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Last month, we rented a beach house at Sea Ranch on the Sonoma Coast for a couple of days. The private road leading to the house was just on the opposite side of a small road going inland and a sign indicating a winery, so after a hike along the coast, we felt adventurous and followed a deep redwood-filled canyon until we reached the tiny farming town of Annapolis.
Last time we were in France we visited my father-in-law in Joigny, a medieval town in northern Burgundy, just 150 km from Paris and 1 hour or so by train. The old town is particularly picturesque with its narrow cobbled streets and timber-framed 16th century houses. The best view of the city is at the top of the Côte Saint-Jacques, a steep south-facing hillside overlooking the river Yonne. This is where you find thirty hectares of vineyards, planted with Pinot Gris, Pinot Noir and Chardonnay. The location, the northernmost wine district in Burgundy, is on the edge of sustainable viticulture but vines on the hill are protected from the north winds by the forest of Othe on the plateau and from spring frosts thanks to the micro-climate created by the river below.
Historical records indicate that vines were growing in Joigny as early as 1082. The production being so close to Paris, the wines of Joigny were well known and quite popular at the tables of the kings of France. The most famous was the vin gris, a light Rosé primarily made of Pinot Gris, which apparently was a favorite of King Louis XIV. In the 19th century until the phylloxera devastation, Joigny was an active winegrowing and shipping center
In 1990, chef Michel Lorain, owner of the 3 Michelin star hotel and restaurant La Côte Saint-Jacques decided to revive the vineyard on the hill of Saint-Jacques and restore the wines' former high reputation. Five hectares of Chardonnay were planted first, followed later by 2 hectares of Pinot Noir and half a hectare of a mix of Malbec, Pinot Noir, Sauvignon and Tressot in order to produce the famous Vin Gris de Joigny Côte Saint Jacques.
We visited Michel Lorain's winery, the Domaine du Clos Saint Jacques, where we met with Sales and Marketing Manager Pâquerette Jacquemin at the wine shop. She gave us a detailed and passionate pitch about the revival of the vineyard, the expansion to the Japanese market and the recent association with Manuel Janisson of Champagne Janisson. She then took us on a tour of the winemaking facilities located in a 16th century building, which used to be the home of Saint-Vincent-de-Paul when he was living in Joigny.
She generously gave us a sampler of the estate wines that we tasted later with our family. Overall, I found the wines dry, mineral, and crisp, and thought that the whites were more successful than the red.
The 2011 Bourgogne Chardonnay Domaine du Clos Saint Jacques had a light yellow color and a fresh nose of green apple and citrus. The palate had a grippy acidity that worked well with our sauerkraut.
The 2009 Bourgogne Chardonnay Domaine du Clos Saint Jacques Cuvée Les Capucins was slightly fuller than the regular cuvee, with a good amount of minerality and acidity that would team well with shellfish.
The 2008 Bourgogne Chardonnay Domaine du Clos Saint Jacques Cuvée Prestige had a deep golden color and a nose of ripe apple. On the palate, it was rounder and fuller and would pair well with anything creamy.
The 2008 Bourgogne Pinot Noir Domaine du Clos Saint Jacques Cuvée Prestige had a light garnet color and sour cherry nose, quite lean on the palate with under ripe flavors on the finish, not our favorite wine. The region has substantial vintage variations and 2008 was possibly not the best year for the reds in the area.
This was a fun tasting and a great introduction to this up-and-coming appellation. Thanks Pâquerette!Technorati tags: wine food & drink
I am just back from 8 days of hiking in Banff National Park and I am still in awe of the spectacular landscape of the place—ice-carved mountains, hanging glaciers, turquoise blue lakes, and roaring cascades. I was also impressed by the dining scene —we were literally famished after hiking up and down hills on rugged mountain trails—and the good Canadian wines we found on the local wine lists.Iceline Trail, a raclette with a bottle of 2011 Quails' Gate Dry Riesling helped restore our energy. You need a wine with a firm backbone and a good level of acidity to cut through the creamy richness of the cheese, and the Quails' Gate Dry Riesling was more than up to the task: crisp, mineral, with citrus and floral aromas.
A couple of days later, we hiked to Shadow Lake Lodge, a back country lodge in Banff National Park. Although he day started with some snow, the skies turned deep blue by the time we reached the lodge.2011 Tinhorn Creek Pinot Gris. The wine was dry, crisp, fruity, and totally comforting, a mouth-watering treat before the hearty dinner that would later be served.
One of our last dinners was in a steak house in Banff where we ordered a bottle of 2009 Jackson-Triggs Proprietors' Reserve Merlot. The wine had black berry aromas, a smooth palate and a refreshing acidity uncommon in California. I enjoyed it but I guess it was slightly too acidic to my friend's taste.
Flour + Water looking for a wine to go with our appetizers.
I recently came across a San Francisco Chronicle article that piqued my interest. The story starts with a warning: "Beware: If you read this article, you may may never taste wine and listen to music the same way again."
The article refers to the work of Clark Smith, a winemaking innovator as well as a composer and vocalist who has recently become increasingly interested in the relationship of wine and music. He believes that wine tastes differently depending on the music we listen to.
Smith has spent months with various tasting panels sampling wines with hundreds of different songs. He was able to show that when wine and music match, the wine improves. On the other hand, when they clash, the wine tastes worse. His theory is that wine tasting involves the same part of the brain as listening to music.
"Red wines need either minor key or they need music that has negative emotion. They don't like happy music. With expensive reds, don't play music that makes you giggle. Pinots like sexy music. Cabernets like angry music. It's very hard to find a piece of music that's good for both Pinot and Cabernet."
A related study led by Adrian North of Heriot-Watt University shows that tasters tend to think their wine has the qualities of the music they are listening to.
"The results showed the music the volunteers listened to consistently affected how they perceived it to taste. For example both red and white wines were given the highest ratings for being powerful and heavy by those participants who drank them to the tune of Carmina Burana. Those who listened to Michael Brook rated their wine as tasting mellow and soft consistently higher than other tastes."
On his blog, Smith recommends the following to a reader: "It's really quite easy to work up a playlist. Just pop a bottle and download 30 second snippets from iTunes. You'll see what works and what doesn't. It's a fun party game. Eventually you learn the emotional modality that the wine conveys, and you match it."
Beethoven's Symphony No. 7 is playing tonight. Cabernet or Chardonnay?
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This was a low key, mid-week dinner at home and we were sipping our wine. "Wow, this wine is delicious!" my husband suddenly said. I showed him the bottle. It was a 2008 Joseph Swan Pinot Noir Cuvée de Trois Russian River Valley, a fairly-priced wine from Russian River Valley Pinot Noir pioneer Joseph Swan Vineyards.
Located in the Russian River Valley, Joseph Swan Vineyards was founded by Joseph Swan in 1989. He was a retired pilot with no formal viticulture education, but after taking many trips to France, he became known for introducing new methods of winemaking that seemed revolutionary at the time in the United States. These techniques included whole cluster fermentations, extended maceration for more color and depth, and fermenting without the addition of sulfur.
Joseph Swan's son-in-law Rod Berglund is now in charge of the winemaking. He introduced the "Cuvée de Trois" in 1999, a blend from three Russian River vineyards, each site contributing unique characteristics to the final cuvée.
The wine is a charmer. The nose is expressive with aromas of red cherry, spices, and earthy notes, and the palate has a silky, juicy texture, showing more finesse than power with a well-balanced complexity. Delicious indeed!
