These food plans are safe at all stages of life, nutrition group says
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Thursday, 1 December 2016
Some GOP Voters Skittish On Full ACA Repeal: Poll
Trump backers expressed support for some of the health law’s consumer protections, such as allowing young adults to stay on their parents’ insurance until age 26.
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Wider Low-Dose Aspirin Use Would Save $692 Billion
Many patients who should take it don't, researchers say
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This May Help Type 2 Diabetics Control Blood Sugar
Study counters notion that vigorous exercise is key to battling the illness
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U.S. to Ban Smoking in Public Housing
Agencies have 18 months to implement smoke-free policies
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Testosterone Therapy May Be Linked to Blood Clots
Risk peaks in the first 6 months of hormone treatment, but overall odds are low, study finds
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8 Country Artists To Look Out For In 2017
With 2017 just around the corner, it’s time to start looking and listening for who might be the next big thing in every genre of music. It’s impossible to know which artists will come out of nowhere and surprise the world with a masterpiece, or which musicians might disappoint when their time to shine seems to come, but it is exciting to look around and discover new talent and guess which ones have the best chances at breaking through.
Nashville is filled with young singer-songwriters just waiting to be discovered, and so many of them have their own special sound and style. It was difficult coming up with a list of eight new names for this ranking simply because there truly are a ton of country artists that all deserve the attention, but here are a handful that seem as if they could explode at any minute.
Russell Dickerson
Even if the up-and-comer never truly makes it big, he’s sure to have one song that country music enthusiasts will be begging to hear for years to come in the form of “Yours.” In fact, the song has already been played so many times, and Dickerson clearly knows he’s onto something with the romantic tune, because he re-recorded the track and created a special “wedding version,” which is the perfect soundtrack to a nuptial slow dance.
High Valley
Brotherly duo High Valley are already somewhat well-known in their home country of Canada, but they haven’t crossed over into the US market in a major way just yet. The group, which used to be three members until brother Bryan stepped out, leaving just Brad and Curtis Rempel to continue the brand, has dropped five albums, including 2016’s Dear Life, and while they have charted nine top 100 hits up north, the same can’t be said for America, though it’s only a matter of time...
Ryan Hurd
Hurd is the kind of artist that is being created by streaming, so it’s clear that the young people really have a thing for him. The singer-songwriter has only properly released three tracks — “We Do Us,” “Love In A Bar” and “City Girl” — and all three have racked up millions of plays on Spotify in 2016 alone. With that kind of sustained success, it isn’t difficult to imagine that whenever Hurd decides to release a full collection, be it an EP or an album, it will be played over and over again by millions.
Aubrie Sellers
Sellers dropped her debut full-length New City Blues in January of 2016, and while it didn’t make much of an impact on the charts and it can’t be considered a best-seller, the record got her name out there in a very powerful way. The musician, who is actually Lee Ann Womack’s daughter, is helping to create a new genre that blends country with a truly grungy rock and roll, which helps her stand out in Nashville.
Ward Thomas
Earlier this year, Ward Thomas became the first British country act to score a Number One album in their home nation, proving that they’re big enough to make the jump over to the US. The twin sisters have talent, a growing fan base and both a sound and a look that could catapult them to international fame. America has already accepted Australian country artists (think Keith Urban), so isn’t it time we got some more English talent on this side of the pond?
Runaway June
With the Dixie Chicks still doing their own thing separate from one another (except, of course, for when Beyoncé comes calling and needs their help at the CMAs), there is room in the country music world for a new trio of all ladies to succeed, and Runaway June could be just that group. The three women —Naomi Cooke, Hannah Mulholland, and Jennifer Wayne — only have one track out, but “Lipstick” is so catchy, it could be enough to hook you from the first guitar pluck.
Trent Harmon
We haven’t heard a whole lot from Trent Harmon since he won the final season of American Idol, but I mean, come on! He won American Idol! How could I not put him on this list? In the months since the show wrapped its incredible 15-season run and Harmon signed a major label deal, he has been hard at work on what will eventually be his debut full-length, and already the country world seems to be interested. Both of his two singles — “Falling” and “There’s A Girl” — have broken into the Top 40 on the country-specific chart, and with plenty of resources behind him, there might be another Idolfavorite in the country world soon enough.
Ryan Follese
Country-pop seems to have been missing something since Taylor Swift made the transition to pure pop, and somebody needs to step in and take the reigns. Former Hot Chelle Rae member Ryan Follese could do a fantastic job in such a role, as he’s already had major success in the music industry with unavoidable pop hooks. HCR are best known for their Top 10 hit “Tonight, Tonight,” and if you remember that tune, you’ll get a sense for just how hook-heavy Ryan’s country-leaning solo work is.
