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Empire 8 Conference Championship
WATCH: Mullins becomes winningest coach in program history
By Max O'Neill | Jan 24, 2018
Jim Mullins, head coach for the Ithaca Bombers men's basketball team became the winningest coach in program history with 308 wins.
Track and field competes in Empire 8 Conference Championship
By Samantha Cavalli | Apr 24, 2017
The track and field teams competed in the Empire 8 Conference Championship. The men's team placed third while the women's team placed first.
Women's basketball wins Empire 8 Championship against Stevens
By Colin Tessier | Feb 25, 2017
The Ithaca College women's basketball team defeated Steven's Institute of Technology Ducks 77–74 in the Empire 8 Conference Championship.
Women's basketball to face Stevens in Empire 8 Championship
By Annette Hogan | Feb 25, 2017
The Ithaca College women's basketball team advances to the Empire 8 Conference Championship after a 64–55 semifinals victory over Hartwick College.
Volleyball picks up two wins at North County Season Opener
By Colin Tessier, Samantha Cavall | Sep 4, 2016
The Ithaca College volleyball team defeated St. Lawrence University and Clarkson University, but lost to SUNY Brockport and Juniata College Sept. 2–3 at the North County Season Opener.
Fustor's Fumbles
Dominant IC women's tennis program deserves more recognition
By Nick Fustor | Aug 29, 2016
Bill Austin, Ithaca College head women's tennis coach, has been leading the team for 17 years and has helped them win 11-straight Empire 8 Conference Championships.
Sports Preview – Fall 2016
Men's cross-country strives for a shot at nationals
By Andrew Sullivan | Aug 24, 2016
The men's cross-country team begins its season at the annual Jannette Bonrouhi-Zakiam Memorial Alumni run on Sept. 3.
Women's basketball clinches spot in Empire 8 Championships
By Jaysha Patel | Feb 20, 2016
The women's basketball team defeated Utica College 71–44 Feb. 19 in Ben Light Gymnasium.
Women's basketball sunk by buzzer beater against Cardinals
By Matt Hornick | Feb 6, 2016
The women's basketball team lost a heart-breaker to St. John Fisher College on a last-second buzzer beater 60–59.
Ithaca College volleyball head coach Janet Donovan resigns
By Andrew Sullivan | Jan 15, 2016
Ithaca College volleyball head coach Janet Donovan has announced she has resigned from her coaching position.
Athletes voice discontent with volleyball program
By Jonathan Beck | Nov 17, 2015
Former and current players express their concerns toward longtime head coach Janet Donovan regarding the Ithaca College volleyball program.
Sports Preview – Winter 2015–16
Men's indoor track and field seeks return to top at States
By Maddison Murnane | Nov 11, 2015
The men's track and field team hopes to have a successful run to States and the Empire 8 Conference Championship after placing second at both meets last season.


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I can't believe I haven't already posted this outfit.l It is waiting for so long. I know that the weather doesn't match the clothes, at least not here, but I was so happy with the look when I was wearing it.
I hope you are all having a great Sunday and wish you an amazing week.


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Even after a full night's sleep and a couple of cups of coffee, choosing what sounds better — a cheesy omelet or a pile of sweet pancakes — is one. tough. decision. And when we're in an actual breakfast joint trying to hone in on that perfect morning plate... well, the indecision gets real. This is why we're fully convinced that Carole Radziwill just gets it.
As shown on a recent episode of The Real Housewives of New York City, the author sometimes has a hard time deciding just how she'd like her eggs to be prepared. When meeting up for some morning eats with her friend Tinsley Mortimer, Carole gave an order to the waitress that we could have said ourselves (and, in fact, probably have).
"I want three eggs any style," she said. "I'm not sure of the style. What are my options?" Carole knew one thing: She wanted an egg hard-boiled. "But three hard-boiled is a lot. Two. Two hard boiled. I'm sorry, one hard-boiled, and then other two in my order, can those be scrambled? And can you mix the scrambled part? Don't make it touch the hard-boiled egg part. I want that hard-boiled."
Look, there are a lot of ways to cook eggs — for your reference, FoodBeast has ranked the 10 best — and opinions vary about the best way. In New York, the most popular way to eat eggs is in a breakfast sandwich... while across the coast in California, its in huevos rancheros, according to Eat This, Not That.
So Carole's complex order — with so many options available — seems like a perfectly reasonable one to us. But, hey: We've also tried to make coffee without a filter in the morning, or put our car keys in the fridge.
For the record, Tinsley ordered some avocado toast — and Carole's opinions about its preparation were much more definitive.
When the waitress informed Tinsley that the toast typically comes with cheese, Carole was quick to say: "No cheese!" Fair enough. Avocados, after all, can stand on their own. And, they pair perfectly with fried eggs. Wait, no... over-easy eggs.
Actually, let us get back to you on that.


After a number of pantos in his hometown of Portsmouth, Christopher Marlowe moves along the coast this year for his first pantomime in Bognor Regis.
Christopher will be playing the dame in Aladdin is at the Regis Centre from Tuesday, December 12-Tuesday, January 2 (01243 861010).
"I don't know Bognor very well at all," he confesses. "I haven't played here before, but I have seen shows here. I came to see my friend Bobby Crush doing a variety show here, and what I loved about the place is that it is just so friendly and welcoming.
This year, Christopher – last at the Kings as Baron Hardup two years ago – is back in a frock. He has been playing the dame more or less every year since the millennium year – a very natural progression, as he says, through the panto ranks.
Evil is fun too: "When I was playing Abanazar once, it was so against my nature, but it made me feel very powerful. But the dame is very different.
"I have been in the business 39 years, and this is my 30th pantomime. Sometimes with the other Christmases, I have been in musicals or abroad. I have done a lot of work for P&O on the cruises, so I have not always done a pantomime every year, but I have always been working. I don't know what it would be like to have Christmas off. I am so used to working.


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Manager Reflects On First Home Win As Boss
Paul Ince believes The Seasiders' 1-0 win over Crystal Palace was thoroughly deserved after they had to play for 50 minutes with ten men.
Barry Ferguson was given his marching orders shortly before the interval after being given two yellow cards and with Blackpool on top, the tide looked to have turned in Palace's favour, but a resolute performance and a superlative goal from Matty Phillips five minutes from time meant Ince's side took all three points.
"I think it was thoroughly deserved," said Ince.
"In the first-half I thought we were outstanding and their keeper made two fantastic saves and you just think 'is it going to be one of those games where you're just not going to score?'
"I've said to the lads about being clinical and ruthless and we just couldn't get that goal in the first-half.
"When Barry got sent off you thinking 'here we go again', but these players have shown what they are all about. I've not actually witnessed the togetherness and spirit they've had throughout the years, but you saw it in abundance today and they thoroughly deserved it; they really did. It was a fantastic performance."
The decision to send Ferguson off seemed to galvanise The Seasiders and although The Eagles had a lot of possession in the early periods of the second-half, Matt Gilks was rarely called into action and Ince paid credit to the discipline of the players.
"Obviously when Barry got sent off it changed the dynamics of the game, but we got it right in the way we set up, even with the two wingers who had to come back and make up the bank of four, did their job, while providing an outlet when we won the ball. I thought the three up front were a different level.
"We got the goal, and it was a fantastic goal. I thought Thomas was outstanding down the line, it comes back to Matty Phillips and I'm just praying for it to go in, for him more than anyone, because he's had a barren spell, but it hasn't affected him in terms of the way he trains.
"He's always smiling and I've always been talking to him and the past couple of games I felt he was getting there and I was the happiest man in the stadium when it was Matty Phillips who scored, and what a great goal it was.
"The lads showed some great resilience, spirit and togetherness," added Ince.

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Summary: Production of reactive oxygen species (ROS) is an integral part of aerobic metabolism of cells. Imbalance between ROS generation and antioxidant systems performance leads to oxidative stress, resulting in the occurence of many diseases including diabetes and glaucoma. One of the lines of defense are the antioxidant enzymes: catalase (CAT), glutathione peroxidase (GSH-Px), glutathione reductase and superoxide dismutase (CuZn-SOD), which works by preventing the formation of oxygen free radicals and their participation in reactions of biological compounds the active.
Słowa kluczowe: enzymy antyoksydacyjne, jaskra, stres oksydacyjny.
