text:
Hot answers tagged dd-wrt
According to Flush dnsmasq dns cache: dnsmasq is a lightweight DNS, TFTP and DHCP server. It is intended to provide coupled DNS and DHCP service to a LAN. Dnsmasq accepts DNS queries and either answers them from a small, local, cache or forwards them to a real, recursive, DNS server. This software is also installed many cheap routers to cache dns queries. ...
killall -1 dnsmasq Send HUP signal to tell it flush the cache an reread its configuration, thus starting over with a clean slate.
Since there are no init scripts on DD-WRT, I guess this would be the easiest way to restart dnsmasq: Kill dnsmasq: root@ddwrt6:~# killall dnsmasq Start dnsmasq: root@ddwrt6:~# dnsmasq --conf-file=/tmp/dnsmasq.conf
Don't change the daemon to run as root. Change the permissions on the folder where your daemon has to write so that it is allowed to do so. Assuming it's running as user transmission, run something like this as root: chown transmission /mnt/data/torrents/downloads chmod u+rw /mnt/data/torrents/downloads
No. For so many reasons. One obvious one: 802.11 = 2.4, 3.6, or 5 GHz X band = 8-12 GHz K band = 18-27 GHz Ka band = 26.5 - 40 GHz Layman's explanation of the above: The router cannot "tune" to the needed frequencies. (Then there's the DSSS vs burst detection, etc, etc, etc...)
Looking in /tmp/.ipt /tmp/.rc_firewall gives exactly what I was looking for: the iptables rules as they would normally be in a file like /etc/sysconfig/iptables. I had earlier found this: dd if=/dev/mem | strings | grep -i iptables ...and fortunately, it works on the pared-down DD-WRT filesystem. It didn't give precisely what I was looking for, but ...
There are many *WRT distribution variants, and different devices are set up in different ways, so I'm not sure whether this applies to your configuration, but it probably does. The basic *WRT configuration has a read-only root filesystem, so it cannot save customizations in the filesystem. Instead, the startup loads various (variant-dependent) settings from ...
I don't think you can do this. The "/" filesystem in DD-WRT is Squashfs, although that's not easy to find out. That means that during a build of DD-WRT, a whole filesystem image gets set up, and then compressed in some manner, which renders it immutable. That way, the root filesystem fits in a router's small amount of flash. A few config files are on read/...
I did this exact thing this morning. First, double check that the lease isn't allocated. Go to the Status page and then the LAN page on DD-WRT. Check the lease in the list of DHCP clients. If it's allocated, click the trash can. I also have my lease set to 5 minutes. If I left it for a whole day, which is the default, I found that if the signal got ...
All you need is this single rule: iptables -t nat -I PREROUTING --src 0/0 --dst 172.16.0.2 This will insert into PREROUTING chain (?=-I) of the nat table (-t nat) the rule, that says: Any incomming (-src 0/0) packets with destination address 172.16.0.2 (--dst 172.16.0.2). Things to remember are: To redirect incoming traffic means inserting rules into ...
I did some more Googling and found found this post http://forum.pinguyos.com/Thread-Ubuntu-Intel-Wireless-Driver-Crashes-DD-WRT It does seem to fix my issue. echo "options iwlagn 11n_disable=1" | sudo tee /etc/modprobe.d/iwlagn.conf sudo modprobe -rf iwlagn sudo modprobe -v iwlagn sudo service network-manager restart I do still have my router set to BG ...
iptables -I INPUT -i ppp0 --dport 21 -j DROP is syntactically wrong (it lacks of protocol specification), therefore we can assume it just silently fails. This one is correct: iptables -I INPUT -i ppp0 --dport 21 -j DROP -p tcp so give it a try instead.
Well, unfortunately I haven't found a simple way to do this otherwise I would give you some examples; however, the tc command will do what you need. Tc is a traffic shaping utility that is built into the Linux kernel. Be prepared, it isn't for the faint of heart. I recommend doing a good bit of reading about the queuing disciplines before starting. At the ...
You can't do this in a sane way for Google search queries. Why? Google is using HTTPS (SSL) everywhere now. All traffic between the endpoints (browser & Google server) is encrypted and checked for integrity. The only way to read (let alone modify) encrypted traffic is changing it at or beyond on one of the endpoints. Suggestions in the direction of ...
You cannot change permissions on this mount: /dev/sda3 on /tmp/mnt type vfat rw,noatime,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=cp437,iocharset=iso8859-1) Notice the type is VFAT. You can only change permissions using chmod on EXT type permissions, or ones that actually support it. You can either reformat it as EXT4, mkfs.ext4, or using something like Samba to ...
The command that will work on DD-WRT is: ip link set dev {interface-name} address XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX from a root prompt via telnet or ssh.
If this busybox comes with findfs you can do mount $(findfs UUID=cb586ec4-e121-437c-83db-e46df501e046) /mnt/dest mount $(findfs LABEL=foobar) /mnt/dest Otherwise you'll just have to find room for a better version of busybox I guess? You can download some precompiled ones for various architectures here: http://www.busybox.net/downloads/binaries/latest/
I wonder if you're experiencing an issue with passive mode and these sites. As I understand it the ftp site makes a connection back to you, perhaps dd-wrt's firewall is blocking these back connections to your ftp client upon connecting? If you run the command netstat -an on your dd-wrt box you'll likely see TCP connections waiting.
Ok, this will need some work, but to start check what are the adapters with ifconfig Then run: wl -i ethX assoclist until you find the one that ddwrt is using for your wifi. You still have to mess a bit to get your exact output structure but the original script (plus -i adapter) should work.
You can't do that. A TCP request is started by a SYN packet which contains no data. You get the port numbers and IP addresses, but not the host name. You might be able to write some complicated rules that accept the connection, and look for the first packet with data to match the Host header—which isn't guaranteed to be in the first data packet, but usually ...
Your configuration does not have a default route; that is the problem. ip route add default via 126.96.36.199 dev vlan2 You can configure that permanently. Linux usually does that in /etc/sysconfig/network/routes but with DD-WRT that may be different.
You can use ! -s or -d to exclude some IP/Network From man iptables [!] -s, --source address[/mask][,...] Source specification. Address can be either a network name, a hostname, a network IP address (with /mask), or a plain IP address. Hostnames will be resolved once only, before the rule is submitted to the kernel. Please note ...
This is an old topic, but someone might still find my solution useful: update your firmare. DD-WRT provides updated versions and the last one I could find here http://dd-wrt.com/site/support/other-downloads?path=others%2Feko%2FBrainSlayer-V24-preSP2%2F works. I can finally use FTP.
Perhaps I'm answering too late, but I have found a way to do what you want. Instead of adding the URL you wish to block in the "URL" category, add it to the "Keyword" category. This works fine for me.
I'd like to point towards OpenWRT. While I don't know which hardware item would be best suited for your case, many of the not-too-low-spec'ed devices are supported by OpenWRT. They've got a B.A.T.M.A.N. wiki page and I suspect batman-adv and batctl are prebuilt (i.e. installable via opkg install batman-adv). The open-mesh.org people also give instructions ...
Are you sure it is doing nothing? If you are changing the IP, when the appliance changes the IP, the URL you have entered is no longer valid, and active AJAX connections will fail calling the same IP. After you make the change, wait about 30 sec, then punch in the IP you assigned into the address bar and reload.
You can use the tc command to accomplish this. If you'd like to rate-limit a single host, there's a quick guide here: Rate limiting a single host or netmask If you'd like a more comprehensive setup (for example, to guarantee prioritized traffic to VoIP), DD-WRT's supports setting up QoS rules directly via its user interface. Look here: Quality Of Service ...
Until you determine, what type and size of Flash ROM is used in the device, you should not risk flashing it with anything other than dedicated firmware. Atheros chipsets are very common across a wide range of wireless devices and the sole fact of using a particular chip does not guarantee that the entire device will work correctly with your firmware. The ...
I've always used: killall -1 dnsmasq which has worked fine for me. I'm running some of the newer versions of DD-WRT and stopservice dnsmasq startservice dnsmasq also seemed to work without error or needing sudo...
DD-WRT and OpenWRT are your two best bets for the D-600. They can do most o fwhat Tomato can do, so unless you need something specific to Tomato, this router should be fine.
Only top voted, non community-wiki answers of a minimum length are eligible


text:
The words of the Bard and George Orwell will be studied alongside the musings of Russell Brand and Dizzee Rascal.
19:19, UK, Wednesday 07 May 2014
Students will ponder the language of Russell Brand and UK grime star Dizzee Rascal in a new English A-level set to come in next year.
The "diverse" syllabus will take in classics from the likes of William Blake and Shakespeare, but also see analysis of Brand's evidence on drugs policy at the House of Commons and Dizzee's interview on Newsnight.
Students on the combined English Language and Literature A-level may be asked to comment on "mode, purpose and audience", said the OCR exam board.
Other unorthodox texts on the course include newspaper column The Secret Footballer and the work of cross-dressing Turner Prize-winning artist Grayson Perry.
"The aim is for students to develop the skills to analyse any text, whether spoken or written, literary or non-literary, in the most appropriate way," said the OCR.
Educational charity The English and Media Centre (EMC) is helping develop the course.
Barbara Beliman, its co-director, said the A-level would offer "teachers and students the flexibility to explore an extremely broad variety of styles, methodologies and genres".
Actor and comedian Brand called for a more compassionate treatment of drug addicts when he appeared in front of MPs in 2012.
Among his evidence he told them: "As the great Tupac Shakur said: 'Role is something people play, model is something people make - both of those things are fake'.
"What I want to offer people is truth and authenticity in the treatment of this illness."
He also referenced TV show Dad's Army and, when warned his time was running out, told the Home Affairs Committee: "Time is infinite. We cannot run out of time."
And Dizzee Rascal was interviewed alongside Labour peer Baroness Amos about Barack Obama's historic election as US president.
He told Jeremy Paxman: "It doesn't matter what colour you are. It matters what colour your heart is, man, and your intentions.
"I think a black man, a purple man, a Martian man can run the country, whatever man - as long as he does right by the people."
The OCR's Hester Glass rejected any suggestion of "dumbing down" and said the qualification would improve students' chances of finding work.
"It will provide a firm grounding for university and improve employability in any field that requires an ability to use language in a practical, agile and articulate way - from science, business or politics to the arts," he said.
The exams' regulator must sign off the content of the new A-level before it is used in schools and colleges.
A Department for Education spokesman said: "All new A-levels must be accredited by the independent exams regulator Ofqual against new, more rigorous criteria.
"This exam has not been accredited and we await Ofqual's decision with interest.
"New A-levels also have to go through a new review process, undertaken by academics from Russell Group universities, to ensure high quality content."
By posting a comment you are agreeing to abide by our Terms & Conditions. See our House Rules and FAQs.

