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Mørketid - Valkyrie Brewing
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Ontario (Canada)
2.38/5 rDev -27.2%
12 oz bottle picked up in Wisconsin.
Pours a lightly hazy dark reddish brown, mahogany almost, medium sized light tan head forms, quickly drops down to a thin layer, a thin film of lace sticks to the glass. Smell is alright, light caramel sweetness, a bit nutty, light chocolate and roast, biscuit, brown sugar, a touch of raisin sourness, light fruit, smells alright if uninspiring. Taste is very watery, almost no flavour here, light raisin and caramel, a bit of fruit flavoured water, nothing at all, weird. Mouthfeel is light bodied with low to medium carbonation, watery mouthfeel. Wow, smell is alright then this does straight downhill.
09-22-2009 23:31:32 | More by Viggo
3.78/5 rDev +15.6%
Pours a reddish black color with a small tan head that had a short life and settles to a thin film. Large amount of spotty lacing is left on the glass surface.
I smell roasted malt with some baker's chocolate and milk.
Roasted malt is featured in the flavor. Semi-sweet overall with some chocolate hints. Leaves some burnt flavors in the finish.
Just too thin of a body for a dark beer. Carbonation seems to be a bit fizzy.
A good beer but suffers from a lack of depth and body. Worth a try.
10-14-2008 22:06:48 | More by morimech
4.2/5 rDev +28.4%
A very good malt smell to start, appearance is nice and black just like a schwarzbier should be. Good malt with a nice thickness just the right amount of activity and a very good beer. Drinkable while still malty enough exactly what a schwarzbier should be.
08-13-2008 11:49:46 | More by beckje01
2.5/5 rDev -23.5%
Appearance: Dark brown, almost no head. A little foam keeps it from looking like cola.
Smell: Not a lot there, sweet smelling, maybe a touch of apple?
Taste: Pretty vague flavors. A little sweetness and a little roasted character but nothing stands out.
Mouthfeel: Thin and watery.
Drinkability: I'd drink it again if I had to, but there are better beers to be had.
This is a pretty mediocre beer. I think Viking either has swings in quality or retailers will have a mix of old and new stuff. This beer isn't offensive, but doesn't do anything too special.
09-28-2007 22:50:37 | More by Mdog
3.63/5 rDev +11%
Morketid is a Norwegian term for that period in winter when the sun doesn't rise above the horizon. In other words, it's one, long, continuous night. Svalbard, an island off the northern coast of Norway, has four months of Morketid every year. I can't think of a more appropriate name for a schwarzbier (black beer) brewed by a company named Viking.
Darkest brown with generous dark bronze highlights at the margins. The cap is barely two fingers of sandstone colored foam that has such a slow rate of bubble poppage that it lasts for quite a while. A thick necklace of lace is beginning to form around the circumference of the glass. Shredded sheets appear eventually.
Dark malt dominates the nose, as expected. I'm tempted to compare the aroma to a brown ale, but it's a fraction darker than that. Let's go with toasted pumpernickel coated with butter and caramel. Maybe a whiff of sweet pipe tobacco as well.
It's hard for me to get used to such light-bodied dark beer as Morketid. The biggest reason is that malty beer should be full of malt (and, therefore, full-bodied), just as hoppy beer should be full of hops. When I like the flavor, I want it to have some permanence on the palate.
The beer delivers the same array of flavors to the taste buds as were described for the nose. If anything, it's a wee bit more fruity sour than expected, and a wee bit less sweet. Let's add cocoa powder and untoasted walnuts to the mix. The beer certainly is a cinch to drink, I'll give it that.
Given the style, the body/mouthfeel is probably appropriate (which is why I haven't been too harsh with the score). It could, however, stand to have more heft on the front end and hang on longer on the back end.
This isn't the best schwarzbier that has ever entered my glass, but it's good enough and is nicely drinkable. However, if I lived above the Arctic Circle and had to face four months of Morketid, I wouldn't be drinking Morketid. More like a few dozen cases of Russian Imperial stout.
08-05-2007 12:16:11 | More by BuckeyeNation
3/5 rDev -8.3%
Into a mug, pours a dark black with no head, a thin white ring around the liquid, no lacing but a sticky dew sticks to the glass. The aroma is a bit off, even if this is a schwartz... like all Viking brews it seems, a heavy lactose presence, with burnt caramels and dark grains, just a bit of funk. Similarly, the taste has a funk to it, but is rather less noticeable, the burning and the bittering and the same charred caramels and grains in the nose. The mouth is awfully thin and watery, with decent carbonation. In all, as with most of their beers, just not impressed.
07-04-2007 00:42:10 | More by objectivemonkey
3.98/5 rDev +21.7%
Rich, caramelly brown color, thick, but transparent at the bottom of the glass, under a slim head, soon gone.
Sweet chocolatey nose. Molasses and maple, and a hint of nuts. Slick, and lovely.
Very smooth on the tongue and over the palate, quite a tasty, malty thing, full of dark richness and utterly approachable, infinitely drinkable. Sweet, slick, supple schwarzbier.
