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This is the table of contents for the vinyl records which are currently for sale. You can find records by clicking on the letter corresponding to the first character of the band's name, for example Accept can be found under the letter A, Metallica is filed under the letter M. However if the band's name starts with "The" this should be omitted, eg. The Beatles can be found under B of Beatles. Band names starting with numerics can be found like: 10cc is Ten CC thus under the T.
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Bands of the music genres: Pop, Rock, Metal, World with their name starting with the letter A (eg: Aaronsrod, Anthrax, Axxis)
Bands of the music genres: Pop, Rock, Metal, World with their name starting with the letter B (eg: Beatles, Black Sheperd, Brian Eno)
Bands of the music genres: Pop, Rock, Metal, World with their name starting with the letter C (eg: Cactus, Cities, Cream)
Bands of the music genres: Pop, Rock, Metal, World with their name starting with the letter D (eg: Dark Angel, Destruction, Dr Know)
Bands of the music genres: Pop, Rock, Metal, World with their name starting with the letter E (eg: Earhshaker, Exciter, Exodus))
Bands of the music genres: Pop, Rock, Metal, World with their name starting with the letter F (eg: Faithful Breath, Frank Zappa)
Bands of the music genres: Pop, Rock, Metal, World with their name starting with the letter G (eg: Gorgoroth, Gruppo Sportivo)
Bands of the music genres: Pop, Rock, Metal, World with their name starting with the letter H (eg: Hades, Helloween, Holosade)
Bands of the music genres: Pop, Rock, Metal, World with their name starting with the letter I (eg: Ian Dury, Iron Angel, Iron Maiden)
Bands of the music genres: Pop, Rock, Metal, World with their name starting with the letter J (eg: Jam, Johnny Winter, Judas Priest)
Bands of the music genres: Pop, Rock, Metal, World with their name starting with the letter K (eg: King Diamond, Kreator)
Bands of the music genres: Pop, Rock, Metal, World with their name starting with the letter L (eg: Led Zeppelin, Lee Aaron, Lizzy Borden)
Bands of the music genres: Pop, Rock, Metal, World with their name starting with the letter M (eg:Manowar, Megadeth, Mercyful Fate, , Metallica, and many others)
Bands of the music genres: Pop, Rock, Metal, World with their name starting with the letter N (eg: Nasty Savage, Nuclear Assault)
Bands of the music genres: Pop, Rock, Metal, World with their name starting with the letter O (eg: Obsession, Omen, Ostrogoth)
Bands of the music genres: Pop, Rock, Metal, World with their name starting with the letter P (eg: Paradox, Pink Floyd, Possessed)
Bands of the music genres: Pop, Rock, Metal, World with their name starting with the letter Q (eg: Q5)
Bands of the music genres: Pop, Rock, Metal, World with their name starting with the letter R (eg: Rage, Raven, Rolling Stones)
Bands of the music genres: Pop, Rock, Metal, World with their name starting with the letter S (eg: Savage, Sepultura, Slayer, Sweet Smoke)
Bands of the music genres: Pop, Rock, Metal, World with their name starting with the letter T (eg: Talking Heads, Tangerine Dream, Torch)
Bands of the music genres: Pop, Rock, Metal, World with their name starting with the letter U (
Bands of the music genres: Pop, Rock, Metal, World with their name starting with the letter V (eg: Various Artists, Venom, Vulcain)
Bands of the music genres: Pop, Rock, Metal, World with their name starting with the letter W(eg: Warfare, W.A.S.P)
Bands of the music genres: Pop, Rock, Metal, World with their name starting with the letter X
Bands of the music genres: Pop, Rock, Metal, World with their name starting with the letter Y
Bands of the music genres: Pop, Rock, Metal, World with their name starting with the letter Z
This web-site is for all the fans and collectors of great music, whether you like blues, jazz, acid rock, classic rock, psych or Christian music, you will find it all here. Each album description has photos of the album cover, detailed record and collectible information, as well as information on the band and/or performers and the track listings.
Are you looking for a particular band, performeer or album, use the Google search at the top of this page
This website has the following sections:
Online Record Shop - In the Online Record Shop you will find great deals on rare and collectible vinyl records LPs and picture disc.
Pop Music Photo Gallery - a photo gallery with a selection of rare and cult pop music. released on vinyl albums during the period 1980s until the early 1990s
Rock and Heavy Metal Music's Photo Gallery - a photo gallery of Rock Music albums (including all genres of Heavy Metal. Each album has high res photos of the album covers, inner sleeves and record label art, augmented with detailed background information
Record Price Guide - The Record Price Guide has general information on estimating the value or prices of records as well as detailed information on record collecting, topics covered include how to start with record collecting, maintenance and cleaning of records and many other valuable topics related to record collecting
EMI - Country Codes . The EMI Country Codes on the record's album covers or records labels may help you to determine the originating countrz of a particular record
Vinyl Glossary - New in record collectiing? This glossary will help you to decypher the various codes and acronyms used by record collectors
Market Codes - This list of Market of Marketing codes will help you to determine the country of origin for records.
Record Grading - The Record Grading page contains a detailed description of the most common method of grading your records
Rare Album Covers - This section list rare and hard to find album covers. And include album covers designed by famous artists, art-workers, and photographers. See album covers designed by Boris Vallejo, Soroyama Hajime, Julie Bell, HR Giger and many others.
Collectable Record Labels - Record companies released albums using various record labels. These web-pages describe a selection of rare and cult record labels, worthwhile to invest in
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Every day comes with new surprises on this Island. This is a place that can keep me entertained for quite a while, and though I would be lying if I said I was bored I think I will be satisfied with my time here when It's time to go. Although each morning brings a new adventure, each night I think of what I left at home. I have gotten used to spending a lot of time on my own since I moved to Logan, but even when I was acclimating to the absence of the rest of my family I still had Tess. She was the first thing I looked forward to when I got home and the only thing that has been with me when no one else could. So if any of my brothers are reading this, thank you for taking care of her for me and please give her a kiss from me. I had to write this post so that I could feel a little bit less guilty about leaving her behind again.


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You are here: Home / Natural Skin Care, Soapmaking & Cosmetics / Common Makeup Ingredients: Are They Safe?
Sometimes change is instantaneous. I watched Food, Inc., and immediately started buying pastured meat, milk and eggs from local farms. I never looked back. With other things, for some inexplicable reason, I've been slower to clean up my exposure to potentially harmful chemicals.
Personal care products are a case in point. I'm good with soap, shampoo, and laundry detergent since I make my own. Sometimes I even make homemade tooth powder.
But I had been dyeing my hair for years and refused to let myself think about what the ingredients were doing to me. Just about a year ago, though, I stopped and let my hair go gray. And it's ok. I think I even like it.
Makeup has been my last holdout. I've made some steps. I moisturize with tallow and make some of my own skin care products. I've even made my own mascara, but it didn't turn out too well.
The thing is – I like my makeup. But I've been researching some of the ingredients for the specific products I like, and it's not looking good. If you want to do some research on the brands you are using, or on specific ingredients, this is where I found that info.
Our skin is our body's largest organ; it can absorb any product that is applied, including makeup. Makeup often contains chemicals like phthalates, petrolatum, parabens, formaldehyde, and even lead.
Do I really want to being using products that are potentially carcinogenic, that disrupt hormones, and that are toxic to my system?
Products labeled natural or organic often contain synthetic chemicals, and even truly natural or organic ingredients are not necessarily risk-free. The global, plant-based pharmaceutical market, valued at $19.5 billion in 2008, relies on the ability of "natural" chemicals – like those used in some natural cosmetics – to significantly alter body functions, a far cry from innocuous (BCC Research 2006, 2009). On the other hand, products labeled "organic" or "natural" can contain petrochemicals and no certified organic or natural ingredients whatsoever. Products certified as organic can contain as little as 10% organic ingredients by weight or volume (Certech 2008). FDA tried establishing an official definition for the term "natural," but these protections were overturned in court (FDA 1998). Research shows that 35 percent of children's products marketed as "natural" contain artificial preservatives (EWG 2007a).
Makeup labeled as natural or organic can still contain questionable ingredients. USDA-certified organic means 95% or more organic ingredients. But a claim of "made with natural ingredients" or "made with organic ingredients" leaves lots of room for potentially harmful synthetic ingredients. And while there are many good products out there, the prices are definitely out of my price range.
So …. what's a girl to do? For me, the only solution is to make my own. I've downloaded a number of eBooks (like this and this) and they each have some decent little tidbits, but the one I love the most comes from fellow blogger Lori Klein at Health Extremist.
Lori has done her homework. Her eBook, Make Your Own Makeup with Organic Food or Minerals has over 100 money saving recipes made from safe ingredients. For example, did you know ….
that you can use coffee or chocolate as a skin bronzer?
that you can make blush from blackberries?
and mascara and eyeliner from cocoa powder?
lip gloss from hibiscus tea?
And Lori includes a resource section with sources of all of the ingredients. That alone is worth the price of the book. I really get frustrated looking for odd ingredients, so I'm thrilled that she's done the work for me.
The regular price for Make Your Own Makeup with Organic Food or Minerals is $21.95, but Lori let me know that right now she is offering it for $9.95, about the same price as the lipstick I normally purchase! Just click here to buy the eBook.
Thanks, Susan, for this helpful post. I know I need to change some things in this area, and this will be a great resource. I appreciate your site for all things healthy! Thank you.
Hi Sarah, you are so welcome!


