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Worst 15 Trophy Rivalry Games In Major College FootballPosted: November 25, 2014 Filed under: College Football, Sports Sears | Tags: Best Trophy Games, Worst Rivalry Games, Worst Trophies in college football, Worst Trophy Games 1 Comment
Earlier this week, the Associated Press produced a "Best Traveling Rivalry Trophies" list that does scant justice to the ritual. Simply passing a hat between scribes and listing old-ish trophy games, one through ten, ain't cool, AP. No description? No evaluation? Nary a mention of criteria!?
Our nation's great game deserves better. It deserves more. It deserves a Greg McElroy-in-SEC Network-film-room-bunker-style breakdown of each and every one of the current trophy rivalry games at the major college level along with the involved programs. Rest assured, such an arch-analysis – and master ranking – is coming soon to an SB Nation page near you.
One major aspect of the rivalry game ranking should be coolness of the trophy itself. Along these lines, I have devised a 15-point scoring system to produce a score that is actually a composite of three sub-categories: "Originality," "Tradition" and "Sheer Awesomeness." Each of these sub-categories is worth 0 (worst) to 5 (best) points.
"Originality" represents how unique the trophy and its name are, as well as how unique and relevant its origin story is for the students of the involved programs. Naming a trophy "Governor's Cup" is not looked kindly on in this department. Tradition represents the extent to which the trophy has meaningful ties to the programs and/or native region, and the significance the trophy holds in the larger context of game-day rivalry rituals between the programs.
The last metric here is "Sheer Awesomeness," which admittedly can sometimes be in an eye of the beholder type thing. But here it's simply a blended answer to two very straight-forward questions:
1) You're Scot warrior William Wallace, of 13th-century kicking-ass fame. You've been parachuted across time into modern America and before you learn what a cell phone is you're told to fight for Trophy X. Upon first seeing it, how hard does your brave heart start beating?
2) If a group of major college football players were to win a spot on Extreme Makeover: Apartment Edition, how much would they enjoying seeing Trophy X appear in the corner of their TV room, regardless of what college they play for?
Ok, that part was easy.
Now, on to the next step: Add the point totals from all three categories together and you get my final, cumulative trophy score. It's dubbed "Sweetness of Trophy," or S.O.T. for short. I've highlighted each S.O.T. score in red below.
As of a point of reference, after the names of the programs, the categories from left to right follow as such:
Year Trophy First Awarded; Originality; Tradition; Sheer Awesomeness; Sweetness of Trophy
Let's get on with the rankings. We're starting at the bottom:
|Textile Bowl
|Clemson-North Carolina State
Finding out this rivalry is considered by those who know it exists to be "friendly" is bad. Seeing the actual trophy – possibly the sport's most anodyne – is worse.
|Purdue-Notre Dame
Were there an American Gaelic war club trophy club, Notre Dame would be its charter member.
|Hardee's Trophy
|Clemson-South Carolina
Some reports indicate the Hardee's era is mercifully over. South Carolina's sports department tells me it will be around for at least one more Palmetto Bowl.
|The Bell
How is this not a farcically blatant rip off of nearby Miami(Ohio)-Cincinnati's Victory Bell?
How Jarryd Hayne's Sprint Time Compares to NFL Stars'Posted: November 21, 2014 Filed under: Sports Sears | Tags: hayden smith, How Rugby is different than football, How Rugby is like football, Jarryd Hayne, Reggie Bush, Rugby, Rugby to the NFL Leave a comment
While the headlines Australian rugby superstar Jarryd Hayne generated last month by announcing a crossover to the NFL have simmered down, the training for his new life in the U.S. has heated up. How efficiently the 26-year-old can train his body to handle the demands of American football in the coming months will to a large part determine his future success.
In whichever city he ultimately lands, that transition won't easy.
Take it from the British rugby player Hayden Smith, who attempted a similar transition. "American Football is about short bursts of speed and power. The guys are bigger but then they don't have to have the endurance that rugby players do," he told The Telegraph in December, 2012 after a season in the NFL. "So, having come back, one of the things I need to work on is getting my conditioning back to where it needs to be to play rugby again. You spend more time in the gym and then sprint training and body control. It is key to be able to change direction quickly without breaking stride."
While both sports at their highest levels require unusually high combinations of speed, agility and strength, American football is driven much more by structured set pieces while rugby tends to be a more free-flowing game. There, positions – and body shapes – have become more specialized. In rugby, meanwhile, body sizes across all positions tend to be more uniform.
It's been rumored up to six NFL teams have been interested in trying Hayne out, including the Detroit Lions. Detroit running back Reggie Bush firsthand saw Hayne's rugby ability this summer on a visit to Australia and said he felt Hayne's extraordinary vision, quickness and powerful frame would help him excel in the NFL were he to choose that path.
After Hayne announced he was indeed going down that path on October 15, he said he has no doubt about the difficulties the change entails. "We'll take it week by week and see where I'm at and whether I'm in that condition to progress for a trial or not," he told The Guardian. "If we go down that avenue, then so be it. But the overall plan is for 12 months and to do as much training as I can and to prepare and to learn all the routes, learn all the schemes … I just want to get the basics down pat."
Hayne said he needed to shed 10 kilograms, improve core strength through a rigorous gym program and markedly raise his sprint speed. The challenge is huge, as at the 2014 NFL Draft Combine 20 wide receivers were clocked at less than 4.5 seconds in the 40-yard dash. In the strength department, 12 participants lifted 102kg (bench press) more than 16 times in a row, with 23 reps the highest.
So how do Hayne's metrics stack up?
First off, rugby prospects' speed aren't measured using the NFL's standard 40-yard dash. They instead run 100 meter dashes. Hayne has claimed a time of 11.20 seconds, making him Australia's third-fastest rugby player, according to The Telegraph.
That time does not, however, convert to elite NFL speed. The following graph shows 100 meter times of a few NFL running backs and kick returners who have been measured at that length (These are the positions for which Hayne is seen as a most likely fit).
Notable 100m Dash Times of NFL Players
Player Position 100m Dash Time
Jamaal Charles RB 10.18
Trindon Holliday KR 9.98
Devin Hester KR/WR 10.42
Reggie Bush RB 10.42 (High School)
Pre-season workouts: How NFL stars prepare for action
As if simply looking at NFL stars' bodies wasn't enough, the above times are clear indicators NFL players are world-class athletes. To maximize their performance, though, they must follow pre-season drills and exercises specifically tailored to their individual body shape, physiology and fitness goals.
Six-Minute Video of Nearly 10,000 Hog Fans Flooding Field after Beating LSUPosted: November 17, 2014 Filed under: Razorback football, SEC Football | Tags: Arkansas vs. LSU, Hogs fans rushing field, Reynolds Razorback Stadium Leave a comment
For at the least the third time in school history, students swarmed the field at what's now the Reynolds Razorback Stadium. In 1999, I was in the stands as a freshman UA student. Seeing so many classmates rush the field to tear down the goalposts (en route to Dickson St.) in the aftermath of a 28-24 win over Tennessee was an amazing thing. But it's only in my mind. No iPhones back then.
