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Another round of battles have and are being fought on the front lines of trying to do business in the Napa Valley. You may not know this but there is a HUGE anti-winery sentiment in the local Napa government entities, it seems the county offices in particular are leading that charge. As with most conflict it simply does not need to be this way... ARTICLES: Castle winery that outpaced visitor limit by 1,600% gets Napa County's blessing to keep pouring - https://www.northbaybusinessjournal.com/article/napa/winery-napa-visitor-tasting/ ‘It doesn't seem fair': Small Napa wineries fear local government could deal another blow to their survival - https://www.sfchronicle.com/food/wine/article/wine-trade-tasting-napa-20216307.php Be sure to SUBSCRIBE and follow us on our social networks @mtgawines (YouTube, Instagram, The Book of Face and the Social Network Formerly Known as Twitter) MTGA Wines: www.mtgawines.com Blaire Payton Wines: www.blairepaytonwines.com

We here at Sip Sip Hooray! love a good deal! Amid all the stories swirling around about how expensive Wine Country visits have become, we decided to challenge ourselves and see if we could buck the trend, and save a few - or more - bucks. Our first destination was Napa Valley, and ICYMI the episode, check it out here. Now we're headed to Sonoma County, one of Travel & Leisure's Best 50 Places to Travel in 2024. We did the research so you don't have to. How about wine tastings for $35 or less, hotels for $200 or less a night, good local eats and fun activities that won't break the bank? Yes please! We've even got several recommendations that are free

VYS0046 | Ding Dong Merrily On High Strangeness - Vayse to Face to Face with Stephanie Quick and AP Strange: Christmas 2024 - Show Notes Ho, ho, holy shit that's another year gone and Christmas is here again! To mark the ever-increasing speed at which the years fly past in a blur of spiralling anxiety and gathering doom, Hine and Buckley invite two of the nicest, wisest and funniest people in Weirdosphere, Stephanie Quick and AP Strange, to help them celebrate away the winter blues. Drawing on the British tradition of telling ghost stories at Christmas, Hine, Buckley, Strange and Quick (also the title of the upcoming Vayse autobiography) work their way around the cardinal points, each telling a ghost story from the place in which they were born: the North and South of England and the East Coast and West Coast of the US. There are tales of a murderous jester who stalks the corridors of a Cumbrian castle to this day; a red haired woman who haunting a pirate-built cottage in New England; a missing bride at a Christmas wedding in a very haunted stately home in Hampshire; and a revolutionary Californian abolitionist who still throws nuts from trees over 120 years after her death... and they discuss three lesser known British winter traditions: Raymond Briggs' Snowman, ignoring Thanksgiving and moaning about the weather... (recorded 8 December 2024) Thanks to AP and Steph for preparing the stories and thanks to Keith for another year of show notes - follow the man on Blue Sky: @peakflow.bsky.social. Merry Christmas everyone, thanks for listening! Steph Quick online Ghost Dog is a Mystery Box (Steph's blog) (https://stephaniequick.home.blog/) Steph on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/@stephaniequick2683/videos) Steph on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/dashing_eccentric/) Steph on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/stephanie.qich) Steph on Bluesky (https://bsky.app/profile/lunarose.bsky.social) AP Strange online AP Strange's Weird Writings (https://www.apstrange.com/) The AP Strange Show podcast (https://theapstrangeshow.transistor.fm/episodes) AP on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/@APStrange23) AP on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/apstrange23/) AP on Bluesky (https://bsky.app/profile/apstrange.bsky.social) Hine's intro A Visit from St. Nicholas - All Poetry (https://allpoetry.com/A-Visit-from-St.-Nicholas) VYS0013 | A Vayse-man Came Travelling - Yule 2022 (https://www.vayse.co.uk/vys0013) VYS0028 | Psychic Jizz - Vayse to Face with Stephanie Quick (https://www.vayse.co.uk/vys0028) VYS0037 | Elvis with a Flaming Sword - Vayse to Face with AP Strange (https://www.vayse.co.uk/vys0037) A short history of the Christmas ghost story Yule - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yule) A Christmas Carol - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Christmas_Carol) The Pickwick Papers (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pickwick_Papers) The Story Of The Goblins Who Stole A Sexton (BBC Radio Drama) - Archive.org (https://archive.org/details/the-story-of-the-goblins-who-stole-a-sexton) A Ghost Story for Christmas (BBC anthology series) - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Ghost_Story_for_Christmas) M.R. James - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M._R._James) Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%27Oh,_Whistle,_and_I%27ll_Come_to_You,_My_Lad%27) Whistle And I'll Come To You - Dream Sequence (BBC Omnibus 1968) - YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTkvzOuYvTM) Buckley's ghost story: The Murderous Jester of Muncaster Castle Muncaster Castle - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muncaster_Castle) Cumbria - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumbria) VYSXXXX | The Real Vayse: Halloween 2024 (https://www.vayse.co.uk/vysxxxx) Thomas Skelton: The Murderous Jester of Muncaster Castle - Haunted Palace (https://hauntedpalaceblog.com/2016/11/15/thomas-skelton-the-murderous-jester-of-muncaster-castle/) The Remains of John Briggs, containing Letters From the Lakes, Letter XI: Muncaster Hall - Archive.org (https://archive.org/details/remainsofjohnbri00brigiala/page/154/mode/2up) Fool of Muncaster - Muncaster.co.uk (https://www.muncaster.co.uk/castle/foolofmuncaster) Thomas Ligotti - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Ligotti) Morecambe Bay cockling disaster - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morecambe_Bay_cockling_disaster) Jester - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jester) AP's ghost story: Ocean Born Mary New England - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_England) In search of Stephen King in New England, US - Roadbook (https://roadbook.com/travel/road-trip-new-england-stephen-king/) H.P. Lovecraft - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._P._Lovecraft) Barney and Betty Hill incident - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barney_and_Betty_Hill_incident) Bridgewater Triangle - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridgewater_Triangle) Dover Demon - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dover_Demon) Salem witch trials - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salem_witch_trials) The Great New England Vampire Panic - Smithsonian (https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-great-new-england-vampire-panic-36482878/) Bigfoot in New England: Sixty-Seven Credible Sightings? - New England Folklore (https://newenglandfolklore.blogspot.com/2016/01/bigfoot-in-new-england-sixty-seven.html) The Great New England Sea Serpents - New England Historical Society (https://newenglandhistoricalsociety.com/great-new-england-sea-serpents/) New Hampshire Legend: Ocean Born Mary (https://newenglandhistoricalsociety.com/ocean-born-mary-new-hampshire-legend/) Hans Holzer - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Holzer) Sybil Leek - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sybil_Leek) Princess Bride (1987) clip, The Story of Dread Pirate Roberts - YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHZGqBVBCRw) The dark fandom behind healthcare CEO murder suspect - BBC News (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp8nk75vg81o) American Gods - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Gods) Jack Parsons - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Parsons) VYS0029 | If There's Something Strange In Your Neighbourhood - Vayse to Face to Face with Field Lines Cartographer and Bob Freeman: Halloween 2023 (https://www.vayse.co.uk/vys0029) The Retributory Haunting of Bannister Doll - Beyond the Black Pool (https://beyondtheblackpool.wordpress.com/2021/05/03/the-retributory-haunting-of-bannister-doll/) La Llorona - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Llorona) Jenny Greenteeth - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenny_Greenteeth) Unthanksgiving Day, The Indigenous Peoples Sunrise Ceremony Occupation of Alcatraz - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupation_of_Alcatraz) Unthanksgiving Day: A celebration of Indigenous resistance to colonialism - The Conversation (https://theconversation.com/unthanksgiving-day-a-celebration-of-indigenous-resistance-to-colonialism-held-yearly-at-alcatraz-216956) The Indigenous Peoples Sunrise Thanksgiving Service on Alcatraz Island - YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3tHigN83QA) Hine's ghost story: The Mistletoe Bride Bramshill House: Legends - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bramshill_House#Legends) The Bramshill House Bride, or the Legend of the Mistletoe Bough - Burials and Beyond (https://burialsandbeyond.com/2019/12/21/the-bramshill-house-bride-or-the-legend-of-the-mistletoe-bough/) Burials & Beyond website (https://burialsandbeyond.com/) The Mistletoe Bough (1904) - BFI National Archive restoration - YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkCpnHnnC1w) Rope (1948) clip - Reference to Mistletoe Bough - YouTube (https://youtu.be/8ofisp07tb0?si=mzr71IizuHZ3UEiR) The Mistletoe Bride & Other Haunting Tales, by Kate Mosse - Goodreads (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18374015-the-mistletoe-bride-other-haunting-tales) Bellowhead: The Mistletoe Bough (From BBC Four Sessions - The Christmas Session) - YouTube (https://youtu.be/vWAsUuXws_Y?si=VCCB8CM2xxtCPkZw&t=970) ‘The Incorruptibles': Who Are These Mysterious Saints? - EWTN (https://ewtn.co.uk/article-the-incorruptibles-who-are-these-mysterious-saints/) Egregore - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egregore) VYS0044 | For Fear of Little Men - Vayse to Face with Jo Hickey-Hall (https://www.vayse.co.uk/vys0044) Steph's ghost story: Mary Ellen Pleasant Steph's Notes on Mary Ellen Pleasant (https://docs.google.com/document/d/11UcFA576zVUEiaru9vOjNvEAR_-RWGln8RiJjjtdrzo/edit?usp=sharing) Mary Ellen Pleasant - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Ellen_Pleasant) Napa County, California - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napa_County,_California) John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Brown%27s_raid_on_Harpers_Ferry) Haitian Vodou - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haitian_Vodou) Underground Railroad - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underground_Railroad) Marie Laveau - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Laveau) Shusheel Bibbs' MEP website (https://www.marypleasant1.com/) Heritage of Power: Marie LaVeaux to Mary Ellen Pleasant, by Susheel Bibbs - Goodreads (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25133035-heritage-of-power) Mary Ellen Pleasant Memorial Park - Atlas Obscura (https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/mary-ellen-pleasant-memorial-park-san-francisco) Lwa (Loa) - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lwa) Christmas weather Radiation Fog - Weather.gov (https://www.weather.gov/safety/fog-radiation) The history of British winters - Net Weather (https://www.netweather.tv/weather-forecasts/uk/winter/winter-history) Little Ice Age - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Ice_Age) River Thames frost fairs - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_Thames_frost_fairs) Christmas recommendations Beltane Ranch and Vineyard website (https://beltaneranch.com/) The Christmas Toy (1986) Restored (video) - Archive.org (https://archive.org/details/the-christmas-toy-1986/The+Christmas+Toy+(1986)+Restored.mkv) The Snowman: Bowie intro - YouTube (https://youtu.be/54MEWWIiIk8?si=05_wzIsO1qmmqD5e) The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992) Trailer #1 - YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNo-Q0IDJi0) Scrooged Trailer - YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YjrsSEEreY) Tom Waits - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Waits) New York Dolls - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Dolls) Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus trailer - YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6p3yEqMeU64) David Johansen & Larry Saltzman: Last Kind Words (audio) - YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yutfCn7w9cA) Geeshie Wiley - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geeshie_Wiley) Buddy Hackett - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddy_Hackett) Hot Frosty Official Trailer - Netflix - YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dmi794YO-0w) This American Life: The Super (audio) (https://www.thisamericanlife.org/323/the-super) Buckley's closing question Hands: A true case study of a phenomenal hypnotic subject, by Margaret Williams - Goodreads (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4569800-hands) Vayse online Vayse Website (https://www.vayse.co.uk/) Vayse on Twitter (https://twitter.com/vayseesyav) Vayse on Bluesky (https://bsky.app/profile/vayseesyav.bsky.social) Vayse on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/vayseesyav/) Bandcamp (Music From Vayse) (https://vayse.bandcamp.com/) Vayse on Ko-Fi (https://ko-fi.com/vayse) Email: vayseinfo@gmail.com Special Guests: AP Strange and Stephanie Quick.

How the SOAR program in Napa County helps individuals with early signs of psychosis. “Chalk Talk” discusses pregnancy leave, technical education and more. Finally, unpacking the 2024 SacramenKnow gift guide. Napa County's SOAR Psychosis Care Program

Roy OG joins us exclusively on The Symbiosis Now Podcast via phone call from Napa County to talk some shit, including the belated Trump assassination attempt(s), the ongoing proxy wars throughout the globe, and cultural habituations of sorts. Find Roy OG on Instagram ⁠⁠@royog⁠⁠ & on Twitter ⁠⁠@Royog559⁠⁠ ! TELL YOUR FRIENDS ABOUT THE PODCAST. Find the host Tyler Colombero ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@brodudemann⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ . Check out the NEW⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ TSNN website⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ with links to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠The Symbiosis Now Podcast ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠THE CALI AG PODCAST⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ & of course ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠History Lessons From The Lore Master⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ from ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠The Symbiosis Now Network⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ! Cheers to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Nic Chagoya⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ aka ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@nicos_wurld⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ , aka ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@nicos_artbook⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ , aka @nicosgotsatiktok for creating the new podcast cover art that you are witnessing now! Be sure to find him on the socials and see his wide variety of skills & art. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/symbiosisnow/support

Haunty Spook Spook Season is Here! Emily is back with Andy to discuss one of the most gruesome double homicides in the history of All Hallows Eve. In 2004, two women in Napa County, California (Adriane Insogna and Leslie Ann Mazzara), were brutally stabbed to death in their home on Halloween night, and it would take a full year for police to hone in on the killer. Later in the episode, we'll shift gears to explore some of the spookiest mythological creatures in US history, including Tahoe Tessie, The White Lady, The Tommyknockers and more...    Link to the Creepy Creatures Article -- Connect with us! Instagram: @unnaturalthepodcast Facebook: Unnatural: A True Crime Podcast Email: unnaturalthepodcast@gmail.com

Episode 4: "Lake Berryessa"  Two college students relax along the shore of a lake in Napa County, California on a sunny afternoon in September of 1969. Before long, they are interrupted by a man who wears an eerie black hood and carries a gun. The man attacks the students with a knife and leaves them for dead. The killer writes a message on the students' car and calls the police to take credit for the crime. In the process, he leaves behind new clues that investigators add to the growing list of evidence about the elusive criminal. Listen to Infamous America wherever you get your favorite podcasts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

