Major League Baseball teams have had promotional giveaway days for decades, and while most succeed in drawing extra fans to the stadium, a few don't seem to have been conceived of wisely. The debacle of Ball Day at Dodger Stadium in 1995 comes to mind, when a large portion of the 50,000+ fans on hand decided to launch their complimentary baseballs onto the field in the ninth inning, leading to a Dodgers forfeit.
In an another unfortunate choice of giveaways, a couple of years ago the Chicago White Sox gave fans white rain ponchos, which many people noticed appeared very similar to KKK outfits when fans put them on during the game.
Lately, ball clubs have been stepping up on their game in terms of giveaways. The handouts go well beyond basic hats and bobbleheads and now include fun, kitschy items like Bob Uecker alarm clocks (Milwaukee Brewers, July 10) and R2D2 Yankees knit caps (Yankee Stadium, August 5). Here are 10 awesome giveaways baseball fans can catch—in addition to a game—during the 2016 MLB season.
On Sunday, April 24, everyone entering Petco Park for the Padres game against the St. Louis Cardinals gets a 2016 calendar featuring team players and puppies. Other giveaways this season for Padres home games include Padres hoodies (May 7) and ear buds (July 30).
Special tickets for Star Wars Night at Fenway Park come with a limited-edition BB8 Red Sox baseball—in addition to admission to watch the game against the Oakland A's.
Fans attending Cardinals home games this season get to snag giveaways like replica 1946 World Series championship rings (May 6), replica 2006 World Series championship trophies (June 3), and garden gnome replicas of catcher Yadier Molina (May 20).
Every Friday when the Pirates play at home is Free Shirt Friday—which is just like what it sounds, in which every fan with a ticket gets a T-shirt. The giveaways this season also include multiple bobbleheads, Pirates fedoras (June 4), and—for kids 14 and younger only—a portable speaker featuring the logos of the team and the promotion's sponsor, Mrs. T's Pierogies.
The first 20,000 fans inside the park for the April 29 Seattle home game against the Kansas City Royals score a Mariners knit hat with a fake beard attached. On May 27, the giveaway is a funky Mariners bomber hat, for the first 15,000 fans only.
The Royals giveaway on Father's Day, June 19, is a big spatula with the KC logo. There's no need to prove your fatherhood—spatulas are given to the first 10,000 male fans in attendance.
The Angels have tons of giveaways this season, including Mike Trout wall catch figurines (May 20), ugly Christmas sweater hats (June 24), '70s rally monkeys (July 15), and the most SoCal freebie ever, selfie sticks (May 6).
It can get cold for fans at Cubs home games, so these cozy pajama bottoms may come in handy—if not during their July 19 promotion, then later in the season. PJs are available for the first 10,000 fans only.
Get to the Indians game on Friday, August 19, early to ensure you're among the 10,000 fans lucky enough to grab one of these sweet free team fedoras.
The Rays have their own fedora giveaway day (May 14), as well as games when fans get backpack coolers (May 28), Star Wars Stormtrooper bobbleheads (June 11), foam bats and balls (June 19), laundry hampers (August 7), and—for kids 14 and under only—super hero socks with caps, sponsored by Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital.


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Europe can learn from Biden's Inflation Reduction Act, Spain's PM says
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez.
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DAVOS, Switzerland — Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez told CNBC Monday that the European Union has something to learn from Washington and its new policies to fight inflation, saying he hopes that a trade war between the two sides can be avoided.
"We need to learn," Sanchez told CNBC when asked the Inflation Reduction Act which the U.S. hopes will make it the go-to place for green investment.
"We need to reform some internal aspects of our industrial policies such as state aid, reducing bureaucracy and trying to send a message for the industry worldwide that's it's Europe, and of course Spain, that is a good place to locate," he added.
The sweeping U.S. legislation, which was approved by U.S. lawmakers in August and includes a record $369 billion in spending on climate and energy policies, has received a mixed response from the 27 EU nations. The European Commission, the executive arm of the EU, has previously said there are "serious concerns" about the design of the financial incentives in the package.
The EU has listed points in the U.S. Inflation Reduction Act that it believes could be in breach of international trade rules. One of the biggest sticking points for the Europeans is the tax credits granted for electric cars made in North America. This could bring challenges to European carmakers that are focusing on EVs, such as Volkswagen.
There has been suggestions that Washington could find ways for European firms to access these green subsidies, but this has further enraged some European politicians. Belgium PM Alexander De Croo, for example, recently accused the U.S. of an "aggressive" campaign to lure companies to its shores with these measures.
"I hope not," Sanchez said when asked about the possibility of a trade war breaking out between the U.S. and the EU.
"I think that we need to have that dialogue to reach an agreement," he said.
"I think that this [Russia-Ukraine] war also shows us the importance of unity on the defense side but also on the economic side within the Western countries," he added.
Politicians are not offering a comprehensive solution on how to fix the NHS
Zelenskyy not in mood to compromise despite fears of Russian gains as Ukraine war drags on

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The Hidden Dangers of Addictive Food Stimulants
By Benjamin Wood on	 2018-02-21 Digestive Health, Food & Nutrition, Gut Microbiota, Healthy Eating, Obesity & Diabetes
Many different types of stimulants can be found in the foods and drinks we consume. Some are natural ingredients that we've been consuming for millennia, such as caffeine, now embedded into the cultures of many civilisations. Others are synthetic and a relatively recent addition to our diets.
There is now growing cause for concern about the extent to which food and drink manufacturers are deliberately adding high quantities of stimulants to processed foods and drinks to bolster sales, often under the guise of 'flavour enhancement'.
As this practice is now so widespread we can easily be exposed to excessive levels of these addictive stimulants through the consumption of a variety of processed foods and drinks. While this has proved to be an effective tactic for the food industry to drive consumption of their products and ensuring we're coming back for more (7), a growing number of experts have voiced concerns about the effects that these stimulants have on our health, suggesting plausible short and long-term health consequences that will be discussed in this article (9, 10).
What Are Food Stimulants & How Do We Become Addicted to Them?
Excitotoxins: Flavour Enhancers and Artificial Sweeteners
Artificial Sweeteners: Saccharin and Aspartame
Other Commonly Used Excitotoxins
Food stimulants are substances found in the food and drinks we consume that increase mental alertness, intensify or prolong physical activity, or even promote aggression (3). These effects result from stimulants disrupting or modifying the communication that occurs among our neurons by specifically interfering with the dopamine neurotransmitter system (4).
Dopamine is a very important neurochemical, and is believed to have many roles in the nervous system including the control of movement, cognition, motivation, pleasure (particularly for repetitive actions), mood, and the sense of reward following certain activities (5).
When we consume a stimulant, we feel aroused. By hijacking our dopamine system, the stimulant provides us with pleasure and euphoria – which motivates us to consume the same stimulant again in order to experience a repeated feeling of reward (a process known as positive re-enforcement). The flip-side of this, known as negative re-enforcement, is that the abrupt discontinuation of addictive stimulants can result in cravings, which is essentially the feeling of wanting to avoid the discomfort that develops once the artificial high of the stimulant has gone (4). And so, through both of these processes, we are left wanting more.