That wasn't the case Saturday night, in the aftermath of the most cathartic sports event I've ever experienced. I happened to be in the stands once more, this time with means to document the historic night.
Here are a few snapshots -
10,000 plus people on field right now cheering #Hogs first #SEC win of Bret Bielema Era. pic.twitter.com/Q7yXrFGG8r
— Evin Demirel (@evindemirel) November 16, 2014
Panorama of most special stadium experience I have been apart of since the #Hogs beat UT 28-24 in 1999. pic.twitter.com/wf6NpQbrGJ — Evin Demirel (@evindemirel) November 16, 2014
Below are a couple videos, too. The one at top shows hundreds of UA students gushing all of the sudden onto the field. If I were to make a horrible analogy, I'd say it's similar to seeing someone's water break. But I won't do that.
(PS – Excuse the initial shakiness. It took a while to get my bearings with all the pandemonium.)
Before Arkansas-LSU, Had a Winless Conference Team Been Favored Vs. a Top 25 Squad?Posted: November 15, 2014 Filed under: Razorback football, SEC Football | Tags: Bill Parcells, Frank Broyles, LSU Arkansas line, Razorback football Leave a comment
On the surface, it doesn't make any sense.
How can a team not able to muster a conference win in 25 months be favored heading into a game against a perennial SEC power and Top 25 team? Yet it's this unlikely situation Arkansas found itself in much of this week entering tonight's home game vs. No. 20 LSU. Many major sportsbooks in Las Vegas favored the Hogs by one. They knew Arkansas has been so close to beating a a few Top 10 teams this season as it plows through the nation's toughest schedule.
But has anything like this ever happened before? That is, has a team still winless in conference in November entered a game against a Top 25 team as nearly the favorite, in the process spitting on one of Bill Parcells' most treasured maxims?
Not quite – but close.
In the last 12 years or so, the most similar parallel came on Nov 24th, 2012 from the Big East, when Pittsburgh (4-6, 1-4) was favored by 1.5 over No. 18 Rutgers (9-1, 5-0), according to research done by the full-service sports statistical site KOStats.com. Pitt beat Rutgers 27-6. But for insight into the 20th century, I went to my football historian friend Andrew McKillop of FootballGeography.com. He came back with this:
"There were some leads, but when I looked up the line the Top 25 team was always favored.The closest I found was in 1944. Duke (1-4) was called just a slight underdog at home against No. 5 Georgia Tech. Duke won and the next week they were ranked No. 20th by the AP – despite that 2-4 record."
Yes, Broyles, the eventual legendary Razorback patriarch who hired Jeff Long who hired Bret Bielema who leads Arkansas tonight. Broyles, still kicking at age 89, was in his playing days a jack-of-all-trades All-American back who punted, threw for touchdowns and returned opponents' passes for scores of his own.
Heading into that November 4, 1944 game at Duke, Broyles had helped lead Georgia Tech to a 5-0 record including a 17-15 takedown of then-dominant Navy. The Blue Devils, which were in a different conference, had only lost by seven to Navy but had been crushed 7-27 by Army the game before.
It didn't matter. This game belonged to Duke, despite Broyles' throwing for a 42-yard touchdown to Mickey Logan.
Duke went on to win its remaining four games, including wipe outs of North Carolina, Wake Forest and South Carolina, as well as a Sugar Bowl victory over Alabama. Georgia Tech won its next three of four games (inc. LSU) and was invited to the Orange Bowl, where Broyles threw for 304 yards in a loss to Tulsa (a record not broken until Tom Brady did it in 2000).
In later years, Broyles would get his revenge on Duke. Not in football as Arkansas' head coach, but in basketball as its athletic director. Thirty years after that 1944 loss, he convinced a promising young basketball coach named Eddie Sutton to leave Creighton and come to Fayetteville. Duke was another program heavily courting Sutton at the time, according to Sports Illustrated.
Fifty years after that loss, he would watch in Charlotte as his basketball program and another coach he hired wrest something even more precious from Duke – a national title.
In case you doubted the above 1945 Georgia Tech annual clips are authentic, kindly observe Allen Bowen's nickname below for verification:
Matt Jones' & David Bazzel's Ideas for an Arkansas-Missouri Rivalry TrophyPosted: November 15, 2014 Filed under: College Football, Razorback football, SEC Football | Tags: Battle Line Rivalry, Battle Line Trophy, Fantastical Zoomorphic Witches' Brew Conceptions, Matt Jones, Missouri-Arkansas Leave a comment
Can Missouri become the legit Arkansas rival into which LSU never quite developed?
Many Hog fans believe so. From a geographic standpoint, it makes sense, considering the campuses are about five hours apart – an hour closer than Ole Miss (Oxford) , the second-closest SEC campus to Fayetteville.
"I believe in the next decade or so it will be a good rivalry," former Arkansas quarterback Matt Jones says. "Both Arkansas and Mizzou are kind of in the same boat" in terms of overall recent football success. For the hate to really to flourish, though, Missouri must remain near the top of the SEC East and Arkansas must start beating its SEC West foes. He believes that for a true rivalry to flourish between two SEC programs, they must both meet in a regular season finale, both should win roughly half the games they play with each other overall, and each program should – at least once every five years – play in the game with an SEC Championship Game appearance on the line.
It's possible if both teams head into that final game with zero or one loss, they would meet again a few weeks later in the SEC Championship Game. That's something LSU and Arkansas can't do now. And it's not inconceivable that if both programs keep building off their current momentum, they may in a few years end up as two of the four (or eight) College Football Playoff teams. Any post-season clash at this level would kick the rivalry authentication process into warp speed.
Mutual success in the early years will ensure a healthy rivalry in the long run even when both programs inevitably wane at some point. Matt Jones likened this dynamic to Ole Miss and Mississippi State, where "if they beat each other and nobody else, that's all that matters. It was never like that with LSU and us."
Two other important factors here: A) As an SEC newcomer, Missouri hasn't yet had time to develop a more hated in-conference rival already as Texas and LSU had and B) The rivalry's basketball side will complement and strengthen the football animosity in ways that never happened with LSU-Arkansas or even Texas-Arkansas.
The fact left Hog basketball coach Mike Anderson and much of his staff left Missouri for Arkansas plays a lot into this, of course. It also helps the states of Missouri and Arkansas are in golden eras in terms of elite basketball recruits per capita, their schools often recruit against each other for the best players and that in vast swaths of northern Arkansas and Missouri, basketball – not football – is the most popular sport. That's not the case in Louisiana and Texas.
Time will tell exactly what form the Missouri-Arkansas rivalry takes, and how deeply it will impress itself on the memories and hearts of today's young Arkansans and Missourians.
In the short term, however, we have a much more concrete image of what the rivalry will look like. Earlier this month, the two colleges announced the game's logo:
In a press release, the University of Arkansas played up the "geographic and historical boundaries" between the states, "from disputed demarcations of the border separating the two states to notable alumni and former personnel with ties to both storied athletic programs. The historic rivalry between the two states will take on even more meaning now, as every Thanksgiving weekend the Battle Line will be drawn on the gridiron. The Razorbacks or Tigers will ultimately stake claim to the "Line" – until the next meeting."
