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All-Back In The Day ... Offense
Defensive Linemen (7)
Frank Spaziani, Penn State…Boston College – A terrific all-around athlete by the time he got to Penn State, Spaziani played for Joe Paterno at the tail end of the 1960s. A productive pass rusher and run defender on the outside, he also played some quarterback for the Nittany Lions, a testament to his versatility and athleticism.
Bret Bielema, Iowa…Wisconsin – From walk-on tight end to Hawkeye co-captain, Bielema's college journey was a testament to his dedication and desire to succeed, which now rubs off on his Wisconsin players. He started for Hayden Fry along the defensive line over his final two seasons, playing well enough to earn a free agent opportunity from the Seattle Seahawks.
Robb Akey, Weber State…Idaho – Akey set the tone for head coach Mike Price's Wildcats in the mid-1980s, picking up All-Big Sky and I-AA All-America honors for his work in 1987. Although he also dabbled at linebacker and tight end, he left Weber State as the school's all-time leader in sacks.
Tom O'Brien, Navy...North Carolina State – A wiry, but tough and disciplined defensive linemen, O'Brien had three successful seasons as a starting end with the Middies. It was at Annapolis that he really honed a work-ethic and attention to detail that have been characteristics of every team he's coached.
Al Groh, Virginia…Virginia
Brady Hoke, Ball State…San Diego State
Butch Davis, Arkansas ...North Carolina
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Pat Fitzgerald, Northwestern...Northwestern – Of the nearly five dozen current coaches that spent their playing days on the defensive side of the ball, none built a more impressive resume than Fitzgerald. He was a tackling machine in Evanston, twice getting named Big Ten defensive player of the year and becoming the first two-time recipient of the Nagurski Trophy and Bednarik Award in 1995 and 1996.
Kevin Sumlin, Purdue...Houston – For four seasons, Sumlin was an outstanding linebacker with the Boilermakers, which is odd considering his forte as a coach has been on offense. Originally a walk-on, he still ranks in the top 10 in tackles at the school, earning honorable mention All-Big Ten honors in his final two seasons.
Kyle Whittingham, BYU…Utah – The 1981 WAC Defensive Player of the Year was proof that Provo produced more than just prolific, NFL-ready quarterbacks during the glory days. A terrific all-around linebacker, Whittingham spent three years bouncing around the USFL before beginning his career in coaching.
Randy Shannon, Miami…Miami
Greg Schiano, Bucknell…Rutgers
Kirk Ferentz, Connecticut…Iowa
Jim Grobe, Virginia...Virginia
Gene Chizik, Florida…Auburn
Gary Patterson, Kansas State…TCU
Brian Kelly, Assumption College…Cincinnati
Rich Ellerson, Hawaii...Army
Jerry Kill, Southwestern College…Northern Illinois
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Mike Stoops, Iowa…Arizona – As a hard-hitting strong safety with the Hawkeyes, Stoops earned All-America honors in 1984 and was twice named All-Big Ten. In his junior year, he led the league in interceptions with six in nine games, giving him nine in an abbreviated career that consisted of just two years as a starter.
Bob Stoops, Iowa…Oklahoma – Back when he was known as Bobby, Stoops was a four-year starter in Iowa City and a two-time All-Big Ten selection. Considered by many as an all-time great defensive back for the Hawkeyes, he twice led the team in interceptions and was an intimidating defender from his strong safety spot.
Frank Beamer, Virginia Tech…Virginia Tech – Long before he was prowling the sidelines in Blacksburg, Beamer was making plays for the Hokies as a three-year starting cornerback. An all-around good athlete, who set records as high school quarterback, he played an integral role in Tech teams that played in the 1966 and 1968 Liberty Bowls.
Pete Carroll, Pacific…USC – In the early 1970s, Carroll was a two-time All-Pacific Coast Conference free safety at Pacific and was inducted into the school's Hall of Fame a quarter century later. His attempts to make it in the World Football League never panned out, but as a Tiger, he had a very successful playing career under former Pitt and Stanford head coach, Walt Harris.
Bobby Johnson, Clemson…Vanderbilt
Mike Haywood, Notre Dame...Miami Univ.
Mike Riley, Alabama…Oregon State
Mark Snyder, Marshall…Marshall
DeWayne Walker, Minnesota...New Mexico State
Bronco Mendenhall, Oregon State…BYU
Bo Pelini, Ohio State...Nebraska
Rich Brooks, Oregon State…Kentucky
Urban Meyer, Cincinnati…Florida
Nick Saban, Kent State…Alabama
Mark Dantonio, South Carolina…Michigan State
Rich Rodriguez, West Virginia…Michigan
Todd Graham, East Central University…Tulsa
Ron English, Cal...Eastern Michigan
Jim Leavitt, Missouri…South Florida
Bill Snyder, William Jewell College…Kansas State
Ron Zook, Miami Univ. …Illinois
Mike Locksley, Towson...New Mexico
Paul Rhoads, Missouri Western…Iowa State
Greg McMackin, Southern Oregon...Hawaii
Chip Kelly, New Hampshire...Oregon
Dave Clawson, Williams College...Bowling Green
Tim Beckman, Findlay College…Toledo
Stan Parrish, Heidelberg College…Ball State
David Elson, Butler…Western Kentucky
Never Played in College (6)
Charlie Weis, Notre Dame…Notre Dame
Paul Johnson, Western Carolina…Georgia Tech
David Cutcliffe, Alabama…Duke
Mike Leach, BYU…Texas Tech
George O'Leary, New Hampshire…UCF
Mark Mangino, Youngstown State…Kansas

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Tough Road to Score
By ASA
The phrase, "The series doesn't start until the home team loses," is uttered often this time of the year. With the NBA and NHL Playoffs in full swing and 7-game series often coming down to what team can defend its home court, that expression certainly has its validity. Never more so than in the second round of the NBA's postseason, where the home teams have dominated thus far.
