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A by-election for the House of Commons constituency of Sleaford and North Hykeham in Lincolnshire, England, was held on 8 December 2016. It was triggered by the resignation of the Conservative member of parliament (MP) Stephen Phillips, who left Parliament on 4 November 2016 due to policy differences with the Conservative government led by the prime minister, Theresa May, over Brexit – the British withdrawal from the European Union (EU). The Conservatives nominated Caroline Johnson, a paediatrician, to replace Phillips; she won the by-election with more than 50 per cent of the vote, a sizable majority. The Conservatives' vote share fell slightly compared to the result at the previous general election in 2015.

Phillips had won a large majority of 39 per cent in 2015, with the Labour Party candidate coming second. The constituency had been held by the Conservatives since it was first contested in the 1997 general election and was considered a safe seat for the party. Sleaford and North Hykeham was estimated to have had a vote share of more than 60 per cent in favour of leaving the EU in the 2016 EU membership referendum and Brexit was a key issue in the by-election campaign. Phillips had supported a UK withdrawal from the EU but resigned in opposition to the government's handling of the issue – he felt that Parliament was not being consulted sufficiently.

Ten candidates stood in the by-election. The anti-EU UK Independence Party (UKIP) came second with 13 per cent of the vote, followed by the Liberal Democrats with 11 per cent of the vote and Labour on 10 per cent. The by-election result was widely seen as poor for the Labour Party, whose vote share decreased by 7 per cent.

Background

Constituency

The UK Parliament constituency of Sleaford and North Hykeham is located in Lincolnshire, which is in the East Midlands region of England. The constituency covers a large area of the county south-west of Lindsey and consists of most of the district of North Kesteven as well as several wards of the district of South Kesteven. Sleaford and North Hykeham is a county constituency, which means it is partly rural. In 2016, 75.2 per cent of adults in the constituency aged 16 to 64 were in employment, which was higher than both the regional and national averages. The most important industries in the area are wholesale and retail trade, manufacturing, and human health and social work. The average gross weekly pay for full-time workers in 2016 was £437, less than the regional average of £483 and the British average of £540.

The constituency was first contested in the 1997 general election, when it was created as part of the Fourth Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies. Like all UK Parliament constituencies, it elects one member of parliament (MP) to the House of Commons using the first-past-the-post voting system. Sleaford and North Hykeham has only elected Conservative MPs since its creation. Stephen Phillips was first elected in the 2010 general election and was re-elected in 2015 with a large majority of over 24,000 votes, making the constituency a safe seat for the Conservative Party. Phillips won a majority of 38.9 per cent, followed by the Labour Party in second and the anti-European Union UK Independence Party (UKIP) in third. The Liberal Democrat candidate came fourth, while Marianne Overton of the Lincolnshire Independents came fifth and last with 5.2 per cent of the vote. Overton was the only 2015 candidate to stand in the 2016 by-election.

Previous election results

2015 general election and Brexit

At the general election on 7 May 2015, the Conservative Party won a narrow majority in the House of Commons, securing 331 of the 650 total seats, and the party's leader, David Cameron, remained Prime Minister, a position he had held since 2010 as part of a coalition government with the Liberal Democrats. Labour came second with 232 seats, while the Liberal Democrats won 8 seats and UKIP 1; no other party that stood in the by-election won any seats. Due to the first-past-the-post electoral system used in British general elections, UKIP won fewer seats than the Liberal Democrats despite winning a higher vote share nationally.

A referendum was held on 23 June 2016 on whether the UK should leave the European Union (EU). As of the day before the referendum, 185 Conservative MPs declared they would vote to remain and 138 declared they would vote to leave. Phillips supported a withdrawal from the EU. The Labour Party and the Liberal Democrats officially supported the continuation of EU membership. UKIP supported the UK's withdrawal from the EU, which was the party's main policy. The UK voted to leave the EU, with approximately 52 per cent of votes cast in favour of withdrawal from the EU. The UK did not leave immediately; the referendum result led to a period of negotiations between the UK and the EU. The Conservative Party was officially neutral in the referendum, although Cameron campaigned to remain.  Immediately after the referendum result was announced, Cameron resigned as prime minister. He was replaced in July 2016 as Conservative leader and as Prime Minister by Theresa May.