I cannot believe we are weeks away from 2018! Where did this year go? Today, I want to give you a little blog update. Starting next year, I am no longer going to be posting my monthly favourites. I did it for two years straight and whilst it has been super fun, I plan to return to a more minimalistic/budgeted lifestyle moving forward. However, I will begin a new segment for my fellow bookworms to enjoy: Monthly Reading Wrap-Ups.
Basically, at the end of each month, I will write up mini-plot summaries of all the books I read, provide a star-rating and review them. I've seen many Book-Bloggers & Book-Tubers do this whilst receiving plenty of positive feedback so I decided, why not do it too? It will keep me on top of my gigantic TBR and allow me to continue blogging about one of my favourite things in the world: books!
Now onto the Monthly Classics!
Yes…I haven't read any of the books above. Please don't judge me! I plan to rectify that in 2018. If you haven't read these either or wish to re-read them, feel free to take part as well.
Let me know what you think of my blog update and the monthly classics I'll be diving into. I welcome all feedback!
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We believe that proper care and maintenance is important to enjoy the best performance from your candles. Extinguishing candles using a wick snuffer helps you reduce the risk of blowing melted wax out of the candle jar and also reduce the occurrence of a smoking wick.
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We all know there's no such thing as 'perfect' piano playing, but hopefully these tips might be helpful.
The sustaining or damper pedal is one of the most important assets for a pianist. It adds another dimension to the piano timbre, and can provide a whole variety of sound layers. The most commonly used pedal, being the furthest right of the two or three pedals on a standard upright or grand piano, it's played by the right foot (as demonstrated by my foot in the photo above). When depressed, the sustain pedal literally moves all the dampers away from the strings, which allows them to vibrate with ease, and they will continue vibrating until the sound ceases, or the pedal is released. Look inside the instrument and watch the dampers (on a grand) being lifted as the pedal is depressed.
It began life as a hand stop, examples of which survive on some of the earliest instruments. Then a knee lever was introduced around 1765 in Germany, and whilst this was more convenient than the hand stop (and apparently much admired by W A Mozart), the foot pedal is undeniably far easier to operate, and it was introduced sometime during the 1770s by English piano builders.
The right pedal enriches piano tone markedly, allowing a pianist to create many colours, add sonority and resonance to passages, as well as conjure shimmering, atmospheric sounds.
The most fundamental technique in good pedalling is good listening. We generally pedal with our ears, and being attentive is key, but there are a few different techniques to employ, which can be used on a whole variety of styles. One basic rule; a little sustaining pedal goes a long way. Too much will seriously ruin an otherwise competent interpretation, generally irrespective of the composer or style, which is why it's a good idea to practice without using any, particularly when starting to learn a new piece. Pedalling is also tricky to write in a score, as it varies constantly, depending on the venue, acoustic, piano, composer, and the list goes on….
To use the pedal, rest your heel firmly on the floor, the right foot should be at an angle of around 30 or 35 degrees. When depressing the pedal (and this applies to the other pedals as well), play with the ball of the foot (or perhaps the big toe – everyone has their own preference here) and take it up (to release the sound) and down (to engage the pedal) quietly. The foot should keep contact with the pedal as much as possible because pedal or foot tapping is not a desired effect. This last paragraph may all seem fairly obvious, but recent adjudicating has shown (to me at least) these points need reiterating.
Direct pedalling; which enriches the sound in separated chords. Depress the pedal with a chord (or intended passagework) at the same time as the fingers, and release the pedal with the fingers, producing a clean, clear and sonorous chordal effect, as shown in the example below. Pedal markings are indicated under the score (also as below). Take the pedal down (with the Ped. sign), and where the line is broken with an upward marking, take the pedal up. Depress again, if the pedal is to be played continuously (as in example 2), but if the marking stops then pedal playing must cease too.
Legato pedalling; which is akin to syncopated pedalling, overlapping with the notes being played. This involves depressing the pedal a moment later than finger work. To practice this, play a succession of five notes (perhaps C-G in the right hand and F-C in the left hand as shown in the example below). Start by playing middle C, and immediately afterwards depress the pedal, a millisecond after your third finger plays the D, release the pedal and depress again very quickly, to clear the sound of the C. This should be done very quickly and seamlessly, so as to limit smudging.
Legato should ideally be all about using the fingers, it's a finger technique; legato using the pedal is generally for added colour and sonority, or on the occasion where it's impossible for fingers to join (i.e. in large leaps).
Half-pedalling; consisting of a quick movement, to lose top harmonies and retain bass notes. The main aim here is to reduce too much blurring or smudging of sound. Practice by taking the pedal down (and up) varying amounts (but not depressing as far as the foot will go).
Half-damping; without engaging the pedal completely, for a light, veiled effect. Employing almost a surface pedalling, there are many variations of this movement, which will clear the sound but still provide an atmospheric haze.
Flutter, surface or vibrato pedalling; similar to half-damping, this consists of very quick, light movements, in order to reduce accumulating sound. This pedalling is based on frequent and sometimes irregular changes, and is applied through fast passages work, scales or runs, providing weight to the sound yet ridding it of the blurring effects. Practice on scales, perhaps lightly raising or 'hovering' with your foot several times in a two octave scale.
If the foot engages the pedal before notes are played, as opposed to once notes have been played (or at the same time), a much more resonant sound ensues as all the strings resonate fully, which can be ideal for a full-bodied sonority, required in certain repertoire.
Between the point where the foot is completely depressed to the floor and where it first engages the pedal mechanism, there are many assorted subtleties available to pianists. Every piano is different therefore pedals all feel and sound different too. The sustaining pedal can really add dynamics and shape, due to accumulation of sounds whilst depressed. Keep experimenting and you'll discover a myriad of ways to enhance your playing.


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HECTOR BELLERIN is Barcelona's first choice to replace Juventus-bound Dani Alves and the club have already made contact with the right-back, according to reports in Spain.
Arsenal defender Bellerin has enjoyed a stellar season at the Emirates.
The 21-year-old, who joined Arsenal from Barca's famed La Masia academy back in 2013, insists he is happy in north London.
But Spanish newspaper Mundo Deportivo claim Barca officials are preparing a summer swoop for the young star.
Arsenal would likely reject any offer made for Bellerin, whose displacement of Mathieu Debuchy in the right-back slot eventually led to the Frenchman's loan to Bordeaux.
Cesc Fabregas, Alex Song, Alexander Hleb and Thierry Henry have all previously been sold to Barca under manager Arsene Wenger.


Human noroviruses cause recurrent epidemics of gastroenteritis known to be dominated by the clinically important GII.4 genotype which recognizes human Secretor gene-dependent ABH histo-blood group antigens (HBGAs) as attachment factors. There is increasing evidence that GII.4 noroviruses have undergone evolutionary changes to recognize Lewis antigens and non-Secretor saliva. In this study, we have investigated the possibilities of the Lewis alpha1,3/alpha1,4 fucoses as mediators of binding of GII.4 noroviruses to Lewis antigens. The study was carried out using molecular dynamics simulations of Lewis type-1 and type-2 chain HBGAs in complex with VA387 P domain dimers in explicit water. Based on the computer simulations, we suggest the possibility of two receptor binding modes for Lewis HBGAs: the "Secretor pose" with the Secretor Fucalpha1,2 in the binding site and the "Lewis pose" with the Lewis Fucalpha1,3/alpha1,4 residues in the binding site. This was further supported by an extensive GlyVicinity analysis of the Protein Data Bank with respect to the occurrence of the Lewis and Secretor poses in complexes of Lewis antigens with lectins and antibodies as well as GII norovirus strains. The Lewis pose can also explain the interactions of GII.4 norovirus strains with Le(x) and SLe(x) structures. Moreover, the present model suggests binding of complex branched polysaccharides, with the Lewis antigens at the nonreducing end, to P domain dimers of GII.4 strains. Our results are relevant for understanding the evolution of norovirus binding specificities and for in silico design of future antiviral therapeutics.


