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Genetics and Genomics
illness with tragic clarity—his grandmother had
recently died after a F
fteen-year battle with the
disease, his father lived in a nursing home where
his uncontrollable movements could be con-
trolled, and his older brother Mike was just start-
ing to show symptoms. Inherited in an autosomal
dominant manner, HD strikes every generation
ects males and females. If Stuart had the
mutation—a “triplet repeat” in which a sequence
of DNA, CAG, is present in many extra copies—
he, too, would develop the behavioral and cogni-
tive changes and motor symptoms of HD. He was
about to get married and would use the informa-
tion in his decision about having children.
X-Linked Recessive Inheritance:
Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
Malcolm had always been a clumsy child, but
when he started tripping more often at the age of
4, his mother Emelda took him to a pediatrician.
The doctor observed Malcolm walking, noticing
his enlarged calf muscles, and also had the boy
rise from a seated position. Rather than standing
directly, he pushed o±
with his hands. He’d been
standing that way for so long that Emelda had
thought it normal. The doctor thought otherwise
and referred the entire family to a muscular dys-
trophy clinic at a nearby medical center.
Genetic testing revealed that the gene
that encodes a protein called dystrophin was
absent—Malcolm had Duchenne muscu-
lar dystrophy. His muscle cells lack a protein
required to withstand the force of contraction.
His skeletal muscles were already affected,
and he would be in a wheelchair by age ten.
Then his cardiac and smooth muscle cells
might be a±
The family met with a genetic counselor.
She asked questions about Malcolm’s cousins
on his mother’s side, but they were all girls. The
counselor explained that Duchenne muscular
dystrophy is caused by a mutation in a gene on
the X chromosome. It passes from carrier moth-
ers, such as Emelda, to a±
ected sons. Malcolm’s
father George could not have transmitted the
gene, because he passed his Y chromosome to
his son, not his X. The counselor told Emelda and
George that they could have their younger son
Thad tested. He, too, tripped often, but the par-
ents had attributed his clumsiness to imitating his
brother. Thad did not have the mutation.
Genetic Counselors Communicate Modes of Inheritance
Reasons to seek genetic counseling:
Family history of abnormal chromosomes
Elevated risk of single gene disorder
Family history of multifactorial disorder
Family history of cancer
Genetic counseling sessions:
Information provided on specific
disorders, modes of inheritance,
tests to identify at-risk family
Testing arranged, discussion of
Links to support groups, appro-
The genetic counseling process.
enetic counselors are medical profes-
sionals who help families understand the
implications of an inherited illness and
guide them in obtaining tests, treatments, and
g. 24A). The tools of the genetic coun-
selor include pedigree charts, family and medical
histories, communication skills, and compassion.
²or disorders caused by a single gene, the coun-
selor must explain the mode of inheritance—as
the following real cases demonstrate.
Autosomal Recessive Inheritance:
Molly and Russell received unexpected news dur-
ing her fourth month of pregnancy—a routine
blood test had revealed that she was a carrier of
C². She had one wild type copy of the gene and
one mutant copy. That allele was rare and asso-
ciated with mild disease, the genetic counselor
explained. Did Molly or any of her blood rela-
tives have frequent respiratory problems? Molly
thought a moment. Her mother and maternal
grandmother seemed to have bronchitis nearly
every winter, and just last year her mother had
been hospitalized with pneumonia. One of her
brothers had frequent colds, and she herself had
ered from sinusitis.
Molly’s family history was consistent with C².
The next step to better determine risk to the fetus
was to have Russell tested. If he was a carrier, too,
then the fetus faced a one in four chance of hav-
ing inherited C². The severity would depend upon
which allele Russell had. Russell was homozygous
for the wild type allele. Had he carried a mutation
too, further testing could have diagnosed the
fetus. C² testing is routine for pregnant women
and newborns are screened for the disease.
Autosomal Dominant Inheritance:
Stuart had completed several sessions with his
genetic counselor and felt he was ready to take
the predictive test for Huntington Disease (HD). It
hadn’t been an easy decision. At age thirty, he was
able to see the inheritance pattern of his family’s

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NAUVOO, Ill. - More than 5,000 people will fill this tiny Illinois town during the 76th annual Nauvoo Grape Festival during the weekend, and regulars should be ready for a few changes.
"One of the bigger changes for us is that we're not going to do the pageant like we used to. We're doing it as a dinner theater," said Kim Ourth, director of the Nauvoo Tourism Office.
The annual festival, which started in 1938, returns Friday and runs through Sunday at Nauvoo State Park, a 148-acre park on Illinois 96 on the south edge of Nauvoo. As Ourth mentioned, the annual history pageant, known as "The Wedding of Wine and Cheese," has been reformatted as a dinner theater beginning at 6 p.m. Sunday night at Luther Hall. Tickets can be purchased for $25, and the price includes the dinner, show and a souvenir program. Ourth said the annual pageant was changed due to lack of participation and attendance.
That's not the only change this year, though. The ever-popular garden tractor pull will make its triumphant return at 2:30 p.m. Saturday.
If you prefer cars to tractors, the 37th annual Festival of Wheels car show also will return, but this time, the display will be on the tail end of a traveling car show that starts in Warsaw, Ill., Friday night, working its way through Hamilton, Ill., on Saturday. The Festival of Wheels show starts at 11 a.m. Sunday, and more than 500 cars will be on display. There also will be pin-striping artists on hand auctioning off unique pieces of artwork during the show, and all the money raised will go into scholarships for area high school seniors interested in an automotive career.
Those who want to get a sneak peak of the car show can view the classic rides from 5:30 to 8 p.m. Saturday night at Outlaw's Tees.
Midwest Invazion returns for the second year with outrageous motorcycle stunts that have to be seen to be believed. The show starts at 5:30 p.m. Sunday.
"The riders are focused on safety, and they talk to people about how they train," Ourth said.
The festival kicks off with tours of the Rheinberger Museum's arched wine cellar and the Weld House Museum from 1 to 4 p.m. Friday, and those tours will continue at the same times Saturday and Sunday.
Food vendors will be open from 5 p.m. Friday through the rest of the weekend, and Conner Family Amusements will provide carnival rides throughout the weekend. All the rides can be enjoyed for an $18 armband from 6 to 9 p.m. Friday and Sunday.
Tickets for the Sunday night dinner theater must be purchased in advance, which can be done by calling (309) 221-8992 or (217) 219-1188.
A full schedule of events can be found at www.nauvoograpefestival.com.

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Google’s chairman is among several tech and media executives investing in an Uber-style app that provides helicopter services for New Yorkers.
Blade launched a year ago and flies users to destinations such as the Hamptons, Cape Cod or Martha’s Vineyard, as well as local airports. A single trip starts around $575.
Eric Schmidt, alongside Barry Diller and David Zaslavs has invested $6 million in the company, which was started with just $50,000. The latest investment values the company at $25 million.

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We, the members of the International Association of Women Museum(IAWM), have experienced a hybrid conference with the slogan of “Still We Create” at 6th IAWM Conference in Hittisau. The created slogan was followed by several creative events organised by the wonderful Hittisau’s team. The team’s work was so wonderful it made us feelas if we "Alice in wonderland"!
We were anticipating the arrival of the international day of Human Rights, the day that we were supposed to announce the start of a new campaign called "The Knitting Yarn's Action" however people reached the street to express their pent-up anger against injustice, they were violently oppressed and forced back to their homes, however their homes are not the same since they were forced off the streets.
Halleh Ghorashi - This exhibition is the first stage of the Iranian women’s museum project, which showcases handicrafts made by women inmates (prisoners of conscience) in Evin Prison. The stories and imaginaries connected to these handicrafts make them much more than just objects.
Marga Martens – One might wonder what are pure and goodly deeds and what is commendable and seemly conduct? Sacrificing your freedom for spiritual concepts seems to me a pure and goodly deed.
