No third-party presidential candidates will participate at next week's forum dedicated to veterans issues.
NBC's Matt Lauer will host what's being billed as the first-ever "Commander-in-Chief Forum" 8 p.m. Wednesday in New York City at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum, site of the decommissioned aircraft carrier USS Intrepid.
The hour-long event, organized by the veterans organization Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, will air on the NBC and MSNBC cable channels and live-stream on IAVA's Facebook page.
During the event, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and his Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton will make separate appearances to field questions from Lauer and veterans rather than debate issues together on stage.
Third-party candidates Gary Johnson, a former Republican governor of New Mexico running on the Libertarian ticket, and Jill Stein, a physician backed by the Green Party, won't participate in the forum but may do so at a future event, according to IAVA.
"We are a non-partisan organization and IAVA members are extremely diverse," Paul Rieckhoff, founder and chief executive officer of the organization, said in a statement on Friday after speaking to Johnson the day before.
"IAVA has always been committed to the most robust public conversation around veterans issues and we are eager to engage Gov. Johnson and all candidates further in the days to come," he added.
The group has said it extended a formal invitation to Johnson to participate in a separate event and also reached out to Stein. A spokeswoman didn't immediately return an email and call requesting comment on Friday evening, nor did a spokesperson Stein campaign.
Joe Hunter, a spokesman for Johnson, confirmed the Libertarian candidate was not invited to participate in next week's IAVA event. "He has, however, spoken with IAVA CEO and Founder Paul Rieckhoff, and we are exploring possibilities with IAVA for a future event," Hunter said in an email.
Clinton and Trump carry sizeable leads over the third-party candidates in national polls of likely voters.
A recent poll by USA Today and Suffolk University of a four-way presidential ballot showed Clinton leading with 42 percent of the vote, followed by Trump with 35 percent, Johnson with 9 percent, Stein with 4 percent. About 10 percent of respondents were undecided.
The poll of 1,000 likely voters was conducted Aug. 24 through Aug. 29 and has a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.
Even so, the majority of likely voters want to see third-party candidates on the debate stage, even if they don't hit the 15-percent threshold to do so, according to David Paleologos, director of the Suffolk University Political Research Center in Boston, who helped conduct the poll.
Johnson has reportedly received slightly higher support from U.S. military members -- 13 percent of almost 2,000 active-duty, Guards and reserve respondents in a Military Times survey conducted in July. And some veterans have reacted strongly to his exclusion in the upcoming IAVA forum.


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Sick of high prices, Missouri small businesses band together to join one health plan
By Samantha Liss St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Small businesses across Missouri are fed up with the price of health insurance, so they're coming together under a new health plan offered by the state's Chamber of Commerce.
After members pleaded with the organization to do something about their health care woes, the chamber decided to explore the option of starting a type of plan that would allow its members to join together to form a pool, like a large employer, with the hope of reducing costs.
Some brokers say the interest from small businesses has been significant.
Already more than 150 small businesses have joined, representing more than 1,500 employees, said Brendan Cossette, chief operating officer for Missouri Chamber of Commerce.
The coverage is through Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield and is available to employers with two to 50 employees and members of the chamber. The caveat is it's only available in the areas where Anthem operates. Generally speaking, the coverage is not available in the Kansas City area and northwest Missouri, Cossette said.
The type of arrangement is called a Multiple Employer Welfare agreement. It's when unaffiliated employers band together for the sole purpose of providing benefits to employees as one unit, according to the Missouri Department of Insurance.
The benefit for small employers is the ability for scale to leverage lower costs. Together, the employers are able to spread out the cost of health care over more individuals.
And the plan is exempt from major tenets of the Affordable Care Act, Cossette confirmed.
The plan is medically underwritten — a departure from ACA requirements — which means participants' rate would be partially based on an employee's health, so it could potentially be less expensive for an employer with a young, healthy employee base.
Amid continued frustration over prices and fewer plan options for small employers, some are encouraging other employers to consider the new option.
"There are a lot of new opportunities and options in the marketplace, the MEWA (Multiple Employer Welfare Agreement) being one of them, and an employer really owes it to their employees — from a financial perspective — to explore it," said Lynda Baris, executive vice president at J.W. Terrill, a local employee benefits firm.
Employers have until February to enroll in the plan. Benefit options include preferred provider organizations and health savings accounts.
The launch of this plan comes at a time when the Trump administration has released a proposed rule that would change how association health plans are regulated. Association health plans are similar to multiple employer agreements.
An association plan allows companies with a common tie to band together to offer health insurance to multiple employers. Association plans were subject to ACA requirements, according to a report from Health Affairs.
Under the proposed rule, the associations would be exempt from some of those consumer protections under the ACA. "Associations could also design their products in a way that makes them unattractive to and thus discourages those with health needs from enrolling," according to Health Affairs.
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Navigating the best places to stay in the Napa Valley
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The Napa Valley is about 30 miles long with four distinct towns and surrounding areas to stay. Each has its own character and conveniences so figuring out where to stay depends on what you're looking for.
The southernmost town of Napa is a good size city with all the major supermarkets and drug stores and the greatest choice of accommodations from major hotel chains to boutique hotels to bed & breakfast inns. It is closest to San Francisco, the airports and the town of Sonoma and the wineries nearby. It has a National Register historic district and the largest concentration of pre-1906 Victorians in all of the Bay Area. Downtown Napa has been undergoing a major transformation from a sleepy town to a serious food and wine destination with its Riverfront development and Oxbow Public Market. Downtown Napa has two Michelin restaurants, La Toque and Ubuntu and several new restaurants are slated to open within the next six to nine months. Being close to the Bay, Napa is the coolest part of the Valley which is pleasant during our hottest summer days. Napa is close to the wine district of Carneros to the south, Mount Veeder to the west and the newest district Oaknoll to the north.
About eight miles north is Yountville, a culinary destination with a total of six Michelin stars. It has the greatest concentration of Michelin star restaurants per city block than any city except New York and has the greatest number of Michelin star restaurants per capita than any city on earth – ok so Yountville's small. But it is about the food. Yountville has many choices of accommodations from quaint inns such as Maison Fleurie to the luxury hotel and spas such as Villagio and the new Bardessono. Yountville is a wine district in its own right and is minutes away from the classic wine regions of Stag's Leap to the east and Oakville and Rutherford to the north.
Another nine miles north of Yountville is Saint Helena, the heart of the Napa Valley wine region since the 19th century. It is a small town of about 5,000 residents where drivers stop for each other and neighbors help each other out. Most of the shopping and restaurants are on four blocks of Main Street, as are most of the stoplights on all of Highway 29. Saint Helena is a wine district and is close to Rutherford and Oakville to the south and Spring Mountain to the west. Some of the oldest continuously running wineries from the 19th century are located here including Beringer and Charles Krug, both of which are on the National Register of historic places . Unlike Yountville with its strong hospitality base, Saint Helena remains true to its small-town, family-oriented roots with a few choice accomodations but with some very good restaurants.
