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Elderly man refuses to give up wallet in theft attempt
Published: Saturday, December 15, 2007 at 6:01 a.m.
Last Modified: Saturday, December 15, 2007 at 12:19 a.m.
HOUMA -- The easy thing to do would have been to just hand it over.
But even as blows from his own walking cane rained down on 76-year-old Clarence "Buddy" Burns head, surrendering his wallet to a box-cutter-wielding hoodlum who trapped him in a bathroom Wednesday at Southland Mall never crossed his mind.
"He said 'Give me that wallet, " Burns said. "I said 'Youre not getting that wallet, Bubba. You might as well give it up. "
Burns, who was injured in a car wreck two years ago, said he visited the Houma mall up to four days a week to exercise, walking to stay out of the weather.
However, after stopping in a restroom between Dillards and J.C. Penney just before 5:30 p.m., Burns found himself in a fight for his money, and maybe his life, after a still unidentified mugger at least 40 years his junior tried to take his billfold from his pocket as he stood in front of the automatic hand drier.
"I was drying my hands, and I felt something tugging on my billfold in my back pocket," Burns said, adding that he spun around and found himself alone in the bathroom with the would-be robber, a black man he described as about 6 feet 2 inches tall, of medium build, wearing a white T-shirt, dark-colored jeans, tennis shoes and a gray hooded sweat-shirt.
After Burns refused to give him the wallet, though it contained less than $20, the mugger, believed to be between 25 and 30 years old, brandished a box cutter, lashing out with the weapon to intimidate the older man into turning it over.
Cut on the arms and hands, Burns, a former land surveyor for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, shouted for help to no avail.
And then in a brief break in the action, both men spied Burns cane laying on the restroom counter.
"He beat me to it," Burns said. "He started beating me on the head with it."
The awkward, fitful dance continued for close to 5 minutes, Burns said, with his attacker alternately slashing out with the box cutter or striking him with the cane and the elderly man doing the best to protect himself.
"Hed have put me out," Burns said. "I think he would have tried to kill me."
Finally, Burns, weakened and dizzy from repeated blows to the head, said he managed to wrest the cane from the much-younger man, and his attacker fled.
"He jerked the door open, and he run out," Burns said.
Blood dripping from his arms and head, Burns followed the man into the long hallway that leads to the main mall thoroughfare.
"I said, 'Stop this man, he tried to steal my wallet, " Burns said, adding that a uniformed mall employee watched his assailant run past. "That man just stood there and looked."
Carol Burns, who had dropped off her husband at the mall for his exercise as usual, said she got a distressing call from Buddy around 5:30 p.m.
"He said, 'Carol, Im hurt real bad, " she said.
When Carol Burns got to the mall, she said her husband was already on a stretcher and the mall management was asking the paramedics to take him out a back exit, though it was the opposite direction from where her car and the ambulance were parked in the front of the mall.
"They didnt want anybody to see it, I guess," she said, though she insisted on taking her husband out the front of the mall.
The attack on Burns came a little more than a year after a 68-year-old man was beaten up in a Southland mall bathroom during a robbery attempt, though he managed to fight off his attacker.
Victor John Miller Jr., 20, of Houma, attacked the older man from behind as the victim was washing his hands, police said at the time. The victim suffered cuts and bruises on the face while defending himself but also managed to fight off his assailant without losing his wallet to the robber, police said
Miller was sentenced in September to eight years in prison for the attack.
The Courier could not confirm Friday whether the attacks were carried out in the same bathroom.
Orville Callahan, a former Houma Police chief and the head of security at Southland Mall, said he was not authorized to speak with a reporter about the incident. Mall General Manager Dawn Becker also declined to discuss the attack, instead referring an inquiry to Revenue Properties, the company which owns the mall. A company representative did not immediately return a call for comment Friday afternoon.
Though Buddy Burns said mall staff did call for help and helped him bandage his wounds initially, he said the isolated location of the bathroom may have contributed to his harrowing ordeal.
The long hallway that leads to the bathroom, Burns said, is largely shut off from the main part of the mall.
"Real isolated, you might say," Burns said.
His wife said she was shocked such a savage attack could go on for as long as it did in a crowded shopping mall during the holidays.
"I could not imagine that anything like that would ever happen in a mall, where theres so many people around," Carol Burns said.
The beating left Buddy Burns with wounds that required stitches to close and lumps on his head, though in holding onto his wallet he said he had emerged from the scrape with an important victory.
"If Id let him take that wallet, Id have let him accomplish what he came in here for," he said, adding that he thought to himself ëIf I keep him from getting it, Ive accomplished something on my part."
Carol Burns said there was considerable irony in the mugger going to such violent lengths to wrest the wallet from her husband, who she described as a charitable man who frequently gives money to the needy.
"He would have gladly given him the money if hed asked for it," she said.
Terrebonne sheriffs detectives are investigating the attack. Anyone with information is asked to call the sheriffs Detective Bureau at 876-2500.
Staff Writer Robert Zullo can be reached at 850-1150 or email@example.com.
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'You got your tax increase, now it's time to make budget cuts!' Boehner lashes out at Obama as both sides wait out the final four days before automatic budget cuts
Republican speaker John Boehner is now calling on the President to hold up his side of the bargain in order to stave off the sweeping budget cuts that will go into effect on Friday.
'The president says we have to have another tax increase to avoid the sequester. Well, Mr. President, you got your tax increase. It's time to cut spending here in Washington,' Mr Boehner said late Monday.
