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MEDFORD, Ore. — Cannabis community center SONORML is back open after being raided and seeing four of their members arrested. The raid was the result of a two year investigation. Police say SONORML and three other Jackson County businesses were illegally selling medical marijuana.
It is legal for a safe access point or dispensary to charge a card-holding patient for reimbursement of expenses. Anything above those expenses that be considered profit is illegal. Three of the four arrested also face could charges for selling within a thousand feet of a school.
Police declined to give out all of the details of the investigation, but said the amount of income the businesses were bringing in was too high to be considered reimbursement. Representatives of Oregon cannabis connection say those arrested were operating and selling legally.
All of the cannabis plants at SO-NORML were confiscated during the raid. Police say there is still a long investigation and court process ahead. They say in addition to revealing whether or not these charges are valid, it could also reveal whether or not any additional businesses were participating in similar activity.
This raid comes as some lawmakers in the state push for state run medical marijuana dispensaries. That initiative is currently in the House, although no votes have been held yet.


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Metadata on Text Creation Partnership resources
I recognize that Text Creation Partnership resources are sold with appropriate notice that they are not tagged. I understand that restriction and accept that I must use labels and community tags on the resources which I use most. However, is there any reason that we can't request a change in the type if and only if the proposed type does not require any tagging? I am thinking of how useful resources such as these would be if they were in the catechism library type. Mather, Cotton. The A, B, C. of Religion. Early American Imprints, 1639-1800; No. 1614. Boston: Printed & sold by Timothy Green, at the lower end of Middle-Street, 1713. Bellarmino, Roberto Francesco Romolo. An Ample Declaration of the Christian Doctrine. Composed in Italian by the Renowned Cardinal: Card. Bellarmine. Translated into English by Richard Hadock D. of Diuinitie. Early English Books Online. Roan i.e. England: English Secret Press, 1604. Brinsley, John. A Breviate of Saving Knowledge, Or, The Principles of Christian Religion Methodically Digested into Short Questions and Answers Purposely Composed and Published, for the Use and Benefit of such as Have Good Desires but Weake Memories, by I.B. Early English Books Online. London: G.M. for Iohn Burroughes .., 1643. Norton, John. A Brief Catechisme Containing the Doctrine of Godlines, or of Living unto God. Early American Imprints, 1639-1800; No. 63. Cambridg i.e., Cambridge, Mass.: S.G. and M.J. i.e., Samuel Green and Marmaduke Johnson New-England, 1660. Cotton, Seaborn. A Brief Summe of the Cheif Articles of Our Christian Faith, Composed in Way of Question and Answer, Now Published, Especially for the Benefit of the Town of Hampton. Early American Imprints, 1639-1800; No. 77. Cambridg i.e., Cambridge, Mass.: Samuel Green, 1663. I would expect users to initiate a request for the change in type. It would position Faithlife in a much better marketing position as the Tradivox series is released - note Bellarmine in Tradivox vol 2 is already in my list above.

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In late May, photographs from a remote Indian village of two teenage cousins hanged from a mango tree spread rapidly and widely online, focusing the world’s attention on the problem of gang rape in India.
The girls, 12 and 14 years old, had stepped away from their home to go a nearby field that they used as a toilet. They were gang-raped and left hanging by their scarves. When the girls did not return, Sohan Lal, the father of the younger child, went to the police station and begged for an investigation. Instead, he said, he was derided and asked what his caste was.
When the bodies were discovered the next morning, the girls’ families — who were from a lower caste and distrustful of authorities — left them up so that the police would investigate. The families insisted that the bodies remain hanging so outsiders could see how the girls had been found.
After video and still images appeared in the media, pressure built on the authorities, and three brothers were arrested. The police official in charge of the outpost was suspended, and two police officers are now facing criminal charges.
The first images on the web were blurred photos and stills from videos from inexpensive phones. The New York Times ran a photo from Associated Press on a mobile app on May 29 that showed one of the girls from the shoulders down with her feet off the ground and villagers sitting nearby. On May 31 a video on NYTimes.com included some brief footage showing the girls hanging. Some websites published other photos with the girls removed digitally or with their faces obscured.
Because of the power of the images, editors of the Lens blog wanted to start a discussion on the meaning of the photos and their use. We also reached out to Sohan Lal, the father of the 12-year-old and uncle of the 14-year-old. Mr. Lal, a farm laborer who said he was about 50, lives with his family and two brothers’ families in a compound of small mud houses.
In a phone interview he said that he “didn’t have any problems in people taking the photographs; the problem is the thing that happened with our children.”
Mr. Lal said that without the photos and the media’s involvement, he would not have been able to get the police to investigate at all.
On the inside door of his house is a photo of the girls hanging under the mango tree.
Lens asked Stephanie Sinclair, Shahidul Alam and Maurice Berger to write brief essays about the photo that was taken by Kuldeep Sharma, an Indian freelance photojournalist. After reading those essays, we invite you to add your thoughts about the photograph in the comments below. We will add selected comments of fewer than 250 words to this text to further the conversation.
Ms. Sinclair, a photojournalist, is the founder and executive director of Too Young to Wed, a charitable organization dedicated to documenting the human rights challenges faced by women and girls around the world and building a global community dedicated to ending child marriage.
As I am a former conflict photographer, there are few images that I cannot bear to view. This callousness is, of course, a byproduct, a coping mechanism, born of years spent steeped in violent and shocking imagery. None of that, however, helped me understand this image. I simply could not bear to look at these two beautiful young girls hanging from a tree, killed after having been raped by a group of men in their rural Indian village.
My adrenaline surged in the second or so it took me to realize what I was looking at, and, instinctively, I scrolled it out of my sight as quickly as possible. This is the only time I’ve ever reacted in such a way to a photograph. That reaction told me everything I needed to know about the power of that image.
“Pictures like this bring us so viscerally close to the reality of how much further women and girls have to travel in their fight for equality around the world.”
In any corner of the world, anyone who cares enough to listen will hear horrific stories about rape. In my decade-long project on child marriage, I’ve heard more than I ever thought possible. Yet, there I was in the safety of my own home, feeling as if I’d been punched in the gut. I shuddered at the thought of what these two innocent teenage girls experienced in their final moments. That thought still makes my stomach ache.
Pictures like this bring us so viscerally close to the reality of how much further women and girls have to travel in their fight for equality around the world. Indeed, this image, and others like it, call each of us to act or risk becoming little more than voyeurs of atrocity. As hard as this photograph is to look at — with its blatant display of hate, insecurity and need for dominance — it helped to enrage the people of India who forced authorities into a thorough investigation of the case, which is ongoing. If any solace can come from a photograph of this nature, then it can be found in its potential to incite a demand for justice and for change. No small thing, that.
Mr. Alam is a photographer and human rights activist, founder of the Drik Photo Agency, the South Asian Institute of Photography and the Chobi Mela Photo Festival, all in Bangladesh.
The dignity of the dead, the dignity of the living, debates about the public good are what we consider when choosing to publish or even take a photograph. There are no easy answers. This deeply disturbing photograph strips away the veneer of these rules, ensuring we can never hide behind them. Our individual decisions depend ultimately upon our sensitivity, our understanding of the medium.
Our grasp of humanity.
The photograph is violent. A grisly killing. Lifeless bodies. The public display. Yet it is eerily quiet. The living, more silent than the dead. Muted as much by the horror of the murder as by their impotence against colossal injustice. There is no wailing. No outward signs of anger. Not even a protest. Yet the weight of the moment descends on us all. A tree that gives life has been a mute witness, indeed an unwilling accomplice, in taking life away.
“Our individual decisions depend ultimately upon our sensitivity, our understanding of the medium.”
It is not necessary to draw references to historical images. It would be churlish to analyze the photographer’s skills. There is not even a need to dwell on the “facts.” That humanity can descend to such depths, that “progress” has totally failed to include the vulnerable, and the frailty of those on the lower rungs of social power, are the searing statements that scream out of this eerily quiet image.
In an unequal world where violence is often both gendered and sexual, a lone photograph defiantly says no.
Mr. Berger is a cultural historian, curator and author who writes the Race stories series for Lens.
Though startlingly similar to a lynching photograph from the Jim Crow South, this image is not a relic of a distant, shameful past. It was taken two months ago in a village in the Budaun district of Uttar Pradesh State in India. The murder is immortalized, like the lynching picture, as an image of a ghastly public spectacle — lifeless bodies dangling above, a crowd of onlookers below.
The crime, ostensibly fueled by sexual aggression, at first appears to be incommensurate with the atrocities of America’s racial past. But the girls also belonged to the lowest caste, one prone to discrimination; their tormentors to a higher one. And some have alleged a caste-based conspiracy to protect the brothers in the wake of the murders.
“On one level, the photograph is a graphic reminder that sexual violence is the extreme manifestation of the still widespread imperative to dominate and control women’s bodies.”
On one level, the photograph is a graphic reminder that sexual violence is the extreme manifestation of the still widespread imperative to dominate and control women’s bodies. On another, it functions, unintentionally or otherwise, much like the historic lynching photograph: as an intimidating and public declaration of a social order in which the powerless are vulnerable to humiliation and danger and resistance is punished.
That the killers chose to hang their victims in plain sight, rather than hide them, underscores this point. And, conversely, that some news organizations have published the photograph with the bodies concealed under a blurry haze — presumably to preserve the girls’ dignity — speaks to their need to shield readers from the terrorizing force of images of racial or sexual violence.
Additional reporting by Ravi Mishra in India.
After reading these essays, we invite you to add your thoughts about the photograph in the comments below. We will add selected comments of fewer than 250 words to this text to further the conversation.