As one continues north of Saint Helena, there are less wineries and traffic, making the eight mile scenic drive to Calistoga seem short. Calistoga is the northernmost town in the Napa Valley with one of its most famous features being the hot springs. From its earliest 19th century history, Calistoga was known as a destination for restorative mineral baths and attracted such notable writers as Robert Louis Stevenson who suffered from tuberculosis. Calistoga remains a spa destination with a very down-home character all its own. From Calistoga, one could visit northern Sonoma County wineries in Knights Valley and Alexander Valley districts by driving north on 29 which turns into highway 128. The wineries are more spread out, but the turnoffs are well marked out. In Calistoga, it can be quite hot during the summer, which makes a nice cold beer at the micro-brewery at Calistoga Inn a very nice treat indeed.
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Antidepressant induced extrapyramidal symptoms (EPS) represent an under recognized but important clinical entity
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Antidepressant induced extrapyramidal symptoms (EPS) represent an under recognized but important clinical entity. be aware of possible dystonia, as early recognition is necessary to prevent major adverse outcomes. strong class="kwd-title" Keywords: acute dystonia, citalopram, case series 1. Introduction Dystonia is a syndrome of involuntary, repetitive (or sustained) muscle contractions of opposing muscles, which may result in torsions and abnormal postures (Seeman et al., 2008). Dystonia are a clinically and genetically heterogeneous group of movement disorders. Dystonia can be the only sign of the disease or maybe only one of several manifestations of clinical syndrome (Klein & Mnchau, 2013) such as Acquired brain lesions, degenerative disorders, or may be drug-induced or even psychogenic. Primary dystonia is believed to be very rare but may be underestimated (Wichowicz et al., 2009). Drug-induced dystonia may occur within minutes or hours or even days of exposure to an inciting drug; it may be observed with familial pattern and can or cannot be correlated with blood level of the drug (Mezaki, 2012). Antidepressant induced extrapyramidal symptoms (EPS) represent an under recognized but important clinical entity. These symptoms reported for duloxetine, nefazodone, bupropione and citalopram. EPS seems not dose related and can develop with short-term and long-term use (Madhusoodanan et al., 2010). Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) induced movement disorder reported in adolescents and adults (Najjar et al., 2004). Citalopram is a typical SSRI, used in serotonergic dysfunction related disorders, including depression, anxiety, panic disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder. Besides headache, tremor is considered as a second most common neurological adverse effect of SSRIs based on literatures. Abnormal movements such as acute dystonia, dyskinesia, parkinsonism, exacerbation of parkinson disease, akathisia and possibly neuroleptic malignant syndrome may associated with the use of SSRIs very rarely. There is citalopram-induced bruxism, serotonin syndrome and jaw tremor case reported in literatures (Celik & Balci, 2010; Kinling et al., 2010). In view of the Nicainoprol risk of morbidity and decreased quality of life and/or even mortality in case of laryngospasm due to contraction of laryngeal muscles contraction laryngeal dystonia is a life-threatening side-effect of and its diagnosis often remains elusive (Christodoulou & Kalaitzi, 2005) and to aware the clinicians of potential to cause adverse effects; we reported the nine cases developed acute dystonia following administration of citalopram, Nicainoprol as a very rare condition. 2. Materials and Methods This case series was a retrospective study and carried out in a psychiatric clinic in Sari (Iran) that has more than 5000 patients annually. This review was unfunded and we reviewed the case files from February 2010 to February 2011 who were under citalopram treatment by the psychiatrist for variety of depressive disorder and anxiety disorders (Obsessive-compulsive disorder, General anxiety disorder, Panic disorder and Posttraumatic stress disorder). Before initiation of citalopram prescription, all antidepressants that the patients may have been taking were discontinued, and Patients were excluded if there were taking any psychiatric drugs (except benzodiazepines). The data about demographic, diagnosis, drug or alcohol dependence and abuse (based on DSM-4-R), and length of citalopram consumption, citalopram dosage were gathered. The initiation daily dose of citalopram dose and dose changes were and also adverse effects (symptoms and signs) at the time of citalopram therapy recorded. Beside clinical examination, a retrospective chart review was performed to identify dystonia. Brain MRI, Physical examination, and neurological examination were performed in the cases of acute dystonia. Laboratory tests such as CBC, ESR, BS, LFT, CPK, TFT was also done in the manner. 3. Results A total of nine patients were diagnosed with acute dystonia, none of them were excluded by the exclusion criteria, hence; all of them were included in the case series (Table 1). Three Patients were male and six were female with the mean age of 29 years. Drugs and alcohol abuse and dependency recently had not seen in any of patients notes (according to DSM-4-R criteria). Citalopram was initiated at 20 mg per day prescribed in single dose and titrated by the psychiatrist for all patients according to the response. The median dose administered was 27 mg per day totally (range 20-50 mg). Other side effects were recorded in all patient notes. One patient had drowsiness, short term (less than 2-3 days) mild gastric upset in three and nightmare in two, but these adverse events were transient and not prominent enough to CD209 discontinuation of citalopram. Nicainoprol There was consistent Nicainoprol documentation of dystonia identified in the chart review. The onset of dystonia was.
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Sankofa Medical Charities Celebrates GivingTuesday Joining Millions Around the World
Organization will participate in the global generosity movement on December 1, 2020
Atlanta, GA, December 1, 2020—- Sankofa Medical Charities is joining millions of other organizations, businesses, donors and philanthropists around the world participating in the global generosity movement GivingTuesday on December 1, 2020. The nonprofit will celebrate its first ever GivingTuesday event with a large social media presence which includes a virtual fundraiser.
This GivingTuesday, Sankofa Medical Charities will inspire generosity by focusing its efforts on a virtual fundraising campaign that will directly impact its organization's cause of fostering partnerships to benefit underserved communities through medical education, care and supplies.
"Sankofa Medical Charities is such an important organization because it impacts patients from around the world who have the greatest, yet sometimes simplest medical needs," stated Dr. Leonard Gyebi, Founder of Sankofa Medical Charities. "These patients, who are living in poverty, are lacking some of the most crucial medical supplies. A donor's money goes so far to help ensure they get the healthcare they need, and deserve."
As an example of how a donation can support these medical costs:
$25 provides glucose test strips to screen 25 people for diabetes
$40 provides medicine for 10 patients during a primary care mobile clinic
$60 offers labs for complete blood count and comprehensive metabolic panel for at risk patients
Through generous donations, the nonprofit has been able to support hospitals in under-served regions with equipment, such as hospital beds, imaging and dialysis machines, ambulances to provide patient transportation to medical facilities, a variety of different testing and blood work as well as measures to help prevent the spread of malaria.
"We are extremely happy to see how much we've accomplished in the short period of time since our nonprofit has been established," concluded Dr. Gyebi. "Through fundraising efforts such as GivingTuesday, we know that our donations will only increase, allowing us to offer even more medical advancements and treatments to some of the poorest, most needed people in the world."
GivingTuesday was launched in 2012 as a simple idea: to create a day that encourages people to do good. Over the past nine years, this idea has grown into a global movement that inspires hundreds of millions of people to give, collaborate, and celebrate generosity. Since its inception, GivingTuesday has raised billions of dollars for critical causes around the world.
"GivingTuesday inspires people all around the world to embrace their power to drive progress around the causes they care about, not just on one day but throughout the year." said Asha Curran, GivingTuesday's CEO, and co-founder. "With country and community leaders, millions of organizations, and countless givers of all kinds, GivingTuesday is creating a shared space where we can see the radical implications of a more generous world."