If you are dealing with vine mealybug in your vineyard, you are not alone. Kent Daane, Cooperative Extension Specialist at the University of California Berkley studies different types of mealybug populations across the globe. Kent covers organic and conventional strategies, ways to increase the presence of generalist and specialist natural predators, and the importance of establishing refugia for beneficials. His latest work focuses on area-wide management tactics. Looking to the European Grapevine Moth eradication program as an example, Kent sees an opportunity to decrease vine mealybug populations through neighborhood driven monitoring, trapping, coordinated sprays, and mating disruption. Resources:         119: Vine Mealybug 101: Species Identification, Lifecycle, and Scouting to Create an IPM Program 130: The Biological Control of Vine Mealybug Using Mealybug Destroyers and Anagyrus Wasps Biology and management of mealybugs in vineyards Ecology and management of grapevine leafroll disease Impacts of Argentine ants on mealybugs and their natural enemies in California's coastal vineyards Insecticides for a mealybug and a carpenter moth on vine trunks, 2023 In-season drip and foliar insecticides for a mealybug in grapes, 2023 In-Season Drip and Foliar Insecticides for a Mealybug in Grapes, 2021 Kent Daane Mealybug transmission of grapevine leafroll viruses: an analysis of virus–vector specificity Sustainable Control tools for Vine Mealybug UCCE Napa Viticulture Extension Leaf Hopper site Vineyard managers and researchers seek sustainable solutions for mealybugs, a changing pest complex Vineyard Team Programs: Juan Nevarez Memorial Scholarship - Donate SIP Certified – Show your care for the people and planet   Sustainable Ag Expo – The premiere winegrowing event of the year Sustainable Winegrowing On-Demand (Western SARE) – Learn at your own pace Vineyard Team – Become a Member Get More Subscribe wherever you listen so you never miss an episode on the latest science and research with the Sustainable Winegrowing Podcast. Since 1994, Vineyard Team has been your resource for workshops and field demonstrations, research, and events dedicated to the stewardship of our natural resources. Learn more at www.vineyardteam.org.   Transcript [00:00:00] Craig Macmillan: Welcome to Sustainable Wine Growing with Vineyard Team. Our guest today is Kent Daane. He is a Cooperative Extension Specialist with the University of California, Berkeley, and he works primarily out of the Kearney Agricultural Research and Extension Center. And today we're going to talk about a number of topics. Thanks for being on the podcast, Kent. [00:00:17] Kent Daane: Craig, thanks. I'm happy to be here. [00:00:20] Craig Macmillan: Let's dive in on one pest that everybody's interested in, continuing to be interested in, and you may have some new insights or newer insights on this. Let's start with mealybug management. Kind of what's the state of the art in that topic right now? [00:00:33] Kent Daane: Yeah, that's been the number one question I've been getting for many, many years now. It is an invasive pest. We know it came in, probably being brought in by a grower down in Coachella Valley. It has since spread into the San Joaquin Valley, Central Coast area where you are, Napa Sonoma, and it's been found now in Oregon. Just like Napa, Oregon has attempted an eradication program. And probably just like Napa, most likely it's not going to work. It's a very, very difficult insect to kill 100%. I mean, I can come up with all kinds of different programs, soft programs, hard programs, expensive programs, inexpensive programs, where I can suppress that insect pest. It's very difficult to remove it from a vineyard. And that becomes important when you think about the kinds of damage we're worried about in Central Coast wine grapes. Pretty much anywhere where they're looking at grape quality. But especially in the cooler regions. So, this insect, this mealybug, is one of many mealybug species. that is a vector of grape leaf roll associated viruses. And this is the primary reason it grows to such high pest status. So for the most part, the growers can knock its levels down far enough that it's not in the grape clusters or it's rarely found in the grape clusters. That's more of an issue for table grape growers. It's a cosmetic pest. When you look at some of the Regions in the San Joaquin Valley where they're growing a lot of table grapes Kern, Tulare, Kings, Fresno, counties, there's enough heat accumulation and these grapes are harvested early enough in the season that they can still build up their Brix. They can still get a very good grape to market. Even when there's some vinely bug on the vine, they just don't tend to be as impacted by this leaf roll pathogen as our wine grapes. When you get into regions like San Luis Obispo, Napa, Monterey, Oregon, where they really are trying to hold those grapes on the vine for a longer period of time, trying to build up the bricks levels. That's where this. pathogen causes so much damage. [00:03:06] Craig Macmillan: most of our growers are already going to be familiar with this, but what kind of damage does the vine mealybug cause? It's so, so terrible. [00:03:12] Kent Daane: So the vine mealybug, besides being a vector of this pathogen, is also a direct pest of the grapevine. It can feed on the roots, on the trunk, on the leaves, and in the fruit. When this first hit California, we were working on it primarily as a San Joaquin Valley pest. growers that were putting on, you know, the products of the day dimethylate, lanate. If they were missing , the, target window where that pest was exposed, we would see thousands and thousands of mealybugs, not just per vine, but sometimes a thousand millibugs per leaf. It was causing defoliation. It was causing the berries to raisin on the vine. In South Africa, populations were getting so heavy. It was killing the vines themselves. How many people out there 20, 30 years ago were spraying so many neonics as we're saying today? We weren't doing that. now really, we were spraying for leaf hoppers as our number one pests followed by mites in case there was a flare up. It changed what we were doing in terms of pest management. In fact there's a group of us working internationally. Not just on the vine mealybug, but other mealybug species, because we've seen vine mealybug, grape mealybug, citrus mealybug, all becoming more problematic over the last decade. And we're, asking that question, why? What has gone on? And one of the thoughts we've got, not yet shown, but one idea is that we just sprayed so many of these, these newer chemicals that the mealybugs are developing resistance, The natural enemies are not, and we're seeing an escape of some of these mealybug species in now a, to them, a pesticide lessened environment. [00:05:10] Craig Macmillan: speaking of biological control, so this is an invasive pest, came from outside the U. S. That's the kinda the classical biological control problem. the pest comes, but its natural enemies don't come with it. there are some natural enemies of vine mealybug in the United States. [00:05:24] Kent Daane: Yes, they are, and I don't want to go too deep in the weeds on this, but this is new, very exciting to me. I did an importation program, that's a classic biocontrol program, where we go to the pests, origin, we look for natural enemies and we bring those back to the United States. Growers can't do that. It's got to go into quarantine. We have to study those natural enemies. Sometimes for years to make sure that they're not going to do any harm. The classic example people think about is I've got a problem with rats. And so I bring in a weasel, the weasel kills all the rats, and then starts going after my chickens. We don't do that anymore. Classic biocontrol is now much more modern. We've got all kinds of protective barriers against making a mistake. In fact, I think that we've gone a little bit too far. I think we're overly cautious. Bringing this back to the Vine melaybug, I imported material from Europe, from Israel, from Egypt, and from South Africa. We were finding mostly the same species in most of these different regions. The two most important species at that time were called Anagyrus pseudococci, which is The well known parasitoid that you can purchase from insectaries. The other one is Coxydoxinoides peregrinus, no common name on these insects. Both are established in California. When I did this work, we noticed a difference between the anagyrus near species Pseudococci that we were getting in Sicily and Spain with the material that we were getting that had already been established from Israel and what we're finding in northern Italy. Working with a taxonomist, Sergei Trapitsin he found some significant differences between these. And later on after both were imported in the United States determined that these were two species, one still Anagyrus pseudocoxi and one Anagyrus vladimiri. So sometimes you'll see insectaries selling Anagyrus vladimiri and you think, Oh, I want that. That's different. It is different, but both are established in California. We're actually going to do a followup study. now in collaboration with this international group to find out what we've got in California. I suspect we've got both. Now, why is this exciting? Because at the time we were doing this work, we felt like the parasites were different, and we felt that these different groups that we were importing, maybe one had co evolved with the citrus mealybug, And the other with the vine mealybug. And we had already done some work with the vine mealybug, molecular work, looking at its relationship to each other around the world. and their names are, scientific names would be citrus mealybug, planococcus citri. Vine mealybug, we knew as planococcus ficus, which means, Ficus tree, fig tree. And we were showing that this group was, they had an outlier and ours was the outlier. And then working with this international group, they said, look, back in the fifties, there was a planococcus vitis. And I think what you've got, what we've got on vines, is the vine mealybug. But not in Iran and Iraq at that time. And, and maybe in that Mediterranean region Israel, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Turkey the Mesopotamian region, I think is what it is. Maybe there are some parasites there that we didn't have. Certainly, my colleague in Egypt and more parasites than we were finding in Europe. We just weren't able to get them all to establish in colony in quarantine. So it opens up the window that, that maybe there's something still out there. At this point in time, I say in all the countries where vine mealybug is reported as a problem, that's most of Europe Mexico, South America South Africa. We have the best of those parasites. We just want to delve deeper into what are we seeing in Turkey? How does that match up with what we know is in Egypt? And I do have colleagues in Iran. It's just harder for me to go there. [00:10:09] Craig Macmillan: right, of course. so this makes me think, is it possible that we have mixed populations of these mealybugs in California on the same plant, so it's different areas? [00:10:17] Kent Daane: So that's the project we're working on with this international group. What we decided to do in a three part approach is to first find out what everyone's got. The assumption is that in South America, In the United States, North America, we have got single invasion events. Our guess is that it arrived in the U S in Coachella and Mexico at the same time. We're pretty sure that the population they have in Peru is from California Yeah, they were bringing nursery wood in and lo and behold, they found vine mealybug. We went down to look at a nomatode problem to be honest with some UC California researchers. And we found that they had some mite problems at the same mites that we've got in North American California. So they were probably not being very cautious in what they were importing. So we're assuming that South America's got this California group which came from Israel. We know Israel and Egypt have something very similar, but it's different than most of Europe. South Africa is similar to Portugal and Spain, which makes sense with the trade routes that were going on in the 1960s. What we're guessing is that The European groups, there probably are, there's reported failures of vine mealybug mating disruption in some European areas. And we think that probably is this other mealybug that is probably in Turkey. So it's all very exciting to me, kind of delving deeper into the weeds on this. But the first part of this international group, again, a great group of people, Europe, South America our first part is what do we all have? Our second part is what we're doing a grower survey that we actually sent to the vineyard team and they spread out to some growers as well. What are, what are growers using to control the mealybug? Because maybe with some of the, we find out what it is and maybe growers are working harder to control our vine mealybug than say that the fig millebug which appears to be what they've got in most of Europe. Remember when I started the foreign exploration when I was in Spain growers would tell me yeah we've got the vine millebug but it really is not much of a pest. Citrus millebug on vines is more of a pest. Well they probably have that fig mealybug but [00:13:01] Craig Macmillan: Ah, [00:13:01] Kent Daane: You know, taxonomically, it looked to us like the vine mealybug.And I hope I'm not throwing all these things out and it's confusing. So, second part, that is, the survey. What do you have and what are you using to control it? And if it matches up that, yeah, what we've got is the one that's more difficult, that fills in a lot of boxes. Third and fourth part are now looking at the natural controls. What parasites are you getting coming off of this? What parasites are in your region? And how do they respond to the pheromones that we know are out there? So if they're not, if they're responding to both citrus and vine, maybe that's an indication that it's this other group. If they're not responding at all, or weakly, yeah, we've, we've got three or more distinct species. And we can't tell them apart, but maybe the parasites can. [00:13:56] Craig Macmillan: this is kind of a practical question. hoW do you monitor parasitic wasps? They're tiny. They live in refugia. They then come out and plant their eggs in their host. that seems like a really hard thing to do. [00:14:10] Kent Daane: That's an absolute fantastic question. So let's look at that most common parasite, Antigyrus Pseudococci slash Vladimiri. So what we found over the years is that it does a great job on mealybugs that are exposed in the fruit, on the leaves, on the cane. By the end of the season, if you're not putting on a lot of contact chemicals, you're getting greater than 40 percent parasitism. Very easy to see, [00:14:43] Craig Macmillan: Right. [00:14:43] Kent Daane: doesn't do very well against the mealybugs under the bark, because it's got this searching behavior where it's got to get on top of the mealybug, determine how big it is, do I want to put a an egg that's not fertilized in that, which would be a male, and they need smaller mealybugs for that. Do I want to put an egg which is fertilized? In that, that will become a female parasite that needs larger host. [00:15:09] Craig Macmillan: the same insect, the same parasite has the ability to do either. [00:15:13] Kent Daane: Yes. [00:15:15] Craig Macmillan: Wow. [00:15:15] Kent Daane: again, this is really a neat subject and I hope I don't bore the audience too much. But, a lot of these parasites that become important for mealybugs they have this little sac, so you've got your oviduct going to your ovarioles, in the female. And right around the oviduct area, before it splits into the two ovarioles, you've got this little sac called the spermatheca. unlike humans, where the sperm goes in and Seeks out the eggs and fertilizes it. The sperm go in and the female parasite stores them in the spermatheca. And then as the eggs are mature and ready to go down, oviduct and get ready to be oviposited into the mealybug, the female decides to fertilize the egg or not fertilize it. And if it's fertilized, it becomes a female. If it's not fertilized, it becomes a male. And that allows her to determine what the host size is, because the females are bigger than the males. And so she will walk up and down. and size that mealybug and say that this, this mealybug is a good enough size that this is worthy for me to put a fertilized egg in and that will become a female. Or a second in store mealybug, she'll say, this really isn't that good of a mealybug host. So I'm going to put An unfertilized egg, and that will become a male. And that was, going back to this Anagyrus Vladimiri versus Pseudococci, that was the most important difference that we found in this Sicilian and Spanish group of Anagyrus, was that they would oviposit and put females in smaller hosts than the male. earlier parasite which probably evolved on the citrus mealybug. So going back to this question because I do go off on different tangents. How do you sample for these things? So it's really easy to find a mummified mealybug on a leaf. But remember what we're doing. We're spraying now a lot of Movento and we're spraying a lot of the Neonics regardless of its Admire, Platinum, or generic derivative. They're all good materials. and maybe you're putting on an IGR like a plot, again, all good materials, Assail, all good materials. What they tend to do is work really good against the mealy bug, which is exposed on the leaves. Our systemic materials are really good at going out to the leaves. Our contact materials, our IGRs, the neonics, that are contacts kill the mealybug that's exposed. All of these materials do less of a good job with the mealybug underneath the bark. we're not getting a true indication of what these parasites can do because we're killing the host that's the best location for them to attack. So that means to really find out what's going on, you got to strip bark oftentimes. So now you're looking at parasitism in that region of the vine that the parasite doesn't like to be. Now, if we add to this, this other good parasite, which is the coccidoxoenoides peregrinus, we really liked to bring this in because it attacks the very, very small stages of the mealybug, the first and the second instar. It's sometimes a small third, but really it's focused on the second instar. [00:19:05] Craig Macmillan: Got it. [00:19:06] Kent Daane: It's in California. You can find it, but it's really hard to find out what impact it's got because it will parasitize the mealybug and will cause the parasitized mealybug to die. to feel sick and to seek out some area for protection because the anagyrus if you see that mealybug parasitized on the leaf causes that mealybug to kind of glue itself down to the leaf You have to flip that thing to get it off the leaf. A mummy is a dead mealybug which sticks to the leaf. The coccydox anoides causes the mealybug to find a place of protection because it doesn't stick it to the leaf. So it often times goes to the trunk, or goes to the stem, and eventually falls off the vine, and will pupate down into the ground. And so to sample for that one, you have to collect them as first or second instars live, bring them back to the insectary, and rear them out to the parasite, which is just really a lot of work hard to do. so these things are far more difficult to do. Sample four, then going out and counting, you know, aphid parasites, which are just out there as little brown mummified aphids. [00:20:29] Craig Macmillan: it sounds like this would play a role in my timing of my insecticide applications, whether it's Spirotetramat or Neonic or One of the programs that I think is common is to have spirotetramat on top and have a myothiamethoxam soil applied. Does that sound right? [00:20:47] Kent Daane: Yeah, that sounds right. I mean, they're both good products and they're doing what they're supposed to do. they're killing the mealybug. And when the timing is right, they're getting out there before the mealybug. So as the mealybug is going out towards the leaves. You know, they're probably doing a better job than the parasite will do on its own. Now, if you are an organic grower and you can't use those materials, then timing does become a little bit more critical because you're putting on, oftentimes, organic materials every 10 to 14 days because they've got a shorter residual. So on those you may want to, you know, work your timing around to avoid to give it a window of opportunity some of these natural enemies. There you're looking on the leaf, you're looking for mummified mealybugs. You know, are, do I have some of these good natural enemies in the field? You're looking for the mealybug destroyer, or one of the other beetles. Green lancelings are also doing a pretty good job. So you're monitoring those. And maybe you're deciding, I've got a lot of good activity maybe I should wait to put on pyganic or one of the other materials, which