The home team has combined to go 15-1 SU and 13-2-1 ATS in the second round so far. The lone outright win came in Game 4 of the Detroit-Orlando series, where the Pistons stole a one-point win from the Magic on a questionable non-call in the final seconds. Otherwise, the home teams could be looking at a perfect 16-0 mark right now.
The biggest issue holding the visitors back is the most basic of deciding factors. They simply can't put the ball in the basket. Scoring at home hasn't been the issue for the remaining squads. Scoring away from home has been a whole other story, though, at least in the second round.
All eight remaining teams have averaged fewer points on the road than at home and, in most cases, there is a significant difference. The Celtics, who owned the league's best road mark during the regular season but have yet to win away from home during the postseason, own the smallest scoring differential but that's only because they can't really score at home either. Boston is averaging 82.5 points per game at home and just 80.5 points per game on the road.
Boston's second-round foe Cleveland has a far greater differential. The Cavs averaged 98 points per game in winning Games 3 and 4 at home after averaging just 72.5 points per game in Boston, a difference of 25.5 points per game.
The other Eastern Conference semifinal, between Detroit and Orlando, is following the lead of Boston-Cleveland. Detroit is averaging 95.5 points per game at home but just 88 points per game in Orlando. In fairness, that difference can be chalked up to Chauncey Billups playing less than four minutes in Orlando. The Magic have no such excuse, averaging 100 points per game at home and a mere 82.5 points per game in Detroit.
The Western Conference, as most would expect, as has seen higher overall scoring outputs but has suffered from the same traveling affliction as the East. The Lakers are averaging 114.5 points per game in the Staples Center but just 103.5 points per game in regulation in Utah's EnergySolutions Arena. The Jazz are putting up similar numbers with 113.5 points per game at home and 104 per game on the road.
The second-seeded Hornets and third-seeded Spurs have both seen considerable differences in point production. New Orleans averaged 101.5 points per game at home in jumping out to a 2-0 series lead but couldn't get the lid off the basket on the road, averaging just 89.5 points per game.
San Antonio, one would think, shouldn't suffer this same problem based on its postseason experience. But not even the playoff-proven Spurs can escape this epidemic. They have averaged 105 points per game at home but just 83 points per game in New Orleans, a difference of 22 points per game and the second-biggest margin of the second round.
Low-scoring efforts on the road haven't really affected the totals much, though. The under is just 8-7-1 as the high scores from the home teams have balanced out the low scores of the visiting teams. These vast scoring differentials have led to some massive blowouts in the second round. The average margin of victory for the home teams is a robust 13.9 points per game with 11 of the 15 wins coming by double digits.
Will these trends continue throughout the remainder of the second round and into the conference finals? You'll just have to stay tuned.
Re: Tough Road to Score
Tracking NBA playoff totals and home-court advantage
By Jason Crowe
Everyone has heard that defense wins championships, but have you ever utilized this mindset when making your picks? Before you rush to place all your wagers on the under, let's take the time to evaluate some trends from last year's playoffs, as well as those that are developing so far in this year's playoffs.
Over/under in all playoff games (2007-2008)
Although the over/under favored the under in last year's playoffs, the difference may not be as predominant as you would think as just 53.2 percent of all games finished under the total. This year, though May 11, 54.2 percent (32 of 59) of games have finished beneath the total. Last year's second round and finals showed the most prevalent discrepancy of all rounds concerning the over/under - 56.5 percent (13 of 23) and 75 percent (three of four), respectively of those games finished under.
Over/under in Game 4 of all playoff series (2007-2008)
One of the most striking trends from last year's playoffs was the over/under outcome in Game 4s as 11 out of 15 (73.3 percent) went under the total. For series after the first round, the over/under ratio was 2-5 (71.4 percent). This year's playoffs have started out following the same way - all first round Western Conference Game 4s this year, and six out of eight (75 percent) of all Game 4s, have finished under the total. It was 2-1 under this past weekend, so overall the under is 8-3 in all Game 4s this year.
Favorites covering the spread (2007-2008)
This year's playoffs have been dominated by the heavy favorites as 22 out of 35 (62.9 percent) favorites have covered a spread when laying more than five points in this year's playoffs. The second round has been dominated by the favorites as well, with 12 of 15 (80.0 percent) covering the spread so far. The favorites in last year playoffs, after the first round, covered 55.6 percent (20 out of 36) of the time.
Home teams covering the spread (2007-2008)
Last year's second round, conference finals and finals followed a convincing trend, a 21-15 ratio against the spread (ATS) in favor of the home team. With a 62.1 percent (36 out of 58) record ATS, the home teams have more than laid a solid ground work in this year's playoffs also. The top four seeds this year: Celtics, Lakers, Hornets, and Pistons, have dominated their respective home courts so far. These four top-tier teams have covered 17 out of 20 games ATS in the playoffs this year.
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Hotel Elefteria is situated in Platanos, the main town of Leros Island. It offers a large, seasonal outdoor pool and a roof garden with exquisite view of the Castle of Pandeli. Located between Agia Marina and Pandeli, Elefteria is within walking distance of the island's most beautiful beaches. Shops and restaurants are easily reached. Hotel Elefteria offers basic rooms, studios and apartments, all with air conditioning, refrigerator, private bathroom and balcony. A full-service restaurant is available all day serving breakfast, lunch and dinner. At the hotel's roof garden guests can enjoy the unique view, while relaxing with a drink. Greek nights with dancing and barbeques are hosted regularly.
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Staten Island Geology: Conference House Park
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Before Audubon, there was Alexander Wilson.