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That's the 2001 Vacqueyras Domaine Le Sang des Cailloux Cuvée de Lopy. The wine is from Vacqueyras, an appellation in the Southern Rhône next to Gigondas and to the east of Châteauneuf du Pape.
It is produced by Domaine Le Sang des Cailloux, which means Blood of the stones, a 17 hectare estate located on an arid plateau made of red clay and limestone layered by rounded stones — the famous galets roulés that characterize the terroir of Châteauneuf du Pape. On the plateau, the summers are dry and hot but can be cooled down by the strong Mistral wind that blows from the north down the Rhône Valley.
Although it has not been officially certified organic, the vineyard has been farming organically for years. The Cuvée de Lopy is 75% Grenache, 25% Syrah from 55 to 65 year-old vines. Lopy is the name of the farm where the owner, Serge Férigoule, was born. After being manually harvested, the grapes are fermented using indigenous yeasts and then aged in large 450-liter barrels. The wine is unfined and unfiltered.
The wine was dark, rich, dense and amazingly fresh at the same time thanks to its high acidity. It was also perfectly balanced leaving a layered finish of wild berries, spices, and licorice. It was aso the perfect wine for a chilly evening. Try it with a Provençal Daube and don't forget the orange peel, that's the dish's secret ingredient!
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Just before the holidays, we went to Manresa in Los Gatos to celebrate my son's birthday. We took the seasonal tasting menu —highly recommended to us— that consists of 7 savory and 2 dessert courses and is the best showcase for the inventive cuisine of Chef David Kinch. It is also quite adventurous: only the ingredients are listed so you don't know ahead of time what each course would be like.
Chef David Kinch's cuisine speaks of who we are and where we are located and many products are produced at Love Apple Farms in the Santa Cruz Mountains. Owner and farmer Cynthia Sandberg uses biodynamic and organic principles to grow fruits, vegetables, herbs and edible flowers, and produce eggs, honey, and goat's milk. The Love Apple Farms produces were perfectly showcased by one of our favorite courses, "A walk through the vegetable garden", a colorful alchemy of bitter leaves, sweet flowers, raw and cooked root vegetables with multiple dressings hidden under the leaves, some more citrusy, some more vinegary.
Finding the perfect wine that can go with all the rich flavors found on the Thanksgiving menu, the turkey, the stuffing, the gravy, the cranberries, and the various side dishes, can be challenging. Nonetheless, I think that a wine that is bright and fruity, and not too tannic nor alcoholic, is always a great choice. So when I recently tasted the 2009 Juris St. Laurent Selection, I thought that this year, it was time to invite Austria to our Thanksgiving table.
Owned by the Stiegelmar family, Juris farms 17 hectares of vineyards in the Neusiedlersee wine region, half way between Vienna and Budapest. This is the warmest part of Austria with climatic conditions well suited to red varieties, which explains the winery's special focus on St Laurent and Pinot Noir wines.
The Stiegelmar family has been cultivating grapes in this area since the 16th century. One of the winery's underground cellars was built in 1756, Mozart's birth year. It was dug 52 meters long, 12 meters below the surface, and maintains a stable temperature of 10°C (50°F).
But over the past 10 years, Axel Stiegelmar and his father Georg have developed a modern winery. The transport of grapes, mash, must, and wine is done predominantly through gravity to avoid damage by careless transport. The storage building is Austria's first passive energy wine storage facility. The building, neither heated nor cooled by fossil or electric energy, has various temperature and humidity zones to provide optimal storage conditions for different wines at different stages of their production.
Earlier this month, we were invited to a wine tasting party while watching the Blue Angels Air Show, a spectacular aerial show and a tradition in San Francisco since 1981. We were asked to bring a bottle of wine that had some connection with aviation, which was a fun exercise because in addition to tasting the wines, this theme prompted discussion about how the wines were related to planes and pilots.
Last week I watched Ken Burns' five-and-a-half-hour three-part documentary on Prohibition, the so-called "Noble Experiment" and one of the country's biggest civic failures.
I like Ken Burns' work, especially his Jazz series, and Prohibition didn't disappoint me. I already knew some of the causes that led to the passage of the 18th Amendment: the force of the Temperance Movement and how its leaders were also pushing for women's rights, how the passing of the income tax amendment made Prohibition fiscally feasible, and the strange alliance of militant suffragettes with white supremacists to ban alcohol use.
But there were some other facts that I was not aware of, like the vilification of German-Americans —which included most of the large brewery owners— when the US entered World War I. And I didn't realize that women, after lobbying so hard for prohibition, became so pivotal in the effort to repeal it.
Pauline Sabin, a wealthy heiress from a Republican family, initially supported prohibition, but as crime increased, her criticism of the 18th Amendment grew slowly. At some point, she realized that "In pre-prohibition days, mothers had little fear in regard to the saloon as far as their children were concerned. A saloon-keeper's license was revoked if he were caught selling liquor to minors. Today in any speakeasy in the United States you can find boys and girls in their teens drinking liquor, and this situation has become so acute that the mothers of the country feel something must be done to protect their children."
She founded the Women's Organization for National Prohibition Reform in 1929. Four years later, the 18th Amendment, was repealed.
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The other day, we were invited to a Pupusas party, one of the guests' mother being from El Salvador and a great cook. The pupusa is El Salvador's national dish, made of thick corn tortillas typically filled with cheese, pork, and beans and cooked on a griddle.
Do you know that it's only in 1931 that the first schematic subway map was designed by English engineering draftsman Harry Beck? Before that, we had route maps that were solely based on geography. They were lacking clarity and had many overcrowded areas. Schematic maps are based on topology and therefore show a simplified, hightly stylized network of stations that is much easier to understand.
So can we apply the same logic to wine regions and appellations to simplify and clarify regional and geographical concepts to beginners? Dr. David Gissen, professor at the California College of the Arts, thinks so and has recently published a Metro Wine Map of France.
Dr. David Gissen is a historian and theorist of architecture and urbanism but he is also a wine lover who, after drinking a bottle of 2009 Morgon Domaine Lapierre at Chez Panisse, wanted to learn more about wine and its relationship with particular philosophies and places.
In a recent interview, Gissen explains what motivated him to design his Metro map.
"I was just very frustrated with the fact that some basic ideas about the relationships between wine and geography that seemed so simple to me, after my own tastings, were not actually expressed simply anywhere. Part of the problem is the way the geographical description of French wine relies on a very literal languages of maps. What I mean by that is that if you look at almost any book on French wine, the maps look like the kind of thing that an explorer would use. They're extremely literal, cartographic views, so that all the regions are drawn with very precise jagged-line boundaries, and you're supposed to understand that this particular terroir stops just below this particular Autoroute in France, for example, and so on."
"My feeling was that you could explain some very basic geographical ideas and principles about French wine if you used a visual language that was relational and condensed. To me, that means the language of the subway map."
If you want to find the "best subway stop from which to embark on your own journey of wine exploration", you can get the map here. And if you want to learn more about Gissen's interesting perspectives on concrete vinification, wine glass shapes, terroir, and the re-framing of wine using an urban aesthetics, read the full interview.
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It was hot last weekend in Los Angeles when we dropped our daugther off at college so we decided to find some cool mountain breeze at the top of the 10,068 ft Mount Baldy in the San Gabriel Mountains.