About Sankofa Medical Charities
Sankofa Medical Charities is dedicated to fostering partnerships that benefit underserved communities with medical education, care and supplies. Founded by Leonard Gyebi, M.D. President and CEO of Peachtree Kidney & Hypertension Specialist Group Dr. Gyebi started this nonprofit as a way to give back to those who needed it most. His experience and connections in medical communities allow him to direct funds into programs where the greatest current need exists. Sankofa Medical Charities is focused on attaining wellness while inspiring people to live healthier lifestyles by addressing inequities in healthcare. For more information or to donate, log onto: https://sankofamedicalcharities.org/
About GivingTuesday
GivingTuesday is a global generosity movement unleashing the power of people and organizations to transform their communities and the world. GivingTuesday was created in 2012 as a simple idea: a day that encourages people to do good. Over the past eight years, it has grown into a global movement that inspires hundreds of millions of people to give, collaborate, and celebrate generosity.
Whether it's making someone smile, helping a neighbor or stranger out, showing up for an issue or people we care about, or giving some of what we have to those who need our help, every act of generosity counts and everyone has something to give. GivingTuesday strives to build a world in which the catalytic power of generosity is at the heart of the society we build together, unlocking dignity, opportunity and equity around the globe.
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Garmin Pay has been designed to work with both iOS and Android devices once paired with your Garmin device. This feature looks like it will be rolling with pretty much all the new major fitness watches released by Garmin. The latest watch to receive Garmin Pay is the Forerunner 645 Music but that's likely to change over the course of this year as Garmin may release new watches.
Garmin Pay is now supported by multiple devices: vivoactive 3, Forerunner 645 Music (Music and non-music versions), vivoactive 3 music and fenix 5X Plux, fenix 5 Plus, fenix 5s Plus.
Garmin Pay works the same way all rival contactless payment systems function. It works by holding your watch above an EFTPOS terminal that allows for contactless payment and then the reader will detect the NFC chip in the watch and make the transaction.
*Update - Garmin Pay went live on the 17th of November and I successfully bought a pack of batteries with my vivoactive 3. Make sure you update your Garmin connect app to get access to your Virtual Wallet feature on the app and add your card to your watch. Garmin have also released a video on how to use Garmin Pay here.
Garmin has tried to make the setup process as easy as possible for Garmin Pay. You will need to download the Garmin Connect Mobile app then tap is open the side menu then tap Garmin Devices and select vivoactive 3. From that point choose 'Garmin Pay'.
When you're ready, tap Create Your Wallet. At this point, you will need to make a four-digit passcode to keep the virtual wallet on your watch secure. After this step, you will add your MasterCard or Visa card (This will be the account that Garmin will create the transaction to make the purchase). You can add your card by manually entering the Card info or scanning it. You will receive a verification code via SMS when you complete this step. Once you finished entering the verification code, the card will be added to your 'Wallet'. You can view the card you added by tapping 'Garmin Pay' and then 'Manage Your Wallet'. The options available on this menu are Suspend or Delete which you can do at any time.
To actually make a payment on the watch you will need to go to a store that has a contactless payment terminal. On your watch press and hold the action button and bring up the navigation control menu. From there tap the virtual wallet icon and enter your four-digit pin (You only need to enter your pin once every 24 hours). Once the wallet is open, the last card you used will be the first option available. If desired you can select any of the other cards you have added to your watch at this point. Once you have chosen your card hold your watch near the terminal for a few seconds, the outer edge of the watch face will light up green when the transaction is finished.


Strategy invention is an component widely used today in reengineering the fall ining concerns. This involves a comprehensive proctor and ordinance of the organisations concern strategic steps in attempt of new value creative activity for both the organisation and the clients. It is so a really strong critical component for the endurance and the success in the moral force markets which are dominated by many rivals. It serves as a beginning of competitory advantage to the stable markets. The concern theoretical accounts of many organisations become disused with clip, exposing them to put on the line due to deficiency of client value bringing. This has led to increase in new companies and organisations with more advanced and efficient concern theoretical accounts increasing the degree of competition in the profitable industries. Basically many organisations and companies have taken the advantaged of the engineering promotion with good strategized policies in deriving a large market portion, hiking their gross acquisition ( Vadim, 2010 ) .
The technological progresss in today 's dynamic organisations and companies are continually altering the competitory planetary landscape due to increase in new stuffs with companies such as Nokia, IBM traveling fast with the displacement of technological progresss and other strategic alterations. Companies and organisations that are adjusted to the alterations experienced in the market are good placed in the untapped potency concern chances and are basically strategic oriented and on a regular basis innovated. These are the companies that are eager in heightening the value and the image of the company and involve in the redefining of the services offered to its clients. Innovation is going the edifice block of all the competition experienced today ( Kenneth & A ; Klopp2010 ) .
Toshiba is a company in computing machine industry which is a good illustration that gives us an overview of the strategic invention importance in the dynamic markets. The company which was over the past really celebrated and outstanding worldwide participant of this concern has been overtaken by events. It widely dominated the planetary market executions which were patented in the instant computing machine industry section. With the detonation of the unsettling engineering due to the computing machine revolution, the engineering became disused and lacked the credibleness in the market. The company fails to set attempt in the apprehension of the possible deductions on the emerging engineering, and ignored the really early mark of technological promotion. Their strategic policies and the value creative activity in the emerging market place were ill constructed. Today they are still fighting to resuscitate their market portion which has been taken by their well known rivals such as Dell and HP who were switching their concern in new value creative activity of both their clients and the company itself.
The addition in the functional activities of the Dell Company is a cardinal and gives the company a competitve advantage due to the addition of competition which has outsided the Toshiba company. The deductions of this entity is that merchandise every bit good as scheme invention is sustainable than those developed on the single activities. Companies with a comprehensive coporate schemes which is beyond the merchandise invention enhances the concern procedures and puts the company in better place than their rivals. This involves creative activity of specific maps and the interelationship of these maps in they searve as the edifice blocks of the concern theoretical account. Basically, the efficiency and the effectivity of the concern theoretical account is a criticals component of a company 's scheme.
Harmonizing to Robert & A ; Douglas ( 2003 ) , strategic invention involves the procedure of advanced believing applied non merely to the merchandises or the innovations but besides to the company 's concerns theoretical accounts. Product invention is non the lone of import facet in the market but he uniqueness and the high quality of the concern theoretical account should besides be a determiner in this peculiar affair. Making advanced concern theoretical account in the Toshiba company will convey much success. These advanced concern processes involves the selling the bespoke and customized electronics devices through the cyberspace with an effectieve supply concatenation direction. Toshiba should take the advantage of the societal networking which is presently linking the Earth non merely for socila activities but besides for concern ventures. Toshiba company should hold a clear apprehension of the fact that the computing machines high quality does n't O.K. it as the best in the market. This is widely be experienced in the todays universe market on which the companies which is non ranked in top R & A ; D capablenesss are able to efficaciously vie in markets due to their intensive attempts geered towards development and execution of a superior concern instance.
The attempts used in concern theoretical account and instance in the company will really supply touchable value to the company, offered the strategic significance of the companys concern theoretical account in its capableness to effectivelly vie in the market topographic point. The direction of invention procedure builds a nucleus resourcefull attack with the interplay facilitation between the internal company influences and the external patterns. This explores varied aggregation of diversed capablenesss as shown in the diagram below.
