual plan offers unlimited texts for $10 USD/month; the
family plan will offer unlimited texting for $20 USD/month. Similarly,
the data plans cost twice as much when shared on a family plan.
A family plan starts with 2 lines, but costs $10 USD/month to add more lines.
Up to 5 lines can be on a single family plan.
The results are a fairly competitive pricing scheme that narrowly beats
AT&T in pricing (for example, family plan texting costs $30 USD/month on
AT&T). It still remains to be seen how the plan stacks up against
Verizon's updated rates, which it plans to unveil this summer.
III. 4G Where Art Thou?
We've said it before and we'll say it again, no matter how much T-Mobile wishes
it, its "4G" isn't true 4G. Rather its a 3.5G tech (HSPA+)
rebranded by clever marketers.
T-Mobile's HSPA+ network fails to deliver the full speeds promised by the HSPA+
specification, much as current true 4G wireless networks
from Verizon and Sprint Nextel Corp. (S)
do. But as the base HSPA+ spec is significantly lower than the 4G spec,
real world imperfect HSPA+ generally is slower than real world imperfect 4G
(LTE, WiMAX).
T-Mobile's pricing certainly makes it more attractive than AT&T, who is
also putting off the upgrade to true 4G, opting to rebrand its own HSPA+ as 4G
as well. But the plan may seem less attractive when Verizon unveils its
own pricing on true 4G data.
IV. Sprint -- The Last Hope
All the market movement leaves Sprint as the last hope for unlimited smartphone
Sprint is arguably the best deal on the market, offering unlimited talk,
text, and data (+4G) for $99.99 USD/month.
In many regions you'll pay at least $35 USD in local taxes and fees, so your
real world phone bill with Sprint will end up at around $135 USD/month for a
connection with 4G. By contrast a non-4G, 10 GB capped
connection, with fees will be around $155 USD/month on T-Mobile ($120 USD/month
T-Mobile's family plans also look even more miserable in the face of Sprint's.
At 2-line unlimited talk, text, and 10 GB data family plan without 4G
will cost you $220 USD/month pre-fees on T-Mobile. That same plan will
cost you $190 USD/month, pre-fees on Sprint.
So Sprint's plans give you unlimited data, true 4G access in some reasons, and
cost $20 USD less for individual plans and $30 USD less for family plans.
But if you needed any more incentive to ditch T-Mobile, Sprint is offering $125 USD to customers who switch from a
rival carrier.
All of this sounds somewhat like an ad or promotion, but it's just the plan
facts -- Sprint is far and away the most affordable carrier and the only
carrier to still be fighting the good fight with unlimited data.
Now there are a couple caveats -- in some regions Sprint's network isn't quite
as strong as Verizon and AT&T (the same could be said of T-Mobile).
Note that in some areas the reverse is true, but nationwide AT&T and
Verizon tend to be strongest in coverage. Also Sprint's executive
leadership has suggested that they may
impose data caps at some point, though for now they're content to
leave their connection uncapped.
Sprint current has only 51 million customers, far less than the 129.8 million
that T-Mobile + AT&T have and 104 million on Verizon. But it would
seem likely that some customers at least who had stuck with T-Mobile for the
free data may jump ship to Sprint.
quote: The Droid X has only been out for like 9-10 months. Did you really just break a contract (and pay $150-170)?
quote: Also, it sounds like you only used the connectivity to browse the web and update Twitter/Facebook. Not exactly data instensive tasks. Data caps and buckets are all about Bittorrent and streaming video.
quote: Just as a matter of curiosity, who among the readership feels that an unlimited data plan is important to them, and what do they use it for?
quote: Sorry but I fail to see how what happened to you is in any way Verizon's fault. You knew there was a cap from previous experience.Running bittorrent on an aircard is just asking for going over. Especially on what even you call a "LARGE" software package.
quote: So because you knowingly went far over your allowed usage, you got screwed? Why not just download the software package AT SCHOOL?
quote: 1) Perhaps buying the software outright would have been cheaper?
quote: Over a typiical school Wifi, a 1.5GB file should have taken about 15 minutes or so to download. So what is more efficent, camping out at school for an extra 10 minutes or waiting over-night for a slow 3G download? You couldn't even use the software till it was done downloading.