Even though both sides have admitted that the massive, self-imposed cuts will be devastating to the country's economy, neither of them have taken true and meaningful action when it comes to actually doing anything about the impending cuts.
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Calling for action: Republican Speaker John Boehner said that it was up to the President to make the budget cuts now that he got 'his' tax increase
Earlier in the day, President Barack Obama said that Congress can avert sweeping across-the-board cuts with 'just a little bit of compromise,' as he sought to stick lawmakers with the blame if the budget ax falls.
Speaking to the nation's governors, Obama acknowledged that the impact of the $85billion in cuts may not be felt immediately. But he also said the uncertainty already is impacting the economy, as the Pentagon and other agencies get ready to furlough employees.
'At some point we've got to do some governing,' Obama said. 'And certainly what we can't do is keep careening from manufactured crisis to manufactured crisis.'
Facing a Friday deadline, President Barack Obama told a group of governors at the White House on Monday that Congress can avert sweeping across-the-board cuts with 'just a little bit of compromise
Speaking to the nation's governors, Obama acknowledged that the impact of the $85 billion in cuts may not be felt immediately
'The longer those cuts are in place, the bigger their impact will be,' Obama added.
Department of Defense:
- Frequently pointed at as one of the biggest losers if the budget cuts go through
- States with high military presences- like Virgiina, Texas and Maryland- will be the hardest hit
- Officials in Hawaii specifically said the sequester will cause them to have insufficient funding to keep Pearl Harbor ready
Public Schools:
- 70,000 children will be cut from Head Start's preschool program
- 10,000 public school teachers may be fired
- Hardest hit states include California, Texas, New York and Florida
Health and Safety
- 2,100 food inspections will not take place due to cuts from the sequester
- Funding to treatment centers for HIV and substance abuse will be cut signficantly
Despite Obama's urgent rhetoric, there is little indication that the White House and Congress will reach a deal by Friday.
Obama wants to offset the so-called sequester through a combination of targeted spending cuts and revenue increases, but Republicans oppose any plan that would include tax hikes.
The $85billion budget-cutting mechanism could affect everything from commercial flights to classrooms to meat inspections. Domestic and defense spending alike would be trimmed, leading to furloughs for hundreds of thousands of government workers and contractors.
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has
said the cuts would harm the readiness of U.S. fighting forces.
Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said travelers could see delayed
Education Secretary Arne Duncan said 70,000 fewer children from low-income families would have access to Head Start programs. And furloughed meat inspectors could leave plants idled.
In the days leading up to the March 1
deadline for sequestration, the Senate is likely to make futile attempts
to avoid these harsh spending cuts. Two alternatives are likely to be
offered, with the expectation that both are too partisan to get enough
votes to pass.
will demand a vote on their plan to kill the across-the-board spending
cuts by instead eliminating some agriculture subsidy payments, making
minor defense cuts in later years and raising taxes on the richest
Americans, a particular non-starter for Republicans.
Senate Republicans have not yet unveiled their proposal. One idea is to keep the cuts but give the Obama administration more flexibility in implementing them. Another Republican suggestion is to cut the federal workforce by 10 percent through attrition as an alternative to sequestration.
'The longer those cuts are in place, the bigger their impact will be,' Obama said
A third idea circulating is to stage a vote on a constitutional amendment requiring a balanced U.S. budget, a perennial part of the Republican agenda. Even if it were to pass Congress, which is highly unlikely, it could take years, if ever, for enough states to go along with amending the Constitution.
In the run-up to the March 1 deadline, the Republican-led House of Representatives will mostly sit on the sidelines, arguing that it passed an alternative to sequestration last year, which had no hope of passing the Democratic-controlled Senate.
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As you may know I love clothes and Fashion and today I wanted to share some of the outfits I like wearing.
I love dressing up and had to go to two "posh do's" recently so I have been able to dress up and wear nice dresses and shows.
I got my silver dress for Christmas last year. It's from Next. I really like to dress because I love the material and the colour. I wore it to the Christmas Panto last year and for Afternoon Tea this year.
I got my black dress for Christmas two years ago. I love the collar and the pink Sash. My sister also has one so we match when we wear them! I wore it last weekend to a family dinner.
I got my Black and White skirt recently from George at Asda. It is my favourite skirt at the moment because I loev the high waist I like wearing it with a T shirt, Denim Jacket and either silver sandals from Old Navy or Hi-Top Trainers. I wore it to see the Railway Childen in London and I also wore it to music school last week - it's an outfit you can dress up or down!
What's your favourite outfit?
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Grade One Piano Exam
This term I have been preparing for my Grade One Piano Exam. It has been really hard work and has taken a lot of practice. I was a little bit worried about it to start off with, but I did lots and lots of practice and practiced at School and at Home and day by day I felt more confident about the exam and the pieces I was playing sounded better.
I took my Grade One piano exam just before the end of term. I don't know the result yet but I feel proud that I persevered and practiced as much as I could and I think I am better at playing piano now than I was. Here is a short video of me practicing one of the pieces called "Na krimitku".
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I took my Grade One piano exam just before the end of term. I don't know the result yet but I feel proud that I persevered and practiced as much as I could and I think I am better at playing piano now than I was. Here is a short video of me practicing one of the pieces called "Na krimitku".
Do you play a musical instrument?
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Summer Music Concert
On Saturday I played in the Summer Muisc Concert at Music School. It was a very big ocassion and we had to wear a posh concert dress.
