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(RNN) - It's the midway point of the season, which means two things - first, we're that much deeper into the death march for the BCS system.
We know you're excited, but save your happy dance for February.
Second, it's time to update the nominees for the most prestigious awards in college football - the Chinstrap Awards.
Some familiar names are on the list. Some, you may not recognize.
No matter what, we can all agree on this - if there is any conference that deserves its own major awards program, it's our beloved NFL Lite.
Frontrunner: Steve Spurrier and Jadeveon Clowney - The coach loves his star player, and later he's angry at him. The coach all but questions the star player's manhood, and three days later he says that player did more for his school than sliced bread did for sacked lunches.
You kind of want to see this end, but then you remember how much Luke and Laura did for ratings.
Other nominees:
Georgia in the fourth quarter - Not even the entire fourth quarter, just the last five minutes or so. Their games have turned into NASCAR races.
Texas A&M - The circus in College Station is suffering a clown shortage, but there's still a lot of season left.
Frontrunner: Bo Wallace pumping his receivers - Yeah well, that turned out exactly as planned. It's not that Ole Miss's receivers can't score at will against Alabama, they just decided not to that particular day. Bo's hair really is awesome, by the way, even better than some of the women who interview him.
Other nominees:
Steve Spurrier and Jadeveon Clowney - Their public interaction is as ridiculous as it is sad.
Les Miles - Who so brilliantly reminded us of the difference between holidays honoring Italian people and holidays honoring Irish people. Speaking of hair, he should stick with his natural color. You're a handsome man, Coach Miles. Embrace and enjoy it.
Tennessee's offense vs. Oregon - And Florida, for that matter. How did they post 31 on Georgia? Oh right, because the Bulldogs sometimes forget the rules of flag football don't apply.
Frontrunner: Dak Prescott, Mississippi State - At this point in time, Prescott is the reserve player who is doing the most to support his team. Who saw that coming before the season started? And an even more important question - why has he not yet officially been named the starter?
Brendan Douglas/J.J. Green, Georgia - The best running back tandem in the conference - maybe the country - is hurt, one of them for the season. These two may tote a lot of mail from here on out.
Cameron Artis-Payne/Corey Grant, Auburn - There seems to be a theme with running backs in this category. Tre Mason is the starter, but these guys are just as vital. More on them later.
Maty Mauk, Missouri - You're up, big boy. You got a loaded team, a smart coach and a potential mentor in an arm sling dropping knowledge in your ear. Make the best of this.
Frontrunner: Jadeveon Clowney - Here is an exact quote from the preseason Chinny Awards nominations: "With all the hype, anything short of 30 sacks and unearthing Jimmy Hoffa would be somewhat disappointing."
He likely won't total 30 sacks for his career, let alone the season, and Hoffa still sleeps with the fishes.
Tyler Russell, Mississippi State - He's a good college quarterback, but he'll continue to wear a headset as long as Prescott is making explosive plays.
Secondaries - Georgia, Missouri, Texas A&M, Auburn - even LSU and Alabama at certain points. Take your pick of which group of defensive backs to trust least.
Bo Wallace, Ole Miss - He was handed the keys to one of the fanciest new cars in the country before the season. Hopefully, he doesn't crash it into a wall.
Frontrunner: South Carolina - Without question, the most balanced team in the SEC East Division. Most people thought last year's team was the most talented in the history of the program, but this squad is a quiet killer.
Alabama - They're less than dominant and still undefeated. Coaches believe in respecting every opponent, so we'll respectfully say even the games other than LSU and Auburn could be tough for the Tide.
Florida - Starting quarterback goes down. Star defensive tackle goes down. Gators just keep on trucking.
Auburn - In case you haven't noticed, there's a little something going on in Lee County, AL.
Frontrunner: Mike Davis, South Carolina - He's making Marcus Lattimore more of a distant memory every time he touches the ball.
Alex Collins, Arkansas - Obviously, Bret Bielema subscribes to the Steve Spurrier theory of running your star freshman tailback until his legs fall apart. Even if it doesn't produce wins, the records are worth it.
