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Formed 1893
Elected to Division Four 1962. Relegated to the National Conference 2006.
Promoted to npower League Two 2010
Kit History
Headington United
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Headington United, an amateur village side founded in 1893, competed in local leagues until they joined the amateur Spartan League wearing dark blue and orange. Their original name was simply Headington, the United suffix being added in 1894. They led a nomadic existence until 1926, when they moved into the Manor Ground, which would be their home until 2001.
After the Second World War the club adopted a more ambitious attitude. They joined the Southern League in 1949, turned professional and adopted gold and black. A year later they installed floodlights, long before most Football League clubs, and in 1953, they won the Southern League title. In 1954 they reached the FA Cup fourth round proper, disposing of Millwall and Stockport County before losing to Bolton Wanderers, then in the First Division. With their sights set firmly on joining the Football League, Headington invested heavily in ground improvements.
Two crests appeared in this period, both of which featured a visual pun on the word Oxford.
The appointment of former Birmingham City manager, Arthur Turner in 1959 proved to be the key to success. In 1960, in an effort to gain wider recognition, Headington became Oxford United and went on to win two more Southern League championships. A competition was organised to create a new crest for the renamed club, which was one by a Mr SEV Clarke, whose design included a partially concealed letter "H" as a reminder of their original name. This crest did not appear on the team shirts.
In March 1962, Accrington Stanley resigned from the League. With only the last three Fourth Division clubs required to apply for re-election, there was a guaranteed place for a non-league side available when the League AGM convened in June. No fewer than 26 clubs applied: Oxford were overwhelmingly elected with 39 votes, 24 votes ahead of their nearest rivals who got a mere 5 votes.
After two years consolidating in Division Four, United were promoted and in 1968 they won the Third Division title.
In 1972 a new crest was introduced and this version was worn on the shirts from 1973. This design appeared in various colour combinations until it was dropped in 1980.
After eight seasons in Division Two United, now wearing blue and gold once again, were relegated in 1976.
In 1979 the zoologist and author of popular science books, Desmond Morris, who was also a former director of the club, was asked to design a new crest. He came up with a stylised ox head, a design that was distinctive and easily recognisable from a distance. The original version had the club's initials embroidered but from 1987 these were replaced by the club's name in full placed between the horns. Several variations of both versions appeared that featured commemorative wording embroidered around or below the badge.
United made their first appearance at Wembley in 1986, beating Queens Park Rangers to win the Milk (League) Cup. After five years languishing in the lower reaches of the Third Division and with financial problems crippling the club, millionaire publisher, Robert Maxwell bought Oxford United in January 1982 and saved them from bankruptcy. Under Maxwell's ownership, the teams wore a variety of sponsorship logos representing the various companies that were part of his publishing empire.
Two consecutive championships in 1984 and 1985 took Oxford into the First Division for the first time in their history. For three seasons, Oxford managed to stave off relegation and in the process, they won the League Cup in April 1986. Meanwhile, Maxwell was floating the idea of merging United with Reading FC to form a new club to be known as Thames Valley Royals. Naturally the proposals met with hostility from both sets of supporters and were eventually dropped. In 1991 Maxwell was lost at sea, presumed to have fallen from his yacht and drowned. Without his money, United were forced to sell off players and trim their costs. Inevitably they dropped into what was now called Division Two (the old Third Division) in 1994, at the end of their centenary season (during which a special crest was worn).
In 1995-96 the club was granted permission to build a new stadium to the south of Oxford and they won promotion. The crest was redesigned, based on a simplified version of the centenary crest.
Financial problems, exacerbated by the rising costs of the new stadium, led to the club going into administration. A takeover and the sale of the Manor Ground for redevelopment saved the stricken club but the cost was consecutive relegations in 1999 and 2001, which left them in League Two, the lowest tier of the Football League.
In 2001 they moved into the Kassam Stadium (named after Firoz Kassam, who had bought the club for £1 and saved them from bankruptcy). Due to the club's reduced circumstances, only three sides of the ground were completed: the building of a fourth stand was postponed until the club's fortunes revive. The crest was once again redesigned to coincide with the move to their new home.
Disaster struck in 2006 when they were relegated to the Conference on the last day of the season. By a cruel irony, one of the clubs promoted was the revived Accrington Stanley, whom United had replaced in 1962. Their stay in the Conference lasted just four seasons before they regained their place in the Football League via the play-offs.
To mark the 30th anniversary of their Milk Cup win, the old ox head badge was revived in 2015-16 and worn on a strip similar to that worn in 1986. The team had a very successful season, reaching the Johnstone's Paint Trophy final and winning promotion as League Two runners up.
To mark their 125th anniversary a modified crest was introduced in 2018-19. The fine stripes were intended to evoke the striped shirts worn by the original team in 1893.
- (a) Yahoo UK Sports
- (b) Club Colours (Bob Bickerton 1998)
- (c) empics
- (d) Tranmere Rovers FC (Images of Sport - Peter Bishop)
- (e) Football Focus
- (f) Football Cards
- (g) York City FC - Images of Sport (David Batters)
- (h) Swindon Town FC - Images of Sport (Richard Mattick 2000)
- (i) Ipswich Town FC - Images of Sport (Tony Garnett)
- (j) Classic Kits
- (k) United We Stand
- (l) This is United
- (m) Ralph Pomeroy
- (n) Forever Villa (David Instone 2005)
- (m) Oxford United Official Site
- (n) Pete's Picture Palace
- (o) Robert Newton
- (p) David King
- (q) Alick Milne
- (r) oxfordkits.com run by Graham Barr is the successor to oxkits.co.uk
- (s) oxkits.co.uk
- (t) Nick Szczepanik
Historical crest details courtesy of oxkits.co.uk. Crests are the property of Oxford United FC.


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I really enjoyed making these sweet pillows not only because the fairies were such fun to stitch, but also because I know there is something so magical about the Tooth Fairy coming to OUR house. It's funny how as parents we get so excited about all the milestones that kids have to go through in their lives, but for me loosing your first tooth is up there amongst taking your first step and saying your first word. It finally happened on Saturday, little J lost his very first tooth after months of having a wobbly tooth and I am not sure who was more excited, little J at the prospect of a visit from the Tooth Fairy or his Ma looking a bit silly and giddy with excitement holding her baby's very small tooth in her hand. There was definitely a part of me that felt sad to know that this signalled the start of a new 'bigger' boy stage, but I also know that it will bring many new happy moments and challenges alike. What impressed me most was that little J was adamant that we had to wash the tooth (possibly years of me going on and on about how the tooth fairy won't give you much money unless your teeth are sparkly clean, so make sure you brush properly, oh the things we have to do as parents!), so the tooth had a wash and dry and I was terrified of dropping it down the plug hole, I mean how small is it! When it was all ready and passed the quality control check little J popped it very proudly into the little pocket of the Tooth Fairy pillow, that he put next to his head when I went to sleep. I never want to stop believing in the Tooth Fairy or Father Christmas for that matter, a decision I made a long time ago. The magic lives on as long as we believe right?!
It is a very wet and grey day here, but we did enjoy a glorious weekend where I managed to go to my very first bonfire with the kids. It was completely last minute, but it was perfect as it involved hardly any walking and it was short and sweet, so everyone was happy.
I just wanted to thank you all for taking the time to read and comment the 'Canary in a Coal Mine Preview' post. I am so pleased to see how many views it has had and that warms my heart as it means more people will have some insight into this condition. I know that I am blessed and that I am so so much better than I was and there is not a day that goes by where I am not immensely grateful for that! Basically, I think you are all rather wonderful, so thank you!!!!
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If it's a day that ends in a y, there's no doubt that Kim Jong Un's North Korean regime is issuing a threat to the American military. This time, they targeted one of our submarines.
According to South Korea's Yonhap News Agency, the North Koreans threatened the USS Michigan, a submarine deployed by the Navy off of North Korea, with sinking.
"The moment the USS Michigan tries to budge even a little, it will be doomed to face the miserable fate of becoming a underwater ghost without being able to come to the surface," a statement on a North Korean propaganda website read.