As explained in the diagram above, the cardinal engineerings and competency in the company sets the interanal companys ability in presenting value in the market. The Toshiba companys invention alteration preparedness drives this competency as new schemes successifully controls the companys operation maps.
Lack of the alliance and executing of invention scheme by the Toshiba Company is a waste of resources. The company spends a batch of clip and capital in creative activity of a new merchandise which in the long tally ends up being a letdown as it is introduced to the market. The company needs to aline their invention scheme with the hereafter engineering as the engineering progresss. This reduces the hazard and cost incurred as the company 's merchandises are good aligned with the concerns processes architecture. The company needs creative activity of sustainable growing schemes that empowers the concern theoretical accounts. This involves a combination of the assorted attacks in attempt of bring forthing advanced values to the clients every bit good as the full company. The conceptualisation brings the inventions to the market therefore ads the value. For a sustainable competitory advantage in the company, invention is besides required in the company 's substructure of the people and procedures.
Developing and implementing the strategic innovation dimension in the company helps in the accomplishment of the precise stableness between extended and strategic company fittingness. Toshiba remained for so long on the latest technological development alternatively of doing a follow up on the technological progresss and inventions which could hold given the room for alteration. Testing the premises that constrain the alteration in new merchandise development enables the company to keep the strategic concern alliance extinguishing the short term effects. Thus the company 's invention portfolio needs the stretch which provides the equilibrium between advanced and evolutionary ingeniousness ( Vadim K. 2010 ) .
These ceaseless invention periods encourages the advanced and defined thought in coevals of new thoughts.
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Trump Lying About "The Greatest Economy In History"
Trump said he will again "build the greatest economy in history." It's a pure lie -- his first economy was nothing special at all:
and this is being generous and leaving out this year's crash that's occurred under his watch. What chutzpah.
Here's his economic growth compared to the last 30 years -- average at best:
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The Capitulation to Manmade Climate Change Begins
Two Climate Disasters At Once
It's beyond atrocious that the US is now suffering two disasters which are almost certainly exacerbated by manmade climate change -- the California wildfires and Hurricane Laura, with its rapid intensification to at least a category 4 -- and the Republican Party's Potemkin village convention can't even acknowledge the issue.
It's fundamentally unfair that the resulting property damage won't be limited to only Trump voters. Or at least that they be the only ones to pay for the damages.
Google, Blogger and Time Off
Google, who owns Blogger, the software platform on which this blog has been published since about 2005, just released an upgrade, and the upgrade is now mandatory to use. (It was voluntary for the last six months or so, during which I was avoiding it while using the old version.)
The new version is awkward to use -- it frequently takes more steps to accomplish the same simple tasks, for example -- and there are some simple tasks that are even no longer possible, like adding a link in certain circumstances.
Once I might have hunted down a forum somewhere and registered and tried to make my voice heard and detailed what this circumstance was and when and how this software bug occurs so the Google developers could address it and, hopefully, fix it in a future release.
But I feel that's a young person's game and I don't believe Google developers are interested anyway. My experience in using Google software -- Gmail, Chrome, Chrome extensions, etc -- is that they're clearly not a software company, they're an advertising company, and their software takes a definite backseat in their business model.
Blogger takes a seat even behind the seat of Gmail and Chrome.
Not only that, but I'm getting tired of blogging. What's the point anymore? The cause of climate change is settled. Its degree is settled. I'm no longer interested in writing long detailed posts about subtleties of the science -- if I was, I'd try to publish them somewhere for money, and I'm not even trying to do that. Not sure I want to do that anymore either.
The idiocy of Donald Trump is settled. I can keep pointing out what an idiot he is, and everyone but DinCal will agree with me, and he will quote Instapundit with some very unconvincing item and so what. I don't have anything new to say either.
I appreciate all your comments, I do.
I know I've said all this before and I said to myself I wouldn't say again that I"m quitting this blog, so maybe I'm only saying I'm only taking some time off. So I'm taking some time off. And if Trump wins in Nov I just might shoot myself in the head or move to Costa Rica.
Perhaps the ways I might move forward in my life right now mean I need to go a little light on the blogging.
Trump Stupidity.... And agh
I sometimes wonder if Trump has ever taken a single step off concrete.
I mean that seriously.
No, I don't mean walking on a golf course fairway or green, or to or fro the Presidential helicopter.
I mean walking somewhere in nature, on a trail in a forest, or even a few steps off the edge of a city.
Because he has weird ideas about forests and how to contain forest fires, like all you need to do is keep hundreds of thousands of acres raked clean and the fire potential will vanish.
He's said this before and he
During a speech in Pennsylvania, the president blamed the wildfires on "years" of poor forest management in California.
"And I see again, the forest fires are starting," Trump said. "They're starting again in California. And I said, you've got to clean your floors. You've got to clean your floors."
"I've been telling them this now for three years, but they don't want to listen," he added.
Trump made similar comments last year, prompting California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) to hit back by saying the president was unqualified to weigh in on fire safety due to his past remarks calling climate change a hoax.
"The Governor of California, @GavinNewsom, has done a terrible job of forest management. I told him from the first day we met that he must 'clean' his forest floors regardless of what his bosses, the environmentalists, DEMAND of him," Trump tweeted in November.
Bush Jr at least flew over Katrina -- an image some think represented the functional end of his presidency -- but as far as I know Trump has never visited California during a forest fire -- why would he, he doesn't get their electoral votes so to him they don't exist -- just as for Iowa last week in their destructive derecho he only spent 30 minutes in an airplane hanger after their devastating derecho. We are not talking about an empathetic man here.
Record Greenland Ice Melt in 2019
Returning to items that won't get any comments, Greenland ice melt, which has been on the wane for a few years, picked up last year and reached a record amount of 530 Gt for 2019, which works out to an average, as The Guardian puts it, to -1.01 million tonnes per minute.
For July alone it was -223 Gt.
I wish a White House journalist would ask Trump about this on Monday.
Yes, Russian Interfered in the Election For Trump
A committee led by Republicans found -- disproving again another monster lie from Trump. Grounds for impeachment if this lying criminal is somehow reelected.
WASHINGTON — A sprawling report released Tuesday by a Republican-controlled Senate panel that spent three years investigating Russia's 2016 election interference laid out an extensive web of contacts between Trump campaign advisers and Russian government officials and other Russians, including some with ties to the country's intelligence services.
The report by the Senate Intelligence Committee, totaling nearly 1,000 pages, provided a bipartisan Senate imprimatur for an extraordinary set of facts: The Russian government undertook an extensive campaign to try to sabotage the 2016 American election to help Mr. Trump become president, and some members of Mr. Trump's circle of advisers were open to the help from an American adversary.
Condolences to the President
@realDonaldTrump - condolences on the death of your brother.
— David Appell (@davidappell) August 16, 2020
Mr President, Do You Regret All The Lying You Have Done to the American People?
Update 8/17: the reporter who asked this question was Shirish Date of the Huffington Post.
Reporter: "After 3 1/2 years, do you regret all the lying you've done to the American people?
Trump: "All the what?"
Reporter: "All the lying."
Trump: "That who has done?"
Reporter: "You have done."