There are over 70 types of excitotoxins used in foods and drinks, with the most well-known including monosodium glutamate (MSG), saccharin (Sweet'N'Low®) and aspartame (Nutrasweet®, Equal®). They are frequently added to processed and refined foods as flavour enhancers and artificial sweeteners, however their presence is often masked on food labels where they can appear as derivatives of the original stimulant.
Excitotoxins are an important group of addictive stimulants that not only lead to cravings, but also potentially result in damage of our brain cells through over-stimulation (10).
To date, only studies on animals have conclusively linked excitotoxin exposure to permanent neurological damage (10); however, a reasonable amount of scientific literature has voiced concern that excessive consumption of excitotoxins could potentially cause serious long-term health consequences such as Alzheimer's disease, Huntington's disease, Parkinson's disease, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, and even early ageing (11).
Studies have also suggested that children are particularly more sensitive to excitotoxin exposure than adults, and excessive consumption during early childhood could potentially result in mild dyslexia, schizophrenia and cerebral palsy (10).
Although there isn't currently a definitive answer about the harms of excitotoxins on humans, the considerable amount of legitimate concern about excessive consumption definitely warrants further robust research.
Summary: Excitotoxins
Excitotoxins are addictive stimulants routinely added to foods and drinks. MSG, saccharin and aspartame are three of the most commonly used excitotoxins.
Certain studies express concern that excessive consumption of excitotoxins can lead to neurological damage, and subsequent health issues such as Alzheimer's, Huntington's, Parkinson's and Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis. However, there have been no conclusive studies performed on humans.
Two simple tips to avoid consumption of excessive amounts of excitotoxins are to:
Avoid processed and refined foods and drinks;
Avoid food and drinks from fast-food chains;
Monosodium glutamate (MSG) was first added to foods in 1908, when a Japanese scientist, Ikeda Kikunae, managed to isolate an ingredient in sea kelp that could make bland, nutritious foods taste good (18). Since WWII, the amount of MSG that has been added to foods has doubled every decade (10).
Research in 1957 was the first to link MSG with health issues when two eye doctors noticed that it had destroyed all of the nerve cells in the retinas of their laboratory mice (19). Ten years later, a neuroscientist by the name of Dr John Olney discovered that a single dose of MSG killed the majority of cells in the hypothalamus (a specialised region of the brain) of mice (20).
Today, there is ongoing debate about how much MSG you need to consume in order for it to be considered harmful (34). Evidence suggests that MSG is likely to be safe when consumed in moderate amounts; however, large doses (over 6 times the average daily intake) may cause short and long-term harm (34).
A condition exists called MSG symptom complex (Chinese restaurant syndrome), which causes people to experience symptoms such as headache, muscle tightness, numbness, tingling, weakness and flushing after consuming large quantities of MSG (one study suggested about 5 grams of MSG could trigger symptoms) (35).
MSG in high doses was also shown to trigger asthma attacks in susceptible individuals (36); however, these findings have not been able to be reproduced in similar studies.
Dr Blaylock argues in his book title 'Excitotoxins: The Taste that Kills' that MSG in high doses potentially increases the risk of chronic neurological issues such as Parkinson's, Alzheimer's and amytrophic lateral sclerosis through excitotoxicity (10). More research is needed, however, in order to produce a definitive answer about the long-term health risks of MSG consumption.
Popular foods that contain Monosodium Glutamate (msg) or Derivative Excitotoxins
Excitotoxin Name Free Glutamate (including its common salt form, Monosodium Glutamate)
Derivatives on Food Labels Glutamic Acid, Glutamate, Monopotassium Glutamate, Calcium Glutamte, Monoammonium Glutamate, Magnesium Glutamte, Natrium Glutamte, Yeast Extract, Hydrolyzed Protein, Calcium Caseinate, Sodium Caseinate, Yeast Food, Yeast Nutrient, Autolyzed, Gelatin, Textured Protein, Soy Protein Concentrate, Whey Protein Concentrate, Vetsin, Ajinomoto
Examples of Food Sources with Added MSG Packaged and processed foods such as potato chips, frozen dinners, gravies, salty flavoured snacks; foods from fast-food chains, particularly chicken nuggets and burgers; soybean products such as soy sauce, soy milk and miso paste
(13, 14, 15)
Summary: Monosodium Glutamate
MSG is one of the most commonly used excitotoxins added to food as a flavour enhancer.
Studies show that MSG symptom complex and asthma are potential short-term side effects of large doses of MSG. Other studies suggest that excessive MSG consumption potentially results in long term excitotoxic-driven health issues such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and Amytrophic Lateral Sclerosis. However, these findings are not yet conclusive.
More research is needed to determine safe consumption levels. Many experts, however, recommend avoiding regular consumption of foods with high concentrations of MSG, particularly processed foods and foods from fast-food chains.
Saccharin is 300 times sweeter than sugar, and is used in many processed foods and drinks that are widely consumed, particularly diet soft drinks (21). It was the first artificial sweetener to be discovered when it was accidentally found by a chemistry research assistant by the name of Constantine Fahlberg in 1879 (19).
In the 1960s, studies were performed which linked the use of saccharin in rats with bladder cancer; findings that prompted the USA's Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to limit its use, and even try to ban it in 1981. This resulted in an immediate uproar, however, because at that time, saccharin was the main artificial sweetener in use (19).
Aspartame is approximately 200 times sweeter than sugar (22), and was the second major artificial sweetener to be discovered, back in 1965. It was approved for use as a table-top artificial sweetener in 1981 by the US FDA, with many countries following suit (19).
Today, aspartame is one of the most popular artificial sweeteners available. It consists of aspartic acid and phenylalanine, which are both naturally occurring amino acids. Aspartic acid has known excitotoxic properties, while phenylalanine has been shown to potentially result in uncontrolled muscle movements, known as tardive dyskinesia (22). For people with phenylketonuria (when you have too much phenylalanine in your blood), aspartame can be highly toxic (22).
Artificial sweeteners have been linked with numerous chronic health issues, such as weight gain (30), Type 2 Diabetes (31), and cardiovascular disease, including stroke (32, 33). There is also evidence that suggests artificial sweeteners, including saccharin and aspartame, functionally change our gut microbiome (26, 27, 28, 29).
Popular foods & drinks that contain artificial sweeteners such as Sacharin or Aspartame
Excitotoxin Name Saccharin
Derivatives on Food Labels Benzoic Sulfimide, Sodium Cyclamate
Examples of Food Sources with Added Saccharin Chewing gum, tabletop sweeteners, processed foods and drinks such as canned fruit, baked goods, soft drinks
Excitotoxin Name Aspartame
Derivatives on Food Labels N-L-phenylalanine, 1-methyl ester
Examples of Food Sources with Added Aspartame Processed foods such as sugar-free ice-cream, iced tea, jams, jellies, ice-cream toppings, fruit spreads, sugar-free tomato sauce, sugar-free cookies, diet soft drinks, nutritional bars, instant cocoa mix, cereals, protein drinks, fat-free and sugar-free yoghurt, fruit juice, candy
Summary: Artificial Sweeteners
Artificial sweeteners, such as saccharin and aspartame, are excitotoxins commonly used to replace sugar.