An old ski chair lift from the 50s took us to the small Mount Baldy ski resort and from there we took the Devil's Backbone trail that goes up to the top of Mount Baldy with amazing views of L.A. on one side and the desert on the other side.
After the hike, we stopped at the Top of the Notch, the resort's restaurant, feeling hot and sweaty. The temperature was still in the mid-90s.
"What's the coldest drink you have?" We asked the waitress at the bar. "Coors Light" she said witout hesitation, taking two frosty mugs from under the bar. I don't usually drink Coors Light but this time, I could not resist. As I took the first sip of my beer, I thought this was the best thing I ever drank. It was so refreshing, with a clean, mildly sweet taste, and for sure it quenched our thirst.
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Mon Apr 13 10:00:00 EDT 2009
On the right, just above the rail, is the ship Mol Bravery, crossing six miles ahead. Have seen many ships this trip, they are easy to deal with mostly due to AIS.
Fortunately, have not seen many fishing boats so far. Have been avoiding the banks where they are likely to be working as much as possible. Fishing boats usually don't have AIS transmitters, the smaller ones don't show up well on yacht radars, and there are all sorts of warnings about small unlit fishing boats near this coast.
Sun Apr 12 9:30:00 EDT 2009
The genoa is the sail in the picture.
I mentioned a vessel or oil rig called Andromeda yesterday. When I got closer and the mist cleared a bit, I could see it was a very large tanker, just sitting offshore in 3000 metres of water. I guess it is waiting to get to the loading dock at one of the oil wells.
Sat Apr 11 9:30:00 EDT 2009
The sail on the right in the picture is the trinquette or fore-staysail, the sail in the middle of the picture (the highest one) is the fisherman, and the left-most sail (low) is the voile d'etai or main staysail.
After a few hours of no wind yesterday, a light, favorable wind came up and has stayed since, making for pleasant sailing in small seas.
The oilfield area mentioned yesterday has been passed, and we are in deep (3000 metre) water, so there should not be many fishing boats around. Something very large and well-lit appears to be stationary about 12 miles east. Too far to be able to see what it is with binoculars, the AIS only reports the name of it (not position, course and speed like it usually does), Andromeda. Doesn't sound like a ship name. I didn't think oil rigs drilled this deeply, but maybe they do?
Fri Apr 10 9:30:00 EDT 2009
Had great wind yesterday (picture is from a couple of days ago, in light wind), force 3-6 from behind. Sailing farther offshore now to go around a Brazilian oilfield where access is restricted.
Thu Apr 9 10:20:00 EDT 2009
The rain (the dark area underneath part of the cloud in the picture) ahead has a squall (sudden increase in wind speed and often direction) with it. When this is coming for you, you get down some sails to be prepared for the much higher wind that you expect the squall to have. After a few minutes, it is generally over, and you tend to have the same wind speed and direction as you did before the squall.
There is an old sailor's rhyme about dealing with squalls: When rain comes before the wind, topsail sheets and halyards mind When wind comes before the rain, hoist your topsails up again
Yesterday the wind varied from Force 0 to Force 7, as it was mostly a squally day requiring lots of sail changes. The wind direction was favorable, though, so that was nice.
Tue Apr 7 20:50:00 EDT 2009
Have had a lot of light winds, mostly from ahead, so far this trip. While that has resulted in really slow progress, it also makes for a lot of pretty sunsets.
Fair Winds,
Tue Apr 7 10:00:00 EDT 2009
The fisherman sail is a four-cornered sail that sets high up, between the masts of a schooner. The name fisherman comes from the use of schooners for fishing off the east coast of North America, where fisherman would hang their nets to dry between the masts. Later, sails put up in their place were called fisherman sails.
The fisherman sail is one of the nice things about the schooner rig, as it is not quite as difficult a sail to handle as a spinnaker (the multicolored balloon-like sails generally set poled out), and gets sail area up high, where there is more wind.
Originally, the fisherman on this boat was set from a roller-furling rig on the aft side of the foremast. That never worked well, as the roller-furling rig didn't entirely fit the sail, and setting the sail involved climbing 12m up the mast to pull the sail out of the furler. Instead of using the roller-furling rig, I had slides put on the luff (leading edge of the sail), so the fisherman is slid up and down the foremast for raising and lowering the sail. Keeping the luff attached to the foremast makes it much easier to raise and lower the fisherman by oneself.
Because I was not using the original furling mechanism, I started setting the fisherman upside-down from how it had been set before (it fit the space now available better that way). This resulted in different parts of the sail chafing against the wires of the rigging. So I had more chafe patches put on the sail to prevent the chafe from damaging it.
In Argentina, I asked a sailmaker to change the shape of the top, so that it fit the space even better. I wanted a panel added to the top, so the whole sail would be bigger, as well as one top corner cut down so it would be possible to raise it to the top of both masts. The sailmaker pointed out it would be easy to cut down one corner, but difficult to add to the sail. So the corner was cut down and the sail made slightly smaller.
I'm experimenting with how high I want the sail now (highest for getting the sail where there is the most wind, but the higher it is the harder it is to raise it without anything getting caught), which is why it isn't quite at the top of the masts in this picture. Raising it up is also going to change where the sail chafes against the rigging wires, so will involve some new chafe patches. The dark line in the sail is where the sail has rubbed against the rigging wires. After sailing with this for a while, I'll have a new line in the sail to look at to see where to put the chafe patches.
Mon Apr 6 10:00:00 EDT 2009
Sunset over Isla Gorritti, Punta del Este. The sun is being framed by the windvane self-steering gear platform.
This picture was taken about 785 miles back (click on map for current location).
Sun Apr 5 10:00:00 EDT 2009
I mentioned getting the genoa made smaller yesterday. This sunrise picture shows the problem with waves hitting the foot (lower edge of the sail). The seas are not at all rough in the picture, the wind is light, but when the bow cuts into the waves, water is forced up and some of it still catches the foot of the genoa, which strains the sail and the furler it is attached to. Waves are not high enough in this picture to require reefing the genoa, but when they get a little higher, the genoa will need to be reefed (and the boat will go slower). Now that the genoa has been made smaller (cloth was taken out of it), waves hitting it are less of a problem than they used to be.
Sat Apr 4 10:00:00 EDT 2009
Ship crossing ahead. The genoa (the forward-most sail) was reduced in size in Argentina to make it easier to use. The foot is now higher and doesn't catch as many waves (also doesn't block visibility ahead so much).

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Gamma Ray - Hell Yeah! Live in Montreal (DVD)
For big, or even moderate Gamma Ray fans like myself, this DVD was a long time coming. I'm not simply talking about the fact that it should have been released over a year ago originally. Gamma Ray haven't released any form of an official live video since Ralf Scheepers was still their singer... over 13 years ago. Until now they had failed to catch the band in their current (and top) form, and luckily this DVD has finally done that.