Trump: "Uhhh." pic.twitter.com/gNcndCwZyA
— Pod Save America (@PodSaveAmerica) August 13, 2020
Anyone know who this reporter is?
Antarctic Sea Ice Extent Annual Minimum
It's not clear if there's any kind of a trend....
2020 Likely to be the Hottest Year in NASA's Records
With July data in, we are still predicting a ~70% of a new record for the GISTEMP annual mean. Odds are a little less should a medium to strong La Niña develop in the fall.
It is certain to be a top 5 yr & to be the 6th year in a row more than 1°C warmer than the late 19th C. pic.twitter.com/1Toz41SwFw
— Gavin Schmidt (@ClimateOfGavin) August 14, 2020
Here, in short, is how they calculate this:
it's based on the historical relationship between YTD and the annual mean, plus a conditioning for what Nino34 might be doing at the end of the year.
Extent of Beirut Explosion
Climate Change Bites Back
Svalbard coal mine flooded by melting glacier
"After days with record heat at Svalbard, the penetration of water from the above melting glacier is now flooding Norway's only operating coal mine that supplies the country's only coal-power plant.
"The day before, a record heat of 21,7°C was measured in Longyearbyen, the highest temperature ever measured so far north in the European Arctic.
"In the town of Longyearbyen is houses sagging due to unstable ground as the permafrost melts. About 250 homes will have to be torn down and new buildings are built on steel pillars and sensors are placed in the ground to measure how the steel constructions impact the permafrost."
Mr President, Do You Regret All The Lying You Have...


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Q: Can't use more than 3GB of RAM I'm having a problem with my system. I recently just built a computer with the following specs:
Intel Core i7 2.66 ghz 8mb Cache
Gigabite GA-EX58-UD3R X58
6GB RAM
NVIDIA GeForce GTX-285 1GB

I'm using Windows 7 RC 32-bit for my operating system.
My RAM states that I have almost 3GB memory, so I'm assuming that the 3GB from the RAM is
transferred to VRAM.
I have tried several methods I could find on google, including re-installing the OS but its still doesn't work.
1). Why I can't use more than 3Gb of my memory?
2). How can I diagnose the actual amount of memory available to my system? (to investigate faulty memory)
3). What is the solution for this?

A: The solution to this is installing a 64-bit operating system.

Hence, a processor with 32-bit memory addresses can directly access 4 GiB of byte-addressable memory.
  Wikipedia

While your processor is absolutely capable of adressing all the memory, a (standard) 32-Bit OS installation will only "see" ~3.3 gb of said memory.

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About Dave: After a lengthy and successful career in government contracting Dave began his Real Estate career in 2003.
Focus: Dave is our Property Management Supervisor and devotes much of his time to our Property Managers and making sure our team runs like a finely tuned machine.
Personal Information: Dave is married to Paula McCaleb who is also one of our Realtors.


'Don't Shift the Goalposts!' – Are the Fears Warranted?
In just over 2 months, government-funded support for inhome care is changing and I've heard lots of anxiety this past year about how Home Care Packages will be impacted. Any change brings with it fear – and this can be exacerbated for elderly people living independently at home – but is it all warranted? In this week's blog, let's face the fears.
You're going to hear a lot more noise about Home Care Package changes before February 27 and people can immediately interpret that as a negative thing, but they need to take a deep breath and realise there's an enormous amount that is NOT changing. Much of the online literature and other educational pieces I've read about the HCP changes, can either sound too clinical, or too much like a government press release. At Prestige Inhome Care, we have a direct personal connection with our clients, and feedback I have received through them tells me their fears may not be adequately addressed or allayed through the major communications channels.
Some things have been around for a long time and are not changing, but are only now being brought to people's attention because of the spotlight around February 27. The goal posts are not shifting nearly so much as some are saying.
I think a lot of the hoo ha I hear people talking about is that Consumer Directed Care (CDC) is coming with the February 27 changes, and that such a 'major' shift will be problematic. Well, it's not the introduction of CDC, which started as a pilot program some years ago and all packages have had to be implemented with CDC since 2015. All Prestige Inhome Care products are already consumer-directed.
You already choose with our private inhome care all elements of service provision including how much, how little, what time, which day, what sort of person delivers the care, when it starts, stops, and obviously the services you get, whether they be cleaning and showering, home and garden maintenance, taking you to appointments and/or making meals.
If those services are not delivered to your satisfaction, you can take your money to somebody else. CDC is already the essence of our product.
CDC is not changing things in inhome care next year, it's already changed with service providers like Prestige. However, the new Home Care Packages will see the formalisation of the CDC philosophy to packaged inhome care across the industry in Australia.
Fear #2: My existing package will be lessened, lost or otherwise changed.
There is unwarranted anxiety among people who currently have a Home Care Package with a service provider: the changes will not affect your care and you will receive your services as usual. You will however, find it easier to change service providers if you choose.
Fear #3: Can I be penalised for purchasing extra care?
Something not widely understood, is not changing, but has received some attention during the discussions of late: income tested means tests and your own private package contributions.
Income tests already exist as part of package assessement, determining which of the 4 levels of funding you qualify for. The process involves an application to Centrelink where your income is assessed and based on your income they will tell you how much of the package you have to pay – you may need to contribute a percentage of the package.
Important to note is that you can have care above and beyond the hours in your package allocation. If you decide to purchase more care, beyond the contribution you already make to your package (you might be currently paying nothing to the package if you're a full pensioner, YOU CAN – the Government won't ask for more contribution to your package, and won't lower your package level.
In all of what we hear in the next few months through the media or perhaps third-hand in ill-informed discussions, it's important to remember that much of the anxiety around Home Care Packages is not warranted, because there is much that is NOT changing – it's just that many are only just starting to learn about the system and procedures now.
So, what IS changing?: in short, home care packages nationwide are becoming more like our Prestige private care, enabling flexibility, choice and portability. We'll have a closer look next time at what's to embrace in the changes.
We Knew It – Grandmothers' Brains Benefit from Babysitting!
Nick is the founder of Prestige Inhome Care. Throughout his career, Nick recognised the industry's need for a private home healthcare provider to support those requiring a premium service that enabled them to recover and receive quality care in their own home. Nick wanted to create a viable alternative to nursing homes and give clients unprecedented independence and emotional support, and in 2005 he established Prestige Inhome Care as a family business. Nick now manages more than 300 employees and the company still maintains the family-owned mindset in placing clients at the heart of its operations.


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Willow Tree Pottery
Suzanne (Suzy) Staubach, potter, writer
BiblioPotter
Clay The History and Evolution
Guy Wolff Master Potter
A Garden Miscellany
Posted on July 25, 2011 January 9, 2017
The Quintessential Anthropomorphic Pot
I have never understood the wide appeal of Toby jugs but they are one of the most collected ceramic forms today. First made in eighteenth century Staffordshire, they typically feature the jovial head of a man of that era, usually in a tri-corner hat (called more specifically a character jug), or a seated figure of such a man, holding a tankard in one hand and a long stemmed pipe in the other. There is a handle attached to the back. The contained beverage (beer of course) is poured from the hat.
