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Aside from his extraordinary golfing ability, Bobby Jones was one of the most popular athletes to have ever lived. "Blessed with clean good looks and elegant manners, he was the very image of the all-American boy as gentleman and sports hero. "Our Bobby" drew crowds wherever he went and sent thousands of "duffers" to the public links determined to copy the famous Jones stance," wrote Marc Pachter in Champions of American Sport.
Born into a wealthy Atlanta, Georgia family in 1902, he became both the symbol of the Southern Gentleman and the American Sportsman. "Clifford Roberts has said of him, "We never have had an athlete who came close to matching Bob Jones in popularity." It was this popularity that became the cornerstone of Augusta National Golf Club and the Masters golf tournament. It bordered on a kind of sainthood, unofficial but unwavering," Furman Bisher wrote in The Masters: Augusta Revisited in 1976.
According to Benjamin G. Rader in American Sports, Jones became a national and international celebrity. "Jones seemed to embody the traditional Victorian virtues. At the same time that he competed in golf tournaments, he attended college, obtained a law degree, was admitted to the bar, and began the practice of law."
Rader wrote, "Above all, the public loved the fact that Jones, as an amateur, had defeated the best of the professional golfers and taken the measure of the European champions. By a large strain on the imagination, weekend "duffers" could identify Jones as one of their own crowd. He, like they, held down a regular job and presumably played the sport for the sheer fun of the game."
Bisher quoted sportswriter Paul Gallico who had written a book on his disillusionment with sports games and the people he had covered. He said of Bobby Jones, "I have found only one who could stand up in every way as a gentleman and a celebrity, a fine, decent human being, and one who never once since I have known him has let me down in my estimate of him."
Bisher described how in one of the US Opens, Jones had gone into the forest to play an errant drive and emerged to say he was penalizing himself one stroke. "The ball had moved as he was addressing it, and the rule clearly calls for a penalty, whether the player is being witnessed or not. It was a matter of honor with Bob Jones, and he was flabbergasted when the act drew such a wave of admiration.
"Well," he said, "you might as well have praised a man for not robbing a bank.""
According to Bisher, Jones made his first association with golf at the age of six when Fulton Colville, practicing chip shots in front of the boardinghouse where the Joneses had taken summer quarters at East Lake, noticed him sitting on the porch and asked if he wanted to hit some balls.
Bisher wrote, "Fulton Colville drew an old cleek-that's something between a putter and a two iron-from his bag and handed it to him, and so the legendary voyage into golf was launched.
Fulton Colville's role in it was only as a walk-on, but Bob Jones later said, "Something inspired him to give me that club. I didn't have any interest in golf before then.""
According to the Bobby Jones Website, Jones never had any formal lessons but learned his golf swing by mimicking East Lake's Scottish professional, Stewart Maiden. Jones would follow Maiden around the course during 18-hole rounds with club members.
Rader wrote, "At the age nine he won the junior golf championship of the Atlanta Athletic Club, defeating a boy seven years older than himself in the final. In 1916, when Jones was but fourteen, he competed in the United States Amateur at the Merion Cricket Club in Philadelphia. He managed to qualify and swept through his first two challengers before succumbing to the defending champion in the third round. Despite defeat, Jones was the sensation of the tournament, hailed by sportswriters as the "kid wonder" and the "child prodigy" of golf. But Jones also exhibited an ungovernable temper; after making a bad shot, he threw his clubs and swore with an abandon that belied his age."
On the Bobby Jones Website it was reported that sportswriter Grantland Rice once said Jones had the "face of an angel and the temper of a timber wolf."
According to Bisher, Jones had "stalked out of a tournament at the holy of holies, St. Andrews. But once reformed, his reformation was as enduring as it was drastic."
It was in 1923 that Bobby Jones won the first of thirteen major golf titles winning the U.S. Open at Inwood on Long Island. According to Pachter he had had seven lean years prior to that and he had even considered retiring.
The Jones' Website reported that later in the year following his disappointing showing at St. Andrews in the 1921 U.S. Open, Jones confided in O.B. Keeler, an Atlanta newspaperman and close personal friend, ""I wonder if I'll ever win a championship?" Keeler responded, "Bobby, if you ever get it through your head that whenever you step out on the first tee of any competition, you are the best golfer in it, then you'll win this championship and a lot of others.""
"When Bobby Jones came home in 1926 with the British Open in his pocket, he got the full tickertape treatment from elated New Yorkers and a reception at City Hall by mayor Jimmy Walker. Bobby hadn't seen anything yet: Four years later, the year of the Grand Slam, New York put on a show that made the other seem like a dirge. A million people turned out to greet the winner of the British Open and Amateur. A trainload of Atlanta fans rolled into the city, many of whom went on to Minneapolis to watch him try for the U.S. Open at Interlachen Country Club," John Durant and Otto Bettmann wrote in Pictorial History of American Sports.
In 1930, Jones' Grand Slam consisted of four championships including both the Open and the Amateur titles in the United States and Great Britain.
Pachter wrote, "A 1927 article described his flawless swing: "They wound up the Mechancial Man of Golf yesterday and sent him clicking around the East Lake Course.""
According to Rader, "from 1923 to 1930, he was the king of world golfers, both professional and amateur. He collected thirteen national titles-five United States amateurs, four United States Opens, three British Opens, and one British Amateur. In the last nine years of his career he competed in twelve national championships and finished first or second in eleven of them, a feat Jones considered to be greater than his winning of the Grand Slam in 1930. He climaxed his short golfing career with the Grand Slam- the American Open and Amateur and the British Open and Amateur, a feat not duplicated since. After the Grand Slam in 1930, when he was at the very peak of his game at the age of twenty-eight, Jones announced his retirement."
Radar wrote, "upon retirement from tournament competition, Jones, like the professional golfers, attempted to capitalize upon his reputation. With his "Boswell" and longtime traveling companion, O.B. Keeler, Jones did a weekly half-hour radio show recreating the highlights of his career. He made two series of instructional films for Warner Brothers, reputedly for a profit of $180,000�"
Jones also worked with A.G. Spalding & Co. to design the first set of matched golf clubs that could be mass produced in the U.S. and sold as sets. According to the Bobby Jones website, "After rejecting over 200 different clubs, Jones finally arrived at a set that satisfied him. The clubs were made with steel shafts-a design that was quickly replacing the hickory shafts Jones had used. Each club was also given a number instead of the old Scottish names used up until that time, an innovation that quickly became the industry standard and remains in place today. The clubs appeared in 1932 bearing Jones' name and sold steadily for over 40 years."
It was further reported " Jones' greatest legacy to the game of golf was his design of Augusta National. Still considered one of the finest golf courses in the world, Augusta opened in 1933 and is home to the Masters, one of the four major tournaments played today."
According to Pachtar, "Jones founded the annual Masters Tournament in Augusta, Georgia, in 1934, and he made a yearly appearance at the event. "just walking around watching a match," Ben Hogan commented, "he's still the best attraction in golf."
Later, a rare and degenerative disease of the central nervous system prevented Jones's attendance.
According to Bisher ,"The ailment that invaded his person was a rare one that with a creeping mercilessness took away his ability to manipulate his limbs and eventually shriveled him to a withered ruin of the Adonis that he had once been. "Syringomyelia" was its medical name."
Pachtar quoted golf historian Herbert Warren Wind who said of Bobby Jones, "As a young man he was able to stand up to just about the best that life can offer, which isn't easy, and later he stood up with equal grace to just about the worst."
Bobby Jones died when he was 69 on December 18, 1971.
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I've always said that there is a special place in hell for those that harm children. During a 13-month period, from 1976 and 1977 residents of Oakland County Michigan were gripped with fear. Children were disappearing and no one knew who was next. Soon bodies of the missing children were being found and it became evident that a child murderer was operating in the area.
After informing his mother that he was going home to watch television, 12 year old Mark Stebbins was seen leaving an American Legion hall on February 15 1976. His body was found on February 19, neatly laid out in a snowbank in the parking lot of an office building at Ten Mile Road and Greenfield in Southfield, Michigan. Though he was fully clothed in the outfit he was wearing when he was last seen, alive authorities concluded that he had been sexually assaulted with an object, and had suffered two lacerations to the left rear of his head. Rope marks were evident upon both his wrists and ankles, indicating he had been bound throughout his period of captivity.
Ten months later, Jill Robinson, of Royal Oak, Michigan; would have an argument with her mother. On Wednesday, December 22, 1976, the twelve-year-old packed a backpack, grabbed her bicycle and ran away from home. The following day her bicycle was found behind a hobby store on Main Street in Royal Oak. Unfortunately, her remains were found on December 26th along the side of Interstate 75 near Big Beaver Road in Troy, Michigan. Young Ms. Robinson's death had been caused by a single 12-gauge shotgun blast to the face. Her body was found fully clothed, lying face-up and laid out neatly in the snow; a stone's throw from the Troy police station. There was no evidence of any sexual assault.
