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A Gunman Targeted Their Church, Here's How They Remember that Day
"We're not going to live in fear."
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In late October a few hours after the weekly noontime Bible study, Travis Hines didn't know that a gunman was outside. The 43-year-old Family Life Director at the First Baptist Church in Jeffersontown, Kentucky, was inside the church with a few of his colleagues, when a white man with a gun tried to enter by banging on and then yanking the door. Fortunately, the doors were locked. Several minutes later, Gregory Bush went to the nearby Kroger grocery store and fatally shot 67-year-old Vicki Lee Jones and 69-year-old Maurice Stallard. They were both black.
"A tragedy was an accident," Jones' nephew Kevin Gunn told NBC. "This was intended."
But Kentucky didn't charge the alleged shooter with a hate crime, which typically involves crimes committed against a person or people solely because of an immutable fact about them such as race, religion, or sexual identity. While authorities said that it appeared that the murders were "racially motivated," Kentucky's hate crime law does not include murder. Instead, Kentucky charged Bush with two counts of murder, one count of attempted murder, and first-degree wanton endangerment from the state. A little over two weeks later, a federal prosecutor charged him with hate crimes.
The act of violence in Jeffersontown is noteworthy not only because it was a hate crime, but also because of how its seriousness was eclipsed by other events that week. I talked to someone who was in the church at the time, and he described the experience and reflected on what it was like to have been the target of a hate crime—but spared.
"That particular day, the timing was miraculous," Hines tells Mother Jones. It was a couple of hours after the midday FBCJ Bible study had ended, which usually attracted about 70 people, and only a handful of employees were still around. According to security footage, Bush unsuccessfully tried to enter the church around 2:30 p.m. but FBCJ is a secured church. And for the midday Bible study, the side doors were unlocked for only a short period of time before they were automatically secured once everyone was inside and settled.
"I fell to my knees and thanked God for sparing us," he said, "because it could've been us."
Hines didn't find out about Bush's attempt to get into the church before the Kroger shooting until law enforcement contacted the church. "I fell to my knees and thanked God for sparing us," he said, "because it could've been us."
It didn't take much time before members of the congregation figured out why Bush chose their place of worship. "He came here because he knew that it's a predominantly black church," Hines says. "We're the only one in this area." Everyone there was acutely aware of their vulnerability, especially after the 2015 attack on the historically black church in Charleston, South Carolina, when 21-year-old avowed white supremacist Dylann Roof entered during a Bible study and shot and killed nine members of the congregation. "We felt that that was his attempt to make it another Charleston," FBCJ Pastor Kevin Nelson told the Associated Press.
The Kroger shooting happened in a place where it's not easy to be black. Not only did Kentucky have one of the highest rises in hate crimes between 2016 and 2017, a Louisville Urban League 2018 report found wide racial disparities exist statewide. In 2016, the unemployment rate for black residents of Louisville was 11 percent; the white unemployment rate was five percent. And while black people only make up 8 percent of the Kentucky population, they account for 29 percent of the prison population. Health researchers from the University of Louisville, whose findings were included in the report, have found that those living on the predominantly black west side of town have a lower life expectancy than its richer, whiter counterpart.
The week of October 22 was a particularly violent one even by American standards. News of the shooting at the Kroger in the Louisville area on Wednesday was quickly overshadowed by another shooting the following Saturday morning when Robert Bowers entered a synagogue in Pittsburgh, shouting anti-Semitic slurs and killing 11 people. Meanwhile, throughout that week, Cesar Sayoc, a Florida man and registered Republican had sent pipe bombs through the mail to various high-profile Democrats including Hillary and Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, and megadonors Tom Steyer and George Soros. One of the things they all had in common was that they were frequent targets of President Trump on Twitter.
But when the shooting in Kentucky began to be eclipsed by the synagogue tragedy and the mail bombs, the community struggled. "It just re-traumatized a lot of people," Chanelle Helm, the co-leader and organizer of Black Lives Matter Louisville, tells Mother Jones. "The focus went away and the synagogue shooting took precedence." Helm speculates that since the number of casualties was higher in Pittsburgh, the media turned their attention away But still, she says, "It hurt really badly to get ignored."
"The focus went away and the synagogue shooting took precedence. It hurt really badly to get ignored."
Hate crimes are on the rise in the United States. According to a report released by the FBI earlier this month, such crimes increased by 17 percent between 2016 and last year. Of the more than 7,100 hate crimes reported last year, three out of five were based on race and ethnicity. The rise in the number of hate crimes coincides with the presidency of Donald Trump whose campaign was fueled by racism and xenophobia and who has done little to tamp down extremist rhetoric as president. "President Trump's candidacy had so many different themes that were consistent with their [extremist] views that he really did excite them in a way you haven't seen with other mainstream political figures," Peter Simi, a sociology professor at Chapman University who researches extremism, told NBC last year.
President Trump said nothing about the Kroger shooting, unlike his response after the massacre at the Tree of Life synagogue, where first he took the opportunity to offer his sympathies to the victims, before pivoting to blaming the synagogue for a lack of security measures. "If there was an armed guard inside the temple, they would have been able to stop him," the president told reporters gathered at the White House, just days after the tragedy.
Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin, a staunch defender of the right to own and use a gun, blamed recent mass tragedies on video games and television shows about zombies. In a radio interview earlier this month, the governor said new laws wouldn't curb the violence. "It starts with everything from the type of entertainment that we focus on," he said. "What's the most popular topic that seems to be in every cable television network? Television shows are all about, what? Zombies!" He also included abortions as a reason for mass violence. "When a culture is surrounded by, inundated by, rewards things that celebrate death, whether it is zombies in television shows, the number of abortions…there's a thousand justifications for why we do this." His comments came one week after a gunman killed 12 individuals at a bar in Thousand Oaks, California. For Helm, Bevin's reaction to violence were not surprising. "Our governor," she says, "is just a little Trump."
Jason Nemes and Jerry Miller, two Republican state lawmakers sponsored a bill to update Kentucky's hate crime laws."Inexplicably, this crime of murder was not included in the list of crimes that may be treated as hate crimes in the commonwealth of Kentucky," Nemes said. And in the absence of stricter gun laws, churches and other spaces are fortifying their buildings and ratcheting up security. In the aftermath of the shooting at the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, last year, some nearby churches even considered arming their members.
Despite the fear of gun violence in even the most sacred of places, Hines says his church won't close its doors to the outside. "We're not going to live in fear because of this," he says. "We're not going to let this deter us from being an inviting church."
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Марія фон Аугусін (), уроджена Регельсберг фон Турнберг (); 23 грудня 1807 або 1810 — 13 лютого 1886 — австрійська баронеса, художниця і письменниця, писала також під псевдонімом Марія фон Турнберг ().