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"The urgent fielding of the nuclear submarine in the waters off the Korean Peninsula, timed to coincide with the deployment of the super aircraft carrier strike group, is intended to further intensify military threats toward our republic," the statement continued.
They also warned that "whether it's a nuclear aircraft carrier or a nuclear submarine, they will be turned into a mass of scrap metal in front of our invincible military power centered on the self-defense nuclear deterrence."
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The North Koreans had previously threatened to sink the USS Carl Vinson, the aircraft carrier being sent to the region.
"Our revolutionary forces are combat-ready to sink a U.S. nuclear-powered aircraft carrier with a single strike," North Korean state media said, according to The Daily Caller. They added such an attack would be an "example to show our military force."
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According to CNN, is a nuclear sub that's also equipped to deploy Navy SEALs or other special operations troops. That likely sent a red flag to the North Koreans, especially given the possibility of SEAL deployment in the region.
However, it's pretty obvious that Lil' Kim's forces don't have the ability to either sink a carrier or a nuclear submarine, particularly without serious retribution. This is yet another sign that Kim Jong Un is dangerously unhinged, and that the Trump administration needs to do something about it.
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Did I mention I love mail? No? Well I do, so email away! Questions, comments, and pictures are always welcome and encouraged! =)
Back to the question at hand:
Dear Wallet,
What's in your toolbox for thrifting construction and renovation? What 'tools of the trade' do you find most useful in your thrifting adventures?
Sally B.
First off, I love that Sally titled it 'dear wallet' ♥! Secondly, I encourage you to check out my thrift clothes cleaning post if you haven't already. It's a gem of information and already gives you some of the items I'm about to mention. Stay tuned for November when the thrift furniture cleaning post comes out!
Thrift Clothes Restoration & Decoration Toolbox
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• Sewing Kit: I'm not a sewer myself, but I do have a little travel sewing kit which makes mending tiny holes, or replacing buttons easy.
• Bleach Pen: This can save a white item from the trash bin, or can make bland shirts/pants awesome!
• Plastic Kitchen Tub: [See cleaning post for this, and other cleaning items]
• Jewelry Pliers: To fix loose or damaged jewelry or just to make your own statement pieces! [See Guest post coming October 23rd!]
• Leather Cleaner: Not only to help clean a leather item, but to moisturize it and give it new life!
• Permanent Markers: [white, brown, and black] To fix scuffs and small marks on shoes and bags!
• Guerrilla glue: To fix just about anything!
• Rhinestones, pearls and glitter: To make anything shiny and glamourous!
• Safety Pins: Keep things together, or give it a punk look!
• Fabric Glue and Pens: Give things new life by attaching things, or decorating them!
• Beads Buttons, and studs: Always fun for decorating or making jewelry!
• Ribbon: Makes great trim, patches and decoration!
Thrift Furniture Restoration & Decoration Toolbox
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• Steam Cleaner: Give new life to upholstered furniture by steam cleaning it.
• Tape Measure: You know, to make sure it fits...
• Dust rags & Q-Tips: Used for dusting, staining and painting.
• Wood Oil: Give new life to old wood!
• Wood Stain: Bring something from another century, into this one!
• Spray Paint/Can: Hello to a new life!
• Sandpaper in varying types: So you can stain, oil and paint your new goodies!
• Leather Cleaner: To make your goodies shine like new, and keep them healthy for a long time!
• Permanent Markers: To fix small scratches or scuffs.
• Walnut: (Yes, the nut) Try it, use it on a wooden surface with knicks! It fills it in, even colors it. A little touch up stain and you're good to go!
• Wood Glue: To put things back together.
• Light Bulbs & Batteries: You know, to get these things to work!
• Screws, Nails and a general toolbox: For all the little things. No fancy tools, just a hammer, screw driver, and mallet.
Do you have more to add? Let me know what my toolbox is missing!


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Leapfrog ABS
Leapfrog ABS filament has the right properties making strong, high impact and durable prints. Printing ABS tends to be more difficult to print than PLA without an heated chamber, due to its higher melting temperature.
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PET is the most common thermoplast used worldwide. The most known application is packaging, PET is used to make all kinds of packaging, like plastic bottles for example. Plastic bottles are see through, the PET filament is semi see through when printed under the right circumstances.
Leapfrog PLA
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PLA can be used to print high detailed parts in a short amount of time with relative ease. The printed parts will be reasonably strong, but also quite brittle. In heated environments, think about a car in the summer, PLA can deform. This means that PLA is not advised to be used in parts that needs to withstand a lot of stress of extreme environments.
We recommend PLA for (scale) models, Prototypes, test prints.
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Leapfrog HIPS
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Tuesday, 7 August 2012
Axegrinder - Demo and live tape 86-89
For once, it is not an actual record or a single recording that I am going to offer the world but a selection of lesser known recordings of a rather well-known band, Axegrinder. Someone pointed out to me that the 87 live in Wimbledon could no longer be found on the web and before this screaming injustice I have decided to act.
Judging from the amount of Axegrinder regalia one can witness at any crust-oriented reunion, one could either think that they are no mystery to anyone or that their art looks great on a studded vest. Now, I am sure most people reading this will already know Axegrinder and their fantastic Lp "Rise of the serpent men" (no, not the Reptilians). Quite probably, you would be familiar with Axegrinder's first demo "Grind the enemy". However, what went on in between these two marks is far more obscure and that's what I am really interested in today. Listening to 80's bands' discography nowadays, one is bound to realize that those bands moved really fast indeed. For instance, there are few similarities between the punky, almost chumawambesque at times, Deviated Instinct of 85 and the heavy metal-edged Deviated Instinct of 89. You will come to the same conclusion if you take early recordings of Antisect or Amebix and compare them to five year older ones. Maybe bands were more likely to experiment at that time (not always for the better, Discharge anyone?) or they wanted to innovate, I don't quite know but the fact is they seemed to evolve quickly. And Axegrinder were no exceptions as you will hear.
The file is divided into two parts. The first one consists of the cd "Still grinding enemies", a good-looking bootleg (I know they're evil but I would be the first to jump for joy if a proper reissue was to see the light) that has the "Grind the enemy" demo from 1986, a live in Wimbledon from July 1987 and a live in Bradford from 1989. While many bootlegs, especially cd's, have little information about the band, here you will find the lyrics of the demo songs, as well as some pictures and artwork. The other part of the file is a live recording from 1988 which was poetically called "The squat tape". These tracks were meant to be a live Ep but things did not materialize (although it is never too late to do well, right lads?). The review will therefore be chronological as it reflects the evolution of Axegrinder in a more relevant fashion.
Let's start with "Grind the enemy". A funny coincidence maybe but it always puts a smile on my face when I think about the three major demos of metallic punk: "Ripper crust", "Terminal filth stenchcore" and "Grind the enemy". Not only were they all recorded in 1986 but they have "crust", "stenchcore" and "grind" in them. This is geek paradise. Anyway, if the Axegrinder Lp is Amebix, their demo is Antisect indeed. The band must have seen Antisect play quite a few times because you can hear that the "Out from the void" era is definitely the main source of influence here. The sound is rough and ready as expected but the songs are too good to let this be a hinderance. The guitar sound is dirty and has a earthy feel to it. If it were an image I would picture it as a ball of dirt. That's a compliment by the way. The songs are all mid-tempo apart from "Thealphobia", a fast number that reminds me of Hellshock. The vocals are certainly one of Axrginder's strong points: raucous shouts managing to be deep and angry-sounding. Don't expect too much musicianship here and in fact I believe the songs wouldn't work as well if they didn't have this simple, honest, spontaneous rendering. Sure, you have probably heard better drummers, but I wouldn't trade the almost awkward, mechanical rhythms for the best double-bass drum metalhead in the world. Lyrics here are very much esconsed in the anarchopunk tradition. "Grind the enemy" is (yet another) "Arise!" rewriting but its barbarian, pagan metaphor gives it an anthemic quality (no wonder it's been the most covered Axerginder track so far); "Thealphobia" is a "Fear of god" type of song; "Master race" is an anti-fascist song about the death camps; "One law" is a take on "Out from the void" where "Your laws, your rules" has replaced "Your standard, your law"; "Damnation of the living" is an apocalyptic song and finally "Special brew" is about... well, drinking odd-smelling beverages. The demo is nicely structured with a spoken word as an introduction, an synth and guitar instrumental, "Armistice, that is both cheap and yet very moving in the middle and then "Special brew" as a conclusion since I suppose they were all off to a drinking marathon after spending a couple of hours in the studio.