Jul 29, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 43 • By CHRISTOPH IRMSCHER
For years now, I have been showing the gorgeous four volumes of Audubon's Birds of America to visitors and students at Indiana University's Lilly Library. Each time, I take pleasure in the sumptuous colors of Audubon's plates, still luminous after almost two centuries, and the dramatic stories of avian life the plates tell, with their fancy botanical backgrounds. I like even the sound the pages make when we turn them, slowly, gently, one at a time. I tell my students that Audubon's volumes are called "double elephant folios" because they are so large, and sometimes I have to assure them that no elephants were harmed in the making of them.
Common snipe and partridge from 'American Ornithology' (1808-13)
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"But what about the birds?" someone will inevitably ask. Yes, he did kill those—so many of them that the experience seemed gruesome even to him. "A two-legged monster armed with a gun," he once called himself. Occasionally, I will show Audubon's plate of the white egret, which does indeed feature the tiny figure of a hunter stalking the bird, clutching his matchstick-sized gun. And then I find myself mentioning Alexander Wilson, the Scotsman who came to the United States in 1794, who did not kill birds as a default option, and who, more than Audubon, deserves credit for having founded American ornithology, as biographers Edward Burtt and William Davis rightly insist.
Wilson's plates were smaller, and his birds often seem clumsier and less artistically posed than Audubon's. But then he had wanted them as his friends, not as art objects. Wilson readily shared his life with hawks, owls, and crows, inviting them into his rented rooms, a hospitality he never seems to have extended to any human companion. When describing, in a letter to his mentor William Bartram, the sacrifices he had to make for his American Ornithology—eight marvelous volumes of plates and bird essays published between 1808 and 1813—Wilson lamented that he had to give up "the pleasures of social life."
But I suspect that he would not have wanted it any other way. During his travels south in search of new birds—as well as new (human) subscribers for his great book—Wilson kept a parakeet named Poll as a pet and would pull her out of his pocket or cage to demonstrate to astonished spectators that she would accept food right out of his mouth. Such tricks, he thought, won him the respect of the Chickasaw, although it's possible that all it really did was assure people that Wilson was a harmless nut. (It appears that Poll saw their relationship a little differently, too, and seized the first opportunity to escape. Unfortunately for her, that happened in the middle of the Gulf of Mexico.)
Wilson drew his birds from life—if at all possible—making numerous sketches, which Burtt and Davis have assembled here for the first time. He also took copious notes. Back in Scotland, he had been a poet as well as a weaver and was good enough with his pen to enrage the authorities when he satirized a local mill owner. His fine literary sensibility is evident in every page of the ornithological essays he produced in America, many of which are excerpted here.
They are quite wonderful indeed. For example, we're right there with Wilson when, one cold winter's day on the banks of the Roanoke River, he sees "armies of grackles" arise from the bare fields with a loud, thunderous sound, and then descend on a cluster of leafless trees nearby, making them appear as if they were "hung in mourning." Wilson's metaphors are nearly always memorable (the kingfisher, he tells us, sounds like "the twirling of a watchman's rattle") and his anecdotes are funny. Who could forget the German farmer sharing his dislike for the purple martins? They eat his "peas," he complains to an uncomprehending Wilson. Pea-eating martins? But the man assures him that he has, indeed, seen those blasted birds "blaying about the hifes and snapping up my pees." Now Wilson gets it; the birds have been eating the farmer's "bees."
Equally entertaining is the quick math Wilson performs for us in an attempt to rehabilitate the red-winged blackbird, so often maligned by American farmers. Beginning with the average amount of "noxious insects" consumed by a pair of red-winged blackbirds, Wilson multiplies that figure by the millions of such pairs that "enter" the United States each summer. Then he adds to that figure the estimated number of young red-winged blackbirds that each year join their parents in the feast. His grand total: Red-winged blackbirds eat as many as "sixteen thousand two hundred million" noxious insects annually. Think of how much farmland they save each year. At this point in Wilson's argument, only the dumbest peasant would still want to shoot a blackbird.
Wilson's keen eye for literary detail manifests itself throughout American Ornithology. It allows him to watch a group of Carolina parakeets getting their talons stained as they are munching on mulberries and to conclude (though now in the voice of the dispassionate scientist) that, like humans, some of these birds prefer to use their right foot whereas others are more inclined to use the left. And his interest in storytelling leads Wilson to show amused sympathy for the American widgeon, a bird that never does its own diving but instead hangs out around the more enterprising canvas-back duck, waiting for him to do the job. As soon as the canvasback returns from his forays into the deep, his eyes not yet "well-opened" (a lovely detail which tells us how close Wilson must have been to the bird, his breath virtually stirring the feathers on its neck in these pre-binocular days), the eager widgeon is right there, and the canvasback has lost his food before he knows what hit him.
In the ninth, posthumous volume of American Ornithology, Wilson's sparkling vignettes have been replaced by his friend George Ord's plodding prose ("As it respects, in particular, the tribe under review . . ."), and one can't help but think that more was lost here than stylistic grace.
If Wilson's texts are stellar, his plates have their own, quieter beauty. The birds he drew and then, often, hand-colored seem to delight in their difference from humans. In one of my favorite plates, we see a green-winged teal, its bill tucked lightly into its back, drifting motionless on the shimmering water, while above him a mallard, his wings unfolding and his resplendent neck stretched out like an arrow, is taking off to who-knows-where, as if to prove what Wilson had celebrated in the accompanying essay: that this duck, once domesticated, has shed the abominable "shackles of slavery" and regained its "native spirit of independence."
Some faint signs of human activity do show up in some of the plates: a barn or a farm or a fence, or even two or three people working in a field. But all are dwarfed into insignificance by the glittering bodies of the birds in the foreground: a crow or a sea eagle or a magpie, proud and seemingly self-sufficient despite the fact that they have been crowded into the same plate with species they would never associate with in real life.
