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1803: Jillis Bruggeman, the last executed for sodomy in the Netherlands
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The last person executed in the Netherlands for homosexuality was Jillis Bruggeman, on March 9, 1803.
Bruggeman 's long career in "the horrible sin of sodomy" — for which he had been paying blackmail to one former partner for many years before a different confidante betrayed him — so shocked the court that the evidence of his activities was sequestered in a special pouch. He was flogged and hanged at the grand market of the southern city Schiedam.
There's an annual Jillis Bruggeman Medal awarded to a someone who has made a signal contribution to defending LGBTQ people.
2016: Coy Wayne Westbrook - 2018
1705: William Pulman, Edward Fuller, and Elizabeth Herman - 2017
1524: Klaus Hottinger, sausage radical - 2016
1422: Jan Zelivsky, Hussite defenestrator - 2015
2001: Willie 'Ervin' Fisher, traveling man - 2014
1981: Steven T. Judy, Hoosier rapist - 2013
1784: Anton Joseph Suter, Appenzell politician - 2012
1816: Five Boers for the Slachter's Nek Rebellion - 2011
1950: Timothy Evans, instead of John Christie - 2010
1009: St. Bruno of Querfurt - 2009
1944: Emanuel Ringelblum, historian of the Warsaw Ghetto - 2008
1640: Bishop John Atherton, buggerer
1578: Thee Bruges Minnenbroder
1823: William North, prostrated homosexual
1819: John Markham, abominable offence
1829: William Maxwell, the last hanged for sodomy by the Royal Navy
Entry Filed under: 19th Century,Capital Punishment,Death Penalty,Disfavored Minorities,Execution,Hanged,Homosexuals,Milestones,Netherlands,Public Executions,Sex,Torture
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2016: Coy Wayne Westbrook
Going to his death on this date in 2016, Texas mass murderer Coy Wayne Westbrook was anything but.
I want to say that I'm sorry for the pain that I have caused you people. I'm sorry I can't bring everybody back. I wish things could have been a lot different …
I can understand your outrage and why you are mad at me. God be with all of us.
He'd had a lot to say over the years about the incomprehensible quintuple shooting that brought him to that moment, a moment he claimed to be "looking forward to."
Hoping to reconcile with his ex-wife, Gloria Jean Coons, Westbrook joined her at a small party at her Channelview, Texas, apartment. After several drinks, he says — and he's the only witness remaining — he was incensed when Coons took two different men to the bedroom at which point Westbrook, to use the clinical term, flipped his shit.
"You hear all your life if you catch your old lady in bed with somebody, don't just shoot her but shoot her lover too," Wesbrook informed journos. "In her case, there was a bunch of lovers. I just took care of my business." And also he had to shoot the other two people there when they came running at him for some reason.
The victims were Coons, 37; Diana Ruth Money, 43; Anthony Ray Rogers, 41; Antonio Cruz, 35; and Kelly Hazlip, 32. The state would argue that our man was being, well, coy about the degree of calculation in this rampage.
"As I saw her collapse and die, the spell was broken," he said of Coons. "I could see her for what she was. I no longer found her attractive."
In a different interview Westbrook said that he'd "regretted everything a trillion times." But he struck a less penitent note in conversation with the television program 60 Minutes, saying that "I'm a victim in this as well as everybody else."
The man's already quite extensive roster of "everybody else" fortunately never came to include Westbrook's first (pre-Coons) ex-wife, upon whom he allegedly tried to put out a hit while in jail.
1803: Jillis Bruggeman, the last executed for sodomy in the Netherlands - 2019
2007: Michael Richard, whose time ran out
2008: Greg Wright, still fighting for exoneration
2010: Gary Johnson
2010: Michael Perry, Herzog subject
2008: Jose Medellin, precedent
2017: Christopher Wilkins, straight talker
2017: Robert Pruett
Entry Filed under: 21st Century,Capital Punishment,Common Criminals,Crime,Death Penalty,Execution,Lethal Injection,Murder,Ripped from the Headlines,Texas,USA
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1705: William Pulman, Edward Fuller, and Elizabeth Herman
The Ordinary of Newgate his Account of the Behaviour, Confessions, and Last Speeches of the Malefactors that were Executed at Tyburn on Friday the 9th of March, 1704/1705.
At the Sessions held at Justice-Hall in the Old Bailey, on Wednesday the 28th of February last, and on Thursday and Friday the 1st and 2d Instant, 8 Persons, i. e. seven Men and one Woman, having been Try'd, and found Guilty of Death, received their Sentence accordingly. Of these 8 Persons, 5 being by her Majesty's gracious Reprieve, respited from Execution, they who are now ordered for it, are only these 3, viz. William Pulman, Edward Fuller, and Elizabeth Herman.
On the Lord's Day, the 4th Instant, I preach'd to them, both in the Forenoon and Afternorn, upon part of the second Lesson, appointed for that Morning-Service, viz. Luke Ch. 15. v. 18 & 19. I will arise and go to my Father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinn'd against Heaven and before Thee; And am no more worthy to be call'd thy Son; Make me as One of thy hired Servants.
Having explain'd the Parable of the Prodigal Son, of which the Text is a part, I shew'd from thence how a Sinner must gradually proceed in his Repentance.
He must take a firm Resolution to return to a better Life.
He must confess his Guilt, not only to God, but where the Offence has given any publick Scandal, he must confess it to Man also.
He must rather aggravate than palliate his Crime.
He must be severe towards himself, if he will have God to be merciful to him.
He must humble himself to the lowest degree, and look upon himself as unworthy of the least Favour, but worthy of the greatest Punishment, and incapable of returning to God without his Converting Grace, which he ought earnestly to implore.
And Lastly, I shew'd how acceptable such a Repentance (attended with all these) was to God, and how beneficial therefore it would prove to them that should exert themselves therein.
These were the Principal Heads on which I then discours'd to my Auditory, both in the Morning and Afternoon; concluding with a twofold Exhortation; First, To the Strangers that were come to see the Condemned Persons, that they would put up hearty Prayers for them, and be thankful to God, who by his restraining Grace, had kept them from falling into their Sins, and under their Condemnation. And Secondly, To the Prisoners, and particularly those Condemned to die; That they would desire the Prayers of all good People, which they stood in so great need of; and stir up themselves to Prayer, and implore the Spirit of God to their assistance therein; That they would examine themselves, and take an exact Survey of all their past Sins, so far as they could remember, and seriously consider how they had lived before, and how they were now fit to die, and what would become of them after Death.
Yesterday being the Anniversary Day of the QUEEN's Accession to the Throne, I preach'd again both in the Morning and Afternoon, to the Prisoners in Newgate, and other Persons there present; and my Text was, Ps. 40. [1]3. Be pleased, O Lord, to deliver me: Make haste, O Lord, to help me.
After I had open'd the Text, and by the by spoken something concerning the Solemnity of the Day; shewing how Men are in a double manner Guilty, who living in a Country where the Gospel shines in its full Brightness and Purity, and under a Government so just, so equal, and so easy as this is, are (nevertheless) wilfully ignorant of Christian Duties, and disobebient to God and their Superiours, and unjust, mischievous and oppressive to their Neighbours.
Then I proceeded to discourse on that Subject which I thought then most proper for my Auditory, which was to shew from the Text, How it concerns all Men (especially great Offenders) to be earnest in their Application to God for Deliverance, both From their Sins; And, From the Punishment due to them.
And in order thereto, consider,
How they came to be prompted to, and by degrees hardened in Sin.
How they might recover themselves by that sincere Repentance which is of absolute Necessity to their Pardon and Salvation; and which is the Work of God's Spirit, for which they should pray with fervent Zeal and Perseverance.
In the Close of those my Discourses, I made particular Application to the Condemned Prisoners; who from the time of their receiving their Sentence, to that of their Execution, were brought up twice every Day, to the Chappel in Newgate; where I pray'd with them, and instructed them in the Word of God, and in the way to Salvation. And upon my discoursing them in private, and pressing them to make a free and open Confession of their Offences, and the Injuries they had done to the World, and to make what Reparation and Amends they could: They discover'd to me their former Lives and Conversations, and their present Disposition, as follows:
I. William Pulman, alias Norwich Will, Condemned for Robbing Mr. Joseph Edwards on the High-way, upon the 30th of December last, and taking from him a pair of Leather-Bags, a Shirt, 2 Neck-Cloths, 2 Pocket-Books, 25 Guineas, a half Guinea, a half broad Piece, and 4 l. in Silver. When I put him upon his Confession, both of this and other Facts he might be guilty of, he at first pretended (as he did at his Tryal) that he knew nothing of that Robbery committed upon Mr. Edwards. But when I shew'd him, not only how little available, but how mischievous such a Denial was to him, in case he was really Guilty of the Fact; he at last confess'd it, owning that he had 5 Guineas and 40 Shillings in Silver for his Share in that Robbery. He confess'd also, That he (with some others he named) had several times, for these 4 Years past, taken Bags, Trunks, Boxes, and such like Things, from behind Horses, Coaches, and Waggons; but he protested to me, that he never broke any House, nor stole any Goods out of Shops. He further said, That he did not know any of the Proprietors or Owners of the stol'n Goods in which he was concerned, save Mr. Edwards; and though he should know them, or could send to them, yet he could make them no Satisfaction; all being spent, and he left poor. So true it is, That Goods unlawfully gotten do not profit. He therefore pray'd God, and those he had wrong'd, to forgive him. Being ask'd, When and Where he was born, and how he had spent his Life, he gave me this further Account of himself, That he was about 26 Years of Age, born in the City of Norwich, of honest Parents, who brought him up well, and put him to a good Trade, viz. That of Barber and Perriwig-maker; to which he serv'd the full time of his Apprenticeship, and then set up for himself in that City. But getting into ill Company, he was presently debauch'd, and