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Inbox: Is D-backs' closer Holland or Bradley?

With Greg Holland now signed, will he be the closer or is that still going to be Archie Bradley? Beat reporter Steve Gilbert answers this question and more from fans as Spring Training approaches.




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Lamb's health a big spring storyline for D-backs

There will be a lot of attention paid to D-backs infielder Jake Lamb when Spring Training gets underway. Lamb, of course, is coming off a season that was almost entirely lost to a left shoulder injury. His healthy return would play a big part in helping the D-backs' offense overcome the departures of Paul Goldschmidt and A.J. Pollock during the offseason.




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D-backs announce record turnout to Fan Fest

As he walked around D-backs Fan Fest on Saturday afternoon at Salt River Fields, general manager Mike Hazen was pleasantly surprised to see the fan reaction as a record crowd of over 40,000 poured into the event.




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Predicting the D-backs' Opening Day roster

Here's an early look at how the D-backs' 25-man roster could shape up on Opening Day.




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D-backs agree to 1-year deal with Joseph

The Arizona Diamondbacks agreed to terms with catcher Caleb Joseph on a one-year contract. To make room for Joseph on the roster, the D-backs placed right-hander Taijuan Walker on the 60-day injured list. The D-backs' 40-man roster remains at 40.




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D-backs to sort out closer role in spring

After watching his pitchers and catchers go through their first workout Wednesday, D-backs manager Torey Lovullo said it was too early to say whether Archie Bradley, Greg Holland or Yoshihisa Hirano would be his closer come Opening Day.




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D-backs expect leaders to emerge in spring

As D-backs pitchers and catchers begin their first official workout of the spring on Wednesday morning, one of the biggest questions facing the organization is who will fill the leadership vacuum.




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Greinke arrives at D-backs camp

D-backs ace Zack Greinke reported to Salt River Fields on Friday after missing the first two days of pitcher and catcher workouts.




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Wide-open competition in D-backs' bullpen

For the final two spots in the D-backs' bullpen, good luck trying to figure that out just yet. In fact, manager Torey Lovullo has even declined to narrow it down to who could be in contention for those spots.




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Greinke discusses commitment to D-backs

Despite a stiff neck, which he says came on a recent airplane flight, D-backs ace Zack Greinke said Saturday that he feels much better physically than he did last year when he reported to Spring Training. Here are five takeaways from Greinke's Saturday session with reporters.




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D-backs' Top 30 prospects list

Who do the D-backs have in the pipeline? Get scouting reports, video, stats, projected ETAs and more for Arizona's Top 30 Prospects on MLBPipeline.com's Prospect Watch.




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Lovullo expects D-backs to vie for playoff spot

Monday morning, D-backs manager Torey Lovullo will stand in front of his entire team prior to the first full-squad workout of the spring.




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The D-backs' Spring Training battle to watch

The next five weeks will see lots of shuffling on Major League rosters. Here are the most intriguing positional battles on each of the 30 MLB clubs.




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D-backs ready to move on from late 2018 skid

They've talked in small groups. They've talked in larger groups. The front office has discussed it. It's a topic that kept manager Torey Lovullo up at night at times. What in the world happened to the D-backs last September when they watched the National League West Division lead slip away during an 8-19 finish?




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An older man with thoracic back pain




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Revving Up the Deportation Machinery: Enforcement under Trump and the Pushback

The Trump administration has significantly cranked up the immigration enforcement machinery in the U.S. interior. Yet even as arrests and deportations are up in the early Trump months, they remain less than half their peaks. This report demonstrates how pushback from California and other "sanctuary" locations makes it quite unlikely that ICE will be able to match record enforcement levels.




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What If You Don't Want to Go Back to the Office?

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For Jeff Anderson, working from home during the pandemic has offered a break from office politics. But as the push to reopen the country's economy intensifies, so do feelings of dread at the idea of returning to the office, said Anderson, a self-described introvert and anthropology professor. And Anderson isn't alone. A Gallup poll found that most U.S. adults working from home would prefer to keep doing so "as much as possible" after the...






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Taiwan baseball league to allow fans back in ballparks amid pandemic

A limited number of fans will be allowed to enter ballparks for games in Taiwan for the first time this season as stay-at-home orders continue to loosen amid the coronavirus pandemic.




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Crisis in the Courts: Is the Backlogged U.S. Immigration Court System at Its Breaking Point?

With a backlog of more than 1 million removal cases, the U.S. immigration court system is in crisis. Pressure from external forces, internal challenges, and lagging resources for the courts at a time of massive increases in spending on immigration enforcement have contributed to the backlog. This article explores how the system got to the breaking point, and what opportunities for reform exist.




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Starting Aug. 1, DoD sites won't sell tobacco to people under 21

The Department of Defense announced this week that effective Aug. 1, retailers on U.S. military installations and bases will no longer sell tobacco products to anyone under the age of 21, including service members.




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Treatment of Type 2 Diabetes: From "Guidelines" to "Position Statements" and Back: Recommendations of the Israel National Diabetes Council

Ofri Mosenzon
Aug 1, 2016; 39:S146-S153
II. Diabetes Treatment Options




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ADA supports proposed rules to update federal Anti-Kickback Statute, Stark Law

The American Dental Association supports a new safe harbor for cybersecurity technology and services and modifying the existing safe harbor for electronic health records to add protections for cybersecurity. This was in response to the Office of the Inspector General and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ proposed changes to the federal Anti-Kickback Statute and Stark Law exceptions.