subset: commoncrawl


text:
Winnie Ward stopped by at the 7-Eleven store on Main Street Thursday during her work break to purchase 16 Mega Millions tickets to share with her coworkers.
"Helping out family, that's the first reason why," Ward, 54, of Orange, said when asked why she's vying for the prize. Ward said she only plays when it's a big jackpot.
Although the possibility of winning is slim, Ward said: "The chance is 100 percent."
As the Mega Millions drawing has soared to $290 million, Said Hatami said he is expecting about 600 extra customers at his 7-Eleven store on Friday.
"Our customer counts go up when this happens," said Hatami, franchise owner of the 7-Eleven on Ball Road and State College Boulevard. "Everyday we have been selling about 3,000 tickets. Tomorrow (Friday) we'll probably hit about 6,000."
For the past month, the Mega Millions jackpot has been steadily growing as no ticket holder has scored all six numbers.
For Tuesday's jackpot, 68 tickets, including 21 in California, were sold with five numbers, but missed the Mega number. The estimated jackpot then was $241 million.
"This week it's more exciting," Hatami said.
"When it goes this high, everybody buys," Hatami added. "... the ones that have never played before; we have to show them."
Mega Millions is a national game, with players from California and 41 other states vying for a piece of the pot. There are smaller prizes available, but to win that estimated $290 million jackpot, a player has to match five numbers and a Mega number.
The odds of doing that are around 1 in 176 million.
In 2005, a group of coworkers at Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in Garden Grove split a $315 million Mega Millions jackpot – the largest single prize won in California.
The biggest ever won, anywhere: $390 million, in March 2007.
The winner of Friday's $290 million jackpot can take the money over 26 years, or opt for the one-time payout of $205 million in cash, according to the California Lottery.
Contact the writer: email@example.com or 714-704-3795


text:
Southeast Alaska Trail Crew's Work on Footbridge Links Generations, Cultures
On a boggy section of single-track trail outside the Southeast Alaska tribal community of Angoon, two men are building a bridge on Admiralty Island National Monument that does much more than simply cross 10 yards of boot-eating muck. This unassuming wooden span is connecting generations, cultures and governments while symbolizing a shared path forward for the Tongass National Forest and Southeast Alaska communities.
The bridge and trail are a vital link in the Cross Admiralty Canoe Route, a 32-mile series of lakes and trail portages that allows backcountry canoeists, kayakers and others to traverse the island. But while the Civilian Conservation Corps established the modern route in the 1930s, the path it follows was not news to the island's residents, according to Donald Frank, tribal liaison for the national monument. Read more »


text:
Health Status > Infants
In 2004, 1.5 percent of live births were infants
of very low birth weight (less than 1,500 grams, or 3 pounds
4 ounces). This has slowly climbed from a rate of just over
one percent in 1980.
Because the chance of survival increases
as birth weight increases, very low birth weight infants
have the lowest survival rates. Infants born at such low
birth weights are approximately 100 times more likely to
die in the first year of life than are infants of normal
birth weight. Very low birth weight infants who survive
are at a significantly increased risk of severe problems,
including physical and visual difficulties, developmental
delays, and cognitive impairment requiring increased levels
of medical, educational, and parental care.
The overall rate of very low birth weight
among non-Hispanic Black newborns (3.1 percent) is over
two and a half times greater than the rate among most other
racial and ethnic groups, including non-Hispanic Whites
(1.2 percent), Hispanics (1.2 percent), and Asian/Pacific
Islanders (1.1 percent). This difference is a major contributor
to the disparity in infant mortality rates between non-Hispanic
Black infants and infants of other racial/ethnic groups.
Line Chart: Very Low Birth Weight Among
Infants, by Race/Ethnicity: 1985-2004
Back to top
Child Health USA 2006 is not copyrighted. Readers are free to duplicate and use all or part of the information contained on this page. Suggested Citation: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration, Maternal and Child Health Bureau.
Child Health USA 2006. Rockville, Maryland: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2006.


text:
STARKVILLE — A Starkville man has been charged with aggravated assault in a shooting at a local apartment complex.
Police Lt. Troy Outlaw says 24-year-old Willie J. Hogan turned himself in Tuesday. Outlaw says Hogan is also charged with shooting into a dwelling. Hogan is being held in the Oktibbeha County jail pending an initial court appearance.
Outlaw says 24-year-old Gregory Dowd was shot in the chest during Monday's incident. Dowd was in good condition Wednesday at OCH Regional Medical Center in Starkville.
Outlaw says shots were fired from the complex's parking lot, some of which went into the apartments.
The shooting remains under investigation.


text:
Diana lives in Ireland and is a professional artist. She completed her BA Honors Degree in Art. Her work involves photography, publications, and mix media paintings. She has a passion for capturing light and nature and depicts this in her Landscape photography and paintings.
Comment posted.
Log in or create an account to post a comment.
From Kilmore Quay with love Published January 29, 2013
Note Book from Rosslare Published January 01, 2013
Comfort Published June 16, 2009
Come away with me Published June 10, 2009


text:
- Price Drops
- Free Apps
Zombies Ate My Baby
$1.99 $0.9923 hours, 50 minutes ago
$3.99 $1.991 day, 1 hour ago
Swords and Sandals
$2.99 $1.991 day, 5 hours ago
Drop The Chicken
$0.99 Free!1 day, 10 hours ago
Secret of Mana
$7.99 $3.992 days, 5 hours ago
JAM: Jets Aliens Missiles
$0.99 Free!1 week, 1 day ago
Bad Piggies
$0.99 Free!1 week, 1 day ago
Gamebook Adventures 7: Temple of the Spider God
$5.99 $1.991 week, 1 day ago
Gravity Hook HD
$0.99 Free!1 week, 1 day ago
Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars
$4.99 $2.991 week, 2 days ago
Kong Rage 3D
$0.99 Free!23 hours, 58 minutes ago
Big Destroy - Underground Escape
$0.99 Free!1 day ago
$0.99 Free!1 day ago
猎魔幻想-组队冒险 佣兵招募 自由交易 热血竞技 全民魔法战争梦幻手游
$0.99 Free!1 day ago
Angry Campers the Adventure
$4.99 Free!1 day ago
$0.99 Free!1 day ago
Ninjas - STOLEN SCROLLS
$0.99 Free!1 day ago
Ninjas Infinity
$0.99 Free!1 day ago
Magical Battle - Chaos World War&Corps and Power
$0.99 Free!1 day, 1 hour ago
$0.99 Free!1 day, 1 hour ago
Latest Comments
1 day, 12 hours ago
I was a bit disappointed with this game... even knowing it offers no chalenge, I expected better…
2 weeks, 2 days ago
NOT Free, please update your price tracker.
2 weeks, 4 days ago
Decent game!
Sponsored feature
Most Recent Top Rated
Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons
505 Games (US), Inc.
Lara Croft GO
Loot & Legends
DropForge Games
This War of Mine
11 bit studios s.a.
The Executive
Riverman Media LLC
Geometry Wars 3: Dimensions Evolved
Activision Publishing, Inc.
Desktop Dungeons
QCF Design
Fearless Fantasy
tinyBuild LLC
Legend of Grimrock
Almost Human ltd.
Halo: Spartan Strike
Microsoft Corporation
Implosion - Never Lose Hope
Rayark International Limited
Adventures of Poco Eco - Lost Sounds: Experience Music and Animation Art in an Indie Game
POSSIBLE GAMES Kft.


text:
Forgot Password
E-mail Change Form
Fraud Alerts
Holiday Schedule
Insurance Verification
Member-2-Member Connect
Online Payment Center
Sign Up for E-statements
Sign Up for Online Banking
Why wait for the Mail?
Sign Up for E-statements Now!
Members 1st is excited to offer members E-statements for regular accounts and/or VISA accounts. No more waiting for your statement by mail.
Click Here to sign up for E-Statements
Have questions about E-statements? Click Here to see our frequently asked questions
Click Here to request additional information on E-statements
Click Here for the secure e-mail change form.
Members 1st Credit Union is not liable for content or availability of linked sites
© 2008-2016 Members 1st Credit Union