became a very lewd Person, breaking the Sabbath-day, and abandoning himself to Swearing, Drinking, Whoring, and all manner of Wickedness; saying, That he was guilty of all Sin but Murther. In this wicked Disposition, he came up to London about five years ago, where he had not been long but he was prest to Sea; and having served not above two Months on Board the Jersey, a Third Rate, commanded by Captain Stapleton, he was discharged. And being so, he went to work at his Trade for a few Months with one Mr. Wright a Perriwig-maker in Old-Bedlam. But keeping Company with ill People, by their Example and Perswasion (and particularly by the Sollicitation of a certain wicked Woman) became a Robber. He told me, That he had served 16 Months on Board the Triumph, a Second Rate Ship, Captain Greydon Commander, and that he was in that Ship in the late Expedition to Vigo. But he sorrowfully acknowledged he had been so stupid, as all the while to take no manner of notice of the great Dangers he was in, and from which the Providence of God had preserved him. When he was returned into England and discharged, then he went sauntering about to see what he could get; and finding himself in danger of being prest again, he enter'd himself into the Land-Service , viz. in the Second Regiment of Foot-Guards, in the Company of Captain Swan, under the Command of Colonel Marsham; in which Service he was, when in December last he was Try'd, Convicted, and Burnt in the Cheek for a Felony by him committed a little before that time; which Punishment he had received long before, viz. above three years ago, for a Felony he then was justly found guilty of. He mightily lamented his sinful Life past, and begg'd Pardon both of God and Man.
II. Edward Fuller, Condemned for Robbing Mrs. Eliz. Woodward of 5 s. and Mr. John Wright of a Silver Watch on the 3d of February last: Both which Facts he deny'd. But confess'd, that he had been an Ill-liver, and for these 3 or 4 Years last past concerned as a Partner with Pick-pockets. He said he never got much by that, nor could now make restitution to the Parties wrong'd, should he know them. He being asked whether he ever broke any House, or stole things out of any Shops, or Robbed on the High-way Abroad, on Horseback, or otherwise, he answer'd, no; saying, that he had never meddled with any Robberies, or Robbers of that kind. As for his Manners, he confess'd himself to have been a very Idle and Loose Person; neglecting the Business of his Calling, which was a Coach and Harnessmaker, to which he had served his Prenticeship in the Borough of Southwark, where he set up and work'd for himself a while after his time was out. He said he was about 30 Years old: An Age when he might have done most Good, but did most Evil; being perfectly sunk into Debauchery, and all manner of Uncleanness, and having abandon'd the Service of God, in which he was carefully brought up, and embraced the Sinful Lusts and Pleasures of the World. He much complain'd of the hardness of his Heart, and desired me to pray for him. He confess'd he had been in Newgate before now; but he was always either discharged, no body appearing; or acquitted, nothing being proved against him; tho' not always Innocent of the Facts for which he was committed; But was so; when about 3 or 4 Months ago, being in the QUEENs Service under the Command of Captain Columbine in Brigadier Farindon's Regiment, he was suspected to have deserted his Colours; but it appeared otherwise, and that his supposed Desertion was occasion'd by his being taken a Prisoner by the French, and by them carry'd into some Parts of the Spanish Netherlands; from whence making his Escape, and returning into England, he gave such satisfaction of this to his Officers, that they did not look upon him as a Deserter, but entertained him as before, in HER MAJESTIE's Service; out of which he was afterwards discharged, upon his having broken one of his Arms by accident.
III. Elizabeth Harman, alias Bess Toogood; Condemned for Picking the Pocket of Mr. John Tredwell on the 30th of January last. She would fain have deny'd the Fact; but being press'd upon the matter, she confessed her self to have been concern'd in it, and to have had 5 s. of the Money which was then taken from Mr. Tredwell, not by her self, but by another Woman that was with her, as she said; but afterward confess'd she had done the Fact. She said, that (to her great Shame and Sorrow) she had lived to the Years of above 30 (which was now her Age) without having done any good; but on the contrary, much harm to the World, and to her own Soul: This particular account she gave me of her self, That she was born at Great Marlow in Buckinghamshire; and that about 14 Years ago she came up to London, and served at first at a Silk Dyers in Thames-street, and in several other Worthy Families in this City and in Westminster; but afterwards falling into ill Company, she soon became as Lewd and Debauch'd as any of them. She, upon my asking, declar'd, that she never drew any young Woman or other into her wicked Ways; and that those she was acquainted with, were ripe in Wickedness and Lewdness before she ever knew them. But she acknowledg'd, that she had been her self very wicked indeed; a great Swearer, Sabbath-breaker, and most filthy and impudent in her Conversation and Actions; and that for these several Years past, she had made it her constant Practice to pick up Men in the Streets, and while they were committing Lewdness with her, she pick'd their Pockets. She bitterly cry'd and lamented, that she had been such an Illliver, and thought her Sins to be so great and so many, that God would never forgive her; adding, that tho' in her Retirement she read in the Bible and pray'd, yet she found no manner of comfort, nor could understand any thing of what she read; so dull and stupified, and sunk in Sin and Darkness, and so unaccustom'd to any thing of Religion and Piety she was, that those Spiritual Means, could hardly work any good upon her. In this desperate and despairing condition she was in, I gave her such Advice and Directions as were proper for her; and from the many tears she shed, and other the Tokens of Sorrow she express'd, I hope she was at last most sensible of the Folly and Mischievous Effects of a Sinful Life. She desired me and all good People to pray for her Soul, and all wicked Persons, (especially those of her Acquaintance) to take warning by her, and to reform and amend their Lives betimes; that they might prevent both their Temporal and Eternal Destruction. And she desired all young Women above all to take care of being deluded: For there are many young Creatures that come up to London with an honest intent, who are easily Debauched and Corrupted by wicked People that get acquainted with them. Therefore her Advice to them is, that they should avoid all ill Company; which if she had done she might have lived happy.
This Day of their Execution being come, they were all of them carry'd to Tyburn; where I met them: And after some Exhortation to them in general, That they would consider well, that now they were come to the very brink of Eternity, and therefore ought to clear their Consciences, &c. I then apply'd my self to each of them in particular; asking them, whether they had any thing to add to, or alter in the Confessions they had made to me: Upon which they answer'd they had not. Only Edward Fuller said, That it was not true what he had told me before, viz. That he was taken by the French; for now he owned he had really deserted his Colours, but he got himself discharged afterwards. He added, he was sorry he told me an untruth, for which (said he) I beg Pardon of God and you. But as to the 2 Facts for which he was Condemned to this shameful Death, he still persisted in the denial of them; saying, that he knew nothing of the 5 s. taken from Mrs. Woodward; and that for the Watch owned by Mr. Wright, he bought it of one Thompson, and pay'd him 3 l. 15 s. in Money for it, besides a Quart of Wine that cost him 20 pence. This was his last Declaration to me at the Tree; where I most strenuously press'd him before God upon the hope of Eternal Life, to speak the truth. He declared that he had no Animosity or Hatred against any one in the whole World, Man, Woman, or Child, and that he dy'd in Charity with all Mankind. And so did the other two. When this was over, I proceeded to exhort them to stir up their Hearts to God, to cry for his Mercy, and to beg the Assistance of his Holy Spirit in this time of need. Then I pray'd and Sung some Penitential Psalms with them; and made them rehearse the Apostle's Creed, and repeat some Ejaculatory Expressions after me. I admonished them to warn both Young and Old against Sin; which they did; praying all Standers by and others to avoid all manner of Vice and Vicious Company, and never neglect the Service of God, as they had done to their Shame and Sorrow. Which they having said, I recommended them to God and the Direction of his Grace: And so left them to their private Devotions, for which they had some time allowed them. Then the Cart drew away, and they were turn'd off; Calling upon God to have Mercy upon them, in these and the like Ejaculations, utter'd and often repeated by each of them. Lord have Mercy on me, a miserable Sinner! My Sins are innumerable, and my Soul is in anguish, Lord comfort me, and heal me! Lord into thy Hands I recommend my Spirit! Sweet Jesus, take me to thy self: Take me to thy Mercy! Open me thy Gates! Lord, I come, I come!
This is all the Account here to be given of these Dying Persons by PAUL LORRAIN, Ordinary of Newgate. Friday March 9. 1705.
THE Exemplary Life and Character of James Bonnell, Esq.; late Accomptant General of Ireland. To which is added the Sermon preach'd at his Funeral by Edward Lord Bishop of Killmore and Ardagh The Life by William Hamilton, A. M. Archdeacon of Armagh. Attested by Six of the most eminent Bishops in the Kingdom of Ireland.
THE Necessary Duty of Family-Prayer, and the deplorable Condition of Prayerless Families consider'd. In a Letter from a Minister to his Parishioners. With Prayers for their Use.
A Discourse concerning Sins of Infirmity and wilful Sins, with another of Restitution. By the Right Reverend Richard, late Lord Bishop of Bath and Wells. Price 3 d.
Ordinary of Newgate Paul Lorrain published this professional guide on ministry to the dying.
BOOKS set forth by Paul Lorrain. Ordinary of Newgate, viz.
THE last Words of the Lady Margaret De la Musse: And The Dying-Man's Assistant, both printed for J. Lawrence at the Angel in the Poultry. And A Guide to Salvation, Sold at the Star in St. Paul's Church-Yard.
Sold by Joseph Downing in Bartholomew-Close.
THE Christian Education of Children. In a Letter to a Friend. In which are contain'd the Fundamental Truths of Religion, and the Duties of a Christian Life. Profitable for all sorts of Persons; but especially recommended to Schools of Charity. Printed for R. Sympson at the Harp in St. Paul's Church-Yard, 1704.
