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- 2 tbsp. quick-cooking barley
- 2 tbsp. bulgur
- 2 tbsp. old-fashioned oats
- 0.67 c. water
- 2 tbsp. raisins
- 1 pinch ground cinnamon
- 1 tbsp. chopped walnuts or pecans
- Low-fat milk (optional)
- In microwave-safe 1-quart bowl, combine barley, bulgur, oats, and water. Microwave on High 2 minutes. Stir in raisins and cinnamon; microwave 3 minutes longer. Stir, then top with walnuts. Serve with milk if you like.
Nutritional information is based on a 2/3-cup serving without milk.
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China’s Lockdown & US Military Prepping Hard For COVID-19 Hint So Should We!
China’s Lockdown & US Military Prepping Hard For COVID-19 Hint So Should We! By Stefan Stanford – All News Pipeline
Signs Medical Martial Law In America May Be Unavoidable With The US Military & The Center For Disease Control Actively Preparing For The Ultimate ‘Black Swan Event’
While one Harvard Professor recently sounded the alarm on coronavirus becoming a global pandemic with absolutely shocking numbers that he believes 40% to 70% of all living people may become infected with the virus THIS YEAR as was reported in this MEDIAite story, some very alarming news comes to us from ‘google trends’ where we see the general public has very little interest in COVID-19 nor protecting themselves from its spread.
With google’s most-searched topics this weekend including names like ‘Caroline Flack’, ‘Lynn Cohen’ and ‘Amanda Bynes’ with ‘HQTrivia’, ‘Stranger Things’, ‘Fantasy Island’ and ‘All-Star Weekend’ also filling out the top of what Americans are now searching for, the interest in ‘Coronavirus’ among the general public has completely tanked as seen in the screenshot of google’s trending searches below, although among independent media readers, stories about ‘Coronavirus’ are still getting huge traction.
And with China now disinfecting and quarantining bank notes as the Daily Mail reports in this Saturday story, which proves the virus can survive on surfaces of money and be contagious to others who might come across the same bank notes, those who have been paying attention to and researching what has been happening in China warn coronavirus could be the ‘black swan’ of 2020 and now nearly 20% of all Fortune 500 companies are warning their investors of potential impacts from the virus in the business world this year.
So with the US military already approving 11 different coronavirus quarantine camps near major US airports across America while US Northern Command has implemented the Department of Defense’s Global Campaign Plan for Pandemic Influenza and Infectious Diseases as the Military Times had reported in this February 13th story, just imagine America should 4 to 7 out of every 10 people YOU know become infected by this virus if the Harvard professor is correct. From this MEDIAite story.:
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health professor Marc Lipsitch told the Wall Street Journal this week that “it is likely we’ll see a global pandemic” of the coronavirus with up to 70 percent of people infected worldwide.
“I think it is likely we’ll see a global pandemic,” Lipsitch claimed, adding that “If a pandemic happens, 40% to 70% of people world-wide are likely to be infected in the coming year.”
What proportion of those will be symptomatic, I can’t give a good number,” he continued.
Others have also predicted that the coronavirus could infect between 60 and 80 percent of the planet.
With most Americans paying very little to no attention to COVID-19 (the name officially given to this virus), and going out in the world living their lives completely oblivious and unprepared to its possible danger, of great concern are two recent stories, one from the NY Post and one from Zero Hedge, both reporting upon the Center For Disease Control’s recent announcement which appears to be preparing Americans for a coronavirus outbreak here as we’ll explore more in the next section of this story below.
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As the NY Post reports in this new story, according to the CDC, this deadly virus CAN be spread to others by people exhibiting no symptoms at all, people who have no idea they are even sick. Reporting within their story that “the spectrum of this illness is much broader than was originally presented” and “there’s much more asymptomatic illness”, the CDC also added “a number of confirmed cases presented with just a little sore throat.” With this Zero Hedge story also adding that according to the CDC, coronavirus will become widespread all across the United States throughout 2020 and likely into the future and that “the CDC was ‘going into aggressive containment mode”, will they be as ‘aggressive’here in the US as they’re now being in China, where authorities are going door to door and ripping people out of their homes and cars and throwing the ‘infected masses’ into quarantine camps without their permission? If so, welcome to ‘medical martial law’ in America. From Zero Hedge.:

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||Will Mitch be another curse or disguised
By GARY MacEOIN
God does not single out the poor when a hurricane or an earthquake strikes. But the poor are in fact the principal victims of such so-called acts of God.
Case in point: An earthquake registering 7.6 on the Richter scale hit California in 1972. It killed one person. A lesser earthquake that same year in Managua, Nicaragua, killed thousands.
The hurricane that devastated Nicaragua and Honduras, and to a lesser extent Guatemala and El Salvador, in the first days of November exhibited a similar class bias. In Nicaragua, Mitch destroyed 40 percent of the area planted in beans and 32 percent of that in corn, radically changing geography and ecology. Large-scale export production (coffee, bananas, sugar cane) was spared. In hard-hit Posoltega, the rains washed away the earth of some 14,000 acres (22 square miles), killing more than 2,000 people and leaving barren rock in parts, in others 6 feet of sand. A refinery and rum factory 5 miles from the mudslides tragic path stand untouched, along with their cane fields.
Why the disparity? The wealthy monopolize the good land. The poor cling to the hillsides or build shacks in flood plains.
Clearing the deck
In the aftermath of Hurricane Mitch, the question is now whether Central American governments will simply rebuild the structures of inequality that generate such incommensurate hardships for the poor or whether the disaster has cleared the deck so that more just systems can be built from the ground up.
The international Caritas agencies, including the U.S. Catholic Relief Services, have committed $500 million to a five-year program that will stress the need for justice and adherence to Catholic social teaching in all reconstruction. Various other church-related agencies and secular nongovernmental organizations are also emphasizing the opportunity for social change.
Even before Mitch, these countries were among the most ravaged in the world. The destruction of years of war was compounded by the International Monetary Funds structural adjustment programs in the 1990s. In Nicaraguas major cities, for example, the number of families whose income covered only half the basic market basket (essential foods) grew from 41 percent in 1993 to 66 percent in 1998.