Mona Holm - It is a tremendous pleasure for me to be here with you at the Humanity House in Den Haag, today, the 9th of March 2018, and see the fruits of years of hard and dedicated work. What we are part of just now is a truly remarkable event. This is an inauguration we have been hoping for and longing for, during years, but have not quite been able to understand how could be realized.
Parastou Forouhar - The opening of the exhibition we have gathered here to see is a beautiful small step toward a greater hope and idea – a museum that represents the women’s movement in Iran.

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Young adult author Maggie Stiefvater has written a companion novel set in the universe of her bestselling Shiver trilogy. The new book, Sinner, stars a character first introduced in the original series, Cole St. Clair.
Scholastic has acquired the manuscript and plans to release the finished book in the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada on July 1, 2014. Publisher David Levithan negotiated the deal with Laura Rennert of the Andrea Brown Literary Agency. Levithan had this statement in the release:
Legions of fans – myself included – have wanted Maggie to return to the world of Shiver, and now she’s found an ingenious, sexy, utterly compelling way to do it. This isn’t so much a re-visitation as it is a reinvention, with Maggie taking readers to many places they’ve never been with her before.
- E.R. Frank Inks YA Novel Deal With Atheneum Books for Young Readers
- Scholastic Publishes the 'Open a World of Possible' Anthology as a Free eBook
- Harlan Coben Inks Four-Book Deal With Dutton
- Gene Luen Yang & Mike Holmes to Collaborate On 'Secret Coders' Comic Series

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Despite the financial success of STAR TREK: THE MOTION PICTURE (1979), the film was considered by Paramount Pictures to be a disappointment, owing to spiraling production costs and a script that came together literally at the last minute and that led to a story that left many Trek fans cold.
The end result was that Paramount Pictures decided, if there was to be a second Star Trek film, the budget would have to be considerably smaller. Series creator Gene Roddenberry, who was largely blamed for the cost overruns from the first film, was reduced to an “Executive Consultant” role, while well-regarded TV producer Harve Bennett was put in charge of the franchise.
As he was developing the script with writer Jack B. Sowards, Bennett turned to novelist-turned-director Nicholas Meyer to helm the film. Meyer had recently directed TIME AFTER TIME (1979), but he had almost no familiarity with Star Trek. This actually turned out to be a good thing, since he was able to focus on making the best film possible without staying overly (excessively) reverential to the material.
Just for fun, I’m starting a rundown of the Top 10 Ubiquitous Cues in film. This is a list scientifically curated by me sitting down with a notepad and jotting 10 titles down as they came to me. I’m sure I’ve forgotten some, which is what the comments section is for 🙂
In any case, this will be a list of what I think are ten of the most recognizable cues from film, and in one case, it’s not even a cue that was written for the film in question. This is music that almost anyone on the street will recognize, even if they don’t know where it’s from.
“Bishop’s Countdown” – Aliens (1986), James Horner
Case in point, unless you are a film music fan, I doubt you’ll immediately recognize this choice from the track name or perhaps even the film. That said, I can almost guarantee you’ve heard it before.
During the 1990s-2000s especially, you would hear a portion of this track in a movie trailer each summer (sometimes for multiple movies). Heck, even the trailer to THE HITCHHIKER’S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY (2005) managed to work it in:
How many times can you remember hearing this cue in a movie trailer? Let me know your thoughts in the comments, and be on the lookout for the #9 cue coming soon, which will be a bit of an evolutionary step forward.
What better film to pick for the Play to the Whistle Blogathon than one that features a down-on-its-luck team defy the odds and take down a much stronger foe? No, not that one. No, not that one either.
No, I’m talking about the 1989 baseball classic, MAJOR LEAGUE. Written and directed by David S. Ward (best known for writing THE STING (1973) and SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE (1993)), the film tells the stirring and emotional story of a band of underdogs who….
…oh who am I kidding. The film is an absolute riot and easily one of the best sports comedies of all time.
The plot is fairly simple: Rachel Phelps, a former exotic dancer, inherits the Cleveland Indians baseball team from her dead husband. Not wanting to live out her days in Cleveland, she hatches a plot to field the worst possible team she can, because if overall attendance drops below a certain threshold, the league will allow her to relocate the team to Miami, Florida.
And boy, what a team they put together. I think the Cleveland Indians of MAJOR LEAGUE should go down as the most colorful sports team in film history. Every major character (player or not) leaves a lasting impression and is perfectly cast:
Jake Taylor (Tom Berenger), the worn down veteran who sees this as his last chance at being a winner;
Ricky “Wild Thing” Vaughn (Charlie Sheen), the former convict with a blazing fastball and undiagnosed vision problems (and who helped make the song “Wild Thing” into a sports anthem);
Willie Mays Hayes (Wesley Snipes), a blazing runner who needs to have his talent catch up a bit with his showboating;
Pedro Cerrano (Dennis Haysbert), a slugger from Cuba who prays to the god Jobu because he, “No can hit curveball. Straight ball, I hit very much. But with curveball…bats are afraid.”
and of course, beleaguered Indians announcer Harry Doyle (Bob Uecker), who chugs Jack Daniels during the game and popularized the call, “Juuuuuuust a bit outside!”
Another key to the success of this film is its setting. To fully appreciate the era in which MAJOR LEAGUE was made, we must travel back to an alternate dimension where the Cleveland Browns (American football) were good, while the Cleveland Indians were a complete mess. Cleveland itself has earned a reputation here in the US for being a…well…a dump, and the opening credits, which are set to Randy Newman’s song “Burn On” sets the stage perfectly.
Added context for any non-US readers: the Cuyahoga River is a major river that runs through the city of Cleveland and that has famously caught fire a number of times due to pollution.
Smartly, the vast majority of the movie is spent either on the field or in the clubhouse, allowing the rag-tag group to bounce off of each other. Old-timer pitcher and devout Christian Eddie Harris (Chelcie Ross) tries to start a religious war with Cerrano, prompting one of the famous exchanges in the film:
Cerrano: “Jesus. I like him very much. But he no help with curveball.”
Harris: “Are you trying to say Jesus Christ can’t hit a curveball?”
Likewise, overpriced free-agent Roger Dorn (Corbin Bernsen), who is more interested in life after baseball than actually playing it, starts a feud with rookie Vaughn and later with Taylor for a lack of effort. He also has a hilarious run in with Cerrano during spring training, with the big Cuban taking one of Dorn’s golf club covers for his bat.
The on-field action is surprisingly good. While no one will confuse many of the stars of the film for real baseball players (Charlie Sheen was at one point offered a scholarship to play college baseball, and his ability to throw a decent fastball helps sell several of the scenes), the filmmakers do a good job of editing around the stars to make it fairly convincing.
Side note: I was amused to find out that the guy who plays the Indians’ nemesis, Yankee slugger Clu Haywood, actually served as the real Pittsburgh Pirates’ pitching coach for a time.
The plot of the film plays out as you would largely expect. The team, which starts off terrible, begins to improve. In response, Phelps begins taking away things like transportation (first they are downgraded to a plane that is literally duct taped together and then later to a bus) and therapy equipment like a working whirlpool (which is solved by putting a motor boat engine inside). Eventually the team gets wind of her overall plan to lose and decides that the only course of action left is to win the pennant outright.
Which of course, they do. Surprising? No. But that’s not really the point of the film. The point is how they do it, and MAJOR LEAGUE’s version of the cliche “winning it all” scene is one of my favorites. It ties together a number of threads that were dropped earlier, particularly a scene where Jake Taylor is alone in the stadium and imagines does the famous Babe Ruth “calling his shot” moment and the fact that Taylor’s knees are bad. At the same time it doesn’t take the obvious route of Taylor crushing that game-winning home run.