It was Sunday, January 2, 1977, at approximately 3:00 pm, Kristine Mihelich was seen at a 7-Eleven store in Berkley, Michigan. Three hours later her mother reported the 10-year-old missing. Nineteen days later, a mail carrier spotted her body laid in the snow. The young lady had been smothered and her body placed in full view of nearby residents.
On Wednesday, March 16, 1977, eleven-year-old Timothy King borrowed 30 cents from his older sister and left his Birmingham, MI home about 8:30 pm to buy candy at a nearby drugstore. A witness spotted him leaving the store and reported that he seemed to simply have vanished. Already swamped with media coverage and public pressure from the previous three slayings, authorities executed an intensive search that covered the entire Detroit metropolitan area. Timothy's father, Barry King broadcasted an emotional television appeal. Mt. King begged the abductor to release his son unharmed. In a letter printed in the Detroit News, Timothy's mother, Marion King, wrote that she hoped Timothy could come home soon so she could serve him his favorite meal, Kentucky Fried Chicken; however, that meal would never be served. On the evening of March 22, 1977, two teenagers in a car spotted Timothy's body in a shallow ditch alongside Gill Road, in Livonia, Michigan. He had been suffocated and sexually assaulted with an object. Ironically, the postmortem showed that Timothy had eaten fried chicken before he was slain. Findings also showed that he had been suffocated approximately six hours before his body was found.
Several other murders of children occurred following these four murders; however, they lacked the= components that tied the four together. Reports of a serial killer operating in the Oakland County area sent Oakland and Wayne county residents into an uproar. The Michigan State Police formed a task force of law-enforcement officials from 13 communities that devoted their time and efforts solely to the investigation.
Oakland County Child Murderer Suspect
A woman claimed she had seen Timothy King with a skateboard talking to a man in a parking lot of the drugstore he had visited. The woman gave a description of the man and the vehicle that he drove. Other witnesses came forth and corroborated the testimony of the woman. The man was described as a 25 to 35-year-old white male with a dark complexion, sporting shaggy hair, and sideburns. The vehicle he drove was reportedly a blue AMC Gremlin with a white side stripe. Authorities would eventually question every Gremlin owner in Oakland County.
Investigators put together a profile of the killer based on witnesses' descriptions of the man seen talking to Timothy King the night he disappeared. Authorities believed that the killer had a job that gave him freedom of movement and may have appeared to be someone that a child might trust, such as a police officer, clergyman or a doctor. He was also believed to be familiar with the area and had the ability to keep children for long periods of time without rousing neighbors' suspicions.
The task force headed by Michigan State Police would check out more than 18,000 tips, resulting in over twenty arrests and the busting of a multi-state child pornography ring. However, task force members were never able to charge a suspect in the investigation. In December 1978 the task force disbanded and the investigation was turned over to the State Police. As quickly as the kidnappings and murders began, they seemed to end and the Oakland County child killer never struck again.
In our communities, we tend to look at police officers as our sole source of protection. If this true, we, unfortunately, will be faced with tragedies like this time and time again. It is our responsibility to look out for each other. Neighbors and friends, be conscious of each other and pay attention when a strange presence appears in your area. The only way to truly maintain the sanctity and peace in our living area is to have an established presence in our communities. Serial murder, kidnapping, sexual assault, etc. are all crimes of opportunity. Community unification removes a great deal of the opportunity and thereby lessens the chances for this situation and situations like this to occur.
reignmaker1911	True Crime	Leave a comment February 24, 2019 4 Minutes
Coming Next:Society's Top 10 Most Depraved Serial Killers
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reignmaker1911	Ethics & Morality, Judicial System, True Crime	Leave a comment August 4, 2016 August 30, 2018 1 Minute
The Personification of Evil……….Carl Panzram
The true crime genre has given me insight on some of the most wicked people to walk the face of the earth. At times I sit in utter amazement as well as in true disgust as I read and research the atrocities committed by the men and women. The most frightening thought is that these people look exactly like anyone else. There is no visible indicator that would identify any of the people as inherently evil or dangers to humanity, yet as we read we realize that we share this planet with individuals that give no regard to human life.
After hundreds of hours of reading, interviewing and film, I thought that I had reached a point of numbness in respect to the depravity of these crimes. I felt that by constantly being exposed to these crimes I would develop a mental callousness to these people and their exploits and honestly in a way….I had. However, my next subject made me realize that I'm not quite as tough as I thought I was.
In 39 short years on earth, Carl Panzram would murder at least 22 people and sodomize 1000's of males. Panzram was born on June 28, 1891 in East Grand Forks, Minnesota. The last of 8 children, Panzram was a mischievous child; when he was eight he was convicted of drunk & disorderly conduct behavior. Carl broke into a neighbor's home when he was 11. He stole anything he could get his hands on, including a handgun. He was quickly found out by his brothers, who beat him unconscious. Panzram received beatings from his brothers regularly and for any reason, no matter how insignificant. Carl was later arrested for the burglary. In 1903, at the age of 12, he was sent to the Minnesota State Training School. During his two year stay, Panzram was repeatedly raped, beaten, and tortured by staff members. In retaliation, young Carl burned down the school's warehouse. By the time he was released in 1905, Carl was a teenage alcoholic filled with hatred and rage. Panzram developed a propensity for running away from home. When he was 14 he ran away and was reportedly gang raped by a group of hobos.
As he entered adulthood, Panzram became a proficient thief and burglar. He went through varied periods of incarceration until he joined the United States Army in 1907. While serving his country Panzram was convicted of larceny and served a prison sentence from 1908 to 1910 at Fort Leavenworth. During his time in prison, Panzram tallied numerous violations of prison rules, each carrying its own punishment, usually merciless beatings from prison guards. Upon his release from Leavenworth in 1910, Panzram realized that he was virtually homeless. Having spent most of his life behind bars, Carl Panzram had become irreversibly and totally evil, void of any level of kindness.
To call Carl Panzram a rapist would be like calling the North Pole "chilly." From the time he was released from prison, Panzram robbed and raped his way around the country. He rode the trains over vast distances and spent time in Washington, Idaho, Oregon and Utah, cutting a path of destruction across the country in a methodical, relentless way that kept police hot on his trail but a step behind. He raped without mercy, rarely passing up an opportunity to take on a new victim. In his autobiography
Carl Panzram
Panzram stated, "Whenever I met one that wasn't too rusty looking I would make him raise his hands and drop his pants. I wasn't very particular either. I rode them old and young, tall and short, white and black. It made no difference to me at all except that they were human beings." Panzram also had an affinity for fires also. In his own words he states, "I burned down old barns, sheds, fences, snow sheds or anything I could, and when I couldn't burn anything else I would set fire to the grass on the prairies, or the woods, anything and everything."
In the summer of 1911, Panzram went about the business robbing and burglarizing. He would make his escapes by hopping boxcars and rolling to the next town. He jumped a freight train heading northwest and brought along some stolen guns that he had buried outside town before he got arrested. While he was in a boxcar with two other bums, he saw another opportunity for rape. Just as he was about to make his move a railroad cop appeared. Panzram got the drop on the officer, raised his pistol and robbed the cop of his watch and whatever money he had. Then, while the other two men watched, he raped the officer at gunpoint. He then forced the other two men to do the same.
Carl continued his travels around the country using various assumed names. On June 1, 1915, Panzram burgled a house in Astoria, Oregon. and was arrested soon after while attempting to sell some of the stolen items. Law enforcement promised Panzram a light sentence if he revealed the whereabouts of the rest of the stolen goods. Though he complied, Panzram was sentenced to 7 years in prison. Feeling double-crossed, he broke out of his cell and burnt down the jail. Panzram was immediately transferred to the Oregon State Penitentiary. Once at the prison, Panzram got into trouble almost immediately for rule violations, and punishment became routine; as did his escapes from prison. On May 12, 1918, Carl escaped from the Oregon Prison for good. He sawed through the window bars using a hacksaw blade and jumped down off the prison walls. As frantic guards fired hundreds of rounds at the fleeing convict, Panzram made it into the woods and disappeared from sight. He later hopped a freight train heading east and left the Pacific Northwest forever.
In the summer of 1920, Panzram ended up in the city of New Haven, Connecticut. He found an old three-story colonial located at 113 Whitney Avenue. Once inside, Panzram found a large amount of jewelry, bonds and a .45 caliber automatic handgun. The name on the bonds was William Howard Taft; yes the 27th President of the United States. Panzram had burglarized the home of ex-president Taft. Taft's Colt .45 caliber handgun would go on to be used in several murders. After stealing everything he could carry, Panzram escaped through the same window that he entered and hit the streets carrying a large bag of loot.