In a long analytical article in Envio, a monthly publication of the Jesuit-run Central American University in Managua, the opportunities and the dangers are well formulated. Those who have lost everything require humanitarian aid. The peasants who lost their crops and suffered soil loss but whose land survived need credit, not handouts that nourish dependency.
Technology is another challenge. Vast expanses of land are severely damaged. Many farms must shift to different crops and need appropriate technology. The rains have resulted in cattle diseases and crop pests. Savage deforestation, especially in the last decade, caused much of the damage. Reforestation is essential.
None of this can happen, Envio insists, without institutionality, a word it describes as a fashionable new nation-building term that encompasses structures, laws, norms and other necessary instruments, as well as attitudes or culture.
Institutionality is largely lacking in all of Central America. But the problem is aggravated in Nicaragua by a government largely imposed on it by the United States by means of the contra war. It is a government of the rich that is determined to make the poor pay a price for their attempt to have a voice in their own destiny. It is a government that refused to declare a national emergency that would have triggered vast immediate relief from international agencies, arguing that this would harm its credit with the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.
This government has now drafted a reconstruction project estimated to cost $1.5 billion, most of it to modernize the countrys road and energy infrastructure. The Sandinista party, the main opposition, approves. Like the construction after the 1972 earthquake, which mostly benefited Anastasio Somoza and his cronies, the project would bring enormous wealth to businessmen allied to both parties.
This is not a national project, Envio warns. It is naked opportunism. The government has no program, or perhaps does not even want one, to rehabilitate the peasant economy. It is rather using the human and ecological tragedy of Mitch to consolidate a project for the country that is not a national project for the simple reason that it continues to exclude the peasantry.
Some 320 nongovernmental organizations and similar groups that have come together in the Emergency Relief and Reconstruction Coalition have a very different vision, one that puts bones and flesh on the Catholic Relief Services commitment to the need for justice in reconstruction. They give priority to preventive and curative health, education, nutrition, housing, the environment, credit, agriculture and forestry, community development, womens empowerment, microbusinesses and cooperatives.
We do not want to build the same country, the coalition said in a statement submitted to officials from 30 countries and 20 multinational financial agencies who met in Washington Dec. 10 and 11, 1998. We want a reconstruction model that, rather than returning us to pre-hurricane normality, is self-supporting and human, one that enables us to eradicate both extreme poverty and extreme wealth, that works to overcome the great inequalities in possessions, knowledge and power among Nicaraguans. Mitch has reminded us that our development is increasingly less sustainable and more inhuman.
The clamor of the victims
Similar dangers and challenges are present in Honduras. According to Fr. Ismael Moreno, a Jesuit who coordinates an emergency committee in El Progreso, President Carlos Flores and his wife appear on TV as doing everything for the victims, while authoritarianism and the manmade institutions have grown expert in trafficking with the clamor of the victims. The danger, he fears, is that international aid will perpetuate the arbitrary use of public institutions and narrow democratic spaces.
Candelario Reyes, coordinator of a cultural center in Eastern Honduras, made similar comments on behalf of eight nongovernmental organizations, six weeks after Mitch. Thanks to bureaucratic laziness, political trickery and governmental apathy, he said, aid is not going where it is needed and much rots in storehouses. Land reform is urgent, he added, because 83 percent of the national territory is suited only to forestry, and all good agricultural land is held by transnationals or big landlords.
Many nongovernmental organizations, including the Christian Commission for Development, a coalition of Protestant agencies, have called for the same priorities. A commission program to improve the status of women incorporates creative ideas. One is to set up a solidarity network with units of four neighbors. While three would go out to work, the fourth would care for all the children, with the commission providing her with food. Another proposal is for women to be paid the same wages for housework as men receive in publicly financed emergency rebuilding work, 30 lempiras ($2.15) a day.
The attempt to create something new is being led by small local initiatives supported by international nongovernmental organizations, initiatives like the Caritas project. In Honduras, for example, another project would build 600 homes in Tegucigalpa and 200 in Choluteca, to cost $2,250 each and to be completed in 60 days. People themselves provide all labor, with technical oversight, every 25 neighboring families working as a team. Construction is reinforced concrete, a concrete floor, electricity and a dry latrine. Unemployed people get the materials free. Others repay according to ability over six years.
Will Hurricane Mitch prove a blessing in disguise or yet another curse for Central America? The choices made by the international community and the national governments will determine the answer. If aid and debt relief become subject to the existing structural adjustment conditions and are diverted to programs that benefit only those who are already wealthy, the people of Central America will end up with more unemployment, lower wages, declining food production and further polarization of society.
The other option has already been set out by the nongovernmental organizations and private aid agencies, most of them church-related. They add one condition. All funds and resources received by nongovernmental organizations, unions and other agencies must be subject to independent financial audit and accounting, and to sampling of recipients to evaluate suitability. Funds provided to governments should similarly be reviewed by a monitoring commission with representatives of nongovernmental organizations, municipalities, churches and international cooperating agencies. The history of misappropriation of aid demands no less.
National Catholic Reporter, January 15, 1999


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Davita Fuller, 26, of Anderson, Ind., has been charged with one felonious count of contributing to the delinquency of a minor after cops alleged the woman offered beer and pot to her daughter and three of her friends during a birthday party on Feb. 1, according to reports by FOX59.com and TheIndyChannel.com.
Fuller's daughter accepted the invitation, according to eyewitnesses.
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Switching from day to night shift work for more than a few years was associated with a small increased risk for heart disease among women followed for more than 2 decades, researchers reported.
Women in the participating in the Nurses Health Study (NHS) who routinely switched from day or evening to night shifts for a decade or more had a 15% to 18% increased risk, compared with women who did not work rotating night shifts, according to Celine Vetter, PhD, of Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston, and colleagues.
Also, longer duration of rotating night shift work and recent rotating night shift work were associated with greatest risk, they wrote in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
But coronary heart disease (CHD) risk waned over time following cessation of rotating night shift work, so that after 2 decades of follow-up, the CHD risk associated with 10 years or more of rotating night-shift work was not significantly elevated, the authors noted.
Even though the absolute risk was small, and the contribution of shift work to CHD was modest, after adjustment for other heart disease risk factors, Vetter said it is significant that shift work is a modifiable risk factor for heart disease.