Dak Prescott, Mississippi State - It looks like he's about as much fun to tackle as a pickup truck. He's about as big, too.
Michael Sam, Missouri - He is leading a beastly front seven. Through six games, Sam has more sacks (six) than he had in two previous seasons (five), and he's tied for the SEC lead.
Frontrunner: Gary Pinkel, Missouri - If he keeps his currently 6-0 team from turning into a five-alarm house fire with James Franklin out for the season, he is the slam-dunk winner of this award at the end of the season.
Les Miles, LSU - He's loosey goosey no matter what the situation - the anti-Saban, if you will.
Will Muschamp, Florida - Why are we not talking more about what an awesome coach he is?
Hugh Freeze - In August, we thought consecutive games against Texas, Alabama, Auburn, LSU and Texas A&M were the buzzsaw. Now those last two games against Mizzou and Mississippi State don't look so promising.
Frontrunner: Aaron Murray, Georgia - He came from behind to beat LSU, and he did it with zero help from his, ummm… would we call Georgia's attempt to stop people defense?
Zach Mettenberger, LSU - A preseason Hot Reads opinion poll that asked which SEC player will make the biggest impact didn't even include this guy as an option - unless the 14 percent of people who voted "Other" had him in mind. They most likely didn't.
Nick Marshall, Auburn - That comeback against Mississippi State did wonders for his reputation. The Tigers play Texas A&M this weekend. Just saying.
James Franklin, Missouri - He didn't finish the game against Georgia, but he did enough jabbing so all that was left to do was deliver the knockout blow. It's heartbreaking we won't get to see him play a full, healthy season in the SEC.
Frontrunner: Texas A&M fans - They're paying through the nose for tickets (stadium expansions and Heisman winners tend to have that effect) despite only one quality game at Kyle Field this season. Yet, the Aggie faithful show up for games at a higher rate than anywhere else in the SEC.
Ole Miss fans - It's not your fault the team didn't live up to the hype. We admire you for not abandoning them - yet.
South Carolina fans - Williams-Brice Stadium and the area that surrounds it are beautiful sights. They look even better with an average attendance above capacity.
Frontrunner: Rajion Neal, Tennessee - He is in the top 10 of the SEC in rushing yards, rushing attempts, rushing touchdowns, all-purpose yards and touchdowns scored. But you don't know that because he plays for Tennessee.
Alex Collins, Arkansas - Great talent, not-so-great team. What idiot says any other conference besides the SEC prepares players better for the NFL?
Jordan Matthews, Vanderbilt - Name a receiving category, and he's not looking up at too many other guys in the conference. Still, it's not doing much to help a team that will struggle to win six games.
Frontrunner: Ole Miss - Unlimited optimism, limited success. But hey, they can still sell people on the Manning name, so that's something.
Vanderbilt - We expected more from Vandy this season. Wait… we expected more from Vandy this season?
Georgia defense - Called this one before the season started, too. They were actually worse than expected.
Texas A&M defense - Johnny Manziel would score a bazillion points even if he weren't forced to, but still.
Frontrunner: Mark Stoops, Kentucky - That stellar recruiting class can't get to Lexington fast enough.
Butch Jones, Tennessee - There are a lot of good things going for the Vols. Unfortunately, most of them don't happen on Saturdays.
Frontrunner: Reese Dismukes, Auburn - While everyone else is making headlines, this guy is playing center for one of the nation's most productive offenses.
Greg Robinson, Auburn - The Tigers have allowed the second fewest sacks in the country - mainly because they run so much - but the guy protecting Nick Marshall's blind side still deserves some love.
Jake Matthews, Texas A&M - He blocked for Manziel and Ryan Tannehill. Those are all the references his resume needs.
Wesley Johnson, Vanderbilt - Hot Reads already had a ton of respect for him, and then he went nuts at halftime against UMass… UMass! This dude is a boss.
287: That's Auburn's average rushing yards per game - best in the SEC and seventh in the nation. Tre Mason, their leading rusher, averages 86 rushing yards per game. The fact that any team can get that much production without a 100-yard rusher is quite scary.
