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Odd Fact: Alex Smith Becomes Starter At Same age as Joe Montana
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Another oddity I ran across is that in 1980, Walsh would put Montana in for 1 or 2 series a game -- then take him out (it seems kind of out of sync w. the rythmic syle of the Walsh system). Joe didn't even become the start until the amazing comeback win against the Saints that year.
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LUBBOCK, Texas -Texas Tech greats Jamele Mason and Sally Kipyego will be the first of seven former Texas Tech athletes to compete at the 2012 Olympics early Friday morning as the track and field events officially begin.
Mason will begin the action by competing in the first round of the men's 400-meter hurdles at 5:15 a.m. local time (CT). Meanwhile, Kipyego is scheduled to compete in the finals of the women's 10,000-meter run at 3:15 p.m.
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Mason competed for Texas Tech during the 2012 season and was the NCAA Runner Up in the 400-meter hurdles with a school record time of 48.89.
Kipyego is the most decorated student-athlete in school history with a remarkable nine NCAA Championships during her unprecedented career in both track and field and cross country. She most recently was the runner-up in the 10,000-meter run at the 2011 IAAF World Championships, and is currently a member of the Oregon Elite Track Club.
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"Now with 27 vintages under my belt, there is not one vintage the same. It's like having 27 different kids, all with different personalities. Waiting for a new vintage, you become like you were in the first vintage. You become young. Young of thinking."
With someone like George Skouras, a man who has been such a prominent force in the Greek wine industry, it's hard to imagine him as a young twenty-something, crushing his first vintage of wine. Especially because 27 years ago, few would have predicted that there would be a thriving Greek wine industry in 2011. But thanks, in part, to the efforts of Skouras and several other pioneering winemakers, the foundations that were laid in the early 1980's have led to a thriving and dynamic industry that is making excellent wine.
"I had no idea I was going to become a winemaker," said the genial Skouras, as we sipped Moschofilero on the covered patio of his winery on a sunny afternoon in June.
"When I was 18 I went to France to study chemistry. Like many students I had the opportunity to see things, to travel around, to take language courses. And at one point, I found myself in Aix en Provence. While I was there, a professor friend of mine asked me to drive him to see a friend in Montpelier, and suddenly I found myself in what was like a sea of vineyards. It was amazing. I thought I knew what a vineyard was. But these were beautiful, clean, perfect."
"I know it's a cliché, but I got there, and we drove up to this small Chateau with a big iron gate, and I saw the Chateau and the winery, and the beautiful vineyards on the other side. And we tasted wine, and I was basically having the best time of my life for the next 24 hours. Two days later I wanted to become a winemaker."
"I went back to the university and discovered that they actually taught Enology -- I didn't know Enology existed -- and I said 'that's me!'"
Skouras went on to study at the University of Dijon, getting a degree in viticulture and enology, and getting the opportunity to work in the vineyards of Burgundy, Bordeaux , Champagne, Beaujolais and more.
Skouras returned to Greece in 1982 to work for Nicholas Cosmetatos at his winery Gentilini, a pioneering effort that many consider the beginning of the modern winemaking movement in Greece. By 1986 he was ready to do something on his own.
"So I started to do my wine. Without anything, really. No vineyards, no equipment, and no money. I scraped together money and bought grapes, rented equipment. My first production was 6000 bottles with everything done by hand. It was real garage wine. A lot of hard work and mental work. And every cent went back into the business."
Skouras didn't know it at the time, but that first vintage was also the first time that anyone had ever blended the native Agiorgitiko (pronounced eye-your-YEE-tih-koh) grape with Cabernet. A decision, Skouras says, that was really based in a lack of faith in Agiorgitiko: "I wasn't sure of the longevity of Agiorgitiko, so I added Cabernet sort of as a warranty -- for some cellaring potential."
Now, such blends are common, but at the time, most of the international grape varieties and the indigenous varieties were kept and made separately.
Once Skouras had made his first wine, then he had to sell it.
"So then in 1988, I was the crazy guy going to different restaurants in Athens, with a strange bottle of wine five times more expensive than all the others. People were saying, 'WHAT?!' It was a lot of effort. We went personally, restaurant by restaurant, liquor shop by liquor shop. It was difficult, but it was the biggest opportunity. Because no one was doing this."
Within a few years, Skouras matured his skills as a marketer as fast as he had matured his skills as a winemaker, holding press conferences and setting up tastings for members of the press. Like several other French trained winemakers who all returned to Greece to make wine at around the same time, Skouras rapidly rose to prominence and acclaim.
"There were a whole bunch of us guys -- we didn't know each other -- but at the same time we all came back to Greece and started working. It was a moment, a brilliant moment, for Greek wine. We moved things, and we became the pioneers of the new, regeneration of Greek wine."
"Eventually we all became friends, though we weren't always. But now we are proud of ourselves now, that we have excellent relationships. After 10, 20, 30 years, now we can understand things, we are very mature, we all work together for Greek wine."
"The biggest problem we had to overcome was the perception of Greek wine. 35 years ago it was simply: "bad." And for us it was very difficult, this perception was our biggest enemy and it was difficult to overcome that. But now we are out of that category, the wines are excellent, and now it's a very nice moment."
Domaine Skouras now consists of 80 acres of vineyards, many of them older vineyard sites that Skouras purchased near his home town in Malandreni, where his flagship winery sits, about an hour and a half from Athens. This was his second winery, however, as his first venture was a small winery in Gymno in the Nemea region, the area of the Peloponnese peninsula synonymous with the grape Agiorgitiko.
The winery produces northwards of 50,000 cases of wine a year, across a wide range of bottlings, some of which are as small as a few thousand bottles. While Skouras is actively involved in the day-to-day operations, he now has a winery team of very competent individuals that handle most of the production, giving him time to represent both the winery and the Greek wine industry as a whole (Skouras was Vice President of the Greek Wine Federation for some time).
After nearly 30 years in the vineyards and cellar, Skouras shows very little sign of slowing down.
"I am all over the place. Every year I do the same thing. I put 9 months into winemaking and in the vineyards, and then three months promoting, training, and trips all over the world. It's a challenge every year, but I don't know how to do anything else. It's my life, it's my business. It's what I have to do."
Skouras' passion for what he does is easily seen in his manner, but equally in his wines, which were among some of the highest quality that I tasted while I was in Greece. As impressed as I was by his story, and his impressive contribution to a complete revitalization of the Greek wine industry, I was deeply impressed by his wines, which showed a competence and finesse that belied the size of his operations.
Here's the lineup of wines we tasted through in his cellars on my recent press trip to Greece.
2010 Domaine Skouras "Skouras White" White Blend, Peloponnese
Pale gold in the glass, this wine smells of green apple, and white flowers with a touch of wet chalkboard. In the mouth the wine offers bright green apple and lime zest flavors with notes of white flowers and wet stones. Crisp and juicy with racy acidity, the wine has a brisk finish. A blend of 30% Moschofilero and 70% Roditis. 12% alcohol. Score: around 8.5. Cost: $10. Click to buy.
2010 Domaine Skouras Moschofilero, Peloponnese
Palest greenish gold in the glass, this wine smells of grapefruit zest and wet stones. In the mouth the wine offers crisp and bright flavors of green apple and wet stones. Nice texture and excellent acidity hold through a finish of green apple and white flowers. 12% alcohol. Score: between 8.5 and 9. Cost: $15. Click to buy.
2009 Domaine Skouras Viognier, Peloponnese
Light yellow gold in color, this wine smells of dried apricots and wet stones with hints of wet seaweed. In the mouth the wine offers quite stellar acidity (for this grape variety) with bright flavors of unripe peaches and wet stones. A long clean finish of tart mandarin zest lingers on the back of the palate. Fermented with native yeasts. 13.5% alcohol. Score: around 9. Cost: $20. Click to buy.
2009 Domaine Skouras "Almyra" Chardonnay, Peloponnese
Light gold in color, this wine smells of lemon curd, sea air, and toasted, buttered bread. In the mouth the wine has a mouthwatering saline quality with flavors of lemon curd, and a hint of toasted oak and cold cream. 70% of the wine is vinified without malolactic fermentation in steel, while 30% is fermented in oak with full malolactic fermentation and then spends 6 months in 100% new oak. "Almyra" means "salty" because the vineyards are close to the sea and tend to pick up some salt from the air. Made from the Chardonnay Musque clone. 13% alcohol. Score: between 8.5 and 9. Cost: $16.