text:
Corrections: Add a correction
Actions: Cite this text
THE ORDINARY of NEWGATE'S ACCOUNT of the Behaviour, Confession, and Dying Words OF FIVE MALEFACTORS, VIZ.
Capt. JOHN TUNE, who suffered the 8th of December at Execution-dock, for Piracy; JOHN SMITH and JOHN IRWINE, for Robbing on the Highway; AND NICHOLAS CAMPBELL and GEORGE BARBER, for Forgery; Executed at Tyburn on Monday, February 2, 1761.
BEING THE First and Second EXECUTIONS in the MAYORALTY OF THE Rt. Hon. Sir MATTHEW BLAKISTON, Knt.
LORD-MAYOR of the CITY of LONDON.
NUMBER I. for the said YEAR.
Printed and Sold by J. DIXWELL, in St. Martin's-Lane, near Charing-Cross, for the AUTHOR:
Also Sold by M. COOPER, in Pater-noster-Row.
[Price SIX-PENCE.]
THE ORDINARY of NEWGATE'S ACCOUNT of the Behaviour, Confession, and Dying Words, &c.
BY virtue of his Majesty's Commission of Oyer and Terminer and Goal Delivery, for the High Court of Admiralty of England, before the Right Worshipful Sir Thomas Salusbury, Knt. L. L. D. Judge of the High Court of Admiralty ; the Rt. Hon. William Lord Mansfield, Lord Chief Justice of the Court of King's Bench ; the Hon. Sir Richard Lloyd one of the Barons of the Court of Exchequer , held at Justice hall in the Old-Bailey, on Thursday the 30th of October, 1760.
JOHN TUNE was convicted for piratically and feloniously boarding a ship called the Guilaume upon the high seas, within the jurisdiction of the Admiralty of England, about three leagues distance from Folkestone in the county of Kent, and assaulting and robbing Bartholomew Moy, the master thereof, of 104 pieces of white linen, value 140l. and thirty-four rolls of painted oilcloth, value 8l. on the 5th of August, 1758.
It appeared on the trial, that the said ship was bound from Hamburgh to Bilboa and St. Sebastian. It was now two years since the piracy was committed; in which time, several material circumstances had slipt the memory of the principal witnesses; as Moy, Wyland, and others, for the prosecution: they deposed, however, that the privateer, of which John Tune was Captain, had fired a gun to bring to the said ship, and had sent a boat three times, with eight or ten men, t examine their papers and plunder their goods; to which they could not, or would not make resistance, being a free or neutral ship, and having on board only six men and a boy. The Goods so piratically taken, were partly seized by the Custom-house officers at Dover; and the Guilaume being forced by contrary winds into the same port, discovered the pirates, and brought some of them to Justice; the Lieutenant of the Young Eagle, William Sterrick, and some of the men, were admitted evidence against the Captain, who was also said to be quarter owner of this little sloop, of about twenty tuns, carrying only six guns, of which four were swivels. The Captain, according to the witnesses story, would have sent his men yet oftener with the boat to bring away more goods; but they seem'd to have more honesty and refused to go again. They were assisted in this piracy by a man or two belonging to another small privateer, in company, commanded by one John Johnson, who would not join them, nor be concerned in this affair; while Capt. Tune is proved plainly to have been consenting and active in it, both before and after the fact, by seeing, receiving, and stowing away the goods when thus stolen; and also sharing them as prize among the captors and himself. Five sacks
of goods were taken; two of which were made seizure of, and three saved and shared by the Crew. It seems as if none of them were apperehended and confined for this fact till a considerable time after this, tho' quickly known by the discovery of the ship's crew. John Tune having been kept prisoner aboard for several months, it was not till Sept. 19, or thereabouts, that he was brought to Newgate, in order to take his trial; where, on several occasions, the following account of him and his Behaviour was collected from himself and others.
When he first attended divine service on Sunday the 21st of Sept. he seemed to behave awkwardly, neither reading the Psalms, nor making any responses, had therefore some proper advice and directions given him, particularly, as he could not read, that he would employ the leisure of his present confinement in learning to read; in which a brother tar, and fellow-prisoner for piracy, readily promised to help and instruct him; but neither of them seemed to regard the performing this promise, being more inclined to other amusements, neither so innocent or useful. He was now in the thirty-third Year of his age, a Maltese by birth, taken prisoner in his childhood by the Turks; and from them he escaped to the French, and again from them he was taken by Capt. (now Admiral) Geary, being then at the age of 13 Years, and has ever since been in the English service in different capacities, and conformed to our Religion. As he said he had served in his Majesty's navy all the last war and part of the present, He was ask'd why he quitted the service? to which he replied, that he was young and foolish, and had a mind to try for himself. He married a wife at Dover about 11 years since, by whom he had several children, two still living, a girl of 10, and a boy of 8 years old. His wife took pains to instruct him in the principles of the Christian Religion; and would fain teach him to read, but he did not apply himself to it; she got him, however, confirmed by the Archbishop of Canterbury at Dover. After he had incurr'd the danger of this prosecution, his wife was taken ill of a nervous fever (thro' grief, as supposed) which affected her head and made her delirious, under which she languished, till death released her on the Wednesday before he was apprehended for this fact, which happened the Sunday following at Dover; where, being put into a tender, he was carried to the Nore, and put aboard the Princess Royal. After some months, he was moved to the Monarque, and then, after five months, removed to the Princess Royal again, and thence to Newgate, as aforesaid.
Here a woman, who passed for his wife, often attended and abode with him, till a little time before his exit; and till the sister of his deceased wife, a decent and well-behaved woman, came up from Dover to solicit and manage his business; who, finding he was not married, at last prevailed on him to dismiss this temporary wife, that he might the better prepare for his death. During his confinement on ship-board, Lieutenant R - ts would persuade him to impeach his officers and men, by the proffer of impunity and rewards; but rejecting this proposal, he was ordered into irons because (as the Lieutenant express'd it) he had offended him.
Affidavits were made before his trial, that two material witnesses on his part were gone to sea, and that therefore his trial might be put off till the ensuing sessions in March next: notwithstanding which, it is said, he was persuaded to let it come on at present, as being an hopeful time for mercy, on the accession of his Majesty.
It must be owned, that during his confinement before trial, he did not seem to think seriously of his situation, as his behaviour was rather negligent, and his regular attendance at the chapel often omitted or interupted; whether to be imputed to his own careless temper, or the insinuations of the company he kept in the prison, whose inmates, unhappily for themselves, and the public, (and to the indelible reproach of what and whom I cannot say) being obliged to no regular duties of industry or piety, are sure to grow worse, in a constant ratio to the time of their confinement therein; so that the oldest prisoners can scarce escape falling into the state and temper of fiends, or what the French term Les Enfants perdues.
Little remarkable happen'd from the time of his conviction till the death-warrant, or rather a message for his excution was made known about November 21, and this coming thro' different channels and by some mistake, two different days, at the distance of a week or two, being named, gave occasion for the report of a reprieve being granted him, which had no other foundation, as far as I could learn.
But the certain report of his destiny shocked and surprized him at first, as much as the change of the day puzzled him for some time; because he had suffered himself to be buoyed up with hopes of pardon from various quarters and surmises, insomuch, that he had hitherto shewn less thought or care for preparation than he ought. But now he became more attentive; desiring proper books to be lent and read to him, and duly attending prayers and instruction; he had timely notice and proper assistance given, to prepare for receiving the holy communion.
In this interval, his halting between two opinions, appeared by a visit which he received some days after his doom was fixt, from a person whom I found with him, and who, under pretence of being his countryman, and that the Prisoner did not understand our language, was admitted to his cell, as if to interpret to him; but whose business in reality, was to seduce him, to the Church of Rome: But, when it was urged to this pretented friend, that he had professed himself a Protestant from the age of thirteen; that he had married into a protestant family at Dover; and under that character, had enjoyed the freedom of that town for several years; that his children, to the number of seven or eight were all baptised in the Church of England; and lastly, that it is against the laws of this realm to seduce a protestant to the Church of Rome; this new intruder into our charge, thought proper to renounce his purpose, and declare that he would give no more umbrage in this respect.
The prisoner afterwards made an apology for encouraging this visit; that he had hopes, by his means, to have intercession made for his life. After this, he went on without interruption from that quarter to prepare for his approaching dissolution; in order to which, he received the holy sacrament, with serious devotion on Saturday, December 6, being to die the next Monday; for that there was no intention to respite him appeared pretty strongly, from an assurance I had the Monday before, that his chains were made: a circumstance of horror, which, in tenderness, was carefully concealed from the prisoner. Being asked one day whether he slept well, and how he employed his nights, he answered that he slept very little, but it was no matter, " he should sleep " enough by and by."
Dec. 8, 1760. On the morning of execution, when visited, he appeared ready and chearful to do his duty, went up to chapel with alacrity, said he was well in health, and resigned to his punishment, joined in the service, and again received the holy communion with devotion and comfort; he expressed no signs of murmuring or complaint, though his devotion seemed to be sometimes interrupted with messages to hasten him out, which seemed to alarm him with some hopes and fears, whether it might not be a respite; concerning which, some evil minded persons had applied to him the preceding day, for a sum of money to be employed for obtaining such a favour; making no scruple to trifle with this most serious affair at this important period, provided they could, make any little advantage out of it to themselves. One would be almost tempted to wish that such inhuman merciless monsters could be made to change circumstances with the poor criminal, whose love of life (so naturally and wisely implanted in us all) they abuse to such sordid and wicked purposes.
This morning having performed his duty, he declared he was greatly supported and comforted. He heartily thanked God for it; and added, with a seeming spirit and resolution, " he was as willing to die as to live."
He was put into the cart a little after nine, and when he heard the expressions of pity and compassion from the multitude around, he behaved with intrepidity, and said, " I hope I shall soon " be happy."
Two of the runners had sat up with him, read to him, and prayed with him; they both agreed he had behaved so well, that no man could behave better.
When brought to the place of execution, and tied up, he still kept his countenance serene and calm; and when asked by me how are you my good friend, he answered, never better in all my life: he was reminded, however, to think of his situation, and humble himself in a manner becoming his present severe chastisement, to make this death a means of true repentance; pardon, peace, and deliverance to himself, and a loud warning to others; for which purpose he desired the surrounding multitude to join in prayer with him; having first intreated them to be warned by his suffering, not to covet or desire any other people's goods, but to learn and labour truly to get an honest living, and to do their duty in their several stations. We then prayed for mercy, charity, and all the graces necessary for a dying person.
When applied to by me to acknowledge the justice of his sentence, he uttered a complaint, that his trial had been brought on when he had a fair plea to put it off, on account of his witnesses being at sea; but that he was encouraged, notwithstanding, to hope that it was a time of mercy, and that he should not suffer, though convicted; a matter of which he had frequently before complained. However that be, he was prevailed on now to suppress it, and to declare his forgiving all injuries, whether real, or only apprehended. He was reminded that he had before acknowledged fairly his share in the guilt, by consenting to the fact; and though he denied he was any gainer by the piracy, he was silenced, by being reminded that was not his fault, but owing to the seizure of what had been thus unjustly plundered.
He was again reminded, that the honour and justice of the nation required this exemplary punishment to be inflicted, in order to deter others from ever again attempting such piracies, so infamous and dangerous to the nation. He acknowledged the truth of this, and that he had often thought of it before now: he again earnestly joined in prayer, confessed the articles of the Christian Faith, was recommended to the divine mercy and protection; and then having made a thankful acknowledgment of the services done for him, we parted, and he was consigned to eternity.
By virtue of the King's commission of the peace, and Oyer and Terminer, for the City of London, and at the general Sessions of gaol delivery of Newgate, holden for the City of London and County of Middlesex, at Justice Hall in the Old Bailey , before the Right Honourable Sir Matthew Blakiston, Knight, Lord Mayor ; Sir Richard Adams, Knight, one of the Barons of the Exchequer ; Sir Willi&am grave; Moreton, Knight, Recorder ; and others of his Majesty's Justices of Oyer and Terminer of the City of London, and Justices of gaol delivery, &c. on Thursday the 4th, Friday the 5th, and Saturday the 6th of December, 1760, in the first year of his Majesty's reign, John Smith was capitally convicted for a robbery on the highway.
And by virtue of his Majesty's Commission of the peace, and Oyer and Terminer for the said City and County, holden at Justice Hall in the Old Bailey , before the Right Honourable Sir Matthew Blakiston, Knight, Lord Mayor ; Sir Thomas Parker, Knight, Chief Baron of his Majesty's court of Exchequer ; Sir John Eardley Wilmot, Knight, one of the Judges of the Court of King's Bench ; the Honourable Henry Bathurst, Esq; one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas ; Sir William Moreton, Knight, Recorder ; and others of his Majesty's Justices of Oyer and Terminer of the City of London, and Justices of gaol delivery of Newgate, on Friday the 16th, Saturday the 17th, and Monday the 19th of January, 1761, in the first year of his Majesty's reign; John Irwine, for a robbery on the highway; Nicholas Campbell, for a forgery; and George Barber, for a forgery, were capitally convicted.
And on Wednesday the 28th of January, 1761, the report of the said four malefactors was made to his Majesty, and they were all ordered for execution on Monday the 2d of February, and then executed according to their sentence.
2. JOHN SMITH was indicted a second time, for that he on the King's highway, on Thomas Sherman did make an assault, putting him in corporal fear and danger of his life, and taking from his person one shilling, his property, and against his will, September 30.
From the trial it appears, that this charge was proved to the satisfaction of the court and jury, and he was found guilty.
When brought to the bar to receive sentence, being demanded what he had to say why sentence of death should not pass against him, he only begged that as he had served his Majesty 15 or 16 years, his life might be spared to serve him again, for that he had been but a few months on shore. To this no particular answer was made; but in the solemn admonition, and summing up of his guilt before sentence pronounced, he was reminded by the court that he had added a new crime on his trial to that for which he was to suffer, viz. the suborning a young woman of his acquaintance to swear falsely, that he had been with her from six till eleven o'clock in the evening during the time the robbery was committed; and therefore he had this to examine himself on, and severely repent of, as well as his other crimes; and also that there is sufficient reason to believe he was guilty of the first robbery he was indicted for, though acquitted, as much as of the last for which he was convicted; he was warned therefore not to flatter himself with the least hope of this life, but prepare himself for that eternal state to which he was now devoted, and must speedily be consigned.
Though it proved to be near two months before he was executed, and he was by the honourable court expressly recommended to my care, in a manner that might be expected to have made some impression upon him, yet he never could be prevailed on to come near our chapel from that day to the day of his death. Some other person or persons being constantly admitted to visit prisoners there, who seem to have more weight and influence with them, than either courts or clergy of our constitution as by law established. - How justly we may appeal to reason and scripture, and the laws founded thereon to determine.
As he had received sentence on Saturday night, I visited him on Sunday morning, when he professed himself to be (what he called) a Catholick, and therefore would not come up to chapel. To this he was answered, that we are of the true catholick church; he said he did not deny it. Why then do you refuse to hear and be instructed by us? You are committed to my special care, and it is intrusion and a transgression of the laws of the land for any other pretended guide to forbid you to hearken to my instruction, and accept of my
assistance, which I now make a tender of to you; and you are seriously to consider how you can answer the rejecting of it. He scarce staid to hear so much, and made no farther answer to what he did hear, but withdrew; and henceforth by absence, or in sullen silence, avoided the opportunities of converse with me.
In this temper he persisted, till one day having heard of my asking a few questions relating to him of one Clarke, a gardener, from Isleworth, one of his witnesses: he strutted up to me in the Press-yard, with a stern visage, and his hat cock'd, with an air of authority, demanding " what business I had to enquire any thing about him; " for that himself was the proper person to be " applied to, and he was able to answer me." But I found, by experience, that as he was not willing too, I must go without an answer.
It may be collected from his own witnesses brought to his character, that he was but a short time, and little known even to them; given to flit from place to place, as Isleworth, Brentford, Whitechapel, Gravesend, &c. And that though he pretended he was but a short time ashore, he had a lodging near a year ago in Dark's-alley, Whitechapel, and was also known at Brentford as long since.
His birth, parentage, and education, are involved in obscurity, or uncertainty at best; some asserting, on his own authority, that he was the son of a linen-draper, born in Cheapside; others are willing to give the honour of his birth to Ireland, and that Smith was but an assumed name. By his own account he could not be much less than 35 or 36 years of age; he was a robust well-built man, of a temper sturdy and resolute, capable of being much better employed for the benefit and protection of society, had he been equally well inclined, or happy in his applications and attainments.
It is said he had served both in the army and navy , at home and abroad, for near 16 years; in the former he was in the dragoons in England, and a Lieutenant in the province of New York: but by what vicissitudes and temptations he became an adventurer on the highway, as he was not communicative enough to explain, must for the present remain a secret.
Few or no words passed between us during a month, till the day after the death warrant was come, seeing him walk in the Press-yard, I advised him to make good use of his time, and acknowledge the justice of his sentence. As to the former, he said, he made the best use of his time he could, but did not explain in what manner; and as to the latter he was sensible, he confessed, of the consequence of telling a lie at this time; and he never would own that he had robbed the man of that shilling for which he was cast. " If " said he," " I had been cast on the former trial " for the watch, &c. I would not now deny it;" but that he would deny this robbery to his last breath. Mean time, whoever looks into the trial, may see that nothing can be more positively proved, if we believe the evidence; and against which there is no ground of suspicion.
3. GEORGE BARBER was indicted, for that he having in his custody a bill of exchange, with the name John Sharp thereunto subscribed; purporting to bear date the 2d of November, 1760, at Manchester, directed to Mr. Rigby, merchant , in Gracechurch-street, for the payment of 50l. and that he on the 5th of December did make, forge, and counterfeit, and caused to be made, forged, and counterfeited, and readily acted therein, a certain order by the name of John Rigby thereunto subscribed, to Messrs. Honeywood, Fuller and co. for the payment of the said 50 l. contained in the said bill; and for publishing the said order, well knowing it to have been forged.
Besides the ignominious death to which this crime of forgery is exposed; and that it is acting counter to every moral and religious principle with which the mind of man is imbued, both in his early education, and progress through life, in a fair trading nation; the malignity and sting of this transgression is strongly touched and described in the matter and form of this indictment, as may be better seen by an attentive review of the parts and clauses of which it consists.
The trial gives the rise and progress of the detection of this rash deed, for which the delinquent has paid so dear. When he first appeared at chapel, after commitment, his behaviour was so humble, attentive, and becoming his sad situation, so much better than the common criminals who come there, that he at once excited my compassion and attention, to give him what assistance and consolation my duty, not more than my inclination demanded of me.
He was committed to Newgate on Saturday Dec. 6, being the last day of sessions. When asked the next day, after service, what are you charged with? He answered with forgery. As I talked to him in general terms of this crime, without demanding of him particularly whether he was guilty or not; he interrupted me, and said, " I am guilty to be sure." You would not,
I presume, say so now, but that you are aware it can be proved against you; he answered, " I apprehend it can." You have the more need to quicken your pace in your repentance and returning to your duty; and may God assist you.
He had a Common Prayer Book, with a Testament and Companion to the Altar bound up with it, in his hand, which he said he now made use of daily. Happy were it for you, applying myself to him, had you made a right use of these good books before you fell into these sad circumstances! his tears gushed out afresh at this, and he earnestly wished it had been so with him. He acknowledged he had been too fond of going to plays, which betrayed him into other irregularities, and debts, which led him into his present crime, of which he wished again and again he had thought better of the sad event; promised, however, to prepare for a change, which he hoped would be for the better: though he seemed to have some glimmering hope to escape death for this crime. Being particularly asked, he said there was a time when he used regularly to attend the service of the church of England, in which he was educated while he lived in the country, but owned he had neglected his duty, in this respect, since he came to London; expressing, at the same time, an hearty sorrow for this omission, and promising his constant attendance on the duties of the chapel for the future, and that he should be always glad to be called on and admitted; the rather, as his fellow prisoners in the same ward generally behaved in a manner very unbecoming their circumstances, rioting, drinking to excess, swearing, card-playing, and promiscuous company; which could not be very favourable to serious purposes. And this, perhaps, is one of the heaviest afflictions of a gaol, that the penitent and well-intentioned are out-numbered and overborne by the hardened wicked ones, who will not suffer them to be well employed if they would.
To prevent which, some gentlemen of experience have observed, that, in well-planned prisons abroad, the prisoners are all kept separate, so as to have time for reflection, and redeeming the time; by which means the evil and impenitent cannot corrupt nor disturb those who are not so abandoned as themselves.
And thus they actually are kept in general with us, after conviction; but in capital cases only; except by express order from Authority. And perhaps it would be difficult to assign a good reason why they are not kept apart in most, or all cases; as several of them, who can pay for a room, really are.
Barber had proper books and instructions given him, which he made good use of, and duly attended divine service: he now began to wish and hope to be admitted to the Holy Communion, on which occasion he was reminded of making Restitution to all injured parties to the utmost of his power. Being asked if he had received the cash on the forged bill, he said no. - That they discovered it to be forged before it was paid; and therefore the contrary report mentioned in the news-papers, was false. It was now added, happy is it for you, that you have not received and mispent a sum which you are in no capacity to make restitution for, tho' your intention is never the less criminal; to this he assented. He was farther reminded to look on himself as a dead man from the hour this fact was known to be designed and attempted, and the interval as a time of patience and forbearance; which the divine mercy, as well as the happy lenity and justice of our laws afforded criminals, in order to sue for peace and reconciliation with Heaven, which I hoped and constantly prayed he might faithfully employ for that purpose: he answered that he was sensible of his great iniquity in this design, but that he had done, and would continue to do his utmost to repent. He had been confirmed, but never was a communicant.
In discoursing to him on the design of God in correcting sinners, he was asked, whether he had not reason to believe, that, if he had gone on and prospered in his wickedness, it must have tended to harden him against repentance, and bring him to utter ruin? He answered, he was convinced of it, and truly sensible of the divine good-will and gracious purpose in chastising all sinners, himself in particular, to bring them to repentance and salvation, and should endeavour to fall in with his merciful design, and draw this precious benefit from it.
To give one proof of his repentance, as public as his crime is now made, and to prevent the misrepresentations of ignorance or ill design, he was prevailed on, though with some difficulty, to write the following brief account of himself.
" I was born at Rotherham in Yorkshire, of very reputable parents, my father was an apothecary, and was possessed of an estate of 300l. per annum, but he died in my infancy; and soon after his death I was sent to an uncle and aunt, with whom I lived for the space of twenty-five years; during which time they brought me up with as much tenderness and compassion as if they had been my father and mother, and gave me a very liberal education, and brought me up in
their own business, which was a dry-salter , and at proper times sent me to school till the age of eighteen years, for which care and tenderness over me, I gave them the following recompence, which I pray God may be a warning to all young men, not to be disobedient to their parents, which has brought me to this untimely and ignominious death; had I followed their precious directions, and been obedient to their commands I might have been a great man in the eyes of this world: but instead of that, I gave myself over too much to my own sinful and corrupt ways, in keeping loose, idle, and profane company, and giving ear to their wicked ways, which caused me to yield to all my inclinations in the pleasures of this world, and in staying out by whole nights, in the sinful enjoyments of them; and alas! too often was I the orderer of them, but especially in dancings, and music-meetings, not regarding the cost I was at, nor thinking how I came by the money, as I had liberty to go to it at any time, by having part of the business committed to my care.
At the age of 27 years I came to London, and got a very good place, in which I was about three quarters of a year, during which time I might have greatly improved myself had not my evil thoughts had too much power over me, and thereby tempted me to commit those great and heinous crimes which have brought me to this untimely end. I pray that this my miserable and untimely fall may be a warning to all young men, not to follow my unhappy steps, in being disobedient to their parents; in despising their counsels and rejecting their advice; for it is written, they shall not live out half their days; and further, the eye that mocketh at his father, and despiseth to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.
After the day of his execution was fixt and known, being particularly questioned about his inward state, he said, he found hope and consolation in his prayers more than ever, and was wonderfully supported, even under this heavy and trying stroke of the death-warrant. He spent a great part of his nights in prayer, and in the day-time attended the chapel, which he seldom or never missed, and behaved well. On Saturday January 31, he was admitted to the Holy Communion.
4. JOHN IRWINE, (or Urwin) was indicted, for that he, on the King's highway, on John Jay did make an assault, putting him in corporal fear and danger of his life, and taking from his person 1s. 6d. his property, Dec. 22.
It must be owned this poor old Soldier, by his protestations of innocence, and that he had no design to rob, but to beg, greatly moved my compassion, and had almost induced me to believe he was wronged by the witnesses swearing too hard against him; however, this I did not let him know, but objected to him the concurrence of two witnesses (strangers, who casually met on this occasion) to this fact of his, and endeavoured to persuade him on all occasions and by every motive, to be true and sincere in his confession and repentance, considering the extreme danger of playing the hypocrite in his last stage and scene of life. And yet, alas! there is but too much reason to suspect that he suppressed or disguised some part of the truth even to his last. At his Leisure, he wrote the following account of himself, and gave it me with his own hand; which the reader is desired to accept of and excuse, uncorrected and unfinished, as the sudden issuing of the death-warrant, and a more necessary care obliged him to leave it.
Newgate, Jan. 23, 1761.
The true life and character of John Irwine, born at Taunton in Somersetshire, of very worthy, honest parents. His father died in the year 1715, and left a plentiful estate behind him to his family, near 200 l. per annum, besides some thousands in book-debts and ready cash: he left me in the full trade of a wholesale linen-draper ; but I bing then but fifteen years old, full young to take such a charge of business in hand; however, I went on too fast as most young men do. I soon married a wife, a gentleman's daughter of 700 l. a year, of the same county, who gave me a tolerable fortune with her. I had by her four children: one is now a serjeant in the Hon. Col. Irwine's Regiment, now abroad; the other three died, and my wife died also. I followed on my business for some time; but people breaking in my debt, at length occasioned me to do the like. Then I went to Boston in New England, after one Blackstock, who owed me 170 l. at which place I met him; who paid me every penny, and gave me what credit I required, and more. I then bought a vessel, about 200 tons, loaded her, and came to London, and sold her and Cargo, which was pitch, tar, rum and rice, and some barrel staves, went over again, and, as a trading gentleman, traded to and fro for some years; and once in my passage, being then from Bristol to Boston, lay to a little, for my own diversion, to catch a few cod, which is usual with most shipping when we cross the banks of Newfoundland.
While I was below eating some cod sounds, which is the hard and soft roes, one of my men called down, and said, 'Sir, come up, for here ' is something hard by you won't like? I then went upon deck, and saw two sloops making towards us, and seeing the black flag at their topmast-head flying, took them to be what they really were, Pyrates: one was commanded by Capt. Low, a Westminster man born, as I was informed by one Dr. Kencade, a surgeon, whom they had forced on board them sore against his will. However, he was admitted a king's evidence, and those who he impeach'd as to heinous crimes were condemned to die, to the number of thirty-eight. The other sloop, while we boarded Low, made the best of her way, and got off. He went by the name and title of Capt. Lowther. I then made the best of my way I could to Boston, and made a report of my passage to the then governor, who immediately gave orders to Capt. Peter Soleguard, then commander of the Greyhound man of war, to go with my direction to seek after them. The commanders of most of the vessels then in Boston harbour went as volunteers with us towards the banks, where I left them: we had not been long there before we espied them both, and they the day before took a Bristol vessel, and then having intoxicated themselves with Bristol beer, came headlong without thought up to the Greyhound, and soon found their mistake; for, after two or three broadsides, we boarded them, and bound them secure, carried them into Rhode-island; there they were tried, and 38, as I mentioned before, were executed at Newport. Then I came home again to England in a vessel of my own, and as I lay in Shadwell dock to be cleared, my creditors hearing of it, came and seized her as their property. Then for farther shelter, as I then thought, entered in the foot-guards, and continued in that station until the year 1744, at which time my Colonel gave me Chelsea hospital, the out-pension; but war breaking out with France, my Colonel gave a good recommendation to the Lords of the Admiralty, who gave me a warrant to go master at arms of the Pearl man of war, Capt. F - g then commander, where I staid Capt. F - g's time, about twelve months or something more, without any success, he being a peaceable Captain. Then Capt. H - k had the command of the Pearl, another peaceable captain, who loved Women more than fighting: For once as the Pearl lay at Anchor, and bumboats plying, as is customary in those places, I speaking to the woman that belonged to the boat for half an anchor of brandy, and ordered her to come down to my cabin, and would pay her for it. She complied with my request, and Capt. H - k being on the quarter-deck, took notice of our freedom one with the other; called me on the quarter-deck, and said, ' master at ' arms, you seem to have some influence with ' that woman; conduct her down to my cabbin, ' and I will order a bottle of wine on the table ' for you, and I will fall in by accident.' But my answer was, ' I came not for that purpose; I ' came to fight the enemy.' These words nettled Capt. H - k, he running the day before from a vessel of smaller force, which he took to be French; but when we came into the river Humber in Yorkshire, it proved to be one of our own ships, and the two captains went ashore to drink together, and make up the mistake. However, I sent a letter to the Lords of the Admiralty to acquaint them with his ill conduct. Soon after a letter came from the Lords of the Admiralty, with a severe check to him, with orders for him to go convoy to the East Indies! as soon as he had received his orders, he called me upon deck, and said, 'You have sent to the admiralty, have ' you not, you rascal?' with many other opprobrious words, mixt with some blows, and saying, ' You shall not live much longer,' put me in irons, and we were under sail for the East Indies, and got some way to the eastward, when there was a boat espied coming after us from admiral Vernon, who hoisted a signal at the masthead for us to shorten sail, which Capt. H - k did until they came alongside, with orders for the master at arms from the admiralty immediately to be sent on board the Admiral's ship to be tried by a court-martial; but when I came on board the Admiral, a close examination I went thro', and was very much commended for my behaviour, and gave me a warrant for another 40 gun ship, the Ambuscade, without any trial, saying, ' My captain deserved to be tried more ' than me.' Soon after I was turned over to the Norwich, a 74 gun ship. I tarried - Here his narrative broke off.
He mentioned to me, that while he used the New England trade, he was once cast away in Milfordhaven in a hurricane of wind, the day after he sailed from Cork for Bristol, by which he lost the value of 1500 l. in one night, and the greater part of the ship's crew, only 10 out of 25 being saved.
His behaviour, for the short time he was under my care, was apparently regular and serious; he often declared to me, that he made the best use he could of the books which I lent him, and the daily exhortations and openings of the scriptures directed to him; that he prayed earnestly day and night for the pardon of all his sins; and about three nights before his death, he felt an unusual joy and comfort, which filled his soul, and gave him a foretaste of final peace and reconciliation. This same remarkable thing he repeated to his friend and townsman, who visited him, and reported it to me after his death. He appeared calm and undismayed at the news of the death-warrant, and so continued to the last.
5. NICHOLAS CAMPBELL, was indicted for feloniously and falsely making, forging and counterfeiting, and causing and procuring, and willingly acting and assisting, in making a certain promissory note, for the payment of 1350 l. with the name of Joseph Pearson thereunto subscribed; purporting to be signed by the said Joseph, Jan. 19, 1758; and for publishing the same, well knowing it to have been forged, with intent to defraud the said Joseph, &c.
Several strong outlines of the prisoner's character and behaviour were collected from his trial and otherwise; such as that he was a pensioner at Chelsea seventeen or eighteen years ago; that from keeping a chandler's shop there, he had found means to raise himself by degrees to an usurer of the first rank, in a place lately so infamous for living on the blood of those veterans; by this he had acquired wealth enough to purchase some estates and houses; one or two of which situate near his own dwelling, a public house in Wilderness-row, he set up to sale by auction some time in July last. The prosecutor being at the sale, and inclined to purchase one of the houses, got an acquaintanee to bid for him; but being out-bid, it did not fall to his lot. Some time after the prisoner acquainted the prosecutor that he might have the house at the price he had bid for it; and on this condition got him to lend, or advance, at different times, the sum of 74l. 10s. for which Campbell gave his note of hand, till the writings and house should be made over to the purchaser, and the residue paid. But it appears Campbell meant no such thing, only to defraud Mr. Pearson of the sum advanced; for which purpose, at one of those meetings which these two had on this business, Campbell did fraudulently and feloniously burn the said note of 74l. 10s. and wrote another of only 7l. 10s. in the place of it; while he asserted, before witness, that he owed him no more than 5l. This assertion, (with others of the like kind) implied a confession of his being in Mr. Pearson's debt, and helped to prove, that the forged note in question, of 1350l. did not then exist, about the 16th of December last, tho' dated near two years before, as in the indictment.
It appears also, that the prisoner had locked up the prosecutor in a room with him at a publick house in Tufton-street, Westminster, and threatened his life, in order to deter him from doing himself justice against this insidious invader of his property, character, and life. In two days after, Campbell had taken out a writ, and actually arrested Mr. Pearson on this forged note, having made affidavit that it was a real debt, as he often asserted to me after his conviction, and that he had lent Mr. Pearson the whole sum.
But in this whole affair he seems bereaved and forsaken of common sense, and given over to the Grand Deceiver to over-reach and deceive himself, the very note in question carrying the marks of a forgery on the face of it; being such, as to the writing of the body of the note with the supposed lender's own hand, and the manner and place of signing on the left side of the paper, as no man so long practised in lending money, and taking securities, could be supposed capable of accepting for so large a sum.
It is therefore justly believed that Campbell intended this also as a farther motive to deter Mr. Pearson from a prosecution for destroying his note of 74l. 10s. aforesaid.
It farther appeared, that the prosecutor and the prisoner had no mutual intercourse or acquaintance till a year and half after the date of said note in question.
After an impartial, candid, and patient trial of five or six hours, from before twelve at noon till after five, he was brought in guilty by the jury without hesitation.
Here the plan of his defence, which seems to have been entirely of his own framing, on an imaginary acquaintance between the prosecutor and himself, from the year 1756, and his lending him the several sums of 800l. 400l. and 150l. at different times and places, and the plausible harangue which he pronounced at the bar, not being supported by the witnesses which he had prepared and tutored, but were somewhat disconcerted by a separate examination in court, this plan failed him, and he found himself under the new odium of subornation of perjury, which added greatly to the horror of the charge of
forgery and felony, in the minds of others at least, however sear'd and insensible he carried himself. For it must be confessed that throughout his trial, he even overacted the courage of a fixed integrity: he appeared well-dressed in his regimentals of the Middlesex Militia , of which he stied himself Lieutenant and Adjutant, and behaved with a soldierly resolution worthy of a better cause.
In speaking his defence he advanced and fell back alternately with a graceful military step (which, when convicted, brought to mind a little simile of Shakespear.)
- " like a poor player
" that struts and frets his hour upon the stage
" and is no more." -
together with that more serious observation of a far higher authority. Man walketh in a vain shadow, and disquieteth himself in vain, he heapeth up riches, and cannot tell who shall gather them.
But his intermixing some ill-grounded and scandalous aspersions against his prosecutor, and uttering a most dreadful imprecation on himself, that he might never obtain mercy if he did not speak the truth, gave too much cause to fear that he should die under a judicial hardness of heart; and to confirm the report, that he had long practised, the dreadful trade of forging certificates of the lives of pensioners who were actually deceased, supporting such certificates with false affidavits and defrauding the Government. But now it happened that in the net which he hid privily for another, his own foot was taken.
On Sunday morning Jan. 18, the day intervening between his trial and sentence, when visited, he demanded of me with sufficient assurance before several prisoners, whether I did not think on the trial that he must be acquitted? to evade giving him a shocking answer, he was told, " I had various thoughts which I could not now recollect or explain." He then added with seeming hopes, that " he must prepare a petition to the King" - on which he was earnestly advised to prefer his petition to the King of Kings; for to speak sincerely to him without reserve or flattery, such was his case, that there must be his only hope. He, with the other convicts, had a proper exhortation applied to them with prayers for persons under Sentence, tending to excite them to lay hold on this precious opportunity of repentance. At the same time the Psalms of the day, Psalm 90, 91, 92. were brieflly opened and applied, together with the lessons, Gen. i.v.26,27. And God said, let us make man in our own image, after our likeness. So God created man in his own image. And St. Matthew xvi. particularly v. 25, - 27. Whosoever will save his life, shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake, shall find it. v. 26. For what is a man profited if he shall gain the whole world and loose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul? 27. For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his father with his angels; and then he shall reward every man according to his works.
It was pressed on them to consider the vanity and uncertainty of this life, the value and duration of a future state; the immortality of the soul, as being the image of God's eternity; and the alternative necessity of being either transformed to his likeness by renewing their minds to his holy will: or being wretched for ever. Chiefly the necessity of truth and sincerity, in order to be entitled to the least hope of divine mercy and favour.
Campbell did not seem to relish these applications at present; and the rather, as he had seldom or never come near the chapel before his trial, but generally made an excuse of company or business for absenting himself. In the like indifference he went on for two or three days after his sentence, saying he was able to instruct himself: however he came up in prayer time on the 23d of January, and in speaking to the prisoners I took an opportunity of laying home to them the danger and absurdity of dissembling with God; lent him also a Compassionate Address to Prisoners, which he promised to read, and make good use of. Next day, the twenty-fourth, he attended divine service more readily than usual, and then told me with seeming seriousness, that he had spent the night before in reading over the book I had lent him which he found very good and seasonable; and hoped it would prove a blessing to him. He continued to come to chapel daily, but not without being sent for by me to his cell, into which he was put since his conviction, instead of a room he was indulged with before that. In each of them he was daily visited and closely attended by a likely young woman whom he and the rest of the prisoners called his wife; but was the same whom his son, and the mother of his children, being his supposed wife mentioned to me under an opprobious name, the former having told me in plain terms she was his father's w - re; and the latter asserting she had been her servant. Soon after this, as I daily exhorted him to acknowledge the justice of his sentence, both openly and privately, it was added that my wish, my duty, and earnest solicitude to endeavour that he should be presented faultless before that last and awful Tribunal, where he and all must appear,
obliged me to mention any thing in his conduct, that might be a bar to his happiness, or an offence to others; and therefore I must say, that it would appear more becoming, that his wife should attend him in his present circumstances, than any other woman: he answered short, " that was to himself," adding several expressions of regard and acknowledgment for the kind behaviour of this young woman; and that he had left her something as a reward of her services.
Again he was told, that whatever his offences had been, and whatever steps he had taken to cover and conceal them, all these were pardonable, and might be imputed to human frailty, and the fatal blindness which the passions indulged cast over the human mind, if he would even now retract and confess his criminal proceedings. His answer at first appeared ambiguous; that, by what he had learned and could collect from the scriptures by his own observation, to confess his guilt now, would be to make bad worse; - after a pause, he added, supposing he were not guilty. He then persisted to utter the most solemn protestations of his innocence, as he usually did, and that he was wronged; that Mr. Pearson, had all the money for the note of 1350l. that it was defaced in that suspicious manner, in which it appeared to the court, by some other hand, after he had delivered it up to the care of the magistrate; that if he had 40,000 lives at stake, he would persist in this assertion to the last breath, and lay his all upon the truth of it. He was then reminded that an eternal life infinitely more valuable than a million of temporal lives was actually staked on the truth or falsehood of his repentance.
January 28th Mr. Campbell being called from his cell, to attend the chapel on the first sad morning after the death-warrant was made known, came down attended by his young son, and his favourite hand-maid, with his usual countenance, rather chearful than otherwise.
In both services of the day opportunities were taken to lay before these sons of death, from the proper scriptures chosen for this trying occasion, the necessity of coming duly prepared to the Christian passover, not with the old leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. And from Psalm 32. v. 1, 2, - to v. 6. it was proved to them that the blessing of the forgiveness of sins is plainly limited to the spirit without guile, and the tongue that confesseth its sin, and acknowledgeth the divine justice.
Campbell still persisted to give proofs of a close and impenetrable secrecy, not only as to his crimes, but every particular relating to his birth, life, and character, which he could conceal, cautious to evade any questions on these heads; saying he would have no books wrote about him after his death; when it was answered him that he could not avoid it, for his trial was already published in part, he made light of that. And it now appears that all his vigilance and caution was eluded, since he could not prevent a spurious account of Nicholas Campbell: nor the more vociferous last and true dying speeches of the Grubean Heralds from ecchoing his odoriferous same before he was well cold.
He little considered that his name must be transmitted to futurity, in more records than those of Justice-hall and Chelsea-college.
And if a little folly taints a name that is famous for wisdom; what effect must a great degree of it have on the very different character of craft and subtilty?
Tho' he did not confess his injuries against his prosecutor or others, he affected to declare he forgave and prayed for them, though they had unjustly taken his life: he added, his hearty thanks and prayers in return for the pains bestowed on him, and the care taken of him by me, and did me the honour to acknowledge, that tho' he was acquainted with the clergy of all persuasions, in the course of his life both at home and abroad, he knew none capable of doing him more service, &c. The recital of this testimony from him will not I hope be imputed to pride and vain-glory, when it is added, that I am persuaded no clergy or other man could be of any service to him without the superior assistance of divine grace with his own endeavours. My earnest prayers therefore were again and again offered up, that my poor labours might be blessed to him, and be instrumental to his salvation; he in return thanked and prayed for me with a countenance full of acknowledgments; while I assured him that the only authentic and acceptable commendation he could give to my endeavours would be to hearken, obey, and be wise for himself.
Tho' he strenuously concealed his parentage, he said he was a native of North Britain, that he was allied to a noble Earl of that country, and to another of Ireland, to whom he said his mother was nearly related, and was half sister to the late Governor Kane of Minorca. His con
versation of this kind tended to shew that he highly valued himself on the reputation of family and wealth, and that he was intitled to a personal inheritance at Carrickfergus by his father, who had sold it before he attained the age of 18 years, and therefore the sale was void, and he would attempt to recover it by law, were he to live. When he mentioned Carrickfergus, I said, you are of that country perhaps? he said, no.
He spent many words (not very clear and consistent) to explain away his guilt, and assert his innocence to all that saw or visited him; to an officer whom he familiarly saluted by the name of Major, he declared they might as justly prosecute and put him to death.
When he came from his cell January 29, with his female favourite, who was going to chapel with him, he took me by the hand with a chearful freedom, saying he had read thro' half the book which I had lent him, viz. (Bishop Wilson's introduction to the Holy Communion) but that he was acquainted with that subject before, having been a communicant on other occasions.
From others about the same time I heard a very bad account of him, that he had several women whom he called his wives, that the elderly woman who is the mother of his children, has another husband with whom she lives, having got all she could from Campbell who made what he had, by usury, &c. The runners who tended him, said they never saw him open a book; and on enquiring of his young woman whether she read to him, or assisted him in his preparation for death, as I observed a prayer-book in her hand, she seemed to blush and hang her head, and only answered, " she did nothing to hinder him."
In the forenoon of January 30, he was visited by that elderly matron-like woman, whom he acknowledged to be Mrs. Campbell; for when I still doubted of his innocence, he took out a letter, and said, here is a proof of it. How so? this is my last letter to Mrs. Campbell my wife, asserting my innocence as a dying man: and can you believe I would tell a lie on that occasion? I answered I hope not; but let that be your care. When he went on to talk in the same strain as he did in his defence at his trial, adding other circumstances to induce belief, he was advised by me to commit his vindication to writing, his answer was, that his son had waited on his R - H - the D. of Y - k, and the E. of H - ss, with a petition; setting forth these facts. That they were before made known also to Col. C - ke whose interest in his favour had been interrupted by the other M - b - r for the county of M - d - x in regard to the prosecutor. As I still expressed my doubts, adding that it would avail him nothing, though he could persuade me to believe him innocent; he then gave a plain hint of his drift in this scheme of gaining my belief of his innocence, by wishing he had some one that would fairly represent his case to his Majesty, looking wistfully toward me. My answer was, it is impossible for me to be of any use to you in that way, for many reasons.
However he went on the next day January 31, in the like way of talking, altho' it was the appointed day for administering the Holy Sacrament to the prisoners; to all which plausible pretences, this plain answer was given him, that I most heartily wished that the evidence which appeared against him on the trial, could permit me to believe him innocent; as it could not, I did not think myself at liberty to admit him to the Holy Communion, till I could find him in a better disposition to confess his guilt, which I prayed God to give him. He asked me again, as he had on several such occasions, would I advise him to tell a lie? no by no means. But your conduct in other respects has been exceptionable and dark. He answered in general terms, that he had lived a moral life, and was a good man, paid every one their due, and had been kind to the clergy of his parish, where he lived in credit, and like a gentleman for 17 or 18 years; but I might do as I pleased. I then assured him it was a very great grief to me, to be obliged to repell him for such a reason, and on this occasion. He went away much chagrined, and continued to say that if he should live a thousand years he would assert his innocence to the last. It seemed best therefore to say little more to him on this subject. He came up to morning and evening service on the next day, being Sunday; sometime after each was begun, was visited by his wife and son, to whom I complained (in hopes they might help to influence him) of the absurdity and danger of of his persisting to assert his innocence, when no one did or could believe him. She answered, he was a man of sense and knowledge, and should best know how to judge for himself, as he only was conscious whether he was guilty or not.
One serious observation drawn from this account, will it is hoped, be excused, and kindly
accepted by the public, as it follows naturally from the subject, and is of the highest consequence to all mankind.
How just, how proper, how necessary is the latter part of that conditional form of Absolution, which is pronounced in the daily morning and evening prayers of our church, to all them that truly repent and unfeignedly believe God's holy gospel. Wherefore let us beseech him to grant us true repentance and his holy spirit, &c. Since without this divine grant all human means and labours are lost and vain.
It was not mentioned in the proper place that two or three days before Mr. Campbell suffered, he came up to me with seeming joy, and said he had agreeable news to tell me. What is that I pray you? Why, that I am as willing to die as to live. I answered, I hope you are on a good foundation.
The Morning of EXECUTION.
Barber and Irwine came down from their cells soon after I went in to visit them.
Barber said he was easy and resigned, had been in bed three or four hours, and spent the rest of the night in prayer, in which he found great comfort and hope.
Irwine being asked what was the effect of his petition? answered, he believed, it went too late, but he was resigned to Death; tho' he still asserted his innocence, both now, at the communion, and at the place of execution; where I reminded him, that he was now in Sight of the place where the fact was committed, and bid him recollect whether he had not used threats and violence to the Prosecutor? He declared he had not, nor had no more thoughts of robbing him, than he had of robbing me that moment, his hands and neck being then tied up; and he added, God forbid I should tell a lie now! this was but a few minutes before he was turned off.
He and Barber had joined in the prayers, and received the holy Sacrament in the chapel this morning with Devotion; Campbell, also came up to chapel after them, when I again exhorted and besought him in the tenderest terms, and most earnest manner, by all his hopes of mercy to acknowledge his guilt, and not compel me to refuse him the blessed means of pardon, and peace, of grace and consolation.
He still withstood all instances and intreaties, continuing to assert his innocence, endeavouring several times to confirm what he said, with the evidence of one Barlow, who appeared for him on his trial, and (as he represented it) proved the sending of 800l. to the prosecutor; this I denied on my best remembrance; because, tho' he might have casually seen a note for that sum in Campbell's hands, he was not present either at paying the cash, signing the note, nor did he seem to know the Prosecutor, or his hand writing.
As Mr. Campbell could not be persuaded to give any proofs of a sincere repentance of this crime, of which the evidence appeared to me so strong in many views, I concluded not to admit him.
He persisted in the same temper and assertions at the place of execution, answering my Questions with another: what do you think I came here to tell a lie? He had a New Testament in his hand, in which he was then reading, and had read with his head uncovered, in his way from the prison to the place of execution. I told him that book in his hand was full against him, if he did not confess his guilt; sure you will not, you do not deny it to the last! don't I said he, with some emotion, but I do. When I urged him yet more, he put his book up to his mouth and spoke more faintly, as if he would suppress his words from the hearing of others, and desired I would ask him no more, but pray for him. He seemed to attend to, and join in our prayers, and to have some secret reserved opinion in his breast, that he could make his peace with God (as he often declared he had) without acknowledging even this open and notorious guilt, or the justice of his sentence; but on the contrary denying it. This I had often warned him was inconsistent, but he did not seem convinced; he readily owned in general that he was a great sinner, but not in this particular; he resented his rejection from the sacrament this morning by a palpable fals-hood in saying, that had I let him have known it before, he would have provided another clergyman to administer to him; whereas I had not only refused him on Saturday, for the very same impediment which still subsisted, but also
warned him that this confession of the justice of his sentence was a requisite condition from him, and in his case, as a proof of his repentance, from my first application to him after his conviction; but which he never complied with to his last breath: concerning which every reader will form his own opinion about the true reasons of his conduct.
As to Irwine, his case appeared to me quite different.
He did not deny the fact of having received 18d. from the prosecutor; but said he had begged, and received it as an act of charity, because he had lost and spent his pay; this was not improbable, or at worst, was a matter in which there might be a mistake or misrepresentation on either side, of which it was not in my power to arrive at a moral certainty, as in the case of Campbell. Poor Barber, when I said to him, You have acknowledged your guilt, answered, " I have, and guilty I am." He shewed a steady seriousness, attention, and hope. When I spoke to Smith to join in prayer with us, and to acknowledge the justice of his sentence, he kept repeating his own prayers for some time, and at last desired I would ask him no questions.
They set out from the prison about nine; Irwin and Barber in the first cart; Campbell and Smith in the second. In an hour after they came to the place of execution; and, having spent half an hour or more in prayer, and recommending their souls to God, we parted about a quarter before Eleven: three of them returned thanks for the good offices done them, and all four were quickly after turned off.
They were attended by a vast crowd of foot, horse, and coaches, most of whom behaved with a becoming seriousness. Campbell seemed to cast his eyes around him with too little concern or attention to the moment of his last change.
This is all the account given by
Ordinary of Newgate.