If I had to find fault with the movie, the only place I can really point to is in a side plot involving Taylor and his ex girlfriend Lynn Wells (Rene Russo). Now, I’ve confessed my irrational dislike for Russo on Twitter, but here I can’t even really blame that. It’s just that this side plot is terribly unnecessary.
Taylor takes Vaughn and Hays out for a celebratory dinner to kick off the season, and he spots Wells having dinner with another guy (who turns out to be Tom, her fiancé). He then proceeds to, well, stalk her through the movie, including a scene where he crashes a party at Tom’s place. Eventually, when he busts in on HER place, they end up sleeping together, and eventually, during the celebration at the end of the pennant-winning game, she reveals that she has left Tom. Because of course, that’s what happens in these kind of movies.
But who cares? I know I didn’t…and Taylor’s behavior is at times obsessive to the point of being creepy. You know what though, that’s not the point of the movie, and their plot doesn’t intrude too much on the film to be damaging. At worst, the scenes between Taylor and Wells amount more to “ok, time to go grab a drink/snack” when you’re watching at home.
Finally, since this is Listening To Film after all, a brief word about the music. I say brief, because there really isn’t much to say about it. Being a late 80s film, there are a number of pop songs used throughout the film, most notably “Wild Thing” by X, which is used as Ricky Vaughn’s entry song. For the rest, James Newton Howard turns in a score that is so unabashedly 80s with prominent synth and rock instrumentation. Most famous is probably the track “Pennant Fever,” which plays over a montage of the Indians slowly improving and gaining ground in the standings.
Newton Howard also wrote a love theme for the film that, again because it was the 80s, was turned into a song for the end credits. The song, called “Most Of All You” and performed by Bill Medley, is again both wonderfully and cringingly pure 80s ballad. It’s one of those songs that, if you grew up in the 80s, you might recognize but not be really sure why.
“Most Of All You” performed by Bill Medley
Ultimately, the songs and the music do work well for the film, because all are part of a pure 80s time capsule of a movie. It’s been a long time since the Cleveland Indians played in Municipal Stadium (affectionately called the Municipal Pig Lot by folks where I grew up). These days, they are competitive, and have been for most years since the mid 90s. But maybe, just maybe, they have the ghosts of Jake Taylor, Ricky Vaughn, and Pedro Cerrano to thank for that success.
MAJOR LEAGUE isn’t a movie that will move you to tears or keep you on the edge of your seat. But it will make you laugh out loud, smile, and have a great time for an hour and a half or so. And isn’t that really what movies are for?
Ever since the success of STAR TREK II: THE WRATH OF KHAN, subsequent films in the Star Trek universe have largely been judged by their villains (with STAR TREK IV: THE VOYAGE HOME (1986) being the obvious exception). And like Shinzon in STAR TREK: NEMESIS (2002) and Nero in STAR TREK (2009), many often feel like pale imitations of Khan himself.
However, this is not the case for Klingon General Chang in STAR TREK VI: THE UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY, which in my humble opinion is the only film in the series to challenge WRATH OF KHAN for the top spot among all Star Trek films. Chang is a big part of why I love the film so much, and a lot of that is due to his portrayal by Christopher Plummer.
As an actor who comes from theater, Plummer was the ideal choice to play a Klingon general with a penchant for quoting from the works of Shakespeare (even if they are not, as he remarks in the film, in the “original Klingon”). Unlike some of Trek’s more one-note villains, Chang is at various times cordial, cunning, or ruthless. Plummer’s theater background is most evident in the trial scene, where Chang is called upon to prosecute a case against Captain Kirk and Doctor McCoy for the assassination of the Klingon chancellor. He shows tremendous range here, from quiet and almost chatty when he discusses the amount of Romulan ale consumed by McCoy prior to the attack to bombastic when, in perhaps the most famous exchange in the scene, he evokes Adlai Stevenson II’s famous remark to Russian Ambassador Zorin by yelling at Kirk, “…don’t wait for the translation! Answer me now!!!”
Because Chang is not (deliberately) set up as the villain of the film, Plummer also has the added challenge of portraying someone who might be a reluctant ally to the Federation when he comes aboard the Enterprise for an ill-fated diplomatic dinner. His initial encounter with Captain Kirk is not one of hostility but one of admiration, as Chang sees himself and Kirk as two sides of the same coin. Plummer plays both his arrival and departure scenes with the perfect balance of relish, comradeship, and menace so that, despite the good intentions of Chancellor Gorkon, you’re not quite sure what to make of this bald fellow with the bolted-in eyepatch.
His attitude also serves as an interesting mirror on the character of Captain Kirk. Of course, Kirk is portrayed as the hero in these stories, but how would that hero be viewed by his long-time adversaries? While his deeds may not be celebrated, he certainly deserves respect as a warrior, particularly from a race like the Klingons. One gets the sense that Chang has had a similarly distinguished career as Kirk, and it’s not too much of a stretch to suggest that his appearance to Kirk and his crew is not dissimilar to how Kirk is viewed by the Klingons. The fact that both Christopher Plummer and William Shatner are classically trained Canadian actors makes the parallel even that much closer.
Both characters also carry with them considerable prejudices as well. While some of Kirk’s is rooted in the death of his son at the hands of the Klingons, there is also the ingrained distrust built up over years of conflict that is shared by both. This is most apparent during the dinner scene, where a comment by Chang is attributed by Kirk to Adolf Hitler just prior to the Nazi invasion of Europe. It also helps that Plummer’s delivery when he responds, “I beg your pardon?” is absolutely perfect. Ultimately though, Kirk is able to overcome these prejudices (admittedly only after being sent to a Klingon gulag) and recognize that it is possible to make peace with one’s enemies.
Chang, of course, isn’t able to make this leap, and because of how he sees Kirk as a mirror of himself, he believes that Kirk is right there with him about there being, “no peace in our time.” It is here during the final battle that Plummer lets loose, chewing the scenery with incredible gusto as he mockingly quotes Shakespeare from his cloaked bird of prey. While I suppose this aspect of his performance could be considered hammy, I just enjoy it so much that I can’t find fault. Chang is clearly having a wonderful time, slowly toying with his adversary, and his shocked expression upon realizing that Kirk has beaten him along with his subdued, “to be…or not to be,” final line is the perfect way for him to go out.
A couple of minor character issues aside — I was never convinced that Chang was anything BUT the bad guy, and his reveal as such in the film is more of a “well duh” moment than a surprise — Christopher Plummer certainly belongs up there with Ricardo Montalban when discussing the best villain portrayals the Star Trek franchise has produced. I cannot imagine another actor in the role, which is perhaps the greatest compliment you can give.
Finally, Christopher Plummer also made his mark in a different role: narrating the first teaser trailer for the film. Set to clips projected over the surface of the Enterprise, it’s probably my favorite Star Trek trailer of all time.
I’d love to hear your thoughts on Plummer, Chang, and the trailer, and thanks again to Sean Munger for the chance to revisit one of my favorites.
Looking back at the Pirates of the Caribbean Trilogy
Ok, first off: yes, I said the Pirates of the Caribbeantrilogy. I know there are two more films now. To be honest, I haven’t seen them, nor do I really have much interest in doing so. In Pirates 4, the only thing that even piques my interest about it is that Ian McShane plays the villain, and if I’m feeling like I need some Ian McShane, I’ll go watch an an old episode of “Lovejoy.”
I remember when the first film, PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: THE CURSE OF THE BLACK PEARL (2003) came out. At the time, I just knew it had Johnny Depp in it (and that he was rumored to be quite hilarious) and that it also starred the guy who played Legolas in the Lord of the Rings films. I also knew that it was based on a famous Walt Disney ride (this did not fill me with enthusiasm) and that Jerry Bruckheimer was producing it (this made me slightly more interested, though I found Disney/Bruckheimer to be a very strange pairing).