Keywords: antioxidant enzymes, glaucoma, oxidative stress.


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Naurooz in all its forms
Posted on 22 March, 2012 by yazdi	One comment
Novruz, Nowrouz, Nooruz, Navruz, Nauroz, Nevruz
Inscribed in 2009 (4.COM) on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
Country(ies): Azerbaijan, India, Iran (Islamic Republic of), Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Turkey, Uzbekistan
© Uzbekistan Ministry of Culture and Sports
Novruz, Nowrouz, Nooruz, Navruz, Nauroz or Nevruz marks the New Year and the beginning of spring across a vast geographical area covering, inter alia, Azerbaijan, India, Iran, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Turkey and Uzbekistan. It is celebrated on 21 March every year, a date originally determined by astronomical calculations. Novruz is associated with various local traditions, such as the evocation of Jamshid, a mythological king of Iran, and numerous tales and legends. The rites that accompany the festivity vary from place to place, ranging from leaping over fires and streams in Iran to tightrope walking, leaving lit candles at house doors, traditional games such as horse racing or the traditional wrestling practised in Kyrgyzstan. Songs and dances are common to almost all the regions, as are semi-sacred family or public meals. Children are the primary beneficiaries of the festivities and take part in a number of activities, such as decorating hard-boiled eggs. Women play a key role in organizing Novruz and passing on its traditions. Novruz promotes the values of peace and solidarity between generations and within families, as well as reconciliation and neighbourliness, thus contributing to cultural diversity and friendship among peoples and various communities.
Nomination form: English|French
Consent of communities: Multilingual
Decision 4.COM 13.03
The Committee (…) decides that [this element] satisfies the criteria for inscription on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, as follows:
R.1: The element is a celebration consisting of various customs practised within the family and the entire community, including traditional games, culinary traditions, music, dance, oral expressions and crafts, and forms a fundamental part of the cultural identity of the communities concerned;
R.2: The inscription of the element on the Representative List would encourage inter- and intracultural dialogue and mutual respect among cultures, while strengthening the transmission of the element to future generations;
R.3: A number of safeguarding measures aim, with the commitment of the communities and States, at strengthening cooperation between authorities, NGOs and local communities, the establishment of a regional network, the creation of community teaching centres in the field of the crafts and other related arts, and the realization of inventories
R.4: The nomination has been greeted with the enthusiastic support of local communities, cultural groups, academic institutions, practitioners and individuals concerned with the safeguarding of the element, and their consent has been obtained for the elaboration of the nomination;
R.5: The element is included variously on inventories according to the situation of each of the nominating States.
© Tajikistan Ministry of Culture, and Academy of Science
© The Iranian Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Organization
© Iran Museum of Anthropology (Tehran), The Iranian Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Organization
© Azerbaijan Ministry of Culture and Tourism
© Kyrgyz Ministry of Culture and Information
© Tajikistan Ministry ofCulture, and Academy of Science
© Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism
These videos (and many more) can also be consulted through the UNESCO Archives Multimedia website
http://www.unesco.org/culture/ich/RL/00282
Naurooz
UN Activities
Homi H Shekhdar
24 March, 2012	5:36 am
I wish I could find some parsi
faces celebrating the Nowruz day in Mumbai or Karachi, along with our
bretheren in Iran, Tajikistan Uzbekistan and the rest.


Welcome, one and all, to the Stuff Gadget Awards 2017.
Yes, it's time for us to once more host the gadget equivalent of the Oscars, dishing out prizes for 2017's finest phones, most creative computers, flashiest cameras and much more.
We've tested well over 400 gadgets, games and apps in the past 12 months as part of our constant quest to help you spend your money wisely. So we should know what we're talking about.
Let's hear it for the champ. Such is the Galaxy S8's brilliance, every other phone this year has been playing catch-up with it. Even now, nothing quite compares to this gorgeous mesh of glass and metal.
What makes the S8 such a stunner? It's staring you right in the face. That 5.8in Infinity Display is just a gorgeous way to Instagram, flit across your inbox, and indulge in Amazon Prime Video's latest and greatest.
Add to this an awesome point-and-shoot camera, all the speed you'll ever need and an all-round design that's tempted many an iPhone owner over to the Android side, and you've got a bona fide phone of the year. The only problem for Samsung: How will it ever top this beauty?
It's long been true that you don't have to lay down top dollar to own an awesome phone. The only flaw in this master plan? That same blower is almost guaranteed to resemble a knock-off iPhone. Personality comes at a price, you see. Or at least it did before we laid eyes on the Honor 9.
An all-glass thing of marvel, this sub-£400 wonder ranks alongside Samsung's Galaxy S8 and the iPhone X as one of the most striking phones to be released this year. Its curved, laser-cut back really is an awesome thing to behold. Add to this a fab dual-lens camera, a super-powerful processor and a slick take on Android, and you've got yourself a bargain that's well worth flaunting.
Photoshop on your iPad. That's all you need to know about the audacious Affinity Photo. And although not literally Photoshop (it is, after all, by Serif rather than Adobe), it has everything you need, bringing properly professional image-editing to mobile.
Although the screen's dotted with icons and toolbars, this is an approachable app, and it feels transformative whether you're making subtle adjustments to photos or working up digital paintings from scratch.
Dials are twiddled and live effects fired from your fingertips. Anyone wedded to one-tap filters might be flummoxed; but for anyone who's done with being chained to a Mac or PC to improve their pics, it's just about perfect.
This beautiful puzzler wears its influences on its twisted sleeve. The minimal aesthetic evokes Monument Valley, and the turn-based mechanics are reminiscent of Hitman GO's challenges. But in combining the two, wrapping everything around floating Rubik's Cubes, and adding plenty of stabby violence, Euclidean Lands becomes a modern mobile classic.
In each level, the aim is simple: kill the enemies and reach the exit. But with the landscape constantly evolving, foes moving of their own accord, and bosses able to twist the cube how they see fit, this is anything but easy. Occasionally it does get a bit too brain-smashy, but the game's so terrific that every defeat only makes you more determined.
Did we really think this category would be won by anything other than the Galaxy S8? No, we didn't. But we went ahead and held a vote anyway, which duly saw you lot vote in your droves for Samsung's curvy wonder.
It was never even a close-run thing, with nearly 45% of voters naming it their phone of the year, way way way ahead of the iPhone 8 Plus in second. With the iPhone X about to hit shops and Google's Pixel line now looking like proper contenders, next year might be harder to call. But right now, the S8 reigns supreme.
In hindsight, it's easy to see how the Switch was going to be an all-conquering success, but we're not about to claim we saw this one coming.
After the Wii U proved about as good an idea as a snap General Election, the omens were particularly foreboding for this hybrid console. Then came Zelda: Breath of the Wild and Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, and soon enough you couldn't find the blasted thing in stores for love nor money. It was almost as if Nintendo knew what it was doing all along.
With Super Mario Odyssey now here too and Wolfenstein II and Metroid Prime 4 set to appear on Switch in the not too distant future, who cares whether this console became a smash hit by design, accident or a little bit of both?
There was no squabbling over the Game of the Year award – we left this one to you, the readers, and you voted as we would've done: for the latest The Legend of Zelda game.
Scrapping the traditional linear adventure, Nintendo created a massive open-world Hyrule for us to play within. With majestic sights to see, piggish grunts to slay and an incredible quest that would raise goosebumps under our armour, 2017 was definitely best spent playing Breath of the Wild rather than fretting over Trump and Kim Jong-un's apocalyptic squabbles.
But it's the subtle things that have made this game such a success, including the transcendent soundtrack and Link's amusing humming as he cooks up a tasty treat. Simply wonderful.
It's been a big year for Sky Q. Both Virgin's V6 and BT's YouView+ Ultra HD have come along aiming to oust it as the one and only box sitting under your television. But, be it through lack of content or confusing menu systems, neither quite managed to cut the mustard.
Just in case anyone thought this was a close-run contest, Sky Q decided to further cement its top-dog status by adding voice search and support for Dolby Atmos sound systems. So whether you're watching Game of Thrones, one of the many blockbusters on Sky Cinema or Liverpool's defence embarrassing itself yet again, Sky Q is the telly gadget for the job.
We can't wait to see how it gets even better in 2018.