The result of the EU referendum in Sleaford and North Hykeham is not known because the results were totalled and announced in counting areas rather than in constituencies. The researcher Chris Hanretty published estimates of the referendum results from each constituency, and calculated that voters in Sleaford and North Hykeham voted 61.6 per cent in favour of leaving the EU. Based on these estimates, the constituency had the 125th-highest vote-share for withdrawal out of the 650 UK Parliamentary constituencies.

Resignation of Stephen Phillips

On 3 November 2016, the High Court had ruled the UK could not invoke Article 50 to begin the process of leaving the EU without a parliamentary vote. The government appealed the ruling, but the Supreme Court upheld the High Court's decision in January 2017. The day after the High Court ruling, Phillips resigned his parliamentary seat over the issue, citing policy differences and criticising the Conservative government under May for failing to consult Parliament sufficiently over Brexit. Phillips had been critical of May's approach, calling for MPs to have a more decisive role in the Brexit negotiations, and had previously called for an urgent debate on the issue.  In the appeal, the Supreme Court later ruled against the government.

In his resignation letter to his local Conservative Association, Phillips said; "The referendum result gives the government no authority or mandate to adopt a negotiating position without reference to the wishes of the House and those of the British people expressed through their elected representatives". He set out three policy areas in which he disagreed with the Government:
 "its failure to appreciate the constitutional necessity of properly consulting Parliament" on leaving the EU;
 "the continued shirking of our responsibility for unaccompanied child refugees who have been forced to flee war and conflict"; and
 "the way in which international aid is now apparently to be used other than to assist some of the world's poorest and most vulnerable people".
He concluded by saying "It has become clear to me over the last few months that my growing and very significant policy differences with the current government mean that I am unable properly to represent the people who elected me". The Daily Telegraph reported that some Conservative MPs said that Phillips, who is a lawyer, may have been motivated by disappointment over not being promoted to Attorney General.

The resignation was met with surprise among local councillors and some other Conservative MPs. It came less than two weeks after the Conservative MP Zac Goldsmith resigned in protest against the government's decision to support the expansion of Heathrow Airport. Phillips's resignation triggered a by-election in the constituency, the date of which was set on 7 November for 8 December.

Candidates and campaign

Candidates

The Conservative campaign started on 5 November (the day after the resignation) with a candidate to be chosen on 10 November. Caroline Johnson, a consultant paediatrician who lives near Sleaford, was selected by members of the Sleaford and North Hykeham Conservative Association following a hustings (a campaign event where candidates give speeches). She defeated two other finalists, local councillor Lindsay Cawrey and the Conservative Party's regional chairman Kelly Smith; the Lincolnshire County Councillor Richard Davies had also expressed interest in being the party's candidate. Johnson had stood in Scunthorpe at the 2010 general election, coming second to the Labour candidate. After her selection, Johnson said; "I am completely behind the Government's plans for Brexit and to deliver on the decision made by the British people".

At least three individuals put themselves forward to be UKIP's candidate: the Lincolnshire County Councillors Robin Hunter-Clarke and Victoria Ayling, and Suzanne Evans – a candidate in the party's leadership election. Hunter-Clarke and Evans withdrew from the contest on 10 November, the latter because she would not have been able to stay in the party leadership contest if she had been selected. Ayling was selected on 13 November. She had stood for UKIP in the 2016 Lincolnshire Police and Crime Commissioner election and in the Great Grimsby constituency in 2015, and previously in Great Grimsby in 2010 as the Conservative candidate. In 2013, Ayling was criticised after saying "I just want to send the lot back" in a video about immigration, and these remarks were brought up during the by-election campaign; she said that she had been referring to the deportation of illegal immigrants and that her words had been taken out of context.

The Labour Party selected Jim Clarke, a trade unionist, refuse collector and former postman. The Liberal Democrats selected Ross Pepper, who worked for an optician, on 11 November; he had stood in Lincoln in the 2015 general election, coming third. Marianne Overton, leader of the Lincolnshire Independents, was her party's candidate. Sarah Stock, a National Health Service (NHS) campaigner and former nurse, was an independent candidate with a "Save the NHS" platform. The Green Party declared it would not be fielding a candidate and instead supported Stock.