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Народилася в Банаті в родині підполковника цісарсько-королівської армії. Дитинство провела у Відні і від матері, розумної і чутливої саксонки, отримала добру освіту і нахил до поезії. Вже з 14-ти років починає вдало віршувати, а через рік пише фантастичну повість «Теодора» (Theodora), яка демонструє рано розвинений інтелект. Пісня смерті матері у 1821 р. Марія з великою наполегливістю зайнялася живописом. Беручи уроки у видатних майстрів, спочатку займалася портретною мініатюрою, а потім звернулася до історичної тематики, копіюючи знамениті роботи з галереї Естергазі (англ. Esterházy Gallery). Також вона малювала для церков і монастирів картини на християнську тематику. В 1835 р. фон Турнберг одружилася з капітаном Феринандом Бароном фон Аугустином (Ferdinand Baron von Augustin) і впродовж 25-тирічного шлюбу супроводжувала чоловіка у поїздках імперією. Через переїзди мусила покинути живопис і з усією пристрастю віддалася літературі: створює вірші, оповідання, романи. Після смерті чоловіка у 1861 році баронеса поселилася у Відні, де брала ативну участь у жіночому русі. У 1885 р. стала президентом «Союзу писменниць і мисткинь Відня» (Vereins der Schriftstellerinnen und Künstlerinnen in Wien). У Відні баронеса фон Турнберг і померла.

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 Novellen und Erzählungen (4 Bände, 1843—1845) — «Повісті та оповідання» у чотирьох томах.
 Der Jungfrau schönstes Ziel: Toiletten-Geschenk für junge Damen, welche nach vollendeter Erziehung in die Welt treten (1844) — «Найпрекрасніша мета дівчини: Туалетний подарунок для молодої дами, яка після отримання освіти вступає у світ»
 Des Fischers Tochter (1844) -«Донька рибалки»
 Gedanken einer Frau über die angeborenen Rechte des Frauengeschlechtes (1846) — «Думки одної пані про природжені права жіночої статі»
 Die graue Schwester (1846) -«Сива сестра»
 Sprossen der Erinnerung. Neueste Novellen (1851) -«Паростки спогадів. Новіші новели»
 Die Rose am See (1852) — «Троянда на озері»
 Seelenklänge. Gedichte (1864) — «Звук душі. Вірші»
 Die Rose von Granada. Romantisches Gedicht (1873) «Троянда Гранади. Романтичний вірш».