Usually when a product arrives with an incredible gimmick, it's a distraction from many other shortcomings. So when we heard Sony's first ever OLED would have no in-built speakers, and saw its stunning picture-frame design, we weren't holding out a lot of hope for its picture quality. You know, the actually important thing about a telly.
And yet… after we tested the A1, it shot straight to the top of our Top Ten and has retained that place ever since. Not only is this the finest 4K HDR TV you can get your hands on – it also has a load of awesome tricks up its sleeve to boot. Basically it's a gadget wizard, and that's more than alright by us.
Compared to last year, when both Tidal and Apple Music flung out exclusive after exclusive, 2017 has not been the most revelatory time for streaming services. Still, if you're wondering which subscription gives the most entertainment per pound, the answer is unquestionably Netflix.
Spotify arguably does a smarter job with recommendations, but it's Netflix's roster of exclusive shows and movies such as Okja, Stranger Things and Ozark that makes it essential. Plus, the way that almost every TV, phone and console supports its app means you have absolutely no excuse for missing any of them. Except for Sense 8, of course. Trust us, you can happily skip that one. No problem.
You've never seen a PC quite like the Surface Studio. More so than even Apple's iMac, the Studio is an all-in-one that's been purpose-built for creative so-and-sos. That astounding zero-gravity hinge and Surface Dial combo implore you to reach out and get arty with its glorious 4K display.
Granted, Windows 10 isn't quite as refined as Apple's High Sierra OS, but we've crowned the Studio the new king of computers for its sheer awe-inspiring gumption – it dares to be different in an era where the new MacBook Pro is essentially the old one with a better screen and a Technicolor strip.
So long as you can learn to love its rough edges, Microsoft's Surface Studio is a PC that you'll truly adore.
Let's face it, most people who buy a fitness band do so with the intention of taking it off as soon as humanly possible. Partly because chips and burgers are delicious; mainly because they were never that into exercise in the first place. But with heart-rate tracking alongside week-long battery life and the ability to discern what kind of exercise you're doing, Fitbit's Alta HR is the perfect motivator for layabouts with an inferiority complex.
Knowing this, Fitbit's app is attuned to make you feel good about being healthy, with easy-to-grasp achievements and reminders to ensure you get back to it after a day or so of slacking. However long the Alta HR stays on your wrist, it'll make for a welcome companion.
Yes, we picked the one that can't make phone calls. Why? Because you probably don't need a smartwatch that's capable of such a thing. In all likelihood, the standard-issue Watch Series 3 will do you just fine – and that's an understatement.
With Apple's new S3 chip powering it, plus the GPS and waterproofing skills of its predecessor, this Watch does pretty much everything you'd want it to without asking you to sign up to a brand new 'phone' contract.
Most importantly, it's a truly great fitness buddy that provides accurate workout stats however you prefer to exercise. Add to this near-seamless integration with your iPhone and you've got the best smartwatch going by far.
Let's face it, it's hard to get particularly excited about a lightbulb. So imagine just how incredible Ikea's Tradfri bulbs must be for us to go all out in awarding them Smart Home Gadget of the Year. Yes, they are quite special indeed, and all for one major reason: they're cheaper than Philips' Hue bulbs and basically do the same stuff.
And what kind of home are you living in if you can't orchestrate your lighting to automated flights of fancy? That means being able to have your lights switch on automatically as soon as you've stumbled back home from the pub, or ask Alexa to switch them off in the morning after you've awoken with a particularly brutal hangover.
And since these bulbs are relatively affordable, kitting your place out with them won't cripple your personal finances. Huzzah!
Before they were co-opted for the middle-class school run and their planet-bothering emissions became troublesome, 4x4s used to be cool. They were the cars you could drive anywhere. Then Janet and Gothrey from Flat 6 got one, and their mystique was eradicated. That is, until Tesla's Model X came along.
Aside from doing wonders for your sense of moral superiority, this all-electric 4x4 has the je ne sais quoi its petrol-powered brethren have been missing for years – be that through its gorgeous glassy build, its assorted autopilot skills or those gurn-inducing gullwing doors. This thing is as happy in the Outer Hebrides as it is honking at Gothrey for parking across your bay. The dullard.
Usually, presenting your sprog with an educational toy at Christmas is a sure-fire way to let them know Santa isn't real. No rosy-cheeked giant would be so cruel, even to those at the top of his scally list. And yet the Lego Boost Creative Toolbox stands as an example that miracles do happen. Reindeer can have bright red noses, and a kit of bricks designed to teach kids coding can be a right old hoot.
Given its makers, we probably shouldn't be too taken aback by the Creative Toolbox's genius – Lego's been making brick-based masterpieces for decades now. Plus, anything that can transform into a robot, a car, a guitar, a cat and a robot-maker is fine by us. Even when it is trying to learn us some.
Look, we saw that Apple AirPods advert too, and it was slick enough to make us forget quite how ridiculous they look on anyone who isn't astoundingly handsome.
Thankfully, Sony's wireless WF-1000X earbuds are a perfect fit for us normal-looking folk as well. In essence, this means they plug straight into your lugs, don't have any weird dangly bits and actually sound the business.
A huge step up from the AirPods – largely thanks to slick noise-cancelling tech – the WF-1000Xs are the best of their kind that we've tried, and the first such pair to deliver on their wireless promise without making any obvious compromises.
Some snobs will disagree, but 'Hi-Fi' in our books can basically be summarised as stuff that sounds good. You probably wouldn't expect that of a Bluetooth speaker that's seemingly been made to resemble a grenade; but, taking its design cues from the opening days of the 2003 Iraq War, Ultimate Ears' Wonderboom delivers 'shock and awe' in a brilliant and mercifully non-violent manner.
Much like its equally excellent UE brethren, the Wonderboom gives you plenty of power to the pound while retaining clarity and detail for when you're not in an '80s rock anthems kind of mood. Better yet, it's waterproof so you can have a blast with the thing wherever you damned well please.
Honestly, we did consider not picking a Fuji camera for this prize – even though they've been hogging the No1 spot in our Top Ten for what feels like an age. But then we thought about things and decided to give the glorious X-T20 the gong anyway.
Why? Pound for pound you can't get a better system camera right now, and that seemed like a good enough reason for us. With the same 24.3MP APS-C sensor and processor as the much pricier X-T2, plus a touchscreen, you just feel Fuji has gone all out here to make a great camera.
With well laid-out controls, a huge viewfinder, excellent autofocus, a top-class sensor and access to some superb lenses, the X-T20's many, many charms cannot be denied.
If you're going to get a compact camera, then you shouldn't settle for anything besides the absolute best. In truth, Sony's fifth RX100 isn't all that different to last year's model, but that just goes to show how far ahead of the competition this consummate all-rounder is.
Its combination of a Zeiss lens, wide aperture and 1in sensor in a lightweight, pocket-sized body is perfectly judged for even the most demanding point-and-shoot scenarios. Now with added Fast Hybrid tech for improved autofocus and 960fps full HD video recording at high frame-rates, the RX100 V bundles in a whole lot of tech to justify its £1000 price tag.
Hey, we didn't say the best came cheap.
We need to make this very clear: a drone is not a toy. That's despite it being your very own personal flying machine, that will magically stop if you try to speed it into a brick wall, and that dogs love chasing around the park like some kind of autonomous tennis ball.
No, drones are for serious filmic sorts with cash to burn and no pups to entertain… unless you're talking about the DJI Spark, of course.
Sure, it's masquerading as an affordable auteur's delight with HD recording and 50km/h top speed, but it can also snap an aerial selfie by spotting your hand gesture. Try doing that and not cracking a Cheshire cat smile afterwards. The Tracy Island playset ain't got nothing on this bad boy.
Every year we ask you, our readers, to vote for your Gadget of the Year. And sometimes you surprise us, going completely mad and voting for something different from us. But not this year. This year, you did exactly what we expected, and what we ourselves did, and named the Nintendo Switch your Gadget of the Year. Well done you.
This one was a close call. We could have gone for the near-bezel-less Galaxy S8 that won over so many hardened iPhone owners, or the DJI Spark and its dazzling feats of aerial wonder that will help you become the next JJ Abrams. And yet the Switch emerged doubly victorious, getting the nod from us as well as winning the reader vote.
Why? It's just so much fun. From impromptu Mario Kart 8 Deluxe tournaments in the office to exploring Hyrule while stuck in a metal tube somewhere over the Atlantic, the Switch has entertained us at nary a moment's notice.