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The Democratization of Content Creation
Posted on November 10, 2017 by Kevin Tellier
Content creation is no longer limited to the major Hollywood studios. Netflix and Amazon are directly reshaping the media industry by forcing the traditional studios, and now conglomerates such as Disney, to shift to the development of both original content and streaming platforms.
This democratization of media isn't exactly new. We've seen this before with the emergence of social platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and even YouTube in the late 2000's until today. The flow of raw information could easily and quickly be disseminated to anyone with access to a Twitter account.
What is new is the oncoming revolution of not just the distribution of original content (that era has already passed). The new revolution will be hard fought between platforms.
The Maturation of the Original Content Platform
Five years ago the world held onto the erroneous notion that content creation was impossible outside the production of a major studio. Netflix broke that mold in 2013 by producing and releasing hit series' such as 'House of Cards' and 'Orange Is The New Black'.
That was five years ago, and now that original content is poised to disrupt the power structure of the Hollywood fiefdom, we're entering an era where content + platform is essential.
While the turn of the century marked the advent of democratized media that could move at the speed of 140 characters, this new era marks an era of increased specialization and media fragmentation.
On November 9, 2017, Disney CEO Robert Iger announced Disney's plan to release an original content platform to compete directly with Netflix and Amazon. This is significant because we're finally seeing the convergence of traditional studios and upstart content creators on the same battleground.
I must reiterate the battleground will not only be characterized by the struggle for original content. Original content is no longer enough. Over the next 36 to 48 months the real struggle will be between platforms. Do Netflix and Amazon have the staying power to maintain their leading positions? Or, does Disney have the leverage with its original franchises? Time will tell, but either way, it will be a tight race. Can't wait to see what happens next.
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If continents can drift 20 centimeters farther from each other over 20 years, imagine how a volatile rock band can scatter in that time. The drummer to San Francisco. The bassist to Maine. The guitarist to Seattle. The lead singer to Ithaca.
Twenty years ago, those four pieces were Absolute Grey, one of the best, most happening bands that Rochester has had to offer to the music world.
It was beyond music, even.
"It was multimedia in its earliest, roughest form. That's how pretentious we were back then," recalls bassist Mitch Rasor of a show at the Pyramid Arts Center.
Now the album that Anderson recorded hi his attic studio, the Absolute Grey debut, Greenhouse, has just been re-issued. It's accompanied by a live recording of the band playing at Scorgie's, speaking from an era when groups such as R.E.M. could emerge from the world of independent, underground music to become stars, their noncommercial integrity still intact.
this day – such as R.E.M. guitarist Peter Buck, who's quoted on a sticker on the new CD jewel box claiming "I still have the original LPs" – is Exhibit No. 2 that Absolute Grey is more than a passing moment.
This of a band that released only four albums in its brief lifetime, the last two on a label in Greece. We're talking Greece the country, not Greece the Rochester suburb.
Rasor and Matt Kitchen, the guitarist, were students at Pittsford Sutherland High School. They went off to college. End of band, it seems.
As it turned out, it's been 20 years to bring it up to the next level. There are 10 more songs, worked on intermittently over the years, now almost ready for a new Absolute Grey release. That appears to be inevitable; the energetic Thomas will make it happen.
The members of Absolute Grey saved their fury for the band: "We fought like cats and dogs." Brown and Rasor both use that phrase.
Anderson agrees with Rasor on that point.
"The guitarist and bass player were from Pittsford, and I think Beth was, too," he says. "They had an air of arrogance about them, I must say. Matt had a very condescending tone, especially for a young kid, I thought. He was very serious; he was very intellectual about everything.
They could see nothing but gray. Anderson recalls being in the attic studio during Greenhouse. Brown was in the basement, recording some vocals; something about the acoustics, or her needing to be alone. And he could hear her crying as she was singing her part.
Less than a year later, Rasor was a student at Oberlin College in northeastern Ohio when he heard that the college radio station – which didn't even know that the guitarist from Absolute Grey was on campus – had selected Greenhouse as its indie album of the year, over the likes of R.E.M.'s Murmur.
But that was really the beginning of the end.
Absolute Grey proved to be a springboard for Rasor and Thomas in music. Rasor has found a way to combine his interests in architecture, landscaping, graphic design, writing and music – he's working on his 23rd album, some of which are solo efforts – with a company called MRLD, just north of Portland, Maine.
Thomas lived in Denmark for a year, then used his Absolute Grey connections for a move to California, where many of the survivors of the '80s psychedelic-rock revival lived. He now runs a San Francisco label, DBK Works, that re-issues classic records on vinyl. And new works as well, including his own solo records and, obviously, Greenhouse.
Brown moved to Boston, enrolled in art school, drifted to Ithaca and started a sign-painting business, then moved to the Berk-shires and opened an art gallery. By then, she had a daughter – Indiana – with a German immigrant named Knut Schmitt.
Now she's back in Ithaca. She and Schmitt went their separate ways years ago. Yet in a strange twist, she's not only caring for their daughter but also the 54-year-old Schmitt, who now is battling early-onset Parkinson's disease.
Interestingly, the 20-year-old Greenhouse has been an instrument of healing for Thomas, Rasor and Brown. It's as though they're seeing Absolute Grey with the clarity of the light of the south of France.
Indeed, recently Brown has been writing songs. She will be on the new Absolute Grey release. But her focus is on recording her own music, probably with Anderson's Saxon Recording, and will return to Rochester this year to find some like-minded musicians to help.
I still can remember standing in The Mason Jar (a local bar known for serving beer in canning jars)…as well as Scorgies…listening to Luther and The BBB's. What we heard was a mixture of 1960's Retro-Rock combined with early 1980's Power-Pop. The BBB's were stand-outs among Rochester bands like The Bowery Boys (w/Geoff Wilson), The Insiders (w/Walt O'Brien), and The Chesterfield Kings (w/Greg Prevost). Of these die-hard followers of The Kinks, The Monkees, The Byrds, and The Who; Luther and The BBB's stood out like a set of new Goodyear Tires instead of some cheapo retreads. The snappy Pop tunes created were on par with Syracuse, NY's Flashcubes (w/Gary Frenay) or with any other Power Pop band that was on Bomp! or Voxx Records in the early 1980's. Luther and his boys have progressed to that arena (musically, at times) that includes Cheap Trick, Tom Petty, or early Squeeze.
As time goes around, BBB members have followed different routes…Doug Cox, who briefly formed NYC's Tonebenders, is now climbing telephone poles; Mike Abrams, now a family man, played a roll in both The Projectiles and The Infants; Judd Williams (known as a "legend" in Boston) plays with The Lyres, Riviera Playboys, and now tours with The Amazing Royal Crowns; and finally Jeff "Luther" Holtzman carried The BBB's flagship through the '80's and '90's. (The BBB's briefly changed to The 3-B's as well). Many future members included ex-Insiders Walt O'Brien and Bob Janneck; It's My Party/Housecats/Shakin' Bones members Ken Peters and Hank "Blast" Karuth. In the lean years, Luther worked as a D-J for local bars and co-wrote songs that ended-up as releases from myself and/or McFadden's Parachute.
Aside from my usual "namedroppings", a good listen to the CD (Volume One) speaks for itself. Utilizing rare vintage instruments; Luther has created an array of cool, original Rock'n'Roll as well as some updated cover songs in the bonus set. Check out the Rockabilly-influenced "The Echo", the yearly Christmas standard "Are You Ready For Christmas", the Psychedelic "Knee Wash", and aggressive Power-Pop songs like "Rest Of Your Love" and "In My Mind" – all guaranteed to become repeat listeners. (On Whole Lotta Shakin' – we usually played his "Credit Card Christmas" which isn't on the CD).
Despite the choking cigarette smoke, and overwhelming odor of urinals (at The Mason Jar – not Scorgies!); that time was a worthy Rock'n'Roll memory and the music is still vital today. I can't wait 'til Volume Two comes along without the 'smells' attached to the memories!! Hail to the Great Rickenbacker!!
(Note: Since this article was written, Luther has retired from performing but has recorded about four other unreleased volumes of music with and without Dave Anderson from Saxon Recording. His former band mates now play as Shakin' Bones). – Del.
I just wrote a Scorgies recollection with homage to Personal Effects on my own blog. I must say that the many nights that I spent at Scorgies were quite unique and will never be forgotten, even if they are hazy memories.
I hope that it is ok that I cross-post it here. If not, that's cool, I will cease and desist!
Scorgies was the best room in the city for live bands. They had no chairs in the place. The drinking age was still 18 so the crowd was alive. Mark Nuj had the best sound system in place down there. You could stand right in front of the band or watch from three sides.
From September of 1981 to the very last day in February 1986, I lived in Rochester, NY and I loved every minute of it. It was a crazy time in my life.
When other contemporaries of mine were busy settling down, focusing on careers, procuring advanced degrees, getting married and starting families, nothing was further from my mind than any of that.
I wanted to live and to live very loudly. And so I did.
At that time I had no idea of the depths of my sad past, but I knew I wanted to be happy. Frankly, I wasn't happy, but one must think of how the water cuts through the rock to form the canyon or how the sea pounds the rocks to create the sand. I was happy in process I suppose.
So while others were doing some of the aforementioned life living, I spent my free time slinking around all manner of unsavory nightspots, drinking, dancing and whiling the nights away. It was not unheard of for me in those days to be out until 2am, fall into bed in my tiny studio apartment on trendy Park Avenue and be up at and work by 8am the next morning. Oh to be 25!
This place was a scene unto itself and was also the venue for many a great band both local and national, international. Eventually it became my number one night spot.
This meant sauntering in and trying to look cool. I can't imagine I ever pulled this off, but I did my best. One had big hair and wore lots of black, I think that was key. That and looking almost bored, as if you just happened to walk in unexpectedly.
I would usually be with my friend MG. My friend MG and I are no longer friends and I must say that of all my lost friendships, I mourn this one most profoundly. MG was the single funniest person I have ever known in my life. We were friends from December of 1982 until early in 2002 and I do not think the wound of loss will ever fully close.
Anyway, M and I would get into my one of our cars and head off to see what the night held for us. Generally from 1983-1986, that meant first stop was Scorgies.
After entering the smokey bar space, courage would be mustered to go to the bar. Why courage? The bartender never really liked us. Maybe he was that way with everyone, but total disdain was his usual response. Even when the place was empty, he'd generally ignore us until he had no choice. He was a real local character and he has left this mortal coil. He went by the name of Luke Warm and you can about him and his passing here. I hope that Luke is resting in peace.
Once some drinks were consumed and if it were a show night, one would stumble down the stairs to the very dark and even more smokey show space in the basement. Low ceiling, black walls (to my recollection) and always the spot to experience some great music.
I recall some of the shows I went to at Scorgies but sadly many of them are faded due to what had to be too much beer and not enough sleep.
Except that I was getting older and in 1985 when I got to hear Alex Chilton in February and The Replacements in August I was 27 and nearing the bend to 28 years old. And my recollection of either show is shaky at best.
There were other nightspots – Idols opened in 1985 I think. While Scorgies was more of a punk place, Idols was definitely a true 80's dance club, although it had its own punky edge.
I once went on a date there with a guy that I met through work, he was so knowledgeable about music! While we were there a song came on and he said "This song always makes me think of being at such and such." The such and such indicated he was a young teen when the song came out.
Another place that I spent a lot of time at in that last year was right across the street from Idols, it was called The Liberty and it was a very chic gay bar. My friend MG and I would traipse back and forth between the two – going from one environment to the other.
Such was my life in those days. If I wanted to live out loud was definitely doing so, but sadly in ways that were not healthy for me.
That said, I can't imagine I would change too much. What happens in the past is what makes you who you are when you finally start to pay attention. Which is how I have come to see things as a 51 year old theology student, church secretary, stepmother and suburban resident.
Nothing lasts forever, as the song says. Enjoy.
Stan mentioned a "Where are they now" section so I thought I would write this!
I got a job selling drums at the big music store here Drome Sound. Within 2 weeks of moving here I was drumming in 1313 Mockingbird Lane Albany's garage band! While in 1313 we released 2 45's both of which I got to sing lead on the B-side! 1 45 even had a song I had written!!!
My son was born in 1996 and I did the stay at home dad thing! Susan from Susan & The Surftones had just moved to Albany & was out the last 1313 show. She approached me and asked if I wanted to join the band. We did a few CD's for the German Gee Dee label & a 45 for a Belgian label. We also did 3 tours of Europe while I was in the band.
The 1st was in 1997. It was 8 shows in 10 days and was only Germany.
The next tour was 2000 and was a 1 month tour that took me to Germany, France, Austria, Switzerland, Belgium and the next tour in 2001 was also 1 month and was some of the same but also adding Denmark.
After those tours I try to make it to Germany at least once every 3 years. This year I went & also visited Prague, CZ.
Now I run the mail order dept. at the local record store Last Vestige ( www.lastvestige.com ).
Most of my time is spent selling records to the Russian!!!
I started Thee UMMmm… a 60's garage band & also Das Schmucks a 3 pc Turbonegro cover band.
Looking forward to A Projectiles reunion! The Last attempt was on a day when Rochester decided to have a MAJOR snow storm!!!
The rarer shorter red cable Delroy Rebop button.
Buttons seemed to be a cheap and easy way to promote bands and causes back in the day, and here's a few from the collection. The top left is from WITR and reads "Rock N Roll Party," although I can't remember if that was a show, or just a promo button from the station. To the right of that is a Backseat Sally button, though the colors seem to have faded over the years. In the center is a Press Tones button, a personal favorite, as I always like the deco style text. I would have worn it to the reunion, but I just uncovered it the other day. Bottom left is a Delroy Rebop button, with an image of a microphone. Last time I saw Del was in NYC many moons ago. Finally there is a Cappy and the Frenchmen button, and though it didn't scan too well, it reads "Th – Th – Th – There's a Thing" across the top, a reference to a song of the same name, with "And It's Called Rock'N Roll" across the bottom. Just to the right of the WITR logo on the button you can make out "89.7 fm", and at the end of the word "Frenchmen" is a picture of the Eiffel Tower.