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Review by Brian Eggert November 9, 2009
Seann William Scott, Paul Rudd, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Bobb'e J. Thompson, Jane Lynch, Elizabeth Banks
Something strange happens around the midpoint of Role Models. Formulaic plotting aside, you begin to care about the characters. Why does this happen? Shouldn't we be immune to buddy movies strictly following a blueprint we've seen dozens of times before? Producer Judd Apatow proved with Forgetting Sarah Marshall and The 40-Year-Old Virgin that common recipes can be innovated upon and remade as relevant, but then again, Apatow's overexposed name is nowhere on this production. Wouldn't you know it; other people can make genial R-rated comedies with a heart too.
Misanthropic loser Danny (Paul Rudd) is having a bad day. He gets dumped by his lawyer girlfriend (Elizabeth Banks) over his narcissistic attitude, fired from his job as an energy drink spokesman, and drags his coworker friend Wheeler (Seann William Scott), always enthusiastic and optimistic much to the annoyance of Danny, along for the ride down the spiral. Assigned to 150 community service hours, their time is spent in the buddy program Sturdy Wings, mentoring children under the watchful eye of a formerly cocaine-addicted program director (the hilarious Jane Lynch).
Enter the Little to Danny's Big, a nerdy fantasy enthusiast named Augie Farks (Christopher Mintz-Plasse, best known as McLovin' from Superbad), who spends his weekends in a Dungeons & Dragons-type role-playing game where adults and teens alike bat each other with foam swords and speak in pseudo-Middle English tongue. Danny's not really interested; he just wants to get through his court-mandated hours. Meanwhile, the sex-obsessed Wheeler is appropriately assigned to potty-mouthed problem child Ronnie (Bobb'e J. Thompson), who quickly learns Wheeler has many lessons to offer in the art of "boobie-watching."
Much of the film concerns Augie's medieval fantasy game, which takes place in a park and renders the participants in homemade armor. The villain would be King Argotron (Ken Jeong), who, topped with a plastic crown and infinite smugness, takes his position too seriously. It's astounding how involved we become when Danny, Wheeler, and Ronnie join Augie's team and thwap-away with foam battle gear. I imagine the emotions we feel as viewers are no different than those when viewing Braveheart or Gladiator, rooting for those select few heroes among a mass of screaming combatants, here wielding floppy weaponry instead of sharp replicas.
The plot plays out as you might expect, with Danny and Wheeler realizing these two kids need mentoring, thus the adults finally become adults for the sake of the children. Lessons are learned. Laughs are had. But the unique aspects originate from the acting troupe assembled by director David Wain, who wrote the film along with Rudd. Familiar faces from MTV's great 1990s sketch comedy show The State, Comedy Central's Reno: 911! and Stella, and the films The Ten and Wet Hot American Summer populate the cast—names like Kerri Kenney, Joe Lo Truglio, Matt Walsh, Ken Marino, and others attuned to improvisational and random humor.
Stealing the movie from the veterans are Mintz-Plasse and Thompson, two performers we're likely to see more of in the coming years, or until they reach that awkward growth stage and become another Macaulay Culkin. In the latter case, with the twelve-year-old Thompson, we actually grow somewhat concerned that his parents would sign their child up for such a graphic role. This kid unleashes every swear in the book like a pro, but also delivers lines like "You white, then you Ben Affleck" with impressive comic timing.
You know what's going to happen. The dudes find equilibrium between their dudeness and their maturity, realizing that dudes don't have be such dudes all the time. Saying Role Models has heart would be accurate, though I'm recommending this title based on the film's ever-constant stream of laughs, and their guiltless nature. Its compassion for the characters helps diminish that post-film residue that sometimes clings to the viewer after a dirty comedy. There's nothing to feel guilty about; the result is genuinely hilarious and sweet enough to justify.
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Discussion in 'Freedom and Liberty' started by Clyde, Dec 1, 2006.
"The highest number to which a standing army can be carried in any country does not exceed one hundredth part of the souls, or one twenty-fifth part of the number able to bear arms. This portion would not yield, in the United States, an army of more than twenty-five or thirty thousand men. To these would be opposed a militia amounting to near half a million citizens with arms in their hands, officered by men chosen from among themselves, fighting for their common liberties and united and conducted by governments possessing their affections and confidence. It may well be doubted whether a militia thus circumstanced could ever be conquered by such a proportion of regular troops. Besides the advantage of being armed, it forms a barrier against the enterprises of ambition, more insurmountable than any which a simple government of any form can admit of. The governments of Europe are afraid to trust the people with arms. If they did, the people would surely shake off the yoke of tyranny, as America did. Let us not insult the free and gallant citizens of America with the suspicion that they would be less able to defend the rights of which they would be in actual possession than the debased subjects of arbitrary power would be to rescue theirs from the hands of their oppressors.
-- James Madison, principal author of Constitution, principal writer of The Federalist Papers, President of the United States, Mainstream Revolutionary and Militant.
Prolly quicker to buy it yourself.... I owe you a lunch!
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Rarely do movies show potential viewers as much consideration as Henry Dunham's The Standoff at Sparrow Creek does through title alone. Everything a viewer needs to know about the plot, the story, and the setting is baked right in the name in just five words: There's a creek, there's a standoff happening by the creek, and the creek somehow relates to passerine birds.
For a percentage of folks, that's all the info they'll need to purchase a ticket. The details left out of the title are small potatoes compared to the basic structure outlined by the film's self-summarizing appellation, not just to a prospective audience but to Dunham himself. The Standoff at Sparrow Creek is as stripped down as thrillers get: An ex-cop turned militiaman meets up with his fellow militiamen after hearing of a shooting at a police funeral ostensibly perpetrated by one of their number. Packed into one confined space, each grows suspicious of the others and increasingly keen on saving their own asses.
The ex-cop is Gannon, played by James Badge Dale. Gannon's peers—Noah, Beckmann, Morris, Keating, Hubbel and Ford—are played, respectively, by Brian Geraghty, Patrick Fischler, Happy Anderson, Robert Aramayo, Gene Jones and Chris Mulkey, a burly assemblage of men ranging between chiseled and slovenly. Once gathered, they don't leave the warehouse they use as militia HQ, remaining under its fleeting protection as Gannon employs the interrogation skills he picked up in his days working for the law in a controlled but obviously unnerved attempt at finding the cop killer in their ranks.
Resist the temptation to compare The Standoff at Sparrow Creek to Reservoir Dogs, or even The Hateful Eight—one-room movies populated by characters severely lacking trust in one another. Dunham doesn't exhibit Tarantino's flair for colorful, punchy dialogue and pop culture referentialism but nor should he, necessarily—this is a film anchored to here and now, unfolding so briskly that borrowing Tarantino's elements of style would rob the experience of immediacy. Desperation is oxygen to The Standoff at Sparrow Creek, not snappy, cuss-laden banter.
It's easy to roll eyes at them when they're not occupying the screen and laying out their terrifying ideologies, of course, but Dunham keeps enough distance from the basic conceit that his material metastasizes into a functioning narrative instead of aggressive commentary on American extremists. The people here are genuine people driven by grudges formed out of personal tragedy or social isolation. Taking on the role of negotiator, Gannon accidentally winds up playing the part of therapist, too, hearing out his peers' motivations and histories as he goes about the business of unveiling the culprit.
The film's a showcase for Dale, one of those "I know that guy!" actors who pops up in random parts in random movies and who most likely know by face more than by name. The Standoff at Sparrow Creek demonstrates his remarkable dexterity as a leading man who can hold the center of a film while making everyone else around him look good. Dunham's assembled a talented bunch overall—especially Jones and Fischler—but Dale's hard-nosed macho posturing forces all of them to step to his level.
Just as key to The Standoff at Sparrow Creek's sustained tension is Dunham, who, knowing he's set a challenge for himself by relegating the action to a single location, finds ways to avoid the potential narrative suffocation of proximity. He shoots from a distance when violence must be recollected or performed, and he knows just how close to get to his subjects when they're trading alpha male bluster.
The movie's masculine energy is off the charts. Everyone metaphorically paws the ground in every verbal altercation, ready to charge at his cohorts with the slightest provocation. But Dunham's filmmaking remains disciplined throughout, building pressure within that's eventually released in explosive violence. That's what the title promises, after all. But that promise doesn't blunt the jolting effect of The Standoff at Sparrow Creek's storytelling or the gutpunches dealt in its climax.