Medium bodied, even-tempered finish, still lingering sweet notes, drifting echoes of chocolate...nice...
I'm keen on schwarzbiers and this is a danged nice one. Good job, Viking!
01-27-2007 09:54:44 | More by feloniousmonk
1.7/5 rDev -48%
A-dark brown...no head...minor lacing on glass
S-Caramel and a home brew like off aroma
T-Off-taste like a bad homebrew...some mild caramel trys to fight through but this doesn't pack a whole lot of flavor.
M-Thin, watery and not very appealing
D-Finishes with a sligh sour tang to it. Not a good beer at all. My scores might be too high.
12-13-2006 05:45:51 | More by ZAP
3.13/5 rDev -4.3%
Presentation: Stubby but sturdy looking 12 fluid ounce brown glass. A thick red, gold, black and silver foil encases the crown cap, and almost covers the entire neck. The main label is the same as the one on BA and has a dark silhouette of a coniferous forest lit by what appears to be the Northern Lights. No strength or freshness date. Listed as Mørketid and as I wasnt exactly sure what that meant so some digging on the Viking website revealed that this is a January Seasonal and that .Mørketid (The Norwegian name for midwinter polar darkness). This German-style Schwarz (black) beer has a balance of deep roasted malt flavors and moderate hop bitterness
Appearance: Dark brown body is deeply fashioned. Thin head, it dies quickly to leave only remnants around the edge of the glass, though the levels of carbonation are lazy a gentle flick of the glass will reinstate a breaking tan brown cap. Minimal lacing.
Nose: Sweaty malts mixed into musty roasted malt middle. Grains, brown sugar and a light nutty aroma.
Taste: Burnt granulated sugar and some feint cocoa. The middle has a very bitter roasted centerpiece and some bonfire toffee. Thin malts in the back end; the finish is riddled with more burnt sugars and a dry roasted nutty caramel swathe. A bit icky at times.
Mouthfeel: Tends to have a feel that reminds me of water with burnt sugar dissolved into it. The low carbonation helps to smooth things out but the overall body is at the light end of the spectrum.
Drinkability: Gets a bit cloying after a while and lacks the cleanliness that many of the better Schwarzbiers tend to exhibit.
Overall: Average offering that is a bit harsh on the burnt sugar and a tad thin. Lacks something to make it special.
Thanks for another Viking offering Huge.
11-25-2006 08:07:28 | More by TheLongBeachBum
3.4/5 rDev +4%
Looks the part. Pretty dark. Almost black. Thin, bubbly chocolate brown head. Lace is adequate. Decent nose of roasted malt, chocolate and milk sugars. Taste follows suit somewhat, though the aroma is a lot more enjoyable. The taste has some burnt malt, roast malt and a little caramel. But it also has something a little odd. Not a lot of it, but it is noticeable. Like an armpit type of off-flavor. Staleish. Wet cardboard. Oxidation perhaps?? It's not a huge defect, but nonetheless, it redueces my rating to an "average" from "good." This beer is medium bodied and adequately carbonated. Not one I'd really need to revisit though. Shame since good schwarzbiers are hard to come by.
11-22-2006 23:39:32 | More by Bighuge
3.6/5 rDev +10.1%
12oz single, Riley's, purchased 4-6 weeks ago I would say
appearance: pours into imperial pint glass...cola-like appearance, chocolatey foam with very little retention...dark body with ruby highlights. pretty standard
smell: strong roast aroma...surprise surprise but i detect buttery biscuit (which i am pretty sure i have found in every viking beer i have ever sampled)...chocolate malt, milky sweetness
taste: smooth and milky, creamy chocolate malt, light roasty bitterness, dry coffee taste, very light hopping comes through, some light dark fruit...pretty good but nothing too special here
mouthfeel: low carbonation, smooth and silky
drinkability: fine
10-26-2006 01:15:38 | More by dirtylou
3.28/5 rDev +0.3%
A - Pours a near black dark brown with few ruby highlights and a thin tan head.
S - Nice burnt roasty malt with hints of chocolate.
T - This beer is really good up to this point and then it is downhill. A good deal of sourness and a bit of the burnt roasty malt and chocolate you get in the aroma. The sourness is overwhelming enough to cancel out any good flavors you get.
M - Smooth but a bit under carbonated.
D - This one had potential until the sourness takes over. I will probably not try this one again. If it tasted anything like it smelled this one would be a winner.
10-01-2006 02:55:18 | More by brewcrew76
New Hampshire
3.1/5 rDev -5.2%
Pours a two finger light brown head that fades to a thin layer leaving a good lace. Black color. Light carbonation and medium-heavy bodied. Sour lactose nose. Starts almost sweet like a mild coffee then a sour/bitterness of unsweetened chocolate. $1.59 for a 12oz bottle from Blue Max Liquor Burnsville, Mn.
09-29-2006 22:35:41 | More by jdhilt
New Hampshire
3.28/5 rDev +0.3%
The first thing that hits me is the roasted malt aroma. It's a dark, dark beer, I can't see through it, with a nice latte-colored sparse head on it. Very sweet and smooth, this is a drinker for me. There is a slight spice to the flavor, but I can't really identify it.