This terms I have been learning Treble Recorder, Recorder and Viola. We also have a choir which I sing in. I go to music school very Saturday morning and I love it.
At the concert I played two pieces of music on each instrument and sang. We performed in front of the Mayor of our town. It was very exciting! Here is a picture of me in the concert.
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At the end of May we went to California in America. We stayed in the Hotel Irvine for four days which was a brillant hotel and then we stayed at our Grandpa's house for a week which was also really cool. Grandpa has a cool house and he also has the Disney Channel which we loved!
The first couple of days, we went to Del Taco. This is a Mexican restaurant like you've never seen in England before. It has tacos, quesadillas (the soft ones) and it also has burritos. Del Taco was my favourite place to eat because it had delicious Mexican food. We also went to Rubios (king of the fish taco) which is another Mexican restaurant. My sister BooJam went to a sandwich place called "Which Wich" and she loved the food there.
We went to Knottsberry Farm and I went on the Jaguar rollercoaster ride. My sister couldn't go on because she was too small. The queuing was very scary because it was in an egyptian tomb, but the ride was really good. One of the rides was really cool. It was a ride where you got to lay down and fly in Camp Snoopy. I loved it and so did my sister too. We also went on a ride where we bounced up and down and that was so much fun.
We went to Hollywood to look around. Our tour guide was Grandpa. We saw the Hollywood Sign, Manns Chinese Theatre, the handprints in the concrete on the floor and the Hollywood walk of Fame which had lots of stars on the floor. I saw the handprints of Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint and Emma Watson. They are my favourite characters from Harry Potter.
Los Angeles has lots of swimming pools. We went in a swimming pool with diving boards and had lots of fun swimming around and diving.
We went to Newport Beach and I was swimming in the sea and there was this really big wave and I had to cling onto the sand as the wave washed over me. It really hurt but it was also cool at the same time. We also bought necklaces for each other.
I loved California and I can't wait to go back again!
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My new Cello
I've got a new Cello! Recently I was given a Cello. At music school I play viola and recorder, and I play Piano at home, but I am now I can practice the Cello too. Here is a video of me playing Cello.
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The princess is busy for a moment and Noah is asleep. So, we've been mega busy again trying to get the things on our house remodel list done before winter. There are a few things that HAVE to be done before it gets into winter so we've been at it nonstop. Clara's a brat and I'm ready for her to be over this "stage". Yep, I said it, she's a whiny little stink pot and causes 90% of the trouble around here. Noah is perfectly perfect and does everything perfectly. DD1 is well, a teenage girl so use your imagination. DS1 is trying to figure out where he fits into our zoo, he's trying to be the "big brother" and take control but Clara is a force you just can't win against, I'm the only one that can outlast her and that's probably because we are the same person in two different bodies LOL. Grady doesn't stand a chance against her and DH can handle her for about 10 minutes and then he tags out. Don't get me wrong, she has her moments but right now they're in between meltdowns and they're few.
We are getting room after room painted because I want the downstairs rooms done before I start Christmas decorating. The walls have holes that need patched so I've been spending my evenings doing that. We got our new front door put in last night finally after a few snags and false starts. My two beautiful Maple trees in the front yard turned a beautiful yellow this fall and then proceeded to drop enough leaves to almost bury my 2 story house. Yeah, that was fun to clean up. We're not even done with it yet. I finally had to suck it up and go buy a leaf blower with power. Everyone had a killer cold last week and all the little kids got over it within a few days but it tried to kill me. Noah even got it but he got over it fairly quickly. We got the playroom repainted this week, I had the paint bought but changed my mind at the last minute and decided to go with Fighting Illini colors. Two walls are Illini orange, one wall is white and the other is Illini blue with a magnetic primer behind it so they can play with little magnetic letters on it. DH and I are taking Noah and going up to Ikea (3.5 hour drive) on Veterans Day to get the furniture for that room. I'm working on getting the living room and laundry rooms done right now. I've been taking out wall anchors from the previous owner and patching walls every night it seems like. I'm pretty efficient with drywall mud if you ever need anything done Add to all of this just general upkeep of a house with 6 people in it and I'm SWAMPED! I'm actually rewashing a load of laundry for the 4th time because I just have NOT had time to get to it yet. And my laundry room is stacked so high with dirty clothes from me doing other stuff and not laundry, to the point that I either HAVE to do laundry today or go shopping for more clothes
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PAMPA - Robert McCain likes to go to work early, but he doesn't go to work right away when he reaches Bob Douthit Autos.
"We sit around an hour and shoot the bull," McCain said. "We've got a good bunch of boys here."
McCain, 78, said the seven wrecker operators at Bob Douthit Autos - located on the south edge of Pampa on Barnes Street - usually have some pretty good stories after a day of auto accidents and other towing chores.
"We've got some huge wreckers here," McCain said. "I used to run a wrecker, but I got out of that."
McCain said he has worked at auto body repair "most of my life."
On a cool, overcast day, the still skinny-as-a-fencepost McCain has a number of projects scattered about his shop in the back of the building.
There's a freshly painted car in the painting bay, and several cars in various stages of restoration.
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Auto body repair can prove a rewarding career for somebody not afraid to get his hands dirty or work hard, according to 78-year-old Pampa auto body repairman Robert McCain.
"It's hard work, but you can make a pretty decent living doing it," he said.
McCain reckons that somebody starting out will make about $6 or $7 per hour.