This is a proper gadget, one you really have to pick up and play with to see what all the fuss is about – and there are many more exciting games in the pipeline.
So, for daring to do something different and getting it so joyously right, Nintendo's Switch is our Gadget of the Year.


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Who needs origins? 8 comic book films that just dove right in.
Much of the criticism hurled in the direction of The Amazing Spider-Man centers around the choice to spend the first half of the film retelling the same origin story that was rather explicitly told in Sam Raimi's 2002 Spider-Man. It is part of a swelling debate of sorts about whether or not proverbial 'part ones' always need to retell a well-known origin story in order to kick-start their respective franchises. But there exists at least a handful of comic book adaptations that either completely eschew or compartmentalize the origin material. Be they successful as art or not, they represent the idea that it is possible to start (or restart) a comic book series without retelling the same origin over and over again. To wit...
Batman (1989) and Batman Forever (1995)
In Tim Burton's groundbreaking blockbuster, we don't even realize that Bruce Wayne is Batman until about 20-minutes into the 126-minute film. And we don't have any real clue as to why Bruce Wayne became Batman until right before the film's extended action climax. Vicky Vale learns through a newspaper article that Bruce Wayne's parents were murdered, we see a quick flashback of the event, and then we've back into our story. While Batman Forever is technically a part 3 in the 1989-1997 Batman series, it also operates as a textbook case in how to do a reboot. The Joel Schumacher film serves as either a sequel to Batman Returns or a whole new start to the Batman series, depending on how you choose to view it. It looks and feels completely different from the Tim Burton films while offering just enough information (Bruce's parents were murdered as a child, how Harvey Dent became Two-Face) to be completely comprehensible to new viewers. In a clever fashion, it tells Bruce Wayne's past-tense origin through the present-tense telling of Dick Grayson's origin. In a sense, Batman Forever is the Live and Let Die of the series, starting over while not really acknowledging that they've started over and merely telling another adventure in the life of its respective hero. Say what you will about the overall quality of Batman Forever (I like it, you might not), but 20th Century Fox would do well to look to Batman Forever as a model when they eventually reboot Daredevil and Fantastic Four.
It's no secret that I think Warren Beatty's Dick Tracy is one of the finest comic book films ever made. It's a splendidly somber adult drama about a cop, a criminal, and a woman stuck in the middle, with all parties utterly miserable because they happen to excel at a job they loathe with no probable escape outside of death. And, 22-years later, it's worth noting that Beatty doesn't give his title-character an origin at-all. Dick Tracy is a cop, he catches bad guys, he's dating Tess Trueheart, that's all you need. Heck, Dick Tracy actually had an origin story in the comics (he became a cop after Trueheart's father was murdered during a robbery by Big Boy Caprice's thugs), but the film wisely left it out and let it stand that Tracy was merely an obsessive cop in a city full of corruption.
The Punisher (1989) and Punisher: War Zone (2008)
There are three Punisher films, and I've written about them extensively here. Whatever their merits as films, the 1989 version and the 2008 film both tell stories that take place after Frank Castle has been slaughtering bad guys for quite a while. Both films pay lip-service to the origin, quite literally. The tragic case of Frank Castle and his murdered family is literally stated via monologue by a supporting character during the first act of the picture. The films are no poorer for not spending the first act or whole first act explicitly detailing how Frank Castle's family was murdered and how he became the Punisher. Yes the 2004 Punisher is a full-blown 130-minute origin story and it's arguably the highest-quality film of the three (John Travolta is quite good as a conflicted villain). But when it comes to stories we already know, comic book origins may be the one place where 'tell don't show' is the way to go.
The Shadow (1994)
Yes, this is based on a radio serial, but I'm cheating just a little. I made a comment in a 'music of Batman' post the other day about how much the Batman Begins theme resembled Jerry Goldsmith's score to The Shadow. I was gifted with THIS link, which lays out the case that Batman Begins is basically a remake of The Shadow (which in turn has a very similar origin as Marvel's Dr. Strange). We can debate the merits of the apparent 'homage' (which I guess means that Iron Man is really a remake of The Shadow and not Batman Begins?), it cannot be disputed that Russell Mulcahy's somewhat entertaining 1940s pulp adventure tells a very similar origin story as the one detailed in Batman Begins (which in turn was based around a Batman origin retell "The Man Who Falls" from 1989) and tells it in a lot less time. We get the whole tormented millionaire taught how to be a ghostly vigilante in a faraway Eastern country bit by the first ten minutes, and the Shadow (Alec Baldwin) has already returned to New York City and stopped his first crime by the time the first reel ends. For better or worse, the rest of The Shadow plays like a campier and more streamlined version of Batman Begins where Chris Nolan's first act is basically condensed to about five minutes.
The Phantom (1996)
I happen to adore this underrated little gem of an adventure movie. Billy Zane is gee-wiz heroic as 'the Ghost Who Walks', the 'find the magic skulls and rule the world' plot is full of old-school peril plus just enough PG-rated carnage to make an eight-year old feel like they got away with something, and Treat Williams is one of my favorite comic book villains. Seriously, there is a second-act moment where he, Catherine Zeta-Jones, and James Remar basically sit in the office and talk shop that is one of the best-written and acted superhero scenes in the genre. So while you race to check out the shoulda-been-a-smash flick on Netflix, let me point out what else it does that deserves notice. It dispatches with the origin in the prologue, beginning with a title card exclaiming 'For those who came in late!" and containing into a 90-second bit of Patrick McGoohan-narrated exposition that succinctly explains how the Phantom was created. Yes there are a few details that are peppered throughout the film that offer a bit more context, but the Simon Wincer (Lonesome Dove, natch) film sees no need to waste time when there is adventure to be had! Slam origins!
It's no secret that I don't like The Incredible Hulk much at all, finding it dumbed-down and painfully generic compared to the flawed-but-ambitious Hulk from five-years earlier. But in terms of reboots, it does make one terrific decision. That origin story that we all know so well? The one where Bruce Banner gets exposed to gamma radiation and becomes a giant green monster? Yeah, director Louis Leterrier tells the whole thing in the opening credits sequence. After that, we cut to 'five years later' where Bruce Banner (Edward Norton) is on the run from General Ross's men and desperately searching for a cure to his condition. Heck, if not for the token differences in this film's origin versus Ang Lee's film, it could basically operate as a sequel to the Ang Lee tone-poem. Whatever other issues the film has, Universal's quickie reboot is a testament that you don't have to retell the first film in order to jump-start a new franchise.
And that's a wrap for this session. There are plenty of terrific comic book films that exist primarily as origin stories (the TV pilot for The Flash remains one of the best comic book films of the pre-X-Men era) and plenty that straddle the line between origin and off-to-adventure (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comes to mind), but there is no reason for studios to believe that retelling an already established origin story is essential to reboot a comic property. If we already the story, and if it's already been told well before, there is no need to tell it again. And if you must retell an origin, please follow Chris Nolan's example in Batman Begins (and hopefully Zack Snyder's Man of Steel) and tell us something we've never seen onscreen before. If you don't have anything new to say in your origin, don't make Marc Webb's mistake and waste most of your movie telling it while sacrificing the stories you really wanted to tell in the process.
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Guido Rosas said...
Even though I disagree with you on Amazing Spider-Man (it might have been because I had low expectations, but I quite enjoyed it), and I liked the status quo it sets up in the end (especially regarding the relationship between Peter and Gwen), I agree that devoting half the movie was pretty unnecessary. I understand they wanted to distance this new film from the original trilogy, but the Incredible Hulk should have been a good example of how to handle it. They would have had the chance to flesh out Curt Connors story, and make it more affecting (It was kind of surprising to have Lizard as the villain and not even showing Billy!)
I know you didn't mention this one because it's not a comic book property, but The Incredibles is another brilliant example of a superhero movie that doesn't bother with origins. We don't even learn the source of the heroes' powers, but why would we need to? Everyone understands the superhero archetype. An origin story can be really good if the story is inherently interesting, but so many times it just comes off as half a film (or a full film!) of exposition.
I have to agree with Guido below that The Incredibles is another property that doesn't bother with origins. It's a great point. And that movie is already too long for kids - an origin would make it WAY too long.
Also, by the way, I LOVED The Phantom when I saw it in the theater. I DID, in fact, feel like I was getting away with something - although I was nine, not eight. I'm going to watch it tonight on Netflix, in honor of your review's suggestion.