We don't yet know what the "Line" is, exactly, but don't be surprised to see a trophy emerge here. Will it, like the Golden Boot, be clad in the glory of a thousand suns?
Probably not.
But there are some interesting ideas out there. I find it hard not to like the message board favorite "ARMOgedden," but for now the graphic representation of it wallows in alumni association tailgating motif purgatory.
Former Arkansas quarterback Matt Jones would like to see a kid-friendly trophy emphasizing the mascots. It would represent a giant pot, containing a "Tiger Sooey" witches' brew that would be stirred by some not-yet-defined creature's hand, he says. Perhaps sticking out from the pot would be a tiger paw, or hog's leg. Perhaps a witch looking like a hog-tiger hybrid stirs it. Suffice to say, Jones' idea hasn't exactly congealed.
David Bazzel has also had a crack at it. His idea is one Carmen Sandiego would love. The logo he designed features the line of latitude which serves as much of Arkansas' northern border. Nationally, the parallel 36°30′ north is best known for marking the Missouri Compromise, which in the early 1800s divided prospective free and slave states west of the Mississippi River:
For a few years controversy extending all the way to Washington D.C. entangled the Missouri-Arkansas area near the Mississippi River. The result: Arkansas' weird, jagged northeastern corner. "I think anything's cool if you have a historical context to it," Bazzel says. If his idea had taken, "people would have said 'What is 36°30'?', and that's where you would have to explain it to them. So it would have included history."
Bazzel says he offered his concept to some people at IMG College, a major collegiate sports marketing company, involved creating the rivalry logo. He isn't sure to what extent, if any, his idea was assimilated into the final rendition. "I don't mind the 'battle line,'" he says. "It's similar to what I was doing."
When it comes to branding the future of Arkansas and Missouri's rivalry, the past is in.
Why LSU & Arkansas Players Mock the Notion of a True Rivalry Between ThemPosted: November 15, 2014 Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Arkansas Razorbacks, Arkansas-LSU, Bret Bielema, David Bazzel, Golden Boot, LaBrandon Toefield, Matt Jones, Trophy Games 3 Comments
Twenty two years after leaving the Southwest Conference for the SEC, Arkansas still doesn't have a true conference rival. On paper, it should have been LSU, a perennial conference title contender (like Texas) bordering Arkansas (like Texas) that like Texas once prevented Arkansas from winning a national championship.
Plus, the annual LSU-Arkansas series has had perks Texas-Arkansas never did: a regular spot on national TV during Thanksgiving weekend, the Bellagio of college football trophies in the 200-pound Golden Boot and no in-state rival like Texas A&M to stir Texas fans' deepest passions (well, no Aggies for a while, anyway).
On top of all that, LSU-Arkansas has recently produced games every bit as competitive and entertaining to watch as the great Hog-Longhorn showdowns of the 1960s. And it's likely this Saturday's game in Fayetteville, for which Arkansas is a 1 point favorite according to SportsBettingAcumen.com sites, produces yet another thriller.
"It's a rivalry game," Arkansas coach Bret Bielema told me in an interview for SB Nation. "The boot represents more than just a victory. It's a battle between two states, something our fans take a lot of pride in. Obviously with LSU being the last game of the year there's been a built-up rivalry here that we will hope to continue."
Bielema lauds the rivalry aspect of the game in public, just as previous Arkansas and LSU coaches and players have. It's no secret, though, that the enmity true rivals have for each other has been lacking here.
Take it from Matt Jones, the former Razorback quarterback responsible for the "Miracle on Markham," possibly the series' most memorable moment – a 31-yard Hail Mary pass to DeCori Birmingham with nine seconds left in the 2002 game that sent Arkansas to the SEC Championship game. The year before, Jones was on the opposite side as Arkansas lost a 41-38 contest sending the Tigers to Atlanta. "You knew it was a big game for whatever reason but there never ever seemed like there was a connection between Arkansas and LSU," he says. "It was almost like it was a little bit forced on you."
Jones says many of his teammates felt the same, as did LSU foes like running back LaBrandon Toefield. After college, Jones and Toefield were NFL teammates in Jacksonville, Fla. "We always joked" about how the series was played up, Jones says. Many LSU players "didn't see it as a rivalry at all," he recalls Toefield saying. "It was something the media put out."
Carter Bryant, an Arkansas native and LSU grad, is part of the media. Now a radio host in El Dorado, Ark., he's covered Tiger football for four years and doesn't understand why the rivalry hasn't caught on more. "It means a good deal to people in south Arkansas and north Louisiana because of proximity," he says.
"But to the people of south Louisiana, it means little compared to other rivalries with trophies. LSU has pushed the Ole Miss rivalry over the years with the Magnolia Bowl trophy. Alabama with [Nick] Saban history has created a fascinating narrative plus instant classics. Every other team in the SEC West outside of Mississippi State is probably viewed as more heavily anticipated and vitriolic matchup in the minds of LSU fans." That includes Texas A&M, which has supplanted Arkansas as the Tigers' season finale. Not coincidentally, annual primetime showdowns with Texas A&M will help generate more profit for the SEC most years than an Arkansas matchup would.
For now, Arkansas fans are as likely to hate Alabama, or Ole Miss, as LSU. Or even an SEC East program. "The team that I hated the most was Tennessee," Jones recalls. Jones, who grew up in Van Buren, points to one experience as the reason. He recalls as a nine-year-old hunting with his father and walking onto a cabin in the woods. Inside, people were watched TV and cheered. On the screen, the unranked Razorbacks were pushing the No. 4 Volunteers to the wire on the road. He'll never forget the euphoria that followed watching Arkansas kicker Todd Wright's 41-yard field goal sail through the uprights with two seconds left to give Arkansas its first victory in Knoxville, Tenn.
Tennessee, though, already had Alabama and Florida as nemeses. Another SEC border state, Mississippi, had two in-state rivals. "Everybody kind of had a rival but us, so we had to manufacture one," former Arkansas coach Houston Nutt says.
Enter David Bazzel, an entrepreneur who has found a niche promoting Arkansas college athletics. Bazzel loves gold, and he loves football, and from all that love sprung the idea for this:
Bazzel's Golden Boot trophy, which depicts the two states' outlines, debuted in 1996. He hoped its record-setting 4-foot plus height would help the game attract national attention and produce better competition. "It's about playing for something, whether it be a paper clip, a rubber band or empty Coke can," he says. In this case, "it just so happens to be a 200-pound trophy." He adds: "I wanted it to develop into a fun trophy game, not particularly a rivalry."
Historically, most trophy games, of course, are based in rivalries. But that's changing as power conferences create trophies for series involving program with little shared history. Usually these series involve states that don't share borders, like Nebraska-Wisconsin or South Carolina-Texas A&M, but the situation with Arkansas' next SEC-sanctioned rival is different.
That would be Missouri, which replaces LSU as Arkansas' regular season finale.