In any event, my parents, my sister, and I went to see it that summer, and I was more than a little surprised in a good way. The movie is incredibly entertaining, laugh out loud funny in places (I still find the early sequence of Jack Sparrow captaining a much smaller ship than expected and then coming into port as it sinks to be quite hilarious), and plot-wise it’s complex enough that it held my interest throughout.
Johnny Depp is indeed quite good here (it’s a shame that he’s played a variation of the exact same character ever since), as is the rest of the cast. Orlando Bloom does quite a good job playing Orlando Bloom. I had never heard of Keira Knightley before seeing this, and I was quite impressed with her here (this opinion would change in future years and other projects). The stand out to me though was Geoffrey Rush, who is clearly having an absolute blast playing Captain Barbossa. He’s easily the most “piratey” of the pirates here, but he still manages to create a real character vs. just a generic “bad pirate” villain.
The production design and direction is also quite good. Gore Verbinski was a name that I really only knew from THE RING (2002). While I really enjoyed that particular film (it’s one of the few decent American remakes of Asian horror films), I didn’t know what to expect for this type of movie. Thankfully, Verbinski shows that he is more than capable of directing a movie with considerable scope, action, and complex visuals.
Shame though about the music. Klaus Badelt is credited with the score, but a closer look reveals a number of the Remote Control-employed Hans Zimmer acolytes who work on so many of Bruckheimer’s projects. I suppose I should give Badelt and co. something of a pass, since they really had mere days to write music for the film. Alan Silvestri had originally been hired to score the film, but for whatever reason, he was let go fairly early on in the process. Instead, we ended up with a rather generic score that could be used in films from a number of different genres.
The most famous cue from the film, “He’s a Pirate” has become well-known (or possibly infamous) over the years, but to me, it’s another of the same generic 3/4 waltz tempo cues that Zimmer and colleagues have been putting out since GLADIATOR (2000). The fact that it has been overplayed by marching bands and TV sports shows ever since hasn’t helped, and the lack of real instrumentation in favor of synth makes it feel like “Zimmer-lite.”
“He’s a Pirate” from PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: THE CURSE OF THE BLACK PEARL
Here come the sequels…
The success of the first film clearly meant that there would be a sequel, but unfortunately, the filmmakers got a little carried away in terms of scope. Retaining the core group from the first movie, including the actors, director, and writers Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio was a smart move. However, the approach the creators took would turn out to be somewhat problematic. Instead of telling two standalone stories, the two sequels, DEAD MAN’S CHEST (2006) and AT WORLD’S END (2007) would be two parts of a single story.
Perhaps the best comparison here is to the Matrix Trilogy. In both cases, a successful first film led to not one, but two sequels. These sequels would tell a single story across two films and would show much of the same problems: an overwrought plot that could have been better told in a single film. In both sets of films, we ended up with sequences that add bloat rather than contribute to advancing the story.
On balance, I think the Pirates of the Caribbean double sequels work better. The new characters, especially Davy Jones (Bill Nighy) and Cutler Beckett (Tom Hollander), actually make strong, positive contributions to the story (quick: name one new character from the Matrix sequels who actually improves the proceedings).
Davy Jones is a spectacular amalgam of character work by Nighy and visual effects by ILM. While the environment he is placed in (typically dark and foggy/rainy) helps, he might be, with the possible exception of Gollum in the Lord of the Rings films, the most convincing CGI character I’d seen to that point. Bill Nighy (whom I would happily watch in anything) gives a quirky take on the character who, in the hands of a lesser actor, could have become a rather two-dimensional monster.
Likewise, Cutler Beckett, who is the other villain of the two sequels, is an already interesting character made even more so by the fact that he is played by Tom Hollander. Beckett is an official of the East India Trading Company, and as such is an enemy to both the film’s heroes and the entire idea of piracy. He represents a more modern sensibility, which threatens the more romanticized pirate lifestyle.
As for the plot, well…frankly there’s too much of it. The first sequel, DEAD MAN’S CHEST, spends an inordinate amount of time getting to the point. Jack Sparrow’s compass is the initial MacGuffin (I say initial because there are more later. Another warning sign.), so everyone is looking for Captain Jack. The problem is, it takes such a long time to find him (something about a black spot curse and him hiding out on an island of cringe-worthy “savage types”) that I had forgotten why they were looking for him in the first place.
On the way, we meet Beckett, his creepy henchman Mercer, Will Turner (Bloom)’s father, a strange woman named Tia Dalma, and are told tales of a Kraken, Davy Jones, and the importance of a chest, a key, and what’s kept inside that chest. The upshot is that all of these plot points do eventually come together in a way that actually makes sense (if you pay attention—something that, based on reviews, critics don’t expect anymore), but it’s a lot to keep straight on a first viewing.
Again, this is a lot like the Matrix sequels, with the audience having to wait through an interminable opening half of MATRIX: RELOADED to actually get to the point. Unlike that series, however, the payoff in AT WORLD’S END is largely satisfying (if again overlong).
As for the music, Klaus Badelt was jettisoned for the architect of the Media Ventures/Remote Control conglomerate, Hans Zimmer. This move really only provided a marginal improvement for DEAD MAN’S CHEST. Zimmer does provide a new theme (which really seems adapted from Badelt’s music) for Jack Sparrow that bounces from a rather jaunty melody played by the cello to some “Generic Zimmer Waltz” music complete with his usual synthesizer.
His other major thematic contribution is a theme for Davy Jones, which begins and ends as a rather whimsical music box melody that morphs into something more and more tortured as befitting the character.
As for the rest, well, to be honest if really feels like more of the same to me. It’s not bad in the film at all, but it sounds more like a “Remote Control’s Greatest Hits” than anything terribly original.
But then a funny thing happened on the way to film three.
Whether it was because he had more post-production time or he suddenly became inspired by the entire series, Zimmer turned in a score for AT WORLDS END that is miles better than anything that had come before. In addition to building off of his material for DEAD MAN’S CHEST and Badelt’s ubiquitous “He’s a Pirate” theme, Zimmer cranks out two to three massive new themes that, the first time I watched the film, made me wonder where THAT had been all this time.
The first is the more action-oriented theme, which makes its first big appearance during a scene in which the crew finds themselves stranded in Davy Jones’ Locker, and they must flip over the boat to escape (just go with it). The entire scene itself is a lot of fun, and ends on an impressive visual of the ocean “draining” backwards much like the water rushing from a bathtub. Note: I’m also including the cue in isolation in case you don’t want to be spoiled by the actual scene.
The second is a new love theme for Will Turner and Elizabeth Swann, which does considerable overtime, since the two actors seem to have almost no chemistry on screen. The theme is itself two parts, the first played for the more somber moments, including a wonderful rendition on the oboe:
The second part is the more dramatic of the two, and also at times represents the overall romanticism of pirate life. It’s first appearance is what truly made me sit up and pay attention to the music of the film the first time I saw it:
Another cue of note is for the climactic final confrontation with Cutler Beckett. Thinking he has fooled Jack Sparrow, Beckett sees the tide turn as the Flying Dutchman reappears only with someone other than Davy Jones in command. The music provides an emotional underscore to Beckett’s ultimate failure as his ship is literally destroyed all around him. As long as you can get over the “sailing ships don’t work like that!” it’s a wonderfully shot sequence that also provides Tom Hollander the opportunity to do something he does so well: play someone who is overly confident only to suddenly realize that he is completely out of his league. Again, both the scene and the cue in isolation are provided below.