A quick look at eBay shows almost three thousand Toby and character jugs up for bid, with Buy It Now prices ranging from $2,000.00 for a Royal Doulton Simeon Toby to a penny for a Royal Doulton Toby Aramis jug. I cannot say that I have ever personally met anyone with a collection, but my mom had one small character jug that intrigued me as a child. She also had a creamer shaped like a purple cow! Hmm, I wonder where they are today? I wouldn't mind having another look.
The urge to turn a vessel into a depiction of a person's head has been with potters across cultures and for millennia. One thinks of the finely made Moche heads of ancient Peru; of Roman cinerary urns; of the German bellarmine; and of the face jugs of the American south. Pots, it seems, are irresistibly anthropomorphic.
In Toby and Character Jugs, Graham McLaren, who taught the history of ceramics and glass at Staffordshire University and has written several books on the topic, gives us a good overview of the development of these whimsical pieces. We see jugs based on characters in Dickens novels, political figures, jugs of satire, and a few women. He includes photos of potters working in the factories and takes us from the early press molded jugs to the later, more intricate slip molded jugs.
Delightfully, this is not a price guide for collectors, but a book for those of us interested in ceramic history, particularly 18th – early 20th century British ceramic history.
Guy Wolff and Isaac Button on Throwing
Some place in this house is a copy of Making Pottery by John Anderson. It should be on the shelves with all the other books on ceramics that crowd my living room, but if it is, my eyes are passing it by. I hope I am not becoming like my now deceased friend Francelia who in her later years, had to keep buying copies of the same books because she was never able to find her copy when she needed it. Sigh.
I am looking for it because, as I recall, it had a bit on Isaac Button. Button, sometimes called the "last true country potter" in England, operated Soil Hill, near Halifax England. He could and did throw a half ton of clay a day, swiftly making hundreds of repeat shapes – jugs, flowerpots, crocks, cider jars and so on. His ability to throw fast and large is astonishing to us today, but was typical of the way old time country potters worked. Fortunately for us, a few years before he died, John Anderson and Robert Fournier filmed him.
I drove out to Guy Wolff's pottery on Friday to interview him some more for the book project. Wolff is also a repeat thrower and throws fast and large. Toward the end of the interview, he mentioned how much he liked the Button video. So, before beginning work on the chapter I am writing, I watched the video again myself (thanks YouTube) and then searched futilely for the book.
The film is over 40 minutes in its entirety, but here is an extract of Button throwing.
And here's Guy Wolff.
Raku potters play with fire in ways that the rest of us do not. The notion of opening a hot, burning kiln and reaching inside with long tongs to pluck out a pot, glaze still molten, and then dashing with that glowing pot to a bin of combustibles is very appealing. But I am a woman who makes sturdy, functional pots for the most part, so, though pyromaniac that I am, I do not do anything as dramatic as pull my pots glowing from the flames. Raku, often breathtakingly beautiful, is not meant for everyday use. Raku is meant to behold.
Once, in my younger, less careful days, the bricked up front of my catenary arch kiln blew out on the way to Cone 9 (I think it was around Cone 4 at the time), nearly causing dreadful havoc, such as my fiery death, an event that would indeed be dramatic – potter immolates self and surrounding countryside –but not welcome. No, I fire long and slow, though I do like it when the flames curl out of the spy holes. And every now and then, I do a pit firing.
But like most potters, I like seeing what others are doing and how they are doing it, even if, or perhaps especially if, it is very different from what I do. Looking through 500 Raku: Bold Explorations of a Dynamic Ceramics Technique juried by Jim Romberg (who studied with Paul Soldner) it is apparent that the process has expanded considerably in the hundred years since Bernard Leach famously attended a garden party in Japan and discovered raku for the west. The Japanese first made raku in the sixteenth century. Tea bowls fired this way, though not as sturdy as stoneware, were porous and cooled the tea quickly. Fragile, often asymmetrical, magically blessed by the fire, raku tea bowls became a celebrated element of the tea ceremony.
There are only four tea bowls shown in 500 Raku, two by the highly accomplished Steven Branfman (see pot above). Birds, fish, jars, bottles, bowls, horses, and women predominate. Colors range from smoked white crackle to iridescent purples, golds and blues. Pieces have been masked with tape, sprayed with oxides, fumed, covered in slip that cracks off to reveal a design, glazed, smoked in newspapers and sawdust, and plunged into cold water and painted with acrylics. The sculptures are humorous, political, and personal.
The variety is stunning. I couldn't help but think that these ceramicists not only play with fire, they play with clay. And playing with clay is always a good thing. Even though I do not do raku myself, I found the book stimulating.
Potato Salad and Inca Pots
It being the celebration of Independence Day and the birth of the US, I suppose I should have been reading about the Revolutionary War, much of which took place here in New England. However, I really don't like reading about fighting and killing and the strategies of generals. I rather read about food and houses and domestic sorts of things from our past. So, in honor of the Fourth of July, I read Potato: A Global History by Andrew F. Smith. What is a Fourth of July celebration without potato salad? Indeed, what is summer without potato salad?
Read a book on almost any topic in history, and sooner or later you will come to a reference to ceramics. And sure enough, Andrews gets to it in the very first chapter of his book.
Potatoes originated in South America. Seven species were grown and eaten by Andean farmers probably as early as 10,000 BCE. They were easy to grow, nutritious, tasty and suitable to the rugged terrain. "Depictions of potatoes have been found on pottery," Andrews writes, "including pieces from the Moche, Chimú, Nazca and other pre-Columbian civilizations that flourished and disappeared before the advent of the Inca." It's amazing how much archaeologists and historians have learned about ancient cultures from the images that potters put on their pots!
Later, writing about the Inca, Andrews tells us that, "some {of their} pottery resembled potatoes, while others showed potatoes with human faces." What? The first Mr. Potato Head was made by an Inca potter?
The images in the book are not the best, but there are two Andean potato pots. One, from the Proto-Chimu period is of two potatoes one atop the other, with a spout and stirrup handle. The other, shown here, is an Inca pot made to look like a potato with many eyes. It has a slightly flared neck. Sadly, he does not credit these two photos, so I can't tell where the pots are today.
I will serve my potato salad in one of my simple baking dishes. I have never made a bowl or jar shaped like a potato (at least not on purpose). But for a few fleeting moments, I imagine myself going into the studio and making a potato bowl with eyes and lumps and glazing it brown on the outside and white on the inside. But no, that would be tacky. At least anything I attempted would look tacky. Maybe, though, in honor of the Andean farmers who domesticated the potato, and the Andean potters who depicted them in their art, I will make just one. For fun.
Mary Fox Memoir
Life in the Studio
Making Emmanuel Cooper
On Color
Don Potter Master of Many Crafts
Architecture/Mud Houses
British Pottery
Ceramics History
Chinese ceramics
Garden Pottery
Fresh sliced strawberries in a breakfast bowl, glazed in oatmeal with a touch of iron oxide on the rim. June! The month of roses and strawberries!
Photos from Suzy Staubach Willow Tree Pottery's post
Day two of the Art and Garden Tour. Yesterday the weather was glorious and we had fun sharing with our many visitors. Looks like today will be wonderful weather again.
Art And Garden Tour Beckons Lovers Of Beauty
http://www.courant.com/community/ashford/hc-sr-ashford-northeastern-arts-and-garden-0607-20180606-story.html
Thanks Kitty LeShay for the nice story in the Courant Community today.