07-30-2006 02:56:24 | More by ccs
3.3/5 rDev +0.9%
Picked up a single at Riley's here in Madison. Always looking for new examples of the largely under-represented schwarzbier style.
Pours nearly black, with glints of ruby peaking around the corners, under a finger of oatmeal cookie head. Nose jumps at you with a yogurt-like lactic sourness, giving way to your standard burnt coffee roasted malt. Taste is nice and bitter with light notes of spent coffee grounds and dark cocoa but the lingering lactose sourness noted in the nose spoils things a bit. Mouthfeel is smooth and undercarbonated, per usual for Viking. After their quite-successful Big Swede and Whole Stein, I have yet to be impressed by any of their other offerings. Kudos for creativity, but the execution is often lacking.
06-08-2006 23:32:00 | More by Golden2wenty1
4.18/5 rDev +27.8%
Great clarity on this pour, with a modest head, this schwartz beer almost glows in the glass. It is also blessed with the strong aromas I have come to expect from Viking products. Morketid has the slighty spiced notes upfront and a quick dry finnish which I find definitive for schartz beer.
04-25-2006 02:21:37 | More by doubleshovels
2.3/5 rDev -29.7%
Appearance: Extremely black, much more than many in the style. Nice light brown head, creamy and slow fading.
Smell: Roasty cocoa smell immediate, slight grainy, with some sweet carmel lurking underneath.
Taste: Subtle at first with some lightly roasted malts, then a cloying honey/carmel sweetness pervades. I don't really much care for it, even vs. the style (I think the flavors are pretty different from most Schwarzbiers I have had).
Mouthfeel: Very smooth, low carbonation, status quo in Dallas.
Drinkability: Another dissapointing offering from Viking.
04-21-2006 03:46:23 | More by TastyTaste
3.58/5 rDev +9.5%
Pours to a dark brown color with ruby highlights when held to the light. I agree with ADR on this...wow, an actual head on a Viking brew. It forms a tan head that leaves spotty lacing.
The aroma is slightly roasty, with caramel malts, and chocolate. It has the typical Viking yeast smell.
The flavor is light in roasted malts, a bit milk chocolatey, and with the Viking yeast taste.
It is still a bit too thin in the body and low on the carbonation for that full feeling. It is easy drinking. Not too bad.
04-06-2006 23:52:38 | More by BeerBuilder
3.85/5 rDev +17.7%
Wow, a Viking beer that pours a decent head (its been awhile), 1/4 of an inch of chocolate milk-like foam. Dark and apparently clear appearance, just a bit of brownish-red light comes through at the bottom. Wide rings of lacing. Slight sweet chocolate aroma, a trace of coffee. Mouthfeel is scant, carbonation better than some Viking brews, but still the body comes off thin. Decent Schwarzbier flavor, an edge of roasty bitterness crowds around a lactose sweetness and holds on to the finish (seems sweeter as it warms). Works well with the aroma. Still, comes off a little spare in heftiness, but one of the better brews from this brewer in many aspects. I'd pick this one up again.
04-06-2006 23:09:17 | More by ADR
Mørketid from Valkyrie Brewing
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The American Nuclear Society (ANS) was a proud, platinum sponsor for the second USA Science & Engineering Festival, April 28-29, at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington DC. Visitors received a colorful bookmark and brochure to remind them of their visit to the ANS booth.
The Festival showcased science and engineering at their very best providing unique opportunities to learn how science and engineering improve our lives and how we can use our own creative ideas and talents to make our world the best it can be.
During the exhibit, ANS, a membership society for students and professionals in nuclear science and technology, demonstrated how we live in a radioactive world. This page gives you additional information about the science, applications and careers.
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Vertimass LLC, a California-based start-up company, has licensed an Oak Ridge National Laboratory technology that directly converts ethanol into a hydrocarbon blend-stock for use in transportation fuels. The ORNL technology offers a new pathway to biomass-derived renewable fuels that can lower greenhouse gas emissions and decrease U.S. reliance on foreign sources of oil.
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New, inexpensive production materials boost promise of hydrogen fuelFebruary 28, 2014 3:30 pm | by EurekAlert! | News | Comments
Generating electricity is not the only way to turn sunlight into energy we can use on demand. In a study published last week in the journal Science, Choi and postdoctoral researcher Tae Woo Kim combined cheap, oxide-based materials to split water into hydrogen and oxygen gases using solar energy with a solar-to-hydrogen conversion efficiency of 1.7 percent, the highest reported for any oxide-based photoelectrode system.
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The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, will be part of a national effort, announced today by President Barack Obama, which could lead to more fuel-efficient cars and decreased costs for ships and aircraft. Suresh Babu and a team of faculty will help lead UT's research effort in the $140 million Detroit-based institute....
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Class D is redefining the trade-offs in audio power amplifier design, simultaneously delivering smaller size and higher power density with better sound than Class AB audio systems. Class D also has the advantage of offering low distortion and more stable dynamic response....