"We know the most important things women can do to lower their heart disease risk is maintain a healthy weight, eat a good diet, remain physically active, and refrain from smoking," she told MedPage Today. "But rotating shift work is also a modifiable risk factor. We need a better understanding of the connections between work schedules, individual characteristics, and coronary heart disease risk."
The analysis included around 189,000 participants in NHS I, which enrolled women with an average age of 54.5, and NHS II that enrolled younger nurses (average age 34.8).
NHS I participants were asked about their rotating night shift work history once in 1988, shortly after enrollment, and NHS II participants were asked every few years, through questionnaires, about their work schedules.
In the NHS I cohort (n=73,623), which followed women who were close to their end of their careers at enrollment, there were 7,303 incident cases of CHD identified during the 24-year follow-up.
Women who worked more than 10 years of rotating night shift work had an 18% increased risk for CHD versus women who did not work rotating shift work.
Their risk was more than twice as high during the first 12 years of follow-up (27%) compared with the second 12 years (13%), which strongly suggested waning risk over time following rotating night shift work cessation, Vetter said.
"When we looked at 4 year chunks of time, we saw that at the end of the 24 years there was really no association anymore," she said.
The NHS II cohort (n=115,535), which included women closer to the start of their careers, were first asked about their rotating shift work status in 1989. They were also asked to update this information every few years during follow-up. There were 3,519 incident CHD cases identified in this group.
Compared with women without a history of rotating night shift work, women who worked less than 5 years of shift work at baseline did not have a significantly increased CHD risk in age-adjusted analyses. (incidence rates, 425.5 and 122.6 per 100,000 person-years in the NHS I and NHS II, respectively),
Longer duration shift work was associated with an increased CHD risk, and the authors found the following:
- In NHS I, the incidence rate per 100,000 person years for 5-9 years of shift work was 525.7 (hazard ratio 1.21, 95% CI 1.11-1.33)
- In NHS I, the incidence rate per 100,000 person years for ≥10 years of shift work was 596.9 (HR 1.36, 95% CI 1.27-1.46, P<0.001 for trend)
- In NHS II, incidence rate for 5-9 years of shift work was 151.6 (HR 1.22, 95% CI 1.08- 1.38)
- In NHS II, incidence rate for ≥10 years of shift work was 178.0 (HR 1.34, 95% CI, 1.17-1.53, P<0.001 for trend)
"In this [NHS II] younger cohort,when using cumulatively updated shift work history, a higher CHD risk was observed with 12%, 19% and 27% increased risk for less than five year, five to nine years and 10 years or more of shift work, respectively," the researchers wrote. "Results were similar overall when restricting to women without hypertension, diabetes or hypercholesterolemia, suggesting that these conditions may not be the prime mediators of observed association between shift work and CHD."
Study limitations included the exclusion of men from the analysis, which limited generalizability, and the observational design, as well as the reliance on self-reports of shift work history and CHD status.
"Future studies should include a more detailed assessment of work hours and job demands, ideally in conjunction with chronotype and sleep timing measures, to enable more detailed studies of circadian strain on coronary health," the authors wrote.
This study was funded by the CDC and the National Institute for Occupational Safety.
Vetter disclosed support from the German Research Foundation.
Vetter and co-authors disclosed no relevant relationships with industry.
- Reviewed by Robert Jasmer, MD Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco and Dorothy Caputo, MA, BSN, RN, Nurse Planner

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The physical also plays a foundational diagnostic role for these patients. “This includes a proper neurological examination with mental status, cranial nerves, motor, reflexes, sensory and gait,” says Dr. Tarnopolsky. A fixed, motor weakness may be present in cases of McArdle’s disease or mitochondrial disorders. In contrast, muscular dystrophy will typically present with obvious muscle weakness, although sometimes the only finding is exercise-induced cramps without other obvious clinical clues.6
Dr. Tarnopolsky explains that for people with fat oxidation defects and glycogen storage diseases, the physical exam is often completely normal (though if a patient has just experienced rhabdomyolysis, they may initially be achy and weak). In contrast, patients with muscular dystrophy or inflammatory myopathy are more likely to display symptoms like shoulder girdle weakness, winging of the scapula, difficulty abducting the arms and difficulty with hip flexion.
The joint and skin exam are also key in establishing or ruling out a potential inflammatory myopathy. “In the metabolic myopathies and the structural myopathies, you are not going to have your Gottron’s rash, your heliotrope rash, your shawl sign, your holster sign, the splinter hemorrhages—all the other things that usually accompany the inflammatory myopathies,” says Dr. Tarnopolsky.
Assessing for muscle atrophy and muscle hypertrophy is also helpful. “Becker and some of the limb girdle muscular dystrophies have enlarged calf muscles, and they are
usually quite strikingly enlarged; whereas, dysferlin and ANO5 type Miyoshi/limb girdle myopathies usually have very thin calf muscles,” says Dr. Tarnopolsky. He notes that muscle bulk changes, such as these, are much more likely to indicate a genetic structural myopathy than an inflammatory or a metabolic myopathy.
Some patients with mitochondrial disease will also have a fixed myopathy. “To help identify those cases, usually there are cranial nerve findings, such as optic atrophy, sensorineural hearing loss, ptosis and ophthalmoparesis, none of which are features of inflammatory myopathy.”
Initial laboratory clues
Guided by clues from the history and physical, initial basic lab work may include tests for CK, myoglobin, basic renal and liver function, lactate, urate, vitamin D, thyroid function, complete metabolic panel (CMP), aldolase, anti-nuclear antibodies, fasting acylcarnitine profile and urine organic acids, as well as tests for inflammation and infection.3,5,7 Dr. Finsterer notes that reviewing all previous tests can be challenging, but is an essential part of the diagnostic process.
Dr. Tarnopolsky recommends the CK as an inexpensive and simple test that can begin to sort out a fixed genetic structural myopathy from an inflammatory, metabolic or other kind of myopathy. “Usually, with glycogen storage disease and [FAOD] patients, the CK is going to go up with metabolic stress, and it usually comes back to normal,” explains Dr. Tarnopolsky. In contrast, CK findings from someone with a structural myopathy such as Becker or limb girdle will show a consistently elevated CK. He says, “If you follow the CK, it stays pretty similarly elevated; so if it’s 2,000 one time, it’s 2,300 the next time.” An inflammatory myopathy, if left untreated, will often show a CK that continues to go up over time.