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The US and its allies will demand that Iran halt higher-grade uranium enrichment and immediately close an underground nuclear facility at a new round of talks this week over Tehrans nuclear standoff with the West,a senior US official said.
The negotiations between Iran and world powers a resumption of talks that collapsed more than a year ago will be held on April 14 in Istanbul,a spokesman for EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton said.
The Obama administration sought to define the parametres for the much-anticipated meeting,which it has said could represent Tehrans last chance to resolve the nuclear dispute diplomatically.
A senior US official said on Sunday that one of the near-term priorities would be to get Iran to agree to immediately shut its recently completed Fordow facility,built under a mountain near the city of Qom. The New York Times reported that negotiators for the West would press Iran to ultimately dismantle the site,which is reported to have been used to expand uranium enrichment.
Another key opening demand from Washington and its allies will be for Iran to stop production altogether of 20 per cent enriched uranium,the official said.
Nuclear bombs require uranium enriched to 90 percent,but much of the effort required to get there is already achieved once it reaches 20 per cent purity.
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Rice Mac and Cheese Dish
If you’re a fan of mac and cheese, but seeking a spin on the traditional recipe, why not try making it with rice rather than pasta? Rice mac and cheese is a scrumptious and soothing meal that brings together the velvety cheesiness of mac and cheese with the robustness of rice. It’s a best option for those who wish to switch points up or are gluten-free. In this post, we’ll show to you an easy and yummy rice mac and cheese dish.
2 mugs prepared rice
2 mugs shredded cheddar cheese
1 cup milk
2 tablespoons butter
1/4 mug all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
1/2 tsp onion powder
Salt and pepper to taste
In a medium pan, thaw butter over medium warm.
Add flour, garlic powder, and onion powder to the saucepan, blending continuously till smooth and bubbly.
Slowly include milk to the saucepan, blending continuously until the mix thickens.
Remove the pan from warm and stir in the shredded cheddar cheese up until thawed and smooth.
Add cooked rice to the cheese sauce, mixing until well incorporated.
Period with salt and pepper to taste.
Transfer the cheesy rice combination to a baking meal.
Bake at 350 ? F (175 ? C) for about 15 mins or up until the top is golden and bubbly.
Eliminate from the oven and let it cool for a couple of mins prior to serving.
This rice mac and cheese dish is functional, and you can customize it to your taste. If you want to include some additional flavor, consider blending in prepared bacon, diced tomatoes, or cut green onions. You can also experiment with different types of cheese, such as Monterey Jack or Gouda, to create your very own one-of-a-kind variation of the dish.
So, if you’re desire home cooking with a twist, provide this rice mac and cheese recipe a shot. With its luscious, cheesy benefits and the robustness of rice, it makes sure to become a brand-new favored in your house. Appreciate!
Note: This post is planned for informative functions just, and the dish supplied is for personal use. Please guarantee that all active ingredients used work with your nutritional demands and limitations.

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Dozens of Egyptians took part in a number of short-lived protests in Cairo amid heavy police presence around the city on Monday to denounce the regime and Egypt’s recent decision to cede control of two Red Sea islands to Saudi Arabia.
Monday’s protests were a continuation of protests staged on April 15, during which at least one thousand people flocked to downtown Cairo to denounce President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi and the islands agreement.
Although activists had planned to stage demonstrations at three central locations – Dar Al-Hekma at Kasr Al-Aini, the Press Syndicate in downtown, and Al-Behooth in Dokki – security forces moved to preemptively block access to the planned locations early on Monday.
An unannounced demonstration cropped up in Al-Nahia street near Mohandiseen but police forces dispersed the protestors with tear gas and rubber bullets around 30 minutes later, reports indicated.
Demonstrators then moved to Mesaha Square in Dokki, where chants of “peaceful” and “the interior ministry are thugs,” as well as “down with the regime” rang out as the protestors marched through Mesaha Square before police forces dispersed the gathering.
— Egyptian Streets (@EgyptianStreets) April 25, 2016
Dozens were chanting in the square when plainclothes police stormed the crowd and a Central Security Forces van entered the square and began firing teargas canisters.
Upon dispersing the protest, the police then began chasing journalists who had captured photographs and video footage of the protests and ensuing clash.
The scattered protests took place despite the country’s protest law prohibiting gatherings of more than five individuals without prior approval from the interior ministry.
Reports indicate that tens, including five foreign journalists, have been detained throughout the day. Some were detained briefly and released, while others remain in police custody. The exact number of those arrested remains unclear.
آخر معلومات ، تقريبا في 79. شخص مقبوض عليهم في قسم الدقي، من ضمنهم صحفيين. محامو جبهة الدفاع عن متظاهري مصر متواجدين
— Ragia Omran (@rago_legal) April 25, 2016
Translation: Latest information, around 79 people have been detained in Dokki police station, including journalists. Lawyers from the Front of Defense for Egyptian Protestors are present
Police launched a series of nationwide security raids on Thursday night that saw as many as 100 individuals arrested from cafés, streets and private residences. The arrests continued over the following several days, with at least 10 people, including journalists and activists, being taken into police custody on Monday prior to the anti-regime protests.
Meanwhile, pro-Sisi demonstrators gathered at several locations, including outside Abdeen Palace and around downtown Cairo on Monday. Pro-regime demonstrators also took over the Press Syndicate – where activists had planned to gather to decry the islands agreement – and began dancing with police to nationalistic songs.
Anti-gov protests are being broken up across Cairo, but Sisi supporters are staging a go-slow demo on Qasr El-Aini pic.twitter.com/zF4jWsLiRd
— Peter Schwartzstein (@PSchwartzstein) April 25, 2016
Reports had indicated a pro-Sisi rally also took place in front of Mostafa Mahmoud mosque in Mohandiseen earlier in the day. However, Egyptian Streets’ correspondent reported that dozens were gathered in the area around midday to celebrate Sinai Liberation Day.
Al-Sisi had stirred nationwide controversy earlier this month when the Cabinet announced that Egypt and Saudi Arabia had signed an agreement outlining the two countries’ maritime territory, placing the disputed Red Sea islands of Tiran and Sanafir within Saudi Arabia’s territory.
According to the Cabinet statement, the signing of the agreement came after six years of negotiations between the two countries, causing many to voice their concern that negotiations of such importance were carried out without public knowledge.
Some also decried the agreement as an indication that Egypt had “sold” its land in exchange for Saudi Arabian aid, particularly as the agreement was announced shortly after Saudi Arabia’s King Salman pledged USD 21.5 billion in loans and investments.