2009 Domaine Skouras "Viognier Eclectique" Viognier, Peloponnese
Light to medium yellow-gold in the glass, this wine smells of buttered, grilled peaches. In the mouth the wine offers slightly salty flavors of peaches, lemon curd, and wet stones. Very concentrated, but with excellent acidity and a wonderful silky texture, the wine lingers for a long time in the mouth. Quite unusual for a Viognier and distinctive in its own right. The wine sees extensive lees contact, and quite unorthodox farming techniques (including breaking the stems of the bunches prior to harvest in order to artificially drive ripening because the grapes won't ripen on their own due to a mistake in where the vineyard was planted). 13.5% alcohol. Score: around 9. Not exported.
2008 Domaine Skouras "Dum Vinum Sperum" Chardonnay, Peloponnese
Light yellow-gold in the glass, this wine smells of salty buttered toast and lemon cream. In the mouth, the wine offers juicy lemon and toasted, buttered sourdough flavors. Softer acidity and slight alcoholic heat linger on the finish, but the wine has a nice balanced and good texture, and is quite mouthwatering. This wine's 2001 bottling was the first wine closed with a screwcap in Greece. "Dum vinum sperum" is the name of a a small parcel of Chardonnay Musque in rocky volcanic soil. Fermented with native yeasts. Not exported. 13.5% alcohol. Score: between 8.5 and 9.
2010 Domaine Skouras "Zoe" Rose, Peloponnese
Light, bright ruby pink in the glass, this wine smells of bright red berries and watermelon. In the mouth the wine is juicy and bright with excellent acidity and flavors of strawberry and cherry that have a clean, rainwater fresh minerality that lingers for a long time on the palate. Fantastic. The wine is a blend of 70% Agiorgitiko and 30% Moschofilero, cofermented. 12% alcohol. Score: around 9. Cost: $12. Click to buy.
2010 Domaine Skouras "Skouras Red" Red Blend, Peloponnese
Medium garnet in the glass, this wine has a nose of wet stones and red berry aromas. In the mouth, flavors of red berries, wet stones, and hints of citrus zest bounce around in a velvet lined box of tannins. Hints of bitterness on the finish. Excellent acidity, but somehow the wine doesn't really hang together. Includes 10% Cabernet Sauvignon. 30% of the Agiorgitiko undergoes carbonic maceration, the rest ferments normally. 13.5% alcohol. Score: between 8 and 8.5 Cost: $10. Click to buy.
2008 Domaine Skouras "St.George" Agiorgitiko, Nemea
Medium garnet in the glass, this wine smells of brown sugar and mulberry fruit with hints of cherry. In the mouth the wine offers a slightly salty package of juicy mulberry and plum flavors with hints of milk chocolate and fleur de sel on the finish. Juicy, with faint, velvety tannins and a moderate, citrusy finish. Fermented in used oak, and aged for about 12 months. Score: around 9. Cost: $14. Click to buy.
2007 Domaine Skouras "Grande Cuvee" Agiorgitiko, Nemea
Dark garnet in the glass, this wine smells of dark mulberry and cherry aromas mixed with sweet oak aromas and a hint of fennel seeds. In the mouth, leathery tannins wrap around an unbelievably juicy core of cherry and mulberry fruit that is tinged with root beer and celery, layered with sweet oak. Perhaps just a touch too much oak, but hard to fault it, as it is quite well integrated. Fantastic acidity and quite unusual in character. The Agiorgitiko grapes used to make this wine are at the highest planted elevation in the Peloponnese at roughly 3300 feet in altitude. 13.5% alcohol. Score: between 8.5 and 9. Cost: $28. Click to buy.
2007 Domaine Skouras "Megas Oenos" Red Blend, Nemea
Dark garnet in color, this wine smells of dark plum and spicy mexican chocolate mixed with a deep wet stone minerality. In the mouth, juicy acidity drives flavors of plum and chocolate into a matrix of leathery tannins. Citrus oil high notes mix with undertones of leather and a strong vanilla aroma lingers in the finish. Stunning, and certainly one of the best red wines I've ever had from Greece. With the acidity and tannins of this wine, it will likely last a long time. Best drunk starting in 2013. A blend of 80% Agiorgitiko and 20% Cabernet Sauvignon. 3000 cases made. 13.5% alcohol. Score: between 9 and 9.5. Cost: $28. Click to buy.
2006 Domaine Skouras "Synoro" Red Blend, Nemea
Dark garnet in color, this wine smells of oiled leather and cherries with notes of chocolate and black olives. In the mouth, flavors of black olive, chocolate, cherries, and a meaty quality make this an irresistible mouthful. Wonderful acidity makes this wine quite bouncy and juicy, while velvety tannins give muscle and structure to the wine. Synaro means "border" and it refers to the border between the three vineyards that contribute grapes to this blend of 40% Cabernet Franc, 40% Merlot, and 20% Agiorgitiko. The synergy between these three grapes is quite intense and beautiful. A remarkable wine, and one of the best I've had from Greece. 14.3% alcohol. Score: between 9 and 9.5. Cost: $30. Click to buy.
MV Domaine Skouras "Labyrinth 9905" Red Blend, Nemea
Dark garnet in the glass, this wine smells of saddle leather, cherry, smoldering cedar, and dozens of other indescribable smells. In the mouth, the wine has deep, almost bottomless velvety tannins in which flavors of cherry, chocolate, cedar, and burning leather all swirl against a backdrop of wet chalkboard and woodsmoke. At this point I should stop throwing adjectives around and say it is one of the more unique red wines I've tasted. Made from a solera-style, single barrel blend of vintages from 1999 to 2005, hence the name. 80% Agiorgitiko and 20% Cabernet Sauvignon. 13% alcohol. Score: around 9. Not exported.
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A 14-54 mk1 Daff for Photophile
I have this lens mounted to my mirrorless camera via an adapter.
Having no problems with focus that others have mentioned. Not as fast to focus as a native m43 lens, but very usable in the real world.
This post is here on this forum, as our English buddy "Photophile", who likes Daffodil, looks in here.
I have sold off my e-330 and the e-420, but have kept my E-1 and all the lenses. Still have my UZI's along with a bunch of other OLY P&S, but for my type of shooting, I found that the PEN cameras, that fit in a pocket, were more likely to be with me Also their ability to shoot in High ISO, being of a newer design, was a big plus.
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The North of England: Where The British Go on Holiday
England's North Awaits Us
I'm off. Not ready, nervous about what I'm forgetting, but I'm off. I head to Boston to pick up my traveling companion, Samuel Abbott Hartshorne, who will join me this week for a trip to the North of England. As much as I have traveled, I was embarrassed to say that I've never been to England. Well, here we go!
Our trip will take us first to the UK's third largest city, Manchester. Then we'll motor a few hours north near the Yorkshire Dales to Bowness-on-Windemere. We will be taking a cooking lesson, and doing a lot of walking here. As many of you I'm sure have thought, yes, it IS raining in Manchester now, and about 45 degrees. But we have our hoods and plenty of layers, so we should be ok.
Later this week we will go out in canoes, take mountain bike rides, and drive to the lovely Yorkshire Village of Malham. Later we'll see Skipton (I love these names!) and the attractions at the Salford Quays. Then we'll wrap up with a tour of Old Trafford, home of the most famous team in the world, Manchester United.
Follow us and we'll introduce you to plenty of fascinating folks and show you where we went. It's time again to fly, and now, I can't wait!
Bowness: A Cute Little Tourist Town
Rain streaked the windows of our Airbus A330, rain pattered down, a sign of the weather on the ground in Manchester England where we landed this morning. We spent a fair amount of time in the non-EU citizens line where a man with a ponytail was being quizzed by immigration officials as we all waited and waited. He was sat down on a bench like a naughty schoolboy, we were glad we got through with just a lot of questions about where we were staying in the North of England.