One exception to this general pattern is the McArdle’s disease patient. “Unlike many metabolic myopathies, where the CK goes up with stress and comes back down to normal, the McArdle’s patient’s CK often stays persistently elevated. And that’s why it can look more like an inflammatory disease or muscular dystrophy,” Dr. Tarnopolsky explains. These patients may also be unusual in that they may not present with the classic exercise-induced symptoms and may appear to be chronically weak, with only minimal activity-induced symptoms.
Dr. Tarnopolsky says a blood acylcarnitine test can be particularly helpful if someone has symptoms induced by fasting or exercise and a FAOD is suspected. As he notes, “A normal acylcarnitine provides pretty good evidence that you have ruled out a fatty oxidation defect.”
He also notes that a fasting lactate can be helpful if a rheumatologist notes anything suspicious on the neurological exam, because an elevated lactate may indicate a mitochondrial myopathy. “If for example, you saw optic atrophy, ptosis, ophthalmoparesis on your exam and you are thinking mitochondrial disease, we would also add plasma amino acid testing. About 20% of [mitochondrial] patients will have an elevated alanine.” He says a metabolic screen on the urine, including metabolic acids, is also indicated in such a situation, because there is often an increase in 3-methylglutaconic acid.
If an inflammatory myositis is still in the differential, Dr. Tarnopolsky suggests a myositis panel. “These are reasonably sensitive and specific. If you had a positive Jo-1 antibody or one of the other classic markers for inflammatory myopathy, it would be very unlikely for that to occur in a metabolic myopathy or structural myopathy.”
Follow-up second-line studies depend on previous findings, clinical preference and institutional availability of certain tests. Historically, the next move would typically be investigation via electromyography (EMG) or nerve conduction studies, both of which we would expect to be essentially normal for glycogen storage disease, fat oxidation disorders and most mitochondrial disorders. EMG is often abnormal in muscular dystrophy and inflammatory myopathies. A muscle biopsy is often the next potential test, providing important diagnostic clues regarding potential metabolic myopathies, genetic structural myopathies or inflammatory myopathies.
However, some have suggested moving genetic testing to an earlier point in the process, at least in some instances. For example, some have argued that next-generation sequencing via a rhabdomyolysis gene panel may be more appropriate than traditional muscle biopsy and related tests. The idea is that such tests may provide improved diagnostic sensitivity and quicker time to diagnosis. Such an approach has become more of a possibility as the costs for such testing is now little more than that previously set for sequencing a single gene. In this model, a clinician may send for such a panel after initial blood studies, if clinical suspicion is warranted, only going back to muscle biopsy and other tests if the genetic diagnosis was inconclusive.3
Dr. Tarnopolsky believes it is unwise to bring in such tests too early in the diagnostic process of suspected metabolic myopathies or muscular dystrophy, preferring to wait until other tests have helped rule in or out suspected disorders.
Dr. Finsterer suggests that beginning with the older, more conventional workup may sometimes be preferable for a patient with a phenotype that clearly suggests a particular disorder.
Dr. Tarnopolsky points out commercially available genetic tests often check only the exons of genes, and some patients may have deficits due to intronic mutations or a gene not yet assigned to a given disease. This can lead to false negative testing.
Dr. Finsterer agrees: “Even after application of next-generation technology for genetic work-up, a number of disorders may remain undetected.”

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A man was robbed Monday afternoon when two men, one armed with a gun, approached him in the parking lot of an apartment complex on the 200 block of Castro Street and demanded his gold chain.
The incident occurred about 4 pm. According to San Leandro police, one of the men ripped the chain from the victim's neck and both suspects fled on foot towards Castro Street.
The police revealed sketchy descriptions of the suspects as two Hispanic men, one thin and the other huskier. Both are supposed to be about 5 feet 7 inches tall. The heavier suspect reportedly brandished the gun.
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I've noticed that there are a couple companies out there offering lowering springs for the TB. I was wondering if anyone has installed them and has irregular tire wear. With this new suspension I'm not sure if I'll need caster and camber plates on it as well.
Thanks I'll check out that other forum too. I'm not really looking to drop it much if any. I've seen a couple kits that drop it about 1.5 to 2 all the way around. I'm just looking to get a better road feel when the suspension is centered. In the turns it feels fine already, but when I'm just cruising straight I feel like a bobble head at times. I'm just looking for a quick fix to take care of that and was hoping I wouldn't need cast and camber plates as well. -Lee
No, If you are looking for a better ride, you do not want to put a drop kit on. I have a DJM drop kit (mine is 2/4 drop). It does not improve the ride, it makes it really bad. Sometimes, I feel like I have a flat tire, to give you an idea of the ride. I do have low profile tires on but they are a 55 series so there is a lot of tire to them. My drop kit is as low as the TB goes. but no, if all you want is a better ride do not drop the TB. I have owned droped silverados, suburbans, and now a TB, all a drop kit does is make it "look pretty" and gives you a god aweful ride most of the time. I pick up every little bump in mine, I am just giving my opinion as I always lower all my suvs and trucks.
Thanks for the heads up. I might have to look into getting a sway bar or something for it then. The only thing I'm trying to fix is the wabbleness (if that's a word) when the suspension is centered. On the freeway it just rocks from side to side it seems. I'm looking for something that's going to stabalize it better when the springs are fully extended. Like I said before, feels fine in the turns but real sloppy when driving straight. Any ideas?
Hotchkis makes a rear swaybar kit that includes the front and rear swaybar bushings. They are all greasable, so you can eliminate most of the squeaks from the front and rear. I think they run about $180-200.
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Make the right changes. When cutting back on unhealthy foods in your diet, it’s important to replace them with healthy alternatives. Replacing dangerous trans fats with healthy fats (such as switching fried chicken for grilled salmon) will make a positive difference to your health. Switching animal fats for refined carbohydrates, though (such as switching your breakfast bacon for a donut), won’t lower your risk for heart disease or improve your mood.
With its trifecta of carbs, protein, and fat, Greek yogurt can keep you full and ward off hunger by keeping blood sugar levels steady. Instead of choosing the non-fat kind, go for 2 percent or one with whole milk—selecting non-fat is a surefire way to wind up hungry soon after downing your meal. A single cup of Fage Total 2 Percent has 170 calories, 4.5 grams of fat, and a whopping 23 grams of protein.