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Can A Glucose Monitor Help You Lose Weight
Learn how the food you eat, the way you exercise, your sleep quality, and your stress patterns affect your blood sugar , says Signos.com, one of a handful of companies that sell continuous glucose monitors . This is the Signos approach to healthy weight loss.Many people with type 1 diabetesthey produce no insulinwear CGMs to let them know if their blood sugar is too high or low.But its not clear if anyone else needs the devices, especially if weight lossnot controlling blood sugaris the goal.
How Does Glucose Influence Our Weight
Glucose is our bodiesâ main energy source. Whenever our glucose levels rise, this triggers the release of insulin. We know insulin levels are an excellent metabolic indicator and a key tool in facilitating weight loss. Measuring insulin levels, however, can be difficult. Thankfully, because a rise in glucose stimulates the release of insulin, we can use our blood glucose levels as a proxy. Data from a blood glucose monitor will show us our approximate insulin levels.
Our blood glucose fluctuate for a host of reasons. When we eat, obviously, our glucose rises. Eating sweet foods high in processed carbohydrates increases that rise. But stress can also trigger increased blood sugar. Not sleeping, for example, increases our stress responses and elevates blood sugar. A lack of exercise sees a similar result. For this reason, we need data beyond just post-meal glucose levels. We need a CGMâs stream of data. That continuous access to data shows us exactly how our glucose levels affect our metabolism, and greatly aids our ability to achieve effective and lasting weight loss.
How To Use Cgm For Weight Loss
A continuous glucose monitor is a wearable device that, as the name implies, continuously tracks your glucose levels around the clock. Through a quick, painless insertion process , the CGM affixes to your skin so it can track and test your blood sugar in nearly real-time. Once you have the CGM in place you can put it to work for your weight loss goals by seeing how different foods impact your blood sugar levels at different times of day. This will allow you to tweak your diet in ways that help your blood sugar remain stable, which in turn can help trigger your body to burn stored fat.
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What Should I Do If I Feel Pain Or Discomfort From The Cgm
It is uncommon, but if you feel pain or discomfort, try changing the placement of your next sensor to another part of your body. We recommend not using the same location twice consecutively, but changing the location with every new sensor. If pain or discomfort occurs and you take your sensor off early, please contact . You can stay on track by putting on one of the sensors in your package vs. waiting for the arrival of the replacement.
The Perils Of Paralysis By Analysis
But not everyone does better with MORE data. Too much data can be confusing and overwhelming for some people.
Its critical to understand how to interpret the data and leverage the full power of this exciting new technology while avoiding paralysis by analysis.
This article will teach you how to harness the power of your glucose monitor using only the minimum effective dose of testing, pain, and expense.
First, well look at how the different macronutrients in the food you eat affect your blood glucose. Later, well look at the different options for tracking your blood glucose, including cost comparisons to ensure you get the most bang for your buck.
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Can I Take Showers While Wearing A Cgm What Can I Do With My Sensor
You can take showers, exercise, and even swim with your sensor. The sensor is designed to be able to work in up to 8 feet of water and at altitudes of up to 13,800 feet. You can also use it in a hot tub as long as the temperature does not exceed 107.6Â°F. Live somewhere tropical? No worries, the sensor can function in up to 95% humidity.
What Is The Medical Consult Process
Based on your responses to a detailed medical questionnaire, our doctors will review your history to determine if you are clear to use the Signos platform. If approved, our doctors will automatically send your prescription to our pharmacy partner, and the kit will be shipped to the mailing address you provide. Youâll receive an email once your kit has shipped, including tracking information.
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Characteristics Of Study Tertiles
At baseline, mean body weight was 107.6±20.3kg in the lowest tertile of SMBG frequency, 107.4±19.2kg in the middle tertile, and 107.4±24kg in the highest tertile. A1C was 7.5%±1.0%, 8.0%±1.5%, and 8.0%±1.6%, respectively. At baseline, there were no significant differences among the three tertiles in age, sex, race, duration of diabetes, insulin use, A1C, body weight, or BMI. Nine patients in the lowest tertile, 11 in the middle tertile, and 10 in the highest tertile attended 1112 sessions of the IMWM program. The remaining patients attended 810 sessions .
The Difference Between People With Type 1 Diabetes And Everyone Else
But, if you are part of the 98.5% of the population that is fortunate enough to have a functioning pancreas, EVERYTHING IS DIFFERENT.
You cannot turn off your insulin pump or stop taking insulin.
No matter what we believe, it just doesnt work like that!
Your pancreas will always produce just enough insulin to hold your body fat in storage until you have used up the extra energy from the food that is coming in from your mouth.
When you stop eating, insulin levels lower and your stored energy is allowed to be released for use.
If you have Type 2 Diabetes and eat a heavily processed diet of carbs and fat your blood sugars will shoot up after you eat and take a long time to reduce back to baseline.
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Make Every Day A Chance To Improve Your Average Glucose Levels
CGMs calculate your average glucose levels every day, which is more immediate than what a HbA1c test represents .
Additionally, interpretation of a HbA1c test result is based on the assumption that red blood cells live 120 days but this is actually just a rough estimate. Red blood cell lifespan may vary from person to person, which can affect the A1c result. In addition, there are several factors other than blood sugar that can raise or lower the A1c, making CGM a useful complementary tool.8
A normal average daily glucose level is less than 114mg/dL , which correlates with an A1c of 5.6% .9
However, numerous studies show higher HbA1c levels correlate with an increased risk of poor health outcomes. Although it is not well studied, it is possible that it is even better to average below 100 mg/dL , which correlates to an A1c of 5.0% .10
Flatline Cgm Envy Why Are Still Chasing The Wrong Numbers
These days, Im seeing more and more people walking around with continuous glucose monitors eating more fat and less protein and less carbs to maintain flat line blood sugars.
They post their flat line blood sugars on Facebook and Instagram.
A few years ago it was ketone envy. Now its flatline CGM envy.
CGM technology is a Godsend for people who have Type 1 Daibetes and need to constantly keep an eye on their blood sugars. But, while everyone wants the latest gadget, for most people, more data is not better.
If you already have a CGM , you may be interested in checking out How to lose weight using a continuous glucose monitor .
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Calories In/calories Out Is A Flawed Model
The process of gaining weight isnt as simple as one might think. The model of calories in/calories out that many of us are familiar with is flawed and doesnt consider the complex hormonal and biochemical pathways involved in energy balance, weight gain, and weight loss in the body.
The flaws of the calorie deficit model of weight loss can be pictured by imagining the human body as a car: The engine is our cells, the fuel tank is our fat stores, and the fuel within the tank is provided by the food we eat. As we drive the car along, the engine burns fuel to keep the car moving. By consuming food, we refill the tank as we go, preventing it from running dry. In this analogy, if we want to deplete our fuel tank , we can put less fuel in the tank or drive the car faster .
Different types of foods eaten at different times of the day and in different combinations can lead to unique hormonal responses in the body.
The original thought experiment now seems a lot more complex. What happens if we drive this more realistic car, except this time debris has clogged the air filter, preventing oxygen from entering and making conditions impossible for the fuel to burn efficiently? What if the engine oil is depleted and there is excessive friction and wear on the engine parts? This is a more accurate representation of the human body and the hormonal mechanisms of weight and energy balance.
Lumen Trains Your Metabolism To Use The Food You Eat More Efficiently
When your metabolism is more flexible, you are better able to burn fat instead of carbs, leading to weight loss. By focusing on metabolism instead of restrictive or unsustainable diets, Lumen helps you lose weight and keep it off for good with daily feedback.
Its crazy, I use it like I use a scale. I’ve come to rely on it every day. Lumen has transformed my life.
Bernadette lost 15 lbs and broke through her plateau
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Why Is A Cgm Better Than Other Methods Of Monitoring Blood Sugar
A CGM gives you constant accountability. Its like a diet coach on your upper arm, reminding you to think before you eat.
Many individuals report better dietary compliance simply because they dont want the negative feedback of a visible glucose rise.13
Behavioral change can be difficult. The added accountability that comes with wearing a CGM may be what you need to succeed long term.
Fasting blood sugar is the most commonly used blood sugar measurement in typical medical practices. Unfortunately, it is likely also the least helpful for early detection of metabolic disease.14
For this reason, tracking blood sugar variations throughout the day with a CGM provides the opportunity to detect problems earlier.15
Studies suggest that glucose variability may be a better predictor of metabolic health than fasting blood sugar.16
Another study using CGMs reported that a low glucose trough three hours after eating correlated with increased hunger and calorie intake at the next meal.17 Although correlation does not prove causation, these findings suggest another way in which CGMs can help inform your food choices.18
The bottom line is that having immediate, real-time feedback provides valuable and actionable information.19
When you start using your CGM, you may still need to do fingerstick glucose checks to understand if your CGM is a little too high, too low, or just right.
#4: Missing other factors
What Is A Cgm
A continuous glucose monitor is a tiny wearable device that reads the glucose levels in your interstitial fluids continuously. It is attached to your body and continually monitors glucose levels via a microfilamentânot to worry, itâs not uncomfortable to put on and you barely notice itâs there once applied.
For more information on CGMs and how they work, see How Does a Continuous Glucose Monitor Work.
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Study Subjects And Design
Due to the retrospective nature of this study, a waiver of the consent process was granted by the Committee on Human Studies at the Joslin Diabetes Center . We retrospectively evaluated 63 adult patients with T2D and obesity who were enrolled in the IMWM program between May 2016 and April 2018. Twenty-one patients did not upload or had incomplete SMBG data during the 12-week program and were excluded from the study. A total of 42 patients transmitted complete SMBG data for the 12 weeks duration of the program and were included in the analysis . We divided participants in ordered distribution into tertiles based on average frequency of SMBG over 12 weeks with each tertile containing 14 participants. Demographic and clinical data at baseline, during the program, and at 12 weeks were collected from electronic medical records. shows the baseline characteristics of study tertiles.
Demographic and baseline characteristics of study tertiles
How Does Signos Work
Your individual glucose response combined with the meals and workouts you log provide the real-time data for our platform to recommend the foods that help keep your glucose stable. When you eat or drink something that spikes your glucose, our AI can recommend exercise and effort level based on your workout logs so you can bring your glucose back down more quickly. When your glucose levels remain mostly stable, in time, youâll reap the benefits of more energy, improved mental clarity, better metabolic health, less risk of chronic diseases, and healthy weight management.
Read more about how Signos works.
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Cgms Could Be Useful For Some People At Risk Of Diabetes
For instance, 1 in 3 adults in the US have prediabetes, which can progress into type 2 diabetes, and certain lifestyle changes may help delay or prevent that, as the American Diabetes Association explains. While the outcomes still need to be thoroughly studied, some experts think CGMs could also help.
Specifically, a CGM could enable people with prediabetesand those with a history of gestational diabetesto better understand how food and movement affect their blood sugar, , a professor of medicine in the division of endocrinology, metabolism, and lipid research at the Washington University School of Medicine, tells SELF. Maya Feller, MS, RD, of Brooklyn-based Maya Feller Nutrition and author of the forthcoming Eating from Our Roots, tells SELF that some of her clients with a history of prediabetes use CGMs for that reason.
However, thats not the messaging or target audience of the aforementioned CGM ads that popped up in my feed, which suggest that pretty much anybody who wants to lose weight or feel better or improve their health would benefit from a CGM. Plus, its important to note that people with lower incomes are at a greater risk for prediabetes and type 2 diabetesnot those who can afford to buy CGMs out of pocket.
What Is A Healthy Blood Sugar Range
People who are metabolically healthy tend to have lower and more stable blood sugars.
But, while swapping carbs for fat may help you achieve flatline blood sugars, its unlikely to help you lose body fat or improve your metabolic health.
At the other extreme, roller-coaster blood glucose and insulin levels can drive hunger. We dont feel good when our blood sugar is falling quickly, and we want to eat NOW! In our Data-Driven Fasting Challenge, we guide people to wait until their blood glucose is a little lower than normal for them. But waiting for too long increases the probability that you will make poorer food choices and overeat when you allow yourself to eat again.
However, you dont need to worry too much if you have blood sugars in the normal healthy range . In our Data-Driven Fasting Challenge and Nutritional Optimisation Masterclass, we suggest that you only need to be concerned about your carb intake if your blood sugars rise by more than 1.6 mmol/L or 30 mg/dL after meals.
Most people interested in fasting are already following a lower-carb diet and see a minimal rise in their blood sugars after meals. The charts below, created from data from people using our Data-Driven Fasting system, show no correlation between waist:height ratio or BMI and their blood sugar levels after they eat.
Stable and lower blood glucose levels are a positive marker of good metabolic health, but merely treating the symptom rather than addressing the cause doesnt help.
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Blood Sugar Monitoring For People With Diabetes Offers Undeniable Health Benefits
For people with diabetes, a major goal of therapy is to keep the blood sugar close to the normal range. This helps to prevent symptoms and complications, prolong life, and improve quality of life.
The development of CGM devices that can frequently and easily monitor blood sugar levels without finger sticks has revolutionized care for millions of people with diabetes. Besides providing results of blood sugar levels, some devices have alarm settings that alert the user, or other people, if blood sugar becomes dangerously low or high. And some systems can transmit results directly to the users doctor, if desired.
And There Are Often Easier Ways To Address Many Of The Issues You Hope To Resolve With A Cgm
If youre concerned about or at risk for prediabetes or diabetes, talk to your doctor about getting screened, Byrne says. You can also start with basic, evidence-based measures for stabilizing blood sugar levels, like more physical activity.
Or maybe youre not worried about diabetes, but youre having an issue you suspect is linked to blood sugar , or youre generally just trying to feel your best. In that case, you can try tuning into your body more often and/or troubleshooting with some nutrition basics. Your body is actually pretty decent at telling you what’s going on with your blood sugar, Byrne says.
If you feel shaky after not eating for five hours, for example, that could certainly be a sign of low blood sugar, and your body signaling that you need to eat more frequently. Or if youre super groggy after eating a lot of dessert, that could be your blood sugar ticking up a bit. Learning your bodys subtle hunger and fullness cues can help you stabilize blood sugar levels. So can combining carbohydrates with protein, fiber, and/or fat when you eat, which helps slow down the breakdown of carbs into your bloodstream, Byrne explains.
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(VOV) - The southern province of Hau Giang recently detected the first outbreak of bird flu in a household raising 450 chickens in Long My district.
When ten out of their chickens died, the household informed local veterinarians to help prevent a new outbreak spreading. The provincial department of animal health has culled the dead chickens and disinfected the affected area.
Truong Ngoc Trung, head of the Provincial Department of Animal Health, said that after receiving the samples that tested positive for the H5N1 virus, the department culled all the infected chickens and quarantined the infected areas.
The department warned poultry households in the province to be vigilant and immediately report any indications of the disease to the veterinary agency to avoid a possible epidemic and associated economic losses.
Mr Trung said this is the season when chickens and ducks are easily infected with bird flu therefore, breeders should take special care of their poultry and take preventive measures according to veterinary warnings.
The provincial animal health department has vaccinated more than 3 out of 3.5 million ducks and chickens in the province against bird flu. It has provided localities with an additional 2 million vaccines in the early months of the year.