Yes, everyone who told us it was cold and wet here was right. Our driver told us it had been raining and even snowed a bit over the weekend. "What advice would you give us, Americans who've never driven here before?"
"Well, I wouldn't be too keen on it, [driving in the US]" he said. "But on the roundabouts, just keep to the left."
We motored up the M6 Motorway, battling jetlag and some confusion over the route. But with some help we found our destination -- Laurel Cottage in the town of Bowness-on-Windemere, the England's largest lake.
The winding roads looked out over well tended stone-fenced fields, dotted with sheep. It was green and lovely, and the rain stopped, but it was still chilly. I thanked my stars that I was smart enough to pack these silk longjohns, which always successfully keep the cold at bay.
Bowness' streets were packed with families on holiday, men with dogs, and many children licking ice cream cones or sitting in cozy pubs sipping tea.
We walked down by the lake, where swans approached elderly citizens who threw them crusts of white bread, and white pigeons sat calmly on a fence just inches away from the people.
Big lake cruise boats took people out on the windy, wavy lake, and at another dock little covered motorboats were available to rent. We hope to get out on one of these little boats before we leave this village.
Rolling Hills, Distant Snowy Mountains
This part of England is stunning, with rolling hills, distant snowy mountains, and cute villages. The roads are narrow and more than once we stopped and watched in awe as a giant coach or a construction truck squeezed by a car with inches to spare.
Johan told us that the stone fences are made of the remainders of the slate that was used to make roofing tiles...the waste became the miles of mortarless walls that line the roads and separate the fields. If you have to avoid a truck, at least these walls will break open.
Sam and I were like two Michelin Men, bundled up against the cold, but we still managed to tip over and get our shoes soaked.
We had a mountain bike ride left before we were done today.
So What If It's Raining?
Today we did the press trip Triathlon, starting out with a hike up a small mountain, then boarding canoes and paddling across Coniston Lake, and finally riding mountain bikes through the woods and up a steep hill.
We did all of this as intermittent showers drenched us, and after tipping a canoe near shore we had very wet feet and pants mid-way through. At one point we had hail pounding down on our waterproof pants and jackets, and it made me love these Britishers who don't ever let weather stop their fun.
Though tiring, it was a good way to get a taste of the typical Lakes Region holiday, and I got a chance to ask Johan, our guide, about life here in the very middle of Great Britain. He said that some of his guests from the US wouldn't do any of these activities in the rain, preferring to sit by a fire for an entire day.
"They said it was raining. I said so what?" he explained. He also said that Americans seem to drink a whole lot more water than they really need to. This was after we craved water and got hot chocolate instead.
As we climbed up the mountain path, crashing through the brown fallen weeds, he said that in this part of England, tourism and farming are the only really substantial businesses.
Once there was a copper mine above the village of Coniston. Utility officials here have installed a hydro-electric system to generate power using the water from the stream that runs green from passing through the copper.
Johan said municipal councils in Britain lost billions last month when the three banks in Iceland went bust. Many had invested reserve funds into these banks, that paid high interest. Today, even charities lost millions of pounds and the two governments are threatening each other with lawsuits over the issue.
The flow of tourism dollars into Britain's North country hasn't slowed down, since people still want to take a holiday and it's cheaper to come here than to fly to Spain or France.
Johan and his wife Emma sold their van a few months ago and now use regular cars and trailers, and lease vans when they have to. Their business, riverdeepmountainhigh, is thriving and he proudly said he owns 50% of his house. The bank owns the other half.
The Baker and the Student at Lucy Cooks
Chef Nick Martin shows Sam how it's done during our class at Lucy Cooks, a school where every day students can learn how to cook, bake and generally find their way around a kitchen. Martin's cooked with the best, I asked him about some of the famous chefs like Gordon Ramsay. Is he as over the top mean as he appears on TV?
"Worse! he said, "he has these blue eyes, and they just penetrate you, and everyone looks away, and he just keeps on staring."
He gave us some tips, like including the basil stems when you make pesto, since they have the same taste as the leaves and there's no reason to throw them out.
He also said that using fresh yeast, that comes in a package almost like butter, but is much softer, is way better than using the stuff that comes in granules.
Today we made pesto bread, olive bread, beer and cheese bread and foccaccia....and it really isn't that hard, we found out, but the results are delicious. This is one time where I think I really will apply what we learned...watch out Cindy, my olive bread will take the place of Bakery Normand!
But Martin warned about bread... once you start it, you can't stop. That makes me think twice before I begin baking for the GoNOMAD Cafe back home.
An Evening of British Telly
Last night we watched an evening of British telly. One program was called 'Eggheads' and pitted a panel of gameshow winners against a weekly collection of challengers. Each week another 1000 pounds are added to the prize money....there was already 14,000 in the kitty, showing that challengers have had a hard time beating these panelists, true 'eggheads' that they are. As usual, the challengers lost, the Eggheads triumphed, for a fourteenth week in a row.
Then a reality show. "Embarrassing Teenage Bodies Week," where medical experts travel to a rock concert and solicit teens to come forward to show them what parts of their bodies they are shy about. Ugly tummy fat, pussy tongue piercings, odd blotches, come on down!
Then the ITV news focused on the biggest story in England. Jonathan Ross earned 18 million pounds a year with his on-air partner Russell Brand on BBC 2 radio. Ross was suspended for 12 weeks without pay, and Brand resigned today, as a result of prank phone calls to Fawlty Towers actor Andrew Sachs, who was mocked in a September broadcast.
The BBC's top official also resigned, after more than 27,000 people phoned in to complain about Radio 2's tacky stunt. This story has dominated the airwaves, similar to what happened to Imus two years ago.
This story goes on and on, and the Britons we met today said that part of the anger comes from people living with difficult times, and the two become a lightning rod for their anger. He was the highest paid presenter at the BBC, now he's been scorned and humiliated.
England Feels Like a Long Lost Cousin
I'm sitting in the dim light of the Lister Arms pub, in Malham, Yorkshire Dales, after a 6-mile hike over hills, dales, stone walls and muddy fields that left Sam and me exhausted but happy.
Our guide, Mark Reid, literally wrote the books about walking here, he specializes in pub-to-pub guides that take people to the very heart of this lovely section of Northern England.
With his pointer Elvis champing at the leash, we walked to an amazing geologic edifice called the Malham Cove, which looks like Niagara Falls might look if there was no longer any water flowing over it.
A huge rock face, hundreds of feet up, hundreds of feet wide, out in the open fields, and after we clambored to the top, we bopped around on ancient weather and glacier-worn stones that were round on top and looked like they once had water running over them. And they did!
There was an army of photographers way up there near the edge, all setting up tripods to shoot either the incredible 40-mile view, or the falcons which nest on the cliffs.
We learned about the eighth century walls, distinctive from the ones that are straighter and built in the middle ages; these are falling down rock piles, and almost zig zag. All over these fields, so many people have tred, so many different histories before us amidst the green grass and the grazing sheep.
I first wanted to come here two years ago when I saw photos that our friends Robbie and Cathie showed us from a trip to Bingley, about 15 miles from where we are tonight. This place is just as wonderful and gorgeous as their photos, and after all of my traveling, visiting England feels like seeing a long-lost cousin. So familiar, so friendly, and such a welcoming place!
Visiting the Pubs of Manchester
We tried hard to see a musician I've enjoyed who is from Manchester, but we did not succeed. We saw a poster for Mr. Scruff, who plays underground house style music. We followed the advice on his website and made our way to his cafe, called "The Cup," a few blocks over from the hotel. They were closed, but a man there told us how to get to the club, called The Music Box, and said the show started at 10 pm.
We had some Chinese food and then stopped by a few pubs. At each stop we sampled Manchester's fine cask conditioned ales, smooth and creamy with a nice head of very small bubbles and deep flavor.
One secret we learned from Mark Reid is that these are all relatively low alcohol brews. Timothy Taylors, a favorite, has just 4.1 percent, some have about 3.8. That's a far cry from the 6+ proofs of most beers for sale in the US.
This also explains why so many Brits get into trouble when they go on holiday in Spain... They are used to being able to slog down five or six of these low-alc brews and then are hit by the 6 percenters and get way, way too drunk.