"I'd say it takes about six or seven years to learn it," he said. "Shoot, I think I've probably forgotten more than I know."
How much money can one make at the top end?
"I'd say that you can make $1,000 a week if you really laid into it," McCain said.
It's a fairly light day.
About all McCain has planned for the rest of the day is attaching a newly finished bumper to a car he's fixing up, a task he finishes in a blink.
McCain put his tools away, then showed pictures he took at Sturgis, S.D., at the annual Harley-Davidson bash.
"I've been there twice," he said. "When it comes to bikes, I ride 'em, or at least I did until about four years ago. My knees finally gave out."
He paused a minute as he looked over a mid-'60s two-door Chevrolet Impala and pointed.
"There's a lifetime project," he said.
McCain walked out back and surveyed the yard, which is home to hundreds of damaged trucks and cars.
"They buy a lot of these for the parts," he said. "As you can see, there's plenty of parts."
It's a simple arrangement.
"They buy them and tow them in. The boys in the tear-down bay get the parts I need," McCain said. "I fix them, and they sell them. I work back here by myself."
McCain's still amazingly agile, but he said he only works three days a week these days, usually about six hours per day.
"I think it kind of makes the rest of the guys want to go home, too," he said.
Why in the world does he still work?
"I'm hungry," McCain said with a grin. "You know, I have to have someplace to play."
He and his wife Linda certainly still like to play.
"On Friday, we're going to the Texas Fiesta in San Antonio," he said.
He has even got a "playhouse" back behind his Pampa home, complete with a jailhouse door given to him by the legendary late Gray County Sheriff Rufe Jordan.
The sign by the playhouse reads, "Welcome, neighbor, bring your own cold beer and come on in."
Asked how he came to start working in the auto body repair business, McCain grinned.
"Because I was hungry," he said. "I've been doing it all my life."
McCain said after serving with the U.S. Navy in the Pacific Theater during World War II, he worked at Coyle Ford in Pampa for 41 years.
"After he died, I worked for J.C. Daniels. Then he died, and I came out here. I've been here about five years now," he said. "Bob liked to have not hired me because he said that I outlived everybody."
As it turned out, Bob Douthit died in a June 2002 accident between Pampa and Mobeetie.
"Bob was a good man," McCain said.
These days, McCain doesn't work on commission.
"I work by the hour," he said. "That way, I can go home when I want to."
How many cars does he fix up in a year?
"Shoot, I don't ever keep count," he said. "I fix one and go to another one."
His advice for prospective young body repair workers?
"Go back to school; it's not the easiest thing in the world," he said. "I would have, but they kicked me out of school in the ninth grade."
However, McCain flashed a smile.
"You can make a decent living at it," he said.
And with that McCain decided to call it a day and headed through the front office.
"You are taking him (McCain) with you, aren't you?" shop foreman Randy Wagner asked with a devilish smile. "Naw, he's a pretty good guy."
McCain just winked when asked if he would ever retire.
"Oh, I think I'll retire when I'm 80," he said. "Why 80? Because it's a good round number, that's why."
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Released: Dec 01st, 2004
Running Time: 152
Company: Shane.Tv
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Cast: Alana Evans, Katja Kassin, Ramona Luv, Dominica Leoni, Kimberly Kane, Randi Rage, Heather Hunt, Holly Hollywood, Daphne Rosen
Critical Rating: AAA 1/2
Genre: Gonzo
Shane is back. Any questions?
Shane makes her long-awaited return with this relatively fun, mostly girl/girl offering that has its pluses and minuses but shows promise as a return to the gonzo queen's wild and adventurous days of old.
First the minuses: The picture throughout the production is either overexposed or too dimly lit. On the latter side, the closing scene is so dark, one can barely make out the performers, much less what they're doing to one another. Shane, who does most if not all of the camerawork (no credits are given other than for the cast), ought to study up on shooting in natural light.
Another problematic element is the "Remote Girl" segment, in which Shane supposedly sends Holly Hollywood out with an ear piece through which she can receive instructions from Shane on picking up a random guy and blowing him. There's cross cutting between the two of them during the scene, with Hollywood even holding a finger to her ear as if she's actually hearing something, but the whole thing comes off as complete baloney.
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Volume 6 of the Ultimate Nylon series is "The Nylon Hotel" and it's the hotel that stocking fanatics will wish actually existed. At this hotel, reps from the lingerie store in the lobby make door-to-door appearances to model their wares for hotel guests.
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Today's feature is the Four Seasons Chicago. Conveniently located on the Magnificent Mile near the shopping and dining areas, the Four Seasons Chicago is like a residential palace with eagle-eye views of the Windy City. According to familyvacationcritic.com, the Four Seasons Chicago goes above and beyond to make families feel welcome. Upon arrival, kids will find a stuffed animal, cow-shaped cookies, chocolate milk, a bucket of popcorn, books, and games in their room. The bathroom has a footstool to help kids reach the sink along with bubble bath soap, toys, and even plush kid-sized terry robes. These little touches and extra amenities will certainly make your kids feel welcome and right at home. The Four Seasons Chicago also has its very own ice cream man who can come to your room between 4 and 6pm with a cart of delicious ice cream with fun toppings. Looking for a few activities outside the hotel perfect for the whole family? The Four Seasons Chicago offers the following complimentary off site activities:
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What, you thought Sam Dekker would be too big to do household chores after being selected in the NBA draft?
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Following his outstanding NCAA Tournament run, Wisconsin junior Sam Dekker has officially declared for the 2015 NBA Draft.