Vin Diesel hosted a crazy after-party for Nina Dobrev's 30th birthday.
The Vampire Diaries star, who celebrated the milestone birthday earlier this month (Jan19), dished on the details of the bash during an appearance on Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen.
When a caller asked Nina what was the craziest thing that happened at her festival-themed birthday party, dubbed #NinaChella, she revealed a few surprises.
"Zedd performed. That was pretty fun and crazy and awesome… he's a great dude and I'm so lucky he did that for me," she said of the Russian-German producer and DJ.
However, the festivities didn't stop once #NinaChella had finished.
"Vin Diesel hosted the afterparty at his house, spur of the moment… the party ended around 1:30am and then we transferred over… I didn't get home until 5:30," she confessed.
Guests at the star-studded bash on Saturday (12Jan19) included her Vampire Diaries co-stars Kayla Ewell and Candice King, along with Julianne Hough, Vanessa Hudgens, Seth MacFarlane, Jessica Szohr, Chace Crawford and Zoey Deutch.
Nina had a Shake Shack stand at the party in Culver City, along with a full Casamigos bar.
The actress posted a series of snaps from the raucous event on Instagram, and admitted she was still nursing her hangover.


A woman and her son survived Fiji 's treacherous floods this week floating on a bed as it rose to within inches of the ceiling in their home. Their story of survival after back to back rain and cyclones in April is being described as miraculous. RNZ Pacific's Sally Round is in Fiji and has this report.
IMAGE: The VIIRS instrument aboard NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite captured this visible image of Tropical Cyclone Keni on April 11. The image showed wind shear pushing the bulk of clouds to... Credit: Credits: NOAA/NASA Rapid Response Team. NASA satellite imagery showed that Tropical Cyclone Keni was being battered by vertical wind shear.
Cyclone Keni has now moved out of Fiji waters and lies about 275 kilometres south-southwest of the Tongan capital of Nuku'alofa. The Fiji Met Service said the cyclone remains a category three storm packing winds of 130 kilometres per hour, gusting up to 185.
Luke Kerchevale said they would head out to check on people in the villages once they were sure the cyclone had passed and they were able to clear debris from around the resort. On the nearby island of Ono-Kadavu local Paul Ragede says super strong winds from the cyclone raged for over two hours.
Update: 8:53PM A TROPICAL cyclone warning remains in force for Southern Viti Levu, Vatulele, Beqa, Kadavu and nearby smaller islands, Moala group, and Southern Lau. And in its special bulletin number 22 issued by the RSMC at 8.19pm, it also maintained the hurricane warning in force for Ono-i-Lau.
Fiji 's disaster management authorities are warning people in flood-prone areas to move to evacuation centres ahead of Cyclone Keni . The Outrigger resort on Fiji's south-west coast where #TCKeni is headed. Now a cat 3. Rain coming in squalls. Tourists evacuated from bure's into main building.