During my last visit to the splendid Audubon Museum in Henderson, Kentucky, the curator Alan Gehret allowed me to take a look at Audubon's well-used personal set of Wilson's American Ornithology. The great bird painter was no book collector, to be sure: He lugged these heavy volumes around with him when he was in the field, occasionally dropping or even losing them; and when he saw (or more likely shot) a bird and found that it was different from the corresponding plate in Wilson's work, he scribbled his outrage right onto the plate.
Admittedly, Audubon was jealous that Wilson had beaten him to the finish line as the father of American ornithology. But even Burtt and Davis agree that Wilson's drawings are often more accurate than his finished plates. And that's precisely why it's so good to have those sketches collected here: large and small, ragged and neat, cut into many pieces, or pasted onto other sheets of paper. Taken together, they allow us to trace the evolution of Wilson's art, from the early birds simply depicted on the conventional sticks and stumps to the later ones lovingly embedded in increasingly intricate landscapes and ecologically correct habitats.
Wilson was not interested in gallery art, the authors say. But the compelling examples they provide of him using and reusing material, drafting ornithological details on every available shred of paper, and creating fascinating collages out of fragments bespeak a commitment to his profession many of his more artistically minded colleagues lack. Here, on these pieces of paper, we see Wilson getting down next to his birds, caressing them with his pencil, tenderly recreating their shapes, eyes, beaks, and feet. No wonder he felt hampered by the Linnaean system and the taxonomic categories it supplied, so inadequate for a world in which (as he put it in pre-Darwinian fashion) species appeared to be constantly passing into each other by "fine gradations."
One of Wilson's last drawings shows a tundra swan, drawn on a mere scrap. Floating into the picture from somewhere else, with its head elegantly twisted back, this infinitely graceful bird, acknowledging our presence, extends to us something like a final gesture of farewell. Not much later, on August 23, 1813, an exhausted Wilson died, a mere month after his 47th birthday.
Christoph Irmscher, provost professor of English at Indiana University, is the author, most recently, of Louis Agassiz: Creator of American Science.


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Researchers have unravelled the once-prized enigma behind the sex life of the oldest vertebrate — a hagfish — by identifying the first reproductive hormone, a gonadatropin, in the eyeless, snot-covered, worm-like scavenger of the deep.
University of New Hampshire's professor Stacia Sower and colleagues at two Japanese universities have identified the first reproductive hormone in a hagfish.
"This is a significant breakthrough with hagfish," said Sower.
Gonadatropins (GTHs) are proteins secreted from the pituitary gland, stimulating the gonads (ovaries and testes) to produce and release the sex steroid hormones, which prompt their growth and maturation.
GTHs are produced in response to hypothalamic gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH), what Sower calls the 'master molecule' for reproduction in vertebrates. Its discovery remains the holy grail of understanding hagfish reproduction.
At 500 million years old, hagfish are the oldest living vertebrate, predating the dinosaurs. They are notoriously difficult to study, in part because their habitat is the ocean floor at 100 metres or more.
Despite their vicious nature and least appealing characteristic — the stress-induced secretion of mucous from up to 200 slime glands along their bodies — hagfish are prized, particularly in Asian markets. Their tough, soft skin is marketed as 'eel' skin for wallets, belts and other items.
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Nineteen fifth-graders graduated to college Thursday Ś at least for a day.
Their hosts included Sugar the Angus calf and Apple Blossom, a 7-month-old pot-belly pig.
Their curriculum included computer aided drafting, horticulture, sports and science.
Their activities included bottle feeding Sugar, handing Apple Blossom her share of baby carrots, planting flowers in a pot, making nylon thread, shooting hoops, and designing a single-story house with a porch, vinyl siding and a gable roof.
The Washington Elementary School children also tested the knowledge of the grownups on the State Fair Community College campus Ś all as part of an effort to plant the seed of higher education early.
At the end of it all, 10-year-old Clay Brown said it was the ōfunnest time I have ever had it my life.ö
Clay stole the show during the SFCC version of ōAre You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader?ö with his quick wit and victory dance. But he learned more than improv during his day-long visit on campus.
ōI liked building a house in the CAD lab,ö said Clay, who wants to be an architect. ōIt was really fun.ö
The youngster said he had been to the Multipurpose Center at the college and had seen movies in the theater, but Thursday was his first chance to take a tour of SFCC. ōI think it has a lot to offer,ö he said.
The boy said the campus is small enough to maneuver without getting lost and is void of the bullies that taunted him in grade school.
Mark L. Carter, director of admissions for the college, was hoping for such an assessment. ōWe want to show them that education is not (boring). You have fun in education,ö he said.
Fifth-graders may have years before college, but still are ripe for recruitment, Carter said.
ōThese kids are making decisions quickly, and the streets are grabbing up our students faster than we can,ö he said.
Kevin Haulotte, coordinator of the computed aided drafting program, gave a group of eager learners a crash course in using a sophisticated software and a mouse to create a drawing of a home. As he coached, the fifth-graders drew in windows and doors in their homes.
By the end of the 20-minute session, each youngster had his own color printout of the home he created.
The mission for Haulotte was simple:
ōI hope they can take an interest in engineering and design,ö Haulotte said. ōThere is a huge demand for engineers.ö A graduate of his two-year program can start making $40,000 annually, he said.
ōI really look forward to having one or two of these students graduate with me from here,ö he said. ōThese young people, when we can touch them right off the bat, it will open their eyes to this.ö
Haulotte said he hopes to dispel the notion that CAD is a bore. ōItÆs a lot of fun, when you see the 3-D software and what you can do with it. ItÆs not just crunching numbers.ö
Fifth-grader Ashley Arnold said the highlight of her day took place in the college greenhouse. ōIt was planting the flowers,ö said the girl, who wants to become a math teacher. SFCC instructor Steve Galloway escorted the students as they met a pot-belly pig and a bottle calf, both of which were pets of SFCC students.