Disc 1: Live in Montreal
Ah, where to begin. Well, there are a few mild complaints I have, so I might as well get the big one out of the way now. The crowd is mixed too quietly. I advise any first-time listeners to not turn up their speakers during the crowd intro and "Welcome", because you may blow them out once "Gardens of the Sinner" starts. Ah yes, Gardens of the Sinner. Things get off to a great start, and it becomes pretty apparent right away that the band sounds fantastic. All the instruments are represented at just the right levels, the band is having a great time, and they are playing quite well. The first few songs really get you going, namely the pleasant surprise of "Man on a Mission", which does much to showcase just how tight of a live outfit Gamma Ray are, ditto for "Fight". My other complaint is the use of split-screen editing to show 2 or 3 different things at once. The layering effects of this type are neat, but the plainly bordered 2-3 camera views are just kind of unproffesional looking, not to mention kind of annoying because obviously it's difficult to look at two thingsat once. However, they don't use the effect all that much, and the editing aside from that is downright enjoyable, a nice compromise of fast and slow editing, and the lighting just adds to the atmosphere. In my personal opinion the inclusion of tracks such as "Heavy Metal Universe" and "Dream Healer" wasn't the best decision, but it hardly hurts my opinion of the DVD. Things are great throughout, but really pick up once we hit "Beyond the Black Hole". "Somewhere Out in Space" may have been the most enjoyable song of the DVD for me, the best way I can describe it is simply "EPIC". Gamma Ray loves their singalongs, and the one in the aforementioned song is about as great as they come. The encores are fantastic as well, including a performance of Kai's "I Want Out" that should make Helloween green with envy in comparisson to how they perform it these days.
Simply put, the main concert on this DVD is a fantastic watch, which casual and hardcore Gamma Ray fans should really enjoy. The band play brilliantly, the sound is excellent, crowd interaction is superb. I can't register a solid complaint that would detract from my overall enjoyment of this show.
Disc 2: Special Features
I'll be honest here, I was a little dissapointed here. Points were not deducted off of my score for it though, as they are simply added bonus material. "Historay" is a nice compilation of pro-shot bootleg songs, backstage, and studio footage spanning their career, but mainly from the mid-to-late 90s and forward. Good stuff, but I think it would've been a good call to include subtitled on the majority of the stuff where they're speaking German. The whole feature runs about 45 minutes, the longest of all of them.
The Unplugged in Japan footage offers a nice stripped down approach to 4 tracks: Rebellion in Dreamland, Land of the Free, Fairytale, and Send Me a Sign. Nothing special and probably could've been done better, but they're neat to have.
The North American Tour "Documentary" let me down. As with "Historay", it's merely a compilation of footage rather than any form of a documentary with commentary. It does offer a number of laughs though and is worth the 20 minute watch.
The promo videos are all neat to have, but I had seen them before and really they're nothing too impressive. The DVD also features a live version of "Heavy Metal Universe" from Melbourne, Australia.
The final, and in my opinion best of the special features is the Wacken 2003/2006 footage. The 2003 songs (Last Before the Storm, One With the World) are the superior in quality and performance. They've been circulating on the internet for a while but are nice to have here. The 2006 footage (Rebellion in Dreamland, Heavy Metal Universe, Somewhere Out in Space) is of a bit lesser quality in both audio and performance itself, not aided by the unfortunate fact that the show was during the day.
So, all in all, what we have here is a fantastic feature DVD with some nice but not amazing bonus features. For Gamma Ray fans big and small, it is definitely worth the $20 you will likely pay for it, and finally captures the Hansen/Richter/Schlacter/Zimmerman lineup live in all its glory. I highly recommend this.
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Love the DVD, they sound fantastic from start to finish.
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Dammit, so you did find it and it is out. I've looked in 4 record stores and nobody has it.
and the singing dies down for just a second, right? Long enough for my dad to go "This is how they used to transport the Jews!"
I want this DVD.
"So yeah, monkey prostitution has happened."
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Love this band!! I should totally buy this!
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Kate Middleton wore her finest spring outerwear on April 10, 2014. Stepping out in a powder blue Alexander McQueen coat, the Duchess was escorted by Prince William at a ceremony at the war memorial in Seymour Square in the town of Blenheim, New Zealand.
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UPDATE: Walgreens announced in a Tweet that it has joined CVS in boycotting the current issue of Rolling Stone magazine.
In response to a controversial Rolling Stone cover that sparked outrage online, CVS has announced it will not sell the edition of the traditionally music-based magazine "out of respect for the victims of the attack and their loved ones."
The cover features a self-taken photo of accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhohkar Tsarnaev, which critics have claimed glorify the alleged murderer. CVS has particularly strong roots in New England markets including Boston.
The full CVS statement is as follows:
"CVS/pharmacy has decided not to sell the current issue of Rolling Stone featuring a cover photo of the Boston Marathon bombing suspect. As a company with deep roots in New England and a strong presence in Boston, we believe this is the right decision out of respect for the victims of the attack and their loved ones."


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Huggins' frustration mounting
MORGANTOWN - Bob Huggins has tried big lineups and small ones. He's tried playing primarily shooters at times and rebounders at others. He's tried speeding things up and slowing them down. He's tried mixes of all of those, and more, too.
Nothing has worked, at least not consistently, and West Virginia's 8-9 record is evidence of that.
So is Huggins' frustration.
"It just seems like every time I think I've maybe got something figured out that will work,'' he said after the latest of those losses, "they just say, 'Well, we can screw this up, too.'"
On Saturday, in West Lafayette, Ind., it was the small lineup of shooters. What would eventually become a 79-52 rout by Purdue was a 6-6 game early. Matt Humphrey and Aaron Brown, two all-but-forgotten players for the better part of two months, had accounted for West Virginia's six with a pair of 3-pointers.
But then in rapid-fire fashion, Humphrey picked up "two of the dumbest fouls that any human being could possibly make,'' Huggins said. So out goes Humphrey.
"He fouls underneath of our basket. Why?'' Huggins asked. "Particularly why do that when I went on a tangent [the previous day] about guys fouling way out on the perimeter? Why would you do that? Make then try to score.
"So then Matt's got two [fouls] with 16, 17 minutes to go in the first half. You've got to take him out.''
So with Humphrey out, it was harder to try and attack the way Huggins wanted to attack. Purdue eventually altered its lineup and went bigger, and WVU did the same for a while. But nothing worked.
That's becoming a repetitive theme, of course. So, too, is Huggins watching his team fail to grasp the basics of things like scouting reports.
"We used to give guys quizzes after scouting reports to see what they actually learned,'' Huggins said. "I'm not sure I don't do it now for them or for me. When you get a whole bunch of guys who don't get it right ...''
He didn't have to finish.
But at this point, with 14 games remaining in the regular season and any postseason berth seemingly in jeopardy - much less a sixth straight NCAA tournament bid - Huggins isn't giving up. On Saturday at Purdue, he went extensively with three players who had been almost resigned to the end of the bench - Humphrey, Brown and sophomore Volodymyr Gerun. Those three combined to play 42 minutes. Prior to last Wednesday's game at Iowa State, when Humphrey and Brown combined for 15 minutes, none of the three had played at all since Dec. 22.
The use of Gerun was perhaps intriguing. Having played just three games and a total of 12 minutes, the 6-foot-10, 240-pound forward played 12 minutes against Purdue.
Was that in preparation for more playing time as the season goes along? Huggins claims he wasn't thinking that far down the road.
"I looked down there and didn't like anything else any better,'' Huggins said, referring to his bench. "I thought he could make a shot.''
Gerun didn't score in his stint, which with the exception of a few seconds was all in the second half, but he had a couple of rebounds and two blocks and certainly wasn't shy about shooting. He attempted five shots and four were 3-pointers.
"They weren't guarding the big guy out on the perimeter and he has made shots,'' Huggins said. "He didn't make any, but that's what he's supposed to do best.''
West Virginia's next game is Wednesday night at home against TCU. The 7:30 p.m. game will be televised by ESPN2.