Artificial sweeteners have been linked to a variety of chronic health issues, such as obesity, diabetes and stroke.
Artificial sweeteners have been shown to alter our gut microbiota, which has potential long-term health implications.
Many experts recommend avoiding foods with high concentrations of artificial sweeteners, such as 'diet' labelled processed and refined foods and drinks.
Casein: A naturally occurring protein found in cow's milk and other dairy products, casein contains high concentrations of glutamate. Food manufacturers often add casein to certain processed foods such as margarine, tuna, chocolate, cereal bars, savoury chips and processed meats (23).
Cysteine: Used as an artificial flavouring, cysteine is a naturally occurring protein that is also industrially produced through the hydrolysis of human hair and poultry feathers. It is commonly found in most high-protein foods, but is also added to some processed and refined foods. Cysteine consumed in moderate amounts has been shown to have numerous positive health benefits; however, excessive cysteine levels have been associated with Parkinson's and Alzheimer's disease (23, 24).
Sucralose (Splenda®): Sucralose is an artificial sweetener that is about 320 to 1,000 times sweeter than regular sugar. The potential health consequences of sucralose are less known compared with saccharin and aspartame; however, it has similar excitotoxic properties. Sucralose can be found in many processed foods and drinks that use artificial sweetening (24).
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Avoid Hidden MSG in the Health Food Isle.
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Benjamin Wood
Benjamin Wood [MScIH, MBBS] is a medical doctor from Tasmania with a background in public and humanitarian health. He is passionate about improving the health consciousness of the public on a wide range of health and nutrition topics.
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This week we made Stuffed Leeks. It was a play on manicotti but without the pasta and it was DELICIOUS. I took the tubes from the leeks and stuffed it with a chicken sausage. The sauce is lemon, caper, tomato, leek sauce. Garnished it with some parmesan and parsley.
Cut chicken and bacon into medium chunks that will fit into your grinder. Try to use chilled meats as they will grind better.
Run the chunks of meat through your grinder, collecting in a large bowl.
Add remaining ingredients, and mix together.
Or you can buy your own sausage, but that is just boring and too easy.
Heat a pan to medium high, add olive oil. Add leeks and cook for 3 minutes.
Add garlic and capers, cook for 1 minute.
Add lemon juice and white wine vinegar, cook and let it reduce for 2 minutes.
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So when you get your leeks you will want to cut the a 4 inch section from the bottom. In order to get the leek "tubes" push in the middle of the leek. Make sure you push towards the green side of the leek as it is the wider side and it will come apart easier.
You should be able to get 8-10 tubes from 3 large leeks. Once you have separated, clean the tubes by rinsing. Make sure you set aside the interior of the leek, as you will use that with the sauce. Make sure you clean this part of the leek also as leeks tend to be very sandy. Once you have your leek tubes, fill each with your sausage mixture. You should have enough sausage for 8 or so stuffed leeks.
Arrange all of your stuffed leeks into a baking dish and top with your sauce. Bake for 35-45 minutes until sausage is cooked through. Garnish with some paremesan and chopped parsley.
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Footballer, Marcus Rashford sends eight-year-old fan a PS5 and 'Thank You' letter after he helped set up a food bank in his local community
Manchester United and England footballer, Marcus Rashford has sent a young fan a PlayStation 5 after the kid helped set up a food bank in his community.
Rashford was awarded an MBE last year for his fantastic campaign to ensure free school meals for disadvantaged kids.
Joshua, an 8 year old Barrow AFC supporter, helped to set-up the 'Barrow United' foodbank initiative in 2020.
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Rashford surprised Joshua with a PS5 console and a personal letter from the United star.
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Me and my family will all be watching on Saturday and cheering extra loud for Marcus and the boys against Ukraine."
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18.10.09, Coombe et al., Saints of North-East England
Cynthia Turner Camp
Coombe, Margaret, Anne Mouron, and Christiania Whitehead, eds. . Saints of North-East England, 600-1500 . Medieval Church Studies. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2018. pp. xviii, 363. ISBN: 978-2-503-56715-0 (hardback).
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Saints of North-East England is an important collection of essays that will reinvigorate the study of Anglo-Saxon, especially northern, saints. The product of a conference in 2015, this volume brings an all-star cast of contributors together with new voices in the field. These essays consolidate research about and offer new perspectives on the saints of northern England, including but not only Cuthbert. The collection as a whole points toward further avenues of research to be undertaken on the region and its saints throughout the Middle Ages.
Divided into three sections, the volume covers the span of the Middle Ages, ranging into the early modern period. Part one centers on Anglo-Saxon Northumbria. It opens with Sarah Foot's analysis of Bede's portrayals of northern saints across all of his writings, concluding that Bede did distinguish Northumbrian figures as extraordinarily special in the eyes of God. Alan Thacker surveys the development of early Anglo-Saxon shrines from Roman and especially Merovingian examples. Sarah McCann presents a multifaceted argument for Boisil of Melrose, abbot and formative influence on Cuthbert, to have been Irish, using Bede's silence on Boisil's origins as a lever to pry open the nuances of Bede's attitude toward the Irish. Alice Hicklin unpacks the theme of exile in Stephan of Ripon's Vita Wulfridi, drawing attention to its reciprocal nature: both Wilfrid and his familia experience their separation as a kind of exile. Refusing to take Cuthbert's popularity among the tenth-century reforming clergy as a given, Alison Hudson interrogates a constellation of possible reasons for their fascination with a Northern saint who didn't always align with the reformers' primary agendas.
The second section, focused on the long twelfth century, treats a wider diversity of saints. Cuthbert and Durham are the topic of two essays. Dominic Marner examines symbolic numerology in Symeon of Durham's Libellus as the Durham monks attempted, during Cuthbert's relic translation, to affiliate themselves even more firmly with Lindisfarne. Helen Applegate undertakes a nuanced reading of the later, northern-focused sections of the twelfth-century manuscript Cambridge, University Library MS Ff.1.27, considering how all aspects of the manuscript's production--its mise-en-page, its ordering of texts, and textual changes distinct to this manuscript--function together to impose upon its viewer the power and spiritual glories of Durham over both Lindisfarne and episcopal authority, a glory centered in Cuthbert himself. The later medieval cult of obscure bishop-saints by the Augustinian canons of Hexham is the topic of David Rollason's contribution; he determines that the later medieval emphasis on these figures was a political-spiritual tool in Hexham's eleventh and twelfth century negotiations with Durham and York, figuring the church's dominant position in English history. Godfric of Finchale is treated by Dominic Alexander and Margaret Coombe. Alexander examines monastic and cultural ambivalence about extreme physical asceticism in Godric's vita via the literary figure of the wild man, who often resembles Godric himself, while Coombe revisits the three English songs associated with Godric, paying particular attention to their manuscript and performance contexts.