It was no shock to see the report today that Wisconsin's Sam Dekker is turning pro. He had to. His stock never will be higher after a breakout NCAA tourney in which he averaged 19.1 points and made 15-of-36 3-pointers in helping the Badgers reach the national championship game. Now what for Wisconsin?
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After Wisconsin's strong run through the NCAA Tournament that fell one win short of a national title, junior forward Sam Dekker announced today that he will forgo his final season of eligibility and enter the 2015 NBA Draft.
Aaron Rodgers enjoyed his time with the Wisconsin basketball team during its Final Four run last season. It looks like he's ready to do the same again this year.
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Sam Dekker is making sure his name is mentioned when talking about the top dunkers in the Big Ten this season.
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Wisconsin's Sam Dekker topped the 1,000-point mark with a huge putback slam. Check it out in this post!
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The top 50 watch list for the Naismith Trophy was released Wednesday, and seven Big Ten stars made the cut.
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Sporting News columnist and BTN contributor Mike DeCourcy posted Sporting News' 2014 preseason All-Americans on Wednesday.
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It's the summer, so that means there's no shortage of countdowns for your consumption. Today, thebiglead.com released its 50 best players in college basketball. The Big Ten was all over the list, with six players included.
The 2014 NBA Draft is hardly in the rearview mirror, but now it's time to take a super-early look at the Big Ten's top 2015 draft prospects. Who is the top prospect? BTN analysts Stephen Bardo and Shon Morris have different answers.
Now that the 2013-14 college hoops season has come to a close, people are already beginning to take a look at what's to come in 2014-15. ESPN college basketball insider Jeff Goodman recently released a list of the most likely 2014-15 All-Americans, followed by a ranking of the 15 next-best players.
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Three Big Ten players have announced they are going pro, including Indiana's Noah Vonleh, the Big Ten Freshman of the Year, and Ohio State's LaQuinton Ross. Other Big Ten stars have a decision looming, and the deadline is April 27. Who will stay, and who will go? I asked NBA draft analyst Ed Isaacson for his Big Ten draft thoughts.
If you're on Twitter, you can vote in our ongoing series of Big Ten Twitter polls for our weekday TV show #BTNLive weekdays at 6 p.m. ET. On tonight's #BTNLive show, our experts discuss this question: Who is the mid-season Big Ten Men's Basketball MVP? Our candidates for this poll: Keith Appling (#BTNAppling), Sam Dekker (#BTNDekker), Roy Devyn Marble (#BTNMarble), Nik Stauskas (#BTNStauskas), or Aaron Craft (#BTNCraft).
Sam Dekker is one of the Big Ten's top players. Did you know he also really likes to rap? On Sunday night's premiere of "The Journey: Big Ten Basketball 2014," Nigel Hayes told us this about his star teammate: "I really believe he'd rather be Eminem than LeBron James, if he could pick." Watch one of our show's segments on Dekker in this post.
Sam Dekker is no stranger to making highlight-reel plays, and he added another jaw-dropper in Wisconsin's 80-43 win over Prairie View A&M on Saturday afternoon. This time, Dekker soared for a crowd-pleasing one-handed transition alley-oop. Plain and simple, Dekker got up. And his Wisconsin teammates loved the play. Watch the alley-oop and reaction to it in this post.
Wisconsin continued to roll, with a win over Marquette on Saturday. For whatever reason, the Golden Eagles have been an annual root canal for the Badgers. Entering the game on Saturday, Bo Ryan was 6-6 against Marquette, despite the fact that Wisconsin has clearly been the better team on balance over those seasons.
If opponents aren't careful, Wisconsin's Sam Dekker has shown he's more than willing to put them on a poster. The sophomore sensation showcased his leaping ability and power on an impressive two-handed slam in the first half of Saturday's 70-64 win over Marquette at the Kohl Center. Watch Dekker delight the Badger faithful in this post.
Most of the conference fed on cupcakes this weekend, but there were a few games of note. The best game of the weekend was Michigan's trip to Iowa State. Sadly, it did not go as the Wolverines would have liked, although Iowa State was actually favored in this game (which calls the subsequent court-storming into question, for those who dream of joining the Fun Police).
Most of the Big Ten cruised to easy wins over cupcakes—with one notable exception—but the Wisconsin Badgers faced a formidable challenge against St. John's. The Red Storm was mediocre last year, but the team returned everyone, including a healthy dose of rising sophomores. The team is expected to be much-improved, much like Wisconsin's offense.
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A total of four Big Ten players were selected in the first round of this past June's 2013 NBA Draft, and it looks like that number could go up the following year. SI.com recently released a list of the top 20 prospects for the 2014 NBA Draft and four Big Ten products appeared on the big board.
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I'll admit—I've never truly forgiven Minnesota for 2010. Back in those days, when the internet was over, it was my opinion that the Gophers should have been contending for a Big Ten championship. I wasn't even close, as Minnesota finished the season at 9-9, and squeaked into the NCAA Tournament (the Gophers barely had enough time to check into their hotel before Xavier dispatched of them in the first round).
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In Double Full Moon Night, the sequel to the highly praised Bright Messengers, author Gentry Lee reintroduces readers to the gigantic white spacecraft that might be a visitor from another planet or a harbinger from heaven. The Rama node, first seen in Arthur C. Clarke's Rendevous with Rama, is itself a small world full of alien life forms and mysterious, perhaps even mystical incidents. Once again, with great concentration on the finest of details, Lee manages to provide a deeply poetic, absorbing novel that takes traditional questions of existence in the universe and presents them with a unique amalgam of science fiction, theological debate, and outright eerie suspense.