is broad spectrum give the other parasites a chance, a cycle, to see what their impact's going to be on that millibug population. Or maybe you're going to leave every fifth row unsprayed to let the parasites come back in and then hit that row later. So you've got a chance for those natural enemies to move the just sprayed vines. [00:22:22] Craig Macmillan: That was going to be my next question is what is the refugee situation for these parasites? Do they come into the vineyard, do their thing and then leave? Do they come in when there is host and then they hang out in the vineyard for the rest of the season? Do we know? I'm just thinking about ways that I can preserve, conserve those parasites as much as possible so that they're there when I need them. [00:22:45] Kent Daane: That's a great question, Craig. And let's break this apart into two different areas. Let's talk about First, the generalist predators that I just mentioned, the green lacewings, a good mealybug predator against the smaller mealybug stages. A lot of the things we do to enhance natural enemies will enhance generalist predators. So that's where your cover crops come in. That's where your pollen and nectar come in. You'll increase generalist predators. Ladybird beetles, green lacewings, minute pyre bugs, those can all attack and kill. That same group of cover cropping that brings in the gentleness predator may have little impact on the specialized parasitoids. Things like the anagyrus and the coccidocsinoides, what they want is the mealybugs. And not all mealybugs will do. They really want the mealybugs that are better hosts for them. So, they tend to get everything they need out of that pest population. They can host feed. They can stick their ovipositor into a mealybug, turn around and feed on some of that exudate, some of what's being bled. The mealybug creates honeydew. That honeydew, instead of trying to plant a cover crop for honeydew, that honeydew serves as a food to increase the longevity of those parasitoids. And as the mealybug density goes down, the parasite numbers should go down as well. Now there are different kinds of food sprays that we hope to look at that oftentimes do help increase both generalists and perhaps specialist natural enemies. [00:24:46] Craig Macmillan: Hm. [00:24:46] Kent Daane: The number one thing you do to to enhance beneficial insect numbers is to watch the broad spectrum insecticide sprays or to time them where you're not spraying, you know, all 100 acres at the same time, but you're leaving a refugia so they can move back in. [00:25:08] Craig Macmillan: Interesting. So, I might be looking at something and saying, okay, I am going to have to take some action here. I'm hitting an action threshold but not pull the trigger on the whole thing. leave one area for a little bit, and then can you come back and treat that later, so that you're preserving some of these folks, and then they can come back on the other side, and find a balance between the chemical and the biological. Mm [00:25:31] Kent Daane: Right. A balance, a delay might just be 10 days, might be 20 days. We don't want to miss our spray window, but remember, Most of the natural enemies are winged as adults, whereas the female mealybug is never winged. Fairly slow, fairly thestle. So that allows for those beneficials to come back in. And if you're a large grower this just happens over over the course because you can't spray 100 acres in a day. [00:26:07] Craig Macmillan: Right. Right. Fascinating. Are growers starting to adopt, in your experience with the folks that you work with, are growers starting to adopt these kinds of timings and techniques and methods? [00:26:19] Kent Daane: I think growers are constantly adopting, improving, changing one of the common misconceptions when I talk to students or people who just don't don't know how to farm or farmers is that farmers really don't want to spray. Spraying costs money. it is an added expenditure, added time, added worry. So they'd much rather, you know, go back 50 years when we didn't have all these invasive insects from Vine mealybug to Virginia Creeper growers are always seeking out how to improve the insecticide materials they've got, how to reduce the insecticide applications they have to make. And that does include natural enemies, mating disruption. What it comes down to is just costs. So oftentimes there's a trade off. If you're going to use mating disruption, you may not be doing three applications of an insecticide for vine mealybug. Maybe it's one insecticide plus vine mealybug mating disruption. If you're organic and you're releasing beneficial insects and spraying every other week. Maybe you don't have the cost for mating disruption. So these are all decisions that individual growers have to make. Obviously we've got some growers in some regions can spend 300 per acre for mealybug control. Other growers simply cannot do that because of the value of, their product at the very end. [00:28:03] Craig Macmillan: Right. This is kind of a natural lead in to something I wanted to touch on, and that is the Virginia Creeper leafhopper that's found on the North Coast. That also an invasive, correct? Came in from outside. [00:28:15] Kent Daane: It is invasive to some extent. It is not invasive like the vine mealybug is from. The Mediterranean region Virginia creeper most likely is, is North American. But yes, it was never really a California leafhopper pest. It was, no England, Canada. Pest that then went into Washington, then went into Oregon, that then came into California. interestingly, the, leafhopper that I worked on for so many years the variegated grape leafhopper probably North American, probably had a different avenue, probably came up from the south, from Mexico, Texas, to Arizona, to California. So Some of our invasives are close relatives. [00:29:07] Craig Macmillan: Interesting. what's the difference in damage that's caused by the Virginia creep leaf hopper and the the variegated leaf hopper. [00:29:17] Kent Daane: So they're, they're very similar. I think that the grape leafhopper is the one we've been dealing with for the longest time and has been relatively mild compared to the other two. The variegated grape leafhopper When it first came into the San Joaquin Valley, it could defoliate vines. It had three to four generations per year. [00:29:42] Craig Macmillan: Oh, wow. [00:29:43] Kent Daane: It seemed to be much more damaging than the grape leafhopper. Virginia creeper leafhopper, now in northern California, making its way south. So it's gotten to the middle of the state. It's in Napa, Sonoma, Sacramento. I have not seen it. Heard it reported in the Fresno area. Oh, it has been reported in Fresno. But I'm not saying it causes much damage here. We really don't get many leaf hopper reports for damage here, except for organic growers. And that's because all the sprays for vine mealybug. Most of those vine mealybug sprays are very good against the leaf hoppers. Where I have seen it as a pest. It's been mostly in wine grapes. Mostly in the cooler regions of the state. Mostly controlled by conventional insecticides. There are programs organic materials registered for Virginia creeper that I think have done a fairly good job. But it, it does get out of hand. And I think for all these leaf hoppers with organic materials, what happens is that The organic products tend to not work well , against the leaf operant in the egg stage or the leaf operant in the adult stage. So timing is very important. You want to get those materials on. when egg hatch is nearly complete and when you've got mostly first and second instars out there. That's because most of our organic products tend to impact these pests by either being a desiccant like the soaps that dry it out or a suffocant like the oils that clog the spiracles. And so the the, adults just fly away from that tractor rig as it's coming down. The eggs are protected inside the leaf itself, in their little clusters for the Virginia Creeper. And the larger insects can, they're just more mobile. So it's hard to kill them. So timing becomes relatively critical with these insects. I've not worked directly with Virginia creeper other than hosting Houston Wilson did his graduate work in my lab and really focused on, on the parasites of this insect. Lucia Varela, now retired, did focus on looking at the different insecticides and she's got a nice summary article which is on Monica Cooper's website. It talks about the different insecticides, U C cooperative extension Napa County. And she's got a website that goes into materials for organic growers for Virginia creeper leaf hopper. I think that's where I saw. that information posted. And what Houston did was he just looked at and tried to improve the Enneagrus. So we get those two confused. The Lilybug parasite is Anagyrus. The Leafhopper parasite is Enneagrus. The two names sound pretty similar, but one is an inserted family and one is a Mimerit. Or a fairy fly, fairy winged fly. They're some of the smallest insects known. So, [00:33:03] Craig Macmillan: Wow. So, we are continuing to look at these new parasites, how they're performing, we're learning a lot more about them, and we're learning a lot more about timing of different kinds of sprays around their life cycle. [00:33:17] Kent Daane: Yeah, what Houston was trying to do was to understand why parasitism against the Virginia creeper leafhopper was against all the leafhoppers. Why parasitism was relatively low. So I was working with Danny Gonzales and Sergei Tripitsin, And just mentioning to the taxonomist, Sergei, that it seemed like there were differences amongst these Enneagris samples that we were releasing. And I had happened to save all of the material that had died. So I sent that to Sergei, and Sergei looked at these things closely and then said, look, we've got a complex of parasites. And he named Enneagris erythronureae. After the species that was most commonly attacking variegated grape leafhopper, which is Erythronere variabilis. There was another one, and he called a Negris tryptocova, which was named after his wife's father's family and he said that was the better looking one of the group. And there was one that just didn't do that much. And he named that after me, a Negris Dana. And so that one we thought was the one attacking the western grape leaf hopper most commonly. And it was being found more commonly in the riparian zone. So that's 20 years ago, fast forward to our new invasive leaf hopper, the Virginia creeper leaf hopper, which is again coming down from Canada to Washington to Oregon to California. Well, it ends up that the Enneagris deni is very important attacking that leaf hopper. So Houston was working out the relationship of these three parasites against these three leaf hoppers and trying to understand if he could manipulate their numbers to improve biocontrol. He looked at hedgerows, he looked at augmentative releases or inoculative releases, and we're still curious to see if that can't be improved even. [00:35:30] Craig Macmillan: That's fantastic. Another topic that I wanted to touch on, because it's a really cool idea, and I think we'll have applications across a lot of things eventually, and that is area wide pest management strategies. And I know that you've done a lot of work in this area from the beginning, really, of kind of the concept. What is an area wide pest management strategy? Management program. What does it look like? What can it what is its goal? How does it operate? What kind of success we've seen so far? [00:35:59] Kent Daane: Yeah, that's a fantastic question. It's a topic I'm really excited about and let's think about it when we think about the European grapevine model. that was another invasive insect, It was found in California, it was found in Chile around the same time. So you've got this invasive insect, and the state of California deemed this important enough to have an eradication program. [00:36:22] Craig Macmillan: Oh and just real quick. What kind of damage does grapevine moth do? [00:36:26] Kent Daane: So the European Greenvine Moth it'll feed on the vine, but it gets in the fruit clusters. think of the omnivorous leaf roller One of those, one of our tortricid pests that can really cause damage to the grape a number of generations per year, a lot of different possibilities where it might come from in terms of a host plant material. So it can be very problematic. It would require a spray every single year, an additional spray for a tortricid pest, if it were to establish. [00:37:00] Craig Macmillan: one the big issue here is that it attacks the berries directly [00:37:03] Kent Daane: absolutely. [00:37:04] Craig Macmillan: Okay. So that's a, that's a serious problem. [00:37:07] Kent Daane: No, no, the, it, it causes mold and rot and everything else once it gets in there. So, you know, two or three doesn't seem like a lot. You just think, well, berry can go to crush, but that berry will get all kinds of bunch rot. not a good fruit. So when you think about the eradication program, where there was monitoring everywhere in the state. When you think about the eradication program, where when they found this pest through pheromone traps, and then they did a ground search to find out where it was. And then there was a coordinated investigation. Effort to spray the right materials, to use mating disruption, to go after it in all of the adjoining areas. those eradication programs are very intense. Area wide control programs. So, let's think about Vine mealybug, which is now in most vineyards. We're still approaching this on an individual grower basis. We might have one grower using mating disruption, because they're going to go organic, and a next door neighbor doing nothing. There's going to be constant movement of that pest into that grower's. field We might have two growers, one using Movento every other year, and another using Platinum every other year. Those males are going back and forth between those vineyards, sharing whatever genetic resistance that they're developing. And so really, if those growers are switching, one's using Movento, one's using Platinum that insect is moving between those vineyards all the time. And it's not a resistance management program, or you might have a small five acre grower deciding to put out mating disruption. Mating disruption works better blanketing the whole area. So an area wide program, and then you bring into it the idea of roguing leaf roll diseased vines. there are two things I just mentioned in this last 30 seconds that are so important for area wide management of mealybug and leaf roll that are the killers to those programs. The first is mating disruption still costs more money than a pesticide application. It's a fantastic tool. It is a tool that works better the lower and lower the mealybug density gets. So you use insecticides to really drop the mealybug population down, but there gets to be a point where the mealybugs are now on the bark. There are little populations here and there, and we know the insecticides are never 100 percent. Mating disruption works better. The lower the milli buck density is. [00:40:05] Craig Macmillan: Got it. [00:40:06] Kent Daane: But there's a cost to it. So we start with insecticides. The next part is the rowing of the infected vines. That's very important on an area wide basis because if you're planting, you've had, vineyard is old, it's not productive, it's had leaf roll. You pull it out, but it's right next to a block that's got 80 percent infected vines. You're always going to have new infections showing up over and over and over again. Unless that grower next to you is just doing this bang up job of applying insecticides all the time to keep mealybugs from going into your vineyard. you can make area wide control work for the pathogen. and the pest. But in the best world, let's say you're in control of a thousand acres, pull out every vineyard that's infected and replant and then pull out every new infection in it. And people just can't afford this. [00:41:06] Craig Macmillan: Right. [00:41:07] Kent Daane: if you're managing 200, 300 acres and Your vineyard with leaf roll that's at 30 percent is still profitable. it's hard to pull out those 30%. It's just hard to do. I get it. But something that I wish we could get, you know, government subsidy for to, to have them help us come in, pull out the infected vines, start clean again. But it does work. It's worked in South Africa. It's worked in New Zealand. It's worked in Napa. It just comes at a cost that may be prohibitive in some regions, in some areas. So the best we can do is to manage mealybug and the disease incidence in an area wide manner. [00:41:52] Craig Macmillan: if I remember correctly, I mean, the work has been done now that, demonstrates roguing is your best strategy overall long term, but it's expensive short term. and that is the issue. That's the tricky bit. [00:42:06] Kent Daane: There are two tricky bits to it. The first tricky bit is the expense you just talked about. The second tricky bit is that in most of the regions where we know it's worked They have not been dealing, perhaps, with our vine mealybug. They've been dealing with the grape mealybug, long tail mealybug, obscure mealybug. we've got I think the worst mealybug. And maybe that mealybug is just better at surviving on root remnants. You know, you hear all the time from growers, I r I've been removing 10 percent of my vineyard every single year for five years. And when I looked at The south African data, they removed 20%. Second year, 5%. Third year, 3%. Fourth year, 1%. And after that, it was always 1%. [00:42:54] Craig Macmillan: last piece of this puzzle in my mind is you have to get your neighbors to cooperate. That's the area wide bit. You have to get people to get on the same page in terms of what they're doing. And it sounds to me like they don't necessarily have to be doing exactly the same thing. They just have to be sensitive to what somebody else wants to do. Does that sound right? [00:43:15] Kent Daane: There are areas where it has worked well. It can work in the Central Coast. It can work in Lodi. We may not see, you know, eradication of diseased vines. We may not see a reduction of vine mealybug to a point where we can treat every other year. We might be treating every single year. for this, but we can improve what we're doing through communication right now. In the central Valley, we're working with a great group of growers where we're just mapping out the vine mealybug and we're sharing with the growers where the melaybug populations are. It's their decision. What? What to use, what to do for control. It's their decision. Can they rogue or not rogue? But what we're trying to do is to help foster communication amongst the different growers that are neighbors, because we're a third party, which I think helps a little bit. it would be fantastic if we could have someone hired as a scout or PCA, where we work with. PCAs in the region and everyone shares data. We're trying a new computer program this year, which we at the end of the season, we'll launch with our collaborating growers where they can log on in real time. and see what the trap counts are as we count those trap counts. And that will help them make a decision, we hope, on what to do in terms of control measures. But again, the best thing might be that we're opening up communication, just as the Vineyard team is doing through podcasts, through field days, through the website. [00:44:55] Craig Macmillan: Well, let's hope. And I, and there's a number of other organizations too. the, the group in Lodi has done a fantastic job from what I understand. Fostering communication and sharing information. like you said, I think that's probably one of our, our, our best hopes. Is working collaboratively as an industry and getting communication between the experts like PCAs and the extension community. . [00:45:15] Kent Daane: And of course, anyone can always reach out to me with questions as well. [00:45:18] Craig Macmillan: Fantastic. And we'll put your information in the show notes. I want to thank you for being on the podcast. fantastic. Very helpful and very, very exciting. I think I was feeling a little more dismal about this whole topic coming into this interview than I am now. I think there's maybe more potential than I was kind of giving credit. I, you know, I come from a time back in the 90s when Vine Mealybugs showed up in the Central Coast. And it was a lot of gnashing of teeth and pulling of hair, and we did not know what to do, and the damage was insane. I mean, I saw stuff that was just blood curdling, and I think we've come a long way. We've come a long way, and that's from the efforts of folks like you, so I really appreciate it. I want to thank our guest, Kent Daane. He is a Cooperative Extension Specialist with the University of California, Berkeley. he works primarily out of the Kearney Ag Research Extension Center. And, thanks so much for being on the podcast. This is great. [00:46:10] Kent Daane: Thank you very much. Enjoy the harvest time coming up.   Nearly perfect transcription by Descript