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Zinc White is the coolest white, and it has a cold, clean masstone and a slightly bluish tint. It has less hiding power and is more transparent than other whites. It dries slowly and is good for painting wet into wet and for glazing and scumbling. Zinc White is neither as opaque nor as heavy as Lead White, its covering power is not as good, and it takes much longer to dry. However, it does not blacken when exposed to sulfur in the air as Lead White does. It is very valuable for making tints with other colors. Unmixed Zinc White dries to a brittle and dry paint film that may crack over the years, so it is not good for frescoing. It is more transparent in acrylic form than Titanium White and is the most commonly used white with gouache. Chinese White is a version of Zinc White appropriate for opaque watercolor techniques.
Zinc White has great permanence and lightfastness.
Zinc White is moderately toxic if ingested and slightly toxic if inhaled.
Though historians are divided on who first isolated the element zinc, they agree that it was first suggested as a white pigment in 1782. Zinc White was accepted as a watercolor in 1834 and was called Chinese White due to the popularity of oriental porcelain in Europe at the time. Ten years later, a suitable oil form was produced. By the early 20th century, it had improved to the point where it was an acceptable alternative to Flake White.
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Phthalo Blues are completely lightfast and stable and are permanent for all paint uses. They are currently used in inks, coatings, and many plastics due to their stability and are considered a standard pigment in printing ink and the packaging industry.
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Developed by chemists using the trade name Monastral Blue, the organic blue dyestuff now known as Phthalo Blue was presented as a pigment in November 1935 in London. Its discovery was accidental. The dark color was observed in a kettle where a dye was being made from a British dyestuff plant. The demand for such a pigment came from commercial printers who wanted a cyan to replace Prussian Blue.
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Rebuilding Front Suspensions With PST - Suspending DilemmaWritten by on February 1, 2004 Rebuilding The Front Suspension With PST
Quite some time ago we introduced our ragged '68 Barracuda fastback. The tired old beast was put on the road with a minimum of wrenching-just enough to get it going. With its rat-rod flat-black primer and stripped-out interior, it was the perfect machine for slummin' in style. We got the itch to make it a little better though, and out came the well-worn 318 for a buildup. With the engine out, it seemed like the right time to get other mechanical matters up to spec. Though the rear suspension had been thoroughly rebuilt, up at the front, things were downright sloppy. With more power on its way, it was time to bite the bullet and do a full rebuild of the front end.
Suppliers, such as PST, offer complete suspension rebuild kits, providing all of the normal replacement components in one box. With a kit, the front suspension and steering can be stripped out and fully rebuilt to as-new freshness. We strongly prefer this comprehensive approach, rather than replacing parts piece-by-piece. PST offers bushings in either stock rubber or their proprietary PolyGraphite material. We opted to get a mix of the two, going Poly for the strut rod and upper control-arm bushings, while retaining rubber for the lower control-arm pivot bushing. New upper control-arm adjusting cam-bolts were provided in our kit, and we noted that the design had been beefed-up considerably from the replacements offered a few years back. To complete the parts selection, we ordered a complement of components to renew the steering linkage, including all the tie-rod ends, a set of heavy-duty tie-rod adjuster sleeves, as well as the pitman and idler arms. Rounding out the kit for our application were new ball joints and fresh rubber bumpstops to replace the battered originals.
Long term, we really aren't sure of what direction we want to go with this fastback fish. On one hand, we like the idea of building a fast drag car, taking cues from the SS/AA package cars that made this particular body style famous. Big-block, full cage, Hemi scoop, and 9-second performance-it would definitely make a statement. On the other hand, a nice fastback 'Cuda street machine with a warmed small-block, overdrive tranny, and a few chassis upgrades would be tough to top as a driver. We're leaning towards the first option, and as a step in that direction, we tapped Competition Engineering for a set of 3-way adjustable drag shocks. We may change directions before it is all said and done, and welcome your comments in helping us decide.
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The front end of this original 318 machine was the basic package, including drum brakes and no sway bar. We may follow through with higher performance upgrades later, but for now, we just needed to eliminate the unnerving wiggle in the loose components. Rather than going after the parts replacement piece-by-piece, it's best to just order a kit and replace all of the wear components.To take care of business, we ordered a complete kit from PST, and upped the ante with PolyGraphite bushings for the upper control arms and strut rods. We decided to use the stock-style rubber bushings on the lower control arms. These parts will basically replace all of the wear components (one side shown), including the upper and lower control-arm bushings, tie-rod ends, upper and lower ball joints, strut-rod bushings, and camber adjusting bolts. We noted that the camber adjusting bolts have been upgraded from those previously offered; these were nice heavy-duty pieces. We also got fresh pitman and idler arms (not shown).The first step after securing the car on jack stands and removing the wheels is to fully unwind the torsion-bar adjustment screws, located under the lower control-arm. This will relieve the spring tension from the suspension.Since the tie-rod ends were worn out and will be discarded, we used a pickle fork to separate them from the steering arm. To use the fork successfully, always align it so that it is working straight back into the steering arm. otherwise the deflecting steering linkage will absorb the force.After removing the wheel-bearing nut, the brake drum was pulled off, followed by the backing plate with the brake assembly.We used the pickle fork again to separate the upper ball joint. The upper control-arm was then unbolted and removed.Next, the shock was removed. It anchors to the lower control arm with a thru-bolt, and a bayonet through the inner fender apron.The spindle was then unbolted from the lower ball joint/steering arm. One of these bolts in early A-Body drum-brake spindles, threads directly into the spindle. Note the rounded head of this bolt, and reinstall it in the same position.
The front strut-rod nut should always be removed first, then moved to the rear of the rod. The tapered seat at the rear of the bar keeps the bar anchored to prevent it from spinning when removing the front lock nut.At the rear anchor of the torsion bar is a small wire retainer clip. Remove the clip to make way for removing the torsion bar.Since we are removing the control arm, there is no need for a special tool to remove the torsion bar. just remove the lower control-arm pivot-shaft nut where the shaft goes through the K-member, and then use a large pry-bar to wedge the lower control arm back. The torsion bar will slide back with the arm, and out of the socket at the rear crossmember. The control arm can then be tapped forward and off the bar.If the pitman arm is going to be replaced, a large heavy-duty puller will be required to get it free of the steering box. The idler arm simply bolts to the K-member, and the steering linkage can be removed as an assembly.Next, we stripped the lower control arm, pushing the pivot shaft out of the bushing from the back. The bushing shell will remain fixed to the shaft, but it is easily removed by striking it with a chisel, at 90-degree intervals along its length.We cleaned and painted the arm, and then pressed in the shaft and fresh bushing. With a new bumpstop and the torsion-bar adjustment hardware installed, it was ready to go back in.The upper ball joints screw into the control arm, and require a special socket to remove. Be prepared-they are tight.To remove the upper control-arm bushings, we use a 1/2-inch jackscrew as shown. The large pipe fitting to the left receives the bushing as it is pressed out, and is ground with a step to clear the flange at the edge of the control arm. The socket at the right pushes against the bushing as the screw assembly is tightened with a 31/44-inch drive impact wrench.