This often over-looked gem is loaded with protein, filling fats, and calcium to help you build and repair muscles, which can aid in weight loss. “It's fabulous with fruit, on whole grain toast, oatmeal or salads, but the super high protein content [13 grams per 1/2 cup serving!] helps to keep you full in between meals,” says Harris-Pincus. You can also use it in smoothies, in eggs, or in pancake batter. Just be sure to check labels and find a product that’s low in sugar.
Tackling your weight loss problem on top of juggling your hectic work and family life can feel daunting at first pass, but it doesn’t have to be in reality. In fact, there is a way to jumpstart weight loss: there are simple dietary changes you can make to your lifestyle (by eating more of the best foods for weight loss) that will play an essential role in melting fat.
To jumpstart your weight loss, we’ve selected some nutritious eats, like salsa, that are lower-calorie substitutes for less healthy choices (we’re looking at you, ketchup). And other weight loss foods, such as watermelon, contain certain compounds that have been scientifically proven to reduce the size of your waist and help reduce body fat. Scroll down below for a list of a few dozen best weight loss foods, and get even more health-conscious inspiration from this list of these dinner ideas that don’t need a recipe!
Like peanuts, avocados contain metabolism-enhancing monounsaturated fats that have been shown to reduce hunger. In fact, a study in Nutrition Journal found that participants who ate half a fresh avocado with lunch reported a 40 percent decreased desire to eat for hours afterwards. What’s more? The trendy toast topping is also loaded with unsaturated fats, which seem to prevent the storage of belly fat, as well as satiating fiber and free-radical-killing antioxidants.
Stephen Colbert may be on to something. UCLA Center for Human Nutrition researchers divided study participants into two groups, each of which were fed a nearly identical low-cal diet for 12-weeks. The only difference between the groups was what they were given to eat as an afternoon snack. One group ate 220-calories of pretzels while the other group munched on 240-calories worth of pistachios. Just four weeks into the study, the pistachio group had reduced their BMI by a point, while the pretzel-eating group stayed the same, and their cholesterol and triglyceride levels showed improvements as well.
Similar to Greek yogurt, a study from Nutrition Research showed that eating eggs for breakfast can make you feel more full and help you eat fewer calories throughout the day, meaning they’re quite the secret weapon for weight loss. Nutritionally speaking, one large hard-boiled egg (about 50 grams) contains less than one gram of carbs and remains an excellent source of protein. Eggs are also loaded with amino acids, antioxidants, and healthy fats.
Steel-cut and rolled varieties of oats have up to 5 grams of fiber per serving, making them the most filling choice. (Instant oats contain 3 to 4 grams per serving—if you're opting for that kind, make sure to skip the versions with added sugar.) And as a complex carb, they can help with weight loss. "Your body needs to break down complex carbohydrates because they’re a complicated mesh of molecules,” Lauren Harris-Pincus, M.S., R.D.N., and owner of Nutrition Starring You, told SELF in a previous article.
“Fish is a great source of satiating protein and is typically lower in calories than other animal proteins,” says Maggie Moon, MS, RD, author of The MIND Diet. “Sardines are a sustainable seafood choice, which are packed with heart-healthy and brain-healthy omega-3 fats,” she says. These healthy fats can help decrease inflammation and improve your mood while dieting.


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Julie Bennett Hume is a singer-songwriter from Lee’s Summit, Missouri.
She has been playing folk music for 35 years in the Lawrence/Kansas City area. She has played in numerous folk ensembles such as The Kansas City Cajun Band, The All Night Fiddlers, Manos and Table for Three.
She is also an accomplished singer- songwriter and has been a featured performer at numerous songwriter festivals.
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Julie’s new album, „Late Bloomer“ was released on Saturday, February 4th 2017 and is now available.
„Late Bloomer“ contains fourteen original tracks performed with a host of KC musicians such as Scott Tichenor, Betse Ellis, Kristin Hamilton, Pete Gilbreath, Dick Powers, Kelly Wertz and several more.
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What to expect with the 2021-2022 cold and flu season
This time last year, headlines warned of a “twindemic” – a wave of influenza occurring at the same time as an uptick in COVID-19.
But it didn’t happen.
Flu outlook looks more severe
The 2020-21 flu season was considered “unusually low” in the U.S. and globally, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Between September 2020 and May 2021, only 1,600 out of 820,000 respiratory specimens were positive for an influenza strain nationwide.
Do not expect another easy flu season this year, said Dr. Stacey Rose, assistant professor of infectious diseases at Baylor College of Medicine.
This year has the potential for increased respiratory illnesses across the country because of fewer masks, relaxed restrictions and holiday gatherings with friends and families, she said.
“Folks are traveling – we’re different from where we were last year. You see it in commercials; this is the year where everyone wants to be back together,” Rose said. “No one in the commercials is wearing masks.”
During the summer, Texas children experienced an untimely surge in respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), which resulted in multiple hospitalizations. While RSV is less contagious than COVID and flu, Rose said that virus’ spread could be indicative of what the city may experience with respiratory illnesses in colder months.
Because of mild weather in November and December, Southeast Texas typically experiences a delayed flu season, Rose said. This is good news for Houstonians who have yet to get their annual flu shot.
Flu shot offers best protection
“If people haven’t gotten their flu shots, absolutely still get them,” she said. “So much attention right now is on COVID, but if you know the influenza vaccine helps with morbidity and mortality, why wouldn’t you still try to prevent it?”
Most people can take most vaccines, including people who have an egg allergy. Pregnant women, elderly people, babies and toddlers and obese individuals are most at-risk of developing severe flu and should be vaccinated early.
The annual flu shot wasn’t universally recommended by the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices before 2010. Rose said the emergence of H1N1, or swine flu, influenced regulators to recommend flu vaccination for everyone, regardless of age or medical history.
“None of us have been part of a pandemic before; the closest experience was when we had swine flu,” Rose said. “Maybe that was our initial wakeup call, and it pales in comparison in to our experiences with COVID-19.”
As the pandemic enters its third year, congestion and sniffles are difficult to discern. Unfortunately, there’s no immediate way to know whether the symptoms are flu, COVID or the common cold, Rose said.