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Ipsos is a funny name for one of the oldest and largest global market research companies. They were founded in 1975 and if you follow US politics, you'll recognize them partnering often with Reuters to produce approval surveys of Congress, the President, and other notable figures. They're headquartered in Paris, France and publicly traded on the Paris Stock Exchange. They have revenues of over a billion dollars – Ipsos i-Say is just a small piece of their business.
The concept of data mining and profiting off that data mining isn't anything new. And while some companies engage in some rather disreputable practices to do this, Global Test Market seems to be doing just fine with the whole “consent to disclose” thing. More importantly, in some cases this may help you as some companies will offer to do more specialized product testing once they've identified you as their target demographic.
Amazon gift cards and PayPal are obviously popular choices, so naturally like most sites MySurvey had those. These guys did not stop there though. At the time of writing (I double checked) they also offer various sweepstakes, gift cards to restaurants, you can donate to charities like UNICEF through them, they have iTune gift cards, their very own merchandising products and also Starbucks, Walmart and Tango gift cards among many more options!
This is where it can all go downhill quickly. In the pressure to make as many pennies out of a nickel, a lot of research corporations will not just sell your answers but the data associated with it. Details that you provide when taking paid surveys such as your name, address, age range can all be attached together quickly to fulfill a lot of larger companies' requests for information (RFI).
One Poll is a company that was founded in the United Kingdom, but it’s also open to consumers in the United States and beyond. It claims to be recognized by Money Saving Expert, one of the largest consumer websites in that country, which is a reassuring recommendation. What I recognized about it is that the surveys are short and easy to complete, so ideal if you’ve had a hard day and don’t want to do anything too taxing. New surveys are added on a daily basis, and some are amusingly quirky.
All this website is great but one site which is not mention here is univoxcommunity.com. i am attached with this site from last 2 years and i have earned many points and 2 Amazon gift card. got amazon gift card , which operates across the world and gives you access to millions of products!. and they are very friendly with panelists. i love this website which always ready to help in any trouble. so for me this is my favorite site for earning money.
You can expect to earn $2-$5 for most of the surveys in general. For some special surveys you can earn up to $50 per survey but those are rare. Harris Poll also conducts paid focus group studies where you can earn $50-$100 per study. Usually these focus group studies are 1-2 hours long where you interact with other participants under a supervision of a focus group moderator.
Now, don’t get me wrong. There are people who do make a few thousand dollars or more a year with paid surveys. But that’s not the norm. If you do want to increase your earnings substantially, your best bet is to also join focus groups (we have a big list of ’em. Just do a quick search on Google for “moneypantry.com focus groups”). They pay much more between $50 to $400 or more per focus group secession.
It’s easy to earn cash for surveys. How much you get paid completely depends on how many paid surveys you attempt and complete. Each online survey has a different payout, with some offering as much as $50. Most will pay less, but also take less time. Expect to earn about 40 to 200 SB points per survey (100 SB = $1), with occasional opportunities with much higher earning potential.
In the middle of all of this is a new breed of research corporation that relies on you – the survey taker – to determine this information. For your time? Many survey companies will pay you to take surveys for money or for other cash alternatives like gift cards or physical prizes and rewards. It depends upon the company as to whether they'll offer money or other offers and special deals.

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- 4 Tablespoons flour
- 3 Tablespoons sugar
- 2 Tablespoons applesauce
- 3 Tablespoons milk
- 3 Tablespoons Melted butter
- 1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
- cherry pie filling
- whipped cream
Large Mug (it will overflow and mess up your microwave if you a normal sized mugs)
1. Mix all dry ingredients in the large mug.
2. Add milk, applesauce , butter, and mix until just combined, making sure you get the floury bits at the bottom but not over mixing.
3. Microwave on high for 3 minutes.
4. Split cake in 1/2 and fill with a spoonful of pie filling.
5. Top with a spoonful of whipped cream.