Two college students relax along the shore of a lake in Napa County, California on a sunny afternoon in September of 1969. Before long, they are interrupted by a man who wears an eerie black hood and carries a gun. The man attacks the students with a knife and leaves them for dead. The killer writes a message on the students' car and calls the police to take credit for the crime. In the process, he leaves behind new clues that investigators add to the growing list of evidence about the elusive criminal.   Join Black Barrel+ for ad-free episodes and bingeable seasons: blackbarrel.supportingcast.fm/join   Apple users join Black Barrel+ for ad-free episodes, bingeable seasons and bonus episodes. Click the Black Barrel+ banner on Apple to get started with a 3-day free trial.   On YouTube, subscribe to INFAMOUS+ for ad-free episodes and bingeable seasons: hit “Join” on the Legends YouTube homepage.   For more details, please visit www.blackbarrelmedia.com. Our social media pages are: @blackbarrelmedia on Facebook and Instagram, and @bbarrelmedia on Twitter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

John McGinness is joined by Napa County's District Attorney Allison Haley

Send us a Text Message.Motif Red Hills Lake County Cabernet Sauvignon 2022-New Vintage Of TJ's Wonder $5 RedThis is a $4.99 wine.  Lake County is the AVA that is on the Northern border of Napa County!Red Hills is located on the southern side of Clear Lake, the largest lake in California.The soil is from an ancient volcano, and the vineyards are in the heights above the lake.This wine is 80% Cabernet Sauvignon, 10% Malbec, and 10% Petit Verdot, they are all Bordeaux-approved grapes, though this is a California wine.For all the info check out https://cheapwinefinder.com/ and listen to the PODCAST for all the detail!Check us out at www.cheapwinefinder.comor email us at podcast@cheapwinefinder.com

In this eighth episode, host Emily Harwitz heads to a redwoods preserve in Napa County to explore the work of stewardship—or, the next stage of conservation after a piece of land is protected. Conservation doesn't end with a legal transaction! Just as nature is constantly changing, so, too, are the needs of the land, and it's the work of stewardship to keep the land healthy. It's a dynamic field of environmental work that involves working outside, building relationships, and planning for the future. Today's guests, JoeJoe Clark and Clarisa Rosas, share with us their love for nature and what it's like to work in stewardship as a Field Technician and Monitoring Program Assistant for The Land Trust of Napa County.  ABOUT OUR GUESTS Clarisa Rosas was born and raised in Napa, CA where she developed a love for the outdoors. She pursued her passion by studying Environmental Science Technology and Policy at California State University Monterey Bay, gaining valuable experience through service learning opportunities. She now works to steward the land in The Land Trust of Napa County's portfolio. At the time of recording, she was a Monitoring Program Assistant. She is now the Assistant Stewardship Coordinator. Find her on Instagram @cosmic_clarisa.  Joseph ‘JoeJoe' Clark was born in Vallejo, CA hiking in the oak woodlands and exploring the mud flats and creeks of Solano County. His deep passion for plants and outdoor space led him to explore biology and foreign language at Sonoma State University. He is a naturalist at heart and currently works in stewardship as a Field Technician for The Land Trust of Napa County. Find him on Instagram @lilyboyjoy

If you haven't already heard Bailie's two-part interview, Episodes 49 and 50, give them a listen—you'll hear one of the most compelling and intriguing interviews of sexual assault and rape that will hold you spell-bound and awestruck. You don't need to listen to those episodes before you listen to this one, but definitely take the time to listen to Bailie's story on those two previous episodes; you'll have a much deeper understanding of Bailie if you do. I had the very fortunate privilege of meeting Bailie through my friendship with my regular monthly guest, Caroline Markel. Caroline is the founder and CEO of Safe in Harm's Way, an organization dedicated to providing victims and survivors of rape and sexual assault with resources, encouragement, and expertise in finding their way safely out of those dangerous and harmful interpersonal violence relationships. The story is that Caroline needed a break from the daily grind of running such an onerous organization and decided to go to Napa County to recoup. It was there that she met Bailie, who at the time was the Director of Training and Technical Assistance at LGBTQ Connection of Napa and Sonoma, California. And an instant connection and indelible bond was formed between the two...and, of course, Caroline encouraged me to get to know Bailie. I called her one afternoon and, again, an instant bond was formed. (That's just the way Bailie is!!) Earlier this month Caroline made a return trip to Napa, partly to visit with Bailie. When I found out that this re-connection was occurring, I immediately asked Caroline and Bailie if they would do a dual-SASS-recording with me from Napa while Caroline was there. Unfortunately, due to schedule issues this wasn't possible…but, just this week, after Caroline had returned to her home, we were able to schedule a time when the 3 of us could connect and record an episode…and here it is. We covered so very much that to synopsize the episode would be a time burdensome endeavor. Just know that this is an episode you won't want to miss! And write to me and let me know what you're thinking about this episode, about SASS, or about anything else you care to comment about. Thank you to Caroline and Bailie for an absolutely fantastic episode! And for all the links and connections provided by both you. From Bailie, please check these out: @lgbtqnapa @queerleaderscoalition @napapride @soarcollective @rainnsurvivors  bell hooks  Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center Audre Lorde Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle The Master's House Alok @alok Beyond the Gender Binary (Pocket Change Collective)   Life isn't Binary Life Isn't Binary LGBTQ Connection   Family Acceptance Project And, from Caroline, please check this info out: In a world where: 40% of calls to DV hotlines go unanswered  Over 300,000 people every month can't find the help they need Shelters are full, with no space for new arrivals  Safe In Harm's Way has over 250 Immediate & Actionable online solutions and are the key to helping someone when they have that fear-and-sadness-fueled decision to seek help. Because if no one helps them at their most intimate moment of need, very rarely will they try again. Want to fuel our mission and be the solution for survivors who need immediate help via Safe In Harm's Way? Donate today to save lives and create family-positive impact here: And from me:  

The Propane Education and Research Council (PERC) invited host Sabrina Halvorson to its event in Napa County this week, where it presented Fisher Vineyards with the Energy for Everyone Hero Award. In today's show, we talk with Rob Fisher about the award and other things like how wildfire affects his business, which is timely with the Point fire and Sites fire burning just miles away from his vineyards. We also talk with Mike Newland, Director of Agriculture Business Development for PERC, and PERC Director of Industry Communications, Patrick Hyland. Tune in for this and more of the day's agriculture news. 

There are two new laws in California set to eliminate hidden fees, taking effect next month. In a statement released by the attorney general's office, the purpose of the “Honest Pricing Law” is to ensure that “the price a Californian sees should be the price they pay.” While the laws are aimed at protecting consumers from unexpected charges on purchases like concert tickets and hotel reservations, many restaurant owners are concerned. They fear they may be forced to raise prices, potentially driving away customers. A third bill is swiftly moving through the Capitol with hopes of exempting restaurants from these regulations. We look into the details of these laws and their potential impact on you. Have hidden fees affected you? Guests: Lauren Saria, deputy food editor; The San Francisco Standard Dan Walters, columnist; CalMatters Bill Dodd, California state senator, district 3; which includes Napa County and parts of Sonoma county

California produces half of the nation's fruits and vegetables, so agricultural protection is a key pillar for the Napa County Agricultural Commissioner's office. In this episode, we sit down with Anna Norton and Andre Napolitano, two Deputy Commissioners for Napa County, to learn how they use GIS to manage pests that threaten the country's produce. Listen to the episode as they share their story and top tips for improving your own GIS workflows.

The California wine industry is under siege. A global wine glut, younger generations turning away from alcohol, and a contentious battle over the future of Napa County wineries have left the enemy inside the gates. As if this weren't enough, Justice Department investigators have subpoenaed dozens of wine industry figures, including a member of the Board of Supervisors, and in January the head of Napa County's farm bureau died by apparent suicide. Stu Smith, proprietor of Smith-Madrone Winery in St. Helena and a longtime small winery activist, joined us to tell the story.

During this episode of ROCKnVINO, hosts Coco and Michelle welcome back Patrick Davis, Founder of Songwriters in Paradise, a series of intimate songwriter showcases in the round where each songwriter shares the stories behind the songs, all paired with delicious food and wine. This year, the series returns to both Napa County and Sonoma County.    SIP Napa is happening April 18th through April 21st with showcases at Alpha Omega, Charles Krug, Silver Oak, and Brasswood wineries. Artists such as Kristian Bush of Sugarland, Channing Wilson, and Marc Broussard take turns performing songs and chatting about their music.   Then SIP comes back to Healdsburg from July 24th through July 27th with showcases at Banshee, Robert Young, Bricoleur and La Crema wineries. New to Songwriters in Paradise this time is Shawn Mullins, who wrote hits including Lullaby, Shimmer, and Beautiful Wreck. Also performing is multi Grammy winner Dan Tyminski (probably best known as the singing voice of George Clooney's character in O Brother Where Art Thou), and Kim Richey. You can get tickets for a single day, or passes for the whole weekend. Learn more at songwritersinparadise.com.   ROCKnVINO is sponsored by American AgCredit.  

In Napa County, 3 out of the 5 seats on the Board of Supervisors are on the ballot, in nonpartisan races that will be decided in the March 5 primary. (In these races, nobody is advancing to November— voters will pick the winner in this election!) The wine industry looms large, but so do issues about housing, wildfire protection, and environmental conservation. KQED's Carlos Cabrera-Lomeli tells us about the stakes, and focuses on the race in District 5. Links: Episode transcript KQED Voter Guide This episode was produced by Ericka Cruz Guevarra and Maria Esquinca, and edited and guest hosted by Alan Montecillo.