Houston Nutt Predicts Arkansas Will Beat LSU, Make Bowl GamePosted: November 13, 2014 Filed under: College Football, Razorback football, SEC Football Leave a comment
Temperatures during this Saturday's game between Arkansas and No. 20 LSU may dip below freezing, but when it comes to competitiveness no SEC trophy game series has been hotter. In each of the last nine games of this rivalry, an average of 6.2 points has been all that separates the teams. Eight times the difference has been eight points or less. It appears the only other major college trophy series with more consistently exciting finishes has been Duke-North Carolina, decided by an average of five points* in the same span.
In the last three years, LSU's and Arkansas' fortunes have fallen — the Tigers' a little, Hogs' a lot — but the two sides haven't let their fans down when facing each other. In 2012, nobody thought the burning Hogmobile soon-to-be-fired coach John L. Smith drove into Razorback Reynolds Stadium could pull away with a win against No. 8 LSU, but those struggling Hogs somehow out-gained LSU 462-306 in total yardage and in the closing seconds were an 18-yard touchdown pass away from forcing overtime.
Likewise, last year's game also came down to the last couple minutes, when LSU quarterback Anthony Jennings found receiver Travin Dural on a 49-yard TD bomb that detonated Arkansas' hopes of picking up a first SEC win since 2012.
Arkansas (4-5, 0-5) still seeks that first landmark victory. Many insiders predict the Razorbacks get it Saturday night at home. Coming off a strong showing against No. 1 Mississippi State and a bye week, Arkansas is favored by 2, according to the latest NCAAF game lines. This likely marks the first time a college football team without a conference win is favored over a Top 25 opponent this late in the season.**
Louisiana State, the would-be victim, looks to rebound from a bruising home loss to Alabama. Jennings was banged up in in the 20-13 affair and projects to have limited mobility against an Arkansas defense among the nation's best in creating havoc in its opponent's backfield. "Arkansas couldn't catch them at a better time,"says Houston Nutt, former Razorback head coach. "You have a team who fought their guts out against Alabama … and now they have got to come to Fayetteville against a very hungry Arkansas team."
"You know [LSU] is used to fighting for championships as well," he adds, noting the difficulty of physically recovering from last week's slugfest and overcoming a natural emotional letdown after losing an SEC West title shot. "They're probably out of it." Nutt predicts Arkansas will not only beat LSU, but ultimately go to a bowl game after winning at least one of its following two games against Ole Miss and Missouri.
Any bowl is great news for an Arkansas program starving for success. The same cannot be said of LSU, which was so close to still being in the hunt for a College Football Playoff berth. Now, whether it finishes the season with seven or nine wins, the Tigers are likely returning to the Outback Bowl or to the Taxslayer, Belk, Liberty, Texas or Music City bowls, writes The Advocate's Scott Rabalais. Not exactly music to Tiger fans' ears.
Given what's not at stake, it's time Les Miles and the LSU staff maximize the develop of their record 17 true freshmen these next three games, Rabalais says. Split quarterbacking duties between the struggling Jennings and frosh Brandon Harris. Crank up the carry-o-meter for freshmen tailbacks Leonard Fournette and Darrel Williams. And "maximize the D-line rotations for the younger players like Sione Teuhema, Frank Herron, Greg Gilmore and Maquedius Bain. In the secondary, get more work for youngsters like Ed Paris and Jamal Adams and Russell Gage."
"This season was never going to be about championships," Rabalais adds. "It was always going to be a bridge to what the Tigers hope will be a brighter future."
Paradoxically, this kind of talk, as well as the betting lines, may actually serve as a greater incentive to LSU players than whatever on-field consequences an Arkansas win could mean for them. Yes, of course, they want to keep the nearly 200-pound Golden Boot on campus for the fourth straight season. And what erstwhile SEC champion wouldn't prefer a return trip to sunny Tampa to the prospect of a 56th AutoZone Liberty Bowl in Memphis?
But despite what players and coaches say in public, simple pride and retaliation for a perceived slight can sometimes be the powerful motivation of all. In public, it's foolish for coaches to admit they pay attention to Vegas and all the media chatter. But in the privacy of their locker room, it's smart to use any perceived disrespect as extra fuel for competitive engines that may be running on low.
LSU won't become Arkansas' first SEC victim of the Bret Bielema era without a nasty fight. Expect another classic finish in the conference's most heart-stopping rivalry.
Evin's Scale of SEC Trophy Game One-Sidededness
Before 2014*, there were five trophies circulating in and among the sweaty, intraconference climes of SEC football country. Each one represents a decades-old rivalry, with LSU-Arkansas the baby of the bunch. What their Golden Boot lacks in tradition, though, has more than been made up for in sheer entertainment value. The below scale, based on final score differences, ranks the SEC trophy rivalries on a scale from most consistently entertaining (1) to most likely to cause a re-reading of Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter for lack of anything better to do (5). Winners are in parentheses.
1. LSU-Arkansas (Golden Boot)
|Point Differential
Total Point Differential: 56
Per-Game Average: 6.2
2. LSU/Ole Miss (Magnolia Bowl)
|Point Differential
|3 (Ole Miss)
|2 (Ole Miss)
|17 (Ole Miss)
Total Point Differential: 90
Per-Game Average: 10
3. Florida/Georgia (Okefenokee Oar)
|Point Differential
Total Point Differential: 118
Per-Game Average: 13.1
4. Ole Miss/Mississippi State (Golden Egg)
|Point Differential
|17 (Ole Miss)
|45 (Ole Miss)
|3 (Ole Miss)
Total Point Differential: 138
Per-Game Average: 15.3
5. Alabama/Auburn** (Foy-ODK Sportsmanship Trophy)
|Point Differential
Total Point Differential: 149
Per-Game Average: 16.6
*The new Texas A&M-South Carolina and Missouri-South Carolina series involve trophies, too. Which is nice. But for membership in this particular club, you need to have been clashin' man horns for at least nine years running.
** Yes, the 2010 and 2013 Iron Bowls were awesomely entertaining. But Crimson Tide routs in 2008, 2011 and 2012 have made the series' games on the whole the least consistently compelling.


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PALO ALTO ISSUESMeasure A passes by wide margin
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PALO ALTO ISSUESPalo Alto banks on landfills for 'green' energy
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PALO ALTO ISSUESStanford rejects nurses' contract counter-offer
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PALO ALTO ISSUESShorter hours, smaller collections eyed for Palo Alto libraries
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PALO ALTO ISSUESYoriko Kishimoto
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PALO ALTO ISSUESElection 2010: The race is on
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From Euclid, Ohio, Adamle was an All-American and the Big Ten MVP in 1970 for the Wildcats. Adamle was one of Northwestern's career leaders in numerous rushing, touchdown and scoring categories when his career ended. He went on to be drafted in the fourth round of the 1971 Draft by the Chiefs and eventually played six seasons in the NFL. His 316 yards against Wisconsin in 1969 remains a single-game school record. Many know the former running back for his work on American Gladiators, ESPN, the XFL and WWE.
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If there is a tackle record in the Oregon State books then Brown's name is there leading the way. He owns the single-game record with 22 tackles (tied) against Stanford in 1972. He owns the single-season record with 186 stops in 1972. And he is the school's all-time leading tackler with 415 stops — in just three seasons. He never played in the NFL.