quote: If I had the time I could have bought it on eBay perhaps (a used version), but the prof didn't give us our project till the last minute and had ridiculous expectations.
quote: So if I were Judge Judy, I'd say you were guilty as charged, but they are certifiably irresponsible and ill-natured and don't deserve a penny or your continued patronage.If I were running the place and didn't want to be perceived as a vampire sucking money from my customers, I would automatically shut off the service once a certain limit was reached (could be set by the customer) but I should not give out so much money knowing that I might not be able to 1) collect all the money and 2) retain a typically good customer.
quote: You're nice. I wouldn't have paid them. Instead, I would have told them to piss down a river. Yeah, it mighta been a hit on my credit, but, whatever.
quote: Charging >40x your rate for overage data is abusive. If it's REALLY that expensive you should just cut off customers' connections or offer special connections that allow for overages for select customers who would actually expect and be willing to pay for them.
quote: It's not my fault. I didn't read the fine print. They should monitor me and control my usage. I'm a helpless wheenie who can't take responsibility for my own actions. Does that about sum up your rant?
quote: Maybe write to Sprint and tell them you will dump your smart phone carrier if they will promise to give you unlimited reasonably priced phone.it would be great to dump the cap for a company who does not.
quote: T-Mobile's new tiered data plan offers 200 MB for $15 USD/month or 2 GB for $20 USD/month -- both $5 USD less expensive than AT&T's plans with identical allowances
quote: Sprint is arguably the best deal on the market, offering unlimited talk, text, and data (+4G) for $99.99 USD/month.


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A 40-second bank holdup has led to prison sentences of 3½ years for three robbers.
Three Buffalo residents who frightened employees and customers June 8 at a Bank of America branch in Cheektowaga were led Thursday from an Erie County courtroom in handcuffs.
Antoinette Freeman, 24, of Wyoming Street; Porche Allen, 23, of Mendola Avenue; and Darian Allen Jr., 21, also of Mendola, were sentenced to the same prison terms by Erie County Judge Kenneth F. Case.
"You all entered into it collectively. You all contributed to this awful event. You're all equally responsible," Case said.
They each could have been sentenced to up to 15 years in prison.
The three entered the bank on Dick Road near George Urban Boulevard with a BB gun and forced about a dozen customers and employees to lie on the floor.
One jumped the counter and grabbed an undisclosed amount of money before they all fled.
The crime was not a typical bank robbery in which someone hands a teller a note demanding money without causing a stir or threatening customers, said prosecutor Sara N. Ogden. "This," she said, "was more of a bank takedown."
Freeman, for example, threatened to kill people, Ogden said, and the employees and customers feared for their lives and remain scarred today.
"I realize this gun was an unloaded BB gun, but the people in the bank that day didn't know that," Case told the robbers at the sentencing. He said he was shocked by the three who stood before him, two of whom said they are full-time students, hold jobs and are parents.
"I'm shocked when I look at these presentence reports," Case said. "You have minuscule or no [criminal] records at all."
Normally, when Case sentences bank robbers, they have progressed to that kind of serious crime over the years, beginning with less serious crimes. Case said the three were probably "in as much disbelief as I am" as they stood before him.
The three did not evade Cheektowaga police for long after the holdup. An eyewitness gave police the license plate number of the getaway car.
Also, police tracked the robbers through a global positioning system attached to the stolen money.
The police tracked the money and arrested the three 20 minutes after the robbery in the Allens' apartment on Mendola on the East Side, the District Attorney's Office has said.
In September, the three pleaded guilty to second-degree robbery.
The robbers, who were not in custody before the sentencing, hugged and shook hands with family and friends in the public gallery as they were called to the defense table to learn their sentences. Before the hearing, one of the robbers posed for pictures outside the courtroom.
Financial desperation drove them to rob the bank, their lawyers said. All three apologized for the crime.
"We all make mistakes," Porche Allen told the judge. "Unfortunately, mine was a bigger one. It was an act of desperation. It was out of my character. I can't apologize enough."
A presentencing report indicated that Darian Allen Jr. did not show remorse for the crime during his interview with a Probation Department official. But in his appearance before the judge, he said, "I'm truly sorry."
He apologized to everyone who was inside the bank.
"I want to apologize not only to my friends and family, but to those who were inside the bank," Freeman said during her time to speak. "I promise you I will grow from this to be a better mother and woman."