The final section covers the later Middle Ages through the lens of material culture. Richard Sharpe considers the evidence for the use of northern saints' banners taken into battle against the Scots, asking questions about their appearance, their liturgical use, and ultimately the limitations of the documentary record for understanding these objects' functions. Allen Doig surveys the architectural arrangements for Cuthbert's cult, from Anglo-Saxon Lindisfarne through Reformation Durham, considering the liturgical, female, and lay use of monastic space. Lynda Rollason reconsiders the glazing scheme of Durham Cathedral, arguing for coherence in its presentation of Cuthbert and other northern saints. The volume concludes with Margaret Harvey's postscript, which looks at early modern antiquarian and apologist attitudes to Cuthbert and the northern saints, concluding that these writers kept alive the legends of these saints, whether they were lauding or bashing them.
Several threads run through these essays. The most obvious is Cuthbert himself, the signature saint of north-east England, and Durham; all but four essays foreground one or the other, and each contributor addresses these megaliths in some fashion. A second is material culture; many of the essays that break new ground do so concerning saints' shrines and banners, manuscripts, and monastic architecture and artistic features. A third, related thread is the issue of space. Some of the spaces discussed are physically delimited: churches, shrines, anchorholds (Thacker, Marner, D. Rollason, Doig, Alexander, L. Rollason). Others, however, are spaces produced through practice, whether through literary conventions or embodied performance. The space of exile in theVita Wulfridi, for example, not only includes Wilfrid's geographic exclusion from England, but is also produced rhetorically through biblical references and spiritual ordeal (Hicklin). The holy space of Lindisfarne is revealed numerically in Durham Cathedral (Marner). And the boundaries of a saint's authority are expanded under his banner, whether used for spiritual or military ends (Sharpe).
For all the new ground this essay collection breaks, it also reveals a number of areas ripe for further exploration, especially in the post-Conquest period. One area is the "other" northern saints. While the collection's intense focus on Cuthbert is understandable, the essays by the Rollasons, Sharpe, and Harvey hint at the potential for examining the afterlives of other north-eastern saints like Wilfrid and John of Beverley, while other saints receive only passing mention--Hilda, Aebbe of Coldingham, Oswald of Northumbria, and Bede himself. Additionally welcome would be studies on the relationship of these older cults to the newer orders, especially the Cistercians who came to dominate the northern landscape. References to Aelred of Rivaulx and the Cistercians pepper these essays, but a sustained consideration of their response to long-established cults is in order. Several of these essays, especially those of Appleton and Coombe, demonstrate the fruits that detailed manuscript study can bear; given the richness of Durham Cathedral's medieval library, more revealing studies like these are certainly forthcoming. Finally, the contributions by the Rollasons, Doig, and Harvey are a valuable reminder that much work remains to be done on the late medieval cults. These essays particularly demonstrate how long known but lightly studied antiquarian texts like the Rites of Durham can be judiciously used to develop a rich understanding of these saints' popularity at the end of the Middle Ages. As Harvey's contribution suggests, Cuthbert and his fellows remained a vital force in northern English culture through Elizabeth's reign and beyond, and there is much to be done to understand continuities and changes with the cults' medieval iterations.
The volume's editors Margaret Coombe, Anne Mouron, and Christiania Whitehead are to be praised for bringing together such a diversity of voices and perspectives on a well-studied but certainly not exhausted topic. The collection would have benefited from an index, but the book's production value is otherwise as high as one has come to expect from Brepols. These essays not only exemplify the work still to be done on northern saints' cults, but also model approaches that could be used to interrogate the late medieval iterations of southern Anglo-Saxon saints' cults. It is a collection that opens doors, and it will be exciting to see the new studies on northern saints that follow from it.


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Why the Marathon Keeps Pulling Us Back
The greater the risk, the greater the reward.
By Becky Wade
Kevin Morris
As after each of the six marathons I'd run before, my feeling upon crossing the finish line in this year's Boston Marathon was relief. No matter how the preceding 26.2 miles have played out, I'm always thankful that my body has withstood the distance and my mind has managed its aversion to suffering. It also feels good to stop.
Once I steadied my legs and caught my breath, my next reaction was disappointment. The entire second half of the race had been a struggle, and I finished far behind my place and time goals for my first Boston Marathon (17th in 2:36 versus top 10 in sub-2:30). Anyone who invests wholeheartedly in something for a few months (or longer), only to fall short at their one opportunity, has likely experienced a similar sting.
So it may come as a surprise to learn that, not two hours after removing my racing flats, I was already thinking about my next crack at Boston. Naturally, I wanted to redeem myself. And having had a few interruptions in my build-up, I knew I was capable of much more than I showed. I was also excited about what I could do with my newfound familiarity of the course, comfort with race logistics, and respect for the downhills that only a firsthand experience can elicit.
Just How Bad Is Heartbreak Hill?
I know that I'm not alone in feeling the tug of the marathon, even—sometimes especially—on the heels of a subpar performance. As I wrap up my post-Boston downtime and start mapping out my next racing season, I've been thinking about why that may be. Here are my speculations about why the marathon keeps pulling us back.
Marathon Training Offers Purpose and Structure
The post-marathon blues are real. Whether I've won or bombed, I always experience a period of aimlessness and despondency in the aftermath of a big race.
To exchange a highly structured existence, where everything from meals to daydreams to bedtimes are tailored to a meaningful goal, to an open-ended one, with more free time and less of a unifying purpose, can be jarring. Having another pursuit to look forward to, even before I'm ready to dive in, can be a powerful antidote to that postrace slump.
Marathoners Are Resilient
No one who prepares for and tackles a marathon lacks perseverance. It's what gets us through windy workouts, solo efforts, uncharted long runs, and sessions that are a struggle from the start. So when a target race doesn't unfold as we'd hoped, it's natural for that resolve to surface in the form of new goals and a spruced up racing calendar.
With a PR that still stands from my debut marathon (2:30:41 in the 2013 California International Marathon), I've gotten pretty skilled at bouncing back. In addition to identifying new objectives that excite me, it helps to reframe disappointments in the context of a trampoline: each dip sets me up for a higher bounce down the road.
Experience Is an Asset
While it's true that marathoners peak later in life than most other athletes, that doesn't mean you have to be in your 30s to run your fastest. The key takeaway is that, to a point, you'll likely improve as you increase your training capacity, add to your bank of lifetime miles, and gain competitive experience over the 26.2-mile distance—all of which reward the big-picture thinker.
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For the ultimate inspiration, look at Des Linden, who notched her first marathon win at the 2018 Boston Marathon. It only took her 17 tries.
There Are So Many Variables to Get Right
Running a marathon is a little bit like coaching a group of synchronized swimmers: there are endless variables to manipulate and coordinate, and when they all come together, it's a beautiful thing. But one small blip can throw the whole performance off. Some elements of marathoning—like pacing plans, racing flats, and fueling strategies—are under the control of the racer and easily fine-tuned in advance.