The star tailback from Pittsburg (Calif.) High made his mark immediately at Oregon State. He rushed for at least 1,000 yards in each of his first three seasons, culminating in the Fiesta Bowl win over Notre Dame during the historic 11-1 2000 campaign. His 1,559 yards that year were tops in school history at the time and his 1,486-yard sophomore season was No. 2. He is still the school's career leading rusher with 5,044 yards and his 366 points (59 TDs) are still No. 1 all-time for a non-kicker (Alexis Serna). Simonton deserves credit for not only leading Oregon State to a co-conference title but beginning the elite running back tradition in Corvallis.
The younger brother of OSU great James Rodgers, "Quizz" exploded onto the scene as a 5-foot-6 freshman. He rushed for 1,253 yards as a freshman, 1,440 as a sophomore and 1,184 as a junior while scoring 51 total touchdowns. The Richmond (Texas) Lamar product was a three-time all-conference selection and earned Pac-10 Offensive Player of the Year honors in 2008. His 3,877 rushing yards are second all-time, and, had he stuck around for his senior year, could have broken the all-time record. He was drafted by the Atlanta Falcons in the fifth round.
The Portland (Ore.) North Medford walk-on receiver might be the most decorated Beavers player in history. After one season on special teams, Hass became the first Pac-10 player to produce three consecutive 1,000-yard seasons, which are three of the 10 such seasons in school history. His 1,532 yards in 2005 set an Oregon State record, breaking his own mark set the previous season (1,379), and led the nation by a wide margin. Hass was awarded the Belitnikoff Award as the nation's top wide receiver. He also owns the single-game record for receptions (14) and yards (293) set in separate games during 2004.
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The big defensive tackle came to Oregon State from Auckland, New Zealand by way of Snow College in Ephraim, Utah. In three years in Corvallis, Paea posted 129 tackles, 29.5 tackles for loss, 14.0 sacks and nine forced fumbles from his nose tackle position. One of the strongest Beavers to ever play, Paea was a consensus All-American, Pac-10 Defensive Player of the Year and Morris Trophy winner — given to the league's top defensive lineman as voted on by the offensive lineman — in 2010 and was drafted in the second round by the Chicago Bears.
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So far I have played the episode with a tactical and science. And I loved it. I had different optional tasks that made the experience feel a little different and I loved that. I also liked the smal boxes that poped up with one of your Bo's saying something. I'd like to see more of that. The creepness of it all was very cool. I think the best episode so far. I havn't found any bugs like a few people have reported. That adds to my hype for this because I give this a 10 out of 10 if I was any kind of reviewer or something. I can't wait for the next episode. Going bakc in time? This series has everything I would like to see? Except for some space battle. I will be showing up in my TOS uniforms.
Played with an engineer on advanced. I'm never playing any future content on anything above normal. My character has a total of six critical injuries, seven major injuries, and five minor injuries.
There were simply too many enemies at the end, and the respawn point on the final map makes completing this mission, by yourself, with a generator-kitted engineer on advanced nearly impossible. I'm dropping the difficulty and going to ESD just to heal up before I finish it.
And triolic tribbles are absolutely worthless
When you play on advanced+ you need to be more careful of your targets. Start with the Umbrals. Once they're out of the way you can divide your, and the BO's, time between the two bosses. I prefer to focus on the secondary boss (Eidonian?) while my BO's focus on the Phantasm. Once I drop him I move on to help with the Phantasm while picking off the minions. 6 alts played through the mission so far and only the Klingon has died; but he died twice. :)
AS for bugs- i only came accross a few
- the door that locks behind you: it was interactable before i got the message saying i'd been locked in
- the flashlight just didn't work at all on my system
- the science objective came up after i'd gone through the vents and they'd no longer been a threat
- there was a dialog option that came up about the flashlight going out but it had gone before i could get close to clicking on it.
The rest of the mission was brilliant with special mention going to how well the atmosphere was developed.
As many others loved this mission/episode I can totally get the issues about playing on a harder level it took everything i cold to finish, including a trip back to sol to heal up and gather some supplies.. But to be honest when I finally did beat it was such a rush that the extra time and credits I spent bringing what I needed did not matter to me ..
Have been playing since Beta and have had lots of good and bad experiences but this is one of the tops .. hell of a fight, great trek feel, and even wonderful timing with Halloween.
MORE MORE MORE like this pls ! and the little peek that drake gives you about next week was spot on ... love looking forward to going back in time .. cant wait!!
Definitely a great Hallowe'en mission - really had an 'Aliens' feel to it!
I also second keeping the torches!
And, having just read the Ask Cryptic, am I to understand there is different dialogue based on career? cmdrshran, above, said he got Science dialogue about a vent, but I got Engineering dialogue about rerouting power.
If this is the way forward, then I support it wholeheartedly!!
This was such a great treat! Was perfectly timed with the little holiday too. Wish we could have kept the flashlights tho haha I run a torret speced eng and it wasn't too bad on advanced. No injuries to report. Also loved the career objectives that was great. Was wondering if you'd be adding content like that.
Being relatively new to the whole Series stuff (I came back to the game, just narrowly missing my Breen BO :<) I'm pleased that we're getting to see the "lesser" enemies and stuff of Star Trek coming back into it. I never really dug the Devidians in STNG, but godamn are they scary here.
This episode was spot on. Same here, my Flashlight wasn't working, and my lights at home were off as well. I think that made me wet myself on more than one occasion. True, the Anti-Devidian gun seems to be about par against them, but still a fun episode. Insane Hologram FTW!
Looking forward to going back in time definitely. Time travel, and dimesnion travel are the greatest things in Star Trek, and god bless Cryptic for letting us do it (though more of it would be even more awesome hint hint)
Roll on this saturday!
Just about fed up
I tried this new mission on advanced with my engineer and I too will no longer play ground missions on advanced. This ridiculousness of getting picked up and the life sucked out of you in a matter of a few seconds is just unbelievable. As a matter of fact a lot of the ground missions are like that now with one hit kills(B-Tran cluster). I want to be challenged not waste my time and my real life. I have not yet completed the mission I had to leave before I threw my laptop on the ground and stomped on it. So now since I really can't just set the ground missions on normal I have to play the space missions on normal, which are beyond easy. This company is really having problems with balancing, big time. You better get it straight before it's too late.
What anti-devidian gun????
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While the Archbishop of York asked for the result to be met "with restraint and sensitivity," there were cheers among many Anglicans and Episcopalians when the Church of England voted to allow women to become bishops for first time in its history.The vote rejected the Catholic and Orthodox theology of Apostolic succession, the nature of the priesthood and the of sacraments. It also removes any real hopes for institutional and structural reunion of the Catholic, Orthodox and what is now called the Anglican and Episcopal Church.
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Keywords: Church of England, synod, women bishops
LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - The Anglican Church's general synod approved the legislation. According to the BBC, the change arrived by the required two-thirds majority. A previous vote conducted in 2012 was backed by the Houses of Bishops and Clergy, but blocked by traditionalist lay members.