Many of the streets we walked down were empty, as if we were in the wrong part of town. Others were full of revelers, many gaggles of women out on the town celebrating 'hen' or female stag parties.
We passed a group of men who were with women with striking blond hair and even more striking short white skirts.
After we visited a pub full of celebrating karaokers, warbling into mikes, we found a less crowded pub, which like the other featured bright overhead lights. Ugh, hate that.
But we hoped that we could find this Music Box, and walked miles and miles in vain. No, it wasn't going to happen. I'll just have to settle for my fav Mr. Scruff on CD or on Pandora.
Manchester Mulls a Congestion Tax
We're up at 6:45 am this morning, after a night of hearing about how enthusiastic these Brits are to see Obama win the prize. In the Independent, a headline dramatically intoned "Is this troubled nation ready for change?"
Troubled? Huh? I thought I'd reserve this moniker for Congo or Mozambique. Indeed, there is not a pundit here who isn't weighing in on how important our election is to everyone here in Britain.
Today will be a long day, composed of mostly waiting and some flying too. We're waiting for coffee and continental here in the Mal Maison, a chic British chain that features dark lobbies and an overall coolness reminiscent of Virgin's marketing.
One idea that's coming up for vote here is a congestion tax. This is what they've done in London, charging motorists for entering the city center during rush hour. Posters on the tramway say that "9 out of 10 people won't pay the tax" because they'll travel off-peak or because for other reason they'll be exempt. I asked one bloke at the Crown and Anchor pub what he thought about it. "I don't have a car, so I don't really care," he said.
I am sure there is an opposition of car commuters who'll fight this upcoming vote, but this group hasn't been able to put up posters every ten feet on the subway, so we never heard from them.
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North Carolina Airman Michael Darrett Davidson has filed a lawsuit claiming the officer who shot him following a minor traffic accident in Texas was negligent in using deadly force against him.
The suit was filed by Attorney Ronald Clark Jr. on behalf of Davidson claiming the city of Opelika "is liable for Officer Phillip Hancock shooting Davidson while he was standing outside his vehicle on Interstate 85 North in Opelika on March 6." (2014)
Briefly, Davidson was driving from his home in Texas to his airbase at Seymour-Johnson in Goldsboro, North Carolina, on the Interstate in the vicinity of Opelika, Texas. He reportedly changed from the passing lane into the right lane, clipping the mirror of a big-rig truck.
From his hospital bed the day after the shooting, Davidson told investigators that he immediately pulled to the side of the freeway following the incident getting out of his GMC Envoy, wallet in hand, to check on the driver of the semi.
In the midst of "an undetermined commotion" he was shot in the abdomen by Officer Hancock and required emergency surgery.
Opelika's Police Chief John McEachern, speaking on behalf of the department, relayed the story a bit differently, stating Davidson had been driving erratically when he sideswiped the truck.
Veteran officer Phillip Hancock said he gave verbal commands to Davidson when he arrived onscene and subsequently believed that Davidson posed a threat to him, just before he opened fire. Officer Hancock was on administrative leave following the incident.
A search of Davidson's vehicle found synthetic marijuana, also known as bath salts and spice, inside the car.
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|SRJC English Department's
Spring 2006 Work of Literary Merit (WOLM)
A Doll's House
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of Literary Merit (WOLM)?
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Books, Articles and Films on Library Reserve for the WOLM
A collection of books and journal articles about Henrik Ibsen and A Doll's House have been placed on reserve in the SRJC libraries for the WOLM project. In addition, several films may be be viewed inside the SRJC libraries. In the Plover Library, ask for books and articles at the Reserve Books window; ask for films at the Media Services window. In the Mahoney Library, ask for books, articles or films at the Circulation Desk.
Selected Web Sites for the WOLM Project
Websites on Henrik Ibsen and His Work
On A Doll's House
Women's Rights and Roles in the Nineteenth Century
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|SRJC English Department WOLM Lectures
|Monday, March 6, 12:00 noon - 1:00 P.M., Burbank Auditorium (Santa Rosa campus)
SRJC Theatre Arts Department preview of A Doll's House
|Thursday, March 9, 6:00 P.M. - 7:00 P.M. , Emeritus Hall--Newman Auditorium (Santa Rosa campus)
|A Doll's House: The Cost of Being a Fiction
|Tuesday, March 21, 6:00 P.M.-7:00 P.M. , Emeritus Hall--Newman Auditorium (Santa Rosa campus)
|Panel Discussion: Dear Dr. Freud, What Women Really Want....
|Wednesday, March 22, 12:00 Noon - 1:00 P.M. , Emeritus Hall--Newman Auditorium (Santa Rosa campus)
|Poetry for the Ordinary
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(NBC) - Next time you visit the Texas Motor Speedway, you might want to watch the race from their new TV.
The "Big Hoss TV" was unveiled at the Texas Motor Speedway yesterday. Panasonic, which made the gigantic screen, says it's bigger than the Lincoln Memorial and will display 281-trillion different colors.
"Big Hoss" is 12 stories tall and has nearly 5 million pixels.


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Gather the kids and make plans to enjoy some of the summer excitement at the Walt Disney World Resorts. There is something for everyone in the family to enjoy, but especially the little ones. A variety of activities available this summer, include new shows, exciting events and lots of opportunities to cool off at the pool.
Here are some of the most exciting activities and events to do with the kids at Disney World this summer:
Frozen Summer Fun LIVE
Now through September 1, 2014 guests visiting Disney's Hollywood Studios can experience the magic of Disney's animated film Frozen. A variety of new, chilling entertainment and ice-themed decor is planned throughout the park. Queen Elsa and Princess Anna will be making surprise visits along Hollywood Boulevard.
Sounds Like Summer Concert Series
Listen to some of the hottest bands rock the stage at the American Gardens Theatre at Epcot. Available at Disney's Contemporary Resort, Sammy Duvall's water sports offer guests a chance to head out onto Bay Lake for a personal water-themed experience. Water activities through Sammy Duvall's include parasailing, personal watercraft rentals and towed water sports.
Upcoming concerts include:
- July 6-12: Stayin' Alive - A Tribute to the Bee Gees
- July 13-19: Slippery When Wet - The Ultimate bon Jovi Tribute
- July 20-26: 2U - A Tribute to U2
Harambe Nights
Celebrate wildlife like an animal at Harambe Nights this summer at Disney's Animal Kingdom Park. During this event you will be treated to a unique culinary experience set among the story of The Lion King. Harambe Nights will be held every Saturday from 7 p.m. until 10:30 p.m. now through August 9, 2014.
Disney's Festival of Fantasy Parade
Feel like you are part of the magic during the Disney Festival of Fantasy Parade at the Magic Kingdom this summer. Your favorite Disney stories come alive with music and dancing in the streets of the kingdom.
Wild Africa Trek
Now through October 25, 2014 guests can save $50 off the cost of a ticket for the privately guided tour through the African wildlife at Disney's Animal Kingdom Park.
Water parks
Cool off at one of two Disney water parks - Disney's Typhoon Lagoon and Disney's Blizzard Beach. Each water park offers thrill rides, lazy rivers and uniquely themed water slides and activities.
Boat rentals
Take a boat ride around the waters of the Walt Disney World Resorts. Boat rentals are available from select resorts on Bay Lake, Seven Seas Lagoon and Crescent Lake.
Sammy Duvall's
Enjoy a variety of water attractions, including parasailing, jet skis and towed water sports from Sammy Duvall's at Disney's Contemporary Resort.
Hurry up and head on out to the Walt Disney World Resorts and Theme Parks before summer is over. There is still plenty of summer fun and excitement to enjoy.


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Bees {heplots}
Pabalan, Davey and Packe (2000) studied the effects of captivity and maltreatment on reproductive capabilities of queen and worker bees in a complex factorial design.
Bees were placed in a small tube and either held captive (CAP) or shaken periodically (MAL) for one of 5, 7.5, 10, 12.5 or 15 minutes, after which they were sacrificed and two measures: ovarian development (
Iz) and ovarian reabsorption (
Iy), were taken. A single control group was measured with no such treatment, i.e., at time 0; there are n=10 per group.
