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•STAR TREK ACTOR DENIES KNOWING MAN WHO ACCUSES HIM OF ASSAULT IN 1981 •ACTOR RICHARD DREYFUSS DENIES CLAIM HE EXPOSED HIMSELF TO A WRITE The Star Trek actor and gay rights activist George Takei responded on Saturday to an accusation that he sexually assaulted a young actor nearly 40 years ago. The alleged event "simply did not occur", Takei said. On Friday, Scott R Brunton told the Hollywood Reporter that in 1981, when he was 23, he was invited into Takei's condo in Los Angeles. Brunton implied his drink may have been spiked, saying he passed out and awoke to find Takei trying to strip him and groping his genitals. "This happened a long time ago but I have never forgotten it," he said. The Reporter said "four longtime friends of Brunton" had said he confided to them about the alleged incident "years ago". On Saturday morning, Takei posted a series of statements on Twitter in which he denied knowing Brunton and said he was "shocked and b

  A Good Minister   A daily devotion for November 12th   From your friends at  RayStedman.org     Read: 1 Timothy 4:6-10       If you point these things out to the brothers, you will be a good minister of Christ Jesus, brought up in the truths of the faith and of the good teaching that you have followed (1 Timothy 4:6).       It is necessary that we clearly understand the phrase Paul uses about Timothy. When he calls him  a good minister of Christ Jesus,  he is not thinking of him as a member of the clergy, like we would think of the pastor of a church standing up in front of a congregation. The word that is used here is actually the word deacon rather than minister-- a good deacon of Jesus Christ.  Even then the word is not referring to Timothy as an officer of the church; rather, it is the word that is commonly translated many places in Scripture as a  servant.  That is what a deacon is--one who serves. Here Paul is using the word in the widest sense possible-- a good servant of Jesu

WARNING - DISTRESSING CONTENT: The horrific find was made following the recapture of Hawijah, a town that spent three agonising years under the control of ISIS militants A regional official says at least 400 bodies have been found in mass graves.The mass graves containing at least 400 ISIS execution victims have been discovered in Iraq, it was revealed today. The discoveries were made around the town of Hawijah, which spent three years under the brutal control of ISIS. Some of the bodies were wearing prison uniform while others were still in their civilian clothes, according to reports. Hawijah was liberated by the Iraqi army from the hands of ISIS in October as part of a Western-backed offensive to claw back the territory gained by the jihadists in 2014. Regional governor Rakan Said said the area around Hawijah "turned into an execution ground". Hawija is 150 miles north of Baghdad and had been part of ISIS's caliphate for three years before its liberation. And the true