Finally, I leave you with a sample from the ending of the film, which contains both the original “He’s a Pirate” theme and Zimmer’s new thematic material. If anything, it will help to emphasize how much better the new music is:
The original CURSE OF THE BLACK PEARL film was a surprisingly entertaining film when I went to see it in the theater. The sequels, while they have their flaws, are also entertaining, at least for the majority of the time. At worst, I would say there’s a good film in there between the two, with an extra two hours of largely unnecessary, but not bad, material. This is what sets these films apart from the Matrix Trilogy, in my opinion, since those two sequels really only have a handful of scenes that are worth the viewer’s time. Here, you have three films that are highly entertaining, well made, and show Johnny Depp at a stage well before his schtick had become tiring. While it could be a challenge to make it through all three in one sitting (there’s nearly 8 hours of film here!), they would make for a fun weekend. Definitely recommended!
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Few things are as universally fear-inducing like the the need to undergo a surgical procedure, no matter how minor. But what if that relatively minor procedure were the part of something much more nefarious? This is the question posed by the 1978 film COMA, which was based on physician-turned-author Robin Cook’s 1977 bestseller of the same name.
The success of the novel made it a natural for being adapted as a feature film. Enter another writer who had originally attended medical school: Michael Crichton. Crichton had already made a name for himself with a number of novels including “The Andromeda Strain” and “The Terminal Man”, both of which had a medical angle to them. Crichton had also written and directed the technothriller WESTWORLD (1973), and he was called upon to write the screenplay for COMA and also to direct.
The story centers around physician Susan Wheeler (Geneviève Bujold), whose friend undergoes a relatively routine surgical procedure only to end up comatose. Her superiors and colleagues, including fellow resident/boyfriend Mark Bellows (Michael Douglas), encourage her to accept what happened as a random, unfortunate medical event. However, Susan isn’t ready to give up looking for answers, especially when another patient in for orthopedic surgery (look kids, it’s Tom Selleck!) also winds up in a coma.
Through the course of her investigation, Susan runs into resistance from the chief of anesthesiology Dr. George (Rip Torn) and Chief of Surgery Dr. Harris (Richard Widmark), and discovers the mysterious Jefferson Institute, where long-term coma patents are being sent. Her guided tour of the facility (as part of a weekly tour for physicians) produces one of the more striking images in medical cinema: rows of coma patients suspended from the ceiling by wires run through their bones (to prevent bedsores, it’s said). The visual of dozens of patients hanging from wires coupled with the sound of multiple ventilators is effectively eerie, as is the almost robotic way that Ms. Emerson (Elizabeth Ashley) describes the facility (she gives an even more distant and disturbing performance earlier as she meets Susan outside the doors to the Jefferson Institute). The entire scene is wonderfully creepy and simultaneously fantastic and completely plausable.
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In consultation with two pathologists at the hospital (including Ed Harris in his first film role) begins to suspect that someone has slipped carbon monoxide into the anesthesia. This causes her to begin suspecting Dr. George, and her suspicions are also strengthened when she discovers a radio-controlled gas line that runs into one of the hospital’s operating rooms. Later, when she sneaks away from a tour of the Jefferson Institute, Susan stumbles upon the truth: patients are being put into comas and then moved there so that their organs can be harvested and sold on the black market. When she overhears two workers talking about “George” she becomes convinced of her suspicions.
After a (somewhat hokey) escape from the institute, she brings her findings to Dr. Harris, expecting him to immediately call to have Dr. George arrested. However, it turns out that HE is the one behind everything (his first name is George). Early in the scene, Dr. Harris and Susan both have a drink of scotch. It turns out that he has slipped a drug into her drink that gives her the symptoms of appendicitis. As the drug takes effect, Dr. Harris gives a rather strange soliloquy about medical decision-making (Richard Widmark does good work here, but what he rambles about just doesn’t seem to make sense to me).
I’m fine with Dr. Harris being the ultimate villain (though it’s not really a surprise), but this scene gives rise to my biggest issue with the film. Because of the drug, Dr. Harris is able to convince everyone that she has appendicitis, and that he will be operating on her himself. Of course, the operation will be performed in O.R. 8, which has the secret carbon monoxide line. Luckily for Susan, she is able to clue Mark in enough that he begins to believe what she has been saying. He eventually finds the radio device and stops it before Susan has breathed enough of the poisonous gas to do significant damage.
This is frustrating on a number of levels. Susan has been the driving force throughout the film. Even when everyone else (all men, including her boyfriend) urge her to give up on the investigation, she persists and eventually uncovers the truth. But here, in the final moments of the movie, she becomes a frustratingly cliché “damsel in distress.” Not only that, but Mark has been a naysayer for the entire film, constantly questioning Susan’s line of investigation, but here, he “comes around” at just the nick of time.
I suppose it’s not as bad as in the novel, where Susan’s fate isn’t even addressed (the reader is left hanging as to whether or not she survives), but it’s still annoying to have a film with a driven, professional female main character only to see her sidelined at the very end, dependent on her boyfriend to save her life.
That moment at the end does result in one of my favorite directorial touches that Crichton does in the film (his style is relatively perfunctory, with only a few moments of “flash”). I’m not even sure why I like it as much as I do, but there’s something clever to me about how they (literally) turn out the lights on Dr. Harris and his scheme, followed by a hard crash to the credits:
Of course, this scene also provides a good example of the music in the film, which was composed by the late, great Jerry Goldsmith. Goldsmith, who would work with Michael Crichton a year later on THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY (1979), turns in a score that works incredibly well in the film, but is a rather difficult listen in isolation.
Goldsmith had famously used a device called the Echoplex in previous scores, most notably PLANET OF THE APES (1968) and PATTON (1970). Essentially a tape delay effect, the Echoplex allows for notes to be repeated synthetically (again, the most famous use of this may be the fading trumpet notes in PATTON). For COMA, Goldsmith would again use this effect to a great extent, particularly for a two-chord motif that forms the backbone to the entire score.
“Stranger on the Street”
Notably, the entire first half of the movie is unscored, with the music only beginning once Susan notices a strange man watching her from across the street. I should say that this man follows Susan throughout the middle third of the film, culminating in a VERY creepy visit to where they store medical school cadavers…
This cue features both the Echoplex motif and the main “suspense” theme for the film: an unsettling melodic line in the high strings. Much of the score is similar in feel, working much better in the film than as a stand-alone listen.
“Cape Cod Weekend”
In addition to the main theme, Goldsmith wrote a love theme for Susan Wheeler and Mark Bellows. Played over a, frankly awkward montage, the theme is unfortunately a rather generic pop-score mishmash of “generic Goldsmith melodies.” I don’t mean to sound harsh, but the theme is simply out of place for the rest of the score (and the film), and it comes off as a Goldsmith-lite of sorts. Not one of my favorites…
Worse still, because this was the 70s, the score album contains the requisite disco version that I will spare you from.
Much more interesting is the cue that follows Susan and Mark as they stumble upon the infamous Jefferson Institute. After the main theme returns, this time on low register clarinets, the strange, brutalist-style building comes into view accompanied by a swirl of piano and percussion that sounds reminiscent of Goldsmith’s PLANET OF THE APES (1968) score. After a (I can’t believe I’m going to say this) Herrmann-esque series of low clarinet chords, Susan approaches the building as thick string chords play a motif that is very much similar to what Goldsmith would write a year later in his superb score to STAR TREK: THE MOTION PICTURE (1979).
All in all, COMA is a rather effective and largely realistic medical thriller that suffers somewhat by an unfortunate lapse into a stereotypical “damsel in distress” ending. Given the controversies even today surrounding organ donation, the plot isn’t all that far-fetched. Plot issues aside, all of the actors perform their roles well, and while I can’t really recommend the music as a stand-alone listen, Jerry Goldsmith turns in a typically effective score in the film itself.
If this blogathon has turned you on to the idea of watching some Medicine In The Movies, and you like a solid medical thriller, I definitely recommend checking out COMA. Just don’t watch it if you have any procedures planned in the coming weeks!


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Casey Abrams had the lowest number of votes on "American Idol" this week, but the judges saved him from elimination.