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Montpelier City Council Goals for 2013: How Did We Do?
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The start of the new year is a good time to look back at how the city fared on its goals for 2013. The city council established an ambitious set of priorities last spring. I am pleased to report that we have made major progress on most of them. Here are some highlights:
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THE CONFERENCE ON CHRISTIANITY AND LITERATURE is an interdisciplinary society dedicated to exploring the relationships between Christianity and literature. Organized formally in 1956, CCL is dedicated to both scholarly excellence and collegial exchange and includes hundreds of members from a variety of academic institutions and religious traditions from the United States, Canada, and more than a dozen other countries.
◼ During a luncheon held at Chicago's Frontera Grill on Friday, January 10, 2014, CCL honored several individuals for their outstanding contributions to the life of the mind and the work of the spirit.
The Lifetime Achievement Award was given to the award-winning fiction writer, Katherine Paterson. At the luncheon, Dale Brown, Director of the Buechner Center at King College – Mrs. Paterson's alma mater — offered a moving tribute to the range of her accomplishments and the depth of her engagement with the Christian faith and the lives of young readers. To read Professor Brown's tribute, click here.
After Dale Brown's tribute, CCL President Roger Lundin presented Katherine Paterson with a plaque whose inscription read as follows:
The Conference on Christianity and Literature honors Katherine Paterson as the recipient of its Lifetime Achievement Award — We do so with profound appreciation for the sensitive brilliance of her work as a writer of fiction for young people and for her unstinting efforts to promote the beauty, power, and pleasures of reading. Seeking to share the gift of grace she has received through stories, Katherine Paterson has offered abiding words of hope, faith, and love to several generations of grateful readers.
At the luncheon, we also honored Sharon Kim (Judson University) for her Book of the Year award (see below) and Christopher Denny (St. Johns University) as the recipient of the 2013 Lionel Basney Award, which goes to the author of the essay chosen to be the best among all those published in Christianity and Literature during the previous year.
Titled "Revisiting Dante's Promised End: Eschatological Implications of Peguy's Jeanne d'Arc Mysteries," Denny's essay received the following commendation from the selection committee: The committee commends Denny for providing readers with a provocative and insightful essay that interweaves texts by Charles Péguy, Dante Alighieri, and Hans Urs von Balthasar in order to foreground issues central to eschatology. Denny's work speaks to all readers of Christianity and Literature because it encourages readers to return to the work of Péguy, an undertreated poet, and because it provides an intriguing, if atypical and risky, model for future theologically-motivated researchers. The careful reader of Denny's article is rewarded by fresh insights into the political and theological implications of vastly different imaginative conceptions of hope, evil, and ultimate judgment. By illuminating how Péguy saw himself as an "eschatological rival" to Dante, Denny opens up a range of valuable questions, each with a surprising contemporary salience, regarding the role of the apocalyptic imagination in Christian theology.
For those of us on the CCL Board, the weekend in Chicago was packed with activities. Friday's luncheon was followed later that afternoon with a dynamic session on "African American Literature and Christianity" (see below); we owe special thanks to Katherine Clay Bassard for the outstanding work she did in assembling the panel and chairing the session. On Saturday, Katherine Paterson gave a series of readings from her novels, and they were interspersed with lively exchanges between her and members of the audience. In addition to these events, the CCL board held its own annual meeting. For three hours on Saturday morning, the board discussed a number of issues concerning the challenges we face in a new academic and economic environment as well as specific matters having to do with Christianity and Literature and the activities of the national organization. You will be hearing more about these matters over the course of the coming year. In the meantime, thank you for your ongoing support of CCL and its mission.