Some background first: When the Rama nodes entered our universe, the world was divided on whether the great ships were piloted by aliens or were messengers from God. After the global depression of the 22nd century left the world economy shattered, the Order of St. Michael grew upon the belief that the spheres were divine in nature and followers should do all they could to ease humanity's suffering. Sister Beatrice, a priestess of St. Michael, encountered white ribbons of light that she believed to be angels. Johann Eberhardt, a German engineer, studied the spheres with the eye of a scientist steeped in logic. After traveling to Mars to aid colonists there, Johann and Beatrice met and were taken aboard one of the gigantic craft, along with several other colonists. Once inside, Johann and Beatrice were separated from the others and lived on a beautiful island they called Paradise, where theysoonfell in love. Beatrice refused to break her vows of chastity, however, and was raped by one of her fellow travelers, Yasin, who managed to come ashore to Paradise after being expelled from a distant land. Johann killed Yasin, but Beatrice became pregnant and died during childbirth. Johann swore to protect Beatrice's daughter, Maria, and encountered a being who might have been the ghost of Sister Beatrice, a figure who told him that eventually all would be explained.
Double Full Moon Night begins eight years later, with Johann having taught Maria everything about her benevolent mother and nothing of her evil father. Johann has carved her an intricate set of figurines representing all the missing colonists, so that he might teach her earth history and geography and help her to develop in a social environment, even if it's only in her imagination. Johann and Maria have a comfortable life on the island, playing with kindly porpoiselike sea creatures called Hansel and Gretel, until the multitentacled "nozzlers" begin to attack. Johann finds the corpse of one of the lost colonists in the water, locked in a death-grip with a nozzler. He realizes that the others must have survived and probably live on the other side of the ocean. Unsure of whether this is the sign that the ghostly Beatrice has asked him to wait for, Johann builds a boat and prepares to depart. Before the launch, Maria discovers that the ribbons of light have painted the boat white and red, the same colors as the vast starship they're currently inside. They begin their journey across the water and battle nozzlers along the way before finally reaching land and discovering the other members of their group, including the former prostitute Vivienne, Sister Beatrice's onetime acolyte.
Vivienne, though, is no longer a member of the Order of St. Michael, having chosen to marry and bear children instead. Many of the original kidnapped colonists are now dead, but several children have been born. After a brief courtship, Vivienne and Johann are married, and soon he finds that he's going to be a father. After a number of adventures in which Johann meets alien creatures known as maskets and helps them defeat an awful enemy, the nozzlers again attack and force the remainder of the colony into a grotto, where they're imprisoned in caves. Some characters previously thought to be dead are found to be alive and trapped in the complex cave system. Johann attempts to escape and is isolated from his pregnant wife, yet when he is at his most desperate, the spirit of Sister Beatrice returns and tells him that they are all about to begin another strange journey.
Style, minutiae, and well-wrought characterization are of primary concern to the author, who knows how to compound elements into an intriguing mixture of personal responsibility, action, and moral dilemma. Showing how Maria uses her figurines to relate to her environment and the earth history of her extended family is an engaging and honest device. Social contact is unknown to the girl except through her imagination, and the growing friction between her and the others is a subtle but intricate plot element. At times the reader is likely to feel somewhat like Maria, connected to this bizarre world only through characters caught in extremely puzzling circumstances that have no apparent link to each other. Gentry Lee's storytelling ability is the height of form, but his technique is built upon story threads begun in earlier novels that are so slowly unveiled (if they are unveiled at all) that readers unfamiliar with the Rama universe and Bright Messengers might find themselves a bit overwhelmed by chunks of exposition and quickly covered plot elements.
The journey is a fascinating one, though: a mixture of philosophical grandeur and the foibles and fears that often make mankind the oddest of all species. Lee's sensitive attention to dialogue, attitude, and poignant realizations are always of interest. Even in the most alien landscape, the emphasis remains on the human condition: thirst for knowledge, protection of loved ones, and the hope of a heaven. The reader will be wound into an intricate and sensational series of thoughtful, emotional explorations of human existence.
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Cast: Shay Sights, Lola (I), Kianna, Misty (II), Lovette, Michele Raven, Ashley Brooks, Shelbee Myne
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Power-game dykes, uniform fetishists, big-boob fans.
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The Centerville Police Department arrested 14-year-old Alec James Brown Friday in connection with last weekâ??s fire at Centerville High School.
Brown has been charged with Arson in the First Degree, a Class B Felony, and Criminal Mischief in the First Degree, a Class C Felony.
These charges stem from an ongoing investigation into the fire at Centerville High School that occurred on Thursday January 9th. Officers uncovered additional information in regards to the fire and were able to bring charges against Brown.
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It's not cheese yet: Eight months into the building process, the Southwest Cheese Co. plant south of Clovis, N.M., is beginning to take shape. More than 300 area workers are estimated to be working on the $190 million cheese and whey manufacturing facility being built by Glanbia Foods Inc. It is expected to start processing cheese in early 2006.
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The other day, the Red Line Metro, here in Washington, had some major delays. When I was able to board a train, the car was packed. Halfway to the Woodley Park stop, we came to a standstill.
"The car in front of us has a malfunctioning door. We're waiting for it to clear the platform."