The main question that arises now is: what happened between Antisecty "Grind the enemy" and Amebixian "Serpent men"? Well, as a clue, the band did record a song for a Peaceville compilation, "A vile peace", that started to reflect this transition. For some reason, this song, "Where evil dwells", seems to be unanimously hated by the members of Axegrinder, for they claim they were trying to be Slayer but miserably failed, giftless punks they were. To be honest, I don't really care about Slayer and I am hardly the thrash-metal expert, but "Where evil dwells" sounds nothing Slayer to my ears. In fact, I think the song is great despite an odd moment when drummer and guitarist have trouble keeping with each other. And, more importantly for us, it appears on the 87 live in Wimbledon included in "Still grinding enemies". On this live recording, you will also find a version of "Damnation of the living" from "Grind the enemy" (oddly enough, the only song of the demo that the band still played), "Black days ahead", "The butcher of Jerusalem", "In death she awaits" and a new intro (Axegrinder appeared to love intros and to change them frequently, just like Antisect really). Sonically, there is a distinct evolution from the demo, and while it is not overwhelmingly different (the shadow of Antisect is still lurking), it still indicates a shift. First, there are more obvious Amebix influences, a quiet arpeggio to start a song, some heavy and epic mid-tempo parts. Second, I can't help but think that the band may have been on a light thrash-metal diet at this point, especially on some song structures and guitar riffs. It is to be noticed that Axegrinder always tended to play faster live, so one might venture that those songs, had they been recorded in a studio, would have been a tad slower. I unfortunately don't know the lyrics of the songs apart from "Damnation of the living" (see above) and "Where evil dwells", an anti-religious song. Judging by the live comments between songs, I think it is safe to say an anti-religious theme pervades the set. The sound here is really good for a live, you can hear everything and this is as crisp as you are likely to get when it comes to old live recordings.
Now, let's talk about "The squat tape", a very interesting live set that epitomizes the transitional state of Axegrinder at that time. Recorded in 88, a mere 6 months after the previous live recording, it contains songs that will eventually appear on the Lp, namely "Never ending winter" (and yet a new intro!), "War machine", "Hellstorm", "Life chain" and "Final war", as well as a remnant from their 87 live recording, "Black days ahead". Both lives were actually recorded in Wimbledon and it may have been in the same venue, though this is a mere guess. However, whereas the 87 one had a rather clear sound, this one lies on the raw side of things and has a thick, grassy sound. In fact, the overall sonic atmosphere is not unlike early Hellbastard or even Hellhammer with their artificial sloppiness. The main interest of this live set is that, while "Never ending winter" and "Life chain" sound pretty much the same than the Lp versions, "War machine" and "Final war" are very different. Indeed, in the middle of the song, the band included a fast, d-beat part follower by a quiet instrumental part. Add this to the riffing, and you may very well have the ultimate Amebix hommage ("Fallen from grace" comes to mind). I think I like this version as much as the final one. "The final war" too was apparently rewritten before the Lp was recorded. The version we have here is again in a total Amebix songwriting worship mood, this time with an emphasis on the energetic mid-tempo epics (think "Arise!", "Drink and be merry"). In fact, most of the song is hardly recognizable as it is much faster than the final version, though they did keep the quiet part in the middle with that great bass line and guitar arpeggio. This live recording will delight Axegrinder lovers who happen not to be aware of its existence and prove that Effigy were heavily into this one.
The final live recording was taken from a live in Bradford from 1989 (it is on youtube as well but the user who uploaded it dated the live on 1990, which is impossible since the band broke up in late 1989) and Axegrinder had by then totally given up any pre-"Serpent men" songs and had even written new songs that were not included on the Lp, which made me wonder at their songwriting pace. For a self-proclaimed bunch of lazy sods (see "Trapped in a scene"'s chapter about Axegrinder), they did write a lot of great songs in a mere 3 years of existence. As hinted by the previous lives, the pace of the songs is faster compared to the studio versions, more dynamic but maybe losing a bit their sense of impending doom on this particular live set (the gig was a very metal affair with Deviated Instinct but also Paradise Lost and Tallion). You will find here old acquaintances such as "The final war", "Life chain" and "War machine" (the usual suspects really) as well as two new songs, "Return to Arcadia" and "Requiem for" (I am actually unsure of the the exact name, the singer does utter it and that's what I understood, though it could also be "Requiem four". Does anyone know? The geezer who did the bootleg certainly did as he just wrote a couple of question marks in place of the song title!). These two songs sound like a natural evolution to the Lp, with added double-bass drum and a couple of heavy-metal influenced rhythms, not unlike what Amebix were doing at the very end I suppose. "Return to Arcadia" is superior I think with its gloomy, eerie intro. It might be unfair to judge these two last songs just on their live rendering, but to me they could indicate that the band was starting to run out of inspiration, passion and power, as they don't really hold to the older ones. They are still good enough to be a suiting epitaph for that great band.
Thanks to Mariana who gave me the idea for this post.
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Doctor Who boss Steven Moffat says the Timelord will become a "different man" when he is joined by new companion Jenna Louise Coleman.
Sexy Jenna, 26, had a cameo appearance in Saturday's opening episode but will not return on screen until Christmas as Clara, Matt Smith's new sidekick.
Moffat thinks after the loss of old companion Amy Pond, the Doctor will have changed a lot.
Writer Moffat said of the Doctor: "He becomes a slightly different man. He dresses differently.
"We are going to do the story properly of the Doctor having lost a friend and making a new one. We're not taking that lightly."
Speaking to SFX magazine, Moffat also suggested that losing Amy, played by Karen Gillan, would have a big emotional effect on the Doctor and make him less upbeat.
He added: "It's not in one door out the other. It's the story of how all that affects him, why he engages with somebody else and what's going on with that - that's all important.
"The Doctor is quite different with her, and the way you watch them is quite different.
"You watched the Eleventh Doctor and Amy arrive together.
"It's like they grew up in the same sandpit, playing.
"They felt not quite like equals - the Doctor never feels like an equal to his companion - but you knew them equally well and they were equally important to each other."
Doctor Who came back on screen on Saturday with 6.4million viewers.
More than a million people have already watched the episode online on the BBC's iPlayer since the weekend.
This weekend's episode is called Dinosaurs On A Spaceship and sees the Timelord up against the prehistoric animals.


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Tuesday, December 31, 2013
CCXVIII: New
Monday, December 30, 2013
And fell the unhappy King upon his knees,
And unto God at last he did complain,
Saying, "Lord God, what bitter things are these?
What hast thou done, that every man that sees
This wretched body, of my death is fain?
O Lord God, give me back myself again!
"E'en if therewith I needs must die straightway.
Indeed I know that since upon the earth
I first did go, I ever day by day
Have grown the worse, who was of little worth
E'en at the best time since my helpless birth.
And yet it pleased thee once to make me King,
Why hast thou made me now this wretched thing?
"Why am I hated so of every one?
Wilt thou not let me live my life again,
Forgetting all the deeds that I have done,
Forgetting my old name, and honours vain,
That I may cast away this lonely pain?
Yet if thou wilt not, help me in this strife,
That I may pass my little span of life,
"Not made a monster by unhappiness.
What shall I say? thou mad'st me weak of will,
Thou wrapped'st me in ease and carelessness,
And yet, as some folk say, thou lovest me still;
Look down, of folly I have had my fill,
And am but now as first thou madest me,
Weak, yielding clay to take impress of thee."