The other candidates were Peter Hill, appearing on the ballot paper under the name of The Iconic Arty-Pole for the satirical Official Monster Raving Loony Party; David Bishop of the Church of the Militant Elvis Party; Mark Suffield, a North Kesteven district councillor; and Paul Coyne, a Sleaford Town Councillor: the latter two appeared on the ballot paper with no stated party affiliation. In total, ten candidates stood in the by-election.

Campaign

The current and former leaders of UKIP (Paul Nuttall and Nigel Farage) and the leaders of the Labour Party (Jeremy Corbyn) and the Liberal Democrats (Tim Farron) all visited the constituency during the campaign. Brexit was the main issue in the by-election. UKIP campaigned actively in the by-election despite the Conservative Party's large majority. UKIP hoped to perform strongly in the by-election due to the high level of support in the constituency for the leaving of the EU – Farage said "people here voted for Brexit and this is about getting the right deal, which you won't get if people vote Conservative". On 5 December, Farage campaigned in front of a poster on which "Hykeham" was misspelt as "Hykenham", which The Guardian speculated could hurt his party's chances in the election. Ayling criticised Theresa May and the Conservatives for not proceeding quickly enough with Brexit.

Jim Clarke, the Labour candidate, opposed Brexit during the referendum campaign but said he would now support it because of the referendum's result. Clarke argued the NHS was the main issue in the by-election, saying many voters had mentioned it to him. Clarke campaigned against the closure of an accident and emergency (A&E) unit in the area. The Liberal Democrat candidate, Ross Pepper, focused on gaining the votes of constituents who had voted to remain in the EU in the referendum.

In the Richmond Park by-election that was held one week before the Sleaford vote, the Liberal Democrats won the seat from the former Conservative MP Zac Goldsmith in a substantial swing (Goldsmith stood as an independent, but the Conservatives did not stand a candidate against him). The result was seen as a sign of opposition to Brexit because the constituents of Richmond Park voted to remain in the EU. The Conservatives were expected by journalists to win the Sleaford and North Hykeham by-election; in an opinion piece in The Guardian on 4 December, the journalist Andrew Rawnsley argued that whether UKIP would overtake Labour was the most important question in the by-election, and speculated whether this could indicate a realignment of British politics based on views on Brexit instead of the traditional left–right political spectrum.

Results and analysis

The election took place on 8 December 2016. The Conservatives received more than half of the votes cast and won a large majority of 40 per cent and over 10,000 votes, described by Stephen Bush in the New Statesman as "one of the party's all-time best by-election performances while in government". Turnout in the by-election fell to 37.1 per cent, which was described by The Guardian as "remarkably low even for a by-election", compared to just over 70 per cent at the 2015 general election. A 2019 article in a Scottish newspaper, the Irvine Times, discussed whether the low turnout was due to the time of year, and concluded that the fact that the fact that the election was in winter did not seem to have a large effect; the race not being close was also a factor (the Richmond Park by-election at the same time of year had a turnout of over 50 per cent).

The result was widely seen as poor for the Labour Party, whose vote share decreased by 7 per cent; the party came fourth, having been in second place in the 2015 general election. An article in The Guardian described the party as "pushed into irrelevance" at the by-election. Commentators blamed the party's stance on Brexit, which tried to appeal to voters on both sides of the Brexit debate – the party supported leaving the EU but called for free movement of people with the bloc. The leadership of Jeremy Corbyn was also cited as a reason for the poor performance, including by Jess Phillips – the Labour MP for Birmingham Yardley. David Winnick, the Labour MP for Walsall North, called the result "humiliating" and said it could foreshadow an "electoral disaster" for the party. Vernon Coaker, Labour MP for Gedling, said that the result was disappointing, and blamed the focus on Brexit instead of on issues like the NHS.
The result was considered good for the Liberal Democrats, whose share of the vote increased. Tim Farron, the party's leader, said the result showed his party was the real opposition to the Conservatives. UKIP's performance was also seen in some quarters as poor, even though they beat both Labour and the Liberal Democrats, as their vote-share declined in comparison with the 2015 general election results.