In 1920, Carl Panzram crossed from thief and rapist to serial murderer. He traveled to the lower east side of Manhattan and sold most of the stolen jewelry and bonds. Using some of the money he gained from the burglary, Carl bought a yacht named the Akista. He sailed the boat up the East River, eastward through the Long Island Sound past the south shore of the Bronx, the City of New Rochelle, and Rye and onto the rocky coast of Connecticut. As he traveled he would burglarize several boats, he would steal booze, guns, supplies and anything else that he could make a buck from. He docked the Akista at the New Haven yacht club; it was there that the seed of a murderous future was planted.
While at the yacht club, Panzram noticed the constant flow of sailors. He realized many of them were looking for work on outgoing freighters or local boats. Panzram concocted a scheme to hire sailors as deckhands for his ship then rob rape and kill them. From his confession Carl admits, "Every day or two I would go to New York and hang around 25 South Street and size up the sailors. We would wine and dine and when they were drunk enough they would go to bed. When they were asleep I would get my .45 Colt automatic, this I stole from Mr. Taft's home, and blow their brains out." He would then tie a heavy rock to the body and toss the deceased sailor overboard. Panzram murdered at least 10 sailors in this fashion. Local residents became suspicious when he would dock to buy supplies; regularly carrying a different crew. Upon realizing that he was arousing the curiosity of the locals, Carl sailed down the coast of New Jersey with his last two passengers until he reached Long Beach Island, where he intended to kill them both. In late August 1920, a huge gale hit and the Akista smashed to pieces against the rocks. The three men swam to shore and parted ways.
In 1921, Panzram served six months in jail in Bridgeport, Connecticut, for burglary and possession of a loaded handgun. When released he stowed away on a ship and landed in Angola, a Portuguese colony on the west coast of Africa. Panzram landed a job with the Sinclair Oil Company as a foreman on an oil-drilling rig. The company was involved in searching for new sources of oil in Africa. Once there Panzram raped and murdered an 11 year old African boy. He gives the account in chilling detail, "A little nigger boy about 11 or 12 years old came bumming around," he said. Panzram lured the boy back to the Sinclair Oil Company grounds where he sexually assaulted and killed him by bashing his head in with a rock. "I left him there, but first I committed sodomy on him and then I killed him," Panzram wrote in his confession. "His brains were coming out of his ears when I left him and he will never be any deader."
Panzram then moved to an area called Lobito Way and lived in a fishing village. The locals suspected him of murder but had no proof. He eventually hired six natives to assist him in the lucrative but dangerous occupation of crocodile hunting. While in the jungle the six men demanded a share of the profits. In return, Panzram shot each native in the back of the head then fed the bodies to the hungry crocodiles; he then rowed back to Lobito Bay. Realizing that many people saw him leave with the men and come back alone, he knew he had to relocate.
Panzram then headed north up the Congo River toward a place called Point Banana and then made his way to the Gold Coast. Robbing local village farmers along the way, he eventually got enough money to buy a fare to the Canary Islands. From there he stowed away on a ship to Lisbon, Portugal. Upon his arrival, he soon discovered that the local government knew about his crime spree in Africa and cops were on the lookout for him. Fortunately for Panzram he found another ship headed for America. Stowing away on the ship he soon found himself back in the United States by the summer of 1922.
Soon after he arrived in the U.S. Panzram renewed his captain's license and retrieved the papers for his yacht, the Akista. His plan now was to steal another boat and register it with his yacht's name. On July 18, 1922, while searching unsuccessfully for a similar boat to steal, Carl came across a 12 year old boy walking alone on the west side of Salem, Massachusetts. The boy's name was George Henry McMahon who lived at 65 Boston Street in Salem. He had spent most of the day in a neighbor's restaurant until the owner, Mrs. Margaret Lyons, asked George to run an errand. Panzram kept the boy for 3 hours where he reportedly sodomized the child six times before bashing his head in with a large rock. During the rape, Panzram stuffed magazine pages down the child's throat and after the murder; the boy was left covered up with tree branches.
In haste, Panzram rushed to separate himself from the crime scene. As he fled the wooded area where he left McMahon's body; two Salem residents passed by. The pair noticed how nervous and fidgety Panzram seemed, but they continued on their way. Though young George Henry's body would be found three days later, the crime would go unsolved until 1928.
Panzram continued his search for a replacement boat and early in the summer of 1923 he stole a ship out of a Providence, Rhode Island marina. Panzram sailed the boat up the Hudson River to Yonkers. In Yonkers Carl met 15 year old George Walsoin. Panzram used the teen's infatuation with sailing to lure him into his clutches. Promising that he would allow the boy to work with him on his trip upriver, Panzram waited til late in the night and sodomized the child.
Arriving in Kingston, a small bay off the Hudson, Panzram met a young man that seemed interested in purchasing the boat. Panzram took the buyer out to the yacht on the night of June 27 where they had a few drinks together. Unbeknownst to Panzram, the young man had no intention of purchasing the boat but to simply rob Carl of all he possessed. Realizing the true objective of his guest, Panzram shot the man, tied a metal weight onto the body and threw the man overboard; young George Walsoin stared in utter shock.
The next morning, Panzram and Walsoin, sailed into Poughkeepsie, NY. Panzram went on shore and stole a quantity of fishing nets worth more than $1,000. They set sail again and cruised across the river to Newburgh. After the boat dropped anchor, George jumped ship and swam to shore. He eventually made his way back to Yonkers the next day and told the police about being sexually assaulted by Panzram.
Area police were on the lookout for Panzram and his ship. After staking out the marina all night, Panzram docked and on the morning of June 29, 1923, the officers boarded the yacht and arrested Panzram. Using his sailing name, "Captain John O'Leary," Panzram answered questions from the investigating detectives who charged him with sodomy, burglary and robbery. The next day he was placed in the Yonkers City jail awaiting court appearance. Panzram used his boat as collateral to hire an attorney. In turn, the lawyer arranged bail for Panzram, who immediately skipped. The lawyer, attempting to verify his property, was alerted by authorities that the boat was stolen and must be immediately confiscated. The attorney was left with nothing for his services.
On August 26, 1923, Panzram broke into the Larchmont train depot on Chatsworth Avenue. While rifling through passenger luggage he was confronted by a Larchmont cop, Officer Richard Grube, who was making his rounds. After wrestling with and disarming Panzram, he placed him under arrest. Still using the name John O'Leery, Panzram confessed to three additional burglaries. In village court the next morning, Judge Shafer set bail at $5,000 and remanded Panzram to county jail pending grand jury action. While in the village jail, Panzram told cops he was an escaped prisoner from Oregon where he was serving a 17-year sentence for shooting a police officer.
Larchmont police sent telegrams to Oregon. On August 29th, they received a reply citing that "Jeff Baldwin," was a wanted man in Oregon. Telegrams came from various regions of the United States, each with various names but all describing the same man, verifying that indeed this man is wanted with several bounties on his head. Panzram even tried to claim a $500 bounty on himself using the logic that since he confessed, he should receive the reward.
Larchmont sentenced Panzram to prison for a five year term. He was taken to Dannemora, just 10 miles from the Canadian border, in October 1923. During an escape attempt, he climbed one of the prison walls and immediately fell 30 feet below onto a concrete step. He broke both legs and ankles. His spine was also badly injured. He received no medical attention for his injuries. He was carried into a cell and dropped on the floor. In July 1928, after serving five long, hard years, Panzram was discharged from Dannemora. Permanently crippled by lack of medical attention and certifiably insane, Carl Panzram was free again.
Consumed with revenge, the six foot 200 lb. Panzram set to put in motion the killing spree he had concocted while incarcerated. Within two weeks, he committed a dozen burglaries and killed at least one man during a robbery in Baltimore. Fortunately for the citizens of Washington DC, Panzram was arrested for burglary. It was during this period of incarceration that Carl would meet his one and only friend. Through this friendship the world would become aware of the true evil that coursed through the veins of Carl Panzram.
A naïve 26-year-old rookie guard named Henry Lesser had recently been hired to the jail in Washington DC. As Panzram was processed into the jail, an inquisitive Lesser asked Carl why he was here. In response Panzram said with a wry smile, "What I do is reform people." The young guard monitored Panzram over the next few weeks. Unbeknownst to Lesser, Panzram wasn't planning to hang around much longer. He had gradually been chipping away at the concrete surrounding the bars in the window of his cell so that he could eventually escape. His plans were thwarted by an overzealous inmate that informed the warden of his plans. As punishment Panzram was handcuffed to a pole and beaten mercilessly by guards. Lesser pitied Panzram and expressed his compassion by giving him a dollar to buy cigarettes and extra food. In a life filled with pain, this was the only act of kindness that was ever expressed to Carl Panzram. The two men became friends and confided in one another. Soon, Panzram agreed to write his life story for Lesser. And so, over the next few weeks, while Lesser supplied pencil and paper, Panzram wrote down the details of his twisted life of hate, depravity and murder.