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On April 17, 1996, Frederick Carter and his accomplice took the life of Lawrence Leon during the armed robbery of his Birmingham, Alabama restaurant. Carter, the one who shot and murdered Mr. Leon, already had a long criminal record. He was convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison, which allows him to be considered for parole. His accomplice was convicted of Capital Murder and sentenced to life without the possibility of parole. Mr. Leon, a life-long Birmingham resident and popular business man, was active in his community and church. He was a loving husband to Joann; father to Fran, Phil and Rosie; and devoted grandfather of six. Please help our family and friends voice the outrage against the consideration of parole for Frederick Carter, a menace to society, who committed this violent crime. Speak for Mr. Leon- please sign our petition to keep this murderer behind bars.
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How can I check if a post has Facebook comments on it and create a conditional statement? I'd like to show a small comments icon if any comments have been made.
Even better, anyone know how to get the comments count from it as well?
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If you want to get the actual number without it just being echoed then you'd probably need to do some kind of client side scripting, eg with jQuery:
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Or if you want to do it server side, which is almost certainly a better idea but will be more fiddly, then take a look at: http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/fql/comment/
There's a class that makes the count increment per comment. Use that within your loop with an if (!emtpy) conditional and style accordingly. See below:
The fb:comments-count tag will emit the number of comments on your URL in a
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The number of comments left on a particular URL can be accessed via the Graph API. For example, the number of comments on example.com is the 'comments' field of: https://graph.facebook.com/?ids=http://example.com/.
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Life in a city can be atomizing, isolating. And it certainly is for William G. and Neaera H., the strangers at the center of Russell Hoban's surprisingly heartwarming novel Turtle Diary. William, a clerk at a used-book store, lives in a rooming house after a divorce that has left him without home or family. Neaera is a successful writer of children's books, who, in her own estimation, "looks like the sort of spinster who doesn't keep cats and is not a vegetarian. Looks…like a man's woman who hasn't got a man." Entirely unknown to each other, they are both drawn to the turtle tank at the London zoo with "minds full of turtle thoughts," wondering how the turtles might be freed. And then comes the day when Neaera walks into William's bookstore, and together they form an unlikely partnership to make what seemed a crazy dream become a reality.
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TOKYO – Former U.N. weapons inspector Scott Ritter on Thursday dismissed U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell's allegation before the U.N. Security Council that Iraq is hiding weapons of mass destruction as "unsubstantiated" and based only on "circumstantial evidence."
"There's nothing here that's conclusive proof that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction," Ritter, a former U.S. Marine and outspoken critic of Washington's policy on Iraq who participated in U.N. weapons inspections there from 1991 to 1998, told Kyodo News in an interview.
"Everything in here is circumstantial, everything in here mirrors the kind of allegations the U.S. has made in the past in regard to Iraq's weapons program," he said.
Powell on Wednesday presented what he described as "irrefutable and undeniable" evidence that Iraq has been deceiving U.N. arms inspectors and hiding banned weapons. He played intercepted telephone conversations between Iraqi officials and showed satellite photos as part of the U.S. drive to convince the world of the need to disarm Iraq, by military force if necessary.
"He just hits you, hits you, hits you with circumstantial evidence, and he confuses people – and he lied, he lied to people, he misled people," Ritter said of Powell.
Ritter argued that the United States is giving weapons inspectors too little time to do their job.
He said many things in Powell's presentation should be properly investigated, such as a Nov 26 communications intercept in which two senior Iraqi military officers were overheard talking about the need to hide from U.N. weapons inspectors a "modified vehicle" made by an Iraqi company that Powell said is "well known to have been involved in prohibited weapons systems activity."
"What vehicle? I mean, obviously Colin Powell's concerned, he presented it, so let's find out what the vehicle is – but let's not bomb Iraq based upon that," Ritter said.
Ritter also questioned the veracity of Powell's allegation that Iraq still possesses vast amounts of anthrax and described as irrelevant his repeated references to dry powder anthrax contained in envelopes and sent through the U.S. postal system in the fall of 2001, which killed two people and created a national panic.
"What anthrax is he talking about?" he said, adding that Iraq is only known to have produced liquid bulk anthrax, which has a shelf life of only three years.
He said the last known batch of liquid bulk anthrax was produced in 1991 at a state-owned factory blown up in 1996.
"Colin Powell holds up a vial of dry powder anthrax and he makes allusions to the attack in the United States through the letters. That was U.S. government anthrax! It had nothing to do with Iraq," Ritter said.
Ritter accused Powell of engaging in "classic bait-and-switch" in his U.N. presentation, catching his listeners' attention with one piece of information and then putting up an irrelevant photograph "to make them think the two are the same when they're not."
"I mean, the photographs are real but what do the photographs show," he said. "The Powell presentation is not evidence…It's a very confusing presentation. What does it mean? What does it represent? How does it all link up? It doesn't link up."
"Iraq, anthrax, vial, dry powder – what connection do they have? None," he said.