The upper control arm was bolted in with the new camber bolts from the PST kit, and swung up out of the way. Next, the strut rod was bolted to the lower arm, loaded with the rear half of the bushing, and the lower control arm was angled into position and bolted up. Finally, the lower ball-joint assembly was bolted in place.Since we were planning on making a drag car out of this 'Cuda, we opted for Competition Engineering's three-way-adjustable drag shocks, which we set to 90/10, for the greatest rate of front suspension rise.Installing the steering linkage is very straightforward; just install the pitman and idler arms, followed by the center link, and then the tie rods. We liked the new heavy-duty tie-rod sleeves from PST.With the suspension resting down against the bumpstop, and the front anchor of the torsion bar clocked against a fully unwound adjuster screw, the torsion bar should align and slide in easily with some light hammer taps from the rear.


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A man is still in custody Tuesday for allegedly sexually assaulting a five-year-old girl left in his care.
Shawndrick Travell Alford, 23, of Red Hill Church Road in Erwin, made his first appearance in court Tuesday for charges made against him by the Onslow County Sheriff's Office. Alford was charged with one count each of sexual offense with a child, indecent liberties with a child and contributing to the delinquency of a juvenile.
Alford is accused of sexually assaulting a five-year-old female while she was left in his care, according to warrants. He is accused of committing this offense between November 2012 and February 2013.
His secured bond was set at $100,000 and he was appointed attorney Samuel S. Popkin, according to court documents.
Alford was still in custody Tuesday with the Onslow County Sheriff's Office.
His preliminary hearing is set for July 23.
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Nashville, TN (Sports Network) - T.J. Oshie's shootout goal lifted the St. Louis Blues to a 4-3 victory over the Nashville Predators on Monday at Bridgestone Arena.
St. Louis backup goaltender Brian Elliot, who relieved starter Jaroslav Halak midway through the second period, saved all 13 shots he faced in regulation before stopping Craig Smith's wrister to open the shootout.
Oshie then beat Nashville goalie Pekka Rinne with a backhand, and after Elliot saved a backhand attempt from Martin Erat, Alexander Steen sealed the win with a backhand of his own.
Rookie Vladimir Tarasenko, who scored two goals in his NHL debut in Saturday's 6-0 rout of Detroit, kept his torrid start going with a goal and two assists, while Andy McDonald and Alex Pietrangelo also lit the lamp for the Blues.
Patric Hornqvist tallied a goal and two assists, while Colin Wilson and Mike Fisher each scored once for the Predators, who were coming off a 3-2 shootout loss to Columbus in their season opener.
Rinne finished with 36 saves in defeat.
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I can't seem to find an answer to my question. Can a nonresident carry a pistol while archery hunting in the back country? Any help would be great!
I can't seem to find an answer to my question. Can a nonresident carry a pistol while archery hunting in the back country? Any help would be great!
Here in South Dakota you have to have a concealed carry license to carry a pistol with a bow. Resident or non-resident doesn't matter as long as your state has reciprocity with ours. Now I am not sure if that is how it is with all states. Make sure to read all of the hunting regs and it should tell you there. I hqve also emailed or called conservation officers to get their opinion as they will be the ones enforcing the rules. Hopefully you can get a specific answer soon.
Now therefore, please take your weapons, your quiver and your bow, and go out to the field and hunt game for me.
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You don't need a concealed carry in Wyoming, and they passed a law saying you can carry while bow hunting. Read the regs for whatever state your hunting in though
I always carry a pistol while archery hunting here in CO; I've been carrying so long I can't really remember but I'm pretty sure I asked DOW regarding legality before I started carrying. I make sure the gun is exposed so there is no question about concealed carry. I guess to put the question to rest I would recommend giving DOW a call just to make sure.
If there is one thing that chaps my hide is hearing guys talk about their state making it unlawful to carry at anytime. Our founding fathers gave us an unalienable right to carry a fire arm in our second amendment. It is a right that cannot be outlawed. You can however loose the right by becoming a felon along with a lot of other rights.
States that think they can outlaw carrying a firearm are writing unconstitutional laws, laws I believe my oath I took are worth fighting against. To each their own but for me I refuse to live in, hunt in, or support such states. If I can be charged unconstitutionally as a felon for exercising my rights, I will fight.
States that right this crap are saying its to keep the archery season clean. Those of us that are true archers aren't going to cheat with a hand gun. I will use one to defend my life from critters of any leg count hell bent on my harm.
Fortunate here in Idaho, there are bear,cat, wolf all in season during the archery season. These are any weapon animals so often I carry both into the hunt just in case.
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I usually carry (not concealed even tho I have a CC permit) my .357 when I'm hunting here in Co. I'll be going to Calif deer hunting in Sept and I am planning on packin it then too. We are in the back country in a Wilderness area and usually never see anyone other than our group. Calif does not recognize my permit, not that it makes any difference in open carry. I am sure if we were to see a Warden or FS Ranger, they would be very uncomfortable seeing me with my big old SS S & W 686, even tho it is legal to open carry in Calif while hunting.
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Yes, you can carry one here, but make sure it's always exposed. Another thing is, if you're bow hunting, and wound the animal. You can't use the handgun to finish it off under any circumstances.
I never carried a handgun in all my hunting. I did carry bear spray, but never needed that either. I can sort of understand a bow hunter, but why does a rifle hunter need two guns?
You watch too many movies.
LOL! But seriously I would carry a revolver for backup in areas with lots of wolves or bears.


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Her Learning Never Stops
During her nearly 30-year career in nursing, Adult Psychiatric & Mental Health Clinical Nurse Specialist & Nurse Practitioner Lucy Johnson has never stopped learning new things.
Developing and exploring her talents and interests on the job, she has earned four college nursing degrees while working full-time caring for patients. And looking back, she wouldn't do it any other way.
"I've always been interested in learning, not because I like academia, but to make sure I'm doing the best job for patients," says Johnson.
As a clinical nurse specialist with Sanford Behavioral Health, Johnson diagnoses psychiatric and mental health concerns, provides psychotherapy and prescribes medications for patients at clinics in Fargo and Perham.
Finding her calling
She began her career as a "float nurse," spending much of her time in psychiatry, neurology and pediatrics. She's been part of an intensive care unit and provided hospice services. Over the years, Johnson discovered that she had an affinity for mental health nursing, which became her career path.
"People are so interesting because we all think differently," Johnson says. "I get to listen to people and their problems and problem-solve. I like what I'm doing. "
Johnson advanced her education gradually, first earning her RN and then BSN degrees and then going on to a master's degree and post master's certification as an Adult Psychiatric & Mental Health Clinical Nurse Specialist & Nurse Practitioner . The on-going learning helped her reach career goals, but also to make good choices based on what she discovered on the hospital or clinic floor, meeting her practical career needs.
Throughout her years as a nurse, she's seen the importance of certification, specialized training that can help her to do her job better.
When she worked as an intensive care unit nurse, she got certified in critical care nursing. As a hospice nurse, she maintained a certification specific to her job. Gaining certification specific to psychiatric/mental health services not only helped her better care for patients, but also led to her to get the graduate degree she needed for her current job.
Training and connections
"I've had the opportunity to make choices very specific to my interest that I might not have made if I had done the graduate work at the beginning," says Johnson. "I have been able to make decisions that play to my strengths and what I like to do."
The connections and information that she has gained with her participation in professional organizations have also been invaluable to her learning and her career path, she says. Her membership in groups, such as the American Nursing Association, North Dakota Nursing Association, American Psychiatric Nursing Association have helped her keep up on the latest information in her professional areas, make contacts with other nurses and continue to learn.