Panzram wrote a 20,000 word confession. Within this journal of his life, Carl detailed the murders of at least 22 murders, over 1000 rapes and countless robberies and arsons; all eventually verified by the authorities of the various municipalities in which they occurred. As Panzram enlightened society to the true nature of his crimes, he felt obligated to divulge a trick used by criminals of his day to avoid capture. Criminals were frequently able to avoid arrest warrants by changing names. Panzram committed his transgressions against society under several names including, Jefferson Baldwin, Jeffrey Rhodes, John King and John O'Leery.
The document not only gave accounts of crimes but also contained Panzram's opinions of the criminal justice system of the day. He gave graphic testimony of abuses he suffered while in prison. Prisons at that time were little more than hell holes, castles of pain designed to break unruly inmates; mentally and physically. Wardens served as the kings of these castles of pain and used the guards to carry out their orders, often utilizing physical torture to ensure obedience. The purpose of prison was strictly punishment and detention with little to no emphasis placed on rehabilitation. Panzram's descriptions of his treatment during his periods of incarceration led to major changes in corrections in prisons nationwide.
Void of guilt or remorse, Panzram wrote of his tyrannical exploits occurring around the globe. He proudly admitted being the perpetrator of these crimes and gave vivid accounts of each offense, given with disturbing detail. Panzram however, adamantly blamed the commission of these acts on the criminal justice system. He blamed his crimes, not on himself but on society and the prison system, which he said perpetuates itself by producing more criminals.
On November 12, 1928, his trial for burglary began. Acting in his own defense, Panzram was found guilty by the jury and sentenced to 25 years. Panzram was promptly transferred to Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary. While in Leavenworth, Carl was assigned to work in the laundry facilities. Having told the warden that he would kill the first man to bother him, on June 20, 1929 he killed Robert Warnke, foreman of the prison laundry, battering him to death with an iron bar. During the trial for this murder, the jury took just 45 minutes to arrive at a verdict. Carl Panzram was found guilty and sentenced to death by hanging.
Panzram refused to file any appeals, threatening to kill human rights activists that attempted to appeal on his behalf. On September 5, 1930 Carl Panzram was hung at Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary. When they put the noose around his neck, he allegedly spat in his executioner's face and declared, "I wish the entire human race had one neck, and I had my hands around it!" When asked by the executioner if he had any last words, Panzram barked, "Yes, hurry it up, you Hoosier bastard! I could hang a dozen men while you're screwing around!"
Such was the end of arguably the most evil man in American history. In his own words, Carl Panzram describes his life, "I am 36 years old and I have been a criminal all of my life. I have 11 felony convictions against me. I have served 20 years of my life in Jails, Reform Schools and prisons. I know why I am a criminal. Others may have different theories as to my life but I have no theory about it. I know the facts. If any man ever was a habitual criminal. I am one. In my lifetime I have broken every law that was ever made by both Man and God. If either had made more, I should cheerfully have broken them also. The mere fact that I have done these things is quite sufficient for the average person. Very few people ever consider it worthwhile to wonder why I am what I am and do what I do. All that they think it is necessary to do is to catch me, try me convict me and send me to prison for a few years, make life miserable for me while in prison and then turn me loose again. That is the system that is in practice today in this country. The consequences are that such that any one and every one can see crime and lots of it. Those who are sincere in their desire to put down crime are to be pitied for all of their efforts which accomplish so little in the desired direction. They are the ones who are deceived by their own ignorance and by the trickery and greed of others who profit the most by crime. If you or anyone else will take the trouble and have the intelligence and patience to follow and examine every one of my crimes and actions you will find that I have consistently followed one idea thru all my life. I preyed upon the weak the harmless or unsuspecting. Those I have harmed were all either weaklings either mentally or physically. Those who were strong in either mind or body I first lied to and led into a trap where they were either asleep or drunk or helpless in some way. I always had all the best of it, because I knew ahead of time just what to expect and the others did not. I therefore was strong in my knowledge and stronger in body than those preyed upon. This lesson I was taught by others. Might makes right."
reignmaker1911	Ethics & Morality, Judicial System, True Crime	1 Comment February 3, 2014 15 Minutes
The Dysfunctional Family of Marcus Wesson
As a son, a father, a brother and a husband; I know and respect the value of family. With my last contributions we took a look at women evil enough to hurt innocent children. Now we will take a look at familicide. Familicide is a type of murder or murder-suicide in which at least one spouse and one or more children are killed. Imagine a home on your block; on Wednesday the family unit is seen participating in normal family activities. However, on Thursday morning the same house is taped off by the police and body bags are being loaded into vans as neighbors look on in disbelief. Such is the post familicide setting.
Chris Benoit
The most publicized incident of familicide in recent years was that of the June 25, 2007; murder/ suicide of professional wrestler Chris Benoit and the Benoit family. Over a three-day period, Benoit had killed his wife and son before hanging himself. Ironically, I was headed to Georgia to see my family during that time and as a ChrisBenoit fan the incident truly hit home.
As I researched more cases under this topic, I came across one of the most disturbing men that I have ever read about. I was not familiar with Marcus Wesson or his exploits but at the end of my investigation, I knew that the world needed to know about this individual.
Marcus Deion Wesson was born in Kansas on August 22, 1946. In the early 60's, after a normal childhood, Wesson dropped out of high school and joined the Army. Upon his return from his Europeanbased military service, Wesson began having an affair with a married Rosemary Solorio in San Jose. Solorio eventually left her husband to begin a life with Wesson who moved in with her and her children.
In 1971, Solorio gave birth to Wesson's first son; Wesson at the time was attempting to have a relationship with Solorio's daughter Elizabeth. Wesson told Elizabeth that God had chosen her to be his "new wife," and in 1974 Wesson performed a mock wedding between him and the 9 year old Elizabeth. The thirty-something Wesson began abusing Elizabeth sexually when she turned 12. The two legally married after her 15th birthday and she went on to bear 10 children for Wesson.
The abusive Wesson did not allow Elizabeth to participate in the upbringing of their children. Elizabeth's sister left her seven children in the care of Wesson and Elizabeth, citing that she could no longer care for them. Wesson home schooled the children, teaching them out of a bible that he had written himself. Within the pages of this bible Wesson taught his children that Jesus Christ was a vampire as well as other embellishments that he used to lay the foundation of his wicked intentions. He demanded that the children refer to him as "Lord" or "Master" and taught them that he was God.
Marcus Wesson
Wesson never held a job for any considerable amount of time, therefore he and the children often lived in run-down shacks, boats, and vacant houses while relying heavily upon welfare as the primary source of income. Wesson continued his blasphemous teachings; instructing the children to be prepared for the upcoming Armageddon. As he had done to Elizabeth, Wesson would teach the girls that they were to become his wives. Fearing that his authority may one day be undermined and to quell any sexual feelings that they may develop for each other, he separated the boys from the girls. For several months the boys stay in a shack in a heavily wooded area and the girls on a rundown boat. Wesson sexually abused at least three of his nieces and two of his own daughters. Each of them forced to participate in a mock wedding around their seventh through ninth birthdays. All of the five girls would become pregnant by Wesson; frightened by Wesson with threats of harm against them and their children if they were to admit the paternity of their children, these girls would endure the abuse in silence. In total Wesson fathered up to 18 children with 7 women including the 5 girls.
On March 12, 2004, several members of Wesson's non-immediate family insisted upon the release of the children/grandchildren and the end of his incestuous relations with his children. The outside demands initiated a coup of sorts within the Wesson family compound in Fresno. As the disturbance escalated, police were called to the scene and the incident was initially handled as a domestic disturbance. During the confusion Wesson disappeared into the house for approximately 80 minutes. Afterwards Wesson reappeared with blood soaked clothing and officers stampeded through the door.
The officers ran into a pitch dark room. Feeling along the walls for a light switch, other officers cast their flashlights onto a mass in the middle of the room floor. Finally, a light switch was flipped and what was next seen looked like something from a horror movie. There was a pile of bodies on the floor, babies, kids, young women. Nine total. Blood pooled around them on the ground. As the officers searched for any signs of life they made notice that each victim had been shot through the eye. Also found in the room were several antique coffins.