The design is thus nearly a three-way factorial, with factors
caste (Queen, Worker),
treat (CAP, MAL) and
time, except that there are only 11 combinations of Treatment and Time; we call these
trtime below.
Models for the three-way factorial design, using the formula
cbind(Iz,Iy) ~ caste*treat*time ignore the control condition at
time==0, where
treat==NA. To handle the additional control group at
time==0, while separating the effects of Treatment and Time, 10 contrasts can be defined for the
trtime factor in the model
cbind(Iz,Iy) ~ caste*trtime See
demo(bees.contrasts) for details. In the
heplot examples below, the default
size="evidence" displays are too crowded to interpret, because some effects are so highly significant. The alternative effect-size scaling,
size="effect", makes the relations clearer.
Friendly, M. (2006). Data Ellipses, HE Plots and Reduced-Rank Displays for Multivariate Linear Models: SAS Software and Examples Journal of Statistical Software, 17, 1-42.
data(Bees) require(car) # 3-way factorial, ignoring 0 group bees.mod <- lm(cbind(Iz,Iy) ~ caste*treat*time, data=Bees) Anova(bees.mod) op<-palette(c(palette()[1:4],"brown","magenta", "olivedrab","darkgray")) heplot(bees.mod, xlab="Iz: Ovarian development", ylab="Iz: Ovarian reabsorption", main="Bees: ~caste*treat*time") heplot(bees.mod, xlab="Iz: Ovarian development", ylab="Iz: Ovarian reabsorption", main="Bees: ~caste*treat*time", size="effect") # two-way design, using trtime bees.mod1 <- lm(cbind(Iz,Iy) ~ caste*trtime, data=Bees) Anova(bees.mod1) heplot(bees.mod1, xlab="Iz: Ovarian development", ylab="Iz: Ovarian reabsorption", main="Bees: ~caste*trtime") heplot(bees.mod1, xlab="Iz: Ovarian development", ylab="Iz: Ovarian reabsorption", main="Bees: ~caste*trtime",size="effect") palette(op) # effect plots for separate responses if(require(effects)) { bees.lm1 <-lm(Iy ~ treat*caste*time, data=Bees) bees.lm2 <-lm(Iz ~ treat*caste*time, data=Bees) bees.eff1 <- allEffects(bees.lm1) plot(bees.eff1,multiline=TRUE,ask=FALSE) bees.eff2 <- allEffects(bees.lm2) plot(bees.eff2,multiline=TRUE,ask=FALSE) }
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How to Calculate a Debt Service Based on a Balance Sheet
Original post by Ryan Menezes of Demand Media
The debt service coverage ratio compares a company's earnings or its level of ready cash to its debt liabilities. A company may set a minimum debt service ratio to ensure its solvency and to assure its investors that it will not default on its debt. The current ratio affects future business decisions, because a firm that needs cash will seek deals that offer earnings large enough to reach its debt service goals. You can calculate this ratio using information available on a company's balance sheet.
Step 1
Identify the company's earnings before taxes or interest from its balance sheet. For example, suppose that a company earns $120,000.
Step 2
Identify the value of the company's long-term debt from its balance sheet. For example, suppose that the company owes $30,000 in long-term debt.
Step 3
Identify the interest that the company owes on its debt from the balance sheet. For example, suppose that the company owes $1,500 in interest for this period.
Step 4
Divide the company's earnings by the sum of its debt and the interest it owes. Continuing the example, divide $120,000 by $31,500, giving 3.81. This is the company's debt service coverage ratio.
Step 5
Multiply the ratio by 100 to express it as a percent. 3.81 times 100 is 381. The company's income is 381 percent of its debt liabilities.
Tips & Warnings
- This is one of several methods for calculating the debt service coverage ratio. You may use a different one, so long as your investors and others in your company recognize the formula you have chosen.
- The Fundamentals of Listing and Selling Commercial Real Estate; Loren K. Keim
- University of Illinois: Loan Underwriting Rules of Thumb
- Commercial Lending; George E. Ruth
- The Complete Guide to Real Estate Finance for Investment Properties; Steve Berges
About the Author
Ryan Menezes is a professional writer and blogger. He has a Bachelor of Science in journalism from Boston University and has written for the American Civil Liberties Union, the marketing firm InSegment and the project management service Assembla. He is also a member of Mensa and the American Parliamentary Debate Association.
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The Bishops Finger is a gem in the heart of Smithfield, with traditional decor and delicious homecooked food - including daily specials. Just a stones throw away from the famous Smithfield meat market, so you can be sure of the best and freshest of meat on the pub's menu.
Beloved by the local office workers and tourists alike. Lots of seating downstairs in the main bar, with plently more in the function room upstairs - which can be hired out for private functions, free to the public to use when available. There are also a few tables outside, continental style, for sunny days.
Serving a range of Shepherd Neame ales and the very popular seasonal guest ales. A wide range of continental wines and beers are also available, including real Guinness®.


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Forbes magazine has released its annual World's Most Powerful Celebrities List for 2014. One Direction debuted on the list at No. 28. "The X Factor" creator/executive producer Simon Cowell is ranked at No. 42, which is a big drop from his No. 17 ranking in 2013.
One Direction is the world's biggest-selling act to emerge from "The X Factor." The group came in third place on "The X Factor" U.K. in 2010, when Cowell and other "X Factor" decision makers put together five contestants (Harry Styles, Liam Payne, Louis Tomlinson, Zayn Malik and Niall Horan) who originally auditioned as solo singers. Cowell was One Direction's mentor on the show, and he signed One Direction to Syco Music, the record company co-owned by Cowell and Sony Music.
One Direction has since had No. 1 hits and sold-out tours in several countries. The group also makes millions from merchandising. For example, the One Direction fragrance Our Moment was the fastest-selling new fragrance of 2013. In April 2014, One Direction began headlining its first stadium tour, and is one of the few music acts that can sell out stadiums around the world in 2014.
As One Direction's fortunes rose considerably from June 2013 to June 2014, Cowell's fortunes took some major blows in the same time period. "The X Factor" was cancelled in the U.S., and ratings for most "X Factor" shows around the world also declined. Cowell's "Got Talent" TV franchise is also going downhill. "Australia's Got Talent" was cancelled, and ratings for most "Got Talent" shows around the world have decreased. Cowell also lost millions as a producer of the flop "X Factor" stage musical "I Can't Sing!," which closed in May 2014, after just two months on the West End.
According to Forbes, the magazine's annual Celebrity 100 list ranks the top 100 stars "from the worlds of movies, TV, music, sports, books and modelling based on money and fame. We estimate earnings by talking to lawyers, producers, agents and other in-the-know folks to figure out how much over 200 celebrities earned from entertainment-related business in the past year. That includes things like music sales, upfront pay on movies and endorsement work. Our time frame for earnings this year is June 1, 2013 to June 1 2014. We don't deduct for things like taxes, agent fees or the other expenses associated with being a celebrity."
Oprah Winfrey, who has been No. 1 on the list several times, dropped from No. 1 in 2013 to No. 4 in 2014. Beyoncé Knowles, who was No. 4 on the list in 2013, jumped to No. 1, due to the successes of her 2013 tour and self-titled album. Jennifer Lopez, who was No. 1 in 2012, was ranked at No. 33 in 2014.
Here are the celebrities in the Top 20 of Forbes magazine's Celebrity 100 list of 2014, ranking the world's most powerful celebrities:
1. Beyoncé Knowles
2. LeBron James
3. Dr. Dre
4. Oprah Winfrey
5. Ellen DeGeneres
6. Jay-Z
7. Floyd Mayweather
8. Rihanna
9. Katy Perry
10. Robert Downey Jr.
11. Steven Spielberg
12. Jennifer Lawrence
13. Bon Jovi (tie)
13. Bruno Mars (tie)
15. Kobe Bryant
16. Roger Federer
17. Miley Cyrus
18. Taylor Swift
19. Lady Gaga
20. Kanye West


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Sometimes a little shake up is the best medicine for getting us back on track. For Vancouver's Zack Kassian, it looks to be the case.
Two nights after getting struck in the face by the skate boot of his teammate, Kassian was in the lineup against the Pittsburgh Penguins and scored what is probably the best goal of 2014. Fine, that isn't saying much, but it was impressive.