Symptoms and testing
Since the flu mirrors COVID, it’s important to schedule an appointment with your healthcare provider or a local pharmacy to be tested. It is possible to have both COVID and flu at the same time, but the occurrences are rare.
If a person has COVID, it could take them longer to experience symptoms than if they have the flu. Typically, flu presents in the body from one to four days after infection whereas COVID patients experience symptoms about five days after being infected. Symptoms can appear two to 14 days after the initial COVID exposure, the CDC reported.
Both flu and COVID include these symptoms: fever or feeling feverish/having chills, cough, shortness of breath or difficulty breathing, fatigue, sore throat, runny or stuffy nose, muscle pain or body aches, headache, vomiting or diarrhea and change in or loss of taste or smell –though it is more frequent with COVID.
Rapid influenza diagnostic tests (RIDTS) provide results within 10-15 minutes but may not be as accurate as other flu tests. Rapid molecular assays are another flu test that detect the genetic material of the virus and can provide results in 15-20 minutes, according to the CDC. Like COVID tests, these two flu test types are typically administered through a nasal or throat swab.
In addition to vaccination, hand-washing and face masks are critical to help prevent the spread of COVID-19, influenza, or other respiratory illnesses, Rose said.
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How to Easily Implement GNSS Positioning in your IoT Design
Learn how Teseo modules use multi-constellation GNSS signals and dead-reckoning to enable high-accuracy positioning in a wide range of IoT applications
This webinar was broadcast on Thursday, September 16th, 2021
During this one-hour webinar, you will discover a unique family of small but powerful GNSS modules and learn how to easily integrate them into your design using a rich set of hardware and software development tools.
GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System) is a broad, complex, and quickly-evolving technology. It can be quite daunting if it is new to you and you need to design-in a capable solution quickly.
In this webinar we will demystify the GNSS technology and get right to the heart of what you need to know to design a positioning solution that meets your application's requirements.
You will learn:
- What GNSS means and why multi-constellation is beneficial
- The key benefits of the Teseo-LIV3FL and Teseo-VIC3D/DA modules
- How to calibrate and leverage dead-reckoning (DRAW/DRUM)
- Tips on how to ensure your hardware design is optimized from the first iteration
Massimiliano Nicotra is a Market Development Engineer for Teseo GNSS module families in STMicroelectronics’ Americas region, a position he has held since 2019. Joining ST over 10 years ago in Italy, he transferred to the US in 2018 to work as ST's Market Development Engineer for automotive microcontrollers and microprocessors. Before joining ST, he was a researcher in the biometric and bio-security field. Massimiliano is from Catania (Italy) and holds a master’s degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Catania
About Teseo GNSS modules from STMicroelectronics
The Teseo-LIV3FL (9.7 x 10.1 x 2.3 mm) is an easy-to-use Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) standalone module, embedding a Teseo III single-die positioning receiver IC working simultaneously with multiple constellations (GPS/Galileo/Glonass/BeiDou/QZSS).
The Teseo-VIC3D/DA modules (12.2 x 16 x 2.4 mm) include an ST 6-axis Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) to support the on-chip dead-reckoning solution (DRAW and DRUM).


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New Brunswick's Which Witch is Which describe themselves as a blend of punk, post-punk and hard rock. With influences including the Ramones, Motörhead, The Cult, and Joy Division.
Their own sound takes elements from each of these and adds something fresh and unique for a result unlike anything today's music fans have heard before. With an emphasis on surging power, gritty tones and that unstoppable one-two beat.
The self-titled LP “Which Witch Is Which” is available on transparent purple vinyl. Streaming services include Apple Music, Google Play Music and Spotify. Digital Downloads and additional streaming available on Bandcamp (link provided below).
Which Witch Is Which are Lysanne Lombard (vocals), PJ Dunphy (guitar), Dan Cadera (bass) and Nadine Paulin (Drums).


Only two weeks after being elected leader of Britain’s Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn has faced the first challenge to his authority—and no one has won. The left-wing radical Mr. Corbyn on Sunday lost his bid to force party members to discuss scrapping the country’s Trident nuclear deterrent at their conference in Brighton, but for reasons that won’t inspire confidence that the adults are regaining control of Labour.
Abandoning the nukes isn’t a mainstream position within Labour, at least not yet. But Mr. Corbyn, who says he’s a lifelong opponent of “weapons of mass destruction,” hoped to let delegates debate the issue. In addition to his moral views, Mr. Corbyn also objects to the £20 billion ($30.38 billion) expense of maintaining the submarine-based weapons amid cuts to social spending.
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After making a few posts about previous projects or compilations, I have decided that I should just have one spot where you can quickly access all of that information! Welcome to… the Posts Of Interest page! (Dun dun dunnnn)
First is the post I previously made that showcases all of my episodic content from this blog whether it is a short story or autobiographical post.
The next post is my most popular post to date with my record two-hundred and seventy views (Not many for some, but that’s a ton for my little corner of the web!) I wrote it and then branched out into the world of struggling writers and it may very well be the one thing that has been most rewarding from this blogging experience!
The next is the first item I’ve ever self published and I published it through the iBook Store and Lulu.com for the PDF version. Circle of Vengeance was originally planned to be a NaNoWriMo story, but after I began pacing it I found it better to be a short story. Of course, at a word count of ten thousand for a finished story and one week into NaNoWriMo I found myself not bothering to try and go for fifty thousand in three weeks. I love writing but I don’t ever want to stress over it like that again!
If nothing else, those are the three I’d like you to check out! I mean after all, that is the summary of my blog in three simple posts! Let me know if you enjoy anything in there and if you download Circle of Vengeance please give me any feedback bad or good. I promise you, I can take it!
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5 Best Fender Acoustic and Electric Guitars
Fender has been a guitar-manufacturing giant since the 1950s. The Fender Stratocaster has been used by legends like Eric Johnson, SRV, Tom Morello, and many more over the years. But with their huge line-up of guitars, it can be quite daunting to choose just one.
Whether you want an acoustic, an electric, or even a bass, we’ve got you covered. Here are the best Fender guitars on the market today.
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Fender has a range of guitars, from affordable, budget guitars, to premium, high-end ones made with exquisite craftsmanship and exotic materials. So when talking about these premium guitars, the Fender American Ultra series definitely comes to mind. The Ultra series was launched very recently and is set to replace their previous Elite series, bringing guitarists a more modern flavor for modern music.