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Artist and unborn baby died when norovirus and pregnancy made heart disease worse
Nicole MorleyWednesday 20 Dec 2017 9:05 am
Francesca Lowe died while 25 weeks pregnant (Picture: Twitter)
A renowned artist and her unborn baby died when norovirus and her pregnancy made her heart disease worse, a coroner has ruled.
Francesca Lowe's body was discovered by her husband, Gavin Nolan, when she was 25 weeks pregnant with her second child.
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He tried to revive his wife for seven minutes before paramedics arrived, but she was pronounced dead at their home in Stoke Newington, north London, at 8.30am on January 23.
In a statement read out at an earlier hearing, Mr Nolan said: 'I woke up and went to the toilet and saw Francesca there.
'There was vomit in the toilet and I touched her and she was cold. I pulled her out of the toilet into the hallway and I started with CPR before calling the ambulance.'
Francesca Lowe and Gavin Nolan attend the Macmillan De'Longhi Art Auction 2009 (Picture: Getty)
She suffered a mitral valve prolapse – when the valve becomes too floppy – in both her pregnancies.
However during her first pregnancy she did not attend an appointment at Homerton Hospital so was discharged from their care.
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A letter was sent to her to confirm an appointment with a cardiology department, but it is not known if she ever received it or if her GP was copied in.
Miss Lowe was an award-winning artist and had studied at the Royal Academy Schools.
She represented the UK at the Beijing Biennale at the National Art Museum in 2008 and won the Red Mansion Prize in 2003, and the Deutsche Bank Pyramid Award for Fine Art the following year.
Francesca Lowe was an award-winning artist who has work displayed all over the world (Picture: Twitter)
In the days up to her death she suffered norovirus, Poplar Coroner's court heard, and she had been referred to a cardiologist for a heart murmur she suffered from the age of seven.
Assistant Coroner Edwin Buckett said: 'She wasn't immediately referred to a consultant cardiologist after the 4th of January 2017, and nor were the results of the cardiogram relayed to her GP.'
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Toxicology found no trace of drugs or alcohol in her system.
Delivering his verdict, Mr Buckett said: 'She was around 25 weeks pregnant with her second child, and had been suffering from a diarrhoea and vomiting bug for a few days.
'Her heart showed significant disease of the mitral valve, with associated scarring, and norovirus was detected.'
The underlying cause of death was given as disease of the heart muscle, while other conditions which indirectly contributed were pregnancy and the norovirus, he said.
Coroner Buckett said: 'I find as a fact that it is likely that Francesca was not complaining of chest pains at the time of that echocardiogram, or any condition which would have warranted an emergency admittance to hospital. Her death was as a result of natural causes.'
The coroner will decide whether to make a prevention of further deaths report at a later date.
The inquest heard from Dr Andrew Deaner, a cardiologist who carried out an independent review of the case. He said pregnancy put an extra 40 to 50% strain on the heart, although this tended to come at about 35 weeks onwards, the hearing was told.
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Reflections on William Still, "Dying to Live"
I recently read Dying to Live (Christian Focus, 1991), the autobiography of Scottish pastor William Still. I became interested in Still after reading his book The Work of the Pastor earlier this year.
The first half of Dying to Live tells about Still's early years into young adulthood and his beginning in pastoral ministry. Still had an unsettled childhood. His parents were separated in his early years, and his father was an alcoholic. He was a sickly child who took refuge in music and became an accomplished pianist. He was part of the Salvation Army as a young man but then entered ministry in the Church of Scotland and served at the Gilcomston Church in his hometown of Aberdeen from 1945-1997.
The second half of the book deals with various aspects of Still's pastoral ministry. Still was an evangelical. In his early ministry he worked with Billy Graham, Alan Redpath, and others in evangelistic events. With time, however, he moved away from what he came to call "evangelisticism" to develop a solid expositional ministry.
Still faced his fair share of hardships during the course of his ministry. When he moved away from pragmatic evangelistic methods, for example, more than two hundred people stopped attending his church almost overnight. In the preface, he references Martin Luther's observation that there are three things which make a minister: study, prayer, and afflictions. He observes, "He who is not prepared to make enemies for Christ's sake by the faithful preaching of the Word will never make lasting friends for Christ, either" (p. 93).
He describes one particularly difficult controversy early in his ministry when he confronted a group of disgruntled elders. At the end of one Sunday service, he read a statement confronting these men, which ended, "There you sit, with your heads down, guilty men. What would you say if I named you before the whole congregation? You stand condemned before God for your contempt of the Word and of his folk." He adds, "The moment I had finished, I walked out of the pulpit. There was no last hymn—no benediction. I went right home. It was the hardest and most shocking thing I ever had to do in Gilcomston" (p. 124). That same week seven of his elders resigned and Still was called twice before his Presbytery to answer for the controversy. Yet, he endured.
Still maintains that in light of the unpleasantness one will face in the ministry that the minister of the Word must possess one quality in particular: "…I would say that this quality is courage: guts, sheer lion-hearted bravery, clarity of mind and purpose, grit. Weaklings are no use here. They have a place in the economy of God if they are not deliberate weaklings and stunted adults as Paul writes of both to the Romans and to the Corinthians. But weaklings are no use to go out and speak prophetically to men from God and declare with all compassion, as well as with faithfulness, the truth: the divine Word that cuts across all men's worldly plans for their lives" (p. 140).
Still was a pioneer in several areas. First, he developed a pattern of preaching and teaching systematically through books of the Bible at a time when this was rarely done. He began a ministry of "consecutive Bible teaching" starting with the book of Galatians in 1947, calling this transition from "evangelisticism to systematic exposition … probably the most significant decision in my life" (p. 191).
He was also a pioneer in simplifying and integrating the ministry of the church. After noting how youth in the church were drifting away, even after extensive involvement in the church's children's ministry, Still writes, "I conceived the idea of ceasing all Sunday School after beginners and Primary age (seven years) and invited parents to have their children sit with them in the family pew from the age of eight" (p. 171). He laments "the disastrous dispersion of congregations by the common practice of segregating the church family into every conceivable category of division of ages, sexes, etc." (p. 173).
Dying to Live is a helpful and encouraging work about the life and work of the minister and is to be commended to all engaged in the call of gospel ministry. As the title indicates, Still's essential thesis is that in order to be effective in ministry the minister must suffer a series of deaths to himself (cf. John 12:24). On this he writes:
The deaths one dies before ministry can be of long duration—it can be hours and days before we minister, before the resurrection experience of anointed preaching. And then there is another death afterwards, sometimes worse than the death before. From the moment that you stand there dead in Christ and dead to everything you are and have and ever shall be and have, every breath you breathe thereafter, every thought you think, every word you say and deed you do, must be done over the top of your own corpse or reaching over it in your preaching to others. Then it can only be Jesus that comes over and no one else. And I believe that every preacher must bear the mark of that death. Your life must be signed by the Cross, not just Christ's cross (and there is really no other) but your cross in his Cross, your particular and unique cross that no one ever died—the cross that no one ever could die but you and you alone: your death in Christ's death (p. 136).
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The Museum (4)
Again, his words were brusque, and the tone didn't allow for discussion, nor argument. She had a feeling that any "discussion" she would attempt would only be greeted with that rise of his eyebrow and the "really?" look. Yet, despite her inner struggle for independent thought, she found herself following him.
He'd said nothing about the blowjob she'd given the statue, hidden under the guise of "cleaning" it. That, frankly, rankled.
They wound through a statuary collection that would have most people swooning. Here the scenes were much more graphic. Some were tiny, able to fit in the palm of her hand, should he allow her to touch one. One, cut from fine jade, showed a woman entwined in an octopus' embrace, tentacles clearly invading pussy, ass, mouth, twining around full and heavy breasts. She shivered, but could not look away from it, which is why she bumped into him.
"Oh! Sorry…I…"
"It's fascinating. I imagine that many naughty girls fantasize about being so helpless before such an onslaught. Some postulate that the beast injects its victims with a sexual venom, allowing them to surrender with full abandon to such perverse intrusions."
She stared at him, wide-eyed. She had read stories just of that ilk. They alway made her puddle-gooey.
"Come along, girl," he said, turning back.
He paused before a closed door, turning to look at her before gracing her with an inexplicable smile, before entering. Stairs. Going up, not down as she had supposed. They were narrow, and likely at some time in the history of the house, had been used by servants, the better to keep hidden from view of the more illustrious guest who had purportedly come here over the decades.
Willow House, it had been called then, she remembered, so named for the giant weeping willows that had graced the front area, lining the long sweep of drive. A hurricane and its attendant tornado's had decimated them in the 60's and now the name "Willow House" had mostly been forgotten. Now it was just the Opheim Gallery-or at least part of it was. The rest was Leo's personal space-those two rooms of eccentric exotic art they had just passed through, and now, whatever lay ahead.
At the top of the stairs another door opened to an open room. Or perhaps it was just a spacious hallway, she wasn't certain. Several wide windows let light into the wood panelled area. She could see the city from this side, all tall spires and rushing hubbub, yet grand from this distance. Crossing to the other windows, she looked down upon the rich array of gardens. Patrons of the arts milled around out there, some holding glasses of champagne as they sat at small bistro tables. She could imagine the conversations going on down there now, all the titters and twitters of the things they had just been exposed to. Erotic art, or pornography, she wondered which headlines would be on tomorrow's papers.
He watched her taking it all in, she could feel his gaze on her. She slanted him a look.
"Why? Why not?"
"I saw that. It's such a teenage gesture, this eye thing. A form of flippancy. You're well past such things, yes?"
"Obviously…not." She felt a serious case of wise-ass coming on.
"Lucky for you I enjoy piquant women. Doormats bore the fuck out of me. You're a good writer."
"Three compliments in a row." 'yet,' she thought to herself, 'you say nothing about the blow job I just gave a statue. This is freaking surreal.' She thought about pinching herself to see if she was awake or dreaming, but the tang of bronze still haunted her tongue.
She was definitely awake.
"Come into my parlor," he drawled, the smile a challenge on his face. As she entered, brushing past him as he stood holding the door, she saw she was in a room that was definitely NOT a parlor.
With a flick, he popped a switch, and the room became illuminated with candle sconces on the walls. She turned a slow circle, openmouthed.
He watched her for a moment, as that proverbial spider watched a tasty fly, then crossed the room. Face to face, he hooked his hands into the open vee of her blouse, and ripped. Buttons flew, pinging off walls, twirling across the floor, but her gaze stayed on his face. At long last, she saw the hunger, the fire burning in his eyes.
His hands followed the shirt over her shoulders, down her arms, using the fabric to twist her arms behind her. His fist closed tight, holding her, tugging her backwards across the room. What looked like wall panel was actually a closet, she could see. Inside were many different kinds of rope. She watched as he selected one hank, then felt it slither across her wrists. Time seemed to stand still as she heard and felt the kiss of rope over her skin-being tied up was such a turn on, and her lust was instantly rekindled. The tug and pull sent her brain spinning starward, any clear thoughts flying free.
He made her feel.
She yelped when he grabbed her hair, pulling a rough ponytail and tying her folded arms into it. Any struggle of her arms tugged her hair painfully. No one had ever done that to her before. Standing behind her, his arm slid around to squeeze one large tit. She gasped, moaning, as he roughly tugged her bra up, letting her breasts fall free. His hand slid down her belly, behind the waistband of her slacks, digging into the soft cleft.
"So fucking wet. Who knew sucking off a statue would make a slut that horny?"
She arched into his hand as he fingered her clit, crying out her need to cum.
"Not yet. Oh, we're well and far away from that, yet." He doused her fire, pulling away his hand, wiping it on her belly. Pushing her to the center of the room, he reached up, and snagged a hook. Quickly he tethered her rope to it, fishing it through the back of her bra. There was a tug on her hair as well.
"On your knees slut. Show me what you reaaally can do with that talented mouth of yours."
There was just enough slack in the rope to make it work, but it was very uncomfortable.
"My hair…my arms…" she stuttered.
"You already know…"
"That it hurts? But of course. This pleases me. And deep in your slut soul, it pleases you, too. This is where the fun begins."
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10/1/16 – I have published a blog post on secret shopping and highlighted a legitimate company, BestMark. But for every honest company, there have got to be about 100 scammers. I found one today in my inbox.
To start, any company that contacts you out of the blue to secret shop should send up red flags. No legitimate company does that. So immediately I knew this was a scam, however I wanted to investigate further to show you how to spot a scam if just getting an email from a stranger doesn't set off your warning bells, or you happen across a company in a search and want to know if they are on the up and up.
They have the "A+" rating but the big red letters saying there is an alert should cause you to investigate further. If you scroll down to nearly the bottom of the page you see that the original company called National Shopping Service Network, LLC was taken over by a new entity. The original company might have been on the up and up, but these new owners are not!
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10 years ago a young publishing house took a chance on an unknown author… me. I am proud to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the 'Fallen Angels Trilogy' with Double Dragon Books! 'Fallen Angels' will always have a special place in my heart. Even thought it took over eight years, numerous rewrites and re-starts, it was the first novel I completed–a feat I had been trying to accomplish for as long as I can recall. I started the original manuscript while still a freshman in High School around 1992. It wasn't until 1999 that I dug it out of my files and finished it (I found the original floppy disc with my save files!). The only characters from the early drafts to survive the purge were Private Investigator Jake Silver and alien abductee Christina Anderson. Everything else was scrapped, including the original setting of rural Montana. The majority of the novel now takes place in and around Las Vegas and Area 51, the not-so-top-secret base that resides in a dried up lake bed known as "Groom Lake" on the Nellis Air Force Test Range in southern Nevada.