◼ We are pleased to announce the Conference on Christianity and Literature's 2013 Book of the Year Award. It goes to Sharon Kim for Literary Epiphany in the Novel, 1850-1950: Constellations of the Soul published by Palgrave MacMillan. Kim is a Professor of English at Judson College, where she has taught since 2002. Her book undertakes an ambitious reassessment of the role of epiphany in the nineteenth-and twentieth-century novel and does so through a sustained engagement with interdisciplinary theory and criticism. Carefully attuned to the critical debate that surrounds the term "epiphany," Kim's work examines novels by six authors who embrace widely divergent philosophical and theological beliefs. The study traces, in Kim's words, "the various impulses toward a depth-dimension, an unquantifiable 'spiritual' dimension in subjective experience that bears a resemblance to religion." In doing so, she successfully opens space to "view more fully how modern epiphany works as an ironic mode of manifestation … and thus becomes a significant form of characterization in the novel." Literary Epiphany in the Novel, 1850-1950 offers illuminating fresh readings of the modern novel and makes a strong case for the limits of any totally secularized account of literary epiphany.
◼ CCL also sponsored at the MLA convention a dynamic panel on African American Literature. Titled "Literary Crossroads: African American Literature and Christianity," this session was organized by Katherine Clay Bassard of Virginia Commonwealth University. She chaired the session, and presenters included Rhondda Thomas (Clemson University), Jonathan Fedora (University of Pennsylvania), and Claudia Rosemary May (University of California, Berkeley). This session was co-sponsored by the Division of Literature and Religion.
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What's funnier than Craig Robinson playing Satan? Craig Robinson playing Satan, moving into Anna Kendrick's neighborhood, and putting his beastly moves on her. Now that's comic gold. It's all part of the fun going on in one of the best apocalyptic comedies of the summer, "Rapture-Palooza," starring Robinson, Kendrick, John Francis Daley, Ron Huebel, Ken Jeong, Thomas Lennon, and Rob Corddry. And if that isn't enough to rev your laugh-meter, the film comes from Chris Matheson, the comedic genius who penned one of the best time-travel comedies ever: "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure" (1989). Party time!
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- Clay Pots, ½" (2)
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Step 3 Glue the two ½" clay pots together, then glue to saucer.
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In 2012, U.S. airlines moved more than 48,000 tons of cargo per day
In 2012, the value of a kilogram of U.S. merchandise exported by air averaged 121 times the value exported by sea
For every 100 airline jobs, some 360 are supported outside of the airline industry
Federal taxes constitute $61 – or 20% – of the price of a typical $300 domestic round-trip ticket
In 2012, U.S. airlines carried 16% more passengers and cargo than in 2000, while using two billion fewer gallons of fuel
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Airfares are a bargain: From 2000-2012, U.S. CPI rose 33% while average domestic fare rose just 13%
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In 2012, U.S. exports of air-travel services reached an all-time high of $39.4B, driving a $4.7B trade surplus
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Language in the Stacks
24/02/2011 § 8 Comments
Welcome and thank you to another guest blogger, Zachary Frazier.
Zachary Frazier is in his second term with the University of South Carolina's School of Library and Information. His focus is Academic Libraries. He's originally from Seattle and now lives in Columbia, SC. Don't tell the King County Library System where he is. He still owes them some money for a Ted Nugent CD he checked out as a teenager. He's on Twitter as @wildbookchase and blogs here.
This is a response to Heidi's earlier post, The Name Game. As always, we welcome your perspective in the comments and in future post ideas!
I'm one of those people who think that language matters. It may not affect the real but so much of our world is manufactured and abstract. That abstraction has real consequences like when derivative housing securities training put people out of work in Michigan auto factories. I think we exert some control over systems and our interactions with them through our use of language. Libraries address potential users as much as they address actual users. Our institutions' stakeholders expand beyond the pool of current users, our geographic locations, or our web footprint but into new spaces, lives, and communities. Because all of our stakeholders are the driving force behind what we do, I think what we call them is of primary importance. The language we use can be of extreme importance for our institutions, and our jobs.
Patron has a certain institutional history that affects the way we perceive our place in the world and what our institutions do. It links us with the people who walk through our doors, the services we provide, and our institutional history. It provides context that recognizes that those services might be intangible in any measurable way. Further, Patron reifies the idea that even where we can measure those services, no dollar amount can be assigned to them. Within patron's framework, as knowledge is valued so too must the library be valued. Patron is directly linked to that concept.