The American Ultra series has a variety of configurations, but we’re reviewing the Stratocaster HSS version here. This Ultra Strat has an Alder body with a Maple neck that complement each other perfectly for perfect resonance. The fingerboard is made of Rosewood, with a standard Fender scale length of 25.5″ and a modern ‘D’ neck profile that offers a balance between tightness and playability. There are 22 medium jumbo frets on the guitar with a 10″-14″ compound radius for easy soloing.
Fender Custom Shop’s Tim Shaw has fit this guitar with powerful pickups and advanced electronics; it features an Ultra Double Tap™ Humbucker on the bridge, with two Ultra Noiseless™ Hot Strat® single-coil pickups on the neck and middle positions, with a five-way pickup selector. There’s a switch to convert the humbucker to single-coil as well. The guitar also features locking tuners for added stability, with a classic Fender deluxe synchronized tremolo for those expressive vibratos and dives.
If you’re looking for the best Fender electric guitar, then look no further than the American Ultra Stratocaster HSS. With both humbucker and single-coil pickups, exotic tonewood selection, advanced electronics, and a modern design that’s built to perfection by Fender’s top luthiers, this is a guitar that’s a must-have for the serious musician.
The Squier series of guitars by Fender is a much more affordable and budget-friendly range of guitars aimed at beginners, students, and those not wanting to break the bank for a decent guitar. These guitars don’t feature the same craftsmanship and build quality as Fender’s more expensive guitars, but for their price, they serve guitarists very well.
The Squier Bullet Stratocaster comes in various configurations, and we’ve chosen the HSS one with a hardtail bridge. This guitar has a Poplar body with a Maple neck that offers a good, balanced tonality. The 9.5″ radius fingerboard consists of Indian Laurel, which is smooth to touch, and has a ‘C’ shaped neck profile. The guitar has 21 medium jumbo frets over its 25.5″ scale length. According to Don Carr of Sweetwater Sound (1):
It’s really lightweight and comfortable, making it the perfect first electric guitar.
This Squier features a standard humbucking pickup on the bridge and two single-coil Strat® pickups on the neck and middle, with a five-way pickup selector. They offer a good amount of clarity and work well for a variety of genres. This guitar features a 6-saddle strings-through-body hardtail bridge for extra tuning stability, but it also has a tremolo bridge variant.
If you want a great first electric on a budget that gives you a taste of Fender’s iconic Stratocaster design, then the Squier Bullet Stratocaster is a fantastic choice. With a classic, time-tested design, a comfortable body shape, and great pickups, the Squier is simply an amazing entry-point into the world of guitar.
3. Fender PM-TE Travel Standard Acoustic-Electric Guitar – Best Acoustic Guitar
Body: Solid Mahogany with Sitka Spruce Top
- Neck: Mahogany
- Fingerboard: Ovangkol
- Frets: 20, Vintage Style
- Scale: 23.5″
- Pickups: Fishman PM Preamp
- Bridge: Ovangkol
The Fender Paramount series is one of their most popular acoustic guitars, with a premium design and great feel. The new PM-TE Travel Standard is a more lightweight and compact version that they recently introduced, and features advanced electronics and a beautifully resonant sound.
The PM-TE has a solid Mahogany body, with a Sitka Spruce top and a Mahogany neck; a combination that results in a rich tone. The fingerboard consists of Ovangkol, with a 15.75″ radius that’s comfortable to play. There are 20 vintage-style frets in all, with specially designed inlays, out of which 14 are easily accessible.
Fender has partnered with Fishman to design a special PM preamp system for this guitar that offers a great sound when connected to an amplifier or a PA system. It has volume, treble, bass, and phase controls, along with a built-in tuner for accurate tunings. The guitar also comes with a hardshell case that’ll protect it well during travel.
Whether you want a great-sounding acoustic with a premium feel, or a lightweight and compact guitar that’s easy to carry, the Fender PM-TE is a fantastic option. With a classic tonewood combo that sounds brilliant, a host of electronics that make it studio and stage ready, and renowned Fender craftsmanship, this is easily the best Fender acoustic guitar that one could buy.
Fender’s bass guitars have gone through much evolution over the years, as Leo Fender used to innovative his designs on a regular basis. One of the most popular designs, however, was the ’70s series of jazz bass guitars. Now, the Fender American Original 70s Jazz Bass has been designed to recreate the vintage feel of those guitars by replicating every aspect of the original classic.
The 70s Jazz Bass has an Ash body with a Maple neck, much like the original, to deliver a powerful and well-balanced tone. The fingerboard also consists of Maple, with a 9.5″ fretboard radius and a 1975 ‘U’-shaped neck profile. There are 20 vintage-tall frets with easy access even to the highest frets that allow for a comfortable playing experience, and help you add some expressive vibrato.
Fender has included a pair of pure vintage ’75 single-coil Jazz Bass pickups that are specially designed to recreate the sounds of the iconic original. There are 2 volume knobs for the neck pickup and bridge pickup, along with 1 tone knob, and every piece of hardware on the guitar is period-accurate and authentic, to give you a proper feel of the original ’70s guitars.
If you’re looking for a vintage jazz bass guitar with a tone and feel that harkens back to the golden age of music, you should definitely get this Fender American Original 70s Jazz Bass. With every aspect of its design being carefully crafted to recreate the original guitar and to offer amazing tone and superb playability, this guitar is the best Fender bass guitar.
5. Fender Acoustasonic Stratocaster 3-Tone Sunburst – Most Innovative
- Neck: Mahogany
- Fingerboard: Ebony
- Frets: 22, Narrow Tall
- Scale: 25.5″
- Pickups: Fender Acoustasonic Noiseless™ Magnetic Pickup, Fishman Under-Saddle Transducer, and Fishman Acoustasonic Enhancer
- Bridge: Modern Asymmetrical
Fender has long been known for innovating instruments, since the original Telecaster and Stratocaster designs from the ’50s. And they’ve been continuing that trend with their new line of Acoustasonic instruments; hybrid guitars that work as both acoustics and electrics. The new Acoustasonic Stratocaster is among them, and it’s a true marvel of modern technology.