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Tokyo Olympics: Sindhu beats Cheung in straight games, enter pre-quarterfinals
The 26-year-old Indian, who had claimed a silver medal in the last edition in Rio, prevailed over world No. 34 Cheung 21-9 21-16 in a 35-minute match to top the group.
by Press Trust of India July 28, 2021 July 28, 2021
Tokyo: Reigning world champion P V Sindhu advanced to the pre-quarterfinals of women's singles badminton event at the Tokyo Olympics after beating Hong Kong's NY Cheung in a group J match here on Wednesday.
The 26-year-old Indian, who had claimed a silver medal in the last edition in Rio, prevailed over world No. 34 Cheung 21-9 21-16 in a 35-minute match to top the group. This was Sindhu's sixth win over Cheung in as many meetings.
"I found my rhythm from the second game on and I finished it off. It was a fast game and I made a couple of unforced errors. I changed my tactics and got things under control. This type of test is important before a big match," Sindhu said after the match.
World No. 7 Sindhu will meet Denmark's world number 12 Mia Blichfeldt, who topped Group I. Sindhu has a 4-1 head-to-head record against Blichfeldt, whose only win against the Indian was at the Yonex Thailand Open earlier this year.
"It's not going to be an easy game. I need to recover well and come back stronger. I've played her a couple of times, every point is going to be important. She's an aggressive player so I need to be aggressive as well," Sindhu said.
The shuttler from Hyderabad, seeded sixth, had defeated Ksenia Polikarpova of Israel in her opening match.
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Sindhu used her repertoire of strokes, and her ability to vary the pace troubled the Hong Kong player. Sindhu made her opponent run around the court and will then come up with perfect placements to win points.
Cheung got a few points with her deceptive cross court returns but she committed many unforced errors to have any chance of putting pressure on the Indian in the first game.
Sindhu led 6-2 early on before galloping to 10-3. She committed a rare error at 10-3 before entering the interval at 11-5. The Indian didn't have any trouble after resumption as she zoomed to 20-9 and pocketed the opening game when Cheung netted a return.
Cheung was looking to script a turnaround in the second game as she extended the rallies and with Sindhu too struggling to control the shuttle, the duo moved to 6-6 and 8-8.
Sindhu also made judgement errors before sending the shuttle wide again to hand over a slender one point advantage to her opponent.
Cheung tried to put pressure on Sindhu but the Indian wriggled out with her better strokeplay which included a few straight down the line smashes.
Sindhu moved to 19-14 before grabbing six match points but she missed the lines again and netted a shot to squander two match points before sealing it with a smash.
Later in the day, B Sai Praneeth will take on M Caljouw of Netherlands in his second and final men's singles Group D match.
On Tuesday, Indian shuttlers Chirag Shetty and Satwiksairaj Rankireddy suffered a heartbreak after they failed to qualify for the men's doubles quarterfinals at the Tokyo Olympics despite winning two matches in their group.
The Indian duo had emerged victorious against the England pair of Ben Lane and Sean Vendy in their final Group A match but still missed out on qualifying for the quarterfinals after the three pairs ended with same points and games won were considered to identify the qualifiers.
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Parliament approves Dr. Manyeh, Tunis and eight others
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The presidential nominees are to serve invarious high officesof State, with the view of supporting President Bio to succeed in his policies and programmes under the "New Direction".
The following presidential nominees have been approved by the House:
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4. Mr. Anthony Y. Brewah-Minister of Local Government and Rural Development
5. Mr.Raymond ErnestDenison de' Souza George-Minister of Works and Public Assets
6. Dr. Morie Komba Manyeh-Minister of Mines and Mineral Resources
7. Mr. Andrew Ansu Fatoma-Resident Minister-East
8. Mr. Mohamed Elogima Kendekpa Alie-Resident Minister-South
9. Mr. Mohamed Bangura-Minister of Youth Affairs, and
10. Mr. Abu Abu Abdulai Koroma – Resident Minister-North
Seconding the motion, Hon. Dickson Rogers, who doubles as Chief Whip of Parliament commended President Bio for selecting "a galaxy of qualified Sierra Leoneans" to serve the country in various spheres. He also spoke on the need for improving domestic tourism and to refining our youth to be fit for purpose.
In his contribution, the Deputy Speaker of the House, Hon. Sengepoh Solomon Thomasdescribed the nominees as "suitably qualified Sierra Leoneans who have been called to serve", whilst speaking on the need to do something different, saying that governance is not a "fancy", but rather a serious business based on deliverables.
On the other hand, Hon. Rebecca Yei Kamara of Coalition for Change (C4C) spoke on the need for transparency and accountability in the governance and management of our minerals, with the aim of benefiting the mining affected communities, citing laws and regulations as in Botswana.
Hon. Saa Emmerson Lamina, Leader of Coalition for Change (C4C) concurred on the need for strengthening the governance of our minerals, cognizant of reviewing the Local Government Act of 2004, and the Mines and Minerals Act to sanitize some of the challenges in these sectors.
Hon. PC Bai Kurr Kanagbaro Sanka IIIalso said that exploration companies are mining without the appropriate licenses, whilst speaking on the need for food security, and to avoid other forms of environmental degradation such as erosion and deforestation.
Independent Member of Parliament, Hon. Shiaka M. Sama from Pujehun District has called on the Government to institute an independent investigation as 90% of their farmlands in Sahn Malen is owned by a foreign company, thereby depriving them of their livelihood, whilst referring to Mrs. Tunis and Lawyer Brewah as part of those human rights defenders, who raised the much needed funds to get him out of "prisons".
Hon. Bashiru Silike and Hon. Veronica K. Sesay respectivelyacclaimedPresident Bio for selecting qualified Sierra Leoneans,whilst speaking on the need for performance and improvement in the respective sectors, cognizant of the entertainment industry.
Deputy Leader of the Opposition in Parliament, Hon. Ibrahim Ben Kargbo said that the APC could not lend credence and do justice to the debate because they did not take part in the screening processes, but recognized the nominees as "patriotic Sierra Leoneans".
In concluding the debate, the Leader of Government Business, Hon. Mohamed Sidi Tunis promised that the APC will soon start active deliberations in both plenary and committee sittings, whilst appealing to nominees to work with their professionals, who are equally Sierra Leoneans, and not to "sack people" using partisan lenses.