As a result, nobody was eliminated on "Idol" this week. All 11 remaining contestants will go on tour this summer. That's a departure from the standard 10-singer tour.
Two singers will go home next week.
Thia Megia and Stefano Langone joined Casey in the bottom three.
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Thursday's results show also featured an appearance by Hulk Hogan, as well as performances by Stevie Wonder, Sugarland and Jennifer Hudson. Hulk Hogan made his cameo after some footage of James Durbin wrestling in the "Idol" house. He appeared on stage during a results fake-out.
Stevie Wonder sang "Happy Birthday" to Steven Tyler.
How old is Steven Tyler? Funny you ask.
Are you happy with this week's outcome? After the show, I realized I would have been upset if Stefano made the tour and Casey didn't.
At the same time, I'm not a fan of the judges' save. America votes for "Idol" and America buys records. The judges can critique individual performances, but they have no say in a contestant's marketability.
Yes, Casey is quirky. Yet that doesn't translate into a commercial connection. It's not like he'll win the save and win the competition. Sad but true.

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With the Oscar Award nominees being announced this week, we thought that it would be a good time to reminisce about DC's historic motion picture theaters. Some of us may remember elders talking about how air-conditioned movie theaters were a welcomed relief from the oppressive DC heat? Check out the first in a series of these landmarks here:
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Warner Brothers reportedly built the Penn Theater that opened in 1935. That venue was subsequently torn down and replaced with condominiums, including many medical offices, in 1982. The facade, which still features the ticket booth, continues to be prominently displayed at the entrance.
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The banks regard yesterday's Project Merlin update from the Bank of England as vindication of their insistence that they have been lending to business. The Bank's decision to publish its own "trends in lending" data simultaneously suggests it does not entirely share that analysis. But whichever side you believe, it is clear that many small businesses still regard themselves as struggling to get credit – we hear such tales every single day.
One reason is that there are now fewer banks operating in the UK than before the credit crunch. Even if our biggest banks had returned to their pre-crisis levels of lending, there would still be a shortage of credit, because lenders from the US, from Scandinavia and from the rest of Europe all pulled out of the UK in the months following the crisis. They have not returned.
This is partly why the Government is so keen to see greater competition in the banking sector. It is not just consumers who need a better deal from their banks – Britain's businesses, particularly small and medium enterprises (SMEs) need a wider pool of funds to tap for lending.
Unfortunately, new entrants to the banking sector are few and far between. That is not to say there have been none, but compared with the scale of the capacity withdrawn from the UK, they are insignificant.
There may yet be bigger fish joining the pool. Virgin Money and NBNK, for example, are circling assets such as Northern Rock and the branches that Lloyds has been ordered to sell by the European Commission. Then there is Tesco Bank, which has been promising a full-scale launch, including mortgages, for what seems like ages.
All three might provide a boost to the funds available to credit-starved businesses. But remember that every bank, new entrant or long-established lender, has to comply with the prevailing regulation – such as the increase in capital banks are being told to hold against assets such as lending. That regulation is already constraining credit supply and will become more problematic as more demanding capital requirements are introduced.
Andy Haldane, the Bank of England's executive director for financial stability, said yesterday that this was an example of how regulators should use new macro-prudential powers. Like others, he wants to see capital rules relaxed during stressed times for the economy, in order to improve the supply of credit.
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Kanye West recently appeared at Paris Fashion Week over the weekend. The rapper made his runway debut at the semi-annual fashion conference in France on October 2 for the Balenciaga show. Ye opened the show, wearing an oversized black hoody with a military-style cargo jacket over the top and a pair of baggy pants and boots.
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"We need to make sure that we uphold our laws," said state Rep. Frank Corte Jr., R-San Antonio.
Corte and state Sen. Dan Patrick, R-Houston, sent Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott two letters earlier this month, asking him to rule whether anti-immigration measures similar to ones adopted in Arizona and Oklahoma, would meet constitutional muster here.
Last year, several Republican lawmakers proposed a smorgasbord of anti-immigration bills, but nearly all of them failed after the attorney general said they would violate the constitution or overstep federal authority. House leaders had asked Abbott to review all the proposals after they were filed.
Corte said it would be nice to know before the 2009 legislative session what authority Texas has to enforce immigration laws.
"I'd hate for us to spend a bunch of time debating something we don't have clarity on," he said.
In one letter, Corte and Patrick asked whether Texas could adopt a measure similar to one in Arizona that penalizes companies that knowingly hire undocumented workers.
The Arizona law allows the suspension and revocation of business licenses for companies that employ undocumented immigrants.
The other letter asks whether Texas lawmakers can adopt a policy that prohibits cities from barring police from turning undocumented immigrants over to federal agents.
"I think if we have laws that aren't being upheld, laws that are not being enforced, we need to do that," Corte said.
Police Chief Greg Allen said El Paso is not a sanctuary city and that his officers do hand over to federal officials undocumented immigrants who have broken the law.
But, he said, tracking down undocumented immigrants, is not the department's primary concern.
"We don't have the staffing; we don't have the expertise" to enforce federal immigration laws, Allen said, adding that to do so would take valuable time and resources away from fighting crime in the city.
Ray Adauto, executive vice president of the El Paso Association of Builders, said the federal government already levies steep fines from employers caught with undocumented workers.
The association, he said, urges builders to comply with the law and ensure that subcontractors they use hire legal workers.
Adding another layer of state penalties, he said, wouldn't necessarily stop companies that are determined to break the law.
"I think there's enough labor force right now with the slowdown in the marketplace that people don't need to go out and hunt for people of that nature," Adauto said.
State Sen. Eliot Shapleigh, D-El Paso, said the nation needs one good federal immigration system, not a bunch of bad ones developed by individual states.
Immigration policy, he said, should be left up to the federal government.
"Lets face facts," Shapleigh said. "The U.S. needs a vibrant labor force in technology, health services, construction and agriculture. Immigrants have shouldered that burden for years."
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What happened in Mumbai will not shake India to its foundations. India is tough and has weathered bigger storms. But the highly symbolic attacks dramatise a much wider set of struggles: the product of growing wealth for some and a revolution in communications.
The spectre haunting the nation is the old ghost in new clothes - class conflict, propelled by the same communications revolution that enables it to launch moon probes and claim recognition as a global power. In the new media age, awareness of injustice and disparity is growing among the poor, along with a sense that "we're not going to take this any more."
It will be some time before anyone knows for sure who was responsible for yesterday's calculated lunacy. But we can be almost sure among them will be young men left out of the prosperity a growing minority of Indians have experienced. Religion sometimes propels violence, but deprivation and injustice are felt around the country. Last month 12 police were killed by suspected Naxalites in Bijapur, eastern India. It was the latest encounter between police and Naxalites or Maoists, who are leading a resistance by tribal people and landless labourers in a belt snaking from Nepal down the highlands of eastern India. Near Kolkata, the attempt by Tata, a giant conglomerate, to build a factory for the new cheap mini-car the Nano was chased away by landholders mobilised against inadequate compensation for their land. Tata announced earlier this month it would build the factory elsewhere.
Scholars, policy-makers and politicians debate whether disaffection among India's 140 million Muslims results from poverty and disadvantage rather than religious alienation. A poll by Outlook magazine showed close to 80 per cent thought economic divisions were responsible for religious conflict.
In the most populous state, Uttar Pradesh, a Dalit (former Untouchable) woman, Mayawati, led her party to an election victory last year, becoming Chief Minister for the fourth time; that would have been unthinkable three generations ago. A government report last year estimated that more than 75 per cent of Indians spent less than 20 rupees (62 cents) a day to live. But Mukesh Ambani, one of the world's richest men, is completing a new $1.5 billion house in Mumbai. Until the current generation, two things mitigated India's disparities of wealth: the ideology of caste and the isolation imposed by poor communications. You accepted the role of the caste into which you were born and believed that your next life would be better; you aspired eventually to escape the cycle of rebirth.