Rebecca Heisterberg, the Washington school counselor, said she was pleased with how ōjam-packed our day has been.ö
Heisterberg, who attended SFCC as a student, said she wants to show her students the ōoptions and choices they have, and this is one of them.ö
The fifth-graders battled SFCC administrators, students and staff in a game of ōAre You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader?ö and answered questions such as, How many years are there in a term for U.S. representatives? (two); What is the largest country by area in South America? (Brazil); andHow many sides does a trapezoid have? (four).
For their efforts, the students received a victory in the game, accolades from Carter and a certificate declaring them honorary college students.
ōYou have proved yourself worthy of being college material,ö he declared.


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Welsh-language literature
Welsh-language literature has been produced continuously since the emergence of Welsh from Brythonic as a distinct language c. 5th-century. The earliest llenyddiaeth Gymraeg (Welsh literature) was poetry, which was extremely intricate in form from its earliest known examples, a tradition sustained today. Poetry was followed by the first British prose literature in the 11th-century (The Mabinogion). Welsh language literature has repeatedly played a major part in the self-assertion of Wales and the Welsh peoples. It continues to be held in the highest prestige, as evidenced at the massive Eisteddfod Genedlaethol Cymru (National Eisteddfod of Wales) the largest arts festival in Europe, which crowns its chosen literary winners in dignified ceremony.
|Part of a series on the
|Culture of Wales
Mythology and folklore
Music and performing arts
- 1 Middle Ages
- 2 Sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
- 3 Eighteenth century
- 4 Nineteenth century
- 5 Twentieth century onwards
- 6 See also
- 7 Sources
- 8 External links
Middle Ages[edit]
The mediaeval period has three stages. The Earliest Poets wrote praise poems for rulers and lords of Welsh dynasties from Strathclyde to Cornwall. In the 11th-century Norman influence and challenge disrupted Welsh cultures, and the language changed to Middle Welsh. The next period is the Poets of the Princes, when Welsh rulers fought each other and the English in shifting alliances. The first prose literature of Britain was compiled in the 11th-century. In 1282 Welsh territories were annexed by England, the princely lines ended, and poets adapted by turning to the uchelwyr, the landowners, for support in the stage of the Poets of the Nobility.
The earliest praise poetry to survive is by the poet Taliesin and Aneirin. Praise poetry was a powerful PR function in society, that is, propaganda, inspiring loyalty and courage by the teulu, the warband of a king, prince or lord. It spread his fame, and that of named warriors, as widely as possible, creating a kind of immortality and glory. The art was so valued that the beirdd, bards had their liberal rights coded in native Welsh law. The highest levels of the poetic art in Welsh are intensely intricate. The beirdd, bards were extremely organised and professional with a structured training which lasted many years. As a class the beirdd, bards, proved very adaptable; when the princely dynasties ended in 1282, they found their necessary patronage with the next social level, the uchelwr, the landed gentry. The shift led creatively to innovation – the development of the cywydd metre, with looser forms of structure.
The professionalism of the poetic tradition was sustained by a Guild of poets, or Order of bards, with its own 'rule book'. This 'rule book' emphasised their professional status, and the making of poetry as a craft. Its rules required an apprenticeship of nine years for a poet to become fully qualified. The rules also set out the payment a poet could expect for his work – these payments varied according to how long a poet had been in training and also the demand for poetry at particular times during the year.
There were also 'cyfarwydd, storytellers. These were also professionals, paid artists; but, unlike the poets, they seem to have remained anonymous. It is not clear if storytellers were a wholly separate, popular level class, or if at least some of the beirdd, bards, practised storytelling as part of their repertoire. Little of this prose work has survived, but even so it provides the earliest British prose literature. These native Welsh tales and some hybrids with French /Norman influence form a collection known in modern times as the Mabinogion. The name became established in the 19th-century but is based on a linguistic mistake!
Llenyddiaeth Gymraeg (Welsh literature) in the Middle Ages also included a large body of laws, genealogiies, religious and mythical texts, histories, medical and gnomic lore, and practical works, in addition to literature translated from other languages such as Latin, Breton or French. Besides prose and longer poetry, the literature includes the distinctive Trioedd, Welsh Triads short lists usually of three items, apparently used as aids to memory.
Sixteenth and seventeenth centuries[edit]
The 16th century and 17th century in Wales, as in the rest of Europe, were a period of great change. Politically, socially, and economically the foundations of modern Wales were laid at this time. In the Laws in Wales Acts 1535-1542 Wales was annexed and integrated fully into the English kingdom, losing any vestiges of political or legal independence. The political-religious settlement of Elizabeth I through the 1559 Act of Uniformity made Wales in name a Protestant country only to be reinforced by developments during and after the English Civil War. This period also saw the beginnings of industries such as coal mining, metal-mining for lead and iron smelting, which led to the mass industrialisation of the following centuries.
End of the guild of poets system[edit]
From the middle of the 16th century onwards a decline is seen in the praise tradition of the poets of the Nobility, the cywyddwyr. It became more and more difficult for poets to make their living from the craft of poetry. This happened primarily for social reasons beyond their control. The Dissolution of the Monasteries, that had become important sources of patronages for the poets, and the Anglicisation of the nobility during the period of the Tudors, exemplified by the Laws in Wales Acts, meant that there were fewer and fewer patrons willing or able to support the poets. But there were also internal reasons for the decline: the conservatism of the Guild of poets, or, Order of bards, made it very difficult for it to adapt to the new world of renaissance learning and the growth of printing.
However, the Welsh poetic tradition of the traditional meters and cynghanedd did not disappear completely, although it did lose it professionalism, and came into the hands of 'ordinary' poets who kept it alive through centuries. Cynghanedd and traditional meters are still used today by very many Welsh-language poets.