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Kruger is one of the world's greatest wildlife-watching destinations. All of Africa's iconic safari species – elephant, lion, leopard, cheetah, rhino, buffalo, giraffe, hippo and zebra – share the bushveld with a supporting cast of 137 other mammals and over 500 varieties of bird. Beautiful granite kopjes (hills) pepper the south, the Lebombo Mountains rise from the savannah in the east, and tropical forests cover the north of the 19,485-sq-km park.
Yes, Kruger can sometimes become crowded. And yes, you may have to wait in line to see those lions. But that's because the vast network of roads makes Kruger one of Africa's most accessible parks (explore on your own or take one of the plentiful guided wildlife activities) and accommodation is both plentiful and great value. If you think the crowds may overwhelm, consider the private reserves that surround the national park. Among these is Sabi Sand, one of Africa's finest.
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Collection of properties in Kruger National Park
Tinga Lodge
Lion Sands' Narina Lodge offers a sophisticated safari experience in nine waterside havens, capturing the romance of the pioneer era, in considerably more comfort – each with a canopied king-sized bed, air conditioning, Wi-Fi access, private lounge, and sumptuous bath and shower.
Narina Lodge
Lion Sands' Narina Lodge has a wonderful sense of remoteness and peace. Its nine luxury Suites perch on stilts among 100-year-old trees just up from the Sabie River, and link to a spa sala and intimate lodge via elevated walkways. This shared space is enhanced by natural décor.
Singita Lebombo Lodge is an architectural icon in the safari world. Inspired by the perching nests of eagles, the 15 glass cuboid suites cantilever out from the rock face and offer panoramic vistas across the Sweni River and climbing hills beyond. The interiors are absolutely spectacular.
Sweni Lodge exudes a sense of intimacy and seclusion in the dappled shade on the banks of the Sweni River. Sweni is soft and intimate, the small and cozy yet modern lodge is cocooned in tranquility and nestled on the banks of the Sweni River. Relax in an absolute luxury with impeccable service.
Jock Safari Lodge
Jock Safari Lodge is nestled where the Mitomeni and Biyamiti rivers flow as one, situated in the south-western corner of the Kruger National Park. The lodge offers 6,000 hectares of exclusive traversing rights in an area of the park which is celebrated for the Big Five game viewing.
Lukimbi Safari Lodge
Lukimbi Safari Lodge is a stunning luxury safari lodge situated in the easily accessible southern portion of the Kruger National Park, South Africa. Kruger National Park is home to the Big Five and a wide variety of other animals and birds, which roam freely in their natural habitat.