Aftermath

Johnson retained her seat at the 2017 general election, winning a large majority of more than 25,000 votes over the Labour Party candidate, who came second. She voted in favour of May's Brexit deal on all three occasions when it was voted on in Parliament, though it was rejected in all three votes. After May announced in May 2019 that she would resign as prime minister, Caroline Johnson supported Boris Johnson in the Conservative Party leadership election to be May's replacement, arguing that he was the best politician to deliver Brexit. Boris Johnson won the leadership election in July.

At the 2019 general election, Caroline Johnson increased her majority over Labour further. After the 2019 election, the Conservative majority in the seat was 32,565 votes, which was the largest majority in terms of number of votes of any seat won by the party in the election. Caroline Johnson voted in favour of Boris Johnson's revised Brexit deal in December 2020, which was approved by Parliament, and the United Kingdom left the European Union on 31 January 2020.

See also
List of United Kingdom by-elections (2010–present)

Footnotes

Note

Citations

2016 elections in the United Kingdom
By-elections to the Parliament of the United Kingdom in Lincolnshire constituencies
December 2016 events in the United Kingdom
2010s in Lincolnshire


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Out of character interlude – Expert professional writing tips from the world's greatest writer and human (me)
Writing that title reminded me that I worked with a lady who said that she was the third smartest person in the world – her parents being the first and second. She didn't seem that smart to me but the third smartest person in the world would be smart enough to not seem smart right?
Since I started writing on wordpress I've been reading a lot blogs about D&D and some about writing. A common topic people bring up is how playing D&D (and other roleplaying games of course) can help you become a better writer. Which is true. Character development, plot, worldbuilding, playing roleplaying games can really help you with those things. Among others.
But I'm starting to realize that it can be a double-edged sword.
I've done a lot of writing in my life. In college and the years afterwards I often wrote several hours a day. I don't write nearly as much anymore but I still do some writing most days. It's a toss-up if I've done more roleplaying or writing. There was a year where we played D&D every damn day for hours and hours and hours. Probably half my life I've had a regular weekly game. There were years when I had 2-3 regular weekly games. Then add in conventions and one shots and other stuff – that's a lot of time roleplaying.
Tangent, when I first started online dating sometimes I would tell women one of my hobbies was roleplaying – boy were they disappointed when they found out I meant D&D and not sexy sexy sex times. I hate homonyms.
Before my writing was whatever I wanted. I have dozens of half finished "novels", tons of partially written screenplays, hundreds of short stories, and thousands of blog posts where I talked about whatever was on my mind. I wrote until it wasn't fun and then I stopped.
Starting the Ela blog, and later the Grace blog (hugely popular and read by millions) "forced" me to write about the same thing and it's exposed some flaws. Chief among them, tossing out story hooks without any idea where to take them.
I think this comes from D&D. When you put together a D&D adventure sometimes you have everything planned out. But sometimes you just have a neat idea and you throw it out and see what the players do and react to that, "writing" on the fly.
Such as, one time my players found a cane that had a secret compartment in it. I had forgotten that they had found a similar item in the last adventure and they spun out a whole conspiracy theory around them. I had no such intention of that being a thing but as they were talking I was thinking "wow that's a pretty cool idea, that's definitely what happened now".
Players give DMs way too much credit in terms of foreshadowing and callbacks and call-forwards and things like that – it's that old chestnut about the human mind looking for patterns, and making them up even if they're not there. Your players come up with all kinds of ideas as to what the DM may be up to, even when they're not up to anything.
The collaborative nature of rpgs results in some pretty cool ideas. D&D is kind of like writing with several writing partners.
But since my "real" writing it just me, myself, and not Irene I really need to break myself of the habit of throwing out half-formed ideas that I think are neat because there's no players to react to them and shape the narrative. Telling a story all by myself requires discipline.
The idea for the Grace blog came from How To Survive Camping, from reddit/no sleep. The idea of HTSC is that it is an interactive thing where the commenters act like it's real and suggest ways to solve problems and the like. It's a style that allows for collaborating in a way D&D type where you're writing it but lots of people are adding in ideas. It's a pretty cool concept. I wanted to do something like that. But since I'm old and scared of reddit because I don't understand it I just did a "normal" blog.
The end. Good writers always say "the end". Otherwise how would you know it was the end?
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October 11, 1973 – That's a long wait for a horse that ain't coming as my grandma used to say
I mentioned that my parents and I were never really on the same page. It wasn't that they disapproved of me or I hated them or any of the normal young person-parent stuff, we just didn't belong together. I think somewhere along the line, someone passing out babies mixed me up with someone else. I think my parents were supposed to have a son who was a solid B student, played sports but wasn't great at them, became an aluminum siding salesman, married his HS sweetheart – pretty (but not too pretty), nice but kind of stupid – had some kids and ran out the clock like everyone else.