Rpbert Whitledge, Bookbinder, now living at the Bible in Creed-Lane, within Ludgate, where all Booksellers, and others, may be furnshied with the WELSH Bible, WELSH Common Prayer and WELSH Almanack, and with all sorts of other Bibles and Common-Prayers, large and small, with Cuts or without, Rul'd or Unrul'd, Bound in Turkey Leather, extraordnary or plain, or unbound. Also the Statutes at large, and Articles and Canons of the Church of England; Tate and Brady's new Version of the Singing Psalms, the Common-Prayer in French, the new Book of Rates compleat; and also all Books neatly Bound.
London, Printed by J. Downing in Bartholomew-Close near West-Smithfield. 1705.
Part of the Themed Set: The Ordinary of Newgate.
1741: Jenny Diver, a Bobby Darin lyric?
1763: Hannah Dagoe, violently
1747: Mary Allen and Henry Simms, Gallows Lovers
1726: Mary Standford, shunning convict transportation
1789: Not Mary Wade, 11-year-old thief
1759: Catharine Knowland, the last to hang on the Tyburn Tree
1708: Thomas Ellis and Mary Goddard
Entry Filed under: 18th Century,Capital Punishment,Common Criminals,Crime,Death Penalty,England,Execution,Hanged,Public Executions,Theft,Women
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1524: Klaus Hottinger, sausage radical
On this date in 1524, the first Reformation martyr of Switzerland was beheaded in Lucerne.
Klaus Hottinger (English Wikipedia entry | German), a cobbler by trade, was among Zurich's early radical reformers — the folks impatient enough for ecclesiastical change to go looking for provocative transgressions.
On March 9, 1522 — two years to the day before his martyrdom — Hottinger was among several Zurich denizens who calculatedly broke the Lenten fast by gobbling sausages at a printer's home. History charmingly designates this event "the Affair of the Sausages". It was scandalous precisely because Zwingli, a pastor, made no attempt to enforce the Church's fasting edict on his fellows, and then defended the carnivores.
This sort of behavior marked an important cleavage with Luther, both tactically and theologically. Luther certainly agreed with Zwingli that meat was not forbidden Christians, and even that believers ought to assert this right forcefully when bullied:
you must in no wise allow yourself to be drawn away from the liberty in which God has placed you, but do just the contrary to spite him, and say: Because you forbid me to eat meat, and presume to turn my liberty into law, I will eat meat in spite of you. (Fourth Invocavit sermon)
But still, Luther — strenuously at work in this period to dissociate his own cause from rebellion — would have his followers pick their battles. Does going out of your way to beef over the meat thing help or hinder the cause?
There are some who are still weak in faith, who ought to be instructed, and who would gladly believe as we do. But their ignorance prevents them, and if this were faithfully preached to them, as it was to us, they would be one with us. Toward such well-meaning people we must assume an entirely different attitude from that which we assume toward the stubborn. We must bear patiently with them and not use our liberty, since it brings no peril or harm to body or soul, nay, rather is salutary, and we are doing our brothers and sisters a great service besides. But if we use our liberty without need, and deliberately cause offense to our neighbor, we drive away the very one who in time would come to our faith.
Hottinger wasn't the bearing patiently type. As if the sausages weren't enough, our enragee ratcheted up the deliberate offense in 1523 with an iconoclastic strike against a roadside crucifix.
This stunt got him exiled from Zurich and put his sacrilege show on the road. As it transpired, not every canton was as easygoing as Zurich.
1571: Hans Haslibacher, Bern Anabaptist
1553: Michael Servetus, but not to defend a doctrine
1529: Ludwig Haetzer, Anabaptist
1559: The remains of David Joris, Anabaptist fugitive
1528: Ambrosius Spittelmayr
1531: Sikke Freriks, Menno Simons inspiration
1528: Leonhard Schiemer, Anabaptist pacifist
Entry Filed under: 16th Century,Beheaded,Capital Punishment,Death Penalty,Disfavored Minorities,Execution,God,History,Martyrs,Milestones,Public Executions,Religious Figures,Switzerland
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1422: Jan Zelivsky, Hussite defenestrator
Radical Hussite Jan Želivský was beheaded on this date in 1422.
1952 memorial plaque of Zelivsky in Prague
Zelivsky (English Wikipedia entry | Czech), a priest, emerges in the 1410s as a fiery populist orator at Prague's Church of Our Lady of the Snows.
After the treacherous capture and execution of Jan Hus, the Hussite movement split between radical and moderate factions. The firebrand Zelivsky became the chief voice of the lower-class, radical Hussites and led the dramatic Defenestration of Prague wherein a Hussite mob pitched several Catholic city ministers out the window of the Prague town hall — triggering a revolution and 15 years of war.
Over the ensuing year, Zelivsky came to dominate politics in Prague. But he had to struggle for his power against both the external threat of Hapsburg armies, and the internal rivalry of moderate Hussites — and these factions did not scruple to deploy the executioner for mastery of Prague.
Zelivsky in the summer of 1421 mounted a coup against moderate Hussites who were negotiating with the Catholic nobility, and even executed some of those movement apostates. But power was wrested away from him in the ensuing months and he was arrested by surprise at a town meeting and secretly put to death.
1498: Girolamo Savonarola, as he had once burned vanities
1967: Ernesto "Che" Guevara
1836: The defenders of the Alamo, much remembered
1405: Richard le Scrope and Thomas de Mowbray, without color of law
1437: Jan Rohác z Dubé, Hussite marshal
1872: Du Wenxiu, Panthay rebellion leader
Entry Filed under: 15th Century,Beheaded,Capital Punishment,Czechoslovakia,Death Penalty,Execution,History,Martyrs,Politicians,Power,Religious Figures,Revolutionaries,Summary Executions,Wartime Executions
Tags: 1420s, 1422, defenestration of prague, hussite wars, hussites, jan hus, jan zelivsky, march 9, prague
2001: Willie 'Ervin' Fisher, traveling man
4 comments March 9th, 2014 Headsman
(Thanks to John S. Carbone of Alienists Compendium. Dr. Carbone is also the Director of Mental Health Services and Chief of Forensic Psychiatry for the North Carolina prison system.)
On this date in 2001, Willie 'Ervin' Fisher, aged 39, was put to death by lethal injection at North Carolina's Central Prison in Raleigh.
His was a forgettable if lamentable crime were it not for the changes to the state's administrative code that his passing — nay, his post-mortem travels — effected.
Fisher at first invoked that time-tested excuse of addling by drugs and alcohol as exculpation for the slaying of April 2nd 1992.
He admitted from the time of arrest to the murder of Angela Johnson, his on-again, off-again girlfriend, during a domestic altercation that was witnessed by many as it spilled outside to a parking lot for its finale by knife and broken broomstick.
Interestingly, Fisher had no prior felony arrests, and when he was deemed able to have formed the specific intent necessary for first-degree murder, that other time-tested excuse — ineffective counsel — was raised with equal futility. Throughout, however, prison officials described him as a 'model prisoner' on death row, one who received nary a single disciplinary charge in the decade he was incarcerated. And though he later abandoned the pretense of chemical sway and accepted full personal responsibility in a videotaped appeal for clemency to the governor, his pleas fell on deaf ears.
Fisher gave a brief last statement on the evening of his demise, and was pronounced dead after 9:00 p.m. His earthly remains were then transported across town to the medical examiners' office.
But that wasn't the end of the story.
The decedent's sister, Sally Fisher, was at that time the deputy registrar of vital records for the Forsyth County (NC) Health Department, and as such was familiar with then-existing rules pertaining to the handling and transportation of dead bodies. Ms Fisher later recounted that "I just got up that [next] morning and said, 'we might as well [bring] Ervin home'…. I just wanted to be close to him for a while."
So Ms Fisher, her sister, and her niece piled in the latter's SUV and drove to Raleigh at 6:00 a.m. on the 10th to claim the corpse. At first, the medical examiner balked at releasing the body thusly, but Ms. Fisher was versed in statute and code, and after a number of frantic phone calls for guidance, the ME had no choice but to turn Fisher's remains over to his family.
Then, with the help of an employee of the ME's office, the four struggled to wedge Fisher's by-then-stiff corpus into the back of the SUV. Fisher had to be placed recumbent as he wouldn't sit up straight. Ms. Fisher and her sister got in the back seat and talked with the departed while the niece drove the 100 miles west on Interstate 40 to Winston-Salem and the family residence.
Though it was only early March, Fisher's family turned on the air conditioning inside the SUV — to the highest setting.
En route, they stopped at least once for sodas and to make phone calls to family and friends to let them know that Fisher was headed home, and that everyone should come to visit upon his arrival. There was a brief and impromptu reunion of sorts held in the front yard when the travelers reached the family's residence. This was followed by a meandering drive around town to visit old haunts (pun fully intended) before eventually reaching the funeral parlor.
Word traveled fast, and it wasn't many hours before a local television station in Winston-Salem had called the warden at Central Prison for comment regarding the inmate of whom he had overseen the execution mere hours before who was nevertheless now cruising out west with crowds forming to wave at him.
Some said that the family fetched Fisher to save expenses. The Department of Correction, though, was authorized to provide up to $300 to indigents for burial costs if a letter were received from a funeral home … and no such letter had been received. Ms. Fisher herself later said that money had nothing to do with the decision. "To me, it was … closure. For ten years, I was talking to him through glass and couldn't touch him. That was my brother. He was the baby…. Bringing him back home helped me out."
And in what may be Ervin Fisher's lasting legacy, it is now mandated by amended state administrative code that only a hearse from a licensed funeral home can take possession of the dead at the medical examiner's office.
2011: Reginald Brooks, flipping the bird
2009: Khristian Oliver, Bible basher
1924: The first electrocutions in Texas
1828: James "Little Jim" Guild
2001: Jeffrey Doughtie, "It started with a needle and it is ending with a needle"