But in the past 25 years a communications revolution has transformed India. Once it had virtually no television; now there are more than 50 TV news channels, and a quarter of the population have mobile phones. The lavish Ambani lifestyle is now portrayed on TV and discussed in newspapers whose total circulation has multiplied by six times and approaches 100 million papers a day. Governments based on the old elites realise the dangers. Class disparities allow outsiders such as Mayawati to build new political parties. Ridiculed by the mainstream media, Mayawati and her associates used mobile phones to organise hundreds of local campaign meetings and won 206 seats in a legislature of 402 members. She is the non-violent side of conflict. For two generations, violent upheaval in the countryside has been possible. Today the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, intended to provide 100 days of paid work a year to the rural poor, is a centrepiece of the national coalition Government's strategy to attack poverty and rural disquiet. Its critics decry the act as a temporary solution to win the votes of the poor, not lift them out of crisis.
Yet India's resilient political system opens various paths to the future. Mayawati's capture of legislative power suggests the capacity in a democracy, however flawed, for outsiders to become insiders; ultimately, that changes the system itself. At the other end of the spectrum of possibilities are gun battles in remote forests between marginalised zealots and the Indian state.
India is in the midst of six state elections with results to be announced on December 8. National elections are due in the first half of next year. Nationally, the ruling coalition of the Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, and the Congress party president, Sonia Gandhi, will face a formidable challenge from a rival alignment centred on the Bharatiya Janata Party, which stresses Hindu identity to paper over class divisions. Events in Mumbai will almost certainly turn the national poll into a tough-on-terrorism election, which will favour the BJP.
India's communications revolution, which the perpetrators of yesterday's carnage are exploiting, will continue to propel its rulers to interact with the world and seek recognition as a great power. The same process will drive the poor to compare their lives with those of the rich and powerful. In the aftermath of the Mumbai attacks the challenge for the Indian state has not changed: it must find ways to dull the jagged edges of class disparity.
Robin Jeffrey is a professor of politics at the ANU College of Asia and the Pacific.


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Shia came to the United States in 1980 at the invitation of Kent State University, where she lectured and performed. In 1981, she won the Josef Gingold Award at the Kent/Blossom Music Festival. Shortly afterward, she played a very challenging audition for legendary violinist Jascha Heifetz and, as a result, received a full scholarship to study with Heifetz at UCLA until 1985.
In 1989, after winning the nationwide audition, Sando Shia was invited by Sir Georg Solti to join the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. She formerly was assistant concertmaster of the Phoenix Symphony and assistant second violin of the Denver Symphony Orchestra (now Colorado Symphony).


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Who wins a women’s swimming competition? A woman who comes first, right? I mean isn’t it obvious? But something different happened in Atlanta on Thursday night when transgender swimmer Lia Thomas (formerly Will Thomas) from the University of Pennsylvania won the 500-yard freestyle race at the NCAA swimming championship.
Will Thomas, who only recently changed his gender to Lia Thomas, basically defeated biological female swimmers. Now, in the United States, women’s rights campaigners believe that this was a “murder of women’s sports” and a cruel joke played on the biological female swimmers who competed against Lia Thomas.
The story of Will Thomas–turned Lia Thomas
Lia Thomas, as she is now known, began her swimming career at the age of five. When she first started her career, though, things were different. At the time, her name was Will Thomas, and she used to compete in male swimming competitions.
She eventually decided to change her gender and transition into a female. Lia appears to have chosen to identify with the female gender. And this is where the big debate begins.
Lia Thomas’ entry into female swimming competitions
But how did Lia Thomas transition to the female swimming arena from the male arena? Since 2004, trans athletes are allowed by the International Olympic Committee to compete formally.
Previously, such athletes had to legally alter their gender and get genital surgery. However, the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) took a different tack. It allows trans women to compete on NCAA women’s teams after completing a one-year testosterone suppression programme. This is the identical procedure Lia Thomas went through.
Why is it unfair?
Let’s put it simply- the idea of letting trans women go through a one-year testosterone suppression program and then compete in women’s sports is outdated, unscientific and grossly unfair.
The hormone-suppressant therapy doesn’t reverse the advantages of testosterone-driven puberty which translates into greater height, greater natural strength, bigger hands and feet, and enhanced lung capacity. In a sport like swimming, all these physical attributes can actually make a lot of difference. Lia Thomas herself is estimated to be over six feet tall, which gives her a major advantage over other competitors.
Take the case of Thomas’ overall career. Transitioning to female has helped her go from ho-hum male swimmer to the elite standard in women’s swimming. In men’s 200 freestyle, Will Thomas was ranked in the mid-500. However, Lia Thomas entered NCAA Champs ranked No. 1 among women.
Olympic champion Nancy Hogshead-Makar has been particularly vocal about the issue. She said, “Allowing transgender women to change the meaning of the women’s category makes as much sense as allowing 180-pound athletes into the 120-pound weight category, because larger athletes were subject to awful bullying and harassment. Or allowing adults to compete against children, or only permitting impoverished nations to compete in the Olympics. Sport has been set up as binary with males and females, and sport needs to adapt by adding new events and classifications, rather than throwing out the meaning of the ‘girls’ and ‘women’s’ categories. Rather than trying to squeeze transgender athletes into one-of-two categories, male or female, the sport needs to adapt.”
Abuse of women in sports in the garb of trans rights
The US actually has a long history of women sportspersons facing unfair competition and even abuse in the name of inclusivity.
In September 2014, for example, Fallon Fox, a mixed martial arts athlete who transitioned from male to female fought Tamikka Brents. Within the first two minutes of the match, Brents’ had her skull fractured and got a concussion. Ultimately, Brents was knocked out.
Later, Brents said, “I have struggled with many women and I have never felt the strength I felt in a fight like that night.” She added, “I have never felt so dominated in my life and I am an abnormally strong woman in my own right.”
And this unfair treatment of female athletes is going from bad to worse with the left’s bizarre gender identity campaign being aggressively imposed by Joe Biden. He has some absurd initiatives like the ‘Equality Act’ and the ‘Transgender’ executive order in the pipeline that would require the unqualified inclusion of biological men who choose to identify themselves as a female in women’s sports.
Meanwhile, the NCAA looks the other way when it comes to the unjust treatment of biological female athletes. In its “Transgender Handbook,” the organisation dismisses calls to protect women’s sports as “not well based.”
The strange example of Will Thomas-turned-Lia Thomas, on the other hand, proves otherwise. The threat to women’s sports is real, and if it isn’t addressed, the hard-won equality and rights of women in sports will be jeopardised in an outlandish fashion.


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Ndigbo owe nobody apology for seeking justice, equity–Uzodimma
Imo State Governor, Hope Uzodimma, has said that Ndigbo owe nobody apology in their agitation for justice and equity, adding that violence and threats of secession are not the best approach to achieving their desire.
Uzodimma stated this at the opening ceremony of a two-day zonal public hearing on the 1999 Constitution Review in Owerri.
His words: “What we seek is justice and equity for our people to thrive. For that, we owe no apology to anybody. But we cannot achieve it through violence or threat of secession. It is through an avenue like this that we put forward our request.”
He explained that the Igbo were seeking conducive environment to thrive and participate actively in the decision-making process in the country.
According to him, the constitution review is a viable platform for the Igbo to make inputs that will address their yearnings and enable them to occupy their rightful position in the affairs of the nation.
“For sometime now, there have been series of agitations from the various strata of society to review our constitution that we inherited since 1999 from the military government. So, this exercise is yet another opportunity for those of us from Imo and Abia to make input in the amendment of the constitution. It offers another opportunity for us to continue to work out an acceptable constitution that will address the concerns of Nigerians in general and Ndigbo in particular.