"I've grown from this since that day," she said, referring to the day of the robbery. "I stand before you a better person."
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Something about Folly Island didn't look quite right.
As the night faded to a dull gray on Friday morning, July 10, 1863, the Confederate troops guarding the southern tip of Morris Island stared across the inlet, trying to figure out how Folly had changed.
They soon realized that, the day before, the northern end of Folly had been a dense mass of trees and brush. But now all that foliage had been cleared away, and in its place stood a Union battery of at least nine guns.
The Southerners figured this out just before those guns opened fire.
Later, Union officials would boast that the attack on Morris was a complete surprise, but that apparently was not the case.
Charleston residents had known that the Yankees were on Folly for months. They had been on Cole's Island at least since April, and the Confederates had fired on Union gunboats in the Little Folly River since then.
There had been minor skirmishes when small bands of Union troops tried to infiltrate James Island, and the Northern troops had even fired on Morris Island before. Just that morning, the July 10 edition of The Charleston Mercury would report that there were an estimated 8,000 Union troops on Folly, backed up by seven ironclads and 43 other boats.
Locals had hoped this build-up was merely for show. But when the Morris Island sentries saw those guns, they realized it was an assault.
The shooting began just after 5 a.m. The southern batteries on Morris returned fire and for three hours the two sides bombarded each other, the sound of their incessant shooting echoing across the harbor and through the streets of Charleston.
In the midst of that barrage, boats carrying hundreds of Union soldiers landed at Oyster Point. Once the soldiers had filed off the barges, the boats immediately cast off and went back for reinforcements. It was a full-scale invasion.
On the beach at Morris Island, the Union troops flanked the southern batteries, driving back the infantry support for the batteries. Outnumbered, the Confederates were forced north, toward the safety of Battery Wagner.
Capt. J.C. Mitchell of the 1st Regiment, S.C. Artillery, would later report that he and his men in the southern battery were nearly cut off from the main body of Confederate forces by the sheer number of Union soldiers storming onto the island.
As the Union troops advanced on the southern battery, Mitchell's men stood at their guns, fighting as best they could. But they never had a chance. The Union ground troops were aided by ironclads off the beach, which shelled the battery and Southern troops while the men in blue trudged north.
Soon, the Confederates were overwhelmed, and there was no way to fight back. There were just too many Yankees.
The Southern troops retreated north into the dunes, following the infantry support that had already ceded the lower part of the island. By 9 a.m. Union forces had followed the retreating Southerners so far up the island that they were within shooting range of Battery Wagner.
In little more than four hours, a Union force of 2,000 men had taken two-thirds of Morris Island. They had killed nearly 300 Southerners and injured another 700. By contrast, the North had lost only 12 men, and fewer than 100 had been injured. It was a rout.
But the Yankees were not finished. They wanted the rest of Morris Island.
They wanted Battery Wagner.
A simple plan
The attack on Morris Island distracted Charleston from the Confederate disaster a week earlier.
About 170,000 troops had converged in the Pennsylvania countryside -- nearly 100,000 under the command of Union Maj. Gen. George Gordon Meade, and more than 70,000 behind Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee.
For three days the two sides had clashed in what would become one of the most famous battles in history. It was an unquestionable victory for the North, as Meade stopped Lee's Army of Northern Virginia.
Between July 1 and 3, nearly 5,000 Southern troops were killed and 18,000 were injured, captured or missing. The Union, by contrast, lost more than 3,000 men with 14,000 wounded.
The battle, which historians would later call the turning point of the war, ended Lee's push north.
It seemed that, in some ways, Morris Island would become Charleston's own Gettysburg. The invasion of the island was just the first move in a larger campaign to capture Charleston. The goal of the July 10 attack had been to move troops into a position from which to attack Battery Wagner, which sat on the north end of the island.
As The Mercury explained it on Monday, July 13, Wagner was the key to the city.
"The fall of Fort Wagner ends in the fall of Charleston," the paper's editor, Robert Barnwell Rhett Jr., wrote. "Fort Sumter, like Fort Wagner, will then be assailable by land and sea, and the fate of Fort Pulaski will be that of Sumter. ... It appears to be useless to attempt to disguise from ourselves our situation. By whose fault we got into it, it is vain now to enquire. The Yankees having got possession of the southern half of Morris Island, there is but one way to save the city of Charleston, and that is the speedy and unflinching use of the bayonet."