Others—like weather conditions, side stitches, and an erratic pace group leader—are maddeningly out of our control. All we can do is prepare our best, hope for minimal surprises on race day, and manage those that arise as well as we can.
We All Dream of That Perfect Day
The same reasons that make the marathon so hard to nail, and so crushing when we don't, make a good marathon immensely satisfying. It's not often that all of the main variables align exactly when they need to: a healthy, fit, and rested body; a crisp, still day; similarly matched competitors to work and battle with; a well-executed race plan; and minimal road bumps over a 26.2-mile expanse.
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So on those special days when the marathon gods shine down on you, milk it for all it's worth. And until then, do as Des does: Keep showing up. You may never vie for that olive branch wreath, but if you stay with it long enough, there's a very good chance your moment will come.
Becky Wade Contributing Writer Becky Wade is a three-time Olympic Trials competitor with a 2:30 marathon best.
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The 15 inch blade flew perilously close to my left ear and the Chef's knife thumped into the door behind me. I was told, in no uncertain terms, that my days in his pastry kitchen were over. I couldn't possibly repeat the actual words, but if you think that Gordon Ramsey cusses, I can assure you that even he has a comparatively mild turn of phrase.
Chef was right of course. I was useless in the pastry kitchen. I still am. My croissants could be used to break rocks in a quarry. My shortcrust could substitute for dumbell weights. It's simple biology. My hands are too warm.
Heck, I didn't even want to be a pastry chef, but I had to master every part of cooking and I wanted to learn from this Chef. I had huge respect for his talent and would take almost anything for the chance to learn. But he wasn't very likeable. He was a conqueror style and a competent jerk.
In the last Leadership AdvantEdge podcast I asked what your influencing style was – and if you missed that, you really ought to pop back and listen and do the influencing style inventory. This will identify your dominant influencing style and your least dominant style. Conqueror style influencers can be seen as aggressive, power hungry and controlling. It's not easy working for a conqueror, and their positive influence can be eradicated by the fear they can induce.
How about you actually do respect me greatly, but you don;t find me trustworthy, heck perhaps you don't even like me. My Chef was here, I had huge respect for his talent but didn't trust him to care for me, certainly not after that knife incident. If that were me, I;d be a jerk, a competent one, but still a jerk.
The question is, do they trust you and do they respect you?
How do you feel, for example, when you meet someone to have a chat and they just talk about me, me, me, what about me? The entire conversation is them seeking affirmation from you. They don't ask after you. And if you do voice an opinion, you are swiftly cut off mid-sentence as they bring the dialogue back to the most important person in the room, i.e. them.
As you heard that description I'm sure that someone came to mind and you have a judgement about them. How much you respect and trust them.
We need to remember the elevator principle here. There are some people in life who will bring you up, and there are many more who will bring you down.
Choose to make the other person your centre of attention when you have time together. Ask about their lives, and, if you want to really gain traction on your influence, ask them what they did at the weekend. Listening attentively to what they did, the words they use and the order they share.
But won't they think I'm after something from them? Cozzying up to them for a favour?
You're asking what they did at the weekend because most people spend their weekends doing the things they love to do, with the people most important to them. So if they spend their entire weekend working (as in time that they should be off work) then, working is more important to them than their family or personal life. That may be a temporary situation, but ask every week and you'll find patterns emerging.
I worked with a delightful young leader. She was one of the nicest, must humble and talented people in her field. Few of her colleagues respected her for her work. She was liked, but not respected. In meetings she would be quiet and she would do her work as quietly and unobtrusively as possible. Her work was exemplary but no-one knew that it was her work. She never asked for, nor was ever given credit.
Trust is: "assured reliance on the character, ability, strength, or truth of someone or something" according to the Merriam Webster dictionary. When I can reply on you and know that you will come through as you promised, then I can trust you.
If you're having difficulties asking people directly, then listen attentively to their conversations. When people are moaning and complaining, they will often emphasise the things they dislike the most and these tend to be the things that they think "should" be done differently or better. That's what they judge as being important.
Gaining respect and trust is rarely an overnight miracle. It takes time to show consistency and be respected for listening and caring about them.


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According to Adweek, citing research by Odyssey — a social content platform that aggregates and shares a rich diversity of millennial voices from hundreds of local communities and has 30 million monthly unique visitors, more than 1,200 respondents to a nationwide poll shows that while millennials follow an average of 30 (!) brands across Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, brands using certain words to communicate with them elicit a *whole-body eye roll*.
What this audience cares about isn't brands attempting to appear on point with the latest in cool-speak; it's about authenticity and reigning in the temptation to try and appear hip. Therefore, here are six words your client brand should NOT use when addressing this highly coveted demo…
Millennial. Close to half of Odyssey's research subjects absolutely hate it when advertisers use this word. They want to be spoken to as adults, even if your strategy is to make the brand come across as kinda fun, cool, or a little bit goofy.
Don't try to act like or sell hipster as your brand, and don't try to suck up by calling them hip(ster). The respondents said to be honest, interesting, and don't try too hard. They notice.
Yaaasss or any of-the-moment slang. Chances are pretty good your client will come off as hopelessly behind the trend and sound a lot like their moms/dads trying to work the word into conversation. Odyssey's research found that fully 2/3 of its respondents think slang isn't effective when communicating with them on social platforms.
Emojis. Literally, THE least favored communication method Odyssey's survey — only 3% of respondents said brands should use them. It's not that THEY don't use emojis themselves – 92% of the online population uses them, but 27% percent of the respondents found hashtags and 21% reported GIFs to be acceptable forms of brand communication.
YOLO and the like. LOL, YOLO, FOMO, OMG, IRL, IMHO, IDK — you get the pic. More than 3/4th of the survey group see this as a weak attempt to be cool and fit in with them. One thing is for sure: Brands shouldn't have any FOMO when it comes to using abbreviations. No, really.
On fleek. Used to express perfection, especially when it comes to makeup application, it should be avoided at all costs. Believe it or not, jumping on slang terms too soon reads as desperate to this audience. This phrase is far from perfect when used by brands—70% percent of respondents didn't like seeing it and thought it looked overeager, even desperate to be relevant.
This is one of the savviest demographics to target – and their BS radar is really sensitive. Odyssey concluded they really do want to have real relationship with the brands they love – but that conversation must be designed with the underpinnings of trust and goodwill that don't try to pander. Stick with words that truly reflect your brands, and not some yardstick of hipness you think will snatch up a millennial audience. They're on to you…


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The Button King Museum, Bishopville, South Carolina
By far my favorite roadside attraction from our southern road trip, the Button King Museum represents the eccentric life's work of 84 year old Dalton Stevens, the self styled "Button King."
In 1983, when insomnia kept him awake far after TV programming cut off at 2am, Steven's search for entertainment led him to start sewing buttons on a denim suit, the beginning of a prodigious button sewing (and gluing) career. His museum sits in front of his house, off a country road near Bishopville, South Carolina, and houses the original denim suit, two cars, an outhouse, a coffin (that he hopes to be buried in), and more button covered odds and ends.