Ritter termed a "fabrication" Powell's assertion that Iraq may have 18 trucks from which it can produce biological agents such as anthrax or botulinum toxin, and noted that U.N. inspectors who followed up on such U.S. intelligence based on defectors' testimony were only able to find two trucks used for testing food.
"They had nothing to do with biological laboratories. That's what (U.N. chief inspector) Hans Blix says. He says, 'There's no mobile lab."'
"You know who came up with the idea of mobile trucks? The inspectors…We sat back one day and said, 'If we were the Iraqis, how would we hide biological production? We'd put them on trucks,"' Ritter said.
"So we designed it and we went out looking for them. But the problem is, you look for something that you have no evidence exists, but by postulating the existence you create the perception of existence. Now we look for trucks…and we don't find them," he said.
In his presentation, Powell spoke of the futility of trying to find the trucks in question among the thousands that travel Iraqi roads daily without Baghdad voluntarily surrendering the information.
Ritter, however, said Powell was merely trying to create an impression that U.N. inspections could never work.
"You can never expect the inspectors to find these 18 trucks," he said, because "these trucks don't exist."
Defectors' reports, he said, could be misleading, especially those coming from people associated with the opposition Iraqi National Congress, who he said could have been "pre-briefed in advance to tell lies."
"Are these legitimate defectors or are they deliberately out there falsifying testimony? I don't know. What I do know is I'm not willing to put American lives on the line based on the testimony from an Iraqi defector. I want something a little bit more solid than that," Ritter said.
But he stressed he is not arguing that Iraq does not possess weapons of mass destruction – merely that the U.N. inspectors should be given sufficient time to do their job in Iraq and make a final determination based on solid evidence. (Kyodo News)


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Plaid laments missed opportunity to reject controversial income tax proposal
Plaid Cymru's Hywel Williams says he's disappointed with Labour MPs for failing to back his attempt to persuade a cross-party committee to criticise UK Government plans for income tax devolution.
He'd proposed an amendment to the Welsh Affairs committee's report on the draft Wales Bill which would have called for the controversial 'lockstep' form of income tax power to be abandoned. The Bill would give Welsh ministers power to vary the tax but only by changing all rates simultaneously.
The amendment failed, however, and the Arfon MP says it was a missed opportunity.


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Original post made by Last Minute on Nov 20, 2012
Bothersome, is the last minute nature of this resolution. The Mayor will even attend by telephone to ensure sufficient votes.
This lame duck majority should heed to the will of the voters and allow this resolution to be considered after the Council's newest elected representative is seated.
on Nov 20, 2012 at 4:24 pm
Love the innuendo, but how about the substance.
"meeting to implement policy based on a town minority opinion"
What is this terrible policy that's going to get implemented? What are the details?
on Nov 20, 2012 at 4:35 pm
It will be posted on the council agenda item on Friday on the town web site. You will see the shave and haircut they are giving town employees at that time. It will be voted on at Wednesday's council meeting.
on Nov 21, 2012 at 9:23 am
A shave and a haircut is a great idea. A really fiscally responsible move. Dunno why you say it's a "town minority" opinion.


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Nicolai isn't the only one impressing with his recipes though. Paul Blackman, Le Talbooth's pastry chef for the past seven years, has also been featured in the magazine as he reveals the secret behind his delicious coconut and mango soufflé with Malibu.
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Mackay: City were "a match for West Ham" in 2-0 defeat
Cardiff City manager Malky Mackay said Cardiff City were "a match for West Ham" in their 2-0 defeat to the Hammers. It was the Bluebirds' first ever game in the Premier League, but Mackay said the loss was not "a lesson" for the Welsh side.
"We knew before the game we had to be clinical. It's choices in that final pass, that final decision," he said.
"We had a three on two and Campbell decided to have a strike at target instead of sliding Bellamy in. It's about decision making, I don't think it's about learning lessons.
"We knew exactly what we were coming to, we knew what our game plan should be today and for vast parts of the game we certainly had control over a lot of the ball."


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The Three Bishoprics (French: les Trois-Évêchés, French pronunciation: [le tʁwazevɛʃe]) constituted a province of pre-Revolutionary France consisting of the prince-bishoprics of Metz, Verdun, and Toul within the Lorraine region.
The dioceses were States of the Holy Roman Empire until they were seized by French King Henry II between April and June 1552. In the course of the rebellion of several Protestant Imperial princes against the Augsburg Interim issued by Emperor Charles V of Habsburg, the conquest had been legitimised ahead of time by the Treaty of Chambord on 15 January 1552, which confirmed the Catholic French king's lordship over Metz, Toul and Verdun, as well as the Bishopric of Cambrai "and other towns of the Empire that do not speak German". The leader of the rebellion, Elector Maurice of Saxony, in turn received subsidies and military assistance from the French and reached the revocation of the Interim by the Peace of Passau that led to the final religious Peace of Augsburg in 1555.