Stockton University is a premier resource for teaching, research and service related to the environment. The campus consists of a wide variety of upland and lowland forest types, old fields, managed lawns and gardens, streams, lakes, ponds, borrow pits, etc. all these areas provide habitat for a wide range of native and introduced species.
Stockton University works with the NJ Pinelands Commission, the County of Atlantic and other groups to restore the campus lakes and streams by controlling stormwater and nutrient inputs through Best Management Practices and use of native, low-maintenance landscaping.
“The University seeks to promote an ethic of resource conservation, sustainability, and social justice on our campuses and throughout the region in its strategic planning and operations as well as its teaching, research, and service. Stockton embraces the obligation of stewardship this environment demands.” Mission Statement. (2019). Retrieved from https://stockton.edu/president/mission-statement.html
Stockton University’s Biodiversity Committee endeavors to promote and encourage long-term preservation of our biological heritage and foster a knowing stewardship of our Campus through research and educational initiatives.
To seek to enhance Stockton’s history, aesthetics, and natural ecosystems;
To act as a liaison to University partners and leaders by informing decision makers of current conditions and future consequences of emerging threats to wildlife and ecosystems through collaborative research, and scientific findings;
To increase faculty, staff and student involvement in sustaining and promoting natural biodiversity, healthy soils and clean water and air;
To coordinate with the Office of Facilities Planning & Plant Operations regarding current facility maintenance practices and outcomes and offer recommendations for improvements or additions;
To advance environmental awareness by enhancing the public’s understanding of biodiversity and promote a culture in which people are inspired to conserve and protect the natural world;
To pursue internal and external grant funding that supports biodiversity initiatives.
The Biodiveristy Committee provides a forum for members to discuss environmental, social and biodiversity issues related to the campus community. This committee meets once a month and consists of faculty & staff.
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A ¼ mile fitness trail with 10 stations for stretching and strength training loops through a scenic stretch of Stockton University’s campus. The trail is available to the public for exercise and recreation.
Experience Stockton's unique 1,852 acre campus by navigating the newly signed trail available to walkers, joggers and bicyclists. The trail head begins at the intersection of Waterway Drive and Vera King Farris Drive, east of the Arts and Sciences Building. However, the trail may be accessed at numerous locations along its loop.
The trail sign is dark green with white lettering and includes an arrow indicating direction of travel. Below the trail sign and carved into the wood post is the mileage. The mileage is engraved on two sides of the post for trail users to chart their distance navigating in a clockwise or counter clockwise direction.
The signed trail is a significant benefit to Stockton University as it encourages alternate forms of transportation, offers students and community members the experience of our place in the Pinelands National Preserve, and allows access to one of New Jersey's thriving ecosystems serving as a living laboratory.
The trail signage program was funded by the Federal Highway Administration's Recreational Trail Program, through the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection. The trail signs were fabricated by the Boys and Girls Club of Atlantic City, a local non-profit agency providing vocational and entrepreneurial business skills.
No Net Loss
As a New Jersey state entity, Stockton University is required to comply with NJ No-net-loss forestry policy by replanting trees when they are removed during development projects involving one-half acre or more.
Stockton University Forest Management Plan
Stockton University conducts controlled burns as part of our Master Forestry Plan and in conjunction with the State Fire Service. These controlled burns help to protect and restore our Pinelands forest ecosystem from threats such as the encroaching Southern pine beetle and to cultivate a future of enhanced education, recreation and healthy habitat for wildlife.
At the Pomona Road Sports Complex, a State-of -the-art system was installed to retain storm water & infiltrate it to an aquifer. This artificial turf eliminates use of pesticides and fertilizer. Design reduces run-off and enhances aquifer recharge. Surface includes recycled tires.


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Three experts break down the reasons behind Monday’s market action and what to watch now.
“I feel that the 737 [Max] is going to be the most tested plane in history. And yet … Phil [LeBeau] was saying it could be a long time before we’re actually in it. Before the pandemic and before the change in CEO at Boeing, I said I was willing to take a film crew and be the first people on. And, you know, my wife really quite candidly said I’m the biggest moron in history, but I think it’s safe by now.”
Yana Barton, portfolio manager at Eaton Vance Management, says expectations may be too elevated.
“So much of it is still dependent on a vaccine, and therefore it’s driving a lot of the sentiment and the outlook for the market. That being said, I think it’s fair to say that the market has recovered quite a bit from the February/March trough levels and we’re sitting at a level now where you have to make some assumptions into 2021, which is becoming a little murky and most would suspect that the earnings are still a little too high.”
Bruce Bittles, chief investment strategist at Baird, says markets still have a rough road ahead.
“I think the investor has to expect we’re going to have a rocky go of it here. I mean, we’ve never experienced a total shutdown of the economy before, so we open the economy, it can be much more difficult, but nevertheless … I think the markets just simply got too far ahead of themselves in early June … and expectations for the market and the economy just got too elevated.”


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Virginia Military Institute -- Class of 1895
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Scope and Contents Letter (3 pages; Feb. 20, 1894) from Cadet Cocke to his mother. Topics include snowstorm, debating society orations, raiding local hen houses for "rooster fighting" in Barracks. The collection also include his cadet account book, containing a list of VMI expenses for 1891-1895.


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'From Behind The Lens' with Brian Hockenstein
We caught up with Brian Hockenstein, an adventure filmmaker from the US who joined our ambassadors out in Iceland for an epic adventure. Find out more.
Iceland Adventures with Red Ambassador Jimmy Martinello
Red Ambassador Jimmy Martinello writes about enduring nature's elements on his trip to Iceland with Tim Emmett, Luca Malaguti and Brian Hockenstein last November.
The Best Places to Go Paddleboarding in Chicago
The Windy City might not be the first place you think of as a paddle boarding Mecca. After all, it is landlocked in the middle of America. But in addition to being alongside one of the Great Lakes, there are a bevy of rivers, tributaries, lagoons, and other waterways. As the second largest city in the US, Chicago is a bustling metropolis. But with the miles of waterfront access, you can easily leave the city behind and head out on to the water.
New Surf SUP Joins The Compact Range
To kickstart 2023, we’re thrilled to announce the latest board joining our Compact range of inflatable paddle board - the all-new 8’10” Compact. Find out more.

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A while back, I started working on some place mats made from the scraps left over from my Frame of Mind quilt. I had the ends of all of my strip pieced pairs, and was able to cut 7.5 inch sections from the "stubs."
I ended up having to take some of the pairs apart to get my strips to alternate properly, but I had enough to make four place mats from my scraps. I had lots of my blue backing left over as well, so I layered them all up with batting scraps.
These sat on my quilt rack for a long time and I finally just sat down and got all of them quilted last night. I used the same swirly chrysanthemum quilting pattern as I did in my Frame of Mind quilt.
I didn't have enough of the ziggy stripe to bind it with the same fabric, but I found the extra backing that I had from my Square Pegs quilt will work perfectly for binding these -- and I won't have to piece them at all! Hooray!
I'm hoping to finish these tonight and it shouldn't take long since they are all trimmed and ready to go!
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text: In this scholarly essay, I explore how Mayra Santos-Febres and Amina Gautier create subversive representations of Black Puerto Rican women in their texts, and how both writers expand representations of the Black matriarch and nationhood. I also argue that both writers evoke problematic Black motherhood tropes to dismantle them. Mayra Santos Febres fictionalizes Isabel Luberza or “Isabel La Negra” to create a new, complicated mother of Puerto Rico who escews stereotypes and has agency and self-possession. Santos-Febres thus reclaims the stories of obscured Black Caribbean women like Isabel La Negra as her own and creates new national narratives. Gautier uses absent Black American mothers married to Puerto Rican men to show the nececssity of Black women in American and Caribbean spaces. Gautier explores the ramifications of the loss of the Black mother on the Puerto Rican family, and the myth of a true Puerto Rican motherland. I also argue that writing about the erasure of Black women as a Black woman is a kind of subversive act itself, as the Black woman’s narrative stands in as a societal mirror. Both writers show how these complex “fictional mothers” can serve as “fictive kin” to Black women searching for radical sites of home.


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It was a masterclass performance from Craig, who topped every session and dominated the second heat race to secure a number-one gate pick for the main. Although he didn’t get the start he was hoping for, he quickly made his way to third and claimed the lead on Lap 4. The Californian went on to secure the win by a healthy margin, marking his second-consecutive victory at the season opener, but this time in front of the home crowd as the series made its return to its traditional starting venue at the Angel Stadium of Anaheim.
Thrasher had a solid heat race with a top-five result, but he hit the gate at the start of the main and found himself at the back of the pack. He put his head down and worked his way to 11th by Lap 5. The 19-year-old was battling for the top 10 but crashed before the halfway mark and ultimately crossed the line 12th.
Nichols was looking to have a strong start, but unfortunately, the 2021 250SX East Champion had a big crash in the whoops while leading the first heat race and sustained injuries to both arms. He will undergo surgery today, and an update will follow.
The Monster Energy Star Yamaha Racing team heads up to Oakland, California, next weekend for Round 2 of Monster Energy AMA Supercross at RingCentral Coliseum on Saturday, January 15.


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Popular American Comedian and actor Kevin Hart has been hospitalized after suffering “major back injuries” on Sunday following a car accident in Los Angeles.
According to the California Highway Patrol, Hart was being driven in his 1970 Plymouth Barracuda on Mulholland Highway at the time of the accident which happened just after midnight.
His wife Eniko Parrish told TMZ news reporters on Monday that the comedian was awake and “going to be just fine”.
The driver, Jared Black, lost control of the car and it tumbled into an embankment, the report stated. Black also sustained major back injuries. A third passenger was unhurt.

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Winnipeg's downtown Hudson's Bay Company building presents some challenges for our city — but also a tremendous opportunity to rethink what "heritage" means in a post-colonial city
[CBC] The challenges with the Portage Avenue building are obvious — at 650,000 square feet, it's large and expensive to renovate. It's also been at the heart of a debate between advocates who supported the building's heritage status and the building owners who did not. What to do? . . .
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Tuesday 16th April - All emergency services were called to the scene of a car crash in Beckenham.
The car turned over at the junction of Kent House Road and Thesinger Road, the car ended up stuck on the island.
Police at the scene said that it was unknown if anyone was injured at the time of writing.
The spokesperson went on to say "A vehicle has overturned and LFB are on scene with officers. We were called at 5.41am to Kent House Road."
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"Austria Archiducatus", Mercator/Jansson
Period: 1631 (published)
Publication: Atlas Minor
Color: Hand Color
7.5 x 5.6 inches
19.1 x 14.2 cm
Attractive small map of the Danube River valley with Vienna prominently featured. The map is filled with tiny villages, cities, mountains, forests and lakes and ornamented with two cartouches. German text on verso.
Strong impression on a sturdy sheet with a little minor toning.