It was a simple plan. The Union wanted to take Battery Wagner to use the fort's advantageous position to attack Sumter. If the Yankees could take out Fort Sumter, Charleston would then become relatively easy pickings.
On paper, it seemed almost elementary. But Union forces would find several obstacles to their battle plan. Taking the southern half of Morris Island had been easy; taking Wagner would take even more troops -- and a lot of luck.
Battery Wagner, named for the late Lt. Col. Thomas M. Wagner, was a massive earthwork that stretched across the narrow end of Morris Island about a half-mile from its northern shore.
The battery was protected from a ground assault by a ditch that was 10 feet wide and held 5 feet of water. If that weren't enough, Southern troops had planted mines and mounted stakes made of palmetto on its banks.
It was a most formidable moat.
The fort itself had 14 guns, one of which was a 10-inch Columbiad that fired a 128-pound shell. More than 1,700 Confederate troops were stationed in and around the fort. The Confederate Army did not need The Mercury to explain the importance of Battery Wagner.
At daybreak on Saturday, July 11, 200 men from the 7th Connecticut made the first pass at the fort. The Union soldiers snuck through the dunes, bayonets fixed on the ends of their rifles, trying to get as close to Wagner as possible before alerting the Southerners to their presence.
When they were about 500 yards out, Confederate pickets spotted the men and opened fire. Instead of retreating, the men of the 7th Connecticut let out a yell and rushed the fort, advancing far enough to clear the treacherous moat. But it took them far too long to reach that position.
On the outskirts of Battery Wagner, the Union soldiers were pinned under heavy rifle and cannon fire, some of that ammunition sailing over their heads to fend off the 7th Connecticut's reinforcements.
This time it was the Southern barrage that was too much for the Northern troops, and the Union forces had to retreat -- but not before the 7th Connecticut lost half its men.
That day there were more than 300 U.S. casualties, many of which were left lying in front of the earthworks. By contrast, the South had lost only 12 men.
Battery Wagner was safe, for the moment.
Death sentence
For the next week, Union gunboats shelled Wagner daily. In part, the assault was meant to provide cover for Northern troops who were busy building their own earthworks on Morris Island south of Battery Wagner. As a result of the barrage, the Confederates stayed safely behind the walls of the fort, which allowed the Union to prepare for the next assault.
The Mercury reported that little information had been gleaned from the prisoners of war taken in the most recent battle, but they had let slip one interesting fact: there were two Union regiments in South Carolina composed of black soldiers.
The 2nd Regiment of South Carolina had been assembled earlier in the year by Col. James Montgomery. He was told to enlist free black citizens of South Carolina and escaped slaves, of which there were many in the Lowcountry around Beaufort. Montgomery also found others less than willing to serve, so he conscripted them.
In June the 2nd Regiment participated in the raid on Combahee Ferry, traveling with the escaped slave and famous abolitionist Harriet Tubman. The 2nd Regiment had sailed to the mouth of the Combahee River on one of three Union ships sent to drive the Confederates back.
Eventually, the Union troops burned several plantations and freed hundreds of South Carolina slaves.
The 2nd Regiment would become more famous -- or infamous, in the South -- for burning and looting the town of Darien, a minor outpost on the Georgia coast. Southerners would cry foul over the attack, which had been ordered by Montgomery.
The 54th Massachusetts had been reluctant participants in the raid on Darien. Col. Robert Gould Shaw, the white commander of the 54th, reportedly called the raid a "Satanic action," but had little recourse to stop it -- Montgomery was in charge.
The 54th had been recruited and promoted by Massachusetts abolitionists, and enthusiasm for the regiment was so high that the Army had its pick of soldiers.
This despite an order from Confederate President Jefferson Davis -- reported by The Mercury when Rhett learned of the 54th's presence in Charleston -- which said that any "negros (sic) or slaves" that make mutiny or insurrection, or rise in rebellion, would be tried and, in most cases, executed.
While captured white soldiers could expect to end up in a prison camp, there was always the possibility of freedom through a prisoner exchange. Black soldiers did not have that luxury. If they were caught, the Southerners would kill them.