Marcus Wesson's coffins
During the investigation Wesson told officers of the suicide pact that had been made long before this date. Shortly after they moved into the Fresno home, Wesson purchased 12 mahogany coffins at an antique store. He had instructed his older children that in the event of authorities attempting to remove the children, they were to first murder their offspring before killing themselves. He would stay alive to explain their decision to the public, according to the plan. When Wesson disappeared into the house, he was terminating the lives of the children that the others couldn't bring themselves to kill.
Wesson's trial began in June of 2005. During this time the exact nature of Wesson's incestuous behavior came to light. According to Wesson's defense, it was Sebhrenah Wesson that held the .22-caliber Ruger Mark II pistol to the eye of each child and squeezed the trigger before killing her sister Elizabeth and her herself. The defense used this in an attempt to cast doubt concerning the guilt of Marcus Wesson. The prosecution argued that Wesson was ultimately guilty of the massacre, because he'd primed his children to kill and be killed. The jury concurred and on June 17, 2005, Wesson was found guilty of nine counts of first-degree murder as well as 14 counts of forcible sexual assault and the sexual molestation of seven of his daughters and nieces. Marcus Deion Wesson was sentenced to death on June 27, 2005.
As I close this post, the normal question of why doesn't come to mind. The question that does come to mind is how. How can one be so wicked as to sexually abuse anyone, much less his own child? I look down upon my own children, as they sleep, with an immeasurable amount of love. However, I look upon the world in which I live with a sense of disdain; knowing that I share the planet with monsters such as Marcus Deion Wesson.
reignmaker1911	Ethics & Morality, True Crime	4 Comments December 19, 2013 5 Minutes
The Peculiar Tale of the Child Eating Fish
Albert sat in his room on a frigid January morning. He had become accustomed to entertaining himself with the vivid images, thoughts and memories that occupied the four corners of his mind. Some of the memories were decent, most depraved, but all of them were his property. He recalled a poverty stricken childhood filled with pain and suffering. Even now, memories of Saint John's Orphanage were clear as a bell. Just as clear as if it all happened yesterday. The death of his father left his mother and siblings in dire straits. As the youngest of four, he was the child forced to live at the orphanage. "They tried to break me!" Albert thought to himself. The staff would administer ungodly beatings to the children for the slightest infraction. "They broke the other children", Albert reminisced, "but not me, I embraced the pain." Albert sat back and closed his eyes, not only had he embraced the pain, he fell in love with it; it would be a love affair that would endure throughout his life.
Nearly drifting into sleep, Albert was awakened by the piercing sound of his mother's voice. He looked around the small room then realized it was simply a dream. Albert was almost nine when his mother came and "rescued" him from the orphanage. He then thought of the little boy he met when he was 12. The feelings he had for the telegraph boy were feelings that he had been taught were for a girl. Though these feelings initially frightened the young Albert, his suitor eased his conscience and assured him that his feelings were virtuous and that they should continue their relationship. Albert's young friend introduced him to urolagnia and coprophagia and taught Albert that the taste for urine and feces was an acquired one; but one that he would learn to enjoy.
Fighting off the sleepiness that was beginning to fall upon him, Albert smiled when he remembered being a young man in New York City. Unable to find employment, Albert made a living doing something he truly enjoyed, having sex with men. Unhappy with Albert's status at that time, his mother introduced him to his would be wife. "Did I truly love her?" Albert thought to himself. The word love had become so distorted and twisted in his life that he was truthfully unsure about any emotions as they related to him. Ironically, just as his mother once did, his wife abandoned him and left Albert with six children to raise. While raising his children, Albert would attempt to teach them the joy and ecstasy of pain. He would fashion a paddle filled with nails and have the children paddle him until he bled.
Suddenly a loud noise down the hall interrupted his daydream, but Albert soon quelled his anxiety and resumed his reminiscent state of being. As he turned the pages of his life, a malevolent spirit seemed to invade Albert. The once pleasant atmosphere had become somber as Albert began to think about "the boys." Beginning in 1890, about the time he arrived in New York, Albert began having "urges." He could always hear the voices that would speak to him, giving him disturbing tasks to carry out. Ordinarily, he was strong enough not to relent to their power. But now, now he wanted to succumb to them. He would become a willing participant to their ungodly requests. Albert thought of all of the little boys that he had tortured and raped. Albert then stood up and walked over to the mirror on the wall. Gazing at his reflection, he formed a wry smile, "I wanted them to enjoy the pain as I did," he whispered to himself. Having traveled across the country extensively, Albert once bragged to someone that he had children in every state. The true and horrific nature of that claim had yet to be revealed at that time
Albert looked around the room and scoffed at the peeling paint, "what a shotty job," he thought to himself. Having been a painter himself, he was extremely critical of the work of others. Albert sat down again and thought about the children that he'd extended his special brand of caring to over the years. Unrepentant, he enjoyed memories of the pain and suffering he inflicted upon these young victims. The mere recollection of their torture sent Albert into a sexually aroused state. He recalled his" instruments of Hell" consisting of a paddle of nails, meat cleaver and knives and how he used them on the children. Their screams were a sheer delight to Albert; to him their cries were like the songbird in flight.
Albert stood up to look in the mirror again, staring at his reflection; he began to think of two men that greatly influenced his life. The first man was a past lover of his. On a romantic afternoon, the two had visited a waxworks museum. Albert became fascinated by an exhibit that demonstrated the bisection of a penis; soon after, he developed a morbid interest in castration. Still gazing at his reflection, he remembered how, as a younger man, he had mastered the art of seduction. The young Albert had men at his beck & call back then. There was one man; Albert sat down, struggling to recall his name. "Kenner, Kenny no Kedden, Kedden was his name," Albert said aloud. Kedden was a retarded man that Albert had seduced. When he first laid eyes on Kedden, Albert had decided that he would be the one to satisfy his newly found fixation with castration. After tying up a naked Kedden, Albert began to cut around his penis. Smiling, Albert sat back on his bed, reliving the moment then suddenly; his cheerful demeanor became sullen as he remembered the look of anguish on Kedden's face. It frightened him so that Albert administered first aid to the wound, left a $10.00 bill on Kedden's knee and left town, never to return to St. Louis.
Albert thought of the second man as a godsend. Throughout his younger years Albert could not understand the insatiable hunger that he felt. His ravenous desires had gone undiagnosed until he ran into an old friend, Capt. John Davis. Davis would entertain Albert with tales of his adventures on the Steamer Tacoma. Albert chose to lie down to fully relive Davis' accounts of his exploits in China. Albert smiled as he remembered how Capt. Davis emphasized to him the state of poverty and starvation that the Chinese were going through. How the meat of children drew top dollar during the famine. He especially enjoyed the graphic description of the whipping of the children to tenderize the meat for consumption.
Albert then relived the pleasures that were derived from his encounters with these men. As he lay, hunger pains actually set in when he recounted the children he had devoured over the years. He remembered how much he enjoyed preparing the children for his meal. No longer was the whipping of the children to no avail, the whippings were now used to tenderize the children's flesh. In his own mind the recipes he had conjured up were delectable. Utilizing his vivid imagination, he could see the faces of "his children," as he so affectionately referred to them. Albert recalled watching Francis X. McDonnell play with the other boys. He'd been able to lure him away, sexually assault him and just when he was about ready to dismember him to take home; he heard voices and people coming. He hadn't eaten Francis, but as he thought back now, he could visualize the possibilities. The name Billy Gaffney popped into Albert's head. He remembered this little boy as well as the methods and efforts he used to create a fine meal of the four year old. "Little Grace," Albert whispered to himself, as he sat down on the bed. Albert reminisced about how cute Grace Budd was. Seven years after abducting Grace, Albert wrote a horrifying letter to the Budd family detailing the kidnapping and demise of their beautiful daughter. He had actually come to the Budd home to take their son Edward, "Grace sat in my lap and kissed me. I made up my mind to eat her," he repeated to himself a line he'd written in his letter to the Budd family. Suddenly, his mood changed from reflective to irate. "Why did I write that letter?" Albert said while banging his head against the wall. The letter, that infuriated Albert, had been a key component in alerting the world of his depraved existence.
Albert's once blissful demeanor had now been replaced with rage. Again he stood and looked into the mirror. This time he saw something else, he saw an imprisoned old man. His recollection of the letter he'd written to the Budd family brought him swiftly into the sobering reality of his current situation. The letter also reminded him of a face; angrily Albert spat into the toilet, not the face of a child but that of Detective William F. King. He remembered his arrest and interview at the police station. Albert vehemently denied any involvement in any kidnapping or murder. "I don't know anything about those bones they say they've found. And cannibalism! The very thought sickens me," Albert recited the testimony to himself in the exact same manner that he told police on the day of his arrest. However, due to Detective King's tenacious questioning, Albert soon recanted and confessed, signing a full statement filled with the horrendous details. Albert's face took on a smug look as he recalled Detective King transcribing the declaration of guilt he provided. He remembered the officers' look of utter disgust as he gave the account of Billy Gaffney's death, dismemberment and consumption in full detail. Albert was no stranger to the police or to prison, however this time; there were no sexual escapades with the other men as there were on his first arrest. Absent were the nice calming doctors and comfortable hospital stays as in his second arrest. The only comforting aspect of Albert's current predicament is that it would soon be over.