"Nurses have always been interested in preventative care, we work across spectrums, in schools, communities, nursing homes and clinics," Johnson says. "We have an incredible amount of opportunities in our professional arena."
Johnson loves what she does, but also makes it a priority to take time taking care of her own personal and mental health needs. She bikes, walks, swims, skis and loves to travel. She enjoys spending time with her husband, who has supported all her educational efforts over the years.
"I work hard, but I play really hard also," says Johnson. "I take my vacation time. It's important that if you work and study hard that you also laugh and relax."
Valued team partners
Johnson says nurses have an incredible ability to affect positive change in today's health care system. Their direct involvement in care helps them understand clearly what works and what doesn't work.
Their role is increasingly to be full partners, valued team members working side by side with physicians and other professional colleagues, she says.
"We nurses are the glue, we're integral in every aspect of care, in figuring out and evaluating what is going on, what the outcome may be," says Johnson.
Today, Johnson is excited for the major initiative at Sanford Health to integrate behavioral health care as part of primary care services. She sees patients at main medical clinics and is part of a team that is working to utilize a $12 million Health Care Innovation grant from the Centers for Medicare/Medicaid, making ways to make mental health care better available to those with the highest needs.
It's one more step forward for the mental health field, for patients and for nurses like Johnson.
"Nurses need to be leading the way, practicing to the full extent of our background and training," Johnson says. "It's challenging work, but I love it."
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News: PCC Alumni Feature: Former Football Star Momon Now A Prep Superintendent
The artificial turf that now covers the football field at Robinson Stadium is a far cry from the grass and dirt PCC alumnus Elvin Momon ran on. In fact, many things on campus are different from what they used to be in 1972 when the former running back was part of one of the Lancers' greatest football teams.
Walking onto the field recently, Momon reminisced about his old football playing days, and how close he was to his teammates and coaches.
"We would play basketball on a court that used to be over there," Momon said, pointing to where Parking Lot 4 is located now. "And some of us players would rough-house in the locker room after practice."
They might've been having fun in the locker room, but the 1972 Lancer football team meant business when it was on the field as it was almost unstoppable. With a record of 12-1, PCC won the Metropolitan Conference title. The team's only loss came against Fresno City in the Potato Bowl.
"I remember that game," Momon said of the loss. "I was beat up. At least five or six of us were really beat up after playing Saddleback [in the playoffs]." Though the Lancers limped off the field with a 21-7 loss against Fresno in the state title game, the Lancers still were proclaimed as national champions by the JC Grid-Wire.
"But it's great to see that I've still got some bragging rights!" he exclaimed as he flipped through PCC's football records.
Much has changed since those days, including Momon trading in his shoulder pads for a suit and tie. Now, Momon focuses on keeping children and teachers in check as the superintendent at Victor Valley Union High School District.
"It's definitely a challenge, but I enjoy it," he said. "It gives me a chance to impact not just a couple hundred kids but 10,000 kids."
One of Momon's main goals is for VVUHSD to prepare today's youth for an ever-changing global economy by placing a great deal of focus on math, science and technology. "Our kids are teaching teachers technology in some cases," Momon said. "It's like they're born with a chip in their head! So we have new standards that will focus on critical thinking and technology."
In his playing days at PCC, Momon rushed for 1,419 yards in his career at and he still holds the No. 5 spot for most rushing yards in a season at 1,194. He averaged 4.7 yards per carry that season and was an All-Metro Conference selection as well as an All-American honorable mention.
Harvey Hyde, an assistant coach for the Lancers at the time and later a 2-time conference champion head coach for PCC in 1979-80, said that even former rival football coach Ernie Johnson called Momon "the best running back in the state."
Momon points out to players he played with or knows, such as his brother-in-law Danny Pittman Sr., who went on to play for the New York Giants and Arizona Cardinals in the National Football League.
Momon also mentions No. 5 career rusher at PCC Albert Youngblood, the running back he shadowed and learned from as a freshman Lancer, among many others, such as former USC Trojan and Oakland Raider Charlie Phillips.
"[Momon's] style was very similar to NFL legend Marcus Allen," Hyde said. "He didn't appear to be very fast, but he was, even when running sideways."
His talents didn't come easy to him though. Momon says he wasn't very athletic as a child but credits his two cousins for teaching him how to play stickball and football on an old dirt field in Pasadena. When they thought he was good enough, his cousins saved up money from their paper routes, sat Momon on their handlebars and gave him a ride to Victory Park where they signed him up for Pop Warner football.
Momon was born in Arkansas on February 9, 1953, but his family moved to Pasadena before he turned one year old. He grew up on Villa Street and Fair Oaks Avenue, went to Blair Elementary, William McKinley Middle and Blair High School where, as a junior, Momon helped the Vikings defeat Bishop Amat in 1970 to win the CIF championship and become the No. 1 high school football team in the nation. After graduating high school in 1971, Momon began attending PCC.
Education and administration wasn't something Momon always knew he wanted to do though. After receiving a football scholarship from Oregon State University, Momon moved up north to The Beaver State after graduation from PCC and not only continued to play football, but discovered that he wanted to help children. It was difficult, but Momon learned to balance athletics and school and received his bachelor's in physical education in 1975 then his master's degree in counseling and clinical psychology in 1977.
"PCC definitely got me used to balancing football and my education," he remembers. "I left Pasadena undecided, but I got a great education there. The rigor in the classrooms from the professors was outstanding and they did a very good job preparing me for Oregon State."
"He was one of those guys who wasn't a big name coming out of high school, but when he went to PCC he made a name for himself," Hyde said. "PCC offers a lot. Student-athletes can develop their minds and bodies as freshmen and sophomores so that they will be better prepared for the university level."
He found some success on the field at OSU, getting the team's MVP award and even transitioning to the short-lived professional World Football League (WFL), which folded midway through its second season. It was then that Momon decided to further his career in education.
The former running back began moving up the ranks at his first job in education in an all-girl private catholic school where he taught physical education, physiology and anatomy. "I was surrounded by nuns and was the only man," Momon said, laughing. "It was very interesting!"
From there, his experiences were a little more normal. He transitioned to counseling at the Palm Springs Unified School District then began attending Cal State San Bernardino with a friend, where he received an administrative services credential.
Momon moved his family to Victorville where he became a counselor at VVUHSD. Then, impressed with his work and the handling of a school controversy, Momon quickly began moving up the ranks and was eventually promoted to principal at Victor Valley High School, where he helped the school improve its test scores by 150 points.
"We experienced tremendous growth during my time at the high school," he said. "As a result, I was moved to the district where I became the senior director of human resources for a couple of years."
When a superintendent stepped down at the district, Momon was appointed in 2010 and has held the title ever since.
PCC Police Chief Donald Yoder, who is the former Chief of Police for the City of Victorville, met Momon in June 2011. Victorville police officers also served as School Resources Officers in the area's schools, so Yoder witnessed Momon's "great leadership" through tough times in the school district.
"Our relationship began as professional, but we became good friends," Yoder said. "I have been very fortunate to have met him and our love of college football really brought us together; even if he is an Oregon State fan!
"[Momon] is a very honorable, humble, caring, outgoing and fun individual," Yoder continued. "He has shown compassion and caring for his students and staff."
Momon has spent 35 years in education and even now, a year away from retirement, Momon still has big plans for his district. He is planning on using high-performing schools like University Preparatory and the Cobalt Institute of Math and Science, which both have advanced programs such as culinary, engineering and bio medicine among other things, as an example for other schools in his district.