I don't blame my parents for anything, they just didn't know what to do with the loud rambunctious little girl that burst into their mild life wanting to be a singer and a dancer and an actress and travel the world. I told my mother once I wanted to experience everything that life has to offer, that I wanted to "wine and dine with kings and queens, and sleep in the alley eating pork and beans". I think she needed a glass to sherry to get to sleep that night. What would the neighbors think if they knew!
My parents didn't beat me or lock me in my room or say that I was possessed by the devil, and I think that was the best they could do. They could have made my childhood Hell, but they didn't. It's weird to say about a child-parent relationship, but we just stayed out of each other's way. If you want to be uncharitable, you can say there was some neglect there. Such as, when I was sixteen I went with some friends to a concert. There was another concert in another city the next night and on a whim I went to that one too. At that concert I met some other folks and went to a festival with them in the US. Six months later when I got home, my parents had moved all my stuff out of my room. They said they didn't think I was coming back.
While my mother and I are not close, my grandma (dad's mom) and I were very much the otherway. No offense to my dad, but it's hard to see how a woman like her raised a square like him. She was born in New Orleans and always kept a place there. She said she liked living somewhere the entire world came to visit. She used to tell stories and say things like "This was after the Irish mob came for my father and we went into the swamp with my mother's kin for a few years of course" as if it was no big deal. She told me a thousand tales about her life and I guarantee you that was just the tip of the iceberg. If anyone should have written a memoir, it was my grandma, but she had no time for that, she had a life to live.
She was a dance hall girl, she attended Straight University where some people hassled her because she was mostly white, she studied law where some people hassled her because she was a woman, she shacked up with a painter in Panama, she lived in a commune in Australia, she drove in a cross-country race in Russia, she had an affair with the mayor of New Orleans (she broke his heart of course) she dabbled with communism, she visited every continent, she didn't take shit from anyone, and when the doctors told her she had to stop smoking, drinking, and eating rich food she said "I live the way I live and I'll die the way I'll die." When the end did come she planned the whole thing, it was like a pharaoh preparing a tomb, only instead of a pyramid she was putting together a party that people still talk about today. Clark Gable was there and no one knows why.
Again, not to be a jerk, but I never really give my parents a thought – I miss my grandma every day. She had a million sayings, not all of them were gems, but she had one for every occasion. She felt that it was part of her duty to make sure I knew what the world was and how to deal with it. The thing my grandma used to say that is relevant right now is "If you're going to do something stupid, make sure it's really stupid."
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Blue didn't like my idea of approaching the yakuza. I figured that since the Shadow Lords are their enemies, that would make us friends, but Blue said that was an even worse plan than trying to befriend pirates. So I asked Blue if it was true that the Shadow Lords have some supermen on the payroll. He said that he knew of at least two. I told him my plan was to find one of them and confront them in some kind of high noon type scenario to show the Shadow Lords that messing with me was more trouble than it's worth. He said that was the worst idea he ever heard. He said that a show of power wasn't going to back off the Shadow Lords.
I said that maybe if I beat one of their champions, that would allow me to bargain with them from a position of power. He asked me what I would be bargaining for. My goal is to leave and never come back, their goal is to have me make money for them – he said that didn't allow for much of a meeting of the minds. Plus he said that I probably wouldn't win anyway. When I pointed out that I kicked his ass, he had an answer for that.
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"If I'm such a worthless fighter like everyone keeps saying, why did they kidnap me in the first place? What did they want me for if not breaking heads?"
He shrugged, which made his blue lizard skin ripple in an unpleasant way "Maybe they had some heavy boxes they wanted moved."
That's when I had my brilliant idea "Okay forget about the high noon plan, what about the ship? Maybe the ship that brought me had other people on it like me, brought here against their will. Maybe I can find them and gather more allies."
He sighed "Are you still on this idea of creating a super team of crime fighting heroes? That's comic book shit. And if there was anyone else on that ship, the Shadow Lords already have them."
I grinned and clapped him on the back "All the more reason to save them!"
He made a weird puffing sound that I think is the lizard equivalent of a sour grunt "This is even worse than your first idea."
I laughed "You got anywhere else to be, big man? I'll give you a moment to check your day planner."
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Oakland, CA - 510 Lacrosse has released its program line up for fall 2010. The fall starts off with 510's fourth year of weekly clinics that run from November through January. This year 510 will expand to juniors (U15 & U13) and girls clinics (High school & U15). 510 will send two travel teams to compete in a Thanksgiving tournament this year. 510 travel teams have won three championships including two second place finishes. 510 Lacrosse will end the year with the second annual 510 Challenge tournament in December. This year we will be expanding our tournament to two divisions: the "solid" and "way too solid" division. Click on the "programs" tab to learn more about each fall program.