The museum seems to be open pretty much any time Stevens is home, and he was quick to come down and say hello when he noticed we'd stopped. He was incredibly sweet, happy to answer questions and pose for photos after donning his button uniform. Not at all media shy, he offered to sing a song and encouraged me to record it. (Check out the video at the bottom of the post).
The walls of the museum are covered with memorabilia from his media appearances, at its height in the late 80s and early 90s. He was even sent on a promotional tour of Japan by the Iris Button Co! Now a widower and less active in the media, he says he loves the company from visitors to his museum…seriously, go visit this man!
The coffin that Stevens hopes to be buried in. He damaged his first button coffin when he accidentally locked himself in after climbing in for a nap!
The Button King Museum
Address: 55 Joe Dority Rd, Bishopville, SC
Hours: no formal hours, the museum seems to be open whenever Stevens is home. Roadside America says you can call 803-236-6096 to check before you visit.
Admission: free, but donations are accepted
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Locke is a township in Ingham County, in the Lansing metro area.
The latitude of Locke is 42.736N. The longitude is -84.203W.
It is in the Eastern Standard time zone. Elevation is 899 feet.
The population, at the time of the 2000 census, was 1,671.
Sections below provide additional information and links about Locke demographics, travel and tourism, nearby airports, cemeteries, the Ingham County economy, education, environment, genealogy, government, historic sites, libraries, maps, museums, newspapers and other media, nonprofit groups, real estate, recreation, religion, transportation, and weather in the 48892 ZIP code.
27% of Locke residents report German ancestry, and 11% report Irish. For more info on local ancestry groups, see the Locke ancestry & family history guide.
At the time of the 2000 census, the per capita income in Locke was $23,149, compared with $21,587 nationally.
20% of Locke residents age 25 and older have a bachelor's or advanced college degree.
Median rent in Locke, at the time of the 2000 Census, was $500. Monthly homeowner costs, for people with mortgages, were $1,090.
Ingham County supported John Kerry in the 2004 presidential election. For more information, see our Locke political report.
The average commute time for Locke workers is 29 minutes, compared with 26 minutes nationwide.


Four states approved $580 million of potentially phony Medicaid payments in 2011, and the officials responsible don't seem to be in a hurry to fix the problems that allowed the wasted spending to happen in the first place.
Jail inmates, dead people and doctors previously thrown out of the program were among the thousands of recipients in the wasteful federal spending gravy train.
New Jersey, Arizona, Michigan, Florida, and likely more states, allowed the fraudulent Medicaid payments because they didn't check databases to ensure that beneficiaries and providers were eligible, according to a Government Accountability Office report.
"The bottom line … is to narrow the windows of opportunity for improper payments," GAO Audit Services Director Seto Bagdoyan, the report's author, said Friday.
Preventing "fraudulent health-care providers from entering" Medicaid is the "most important element in an effective fraud-prevention program," he said.
The GAO's investigators chose those states for their usually credible data and because they account for about 13 percent of Medicaid's $310 billion cost to taxpayers in 2014. The program is a major reason why the Department of Health and Human Services is the most expensive government agency, according to the report. Medicaid has been designated as high-risk since 2003.
Investigators said that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services in HHS must do a better job of getting information to state officials to protect against improper payments.
Nearly 212,000 beneficiaries received $524 million, even though their Social Security numbers were either invalid or didn't match the identity information in Social Security Administration databases, the GAO report said.
Incomplete records of beneficiaries' identities "can be an indicator of identity-related fraud," the report said.
Also, 8,600 beneficiaries received payments from at least two states, totaling $18.3 million. Another 3,600 jailed beneficiaries received $4.2 million, though investigators noted it's more likely they were subjects of identity theft, since their imprisonment would make it challenging to file claims.
Further, the four states' Medicaid programs documented $9.6 million of service to 200 dead beneficiaries.
The states' officials told investigators they didn't frequently use the SSA's Death Master File, which is a database of Social Security numbers that belong to dead people.
"Without using information from the full" database, states can't "detect individuals who have moved to and died in other states and prevent payments of potentially fraudulent benefits," the report said.
However, the SSA inspector general reported in March that the Death Master File showed that 6.5 million likely dead people still had active Social Security numbers.
Also, an estimated $3.4 million was likely wrongfully paid to 400 Medicaid providers in 2011, according to the accountability office. Of that, around 90 Medicaid doctors with suspended or revoked licenses received approximately $2.8 million.
However, states don't fully use the Provider Enrollment, Chain and Ownership System database, which contains information on doctors already screened for Medicare, according to the report.
For example, Michigan only uses the database for medium- or high-risk providers "to determine whether a site visit is warranted," the report said.
Arizona officials disagreed with the accountability office and claimed the report was full of errors and misstatements. Investigators primarily dismissed the complaints.
Bagdoyan will testify on Medicaid's fraud and abuse before a House Energy and Commerce subcommittee Tuesday.


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Blog by James Bridle highlighting some of my recent work in the field of Photography, show casing festivals, like Bestival, Isle of Wight, Global Gathering, SoundClash, and many more. Also covering PA club events, fitness fashion shoots and weddings! Photographer based in Bournemouth, Dorset covering Christchurch & Poole.
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Foxes' debut album, Glorious, was released in the United Kingdom in 2014 and features the top 20 singles "Youth", "Let Go for Tonight" and "Holding onto Heaven". Her second album, All I Need,[7] was released on 5 February 2016. The album includes the singles "Body Talk", "Better Love" and "Amazing".
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Thousands march in support of Italian lawmaker, a Holocaust survivor, targeted with threats
By	Marcy Oster	 December 11, 2019 10:54 am
The threats against Liliana Segre started after she proposed a new parliamentary panel against racism, discrimination, anti-Semitism and online hatred. (Marco Piraccini/Mondadori Portfolio via Getty Images)
(JTA) — An Italian senator and Holocaust survivor who was put under police protection after receiving anti-Semitic threats online was escorted through downtown Milan by the mayors of Italian cities and ordinary citizens in a show of support.
Some of Liliana Segre's escorts in the march on Tuesday evening carried a large banner reading "Hatred has no future," The Associated Press reported.
Segre, 89, a senator for life, was provided with a police escort last month after she proposed a new parliamentary panel against racism, discrimination, anti-Semitism and online hatred. Following passage of the proposal, she began receiving about 200 negative messages, including anti-Semitic threats and vitriol, a day.
About 1,000 mayors wearing sashes in the colors of the Italian flag marched with Serge in a show of support organized by the Italian mayors association. Thousands of supporters marched along and lined the streets, according to the report.
Segre was 13 when she was deported to Auschwitz in 1944.
"I have known hatred. I have known what it means to be a reject of the society to which I believed I belonged," Serge told the crowd, AP reported. "I heard the words of hatred, hateful and insulting, and I saw with my eyes the realization of a ferocious program prepared from hatred."
Segre also supports a National Museum of Resistance. It was announced this week that the museum will be built in Milan.