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Carlo Mondavi's Autonomous Electric Tractors for Sustainable, Affordable Farming – Part 2
By Ed Bernardon • November 24, 2021 • < 1 MIN READ
Autonomous tractors, AI & wine making in year 2040
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Eco-friendly farming through a "Farmer First" mentality.
Sustainability will play a major role in shaping the future of farming!
The biggest changes that have to be made to create sustainable farms are the farm input and the machines utilized. Companies in this industry are leveraging technology to come up with ways of making the above changes while still being mindful of the farm produce quality.
So far, it is working! The current technological advancements are making farming cheaper and more friendly to newbie farmers. This is bound to promote the mass adoption of sustainable farming strategies.
In this episode, the second part out of two, Ed Bernardon interviews Carlo Mondavi, grandson of Napa Valley icon Robert Mondavi, and founder/Chief Farming Officer of Monarch Tractor. Carlo is also a farmer and one of the owners of RAEN Winery. We'll talk about the impact their autonomous tractor is having on the farming industry as well as what the future of farming looks like.
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Some Questions I Ask:
How many tractors can a single operator run? (06:40)
What's the role of data analytics in all this and how do you collect it? (08:46)
Do you foresee a future where AI will play a bigger role? (13:00)
What do you see as the next two or three steps in farming in the next 5 to 10 years? (21:59)
How are we going to be making wine in the year 2040? (24:55)
What You'll Learn in this Episode:
How Monarch will help in getting rid of chemical use in the farms (03:24)
How the Monarch tractor removes weed without hurting the vine (05:05)
Challenges that farmers are facing during the harvest season (07:28)
How technology is making it easier to become a farmer (16:24)
Some of the Monarch's challenge success stories (19:07)
Connect with Carlo Mondavi:
Monarch Tractor
RAEN Winery
Connect with Ed Bernardon:
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Ed Bernardon: An incredible number of advancements have been made over the years in commercial agriculture that makes fresh food more accessible to millions of people. But along with these advancements has come a greater dependence on pesticides and herbicides that end up in everything from the food we eat to our drinking water. Unfortunately the use of organic pesticides and herbicides can be more expensive for farmers especially since they can require more applications. This in turn can have an adverse effect on the carbon footprint of farming due to the increased use of application equipment that adds to CO2 emissions.
In order to find a way around the proliferation of chemicals invading our farms and our food, one farmer has created a shift in technology that reduces the cost and amount of labor that goes into farming while at the same time reducing the carbon footprint. It might even provide a path to eco-freindly farming through what he calls a "Farmer First" universal mentality!
Today, I continue my chat with Carlo Mondavi as he gives me deeper insight on just what goes into the electric and autonomous technology behind the Monarch tractor. We discuss how autonomous farming will evolve over the next 5/10 years and what a winery might be like in the year 2040. Finally in our rapid fire section at the end Carlo reveals a secret that even his mother doesn't know from his time as a professional snowboarder.
Listen in and hear part two of my conversation with farmer, winemaker and entrepreneur Carlo Mondavi on today's episode of Future Car.
Ed Bernardon: Let's talk about the tractor and what it does. And we talked a little bit earlier that it's really not just about harvesting corn and wheat. But when you're growing grapes, there are all sorts of things to do like mowing, spraying seeding, pruning, bush-hogging – another term, which is really mowing. Tell us a little bit about what these tasks are, which are the easy ones, which are the hard ones, which is a tractor do now, which will it do in the future?
Carlo Mondavi: The wonderful thing about farming is that each farmer has their own way about going about things. Some people like to till. Like Dante and I don't till – we're a no-till farm. Even in the organic regenerative biodynamic realm, it's like giving chefs a tomato, and you said, "Make a salad out of these ingredients." You'll get 10 different salads from 10 different chefs. It's the same with farming. We love our creative expression and how we farm. So, the thing about Monarch is that it's able to take the whole entire implement yard. So, on the back, there's a PTO that spins, that engages the implement, or there's a hydraulic pump that powers the implement. You have this hitch that you hook up your implements to. And so it can reverse fit into the whole entire employment yard. So, you're able to go spray, you're able to mow, you're able to do all of those things as a driver, or you're able to do them autonomously and have it go down and do it itself. The hardest thing and the biggest reason I think that I'd say, 40 years, we've gone down this rabbit hole. Really, if you look at the Green Revolution – they should be called the Chemical Revolution – that post World War One, World War Two, all of that energy that was going into wartime chemicals pivoted to agricultural chemicals, and we lost our way.
Carlo Mondavi: So the biggest thing is how do we get rid of a lot of these chemicals from the farm. And the one thing that Monarch is, I think, the biggest thing, and this is what is helping solve The Monarch Challenge and deal with is you're able to get rid of one chemical by 100%. So, you're not talking about getting rid of like 20% less of this, you're getting rid of it completely, and that is with herbicides under the vines, and under plants, under trees, under weeds grow. And it's a harder area to access with an implement. And so, in the last 40 years, all the implements that were meant to go there and deal with that have been traded in for sprayers to go spray herbicides.
Ed Bernardon: You kill all the weeds or whatever might be there rather than try and mechanically deal with it?
Carlo Mondavi: And on a global basis too. We've seen herbicides, I really think that it was in the late '90s, early 2000s, as it made its way into our food chain system in terms of when corn and soy became GMO Roundup-resistant and glyphosate-resistant if you will. And then it was in like everything from your soda pop to your cereal to your drinking and eating all day long. The biggest thing for Monarch is to get rid of the chemicals by 100%. So, that, I would say, historically has been the hardest job, and we want to make it the most pleasurable and easy job.
Ed Bernardon: Now, how does the tractor actually do that then? By being able to mechanically manage the weed growth?
Carlo Mondavi: You hook up on the back and implement. There are mowers, cultivators, and they engage off the plant. So, it has this arm and as the arm hits the plant, the hydraulic pump pulls it back.
Ed Bernardon: So, you don't hurt the vine.
Carlo Mondavi: Yeah, exactly. So, you're getting underneath the vine. And the great thing about it is that you can just get that little strip underneath the vine, and then have a big cover crop in the middle and between the plants, so you can have more biodiversity there.
Ed Bernardon: Now, it's just an invention of Monarch Tractor, this type of device?
Carlo Mondavi: No, this is an incredible technology that you can find through all sorts of incredible implement companies. We have a partnership with Dondi in Italy, and Clemens in the United States. And they're actually a German implement company, but incredible technology that's been around for a while too. It's just the reason why people typically don't go down this is because you have to drive your tractor slower, and it takes longer. And so it's just enough.
Ed Bernardon: And with the autonomous tractor, that doesn't matter as much because you can have many of them out there for one operator.
Carlo Mondavi: Think of it as almost like a Roomba. You could go very slow and consistently and kind of attack things as you need to without this time constraint on, like, "Wait, I need John to go do this, and I need to go do that, so I can't actually drive a tractor long enough to do that because I don't have time today." So, it frees up time for the farm team.
Ed Bernardon: How many tractors can a single operator run?
Carlo Mondavi: So, six to eight tractors, depending on the farm, and that is like covering a lot of land. That would be a larger winery at scale. Dante and I have one tractor, for example, for Raen, 18.5 acres. My family has six tractors total. So, we could have one person managing all six tractors. But rarely will you see, on our farm, the manager running all six tractors; it will be two tractors or something like that. Bigger farms at scale, the ones that are going to be really benefiting from this, that have 50 tractors operated in a day, that's when they're going to see huge opportunities to take steps forward in their farming and also take steps forwards in their profiting from going the right direction, which is exciting.
Ed Bernardon: I would think that some of the operations that you go through in the vineyard, for instance, cutting the grapes off the vine or pruning. Can those be done automatically?
Carlo Mondavi: They definitely can. So, right now, there are machine harvesters, there are machine pruners as well. And I think that that's all going to continue to get better and better. We're having a hard time right now getting teams together. My cousins had to call off the pick twice because they couldn't get the team together this last year. So, it's becoming harder and harder to get the teams to harvest and COVID has not made it easier because a lot of people are just like, "I'm not going to travel." In the vineyards and in farming around the world, harvest is typically done by a migratory group. So, I'm in Italy right now, typically, there's a group that – and it shifts but – for the last 15 years, they've been coming from Macedonia, Romania, and California. We have people coming from the South, like Mexico. And when you hear a president, like our previous president saying that he wants to build a wall and all this, people started saying, "Well, Mexico is doing better, the economy's doing better, maybe I don't want to go to California and pick." So, it has become harder and harder to find that crew that needs to swell up to size for harvest.
Ed Bernardon: The tractor, you say, has this trifecta of electrification, automation, and data analysis. We've talked a little bit about automation and electrification. How does data analytics play into this? What data are you collecting? What do you do with it? How does it provide benefits?
Carlo Mondavi: There's so much data that you just don't even know where to begin with it all – there's so much data. There's the opportunity for that within our platform. So, it's a vision-based stack. So, as a tractor drives down a farm row, it's visualizing everything. So, a lot of the AI, a lot of the ability for it to get to point A to point B is through vision. And that vision doubles as a significant amount of data. So, being able to see things like the canopy and understand the plant's moisture levels; being able to see clusters and fruit; and being able to see short shoots versus tall shoots; being able to see from an entomology perspective, different insects and all that. So, you can take all that data. And then what you can do is, essentially, back solve challenges and problems and prevent big outbreaks. Because everything in farming is reactionary. And the key is to how quickly can you react. So, if you see that you have short shoots, but you didn't see it before and you let it go, that fungal pathogen, whatever it's passing through, whatever it's Eutypa or Esca or anything like that. It's in the plant. It all of a sudden can end up all the way down to the head and you've lost that plan entirely. But if you see it earlier, and it creates an alert and sends you an alert saying, "Hey, you have short shoots here, go check it out," you can look at it, you can then see where it is because there's a geotag reference of where it is on the vineyard. You can walk right to that vine from this picture that the tractor sent you. And you can say, "Yeah, this is Eska. I'm going to cut this off." And you can save the plant without having to lose the plant. You can be back into having that be a fruitful plant quicker. It's infinite but one of the things, the long-term roadmap, that is the ability to deal and address fungicides, herbicides, and pesticides, all three of the chemicals that are used in farming, to be able to get to a completely chemical free farming universe.