Renaissance learning[edit]
Without a university of its own, without other learning institutions, without even a court and courtiers of its own, Wales was not in a very good position to participate fully in the revolution in ideas and scholarship, which is usually termed the Renaissance. Wales did not really have any towns of great significance at this time which could have acted as centres for the type of society where such ideas and movements flourish. But the renaissance did hit Wales in no uncertain terms, and that due to the commitment of certain individuals, both Protestant and Catholic, in ensuring that the Welsh language would be part of this new movement.
First printed Welsh book[edit]
In 1546 the first book to be printed in Welsh was published, Yn y llyvyr hwnn (=In this book…) by Sir John Price of Brecon. John Price (ca.1502-55) was an aristocrat and an important civil servant. He served as Secretary of the Council of Wales and the Marches and he was also one of the officers responsible for administrating the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the area. He was also a scholar who embraced the latest ideas relating to religion and learning: reform and humanism. It is also known that he was a collector of manuscripts on various subjects, including the history and literature of Wales.
Other humanists and scholars[edit]
Shortly afterwards the works of William Salesbury began to appear. Salesbury was an ardent Protestant and coupled his learning with the new religious ideas from the continent; he translated the New Testament into Welsh and authored an English-Welsh dictionary among other works. On the other hand, Gruffudd Robert was an ardent Catholic, but in the same spirit of learning published an important Welsh grammar while in enforced exile in Milan in 1567. A huge step forward for both the Welsh language and its literature was the publication, in 1588, of a full-scale translation of the Bible by William Morgan.
Other works[edit]
Most of the works published in the Welsh language for at least the next century were religious in nature. Morgan Llwyd, a Puritan, wrote in both English and Welsh, recounting his spiritual experiences. Other notable writers of the period included Vavasor Powell.
During this period, poetry also began to take a religious turn, in terms of subject matter. William Pugh was a Royalist and a Catholic. By now, women as well as men were writing, but little of their work can be identified. Katherine Philips of Cardigan Priory, although English by birth, lived in Wales for most of her life, and was at the centre of a literary coterie comprising both genders.
Beginnings of Welsh writing in English[edit]
The seeds of Anglo-Welsh literature can also be detected, particularly in the work of Henry Vaughan and his contemporary, George Herbert, both Royalists.
Eighteenth century[edit]
In the 18th century the trend in favour of religious literature continued and grew even stronger as Nonconformism began to take hold of Wales. The Welsh Methodist revival, initially led by Howell Harris and Daniel Rowland, produced not only sermons and religious tracts, but also hymns and poetry by William Williams Pantycelyn, Ann Griffiths and others. The Morris brothers of Anglesey were leading figures in the establishment of the London Welsh societies, and their letters to one another are an important record of the time. The activities of the London Welshmen helped ensure that Wales retained some kind of profile within Britain as a whole.
The activities of a number of individuals, including Thomas Jones of Corwen and the Glamorgan stonemason and man of letters, Iolo Morganwg, led to the revival of the National Eisteddfod of Wales and the invention of many of the traditions which surround it today. Although Iolo is sometimes called a charlatan because so many of his discoveries were based on pure myth, he was also an inveterate collector of old manuscripts and thereby did perform a service without which Welsh literature would have been the poorer. Some of the Welsh gentry continued to patronise bards, but this practice was gradually dying out.
Nineteenth century[edit]
Largely as a result of the Industrial Revolution, there was a large influx of people into the South Wales Valleys during the 19th century. Although many of them were English, some made an effort to learn the Welsh language in order to integrate themselves with the local communities, and there was increased demand for literature in the form of books, periodicals, newspapers, poetry, ballads and sermons. Some of the more wealthy incomers, such as Lady Charlotte Guest, Lady Llanover and others, were of active assistance in the trend towards a richer cultural life. Thanks partly to the eisteddfod network, writing became a popular pastime, and all forms of poetry thrived.
Poets now used their bardic names to disguise their identity in competitions, and continued to use them when they became well known. The most celebrated poets of the century were: Evan Evans (Ieuan Glan Geirionydd), John Blackwell, William Thomas and John Ceiriog Hughes, who went by the bardic names of "Ieuan Glan Geirionydd", "Alun", "Islwyn" and "Ceiriog" respectively.
The novel had been slow to pick up momentum in Wales. Translations of works such as Uncle Tom's Cabin existed, but the first recognised novelist in the Welsh language was Daniel Owen, author of Rhys Lewis (1885) and Enoc Huws (1891), among others.
Twentieth century onwards[edit]
In the late 19th and early 20th century, Welsh literature began to reflect the way the Welsh language was increasingly becoming a political symbol. Two of the greatest figures in the literary history of this period were the prolific Saunders Lewis and the writer/publisher Kate Roberts. Lewis, who had been brought up in Liverpool, was a leader of the nationalist movement, jailed for his part in protests; he chose drama as a means of drawing attention to the rightness of his cause. Novelist Kate Roberts worked as a teacher, and was one of few writers to have lived in and written about both North Wales and South Wales.
The industrialisation of parts of Wales was now beginning to be regarded as a mixed blessing, and the old agricultural (agrarian) way of life which persisted in most of the country was idealised by many writers. However, a more realistic picture of Gwynedd farming communities between the Wars was presented by John Ellis Williams (1924-2008) in both English and Welsh. Publication of these reminiscences appeared in community newspapers, the Countryman magazine and subsequently in paperback format in English under the titles of Clouds of Time and other Stories (1989) and Rare Welsh Bits (2000). A free spirit in the Welsh publishing circle, Williams was neither an academic nor a politician, but had embraced Existensialism in post Second World War France and had an active friendship and correspondence with Simone de Beauvoir. The 1940s also saw the creation of a notable writing group in the Rhondda, called the 'Cadwgan Circle'. Writing almost entirely in the Welsh language, the movement, formed by J. Gwyn Griffiths and his wife Käte Bosse-Griffiths, included the Welsh writers Pennar Davies, Rhydwen Williams, James Kitchener Davies and Gareth Alban Davies.