Three of five seats on the Napa County Board of Supervisors are up for grabs this year. The results could have major implications in a county known worldwide for its wine industry. The winning candidates will have to tackle controversial issues such as how and where agriculture can expand in the county, how to support the workforce, and how to protect the environment amid demand for housing and commercial development. We'll talk about the election and Napa's future. Guests: David McCuan, Professor and Chair, department of political science, Sonoma State University Dan Evans, executive editor, Napa Valley Register Carlos Cabrera-Lomeli, community engagement reporter, KQED Nisa Khan, audience engagement reporter, KQED

This is a baffling story that includes a Napa history lesson, an idea of how the Valley has grown and then a jaunt into intrigue, sting operations, and what appears to be an effort to kill the goose that laid the golden egg by the Napa County government. It seems that the County is going after small wineries in an attempt to bankrupt them out of business.  Friend of the pod, Stu Smith of Smith-Madrone joins to discuss and explain the situation -- at least the parts that have an explanation!  If you want background on Smith-Madrone, check out... Ep 253: Stu Smith of Smith-Madrone Vineyards Talks About 48 Years in Napa Valley Please support small wineries! Now, more than ever they need our help!! Stu Smith, Smith-Madrone Vineyard Lindsay Hoopes, Hoopes Vineyard   Full show notes are on Patreon. Become a member today! www.patreon.com/winefornormalpeople _______________________________________________________________ Wine Access  is my go-to source for the best selection of interesting, outstanding quality wines you can't find locally. Make sure you join the Wine Access-Wine For Normal People wine club in time for the first quarter shipment.  Get 10% your first order with my special URL.    To register for an AWESOME, LIVE WFNP class with Elizabeth or get a class gift certificate for the wine lover in your life go to: www.winefornormalpeople.com/classes

Pumpkin spice season is often people's favorite time of the year. Relief from scorching summer temperatures arrives, and with it, a glorious orange, gold, and red blanket splays across the countryside. And in October of 2004, California's Napa Valley, home of America's wine country, was amping to be a spectacular autumn.In one of Napa's cozy neighborhoods on Dorset Street, a house was decorated for Halloween like many others. In that house lived three women, friends who decided it was wiser to pool their resources and live together than separately. And even though Napa had a low crime rate—two years since there had been a serious crime—there was safety in numbers. Or so they thought.On November 1st, 2004, at about 2:00 in the morning, Lauren was awakened by the security light flipping on behind the garage. She didn't overthink it because sometimes the cats would often get out. But then she heard her dog give a "warning bark." Lauren quieted her dog, but within minutes, she heard someone entering the house and going up the stairs. Thinking it may be one of her roommate's boyfriends, she quieted the dog again and dozed off. Then she heard a blood-curdling scream.Join Jen and Cam as they discuss "Napa Valley Nightmare: Adriane Insogna & Leslie Mazzara'.Thank you to Bingo Bash for sponsoring this episode. Download Bingo Bash for free today on Google Play Or Apple Store and join the Bingo Fun!The promo on this episode is I Talk to Ghost. Available on all podcast apps.Written and researched by Lauretta Allenwith bits added in by JenListener Discretion by Edward October from OctoberpodVHSExecutive Producer Nico Vitesse of The Inky Paw PrintSources:https://abcnews.go.com/Primetime/LegalCenter/story?id=1187524&page=1https://www.theforgivenessproject.com/stories-library/cathy-harrington/https://www.newsnationnow.com/banfield/parallels-in-idaho-stabbings-2004-napa-murders/https://www.newspapers.com/image/630821863/?terms=Eric%20Copple&match=https://www.newspapers.com/image/192676146/?terms=Eric%20Copple&match=1https://www.newspapers.com/image/192886956/?terms=Eric%20Copple&match=1https://www.newspapers.com/image/192885977/?terms=Eric%20Copple&match=1https://www.newspapers.com/image/192888528/?terms=Eric%20Copple&match=1https://www.newspapers.com/image/776723739/?terms=Mazzara%20Insogna&match=1https://www.newspapers.com/image/446979300/?terms=Mazzara%20Insogna&match=1https://www.newspapers.com/image/754440442/?terms=Mazzara%20Insogna&match=1https://www.newspapers.com/image/754444754/?terms=Mazzara%20Insogna&match=1https://www.newspapers.com/image/813774901/?terms=Mazzara%20Insogna&match=1https://www.newspapers.com/image/813774920/?terms=Mazzara%20Insognahttps://www.newspapers.com/image/814302827/?terms=Mazzara%20Insogna&match=1https://www.newspapers.com/image/814302828/?terms=Mazzara%20Insognahttps://www.newspapers.com/image/814417399/?terms=Mazzara%20Insogna (Pleads guilty)https://www.newspapers.com/image/814417675/?terms=Mazzara%20Insogna&match=1https://www.newspapers.com/image/814023207/?terms=Mazzara%20Insogna&match=1https://www.newspapers.com/image/754651474/?terms=Mazzara%20Insogna&match=1https://www.swordandscale.com/jealous-rage-to-double-murder-in-napa-valley/https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/36743450/adriane-michelle-insognahttps://www.amazon.com/Halloween-Homicie/dp/B078KRX8BZ/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2DPB7K1Q2LGRZ&keywords=Leslie+Mazzara&qid=1692989502&s=instant-video&sprefix=leslie+mazzara%2Cinstant-video%2C96&sr=1-1 (Psychic Investigators Episode. Amazon Discovery+)https://www.youtube.com/watchv=V71UlNRU2M4&ab_channel=FilmRiseTrueCrimehttps://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/NAPA-House-invaded-2-women-killed-Third-2677208.phphttps://www.visitnapavalley.com/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napa_County,_CaliforniaThis show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/3647242/advertisement

  WARNING: This episode is explicit and detailed in the descriptions of attempted suicide, self-harm, rape, and sexual assault. It is not appropriate for children, and extreme discretion is advised in keeping the listening audience restricted to only appropriately aged and emotionally capable persons. If you are activated and are having thoughts of suicide and need immediate help, call the National Suicide Prevention Hotline at 988. Or, if you are activated and need immediate help regarding a past rape or sexual assault, call the National Sexual Assault telephone hotline, call 1-800.656.hope (4673).  This is the concluding episode of Bailie's powerful and impactful interview. Since it is the second part of an interview that was broken into two parts, I have added 20 seconds of the last part of her first episode, to the beginning of this episode, for the sake of context and continuity. Bailie's life was a difficult and complex reaction to what she understands to possibly be part genetic predisposition, and part patterned behavior that comes from family culture, lifestyle, environment, social impacts from those around her, and worldview. And all of this is part and parcel of what she believes inclined her to have suicidal ideation, self-harm acts, and attempts on her own life. And Bailie also has a very strong belief and understanding that she is alive today because of the insights and self-compassion she has gleaned from therapy, and from having a safe place for her to talk to those who care about her and want her to be safe, alive, and mentally secure in daily life. And to her credit, Bailie has done a lot of hard work to get where she is today…secure in the thought that her suicidal past is her past. Bailie is an active, strong, and proud leader and participant in the LGBTQ community in the Napa County area. She offers hope, guidance, support and encouragement to anyone who asks her for help. And she has graciously agreed to be there for anyone in the SASS audience who is a childhood sexual assault victim or survivor, who is part of the LGBTQ community who is struggling on their journey towards dealing with and healing from their difficult past. Contact Bailie; she's willing to listen and help in anyway she can. And she's offering do to this from a safe space. So, don't be shy…reach out to her. Her contact information is below. Thank you for listening to Sexual Assault Survivor Stories. Please subscribe to the podcast to help it grow, and to avail yourself to new episodes as they are released. And if you're willing, please rate the podcast (5 stars is my personal favorite!), and feel free to leave me a comment about how SASS has impacted your life in positive ways.   Finally, let's all do our part in bringing justice to victims and survivors of rape and sexual assault. Start by Believing. Stop victim blaming. Be empathic and listen. Because we all know someone whose life has been affected by rape or sexual assault. **September is National Suicide Prevention Awareness Month. Suicide is a major public health concern and a leading cause of death in the U.S. Please help the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) raise awareness by sharing resources that help others recognize the warning signs for suicide and know how to get help. And call the National Suicide Prevention Hotline at 988 if you are looking for immediate help and support with thoughts of suicide, or if you know someone who needs help. ** #suicideprevention #lgbtqconnection #SPM23 #safeinharmsway #projectbeloved #saan #irishangel #crimevictimsassistancecenter #coloradoassociationofsexcrimeinvestigators #girlsfightback #outdoordefense #worthfightingfor #thejanbrobergfoundation #thrivivors #sassyselfdefenseguide #ericbarreras #badassselfdefense #imworthfightingfor #vawa #baylor #ashforduniversity #uofaglobalcampus #psychologymajor #amandacoleman #remembermolly #fightrapeculture #gettraumainformed #forcescience

This is Stephen Schmidt from the Gazette Digital News Desk, and I'm here with your update for September 12, 2023.It will be sunny with a high near 75 degrees on Tuesday. According to the National Weather Service there will be a slight chance for rain in the Cedar Rapids area after 5 p.m. Otherwise it will be partly cloudy with a low of around 49 degrees.Under proposed revisions to bankruptcy procedures for the sale of Mercy Iowa City, the 150-year-old community hospital might not remain a health care facility, might not go for $20 million, won't give the University of Iowa the “bid protections” it once offered for the purchase and won't be completed this month.Responding to arguments that aspects of its initial procedures could deter alternate bidders from competing with the UI's proposed “low purchase price” of $20 million, Mercy has agreed to change some of its requested rules — including one requiring bidders to “continue operating the project as a hospital.”While initial procedures that Mercy on Aug. 9 asked a bankruptcy judge to approve required competing bidders to show health care experience in owning or operating comparable facilities, discussions since then have persuaded Mercy to instead simply request information from a bidder if it has health care licensure or “contemplates the ongoing operations of the hospital,” court records made public Monday show.A bankruptcy hearing to consider this and other issues is set for 10:30 a.m. Wednesday. A veteran-owned spirit company is recognizing those who have earned the highest honor in serving their country.Cold Zero Premium Spirits, a whiskey and vodka company founded last year by members of the United States Military Special Operations community, will soon release a special edition of their whiskey honoring Medal of Honor recipients.The 2,000 bottles, signed by six Medal of Honor recipients, will be available near Veterans Day in November through distributions at Hy-Vee, Fareway, military base stores and their website. Proceeds will benefit the Congressional Medal of Honor Society.In addition to their signatures, the labels will tell the stories of how each veteran earned the highest decoration in the armed forces. Each veteran's story also will be highlighted weekly through the company's social media.Cold Zero Premium Spirits, founded by CEO Casey Maxted with other veterans, hit the shelves in April 2022 with whiskey and vodka produced in partnership with Cedar Ridge Distillery in Swisher. Rye whiskey, their first product, is aged in repurposed wine bottles from Napa County, California's wine country.

Brothers Stuart and Charles Smith are the vineyard managers and winemakers of Smith-Madrone Winery. Also in the family attic is the Fetherolf family, German farmers from the Palatinate region, who came to America on the Good Ship Thistle in 1730. The name for the winery came as a tribute to the Smith brothers who pursued their dream and to the Madrone trees which distinguish the property.In May 1971, with a partnership of family and friends, Stuart Smith bought the 'terroir' which today is Smith-Madrone Vineyards & winery. He was 22 years old and had just received his B.A. in Economics from UC Berkeley and was taking classes towards his Master's in Viticulture at UC Davis. In trying to find land to plant vineyard in the Napa Valley, through a family friend he explored a forest on the remotest and highest part of Spring Mountain and discovered that the land had been a vineyard in the 1880s and in fact had been part of the wagon trail route between Napa and Santa Rosa. Today he is respected for his expertise and leadership as a mountain vineyardist.Stuart was born and raised in Santa Monica. Every summer during college, from 1966 – 1970, he worked as a lifeguard on the beaches in Santa Monica. He started at Tower #1 just north of POP Pier, spent some time at the tower just south of the Santa Monica Pier (Muscle Beach) and later spent most of his lifeguarding time north of the Santa Monica Pier. One summer Stu worked on the rescue boat and became friendly with the boat's operator, Lt. Tommy Zahn. Tommy was a legend in the surfing world and also famous for winning the Honolulu-Molokai paddle board race twice, first at age 20 and then again at age 40. Tommy was also famous as Marilyn Monroe's true love. In 1971 the Santa Monica Lifeguards were folded into LA County's lifeguard program.While pursuing his master's at UC Davis, Stuart was the first teaching assistant for wine industry pioneers Maynard Amerine and Vernon Singleton in 1970-1971. He taught enology at Santa Rosa Junior College and Napa Valley College; he has chaired the 1986 and 2006 Napa Valley Wine Auctions. He is an active member of the G.O.N.A.D.S. (the Gastronomical Order for Nonsensical and Dissipatory Society), a group of Napa Valley vintners who started getting together for monthly lunches in the 1980s. He served on Napa County's Watershed Task Force for several years, appointed by the Board of Supervisors; in 2006 he was appointed again by the Board of Supervisors to sit on Napa County General Plan Steering Committee, responsible for updating Napa's General Plan, a three-year project. Stu has also served as auctioneer for an Omaha (NB) charity auction for many years.Stuart served as Scout Master for St. Helena's (Boy Scout) Troop One for many years and continues as the Troop's Chair today. He is an avid canoeist, having canoed through the Quetico Wilderness in Canada many times and often canoes the Klamath and Trinity Rivers in California. He has five children and four grandchildren.Follow The Swirl Suite:SwirlSuite@gmail.com@SwirlSuite www.swirlsuite.comSarita @VineMeUpTanisha @GirlMeetsGlassLeslie @Vino301Glynis @Vino_NoireI'm 

This week Wes and Todd sit down with Gina Teichert. Gina discusses Tik Tok, Napa County, growing up in Nevada, National Geographic Kids, the influence of her Artist grandmother, support from her family, her connection to the West, bringing her experiences into her work, voice, art school, the fashion industry and modeling, sketching, her own rubric for her work, coffee table books, graduating herself from art school, rejection, scream therapy, “Hearts in SF”, her experience as a studio assistant, oil painting, routine, goal setting, the catalyst for her concentrating on her art career fulltime, her piece “Atomic Madonna”, self-portraits, Magritte, her successes the past few years, pricing, freelance writing, the relationship between art & society, and her mantra.Join us for a wonderful and thoughtful conversation with Gina Teichert.Check out Gina's work at her website www.ginateichert.com Follow Gina Teichert on social media:Instagram - www.instagram.com/ginateichert/Catch Gina's work in person at these upcoming exhibitions.Blue Stream Gallery – www.bluestreamgallery.com“Beginning: New History and Artistic Growth”Group ExhibitionAugust 31st – September 13th, 2023Opening Reception – September 2nd at 5pm Dorado 806 Art Gallery – www.dorado806.com“Wytches”Group ExhibitionOctober 13th – October 28th, 2023