Entry Filed under: 21st Century,Capital Punishment,Common Criminals,Crime,Death Penalty,Disfavored Minorities,Execution,Guest Writers,Lethal Injection,Murder,North Carolina,Other Voices,Racial and Ethnic Minorities,USA
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1981: Steven T. Judy, Hoosier rapist
Add comment March 9th, 2013 Robert Elder
(Thanks to Robert Elder of Last Words of the Executed — the blog, and the book — for the guest post on the anniversary of what was then the first execution in Indiana for nearly 20 years. Fans of this here site are highly likely to enjoy following Elder's own pithy, almanac-style collection of last words on the scaffold. -ed.)
"I don't hold no grudges. I'm sorry it happened. I know what I'm doing."
— Steven T. Judy, convicted of rape and murder, electric chair, Indiana.
Executed March 9, 1981
A serial rapist, Judy openly courted capital punishment. At his trial for killing a woman and her three children (ages five, four, and two), Judy told a jury to condemn him or else he might kill them, their children, and the judge. He showed no remorse for the murders, telling reporters, "I don't lose sleep over it." Judy asked for death. "I've lived my hell," he said. "So [what waits for me] has to be better."
1996: John Albert Taylor, the last American to face a firing squad
1984: Elmo Patrick Sonnier, Dead Man Walking
Unspecified Year: Bigger Thomas
1994: Richard Beavers, hungry to die
1943: Jarvis Catoe
1944: George Stinney, Jr., age 14
1932: Richard Johnson, great-grandfather of Craig Watkins
Entry Filed under: 20th Century,Capital Punishment,Common Criminals,Crime,Death Penalty,Electrocuted,Execution,Indiana,Murder,Rape,USA,Volunteers
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1784: Anton Joseph Suter, Appenzell politician
On this date in 1784, 64-year-old former Landammann of Appenzell,** was beheaded in a nasty bout of local politics.
The amiable and fair-minded Suter (wee German bio), a tavernkeeper, won election to his position at the head of a popular party — in the process defeating a local aristocrat who expected the gig as his birthright and nursed a terrible grudge against Suter for the defeat.
The cantonal form of direct democracy by which Suter was elected, the Landsgemeinde, is still practiced in Appenzell. This (cc) image from Götz A. Primke shows the 2009 assembly in Appenzell, at which crotchety, longsword-bearing residents voted a ban on nude hiking.
This aggrieved aristocrat, Geiger by name, had to bide his time all through the 1760s and into the 1770s, until the political stars aligned against Suter.
It seems a neighboring town had been able to take possession of a lush alpine slope in Appenzell's environs by dint of an unpaid mortgage, a terrible wound to Appenzell's pride and no small inconvenience to its residents.
Suter pushed an attempt to force repurchase of this land in a suit at the Swiss Diet, a sort of United Nations of otherwise-autonomous Swiss cantons. But he lost the suit, and the Diet demanded that Appenzell cough up the court costs as well.
Accustomed as we are today to the suits and countersuits that constitute the very cogs of late capitalism, it's a little hard to understand how the trifling matter of a court fee could suffice to topple a government — but it did. Geiger's people prevailed upon the canton's executive council to drop the suit (Suter pursued it on his own), and now persuaded it to drop Suter.
Well, persuaded. It's more like, it did several days frantic retail politicking from the pulpits and in the streets, then showed up when the council met to shout down Suter and drag him out by force, not neglecting to disenfranchise Suter's many supporters who fought them on the point. As Suter fled into exile, Appenzell pronounced him a rebel on the strength of some super-secret documents.
That really could have been that, but Suter's foes were so intent on his head that they contrived a ruse to lure him back into the canton's territory on the pretext of a secret meeting with his daughter — then arrested him, tortured him with thumbscrews and the rack, and finally sentenced him to death.
On the day appointed the scaffold was closely surrounded by troops. Suter, maimed and pale, was assisted to his place. Standing there a moment he addressed the people, declaring himself robbed and murdered by his country. He then knelt down and in clear tones thrice pronounced the Ave Maria. With the last word of the last repetition of the prayer the sword descended and his head fell …
The sight of the blood of the ex-Landamman filled the people with rage. They had looked for a reprieve to the very last; and now that all hope was gone, they fell upon such of the victim's enemies as were to be found lingering in the streets and fought and struggled with them in their desperation … The enemies of Suter were found to form no exception to the rule that retribution pursues the murderer. No sooner was the ex-Landamman in his grave than the Furies took up their task … Geiger, who formerly had gone about demanding Suter's life, now — a pitiable victim to remorse — went about acknowledging that for seven long years he had pursued him without a cause. It is related concerning the member of the Blood Court that they all ever afterwards were harassed by terrors of conscience, one to such an extent that he even became insane. The guilt of Suter's murder settled upon Inner-Rhoden irretrievably … like the very brand of Cain. Time went by and changes occurred, but that remained. Finally in 1829, forty-five years after the execution, the Great Council met and, with a solemnity befitting he occasion, unanimously revrsed the findings of the court by which Suer had been banished, as also of that by which he had been sent to the block.
Another summary of Suter's career and sad end can be found here.
* Thanks to the same public-domain source, we've visited Appenzell before.
1536: Anne Boleyn
1766: Jean-François de la Barre, freethinker martyr
1759: The Tavora family
1570: Ivan Viskovaty among hundreds on Red Square during the Oprichnina
1761: Gabriel Malagrida, Jesuit nutter
1772: Johann Friedrich Struensee, the doctor who ran Denmark
1685: Dame Alice Lisle, first victim of the Bloody Assizes
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1816: Five Boers for the Slachter's Nek Rebellion
"All those who know anything of the history of South Africa," writes Ian Colvin, "have heard of Slachter's Nek. (English Wikipedia entry | the more detailed Afrikaans)
"The very name has something of evil omen about it, and it is the gallows-tree on which the ravens of discord have sat and croaked ever since the five rebels were hanged in the memorable year of Waterloo."
You've got to admit that a place like "Slachter's Nek" (or Slagtersnek) definitely ought to be associated with a hanging. Luckily for this site, it is.
Though subsequently a grievance for the Dutch-descended Boers — a monument was erected in the hanged men's honor on the centennial of their execution — this particular evil omen barely even registered when it came to British colonial disturbances.
A farmer, one Frederik Bezuidenhout, started the trouble by defying an order to appear in court for his maltreatment of a native; the Brits hunted him to a cave and killed him in a shootout.
This led to a very slightly wider spasm of resistance which one could very generously account "Quixotic": a few dozen other Afrikaner farmers bent on driving out the "tyrants", most of whom wisely threw in the towel when the tyrants' military showed the colors. (With the literal boots-on-the-ground support of the colony's preponderance of Dutch burghers.)
Thirty-nine stood trial, with a half-dozen death sentences meted out. In defiance of a widespread expectation of clemency, only one was spared.
Four of the five hanging ropes broke. Still no reprieve: fresh nooses were procured.
1803: Edward Marcus Despard, a patriot without a nation
1864: William Johnson, a bad example
1803: Robert Emmet, "let no man write my epitaph"
1868: Henry James O'Farrell, would-be assassin
1714: Various rebel slaves in the Cape Colony
Entry Filed under: 19th Century,Botched Executions,Capital Punishment,Death Penalty,England,Execution,Hanged,History,Occupation and Colonialism,Public Executions,Racial and Ethnic Minorities,South Africa
Tags: 1810s, 1816, frederik bezuidenhout, march 9, slachter's nek, slagtersnek
1950: Timothy Evans, instead of John Christie
Sixty years ago today, Timothy Evans was hanged at Pentonville Prison still protesting his innocence of murdering his wife and daughter — three years before a neighboring tenant was revealed to be a serial killer.
A drunkard with a tempestuous marriage, Timothy Evans didn't look like a compelling innocence case when he walked into a police station and confessed to killing his wife while attempting to administer an abortifacient.
Evans's confession didn't add up, and he kept changing it — to indicate the involvement of neighbor John Christie. The "botched abortion" angle got complicated when the Evans's older, un-aborted daughter also turned up dead: like her mom, she'd been strangled.
"I didn't do it, Mam," he told his mother. "Christie done it."
But the dim suspect's iterative interpretations of how his family wound up throttled had left his credibility in tatters by the time he came to trial insisting that the confession was wrong. And you'd have to admit that the looming shadow of Executioner Pierrepoint presented a compelling reason to disbelieve his latest revisions.
The jurors disbelieved.
Evans swung.
Three years later, that very Christie who had so smoothly inculpated Timothy Evans, was arrested for a killing spree that turned out to have lodged at least six corpses hidden on the same premises at 10 Rillington Place.
That infamous address has its own web site — and book, and film, and Madame Tussaud's exhibit.
Here was a man desperately and (to the public) implausibly implicated by a convicted murderer recently hanged: that this man subsequently turned out to be a prolific serial killer did a job to undermine public confidence in the death penalty.
Christie himself hanged for his own crime spree in 1953. He admitted to murdering Beryl Evans, Timothy's wife, though never to killing daughter Geraldine.
Little more than a decade after that, England's gallows fell into disuse.
1953: Derek Bentley, controversially
1885: Not John "Babbacombe" Lee, the man they could not hang
1551: Alice Arden, husband killer
1739: Dick Turpin, outlaw legend
Entry Filed under: 20th Century,Arts and Literature,Capital Punishment,Common Criminals,Crime,Death Penalty,England,Execution,Hanged,History,Innocent Bystanders,Murder,Popular Culture,Posthumous Exonerations,Wrongful Executions
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Matan Shmuely (în , n. în 1985, la Beit Yosef) este un toboșar israelian, membru al trupelor Orphaned Land și Subterranean Masquerade.