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Researchers Restore Beta-Cell Function by Deleting Old Cells
Acceleration of beta-cell aging determines diabetes -- senolysis improves disease outcomes
4-Jun-2019 4:05 PM EDT
Joslin Diabetes Center
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Cristina Aguayo-Mazzucato, MD, PhD / Cell Metabolism
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Newswise — BOSTON – (May 30, 2019) --Research from Joslin Diabetes Center has shown in mice that insulin resistance increases the proportion of aged beta-cells which are dysfunction. Such an increase in aged beta-cells could lead to type 2 diabetes. These researchers confirmed similarly increased proportion of aged beta-cells in islets recovered from humans with type2 diabetes. The study also showed that beta-cell function can be recovered by removing these aged populations either via genetic modification or oral medication.
"Our hypothesis was that there was an important component in the development of diabetes which consisted of accelerated aging of beta-cells and that this population could be targeted therapeutically," says Cristina Aguayo-Mazzucato, MD, PhD, Assistant Investigator in the Section on Islet Cell and Regenerative Biology, first author on the paper, recently published in Cell Metabolism.
This research falls into a broader field of the study of senescence. Senescence is the slow decline of proliferation and function of a specific cell population. These cells accumulate as organisms grow older, but certain circumstances can cause some cells in an organism to age faster than the whole.
The research team, led by Dr. Aguayo-Mazzucato, generated animal models of insulin resistance and tracked the proportion of senescent beta-cells.
"What we found is that indeed, insulin resistance was increasing the amount of senescent or old beta-cells," she says.
Next, they deleted the aged cells through either genetic manipulation or medications that are known to remove senescent cells. The results were striking.
"We were able to recover beta cell function, we were able to restore glucose tolerance," says Dr. Aguayo-Mazzucato
The ability to restore beta cell function with minimal intervention could be a game changer in the care of type 2 diabetes. For many people with the disease, beta cell function declines to the point where they need injectable insulin. Should this research be borne out in clinic trials, the implications for treatment could be huge.
"When you look at the absolute percentage or quantity of the senescent beta-cells, they rarely exceed 20 percent of the whole beta cell population and yet targeting this relatively minor population had a huge effect on function and glucose metabolism and cellular identity," she says.
Medications to delete senescent cells , termed senolytics, are still under investigation. Dr. Aguayo-Mazzucato and her team hope to bring a potential treatment closer to the clinic by partnering with companies that are already working on senolytics, to test if their medications would work for people with diabetes.
"This opens a new target to treat diabetes which is basically to target populations of old or senescent cells that are really contributing to the local disfunction," she says.
Senolysis, or the removal of aged or dysfunctional cells, is a growing field in the treatment of age-related diseases. This new research fits into the larger picture of how senolytics could help combat many different diseases of aging, leading to better quality of life.
"In fact, it's a very exciting and rapidly growing field in medicine, which is called Senolytics or Senolysis," says Dr. Aguayo-Mazzucato. "It has promises, as shown by other laboratories, in osteoarthritis, muscle frailty or degeneration, renal function, some brain function."
While the work was completed in models of type 2 diabetes, the findings could also be relevant in type 1 diabetes.
"What we're seeing is that senescence is, in reality, a response to stress. In the case of type two diabetes, this stress is insulin resistance. In the case of type one diabetes, it is the immune attack on beta-cells," she says. "But in both models, beta-cells are responding to these stresses by becoming senescent. So, we think that the potential of this new vision of preventing diabetes will be valid for both type one and type two."
Joshua Andle, Terrence B Lee Jr, Ayush Midha, Lindsay Talemal, Vaja Chipashvili, Jennifer Hollister-Lock, Jan van Deursen, Gordon Weir and Susan Bonner-Weir also contributed to the paper.
This study was supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Diabetes Research and Wellness Foundation, and an important group of private donors.
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History of Disney Music in 14 Minutes
To pass the time during my cancer treatment, I did a live stream on Twitter about the history of Disney music. Why not, right? :-)
Alan Menken Loves 3rds!
Pop quiz! What's Alan Menken's favorite interval?
Answer: I don't know, but 3rds show up ALL over his Disney soundtracks!
He uses them in ostinatos, sequences, free-flowing melodies, emphatic gestures... have a listen to the examples in this video, and then read on to learn more!
Ostinatos establish a mood and anticipate motion.
Menken uses 3rds-based ostinatos to establish moods and anticipate motion. Ostinatos, in case you don't know, are musical patterns that repeat themselves over and over and over. For this reason, they both ground us in a particular sound-world and build up suspense over when, and how, the music will change.
In Newsies, the syncopations and brass orchestration of a 3rds-based ostinato set the movie in jazzy NYC, in a bustling orphanage where the newsies long for adventure.
In The Little Mermaid, a 3rds-based ostinato is played smoothly and evenly by sweet violins, creating an aura of peace and satisfaction as Ariel lies down to sleep. What will tomorrow bring? We'll find out tomorrow; in the meantime, she basks in her happiness.
In Aladdin, the end-of-bar accents, abrupt rests, and flurries of sixteenth notes in this 3rds-based ostinato create anxiety. Trapped by the guards, unable to escape, he prepares himself to jump for his life, colorfully depicted by a falling glissando.
Here are those same examples in sheet music format:
Sequences create movement and anticipate arrival.
Menken uses 3rds-based sequences to create motion and anticipate arrival. Sequences are like ostinatos, but each time the pattern repeats it's a little bit higher or lower than the time before... like climbing on rungs in a ladder.
In Hunchback of Notre Dame, for example, the villainous Frollo sings a descending sequence of 3rds as his soul descends into Hell.
In The Little Mermaid, by contrast, Ariel sings an ascending sequence of 3rds as the sea witch, Ursula, rips her voice up and out of her throat.
Isn't Disney just lovely for children? Here are those same examples in sheet music format:
Free-flowing melodies are more flexible than ostinatos and sequences.
The challenge with ostinatos and sequences is that they're structurally very rigid. But that's precisely where they get their power: they're incredible at establishing moods and carrying the music in clear directions.
But Alan Menken also often uses thirds to create his own, free-flowing melodies, such as the following gruesome duet from Hunchback and snazzy, finger-snapping bridge from Newsies.
In the Hunchback duo, Frollo and Quasimodo sing short phrases based almost exclusively on thirds. Thirds are useful in duets, because they are very consonant, and they form the most basic building blocks of tonal chords. For these reasons, they're relatively easy to harmonize, which is a load off the shoulders when trying to blend two simultaneous melodies.
This snazzy bit from Newsies uses open thirds, omitting the middle note of each interval. Leaping around from syncopated note to syncopated note, this use of open thirds creates a feeling of lightness, joy, and happy-go-luckiness:
Of course, the happy-go-luckiness of these open thirds can be snuffed in a puff, when used for a rigid, choppy, ostinato such as that in Randy Newman's song "Friends on the Other Side" from Disney's The Princess and the Frog.
Good stuff. Here's the sheet music:
Emphatic gestures add "punch and pizzazz" (quoth the Genie...)
A lot of folks think that music is just about long, flowing melodies and longer, nerdier chord progressions. But that's missing the trees for the forest. Just as hand gestures and facial gestures add extra meaning to vocal speech, so, too, do itty-bitty musical gestures contribute to the flavor and meaning of a song.