William Morris, The Earthly Paradise
Sunday, December 29, 2013
I went to the zoo today, thanks to Loretta and Tom for a fun filled if damp day out.
Forgive me, this song has been stuck in my head all day...
Saturday, December 28, 2013
Friday, December 27, 2013
The angels got there, they will tell you
They ran up the hill, singing a song the color of darkness,
Miriam Pollard, Where the Pictures Came From
Thursday, December 26, 2013
It seems that when the priest Gazan of the Tenryu Temple heard the story of Sasuke's self-immolation, he praised him for the Zen spirit with which he changed his whole life in an instant, turning the ugly into the beautiful, and said that it was very nearly the act of a saint. I wonder how many of us would agree with him.
Junichiro Tanizaki, A Portrait of Shunkin translation by Howard Hibbett
Wednesday, December 25, 2013
CCXII: Favola di Natale
Every now and then on Christmas I re-post a link to a translation I made a life time or two ago of La Favola Di Natale, by Giovanni Guareschi. A Christmas myth of war, loss and reunion, written while the author was a prisoner of war in Germany. I started translating it in July of 2001 in the midst of personal turmoil, and put it online that October, as bombs began to fall on Afghanistan.
From my original introduction:
I hope this translation provides enjoyment, and something to think about. It is a reminder that the God of Peace and the god of War are continually reborn, and it always remains for us to choose which is ours.Pace agli uomini di buona volontà.
So here it is, unearthed from the fossil strata of my website:
My full introduction:
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Tuesday, December 24, 2013
Monday, December 23, 2013
Sunday, December 22, 2013
Turkey Assembled for Real
I took advantage of the apocalypse heralding warm weather to get down to Teaneck Creek and permanently pin on the turkey's tail as well as tweaking the wolf. I may want to tweak some more. But for now the three animals are now officially, almost, more or less, done.
Saturday, December 21, 2013
CCVIII: Afraid
They don't even just pretend...
David Bowie, I'm Afraid of Americans
The video for I'm Afraid of Americans always makes me think of the song less as a satire on America and more as a meditation on fear, paranoia and the other. Violence certainly begets violence, but (let no one tell you otherwise) violence is not an American monopoly. More commonly, crazy people make you crazy. Here I think there is a case to be made that America, with its rootless economic nomadism and its conviction that only the above average are worth anything has a special claim on crazy. Together, song and video reflect that danger in fear itself. What begins as a legitimate critique of obsession with empty pleasure and status ends as violent paranoid delusion. Reznor's brilliant air machine gun (Wikipedia thinks it's an assault rifle, but it's clearly being fired full auto) is indeed just air. There's a lot going on, but one message seems clear: the visionary or person of conscience risks loosing their own humanity as they begin to doubt that of others. The risk of this alienation is something of a preoccupation of mine. The topic makes me think of an older piece of mine:
|All My Useless Outrage, oak, 2009
"It was very hard to look at the world with such eyes. When you examined it coldly in this way, the claws of your eyes turned back into your head and tore it to pieces..."
Andre Schwartz Bart, A Woman Named Solitude
My sculptures draw inspiration from a spectrum of European, African and Native American traditions of ritual woodcarving. Like these traditions, my work gives wooden body to spirits, and daemons, exploring hopes and horrors simultaneously personal and universal.
God may not like Ugly, but somehow he loves them. I don't. When we look at the Ugly, in crude form, in coarse word, in cruel, selfish action, it forces us to react, sometimes with pity, more often with horror, disgust, violent rage; we tear ourselves apart in the process.
A fat man, a self-satisfied Ugly American, is a call to contemplate not only the damage the Ugly does, but also how we are damaged, made Ugly ourselves as we look at the Ugly with hatred and match its violence with our own.The epigraph is from a novel about a Caribbean slave revolt by Andre Schwartz-Bart (French resistance fighter, sole survivor of his family, better known for the Holocaust novel, Last of the Just). It describes the gaze of those watching the execution by torture of a fellow slave. The implication is that innocent or guilty, to look at the world with certain eyes is to lose part of our humanity. All My Useless Outrage explored this idea on both a general and personal level, visibly and invisibly. Wood carving is a time consuming art form, and it is easy to become precious about the product of one's efforts. In tension with, or rebellion against that I have a fascination with defacing the painstaking work of days, or months. Nails, holes, burning. My initial concept sketches for this piece incorporated this idea in a very particular way. Refraining became as much a part of the work as that intended marring, a reminder to respect our humanity by respecting the spark within the seemingly inhuman...
Friday, December 20, 2013
Terry Windling used this on her always enjoyable blog today, and it struck me enough I think I'll nick it over my own idea for the day...
Tell yourself
as it gets cold and gray falls from the air
that you will go on
walking, hearing
the same tune no matter where
you find yourself—
inside the dome of dark
or under the cracking white
of the moon's gaze in a valley of snow.
Tonight as it gets cold
tell yourself
what you know which is nothing
but the tune your bones play
as you keep going. And you will be able
for once to lie down under the small fire
of winter stars.
And if it happens that you cannot
go on or turn back
and you find yourself
where you will be at the end,
tell yourself
in that final flowing of cold through your limbs
that you love what you are.
Mark Strand, Lines for Winter (from Selected Poems)
Thursday, December 19, 2013
We stood together in an open field;
Above our heads two swift-winged pigeons wheeled,
Sporting at ease and courting full in view.
When loftier still a broadening darkness flew,
Down-swooping, and a ravenous hawk revealed;
Too weak to fight, too fond to fly, they yield;
So farewell life and love and pleasures new.
Then, as their plumes fell fluttering to the ground,
Their snow-white plumage flecked with crimson drops,
I wept, and thought I turned towards you to weep:
But you were gone; while rustling hedgerow tops
Bent in a wind which bore to me a sound
Of far-off piteous bleat of lambs and sheep.
Christina Rossetti, On the Wing
Wednesday, December 18, 2013
For it does not pertain to the praise of the artist, as an artist, that he works with a certain disposition of will but rather, what is the kind of work that he produces.
Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica
Tuesday, December 17, 2013
So much of what we live goes on inside–
The diaries of grief, the tongue-tied aches
Of unacknowledged love are no less real
For having passed unsaid. What we conceal
Is always more than what we dare confide.
Think of the letters that we write our dead.
Dana Gioia, Unsaid, from Interrogations at Noon
Monday, December 16, 2013
'Cause there's no comfort in the waiting room
Just nervous pacers bracing for bad news
And then the nurse comes round and everyone will lift their heads
But I'm thinking of what Sarah said that "Love is watching someone die"
So who's going to watch you die?..
Death Cab for Cutie, What Sarah Said
Sunday, December 15, 2013
...Nay, let thy sharp sword bide
Within its sheath, the world is fair and wide,
Nor have we aught to do to thee for this;
Go then in peace, and live in woe or bliss
E'en as though may'st, but stay with us no more.
Because we fear the gods may plague us sore
For this thy deed, though they would have it so.
William Morris, The Earthly Paradise
Saturday, December 14, 2013
Friday, December 13, 2013
Thursday, December 12, 2013
Wednesday, December 11, 2013
Tuesday, December 10, 2013
Monday, December 9, 2013
Sometimes a combination of topics hits you just so. The nexus of art, writing, poverty and religion in Heather King's recent blog post in response to Dana Gioia's First Things article certainly did that. I've commented on it here before, but I certainly see a Catholic worldview in this tree stump vigil, the sense that if you stare long enough at the remains of a tragedy some concealed meaning will seep from the cracks in the universe and into your head. Here's hoping.
THOU art indeed just, Lord, if I contend
With thee; but, sir, so what I plead is just.
Why do sinners' ways prosper? and why must
Disappointment all I endeavour end?
Wert thou my enemy, O thou my friend,
How wouldst thou worse, I wonder, than thou dost
Defeat, thwart me? Oh, the sots and thralls of lust
Do in spare hours more thrive than I that spend,
Sir, life upon thy cause. See, banks and brakes
Now leavèd how thick! lacèd they are again
With fretty chervil, look, and fresh wind shakes
Them; birds build—but not I build; no, but strain,
Time's eunuch, and not breed one work that wakes.