01:00 Conservative retired judge says Trump 'corroded and corrupted American democracy' 23:00 NYMAG: Tell Me Why It Hurts - How Bessel van der Kolk's once controversial theory of trauma became the dominant way we make sense of our lives https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/trauma-bessel-van-der-kolk-the-body-keeps-the-score-profile.html 32:00 El Jim on Luke the philosopher 35:300 My evaluation of the Republican presidential candidates 57:00 Tucker Carlson Interviews Vivek Ramaswamy 59:00 I want to see Cocaine Bear and I want to see President Vivek Ramaswamy 1:34:00 Psych podcast, https://psych.fireside.fm/15 1:40:00 Happiness, https://psych.fireside.fm/16 2:05:00 Elliott Blatt joins 2:06:00 Auburn, CA, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auburn,_California 2:07:00 Napa Valley, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napa_County,_California 2:21:00 Ethan Ralph's personality transformation 2:21:30 Josh Moon talks to Ethan Ralph about Nick Fuentes 2:48:20 David Brooke Bobos in Paradise, https://podcasts.apple.com/nz/podcast/david-brookss-bobos-in-paradise/id1651876897?i=1000586553668 2:50:00 Salon: The facts vs. David Brooks: Startling inaccuracies raise questions about his latest book, https://www.salon.com/2015/06/15/the_facts_vs_david_brooks_startling_inaccuracies_raise_questions_about_his_latest_book/ Decoding child abuse, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=143378 The Trauma Trap, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=138468 Is blogging destroying journalism? https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2011/08/22/blogging_is_des/ How Livestreaming Made Me A Better Man, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=149835 Why Do Some People End Their Sentences In 'Yeah'?, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=149856 Cruel optimism, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=149844 A Fan's Life: The Agony of Victory and the Thrill of Defeat by Paul Campos, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=149853 The Republican Brain, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=149724 People Often Base Their Worldview On Bogus Facts, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=149510 HP: Richard Hanania, Rising Right-Wing Star, Wrote For White Supremacist Sites Under Pseudonym, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=149672 The Obama Factor: A Q&A with historian David Garrow, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=149632 https://www.unz.com/isteve/muslim-is-arrested-in-brooklyn-for-murdering-a-gay-black-how-3-news-outlets-covered-this-story/ https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/06/us/politics/woke-republicans-poll.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/08/06/europe-britain-carbon-cost/ https://www.wsj.com/articles/he-thought-he-saw-wrongdoing-on-wall-street-it-took-over-his-life-4d9ab491?mod=hp_lead_pos9 Decoding Decoding The Gurus, Part Two, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=149545 Decoding Deep Left JOKL (7-24-23), https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=149329 Decoding Try That In A Small Town (7-21-23), https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=149290 Decoding Ben Shapiro (7-16-23), https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=149220 Analyzing Steve Sailer's Latest Interview (7-13-23), https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=149185 Decoding Jean-Francois Gariepy (7-12-23), https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=149183 Decoding Bronze Age Pervert, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=149223 Highlights, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=143746 https://odysee.com/@LukeFordLive, https://lbry.tv/@LukeFord, https://rumble.com/lukeford https://dlive.tv/lukefordlivestreams Superchat: https://entropystream.live/app/lukefordlive Bitchute: https://www.bitchute.com/channel/lukeford/ Soundcloud MP3s: https://soundcloud.com/luke-ford-666431593 Code of Conduct: https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=125692 https://www.patreon.com/lukeford http://lukeford.net Email me: lukeisback@gmail.com or DM me on Twitter.com/lukeford Support the show | https://www.streamlabs.com/lukeford, https://patreon.com/lukeford, https://PayPal.Me/lukeisback Facebook: http://facebook.com/lukecford Feel free to clip my videos. It's nice when you link back to the original.

Brothers Stuart and Charles Smith are the vineyard managers and winemakers of Smith-Madrone Winery. Also in the family attic is the Fetherolf family, German farmers from the Palatinate region, who came to America on the Good Ship Thistle in 1730. The name for the winery came as a tribute to the Smith brothers who pursued their dream and to the Madrone trees which distinguish the property.In May 1971, with a partnership of family and friends, Stuart Smith bought the 'terroir' which today is Smith-Madrone Vineyards & winery. He was 22 years old and had just received his B.A. in Economics from UC Berkeley and was taking classes towards his Master's in Viticulture at UC Davis. In trying to find land to plant vineyard in the Napa Valley, through a family friend he explored a forest on the remotest and highest part of Spring Mountain and discovered that the land had been a vineyard in the 1880s and in fact had been part of the wagon trail route between Napa and Santa Rosa. Today he is respected for his expertise and leadership as a mountain vineyardist.Stuart was born and raised in Santa Monica. Every summer during college, from 1966 1970, he worked as a lifeguard on the beaches in Santa Monica. He started at Tower #1 just north of POP Pier, spent some time at the tower just south of the Santa Monica Pier (Muscle Beach) and later spent most of his lifeguarding time north of the Santa Monica Pier. One summer Stu worked on the rescue boat and became friendly with the boats operator, Lt. Tommy Zahn. Tommy was a legend in the surfing world and also famous for winning the Honolulu-Molokai paddle board race twice, first at age 20 and then again at age 40. Tommy was also famous as Marilyn Monroes true love. In 1971 the Santa Monica Lifeguards were folded into LA Countys lifeguard program.While pursuing his master's at UC Davis, Stuart was the first teaching assistant for wine industry pioneers Maynard Amerine and Vernon Singleton in 1970-1971. He taught enology at Santa Rosa Junior College and Napa Valley College; he has chaired the 1986 and 2006 Napa Valley Wine Auctions. He is an active member of the G.O.N.A.D.S. (the Gastronomical Order for Nonsensical and Dissipatory Society), a group of Napa Valley vintners who started getting together for monthly lunches in the 1980s. He served on Napa County's Watershed Task Force for several years, appointed by the Board of Supervisors; in 2006 he was appointed again by the Board of Supervisors to sit on Napa County General Plan Steering Committee, responsible for updating Napa's General Plan, a three-year project. Stu has also served as auctioneer for an Omaha (NB) charity auction for many years.Stuart served as Scout Master for St. Helena's (Boy Scout) Troop One for many years and continues as the Troop's Chair today. He is an avid canoeist, having canoed through the Quetico Wilderness in Canada many times and often canoes the Klamath and Trinity Rivers in California. He has five children and four grandchildren.Follow The Swirl Suite:SwirlSuite@gmail.com@SwirlSuite www.swirlsuite.comSarita @VineMeUpTanisha @GirlMeetsGlassLeslie @Vino301Glynis @Vino_Noire

During this episode of ROCK'nVINO hosts Michelle and Coco chat with Mark “Swany” Swanhart, the creator and director of SAVOR After Hours – a wine-tasting cabaret starring Maks and Val Chmerkovskiy from Dancing with the Stars at JaM Cellars Ballroom in Napa. The show feels like a rollercoaster that will dazzle your senses with exciting dance sequences, emotional music selections, incredible costumes, and the best wine selections from Napa County vineyards. Swany takes you on an adventure that will make you cheer, laugh, gasp, cry, and more. The venue is expertly designed to give you a wonderful vantage point from any seat. The show tickets start at just $44, however you can add all kinds of experiences onto your base ticket, including wine tasting, photo ops with the stars, pre-show meet and greet, and more. It runs through Labor Day weekend, so don't delay! Get tickets now at savorafterhours.com

Top Stories- A man was killed in a crash at the intersection of Gosford Road and District Boulevard- The family of a toddler who died under suspicious circumstances this week is calling for justice- 17 News has learned County Administrative Officer Ryan Alsop, has been hired in Napa County

Episode 21 The Zodiac Killer Part 2In the second part of our Zodiac Killer coverage, we explore 2 separate attacks. First we examine the September 1969 attack on Cecelia Shepard and Bryan Hartnell in which the killer wore an executioner's hood while he repeatedly stabbed the couple in broad daylight at Napa County's tranquil Lake Berryessa. Next we look at the October, 1969 murder of cab driver Paul Stine in which he shot Stine in San Francisco's most upscale neighborhood signaling a departure from the couple's normal MO of targeting younger couples. After the murder of Paul Stine, there was never a confirmed Zodiac attack again.We are joined by GeoProfiler Douglas MacGregor who provides us with analysis of the Zodiac's crime locationsTo find out how to join us live as we record each new episode of Citizen Detective, follow us on Social Media.Twitter- https://twitter.com/CitizenDPodFacebook Home Page- https://www.facebook.com/CitizenDetectivePodcastFacebook Discussion group- https://www.facebook.com/groups/233261280919915Instagram- https://www.instagram.com/citizendpod/?hl=enYoutube- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSgvqIuf4-sEF2aDdNGip2wVisit our homepage: Citizendetectivepodcast.comTo support this podcast on Patreon and gain access to ad-free episodes, bonus content, and our after-show 'The Scrum' visit Patreon.com/CitizenDetective Continue the conversation about this case with fellow Citizen Detectives over at Websleuths: https://www.websleuths.com/forums/forums/citizen-detective-true-crime-podcast.719/The Citizen Detective team includes:Co-Hosts- Mike Morford, Alex Ralph, and Dr. Lee MellorWriting and Research- Alex RalphTechnical Producer- Andrew GrayProduction Assistant- Ashley MonroeSuzanna Ryan- DNA ExpertCloyd Steiger- Retired Seattle PD Homicide Detective

Why did Jason LaChance want to talk with Mike Gibson the 6-year NFL veteran? Despite Mike's success on the Grid Iron, he had succumbed to addiction becoming a full-blown heroin and methamphetamine addict. After several treatment facilities, Mike had a spiritual awakening, worked a 12-step program, and has had long-term sobriety. Mike was born and raised in Napa, Ca. Went to college at UC Berkeley where he played football. Mike was drafted by the Philadelphia Eagles in 2008 and played 6 years in the NFL. He became addicted to prescription pain medication in his 3rd year after a couple of injuries. Upon retiring from the NFL Mike was a sheriff in Napa County while still abusing OxyContin and Adderall. He was the class president of his police academy. He was asked to resign after an incident where he was caught with both substances in his vehicle. Mike went to treatment and learned about heroin and meth. After having been to treatment 6 times. Mike went to his last treatment completely broke having lost everything.  Finally, after finding a higher power and completing the 12 steps his sobriety gained traction and Mike is still clean and sober today. Mike has worked in treatment for the last 5 years and has aspirations of owning his own facility one day.  This is Mike Gibson Knockin' Doorz Down. To subscribe to the audio form of the podcast, and follow Knockin' Doorz Down on social media go to www.kddpodcast.com For 51FIFTY use the discount code KDD20 for 20% off! https://51fiftyltm.com/ For more information on Carlos Vieira's autobiography Knockin' Doorz Down, the Carlos Vieira Foundation, the Race 2B Drug-Free, Race to End the Stigma, and Race For Autism programs visit: https://www.carlosvieirafoundation.org/ For more on Mike Gibson https://www.facebook.com/mike.gibson.10690 https://www.instagram.com/mike.gibson69/ https://mhcsandiego.com/ https://healthyliferecovery.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On the podcast today, I have Stefanie Fritz, who is a professional makeup artist in Sonoma and Napa County. She specializes in bridal and photography makeup services and offer one-on-one makeup and teach how to elevate your look on a daily basis.  She has expanded the role of teacher into content creator and is on Instagram and TikTok as a Beauty Influencer.  She helps with topics such as beauty over 40, makeup over 40, mature makeup, mature skin, makeup tutorials, makeup routine, beauty basics, makeup for beginners, skincare routines, mature beauty, and more.  She is an ambassador for Sephora and am on their Sephora Squad.  This allows her to partner with beauty brands and share the POV of a pro makeup artist and a woman over 40.  She do a lot of product reviews and beauty blogs that you can find on my website. I'm the beauty bff you didn't know you needed! Contact Stefanie Fritz:Follow Stefanie's IG: @stefaniefritzxoWebsite: https://www.stefaniefritzxo.com/TikTok: http://www.tiktok.com/@stefaniefritzxo Contact Me:Follow Me IG: @heathernelson.lifeWebsite: heathernelson.life

Alex Lodner shares about her time wine tasting in Napa County while Steph March informs about #Souptok. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Alex Lodner shares about her time wine tasting in Napa County while Steph March informs about #Souptok.

Hey Spillers!! Welcome back to a new episode that you probably already know! The Zodiac Killer is the pseudonym of an unidentified serial killer who operated in Northern California in the late 1960s. The case has been described as the most famous unsolved murder case in American history, becoming a fixture of popular culture and inspiring amateur detectives to attempt to resolve it. The Zodiac murdered five known victims in the San Francisco Bay Area between December 1968 and October 1969, operating in rural, urban, and suburban settings. He targeted young couples and a lone male cab driver, and his known attacks took place in Benicia, Vallejo, unincorporated Napa County, and the city of San Francisco proper. Two of his attempted victims survived. The Zodiac claimed to have murdered 37 victims, and he has been linked to several other cold cases, some in Southern California or outside the state. Grab your glass and join us! Contact us with your story or any case suggestion to spillingthecrime@gmail.com Also follow us in any social media platform @spillingthecrime

Paul Pelosi pleads guilty to Napa County crash and DUI, Mark Thompson shares details.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Paul Pelosi pleads guilty to Napa County crash and DUI, Mark Thompson shares details.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Ian Rogers of Napa and Jarrod Copeland of Vallejo were arrested and charged with plotting to blow up the Democrats Sacramento headquarters in 2021. Investigators seized 49 guns and several pipe bombs from Rogers and more guns from Copeland. Prosecutors alleged that the two were specifically motivated to violence by President Donald Trump's election loss, the lie that the election was stolen, and the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. They belonged to a radical right wing ideology called the Three Percenters, which was founded in 2008 by militia leader Mike Vanderboegh in reaction to the election of President Barack Obama. The loosely-affiliated movement has many different groups under different names. Rogers and Copeland belonged to the Three Percent United Patriots or 3UP, a national group founded by Mike Morris in Colorado that organized and recruited on Facebook and conducted rogue border patrols in Arizona. Prior to his arrest, Rogers had numerous contacts with law enforcement, including a domestic violence arrest he was not prosecuted for. Some Solano County Sheriff's deputies have displayed support for the Three Percenter movement online, including Daniel “Cully” Pratt, the brother of actor Chris Pratt, Sgt. Roy Stockton, also a Vacaville city councilmember, and Deputy Dale Matsuoka, the department's homeless outreach coordinator. Sheriff Tom Ferrara said that before Jan. 6, he had never heard of Three Percenters. Guests: Shane Bauer, a reporter who went undercover with 3UP in 2016 for Mother Jones, and Kurt Braddock, a fellow in the Polarization and Extremism Research and Innovation Lab at American University.