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GovernorSonny Perdue (R)
SenatorsSaxby Chambliss (R)
Johnny Isakson (R)
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The metropolitan area of Atlanta spreads out over the red clay hills of 28 of Georgia’s 159 counties, and has been one of America’s great boom areas over the last dozen or so years. It has also been the site of the great political transformations of the first decade of the 21st century. From 2000 to 2008, Georgia’s population grew by 18%, the fourth-highest growth rate among the states, after Nevada, Arizona, and Utah, ahead of Florida and Texas, and far ahead of California. Georgia was the 10th-largest state in the 2000 census, the first time it had been in the top 10 since the census of 1850. If its growth rate continues at 2007-08 rates, it will pass Michigan and become 8th-largest state in the 2010 census. Atlanta grew by 23% from 2000 to 2007, from 4.3 million to 5.3 million people, a larger actual population growth than any other region of the country. Atlanta and Georgia have been in many ways, for many years, the center of the South, at least since Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman marched here in 1864. This is where John Stith Pemberton invented Coca-Cola, where Margaret Mitchell wrote Gone With the Wind, where Martin Luther King Jr. grew up, and where most of the civil-rights organizations that changed America were headquartered. But in population and reputation, Georgia for decades was outdazzled nationally by other parts of the South—by Texas with its oil wells and high-tech industries, by Florida with Miami Beach and Disney World, even by North Carolina with its Research Triangle and college basketball champions.
Neither Atlanta’s rise to world eminence nor its role as the “capital” of the South was inevitable. Georgia was the last of the seaboard colonies, founded by James Oglethorpe in 1733 as an “asylum of the unfortunate,” reserved for debtors and other outcasts from England. Oglethorpe forbade slavery, but the settlers rebelled and repealed his ban in 1750. Atlanta was only a small, though strategic, railroad crossroads when it was burned by Sherman’s Union troops on their “march to the sea.” Richmond, Charleston, and New Orleans all had stronger claims to being the central focus of the South a century ago. But in the 20th century, two figures imprinted Atlanta on the national imagination. One was Mitchell, whose 1936 novel inspired the 1939 movie of the same name. The other was King, who was based in Atlanta for most of his career and who ultimately led the civil-rights revolution that changed the South and the nation. Linking the two was Atlanta’s business community, notably Robert Woodruff, who headed Coca-Cola from 1932 to 1960 and made Coke a worldwide enterprise. Perhaps aware that a world company could not indefinitely be associated with racial segregation, Woodruff and William Hartsfield, the city’s mayor from 1937 to 1961, cooperated with blacks and promoted Atlanta as “the city too busy to hate.” Hartsfield’s successor, Ivan Allen, elected in 1961 and 1965, supported the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as Peachtree Center and the first atriumed Hyatt Regency were going up in downtown Atlanta. It’s fitting that Atlanta’s airport, one of the greatest in the world, is named for Hartsfield and Maynard Jackson, Atlanta’s first African-American mayor.
This new Atlanta was growing up amid a mostly rural, deeply segregationist Georgia that as late as 1960 cast the second-highest Democratic percentage of any state for president. Hatred of Sherman was still strong 96 years later. Political contests typically matched Atlanta-supported moderates against rural-supported segregationists, and the latter invariably won. Georgia’s electoral votes were cast for Barry Goldwater in 1964 and George Wallace in 1968. Then came change in the person of Jimmy Carter, a one-term state senator who was elected governor in 1970 with a rural base as well as conspicuous black support. On taking office, he proclaimed a reconciliation of the races and installed a portrait of King in the state capitol. Carter thus became one of the first politicians from the rural South to celebrate and honor the civil-rights movement, and in the process set himself on the road to being elected president in 1976.
Since then, Georgia and Atlanta have seen an in-migration of African-Americans. The state’s population was 30% black in 2008, more than any other states except Mississippi and Louisiana. The presence of nine historically black colleges, and of large numbers of prominent black public officials and businessmen, and the growth of middle- and upper-income predominantly black suburban neighborhoods in DeKalb and Cobb and smaller counties to the southeast and west—all have made metro Atlanta in some sense the capital of black America. Arguably, Georgia has developed what Charles Moskos and John Sibley Butler described in their book on race in the Army, All We Can Be, an Anglo-African culture, a merger of traditions that were long associated intimately in private life but rigidly and even violently separated in public. (Interestingly, Georgia has tried to get the Pentagon to headquarter its new Africa Command in a military base in metro Atlanta.) Georgia has four black Democratic representatives, two from non-black-majority districts, and Andrew Young won in a white-majority district as long ago as 1972. Black Democrats Thurbert Baker and Michael Thurmond have been elected attorney general and labor commissioner, respectively, and re-elected despite a strong Republican trend. In 2004, Georgia elected its first black Republican state representative since Reconstruction, and African-Americans came in second in the contests for the Republican nomination for the Senate and the 8th District House seat. Georgia also has been attracting immigrants, and 8% of its residents in 2007 were Hispanic and 3% were Asian—quite a change over the past quarter-century. And it has been attracting significant numbers of internal migrants from the United States: Domestic inflow from 2000 to 2008 was 7% of the 2000 population. These newcomers were attracted by Georgia’s vibrant private-sector economy. At the same time, few native-born Georgians leave. The proportion of people born in the state who still live there is higher than in any other states but North Carolina and Texas.
Demographic change and economic change in Georgia have been followed by political change, to the point that this once heavily Democratic state now seems to be predominantly Republican. In retrospect, this change was a long time coming. It was delayed by the presence of politically skillful Democrats, from Georgia and other parts of the South, with rural bases: Wallace, who carried the state in 1968; Carter, who sent it in a different direction in 1970 and carried it solidly in 1976 and 1980; Carter’s successors as governor, each of whom served for eight years—George Busbee, Joe Frank Harris, and Zell Miller; and Bill Clinton, who carried the state 43.5%-42.9% in 1992 and lost it by only 47%-46% in 1996. The year 2000 signaled a change. George W. Bush carried Georgia by a solid 55%-43%. Bush carried metro Atlanta (which cast 53% of the state’s votes) by 52%-45% and the rest of Georgia, historically Democratic, by a resounding 57%-41%. The memory of William Tecumseh Sherman was dead.
The Republican trend continued in 2002, 2004, and 2006. In 2002, incumbent Democratic Gov. Roy Barnes, with a $19 million campaign chest, was beaten by Republican Sonny Perdue, 51%-46%. And incumbent Democratic Sen. Max Cleland, a wounded Vietnam veteran, who had won by 1% six years before, lost to Republican Rep. Saxby Chambliss 53%-46%. These results were driven in part by state Republican Chairman Ralph Reed, former head of the Christian Coalition, who created an on-the-ground organization that ultimately deployed 3,000 volunteers and 500 paid workers to knock on 150,000 doors in 600 precincts. Turnout rose robustly in central Atlanta and in black-majority counties, but it rose even more in the fast-growing suburbs. Demographic growth translated into votes. In the week after the election, four state senators switched parties and gave Republicans control of the state Senate for the first time since Reconstruction.
In 2004, Democratic Sen. Zell Miller, about to retire from office, denounced his party in his book A National Party No More. “The modern South and rural America are as foreign to our Democratic leaders as some place in Asia or Africa,” he wrote. He endorsed President Bush for re-election and gave a rip-roaring speech at the Republican National Convention. Though Georgia was not a target state, turnout rose 28%, and Bush beat John Kerry 58%-41%. In the Senate contest that year, Republican Johnny Isakson beat Democratic Rep. Denise Majette by an almost identical 58%-40%. Bush won 55% in metro Atlanta, up from 52% in 2000, and he won 62% in the rest of the state, up from 57% in 2000. Kerry won among blacks, who cast 25% of the votes, by 88%-12%. But Bush won among whites, who cast 70% of the votes, by 76%-23%. Republicans increased their majority in the state Senate to 34-22 and transformed the state House from a 102-77 Democratic majority to a 99-80-1 Republican majority. The reign of Tom Murphy, the House speaker for 30 years and the force behind the 2002 Democratic redistricting plan, was over.
The Republican trend was apparent in 2006 even as most other states favored Democrats that year. The new Republican majorities in the Legislature passed the nation’s toughest law on illegal immigrants, requiring employers to consult a federal database when hiring, and welfare recipients to prove their legal status. They cut income, corporate, and property taxes. And they passed their own partisan districting plan for Georgia’s 13 congressional districts. Two Democratic representatives, Jim Marshall and John Barrow, came very close to losing central Georgia House seats, the Republicans’ strongest challenges in the nation in 2006.
But political victory carries with it the perils of responsibility, and rapid growth can strain the capacity of infrastructure. The problem is water: Since 1989, Georgia has been quarreling with Alabama and Florida over the allocation of water from reservoirs created by federal dams that serve Atlanta and that drain into the other two states. Low rainfall in 2006 and 2007 threatened to dry up lakes Lanier and Allatoona. Georgia restricted and then banned outdoor watering, and threatened to cut allotments to commercial and industrial users. Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne told the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to settle the interstate arguments. Georgia brought one court case and Florida and Alabama another. Then Georgia legislators got another idea. The act of Congress admitting Tennessee to the Union set the boundary between Georgia and Tennessee at the 35th parallel, but a surveyor in 1818 placed it several miles to the south. Restoring the border to the 35th parallel would give Georgia access to the waters of the Tennessee River (which a study said could be drained without much harm to Tennessee and Alabama reservoirs), and in April 2008, the Legislature passed a resolution telling Perdue to negotiate with Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen to set up a boundary-line commission. But a Bredesen spokesman threw cold water on the idea, saying Bredesen “has no intention of moving Tennessee’s border, nor will he give away Tennessee’s natural resources.”
For many years, Georgia shunned Republican presidential candidates even when states less ravaged by Gen. Sherman’s troops, like next-door South Carolina and Alabama, embraced them. It was the second-most-Democratic state for John F. Kennedy in 1960, but it also voted for opponents of the Civil Rights Act—Barry Goldwater in 1964 and George Wallace in 1968. It voted heavily Republican only in 1972, 1984, and 1988. Then, in 2000 and 2004, Georgia, both metro Atlanta and the counties beyond, voted solidly for Bush.
The 2008 elections saw Georgia swinging some distance, but not fully, toward the Democrats. It was not exactly a target state in the presidential election, but Democratic nominee Barack Obama’s campaign set up 25 offices in the state and worked, as he did in Virginia and North Carolina, to turn out rural as well as urban blacks. African-American turnout zoomed up from 25% of the total in 2004 to 30% in 2008. Just as Ralph Reed’s Republicans and the Bush 2004 campaign increased turnout in rapidly growing white suburban counties, so the Obama campaign increased turnout in rapidly growing black and Latino suburban counties. As a result, Georgia, which has long had one of the nation’s lowest voting participation rates, has now moved up toward the national average.
Republican nominee John McCain still carried the state, but by only 52%-47%. Obama carried metro Atlanta 51%-48%. Outside metro Atlanta, McCain won 58%-41%, down only 3% from Bush’s showing in 2004, but these 131 counties cast only 43% of the vote, a historic low. Obama carried 98% of black voters, 10% more than Kerry; McCain won 76% of white voters, the same percentage as Bush. The closeness of the race suggests Georgia may be a target state in any reasonably close election. But it will be hard for Democrats to surpass the strong turnout for Obama in 2008. Democratic Senate nominee Jim Martin held Chambliss to a 49.8%-46.8% edge, requiring a runoff. In that December contest, turnout was down 43%, and Chambliss won 57%-43%. In 2010, when Perdue cannot run for re-election and Republican Sen. Isakson’s seat is up, the question may be whether November 2008 or December 2008 is the new norm. In early 2009, several prominent Democrats were lining up to run for governor.
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Georgia’s presidential primary comes early in the cycle and has been of some importance. In 1992, Gov. Miller had it scheduled one week before Super Tuesday in order to help Clinton, and it did: Clinton won solidly to balance losses in Maryland and Colorado the same day. In 1996 and 2000, Georgia was of little importance except as a measure of turnout: Democratic turnout fell from 622,000 in 1988 to 284,000 in 2000, while Republican turnout rose from 400,000 to 643,000. In 2004, Democratic hopeful John Edwards of North Carolina visited Georgia five times after the Iowa caucuses and Kerry only once. But Kerry beat Edwards 47%-41%, making it plain that Edwards had no chance to win the nomination and would be hard-pressed to win other Southern states. He withdrew from the race.
For 2008, Georgia moved up its primary to February 5, Super Tuesday. On the Democratic side, it was no contest once black voters swung behind Obama. He beat Hillary Rodham Clinton 66%-31%, as turnout rose sharply to over 1 million, by far the highest ever. Turnout was almost as high, 964,000, in the Republican primary, far ahead of the 643,000 who voted in 2000 or the 654,000 in 1996. This was almost a three-way tie. Arkansas’s Mike Huckabee won with 34%, carrying rural counties and exurban metro Atlanta counties. McCain finished second with 32%, carrying the Savannah River valley and the southwest corner of the state, both areas with big military bases. Massachusetts’ Mitt Romney was third with 30%, carrying most of metro Atlanta, although McCain ran close behind in the inner counties.
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After the 1990 and 2000 censuses, Georgia Democrats pushed through convoluted redistricting plans—arguably the most convoluted in the nation each time—to guarantee majorities for their party in the state’s U.S. House delegation. Both times they failed. In the 1990s, state House Speaker Thomas Murphy tried to end the career of Republican U.S. Rep. Newt Gingrich and strengthen incumbent Democrats. Instead, what was a 9-1 Democratic delegation in October 1992 was 8-3 Republican in April 1995, and Gingrich was speaker of the House. In 2001, the Democrats tried again, and this time the boundaries were even more convoluted. They had only marginally more success—with some unintended consequences. Then-U.S. Rep. Chambliss, placed in the new 1st District with fellow Republican Jack Kingston, ran for the Senate and beat Cleland. The new 11th and 12th districts, created to elect Democrats, elected Republicans instead. The new 13th District did elect a Democrat, but the delegation remained Republican, 8-5. And Georgia’s plan prompted Rep. Tom Davis, R-Va., who headed the House GOP’s campaign, to push successfully for a similarly convoluted Republican gerrymander in Pennsylvania, one which netted the Republicans more gains than the Democrats achieved in Georgia.
In March 2004, a court redrew the district lines for the state House and state Senate, which helped the Republicans increase their Senate margin and gain control of the state House in November. In February 2005, Republicans by then in control of the governorship and the state Legislature worked with Republicans in Washington to make redistricting of the U.S. House districts one of their top priorities. Moving more deliberately and facing far less Democratic resistance than Republicans encountered in Texas in 2003, they passed the plan in March with a few Republican defections and with limited Democratic support. It passed the federal review mandatory under the Voting Rights Act and survived a court challenge.
The 2005 Republican plan had much more regularly shaped districts than the 2001 Democratic map, and split many fewer counties (19 rather than 34). It strengthened Republican Phil Gingrey in the 11th District and weakened Democrats Jim Marshall and John Barrow of the 3rd and 12th districts. Republicans quietly worked with some of the African-American congressional Democrats to accommodate their personal concerns with the new districts. Two Atlanta-area districts are 56% and 53% African-American, while three others have black percentages of 48%, 45%, and 41%. In 2007, Republican Gov. Perdue called for the establishment of an independent commission to draw redistricting plans that can be voted up or down by the Legislature. Perdue seemed to be confident that relatively regularly shaped and neutrally drawn districts would leave the party with majorities in Georgia in the 21st century. But the Legislature perhaps did not share that confidence, and in 2008 it failed to adopt his plan.
Georgia is expected to gain one seat from the reapportionment following the 2010 census. Republicans will have control of redistricting if they retain the governorship and majorities in both houses in the 2010 election.