Mine, O thou lord of life, send my roots rain.
Gerard Manley Hopkins, Poems.
Sunday, December 8, 2013
I've used it before in full, but somehow today's shot makes me think of the closing lines...
So shall a homeless time, though dimly
Catch from afar (for soul is watchfull)
A sight of tree-delighted Eden.
Catch from afar (for soul is watchfull)
A sight of tree-delighted Eden.
C.S. Lewis, The Future of Forestry
Saturday, December 7, 2013
CXCIV: Events
Below you can see a goodly amount of the smaller branches from the Cedar lane tree. They have now made their way to the yard of Country Wood Products in Westwood and are awaiting milling into slabs over the next couple days. Should be exciting to see the first finished boards...
Friday, December 6, 2013
Thursday, December 5, 2013
Wednesday, December 4, 2013
CXCI: a little bit
It's the angels up above me
It's the song that they don't sing
It's a little bit of everything
Dawes, A Little Bit of Everything
Tuesday, December 3, 2013
A kind of interesting video posted recently by Robin Wood on his blog, nicely done, alas I think the simple good life is not quite as easy as buying a yurt...
Monday, December 2, 2013
Sunday, December 1, 2013
We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with community. Dorothy Day, The Long Loneliness
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"Come over to the DUCK side!"
By 2g1c2 girls 1 cup
"Come over to the DUCK side!"
BB8 was a duck? Who knew?
Chew-duck-a: "Uuuuuuuur! Ahhhhrrrr! Uhrrr! Ahhhrrr! Aargh, Quack." Luke Pond Walker: "I think he's making fun of Duck Vader." Princess Layer: "Hahahaha, quack."
Duck Fader: "Happy May fourth! May the fourth be with you!" Luke Pondwalker: "I'm Luke Pondwalker. I'm here to rescue you, Princess Layer." Duck Fader: "The force is strong with this one."
Since so many people dress up as their favorite comic/sci-fi/anime character at Comic Con, I decided to do so too! It had to be duck themed (of course)….so who better than one of the characters from Darkwing Duck! I decided to go as Gosalyn Waddlemeyer-Mallard. Just in case you aren't familiar with this Darkwing character…
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It feels so good for it to almost be Easter! We've had such a nasty winter - cold and wet - and I'm ready for spring! This card embodies Easter and spring for me! It looks so soft and elegant, so Easter......PLEASE get here quickly! This is one of the items we made at my Friday Felicity. LOVE IT! Original Card Designer: Joanne James
Paper: Whisper White - 11 X 4-1/4; Pool Party - 5-1/4 X 4; Whisper White - 5 X 3-3/4; Whisper White - 3-1/2 X 2; Pool Party - 2-1/2 X 1/2; Whisper White scrap
Stamps: Petal Parade; Happy Watercolor
Inks: Pistachio Pudding; Pool Party; Summer Starfruit; Basic Black
Miscellaneous: Stampin' Dimensionals; Decorative Dots Embossing Folder; Big Shot; Scallop Tag Topper Punch; Summer Starfruit Twine - 7" long; Mini Glue Dots; Corner Rounder; Paper Snips: SNAIL Adhesive; Pearl Jewels; Stamp-a-ma-jig
Sunday, March 16, 2014
Petal Parade Card
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I Wandered Into An Enchanted Garden,
100 Miles Above The Earth It Seemed:
I wandered into an Enchanted Garden, 100 miles above the Earth it seemed, for I felt I was in Another World of Incomparable Beauty, Colour and Sound; Rays of Colour shone profusely before my wondering eyes, and with the Exotic Colour, Musical Sounds Floated In And Around, Clear and Beautiful, as if Angels Were Playing, which as I looked more closely, I saw that Indeed They Were, and Fairies Laughed and Danced in and amongst those Rays of Love, Truly Everything Seemed Etheric, Translucent, Shimmering with Wonderful Light, that I thought to myself, 'if I lived here, I would never want to leave such a beautiful place'.
Then on one of those Angelic Notes, I seemed to hear my name, and then as I looked in another direction, lo and behold, there was the Most Amazing House I had ever seen, in the Shape and Formation of a Star, Beautiful and Bright, Filled With Brilliant White Light, and it seemed to be made of Moving Water, which like the Angels Played Sweet Blessed Music; those Pure Notes Of Paradise Drifted Across To My Senses, And I Felt A Unique Peace, Not The Freedom From Pain, For I Had Not, But Peace Of The Spirit, My Soul; Such Utter Serenity I Knew That This Place Was More Blessed Than Even I Was Aware Of, For Such Harmony Filled The Air, And I Felt Tears Of Joy Begin To Fall, Was I – I Wonder Home, Or Was This Just A Dream Of What I Know Does Exist; Oh Well, I Thought, One Day I Will Know.
Then Out of this Star, which I felt had a Mystical Significance, and which I noticed was Six Pointed, Man, Woman Made Perfect, there Appeared a Brilliant Figure, Bathed In A Silver Glow, And His Robe Was Predominantly Of Silver With Coloured Rays Here And There, And His Hair Too Was White, His Eyes So Gentle And Wise, His Voice Deep and Kind…. 'Hello, Pat. He Said, At Last You've Remembered What You Once Knew – Welcome Home Once More'.
As I Looked At Him, I Was Reminded Of Christ Himself, For That Light Of Greatness Was Everywhere. He Said, 'Come, Let Us Go Inside, For Truly There Is Much To See', And Then He And I Walked Deeper Into The Centre Of The Star, And How At Home I Felt There. Rippling Moving Waters Played Even Inside, Silvery And Musical, Soft And Gentle, Pure And Perfect, And These Musical Waterfalls Shone Too With Glistening Dew-Drops It Seemed Of Contrast And Colour, Like Pearls Amongst The Moving Scene, So That I Wanted To Touch Them.
And My Host Laughed And Said, 'Yes, Everyone Loves Those Pearls, And All Want To Touch, Try My Dear Child', The Joy Is Mine'.
I Touched A Pearl, And As I Did So, The Waterfall Seemed To Become Still And Opened Out Just Like A Lotus, The Water Forming The Petals Of That Beautiful Flower In But A Fraction Of A Second; I Laughed With Joy, And My Host Said 'Touch Another Pearl', And I Did, When I Seemed To Be Transported Back 2,000 Years Before, When Jesus Himself Was Born, And I Saw And Was There And Lived And Loved Every Second Of That Life, Albeit So Short A Time, And I Saw How The Crowds Felt; The Disciples I Looked Upon; Mary And Joseph, And The Angels, All Went By Without Hurry Before My Wondering Eyes, And Then We Got To Those Last Few Days And My Tears Fell Even More, And I Wondered How People Could Do What They Did, And I Was Glad I Was Not Them When They Died.
Then Joyfully, I Saw The Arisen Christ Rise From The Earth On His Way To Paradise, And I Knew Then The Wonder And Glory Of The Destiny And Heritage God Planned For Man, Woman, And Then Just Before The Visions Faded, I Saw Jesus With A Dove In His Raised Hands, Which Were Stretched Upwards To Heaven, When Suddenly The Visions Faded, And I Was Aware Of My Host And The Beautiful Fountains.
'You Are Very Blessed Pat Dear' He Said, 'For You Have Been Given A Great Privilege Which Comes You Know Because Of Progression, And How It Pleases All Our Hearts, For More Now Will You Remember, For Yet Another Veil Has Been Lifted'.
'One Day, You Know, You Will Come Back And We Will Travel Further In This My Home, So Don't Forget, You Will Come Back, And Yes, You Will Put Pen to Paper, That Others May Get Joy Too From The Perceptiveness Deep Within You'.
'So, God Bless, Pat My Dear, Till We Meet Again, As We Will One Day, And We Will Continue Our Enchanted Journey Once More At That Time'.
Au Revoir.