text:
Paulina Rubio
"I like to be glamorous so I love the clothing and the big entrances. It needs to be spectacular!" -Paulina Rubio, on her live performances
Paulina is one of the most popular and famous Latin music singers in the world. Her English language debut single "Don't Say Goodbye" is a chart topper, and follows her enormous success in Latin music, as she has sold millions of albums, and had Billboard's Latin Album of the Year for 2001.
The Miami Herald even wrote, "[she has] an ability to blend up-front sensuality with feminist messages and a sense of independence, makes her appealing to both sexes."
As if the sport-obsessed sex really enjoys Paulina for her feminist messages. You might as well add that men love wrestling because it signifies the epic battle between the forces of good and evil.
What's really incredible is that she has 23 albums under her belt (most done with teenybopper super-group Timbiriche), and a soap opera career as impressive (if short) as Salma Hayek's. She has sold over 5 million albums worldwide, and continues to sell-out concerts whenever she performs in the countries with her most ardent fans like Mexico, Brazil, Italy, and Spain.
Though she isn't a household name stateside outside of Southern California and Southern Florida, she is likely to have as much impact of "I am Heeeeere" Shakira.
Paulina Rubio BiographyPaulina Rubio Dosamantes was born June 17, 1971, in Mexico City, Mexico, and raised in her native Mexico, as well as Los Angeles and Spain. Being the daughter of famous Mexican actress, Susana Dosamantes, Paulina was exposed to several countries and cultures while growing up, as her celebrity mother's career required a lot of traveling.
By the time she was 7 years old, Paulina knew she wanted to pursue a singing career, and attended a prestigious performing arts school to study singing and dancing, El Centro de Capacitacion de Televisa. Her training proved to be worth it when she was selected as one of the members of the '80s teen pop sensation, Timbiriche. Her work with the Mexican pop group made Paulina a star, along with fellow member, Thalia.
golden girl was ready to shine
Although her career was on a high with Timbiriche, Paulina made time to take private jazz, singing and phonetic studies in LA, in addition to the group rehearsals. Already a veritable star in Mexico thanks to her involvement with Timbiriche from 1982 to 1991, she decided to pursue a solo career and branch out on her own.
To the surprise of many, Paulina's debut solo album, La Chica Dorada, which was recorded in Spain, spawned number one singles such as "Mio" and "Amor De Mujer," and went platinum in 1993.
Proving her first solo try was no fluke, her second album, 24 Kilates was certified gold and spawned the hits "Nieva, Nieva" and "Asunto De Doas." In addition to continued success with albums like 1995's El Tiempo es Oro and 1996's Planeta Paulina, Paulina expanded her repertoire by dipping her talented toes into acting.
Her foray into acting included successful turns in the popular soap operas, Pasion y poder and Pobre Niña Rica, and she hit the big screen in the 1994 film, Besame an la boca. Paulina's energetic personality and flare for performing were also evident when she was cast as the host of the Spanish variety show, Viva El Verano, in which she sang and acted.
welcome to planet paulina
Already known to Spanish audiences as "The Golden Girl," Paulina's self-titled album had international appeal, and received a lot of critical praise. The Mexican beauty described her next album Paulina as a fusion of pop, funk, jazz, techno, folk, and Latin, and something she poured her heart into during the two years it took to make. Considered by many her best album to date, Paulina sold more than 3 million copies and was named Billboard's #1 Latin Album of 2001.
Sitting atop "Planet Paulina" with 2001 Univision Awards for Best Female Pop Artist and Best Album, three 2001 Latin Grammy Award nominations, and four Top 10 singles on the US Latin Radio Chart off Paulina, her first English album is set for release June 18, 2002.
crossing borders
With the first single off Border Girl, "Don't Say Goodbye," already on the airwaves, Paulina Rubio is sure to become a sensation with worldwide appeal. Border Girl features four new Spanish tracks in addition to English singles like "Stereo," "Sexual Lover" and the KISS remake, "I Was Made For Lovin' You."
Along with the acclaim and popularity she is sure to garner with her dance-infused pop tracks, Paulina also amazes audiences and fans with her energetic live performances.