Ed Bernardon: I imagine, you have your cameras on your system, and it could look at the shoot growth and say, "Oh shoot growth should have been three inches but it's only an inch and a half." Or you see a pest, there are many more here than we expected. We better do something." Now, is that at this point, more the farmer looking at the camera feeds that you get, or can that be done automatically with artificial intelligence or some other image recognition technology?
Carlo Mondavi: So, right now, before Monarch Tractor, it's done with people walking in the vineyards and looking, and people trying to trap. They put out these little sticky things that try to trap what's out there in the field, and then they bring that back and they analyze that from an insect standpoint, from a mildew pressure standpoint, and all that. It's a lot of just knowing the weather and what could bloom. And that's one of the challenges because sometimes you're using something to protect against something that's not even there. So, if you knew by spore trapping, that there were no spores present, you wouldn't need a spray at all, for example, from a fungal pathogen standpoint. So, it's just about data and being able to get that data quick, calculate it, understand it. But right now, all of that's been done in a manual path. There are things that that we can plug into. here are people taking pictures for it. We're working with a great company called, that is vine moisture. You can take a picture of the plant, and then it'll tell you if the canopy is healthy or if it's maybe malnourished, or if it needs water. There's just a lot of data just in the canopy that you're going to get the access of a PhD from UC Davis that can just give you incredible data back to you and say, "Hey, this is what you're seeing," versus having to hire that PhD to come out and walk the field with you. So, you're able to access, take data, access it, put it into the hands of someone who's incredibly bright and intelligent, and able to then kick that back to the farmer and react to it in a meaningful amount of time.
Ed Bernardon: And there are really two parts to that because you have acres and acres and rows and rows of vineyards. So, as the tractor is crawling through these rows, now you're getting a very systematic observation of what's going on, where even humans could never do that on every single plant in every single row. And then, the other side of that, which you just explained is, if we had all this data and we could get experts to look at all of it very quickly, then we'll know, "Oh, in this section of the vineyard, we've got this problem or that problem." Although now you're doing it manually, ultimately, would you foresee in the future that you could use AI possibly to make that chain more automatic? In other words, observe what the problem is, bring in expert algorithms, analyze it somehow, and then maybe even make recommendations on what to do.
Carlo Mondavi: Yeah, that's definitely on the table. And that's the exciting thing, I think, about what's happening right now is that on the table right now is the ability to get rid of all fungal pathogens; on the table right now is the ability to get rid of all herbicides; on the table right now is the ability to get rid of all pesticides. So, literally, you can address all chemicals from an AI perspective. And that's all done through the ability for the tractor to continue to develop intelligence within the field, and then to continue to be able to deliver that intelligence to the farm team. It's an exciting time. That is a bit of the future. And the other thing is that with the tractor, there are just updates. So, you're able to update all that and continue to have the current technology and the current ability to access all of those future learnings that we're able to have on the tractor. So, the platform is a platform for today, but it's updatable for the future.
Ed Bernardon: And it's sometimes just a combination of these technologies. One of the things I read was that you could monitor the torque on the mower on the bush hog. So, if too much torque has been required, it means that the grass that you're cutting you've waited a little too long or is growing too fast, which then could tell you, "Oh, maybe we should mow more often." So, even the simple little sensor like a torque sensor combined with a camera, combined with image recognition. It's all these pieces together is raising, farming up to a completely new level.
Carlo Mondavi: And that was one of the goals was to have somebody be sitting in a cubicle office somewhere and see what's happening in farming and say, "Hey, you know what? I want to go farm now. I don't want to manage stocks or banking or law. I want to go farm because now farming is actually really approachable and really exciting and really interesting." Farming is hard. It'll always be tough work and you'll always be humbled by mother nature. But I think that there's a mystery of farming. And we've lost touch to our roots of farming. I think that's so important that we get back in touch with our roots of farming. Once upon a time, every family was farming. And now it's like, very few families are farming. So, how do we get back to that point where we all get a farm again? I think that one of my hopes is that through a technology that's able to bridge away from fossil fuel and into a lot of intelligence and data and all that, that it becomes less mysterious and more interesting for more people. So, farming is important. Farmers are the most important people on our planet. I mean, without food, we're not able to survive.
Ed Bernardon: You talk about the approachability of farming. And certainly, one way of gaining that approachability would be to have a grandfather like you had. But very, very few people have that opportunity. And now, what you're saying is, you're never going to replace Robert Mondavi or a grandfather who knows farming with AI or any technology. But you can make that step a little bit easier. It's not something that you immediately think autonomous and EV technology are going to do. Certainly, there's everything you've been talking about sustainability, but I never would have thought, "Oh, wow, if you do gather all this data, and you can analyze it, and you can have the experts out there at your fingertips. Well, maybe even I could do this."
Carlo Mondavi: And then also be in an area and move to farming communities. You might be a little bit worried to move to a community that you're worried that they're not farming in a high level and that ends up in the water table and all that. And the truth of the matter is that up for the last 25-30 years, it's been going in the wrong direction. Even though our knowledge of it being dangerous, it was just economically unsustainable for farms to go down the right path. And so even in areas where there's the margin that we have in wine, there was people that I respect and love that were cutting corners and farming and just trying to make it more profitable because it's tough. And so if you can bridge away from that and create areas that are just chemical-free, healthy, and biodiverse, and a place where you'd want to raise your kid and let your dogs go running through fields. That is what we're proposing that Monarch is that this will unlock that for not just the small wineries like Dante and I have, but for the wineries at scale. Because it needs to be scalable, and it needs to be able to make impact. Dante and I, we've been farming at this crazy level since the beginning. My father, my grandfather, for a long time, our four generations are herbicide-free, over 25 years of beyond organic, yet we're making no impact because we're tiny. And when you look at the scale and the consolidation of wineries that are in farms, it's just absurd. So, we have to find a way to make it work at scale. And that's what this is unlocking. It's exciting. Again, I didn't plan on being involved in a technology business. But this is the solution to The Monarch Challenge. The Monarch Challenge was destined to fail. And if The Monarch Challenge fails, then I see a collapse of our environment. And we already are in the middle of a collapse, so we need to find ways to deal with all these challenges that we're facing as a planet.
Ed Bernardon: Can you tell us a little bit about some successes already? I mean, we've been talking a lot about "Oh, someday you're going to have the AI this and the AI that". But what have you been able to do so far? Tell us about one of your great customer success stories.
Carlo Mondavi: The challenging area of under-the-vine mowing and spraying. Those are probably the biggest and the most important. And we've actually done some studies where we were putting out numbers that we had calculated on how many metric tons of greenhouse gas equivalents is it saving versus a diesel? And we were throwing around numbers, we threw around like 54 metric tons of CO2 savings per year per tractor when hooked up to the California grid. And we're beyond that right now when we did our studies. The cost savings were beyond that. When you're on renewable energy, it's over 74 metric tons. So, you can really make a lot of impact with one tractor per year on your farm, which is exciting. Things like that. Just the biggest thing – even forget the autonomy – is just to get away from fossil fuel, if we can get away from fossil fuel farming and bridge into the future of renewable energy. As a farm, think about you're growing a crop. And right now, the farms of yesteryear, they're growing a crop and they're buying fossil fuel from the gas and oil industry to power their farm. It's just something that we have to do. Now, all of a sudden, you can take your tractor, plug it into your wall, and then you can put on solar. And now you have a farm that is not just farming fruit and vegetables, you have a farm that is a power plant. And you become a closed-loop circle. So, you can literally cut yourself off the grid and you have this incredible thing.
Carlo Mondavi: The other thing that I think is a big success is that in California during wildfire season, PG&E does these preventative blackouts where they shut the grid down. And the goal is that if a tree falls because it's dry, it's hot, and it's windy; that it won't spark a fire and create another 20, you know, the last seven years of just unbelievable fires that we've had. So, now if you have no power, how are you able to power your homes as well? The tractor itself is a mobile power wall. So, an individual Monarch Tractor has the ability to power a home for up to three days with no electricity. Now, you put solar into that, now you have that mobile power wall. You can keep the pumps going at your winery, you can keep operations going without having a diesel generator, now you have a clean generator. So, there are a lot of little successes that kind of come out the gate. That's right now where we're ramping up to our launch coming up, which is really exciting. We've already launched with a few vintners with our pilot series tractor with the Wente family, with cracker and star, and just collecting data and learning. So, we've had a lot of little successes so far.