For those of you who haven't lived in Washington, here's what that means: Everyone has to get off the train with the malfunctioning door. Then, they stand on the platform, waiting for the next train. While that is happening, subsequent trains — like the one I was on — have to wait. When the subsequent trains get to the next station, where all the passengers from the preceding train are waiting, it's a huge mess. Everyone tries to cram into the car.
So, as I said, that situation played out on Tuesday, and when it did, I couldn't help but look around at this crammed car, with people standing shoulder to shoulder, as the air got thicker and thicker, wondering, of course, what would happen if someone on the train had Swine Flu!
The horror! The humanity!
Jeffrey Goldberg, of The Atlantic, posted about a similar experience, at a coffee shop, on his blog:
I was in a Starbucks today when I was struck by an allergy-induced cough. Three people stared at me with something approaching panic. "Don't worry, it's just Marburg," I said, which caused them to visibly relax. Not that they knew what Marburg was. They were just glad to hear that I didn't have the dreaded swine flu. (Fun fact about Marburg: Those who manage to recover from Marburg frequently suffer from orchititis. Look it up.)
Have you seen people start to panic? Are your friends wearing masks?
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The 1st official SUGSA Johannesburg scrum gathering was held last night at Discovery Health in Sandton.
Marius gave an excellent talk on agile and the various flavours available, such as kanban and scrum. The talk focused on the tools at your disposal in the various agile approaches and stressed not getting tangled in wondering which one is the best. Depending on where you and your organisation are in the agile transition process, you need to choose the tools that is best suited to your maturity level of agile adoption. Then as a group we interacted with each other and discussed what we expect to get out of the scrum group in future meetings.
The free gifts where much appreciated.
It was excellent chatting to like minded people.
It was a huge success!!!
Looking forward to Jan! 🙂
The next event will be on 25 January 2011.
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I understand your point of view Tommy, but you're telling me that from the time to where they got the statement to the time it was considered late, they didn't know what was going on? Yes, I have had banks freeze stuff on me, but never has it taken more than a week or so to get things cleared up. I'm sure this couple had more than a month to fix the problem and they instead chose to let their charge card become late. That's being irresponsible.
If my credit card is due on the 15th and I tell my wife to pay it by the 2nd of the month, you can bet your life I'm going to check to see if it's been paid. I'm not just going to sit around twiddling my thumbs because her bank is being weird. I'm going to pay my bill by the 15th. That's what responsible people do, they follow through with their payments, regardless of what their bank is doing. The minute the boyfriends bank froze the funds, they should have found another way to pay the bill. That's my opinion. I know that being irresponsible is given a pat on the back here at times, but I'm here to give people a reality check. You can't just put all your eggs in one basket like this and then cry when they all break.
Always have a backup plan or don't get yourself in these situations to begin with. If you yourself don't have $3000 dollars to cover a bill if your boyfriend can't, then you shouldn't be letting him charge on your card.
I also found this on this website:
"I believe that you have until 45 days after statement close before you pay any penalities or fees."
So she basically let 45 days elapse before she did anything. How is that being responsible? You're telling me it took 45 days for the credit union to clear a freeze? I find that highly unlikely and unbelievable. Here's what probably happened. They attempted to make payment at the last possible minute (maybe 10 days from late) and then they ran into this big problem. Irresponsible people are going to be irresponsible, no matter how much credit they build up. This is why banks have a hard time trusting people who make mistakes, because they will usually make them again.


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The City of Campbellsville has received a $1,388.69 grant from the Kentucky League of Cities Insurance Services. The grant will be used to purchase back-up cameras, ANSI compliant clothing and LED signal wands. Allen said that in these uncertain times, grants such as this one are a practical way to make the City's budget go further, as well as provide products that will enhance public safety.
A former Taylor County Detention Center inmate has filed suit, claiming he did not receive necessary medical treatment.
Robert Bertram of the Bertram & Wilson law firm in Jamestown filed the complaint on behalf of Eddie Yates in Taylor Circuit Court on Tuesday, June 29.
Taylor County Jailer Rick Benningfield, Taylor County Judge/Executive Eddie Rogers and Taylor County are listed as defendants.
According to the complaint, Yates was incarcerated at the jail on July 24, 2009, when he fell and fractured his hand.
They went to see the movie "Thoroughbreds Don't Cry" on their first date. Now, more than seven decades later, Jodie and Opal Mings are still together and will soon celebrate their 70th wedding anniversary.
The couple's history goes back to the 1930s, when Mr. Mings was driving a bus of children to school in Knifley.
Mrs. Mings said he would drive by her home and wave. They hadn't met at that point, she said, but would on their first date at a Columbia movie theater. A friend asked Mrs. Mings to go with her to the movies and be Jodie's date.
A Campbellsville man who was the subject of a weekend search is now safely at home.
According to Campbellsville Police Chief Dennis Benningfield, Gilbert J. Banta, 79, was located in Springfield on Tuesday morning by Springfield Police. Benningfield said police received a call that Banta resembled a man who had been reported missing.
According to the Campbellsville E-911 Center, Banta, who may suffer from dementia, had walked away from his home on Roland Street at about 6:30 p.m. on Sunday. He was believed to be attempting to go to Shelbyville.
Taylor County will operate with about $300,000 more this fiscal year than last, though two officials say this year's budget basically mirrors last year's.
The County's 2010-2011 budget of nearly $8.7 million was unanimously given second reading last Monday at noon during a special meeting.