Anterior, Shmuely a fost component al formațiilor Armilos, Azazel, Grave in the Sky, Matricide, Moonskin și Stella Maris și a participat la înregistrări în studio pentru trupa Edgend.

Discografie

cu Orphaned Land
Albume de studio
Unsung Prophets & Dead Messiahs (2018)
Kna'an (2016)
All Is One (2013)
Albume live
The Road to OR-Shalem (2011)
EP
Sukkot in Berlin (2015)
Single
All Is One / Brother (2013)

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Albume de studio
Vagabond (2017)
The Great Bazaar (2015)

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EP
Race of Lies (2004)

cu Grave in the Sky
Albume de studio
Cutlery Hits China: English for the Hearing Impaired (2007)

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Nașteri în 1985
Bateriști israelieni
Bateriști heavy metal
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Black version of the Digno model. The large diameter of the 42mm case means that the watch will be perfectly visible on the wrist. It is one of thin and lightweight models, comfortable to wear. 9.5 mm that is the thickness of case. The watch has an additional option, setting the day of the month. Waterproof model is 3ATM / 30M.


I am thankful for dinner conversations.
He usually sings all the letters but was so excited he blurs the LMNO part. Also the song he sings when he snaps is this song Five Little Monkeys Swing in a Tree. Then he sings 5 Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed.
Flashback– check out dinner conversations a year ago here.