PB210 said...
Yes, this is based on a radio serial, but I'm cheating just a little. I made a comment in a 'music of Batman' post the other day about how much the Batman Begins theme resembled Jerry Goldsmith's score to The Shadow. I was gifted with THIS link, which lays out the case that Batman Begins is basically a remake of The Shadow (which in turn has a very similar origin as Marvel's Dr. Strange). We can debate the merits of the apparent 'homage' (which I guess means that Iron Man is really a remake of The Shadow and not Batman Begins?)
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Thank you for using the link. The Shadow's oriental scholarship stood as long established prior to the 1994 film, established in the 1930's and 1940's. Regarding "The Man Who Falls" I checked with John Wells (Mikishawm) a researcher, and he noted that this introduced the idea of the trip to Tibet for that particular franchise.
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I like to call this the "Boba Fett syndrome". Fett was an awesome character that nobody knew anything about (Until the later crappy movies)and that's what made him awesome. I remember taking notice when even Vader talked to him with a kind of respect that he gave no one else. Leaving his past blank made you fill in the blanks which in turn made it impossible for the later movies to live up to. Although I give Lucas no credit due to the fact that in a interview when asked about the character he was totally clueless at his popularity and considered him a throw away character.
Thanks for your words on Dick Tracy, Scott. I love, love Dick Tracy. Would so much like to see a Dick Tracy vs Flattop film...
Disagreements about Amazing Spidey aside, the fact remains that Marc Webb basically sacrificed the story he actually wanted to tell (Peter learning about his parents) in order to tell the same damn origin story we saw ten years ago. The film he wanted to make could have just as easily taken place post-origin, after Spidey had been around for a few months and magically discovers his father's briefcase while helping Aunt May clean the house. That way we get a full movie about Peter's parents, a fully developed story for Dr. Conners, and more room for the Gwen/Peter romance subplot.
TP said...
I remember an article in Comics Scene where someone as early as 1994 had already picked up on this obsessive focus on origin stories. He actually criticized The Shadow for spending too much time on the origin, which seems odd. (He also criticized Greystoke, The Legend of the Lone Ranger and the Doc Savage film.)
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There are several ways to boost your immune system. The world around us contains all sorts of microbial dangers that puts our immune system to the test.
We are confronted daily with bacteria, viruses, fungi, and parasites. These organisms are called pathogens, and they invade our bodies at every opportunity.
The immune system is weak at various times in our life (such as infancy and old age), and is affected by nutrition, pollution and many other environmental factors (like the radiation found in sunlight).
That is why diet, exercise and supplements to support and bolster the immune system play crucial roles in keeping our bodies healthy and strong.
Boosting your immune system is fairly easy, and involves normal things you can do that also enhance your quality of life.
A well balanced diet of fruits, vegetables, and whole grains is the best way of keeping healthy and fit. Not to mention the fact that it keeps you looking good (prevents fat) it also keeps you feeling good and has positive effects on your stress levels.
Public health organizations continuously recommend that we eat 5-10 servings of fruits and vegetables per day, because they are rich in antioxidants and are an excellent source of dietary fiber.
Moreover, substituting fruits and vegetables, which are nutrient dense, for processed foods, which are calorie dense, can help people achieve long term control of their weight. Natural antioxidants are also found in whole grains.
The problem is, we all lead busy lives. Between jobs, kids, and all the stresses of life, we simply don't make the time to eat as healthily as we know we should. That's why whole food supplements have experienced such incredible demand. A whole food supplement is a product in which only the healthiest of foods are compressed and then encapsulated.
It's important to understand that vitamins and minerals are other ways to boost your immune system. However, the body needs to be built up as a whole and not in an isolated way. Taking isolated vitamins can have a very limited effectiveness and can sometimes even harm your health. The AMA (American Medical Association) Journal states that all adults should be taking a daily multivitamin.
As we have seen, your immune system is broken down into many variables and parts and you need ways to boost your immune system – and your body – in whole, not only in parts. This is why we support whole food supplements.
Whole food supplements, aside from being made from wholesome vegetables and fruits, are superior to other health supplements and products because they do not just contain isolated vitamins or minerals.
It's a fact of science that vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants are often synergistic. What this means is that they require the presence of each other for maximum benefit. Therefore, taking isolated vitamins, such as taking vitamin C or E by themselves or isolated minerals in a supplement product is going to have very limited effectiveness for one's health. Talk to your doctor before starting a new vitamin and mineral regimen.
Exercise is one of many ways to boost your immune system. Exercise not only keeps you looking good, but also gets your body functioning and active. Exercise consistency is the key – sporadic moments of intense or excessive exercise in between idleness or complacency can suppress your immune system. It's important to keep your exercise consistent and effective for you to build a consistent and effective immune system.
Keep your exercise moderate and realistic. If you have not exercised in a while, ease yourself into it. When you reach a comfortable level, there's no need to over-stress yourself. Talk to your doctor before starting a new exercise regimen.
In many ways, we're only beginning to learn what stress causes to the body but we know that it can cause some significant damage. It's important for you to understand your stress and what it is doing to your body – is it causing you to lose sleep? To not eat well?
These types of stress can do damage to your immune system. There is such a thing as "healthy stress" which keeps you alert, but too much stress will only do damage. You need to manage your stress correctly before it begins to manage you.
Your mucus membranes and skin are the first line of defense against foreign organisms. Keeping yourself hydrated is important because it prevents these membranes or your skin from drying out. There are many benefits of drinking water and ensuring you have a regular water intake during the day. It really helps to clean your system and is one of the ways to boost your immune system. Remember when exercising to keep yourself hydrated as well.
Washing your hands frequently and before you eat is an excellent way to ensure unwanted organisms don't find a way in. When you visit someone who is ill, it is good to wash your hands afterwards. When you get cut or your skin is punctured in some way, wash the wound and keep the wound clean. Keep your work area and house clean, as well, which will help to reduce unwanted invaders into your body.
Excessiveness of anything can lead to problems. Not only with some of what we've mentioned here (exercise, cleanliness etc) but eating moderately is important too. Too many sweets or sugar can have a major negative effect on your immune system.
If you are working too hard, your stress levels increase. Too much caffeine or medication (such as headache tablets etc.) can be a problem too. Living moderately has tremendous long term benefits that you will never regret. It's important to ensure you live moderately in all your experiences of life.
Good nutrition is one of the most import ways to boost your immune system. Studies at both the University of Florida and the University of Arizona found that whole food supplements support several important markers of proper immune function.
The universal need for supplementation is no longer a question for debate. The evidence is in. Everyone should be supplementing their diets. However, deciding which supplement to use is problematic as literally thousands of products are available.
It seems reasonable, in evaluating your alternatives, to choose the most versatile, reliable and safe product available.


Evangelization, sharing the good news, making disciples and best way to live, are the words that help to focus on the message of this Sunday. Last Sunday the homily highlighted the second and third signs of a dynamic Catholic: study and generosity. This Sunday the gospel in subtle ways underlines evangelization: the fourth sign of engaged Catholics. The Church exists precisely to transform people by proposing the best way to live as Jesus taught. It exists to evangelize. What exactly is evangelization? Evangelization is a process that leads people into a relationship with Jesus by sharing the good news Jesus taught on the best way to live. Matthew Kelly in Chapter Five of The Four Signs of a Dynamic Catholic challenges us to be God's instruments of helping people become the best version of themselves. We can do this by taking one step at a time to change our own lives first. Once we commit ourselves to a routine of daily prayer, study, being generous with our lives, our faith will be so fired up with energy and joy that we cannot contain but share with others. The fourth sign of a dynamic Catholic is evangelization. Our parish exists to make disciples who make other disciples. That implies leading others to discover the best way to live as taught by Jesus Christ.
What is the best way to live? The best way to live is founded on the Commandment of love of God and neighbor as Jesus teaches (cf. Mt. 22:37-39). Matthew Kelly proposes three compelling principles that guide human beings on the path to the best way to live. 1) You are created to be the best version of yourself. In the Sermon on the Mountain Jesus teaches his disciples saying, "So be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect." (Mt 5:48). Evangelization leads people on a path to the best version of themselves. 2) A virtuous life is better than a life of vice. Evangelization leads people to embrace a virtuous life rather than a life of vices. It is unthinkable to imagine a marriage, family, state or nation where vices reign supreme: pride, greed, envy, anger, lust and gluttony. 3) It is better to live with self-control (self-discipline) than to live without it. That is what Matthew Kelly means when he says, "Transforming people one at a time is at the very heart of God's plan for the world." As followers of Jesus we are called to transform people, culture and thinking. This is subversive and dangerous.