British Jewish lawmaker Ruth Smeeth told a local newspaper last month that she is being bombarded with death threats, nearly half of them anti-Semitic, and requires an escort at all times.
By	Cnaan Liphshiz	 January 17, 2022 11:23 am
Who is Aafia Siddiqui, the prisoner whom the Colleyville synagogue hostage-taker reportedly wanted to free?
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Prince Charles commissions Holocaust survivor portraits for Buckingham Palace
Brussels-based imam who prayed for Allah to burn Zionists kicked out of Belgium
British Jewish leader resigns following comments about Muslims


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African supermarket chain, Choppies to chop South African assets
PUBLISHED: Wed, 14 Aug 2019 17:43:32 GMT
Chris Bishop
Botswana-born supermarket chain Choppies plans to exit its South African operations, either in whole or part.
It entered South Africa in 2008 opening its first store in Zeerust North West, where most of its SA stores with concentrated.
The retailer has been battling several headwinds since last year when its shares were suspended on the JSE and Botswana Stock Exchange over the delayed submission of its results as PwC uncovered several accounting irregularities that needed further investigation.
In May 2019 its co-founder Ramachandran Ottapathu, following recommendations made in an investigation report by Desai Law Group, was suspended.
In an interview with CNBC Africa, Ottapathu, who hails from Kerala in southern India, explained why he felt his suspension was unjustified.
Ottapathu came to Botswana on the offer of an accountant's job in Botswana. All he knew about the southern African country was that it had a lot of diamonds and elephants.
Ottapathu's first job in Botswana was to look over the books at the Wayside supermarket in Lobatse near the border with South Africa – the then ailing predecessor to Choppies. He steered the books to safety by 1997 and in 1999 the company opened its first superstore in Gaborone. Ottapathu was appointed CEO of the company in 2000 and by 2015 it was turning over $533 and by 2016 it had 170 stores across Botswana South Africa and Zimbabwe. It had plans to expand in Kenya Tanzania and Rwanda.
"Africa is an addiction. I don't even want my dead body to go out," he was quoted by Forbes Africa as saying.
The expansion of Choppies made Ottapathu a fortune that he estimated, in 2016, to be worth around $300 million.
Yet, allegations of accounting irregularities, at least one payment that the board didn't know about, boardroom squabbles with chairman and former Botswana President, Festus Mogae over the direction and running of the company saw Ottapathu ousted in 2019. A sweet growth story in Africa that appeared to come to a bitter end.


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Phoenix, Arizona—Arizona became the 48th state in the Union to ban the use of handheld cell phones and other portable wireless communication devices while operating a motor vehicle. Governor Doug Ducey signed the bill into law on Monday. Arizona always appears to come late to public safety regulation.
Each year, for 13 years, the Arizona Legislature has failed to pass comprehensive laws banning cell phone usage while driving. Legislator Steve Farley, D-Tucson, was the force behind many of these efforts. The difference in having the bill passed this time is attributed to the tragic death of Officer Clayton Townsend. Mr. Townsend, age 26, was an officer with the Salt River Police Department who was struck and killed while standing beside his patrol car during a routine traffic stop. The motorist who struck him later admitted he was texting at the time. Officer Townsend leaves behind a wife and a 10-month-old daughter.
Officer Townsend's mother, Toni Townsend, testified before the Arizona State Legislature in support of the bill. The new law makes it illegal for drivers to physically hold or support a cell phone, make or receive calls, write, send or read text messages, e-mails, Instagram messages or Internet data.
Voice communications are permitted if they are made through earpieces or headphones. It is permissible to communicate through a vehicle's built-in interface system with a minimum of interaction. Text messages may be sent through voice commands. Drivers may continue to use a vehicle's built-in video system for information about the vehicle or mapping directions.
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Judge to decide if alleged 'racist' remarks earn triple-murder convict new trial
by Judy Harrison April 2, 2015 Updated April 3, 2015
BANGOR, Maine — A Superior Court judge will decide soon whether one of two men convicted last year in connection with a triple murder in Bangor will get a new trial because of alleged racist comments made in closing arguments.
Randall Daluz, 37, of Brockton, Massachusetts, is seeking a new trial. His co-defendant, Nicholas Sexton, 34, of Warwick, Rhode Island, is not.
Both were convicted of murder and arson on May 28 after a month-long trial in Bangor.
On Thursday, Superior Court Justice William Anderson heard oral arguments on Daluz's motion for a new trial at the Penobscot Judicial Center. He took the matter under advisement but said he would issue a written decision in "the next couple of weeks" in the case police called a drug deal gone bad.
Motions for new trials often are filed in murder trials before defendants are sentenced. They almost always are denied but often are the basis for appeals to the Maine Supreme Judicial Court.
Attorneys for Daluz claim their client, an African-American, was denied a fair trial because of improper statements made by then-Assistant Attorney General Lisa Marchese and Sexton's defense attorney, Jeffrey Toothaker of Ellsworth, during their closing arguments to the jury, and because the defendants were tried jointly. Both defendants opposed a joint trial numerous times before and during the trial.
The motion for a new trial was filed in June by Daluz's attorneys, Hunter Tzovarras and Jeffrey Silverstein of Bangor.
"[Toothaker's] closing arguments asked the jury to place themselves in Mr. Daluz's shoes and suggested at least twice that Mr. Daluz could not explain the events of Aug. 12-13, 2012," Tzovarras wrote in the motion. "These comments impinged on Mr. Daluz's right to remain silent and contrasted his silence to Mr. Sexton's testimony. In addition, [Sexton's attorney] made comments in his closing argument that Mr. Daluz [an African-American] was the more likely defendant to carry a firearm because he was a minority and that he came from a dangerous neighborhood."
The motion said Marchese's closing argument implied that "the standard of proof in a case involving a fire is less than a non-fire case or involved something less than proof beyond a reasonable doubt."
Tzovarras told Anderson at Thursday's hearing that the U.S. Supreme Court has through recent decisions told lower courts "to eradicate race" from proceedings.
The state objected to the new trial motion. Sexton's attorney's did not.
"The introduction of race into a trial in an effort to incite racial prejudice is inexcusable," Assistant Attorney General Deb Cashman wrote in the state's response to the motion. "However, that is not the case at hand."
Cashman also said in the response and told the judge Thursday the motion should be denied because the objection was not raised when closing arguments were made.
"The characterizations [Toothaker] made during [his closing] argument, when viewed in the context of the entire trial, was not so prejudicial as to affect the interest of justice," Cashman wrote.
She told Anderson that references were made throughout the trial to the defendants' race by witnesses and attorneys. Sexton testified that as a white man he was a minority in Brockton, Massachusetts, where a majority of the population is black and Hispanic. Daluz was a minority in Bangor due to his race, Toothaker said during the trial.
The Penobscot County jury found Daluz guilty May 28 on three counts of murder and one count of arson after a month-long trial. After deliberating for nearly 45 hours over five days, jurors found Sexton guilty of the murder of Nicolle Lugdon and of arson, but they could not reach a verdict on the murder counts in connection with the deaths of Daniel Borders and Lucas Tuscano.