Dr. Robert Holcomb originally grew up in Napa County until he went to college. He is the first Latinx Vicepresident of Academic Affairs in the history of SRJC. He invites students to explore SRJC offerings whether they are in middle school, high school, college or beyond. #SRJC --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/rafael-vazquez7/support

This is Garrison Hardie, pinch hitting for Pastor Toby, for this Friday, June 24th, 2022. Today, we’ll cover Supreme Court STRIKES DOWN New York concealed carry restrictions, Nancy Pelosi's husband charged in his DUI case, The Military Vaccine Mandate is Under Review as Unvaccinated Public Servants Return to Work, and we’ll end with the topic that I love… sports! Let’s get to it: https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-supreme-court-strikes-down-new-york-concealed-carry-restrictions?utm_campaign=64487 Supreme Court STRIKES DOWN New York concealed carry restrictions In the case of the New York State Rifle and Pistol Association v. Bruen, the Supreme Court has ruled that a New York gun-control law that required citizens to show "proper cause" to obtain a concealed carry license is in violation of the Constitution. The vote broke down on party lines, 6-3. In the 135 page opinion, with the majority opinion written by Justice Clarence Thomas. Thomas was joined in the majority by Justices Roberts, Alito, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett. The opinion discusses the New York state law that made is a crime to own a firearm without a license, whether that possession was inside the home or external to it. The only way for New Yorkers to obtain an unrestricted permit was to prove that they had "proper cause" to do so. A person had to "demonstrate a special need for self-protection distinguishable from that of the general community." Two men, Brandon Koch and Robert Nash, applied for these permits and had them denied. They are "adult, law-abiding New York residents," who wanted to have the opportunity for self-defense. They were found by authorities to not have good enough reasons for wanting to carry, and so their permits were denied. They brought suit. The two claimed that both their Second and Fourteenth Amendment rights had been violated by the denial. Thomas writes that "New York’s proper-cause requirement violates the Fourteenth Amendment by preventing law-abiding citizens with ordinary self-defense needs from exercising their Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms in public for self-defense." "It is undisputed that petitioners Koch and Nash—two ordinary, law-abiding, adult citizens—are part of 'the people' whom the Second Amendment protects," Thomas said further, citing Heller. "And no party disputes that handguns are weapons 'in common use' today for self-defense," he wrote. "The Court has little difficulty concluding also that the plain text of the Second Amendment protects Koch's and Nash's proposed course of conduct—carrying handguns publicly for self-defense. Nothing in the Second Amendment’s text draws a home/public distinction with respect to the right to keep and bear arms, and the definition of 'bear' naturally encompasses public carry. Moreover, the Second Amendment guarantees an “individual right to possess and carry weapons in case of confrontation,'... and confrontation can surely take place outside the home." As to the state of New York's contention, Thomas writes that "the Court concludes that respondents have failed to meet their burden to identify an American tradition justifying New York’s proper-cause requirement." "The constitutional right to bear arms in public for self-defense is not 'a second-class right, subject to an entirely different body of rules than the other Bill of Rights guarantees,'" the Court states, citing McDonald. Lies, Propaganda, Story Telling, and the Serrated Edge: This year our national conference is in Knoxville, TN October 6th-8th. The theme of this year’s conference is Lies, Propaganda, Storytelling and the Serrated Edge. Satan is the father of lies, and the mother of those lies is a government who has rejected God. We have especially been lied to these last two years, and the COVIDpanic has been one of the central mechanisms that our government has used to lie to us and to grab more power. Because Christians have not been reading their bibles, we are susceptible to lies and weak in our ability to fight these lies. God has given us His word to fight Satan and his lies, and we need to recover all of God’s word, its serrated edge and all. Mark your calendars for October 6th-8th, as we fight, laugh and feast with fellowship, beer and Psalms, our amazing lineup of speakers, hanging with our awesome vendors, meeting new friends, and more. Early bird tickets are available now, but will be gone before you know it! Sign up now at flfnetwork.com/knoxville2022 From one legal battle to another, Nancy Pelosi's husband charged in DUI case https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/nancy-pelosi-husband-charged-dui-case Paul Pelosi, the husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, was charged Thursday in connection to a car crash in California last month. The 82-year-old was charged with driving under the influence of alcohol causing injury and driving with .08% blood alcohol level, according to the Napa County District Attorney's Office. "Based upon the extent of the injuries suffered by the victim, the District Attorney filed misdemeanor charges. This decision is consistent with how our office handles these cases with similar injuries," the office said in a statement. Paul Pelosi had been driving a 2021 Porsche 911 toward a Pelosi country house in Napa Valley around 10 p.m. local time on May 28 when a Jeep rammed into his vehicle as he attempted to cross the highway, the New York Times reported. No one was injured in the incident. Pelosi was booked at Napa County jail on suspicion of driving under the influence with a blood alcohol level of 0.08 or higher and was released several hours later after posting $5,000 bail, records show. He is expected to appear in Napa County Superior Court at 8:30 a.m. PST on Aug. 3, the county district attorney's office said last Thursday. "The punishment for driving under the influence causing injury as a misdemeanor is set by California law. It includes up to five years of probation, a minimum of five days in jail, installation of an ignition interlock device, fines and fees, completion of a court ordered drinking driver class, and other terms as appropriate," the district attorney's office said on Thursday. Prior to the accident, Paul Pelosi underwent cataract surgery and the night before, he had attended a dinner with Alexander Mehran, a friend and Democratic donor, according to the New York Times. A previous statement from a representative for Paul Pelosi said he was alone in his car, CBS News reported, adding that he was "fully cooperative" with authorities. When asked for comment on charges, a spokesperson for Nancy Pelosi referred the Washington Examiner to a communications firm that stated, "We are declining comment at this time. Military Vaccine Mandate Under Review as Unvaccinated Public Servants Return to Work https://www.theepochtimes.com/military-vaccine-mandate-under-review-as-unvaccinated-public-servants-return-to-work_4550902.html?utm_source=partner&utm_campaign=BonginoReport Unvaccinated public servants were allowed back to work on June 20, including civilians of the Department of National Defence (DND), but unvaccinated Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) personnel will have to wait for their employer’s review of the vaccine mandate to know their fate. “Given updated guidance from the Treasury Board, we are currently reviewing the CDS [Chief of Defence Staff] Directives on COVID-19 Vaccination, in order to maintain a safe working environment and while remaining ready to conduct CAF operations in support of Canadians at home and around the world,” DND said in an emailed statement on June 22. “In the meantime, the CDS Directives remain in effect for CAF members until further notice.” The CDS directive, which was issued in October, allowed for exemptions under medical, religious, or human rights grounds, but not many have been granted. Out of 1,300 exemption requests, DND says that as of May 31 only 157 were granted, with 98 for religious reasons, 42 for medical reasons, and 17 for “other reasons” (which can include claims of discrimination under the Canadian Human Rights Act). The department says that as of June 15, the voluntary release of 103 regular forces members has been granted by the CAF. Those members cited the directive on vaccination as the primary reason for seeking release. Another 234 CAF members have been released non-voluntarily for not complying with the directive. As of June 15, 805 soldiers face remedial measures. If the CAF judges those measures to be unsuccessful, further administrative actions can be taken leading to release. DND says 463 personnel are under administrative review. Lawyer Philip Millar, a CAF combat arms veteran, is representing about 30 armed forces members affected by the vaccine mandate. He predicts the CDS will not expedite the review in order to release as many non-compliant personnel as possible. “Now that it’s clear that the mandates are untenable, unjustifiable, and unconscionable, the CDS is dragging its feet because the longer they wait, the more people get released,” he said. Millar was set to debate a motion in court on the CAF vaccine mandate this week but the hearing was postponed. “I’m sure they knew [the motion] was going to be successful, and that’s why the government changed it, but they’re playing games with people’s lives,” he says. Well hey, if you’re looking for a new job, I’ve got just the place for you: Redballoon Not so long ago, the American dream was alive and well. Employees who worked hard were rewarded, and employers looked for people who could do the job, not for people who had the right political views. RedBalloon.work is a job site designed to get us back to what made American businesses successful: free speech, hard work, and having fun. If you are a free speech employer who wants to hire employees who focus on their work and not identity politics, then post a job on RedBalloon. If you are an employee who is being censored at work or is being forced to comply with the current zeitgeist, post your resume on RedBalloon and look for a new job. redballoon.work, the job site where free speech is still alive! Now for the topic that I love… sports! https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/34136486/qb-arch-manning-no-1-recruit-2023-class-commits-texas QB Arch Manning, No. 1 recruit in 2023 class, commits to Texas The recruitment of blue-chip quarterback Arch Manning, a rare collision of talent, pedigree and possibility, captivated college football for years. Manning ended the intrigue Thursday afternoon, committing to Texas over suitors that included Georgia, Alabama, LSU, Clemson and Virginia. Although Manning has long been considered the top player in the class of 2023, the family remained intent on attempting to keep his recruitment as low-key as possible. His Instagram is private, and he has not been an active participant in name, image and likeness opportunities. But keeping things low-key has still been difficult, considering the family's football history and the magnitude of how much his decision could sway a program's fortune. Manning even used his first tweet to make the announcement, on a verified Twitter account with a bio that simply says "high school student." Texas coach Steve Sarkisian also reacted to Manning's announcement, first retweeting his new quarterback recruit then writing "All Gas, No Brakes!!!" in a follow-up post. Manning is a nephew of Eli and Peyton Manning, a grandson of Archie Manning and son of former Ole Miss wide receiver Cooper Manning. He is the star quarterback at Isidore Newman High School in New Orleans -- throwing for 5,731 yards and 72 touchdowns in his first three years of high school football -- and has been considered a top-flight prospect since middle school. Any morsel of news around the quarterback has rippled significantly throughout the recruiting universe. The commitment of Manning's high school teammate and close friend Will Randle, a three-star tight end who committed to Texas earlier this week, drew interest as it represented a bellwether for where Manning could be leaning. Manning's commitment to Texas represents him both carving his own path and perhaps reuniting with the family's SEC roots. The Manning family has strong ties at Ole Miss and Tennessee, and Arch Manning could end up as a link to the SEC, as he could be Texas' starting quarterback in 2025, when the Longhorns are slated to debut in the conference. The commitment represents Texas' first No. 1 overall recruit in the ESPN 300 era (since 2006) and its first quarterback ranked in the top 20 since Garrett Gilbert in 2009. It also gives Texas a key building block for its 2023 recruiting class, with skill players expected to be attracted to playing with a talent such as Manning. The decision marks a massive win for Sarkisian, especially coming off a 5-7 debut season that included a home loss to Kansas. Manning's decision reaffirms Sarkisian as one of the country's top quarterback tutors and Texas as a quarterback destination. Sarkisian is the Longhorns' playcaller and has coached such quarterbacks as Tua Tagovailoa, Mac Jones and Matt Leinart. Thanks for tuning into this CrossPolitic Daily NewsBrief. If you liked the show, hit that share button for me. If you want to sign up for our upcoming FLF Conference, sign up now, at flfnetwork.com… and if you want to chat about becoming a corporate partner of CrossPolitc, let’s talk. Email me at garrison@fightlaughfeast.com. For CrossPoltic news, I’m Garrison Hardie. Have a great day, and Lord bless.