After a relatively quiet period between 1950-1970, large numbers of Welsh language novels began appearing from the 1980s onwards, with such authors as Aled Islwyn and Angharad Tomos. In the 1990s there was a distinct trend towards postmodernism in Welsh prose writing, especially evident in the work of such authors as Wiliam Owen Roberts and Mihangel Morgan.
Meanwhile, Welsh poetry, which had been verging on stagnation, took on a new lease of life as poets sought to regain mastery over the traditional verse forms, partly to make a political point. Alan Llwyd and Dic Jones were leaders in the field. Female poets such as Menna Elfyn gradually began to make their voices heard, overcoming the obstacle of the male-dominated bardic circle and its conventions.
The scholar Sir Ifor Williams also pioneered scientific study of the earliest Welsh written literature, as well as the Welsh language, recovering the works of poets like Taliesin and Aneirin from the uncritical fancies of various antiquarians, such as the Reverend Edward Davies who believed the theme of Aneirin's Gododdin is the massacre of the Britons at Stonehenge in 472.
See also[edit]
- Association of Welsh Translators and Interpreters
- Breton literature
- Cornish literature
- Dafydd ap Gwilym
- Dylan Thomas
- Four Ancient Books of Wales
- Geoffrey of Monmouth
- Iolo Morganwg
- List of Welsh language authors
- List of Welsh language poets
- List of Welsh writers
- Thirteen Treasures of the Island of Britain
- Welsh comics
- Welsh literature in English
- Welsh mythology
- Welsh Triads
- Johnston, Dafydd (1994), The literature of Wales. Cardiff : University of Wales Press. ISBN 0-7083-1265-9.
- Parry, Thomas (1955), A history of Welsh literature. Translated by H. Idris Bell. Oxford : Clarendon Press.
- Stephens, Meic (Ed.) (1998), The new companion to the literature of Wales. Cardiff : University of Wales Press. ISBN 0-7083-1383-3.


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It was then, Pistorius said, that he realized Steenkamp was not in bed.
He said he pulled on his prosthetic legs and tried to kick down the toilet door before finally giving up and bashing it in with a cricket bat. Inside, he said he found Steenkamp, slumped over but still alive. He said he lifted her bloodied body and carried her downstairs to seek medical help.
But it was too late. "She died in my arms," Pistorius said.
"We were deeply in love and I could not be happier," the athlete said. "I know she felt the same way. She had given me a present for Valentine's Day but asked me only to open it the next day."
Pistorius broke down in sobs repeatedly as his account was read, prompting Chief Magistrate Desmond Nair to call a recess at one point.
"Maintain your composure," the magistrate said. "You need to apply your mind here."
"Yes, my lordship," Pistorius replied, his voice quivering.
Nair adjourned the case until Wednesday without ruling on whether Pistorius would be granted bail. However, he said the gravity of the charge - which carries a mandatory life sentence - meant the athlete's lawyers must offer "exceptional" reasons for bail to be granted, making his release unlikely.
Roux, the defense attorney, said there was no evidence to substantiate a murder charge. "We submit it is not even murder. There is no concession this is a murder," he said.
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"It is our respectful argument that `pre-planning' or premeditation do not require months of planning," Nel said. "If ... I ready myself and walk a distance with the intention to kill someone, it is premeditated."
Hundreds of miles from the Magistrate's Court, a memorial service was held for Steenkamp in the south coast city of Port Elizabeth. Six pallbearers carried her coffin, draped with a white cloth and covered in white flowers, into the church for the private service and cremation.
Relatives recalled how the model with a law degree had campaigned against domestic violence and had planned to don black for a "Black Friday" protest in honor of a 17-year-old girl who was recently gang-raped and mutilated.
What "she stood for, and the abuse against women, unfortunately it's gone right around, and I think the Lord knows that statement is more powerful now," said her uncle, Mike Steenkamp.
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(Science: anatomy, pathology, physiology) muscle tissue in vertebrates made up from long tapering cells that may be anything from 20-500m long.
smooth muscle is generally involuntary and differs from striated muscle in the much higher actin/myosin ratio, the absence of conspicuous sarcomeres and the ability to contract to a much smaller fraction of its resting length. Smooth muscle cells are found particularly in blood vessel walls, surrounding the intestine (particularly the gizzard in birds) and in the uterus.
The contractile system and its control resemble those of motile tissue cells (e.g. Fibroblasts, leucocytes) and antibodies against smooth muscle myosin will cross react with myosin from tissue cells, whereas antibodies against skeletal muscle myosin will not.
See: dense bodies. A muscle that contracts without conscious control and found in walls of internal organs such as stomach and intestine and bladder and blood vessels (excluding the heart).Muscle tissue that does not appear striated under the microscope; has the form of thin layers or sheets.A muscle that contracts without conscious control and found in walls of internal organs such as stomach and intestine and bladder and blood vessels (excluding the heart).Another term for involuntary muscle, see [[involuntary muscle.
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NEW YORK (AP) -- Rob Thomas knew he might make movie history by using Kickstarter to crowd-fund his "Veronica Mars" film. But he wasn't prepared for the posters.
Of all the prizes offered to donors of "Veronica Mars" -- everything from a digital copy of the script for $10 to a walk-on cameo for $10,000 -- the most taxing was autographing the cast-signed posters promised to more than 5,000 backers. It took several hand-cramping days and constant shuttling of boxes from one signee to the next.
"We've got our own poster handler who is in charge of getting them to us and getting them signed," Thomas said in a recent interview. "It's required, like, its own department."