King Henry II according to his agreement with the Protestant princes had moved into the lands of the Three Bishoprics. As from the emperor's perspective, Maurice and his allies had no right to legally dispose of Imperial territory, Charles V started a campaign against the French during the Italian War of 1551–1559 in order to reconquer the occupied dioceses. The expedition ultimately failed, when the Imperial troops were defeated by the French forces under Duke Francis of Guise at the 1554 Battle of Renty. After the emperor had abdicated in 1556, his successor Ferdinand I discontinued all attempts to regain the Three Bishoprics. At the end of the Thirty Years' War, they were officially awarded to France by the 1648 Peace of Westphalia.
The Diocese of Saint-Dié, created in 1777 and sometimes called the "Fourth Bishopric of Lorraine" (« le Quatrième Évêché lorrain »), is not related historically to the Three Bisphoprics.
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FULTON COUNTY, Ill -- Fulton County Coroner Steven Hines has identified 82-year-old Chellis Evans as the man who was killed Friday in an accident near Banner.
Preliminary autopsy results show Evans died of blunt force trauma.
Illinois State Police said his car crossed the center line hitting a Hitchcock Scrapyard semi truck head on.
Hines added, the autopsy did not show Evans had a medical event prior to the collision.
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I left an edit for my mother's DOB. Thank you for the correction. It was finding this site, through my brother, that I became interested in becoming a volunteer photographer!
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I agree, it takes some getting used to. But it is very convenient once you've mastered it.
If you want to look at edits you've either approved or declined, click on edits, thenlook at the line that says Display: Edits sent to me that I need to review. On the right side of that line is a drop down arrow. Click on it and it will give you several options, Edits sent to me that I approved, Edits sent to me that I declined, followed by a second group below starting with Edits I have sent to others which has the options Edits I have sent that are pending, Edits I have sent that were approved, and Edits I have sent that were declined. This way you can go through stuff after you've processed it, and see what's going on with edits you submitted on other people's memorials.
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The new edit system is really cool. They rolled it out last year and it is so much faster if you're maintaining a lot of memorials. It also stops people from making common mistakes with the relationship links, like putting in a memorial number for someone that doesn't exist, or trying to link them as their own parent.
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Thanks for updating his bio page. I also sent you some edits through the edit system that shows up as a tab under your profile page, when you get a chance can you run those through as well (links to his parents and adding his birth and death dates and places).
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hey Ginny
I noticed you took the picture of actress Judy Tyler. i was wondering did you get a good picture of her urn and if you were the one put the Elvis memorabilia by her urn. I know she is in a private family room so i was wondering. I'm planning on makeing a trip to New York with my dad who grew up watching her on the Howdy doody Show and we plan on visiting ferncliff
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MERCI a lot for your very clear and detailed answer; I won't be able to make it to California before April 2015, and I can't wait!
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The "College Olympics" intermission event last Friday pitted students in a relay game that involved running on the ice, riding on a cooler, spinning around a hockey stick and chugging beers. The Rapid City Journal reports two students vomited, 1 of them twice.
Season ticket holder Tom Regan says he was disgusted. Rush General Manager Tim Hill says he's been fielding phone calls from other upset fans.
Hill says the event was meant to be fun but "went completely wrong." He says he apologizes on behalf of the organization. He says the game wasn't appropriate and won't be repeated.
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Last year, Tampa Bay wide receiver Michael Clayton carried the Buccaneers offense on his shoulders by hauling in 80 passes for 1,193 yards and seven touchdowns. But accomplishing that feat again this year might be tough to do given the injury he's been playing with.
Clayton disclosed Wednesday that he's been playing with a separated left shoulder since the preseason.
"I hurt it again in Green Bay, and I hurt it again against Detroit," Clayton said of his injury. "It's game-by-game. You don't feel anything during the game, but after the game it's different story."
It is not yet known whether Clayton is in danger of doing more damage to his injured shoulder by continuing to play. However, what is clear is the fact that Clayton, who has hauled in 17 passes for 196 yards through four games, will play through the pain until he can't play anymore.
"I've been playing with for a while," said Clayton. "We'll see what happens. I'm not really thinking about that, and I'm definitely not trying to baby it on Sunday. So anything I have to do is going to get done, whether I'm injured or not. If I do injure it, then I'll be injured. Hey, we have guys who can step up and take my place. If not, I'm going to keep on playing. As or right now, I'm going to see these doctors and take a look at it and see what's going on and see what I need to do to be the best I can be on Sundays."
In the meantime, some of Tampa Bay's younger receivers, including Edell Shepherd and rookies Paris Warren and J.R. Russell, are getting ready to play in case Clayton, who is listed as probable for Sunday's game vs. the New York Jets and was seen leaving One Buc Place with his arm in a sling on Wednesday evening, cannot.
"We're just basically trying to get these young guys ready," said Clayton. "I'm not necessarily limited because of the injury. We want to make sure these guys are ready just in case one of us goes down."
Clayton, who missed most of the offseason workouts after undergoing minor knee surgery, said he's not prepared to miss a significant amount of practice time due to his shoulder injury.
"They've tried to get me to skip practice, but when you're out here you want reps," Clayton said. "Given my situation in the offseason, I can't afford to not get reps. Staying in shape is big for me, and I've been trying to do that."