The vote in the House of Laity went 152 in favor, 45 against, and there were five abstentions. The change was derailed in 2012 by just six votes cast by lay members.
Let's all pray that right decisions are made --
In the House of Bishops, 37 were in favor, two against, and there was one abstention. The House of Clergy voted 162 in favor, 25 against and there were four abstentions.
The vote rejected the Catholic and Orthodox theology of Apostolic succession, the nature of the priesthood and the of sacraments. It also removes any real hopes for institutional and structural reunion of the Catholic, Orthodox and what is now called the Anglican and Episcopal Church.
It rejects an entire theology of Church, Sacrament and Holy Orders. It dismisses centuries of Anglican tradition. The Church of England has been deeply divided over this issue. The vote arrived 20 years after women were first ordained as priests in some segments of the Anglican communion.
Women bishops could be consecrated by the end of this year. The vote followed after almost five hours of debate at the University of York. The motion had the backing of the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby and Prime Minister David Cameron.
Archbishop Welby said in the debate that the Church of England bishops were committed to meeting their needs should the legislation be passed.
The move contained concessions for those parishes who reject the move as outside of the authority of the Church because Bishops are the successors of the Apostles and Jesus clearly established the order.The vote gives them a vehicle to ask for a male Bishops and to take disputes to an independent arbitrator. Few theologically orthodox observers expect that such a scheme will slow the continued spintering within the Church of England.
Ruth Gledhill of the Tablet, a Catholic weekly newspaper, described the result as "absolutely huge," saying it was a "positive decision." Of course, in so doing, she placed herself at odds with the her own Catholic Bishops. The Catholic Bishops of England and Wales issued a statement of regret which contained these words:
"The Catholic Church remains fully committed to its dialogue with the Church of England and the Anglican Communion. For the Catholic Church, the goal of ecumenical dialogue continues to be full visible ecclesial communion."
"Such full ecclesial communion embraces full communion in the episcopal office. The decision of the Church of England to admit women to the episcopate therefore sadly places a further obstacle on the path to this unity between us."
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, writing on Twitter praised Archbishop Welby's "leadership" on securing the Yes vote, adding that it was a "big moment" for the Church of England. However, many of the Anglican and Episcopal faithful see the rejection of the Christian tradition on the Episcopacy as a sign that their Church has finally rejected any real claim to be in continuity with the Catholic Church. They embrace the Catholic and Orthodox teaching that the Church cannot change what the Lord Himself instituted.
These members of the Anglican communion are voting with their feet, leaving for breakaway groups and new configurations within the Anglican communion which have rejected this move to consecrate women as Bishops. Others are considering other options to live out their deeply held beliefs.
The Anglican Communion has been the largest Christian denomination in Britain but is in a rapid decline. It has a presence in more than 160 countries. However, it is splintering over the issues of the ordination of women to the priesthood and basic Christian orthodoxy. The relative novelty of women as bishops is already present in a number of provinces including the U.S., Canada, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand.
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Much has been written about the unprecedented proliferation of sensationalist literature in the nineteenth century but very little about its origins. Such an oversight leaves our sense of early American literary history incomplete and even distorted by some persistent misconceptions about the concept of sensationalism and its place in American culture. In this dissertation I devise methodical ways of approaching this subject and explain its significance in the formation of American literary conventions. My project expands the scope of recent scholarship on sensationalist literature by examining the two areas which have so far been neglected in American studies: the origins of the American tradition of sensationalism and its place in the transatlantic context. As I demonstrate, the spectacular rise of sensationalist literature in the nineteenth century was not a spontaneous development. It grew out of a long domestic tradition of sensationalist rhetoric that emerged in the colonial period--much earlier than what is commonly perceived as the first significant outbreak of literary sensationalism in the aftermath of the American Revolution. Furthermore, patterns of provocative rhetoric, which also emerged early in the colonial period, formed an enduring rhetorical tradition whose proponents relied on a set of recognizable conventions that made a notable impact on American literary history.
Abstract RELIGIOUSLY BASED MORALITY IN THE THEATRE OF OSTROVSKY by Olga Muratova Adviser: Professor Daniel C. Gerould The dissertation offers a new way of interpreting Alexander Ostrovsky's dramas. The Ostrovsky scholarship is systematic, thorough, and well documented, but it may overlook a particular aspect of the playwright's work, that of Christian, and more specifically Russian Orthodox, morality. The dissertation correlates facts of Ostrovsky's biography (some of which were not publicized during the Soviet era), textual content of his dramas, and biblical conceptual language in them with the historical and cultural context of nineteenth-century Russia, revealing religiously based didacticism in the playwright's oeuvre. A coherent explanation of the factors (historical, ethnological, theological, epistemological, and, at least partially, ontological) that shaped Ostrovsky's life views and consequently his writing is offered as a key element of the argument presented. The writer's four metanarratives (guilt vs. shame; sin; money; theatre), which are being singled out as dominant in his dramas, are looked at from the standpoint of his understanding and interpretation of Christian doctrines. Previous research traditionally labeled a number of Ostrovsky's plays atypical for his writing style, thus creating an exclusive approach to the interpretation of the body of his work. However, if Ostrovsky is regarded as a didactic author who embodied within his plays certain attitudes about morality, which were the outgrowths of religion-influenced ethical positions of his time, exclusions become unnecessary and every drama conforms to a unifying pattern. By shedding more light on Ostrovsky's work and grounding it in Russian Orthodoxy, the dissertation demonstrates that while the playwright should be considered a realist in form, the content of his plays renders them moral fables, rooted in the Bible and the teachings of the Russian national church.
Abstract BLOOD: A VICTORIAN IDEA IN THE FLESH by Raluca Musat Adviser: Professor Felicia Bonaparte Based on a large body of primary works in science, philosophy, political economy and literature, this study argues that in the nineteenth century novel the meaning of "blood" changes from genealogy, as employed in the service of the aristocracy, to capacity for generosity and affection, conceived as able to counteract the godless secularism and money worship haunting the industrialized England of the time. "Good blood" begins to mean possessing these qualities more relevant to the needs of the time. Nevertheless, the old associations with noble genealogy continue to exercise influence imaginatively, through the connection with ancestors reputed to have been exceptional in some way, and in some respects practically, through the wealth and political clout still left the aristocracy. This inherent power is not to be wasted but repurposed by novelists, in an effort to reconcile the two meanings of the term and put the fable of blood behind the qualities required of true leaders. The study establishes the versatility of the word, which denotes, more than just social standing, physiological as well as moral and affective predispositions. This wide adaptability of meaning stems from the duality of blood, its physical concreteness coupled with unusual powers of suggestiveness. In showing that these can be manipulated to give authority to self-serving ideas, novelists dismantle the old prejudices in favor of hereditary titles and coats-of-arms. However, they continue to make use of the metaphoric potential intrinsic to the idea of blood to suggest that all people are bound in a fellowship of mankind and that those who are strong have a duty to help the weak. This spirit of altruism is apt to create a new set of relationships benefitting from associations with blood only in the derivative sense of parental care, brotherly love, and affinities of the heart. The goal is to reconstruct British society on the organic model of a great family, with an aristocracy of talent, and possibly even of birth, at its head, but functioning in a benevolently paternal way. This is not the end of the aristocracy but, rather, an opportunity to justify its privileges anew.