text:
At the 2009 NAB Show, Blackmagic Design showed three new video capture cards — the DeckLink HD Extreme, DeckLink Studio and DeckLink SDI.
The DeckLink HD Extreme capture card features SDI, HDMI and analog component, NTSC, PAL and S-Video capture and playback, combined with dual link 3Gb/s SDI technology and hardware downconversion. With SDI, HDMI and analog video capture and playback, combined with both balanced analog and AES/EBU digital audio, DeckLink HD Extreme lets users connect to all decks, cameras and monitors.
DeckLink HD Extreme instantly switches between SD and HD video, making it ideal for post production and broadcast users when working on design, editing, paint and effects tasks. With built-in 3Gb/s SDI, the card can also instantly switch to full resolution 2K feature film editing. DeckLink HD Extreme includes a built-in hardware downconverter so users can monitor both SD and HD at the same time during playback and capture.
DeckLink Studio features SDI and enhanced analog connections: SDI, analog component, S-Video and composite video. It has a built-in hardware downconverter and four channels of balanced analog audio, eight channels of SDI audio and two channels of AES/EBU digital with sample rate converters. DeckLink Studio lets users move seamlessly between SD and HD workflows. In addition, it has RS-422 deck control and blackburst and tri-sync reference input.
Sen. Flake Wants Answers on Broadband Privacy Extension
Senators Press Wheeler on 5.9 GHz Testing
Rev. Jackson Asks Dish's Ergen to End Tribune Blackout
Netflix Said to Be Getting Down with Downloading
Perspectives on Brexit
Spotlight on Brexit at TVBEurope 2020
Ateme powers TV Azteca 4K live broadcast
Drone Industry Reacts to New Small UAS Rule
Commercial UAV Advisory Board Opines on How Far Drone Industry Has Come
Drones Perform with Dance Troupe for 'America's Got Talent' Audition