According to Bucs head coach Jon Gruden, Clayton's shoulder injury has indeed hindered his ability to play on Sundays.
"Well, he has been in a lot of collisions," said Gruden. "I pointed that out the other day. Certainly it has inhibited his overall game, there's no question about that. You don't play quite as well when you're dragging a shoulder."
Bucs rookie running back Carnell "Cadillac" Williams was limited in practice Wednesday with a foot and hamstring injury.
Williams, who has rushed for 447 yards (4.5 avg.) and two touchdowns, said he'd play against the Jets, but Gruden said Wednesday that the team would need to see "significant improvement" from him in order to give him the green light to play.
"If it were up to me, it would be my call," said Williams. "We're just trying to get things evaluated and listen to the trainers because this is what they do and we will see what's best."
If he's going to play against the Jets on Sunday, Williams would like to get at least one day of practice under his belt.
"It's difficult because that's when you get the feel of the game plan," Williams said of missing practice. "You get in that kind of mode. It's kind of tough sitting and then trying to go out and play on Sundays."
If Williams can't play on Sunday, running back Michael Pittman will start in his place.
"I've always prepared myself as a starter even when I knew Cadillac was going to be starting the first four games," said Pittman. "I know I have to be ready to play at anytime, so I'm prepared to play and ready to go."
In other injury news, Tampa Bay left tackle Anthony Davis (shoulder) practiced Wednesday and is expected to start vs. New York on Sunday.
However, the same can't be said for safety Jermaine Phillips, who missed Wednesday's workout with a thumb injury and is listed as questionable for Sunday's game. Gruden suggested second-year defensive back Will Allen would start at strong safety if Phillips were unable to play vs. the Jets.
Defensive tackle Ellis Wyms (illness), Clayton (shoulder), Davis (shoulder) and safety Dexter Jackson (hamstring) are listed as probable on Tampa Bay's injury report. Williams (foot/hamstring) and Phillips are questionable.
After watching him miss most of training camp, preseason and all four of Tampa Bay's first four regular season games with a lower back injury, the Bucs decided Wednesday to place offensive lineman Matt Stinchcomb on injured reserve.
The Bucs promoted center Scott Jackson from their eight-man practice squad to the active roster to fill the void left by Stinchcomb, who was inactive for the first four games of the season.
Jackson's practice squad spot was taken by tackle Stefan Rodgers, who entered the NFL last April as an undrafted free agent with the Tennessee Titans.
Tampa Bay starting quarterback Brian Griese said he is feeling good after taking a wicked hit on a scramble against Detroit on Sunday that knocked him "woozy."
"I feel good," Griese said. "Thanks for asking. I appreciate your concern. I was in the cold tub a couple of times the last few days, but I feel good. The body feels good today."
Griese said that he and head coach Jon Gruden had a philosophical discussion about taking too many chances and about his turnovers this season. Despite the Bucs' 4-0 start, Griese has thrown six interceptions, including three against the Lions on Sunday.
"I talked to him yesterday and we had a good talk about some of the things that went on in the game. We just wanted to make sure we were on the same page about everything, as far as the game plan and the reads are concerned, all those different types of things. It was a good talk."
There is a fine line between quarterbacks taking the right chances and taking too many chances in games. Griese acknowledged that the need for taking chances, but also said there was a time to play conservative.
When there are plays to be made, you don't win football games in this league if you don't make plays," Griese said. "I see a lot of offensive football teams around the league right now that are playing really conservatively, not making plays and not scoring points. But I think we have playmakers on this team offensively, and it's my job to take the chances when plays are there, and make the decisions to be more conservative when plays are not there. I'm going to continue to work on that and hopefully make more plays than I do mistakes."
Griese said that the problem with his recent spate of interceptions is not necessarily a result of not knowing the intricacies of the Bucs offense, but rather seeing the field and reading defenses better.
"I'm working hard to understand not only our plays offensively but understanding defenses," Griese said. "There are new defenses every year and we're going to continue to see new looks, and I just have to be able to see the whole field. You never, as a quarterback, want to look at your receivers. You want to be looking at the defense and reading defenses. Case in point: Last week when I threw that pick in the fourth quarter I didn't key the free safety. I had a guy down the field that was open that I should have thrown the ball. Those are things I'm going to learn from and, trust me, I'm the most critical person on myself. I know that game shouldn't have been as close as it was on Sunday, and I'm going to try to do everything I can to give our team the best chance to win. And not just win by one or two points - we want to win by two touchdowns, three touchdowns. We understand that, yeah, we have a lot of work to do, I have a lot of work to do, but it's a great feeling to be 4-0 and still have a chance to go out and improve and get better as a team."
"I'm going to try to eliminate interceptions. I understand my role on the team and that's something I'm going to work on, bottom line."
Tampa Bay has a chance to improve to 5-0 for the first time since 1997 by defeating the 1-3 New York Jets on Sunday.
Despite their fast start to the 2005 season, the Bucs, who were 0-4 this time last year, have stayed grounded by reminding themselves that it's a 16-game season.