(Pat Grabham)
30 December, 1984.
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Hi Valery
Thank you for your comments. I sent this writing to a spiritual friend and she wrote back and said she had had similar experiences in a beautiful garden but with the Mother....(I would say the spirit guides I see and meet with during dreams and astral travel tend to be male... that is not to say I do not meet up and see both male and female and have female guides, but the major ones which resonate more deeply within me and have a more profound effect, are always male). It probably has a lot initially to do with a life time of my love and belief in Jesus... which has had added to it, further, as I have become more consciously aware and taken further steps back Home.
The picture is lovely.
Hello Pat
Very nice vision.You are blessed.
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Oversigning (also spelled over-signing) is an unofficial term for the practice of American college athletic departments signing prospective student-athletes to a National Letter of Intent (NLI) that may exceed the maximum number of athletic scholarships permitted by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). The NCAA limits the total number of scholarships that may be awarded in all of its sponsored sports, and in football also limits the number of scholarships awarded in a given year. Those limits differ by sport and the division in which that school participates. Most conferences have additional rules governing signing NLI.
NCAA Bylaw 184.108.40.206 limits FBS football programs to a total number of scholarships to 85 "counters" annually including 25 scholarships for "initial counters." Counters (NCAA Bylaw 15.02.3) are individuals who are receiving institutional financial aid that is countable against the aid limitations in a sport, initial counters (NCAA Bylaw 15.02.3.1) are individuals who are receiving countable financial aid in a sport for the first time. Bylaw 184.108.40.206 limits schools to signing 28 NLI from initial signing day through May 31.[1]
Oversigning can occur in two ways. First, if a school signs a number of NLI that may bring their total number of counters above the NCAA limit of 85. Second would be to sign more than 25 NLI during the period between National Signing Day and May 31.
Oversigning occurs in other sports but has received the most attention from media members and fans, in regard to Division I FBS college football.[2][3][4]
NCAA rules permit oversigning up to 28 NLI, though some college football fans view oversigning as unethical, arguing that it requires schools and coaches to be dishonest with young adult and adolescent recruits by promising them a roster spot and scholarship only to pull it before the person graduates or even makes the team.[4]
- 1 Atlantic Coast Conference
- 2 Big East Conference
- 3 Big Ten Conference
- 4 Southeastern Conference
- 5 External links
- 6 References
Atlantic Coast Conference[edit]
In a December 2010 feature on oversigning, ESPN's Outside the Lines profiled former University of Miami defensive lineman Stephen Wesley, who was told - in July 2010, just weeks before his senior season was to begin - that his scholarship would not be renewed.[5] Miami and then-head coach Randy Shannon did not give an explanation for Wesley's dismissal from the team, but many believed (as Outside the Lines noted) Wesley was cut from the team to make room for Seantrel Henderson, who announced he would attend Miami just weeks before Wesley's dismissal.[6]
Big East Conference[edit]
In the 2011 offseason, the University of Louisville men's basketball team found itself with a roster of 18 players—five more than the NCAA limit of 13 scholarship players for that sport.[7] In the 2010–11 season, the Cardinals had a 15-man roster, but two of these players were walk-ons, placing them within NCAA limits. Three scholarship players departed after the season, but coach Rick Pitino had initially signed a four-player freshman class, resulting in 14 scholarship players plus the two returning walk-ons. Then, coaching changes gave Pitino the opportunity to add a fifth freshman, former Tennessee commit Kevin Ware, and a future upperclass contributor, George Mason transfer Luke Hancock. These signings gave the Cardinals 16 scholarship players.[8]
The situation was resolved when three returning scholarship players agreed to become walk-ons for the 2011–12 season. All had originally come to Louisville as walk-ons, but had earned scholarships.[8] What made this situation especially unusual is that two of the three were seniors who were expected to start in the coming season. One of the senior walk-ons, Kyle Kuric, was the Cardinals' only returning double-figure scorer.[9] The other senior walk-on, Chris Smith, was the Cardinals' third-leading returning scorer.[10] Both were financially able to absorb being walk-ons—Kuric's parents are a neurosurgeon and a nurse practitioner, and Smith is the younger brother of NBA player J. R. Smith, who had paid his brother's way at U of L when he had to sit out the 2009–10 season as a transfer.[8]
Big Ten Conference[edit]
Ohio State[edit]
In an article posted June 25, 2011 by ABC news, James Jackson, former Ohio State University wide receiver, says he lost his scholarship due to oversigning. "They had an oversigning issue," Jackson said. "They had to free up a few scholarships, and coach (Jim) Tressel told me I probably wouldn't play and maybe Ohio State wasn't the place for me." Ohio State denies that Jackson was forced to transfer. "Our policy is as James Jackson stated: As long as a student-athlete maintains his/her academic standing, behaves appropriately and handles his/her responsibilities, he or she will retain their scholarship. We have no proof of any conversation between he and former head coach Jim Tressel,"[11]
After National Signing Day in 2011, Ohio State was oversigned by several players.[12] During his Signing Day press conference, head coach Urban Meyer said he expected several recruits to not be signed, though Meyer did not give the specific number by which he had oversigned.[12]
Southeastern Conference[edit]
Several universities within the Southeastern Conference (SEC) have frequently been accused of oversigning.[13][14] Florida, Georgia,[15] and Vanderbilt are usually noted as exceptions within the SEC due to their having signed the fewest total recruits among SEC teams over the past decade.[16] Georgia head coach Mark Richt has condemned the process, saying "I don't want to oversign, then tell one of the kids we've already got, 'You've got no value to us' and toss him aside. I'm not going to do that."[2]
On February 1, 2011, Sports Illustrated published a letter from the president of the University of Florida, Bernie Machen, in which Machen condemned oversigning-related practices - including grayshirting and the excessive use of medical disqualifications - as "morally reprehensible" and "repugnant."[17]
Houston Nutt Rule[edit]
In May 2009, the SEC passed a rule restricting its football teams to accepting no more than 28 National Letters of Intent each year.[18] This move was widely viewed as a direct response to the University of Mississippi and its head coach, Houston Nutt, having promised 37 scholarships to new recruits for the 2009 season. Thus the rule is now commonly referred to as "The Houston Nutt Rule."[14][19]
Alabama and Nick Saban[edit]
WSJ Medical Scholarship Concerns[edit]
On September 24, 2010, the Wall Street Journal published an article suggesting the University of Alabama and its head coach, Nick Saban, had encouraging some under-performing players to quit the team for medical reasons in order to gain a competitive edge.
Former Alabama linebacker Chuck Kirschman said "I'm still kind of bitter," and Coach Saban encouraged him to accept the scholarship because of a back problem that Kirschman believes he could have played through. Kirschman said the school offered in the summer of 2009 to pay for his graduate degree in business, an offer he accepted, and that he still gets some of the same perks as players. Kirschman completed his MBA in Finance.
Charles Hoke, a former Alabama offensive lineman, took a medical scholarship in 2008 because of a shoulder problem, said the choice was left entirely up to him and was based on the many conversations he had with the team's doctors and trainers over the course of his junior year.
Jeramie Griffin tore an anterior cruciate ligament in his knee in August 2009. He said, "I came back in the spring and I was OK." Griffin said that he was surprised football staff told him he had failed a physical. Griffin said, Saban asked him what he wanted to do besides playing football, and that Saban floated the possibility of a medical scholarship and asked if Griffin was interested in student coaching. Griffin said he doesn't contest the results of the physical and said it was "basically my decision" to forgo the rest of his playing career.