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Top 5 Games to Play in December
It’s all over, folks. With December’s scant few releases, we’ve reached the end of one of the most bountiful years in gaming history. By now, your Black Friday bruises should be healing nicely and what better way to mend the scars and wounds suffered while trying to buy $2 flash drives than picking up a few new games before the New Year? While this month is light, one of the games has been in development for nearly a decade, and Nintendo fans have two big releases to look forward too, although of course neither are coming to the Wii U. Check out the top five games releasing this month!
Super Mario Maker
This isn’t your father’s Super Mario Maker, as the slimmed-down 3DS version is built for speed and mobility. The game packs in 100 levels out of the gate, and of course includes the ability to download courses from the internet. You can build awesome new levels as well, but if sharing those levels with a larger community is how you got your jollies on the Wii U version, then maybe hold off. While the 3DS has a functional internet browser, levels can only be shared locally with your friends. So you better hope that your friends want to play your levels and are good at making them as well!
Steep
HEY BRO, YOU LIKE DOING SICK TRICKS!?! Sorry, sorry, we spent a little too much time on the mountain and now we have too much Red Bull running through our veins. This is all thanks to Steep, Ubisoft’s big bet on people’s fascination with all things snow sports. You can snowboard, ski, and wingsuit through the Alps and Alaska, with beautifully modeled mountains and trees in the back and foregrounds, providing a gorgeous landscape and visceral danger. If you love GoPro videos of people doing insane stunts, this might be the game for you, but we haven’t seen how deep the game is beyond online multiplayer and time trials.
Dead Rising 4
While Halloween seems like the time for a Dead Rising game, it makes sense for this obvious follow-up to grace us with its presence. Consider this an almost greatest hits of the series, as we have Frank West back in Willamette, the original scene of the zombie crime from the first Dead Rising. But this time you get to leave the mall and explore the larger Colorado town, but with way more insane weaponry and vehicles than ever before. The biggest change is the control scheme, and in a fundamentally better way, giving each of the top three face buttons a dedicated weapon (range, melee, and throwable), instead of having to scroll through a cumbersome weapon wheel mid-combat. Dead Rising 3 showed that the new consoles can handle hundreds of enemies on screen, so DR4 is simply piling on the tech and gore and looks amazing while doing so.
The Last Guardian
It seems fitting that after Final Fantasy XV finally came out last month after 10 years of development, The Last Guardian will actually be a real thing you can buy after being worked on for nine years. First announced in 2009 to the joy and wonder of all that watched the first trailer, Team Ico’s story about a young boy and his catbird friend is coming to PS4. It’s a puzzle and adventure game at heart, continuing the tradition put forth by Ico and Shadow of the Colossus. But little has been revealed as far as the depth of the puzzles, what combat looks like, and if it’s as historically short as the team’s prior output. Still, this game is one of the industry’s most anticipated relics from a prior generation and it’s mere existence is cause for celebration.
Super Mario Run
They finally did it. Nintendo has finally caved in and accepted the inevitable mobile future by bringing their most prized icon to Apple’s iPhones and iPads. Mario will grace your tiny screens on December 10 in a somewhat endless runner, where our titular hero runs right and you tap to make him jump on the heads of Goombas, collecting coins and racking up a high score along the way. It’s free to play, but $10 to own if you want unlimited access to the game and it’s various modes. You can also race against ghost Marios to beat the record times of your friends, as well as a kingdom building mode that lets you spend those hard-earned coins. Android folks have to wait 'til next year to get their hands on it, but wait and see how much $10 gets you by letting the Apple people test drive it first.
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13 Notable Names (Other Than Drake) Who Got Their Start on Degrassi
As we all know, Drake didn’t really start from the bottom, he started on Degrassi, but “Started from Degrassi, now we’re here” isn’t nearly as catchy as they lyric he went with, so we’ll forgive the former wheelchair Jimmy for the exaggeration.
Drake, however, isn’t the only person who “started from Degrassi.” The following 13 notable names were also on the long-running Canadian teen melodrama.
Nina Dobrev
Where you know her from: Dobrev vaulted onto the A-list thanks to her role as Elena Gilbert on The Vampire Diaries. Come 2017 she’ll be seen on the big screen in xXx: Return of Xander Cage (aka xXx: Reactivated) alongside Vin Diesel, Samuel L. Jackson, Tony Jaa, Donnie Yen, and Ruby Rose.
Her role on Degrassi: Teen mom Mia, who arrived at Degrassi with a daughter, and would eventually leave the school for a burgeoning modeling career.
Jordan Gavaris
Where you know him from: Gavaris plays Felix Dawkins on the BBC America sci-fi drama Orphan Black. He deals with the many clones of his adoptive sister that have all become part of his very unique extended family.
His role on Degrassi: For two episodes Gavaris played Nathan, a potential love interest of Degrassi star quarterback Riley Stavros, but at the time of their meeting Riley isn’t out of the closet, or anywhere near comfortable with his sexuality.