Albert continued to stare into the mirror. Raising his head and gazing into the light, Albert began to pray. He had always heard voices in his head, during his confession he admitted that everything he had done was at the command of God. Continually looking at his reflection in the mirror, he gave thanks for his frail and gentile demeanor that had given him the ability to abduct and devour children around the country. Albert told Detective King that it had been the voice of John the Baptist that led him to the 23 states that he had lived in. He also informed the detective that in each state, he had killed at least one child. Albert never returned to the same neighborhood. Though the wickedness of his deeds knew no racial barriers, he had always been partial to Black and disabled children, reasoning that police would be less inclined to look for them. Still gazing at his likeness, Albert took note of his thick gray hair and his drooping gray moustache. While thinking of his beloved rumpled suits, he had an epiphany. The very same qualities that allowed him to ravage the children of various communities in perceived anonymity were the same characteristics people remembered to identify him at his trial. Albert's head dropped.
As the noises of chains and voices became louder, Albert resumed his prayerful state. He spoke out loud to himself "What I did must have been right or an angel would have stopped me, just as an angel stopped Abraham in the Bible [from sacrificing his son]." He began to hum hymns that he recalled from his youth in the orphanage. Crying, he fell to his knees and began to recite scriptures, "Happy is he that taketh Thy little ones and dasheth their heads against the stones," he said piously. At times he would go on endlessly with quotations from the Bible all mixed up with his own sentences.
Hours passed, Albert maneuvered so that he might enjoy the excruciating pain within his hips. During questioning he admitted that he had been sticking needles into his body for years. He had been placing them in the area between the rectum and the scrotum. At first, he said, he had only stuck these needles in and pulled them out again. In an effort to reach the next plateau of pain, he stuck others in so far that he was unable to get them out, and they stayed there. To verify his statements, Albert was X-rayed and sure enough, there were at least twenty-nine needles in his pelvic region. The pain caused Albert to think about his children and the games that he'd taught them in their youth. Though he had wished his children would learn to enjoy the pain as he did, he never forced it upon them. Actually, Albert had been a very fine father. He never once in his life laid a hand on one of his children. Thinking of them sent Albert into a depressed state, he whispered to himself, "I'm still worried about my children," he sniffled. His six children ranged from age 21 to 35. "You'd think they'd come to visit their old dad in jail, but they haven't."
The voices in the hallway moved closer to Albert. The rattling of the chains reminded him of the inevitable. The facial expressions of the jury were seared into Albert's consciousness. He remembered looking at them as they listened attentively to the prosecution read the ghastly account of his alleged crimes. Ten hours of testimony was resolved in a mere half of an hour, "We find the defendant guilty as charged," the jury foreman said. The words of Judge Frederick P. Close were deafening in his mind. "Death by electric chair," said Judge Close. Albert thanked the judge for his sentence; he recalled how the thought of experiencing the voltage in his body excited him. Albert enthusiastically welcomed prospect of feeling that much pain. Pain had been the only constant in Albert's life and he was a loyal friend to it as it was to him.
As the prison cell doors opened to take Albert to his court designated appointment, he fell into a state of emotional numbness. As the officers extracted him from the cell, one of them asked him sarcastically, "are you ready to die?" Albert responded, "I have no particular desire to live. I have no particular desire to be killed. It is a matter of indifference to me." The officers placed Albert in the chair and fastened the straps, preparing him for his final transition. As he sat excitedly anticipating the currents that soon would be coursing throughout his body, Albert had a thought. From this point forward, Hamilton Howard "Albert" Fish would strike fear in the hearts and minds of children for centuries to come and would forever take his place in the annals of American history as,
"The Boogeyman."
reignmaker1911	Business	4 Comments April 5, 2013 April 8, 2013 10 Minutes

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Is Starbucks Corporation a Buy?
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Starbucks (NASDAQ: SBUX) has a lot going for it as an investment. The coffee chain controls one of the world's most valuable consumer brands, for one. Some customers make several visits to its cafes each day, and they usually don't mind paying up for premium beverage products.
The combination of customer loyalty and pricing power has formed the basis for massive stock returns for long-term investors who've seen their shares soar since Starbucks went public in 1992.
Below I'll take a look at why the stock could still be a good buy today, even if the chain's most aggressive growth days are behind it.
Slowing growth
Until recently, Starbucks routinely put up market-trouncing growth numbers with comparable-store sales jumping by 6% or more in fiscal years 2013, 2014, and 2015. But since then, there's been a significant downward shift. Comps fell to 5% in 2016 and then dropped again to just 3% in 2017.
The primary driver of this decline has been customer traffic, which dropped to a 1% uptick in 2016 before worsening again, to a flat result, in the following year. Traffic has been flat through the first half of 2018, too.
Annual traffic change — 2018 is through the first six months of the fiscal year. Starbucks' fiscal year ends at the start of October. Chart by author. Data source: Starbucks.
As a result, Starbucks has had to lower its long-term sales and profit outlook. Rather than expanding at a 10% annual rate while boosting earnings by between 15% and 20%, management now believes sales growth will be a bit weaker, and profit gains will be closer to 12%.
Retailing strength
Yet even through this difficult sales period, Starbucks has demonstrated impressive retailing strength. Annual revenue has jumped to $23 billion from $14 billion five years ago, and the chain now serves roughly 100 million customers per week — up from 66 million back in 2013.
The company has several big growth initiatives that should keep those operating figures marching higher, even if the growth isn't as robust as investors have been used to seeing. CEO Kevin Johnson and his team believe they can arrest the customer traffic slide in the core U.S. market with help from food sales, which have jumped to a record 21% of the business lately and are on pace to climb toward 25% in the coming years. The chain is also planning to close 150 underperforming stores in the United States.
Starbucks also has a massive long-term opportunity in China, which has a middle class that is projected to double in size over the next five years to reach 600 million.
Why buy the stock
These initiatives aren't likely to generate head-turning results any time soon, though. In fact, Starbucks' latest quarterly update implied that the company will end up at the low end of its growth targets in fiscal year 2018 after missing 2017's goals. Executives recently warned that sales gains will slow to about 1%, a pace that they said "does not reflect the potential of our exceptional brand and is not acceptable."
That surprisingly weak performance is a key reason why Starbucks' stock has trailed the broader market over the past three years whereas a rival like McDonald's has fared much better. The good news is this gap has left Starbucks shares valued much more reasonably at around 17 times last year's earnings compared to 25 for McDonald's.
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Tables of interest, discount, annuities, &c. First published in the year 1724 by John Smart, and now revised, enlarged, and improved, by Charles Brand. To which is added an appendix, containing some observations on the general probability of life.
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International customers are suspending contracts with Indonesia's second largest pulp and paper company APRIL, which is part of the RGE Group, as photographic evidence from Greenpeace International shows clearance of rainforests and fire-prone peatland. The Greenpeace evidence comes just a week after a new study shows Indonesia's forests are disappearing faster than anywhere else in the world.
Office supplies chain Staples recently confirmed that it no longer stocks APRIL products globally, after Greenpeace International identified links to the company in China. Antalis has also confirmed that it will not resume business with APRIL until it implements a Forest Conservation Policy. Greenpeace urges customers of RGE /APRIL such as the world's largest paper company International Paper, 3M and US retailer Costco to urgently follow their lead.
"APRIL, a member of the Royal Golden Eagle group, has been caught telling its customers it has support from governments and NGOs at the exact same time its bulldozers are out trashing Indonesia's rainforests and peatlands. Will these customers continue to fall for RGE/APRIL's PR spin or follow Staples' lead and suspend contracts with the company?" said forest campaigner at Greenpeace Southeast Asia, Zulfahmi.
A Greenpeace 'flyover' in late May documented ongoing clearance of dense forest, and the drainage of peatlands at the site of an APRIL supplier on Padang Island off the coast of Riau. APRIL's policy claims that the company does not develop land that is of "high conservation value" based on assessments that have been independently peer reviewed by the High Conservation Value Resource Network (HCVRN). However, Greenpeace International confirmed with the HCVRN that it has peer reviewed assessments for just two, out of 50 concessions that are estimated to supply APRIL. HCVRN has requested that APRIL correct its misleading claim.