The charred bodies of Lugdon, 24, of Eddington, Borders, 26, of Hermon and Tuscano, 28, of Bradford were found in a burning rental car Aug. 13, 2012, at 22 Target Industrial Circle in Bangor. They had been shot to death, and the car they were in was set on fire to destroy evidence, according to testimony.
Sexton took the stand May 19 and said Daluz shot Borders accidentally but killed Tuscano and then Lugdon intentionally. Sexton said that Daluz forced him to set the car on fire and threatened to kill him and his children if he went to the police.
Daluz did not take the stand.
Sentencing dates for Sexton and Daluz have not been set. Both men face between 25 years and life in prison.
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2-Days From New York to Martha's Vineyards, Essex and Cape Cod Tour
Duration: 28 May 2016 - 30 Sep 2016
Location: Edison NJ US; New York City NY US
Explore Connecticut specially Essex Steam Train and Riverboat, Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard and more with 1 night hotel and free transportation.
Return City: New York City NY US
Day 1: New York – Essex
By the late morning, we will reach Essex, Connecticut to board the Essex Steam Train and Riverboat. By mid-afternoon, the bus will continue to Hyannis Town in Cape Cod to visit the John F. Kennedy Memorial.
Standard Package Hotels: Falmouth Inn or similar
Day 2: Martha's Vineyard – New York
We will ride a ferry to Martha's Vineyard Island. As soon as we arrive, we will have a bus tour. We will visit Aquinnah clay cliffs then move to Edgartown and Oak Bluffs Town. At the end of the day, we will ride a boat around Martha's Vineyard then head to New York.
Available Days: Sat(2016-05-28 to 2016-09-30)Mon,Wed,Sat(2016-06-26 to 2016-09-03) 2016-05-29,2016-07-03,2016-09-04
$183.00 $128.20 Free $88.00 $88.00
Essex Steam Train, CT $29.00 $19.00 $29.00
Marthas Vineyard Cruise, MA $20.00 $11.00 $20.00
Marthas Vineyard, MA $33.00 $33.00 $33.00
Meals and drinks during the tour, unless otherwise is specified. Also, all private expenses.
06:30 AM 1803 Lincoln Highway, Edison, NJ 08817 (Coco Asian Cuisine – (5/22-5/26; 6/28-9/1)),
06:50 AM In front of HSBC Bank, 39-10 Main St Flushing NY 11354,
07:00 AM 6002 8th Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11220 (In front of Eye Solutions – (3/15-12/31)) Pick up only DROP OFF AT CHINA TOWN,
08:00 AM 48 Bowery, New York, NY 10013,
08:00 PM 48 Bowery New York, NY 10013,
08:30 PM 1803 Lincoln Highway, Edison, NJ 08817 (Coco Asian Cuisine – (5/22-5/26; 6/28-9/1)),
08:30 PM 39-10 Main st, Flushing, NY 11354 (HSBC Bank – Queens),
A professional bi- lingual (English/Chinese) or multi-lingual tour guide and/or driver guides will accompany you during the tour.Languages can be combined to operate the tours.
2-Days From New York to Martha's Vineyards, Essex and Cape Cod Tour
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This was a weekend tour for us and we had planned this well in advance. It was a nice tour and the vineyards visit was great. They did not give us an opportunity to see the processing, but we got to taste. It was nice. A good tour, recommend.
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That's one of the most enjoyable trips one could have on a weekend. Therefore, my family and I were already willing to visit somewhere so we took the deal on best bus tours. It went OK. We visited numerous places like Cape Cod and Martha's Vineyard. The hotel was not so great but it was OK. No complaints.
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This dog walk near the M20 Junction 13 is a good one for dogs and people.
Great combo of a park for starters, and then a long beach walk from Sketty to as far as the Mumbles! If you know any Dylan Thomas, this is the place to roar it out.
The sense of quiet is extraordinary here, and no amount of canine snuffling and splashing in the stream seems to disturb. A glorious walking spot.
Phoenix Park is a popular local dog walk, over what used to be the Hickleton Colliery. There are now sculptures and installations as a reminder of its history and a network of paths around the park.


Description: The aim of this tutorial is to discover Contiki's RPL/TSCH implementation and run it. Like for the Contiki's CoAP tutorial, you will reserve some M3 nodes on the Lille site, set them up with flashing two firmwares nodes, and create a simple IPv6 network in IoT-LAB. You will access nodes over IPv6 using a Contiki tunslip6 bridge and launch requests on a CoAP Contiki Erbium server implementation.
See additionals details for explanations on how we added TSCH to these ipv6 examples.
The simplest way to run this tutorial is by doing it from an SSH frontend, since all tools are already installed there. But you can as well do it from your local environment. See additionals details section to know how.
In examples/iotlab/00-configuration/tsch-project-conf.h, set your PANID to something unique, to isolate your network from others. Look for the definition of IEEE802154_CONF_PANID and redefine it to some other value.
Pick one node that will be later used as Border Router and write down its ID and UID (e.g. m3-9 and 1055).
Note: If you have an error "overlaps with routes", it's because another experiment is using the same ipv6 prefix (e.g. : fd00::1/64).
You can view ipv6 prefix used on the frontend SSH with this command and choose another prefix in IPv6Network(fd00::/8) like fddd::1/64.
The first enables and configures TSCH.
IOTLAB_WITH_NON_STORING enables RPL non-storing mode (only the root keeps toplogy information). If unset, storing mode (all nodes maintain routes to their sub-graph locally) is used instead.
RPL_NS_CONF_LINK_NUM defines the number of links used in non-storing mode. Should be set to at least the network size.
UIP_CONF_MAX_ROUTES defines the number of routes used in storing mode. Should be set to at least the network size.


None of us is getting any younger. So let's look at few simple tasks to make things easier for us when we get there.
2) Make a list of all your insurances, with policy numbers and contact information. Update the beneficiaries on all the policies. If the beneficiaries are minor children or young relatives, talk to an attorney about how to name a trust, instead of naming the children. Or name the living trust.
Include your life insurance polic(ies) as well as your health insurance policies. Remember those policies that come from the banks and credit card companies providing $1,000 or $10,000 coverage at no charge? Don't throw them away. They might pay off!
Find those policies that pay if you are only hospitalized, disabled or in an accident. You may have been paying for them via your credit card or automatic withdrawals from your checking account for years without thinking about them.
Locate any liability policies from your business, or job – and disability policies, if you have them.
3) Make a list of all your assets and where they are located (safe deposit box, building addresses, brokerages, etc.). If keys are needed – provide copies, or identify who has the keys (and where). Review the title – or place all the assets into the living trust.
4) Make a list of all your long-term debt (things that will take more than this year to pay off), and credit cards – with account numbers, contact phone numbers, etc.
5) Most importantly, if you are responsible for any young children, make plans for who will take care of them if you cannot. Be selective. It shouldn't just be someone you love and trust. It should be someone who is capable of loving and cherishing the children – and who can be parents, as well.
Do all these things, and you'll feel more secure and in control as you get older.
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