Let me sum up in a few points. 1) Evangelization is a process that leads people into a relationship with Jesus Christ by sharing the good news Jesus taught on the best way to live: a life of virtue and character; a life grounded on self-control and discipline. 2) Evangelization requires commitment to a routine of daily prayer, study and being generous with our lives. 3) Evangelization begins with our "yes' by allowing Jesus to transform us into the best version of ourselves. 4) If you want to be an evangelizer, consider doing one thing each week to share your faith with someone who crosses your path. 5) Read the Bible, a good Catholic book or listen to a Catholic CD that inspires your faith daily and share it with other parishioners or people you meet. 6) Take the parish Newsletter to Catholics and friends who no longer come to church and invite them to join us for our Christmas Mass. Be bold; be Catholic; be a dynamic Catholic and the best version of yourself. I wish you all a Blessed and Merry Christmas!


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Middle East|Iran Says It Tested Upgraded Missile
Iran Says It Tested Upgraded Missile
By MICHAEL SLACKMAN DEC. 16, 2009
CAIRO — Iran announced Wednesday that it had test-fired an improved version of its most advanced missile, one capable of reaching Israel and parts of Europe, a move that appeared aimed at discouraging a military attack on its nuclear sites and to defy Western pressure over its nuclear program.
But the Pentagon said the test, on Tuesday, did not reveal anything "particularly different" about Iran's abilities.
"I'm not going to get into the particulars of what our intelligence shows other than to say I don't think there was anything here that was particularly different than what we've seen in the past," said Geoff Morrell, the Pentagon press secretary, Reuters reported.
Still, the announcement provoked immediate rebukes from the White House and leaders in Europe, and appeared likely to intensify pressure from the United States and other Western powers to impose tougher economic sanctions on Iran.
A White House spokesman, Mike Hammer, said that the test undermined Iran's claims that its nuclear program was peaceful, and said that it would "increase the seriousness and resolve of the international community to hold Iran accountable" for its provocations, Reuters reported.
The British prime minister, Gordon Brown, said the missile test "does make the case for us moving further on sanctions," according to The Associated Press.
Iranian television gave a brief report on Wednesday of a successful test of the two-stage, solid-fuel missile called a Sejil-2. Iran's defense minister, Ahmad Vahidi, said that the new missile was faster, more accurate and harder to shoot down than earlier versions and that it increased "the country's technical and tactical powers," according to Iran's official news agency.
Iran was clearly sending a warning to the West and to Israel, regional experts said.
"It shows that Iran has the ability to stir unrest in the region and impact U.S. interests," said Mustafa el-Labbad, director of the East Center for Regional and Strategic Studies in Cairo. "It can reach the oil fields on the other side of the gulf."
Iran's test worsened already tense relations with the West over the breakdown in efforts to diplomatically resolve a dispute over its nuclear program. A deal in which Iran was to ship most of its low-enriched uranium abroad to be returned as higher processed fuel for a medical reactor was announced in October, but quickly became a political liability inside Iran. The Iranian government has tried to reshape the deal to something that could be sold at home, issuing terms the West has already rejected.
At the same time, Iran's military has put on a show of force. Last month, the military staged five days of war games specifically aimed at discouraging an Israeli attack on its nuclear sites, and officials warned they could hit Tel Aviv if they chose.
The latest missile test raises the stakes for negotiators and for Iran's neighbors.
"This is the missile of greatest concern at this point," said Valerie Lincy, a senior associate at the Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control, a nonprofit organization working to stem the proliferation of unconventional weapons that operates under the auspices of the University of Wisconsin. "So the fact that they're testing it now is worrisome in of itself and worrisome if you put it in the context of what's going on with the nuclear program."
Though the range of this rocket is comparable to the liquid-fueled Shahab III, which Iran first obtained from North Korea, a solid-fuel rocket is easier to use on short notice, easier to hide from attack, and more accurate, experts said.
Iran's Revolutionary Guards, an ideologically driven military, political and economic powerhouse, controls both the missile program and the nuclear program. The West has accused Iran of trying to build nuclear weapons, which it has denied, insisting that it is developing civilian nuclear technology. As that conflict has burned for years, the Revolutionary Guards has worked aggressively to enhance the missile program.
The decision to make this test comes against a backdrop of Iran's own internal political crisis touched off by the disputed presidential election in June. The Revolutionary Guards has taken control of internal security and has been uncompromising domestically and internationally. Internally, the corps leaders have called for arresting leaders of the reform movement and internationally they have rejected any compromise on the nuclear program.
Political analysts said that the Revolutionary Guards might benefit from heightened conflict with the West and even from tougher sanctions, allowing the force to protect its economic and political interests.
"Iran is rational," Mr. Labbad said. "It likes to appear as though it's crazy. But they know very well to what level they are escalating this to."
Mona El-Naggar contributed reporting.
A version of this article appears in print on December 17, 2009, on Page A22 of the New York edition with the headline: Iran Test-Fires Upgraded Version of Its Most Advanced Missile. Order Reprints| Today's Paper|Subscribe


It's here: our first phoneography challenge!
To kick this off, grab your phone and head out the door. That's right — get on your feet and go outside to explore — and document — where you live.
This is my neighborhood. It is a rural setting, something I most wanted when I set my sights on a homestead to call my own. I grew up within a half mile of where I live now. I got use to the wide open space with plenty of land to enjoy.
Weekly Photo Challenge: My Neighbourhood (canal 3) | What's (in) the picture?
Phoneography Challenge: My Neighborhood | Travel. Garden. Eat.
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Maria Fantinato Geo de Siqueira Wins GSAS International Travel Fellowship!
The Ethnomusicology community at Columbia congratulates 4th year PhD student Maria Fantinato Geo de Siqueira, who has been awarded a 2018-19 International Travel Fellowship by the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, in support of her research for her dissertation, entitled "Spectrums of excess: loudness in Amazonian festivities and rethinking the common in Latin America."
Andrés Garcia-Molina Wins SSRC IDRF and GSAS International Travel Fellowships!
The Ethnomusicology at Columbia congratulates 4th year PhD student Andrés Garcia-Molina, who has been awarded both the Columbia GSAS International Traveling Fellowship and an International Dissertation Research Fellowship from the Social Science Research Council, both of which will support his ongoing research for his dissertation, entitled "Aural Economies and Precarious Labor: Street-Vendor Songs in Cuba."
Congratulations Andrés!
Mario Cancel-Begay Wins GSAS International Travel and Alumni Association Fellowships!
The Columbia Ethnomusicology community is thrilled to congratulate fourth year PhD student Mario Cancel-Begay, who has been awarded both a 2018-19 International Travel Fellowship and a 2018-19 Alumni Association Fund Fellowship for Under-represented Minority Students, both from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Columbia. He will spend next year traveling for research related to his dissertation project, entitled "Rethinking Anticolonial Experience, Meta-Colonial Discourse and the Archive: Bands of Puerto Rican Nueva Canción and Chanson Québécoise with Multi-National Members."
Congratulations Mario!
Prof. Alessandra Ciucci Awarded 2018-19 Rome Prize!
The Ethnomusicology community at Columbia offers our warmest congratulations to Prof. Alessandra Ciucci, who has been awarded the 2018-2019 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Post-Doctoral Rome Prize in Modern Italian Studies! She will spend 2018-19 in residence at the American Academy in Rome completing her book, Resonances of the Rural across the Mediterranean: Music, Sound and Migrant Moroccan Men in Italy.
The American Academy in Rome has announced the winners of the 2018–19 Rome Prize and Italian Fellowships. These highly competitive fellowships support advanced independent work and research in the arts and humanities. This year, 29 Rome Prizes were awarded to 29 artists and scholars, who will each receive a stipend, workspace, and room and board for a period of five months to two years at the Academy's eleven-acre campus in Rome. The Rome Prize and Italian Fellowship winners were presented on April 12, 2018, during the Arthur and Janet C. Ross Rome Prize Ceremony in the Frederick P. Rose Auditorium at Cooper Union in New York.