Despite these findings, APRIL continues to claim, in documents leaked to Greenpeace, that it has "strong support" from WWF and that the Norwegian Government has endorsed its "Sustainable Forest Management Policy". Both WWF and the Norwegian Ambassador to Indonesia have confirmed that these statements are incorrect and that they do not endorse the policy.
"Apparently RGE/APRIL doesn't consider the clearance of rainforest on areas of deep peat to be in conflict with its conservation commitments. But Indonesia's forests are disappearing faster than anywhere else in the world precisely because of practices such as these," said Zulfahmi.
Greenpeace also documented evidence of extensive fires in another of its supplier pulpwood plantations, inside the PT Sumatra Riang Lestari (PT SRL) concession on Rupat Island in Riau Province. According to Greenpeace analysis, fire hotspots are 3.5 times more frequent on deforested peatland than on peatland that has not been cleared by companies like APRIL.
"RGE/APRIL has been quick to blame others, but clearing and draining peatlands are a significant reason for the fires. It's like dousing your house in petrol and blaming a passing smoker when it all goes up in flames. Until all forests and peatland are fully protected, the fires will continue to take hold," said Zulfahmi.
APRIL is one of a number of pulp companies related to the Sukanto Tanoto controlled RGE group. The others are Asia Symbol, Sateri, Bahia Speciality Cellulose and Toba Pulp Lestari. RGE's palm oil subsidiary, Asian Agri, has been embroiled in Indonesia's biggest tax evasion case and named in a joint UNEP/Interpol report for its links to environmental crimes.
Despite recent major progress from other big plantation companies like Golden Agri Resources, Wilmar, and Asia Pulp & Paper, RGE/APRIL is refusing to immediately stop forest clearance. Greenpeace urges all customers of the group, and its financers which are reported to include Santander and ABN Amro, to suspend business with RGE/APRIL until it implements credible commitments to end its role in deforestation.


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Movie Review - Independence Day Resurgence
After 20 years, the long awaited sequel to Independence Day has arrived! Unfortunately, 20 years is also more than enough time to come up with tons of new ideas and then have to squeeze them into a single film.
There are a lot of different story lines and the audience doesn't get enough time with each one to actually become attached to the new characters nor to get swept up in the subplots. I feel it would have been better if Independence Day Resurgence had been a two-part film, giving us all the insights and action needed to understand the horrors and victories of the preceding twenty years, and making the set up for the alien's return much more easily understood - and its full implications more frightening. Additionally, the film tries too hard to be funny. It shouldn't be funny. We're all about to die! Some of the jokes are funny, and even the original had its share of comic relief, but Resurgence could have done with fewer.
Sadly, many of the cast members from the original film that appear in Resurgence only get brief on-screen time, making their scenes pointless to the film. Even more pointless was Judd Hirsch's ("Julius Levinson" - the father of Jeff Goldblum's character) role in the movie. While he added to the original film, his role in Resurgence is meaningless and does nothing to move the plot along (same goes for the rag-tag band of kids), although, perhaps the nice old Jewish guy Mr. Levinson does bring with him some pleasant nostalgia.
The good news? The CGI is wonderful and the alien queen does bring to mind the original creepy feeling we all got the first time we laid eyes on her species. I'm always pleased whenever a sci-fi or fantasy film allows us to see the wider universe in which the story is being told, and we definitely get to see more of the alien's world and learn that there's a much wider tale behind the scenes. I was also glad that we got to see more of our own planet than just Washigton DC and Area 51. Oh, and considering the recent Brexit vote, I think more than a few Europeans will get a kick out of seeing the Burj Khalifa harpooning London.
Emmerich left the door wide-open for a further movie or two. Hopefully, we won't have to wait another 20 years and that 20th Century Fox learns from their mistakes. In the end, Independence Day Resurgence is a lot like Star Wars: The Force Awakens, it is both a sequel and a remake trying to introduce a new generation to a wider universe while praying to god that the original fans latch on and help carry the franchise forward. And as one of those original fans who saw Independence Day on the big screen back in 1997 (well, what parts my mother wasn't desperately trying to cover my eyes for), I do think Resurgence is a fun excursion, both back into memory and perhaps forward to a renewed franchise.
The Science Behind the Events - WARNING SPOILERS AHEAD
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First, yes, I know this is a science fiction movie. I know they all play fast and lose with physics, but it's still fun to think about, especially in this case. In the case of this movie, reality would be far, far worse than what the filmmakers had in store.
I'm one of those annoying people who, when I see something off, think (or say aloud), "it wouldn't happen like that!" So what really would happen if an alien harvester ship, 3,000 miles in diameter, came and landed on Earth?
In the movie, the aliens return with vengeance. They send one of their "harvester ships" to finally destroy life on the planet and suck out Earth's core. These vessels are massive. And in the movie, as the ship plows through the atmosphere and collides with mountains you do get to see a lot of really cool, er... terrible destruction, as well as some likely real-world consequences. A ship that size (wider than the Moon!) really would have its own gravitational pull and once it got close enough, the oceans would rise to meet it, ships and cars would fly through the air, and you would have a really bad day.
Side note. While I really did like seeing the Burj Khalifa smack into downtown London, there's zero way it would have survived the 3,400 mile journey - but I'm just nitpicking.
However. While it may be wider than the Moon, the ship isn't a 3,000 mile diameter sphere. It's a disk, maybe 50-60 miles high. Its gravity would be less than that of the Moon's, which as we recall from seeing the fake moon landings, is pretty easy to overcome. During the ship's intro to our world, we find Jeff Goldblum and Liam Hemsworth flying a "space-tug," trying to retrieve an object from a spacecraft we blew up from a totally different alien species. The giant harvester is bearing down, skidding across the Moon's surface and the little-tug-that-could finds itself unable to escape the craft's gravity. Wrong.
We see these tugs flying back and forth from Moon to Earth, and Earth is definitely bigger than the harvester. If the tugs can escape Earth's gravity, they can certainly escape the alien ubercraft.
Next, we see the ship mowing down mountains and catching the atmosphere on fire. As we all know, when NASA's puny spacecraft re-enter the atmosphere, they glow and leave a trail of flame and smoke. The heat upon re-entry is enormous. So that's all correct. My problem is that as it manages to land, taking ever so much care not to crush our new White House, the fiery winds just seem to go away. Wrong.
We just had a small moon smack into the planet and turn Asia into a skid mark in a matter of moments. Our atmosphere is usually stacked up in nice layers: troposphere, stratosphere, that pesky ozone. The harvester has turned all of that into goop. Not only that, but it was plunging down on us at really high speeds. In reality, a massive pressure wave with insanely violent and tortured winds would have enveloped the planet. The ozone layer would have been dispersed, leaving us vulnerable to deadly radiation, and our otherwise breathable air would be turned into a toxic cloud of debris. The aliens wouldn't even have needed to fight us. Just land. We're all dead.
Additionally, the spaceship would need to be curved so that it could actually sit on the round surface of our dying world. This means that as it landed, the center of the ship that sat over the Atlantic with it's giant plasma drill, would have pushed all the air out from beneath it (along with a lot of water too from the air pressure) - so there wouldn't be any drunken treasure seekers left alive to help report on the alien's progress.
Side note. The equipment used on treasure hunting ships aren't exactly sensitive enough to be able to follow the progress of the "plasma drill" as it bore through tens of miles of crust.
Finally, I'm going back to gravity and weight. While it may not have the gravitational pull of the Moon, the ship does have some. It's also really fat. Once it landed it would have set off pretty much every fault line and volcano the world has to offer. The weight pushing down on its giant landing feet might likewise crack the crust beneath them.
You may have heard that large earthquakes can alter the rotation of the Earth? Smacking that much weight onto the globe would also destabilize Earth's rotation. Not only would it slow us down, but it would knock us off balance. Given enough time, it would drag the Earth upside down. It would also screw with the Earth-Moon system causing all kinds of madness down the road.
Finally P.S. - even though we win in the end (at least 3 billion are dead so "win" is a relative term here), the harvester wouldn't have just slunk off back into space as it did in the movie. If it came roaring down, it would go roaring back up, causing another set of those winds from hell.
This was one flick where physics makes for a much more horrifying end than the sci-fi writers.
--Jacob Bogle, 6/26/2016
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Wilfred Rosenberg, né le  au Cap et mort le  à Herzliya (Israël), est un ancien joueur de rugby international sud-africain. Il évolue au poste de centre.

Carrière
Il dispute son premier test match le  contre les Lions britanniques puis joue deux autres matchs contre les Lions. L'année suivante il est retenu pour un match contre les All Blacks.

Il fait partie de l'équipe des Springboks de 1958 qui affrontent les Français dans une série historique pour les Bleus.