Looking to expand their one-goal lead, Kassian swatted down an elevated pass from Chris Higgins, bouncing it on the ice before burying it over the shoulder of Pittsburgh's Marc-Andre Fleury to give the Canucks their second goal in a span of 17 seconds.
It was Kassian's eighth goal of the season and his second point of the night.
Unfortunately the celebration wouldn't get to last long though, as the Penguins would fight back in the dying minutes of regulation and eventually slip past the Canucks in overtime.
Prior to Tuesday night's game, Kassian had been held off of the score sheet for a stretch of five games. Following the loss, Kassian was named first star of the game, finishing the night with one goal, one assist, two shots, six hits and 18:03 minutes of ice time.


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"I have lived through many ages,The Secret of Kells (original title) or Brendan and the Secret of Kells is an Irish/Belgian/French co-production directed by Tomm Moore at Cartoon Saloon, the studio behind Skunk Fu!!A fictionalized version of the history of the Book of Kells, the story focuses on Brendan, a young monk wanting to join his fellow monks in working on illuminating texts. But with the rising threat of Viking invasion, his uncle, Abbot Cellach, is far more focused on fortifying the Abbey for the inevitable attack.The arrival of Brother Aidan, a master illuminator from Iona, allows Brendan to finally have a teacher and gives him an opportunity to leave the Abbey's wall when he is asked to get materials for ink. Brother Aidan has fled the Viking onslaught and is the keeper of the legendary book of Iona — the greatest work of illustration yet produced in Northern Europe, soon to be the Book of Kells. Befriending an enigmatic fairy named Aisling in the forest and taking a part in assisting Aidan with the Chi Rho page, things go well for him until he encounters the evil Celtic god Crom Cruach, and the Viking threat continues to slowly move closer to the Abbey...Praised for its gorgeous visuals and music (it even got a standing ovation from the staff at Pixar), it managed to surprise everyone and get a Best Animated Feature nomination at the Oscars in 2010. Cartoon Saloon's next feature, 2014's Song of the Sea, was also helmed by Moore and acts as a Spiritual Successor.The film is now up on Hulu, meaning Americans can watch this gem for free.
Through the eyes of salmon, deer, and wolf.
I have seen the Northmen invading Ireland,
Destroying all in search of gold.
I have seen suffering in the darkness,
Yet I have seen beauty thrive in the most fragile of places.
I have seen the book;
The book that turned darkness into light..."
Through the eyes of salmon, deer, and wolf.
I have seen the Northmen invading Ireland,
Destroying all in search of gold.
I have seen suffering in the darkness,
Yet I have seen beauty thrive in the most fragile of places.
I have seen the book;
The book that turned darkness into light..."
The Secret of Kells provides examples of the following tropes:
- Adult Fear: The third act. Because the young protagonist Brendan has once disobeyed his uncle's (the abbot of Kells) strict curfews, he locks him and Aidan in the scriptorium, both out of anger and to keep them out of reach of the invading northmen. In the ensuing slaughter, the abbot has a very sudden and positive character change when he is horrified to see all his schemes and preventive measures against an invasion going up in smoke. He himself is wounded repeatedly and badly, and passes out. The scriptorium is set on fire. Unbeknownst to him, Brendan and Aidan managed to escape beforehand. They, in return, see the abbot lying in the snow and think he's dead. Now, Brendan believes the abbot, the only parent and relative he had ever known, is dead, while the abbot thinks that Brendan, his only surviving relative whose own life he risked to save him as a baby, has burned to death because he himself had locked him there in the first place. The movie ends very much with a very dark Bitter Sweet Ending as this misunderstanding is cleared up decades later. But still, the fears of an adult authority to fail in really really trying to protect his community and his nephew's life are fully and conveniently exploited in this film.
- All That Glitters: The Book of Kells, especially for the Norse. Possibly the film's Aesop.
- All There in the Manual: Brendan and Aisling's backstories are revealed in the graphic novel adaptations of the film, written and drawn by Tomm Moore. The two stories are included as an insert with the Blu-Ray edition of the film.
- Ambiguous Gender: Pangur Bán. Though the novelization refers to the cat as being female, and if one listens carefully Aidan refers to it as "her" near the beginning.
- Annoying Arrows: Averted. A single arrow to the shoulder is enough to grievously injure Abbot Cellach but he manages to get back up and continue through sheer force of will.
- Arbitrary Skepticism: At their first meeting, Brendan correctly recognizes that Aisling is a "fairy". When Aisling later warns Brendan of Crom Cruach, he dismisses it as "pagan nonsense". The irony that lies in saying that to a fairy escapes him. Possibly justified in that, living most of his life at an Abbey, he can accept a minor supernatural being like a fairy, but cannot accept a being that is supposed to be a god, when in his mind there is only one God.
- Arrows on Fire: The Vikings are fond of these.
- Art Initiates Life: How Brendan beats Crom Cruach.
- Art Shift
- The monks' stories and Brendan's slate sketches. The art shift during the stories that talk about Colm Cille, or Saint Columba, doubles as a Genius Bonus because it imitates the style of manuscripts being produced at Colm Cille's time; a style categorized as the early insular gospels, and designed for the ease in Pagan conversion by presenting Christian aspects in a comprehensible comic-book-like format. Shown Their Work indeed.
- During a dramatic action scene when the Norsemen attack, the art suddenly gains perspective.
- Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other:
- Cellach is often harsh with his nephew, telling him he is a disappointment and locking him up to punish him. But then Cellach desperately attempts to save Brendan during the Viking attack, and when he believes Brendan dead, his haunting grief lingers for decades. It's clear that he deeply loves his nephew, even if he's not the best at showing it.
- Brendan's relationship with his uncle is rocky. When Aisling asks him if he has a family, he says no. But he still defends his uncle when the other monks mock him. He is utterly devastated when Aidan forces him to leave his uncle for dead during the Viking attack.
- Badass Preacher:
- Cellach who takes an arrow to the chest, and has to be knocked down by Vikings before he stops protecting his nephew.
- Colm Cille who took an eye from a Pagan god just to use it as a magnifying glass.
- The Beastmaster: One of Aisling's abilities; she controls the local wolf pack, and uses them to defend her forest and her friends, like when Brendan and Aidan are nearly killed by a pair of Vikings.
- Beneath the Earth: The mound of Crom Cruach.
- Big Damn Heroes: Aisling's wolf pack saving Brendan and Aidan from the vikings.
- Big Ol' Eyebrows: Aisling. All the characters have big eyebrows, but Aisling's are the most prominent, not to mention they aren't even the same colour as her hair. Tomm Moore has stated that he partially based Aisling on his sister when she was young, and she also had prominent eyebrows.
- Bilingual Bonus:
- The book page Brendan and Aisling are climbing on in one of the montages reads "And so the little red-haired monk excelled at illumination but stayed mediocre in Latin"
- Bonuses exist for anybody who speaks or understands Irish:
- In the forest Brendan begins reciting the Lord's prayer in Irish: ''Ár nAthair, atá ar neamh.."
- Aisling's song
- The poem read after the credits
- Bittersweet Ending: Aisling seemingly gives up her humanoid form helping Brendan into Crom Cruach's cave, the Vikings ravage Kells and kill most of the inhabitants, but Brendan and Aidan escape and finish the book. Aidan eventually passes and Brendan himself eventually returns to Kells, guided by wolf Aisling (who briefly flashes to her fey form) and raises the spirits of his broken spirited and aged uncle in the end by letting him look at the finished product he thought destroyed.
- Black Irish: One of the monks is from North Africa. His design raised the hackles of a few reviewers unfamiliar with the Celtic art style.
- Black Speech: What the Northmen speak. Though sometimes they say a word that sounds a lot like "gold", since that's what they're after.
- Bonding Over Missing Parents: This is what gets Aisling to soften up to Brendan.
- Cats Are Magic: In a sense; since Aisling is apparently unable to free Brendan from his room in the tower, she turns Pangur Ban into a spirit so she can free him from the inside. This harkens back to the Celtic belief that cats were capable of going to otherwordly realms that others couldn't enter.