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No One Can Control Vin Diesel's Upgraded (And Surly) Superhero In The New 'Bloodshot' Trailer
Gladys Nyawira.
It's a great week so far for comic book fans. Not only did Joker lead with 11 Oscar nominations, but Jared Leto's Morbius is vamping out in a new trailer, and the latest Black Widow preview gives a fresh look at The Taskmaster. And now we have a new, international trailer for Vin Diesel's Bloodshot , where a supersoldier-superhero gets an upgrade. He's grumpy as hell, and for good reason, and no one (not even Guy Pearce's nanotechnologist) can stop him.
Diesel, of course, portrays Groot (and Baby Groot) in the MCU, and he's jumping over to Sony to play the Valiant Comics character. He's definitely no longer in Disney Land, folks, given that he's going back to his hard-hitting action roots as an ex-military guy who's had nanites injected into his body, so that he can regenerate immediately following "lethal" injuries. He's also (even though he doesn't realize it at first) mad as hell over the death of his wife, so there's going to be a heavy revenge aspect. Unstoppable and uncontrollable? You'd better believe it, and he surly enough to draw a sarcastic smiley face before killing some antagonists.
From the synopsis:
Based on the bestselling comic book, Vin Diesel stars as Ray Garrison, a soldier recently killed in action and brought back to life as the superhero Bloodshot by the RST corporation. With an army of nanotechnology in his veins, he's an unstoppable force — stronger than ever and able to heal instantly. But in controlling his body, the company has sway over his mind and memories, too. Now, Ray doesn't know what's real and what's not – but he's on a mission to find out.
Bloodshot will arrive on February 21, 2020.
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Welcome to the Carroll County Delegation meeting from 3/28/14. The Delegation met to review the 2014 County budget. They met at the County Complex, 95 Water Village Rd, Ossipee and it began at 9:00 am.
Mountain View Community budget subcommittee report.
Rep. Chandler challenges the accuracy of the nursing home budget numbers, Rep. Ahlgren fires back.
Building a new nursing home raises County expenditures; paying an extra 2 million dollars without a significant tax increase.
Motion on the floor to add $96,000 to the $1 million of surplus to reduce taxes; Roll Call vote; passes.
"Rubber stamping the Salary that was set for the Recording secretary during previous delegations"
Will Dewitt, Farm supervisor and Ossipee resident expresses his "sadness" and "disappointment" regarding the delegation's vote to eliminate the pig program.
Commissioner Sorensen makes proposal that the Subcommittees start earlier.


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Q: PHP - refreshing page and showing different rows in a table  <?php
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   $startRow = $pageNum == 0 ? 0 : ($pageNum * 7 + 1);
    $endRow = $startRow + 7;
       $count = 0;
 while (($data = fgetcsv($handle, 1000, ";")) !== FALSE) {
if($count >= $startRow)
    echo ' aantal vervangingen: 30';

$row = 1;
  if (($handle = fopen("vervangingen.csv", "r")) !== FALSE) {

echo '
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I made a table in php which gets the data from a .csv file. My question is, how do i let php show the first 7 rows, then it should refresh the page and show the following 7 rows, there are 30 in total. Once it has shown all the rows, it should still refresh the page and start all over again.
How do I do this? I know how to refresh a php page, but showing 7 rows per refresh is quite hard. Any help?
Greetings

A: You can use Javascript's setTimeout and a get variable to accomplish this.
//if pageNum isset figure out where to start(7 rows per page * page num +1
$pageNum = isset($_GET['pageNum']) ? (int)$_GET['pageNum'] : 0;
$startRow = $pageNum == 0 ? 0 : ($pageNum * 7 + 1);
$endRow = $startRow + 7;
$count = 0;
while (($data = fgetcsv($handle, 1000, ";")) !== FALSE) {
    if($count >= $startRow)
    {
        $num = count($data);
        if ($row == 1) {
            echo '
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        }else{
            echo '
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        }

        for ($c=0; $c < $num; $c++) {
            //echo $data[$c] . "
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            if(empty($data[$c])) {
               $value = " ";
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        $row++;
    }
    if($count == $endRow)
    {
        //make it dynamic...
        $theUrl = $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'].$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']."?pageNum=".($pageNum+1);
        //wait 3 seconds then use javascript to redirect.
        echo '';
    }
    ++$count;

}

First step is figure out which page you're on, then display what you want, then use javascript redirect, as php redirect will fail after headers are sent. Also the setTimeout function is what controls the wait

A: The following (tested) uses PHP sessions and JS setTimeout.
Interesting, but I wonder if I will ever use this effect.
(I was unable to save the $handle as a session variable.)
<?php // z1.php is this file, z1.csv is the data file
session_start();
echo <<<EOD

EOD;

if (isset($_SESSION['sessrow1st'])) { $row1st = $_SESSION['sessrow1st']; }
else { $row1st = 1; }
$handle = fopen("z1.csv", "r");
if ($handle === false) { exit("open error"); };
echo "
\n";
$rownum = 0;
while (($data = fgetcsv($handle, 1000, ";")) !== FALSE) {
  $rownum += 1;
  if ($rownum < $row1st) continue;
  if ($rownum > $row1st+6) break;
  $numcols = count($data);
  echo '
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  for ($c=0; $c < $numcols; $c++) {
    if(empty($data[$c])) { $value = " "; }
    else { $value = $data[$c]; }
    echo ''.$value.'	'; }
  echo "
\n"; }
echo '
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if (feof($handle)) { $rownum = 1; }
fclose($handle);
$_SESSION['sessrow1st'] = $rownum;
?>