Ed Bernardon: Well, start little and grow big. The great wine comes from the seed, ultimately, then it gets bigger. Now, to finish up, let's talk a little bit about the future. First, a little step and then a much bigger one. What do you see in the next 5-10 years, you've established the autonomy, you've established the trifecta there of data analytics and battery drive; what do you see in the next two or three steps next 5-10 years?
Carlo Mondavi: So, I think the future in the next 5-10 years is a completely sustainable renewable farm. So, a farm that is actually powered by the energy that is shining. So, we have this huge fusion reactor in the sky with sun, we have wind, we have hydro, geothermal, whatever it ends up being, but that that farm is completely self-sustained from an energy perspective; it's completely self-sustained from a chemical perspective, so you can get rid of all the chemicals. It's not off the table. There are ways that we can get rid of fungicides, this immediately gets rid of herbicides, and then pesticide. So, I just see an incredibly healthy soil microbiome in farms, I see healthier waterways around farms, I see more biodiversity, and I see a renewable future in farming. That's the dream come true. It's going to be a very exciting next decade.
Ed Bernardon: Now for the big step. It's the year 2050. What's a vineyard look like in the year 2050?
Carlo Mondavi: Well, my hope is that it doesn't look too different than that picture of a renewable farm, that there's an incredible amount of biodiversity. I really am a traditionalist. And I think that biodynamics stresses the whole entire multiverse, it stresses moon phases, it stresses all sorts of beautiful phases on the planet. And it stresses biodiversity. And I really am in line with a lot of the teachings of Rudolf Steiner in biodynamics and permaculture. So, a permanently sustainable place or a farm. In 50 years, my hope is that we've already gotten there in 10 years and that it continues to sustain that way. And I think that the biggest thing is that I would like to see as a planet that – and we've come to climate stability – right now we're in a point where we're close to 420 parts per million of CO2 in the planet, that's up from 290 parts per million to 1900. And if you divide up the isotopes, you have C12, C13, and you look at them, you know that's all coming from coal and from fossil fuel. So, it's not coming from all the other hydrocarbons like How do we get to a point where we come to climate stability? So, how do we find an ability to coexist on this planet and live longer? And I think that as agriculture being close to a quarter of our planet's carbon footprint, we have a huge responsibility to step up in that regard. And then beyond that, all of the cities and towns and all that, we have a big responsibility. So, beyond the farm, I hope that the planet can come to some sort of climate stability. So, that might be something we can aim for.
Ed Bernardon: You mentioned the phases of the moon and how you time things. And I remember when I was growing up, my father and my grandfather also made wine, not professionally like your family but they did, and they would say, "Oh, no, no, no, we're headed towards a new moon, you can't transfer wine now. You have to wait till after the new moon. So, even speaking to someone in the most advanced stages of agriculture farming, you still spoke about the phases of the moon. And winemaking has been the same in many ways since the days of the Romans. You can't change fermentation. But would you foresee anything changing in the way you make wine? How are we going to be making wine in the year 2050?
Carlo Mondavi: You would argue, you know, there's this idea of what does pre-phylloxera wine taste like? Going back to Roman times, what do those wines taste like? And the Romans were some of the first ones to use sulfur, and what does it taste like before that when there was no sulfur? The biggest thing that we're trying to do is to get away from the chemical revolution of farming and to get into a much cleaner, healthier farm. So, having a clean soil microbiome and farm biology, having wines that come from places where the microflora and fauna and all the life around are a part of the actual wine that you're drinking. So, you're drinking this beverage that's incredibly healthy, and balanced, and not altered. So, I think that the next big step and that is the dream is that I don't think that should be something that only the ultra-rich can afford, I think that we should be able to enjoy wine like the Romans did, and just be able to have it as a part of our culture in life. And so there's no reason that the person that buys the $2 bottle shouldn't be able to get a regeneratively, biodynamically farmed beautiful bottle that's with no chemicals and just incredibly delicious. And the person that is buying the $70,000 bottle of wine can have the same quality in the farming. I think making that clean farming economically superior is the goal right now.
Ed Bernardon: Listen, Carlo, I want to thank you. Thank you so much for joining us here, talking about technology, talk about wine. I can't wait to go out and buy a bottle from your Raen vineyard. Thank you so much for joining us on the Future Car Podcast.
Carlo Mondavi: Thank you, Ed. Really enjoyed talking to you and keep making wine, man. That's awesome. I love that. You're keeping the family tradition alive.
Ed Bernardon: You got to do it. So, one last thing before we finish up here. As always, we finish with our rapid-fire section. So, real quick answers; quick questions and are you ready to go?
Carlo Mondavi: Sure am.
Ed Bernardon: If you had a time machine, and you could go back in time to your 12-year-old self what advice would you give to the 12-year-old Carlo?
Carlo Mondavi: I've made a lot of mistakes in my life. And my life has been anything but easy. All the challenges and stuff that I've done that's been stupid has led to where I am now. So, I wouldn't want to give myself any advice that would alter where I've come to at this point. There's a ton of things I would say.
Ed Bernardon: Top one. You could only give them one piece of advice, what would it be?
Carlo Mondavi: I think it would be what my grandfather always told me, which is just to follow your heart and soul and keep being you, which is essentially what my grandfather told me; pour your heart and soul into whatever you do in life. A lot of the teachings my grandfather taught me are exactly what I tell myself and I already knew around that age. He'd always say, "Common sense is uncommon." "The greatest risk you can take in life is not taking a risk at all." All of those things. He molded the greatest advice I've ever gotten and the same advice I'd give myself.
Ed Bernardon: What is the craziest snowboarding trick you've ever done?
Carlo Mondavi: There was a day I had in Tahoe that was amazing. We built this incredible jump into powder. It was like I couldn't fall that whole day, it was amazing. It was a couple of iterations of a double backflip that I thought was on a rather large jump. Again, this is different timing, like the year that I stopped snowboarding professionally was the year that Travis Rice – he was good friend of mine – went on a tear and won every single big air event doing double cork, like 1440s. So, I was trying some similar double iterations that were really fun.
Ed Bernardon: Never broke anything?
Carlo Mondavi: Oh, yeah. I broke a lot of bones. I mean my nose, several times; my orbital, 18 stitches here, that's from surfing. I've broken my wrist a bunch of times. My collarbone, my sternum, my ribs, chopped my meniscus, tore my PCL and my MCL. Honestly, I feel lucky that I've escaped with as few injuries as I have. I've been close to death a few times, which has been not common. I mean, it's very common within the circles of snowboarders. The things that I've done that are crazy, I have friends that have done things that are way more crazy.
Ed Bernardon: What do you love the most about making wine?
Carlo Mondavi: The connection to Mother Earth and the ability to connect to Mother Nature, and then to be able to realize that with a great meal with friends.
Ed Bernardon: What do you love least about making wine? Cleaning the press, maybe?
Carlo Mondavi: The cellar is definitely cleaning. It's a necessary evil, but you got to do it. But yeah, cleaning for sure, it's definitely the worst.
Ed Bernardon: If you could magically invent one thing, what would it be?
Carlo Mondavi: So, given where I am right now, and with the challenge, it would be exactly what we're building at Monarch Tractor. This is the thing that I thought was impossible, a number of years ago. So, this is the one thing I would be inventing – the ability to get rid of all these chemicals, to farm regeneratively, biodynamically without fossil fuel, all of that. It would be Monarch.
Ed Bernardon: And the final question. You got to really think deep for this one now. Tell us something about yourself that would surprise your friends and family. A secret, a deep secret revealed here on the Future Car Podcast.
Carlo Mondavi: I think everyone in my family knows this but my mom doesn't know it because I try not to tell her too much stuff. But I was caught in a pretty big avalanche in the Monashee in British Columbia and I was buried. And our guide who had been guiding for over 20 years was caught and buried as well. He blew out his leg. It was pretty crazy. The toe of the avalanche was enormous. And we were really lucky to get caught up in the top of the trees and not get swept down into the bottom part. Most of my friends, I think, know about that avalanche. It was a helicopter trip with a group of incredible friends. And it was like the third run of the trip. And it was just like I could hear the crack of this massive avalanche and just the whole thing slip. I got incredibly lucky. But my mom is the one person who doesn't know about that.
Ed Bernardon: She does now.
Carlo Mondavi: Yeah, exactly.
Ed Bernardon: Mom, don't worry. He's okay. And he wouldn't be here today if it weren't for the beacons or however they found you and dug you out. Carlo, thank you so much for joining us on the Future Car Podcast.
Carlo Mondavi: Thanks, Ed. It's been a pleasure. Really nice talking to you.
Carlo Mondavi- Guest, Chief Farming Officer Monarch Tractor
Carlo is Chief Farming Officer of Monarch Tractor. An expert viticulturist with experience in Organic, Biodynamic, and Permaculture Farming. He is a fourth generation winegrower from the world-renowned Mondavi family and is co-founder of Raen Winery, as well as a partner at Continuum Estate. Carlo is the co-founder of the Monarch Challenge, an effort focused on elevating farming by eliminating herbicides and powerful chemicals from farms in Sonoma, Napa and beyond. The Monarch Challenge is the namesake of Monarch Tractor.
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Ed Bernardon, Vice President Strategic Automotive Initiatives – Host
Ed is currently VP Strategic Automotive Initiatives at Siemens Digital Industries Software. Responsibilities include strategic planning and business development in areas of design of autonomous/connected vehicles, lightweight automotive structures and interiors. He is also responsible for Future Car thought leadership which includes hosting the Future Car Podcast and development of cross divisional projects. Previously he was a founding member of VISTAGY that developed light-weight structure and automotive interior design software acquired by Siemens in 2011, he previously directed the Automation and Design Technology Group at MIT Draper Laboratory. Ed holds an M.S. in mechanical engineering from MIT, B.S. in mechanical engineering from Purdue, and MBA from Butler.
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Micropotamogale is a genus of small, otter-like dwarf otter shrews native to riverine habitats of West African rainforests.  They feed on aquatic animals and insects they can find and capture. They are afrotherian mammals most closely related to the tenrecs of Madagascar, but are not closely related to shrews or otters.

