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« Reply #2643 on: January 25, 2007, 01:21:23 AM » |
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A Financial Plan That Comes With Mug ShotsBy JOHN SCHWARTZ
Published: January 7, 2007
ONCE in a great while, an honest-to-goodness visionary shows up — someone who sees things in an utterly different way and helps to change our perspective as well.
Timothy J. Bowers is just such a man. His insights into the world of investing and retirement could reshape the way we look at the future. But you won’t find this giant in the case studies at Harvard Business School or sculpted in bronze on Wall Street.
That oversight could have something to do with the fact that Mr. Bowers is serving a three-year sentence for bank robbery in the Hocking Correctional Facility in Nelsonville, Ohio.
Plenty of people end up in prison when their plans for ill-gotten gain go awry. But getting rich from a robbery was not the goal of Mr. Bowers. Getting into prison was.
On May 1, Mr. Bowers — or, as he is known to the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction, prisoner A535976 — handed a teller a stickup note, got four $20 bills and then handed them over to a security guard, telling the guard that it was his day to be a hero, according to accounts by The Columbus Dispatch and The Associated Press.
At his trial in October, he explained to the judge that he was about to turn 63 and had lost his job making deliveries for a drug wholesaler. He said that with only minimum-wage jobs available, he preferred to draw a three-year sentence, which would get him to age 66, when, he said, he could live off of Social Security. And that is what he got. From the New York Times ... more in the link above.
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« Reply #2645 on: January 25, 2007, 06:10:23 PM » |
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While I was in New York I went to the taping of a talk show -the Dr Keith Ablow Show  It's not Dr Phil or Dave Letterman -I was so mad  we happened to be in front of CBS studios last Monday when people were waiting in line for the taping of the Late Show -BOY how I wish I had had a ticket that night  Anyway, I had never heard of Keith Ablow (he's a forensic psychologist) -and so did most of the people who went to the taping  , but still I WENT TO THE TAPING OF A TALK SHOW *ahem* What was fun is that they had to go ask people on the streets to come to the tapping -that's how I got my ticket. At one point during the show, people who had opened doors for us when we entered the building, people working there, members of the crew, sat with us pretending they were in the public. It was so empty I felt kinda bad for this Dr Keith. I even hurt my hands because they asked us to applaud twice as loud to make people in front of their TV's believe that we were 1000 (1000 is what they said, I mean come on! We were like 50 max in the studio!  ) I really don't know a thing about this talk show, but my guess is it has a pretty limited audience It was about overweight actresses, by the way. I got to see  Lindsay Hollister. She was one of the guests -the other actresses I had never heard about. I knew her because I watch Cold Case and watched Boston Public when it was still on, and she did make appearances on these shows. She seemed real nice. |
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Make-'em-run-around-the-block-howling-in-agony stunning "He that hath no beard is less than a man, and he that is less than a man, I am not for him…" 'Much Ado About Nothing' Act 2, Scene I (William Shakespeare) http://americanbphotography.tumblr.com/ |
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