For the full announcement, please see the Academy's website.
Congratulations to Dr. César Colón-Montijo!
The Center for Ethnomusicology and the Ethnomusicology community at Columbia are delighted to congratulate our newest PhD alumnus, Dr. César Colón-Montijo! Dr. Colón-Montijo successfully defended his dissertation, entitled Specters of Maelo: An Ethnographic Biography of Ismael 'Maelo' Rivera, on Tuesday, March 27, 2018. An abstract of the dissertation is below.
Dr. Colón-Montijo's dissertation was co-sponsored by Profs. Chris Washburne and Ana Maria Ochoa.
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Congratulations Dr. Colón-Montijo!
ABSTRACT: Specters of Maelo: An Ethnographic Biography of Ismael 'Maelo' Rivera
by César Colón-Montijo
Ismael 'Maelo' Rivera (1931–1987) is a foundational Afro-Puerto Rican salsa singer. Known among his fans, peers, and contemporary researchers as El Sonero Mayor (loosely, The Greatest Singer-Improviser), Maelo's voice became inscribed in the aural tapestry of barrios in Latin America and the Caribbean, beginning in the mid-1950s. After his death on May 13, 1987, Maelo has gained a sense of sacredness amongst fans and devotees who identify themselves as maeleros and maelistas in places such as Panama, Venezuela, and Puerto Rico. My interlocutors ascribe Maelo's songs with a particular affective strength that for them differentiates him from other salsa singers. His music has become the medium for the creation of relational bonds that respond to their particular local contexts as well as their personal and collective histories. In both countries, maeleros and maelistas listen to his songs as stories where they find keys to endure the difficulties of day-to-day life in their respective socio-political, cultural, and economic situations. This dissertation studies the friendships and relational affinities maeleros and maelistas articulate through Maelo's music and biography, examining the creative work they do in order to celebrate his presence in their everyday.
I argue that Maelo inspires a sense of "secular devotion" (Brennan 2008) amongst his fans through the ways in which he mediates the crossing of the sacred and the profane through his repertoire and life by voicing multiple expressions from diverse Black Atlantic religions. I understand the sense of communion maeleros and maelistas share as a devotional sense of kinship in which friendship, and mainly male friendships, are central. I propose that such mediations of the sacred, and the Maelo-centered sense of devotional kinship I study, must be framed in relation to larger histories of the political definition of life in Latin America and the Caribbean. In such histories, the spectrality of the voice has served both as a tool for casting Black and indigenous groups as unworthy of citizenship and as a means for these groups to endure such marginalization (Ochoa Gautier 2014). By examining the context-specific ways in which Maelo connoisseurs reinterpret his music and life in Venezuela, Panama, and Puerto Rico in his afterlife, this dissertation proposes that maeleros and maelistas enact a political theology that dramatizes the contemporary stakes of larger bio-political histories in which illness has long-been connected to delinquency as tools of power used to police and discipline modern citizen bodies (Ramos 1994). This is vital to one of the central theses of this dissertation: that Maelo's stories of vocal illness, addiction, and imprisonment—what I call his wounded masculinity—are key to the sense of sacredness he has gained during his afterlife as a spectral figure whose songs, images, and myth accompany his fans, peers, and devotees in their everyday.
Prof. Jossianna Arroyo-Martínez -- "Cities of the Dead: Performing Life in the Caribbean" (Tues 3/27 6PM)
Tuesday, March 27, 2018 - 6:00pm
The Center for Ethnomusicology announces a colloquium featuring:
Prof. Jossianna Arroyo-Martínez
(The University of Texas, Austin)
"Cities of the Dead: Performing Life in the Caribbean."
Tuesday March 27, 2018
(The Center for Ethnomusicology, Columbia Univ. Morningside Campus at 116th and Broadway)
For more information or accommodations, please email aaf19@columbia.edu
Life and death defined the historical and temporal dimensions of the plantation. Many of these material, affective and ritualistic views on life and death haunt contemporary Caribbean cities. This essay will analyze the narrative script of Juan de los muertos (Juan of the Dead) and Eduardo Lalo's documentary La ciudad perdida (2005) along with the funeral rites performed by Funeraria Marín in Río Piedras, Puerto Rico, whose "performative funerals" or collages, have circulated in journals and the Internet, creating what appear to be "living tableaus" or original wakes since 2010. I believe that zombies, the living dead, and the performative dead—are all part of the ways life and death and create sites of individual or collective action. I will be cautious to read these actions merely as forms of agency against the state or neoliberal economies. These necropolitics, to use Achille Mbembe's term, are more than forms of agency: they "frame" forms of precarious subjectivity, survival, and existence in contemporary Caribbean societies where melancholia is pretty much related to the present.
BIOGRAPHY: Born in Puerto Rico Jossianna Arroyo-Martínez (BA, University of Puerto Rico, 1989, PhD University of California at Berkeley, 1998) is a literary and cultural studies scholar who specializes in the analysis of Afro-Diasporic literatures and cultures in the Americas, critical race studies, queer studies, and media studies. She is Professor and Chair of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at The University of Austin, Texas. She also holds an appointment at the Department of African and African Diaspora Studies. She is the author of Travestismos culturales: literatura y etnografía en Cuba y Brasil (Iberoamericana, 2003) a critique of cultural racism in the work of Gilberto Freyre and Fernando Ortiz, and several Cuban and Brazilian novels, and Writing Secrecy in Caribbean Freemasonry (Palgrave, 2013), an analysis of transnational, racial and colonial dimensions of Masonic encounters in the circum-Caribbean and the United States (1850-1898). She has contributing essays on Brazilian and Caribbean Literatures at Lusosex Sexualities in the Portuguese Speaking World (2002); Technofuturos (2008). She has published at Encuentro de la cultura cubana, La Habana Elegante, Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, Journal of Latino Studies, and CENTRO Journal for Puerto Rican Studies, among many other national and international publications. Her new research project entitled Mediascapes is an analysis of local and transnational Caribbean cultures in new media and their ways of representing race, ethnicity and culture in neoliberal times.
Prof. Giovanni Giuriati: 'Mbrusino, Liszt, the tarantella montemaranese, and the clarinet" (Thurs 3/29, 6PM)
The Center for Ethnomusicology Presents a Collooquium with:
Giovanni Giuriati
(Professor of Ethnomusicology at the Facoltà di Lettere of the Università di Roma "La Sapienza," and the Director of the Intercultural Institute for Comparative Music Studies, Fondazione Giorgio Cini in Venice.)
"'Mbrusino, Liszt, the tarantella montemaranese, and the clarinet. Retracing a Process of change in Southern Italy at the end of the 1930s."
701C Dodge Hall (Columbia U. Morningside Campus at 116th St. and Broadway)
(For information or to request accommodations, please contact aaf19@columbia.edu)
Prof. Giuriati's talk will address the peculiar process of change of one of the most well-known Italian tarantella, that of Montemarano, which has been the object of study for a number of ethnomusicologists and folklorists including Alan Lomax. Among the peculiarities of this tarantella is the fact that it is played by a clarinet, together with accordion and frame drum. The use of clarinet in Montemarano can be traced back to a local musician, 'Mbrusino, at the end of the 1930s. Through this case-study the talk will discuss the role of individuals in the creative process of music of oral tradition, the relationship between "art" and "folk" music, patterns of change that are peculiar of Italian folk music, and a peculiar twist (or paradox) that makes one of the most known repertories of Italian folk music derive from a tune by Liszt, who, in turn, seems to have taken it from Hungarian folk (or gipsy) music. However, this does not prevent the tarantella di Montemarano to take an entirely new life of its own in the ensuing decades.
Speaker Biography:
Giovanni Giuriati (Ph.D. University of Maryland) is Professor of Ethnomusicology at the Facoltà di Lettere of the Università di Roma "La Sapienza," and the Director of the Intercultural Institute for Comparative Music Studies, Fondazione Giorgio Cini in Venice. Giuriati has been a member of the Scientific committee of the Archivi di etnomusicologia of the Accademia Nazionale di S. Cecilia, Secretary General (2002-2005) and President of the European Seminar in Ethnomusicology (2005-2008). Since December 2017 Giuriati is President of the ADUIM (Associazione Docenti Universitari Italiani di Musica). Giuriati has researched and published extensively on the traditional music of Cambodia and Indonesia, and on the instrumental music and the relationship between music and festivals in Campania, Italy. His latest publications include: Perspectives on a 21st Century Comparative Musicology: Ethnomusicology of Transcultural Musicology?, co-edited with Francesco Giannattasio, Mascarà, mascara me n'a fatto 'nnamurà. Le tarantelle e i canti di Montemarano (with Luigi D'Agnese), Alcune questioni centrali nel dibattito etnomusicologico contemporaneo: una prospettiva dall'Italia (Il Saggiatore Musicale).