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Looking back: ADA annual meeting welcomes more than 200,000 attendees since 2010

The last decade brought 236,658 attendees to the American Dental Association's annual meeting. The ADA will continue to build on that momentum with the ADA FDC Annual Meeting from Oct. 15-18 in Orlando, Florida.




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Abstract deadline for smokeless tobacco summit at end of February

The deadline for abstracts for the upcoming National Summit on Smokeless Tobacco Prevention is Feb. 29.




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Tampa Bay Lightning team dentist puts players’ mouths back together again

When Dr. Gil Rivera became a dentist, he had no idea his career would take him to the bloodied and bruised front lines of the NHL, but nearly 18 years later, he continues to treat the ravaged mouths of professional hockey players as the team dentist of the Tampa Bay Lightning.




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ADA advises dentists to follow science-backed guidance regarding COVID-19 testing, avoid 'gray market'

The ADA is urging dentists to be cautious about using novel coronavirus diagnostic tests before they have been properly evaluated and made available for dentists.




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ADA advocates that third-party payers modify fee schedules as dentists consider going back to work

The ADA is urging third-party payers to alter their fees to account for the increasing cost of personal protective equipment that dentists are using to protect themselves, their staff and patients.




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Wetter climate to trigger global warming feedback loop in the tropics

As the tropics get wetter, soils are likely experience greater rates of respiration and decomposition, limiting the carbon storage abilities of tropical soils and intensifying global warming.




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Google brings back 'Pac-Man' game in latest Doodle

Google's homepage features arcade classic "Pac-Man" in the latest Doodle.




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[ Add-ons ] Open Question : Finding a way to backup with external harddrive?

I'm trying to make a backup to an external harddrive, but when I go to update & security and then to back up, I don't find the option to 'add a drive'. It's completely empty, even though my computer is detecting the external harddrive.  Where do I find the option to backup files? I'm using windows 10 




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[ Other - Australia ] Open Question : Where is the to go menu for Outback?




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Handmade egg noodles Hunan-style with smoked bacon and chilli

This recipe was featured on Foodie Tuesday, a weekly segment with Raf Epstein on Drive, 774 ABC Melbourne, 3:30 PM, courtesy of Neil Perry. Neil's new book is "Spice Temple."




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Bacon wrapped mozzarella chicken breasts

When it comes to bacon, it's everything in moderation... This recipe uses bacon as a seasoning.




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In the Age of Trump: Populist Backlash and Progressive Resistance Create Divergent State Immigrant Integration Contexts

As long-simmering passions related to federal immigration policies have come to a full boil, less noted but no less important debates are taking place at state and local levels with regards to policies affecting immigrants and their children. As states are increasingly diverging in their responses, this report examines how some of the key policies and programs that support long-term integration success are faring in this volatile era.




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Through the Back Door: Remaking the Immigration System via the Expected “Public-Charge” Rule

A Trump administration “public-charge” rule expected to be unveiled soon could create the potential to significantly reshape family-based legal immigration to the United States—and reduce arrivals from Asia, Latin America, and Africa—by imposing a de facto financial test that 40 percent of the U.S. born themselves would fail, as this commentary explains.




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Diabetes and Back Pain: Markers of Diabetes Disease Progression Are Associated With Chronic Back Pain

Lorenzo Rinaldo
Jul 1, 2017; 35:126-131
Feature Articles




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Doubling Recess Time to Put Play Back in the School Day

The Virginia Beach City schools, urged on by parents, decided to make a big change, doubling the amount of recess the district offered, from just 15 minutes a day to 30.




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Teachers, We Cannot Go Back to the Way Things Were

Injustice in our education system was normalized long before the pandemic, writes Bettina L. Love. Now is the time to radically dream for a better future.




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Trump-backed lawmaker faces school board head for Congress




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This Pandemic Is No Time to Backtrack on Special Education

It's worth remembering how far we've come on educating students with disabilities, writes Nebraska's education commissioner Matthew L. Blomstedt.




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In-person graduation events tentatively back on in Cheyenne




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Teachers at Higher Risk of COVID-19 Wonder: Should I Even Go Back?

As the national conversation on reopening schools accelerates, experts say the best way to protect vulnerable teachers might be to not have them in school buildings at all.




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Budget Cuts Lead Wyoming to Scale Back Relationship With Accrediting Agency

AdvancED, the national accreditation company, has for the last two years operated Wyoming's entire accreditation process but the state will now do the work on its own.




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In-person graduation events tentatively back on in Cheyenne




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This Pandemic Is No Time to Backtrack on Special Education

It's worth remembering how far we've come on educating students with disabilities, writes Nebraska's education commissioner Matthew L. Blomstedt.




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Teachers, We Cannot Go Back to the Way Things Were

Injustice in our education system was normalized long before the pandemic, writes Bettina L. Love. Now is the time to radically dream for a better future.




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Trump-backed lawmaker faces school board head for Congress




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This Pandemic Is No Time to Backtrack on Special Education

It's worth remembering how far we've come on educating students with disabilities, writes Nebraska's education commissioner Matthew L. Blomstedt.




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In-person graduation events tentatively back on in Cheyenne




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Teachers at Higher Risk of COVID-19 Wonder: Should I Even Go Back?

As the national conversation on reopening schools accelerates, experts say the best way to protect vulnerable teachers might be to not have them in school buildings at all.