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RAMIFICATIONS OF A PARTICULAR CRASH
By Kris Elgstrand
GO Studios, 210 – 112 E. 3rd Ave.
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Irony dominates popular culture, and black comedy has become the performance genre of choice for this generation, the darker the better. There's no scene too violent in a Tarantino movie that won't get a laugh, no moment too socially painful or squirm-inducing in a play by David Mamet or Neil LaBute that doesn't warrant a nervous chuckle.
Movies and plays that embrace this style might be charting our growing insensitivity to violence and other people's anguish, or they might simply be exploiting it. Either way, it's worth thinking about what's going on when one of the worst things you can imagine gets turned into a joke.
Kris Elgstrand's new play, Ramifications of a Particular Crash, imagines a grieving family three years after the death of 15-year-old daughter Jennifer. She was hit by a car driven by young Hollywood starlet Aimee (Lara Gilchrist), who has come to the family's home wanting to attain catharsis or forgiveness. Aimee claims to be sick, lost, unable to live with herself since the accident, despite her wealth, fame and thriving career. (She's getting $15 million for her most recent stupid movie.)
The mother, Joyce (Lori Triolo), is a basket case. Emotionally paralyzed since Jennifer's death, she's inconsolable and drugged to the gills. Husband Paul (Brad Dryborough) is trying hard to hold things together while dealing with his irrational wife and surviving daughter: smart, foul-mouthed Jodi (Maxine Chadburn), now 15 herself. Jodi seems to have lived in the shadow of her parents' grief and sister's death, and has become even more totally self-centred than your average obnoxious adolescent.
We soon realize that all four characters, while feeling real desperation, are wrapped up in their own egos. Aimee's remorse is about an inch deep, Paul is an insensitive husband and father, Jodi just wants to escape from this house of pain, and Joyce has become a one-dimensional wallower in her grief. It's hard to like any of them, but Elgstrand cleverly reveals the psychology of self-interest at work. Maybe he lays on the irony a little too thick when we learn that even Jennifer's death may have involved an ego trip.
Elgstrand and director Martin Kinch start the play on a high note and rarely let up the pace or intensity. At 80 minutes with no intermission, Ramifications just flies by. That opening scene also sets the mixed tone as Aimee storms in trying to explain herself and pick up boxes of Kraft Dinner that Joyce has dropped, while freaked-out Joyce threatens, screams, and kicks at her in what feels like comic chaos.
The audience quickly gets the message that they're supposed to find it all funny. So when Joyce, stunned and broken, enters later in an inside-out bathrobe and gropes to find a pocket, my fellow theatregoers screamed with laughter. I thought it was one of the play's most poignant moments. But once the dogs of comedy are let loose it's hard to get them back into the kennel.
Joyce is the most problematic character in this regard, and Triolo, a terrific actress, has a hard time finding the right notes. In the early scenes she seems like a cartoon, and later, in response to a key plot development I can't reveal, Joyce appears almost lobotomized. Only occasionally do we feel the weight of her terrible sorrow.
Dryborough also struggles a little with Paul, the least complex character, but he does a good job with the play's best speech, Paul's explanation of how he reconciled himself to Aimee's killing of his daughter. Gilchrist effectively makes poor-little-rich-girl Aimee the sad joke we've come to know through Britney Spears/Lindsay Lohan/Amanda Bynes and company. Chadburn's Jodi is the most sympathetic, compelling, horrifying character and the play's standout performance.
A wall-hanging dominates Kinch's simple stage design. It comes to look more and more like a spider web as the characters become progressively entangled in their horribly not-so-funny lives.
Jerry Wasserman
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It looks like when using top the wrapping element height does not change (it overflows the container instead), as per the spec: https://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/visudet.html#Computing_heights_and_margins
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Startin' Point Festival features works from three artists chosen from a submission call out along with an excerpt of the critically acclaimed The Head Wrap Diaries, choreographed by The Place's Work Place Artist, Vicki Igbokwe.
The three artists selected were chosen from an open call which asked for submissions of works in progress which were rooted in dances of the African diaspora. These works were developed into a 20 minute work that was presented on Sat 20 Oct at Startin' Point Festival.
The evening also featured an excerpt of Uchenna Dance's The Head Wrap Diaries.


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Charlie Hore (born 28 August 1976) is  a New Zealand rugby union player (fly half), he played for the Super 14 team Highlanders and played for Italian side Rugby Viadana. He also had a spell for Irish AIL Team Banbridge RFC in the late 1990s. He also played for Scottish side The Borders. He is the brother of former All Black Andrew Hore.

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1976 births
Living people
Highlanders (rugby union) players
Border Reivers players
Expatriate rugby union players in Scotland
New Zealand expatriate sportspeople in Scotland
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Based on the books "Confessions of a Shopaholic" and "Shopaholic Takes Manhattan" by Sophie Kinsella. Rebecca Bloomwood (Isla Fisher) is a 25 year old who lives with her best friend Suze (Krysten Ritter) in Suze's flat (paying her friend rent that is well below market value), in a trendy part of town. Rebecca has a very boring job writing for a financial magazine. She has a shopping addiction and her crap job doesn't pay enough. Her bills are piling up, so she tries cutting back (complete fiasco), then she tries making more money (another fiasco). Eventually, Becky discovers a story that she is truly invested in. Exposing the story gets the attention of a colleague that she hasn't quite figured out yet. Some drama ensues as she snags the guy, and she attempts to pay off her ever-growing debt.