text:
The "Fashion Star" finale airs Tues., May 15."Fashion Star" wraps up Season 1 with its big finale on Mon., May 15 (10 p.m. ET on NBC), but host and executive producer Elle Macpherson is already looking toward the future.At the NBC upfront presentation in New York this week, Macpherson told The Huffington Post that there could be some changes when the show returns for a Season 2."I think we're going to jerk things around a little bit and you have to watch the space," Macpherson said when asked if all the judges will return. "We've done a great job and NBC has been 100 percent behind us. America's been behind this program."When pressed for specific details on the changes afoot, Macpherson remained coy. "You're going to have to watch the space," she said.The reality series features designers competing for a chance to have their clothing sold at reputable retail stores and Macpherson said the sales have been great."From a business prospective, it's great to see a program like this taking off on NBC," she said.Check out a preview of the finale below. The "Fashion Star" finale airs Tues., May 15, 10 p.m. ET on NBC. The series returns to NBC's schedule in the fall on Sundays, 8 p.m. ET.Related on HuffPost:
Contribute to this Story:"; var coords = [-5, -72]; // display fb-bubble FloatingPrompt.embed(this, html, undefined, 'top', {fp_intersects:1, timeout_remove:2000,ignore_arrow: true, width:236, add_xy:coords, class_name: 'clear-overlay'}); });