Alan Menken is a MASTER of musical gestures, and one of these days I'll write about the multitude of juicy, delectable instrumental gestures in his background music for Aladdin. It's part of what makes the Aladdin soundtrack so expressive and engaging.
But for now, let's have a listen and look at a few 3rds-based gestures in his vocal melodies.
The choruses to "I See The Light" (Tangled) and "Go the Distance" (Hercules) are loud and exciting and triumphant and heroic... but if you want to know why that is, you have to look at the first three notes. Like a musical fist pump, each of these choruses begins with a sweeping gesture from scale degree 6 up to scale degree 1. They don't just break out into song; they leap into song.
In "Friend Like Me" (Aladdin), the Genie doesn't just sing; he laughs, he make funny sounds, he throws around little exclamations... and all these "extra" details are performed via charming musical gestures. Here are just a couple of them, which are based on the interval of a 3rd:
And here's the sheet music:
Putting it all together: "The Mob Song" from Beauty and the Beast
Ready to see something awesome? "The Mob Song" from Beauty and the Beast combines 3rds-based ostinatos, sequences, free-flowing melodies, and rhetorical gestures, all in a single verse!
- It begins with an emphatic gesture (a rising minor 3rd from scale degree 1 to 3), which immediately sets a dark and hurried tone.
- This gesture is then turned into an ostinato that wavers between two minor 3rds, one between scale degrees 1-3 and the other between scale degrees 2-4.
- The entire first phrase (emphatic gestures + ostinato) is then repeated a step higher, initiating a sequence.
- Then the same 3rds-based emphatic gesture is used as the basis for a free-flowing melody.
- The verse concludes with an ascending sequence based, again, on that same 3rds-based emphatic gesture.
Sooooooo cool!!
Putting it all together again: "Arabian Nights" from Aladdin
The opening song from "Aladdin" also combines 3rds-based ostinatos, sequences, free-flowing melodies, and rhetorical gestures. My analysis below only covers the first half of the song, but I should warn you that the second half is also heavily based on 3rds as well. My gosh, does Alan Menken LOVE to use 3rds, or what?!
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Analysis Request #2: Why doesn't Hades sing?
Well, I didn't intend to reply with a whole thread, but you know... things happen...
So here's a little thread about the music of Disney villains (or lack thereof)!#DisneyMusicTheory https://t.co/bx8VBFaLsn
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Before Little Mermaid (1989), no Disney villains sang their own solo. There were a few who sang bits and pieces, like Cinderella's stepsisters with their horrendous voices. Musical talent = purity / goodness, while lack of musical talent = evil. (cont...)
Menken sort of changed this, setting a trend that lasts to the present. The villains in Little Mermaid, Aladdin, Lion King, all the way up through Princess & the Frog and Tangled have very growly voices that blend the boundaries between singing and speaking. Shows they're evil.
This is actually an anti-Semitic trope in opera, literature, art, for 100s of years: that Jews' poor musicianship shows how evil they are and Christians' musicality shows their purity. Few connect this with Jews today, but the musical=good/non-musical=bad idea is ALL over Disney.
If you're interested in this sort of thing, there's an amazing book called "Music Libel Against the Jews" by Dr. Ruth HaCohen which details this anti-Semitic stereotype about "evil Jews" being fundamentally unmusical in contrast to "pure Christians." So fascinating.
@jbohn_composer mentioned this a little in his book about early Disney music, but he didn't connect it with the old anti-Semitic trope.
I've actually got a whole YouTube series planned about this, once I make the time for it...
In the case of Hercules & Little Mermaid, knowing this anti-Semitic history is particularly interesting, given that it's very possible to hear both Ursula and Hades as Jewish caricatures. I don't assume that the composers were even AWARE of the anti-Semitic history of this trope.
In fact, it's REALLY interesting in the context of Little Mermaid, because there are actually people on the internet who think that Ursula is the devil, King Triton is Jesus, and Ariel is humanity: so Ursula (coded as Jewish) is like the devil tempting humanity away from Jesus.
In that reading Ursula (coded as Jewish) is not just tempting Ariel (humanity). She's silencing Ariel's voice, b/c, according to this anti-Semitic trope, Jews hate music. It's like in the Canterbury Tales when Jews slit the throat of a Christian singer b/c they can't stand music.
That's probably not the answer you had in mind when you asked why Hades doesn't sing... it's so fascinating and surprising. But it explains so, so much about why Disney villains either don't sing at all or else sing with a "non-musical" voice.


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Daventry drug empire comes crashing down after 'runners' list discovered
One of the dealers used a 13-year-old runner to help with his illegal business
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Jordan Swain, Sophie Baker were both sent into immediate custody, but Richard Lee was handed a suspended sentence (Image: Northants Police)
Three drug dealers from Northamptonshire have been sentenced to more than 11 years behind bars.
Two men and one woman from Daventry in West Northamptonshire have been sentenced for conspiracy to supply cocaine and cannabis after appearing in Northampton Crown Court.
Their sophisticated empire involved the use of a 13-year-old runner and thousands of pounds worth of illegal drugs.
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After more than a year of investigations from Northamptonshire Police, Jordan Swain 27, previously of Jennings Close, Daventry, Sophie Baker, 35, previously of Oriel Road, Daventry, and Richard Lee, 38, previously of Buckfast Close have all been given prison sentences.
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They were sentenced at Northampton Crown Court (Image: Andrew Baker)
The investigations first began when police officers stopped Swain in his car on High March, Daventry on February 19, 2020.
Inside, they found cocaine and two mobile phones.
Once they had examined the phones, police discovered that Swain was involved in the supply of both cocaine and cannabis in the area.
The messages showed that Baker was responsible for holding the drugs for Swain and was working under his direction. Lee was later found to be one of Swain's sub-dealers.
The force's Serious and Organised Crime Team launched an investigation and on September 18, 2020, they executed warrant at the home addresses of both Baker and Lee.
At Baker's address, they found nearly £1,500 in cash, several mobile phones, digital scales and £1,800 worth of amphetamine.
At Lee's address, £3,800 worth of cannabis was discovered, along with scales, zip seal bags and a small amount of cocaine.
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Investigations into Swain's multiple mobile phones found that he had a drugs "tick list" showing customers who owed him over £20,000 and also that he had been using a child at just 13-years-old.
This child was forced to supply cannabis, make deliveries and collect debts on Swain's behalf.
All three were later charged with conspiracy to supply cocaine and cannabis.
Detective Inspector Nick Cobley from Northamptonshire Police's Serious and Organised Crime Team, said: "Jordan Swain acted like so many drug dealers, thinking that he could do what he wanted and not face the consequences of his actions.
"These individuals falsely believe they're untouchable and believe they're too clever to ever get caught.
"In reality, nobody is untouchable, especially not Jordan Swain.
"There is no place in our communities for those who deal drugs, exploit the vulnerable and fuel the wider criminality and societal decline associated with drugs.
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"This was a detailed investigation and I wish to commend the team for their efforts and the determination shown to bring Swain and his associates to justice.
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"I hope this case shows the seriousness with which the Serious and Organised Crime Team operate to take down drug dealers. Ultimately, If you deal drugs, we will catch up with you."
The three criminals appeared in Northampton at Crown Court on October 26.
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