"We feel good, but we also know that 4-0 means absolutely nothing at this point," said Bucs cornerback Brian Kellly. "It's a good start and a good way to get the season going. It puts you that much closer to your goal. But when you look at the big picture, we haven't accomplished anything, so we've got to go out there week in and week out and keep establishing ourselves."
Bucs nose tackle Chris Hovan on preparing to face Jets 42-year-old quarterback Vinny Testaverde and running back Curtis Martin
"Vinny has been there, done that. He's a very smart quarterback, and still has a very strong arm. We know he'll sit in the pocket. But first and foremost that offense is run by number 28. Let's not get it wrong, Curtis Martin the past 10 years has had 1,000 yards every year. He got the rushing title last year. What more can you say about the guy? The guy is a workhorse, he's an iron man. First and foremost, we have to stop him."
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The city of Scottsbluff's L.B. 840 committee has recommended the city council approve a purchase offer from 21st Century Equipment for the steel building on the former Aurora Loan Services property. Both 21st Century Equipment and Ron Bright submitted sealed bids of slightly over the minimum $400,000 for the property.
According to documents from Assistant City Manager Nathan Johnson, the committee determined the 21st Century Equipment offer was "most closely aligned with the wages and benefits needed" to be awarded the property. Just this past week 21st Century Equipment closed on the $100,000 purchase of the office building on the property, which will be used as the corporate and administrative headquarters for the company when renovations are completed later this summer.
The council had kept secret the proposed uses by the two bidders and will consider the L.B. 840 Committee's recommendation at Monday night's meeting.
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(FOX 11 / CNS) Los Angeles City Councilman Paul Koretz will ask his colleagues to join the taxi industry in challenging new regulations allowing phone-app-enabled rideshare companies such as UberX, SideCar and Lyft to operate in California.
The City Council was expected today to discuss a motion by Koretz that would instruct the City Attorney to submit the "necessary filings to preserve the city's right to appeal" the California Public Utility Commission's decision, but the council pushed back the discussion until Tuesday.
Opponents of the regulations have until Wednesday to submit their request to have the PUC reconsider the new rules, which were approved in September. This step is necessary to launch future legal appeals in court, city officials said.
Representatives of Lyft and UberX did not respond to questions about the city's possible appeal of the PUC regulations.
Even though the PUC does not categorize ridesharing services as taxi companies, Koretz believes the services are taxis in disguise.
"Essentially what they are doing is legalizing bandit cabs," Koretz said of the PUC's new rules.
State law reserves a city's right to regulate the taxicab industry, according to Koretz's motion.
By approving the new rules, the PUC "created a new class of for-hire transportation service" that cannot be regulated by the city and would be "unfairly competing with existing locally regulated taxi services," the motion states.
Koretz said the PUC does not have enough investigators to enforce its own rules.
"They're not going to do anything to actually make (the requirements) happen, as a practical matter," he said, adding that "it makes a lot more sense to have local control."
He also questioned whether background checks will be thorough enough to protect the public's safety.
"When you have the first serial murder or rapist ... they're going to look back and say the PUC screwed this up and the city screwed this up," he said.
It remains to be seen if Mayor Eric Garcetti, a supporter of the app-enabled ridesharing services and the state's regulations, would endorse an appeal of the new rules.
"The mayor so far likes the idea" of the rideshare services, Koretz said. "I think he likes the high-tech elements to it that are the positive. I don't think he's given a look at the liability of the dangers that are present."
Mayoral spokeswoman Vicki Curry said the mayor's office will be monitoring the City Council's discussion of the potential appeal. The mayor is also working to address the taxi industry's concerns, she said.
Rick Taylor, a spokesman for Yellow Cab, said this week that the company plans to appeal the new rules.
"Your entire (taxi) franchise system is under attack," Dominick Rubalcava, an attorney and lobbyist for Yellow Cab, told the city's Taxicab Commission Thursday.
The commission, formed in 1998, oversees a franchise system that allows nine taxi companies to do business in Los Angeles. Regulation was previously handled by transportation commissioners.
The state Public Utilities Commission last month signed off on regulations that classifies phone-app enabled rideshare services as "transportation network companies." Such companies allow people in need of rides to use a downloadable smartphone app to make arrangements with those willing to drive them to their destinations, often for a fee.
Under the new PUC rules, the rideshare companies must get a license from the PUC, require criminal background checks of drivers, create a driver training program, adopt a "zero-tolerance" policy on drug and alcohol use, buy commercial liability insurance policy with a minimum $1 million coverage and do a 19-point car inspection.
Tom Drischler, administrator for the city's taxicab franchise system, told the taxicab commission Thursday that the state's laws are unclear on whether drivers for rideshare companies will be required to get commercial insurance, which cost between $5,000 and $7,000. Drivers for those companies might actually be free to purchase personal insurance instead, he said.
There are also no requirements on the age of vehicles, and the only enforcement measure in place for the "zero-tolerance" policy on drug and alcohol use is an online complaint board, he said.
The rideshare app companies are required to do criminal background checks but do not need to take fingerprints of drivers, a step that is required under city rules, Drischler said.
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