Patron(s) is a word that protects our public institutions from the slow creep capitalist epistemology. My biggest problem with other terms is that it pushes us into the subjective world of modern capitalism where everything exists for profit, or to be put into a profit framework. Once we put them into a category where they are able to be perceived in market terms, they are greatly diminished. At that point there is an acknowledgment, tacitly or explicitly, that there is now a price associated with it. We should never reduce our services to a price tag. Our practical arguments always need to be couched in rhetoric about our intrinsic value. Using a term like Patron every day is the start of reifying that part of our argument.
Even a fairly neutral term like the term User pushes the library out of a safe deontological framework where knowledge is the intrinsic value, and places it in the utilitarian world. When we use something it implies that we are using it as a tool, for the production of something (ie, pleasure, or capital), and those uses have value. At that point things exist in at least in a cost benefit framework, and the epistemology of capitalism can be begin to chip away at our knowledge/service focused techne and professional culture.
Our greatest strengths lay in our intangible value. Patron is a term that recognizes that. When we adjust out terms to allow for conceptual readjustment we lose take what is currently unmeasured, split it from the immeasurable, and loose the parts that can't be quantified. Libraries exist not just for computer classes or James Patterson best sellers but also have the unique role of shepherding our knowledge into the future. We preserve information so it can be used and discovered in the future by people we may never know or meet. Our forbearers practiced this as well. Library books can sit on our shelves for years and sometimes decades before they get called forward and used. Those lonely titles are just as much a part of our mission as getting James Patterson books or the latest scholarly research to our patrons. Their value is truly immeasurable. Because of this temporal dislocation that is an inherent part of our institutions role, we have to remember that to tend our gardens with a keen eye as much on our future patrons as on our past and present ones.
Using the term Patron is an important part of maintaining our professional culture. It is similar to a lawyer using a Latin phrase in the court room. Patron is a way of directly connecting present practices, philosophies, and epistemologies to their historical grounding. It also serves as short hand for our professional code. Every time we say it we invoke our responsibility and privilege to serve our communities. When librarians say no to the FBI, we invoke the term Patron. Its use is a professional calling that reminds us about who we are, and what we do. It serves that purpose almost as powerfully as it serves to identify our institutions or our Patrons themselves.
Patron is a powerful word. As a symbol it is nothing less than a symbolic reaffirmation of community value, our traditions, and our role. Maybe over the course of time it will lose its value, or another word will come to have similar connotations. In the present, though, I will continue to serve the Patrons who walk through the doors of my institution.
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I couldn't agree more. Patron is a term of great dignity and respect. Calling them "users" always makes me think of myself as the corresponding "pusher" :-/
I have to agree with John. I can't tell you how many times I've giggled in class thinking about "users" addicted to library DVDs…
Interesting point. Isn't it funny how job descriptions ask for "customer service" skills though?
"Library books can sit on our shelves for years and sometimes decades before they get called forward and used." This may be true in some libraries, but many (if not most) public libraries weed items a little more than that. It's pragmatic (and a careful librarian will keep the literary classics on the shelves through the process). For this reason I would not count the "temporal dislocation" factor as an intangible strength of libraries.
Libraries certainly have lots of intangible strengths, but we have also spent a lot of time trying to convey these strengths to others to prove our worth. If they're intangible, making that case is rather difficult. When it comes to library advocacy, the more tangible arguments are probably the ones that will stick.
I agree that "user" is an impersonal term. I personally never had such strong associations connected to the word "patron"; I tend to use the terms interchangeably. Is that the wrong approach? Annie makes a good point: "customer" is becoming more common in library speak. I kind of like the customer service approach to library work; really putting the patron (haha) first. What do you all think of it?
I think Libraries as they've adopted a more "customer service" orientation have moved away from their unseated temporal nature. I also was talking more or less about libraries in an idealized state. Every library is going to be different if we define libraries as institutions that exist for the preservation and accessing of information then I think its only natural that we need to be able to plan for multiple users across multiple time periods. Our ability to do it, and its integration into the core of our institutional values is part of our strengths and I don't feel like we should shove it under the bus to the extent that we have. The most successful libraries will do both.


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