Two species are recognized:
 Ruwenzori otter shrew (Micropotamogale ruwenzorii)
 Nimba otter shrew (Micropotamogale lamottei)

Conservation
The Ruwenzori otter shrew is considered to be of least concern, while the Nimba otter shrew is classified as vulnerable by the IUCN.

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Afrosoricida
Mammal genera
Aquatic mammals
Taxa named by Henri Heim de Balsac
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot

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Q: What happens if I setup only network encryption or network integrity in oracle net manager? I am doing some POCs related to the oracle's network security and integrity feature.
My sample program works just fine and returns me a valid connection even though I change the configuration to support either encryption or integrity.
        ```
        Properties prop = new Properties();
        OracleDataSource dataSource = new OracleDataSource();

        prop.put("oracle.net.encryption_client", "REQUIRED");
        prop.put("oracle.net.encryption_types_client", "AES256");
        prop.put("oracle.net.crypto_checksum_client", "REQUIRED");
        prop.put("oracle.net.crypto_checksum_types_client", "MD5");
        dataSource.setServerName("DT01070611");
        dataSource.setPortNumber(1521);
        dataSource.setDriverType("thin");
        dataSource.setDatabaseName("orcl");
        dataSource.setUser("system");
        dataSource.setPassword("dkpune");
        dataSource.setConnectionProperties(prop);
        Connection conn = dataSource.getConnection();
        System.out.println("Connected to the oracle database successfully!" + conn);
        ```

How and why oracle is still returning a valid connection instance?
Does Oracle enable both the features if either integrity or encryption is configured?

A: Encryption and integrity are neither dependent nor exclusive. You can use one or the other or both. Incidentally, MD5 has been cracked for a while now; SHA1, while also compromised, is stronger. See here for details on implementation, if you haven't already: https://docs.oracle.com/database/121/DBSEG/asojbdc.htm#DBSEG9611

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Tozer, Emma, 2016. Agroecology as a social movement : a case study of the Prince George's County Food Equity Council in Maryland, United States. Second cycle, A2E. Alnarp: SLU, Department of Work Science, Business Economics, and Environmental Psychology
The United States has experienced a drastic change in its food system within the last century. A locally-based, self-sufficient model has been replaced by one that is characterized by a consolidation of business and farms into fewer hands; a mechanization and specialization of agriculture management; and the looming threat of urban development encroaching on farmland. On the other side of the food supply chain, consumers in the U.S. are increasingly susceptible to obesity and diet-related illnesses, even though a substantial part of the population is food insecure. Low-income communities feel these ailments the most, as the most affordable food in these areas is highly processed, grain-based, and calorie dense, yet lacking in nutrition. Compounded with these flaws is the country's fragmented and contradictory policy approach to food and agriculture.
In response to these numerous systemic shortfalls, hundreds of food movements have developed and expanded in the U.S. and around the world: local food, Slow Food, community food security, food justice, food sovereignty, fair trade, and agroecology. In recent years, researchers have explored the local food policy council movement as an opportunity to converge these various interests. By joining a diverse group of community stakeholders, local food policy councils can potentially develop comprehensive food policies which are responsive to local needs. This study is inspired by this potential, as well as the potential of agroecology movements as enablers for systemic policy change. In 2009, Wezel et al. categorized agroecology as a scientific discipline, agricultural practice, and social movement. In movement form, agroecology often works in conjunction with other food movements for mutual benefit. This thesis research set out to gain a clearer understanding of agroecology as a social movement, and to understand its relationship to food policy councils.
A case study was conducted of the Prince George's County Food Equity Council (FEC) in Maryland, U.S., using three main methods of data collection: semi-structured interviews, direct observations, and archival records and documents. The research assumed a systems approach and constructivist paradigm. Data was analyzed by testing for the presence of agroecology principles – namely, 'inclusivity', 'community orientation', and a 'food systems approach' –, which were determined from a preliminary literature review. In addition, analysis considered concepts from social movement literature.
It was found that the FEC works to include a diversity of stakeholders from across the food supply chain, including members of the general public. The principle of community orientation is present in the FEC's policy activities. For example, the decision to name the council a food equity council, rather than a food policy council, was based on the FEC's acknowledgment that fairness is a prominent issue throughout Prince George's County's food system. Results from data collection indicate that the FEC's food systems approach is influenced by the member demographic of the council. It was found that the FEC – as well as many food policy councils – work to identify and break down barriers to the implementation of programs and policies. While councils strive to maintain a food systems approach in their activities, one challenge observed in the data and literature is the acquisition and maintenance of a diversity of stakeholders representing the entire food supply chain.
The outcomes of the study show that food policy councils and agroecology movements share similar characteristics and values. As a social movement organization, food policy councils benefit from inclusion of an array of stakeholders, in that movement networks are both converged and expanded. These network connections can also facilitate engagement of a broader community population. In addition, the strengthening of these networks serves to benefit councils in the sense of resource mobilization: extensive, diverse network connections can facilitate a flow of knowledge, political capital, and other resources useful for furthering movement interests. These networks are characteristic of an alternative paradigm which has emerged in global justice movements. The paradigm emphasizes the importance of decentralized, participatory movement networks in bringing about social change. In this context, food policy councils offer an opportunity to coordinate, harmonize, and strengthen the various initiatives and interests of food movements.
Agroecology as a social movement
a case study of the Prince George's County Food Equity Council in Maryland, United States
Tozer, Emma
Hofny-Collins, Anna
Pálsdóttir, Anna Maria
LM005 Agroecology - Master's programme 120 HEC
social movements, food policy councils, Prince George's County, Maryland, United States, agroecology, food systems, systems thinking, equity, resilience, food policy
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