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Call him "Mr. Bam," the "Elvis of TV chefs" or simply Emeril, this forerunner of "New New Orleans" cuisine has a name that precedes him.
Four chefs — Leah Chase, Emeril Lagasse, Donald Link and Nina Compton — sat down for an intimate CNN family meal to talk about their unique journeys, both to restaurant kitchens and to the extraordinary city of New Orleans.
Chef José Andrés and Wine Spectator's Thomas Matthews battle to select the best wine for chef Emeril Lagasse's twist on a Reuben.
Chef Emeril Lagasse is known worldwide for his innovative dishes, award-winning restaurants and overall exuberance.


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Pieter Bos (born 23 February 1997) is a Dutch former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.

Career
Bos began playing football with the youth sides of his local club Buitenpost, before moving to Heerenveen's youth academy in 2008. He signed a profesional contract with Cambuur in the Eerste Divisie on 16 June 2016. He made his professional debut with Cambuur in a 2–2 tie with Twente on 3 May 2021, coming on in the 80th minute as the starting goalkeeper Xavier Mous was injured.

The long-term backup goalkeeper for Cambuur, Bos was forced to retire from professional football at the age of 25 on 18 May 2022, as he was diagnosed with a career-ending heart condition.

Honours
Cambuur
Eerste Divisie: 2020–21

References

External links

 Eredivisie profile

1997 births
Living people
Footballers from Friesland
Dutch footballers
SC Cambuur players
Eredivisie players
Eerste Divisie players
Association football goalkeepers