Il effectue sa carrière au sein de la province du Transvaal.

Palmarès
 5 sélections
 2 essais, 6 points
 Sélections par saison : 3 en 1955, 1 en 1956, 1 en 1958.

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Joueur international sud-africain de rugby à XV
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Joueur des Golden Lions
Naissance en juin 1934
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Rabbi Nosson Potash and his wife, Chaya Potash, have founded Chabad of Cole Valley, a new Chabad house in San Francisco. Chabad of Cole Valley is located at 330 Parnassus Ave.
As a way of introducing themselves to the neighborhood, the Potashes will host a kosher wine tasting 7 p.m. Thursday, March 31 at City Forest Lodge, 245 Laguna Honda Blvd., S.F. In addition to selections from Herzog Wine Cellars, Hagafen Cellars and Four Gates, vintner Jeff Morgan will pour samples of his Covenant Wines. The Kitchen Table restaurant will provide hors d'oeuvres.
A native of England, Rabbi Potash, 25, is the brother of Gedalia Potash, rabbi of Chabad of Noe Valley. Chaya Potash, 22, is a native of San Francisco.
To purchase tickets for the wine tasting, or for more information about Chabad of Cole Valley, go tohttp://www.chabadcv.org or call (415) 598-8718.


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Margarita Vladimirovna Levieva professionally known as Margarita Levieva is a famous and popular Russian-American actress. She was born on 9 February, 1980 in Leningrad, Russian SFSR, the Soviet Union to a Russian Jewish family. Before entering the film industry, she is a famous gymnast also. She has appeared in some of the blockbuster movies of Hollywood such as Spread, Adventureland and The Invisible. Along with movies, she is a television star also and worked in some popular television shows and series also such as in HBO series The Deuce and The Blacklist. At a very young age, she began to learn rhythmic gymnastics. At the age of 11, her mother decided to move to Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn in New York. After moving to the United States, she joined a local high school and completed her graduation from NYU in the economics field. At that time, she also worked part-time as a fashion buyer. She was selected in Meisner Training Program and after some time, she starred in the movie Spread along with actor Sebastian Stan. Sebastian and Margarita fall in love and dated until 2014. Some of the other movies in which Margarita starred are Sleeping with Other People, The Stand Up, Noise, It Happened in L.A. and For Ellen.
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Risøyrenna (The Risøy channel)
A shallow sound transformed into a major shipping lane
The Risøy channel (Risøyrenna) runs 4.8 kilometres long through the Risøysund. At 7 metres deep, with a bottom width of 100 metres, it is the result of a long effort to improve access to the port at Risøyhamn.
Longstanding dream
Before Risøyrenna was dredged several times, it had been a sound - shallow bay - that people could cross on horseback at low tide between Andøya and Hinnøya. In his capacity as a member of the Norwegian parliament, Hurtigruten founder Richard With first started work on the channel that opened up his trading post at Risøyhamn for more shipping traffic.
Later on, when we established the Hurtigruten coastal line, the channel was widened to allow the ships to sail through, and the Risøyrenna in the shallow Risøysundet was opened 26th June 1922. The Hurtigruten ship "Finmarken" was first off the mark, escorted by a convoy of close to 400 boats. Richard With was on board the "Finmarken", which carried several distinguished guests: HRH King Haakon of Norway, Norwegian parliament President Gunder Jahren, cabinet minister Aavatsmark and parliamentary representatives from northern Norway.
The opening of the canal marked the end of sailing through Tjeldsundet to lay anchor at Lødingen, in favour of an easier passage that opened up Vesterålen from the north.
After Risøyrenna, Risøysundet continues into Sortlandssundet, which allows Hurtigruten to call into Stokmarknes and Sortland in Vesterålen when travelling north, before navigating the channel to Risøyhamn and on to Harstad.
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From Arctic wilderness to UNESCO heritage city charm – think of your southbound Hurtigruten voyage as the ultimate journey. You begin in Kirkenes, gateway to the Barents region and close to the Russian border. As we head westward and turn south, you see some of the world´s most beautiful islands and coastal mountains travelling towards the milder fjord climate and cosy charm of Bergen.
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I am a 22-year-old who was diagnosed with borderline personality disorder (BPD) when I was 19. I think my BPD is related to the fact that I had a difficult childhood. Without getting into details, my dad wasn't around, and my mom just wasn't a great mom.
My biggest problem now is that I can't seem to maintain relationships. Everyone leaves me. I can't keep a boyfriend for more than a few months, and even my friends dump me after a while. Whenever one of my relationships ends, I feel horrible, empty, and desperate. I do my best to try to win them back, but it never works. Why can't people just be good to me and stick around?
The struggle with relationships that you describe is very common for people with borderline personality disorder (BPD). A key symptom of BPD is fear of abandonment. This symptom may cause you to need frequent reassurance that abandonment is not imminent, to go to great lengths to try to avoid abandonment and to feel devastated when someone ends a relationship with you.
But you are also describing another phenomenon that's common in BPD. People with BPD tend to have more unstable, chaotic relationships than others, and these relationships often end prematurely due to conflict.
In many ways, it's a double-whammy. People with BPD both fear abandonment and have symptoms that create conflict with others and often lead to abandonment, which then reinforces the fear. In addition, people with BPD are likely particularly attuned to the experience of being abandoned. So, even though it is painful for everyone to experience the end of relationships, the end of a relationship can feel particularly devastating for people with BPD.
The good news is that there are things you can do to try to stop this cycle. For example, in dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) a set of skills called the "interpersonal effectiveness" skills are taught. These skills can help you learn to be more effective in relationships, which can make those relationships stronger and more likely to last. If you aren't getting DBT now, this may be something to talk to your therapist about.
Schema-focused therapy also may be helpful in identifying and actively changing problematic ways of thinking that cause issues in your life. It can help you pinpoint unmet needs you have that you've been trying to get others to meet in an unhealthy way and find healthy ways to get those needs met instead.
In addition, it can help to explore the roots of the abandonment issues with your therapist. It sounds like you had some experiences in your early childhood that would understandably leave you afraid of people leaving you. Talking about how those early experiences influence your current ways of viewing and interacting with the world may be helpful.
With treatment, hard work and time, it is possible to have more stable relationships and learn to view both yourself and others in a more healthy and realistic manner.
Gunderson JG. "Disturbed Relationships as a Phenotype for Borderline Personality Disorder. American Journal of Psychiatry. 164(11):1637-1640, 2007.
"Borderline personality disorder." Mayo Clinic (2015).


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Quincy Jones' win overturned in Michael Jackson lawsuit
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Fox News Flash top entertainment headlines for May 5
Quincy Jones' win in a lawsuit regarding the late Michael Jackson's music has been overturned by a California appeals court.
In 2017, Jones, now 87, won $9.4 million from Jackson's estate after songs he produced were used in projects like "This Is It" and a pair of Cirque du Soleil shows. He originally asked for $30 million.
The court said that the jury misinterpreted a contract, which was supposed to have been interpreted by the judge.
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Jones was originally granted money from licensing fees, record sales royalties and money for remixes of Jackson's master recordings, totaling $6.9 million. The court found that amount to have been wrongly granted to the music mogul.
Quincy Jones (left) and Michael Jackson (right). (Getty)
The remaining $2.5 million was kept intact for Jones for several fees, including the use of his masters in "This Is It," a concert film centering on Jackson.
A counterappeal was filled by Jones, claiming he should have been allowed to claim financial elder abuse in the trial court -- but his appeal was rejected.
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"While we disagree with portions of the Court's decision and are evaluating our options going forward, we are pleased that the Court affirmed the jury's determination that MJJP failed to pay Quincy Jones more than $2.5M that it owed him," Jones' attorney J. Michael Hennigan said in a statement.
Jackson's attorney Howard Weitzman said he was surprised by Jones' lawsuit, calling him "the last person we thought would try to take advantage of Michael Jackson by filing a lawsuit three years after he died asking for tens of millions of dollars he wasn't entitled to."
Weitzman added: "We knew the verdict was wrong when we heard it, and the court of appeal has completely vindicated us."
Jones originally claimed he should be paid for the "video share" of his songs when they were used in the movie, but Jackson's attorney argued that video-sharing applied to music videos, not films.
"So many people have tried to take advantage of Michael and mischaracterize him since his death," Jackson estate co-executor John Branca said in a statement Tuesday. "It's gratifying that in this case the court in an overwhelmingly favorable and just decision, recognizes that Michael Jackson was both an enormous talent and an extremely fair business executive."
Jackson died in 2009 at age 50.
The Associated Press contributed to this report
Nate Day is an entertainment reporter for Fox News Digital
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