text:
More DailyStrength
Health Event Calendar
See what's new on the site
See what's new on the site
Step-by-step Tutorials
How to use DailyStrength
How to use DailyStrength
We're on Facebook
Check out our page
Check out our page
Follow us on Twitter
Read our tweets
Read our tweets
Get Cool DS Stuff!!!!!
Shirts, Hats, Baby Wear
Shirts, Hats, Baby Wear
How do I help her thru this and understand this
|Watch this
|View More Posts Ignore
My aunt and her grandkids just moved in with my kids and I so we can help eachother out with cost. Her grandkids were left by their mother shortly after the youngest was born 3 years ago. Savanna is 7 and remembers her mom and crys and has fights of saddness almost on a daily basis. She trys to get my 9 year old in trouble as often as she can. But on the other hand wants to do everything Maddie does and has fits and crys by saying Maddie doesnt like her she doesnt want to play with her. Then she starts to cry over her mom. Ive been trying to get my aunt into letting me take her to counseling but she says no lets wait. The other day her mom called after a year of not talking to the kids. Savanna got all exsited and runnthing thru the house my mommy is coming home. NOT TRUE. Now we r dealing with a big BRAT. I want to help her but she wont let me help. PLEASE HELP ME OUT ON THIS.
Posted on 10/11/11, 11:58 pm
|0 Replies
|Add Your Advice