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Fed not gunning for stocks, but may need to for inflation to fall
Economy May 19, 2022 04:18PM ET
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Kansas City Federal Reserve Bank President Esther George addresses the National Association for Business Economics in Denver, Colorado, U.S. October 6, 2019. REUTERS/Ann Saphir
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Federal Reserve is not targeting equity markets in its battle against inflation, but that is "one of the avenues" where the impact of tighter monetary policy will be felt, Kansas City Fed President Esther George said on Thursday.
"What we are looking for is the transmission of our policy through markets' understanding that tightening should be expected," George said in comments to CNBC, a day after weak quarterly earnings from major retailers contributed to a sell-off of stocks. "It is not aimed at the equity markets in particular, but it is one of the avenues through which tighter financial conditions would emerge."
The rout on Wednesday marked one of the worst days for U.S. stocks since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, with major indices down 4% or more. Equity markets have been volatile since the start of the year as investors absorbed the implications of higher inflation and the rising interest rates the Fed will use to fight it.
George's comments reflect an emerging discussion over how the pain of adjusting to high inflation will be distributed across the economy, with some analysts conjecturing that the U.S. central bank will need - or want - more of a hit to household wealth through equity prices, which also influences household spending, and less of one to income and jobs.
Fed policymakers including Chair Jerome Powell have been explicit that they want to limit the impact on employment of rising interest rates.
With household and corporate balance sheets in strong shape, there's financial wherewithal to pay the bills and cope with higher credit costs - a low-leverage environment that may keep the economy growing but make it harder for the Fed to curb spending. The housing market, often a main channel for monetary policy to clamp down on the economy, also remains strong, with prices expected to continue rising even with higher mortgage rates and slower sales.
That leaves equity prices as one of the quickest and clearest paths for the Fed's impact to be felt. Economists have noted that the rising exposure of a broader range of U.S. households to stock markets, through 401k retirement savings and other investments, means likely more impact for monetary policy through that channel.
Along with changing household plans and perceptions as net worth diminishes, falling equity prices have a direct impact on consumption at a rate some economists estimate at about 2 to 3 cents on the dollar. Some $8 trillion of paper wealth has been wiped off of balance sheets so far this year.
"You could kind of read (the Fed's) approach as almost endorsing the drop in equity prices and asset prices more broadly," Jonas Goltermann of Capital Economics said on Thursday, adding that in past hiking cycles the Fed used a gradual approach to minimize the impact on financial conditions.
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When it lifted rates beginning in 2015, the Fed moved in quarter-percentage-point increments, and sometimes only once a year. The S&P 500 index rose through much of that tightening cycle, and fell only as larger concerns about global economic growth took hold.
The situation is different now. Officials in 2015 were anticipating inflation that never arrived. Current prices, based on the Fed's preferred personal consumption expenditures index measurement, are rising at more than triple the Fed's 2% target.
That has touched off what amounts to a crisis response of half-percentage-point rate increases and a pledge this week by Powell to raise rates as high as needed to bring inflation down.
To do so means slowing the economy enough to trim the "excess" demand that Fed officials feel is driving prices higher, and, in the current situation, causing companies to eliminate hiring plans that have led to record levels of job openings and wage pressures as they compete for workers.
Some tech firms have announced hiring freezes as a result of their dimmed outlooks and falling stock prices, a sign the Fed's hoped-for narrative has begun to play out.
In the best case, inflation will fall before firms reach the point of actual layoffs, but getting there still means a blow to corporate earnings - a key component of stock pricing - as companies reset sales and growth expectations.
"The sell-off in equity markets may ultimately be as important as the rise in interest rates in moderating demand," Citi economists wrote on Thursday, arguing that higher interest rates may not on their own be enough, for example, to cool the housing market.
"Some of the work of tighter financial conditions will come through the now about 18% decline in equity prices. If the objective is to reduce job openings, it is easier to see a link between equity prices, corporate sentiment and hiring plans than it is between interest rates and job openings," the Citi team wrote.
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The Definitive Oral Biography
If you've followed this blog for even a short amount of time, you know what huge fans Laura and I are of Tony. Naturally, when this was announced, I knew I was going to read it as soon as I could.
From the publisher marketing:
An unprecedented behind-the-scenes view into the life of Anthony Bourdain from the people who knew him best
When Anthony Bourdain died in June 2018, fans around the globe came together to celebrate the life of an inimitable man who had dedicated his life to traveling nearly everywhere (and eating nearly everything), shedding light on the lives and stories of others. His impact was outsized and his legacy has only grown since his death.
Now, for the first time, we have been granted a look into Bourdain's life through the stories and recollections of his closest friends and colleagues. Laurie Woolever, Bourdain's longtime assistant and confidante, interviewed nearly a hundred of the people who shared Tony's orbit–from members of his kitchen crews to his writing, publishing, and television partners, to his daughter and his closest friends–in order to piece together a remarkably full, vivid, and nuanced vision of Tony's life and work.
From his childhood and teenage days, to his early years in New York, through the genesis of his game-changing memoir Kitchen Confidential to his emergence as a writing and television personality, and in the words of friends and colleagues including Eric Ripert, José Andrés, Nigella Lawson, and W. Kamau Bell, as well as family members including his brother and his late mother, we see the many sides of Tony–his motivations, his ambivalence, his vulnerability, his blind spots, and his brilliance.
Unparalleled in scope and deeply intimate in its execution, with a treasure trove of photos from Tony's life, Bourdain: The Definitive Oral Biography is a testament to the life of a remarkable man in the words of the people who shared his world.
For the past three years we, as a culture, have been searching for Tony's voice as we all navigate through this crazy world. Millions of people worldwide watched him travel the world and have authentic conversations with the people he found everywhere from Vietnam to Texas. I'd come to rely on him to tell me that there was still good in the world even when the news seemed bleak and then suddenly, unexpectedly, his voice was gone.
I finally feel like I can stop looking now that I've read Bourdain. He really is gone, and this book will help everyone appreciate him, but acknowledge that there will never be another like him. For his many fans, we just need to take his message, "be a traveler not a tourist" to heart and travel in his memory and finally say goodbye. For those hoping that World Travel would have allowed us to say goodbye and were disappointed, I'm satisfied in saying that this is the one that will bring closure.
A comprehensive portrait of the man by those who knew him best, Bourdain is, thankfully, not a hagiography – he was no saint. I'm also glad that the focus is not on his death but him as a person and, mostly, the twenty years of his life after Kitchen Confidential, the twenty years of his life he shared with all of us.
Included in the early years are his brother, Chris, mother, Gladys, as well as his childhood sweetheart and first wife, Nancy. The middle years feature the real people behind the aliases of Kitchen Confidential sharing their sides of the story. The television years bring us his second wife, Ottavia, daughter Ariane, best friend Eric, and crew from his various shows over the years.
The parts that are "missing" I'm glad are missing – there is nothing from Eric Ripert about his final days and his girlfriend at the time of his death is not included at all. Ariane, his daughter, has the closing reflection of the book, a fitting tribute to her dad. It's a well organized book, but I wish Laurie had stepped out from behind the editor's desk and added some of her own recollections as well.
Rating: 10 out of 10
Tagged Anecdotes, Anthony Bourdain, Biographies, Bourdain, Celebrity chefs, Cooks, Family, Food writers, Friends and associates, New York (State), New York City, Television personalities, Travelers, United States
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The Auckland City String Quartet are regarded as one of the finest in New Zealand. This classical string ensemble will add sophistication and style to any Wedding, Conference or Function where elegance and a high level of musicanship and presentation is required. Top level Auckland quartet.


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Legendary rock star Jerry Lee Lewis, the man responsible for the song "Great Balls of Fire," is married once again. It's his seventh try at marriage. This time around, he decided to play it safe and marry the woman who is being paid to care for him.
Lewis is 76 years old now, so he's running out of time if he wants to hit double-digits in marriage. It makes sense that he wouldn't search too hard to find this wife. In fact, the woman he married, Judith Brown, is actually the ex-wife of one of Lewis's cousins. That particular cousin, Rusty Brown, is the brother of the cousin (and minor!) who Lewis married back in 1957, Myra Gale Brown. Does anyone else get the impression that Jerry doesn't spend a lot of time on dating sites and just proposes to whoever's close to him at any given time?
This time around, there's a 14-year age difference between Lewis and his new wife. That's actually a bigger gap than there was when he married Myra Gale Brown, but that particular marriage was super creepy to a lot of people because Myra Gale Brown happened to be only 13 freakin' years old. And, you know, a blood relative of Lewis.
Lewis and Myra Gale Brown divorced after only two years, following intense public criticism of the relationship. In many ways, his career never recovered.


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On paying tribute to Soviet soldiers of World War II
In total there are 18 Soviet military graves across the UK. Throughout April and beginning of May Ambassador Andrei Kelin and Embassy staff have paid tribute and laid flowers to the graves of Soviet soldiers of World War II, buried at cemeteries in Aldershot, Chester, Liverpool, Shaftesbury and Tidworth. Part of the memorial work will also be covered by our compatriots living in the UK. It is important to preserve the memory of these heroes who fought for our freedom and died while defending the Motherland.
Ambassador Andrei Kelin paid tribute to Soviet soldiers of World War II
On 22 April 2020 Ambassador Andrei Kelin and his spouse, as well as the Embassy Defence and Military Attaché Colonel Mikhail Ivanov, paid tribute and laid flowers to the graves of to Soviet soldiers of World War II, buried at Tidworth Military Cemetery. The ceremony is part of a series of commemorative events dedicated to the 75th Anniversary of Victory in World War II.
Ambassador Andrei Kelin visits Cambridge Union
On 4th March 2020 Ambassador Andrei Kelin visited the Cambridge Union. His Excellency was warmly welcomed and briefed the members on the current state of relations between Russia and the UK, as well as outlined Russia's position on most pressing international issues. The guests showed genuine interest in the discussion, while the Ambassador was more than happy to answer all possible questions from the audience after his talk. During the visit Mr Kelin also signed in the guestbook of the Union.
Russian Ambassador Andrei Kelin's welcoming words to the guests at the opening of the "Stalingrad in British History" exhibition at the St Albans Museum and Gallery, February 28, 2020
Russia and Great Britain were key allies in World War II. And Britain was the only country to have launched a mass fund-raising movement to support the city of Stalingrad which suffered heavy damage from Nazi bombings. People from over 300 towns and cities across the UK have participated in this campaign, including St Albans. The exhibition "Stalingrad in British History" is dedicated not so much to the history of the battle itself, as to this precise partnership and solidarity among the peoples of our two nations.
Ambassador Andrei Kelin hosted a reception at his Residence to honour the Russian Armed Forces
On 21 February 2020 Ambassador Andrei Kelin hosted a reception at his Residence to honour the Russian Armed Forces.
Ambassador Andrei Kelin presented letters of credence
On 13 February 2020 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Mr Andrei Kelin presented his letters of credence to Her Majesty The Queen. The ceremony took place at Buckingham Palace. The Ambassador and his spouse, as well as the accompanying diplomats of the Embassy arrived, in accordance with an established tradition, in horse-drawn landau.
Reception on the occasion of Diplomats' Day
On the occasion of Diplomats' Day, the Russian Ambassador His Excellency Mr Andrei Kelin hosted a reception at his Residence in London.
Ambassador Andrei Kelin laid flowers to the grave of Alexander Benckendorff
On10 February, on the occasion of Diplomats' Day in Russia, Ambassador Andrei Kelin laid flowers to the grave of Count Alexander Benckendorff, the last Russian Imperial Ambassador to the UK in 1902-1916, in Westminster Cathedral. A small service was read.
Ambassador Andrei Kelin visits the Oxford Union
On 4 th February 2020 Ambassador Andrei Kelin visited the Oxford Union. His Excellency was warmly welcomed and briefed the members on the current state of relations between Russia and the UK, as well as outlined Russia's position on most pressing international issues. The guests showed genuine interest in the discussion, while the Ambassador was more than happy to answer all possible questions from the audience after his talk. During the visit Mr Kelin signed in the guestbook and took photos with the President and several members of the Union.