This is Garrison Hardie, pinch hitting for Pastor Toby, for this Friday, June 24th, 2022. Today, we’ll cover Supreme Court STRIKES DOWN New York concealed carry restrictions, Nancy Pelosi's husband charged in his DUI case, The Military Vaccine Mandate is Under Review as Unvaccinated Public Servants Return to Work, and we’ll end with the topic that I love… sports! Let’s get to it: https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-supreme-court-strikes-down-new-york-concealed-carry-restrictions?utm_campaign=64487 Supreme Court STRIKES DOWN New York concealed carry restrictions In the case of the New York State Rifle and Pistol Association v. Bruen, the Supreme Court has ruled that a New York gun-control law that required citizens to show "proper cause" to obtain a concealed carry license is in violation of the Constitution. The vote broke down on party lines, 6-3. In the 135 page opinion, with the majority opinion written by Justice Clarence Thomas. Thomas was joined in the majority by Justices Roberts, Alito, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett. The opinion discusses the New York state law that made is a crime to own a firearm without a license, whether that possession was inside the home or external to it. The only way for New Yorkers to obtain an unrestricted permit was to prove that they had "proper cause" to do so. A person had to "demonstrate a special need for self-protection distinguishable from that of the general community." Two men, Brandon Koch and Robert Nash, applied for these permits and had them denied. They are "adult, law-abiding New York residents," who wanted to have the opportunity for self-defense. They were found by authorities to not have good enough reasons for wanting to carry, and so their permits were denied. They brought suit. The two claimed that both their Second and Fourteenth Amendment rights had been violated by the denial. Thomas writes that "New York’s proper-cause requirement violates the Fourteenth Amendment by preventing law-abiding citizens with ordinary self-defense needs from exercising their Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms in public for self-defense." "It is undisputed that petitioners Koch and Nash—two ordinary, law-abiding, adult citizens—are part of 'the people' whom the Second Amendment protects," Thomas said further, citing Heller. "And no party disputes that handguns are weapons 'in common use' today for self-defense," he wrote. "The Court has little difficulty concluding also that the plain text of the Second Amendment protects Koch's and Nash's proposed course of conduct—carrying handguns publicly for self-defense. Nothing in the Second Amendment’s text draws a home/public distinction with respect to the right to keep and bear arms, and the definition of 'bear' naturally encompasses public carry. Moreover, the Second Amendment guarantees an “individual right to possess and carry weapons in case of confrontation,'... and confrontation can surely take place outside the home." As to the state of New York's contention, Thomas writes that "the Court concludes that respondents have failed to meet their burden to identify an American tradition justifying New York’s proper-cause requirement." "The constitutional right to bear arms in public for self-defense is not 'a second-class right, subject to an entirely different body of rules than the other Bill of Rights guarantees,'" the Court states, citing McDonald. Lies, Propaganda, Story Telling, and the Serrated Edge: This year our national conference is in Knoxville, TN October 6th-8th. The theme of this year’s conference is Lies, Propaganda, Storytelling and the Serrated Edge. Satan is the father of lies, and the mother of those lies is a government who has rejected God. We have especially been lied to these last two years, and the COVIDpanic has been one of the central mechanisms that our government has used to lie to us and to grab more power. Because Christians have not been reading their bibles, we are susceptible to lies and weak in our ability to fight these lies. God has given us His word to fight Satan and his lies, and we need to recover all of God’s word, its serrated edge and all. Mark your calendars for October 6th-8th, as we fight, laugh and feast with fellowship, beer and Psalms, our amazing lineup of speakers, hanging with our awesome vendors, meeting new friends, and more. Early bird tickets are available now, but will be gone before you know it! Sign up now at flfnetwork.com/knoxville2022 From one legal battle to another, Nancy Pelosi's husband charged in DUI case https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/nancy-pelosi-husband-charged-dui-case Paul Pelosi, the husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, was charged Thursday in connection to a car crash in California last month. The 82-year-old was charged with driving under the influence of alcohol causing injury and driving with .08% blood alcohol level, according to the Napa County District Attorney's Office. "Based upon the extent of the injuries suffered by the victim, the District Attorney filed misdemeanor charges. This decision is consistent with how our office handles these cases with similar injuries," the office said in a statement. Paul Pelosi had been driving a 2021 Porsche 911 toward a Pelosi country house in Napa Valley around 10 p.m. local time on May 28 when a Jeep rammed into his vehicle as he attempted to cross the highway, the New York Times reported. No one was injured in the incident. Pelosi was booked at Napa County jail on suspicion of driving under the influence with a blood alcohol level of 0.08 or higher and was released several hours later after posting $5,000 bail, records show. He is expected to appear in Napa County Superior Court at 8:30 a.m. PST on Aug. 3, the county district attorney's office said last Thursday. "The punishment for driving under the influence causing injury as a misdemeanor is set by California law. It includes up to five years of probation, a minimum of five days in jail, installation of an ignition interlock device, fines and fees, completion of a court ordered drinking driver class, and other terms as appropriate," the district attorney's office said on Thursday. Prior to the accident, Paul Pelosi underwent cataract surgery and the night before, he had attended a dinner with Alexander Mehran, a friend and Democratic donor, according to the New York Times. A previous statement from a representative for Paul Pelosi said he was alone in his car, CBS News reported, adding that he was "fully cooperative" with authorities. When asked for comment on charges, a spokesperson for Nancy Pelosi referred the Washington Examiner to a communications firm that stated, "We are declining comment at this time. Military Vaccine Mandate Under Review as Unvaccinated Public Servants Return to Work https://www.theepochtimes.com/military-vaccine-mandate-under-review-as-unvaccinated-public-servants-return-to-work_4550902.html?utm_source=partner&utm_campaign=BonginoReport Unvaccinated public servants were allowed back to work on June 20, including civilians of the Department of National Defence (DND), but unvaccinated Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) personnel will have to wait for their employer’s review of the vaccine mandate to know their fate. “Given updated guidance from the Treasury Board, we are currently reviewing the CDS [Chief of Defence Staff] Directives on COVID-19 Vaccination, in order to maintain a safe working environment and while remaining ready to conduct CAF operations in support of Canadians at home and around the world,” DND said in an emailed statement on June 22. “In the meantime, the CDS Directives remain in effect for CAF members until further notice.” The CDS directive, which was issued in October, allowed for exemptions under medical, religious, or human rights grounds, but not many have been granted. Out of 1,300 exemption requests, DND says that as of May 31 only 157 were granted, with 98 for religious reasons, 42 for medical reasons, and 17 for “other reasons” (which can include claims of discrimination under the Canadian Human Rights Act). The department says that as of June 15, the voluntary release of 103 regular forces members has been granted by the CAF. Those members cited the directive on vaccination as the primary reason for seeking release. Another 234 CAF members have been released non-voluntarily for not complying with the directive. As of June 15, 805 soldiers face remedial measures. If the CAF judges those measures to be unsuccessful, further administrative actions can be taken leading to release. DND says 463 personnel are under administrative review. Lawyer Philip Millar, a CAF combat arms veteran, is representing about 30 armed forces members affected by the vaccine mandate. He predicts the CDS will not expedite the review in order to release as many non-compliant personnel as possible. “Now that it’s clear that the mandates are untenable, unjustifiable, and unconscionable, the CDS is dragging its feet because the longer they wait, the more people get released,” he said. Millar was set to debate a motion in court on the CAF vaccine mandate this week but the hearing was postponed. “I’m sure they knew [the motion] was going to be successful, and that’s why the government changed it, but they’re playing games with people’s lives,” he says. Well hey, if you’re looking for a new job, I’ve got just the place for you: Redballoon Not so long ago, the American dream was alive and well. Employees who worked hard were rewarded, and employers looked for people who could do the job, not for people who had the right political views. RedBalloon.work is a job site designed to get us back to what made American businesses successful: free speech, hard work, and having fun. If you are a free speech employer who wants to hire employees who focus on their work and not identity politics, then post a job on RedBalloon. If you are an employee who is being censored at work or is being forced to comply with the current zeitgeist, post your resume on RedBalloon and look for a new job. redballoon.work, the job site where free speech is still alive! Now for the topic that I love… sports! https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/34136486/qb-arch-manning-no-1-recruit-2023-class-commits-texas QB Arch Manning, No. 1 recruit in 2023 class, commits to Texas The recruitment of blue-chip quarterback Arch Manning, a rare collision of talent, pedigree and possibility, captivated college football for years. Manning ended the intrigue Thursday afternoon, committing to Texas over suitors that included Georgia, Alabama, LSU, Clemson and Virginia. Although Manning has long been considered the top player in the class of 2023, the family remained intent on attempting to keep his recruitment as low-key as possible. His Instagram is private, and he has not been an active participant in name, image and likeness opportunities. But keeping things low-key has still been difficult, considering the family's football history and the magnitude of how much his decision could sway a program's fortune. Manning even used his first tweet to make the announcement, on a verified Twitter account with a bio that simply says "high school student." Texas coach Steve Sarkisian also reacted to Manning's announcement, first retweeting his new quarterback recruit then writing "All Gas, No Brakes!!!" in a follow-up post. Manning is a nephew of Eli and Peyton Manning, a grandson of Archie Manning and son of former Ole Miss wide receiver Cooper Manning. He is the star quarterback at Isidore Newman High School in New Orleans -- throwing for 5,731 yards and 72 touchdowns in his first three years of high school football -- and has been considered a top-flight prospect since middle school. Any morsel of news around the quarterback has rippled significantly throughout the recruiting universe. The commitment of Manning's high school teammate and close friend Will Randle, a three-star tight end who committed to Texas earlier this week, drew interest as it represented a bellwether for where Manning could be leaning. Manning's commitment to Texas represents him both carving his own path and perhaps reuniting with the family's SEC roots. The Manning family has strong ties at Ole Miss and Tennessee, and Arch Manning could end up as a link to the SEC, as he could be Texas' starting quarterback in 2025, when the Longhorns are slated to debut in the conference. The commitment represents Texas' first No. 1 overall recruit in the ESPN 300 era (since 2006) and its first quarterback ranked in the top 20 since Garrett Gilbert in 2009. It also gives Texas a key building block for its 2023 recruiting class, with skill players expected to be attracted to playing with a talent such as Manning. The decision marks a massive win for Sarkisian, especially coming off a 5-7 debut season that included a home loss to Kansas. Manning's decision reaffirms Sarkisian as one of the country's top quarterback tutors and Texas as a quarterback destination. Sarkisian is the Longhorns' playcaller and has coached such quarterbacks as Tua Tagovailoa, Mac Jones and Matt Leinart. Thanks for tuning into this CrossPolitic Daily NewsBrief. If you liked the show, hit that share button for me. If you want to sign up for our upcoming FLF Conference, sign up now, at flfnetwork.com… and if you want to chat about becoming a corporate partner of CrossPolitc, let’s talk. Email me at garrison@fightlaughfeast.com. For CrossPoltic news, I’m Garrison Hardie. Have a great day, and Lord bless.

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Jarett Kobek is a Turkish-American writer living in California. His novel I HATE THE INTERNET was an international bestseller, translated into nine languages, and published in twelve countries. His other books include: ATTA, Do Every Thing Wrong!: XXXTentacion Against the World, Only Americans Burn in Hell and The Future Won't Be Long. Motor Spirit: The Long Hunt for the Zodiac It's 1969. Evil lurks in California. From a Napa County hippie child murder to Haight Street gang bangs to methamphetamine psychosis to the killing of Sharon Tate. Here and now, in this place and this time, it's all gone wrong. And there's something else, too. How to Find Zodiac Dear Reader, This is not the Zodiac speaking. The one thing that I ask of you is this, please read this book. It is called How to Find Zodiac. Being that this book is about the Zodiac, it offers a new suspect. The theory is probably correct. At the moment the theory is unproven. But the idea is a bomb waiting to go massive. Can you see the flaws in the hunting method or will you just agree and say case closed. Either way one thing is true. Zodiac can never look and seem the same after you read this book. "A scruffy masterpiece of criminology. It seems to me that either Kobek's painstaking deductions are correct, or we must urgently revise the laws of probability." -Alan Moore, author of From Hell SOCIAL: Twitter: @WakeIslandPod Instagram: @wakeislandpod David's Twitter: @raviddice --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/wake-island/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/wake-island/support

June 2, 2022 — With a state budget surplus of $97 billion, a coalition of state public health departments and community advocates is weighing in on how to invest a promised $300 million to rebuild the state's public health infrastructure, especially the workforce. The PublicHERO initiative spells out how much money the coalition wants to be allocated to which priorities in training, recruiting, and retaining people for specialized positions. In addition to organizational backing, the proposal has support from the Governor and Senator Richard Pan, who is also a pediatrician. The gaps in Mendocino County's public health department are not entirely unique. Between the Great Resignation, burnout, an aging workforce, and decades-long disinvestment, public health departments across the state fared badly during the pandemic, according to Dr. Karen Relucio, the Public Health Officer for Napa County. “Sixty-two senior local public health officials in California cities and counties have left their positions since the start of the pandemic,” she said at a press conference for the PublicHERO initiative. “That includes 21 health officers, 20 agency directors, and 21 local health department directors.” Competition with the private sector is stiff. The last two nurses who quit Mendocino County's public health department left because they could get 50% more money elsewhere. Mendocino County Public Health Director Anne Molgaard says in addition to a shortage of nurses, there are other significant gaps in the local department. “We also don't have a Director of Nursing right now,” she said; “who would supervise those LVNs and all of the different nursing programs that we have. And we are also going to start advertising shortly for a new position called Director of Health Education. What we realized is that so much of our public health work is around communications and education. As the science changes, we need to figure out how to explain the science to non-scientists.” The DIrector of Nursing position remains vacant, despite regular advertising. Kim Saruwatari, the president of the County Health Executives Association of California (CHEAC) and the Public Health Director for Riverside County, says the height of a pandemic is the wrong time to recruit and train a workforce. “During covid, we had to double our workforce,” she said. “We went to almost 1400 employees in a matter of weeks…so there was less stringent hiring requirements, evaluation of skills, and then, once we were able to identify people and bring them onboard, we had to do extensive training…so really, the net effect of this is that we had a workforce that was not ready and trained as the public expects and deserves. We also lost time in the response because we had to divert resources to doing this training. So some of our response activities suffered as well.” The local public health department has eight nurses, and is looking to hire six to twelve more. Molgaard said with inflation, a lot of the state money might go toward salary increases, which could be key to retaining employees. Public health is stretched thin, with Public Health Officer Dr. Andy Coren doing a lot of educational work, which takes time away from delving into epidemiological data and other “things that he, as a medical professional, is specialized at,” Molgaard noted. A Director of Nursing would oversee maternal, child, and adolescent health, the WIC and home visiting programs. “So right now, we're just doing those as we can,” Molgaard said. “But they deserve more leadership. And they deserve more focused leadership.” Directors of public health labs are among the specialized positions the PublicHERO initiative would like to see funded. But Mendocino County has not had a lab for about a decade. Molgaard acknowledged that it would be easier to send specimens across town than all the way to the lab in Solano, “but would we be able to attract the people needed in order to properly staff a lab?” she asked. “Doubtful.” She estimated that she only has to send an employee to Solano about once a month. When it comes to the biggest concern for the department, outside of being understaffed, “The pandemic is still our number one issue,” Molgaard said. “And no, monkeypox is not our number two issue. Probably venereal disease is our number two issue. I hate to say it. But it's not pretty in Mendocino County right now.” The final numbers from the state budget should be available this month. “If they're together in Sacramento, early June,” Molgaard predicted. “If not, it can spill into late June or July. But I'd love to report back then.”

Get the latest agriculture news in today's AgNet News Hour, hosted by Danielle Leal. Today's show covers  Napa County officials addressing the discovery of Western Grapeleaf Skeletonizer, new data on farm labor shortages, and this week's California's Crop Progress and Weather report. Tune in to the show for these news stories, interviews, features and more.

New waters restrictions go in effect for Los Angeles residents. Nancy Pelosi husband, Paul, is arrested in Napa County for alleged drunk driving. Gavin Newsom has come down with the Covid.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom tested positive for COVID-19 on Saturday, a day after a high-profile meeting with the visiting prime minister of New Zealand. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's husband, Paul Pelosi, responded through a spokesperson Sunday night to reports of his arrest in Napa County, California, over the holiday weekend for driving under the influence. Ukrainian band Kalush Orchestra, which won the Eurovision Song Contest, has sold off its trophy for $900,000 to raise money for drones for the country's armed forces fighting Russia's invasion. The French news broadcaster BFM TV said a 32-year-old French journalist was killed Monday in eastern Ukraine, fatally hit by shell shrapnel while covering a Ukrainian evacuation operation. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Nancy Pelosi's husband, Paul has been arrested for drunk driving in Napa County, CA. Meanwhile on the East Coast, the Speaker delivered a dystopian commencement address "amid the darkness" at Brown University.

If weeds aren't a top priority in your pest control program, maybe they should be. John A. Roncoroni, Emeritus UC Cooperative Extension Weed Science Farm Advisor and UCIPM affiliate advisor in Napa County discusses his specialty; weed management in California's Coastal and Foothill premium winegrape growing regions. He covers why weeds should play a more important role in pest control programs, knowing which weeds you have on your property, fire mitigation, and the toughest weeds to control today so you can bolster your weed management program. References: 4/29/2022 Steel in the Field Tailgate Steel in the Field Tailgate 70: Science and Controversy of Glyphosate | Dr. Scott Steinmaus (podcast) John Roncoroni MAINTAINING LONG-TERM MANAGEMENT: Herbicide-resistant weeds challenge some signature cropping systems Napa County UCCE University of California Integrated Pest Management Integrated Weed Management Vineyard Floor Management: Steel in the Field (video) Get More Subscribe on Google Play, iHeartRADIO, iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher, TuneIn, or wherever you listen so you never miss an episode on the latest science and research with the Sustainable Winegrowing Podcast. Since 1994, Vineyard Team has been your resource for workshops and field demonstrations, research, and events dedicated to the stewardship of our natural resources. Learn more at www.vineyardteam.org.