"I want to just bottle up what those schools do and share it with the other schools in our system," he said.
After he retires, Momon would like to do some consulting work for others but for now, he enjoys reminiscing about his days playing with the Lancers and looks forward to sharing his success with his grandchildren.
"I had some pretty good influences growing up," Momon says. Influences, including parents, family and teammates, who have helped Momon strive to become the hard-working and successful man he is today.
"He's a quiet gentleman," Hyde said about Momon. "He's the perfect example of many former student-athletes who have gone through PCC and were successful on the field as well as off, have done a lot to give back to their community, and have influenced children and adults alike."
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Although anti-game activist Jack Thompson's latest campaign to pass video game legislation in Utah got off to a fast start, it is ending both unsuccessfully and with rancor.
In the latest development, GamePolitics has learned that Rep. Mike Morley (R), the Utah House sponsor of the Thompson-authored HB 353, circulated an e-mail to his legislative colleagues last week in which he apologized for Thompson's behavior.
Morley's apology came in response to the flap caused by an Easter Sunday e-mail sent by Thompson to numerous Utah legislators. The e-mail, which ultimately prompted State Sen. President Michael Waddoups (R) to threaten Thompson with prosecution, depicted GTA IV 's Nico Bellic receiving a lap dance from a pair of strippers. Thompson also included links to videos of graphic GTA IV content.
Here is Morley's e-mail:
Subject: My apologies for Jack Thompson
Dear Fellow House Members:
Over the past few days, I have received three emails from Jack Thompson regarding his concerns about mature video games being sold to minors. Certainly, I am concerned about the graphic violence and sexuality of some of the mature video games, I am apalled by his use of what I view as pornographic images. I want to make it clear that I had no previous knowledge of his intention to send the images and I apologize to each of you who received his email and were offended as I was.
Mr. Thompson is a nation [sic] advocate for this cause, but he doesn't speak for me nor do I condone or appreciate his actions nor some his tactics.
Mike Morley
When asked for comment by GamePolitics, Thompson said that he hadn't seen Morley's e-mail and "couldn't care less." Within minutes, however, he fired off an e-mail of his own to Utah largely conservative legislators:
I understand that Mike Morley apologized to you all for the shocking image I sent you of two women in bikinis in a strip club. Sorry, Utahns, but you can see that on a beach. To see more explicit material as to what is in the GTA IV game, you had to click on the two links I provided, and that was your choice. I warned you what you would see if you chose to do so.
Mike Morley's apology is ridiculous. I didn't scandalous [sic] anyone with an image of two clad women. What is really going on here is that I upset the Republican club that runs Utah, and those in that club are seizing upon this harmless image as a ruse to scold the outsider who unfortunately showed that some in Utah aren't serious about protecting children. Your Governor isn't serious, and we sure as heck know your AG is not. Heck, he takes money from the video game industry to say how well the ratings are working… Incredible.
The only apology that is owed is by each of you for not insisting upon an override session [of Gov. Huntsman's HB 353 veto]… Your family values stance is a sham.
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Mr. Co-Chairman, I visited Georgia in September 1991 with a Congressional Delegation and I am sure that nobody who took part in that trip will ever forget it. I applaud your holding these hearings on a country about which we have been reading a lot lately. Unfortunately, the coverage has focused on serious domestic and foreign problems. To begin with the former, The New York Times and the Christian Science Monitor published troubling articles on the ongoing violence against religious minorities and NGOs, whereas the Washington Post recently reported on President Shevardnadze=s slipping position in the country.
Politicians, of course, come and go - even those such as Eduard Shevardnadze, who has played an indisputably important role in recent history. But Georgia is more than one politician-statesman and that is why we are so concerned about the overall trends. Whether in regard to elections, corruption, abductions, conflict resolution and general stability, Georgia often seems on the wrong track - sometimes, in fact, Georgia seems to be headed off the tracks entirely.
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The other subject that has drawn much attention is the alleged presence of terrorists in Georgia=s Pankisi Gorge, both al-Qaeda and Chechen fighters fleeing from Russia. Russian generals and President Putin have offered assistance in hunting them down, and have insisted on participating in the effort, claiming that Georgia cannot manage on its own. While Georgia surely has a way to go in developing modern, well-equipped military forces, any Russian incursion into Georgia would only worsen the situation and possibly destabilize the entire region.
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Keely Loren Mills and Kyle Lee Koonce, both of Trenton, were united in marriage on March 2, 2013, at Trenton United Methodist Church with the Rev. Elva L. Morton III officiating.
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FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. -- A Fayetteville father has been charged after police say his 4-year-old son found a loaded gun in the home and shot and killed himself.
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CARSON - Justin Ramirez sprinted toward the Granite Bay High School sideline, his helmet in his right hand, and pumped it skyward 11 times in succession. Big Luke Jarvis ran over to the wall and did a Lambeau Leap into into the arms of waiting fans.
The Grizzlies capped their first trip to the CIF State Bowl Games with their first state championship, edging perennial state and national power Long Beach Poly 21-20 in a constant drizzle Friday night at The Home Depot Center.
Senior Johnny Cooley, returning to the game after sustaining an injury to his right arm in the first half, scored the tying touchdown on a three-yard run with 1:12 remaining, and Colin Brown's extra-point kick gave Granite Bay (13-3) the lead.
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"You win state championships with defense," Granite Bay head coach Ernie Cooper said of the Grizzlies, who received two interceptions from Knapp, one from junior Luke Bussey and two from junior Dylan Keeney, including a 29-yard pick six that gave the Grizzlies their first lead at 14-7 with 4:36 left in the third quarter.
Keeney said the Grizzlies had a deep curl route pegged on the third-and-14 play.
"We knew it was coming," Keeney said after receiving his most extensive playing time of the season, a reward for hard work at practice and increased hard hitting on special teams over the course of Granite Bay's 12-game winning streak.
This was Poly's second loss to a Northern California team in a State Bowl Game. Grant defeated the Jackrabbits 25-20 in in the 2008 Open Division game.
"We thought, Grant came down and did this thing. We can go do this thing, too," Cooper said. "We can play with anybody, and we did."
Granite Bay was on a roll on both sides of the ball during its run to Sierra Foothill League, Sac-Joaquin Section and state championships, but the Grizzlies had problems with Poly in the first half. The speedy Jackrabbits cut off Tony Ellison on fly sweeps and plugged the gaps on runs by Taft Partridge and Cooley.
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"I am really at a loss for words," Knapp said. "This has been an unbelievable ride for us."
Said senior defensive back Nick Grace, "I'm so happy for my teammates, our fans, our band that comes everywhere for us. To win like we did in the last minute is a dream for us."
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Long Beach Poly 7 0 7 6 - 20
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GB - Keeney 29 interception return (Partridge run)
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RUSHING - Granite Bay, Ellison 12-64, Cooley 12-48, Partridge 8-33, Caraway 3-minus 8, Geraghty 2-0, team 1-minus 1. Long Beach Poly, Luuga 14-104, Wicks 12-19, Jackson 1-6, Calhoun 1-minus 1, team 1-minus 1.
PASSING - Granite Bay, Caraway 11-23-0, 118. Long Beach Poly, Jackson 6-10-2, 141; Tiedemann 2-5-2, 20; Luuga 1-2-1, 20; Derrick 0-1-0, 0; team 0-1-0, 0.
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