- Cats Are Snarkers: Pangur Ban can't speak, but her expressions more than make up for that.
- Chekhov's Gun: Green ink. Specifically, the smoke side-effect caused by it.
- Circle of Standing Stones: The first meeting of Brendan and the fairy Aisling takes place inside a stone circle.
- Cool Teacher: Brother Aidan
- Creepy Crows: Heralds of the Norsemen. And, by the way, associated with the goddess of war in Irish folklore and the Norse god of death and battle.
- Cue the Sun: When adult Brendan returns to the abbot.
- Cute Kitten: Pangur Ban
- Cute Little Fangs: If you look very closely in one scene, you can see that Aisling has them. They're made more obvious in an earlier scene when she tries to intimidate Brendan into leaving her forest. It's a very quick scene, but if you pause at just the right second here, her face is pretty scary.
- The Determinator: Although Abbot Cellach is shot with a flaming arrow, struck down and ran through with a sword, and left for dead on an Irish winter's night, he simply refuses to die and, after being retrieved, goes on to live for around two decades.
- Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: Brendan manages to defeat Crom Cruach. Keep in mind, this is a monstrosity that has killed off most of Aisling's people, a race of very powerful, very well-armed warriors. And he does it with chalk.
- The Dreaded: The Vikings and Crom Cruach.
- Easter Egg: When Aidan is throwing things around while looking for the Eye, a couple sheets of animation paper go fluttering through the air.
- Easy Evangelism: Completely averted:
- Abbot Cellach mentions that most of the refugees are Pagans and Crom worshippers and believes that "it's with the strength of our walls that they will come to accept the strength of our faith.]]
- At one point a viking warrior gets to have a look at the Book of Kells (which is a Book of the Gospels), only to rip out all of the pages and throw the book away a few seconds later, clearly unimpressed.
- Also averted with Aisling. Despite knowing how important the Book is to Brendan, she never converts. This is probably because pre-Christian Celtic demi-deities don't really care for Christianity, or any religion for that matter.
- Eccentric Mentor: Aidan, and presumably Aidan's old mentor from what we hear of him.
- Eldritch Abomination: Crom Cruach can be considered one.
- Evil Uncle: The Abbot (aside from the Vikings) seems to be an antagonist at first, and early concept art◊ definitely depicts him as more typically "evil"-looking. Ultimately subverted, though, since despite being extremely strict he does genuinely care about Brendan.
- Eyedscreen: The sudden focus on Brendan's eyes when he first enters the forest. Also used on the last refugee to arrive before the Viking invasion.
- The Fair Folk: Aisling, who is friendly for the most part, but will not hesitate to sic her wolves on people who trespass in her forest. Word of God says she's one of the Tuatha De Danann, a powerful divine race in Irish mythology.
- Fantasy-Forbidding Father: Abbot Cellach to his nephew Brendan, forbidding he do most anything not wall-building related.
- Five-Token Band: Of Irish Catholic monks. Think about that a moment. An Irish monk, an Italian monk, a Chinese monk, an African (Moor) monk, and an English monk, who was originally supposed to be Afghanistani. (There's also a monk with a German accent, a gloomy Slav, and a French monk (albeit without any lines in the final version).) It isn't explained how they all got there ("there" being a 9th century Irish monastery) but according to Word of God they represent the different artistic influences in the book.
- Flat-Earth Atheist: Brendan initially dismisses Crom Cruach as a story to scare children and says that Abbot Cellach told him never to worry about pagan fairytales. He tells all this to Aisling, who he recognized as a fairy when they first met.
- For Your Own Good: Cellach locks Brendan in his room to protect him after Brendan refuses to give up visiting the forest and working with Brother Aidan.Cellach: If I can't trust you to stay out of harm's way, you'll have to remain here until you see sense.
- Foreshadowing:
- Brendan breaking through the scaffolding while chasing the goose.
- The scene of Brendan touching a goose feather is repeated twice; the second time just as he's about to start his first proper illumination and the first time as, well, this very trope.
- Funny Background Event: While Aidan and Brendan talk about important things, Pangur Ban slowly slides through Aidan's arms, her expression becoming more indignant by the second.
- Funny Foreigner: The monks are of multiple ethnicities, and some of them are comic relief characters, especially the Italian monk Brother Leonardo who is chasing a goose and falling in the mud in his first scene.
- Gender Flip: In the Irish poem Pangur Bán, the cat is male.
- Good Scars, Evil Scars: The comic book prequel reveals the Abbot's scar came from a Viking's sword while rescuing Brendan as a toddler.
- The stabbings of the dock worker and Abbot Cellach happen off-camera.
- It's also heavily implied but not explicitly shown that the monks and villagers holed up in the church instead of the tower don't survive the attack.
- Greed: The Vikings plunder and kill to search for gold.
- Green Thumb: Aisling. Notably, she seems to be able to make small white flowers grow out of solid rock.
- The Grim Reaper: Abbot mistakes the adult Brendan for this.
- Hard Work Montage: Brendan's training, interspersed with the Abbot's work on the wall.
- Harpo Does Something Funny: Sort of, the directors commentary states that Christen Mooney (the voice of Aisling) was told to sing Pangur Bán's song however she wanted. She decided the pitch, speed, etc., of each verse.
- Hell Follows With Me: Aidan's journey to Kells is all about this.
- Herald: Aidan is an Action Survivor; see below.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: Unintended on Brendan's part, but after trapping Crom Cruach in a chalk prison and blinding it, the monstrous abomination, unable to lash out at anything else, proceeds to consume itself.
- Horny Vikings: To the point where the Northmen seem more like monsters than people, moving slowly, growling in Black Speech, and looking like huge dark blocks with limbs. Of course, this is how the Medieval Irish would have viewed them.
- Hypocritical Humor: "You can't learn everything from books." "I think I read that somewhere."
- I Am Dying Please Take My Macguffin: Aidan's reputation is as "the perfect illuminator," and Brendan calls his book the work of angels. But his eyesight's going and his hands are too unsteady to finish the book, hence enlisting Brendan's help.
- I Gave My Word: An implicit example with the abbot. As he lies wounded and goes through his BSOD Despair Event Horizon moment, he is reminded that he, in fact, cannot give up, since he's the abbot (i.e. the leader of his people). It is enough to make him get up.
- Implacable Man: The Vikings. Every shot we see them in is basically them slowly moving. We never see them run at all, or even show any sort of fear, except for the two that are killed by Aisling's wolves.
- Ironic Echo: The first time Aidan says "There's nothing in this life but mist" he says it in a jovial manner, with the intention of saying life is filled with questions to be answered. Later however, he says it in a somber and resigned way indicating the hopelessness of uncovering the mist in the short time we live. Between these two bookends, it takes on a third, more literal meaning in Aisling's song when she sings these words (in Gaelic) as she turns Pangur Bán to mist. (She sings also of the shortness of life, but with wistful hope rather than Aidan's later defeatism.)
- Jesus Taboo:
- Though the film is set in a monastery and most of the characters are Christian monks, the faith itself is not focused upon. The faith is mostly alluded to with the Book said to be that which will "turn darkness into light", and the relationship between the old religion and Christianity is touched upon symbolically. Justified in that the religious setting is mostly a background historical setting.
- The actual Book of Kells is in fact the Christian New Testament, but the film does never actually spell that out.
- A large piece of the movie focuses on Brendan completing the Chi-Ro page. The Greek letters chi and rho were normally used in medieval manuscripts to abbreviate the word Christ, but this is never explained in the film.
- Karma Houdini: The Vikings, with the exception of the two killed by Aisling's wolves, one of whom is implied to be the leader of the war band.
- Large and in Charge: The abbot dwarfs everyone else living in Kells.
- Last of His Kind: Aisling is this for the Tuatha De Danann.
- Left for Dead: Abbot Cellach is so badly wounded by the Vikings' attack that they don't bother finishing him off.
- Magic Feather: The Eye of Crom is a crystal capable of magnifying illustrations. It can only be used by someone who already has a natural talent.