Still, the 54th Massachusetts officially announced its arrival on Thursday, July 16. The regiment, trudging across James Island, ran head-first into a column of Southern infantry from Secessionville.
The fight was short but brutal, and residents in downtown Charleston again heard the gunfire. When it was over, 15 men from the 54th had been captured.
It would be only two days before the Massachusetts soldiers got their shot at revenge.
'A galling fire'
On Friday, July 17, a Confederate soldier approached a woman selling peaches on King Street near the intersection of John Street. The private, who belonged to a regiment that had recently arrived in the city, forced the woman to give him some fruit and refused to pay.
A local boy, named by The Mercury only as "Rantin," berated the soldier for his behavior. When the boy turned to walk away, the soldier shot him with his musket. The ball went in one hip and out the other, a wound "of such a nature that the young lad is not expected to live."
It was the beginning of a long, bloody weekend in Charleston.
On Saturday, the heavy rain that had pelted the city for weeks finally died out, taking the excessive heat with it. Under a cloudless sky, a light breeze stirred the harbor. At 8 a.m. Union cannons began firing at Battery Wagner, an assault that went on for nearly three hours before growing even more intense when five ironclads joined the fight.
The Mercury would later report that the firing was so intense that "at one time, so rapid was the fire, that the reports averaged twenty-seven per minute." But the damage to Fort Wagner, the paper reported, was "insignificant."
The bombardment tapered off at dusk. And that's when the real assault began.
Just before 8 p.m., Confederate pickets spotted two columns of advancing Yankee troops -- 3,000 men in each column. The Union troops were moving quickly, led by the men of the 54th Massachusetts.
The 54th's column attacked on the right, bringing a direct assault at Battery Wagner. When they were 60 yards out, the Confederates behind the parapet unleashed "a galling fire into the moving masses."
While the second column found itself in the cross hairs of Fort Sumter's Dahlgren guns and Columbiads, the 54th conquered the moat protecting the battery, crossing the water and dodging the palmetto stakes.
But when they reached the other side, Blake's Battery opened up with a raking fire from two brass howitzers. The 54th was caught in the "bloody repulse" of a Confederate crossfire.
Still, they kept coming.
Before long, the first troops from the 54th reached the Battery Wagner parapet. There they ran into heavy fire from the troops of the Charleston Battalion, a group of men who had seen heavy action the previous summer at Secessionville.
But the 54th Massachusetts would not stop, even as the Southern troops picked them off one by one. The regiment suffered heavy casualties -- Col. Shaw, the commanding officer, was one of the first to fall. Many of his men soon fell by his side.
The battle lasted three hours, which included two waves of assault from the 54th Massachusetts, and it was nothing short of a Union bloodbath.
The Mercury estimated that more than 1,500 Yankees died, and at least 200 -- some of them members of the 54th -- were taken captive. When it was all over, the Confederates still held Battery Wagner.
The Confederates' success on Morris Island restored a bit of confidence among Charleston residents, but the victory came with a price.
The Union Army had taken most of island, and the Confederates still holding the northern tip of Morris were trapped with no way to replenish provisions, much as the Union troops at Fort Sumter had been before the war began. The clock was ticking for Battery Wagner.
The repercussions of the battle would be felt for the rest of the war. Although the 54th Massachusetts had suffered heavy casualties, the bravery and heroism of these fearless black troops would encourage other free African-Americans and former slaves to join the U.S. Army at a time when the South was desperate for new recruits.
The odds -- in Charleston and across the South -- were tilting in favor of the Union.
As the Confederate troops toiled under a July sun burying the dead, they must have wondered how long they -- and Charleston -- could hold out.
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A northwest Missouri man has been convicted of murder in the death of his 7-year-old son whose body was found in the family's burned-out mobile home.
The St. Joseph News-Press reports that 29-year-old Tony King, of Bethany, was found guilty of first-degree murder, arson and felony child abuse Thursday in Buchanan County court.
He was charged in the death of his 7-year-old son, Jeremiah Lamm. The boy's body was found in the bedroom of the family's burned mobile home on Jan. 11, 2012. Prosecutors said King killed the boy and burned the mobile home to conceal the crime.
Defense lawyer Kelly Miller said the fire was an accident and that the arson investigation and Jeremiah's autopsy were "fatally flawed."
A sentencing hearing is set for June 13.


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