This dissertation looks at European Modernism in light of one of its more neglected priorities: its rethinking of the nature of comedy and humor. The use of comic elements in the work of Luigi Pirandello, T.S. Eliot, James Joyce, Italo Svevo, and Samuel Beckett betrays a radical rethinking of the meaning of laughter and humor. As such, the theoretical predecessor to the Modernist use of the comic is Baudelaire, whose essay, "Sur l'essence du rire," details a complete upending of traditional ideas of laughter. No longer merely the representative phenomenon of "happiness" and "joy," laughter becomes the signpost par excellence of modern notions of ambiguity and instability which implicates the laugher as much as the laughed-at. Since Baudelaire's essay also reads laughter as a marker of character, it anticipates the Modernist use of one's sense of humor as a way of dramatizing one's subjectivity. What makes one laugh at nine years old is not always what makes him laugh at twenty-nine, the same way a Chinese man may not find the same thing funny as a man from Argentina. When a character laughs at something, an unconscious mode of communication is on display, one that dramatizes that character's specific subjectivity at the moment of the laughter. This is what Joyce works off of when he contrasts Bloom's playful sense of humor with the more violent mockery of his fellow Dubliners in Ulysses. This is about forging an emotional link or a profound disconnect between the psyches of individuals that is recognized in purely dramatic fashion. The exclusivity of the relationship between laugher and laugher, or between laugher and laughed-at, coupled with the comic's appeal to the universality of human laughter--we are the only species that laughs according to Aristotle and Darwin, which means as a species we all laugh--is what makes of the comic into a remarkably ambiguous aesthetic that operates in that no-man's land between the danger of life's myriad ironies and the safety of traditional comic values of community and happy endings. This dissertation deals with this in-between zone.
This study places the text and method of The Praise of Folly in a European context of folly-and-wisdom discourse, called here "moriasophia." Moriasophia is a perennial theme with literary-historical origins, often depicted as two opposing figures in debate, or as a single, free-thinking individual confronting the dominant social, moral, and political order, or as a literary author writing in the ironic mode of truth-in-fiction. This study analyzes the literary trope on a theoretical level, demonstrating how a bivalent discourse of jest and earnest functions rhetorically and dialectically to explore and verify metaphysical, moral, and epistemological inferences. At issue is whether the breach between literary and logical methods may be reconciled by Folly, as she transforms images of ignorance and malice into likenesses of holy idiocy. Thematic continuity and cultural synthesis is demonstrated in ancient through early modern literature. The discussion emphasizes the seminal figures of Socrates, Diogenes, St. Paul, and Dionysius the Areopagite, with particular attention paid to Plato's Parmenides, Petrarch's On his own Ignorance, and Nicholas of Cusa's On Learned Ignorance and Idiota on Wisdom. The Praise of Folly represents a cultural high point not only because of its command of precedents, literary creativity, and rhetorical sophistication, but because Erasmus invents novel ways of engaging the reader in substantial questions about language, knowledge, and faith. The result is a new generic blueprint, a dialectical poetic which invites theoretical speculation even as it provokes an affective response to human experience.
This monographic study provides a thematic examination across Clara Sereni's texts of life writing (autobiographies and one memoir) and fictional works. As the dissertation aims to demonstrate, writing is for Sereni a political act. The text, in fact, becomes her space to develop a female stance that asserts the importance of the private realm, reevaluate interpersonal and intergenerational relations, and show that diversity can be seen as a positive resource in society. Sereni's writing presents the undeniable influence of feminism: the significance of politicizing personal lives, the critique to the subaltern role of women in society, mother and daughter difficult relationship, gender, sexuality, and the body are central in her work, and echo that desire of political expression of subjectivity embodied by feminists. But her effort to subvert the male power, whether represented by his socio-political authority or his language, has deeper reasons rooted in the personal experiences of a family that always considered politics, ideals and culture as imperative duties. The writer exposes her own self to the public, finding that introspective world left out by her parents' public language and way of life because, in contrast to them, she cannot separate her private life from her public one. Writing subjectively becomes Sereni's way to reinterpret the experiences of the past in a process of autobiographical experimentation that embodies the feminine discourse, and allows the writer to shift her perspectives and better understand her own identity as Jewish, daughter, and woman. Writing about social issues is her way to voice a different way of perceiving those who have disadvantages in society, the underserved, the "others." In both cases, her writing acts to build a new horizon that she calls "utopia," which becomes a search that does not constrain itself, but welcomes contradictions and opens up to the creation of hybrid texts. The dissertation aims to frame Sereni's works into a precise socio-historical context, and to draw on theoretical criticism and research in areas related to women's writing, autobiography, concepts of memory, history and culture, and gender studies.
ABSTRACT The Aesthetics of Destiny in Plague Literature from Early Modern to Postmodern Times your words by Patrick Reilly Adviser: Professor Vincent Crapanzano For centuries--for millennia, at least since the myth of the Plague at Aegina--the subject of plague has been generating an aesthetic that distinctly characterizes its manifold texts, five of which this dissertation considers in depth: A Journal of the Plague Year (1722), Daniel Defoe; The Betrothed (1840), Alessandro Manzoni; Death in Venice (1912), Thomas Mann; The Plague (1947), Albert Camus; and Angels in America (1993), Tony Kushner. While plague texts, no matter how culturally particular and historically specific may be their narrative elements, repeatedly share distinguishable metaphysical themes and mythical motifs, they are more fundamentally wed to each other by their aesthetic response to the overwhelming fact of disease and pestilence. To classify such texts as apocalyptic is already to be approaching them in terms of their aesthetic, as the designation is not only a way of defining plague texts but also, and more importantly to an exploration of their aesthetic, a way of perceiving plague itself. For the descriptive "apocalyptic" also aggrandizes. It invests plague with significance. Angry gods, for example, must be appeased; a savior-scapegoat must die if the people are to be delivered from the pestilence on the land. The bald facts of disease and death become aesthetically, in plague texts, a matter of design and destiny. As it was in ancient Greece, aesthetics is defined, for purposes of this study, as perception. In the perception of a subject's reality the aesthetic process begins. The reality of plague lies in the fact of it, but to see the fact as diabolical, tragic, cataclysmic, or redemptive is to see--or to perceive--the subject in an aesthetic way. What begins with the perception of pestilential fact ends in its re-presentation as plague text. The text translates the perceived reality into a literary one, for the act of translation is also an act of signification, in which aesthetic constructs like that of destiny, are employed to make sense of what in fact, and terrifyingly, lacks or defies sense. So it is aesthetically that a plague-stricken city's destiny may lie in the hands of God. Or in a migratory bacillus.