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A sea eagle has stolen a video camera set up in the Australian outback to film crocodiles and flown with it for 70 miles, accidentally creating a bizarre, self-made wildlife movie.
Aboriginal rangers assumed the missing motion-sensor camera had fallen into the water until it turned up several weeks later near the Mary River in Western Australia, miles away from its original spot at the Margaret River. Rangers were able to recover three thirty-second films from the camera.
A ranger, Roneil Skeen, said cameras had been moved by animals before but never turned into a “flying camera”.
“Unexpectedly our camera went missing so we thought we had lost it because it fell into the water,” he told ABC News.
“It was pretty amazing… They’ve had camera traps moved [by animals] before, but not taken off, like a flying camera you know?”
Rangers had placed the camera at a gorge last May to try and capture images of fresh-water crocodiles.
Mr Skeen said the rangers were “shocked” that the eagle flew with the camera on its journey and believed it was a young bird because older eagles would have dropped it.
“We knew it was a juvenile eagle because the adult sea eagles, once they get their food or their prey, they usually take it right up into the sky and drop it,” he said.
“But this one was still learning because he just took it near the cliff-side and he never dropped [it], he just put it down and started picking at it. An adult one would have flown it right up the top and yeah for sure it would have smashed that camera.”
The rangers said they plan to bolt cameras down in future.
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Forgive senior DT Atiyyah Ellison if he doesn't know much about Baylor. Missouri has not played the Bears since Ellison has been in the Missouri program and Baylor doesn't exactly have a national reputation…for good things, at least.
"They look like they have some bigger guys on the offensive line," Ellison said Monday. "I don't know too much about their quarterback or their running game. I'm sure they'll have something for us."
Exactly what Baylor can offer will not be known until the teams kick off late Saturday night. The game presents an interesting combination of factors for both teams.
Submitted for your consideration: Missouri has struggled on the road, going 4-12 under coach Gary Pinkel. When Baylor wins, it usually does it at home; under coach Guy Morriss, the Bears average 21.6 points for and 28.2 points against at home compared to 12.3 points for and 47.4 points against on the road. Baylor is 2-0 at home this season and 0-2 on the road, while the Tigers are 3-0 at home and 0-1 on the road. In the brief history of the Big 12, Baylor has scored more points against the Tigers than against any other North division team.
Those statistics point to a competitive game, if not a Baylor win. But they don't tell the whole story; the Tigers would have to underachieve greatly to be tested much by the Bears on Saturday.
Nobody would as much as admit that, though. The Tigers, a well-coached team when it comes to media relations, said all the right things this week. Not a soul would admit looking ahead to next week's game--perhaps the most important of the season--at Texas.
"It's gonna be a good game," junior QB Brad Smith said. "Solid team; we'll go out and play hard and see what happens."
"They're a good team," sophomore LB Marcus Bacon said. "We play away, so we have to play our ‘A' game."
"We didn't play them last year, so I'd be lying if I said I know everything," Pinkel said of the Bears. "Our staff's been on it hard. My biggest concern is Missouri, us getting better."
While the coaching staff continues to focus on the Tigers' improvement, several of the players will be thinking about playing in front of friends and family the next two weekends. There are 23 players from Texas on the Missouri roster, including starters Bacon, Brad Ekwerekwu, Marcus King, Shirdonya Mitchell, Thomson Omboga and Jason Simpson. Other notable native Texan contributors include David Overstreet, Justin Scott, Brian Smith, Henry Sweat, Calvin Washington and Alex Woodley.
Clearly, Missouri's recruiting focus on Texas has paid off. Omboga, a Grand Prairie native, said he was looking forward to making big plays in front of his friends and family, who rarely have the opportunity to make the long trek to mid-Missouri to see the Tigers at home.
"It's gonna be fun, it's gonna be exciting," Omboga said. "I'm gonna be amped up and hopefully they will be, too, watching me play."
King, an Irving native who will have at least a dozen friends and family members at the game, called it "pretty important" to play well in front of his people. Omboga pieced together the Tigers' road struggles and Saturday's potentially pro-Missouri crowd.
"We gotta prove to the world that we can win on the road," he said.
With the Longhorns looming next weekend, Baylor presents a good opportunity to do that. The Horns drilled Baylor 44-14 last Saturday, racking up 507 yards of total offense to the Bears' 266. Texas ran wild on the Baylor defense, finishing with 303 yards on 51 carries.
The Bears, dubbed "a Conference USA-caliber program stuck in the tough half of one of the nation's toughest leagues" by Sporting News this week, have few playmakers on offense but a quality player in junior QB Dane King. If he throws a touchdown pass against the Tigers, he will be the first Baylor passer in 17 years to throw for a touchdown in five consecutive regular-season games.
"You can see him getting better each and every week," Pinkel said of King. "He's got a great delivery…They have an offense that's very multiple. They can do about anything they want on offense."
What they do on defense is a different story. Although senior LB Justin Crooks is a Nagurski Award candidate and one of the conference's better defensive players, he doesn't have much help. The Bears have surrendered 100 points in their two losses.
"Defensively, they put a lot of pressure on you and give you a lot of different looks," Pinkel said, echoing a comment he made about Ball State, who surrendered 48 points on Sept. 18. "It'll be certainly a difficult task."
It should be an enjoyable one, too, for many of the Tiger Texans. Ellison expects big things from those players Saturday, but for an unusual reason.
"I know those guys will be real happy to play," Ellison said. "They're in the Midwest (in Columbia) as opposed to down there, where they're from. We're getting all this cold weather and stuff so they're happy to go back home."