The Acoustasonic Stratocaster is shaped much like a classic Fender Stratocaster with similar contours and a double-cutaway design. It has a Mahogany body and neck too, and features a patented Stringed Instruments Resonance System, which creates a beautiful sound akin to a normal acoustic. The fingerboard is Ebony, with a standard scale length of 25.5″. There are 22 narrow-tall frets that provide a comfortable playing experience for a variety of styles. Here’s what guitarist Pete Thorn had to say about it (2):
The new Acoustasonic Stratocaster is a really really useful guitar, and I can definitely see using it on gigs.
Fender has teamed up with Fishman to create special pickups for this guitar. It’s fitted with 3 different pickups – a Fender Acoustasonic Noiseless™ Magnetic Pickup at the bridge for the strat-style tones, a Fishman Under-Saddle Transducer, and a Fishman Acoustasonic Enhancer, which can be combined to provide piezo-like tones. There are 5 voicings available on this guitar, giving you a large tonal ground to play around with.
If you’ve ever felt like you want a guitar that can work as both an acoustic and an electric, then the Fender Acoustasonic Stratocaster is for you. This is a guitar that’s reimagining the possibilities of what a guitar can do, and with its classic Strat-design that’s filled to the brim with modern technology, this is certainly one of the best and most innovative guitars ever built; a truly contemporary example of Fender’s legacy of innovation and invention.
When talking about the best Fender guitars, five just isn’t enough. Here are some other Fender contenders that are worth considering:
This guitar is an authentic recreation of the original Fender ’50s Stratocaster, that one that truly ushered guitarists into a new age. The Vintera ’50s Stratocaster features replica pickups, a period-accurate neck profile, and vintage hardware to offer modern guitar players a trip to the golden era.
The original ’60s Stratocaster was a more modernized guitar compared to its predecessor, featuring a Rosewood fingerboard and better electronics. It was another legendary guitar by the company, and helped foster the birth of rock music as we know it. The American Original ’60s Stratocaster is a perfect replica of that, with authentic pickups and a vintage-style synchronized tremolo bridge.
Stevie Ray Vaughan is a legendary icon of rock guitar, and is most famous for always using a Fender Stratocaster. To honor his legacy, Fender has recreated his exact guitar with the same finish, pickups, and hardware to give modern players a feel of his extraordinary skills. If you’re someone who’s a fan of country guitar and SRV, this guitar is perfect for you.
Around the late ’80s, the idea of ‘Super Strats’ had become very popular, especially amongst metalheads. They featured high-output pickups making them suitable for metal. The Fender HM Strat was their answer to these guitars, and it was recently re-issued to cater to modern guitarists.
The Fender Telecaster series of guitars has been popular amongst guitar players for many years now. If you’re after a single-cutaway semi-hollow body guitar that’s great for blues, funk, and RnB, then this one is a great choice for you.
Buying Guide: How To Pick The Best Fender Guitar For You
So now you know the best Fender guitars ever made, but how do you pick the one that’s right for you? Here are some important things to look out for:
Tonewoods And Design
When considering a Fender guitar, the tonewoods used in building its body, neck, and other parts are very important. They influence the overall feel and tone of the guitar, and of course, the looks as well. The most popular woods used in Fender guitars are alder or ash, but other woods like mahogany and maple are also frequently used.
Lighter tonewoods like Alder have a different resonance as opposed to heavier woods like Basswood, resulting in different tonalities.
Another factor is the overall design of the guitar, and its type. Whether you want a bass guitar, an electric, an acoustic, or even a hybrid guitar like the Acoustasonic. Fender makes guitars of various different sizes and shapes, so you have to pick one that’ll be comfortable for you and allow you to play the best that you can.
Pickups and Electronics
Pickups represent the heart and soul of electric guitars, and they’re equally important in acoustics and basses. They determine the kind of sound that’ll be produced by the guitar. Fender guitars are most well-known to use single-coil pickups, but they come in different configurations and arrangements.
It may be HSS, where there are two single-coils on the neck and middle positions, with a humbucker on the bridge, or SSS, or even HSH. Hence, they come in a variety of different designs, which will affect the versatility of the guitar and its tones.
Single-coil pickups produce a more ‘twangy’ sound, while humbuckers have higher gain and a more full-bodied tone.
The electronics available on Fender guitars differ too. Some of them include vintage-style hardware to replicate the tones of iconic classic guitars, while others have more modern technology. Acoustic guitars may even have onboard tuners, like the PM-TE, and the new Acoustasonic features next-generation technology to produce a variety of tones (3).
Feel And Comfort
When considering a guitar, its feel in your hands is probably the most important thing. Fender guitars are known for having a unique feel, especially their Stratocaster and Telecaster range of guitars. Over the years, their designs have evolved as well, so the body contours, neck profiles, headstocks, and other design aspects change with different models.
Some of them have ‘C’ shaped necks, while some may have ‘D’ shaped necks. Fingerboard radius is also an important factor when considering a guitar, as some players prefer a more rounded fretboard, while some prefer a flatter one. Fret size, such as jumbo frets, also influence the playability.
Hence, we recommend trying out these guitars at your local stores, if possible, to get a feel of how they play in your hands. Once you have experience, you will be able to understand the importance of each of these specifications and their impact on playability.
Yes, Fender guitars are definitely great. Since their inception in the 1950s, they have been known for their build quality, attention to detail, and innovativeness. Even today, in the 21st century, Fender guitars remain one of the most sought-after guitars for their unique designs and unbeatable playability.
Many famous guitarists have used Fender guitars throughout history. Jeff Beck, Eric Johnson, David Gilmour, Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, Yngwie Malmsteen, and Tom Morello are just some of the most well-known guitarists who’ve used Fender guitars.
This is perhaps one of the most controversial questions in history. In our opinion, both of them make beautifully unique guitars, and have pioneered many innovations for the benefit of guitar players worldwide. Fender guitars suit certain players better, whereas Gibson guitars suit other players better. Ultimately, it’s a matter of personal preference, so if you’re spoilt for choice, why not try both and see for yourself?
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- THE STRAT GOES ACOUSTIC! Fender Acoustasonic Stratocaster. Retrieved from: https://youtu.be/fwC75UoPnGI?t=448
- Inside the American Acoustasonic Telecaster. Retrieved from: https://www.fender.com/articles/gear/unlimited-expression-inside-the-american-acoustasonic-telecaster