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Day 6: How Heather died—Witnesses detail severity of injuries
Lisa Provence
Marissa Blair Martin initially was unsure if she wanted to go downtown the weekend of the Unite the Right rally in 2017. However, after the tiki-torch march through UVA Grounds on August 11, she changed her mind. She and her then-fiance, Marcus Martin, decided, "We had to so stand up for our community," she testified in Charlottesville Circuit Court December 3.
Another reason she went was disbelief at such overt racism in 2017. "I had to see it with my own eyes," she said.
Martin went with her friends from work, Courtney Commander and Heather Heyer, the latter of whom had parked at McDonalds, the same place the man accused of murdering her, James Alex Fields Jr., had parked earlier August 12.
Heyer was "very passionate," easy to be around, and "very compassionate," said Blair. "Heather was always outspoken. She was not argumentative but she tried to understand" where other people were coming from.
The four friends had joined a joyous group walking on Water Street. Blair decided to Snapchat the event. "I wanted everyone to see how happy everything was that day," she said. "It was not all hate."
Assistant Commonwealth's Attorney Nina Antony played Blair's video. Although not visible from the gallery, whoops, whistles, a drumbeat and the chant of "Whose streets? Our streets" could be heard in the courtroom.
Antony stopped the video and asked Blair about the woman with a long braid in front of her in the video. It was Heyer—and it was probably the last image of her alive.
In a split second, the scene went from happiness to "complete chaos," said Martin. Screams could be heard on the video and Martin was yelling, "Marcus, Marcus!" She told the jury about being unable to find him in the "moments of terror" after the attack. "I saw the red baseball cap he was wearing and it had blood all over it."
Nick Barrell, a captain with the Charlottesville Fire Department, was in charge of the station on Ridge Street August 12. He estimates that when he was dispatched to Fourth and Water streets, it took about two minutes to get there, he testified. What he didn't know from the message he'd received—"Female struck by a car"—was the full extent of devastation that awaited him at the scene.
When he arrived, people were already performing CPR on Heyer. He noted a "very large contusion on her chest," he said. "When you see bruising immediately after a trauma, that's very serious." Heyer, he said, had multi-system trauma with no palpable pulse and "she was not breathing on her own."
Assistant Chief Medical Examiner Jennifer Nicole Bowers performed the autopsy on Heyer, and said blunt force trauma to the torso was the cause of death. Heyer's thoracic aorta—the largest in the body—"was snapped in half," said Bowers.
Heyer suffered multiple other internal injuries, including fractured ribs that lacerated her lungs and liver, and a broken leg.
DNA analyst Kristin van Itallie testified that Heyer's blood and tissue were on samples she tested taken from the windshield and side mirror of Fields' dark gray Dodge Challenger.
Dean Dotts, the second officer on the scene after James Fields was stopped at the corner of Monticello and Blenheim, testified the Dodge Challenger "appeared to be a crime scene." trial photo
Witness Thomas Baker is a conservation biologist who had just moved to Charlottesville in May 2017. "I'm not an activist, but I wanted to be present against the hate that was going on," he said.
Baker, too, joined the "joyous" group walking up Water Street. "The energy was very positive," he said, compared to that earlier in the day when it was "very aggressive, very violent."
By the time the group turned left onto Fourth Street, Baker was at the front of the group "I heard screaming and thumps," he testified. "I saw bodies and a car directly in front of me. I was sure it was my very last second."
The car hit the lower half of Baker's body. His head hit the windshield and threw him up in the air and then onto the ground. When he saw the reverse lights on Fields' car, he thought, "I'm not going to survive getting hit again," and got up.
Baker knew he was seriously injured, but he wasn't sure what his health insurance would cover. Initially his doctor recommended he try physical therapy, but after more than a month, when that didn't work, he had surgery that put four screws in his hip, permanent sutures, reattached the labrum to the hip, and reshaped the femur head.
Before August 12, he said, "I've been an athlete, a really good athlete my whole life."
Now he has significant discomfort and doesn't run at all. The crash "altered every aspect of my life physically," he said. "Every aspect of my life has been dramatically changed."
Testimony on Day 6 of the three-week trial ended early, and according to Judge Rick Moore, "the commonwealth is very confident it will rest before lunch tomorrow."
Correction December 4: Thomas Baker does have health insurance. It was originally reported he did not.
Correction December 5: Baker's doctor recommended he try physical therapy first and that's why he didn't immediately have surgery.
Tags: August 12, Heather Heyer, James Fields, Marissa Blair, Nina Antony, Unite the Right rally
Day 5: More victim and police testimony in James Fields' trial
Day 7: Witnesses describe Fields' arrest


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Which Lego Adventure movie is best?
SP: An all new movie for 2014!
A shot from the new movie, Attack Of The Giant Pig.
Even before the release of Lego Adventures in 2011, Maxim Hussey had been thinking about the sequel to the movie.
"We really wanted to make a movie with more plot to it," he said. And now it's finally here. In April this year, Little Big Shots will screen the new movie as part of the film festival in Melbourne.
The film revolves around a Giant Guinea Pig, created by one very evil criminal, and a very cool hero sets out to stop his evil plans of destroying the city, but will it be to late?
Even though the film is twice as long as the original, it still has some of the classic Lego Adventure character.
"We're really exited about the movie and we hope that people enjoy it," said Maxim.
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