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Former Immigration Officer: Many Illegals Can Vote with Fake Documents
Katie McHugh
A former immigration officer says many illegal aliens can vote in national elections, in part because they can easily buy fake identification documents.
"I probably arrested more than a thousand illegal aliens in my career," retired ICE Special-Agent-In-Charge Claude Arnold said during an interview with Fox News' Bill O'Reilly. "I routinely encounter people in possession of voter registration cards… I would ask them, 'Do you or have you voted?' And often, I would get the answer, yes," he said, adding that about 100 illegals told him that they had voted.
Illegals can vote because they can get realistic fake documents, he said.
"The demand is so great for counterfeit documents because the illegal alien population wants to work—that's the majority of their motivation for wanting to come to this country," he said. "So there's a huge demand for those documents that are required to pass the employment eligibility verification procedures," he added.
"In every neighborhood where there's a significant illegal alien population, there are at least several document vendors who supply this service." Illegals typically buy fraudulent documents in threes, he continued: A counterfeit resident alien card or work authorization card, plus a counterfeit California driver's license, and a counterfeit Social Security card, which costs about $120 to $300.
Arnold's interview comes after President-elect Donald Trump declared he would would have won the popular vote if millions who voted illegally were discounted.
Democratic Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe, a longtime ally of Hillary Clinton, ignored his state's supreme court ruling and illegally gave 60,000 felons voter registration cards. Also, at least eight million adult illegal aliens are residing in the United States in defiance of the law.
The media did not investigate these claims, automatically declaring them "false" with much outrage and finger-wagging. Still, voting experts have told reporters at the Daily Mail that it's likely illegal aliens, non-citizens, and other ineligible people, did vote in significant numbers on Election Day:
[E]xperts warn today that the rapid media condemnation of the president-elect is itself flawed—and that he was at the very least partially right in his claims.
They said it is certain that—among other things—non-citizens were registered to vote and [did] cast ballots.
It is also certain that there were other instances of illegal voting, including people who vote under false identities, and people who cast ballots in multiple states, which most attacks on Trump's tweet chose to ignore, they warned…
The most recent serious attempt to measure the number of non-citizen voters found that illegal voting is a widespread problem, although not as prevalent as Trump's comments suggested.
The 2013 study was conducted by Jesse Richman, a professor at Old Dominion University.
The report was based on surveys by the Cooperative Congressional Election Studies in 2008 and 2010, which asked respondents for citizen status and whether they had voted.
Based on the data, Richman estimated that 6.4 percent of non-citizens voted in the 2008 presidential election, which would translate to around 1.2 million votes. According to Richman, about 80 percent of these non-citizens voted for Barack Obama against John McCain.
But the professor says his findings still wouldn't account for Hillary Clinton's entire 2.2 million lead against Trump in the popular vote.
These problems may have been compounded by the outgoing president himself. Days before the election, Obama gave an evasive response in a YouTube interview suggesting to his critics that any voter fraud committed by illegal aliens would not be prosecuted under his administration.
True The Vote, an organization dedicated to stopping voter fraud, strongly backed Trump's claims about illegal voting.
"True the Vote absolutely supports President-elect Trump's recent comment about the impact of illegal voting, as reflected in the national popular vote," the group said in a statement. "We are still collecting data and will be for several months, but our intent is to publish a comprehensive study on the significant impact of illegal voting in all of its many forms and begin a national discussion on how voters, states, and the Trump Administration can best address this growing problem."
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Jeffery Lockett was born into a musical family. His mother, Betty Bannerman was a mezzo-soprano, and his father, Derek Lockett was treasurer and on the court of the Worshipful Company of Musicians. Jeffery's parents regularly hosted fundraising concerts in a music room his father created at their home, Clonterbrook House – a former manor house in the parish of Swettenham in Cheshire. Jeffery read agriculture at St John's College, Cambridge before carrying out National Service. He married Anita de Chair whilst still an undergraduate. After leaving university he joined the Milk Marketing Board as an agricultural consultant and ran the family Dairy Farm at Swettenham Heath. He was High Sheriff of Cheshire from 1989 to 1990 and a member of the Countryside Landowners Association and the National Farmers Union and was Chairman of the Cheshire Committee of the former organisation from 1994/95. In 2003 he was awarded Deputy Lieutenant of the County of Cheshire.
After attending a cattle auction in 1974, he had been impressed by the theatrical aspect of the arena and it inspired him and Anita to hold a charity concert in one of the barns. He invited the Abbey Opera Group to bring an evening of operatic excerpts to his farm in Cheshire. A barn full of straw bales was converted for the night into an auditorium and the proceeds went to Cancer Relief. Since then Clonter Opera has expanded to become a 400 fixed seated auditorium with orchestra pit and undercover dining facilities for 400 people. Jeffery project managed every part of the expansion and was actively involved with all the building work. Anita created the costumes for many of the early concerts and later productions and is still involved with many aspects of production management. Clonter Farm Music Trust was founded in 1991 and has seven Trustees who generously donate much time and sound advice. Jeffery and Anita's three daughters are all involved in the Trust's work. Isabella Roberts and Amanda Harman are Joint Chief Executives and Sarah Farmer is Chairman of the London Tour committee and a Trustee.
As part of Clonter Opera Theatre, the Clonter Farm Music Trust is committed to providing the highest quality training and performance opportunities for young singers. Summer productions are regularly taken on tour to London in the Autumn with performances at the Britten Theatre at the Royal College of Music (recent building works at RCM have prevented this and showcase concerts are currently taking place in alternative venues). Clonter's Opera Prize is awarded each year to the winner of an inter-conservatoire opera prize competition which takes place in February each year at Clonter Opera Theatre. Singers are nominated by the heads of opera at the principal music colleges in the UK.
Clonter Farm Music Trust's mission is to 'bridge the gap' between conservatoire and professional work, but there is also further outreach work with over 2000 children and teachers from 30 different schools each year.
Jeffery became a Fellow of the Royal Northern College of Music in 1990; Master of the Musicians' Company from 1990 to 1991; he was made Member of the British Empire for Services to Music in 2003 and received an MEN Theatre Award in 2006.
2012 He received a Doctor of Music from the University of Chester in recognition of his outstanding contribution to opera.
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