This work of comparative literary criticism focuses on the presence of mathematical and scientific concepts and imagery in the works of Italo Calvino and Jorge Luis Borges, beginning with an historical overview of scientific philosophy and an introduction to the most significant scientific concepts of the last several centuries, before shifting to deep, scientifically-driven analyses of numerous individual fictions, and finally concluding with a meditation on the unexpectedly fictive aspects of science and mathematics. The close readings of these authors' fictions are contextualized with thorough explanations of the potential literary implications of theories from physics, mathematics, neuroscience and chaos theory. While the mathematical studies highlight concepts such as "Zeno's Paradox," Cantorian set theory, and representations of numerical infinity, the discussions of physics isolate theoretical structures such as black holes, parallel universes and quantum-entangled particles for use in discussing the fictions of both authors. Underlying the main goals of this work is an equal focus on the existence of an "ideal intellectual" or, more broadly, an ideal liberal arts education that draws together concepts from diverse and seemingly-unrelated fields of knowledge with the intention of generating unexpected and novel ideas and connections. By demonstrating the numerous appearances of scientific and mathematical imagery in the works of Calvino and Borges, this work emphasizes the shared fictive basis of all human knowledge and strives to set science and fiction alongside each other as equals in the hope of preserving the richness and diversity of intellectual enterprises.
Abstract FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA IN TULSA by Flavio Rizzo Advisor: Professor Ammiel Alcalay The goal of this dissertation is to put into context and underline, through the films Rumble Fish and The Outisders, the double vision of cinema of the North American director Francis Ford Coppola, and his capacity to envision and match the two fundamental aspects of cinema, often in conflict: commerce and art. The dissertation is structured on four chapters. The first one concerns a brief historic and cultural contextualization of the director and his artistic path; clearly since the material is so large, the intent here is not to exhaust the topic or produce a full biography of Francis Ford Coppola, to the contrary, the intent is to produce a gaze, a seed that will be a crucial tool in contextualizing the analysis of the two films that are at the center of this work. In revisiting the career of the director, particular attention is given to his own words; because of the impossibility of an in depth analysis of all his movies, a preference has been given to the completeness of Coppola's own words as a better vehicle to create a frame of reference. The frame of reference will also include the crucial passage from the "Old Hollywood" to the "New Hollywood" in terms of production mode and cultural shifts. The chapter closes with a brief history of the birth of the project, the basis around which it developed, and the financial circumstances that created it. The object of the following chapters is the history and the analysis of the films, first The Outsiders and in the following chapter Rumble Fish. In both cases we start from an accurate analysis of the filmic text (the breakdown of the text will enable us to arrive at a better understanding of Coppola's choices both in terms of language and in terms of narrative). The work carries on with a comparative analysis with the literary texts from which the movies have been originated, two short stories from the North American writer Susan. E. Hinton. Next is a detailed critical work around the original starting point: the double vision of cinema of the director, commercial (The Outsiders) and artistic (Rumble Fish); attention is given to Coppola's ability to conceive the two films in complete opposite ways from a cinematic point of view, but absolutely identical from the point of view of the preparation. We will also see how the first movie, The Outsiders, has been quite literally a `gym' for the visual solution and camera movements that in the second film, Rumble fish, will turn into an actual signature of the author. Both chapters close trying to unlock the movies and directors that inspired Coppola: the authors' inheritance. The dissertation closes with a comparative analysis of the two films that put into a larger context the points emerged in the previous chapters, while new elements will emerge some of the main points will be reinforced. Particular attention will be given to a cross analysis of the filmic texts from which we shall see the numeric terms (typology of shots, camera movements, choice in cuts) which gave birth to the critical considerations emerged in the previous chapters. This dissertation does not want to be a work on the extraordinary complexity of Francis Ford Coppola's filmography, it is rather a voyage within two minor films of his, a journey that will try to bring into light some fundamental aspects of Coppola's understanding of cinema. My work is a comparative study that, trough an objective analysis of filmic texts, will underline the complexity of Coppola's project, beyond the contextualization of the director's career. The attempt is to have a crescendo from a simple contextualization, to the work around each film, on into the comparative analysis of their cinematic language within which the critical work will be grounded.
This study explores the diverse and contradictory ways German-Jewish intellectuals identify what they commonly refer to as Kafka's "Jewish essence." Focusing on the commentaries of Margarete Susman, Hans-Joachim Schoeps, Gershom Scholem, and Max Brod, I claim that Kafka's German-Jewish reception reflects a broader historical dilemma that grew out of the Jewish encounter with modernity: Are Judaism and Jewishness best defined through religious, cultural, national, or ethnic categories? It is precisely this ambiguity that forms the historical backdrop to Kafka's Jewish interpretations. Situating the early phases of Kafka's posthumous reception within the broader context of interwar German-Jewish culture, my dissertation examines the different ways critics conceptualize their respective notions of "Jewishness" through an encounter with Kafka's writing and use it as a foil for the self-fashioning of their own Jewish identity. As the dissertation title is meant to suggest, my work builds on Gerson D. Cohen's influential essay "German Jewry as Mirror of Modernity" (1975), which argues that German Jewry's diverging responses to modernity exemplify the cultural and ideological alternatives available to any religious group faced with the challenge of redefining itself in the modern era. Extending Cohen's thesis to Kafka's early reception, I show how the critical response to his fiction mirrors the transformations that occurred in Jewish self-understanding throughout the first decades of the twentieth-century. On a broader level, this project seeks to understand the ways secular Jewish identity is reconceived in the field of cultural production, and how it is translated into modern categories of nation, culture, and ethnicity.


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Once bright
bold and beautiful
now dark
and diminished.
Its time in the sky
has come and gone
as there's not enough room
among the other 100 billion.
It's hard to stand out
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when you're
a tiny red dwarf
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shine on
shine like a supernova
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Every year on Nov. 11, Alibaba Group, China's largest e-commerce company, holds the world's biggest 24-hour online sale- the "11.11 Shopping Festival" a.k.a "Singles Day," when millions of Chinese consumers, attracted by heavy product discounts, shop on Alibaba's Tmall.com and Taobao Marketplace. This year the festival went global as shoppers in 200 countries and regions got deals on over one ... Read More »
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Yesterday, enormous e-commerce success Rakuten, Inc. expanded their services to the U.S. by releasing their new website. Rakuten will now offer a large fashion collection and new online features, including a Pinterest scroll feed, featured content from their blog, Rakuten Essential and celebrity endorsements. Rakuten company executives say they think of shopping as a form of entertainment, so these new ... Read More »
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Google Shopping Express is undergoing some big changes. With a new name, shortened to "Google Express," it is no longer completely subsidizing its same day delivery costs, will be serving three new cities-Boston, Chicago and Washington D.C., in addition to several new companies being added. It's pretty obvious that these changes are probably being made to compete with their rival, ... Read More »
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Submitted by NowOrNever on Wed, 09/11/2013 - 14:50. Permalink
...you know what's funny? I had entirely forgotten that McCain was the 2008 GOP nominee for POTUS until few minutes ago. I think this has happened before, the fact has slipped my mind and I later remember and think it's odd that I could have forgotten that. He's both repulsive and forgettable, and I guess that's what you call the "banality of evil."
"Alas! I believe in the virtue of birds. And it only takes a feather for me to die laughing."
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