Shenae Grimes-Beech
Where you know her from: Grimes-Beech starred in the reboot of 90210 as Annie Wilson, and was in Scream 4.
Her role on Degrassi: One of the most memorable characters in the show’s long history, Grimes-Beech played Darcy Edwards, who captained the school’s Spirit Squad, but whose life took a dark turn after she was drugged and raped while attending a party. The results of this were a case of chlamydia, and some serious mental instability. Once she came to terms with what happened to her, she left Degrassi during her senior year to build schools in Kenya.
Shanice Banton
Where you know her from: Banton played the role of Ruth Solomon in the 2016 Jesse Owens’ biographical drama Race.
Her role on Degrassi: Spirit Squad member, and eventual student council president, Marisol Lewis.
Landon Liboiron
Where you know him from: Liboiron starred in Eli Roth’s Netflix series Hemlock Grove, Steven Spielberg’s Fox series Terra Nova, and had a recurring role on the CW series, Life Unexpected.
His role on Degrassi: Declan Coyne, the rich son of a diplomat. He oftentimes came off as arrogant, whether intended, or not, and was close with his fraternal twin, Fiona.
Cassie Steele
Where you know her from: Steele had a starring role on the short lived, but brilliant, CW drama The L.A. Complex.
Her role on Degrassi: Who could possibly forget Manny Santos? We literally saw Steele grow up before our eyes during her 180 episode run on the show.
Shannon Kook
Where you know him from: Kook was in both The Conjuring, and The Conjuring 2.
His role on Degrassi: Zane Park, soccer player, turned football kicker, who pushed quarterback Riley Stavros to come out of the closet in the midst of their tumultuous on-again, off-again, relationship.
Raymond Ablack
Where you know him from: The second of three Degrassi actors to have appeared on Orphan Black, Ablack not only has a small role on the sci-fi hit (maybe we’ll see him again), he also did six episodes of the Syfy series Defiance, and three episodes of Shadowhunters: The Mortal Instruments.
His role on Degrassi: The level-headed Sav Bhandari, who came from a strict Muslim background, but disobeyed a few of the rules his parents laid down, including dating girls outside of his religion. Sav’s sister, Alli, would prove to be a far bigger headache for their parents.
Miriam McDonald
Where you know her from: McDonald appeared on an episode of Orphan Black, and was also in Poison Ivy: The Secret Society, certain scenes from which we definitely can’t put on this site, but let’s just say a whole lotta guys had some visual fantasies fulfilled.
Her role on Degrassi: For 180 episodes McDonald played Emma Nelson. The daughter of a teen mother, she was known for being mature, and responsible, as well as being an idealist, and an environmentalist, who was never shy about voicing her opinion.
Evan Williams
Where you know him from: Williams played Luke on the MTV series Awkward.
His role on Degrassi: Kelly Ashoona, the unlikeliest college roommate of Emma, Manny, and Liberty. He and Emma dated, but he was kicked out of the dorms while attempting to dispose of weed brownies.
Aislinn Paul
Where you know her from: Paul played Phoebe Frady on Heroes Reborn.
Her role on Degrassi: Clare Edwards, a character who had more major story arcs than the law should allow. From being the straight laced, all about the books girl, to attempting to break out of her shell, to having her ex-boyfriend become her step-brother, to developing cancer, which she beat, to having a Bipolar boyfriend, to getting pregnant, to having a miscarriage, Clare probably won’t be looking back on her high school years with any sort of fondness.
Dylan Everett
Where you know him from: Technically a child actor before Degrassi, Everett is most known by American audiences for his role as Mark-Paul Gosselaar in The Unauthorized Saved by the Bell Story. He currently has a starring role in the Starz series Insomnia, and previously portrayed the teenage version of Dean Winchester on Supernatural.
His role on Degrassi: Tortured hockey prodigy Campbell Saunders. While an excellent hockey player, Campbell had issues with stress, anxiety, loneliness, and depression, the combination of which led him to hang himself on school grounds where his body was found by another student.
Samantha Munro
Where you know her from: Munro played Shannen Doherty in The Unauthorized Beverly Hills, 90210 Story, and co-stars in the Netflix series Between with former iCarly actress Jennette McCurdy, as well as former fellow Degrassi cast members Jordan Todosey (who played Adam Torres), and Justin Kelly (who played Jake Martin).
Her role on Degrassi: Anya MacPherson, a follower who eventually learned to stand up for herself. Anya suffered from dyslexia, and dabbled with cocaine, before deciding to pursue basic training in order to join the Canadian Forces.
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Wednesday, 30 November 2016
Fewer in U.S. Struggle With Medical Bills: Report
Researchers credit Obamacare, but difficulties persist for uninsured and people with high deductibles
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