Doug Walker, the school's associate athletic director for media relations, said "Decisions about medical disqualifications for student-athletes are made by medical professionals and adhere to the parameters outlined by the NCAA…and the Southeastern Conference."[20]
On September 29, 2010 Coach Saban responded to questions about the Wall Street Journal Article, "We don't make the decision about medicals. I have nothing to do with that. Those are medical decisions made by our medical staff. I think we have one of the finest medical staffs in the country. I don't have any question about the fact every player we have given a medical to, it's been because of the medical opinion of the medical staff," Saban said. "Those guys should not continue to play football because it would put their future in tremendous risk. Those decisions are always made in the best interest of the player. Whether the player agrees with that or not, I can't control. I don't make the decision. They don't make the decision as players. That's why we have a medical staff."[21]
WSJ Transfer Concerns[edit]
On November 25, 2010, the Journal reported that several former Alabama players claim Saban and Alabama lied about their reasons for leaving the school.[3] On August 5, 2009, Saban made a statement in a press conference that included a reference to four players Price Hall, Brandon Fanney, Alonzo Lawrence and Jermaine Preyear. "These guys all did something. It doesn't make them bad people.…These guys didn't do what they were supposed to do here, whether it was for academic reasons or whatever. They're not going to be part of the program."[22] The players told The Wall Street Journal they committed no such violations and that Alabama and Saban had only claimed as much so as to protect the image of their program in the eyes of future recruits.
Prince Hall, a starter and All-American as freshman, had been suspended for the 3rd time during the Spring according to published reports, the last being categorized as indefinite. Brandon Fanney, a 14-game starter from the previous season, had been suspended for rules violations during the Spring.[23]
Preyear, who decided to transfer six months after enrolling during the Spring, said he chose to leave over concerns about playing time. "I don't know any rules I could have broken."
Alonzo Lawrence reasons for transfer were unclear, but according to his high school coach his problems at Alabama "wasn't anything major," and tied it to things like being late to team meetings. Lawrence transferred to Southern Miss before moving on to Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College.[24][25]
Saban's Exchange with another Reporter[edit]
On April 15, 2008, Saban was asked by reporter Ian Rapoport how he was going to handle the numbers and when does he you start to worry about it? Saban replied "I'm not worried about them. It'll all work out. I mean, the whole thing has a solution to every issue. You don't put yourself in a position where you don't know what's coming." Rapoport respond, "So you're not going to tell us?" to which Saban replied "We know how it has to be managed, and it will be managed. It's none of your business. Aiight? And don't give me this stuff about the fans' need to know, because they don't need to know. Don't even ask. Aiight?"[26]
In early 2011, after National Signing Day, Saban and the University of Alabama again became the subjects of heavy media criticism after they again appeared to have oversigned. When asked about the appearance of being oversigned during his Signing Day press conference, Saban gave a 431-word response[27] in which he denied being oversigned but refused to clarify the situation by explaining how many scholarship players departed the program after the 2010 season.[28] Further raising questions about Saban and Alabama, Birmingham News journalist Kevin Scarbinsky revealed a few days after Saban's press conference that in numerous requests by the newspaper for the scholarship numbers of public universities in Alabama, the University of Alabama has been the only one to completely redact the numbers for every sport in which it participates.[29]
LSU and Les Miles[edit]
In 2010, Louisiana State University (LSU) and head coach Les Miles were also the subjects of numerous oversigning allegations.[4][30] In August, with his program at the scholarship limit for the year, Miles asked two recruits, Elliot Porter and Cameron Fordham, to wait until January 2011 to receive their previously promised scholarships. (This practice is known as "grayshirting.") Fordham chose to stay with the team, but Porter decided to leave the school. A third player, Houston Bates, had previously been asked to grayshirt and decided not to attend LSU, instead signing with Illinois.[31]
Porter joined the Kentucky football team that fall, but left during the season. He transferred back to LSU the next year but had to sit out the season due to transfer rules. Porter became the full-time starting center for LSU for the 2013 football season. Despite being trashed by the national media for downgrading Porter's scholarship offer to a grayshirt offer, Miles took Porter back with open arms.[32]
In December, ESPN's Outside the Lines broadcast a report in which former LSU quarterback Chris Garrett claimed LSU and Les Miles lied about the circumstances surrounding the school's decision not to renew Garrett's scholarship and Garrett's subsequent departure from LSU.[5]
South Carolina and Steve Spurrier[edit]
In 2011, South Carolina, coached by Steve Spurrier, oversigned by several players. Both Oversigning.com[33] and Rivals.com[34] estimated South Carolina oversigned by 6 players when it signed 32 players in its 2011 class.[35] Additionally, on the day before National Signing Day, South Carolina rescinded offers to two other recruits that had verbally committed to signing with the school. One of the recruits, Lorenzo Mauldin, had been committed to the school for months[36] but learned he would not receive a scholarship offer when South Carolina faxed a notice of the rescinded offer to his high school on the day before Signing Day.[37] Walter Banks, the coach of Jordan Montgomery, the other recruit whose scholarship offer was pulled the day before National Signing Day, told The Wall Street Journal, "I told [South Carolina coaches] this was foul. I didn't have a clue until 18 hours before signing day, and if they say anything else, they're lying."[38] Banks also told The State that South Carolina coaches are "no longer welcome" at his high school (South Lake High School in Groveland, Florida) saying, "I cannot look a kid and their parent in the face and say you can trust what a University of South Carolina coach says."[39] Spurrier admitted to The Wall Street Journal that "what we probably could've done earlier in the recruiting is tell them that this could happen."[38] He later added, "I think on [February 1] we alerted both of them, talked to them and said 'Hey, I'm sorry. This is where we are. We got all these other commitments.' We didn't like doing this."[39] In late March 2011, Mauldin signed with Louisville saying that he came to believe that South Carolina coaches really didn't want him to qualify anyway.[40]
2011 rule change[edit]
In June 2011, the SEC presidents and chancellors unanimously passed a new conference rule that prohibits teams from signing more than 25 players to National Letter of Intent from December 1 through May 31. The league's coaches unanimously voted the day before to recommend maintaining the limit of 28.[41]
External links[edit]
- ^ NCAA. "2011-2012 NCAA Division I Manual" (PDF). NCAA. Retrieved 1 November 2011.
- ^ a b Staples, Andy (February 25, 2009). "Coaches Play the Curious Game of Oversigning in College Football". CNNSI.com.
- ^ a b Karp, Hannah (November 25, 2010). "Former Players Say Saban Twisted the Truth". The Wall Street Journal.
- ^ a b c Doyel, Gregg (August 8, 2010). "Bad Guys Utilize Over-signing, and it Has to Stop". CBS Sports.
- ^ a b "Over the Limit". ESPN, Outside the Lines. December 19, 2010.
- ^ Evans, Thayer (July 9, 2010). "Top Recruit Goes to Miami After Release From U.S.C." New York Times.
- ^ Brown, C.L. (June 7, 2011). "Louisville's Kyle Kuric, Chris Smith and Elisha Justice will be basketball walk-ons". The Courier-Journal. Retrieved June 24, 2011.
- ^ a b c Brown, C.L. (June 7, 2011). "Scholarship shift for Louisville basketball makes 3 returners walkons". The Courier-Journal. Retrieved June 24, 2011.
- ^ Crawford, Eric (June 7, 2011). "Louisville basketball will have best walk-ons in nation". The Courier-Journal. Retrieved June 24, 2011.
- ^ "Season Box Score". Louisville 2010–11 Men's Basketball Season Statistics. University of Louisville Athletics. Retrieved June 24, 2011. The four players with higher scoring averages than Smith were Preston Knowles (graduated), Kuric, Peyton Siva (returning), and Terrence Jennings (left for the NBA draft).
- ^ EATON-ROBB, PAT. AP http://abcnews.go.com/Sports/wireStory?id=13929839. Retrieved 1 November 2011. Missing or empty
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- ^ a b Carter, Andrew (February 4, 2011). "Ohio State Doesn't Plan to Greyshirt Any Incoming Recruits". The Orlando Sentinel.[dead link]
- ^ Low, Chris (May 24, 2010). "SEC Leads the Way in Oversigning Players". ESPN.
- ^ a b Low, Chris (February 9, 2010). "Exceeding 25 Signees the Rule in the SEC". ESPN.
- ^ "Georgia and Alabama". Oversigning.com. October 7, 2010. Retrieved December 5, 2010.
- ^ "Recruiting Numbers". Oversigning.com. Retrieved December 5, 2010.
- ^ Machen, Bernie (February 1, 2011). "Florida President: Grayshirting is Morally Reprehensible Practice". Sports Illustrated.