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The 2012 NCAA Division I Women's Lacrosse Championship was the thirty-first annual single-elimination tournament to determine the national championship for National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I women's college lacrosse.  The tournament began with first-round play on May 12, and concluded with the championship game played at Kenneth P. LaValle Stadium of Stony Brook University in Stony Brook, New York, on May 27, 2012.  The Northwestern Wildcats were the 2012 NCAA Tournament champions.

Dates and locations

The NCAA Tournament's eight first-round games were played Saturday, May 12, and Sunday, May 13, and the four quarterfinal games were played Saturday, May 19, and Sunday, May 20.  The tournament's first-round and quarterfinal games were played on the home fields of the higher seeded teams.  The winners of the four quarterfinal games advanced to the two semifinal games played on May 25 and hosted by Stony Brook University at LaValle Stadium, the home field of the Stony Brook Seawolves football and lacrosse teams.  The tournament championship game was played at LaValle Stadium on May 27.

Tournament field

The NCAA Division I Women's Lacrosse Committee selected sixteen teams to compete in the 2012 Division I women's lacrosse tournament.  Eight teams were selected on an "automatic qualifier" basis.  The tournament champions of five conferences, including the America East Conference, the American Lacrosse Conference (ALC), the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC), the Big East Conference and the Ivy League, received automatic invitations to the NCAA Tournament.  These five teams included the Albany Great Danes of the America East, the No. 1 seed Florida Gators of the ALC, the No. 3 seed Maryland Terrapins of the ACC, the No. 6 seed Loyola Greyhounds of the Big East, and the Dartmouth Big Green of the Ivy League.

In addition, three play-in games were held to determine the last three automatic qualifiers.  The champions of the Patriot League, the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation, the Colonial Athletic Association (CAA), the Northeast Conference (NEC), the Atlantic 10 Conference, and the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC) competed in the play-in games.  The Patriot League's Navy Midshipmen defeated the Oregon Ducks of the Mountain Pacific, the CAA's Towson Tigers beat the NEC's Monmouth Hawks, and the Atlantic 10's UMass Minutemen defeated the Canisius Golden Griffins of the MAAC, with the winners receiving the final three automatic qualifier bids.

The remaining eight tournament teams were chosen by the NCAA tournament selection committee on an at-large basis; the factors considered by the selection committee included: (1) the NCAA's ratings percentage index (RPI); (2) results against common opponents; (3) significant wins and losses; and (4) evaluation of the ten highest-rated teams on a team's schedule, as defined by strength of schedule and winning percentage.  The eight at-large teams selected by the committee were the No. 2 seed Northwestern Wildcats, No. 4 seed Syracuse Orange, No. 5 seed North Carolina Tar Heels, and No. 7 seed Duke Blue Devils, as well as the unseeded Notre Dame Fighting Irish, Penn Quakers, Penn State Nittany Lions, and Virginia Cavaliers.

Eight conferences placed member teams in the 2012 tournament, but four conferences dominated the selections, garnering twelve invitations in the sixteen-team field.  The ACC received four bids (Maryland, North Carolina, Duke, and Virginia), the ALC got three (Florida, Northwestern, Penn State), the Big East also received three (Syracuse, Loyola, Notre Dame), and the Ivy League got two (Dartmouth, Penn).  The ACC, ALC and Big East also dominated the tournament seeding, with member teams receiving the top seven seeds.

Play-in games

Seeds

1. Florida (17-2)
2. Northwestern (17-2)
3. Maryland (17-3)
4. Syracuse (16-3)
5. North Carolina (14-3)
6. Loyola (MD) (13-5)
7. Duke (11-6)
8. Towson (16-3)

Teams

Tournament bracket

The 2012 NCAA Tournament bracket consisted of sixteen teams, eight of whom were seeded No. 1 through No. 8.  In the first round of the tournament, each of the eight seeded teams was paired with one of the eight unseeded teams.

See also
 NCAA Division I Women's Lacrosse Championship
 2012 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship

References

NCAA Division I Women's Lacrosse Championship
NCAA Division I Women's Lacrosse Championship
NCAA Women's Lacrosse Championship


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Two-hour special on President Obama to air on History Channel
With the transition of power for the President of the United States of America to take place in a matter of days, HISTORY interrupts its regular programming to bring to Asia its two-hour TV special on the outgoing commander-in- chief, President Obama: In His Own Words. Reflecting on his historic presidency; President Obama shares his thoughts on where the country was when he was elected, where it is now, and where he sees it going under his successor's command.
Comprising two interviews conducted before and after the 2016 Presidential election, President Obama: In His Own Words is the President's first-hand account of his time in office — his successes, his failures, his unfinished business — and what he hopes will be his legacy. Also included are additional interviews with members of his staff including Vice President Joe Biden and Secretary of State John Kerry, Congress, and the press, to make for a unique examination of the Obama presidency from the inside out, and a profound and candid historical record that will stand for generations.
"President Obama: In His Own Words" premiers Jan. 16, Monday 7 p.m.(PH) on the same day of the US telecast, first and exclusively on HISTORY.
As the 44th President of the United States of America, Obama was the first African-American to be elected to the office. Among the work he will be remembered for, Obama signed into law various economic stimulus legislation; the contentious "Obamacare" changes to domestic financial regulations; and enabled LGBT individuals to serve in the US Armed Forces. In foreign policy, Obama ended US military involvement in the Iraq War; signed the arms control treaty with Russia, ordered US military involvement against Muammar Gaddafi in Libya; and ordered the operation that killed Osama bin Laden.
During his second term, Obama promoted domestic gun control and called for greater inclusiveness for LGBT Americans. In foreign policy, Obama ordered US military intervention to ISIL; reduced US combat operations in Afghanistan; promoted discussions to the 2015 Paris Agreement on global climate change; brokered a nuclear deal with Iran; and normalized US relations with Cuba.
The outgoing President was the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize laureate for his efforts to promote nuclear non-proliferation and a fostering a new climate in international relations, especially in reaching out to the Muslim world.
Premieres Jan. 16, Monday 7 p.m. on the same day of the US telecast, first and exclusively on HISTORY. HISTORY® is available on Sky Cable Ch 67; Cable Link Ch 43; Dream Satellite Ch 30; Destiny Cable Ch 57; and Cignal Ch 125. HISTORY HD™ is available on Sky Cable Ch 165.
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Cape Fear Farm Credit Announces Patronage
Cape Fear Farm Credit announces an early patronage distribution of $10.67 million to be paid to its customer-owners in October of 2018.
Patronage, the distribution of the Association's profits to its customer-owners, is typically declared at the end of the fiscal year and is paid to its members in April. However, due to the devastation that Cape Fear Farm Credit's territory endured during Hurricane Florence, the Board of Directors unanimously approved an early patronage declaration for 2018. By declaring an early patronage, customer-owners will receive patronage based on the first two-thirds of the year in October. The Board of Directors then plans to declare an additional patronage for the remaining one-third of the year, which upon declaration in late 2018 would be distributed to its members in April 2019.
"After the devastation of Hurricane Florence, many of our customers are in need of funds now as they begin to make repairs and rebuild. As their partner and local cooperative, it is our mission to consistently give back the Association's profits to our members" states Brad Cornelius, CEO of Cape Fear Farm Credit.
"This historic and early patronage distribution is a reminder that we weather the storms of life together and we will continue to support each other during the rebuilding process" adds Gary Hendrix, Chairman of the Board of Directors.
Including the declaration of the early patronage, the Association has paid over $250 million in patronage to their customer-owners over the past 31 consecutive years.