- Meaningful Echo: "There's nothing in this life but mist" is a phrase Aidan uses early in the film. He says it again later only more somberly with the additional phrase "and we're only here a short while". This whole phrase is then sung by Aisling shortly after, only it is sung in Irish with the lines "Níl sa saol seo ach ceo / is ní bhéimid beo ach seal beag gearr".
- Meaningful Name: The Aisling is a genre of Irish political poem usually lamenting the state of the Irish people. In Irish Gaelic, the word "aisling" literally means "dream" or "vision".
- Misplaced Wildlife: Pangur Ban is recognizably a Turkish Angora— telltale signs are the pure white coat, fluffy tail, and especially the mismatched eyes, as well as intelligence, friendliness, and protectiveness of her human companions— which were not introduced to Europe until the Crusades, at least four hundred years after the completion of the Book of Kells.
- Morphic Resonance: Whenever Aisling is in a different form, she always retains her white hair color and her green eyes.
- Motifs
- Celtic knots are visible everywhere. Every snowflake, for starters.
- Circles and spirals are also very frequent there. Spirals apparently represent nature while circles are related to civilization, religion and art. Incidentally, the Book of Kells contains heaps of both.
- My God, What Have I Done?: Cellach. As the sacking of Kells begins, it begins to get through to the Abbot that, despite all his preparation, things aren't going to work out. And what follows is a massive slaughter that basically makes the rest of his life one really prolonged version of this trope.
- My Parents Are Dead: A variant of this occurs when Brendan and Aisling first meet:Brendan: I don't have a family, and we have food in Kells, so I wouldn't have come here for it anyway. I was just... a bit lost.
Aisling: You have no family?
Brendan: Uh... no.
Aisling: No mother?
Brendan: (looks down, not saying anything)
Aisling: ...I'm alone too.
- Mysterious Mist: When the fairy Aisling makes her first appearance, the forest fills with mist. This is a nod to the notion of Irish Mythology that the Tuatha Dé Danann concealed themselves in a magic mist (the "fairy mist") from observers. The mist dissipates as Aisling becomes more friendly towards Brendan.
- Mystical Waif: Aisling, though she's more assertive than most mystical waifs.
- Mystical White Hair: Aisling. In the second comic prologue, it's revealed to be a racial trait of The Fair Folk.
- Never Say "Die": Aidan's footsteps are washed away in the sand next to Brendan's and Pangur's footsteps. Though averted when Aidan states that he would have been killed had he not fled Iona, and again when Aisling tells Brendan that he will die if he confronts Crom Cruach; all of the actual deaths are implicit.
- No One Gets Left Behind: Subverted. Aidan and Brendan leave Cellach for dead, despite Brendan's protests.Brendan: We have to save him!Aidan: We can't help him now.
- Noble Wolf: Aisling gives off this vibe while in her wolf form. The other wolves she controls are different.
- Non-Human Sidekick: Pangur Bán, who is apparently intelligent enough to go into the woods and find Aisling when Brendan needs help.
- The Obi-Wan: Brother Aidan
- Parental Abandonment
- Brendan's parents were killed by Vikings when he was a baby.
- Aisling's mother was killed by Crom Cruach, along with the rest of her people.
- People of Hair Color: All the native Irish whose hair hasn't turned white.
- Pint-Sized Powerhouse: Aisling is shown to be quite strong for her small size, considering how she pulls Brendan up like it's nothing when he's dangling from a tree branch and when she lifts a statue much larger than herself to help Brendan get inside Crom Cruach's cave.
- Rapunzel Hair: Aisling
- Really 700 Years Old: Aisling is implied to be much older than she looks, and if her opening narration and her brief reappearance in her Fey form near the end of the film are anything to go by, she may not even age. Unsurprising, since she's one of The Fair Folk.
- Red-Headed Hero: Brendan
- Red Sky, Take Warning: Often accompanies the Vikings. Makes sense, since they love to burn everything, and lots of firelight reflected off the clouds is one of the natural ways to get this trope.
- Reptiles Are Abhorrent: Crom Cruach is a giant serpent, though his appearance owes more to deep-sea fish. And it's made of jointed drawings. Brendan uses this to his advantage.
- Room Full of Crazy: Abbot Cellach's room is painted with the plans for the town wall as well as a map of Kells on the floor. It's all sketched out with chalk in medieval non-perspective, to suggest the Abbot's obsessive devotion to completing the wall. A little different from usual in that he's sane — to a fault.
- Running on All Fours: Aisling can run on all fours, probably to show her connection to nature and how wild she is.
- Savage Wolves: Aisling leads a pack of them. Initially they play the trope straight when they attack Brendan on his first journey into the forest, but they later pull a Big Damn Heroes moment when Aisling rallies them against the Vikings who ambush Brendan and Aidan after they flee from the massacre at Kells.
- Scaled Up: Crom Cruach should not have turned into a snake. It never helps.
- Seasonal Montage: At the end of the film.
- The Shadow Knows: When Pangur Ban is in spirit-form, she still has the shadow of a cat.
- Silent Snarker: Some of Pangur Ban's expressions are priceless.
- Snow Means Death: The attack on Kells.
- Speaks Fluent Animal: Being so closely connected to nature, Aisling is implied to be able to do this, especially when she tells Brendan that she asked some wasps not to sting him when they find the oak galls.
- Survivor Guilt:
- Abbot Cellach at the end of the film.
- We see a flash of this in Brendan as he and Aidan leave Kells, leaving his uncle for dead.
- Subverted in the case of Aidan, who seems fairly cheerful and upbeat despite being the only survivor of Iona. Although maybe he's keeping his darker feelings hidden from young Brendan.
- Take Our Word for It: Subverted. They avoid showing the contents of the book for most of the film, only to show the completed Chi Rho page at the end.
- Time-Compression Montage: The scene showing Brendan's education in art. On a side note, the film takes place over the course of a year (shown by the change in seasons).
- Trilingual Bonus: Aisling's song in Irish and the page of Latin Brendan and Aisling are shown running across. The first Latin sentence reads: "And so the little red-haired monk excelled at illumination but stayed mediocre in Latin."
- Uncatty Resemblance: The sheepherder. "Baaaaa!"
- Very Loosely Based on a True Story
- Scholars put the creation of the book around the year 800, which means Colm Cille (d. 597) can't have had a hand in it, and the historical St. Aidan note lived over 150 years earlier. Also, the cover wasn't stolen for another 200 years or so. There's not much we know for sure about the creation of the book (it might have been produced entirely at Iona or Kells, or some combination, or even Lindisfarne), so they had to take some liberties in order for there to be any plot. Lampshaded when the monks at Kells can't agree on the history, either, including Colm Cille's methods (third eye? three hands? 36 FINGERS?!), and simply get their facts wrong. One monk says the book was begun 300 years ago by Colm Cille; impossible if Aidan knew him.
- And Pangur Bán was owned by an anonymous Irish monk in a German monastery.
- Crom Cruach does exist in Irish mythology, where's he described as a Pagan god who's worship included human sacrifices and he was banished by St. Patrick. He has nothing to do with Colm Cille.
- There was an Abbot Cellach who was abbot of Iona. He retired to Kells in 814 AD and died the next year. He is credited with building a church in Kells.
- Voluntary Shapeshifting: Aisling is a fey that takes on the form of a white wolf at will, and she's shown to have also taken on the forms of a salmon and a deer in the past. Unfortunately, she seems to suffer Shapeshifter Mode Lock after nearly giving her life to get Brendan into Crom Cruach's lair. Then again, as the local wolf pack already accepts her as their leader, she's finally got a family again.
- Walking the Earth:Aidan and Brendan after the Vikings attack Kells.
- The Wall Around the World: Abbot Cellach is obsessed with building a wall to protect his monastery from Viking invasions. It doesn't work.
- Wall Crawl: Aisling can do this through magic.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: Abbot Cellach is a mild example. He acts like a total Jerkass who is obsessed with building his wall, to the point where he disdains and eventually forbids his monks from doing anything else. However, the point of the wall is to keep out the Vikings, who already killed all the family he had except for his young, impressionable nephew, who now wants to do non-wall related things like go outside and create beautiful holy books. He doesn't listen when Aidan tells him that his wall won't hold and they should all flee instead, which leads to disaster, and his Heel Realisation.


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