- ^ Staples, Andy (May 29, 2009). "New SEC Ban Means Oversigning is Nearing its End Nationwide". CNNSI.com.
- ^ Solomon, Jon (February 3, 2010). "SEC Teams Adjust to 'Houston Nutt Rule'". The Birmingham News.
- ^ Karp, Hannah; Everson, Darren (September 24, 2010). "Alabama's Unhappy Castoffs". The Wall Street Journal.CS1 maint: Uses authors parameter (link)
- ^ Kausler Jr., Don. "Saban defends Alabama's use of medical scholarships". The Birmingham News. Retrieved 2 November 2011.
- ^ Estes, Gentry (August 5, 2009). "Nick Saban Opens Camp by Finally Clearing up Alabama's Roster Attrition". Press-Register.
- ^ Estes, Gentry. "Tide linebackers Brandon Fanney and Prince Hall suspended for start of spring practice". Mobile Press-Register. Retrieved 2 November 2011.
- ^ Estes, Gentry. "Departing Tide player Alonzo Lawrence is headed to Southern Miss". Mobile Press-Register.
- ^ Herndon, Mike. "Former Tide CB Alonzo Lawrence leaves Southern Miss". Mobile Press-Register.
- ^ Rapoport, Ian (April 15, 2008). "Saban vs. Rapoport: The Numbers Game". The Birmingham News.
- ^ Mandel, Stewart (February 4, 2011). "Decoding Nick Saban's Surprising Diatribe in Defense of Oversigning". CNNSI.com.
- ^ Kausler, Don, Jr. (February 2, 2011). "Saban Defends Practices of Oversigning and Grayshirting". The Birmingham News.
- ^ Scarbinsky, Kevin (February 6, 2011). "Scarbinsky: Alabama's Don't-Tell Policy Hurts Saban's Oversigning Defense". The Birmingham News.
- ^ Staples, Andy (August 5, 2010). "NCAA needs to sort out priorities, focus on the big picture". CNNSI.com.
- ^ Trahan, Ken (April 15, 2010). "St. Paul's DE Bates signs with Illinois". NewOrleans.com.
- ^ Nadeau, Rene (June 3, 2013). "Elliott Porter is center of attention for LSU". sportsnola.com.
- ^ "Time to Gear up for the Oversigning Cup". Oversigning.com. January 6, 2011.
- ^ "Unofficial 2011 Scholarship Breakdown". Rivals.com. Retrieved February 24, 2011.
- ^ Towers, Chip (February 15, 2011). "Ten@10: Georgia not winning as many recruiting battles in South Carolina". Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
- ^ Kornblut, Phil (July 23, 2010). "Georgia DE Commits to USC". The State.
- ^ Towers, Chip (February 24, 2011). "'Shoved away' due to oversigning, Lorenzo Mauldin still hopes to end up at South Carolina". Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
- ^ a b Karp, Hannah & Everson, Darren (March 1, 2011). "SEC Coaches Defend 'Oversigning'". The Wall Street Journal.
- ^ a b Towers, Chip (March 3, 2011). "Ten@10: Major recruiting scandals threaten college football". Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
- ^ Towers, Chip (March 21, 2011). "Lorenzo Mauldin inks with Louisville, puts S. Carolina oversigning saga behind him". Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
- ^ Low, Chris (June 3, 2011). "New oversigning rules won't ruin SEC". College Football Nation Blog. ESPN.com. Retrieved July 10, 2011.


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LAS CRUCES - The New Mexico State University women's rodeo team will compete for a top national ranking and a nationally known rodeo clown will entertain Friday and Saturday night at the Southern New Mexico Fairgrounds.
Rough stock riders, ropers, steer wrestlers and barrel racers from universities across the Southwest will compete for points and prize money at NMSU's spring home rodeo. The women's team needs only 50 points to capture first place in the nation, so NMSU coach Jim Dewey Brown is hoping for a good hometown crowd to support the team.
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I enjoyed your explorations with papyrus and your learnings Patti so thank you for sharing. Sometimes our bright spark idea simply has to be tried and tested and then decided upon that it isn't for us - altho the work does look lovely!ReplyDeleteReplies
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The input/output channel is in charge of data input, pre-processing and output using joystick, processor and A/D and D/A interface as in Fig.3.
The prepocessed data are inputted into information processing module in which the stream of directed motion queues are saved, decomposed into logical motion units, and edited to produce realistic motion of character in the task scheduler. The schematic diagram of information processing module is given in Fig.4.
As shown in Fig.5, the character model used in tele-operation of cooperative work has 33 degree of freedom and 17links. Each link is connected by using one of two kinds of joints, revolute or spherical joint. The spans of joint angles are also given in Table 1 along with the types of connecting joints. Dimension of each link and whose distribution for avatar used in the simulation is depicted in Fig.7 with distribution diagram. The height of avatar model is set to 186cm, upper and lower parts being 84cm and 102cm, respectively.


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Koumas headed Wales ahead in Cardiff and stroked home the late penalty that earned a point, but was shown a yellow card for an alleged dive.
"I don't know why I've been booked because I was definitely caught. It was very disappointing," Koumas said.
"You are happy not to lose a game but the goals we conceded were poor."
After Koumas' opener, heading back across goal from Joe Ledley's left-wing cross, Robbie Keane levelled and Kevin Doyle put the Irish ahead.
But Wigan midfielder Koumas dispatched a late penalty for a share of the spoils after David Cotterill was brought down.
"It was tough after they scored, but credit to the young lads who've come in and did well to get a draw in the end," Koumas added.
Wales now travel to Frankfurt for their final Euro 2008 qualifiying Group D match on Wednesday.
But Wales will go without Koumas, who was carrying a booking from last March's 3-0 win over San Marino and must now sit out the next match.
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So poor beleaguered state Rep. Warwick Sabin of Little Rock got pounded down this morning on his bill to provide tax relief to the working poor in the wholly viable and bipartisan fashion of an earned income tax credit, embraced nationally by Presidents named Reagan and Clinton.
Sabin argued for the bill by saying this session would be judged on how it acted on his bill, which would define whether, all things considered, it was fair to everyone in its determination to reduce taxes.
The defeat of his bill in the House Revenue and Taxation Committee invites me to ponder thus the overall fairness.
1. Gov. Asa Hutchinson, admirably, I think, chose to grant tax relief first and only to the middle class, those making from $20,000 to $75,000. You have to hand it to any Republican who pushes through a tax cut that does not extend at all, much less inordinately, to the rich people.
2. In order to pay for his cut, Hutchinson first proposed reducing a capital gains cut passed two years ago. That was positively Obama-esque, and, naturally, it would not stand. The Legislature is now in the process of restoring the capital gains cut, meaning that the rich people realizing capital gains will be either held harmless or given a break, depending on how you choose to apply timing.
3. Poor folks get diddly now that Sabin's bill to increase the tax credit they could qualify for by working went down to defeat.
Fair? It is if you think poor people are themselves to blame for being poor and are getting enough from us already and ought to stand alone in this state as persons worthy of no tax break from this legislative session.
If you have certain instincts for justice and humanity, then you know that what this session is doing, taken in full context, is of breathtaking proportion in unfairness.
An earned income tax credit is not a handout. It is a credit low-income people get toward their tax bill by venturing out to earn a meager paycheck with hard work.
A few Republicans on the committee objected to the fact that the earned income tax credit would be refundable. That means it can amount to cash if the earned credit exceeds the tax bill.
Getting more back from the rest of us than they even owe — what the hell is that?
It's simple: These people are poor. If they work enough for a penance to get a credit exceeding their tax due, then they can use the overage for help with regressive taxes they pay just for the opportunity to get out and do hard work for pauper's pay — the gasoline tax, the sales tax, both most burdensome on the little people.
So a guy will get no tax on a capital gain exceeding $10 million, but these poor working folks can't earn a meager refundable credit by paying regressive taxes to get to a job paying an unlivable wage.
If history doesn't judge that harshly, then history lies.