“Let me, however, use this auspicious opportunity to tell these alarmists and pretenders, those who pretend to love Ndigbo that they are not more Igbo than I am and do not love Igbos more than I am. The difference is while they want immediate and brutal approach, I, Hope Uzodimma, want an enduring and peaceful approach that can comprehensively address Igbo challenges in a modern Nigeria.”
In the event attended by former Abia State Governor, Orji Uzor Kalu; Senators Enyinnaya Abaribe, Theodore Orji, Frank Ibezim among others, the Imo governor reminded his audience that though critics had given several interpretations to the leadership concerning the constitution amendment, he added that the leaders would carry the burden of criticism.


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The European Commission and the European Investment Fund (EIF) have launched a Pan-European Venture Capital Funds-of-Funds programme (VentureEU) to boost investment in innovative start-up and scale-up companies across Europe.
Horizon 2020 in full swing - Three years on
The brochure "Horizon 2020 In Full Swing -Three Years On – Key facts and figures 2014-2016" provides a snapshot of the programme's main achievements, taking into account more than 300 calls for proposals
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EIT Digital welcomed Jyrki Katainen, Vice-President of the European Commission, responsible for Jobs, Growth, Investment and Competitiveness in their Silicon Valley Hub.
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We’ve collaborated some of our favorite brisket smoking tips, tricks and hacks from Harry Soo and Doug Scheiding who have evolved the art of smoking brisket.
Harry Soo aka Slap Yo’ Daddy BBQ
This championship BBQ pitmaster is a real winner and has won more grand champion awards over the years. He’s also an instructor and teaches others all about what makes BBQ better through real science. He also has a very successful Youtube channel where he helps others learn about BBQ techniques. Here you can find out what Harry considers the best tips for preparing any brisket.
Trim your brisket first
Using a nice sharp knife, you’ll want to remove excess fat that is on the fat cap side of your brisket. This is usually found on the leading edge of the cap and needs to have inch removed beforehand. Flipping it over, you also need to remove the tiny strips and layers of silverskin and fat on the meaty side. If you don’t, the seasoning rub doesn’t get into the meat.
Have a great basic rub
Now it seems that Harry recommends using very simple ingredients to make your own rub. This includes whole black pepper, kosher salt, and celery seed. The salt and pepper are very basic seasoning additives that are a 75/50 cup mixture, leaning heavier on the black pepper. Add a one-quarter cup of celery seed to this mixture so it helps create a better smoke ring when you smoke your brisket. Then you mix it together and add it to your brisket.
Where to place your smoking wood
According to Harry, your smoking wood needs to go at the bottom of your BBQ. This is better for getting the flavor into your meat. Place your chunks of hickory and applewood right at the bottom before adding your lump wood charcoal. You’ll want to cook the brisket for 3 hours and spray it every half hour with simple water to get the rub to crust over and get hard.
Wrapping your brisket
This next step involves aluminum foil but one tip that Harry adds is pure genius. He lays butcher paper onto the foil and then wraps the foil around the brisket like a postal package. Use a bamboo skewer to test the tenderness of the meat which should feel like poking it into peanut butter. This lets you know it’s done when your skewer goes into the meat with the same amount of ease as the peanut butter.
Doug Scheiding from Rogue BBQ Cookers
Doug and his wife represent a BBQ pitmaster team out in Texas and is a seasoned pro when it comes to Texas-style brisket. Doug shares his top tips on how to make brisket a pleasure to make. Here is what he recommends when preparing your brisket to go on the BBQ. When it comes to tender, we think that Doug is a real stickler for moist and tasty brisket like no other.
Prepare your brisket
Trim off excess fat and get your rub together. Using a beef broth, the brisket is then injected all throughout the meat and in the fat cap. For this Doug likes to use a smear that is made from Head Country Marinade mixed with a bit of chili powder. Rub this onto both sides of the brisket and finish this off with ground pepper. You’ll want to let the meat sit for at least 15 minutes before putting it on the grill.
Slow cooking all night long
Your brisket is going into the BBQ with the fat cap side down so it’s protected from the heat. It’s going to be cooked at 200F for the next 10-12 hours. It will also need to be spritzed with a mixture of apple juice every half hour during the entire cook time. You’ll also need to tend to the fire to keep the heat consistent all through the cooking time.
Wrap it up for a few hours more
After the internal temperature of your brisket reaches 155-165 degrees Fahrenheit it needs to be wrapped in heavy-duty aluminum foil. You can add leftover beef broth that was used for the injecting process at the beginning. It needs an additional 2-3 hours to finish the cooking process. When your brisket finally reaches 200 degrees Fahrenheit, it’s done.
Let it steam a bit
Now you want to transfer the brisket that’s wrapped in the foil to a container that’s insulated. Keep it in a cooler for 2-6 hours before slicing it into strips and served. There is also another option to add Apple Habanero BBQ basting sauce before it’s sliced and served.

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State Employees May be Saying Goodbye to Popular Health Insurance
This coming Friday hundreds of thousands of state employees and retirees could be effected forever if officials vote to change the current State Health Plan. The proposed changes would include removal of coverage for spouses, elimination of the 80/20 plan (which covers 40% of employees), and increases in overall costs. If this new plan passes, North Carolina's State Health Plan will be the worst in the US and will be negatively impact working families across our state.
Who is behind these cuts? No surprise - Governor McCrory and politicians.
Executives who run the health plan, which covers state workers, teachers and retirees, have also recommended that the board consider eliminating coverage for spouses, likely sending most of them to shop for coverage on Affordable Care Act exchanges.
Changes under consideration would also add premiums and raise the deductibles paid by those who enroll in the remaining plans. One of those is a "consumer-directed" plan with high deductibles paired with a health savings account. For many state workers, particularly those who earn lower salaries, that plan isn't affordable, said Ardis Watkins, the lead lobbyist for SEANC. "If you can't afford to shell out a lot of upfront cost, it's like not having insurance at all," Watkins said.
"Ultimately, I think this was the legislature's fault," Hall said, noting it was lawmakers that pushed the plan to find cost savings. "I think it's just another way to cost shift onto the working class. Not only are we doing that, but we found a sneaky way to make them (the health plan) the hatchet men."

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- Buhai ends with a birdie to grab Glendower lead
- Amajita win warm-up match before U20 AFCON
- Levey ends 10-month drought to win at Randpark
- Porteous back to defend at Joburg Open after tough year
- Two more medals as SA finish with five in Egypt
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Two more medals in Tokyo for Townsend
- Updated: November 7, 2012
Our sole 2012 Olympics competitor at the Tokyo leg of the Fina World Cup series, Darian Townsend won another gold and silver medal in the pool on Tuesday, writes Mark Etheridge.
Townsend missed the 100-metre freestyle event on the first of two days after his name wasn’t entered to swim.
Second at the halfway mark of the 200m freestyle, the London Olympian went on to touch first in 1min 43.31 second and collect 889 Fina Ranking points. Australians filled the rest of the podium, with Robert Hurley second in 1:43.93 and Tomasso D’Orsogna third in 1:44.49.
Less than an hour later and Townsend was back at it, this time in the 200m Individual Medley. He had a strong finish to end second to the host nation’s Daiya Seto who touched in 1:52.48.
The Pietermaritzburg swimmer, now based in Tucson (US) was credited with a tie of 1:53.30 for a further 917 points. He now lies eighth on the FINA World Cup overall scoring rankings with 24 points with just one leg of the series left to swim, in Singapore.
Despite only taking part in the first two legs, Olympic double-medallist Chad le Clos is SA’s best ranked swimmer in sixth spot with 36 points. Australia’s Kenneth To tops the list with 145.
In the women’s events, Mandy Loots ended eighth in the women’s 200m ‘fly, clocking 2:10.88 behind Japan’s Yuuna Kikuchi who won in 2:09.47.