Magistrates had first reading of the budget in May. The budget approved Monday afternoon is unchanged.
Taylor County Judge/Executive Eddie Rogers says this year's budget is virtually the same as last year's. A breakdown of the budget is listed in a sidebar to this story.
See Monday's newspaper for a series of photos from the Fourth of July Celebration in Campbellsville.
More photos will appear in Thursday's issue as well as in a slideshow on the News-Journal's home page.
Congressman Brett Guthrie announced last week that the U.S. Department of Agriculture has declared 15 counties in the Second Congressional District eligible for agriculture emergency assistance for damage caused by the storms that hit the area starting May 1. Taylor County is among those included.
Guthrie sent a letter in early May to Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack requesting a review for agriculture emergency assistance given the widespread damage to Kentucky's farmers and agriculture industries.
From crafts and cars to food and fireworks, this year's 35th annual Fourth of July Celebration has something to entertain those of all ages.
And celebration chairman Allen Gaddis says organizers of the event have been working hard to make sure this year's is the best yet.
Gaddis, who has served on the Fourth of July board for several years, says he was named chairman of this year's celebration based on a rotation of members to share the responsibilities involved. He said Jon Hawkins, who is this year's vice chair, will serve as next year's chair.
A Campbellsville man has been arrested and charged after he was found transmitting a pornographic photo of himself to a Taylor County Sheriff's deputy posing as a minor female in an online chat room.
Frankie Hardin, 58, of 313 Sharon Drive was arrested Thursday at 2:25 p.m.
According to a Taylor County Sheriff's Office report, deputies arrested Hardin after he came to a prearranged location to meet the girl from the chat room.
A search warrant for Hardin's home revealed various electronic devices, computers and cameras.
It's the major reason the extension office provides so many free programs in the community.
The Taylor County Extension Office has been a taxing district since the late 1980s, and Extension District Board President John Kessler says the tax is the major funding source for all the office's consumer, 4-H and agriculture programs.
Kessler says he doubts there was any resistance toward the tax when it was levied for that very reason.
"We couldn't have an extension service without it," he said.
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: understood by only a small group of people : only for people who know about a particular thing
of air : not having much oxygen because of being high up in the atmosphere
Examples of rarefied in a sentence
It's difficult to breathe in the rarefied air near the mountain's peak.
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Rarefied was formed from the verb "rarefy," which derives from a combination of Latin rarus ("thin" or "rare") with "facere" ("to make") and has meant "to make thin" since the 14th century. In its original uses back in the 1600s, the adjective "rarefied" was on the lean side too; it meant "made less dense" (as in "the fog lifted and we could breathe more easily in the rarefied air"). By the 16th century, "rarefy" had gained the sense "to refine or purify." Over time "rarefied" followed suit; by the 1940s it was being used to mean "only for the select."
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Account aggregation is a method that involves compiling information from different accounts, which may include bank accounts, credit card accounts, investment accounts, and other consumer or business accounts, into a single place. This may include a database or may be provided through "screen scraping" where a user provides the requisite account-access information for an automated system to gather and compile the information into a single page. Usually this database resides in a web-based application or in client-side software. While such services are primarily designed to aggregate financial information, they sometimes also display other things such as the contents of e-mail boxes and news headlines.
Initial setback[edit]
One of the first major account aggregation services was Citibank's My Accounts service, though this service ended in late 2005 without explanation from Citibank. Much has been said in the financial services and banking industry as to the benefits of account aggregation – principally the customer and web site loyalty it might generate for providers – but the lack of responsibility and commitment by the providers is one reason for skepticism about committing to those same providers.
The service helps users to manage their money on the Internet (typical desktop alternatives include Microsoft Money, Intuit Quicken etc.) in an easy to use manner wherein they get functionalities like single password, one-click access to current account data, total net worth and expense analysis etc.
Multiple U.S. financial institutions and credit unions are providing the service, however most of the time a vendor, such as Pageonce, CashEdge or Yodlee, is the technology solutions provider. While outside of the U.S. client-side account aggregation, provided by technology solutions provider eWise, has been adopted by financial institutions like Citibank and First Direct (owned by HSBC) in the UK, and Westpac in Australia. Another relevant account aggregation server-side service provider in Europe is Eurobits Technologies, whose aggregation technology is being used by banks such as BBVA or Bankia, as well as by a growing number of independent web and mobile-based third-party PFMs (Personal Finance Managers) providers, such as Fintonic or Mooverang (Euroconsumers)
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Account aggregation has evolved with single sign-on at most major banks such as Bank of America. With SSO (usually implemented via SAML) major financial institutions are now expanding their aggregation services into new areas. Rich Presentment (getting all the information about a bill that you owe) is a service that uses Aggregation extensively, and can be seen at AOL, using AOL Bill Pay. Aggregation also powers applications such as Funds Transfer, New Account Openings, Card Based Bill Pay and so on.
Independent Financial Advisors[edit]
Independent Financial Advisors is another group on which account aggregators are beginning to focus their attention. Having seen increasing competition from the wirehouses and breakaway brokers, positioning themselves as their client's primary advisor is not as easy as it once was.
Account Aggregation should be able to help many of these advisors gain the competitive edge by providing a look into their clients held-away, and non-managed accounts. Account aggregation providers such as Aqumulate, CashEdge, Blueleaf, ByAllAccounts and Wealth Access specialize in working with the advisor industry and provide historical, transaction level data that is normalized and reconciliation ready.


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