text:
Jan 152013
Ticket discounts are offered for Orchid Affiar, the the Fort Lauderdale Orchid Society Orchid Show.
Tickets purchased early are $5 at the auditorium box office and $6 online. Tickets at the door are $10.
To save on tickets at the door, print out print a coupon for $2 off, the price for each person up to a group of four people. Group rates also are available.
The event is January 18, January and January 20 at War Memorial Auditorium, 800 NE Eighth St., Fort Lauderdale.
Sorry, the comment form is closed at this time.


text: Does anyone use the same size SmartCarry holster for their J-frame and a Glock 26? I have a S&W 642 and am getting a Glock 26 next month. I use a small-size SmartCarry for the 642 and it works great. I was wondering if the G26 would be more of a challenge to carry in there or if I might need a larger one. Thanks for any guidance.


text:
With the conflict in Gaza, there are a lot of soldiers losing their lives and families are being torn apart. It's a very sensitive situation and so many have been affected by all that is going on. That's why it was so hard to take when the New Zealand Herald featured a story of a young soldier being killed in Gaza, but it was run alongside a pictures of late "Jackass" star Ryan Dunn, per Philly.com on July 29, 2014.
It's obvious this was a huge error in both editorial skills and judgment, but it didn't make it any easier.
Sitting above the picture of Ryan Dunn was the headline that stated "Kiwi killed in Gaza." It goes on to detail the life and circumstances of death for 21-year-old soldier Staff Sgt. Guy Boyland.
The Chicago Tribune states that the Herald went to Sgt. Boyland's Facebook page and simply grabbed the picture of Ryan Dunn and put it in the article. Not only was Boyland a huge fan of Dunn, but the two men looked rather similar.
Making matters worse is that it was both the print edition and the website of the New Zeland Herald that ran the photo of Dunn with the story. Boyland was killed this past Friday during combat in Gaza.
The editor of the New Zealand Herald has taken full responsibility for the error and since issued an apology and a correction. They explained how the error was made and that they fully intended on using a photo of Boyland, not Ryan Runn.
Editor Shayne Currie said:
"I have personally spoken to members of Guy's family this morning, as has the CEO of APN, Jane Hastings. The family members have been remarkably forgiving, particularly in the circumstances. I have apologised for adding to their grief and I will keep them fully updated on how this happened as obviously it is unacceptable."
Ryan Dunn died back in June of 2011 after an early morning car crash that took his life and that of a friend he was in the car with, Zachary Hartwell. Both Dunn and Hartwell died from blunt force trauma and fire, according to the report from the coroner.
Toxicology reports had shown that his blood-alcohol content was over twice the legal limit.
Suggested Links
- Jackass star Ryan Dunn killed in early Monday car crash
- Ryan Dunn tribute video brings about joy and negative reactions
- Video of Bam Margera breaking down at crash site of Jackass star Ryan Dunn
- Police report says Ryan Dunn of Jackass was indeed drunk at time of crash
- Bam Margera rips Roger Ebert; pics of Ryan Dunn's final hours


text:
- Sunset cruise from St Thomas
- Cruise around Great St James and Little St James islands, and see Cow Rock and Calf Rock
- Watch the glorious Caribbean sunset from Buck Island or Christmas Cove
- Sip Champagne, wine, beer or other included beverages
- Small-group cruise limited to six people provides a more intimate experience
What You Can Expect
While you enjoy the breeze and admire the scenery, just sit back and relax with a glass of Champagne, wine, beer, rum punch or soda in your hand. Light snacks are also provided.
Cruise around Great St James Island and its neighbor, Little St James Island, which is a private isle owned by American businessman Jeffrey Epstein. Then pass by Cow Rock and Calf Rock, so named because they look like a mama whale and her calf, and continue to either Christmas Cove or Buck Island to watch the famous St Thomas sunset.
Your cruise ends with return to the marina on St Thomas in plenty of time for you to continue your evening with dinner or other plans.


text:
Nov 22, 2011 8:45 AM
While ol Billy Shakespeare says the question is "to be or not to be", our question is: Would we actually wear this Earbuds Bracelet ($89)? It's pretty damn cool, but we don't know it's a piece anyone would actually wear. We're guessing we'll see it in the sale room at Anthro (which we prowl voraciously every time where there because it kills us to spend full price at that beautiful, beautiful store).
If you've got a product or service that you'd like to promote on Outblush, click here to find out about our advertising opportunities.
Outblush is a blog for girls who love to shop. Our staff digs up the best clothes, home stuff, beauty items, and more. New items are posted every day — bookmark us and check out: