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In the timeless battle of almond butter vs peanut butter, there are many arguments for both sides, including taste, , and ultimate health benefits. Before you buy, it is important to understand how these two popular kinds of nut butter differ, and what effects each can have on your health.
Almond Butter vs Peanut Butter
Although almond butter and peanut butter share quite a bit in terms of flavor and nutrient profile, there are some clear differences that should be addressed. According to the USDA, almonds are rich vitamins, minerals, and other nutrients. So, we can say that almond butter is better than in terms of its mineral, vitamin, and fiber content. Whereas, peanut butter has a better selenium and protein content. let us discuss them in detail below.
To begin with, peanut butter is one of the most popular spreads around the world, as well as one of the most readily available and inexpensive. The process of making peanut butter consists of shelling the peanuts, roasting them, cooling and blanching them, and then grinding them into a smooth butter. Other variations, such as chunky peanut butter, are also readily available. Peanut butter has both a savory and sweet flavor, making it a favorite for , desserts, candies, sauces, , and basic snacks.
Peanut butter is high in fat, particularly and fats, both of which are considered healthy in certain ways. Peanut butter also has a decent amount of magnesium and vitamin B-6, roughly 12% and 10% of your daily requirement, respectively, in only 2 tablespoons. Peanut butter also has slightly more selenium than almond butter.
In terms of protein, peanut butter is quite impressive, with more than 15% of your daily requirement in a 2-tablespoon serving. There is quite a high content of calories, roughly 190, in the same size serving, as well as dietary fiber, potassium, iron, and calcium. For that reason, peanut butter is recommended in moderate quantities; its fiber content can help you lose weight by reducing your , but your daily intake shouldn’t exceed 6 tablespoons. For , peanut butter is often an easy and delicious protein and calorie booster.
This sweet alternative to peanut butter has rapidly grown in popularity in recent years, both due to its pleasant flavor and its rather obvious health advantages over peanut butter. While this type of nut butter generally comes with a slightly higher price tag, that doesn’t dissuade many people from enjoying this delicious source of protein. Almond butter is made in a similar way to peanut butter, following the process of shelling, roasting, blanching, and then blending in a food processor, which results in the creation of a creamy nut butter. Almond butter is slightly sweeter than peanut butter in most cases, although there are many different recipes on the market.
Almond butter and peanut butter are basically the same when it comes to calories – just under 200 calories in a 2-tablespoon serving. In most other cases, however, almond butter turns out to be a healthier option. To begin with, almond butter has approximately half as much saturated fat as peanut butter, which is good news if you have any issues. There is also about 25% more monounsaturated fat in a nut butter of the almond variety, which can further improve and reduce heart risk.
When it comes to vitamins and minerals, almond butter is also clearly superior to peanut butter, offering much more iron, calcium, and vitamin E, all of which are critical nutrients for the body. One of the few areas where peanut butter is superior to almond butter, as mentioned above, is in their selenium content, as well as a slightly higher amount of protein. There is roughly twice as much fiber in almond nut butter than peanut butter, yet another reason why almond butter is obviously the healthier option.


Deankelly drops yet another bomb single "2seconds" following his previous hit Balema
Song Title: "2 Seconds"
Stage Name: "DeanKelly"
Social Media: @deankelly_4eva
Record label: Real Entertainment Denominations (R.E.D)** social media:- @realentdenominations
Nigerian-American singer and song writer "Deankelly" drops yet another new single "2seconds" and with his previous hit "Belema" still booming across all top playlists on major streaming platforms like Spotify, Apple Music, Tidal, Audiomack to mention a few.
"2 seconds" is his first this year and he promised to keep dropping back to back hits. Enjoy this soon to become the next street anthem.
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my wife and I are getting divorced and I need to know what I need to get full custody of my 3 year old daughter and visitation for my 8 year old step daughter
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Obtaining full custody of your three (3) year old would mean that you can prove to the Court that full custody is in your child's best interests. That is not usually a easy task. There is a rebuttal assumption that parents should both share equally (as possible) in a child's life. To be granted joint custody you need to determine, is this in my child's best interests and if so, why. You should work very closely with your attorney to come up with a plan for your child's best interests.
The Court will not usually award you visitation of your step daughter. However, you might be able to argue for sibling visitation between the two sisters and you could be present for that visitation.. Personally, I have had quite a few cases where the step father has been an important part of the step child's life and the biolgical parent will by agreement give the step parent some time with that child. Again work closely with your attorney.
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The MedTech and healthcare startup ecosystem in the city is set to get a boost with a delegation from Switzerland visiting Bengaluru in search of possible collaborations and investments.
Starting on Sunday, the Swiss delegation consisting of 11 entrepreneurs, researchers and investors will tour India, specifically Bengaluru and New Delhi, the two most prominent startup hubs in the country. For the next one week, the delegates will immerse themselves into the Medtech and healthcare startup ecosystem of the two cities. The tour is being organised by Swissnex India, an initiative of the Consulate General of Switzerland. Swissnex works closely with science and technology counsellors based in Swiss embassies around the world. Dr. Shwetha Suresh, manager, Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Swissnex India told Deccan Herald: “India is a great destination for business with a great ecosystem for startups and innovation.


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Do You Dare To Venture Through These Tangled 'Woods'?Graphic novelist Emily Carroll's gorgeous new collection of horror stories entwines words and pictures to deliver delicious, twisted-fairy-tale chills. Strange things come and go in these woods.
I am not a trained reader of horror. Usually whenever I encounter horror stories, I'm left feeling dissatisfied with the quality of my unsettlement; I think "oh, that was gratuitous" or "eh, was that necessary?" With very few exceptions, I tend not to seek out horror.
Emily Carroll's Through the Woods is so thoroughly an exception that I have to revise my stance on the whole genre.
In these five graphic tales (meaning comics, not stories told in Grand Guignol fashion — although that linguistic line is definitely blurred here),Carroll's sinuous prose and emphatic art blend seamlessly into a path through the stories she tells. If there is a key to this collection, it is the phrase, "It came from the woods. (Most strange things do)," which recurs in "His Face All Red," the story of a man who murders his brother only to see him emerge from the woods whole, happy and unscathed. These are tales of strange things that come from or go into the woods — and what they did to people, or had done to them, along the way.
These stories are thick with the cadence and syntax of fairy tale, where the telling's stylized repetitions are rendered as much through art as through words. I badly want to hold up three pages in "A Lady's Hands Are Cold" in order to discuss at obnoxious length how the twisting layout on one page draws the gaze into a song, how the song encircles a character, how the art is contrapuntal and telling three stories in harmonic dissonance to the line of the prose. It's a story in conversation with Bluebeard and Mr. Fox while aping neither; it's unsettling, and frightening, and builds expectation in familiar fairy tale lines only to — well. That would be telling.
It's also stunningly beautiful. The whole book is magnificently executed: the work with color, character, contrast, perspective, layout, lettering, is all dextrous and varied and absolutely masterful. It's Gorey with less humor and more eloquence, elegance and poise; in place of whimsy is a wicked sense of pace, threat and a lurking delight in causing terror. I found myself so awed by individual pages that I had to exclaim about them in great detail to hapless people around me, saying things like, "Look, just look at how the ribbon around her throat is a threat because of this blood-striped knife," or "do you see how the word 'nothing' here is part of a sentence but also an illustration of what is spoken between them!"
I should say that I greeted the endings of some stories with dismay. They are, after all, horror. But it was a dismay that felt earned, that seemed to say, "What kind of story did you think this was?" in a gentle, chiding way — while patiently eating your face.
(Not that anyone's face gets — well. Anyway.)
Through the Woods is complex without being opaque; these are all still clear, deceptively simple stories that are kissing-close to beginning with "once upon a time." They're stories about girls who lose a father to the winter, a mother to sickness, a friend to a ghost; they're stories told as straightforwardly as fairy tale while containing all the rich density of poetry.
I am still not a reader of horror. But I am a reader of poetry, of folk and fairy tales, of dark fantasy and a frequent wanderer of woods — and as such, I am most certainly a reader of Carroll.
It's not lost on me that this book is, in so many ways, a cautionary tale against setting foot in strange forests — while being at the same a dense tangle of story-wood in and of itself. Nor, I suspect, is it lost on Carroll, who lures us in only to do terrible, wonderful things to our heads and hearts.

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About Ghent Jazz Festival
Ghent jazz festival has been running every year since 2002.
It started as the Blue Note Festival, became the Blue Note Records Festival a few years later and now goes by the name of Ghent Jazz Festival.
You’ll find avant-garde artists alongside mainstream international jazz artists.
Healthy and fresh food is the order of the day.
The Gent Jazz Festival is as much a food festival as it is a music festival.
Handpicked food trucks offer a balanced kitchen with a focus on delicious fruit and vegetables.

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Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on Friday ordered the release of 180 MLD of water from Veeranam to the city from August 17, to quench the thirst of the water-starved metro.
In a statement here, the Chief Minister said storage at Veeranam lake had gone up to 935.2 million cubic feet following the release of water from Mettur dam since August 2. The water thus received, besides being used for irrigation, could cater to drinking water requirements of the State capital. With this in view, she had launched the New Veeranam Scheme in her earlier tenure in 2004.
Currently, the city has about 1,018 million cubic feet of water in all of its reservoirs combined.
The full capacity and the present storage in each of the four reservoirs are as follows: Poondi (3,231 mcft/260 mcft), Sholavaram (nil), Red Hills (3,300 mcft/413 mcft) and Chembarampakkam (3,645 mcft/496 mcft).
Meanwhile, Metro Water officials said the release of water from Veeranam would considerably ease the situation in the city.

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A report sponsored by Europe's Mortgage Insurance Trade Association reveals that there is over 500 billion ($639.3 billion) in untapped mortgage potential across Europe. The report, conducted by consulting firm Mercer Oliver Wyman concludes that over 80% of growth potential is most likely to be in higher risk lending products, a segment that includes low down payment, highly-indebted or non-traditional borrowers.
"The commercial pressures on mortgage lenders have never been greater - with margins falling in most countries, the credit cycle turning and house prices now stagnating in many markets," said Mercer Oliver Wyman Director Matthew Sebag-Montefiore. "In this tough operating environment, Basel II is threatening to flood capital into the mortgage sector, with the lower risk-weights that will apply to conforming, prime mortgages. This leaves the lenders with a very tricky position as to where they can find the next wave of profit growth."
The greatest potential for growth is found in Germany, Italy and generally throughout the Central and Eastern European region. These jurisdictions simply do not have the mortgage product availability to include certain risk profiles from accessing mortgage credit. "The potential for growth is significant, especially in those countries whose economies are large but where the mortgage markets are less sophisticated," said the report.
The lenders best prepared to tap into this segment potential in the markets are those with the ability to access low-cost deposits and other diversified sources of funding while providing better recognition and management of the increased risk associated with these new products. Certain countries are already beginning to see the presence of non-bank players in the mortgage market have influence on the demand for credit.
In the U.K., innovative non-bank players have opened up access to mortgage credit for certain underserved risk profiles, added the report. Italy and Spain have also seen the entrance of new mortgage players that could tap into their growth potential. The report found that both these countries offer the highest potential of growth in percentage terms. The problem is, in order to enter these markets, one must be perceived as Italian or Spanish, as several cultural barriers need to be overcome before setting up shop.
The Australian Macquarie Bank recently announced plans to set up its mortgage originating services in Italy. Macquarie Bank Italia will open offices in Milan and Rome within the next three months, with the business headquartered in Milan. Specialist mortgage lender Oakwood Group has also tuned into these sectors to build its mortgage businesses.
Oakwood home loans recently bought Amber home loans' mortgage portfolio worth GBP102 million ($195 million) and Oakwood also worked with Merrill Lynch on the sale of Mortgages PLC. The group has also established a presence in the Spanish market via its Spanish Mortgages Direct and is currently looking into starting up a lending program in Italy. In the next year, the group plans to raise approximately $12 billion through the securitization markets. "There is a lot of room for growth and what has really facilitated the growth in this segment of the market is the growth in the securitization markets," said a company spokesman. "Oakwood has established a series of specialty finance businesses in multiple jurisdictions and those assets end up being securitized."
But establishing a presence in these markets takes time. Oakwood Group said it approaches both its operation in Spain and Italy with a long-term view because of the significant cultural differences. The plan, said the spokesman, is to start off with a broker-like business and move into buying portfolios and eventually assume a lending business. In Italy the group plans to pair up with a local institution as a means to cross the cultural barrier that would otherwise pose a problem.
"The European mortgage industry is at a turning point," said Sacha Polverini, Chair of the Authority. "The past 10 years have seen excellent asset growth rates for the majority of lenders, which have been driven by rising house prices and falling interest rates, low credit losses and a relatively stable economic environment. Consolidation is occurring within and between national markets, with a Champions League' of lenders emerging."
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Curated by Max Kauffman (full disclosure: Kauffman occasionally contributes to Hi-Fructose), the upcoming group show, “Neu Folk Revival,” at LeQuiVive Gallery in Oakland celebrates the handmade qualities of art. From Souther Salazar’s kaleidoscopic watercolors to Zio Ziegler’s Cubist-inspired compositions to Katy Horan’s obsessive depictions of textiles, the work in the show draws from a variety of folk art traditions and puts them into a contemporary context. The artists in this show eschew perfectionism, instead relishing the happy accidents of their creative processes. “Neu Folk Revival” will be on view October 5 through November 2. Take a look at a preview of the show below.
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By Euro Weekly News Media • 17 January 2013 • 11:00
AN ARSENAL: Some of the items seized by the Guardia Civil during the raid.
A GANG of two was held by the Guardia Civil in Castell de Ferro as suspects of at least seven thefts in that town, Salobreña and Calahonda.
One of those held was a Romanian man aged 28, the other an Albanian aged 31. They had specialized in breaking into beach bars, safety authorities reported.
Only in Salobreña, they would have committed four robberies. However, Guardia Civil investigators believe they could be responsible for further crimes in different coastal locations of Granada and Almeria.
Three katana swords, three blank bullet guns, an air gun and 13 knives were seized during the raid, among other goods.
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The BYU Basketball team will be without LJ Rose for an undetermined time as he will undergo surgery on Friday to repair a torn meniscus.
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PROVO – BYU announced Wednesday afternoon that senior guard LJ Rose will undergo surgery Friday to repair the meniscus in his right knee.
On Monday, an MRI revealed the torn meniscus prompting the plan for surgery. BYU Head Coach Dave Rose said Tuesday during an interview session with the media that LJ had experienced discomfort in his right knee the last few weeks.
LJ Rose did not participate in Tuesday’s media observed practice.
Rose – one of two seniors on the basketball team – transferred to BYU from Houston. He has started all 25 games this season while averaging 5.5 points, 4.6 rebounds, and 4.5 assists.
During Rose’s tenure with Houston, he missed time due to multiple foot and ankle injuries restricting his playing time to only two games during the 2015-2016 season.
A timetable for his return to the hardwood will be determined following the surgery.


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There’s more money for the Georgetown Township library in next year’s Georgetown Township budget, but some accounts also have been reduced. Overall general fund expenditures will be up about $792,000 compared with the 2012 budget.
The Township Board will present the budget for approval at Monday’s board meeting, 7:30 p.m. at the township offices, 1515 Baldwin Street, behind the library.
The finance committee, comprised of Supervisor Dale Mohr, Clerk Rich VanderKlok, and Trustee Chad Tuttle recommended the budget for tentative approval on Aug. 27. Only Trustee Brett Strick opposed the motion.
In an e-mail, Strick said “Tentatively approving the budget to be sent to a public hearing is an endorsement of the workshop budget. I asked this question specifically of (Township Manager Dan Carlton) in open forum last week, and he confirmed a positive vote was indeed a tentative approval of the workshop budget.
“I have many specific issues with the tentative budget, as well as, a general concern that the budget has a projected shortfall of $1.3 million, yet, has few provisions included to further many of the community goals the board has advertised to the public as priorities. I am concerned about the misclassification of expenditures that occurs regularly after the budgeting process is completed.”
The budget is based on anticipated revenues from 2.2500 mills general property tax, the same as last year.
Carlton said some items are estimated, such as Social Security for employees. “It’s a working budget.”
More funds are planned for the fire department which will replace one vehicle this year as part of the ongoing planned rotation program. Spending for parks and recreation also are expected to increase as the township prepares for a potential “event space” and other park improvements. A new vehicle for the cemetery department could be needed next year. Senior transportation will be more expensive next year, and some funding may be needed for the ice arena, though spending may be offset by revenues. Township expenses for the arena have declined compard with 2010.
The general office budget has returned to normal after last year’s property purchase, and the township will not have to pay the expenses for an election in 2013.


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Born out of 268 years of creative tradition, the Maille kitchen cleverly combined sparkling cider and honey in this elegant recipe that will add piquancy to slow-braised pork, onions and apples. Add a fruity sweetness to a simple slaw, such as an apple white cabbage and carrot. This vinegar brings out the vibrant flavours in all salads, adding a dash of culinary creativity. MAILLE TIP: " Add to slow-braised pork, onion and apples"
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A recent report was met with howls of anguish after it revealed that the Apple Watch 2 would not feature cellular networking.
According to Bloomberg, Apple may not build cellular networking into the upcoming wearable. While there are some questions on the veracity of the story, there is an argument that the Apple Watch 2 would not benefit from cellular connectivity anyway.
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Apple Watch 2 unlikely to get cellular connectivity, and that’s ok
While it may seem like a great idea to have your Apple Watch connected even away from your iPhone, there are plenty of reasons why the feature is, at least for now, unnecessary.
The first is a practical concern. The fact is that cellular radio takes up space and power, which are two things that the Apple Watch is already short of.
As it stands the Apple Watch is an amazing feat of engineering, cramming in a huge number of features into a tiny package that you don’t mind wearing on your wrist. There isn’t the tiniest amount of space wasted in the current Apple Watch, but the company has form for pushing to get its technology to be thinner and lighter.
Power consumption a concern
Even though that thinner and lighter is a huge priority for Apple, it must still be argued that the addition of cellular radio would mean making sacrifices elsewhere. The battery is the largest thing in the Apple Watch, but you need it to power the components and potentially a newly added cellular radio.
Apple has revealed that watchOS 1 managed power very conservatively in order to boost battery life. The company says that watchOS 3 will sacrifice some power management in order to bring better performance. However it’s worth noting how much power a cellular radio uses. You need only consider how much longer your iPhone lasts on Airplane mode to get an idea.
There is a chance that Apple could somehow only activate cellular radio when you aren’t tethered to your iPhone or any WiFi networks. However the thought of operating with an Apple Watch by itself is not very attractive as things stand.
Practical concerns for use of standalone Apple Watch
The very design of the device means that most people would still want to have their iPhone handy. Reading short text messages might be OK, but trying to read long work emails is a chore because of the small screen size.
If you really wanted to you could scroll endlessly to read the message, but replying is also quite trying. Dictation may work OK, but it’s difficult to edit. Likewise the option of scribbling messages one letter at a time on the screen isn’t very practical.
Displays and input methods will have to come along leaps and bounds before the Apple Watch can operate as your only computer. The introduction of cellular networking will make no difference in that regard.
Tweaks and improvements necessary in multiple areas
While it seems likely that the Apple Watch will get cellular connectivity at some point in the future, it looks unlikely to be included on the Apple Watch 2. There are plenty of other things that Apple needs to worry about rather than adding cellular connectivity.
There are plenty of other rumors surrounding the Apple Watch, and the most consistent hardware rumor is the addition of GPS. This could be likely given the many fitness applications of the wearable, and GPS would let you go running without your phone while still plotting your route.
One potential issue is that the majority of Apple’s GPS-enabled devices use Assisted GPS, which uses cell tower information to assist with location tracking. GPS sometimes takes half a minute to find your location, which is why you see the big dot when you open Maps. It’s also worth noting that GPS uses a lot of power as well, so whether this would be a wise move remains to be seen.
While consumers may be hungry for more features, it looks like Apple is also aiming to provide a better user experience, better performance, longer battery life and maybe a thinner design from the Apple Watch 2. Another possible improvement could be better waterproofing.
It seems likely that the second generation Apple Watch will be about making improvements to the first, rather than making any massive changes to its features. Both the iPad 2 and iPhone 3S provide a clue as to how Apple works.
Why add cellular networking when there are improvements to be made across the board? It seems like a distraction at this stage.


A driver is still on the run after failing to stop in South Yorkshire.
The driver of a green Ford focus is being sought after failing to stop for police in Thurnscoe, Barnsley, on Tuesday evening.
Police attempted to pull the car over as part of a routine stop, because the driver had a brake light out.
But the driver failed to stop, and a police chase led to the vehicle being apparently abandoned.
The driver fled his vehicle and fled on foot.
South Yorkshire Police are currently searching for the driver of the vehicle after the incident at about 8pm on Tuesday.
South Yorkshire Police’s SY Ops Support tweeted: “Fail to stop. Excellent commentary by motorcycle cop. Enquiries ongoing to trace driver. Run but can’t hide.”
Today, a police spokesman added: “The man is still outstanding, but enquiries are ongoing to trace him.”
Anyone with information is asked to call police on 101.


What first piano should I get for my child?
December 10, 2021 •Stephen Reed
What first piano should I get for my child?
By Stephen N. Reed
One of the most common desires expressed by piano shoppers, especially those making a purchase for their child, is to buy the cheapest possible piano that still does the job. Those are the two main considerations: cost and general performance by the instrument.
After all, the future is unknown. Will the child stick with piano lessons for the long haul or give up after a while?
At M. Steinert & Sons, we identify with any parent’s need to find the best piano for their needs. Spending hard-earned money on a large musical instrument deserves focused attention.
But focus is also needed to find an affordable piano that will give one’s child every chance of success at the keyboard. No parent wants to go to the trouble of purchasing a piano without their child wanting to play it.
However, that unintentionally happens frequently. A child who feels that their family piano is not worth their hours of practicing can often give up too easily.
Then the family is stuck with a rather large and heavy piece of wooden furniture that collects dust in the corner of a room--or a digital piano that is given away to a relative.
Through the eyes of a customer
In this article, we will track the thoughts of one of our customers, Chris of Arlington, Massachusetts, whose daughter is about to begin piano lessons. As a result, Chris is beginning to explore what kind of piano to purchase for her.
Balancing that with Chris’s present budget and space in his home will be a key factor in his upcoming purchase of their family’s first piano.
Before getting into the options available for beginners, we spoke with Chris at length about what was behind his interest in supporting his daughter’s upcoming lessons.
He explained that his father was quite a piano player, though he played by ear, not by sight-reading. Chris hopes that this daughter may have inherited some of his father’s abilities at the piano.
In addition to Chris having a piano in his home growing up, he has become a musician himself, playing both the mandolin and the guitar in a local music group.
He’s bought top instruments for both of those efforts, so he’s aware of the benefit of having a quality musical instrument, especially for the ongoing motivation of a young beginner.
However, he still wants to be careful with this first piano, as he waits to see if his daughter “takes” to her piano lessons or not.
Narrowing down best options
Chris has a second-story townhouse, reached by a narrow staircase. As a result, a grand for his daughter’s first piano might be a tall order, both in terms of space and in hauling it up that staircase.
That leads us to recommend options in upright piano models like Essex, a Steinway-designed, less expensive brand, as well as digital pianos like Roland. Roland makes a credible case that a good, digital piano can serve well as a first piano.
Chris is committed to read some articles on our M. Steinert & Sons website to learn more about pianos in his price range. Then he can start to know some actual options.
Rent-to-Own can be a viable compromise
We suggested that one way for Chris to slice the Gordian Knot on price/quality would be to rent a quality piano for a number of months.
That way, Chris can wait to see if his daughter seriously takes to playing the piano, while giving her every opportunity to succeed with a quality upright piano that Chris doesn’t have to buy.
Chris would be putting a “toe in the water of acoustic pianos” without having to make a huge investment yet. That could wait for their second piano some time hence.
Giving his daughter an acoustic piano to play will give her a better idea of the pianos yet to come in her life, as opposed to the still good but much different experience of playing a digital piano.
Simply put, one shouldn’t expect to replicate the acoustic piano experience through a digital model.
Chris found this renting idea to be an interesting one and said he’d keep it in mind as he did his reading and research. To allow for the possibility of purchasing the piano he is renting, Chris will want to look into a rent-to-own arrangement.
M. Steinert’s commitment: the right piano for you
Chris echoes the concerns raised frequently by parents wanting to do right by their promising child while still making a wise choice for a piano.
Until enough time has passed to determine the seriousness of the young student’s genuine interest, a parent has every right to wait and see.
Nevertheless, a parent like Chris also wants to give his daughter every chance to enjoy playing the piano as a lifelong pursuit. That begins with one’s very first piano and whether the young student feels empowered to play it.
In short, Chris realizes that he can’t just give his child anything to play. His choice needs to be one that his daughter looks forward to playing.
True, a beginner need not have the most expensive of pianos. However, getting the cheapest piano can backfire, too. Young students can be surprisingly sensitive to the pianos they play. If the piano given to them is not inviting and seems more like a temporary arrangement, so, too, can their interest in playing music become temporary.
Finding just the right piano for you--that is what has set M. Steinert apart since 1860. Each of our tens of thousands of customers has known that their concerns and needs were heard by our experienced piano consultants.
If you are considering a piano purchase for a young person in your family or simply to enhance your home with live music, come visit one of our two showrooms in South Boston and Newton.
Meantime, start your own research with these articles to learn more about what could be your very first piano!
- What does a piano cost?
- New vs. Used Steinway
- Digital vs. Acoustic Pianos: Which is the best for me?
- Is the Essex a Good Piano?
- Boston vs. Yamaha: Which is the best piano for me?
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(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Arizona researchers have received a prestigious grant to develop indicator molecules to track the onset of diabetes in patients before the disease develops potentially paving the way to developing treatments.
Several potential treatments have been proposed to prevent or postpone the development of diabetes. But currently there is no way to monitor whether the treatments are effective to delay its onset.
Now, researchers at the University of Arizona are working to develop a method of determining at an early stage whether a person is developing diabetes and to track the effects of potential treatments.
Ronald Lynch, professor of physiology at the UA's department of physiology; Sean Limesand, associate professor of animal science at the UA's department of animal sciences; and Josef Vagner, an associate research professor at the UA's BIO5 Institute, together received a $500,000 grant from the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation to develop an accurate way to target imaging contrast agents molecules that can be viewed through a scanner to beta cells in the human pancreas.
The research could provide a much-needed method of monitoring pre-diabetic patients to determine whether new therapies to curb development of the disease are effective.
Type 1 diabetes, often referred to as juvenile diabetes because of the large proportion of people who develop it at a young age, occurs when the body's immune system malfunctions, eliminating normal beta cells from the pancreas.
Beta cells are needed to secrete insulin, a protein that instigates removal of glucose from the bloodstream. Without beta cells to secrete insulin, glucose levels in the bloodstream become too high, presenting dangerous health consequences that will lead to death if untreated.
Thus, type 1 diabetics must constantly monitor their blood glucose levels and periodically inject calculated amounts of insulin to stay alive.
"One of the biggest problems in diabetes research is how to monitor the health of beta cells," said Lynch. "With current methods, patients have to lose about 90 percent of their beta cells before they are diagnosed as diabetic."
While diabetes is incurable, several potential treatment methods exist to try to slow down or reverse the loss of beta cells. But with no way to detect and monitor changes in the population of beta cells in a patient, the success or failure of a specific treatment has been difficult to assess.
Now, that could change.
Lynch, Limesand and Vagner are developing a way to reliably, non-invasively track changes in beta cell populations.
"Beta cells come in groups and these groups are small," said Lynch. "In fact they're so small that most of the imaging devices that are used on people can't see them. Our approach is to develop chemicals that will target specifically to these beta cells, while carrying along a marker that can be imaged, so now we can measure how many beta cells a patient retains."
The marker is an indicator molecule that, once injected into a patient becomes attached to the exterior of the beta cells in the pancreas. The indicator molecules can be seen via a PET scan, a common method for human imaging that allows researchers to visualize and count the beta cells to which the molecules are attached.
Theoretically, if a patient repeats the scan periodically, doctors will be able to track changes in the patient's beta cell population and adjust treatments accordingly.
Previous research has targeted indicator molecules onto the surface of cells by attaching them to signal molecules called ligands. The ligands fit corresponding receptors on the cell surfaces like keys in locks.
The problem is that different types of cells often have some of the same receptors, so the signal molecules might bind to the target cells but they could just as easily bind to other types of cells as well. With no differentiation, researchers and doctors have no way to tell the difference in cell type and could get an incorrect count of the beta cell population.
The UA researchers may have solved this problem.
"Because the beta cells make up such a small amount of tissue in the abdomen, it is important that the molecules don't bind to cells in the liver or the intestine. These organs are much larger, and because they sit near the pancreas they would mask the signal from the beta cells," said Lynch.
"The ligand needs to bind only to the beta cells. We've developed technology that allows for that type of specificity."
Specificity can be achieved by linking together a combination of different ligands to create a ligand chain that will bind only to beta cells that have the exact combination of corresponding receptors, which no other type of cell in the abdomen will have.
"We call this molecular bar-coding," said Lynch. "You have all these lines in a barcode: some are thicker, some are thinner, but the overall barcode tells you what you need to know. Each cell has a lot of different receptors on its surface, and if you pick one type of receptor then it might also be on another cell and give you the wrong information. But if you find the right combination of different receptors then that information is a cell's barcode. We're trying to find out what barcode specifies a beta cell."
"This technology is very useful because as we start to build that barcode we will obtain specific and novel information about the beta cell."
Using the UA researchers' method, researchers and doctors may be able to determine if and when patients with family history of diabetes begin to lose beta cell mass precious knowledge that could help determine which treatments for an individual patient are helping to forestall the development of diabetes.

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2 edition of Fleeting beauty found in the catalog.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Knowing that the temperatures were headed upwards to 40 degrees today, I wanted to capture this beautiful stage of weather that halted overnight between snow and rain.
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Race Report: Weather: Changeable. If the first race of the day was pretty dull, to say nothing of predictable, this one was anything but. In fact, it might well be the weirdest F3 race some of us have ever seen. The reason for the...
If the first race of the day was pretty dull, to say nothing of predictable, this one was anything but. In fact, it might well be the weirdest F3 race some of us have ever seen. The reason for the strangeness was the weather. After a day of relatively pleasant conditions in what has been an abysmal summer, those pesky weather gods were at it again. Black clouds bubbled up in the distance and then race across the sky towards Stowe. Just before the pit lane opened to let everyone out for their two exploratory laps, you could feel the wind switch directions, and the temperature dropped abruptly, and then it started to rain heavily. It lasted for about three minutes, soaked the track and threw everyone into a complete quandary. There were more clouds lurking in the distance. Did they contain more rain? Who could tell? Nelson A Piquet's car was up on the jacks, no tyres on at all. Other people were scratching their heads and staring into the distance, trying to second-guess the conditions. Finally, the decision had to be taken and as a second wash of rain lashed across the grid, most people went for wet weather tyres. The only exceptions were Marcus Marshall (Fortec Motorsport), and Vasilije Calasan in Promatecme F3's Scholarship Class car. Considering that Marshall was starting from 14th, it could be argued he could take a risk; he had nothing to lose from back there. Calasan also probably felt he had nothing to lose going on slicks.
And with no other exceptions, everyone set off on the formation lap on wet weather tyres. However, at the end of the lap, both Alvaro Parente and Danilo Dirani of Carlin Motorsport dived into the pits to change to slicks. It meant they would both start the race from the pits rather than their grid positions, and it suggested that if they were right about the weather this race was going to get very messy very quickly. Certainly many of the drivers were saying that the track was dry round the back. Of course, it all got a bit chaotic at Carlin with two cars in at once, but they managed the changes pretty quickly and the cars were at the end of the pit lane very soon after the start.
The start was a bit of a shambles, not surprisingly. Adam Carroll (P1 Motorsport) looked as if he was about to get a good start, but then bogged down. Meanwhile Piquet got off the line very well and seemed to be intending to set about trying to open up a gap while his tyres held. Except that he bargained without Rob Austin (Menu Motorsport). The Englishman was off like a rocket and out dragged Piquet and James Rossiter (Fortec Motorsport), who was passed back by Carroll. It was all a bit messy. At the back, Parente was the first to get out of the pits, Dirani trailing him by a second or two. The next thing we knew, Piquet was trying to retake Austin, but he couldn't quite do it, and promptly fell into Carroll's clutches, while Will Power (Alan Docking Racing) decided he wanted to play with his friend Rossiter and would fight him for 4th place. Meanwhile, as the leaders went under the Bridge, Carroll was all over Piquet, but suddenly had to concentrate on Power, who seemed to have not noticed the conditions.
Calasan, meanwhile, was last, but of course he was on slicks and it was still damp and was now spitting with rain again. The slick tyre decision was beginning to look a bit questionable now. While the scuffle at the front continued, Ryan Lewis (T-Sport) lost his Scholarship Class lead to Stephen Jelley (Performance), but a lap later he squeezed Jelley onto the grass at Luffield and took himself out of contention at the same spot two laps later. So still not champion then.
Fairuz Fauzy (P1 Motorsport) was the next to decide that he was on the wrong tyres, and he took an early decision to pit for slicks, while Karun Chandhok (T-Sport) had gone missing somewhere out on the track.
While all this was going on, and despite spots of rain still dotting the track, Parente was quietly getting on with the job of catching the field up, and he was a second a sector faster than the leader, Austin. That ought to have sounded a few warning bells in other drivers' heads, but no one seemed to paying a lot of attention. Back at the front Austin ran wide at Luffield and found he had Piquet right with him, while Rossiter was trying to get round the outside of Carroll. At the first try he couldn't quite manage it, but it didn't take long before he was able to make it stick. Piquet hadn't given up either. Just because Austin is no threat to him in championship terms didn't mean he wanted to finish second to him. On lap three he took the lead back, ran wide and found Austin trying to edge back alongside. This time he couldn't do it, and Power wasn't helping any either. With the top three trying to go side-by-side it had the potential to get very messy. It didn't, and they sorted themselves out, Power having to drop back to 3rd, while Austin lost out to Piquet again.
In the Scholarship, we suddenly had Ronayne O'Mahony (Performance Racing) back in the lead, even if he knew he wouldn't be able to keep it if the track continued to dry out the way it was doing. Calasan was beginning to get the benefits of his slick tyres, having survived the early laps without falling off, and he was catching the wet-shod Irishman at an unbelievable rate. Unless it started to rain again - and that was looking very unlikely now - it was just a matter of time.
The top half dozen were still fighting it out, with Power taking 2nd from Austin, only to have Austin fight back. Watts, meanwhile, was chasing Rossiter down, and at the back of the field, an unseen menace. Parente had caught the tail-enders now and was making short work of them, as was Dirani. In addition, Marshall was now a man on the move as well, and he looked very strong as his tyres started to kick in and the racing line dries rapidly. Carroll, on the other hand, was now going backwards and had clearly made the wrong choice. He wouldn't be the only one to find his tyres going off badly, but he was among the first.
Marshall's choice had been inspired, and he was now in the top 6 and charging forward, seemingly unstoppable. A lap later he was second, while Fauzy, also on slicks, was just ahead of him and busy unlapping himself. Piquet was still leading but there was nothing he could do to stop the Australian. From being a regular "just out of the top ten" runner, Marshall suddenly found himself leading an F3 race! It was a shock to everyone. Piquet was clinging on to 2nd place, and probably knew by now that his days were numbered. He couldn't have been unaware of Parente and Dirani, who were both hacking through the field like knives through butter. It hadn't taken them long to get to a position where they could start to move up the points positions, and no one was in any position to argue with them. They wanted a place, they took it; it really was that simple. Two laps after he lost the lead to Marshall, Piquet lost a further place to Parente. Wisely, he didn't even try and fight the Portuguese. Piquet wants to be champion, and if he has to use his head to do it, he will. It was a mature drive, you might even say the sort of drive you would expect from a champion. He lost a further place, inevitably, to Dirani a couple of laps later, but as none of them are in a position to challenge his points lead, the teenager could smile and let it go.
Further down the order, di Grassi had seen the way the wind was blowing and had pitted for slicks, as had Carroll. It was a little too late, but in Carroll's case it at least got him a point for fastest lap at the end of the afternoon. You couldn't help feeling if any one of the former front- runners had opted for slicks - and if you were standing on the Hangar Straight the decision not too seemed very odd - there might have been a very different result.
Clivio Piccione, meanwhile, who was the only Carlin Motorsport driver not on slicks, had also pulled into the pits, though not to change tyres. His engine had begun to run dry and he'd called it a day, knowing he wasn't going to get a good result now whatever he did. And just to make matters even weirder, Marko Asmer (Hitech Racing), had been overhauled by Calasan in the closing stages, as the Frenchman claimed his second Scholarship Class victory of the day.
With a lap to go, it looked as if things might be about to get even stranger, or more normal depending on how you view these things. Marshall was still leading, but Parente was catching him hand-over-fist, and as they started on their final lap it was clear that Marshall was beginning to lose the advantage, running very wide in some of the corners. He only needed to get it that little bit further off the racing line, and there was a real threat that Parente would come through; he certainly wouldn't wait for a second invitation. As it was, from Marshall's point of view, the race ended just when it needed to. He crossed the line just ahead of Parente, and Dirani. Ironic really that the top three started from 14th, and last between them. Piquet clung on to finish 4th, ahead of Austin, Power, Rossiter and Watts. In 9th overall was Calasan, ahead of Asmer and di Grassi who'd pulled himself back into the points despite stopping for a tyre change. Just out of the points again was Andrew Thompson (Hitech Racing), the recovering Fauzy also with a pit stop to his name, James Walker (Hitech Racing), James Winslow (Reon Racing), O'Mahony, Jelley, Carroll and Lars Sexton (Planet Racing).
Next Races: Rounds 19 & 20, Thruxton, Hampshire, August 30th/31st
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We know the many pressures of contemporary medicine can erode the mental health of practitioners. The worst-case outcome can be suicidality—a physician or nurse thinking about ending their life, attempting to, or, worst of all, completing suicide. It's something organizations need to face with honesty, openness and responsiveness.
In my most recent article, I outline how colleagues and organizations can respond to those three elements of suicidality. There is a lot to think about and do when an organization is confronted with suicidal behavior, but I believe the only real mistake we can make is not to talk about the issue and its realities. And this means that we need to talk about it openly and transparently on an ongoing basis.
An Attentive Culture
By creating a culture that’s aware of suicide and attentive to the needs of physicians who may be at risk, interventions can come well before the ideation or the act. And a key component of that culture is colleagueship. A troubled physician’s colleagues are likely to be the first people in the organization to notice changes in their behavior that could foreshadow something deeper.
“We have to look at this as a whole community response rather than relying on the individual to get help for themselves,” Christine Moutier, MD, chief medical officer at the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, tells interviewer Bridget M. Kuehn in the journal Circulation.
What Colleagues Can Do
When noticing a colleague in distress, Dr. Moutier says, you should “assume you’re the only one who is noticing and who is in a position to reach out.” She suggests setting up a time to talk informally over coffee. Be direct with your statement of concern, she recommends and adds that it’s okay to ask if the physician is feeling suicidal.
“Asking allows that relief of sharing, if they choose to share, that they’re having suicidal feelings and thoughts,” says Dr. Moutier. “It’s really about this active listening process where you just keep on following their lead and asking them to tell you more…These are temporary measures, but that’s because these crises will pass if they can live through that moment.”
The Circulation article links to a video made by the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention that walks physicians through supporting a colleague in crisis and is recommended for everyone working in healthcare.
To learn more about what your organization can do to help address physician suicide, read my article A Healthcare Organization's Actions and Postvention Steps for Physician's Death by Suicide.

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Polish gas firm to pursue diversification strategy - CEO
Poland's gas monopolist PGNiG plans to continue its gas diversification strategy and to raise the company's value in the short term, newly appointed CEO Jerzy Kwiecinski said at a press conference on Friday.
"Energy security and the diversification of gas supply remain our corporate priorities," Kwiecinski said. In his opinion, these goals can be achieved through "full independence from Russia after 2022 and development of own production in the country and abroad."
The PGNiG CEO added that the board's priority will be raising the company's value, through cooperation with other fuel groups.
"We want to be treated not just as a company, but to work for the Polish economy and work as well as possible with the government," Kwiecinski said. In his view, synergies with other large companies on the market, such as fuel groups PKN Orlen and Lotos, will enable a strenghthening of PGNiG's position on the international market. This concerns increasing the company's value to make it a true champion in the global dimension, Kwiecinski said. "That will be our chief task - to build value," he added.
The CEO went on to say that by the end of 2020, the firm will have updated its strategy, indicating the direction in which it wishes to develop. In order to become less prone to external market shocks, Kwiecinski continued, the firm should strive for a "multi-energy" model, as global concerns do. In his opinion, the size of PGNiG obliges it to look to the wider perspective rather than through the national prism. He added that now is the time for Polish companies to expand, initially on the regional scale.
Kwiecinski said that within its diversification of activities, PGNiG plans to strengthen the area of heating services and biogas. In heating, "we want to be an integrator of that market on the national scale," he said, adding that the company wants the gas market in Poland to grow "so that the Polish energy sector is to a greater degree based on gas."
He said PGNiG saw a future in the development of a distributed energy sector based on biogas. "That is, sources and the construction of local distribution networks for which we want to be operators," he explained, stating that national biogas production could account for the equivalent of about 4 billion square metres of natural gas a year.
PGNiG also intends to work on hydrogen technologies, which, Kwiecinski said, are seen as the replacement for natural gas in the future. The company wants to be active in the field of renewable energy sources, complementing the gas business. In this context, the PGNiG CEO mentioned solar power, but did not rule out also wind power.
In his view, heating "should be tightly integrated with the gas market," as the price of heat produced through coal burning will ris,e while that produced from gas will fall. He said PGNiG wants to work together with heat producers. "We want to talk to owners as well as local government," he said. (...) There will not be a single solution or model for cooperation."


The tragic late-December wind storm knocked out electricity for many of us in the northstate, at least for a while, and the steady reports on our cellphones of the loss of life and destruction of property created a sense of somber amazement. We yearned to “get back to normal,” but for some that will never happen.
What if that would never happen for anyone on earth? What if a deadly virus, far more potent than Ebola, enveloped us, leaving only a handful alive? Those are the questions addressed in an extraordinary book by Emily St. John Mandel called “Station Eleven” ($24.95 in hardcover from Knopf; also for Amazon Kindle). As the power flicked off, I found myself deep in the last few chapters of the book.
The story straddles before and after, weaving together the lives of those somehow connected with one Arthur Leander, who, at 51, is playing Lear at the Elgin Theatre in Toronto when he abruptly dies onstage of a heart attack, leaving behind three ex-wives and a comic book, Station Eleven, drawn by his first wife, Miranda.
She gets the message of Arthur’s demise while in Malaysia. Then come the reports of a deadly virus making its way to North America, spreading everywhere. Almost no one is immune. “This was during the final month,” St. John Mandel writes, “of the era when it was possible to press a series of buttons on a telephone and speak with someone on the far side of the earth.”
Afterward, “no more pharmaceuticals”; “no more flight”; “no more countries”; “no more Internet.”
Two decades later, “the caravans of the Traveling Symphony moved slowly under a white-hot sky” near Lake Michigan. The small group stops at mostly deserted towns to play classical music and stage Shakespeare. And a little girl once in Arthur’s Lear is now one of that company.
The comic book Arthur had given her will play a key role in a world fraught with violence--but tinged with grace. Too close to home, I’m thinking, with these musings stationed right here, coincidentally of course, on the eleventh [of January, when the review was first published].


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BOSTON (CBS) --- In order for the Affordable Care Act to succeed, more American have to sign up for coverage.
The Obama Administration has been struggling to get younger people interested so the president is trying a new tactic.
Some are calling it smart, others are calling it desperation, but the President's appearance on an offbeat online spoof of public access cable-tv talk shows with Zach Galifianakis, proves one thing -- he's willing to go to great lengths to secure crucial demographic balance in the health care sign-up pool.
He wasn't just there to trade quips, it's all to fix a problem that could undermine Obamacare's financial stability - the lack of enough younger, healthy subscribers to pay the freight for older, sicker enrollees.
Prior efforts to spur younger sign ups just haven't gotten it done.
But what about the target audience, young adults more likely to watch an online video than read a newspaper? Does Obama's comedic skit make a difference in the long run?
"In order to get the idea out there, I think its very effective. In order to actually start making people move and change things? it's up to the individual," Emerson student Issy Loskutoff said.
"It's not like we can be pushed around quite as simply as a lot of people believe I think," said Emerson student Kiernan Zehring.
Communication expert and Emerson College professor Spencer Kimball thinks the video may turn out to be a clever flop.
"People might say, ' Yeah, it was funny, but he really didn't show the problem with not getting it,'" Kimball said.
The latest federal figures show only 25-percent of total ACA enrollment is between 18 and 34 years old. They say they need 38-percent to strike the right balance. Even in Massachusetts, new 18 to 34 enrollment is below 30-percent.
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Catherine Belling, “Horror: Medicine’s Disturbing Subtext”
Date: Thursday, March 12, 2015
Location: Room 100, George Wells Knight House, 104 E. 15th Ave
Host: Humanities Institute
Catherine Belling, Associate Professor of Medical Humanities & Bioethics, Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine
What does the word horror mean in the context of medicine? It can refer to an affective response, a narrative genre, or a moral position. Horror as genre is sometimes viewed as a debased version of tragedy; as an emotion, it can be seen as a reactive, and hence maladaptive, form of fear, or as the absolutist rejection of a morally repugnant action or situation. The word “horror” is associated with the sensational and irrational, the indecorous and disruptive, with gratuitous excess. The horror genre engages many of the same bodily disasters that motivate medicine. Yet it seems that, beginning with medical students who dare not show dismay or revulsion while dissecting the anatomy cadaver, the discourses of medical education and clinical health care work hard to keep horror in its place, contained, repressed, and unprocessed. Does this matter?
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Rock Band lets me fulfill my rock star dreams
This isn’t a review of Rock Band, or The Beatles Rock Band. I don’t have the patience to do a proper video game review — but I did want to write a few words about why I think these games are so much fun.
I’m not going to lie — I still harbor fantasies of being a rock star one day. Sure, my odds are going down the older I get, but those fantasies are more alive than those of being a professional athlete.
Rock Band (and, right now of focus Beatles Rock Band) lets me, at least for a little while, pretend those fantasies have come true. Sure, the instruments are plastic, and my TV doesn’t get nearly as loud as the ole Orange amplifier and a drum kit.
But, the tunes are fun to play. And you really are singing, and you really are beating drums and strumming a guitar.
Of course, you’re not REALLY playing them — Rock Band guitar is easier than the real thing, and more forgiving of mistakes. The vocals are real, but you can mix the game’s vocals higher so as to drown out the atonal mess coming from the room. The drums are the closest to the real thing, minus dynamic control and lack of left foot action.
But, Rock Band comes close enough to providing the illusion that you are playing. It comes closer than any other simulation I know: playing Rock Band puts you closer to making music than Madden Football does to putting you in the NFL; closer than Gran Turismo puts you to auto racing, and, luckily, closer than Grand Theft Auto puts you to being an actual deliquent.
For a few minutes, it’s easy to pretend you really are a rock star, singing, pounding, strumming, away. Smartly, you can even practice your rock star moves — the guitar is wireless, making it easy to introduce the smooth moves.
Rock Band makes it easy to pretend. And for that, is a successful game.
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Music producer and Grammy Award winner DJ Khaled today announced a partnership with cannabidiol (CBD) product manufacturer Endexx Corporation (Endexx) to create and market a line of CBD wellness products.
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DJ Khaled is also the founder of the We The Best Foundation, a 501c3 organization focused on enriching the lives of the next generation—from childhood to adulthood.
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Endexx CEO Todd Davis says that the company is excited to announce the partnership with DJ Khaled, noting the alignment of their approaches to product quality and business acumen.
Davis says that they understand that a brand’s value goes beyond the products themselves and needs to be a part of people’s everyday lives to help make them feel good about themselves.
The third party in the new joint venture is Miami-based IMPACT Brokers, who will spearhead sales and marketing efforts on behalf of the brand.
“We are committed to accelerating innovation and diversity throughout this developing industry while offering strategic guidance to best-in-class CBD suppliers,” says IMPACT CEO Ryan Stender. “IMPACT Brokers sits at the forefront of culture and has the ability to predict industry trends. We look forward to taking this newest business nationwide.”
DJ Khaled will introduce his new company and debut the first collection of products in 2021.

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A New Land, A New Life: Savage Lands is a gritty, brutal, first-person open-world fantasy survival experience in which players have only one goal: Stay Alive. Explore a world where days and nights are spent slaughtering vicious creatures, gathering scarce resources, building shelter and crafting powerful weapons needed to survive. Every decision counts, because one mistake can lead to an unfortunate encounter with death's cold embrace.
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SOULCALIBUR VI represents the latest entry in the premier weapons-based, head-to-head fighting series and continues the epic struggle of warriors searching for the legendary Soul Swords. Taking place in the 16th century, revisit the events of the original SOULCALIBUR to uncover hidden truths.
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CHICAGO (MarketWatch) — Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Saturday declared a public health emergency in New York due to increasing severity of the flu season.
In tandem, he issued an executive order that allows pharmacists to give flu shots to people between six months and 18 years of age, suspending rules that limit them to immunizing only adults.
More than 19,000 cases of influenza have been reported in New York so this season, almost four time the past year’s total. They have resulted in 2,884 hospitalizations and the deaths of two children.
“We are experiencing the worst flu season since at least 2009, and influenza activity in New York state is widespread, with cases reported in all 57 counties and all five boroughs of New York City,” Cuomo said. “Therefore, I have directed my administration, the State Health Department and others to marshal all needed resources to address this public health emergency and remove all barriers to ensure that all New Yorkers — children and adults alike — have access to critically needed flu vaccines.”
Earlier this week, Boston declared a public health emergency after 18 deaths across Massachusetts were attributed to influenza,