But, he adds, "This movie would not exist if we had not gone down this path."
It's been a year since Thomas sent shockwaves through the movie industry by turning to the crowd-funding site Kickstarter to help finance a movie based on his cultishly adored but short-lived high-school detective series. On Friday, the movie hits theaters and video-on-demand. As the first high-profile celebrity project to drum up money on Kickstarter, "Veronica Mars" is a trailblazer, albeit one with a cloudy legacy.
Thomas has already been followed by projects by Zach Braff (to fund his second directorial effort) and Spike Lee (to raise cash for his latest "joint"). The land rush into a new avenue of funding (a major struggle for most filmmakers) has raised questions about the ethics of fan-based financing. (Contributors pay for different levels of rewards, but don't share in profits.)
"Veronica Mars" may have introduced a democratic spirit to a green-lighting process usually controlled by film executives, but it has also opened a Pandora's box where, critics say, established insiders can take advantage of their loyal followings.
"It's a brilliant idea that's gotten out of hand," ''House of Cards" producer Dana Brunetti recently said at a SXSW panel discussion. "It's wrong when people like Zach Braff or Spike Lee use that same service to fund their films when they already have access. I think it overshadows and takes away from the little guys who actually need the funding."
Thomas says he'd rather not be considered a poster boy for Kickstarter. "Every project has its own separate concerns," he says. Instead, he believes the choice is up to consumers.
"If it bothers you that Zach Braff probably has a lot of money from 'Scrubs,'" says Thomas, "then don't give to it."
Before "Veronica Mars" found 91,585 backers who pledged about $5.7 million (far surpassing the $2 million Thomas sought), it was essentially doomed. The Warner Bros. Television-produced series was canceled in 2007 after three seasons on UPN and CW.
Yet fans of the show -- which Thomas pitched as "teen noir" -- loved its sharp banter and the dark atmosphere of a corrupt California town, the fictional Neptune. As the witty, street-smart title character, Kristen Bell (whose fame has since grown and who now stars on Showtime's "House of Lies") followed the strong female protagonists of shows like "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and "Alias."
Thomas, whose other shows include the similarly cult favorite "Party Down," was only able to lobby Warner Bros. to make a "Veronica Mars" movie if he proved the fervent fan base. Though a grassroots triumph, "Veronica Mars" has behind it one of the largest, most powerful movie studios on the planet, which easily could have bankrolled the film if it wanted to.
If legitimate rewards hadn't been offered for donors, Thomas says: "That would have smelled. That would have felt icky."
Like its unique development, the release of "Veronica Mars" will also be unusual. It will be the first studio movie to break the standard 90-day window between theatrical opening and DVD or digital release. To avoid agreements with theater chains (which fiercely guard their first window), Warner Bros. is renting out from AMC Theaters most of the 270 screens the film will play on.
Executives for Warner Bros. declined to comment for this article.
The film, which has already found warm reviews, will likely please fans of "Veronica Mars." It takes place 10 years after the TV series, with Veronica, now an up-and-coming attorney, lured back to Neptune when her old flame Logan (Jason Dohring) is framed for a murder. Fans will quickly recognize the familiar snappy rhythm: A police officer warns Veronica, "When you mess with the bull ...," and she interjects, "You get the clichés?"
"After all this rigmarole and all this publicity, if the movie isn't successful financially, then we are the guinea pig that failed," says Thomas. "It will be such a better ending to the story if it were successful and this was a harbinger of things to come."


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I'm comfortable that they'll make the right decisions about who can best lead this country and who's got the record and who's got the rhetoric, Perry said.
And they may work... if he'd let them.
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Well, I don't know whether or not we're going to forgo any debates or not, you know, Perry told reporters in Concord on Friday. There's going to be a lot of debates. I mean, shoot... I may get to be a good debater before it's all over with.
Along with that self-deprecating humor, he bounced off questions whether he thinks President Obama was born in the United States, also attributing that to humor.
I don't consider making fun of something being a mistake, Perry said. Donald Trump and I were having dinner... I mean, the president is the president, and that's a fact.
Journalists covering Perry, such as Emily Ramshaw, assistant managing editor of the Texas Tribune, think he's chipping away at his chance to reset his campaign.
There were other things this week that sort of came up where he clearly wanted to be talking his tax plan, but he kept stepping in it on these other issues really, at his own prompting, Ramshaw said.
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I want to disspell some myths! The narrows here at Tilghman Island are very doable and rewarding but one needs to pay close attention. if you stay in the channel 6 foot depths are fine on all but very low tides but on lower tides you must be very careful, and the passage it well worth it. When entering from the west, "the Bay" stay to the right side of the marked channel and at the last red marker #4 You must be able to "leave your business card" on the marker. In fact if you are being pinched you can go inside this marker but you still want to be able to "leave your business card" on the marker this way as well. Leave your business card means, you can lean overboard and touch the marker.
After clearing this marker keep to the right side of the channel and stay clear of Tar Island. REMEMBER, THIS IS WHEN YOU ARE ENTERING FROM THE BAY OR THE WEST NOT FROM THE EAST OR THE CHOPTANK. Obviously when entering from the East/Choptank you must stay to the left for the channel and hug the "Red#4" and "leave your business card on it"! The channel is narrow and not in the apparent middle but follow these directions and you will fair well!
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agreed ChesNouz - have gone through probably a dozen times over the last 30 years - thanks!
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What makes me laugh about this thread is the number of people who will not be seeing this film or taken2 because the critics don't like it.
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hojear, verb:
to leaf through, to flick through
Some idioms are the same in Spanish as in English, and hojear is one of them. In English if you leaf through something, the image is of leaves of a book. Similarly hojear comes from the Spanish for leaf, hoja.
Se puso a hojear el periódico.
She started to leaf through or flick through the paper.
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