POSTPONED TO FRIDAY 3/23 AT 4PM -- Prof. Liv Sovik (U Federal do Rio de Janeiro) -- "On Feminist Rapper Karol Conka"
Friday, March 23, 2018 - 4:00pm - 6:00pm
"Feminist Rapper Karol Conka In Light Of Tom Zé's Theory Of Brazilian Popular Music."
Prof. Liv Sovik
DATE POSTPONED TO FRIDAY MARCH 23, 2018
(The Center for Ethnomusicology @116th St. and Broadway)
For disability or other accommodations or more information, write aaf19@columbia.edu
Abstract: Karol Conka sang to the world with teenage rapper MC Soffia, at the opening ceremony of the Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games in 2016. She was already a phenomenon on the Internet in Brazil and had toured Europe twice. If the immediate urge is to understand her as part of the Brazilian instance of the global hip hop scene, she emphasizes her difference. Her "message" of joie-de-vivre and feminist self-affirmation is unlike most Brazilian rap, focused on favelas, "the system" and violence, and she has said she keeps up with the American scene but "spices her work up" with her Brazilianness. On the other hand, tropicalista and avant-garde pop musician Tom Zé has long spoken, in interviews, about Brazilian popular music's place in the world. He touches on Brazil's underdevelopment and modernization, cultural history and traditions, poverty, the market, social change, performance and the performer's relationship to the audience. His discourse is complex, circular and fragmented, but has the advantages of being both rooted in Brazil and in music, rather than being global and focused on markets and circulation. This presentation both analyses Karol Conka's contemporary Brazilian persona and sensibility and proposes a theoretical construct with which to do it, Tom Zé's views formulated as a theory.
Some Musical Links:
Tom Zé - "Complexo de épico". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nQtMlraWm4 1973.
Tom Zé – "Passagem de som". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcmB6VEWOAU 1998
Tom Zé – "Tropicalea jacta est". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpM9VcDQbj0 2012
Karol Conka – "Boa noite". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hU3soPwOLDI 2011
Karol Conka – "Tombei". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfL4H0e5-Js 2015
Karol Conka – "Lalá". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_veXiDyQvU 2017
Biography: Liv Sovik uses the Brazilian popular music tradition as an avenue to understand Brazilian imaginaries and subjectivities. Her work has focused on foreign influence and domination, in the context of the postmodern debate and Brazil's affinity with it; the discursive mechanisms for valuing whiteness in a country that has long seen itself as mestiço; the historical presence of independent women even as feminism was silenced. She is also interested in non-logocentric, disciplined ways of thinking and knowing, two examples being music and capoeira. She edited a major collection of Stuart Hall's work in Portuguese (Da diaspora, 2003), and is the author of Aqui ninguém é branco [Here no one is white] (2009) and Tropicália Rex (2018). She teaches communication at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and in an MA program on Ethnic and Race Relations at CEFET, a technical college in Rio de Janeiro.
Prof. Liz Przybylski (UC Riverside): Hip Hop Dialogues: Unsettling Collaboration
Liz Przybylski
(Assistant Professor of Music, U. California, Riverside)
Hip Hop Dialogues: Unsettling Collaboration
In January 2015, Winnipeg, Manitoba was identified as the most racist city in Canada. Yet, for Canada's 2017 sesquicentennial, a vocal group from Winnipeg, Camerata Nova, was chosen to showcase Indigenous music and model Indigenous/Settler relationships for national reconciliation. With Cree composer Andrew Balfour as artistic director, the group presented the show Taken. The performances in Winnipeg and Ottawa form the musicians' contribution to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). Like many settler-colonial states, Canada is currently wrestling with the past, present, and future of relationships between Indigenous and non-Indigenous citizens. Government efforts to forcibly assimilate Indigenous children included more than one hundred years of compulsory Indian Residential Schools in which children were removed from their families, languages, and cultural practices. Often using music as a centerpiece of public events, the TRC investigated abuses children suffered when separated from their families and offers a concrete plan for the nation to redress past harms. Camerata Nova participates in the current Canadian dialogue, which offers a still-contested model for other settler-colonial states.
Taken features collaborative new compositions that incorporate the living lineage of Canadian Indigenous music. In these performances, rapper Eekwol (Muskoday First Nation) works with composer Mel Braun and sixteen Camerata Nova musicians who integrate samples from two repertoires: music from Eekwol's hand drum group and Canadian pop songs that charted between 1970 and 2016. The show delivers messaging which both fits with and diverges from the larger arc of Eekwol's hip hop career. This presentation shares research grounded in participant observation with Camerata Nova through its rehearsal process and performances. Invoking Michelle Raheja's analysis of Indigenous sovereignty that is not limited to a Euro-American legal concept of political sovereignty, I ask how musicians can build future public performances that carry the collaboration process towards more productive forms of unsettling.
Prof. Liz Przybylski is an interdisciplinary scholar of popular music. She specializes in Indigenous hip hop practices in Canada and the United States. A graduate of Bard College (BA) and Northwestern University (MA, PhD), Liz's work bridges ethnomusicology, musicology, gender studies, and Indigenous Studies. She has presented her research nationally and internationally, including at the Society for Ethnomusicology, Feminist Theory and Music, International Association for the Study of Popular Music, and International Council for Traditional Music World Conferences. Recent and forthcoming publications analyze how the sampling of heritage music in Indigenous hip hop contributes to dialogues about cultural change in urban areas. Liz has also published on popular music pedagogy. She was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to conduct research with hip hop artists and music broadcasters in Winnipeg. Her ongoing work develops an innovative model of on- and off-line ethnography for the analysis of contemporary popular music. In addition to her university teaching, Liz has taught adult and pre-college learners at the American Indian Center in Chicago and the Concordia Language Villages program of Concordia College in Bemidji. A radio enthusiast, Liz hosted the world music show "Continental Drift" on WNUR in Chicago and has conducted interviews with musicians for programs including "At The Edge of Canada: Indigenous Research" on CJUM in Winnipeg. Liz currently serves as the Vice President of the Society for Ethnomusicology, Southern California and Hawaii Chapter and as the Media Reviews Editor for the journal American Music.
SYMPOSIUM: New Frontiers in the Study of Music, Autism, & Neurodiversity (Thurs 02/08/18, 6-9PM) -- NEW ROOM and LIVESTREAM ANN
Thursday, February 8, 2018 - 6:00pm
The Columbia University Center for Ethnomusicology Presents a Symposium:
NEW FRONTIERS IN THE STUDY OF MUSIC, AUTISM, & NEURODIVERSITY
(NOTE ROOM CHANGE FROM EARLIER ANNOUNCEMENTS)
Columbia University Morningside Campus, Broadway at 116th St.
FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC, NON-SPECIALISTS WELCOME!
Facebook Event Link
LIVESTREAM LINK -- We will be livestreaming this event on YouTube!
https://www.youtube.com/user/EcoMusicology
KENNETH AIGEN (Associate Professor of Music Therapy, Steinhardt School, New York University)
"Contemporary Developments in Music Therapy Practice & Research in Autism: Beyond the Medical Model"
MICHAEL BAKAN (Professor of Ethnomusicology, Florida State University)
"Speaking for Themselves: Conversations on Life, Music, & Autism"
JOSEPH STRAUS (Distinguished Professor of Music, The Graduate Center, City University of New York)
"Idiots Savants, Retarded Savants, Talented Aments, Mono-Savants, Autistic Savants, Just Plain Savants, People with Savant Syndrome, & Autistic People Who Are Good at Things: A View from Disability Studies"
MICHAEL WEDD (Columbia College Senior Anthropology Major and Autism Activist)
"Autism and Music in Other Words"
with distinguished guest commentary from:
(Professor of English & Comparative Literature, Columbia University,
& Director, The Future of Disability Studies Project)