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Twelve unanswered runs in the middle and late innings gave the Cleveland Indians a come-from-behind victory at Progressive Field and a rare win in a series opener as they knocked off the Toronto Blue Jays via a 13-3 final.
The key to Friday night for the Tribe was the revival of the bats with runners in scoring position. In the first six games of the second half, a stretch that had seen the Indians go 1-5 during a rough road trip, the offense had contributed a meager 8-for-54 effort with runners in scoring position. That would all change in the fifth inning against the Blue Jays and starter Marco Estrada.
Before the bats woke up with a vengeance, Toronto staked itself to an early lead against Trevor Bauer. In his first outing since being unable to escape the first inning in Oakland last Sunday, Bauer gave up a leadoff double to Jose Bautista, who had been struggling since the All-Star break. After a strikeout of Russell Martin and a fly out by Josh Donaldson, Justin Smoak was walked on four pitches. Bautista picked off third base uncontested before Kendrys Morales singled to center, putting the Jays up 1-0.
The Indians went down in order quickly in the home half before the Jays got another leadoff double to start a rally, this one directed to right field by former Cleveland speedster Ezequiel Carrera. He would move to third on a grounder by Kevin Pillar before scoring on a sacrifice fly by Ryan Goins to make it a 2-0 game.
Edwin Encarnacion would set a personal home run milestone in the bottom of the second against Estrada. After the count went to even at 2-2, he clouted a drive deep to the trees in center, cutting the deficit to one with his 20th homer of the season. It also marked the 30th different team that he had hit a home run against, as his longtime Toronto employer was the only club he had yet to homer against during his 13-year career.
Bauer would prevent the leadoff double in the third, but the Jays were right back at it in the fourth as Troy Tulowitzki doubled to right-center to start the frame. A walk by Carrera put two on with nobody out, but Pillar lined to right and Goins grounded into a double play to squash the rally.
While they missed a chance to expand their lead in the fourth, the Jays would not do the same in the fifth. After strikeouts by Bautista and Martin to start the inning, Donaldson drew a five-pitch walk and came all the way around to score on a two-out double to left-center by Smoak. After a walk by Morales, Tulowitzki would become the third strikeout victim of the inning and the Indians got back to work for their scuffling starter.
Abraham Almonte started the bottom of the fifth with a drive to deep left-center. Despite a Spiderman-esque climb of the 19-foot wall by Pillar, Almonte raced around the bases for a leadoff triple, which would set the stage for a big inning. Roberto Perez walked with the count full before Erik Gonzalez slapped a single through the right side of the infield to make it a 3-2 game. Bradley Zimmer struck out for the first out of the inning, but Francisco Lindor walked to load the bases. Michael Brantley grounded to second where Lindor was forced, but the fielder’s choice allowed Perez to score to tie the game at three. With two down and Encarnacion at the plate, Brantley picked off second base, which would be big as the former Jays slugger would work the count full before doubling to the gap in left-center to score both base runners and give the Indians a 5-3 lead while knocking Estrada out of the game.
Aaron Loup came on and gave up a single to Jose Ramirez to put runners on the corners for Carlos Santana, the ninth man to bat in the inning, but he would strike out swinging on three pitches. Despite two left base runners, the Indians had claimed a 5-3 advantage.
Loup had retired four straight heading into the bottom of the seventh when he got into trouble. Zimmer walked on five pitches before a fly out by Lindor for the first out. Manager John Gibbons went to his bullpen for Jeff Beliveau, but it would not be the left-hander’s night. He hit the first batter he faced, Brantley, while ahead in the count, 0-2. Encarnacion followed with a single to right. Ramirez doubled home Brantley to make it 7-3 and Santana added an RBI-single to right to score Encarnacion. Almonte kept the inning rolling along with a three-run shot to right to give the Indians a comfortable 11-3 lead. A five-pitch walk by Perez would ended Beliveau’s night, but the Tribe was not done taking out its aggression from the previous week of play, as Cesar Valdez gave up a double to Gonzalez and a two-run single to Zimmer, the tenth man to bat, to grow the lead to 13-3. Lindor doubled to left to put two in scoring position for Brantley, but he would strike out swinging and Encarnacion would fly out to center to end the onslaught. Cleveland sent 13 batters to the plate, scored eight runs, and tallied seven hits.
Dan Otero came on in the eighth after two scoreless innings of relief by Bryan Shaw. He gave up two singles, but got a double play to close the inning. Ryan Merritt pitched the ninth, giving up another leadoff double to Goins before setting down the next three in order.
The Indians improved to 49-45 on the season and maintained their spot atop the American League Central Division. The Blue Jays dropped to 44-52 on the year and 22-28 on the road.
Bauer did not have his best stuff, but the big support from the offense made his effort stand up as he improved to 8-8 on the season. He worked five innings, allowing three runs on six hits with four walks and six strikeouts. Estrada took the loss, falling to 4-7 on the season. He made it two outs into the fifth and was charged with five runs allowed on six hits with three walks and three strikeouts in another short effort from the veteran right-hander.
The key to the game was the offense on both sides. The Blue Jays struggled despite plenty of chances with runners in scoring position after the repeated leadoff doubles. The Jays combined to go 1-for-12 with runners in scoring position and left nine runners on base.
The Indians, by comparison, fixed the week-long (and season-long) issue at the plate with runners in scoring position. The bats were 8-for-13 in that spot, with Encarnacion and Ramirez each getting two hits and Zimmer, Gonzalez, Santana, and Almonte adding one apiece. The team would strand seven.
Encarnacion was at the heart of the offense’s eruption and coincidentally did it against his old team. He was 3-for-4 on the night and drew a walk. He fell just the dreaded triple short of the cycle while scoring twice and driving in four. He is the team leader in homers with 20 and RBI with 54.
Saturday will mark the long awaited return of Danny Salazar (3-5, 5.40 ERA) to the Indians roster as he will be activated from the disabled list with a corresponding roster move yet to be announced. It will be the right-hander’s first start since May 27 and his first appearance since June 3 in relief. Right-hander Marcus Stroman (9-5, 3.10) will throw for Toronto. He had an All-Star caliber first half of the season and pitched deep into the game in his first start after the break, a no-decision in Boston that saw him allow three unearned runs in six and two-thirds innings.
First pitch from Progressive Field is scheduled for 7:10 PM ET.
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