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A fascinating behind-the-scene little-told story
of military aviation training and combat combined with the evil of the heroin trade in Southeast Asia. The 'Times Past' portion takes one back to the experiences of three young men through their training—one naval attack pilot and two army gunship pilots. The combat stories of each are true and the role models for the characters were each heavily decorated for valor in combat.
At least one route of the drug flow through Vietnam and to the United States is factual though the characters in the story are fictitious—perhaps to protect the guilty.
In the 'Times Present' portion the three old pilots—long since civilians—are drawn back into their warrior roles to avenge a thirty year old murder. This time the enemy is domestic—not foreign—and Justice is the goal.
Doug Meador was a combat naval aviator, flying more than 325 missions in North Vietnam. After leaving his military career, he founded Ventana Vineyards, the most award winning single vineyard property in America, which he operated as a research vineyard and winery for 34 years. He is a graduate of the University of Washington, and resides in Carmel, CA.
Face the Tiger
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ISBN 978-0-6152347-4-8
The Story of the Development of The New Viticulturebegins with a quick auto-bio of the author including relevant information on who he is and what background led him into this line of thought. The foundation in apples is particularly surprising but upon contemplation makes sense. Pictures reinforce the assertions.
The saga continues into the seventies with the author’s translations of then current revolutionary apple studies into grape vine application while also incorporating well developed grain planting layouts.
Presented with the unique Monterey conditions, the author faced the need to develop an entirely new paradigm of viticulture that primarily addressed Monterey’s conditions. The new system and its approach subsequently had universal application. The newly introduced concepts of Hormonal Control Systems within the vine and their control by the grower was entirely new for viticulture. Those concepts where so foreign to the conventional wisdom and academia that resistance was pronounced for nearly two decades – not an abnormal response to major change.
When the changes did occur they were personified by “copy” but not full understanding. For the first time, the author discuses the theories and hypotheses he developed that led to the New Viticulture. In addition, he tenders a new, elegant theory developed by the author in the late seventies - but never before elucidated – of plant sap circulation based upon Einsteinian “quanta”, his tendered idea of the composition of light.
The text continues into other fascinating areas. All in all, the work is a “must read” for industry members and academia. For wine aficionados it is both an enlightening and a thought provoking read.
THE NEW VITICULTURE
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MEA CULPA — APOLOGY — ERRATA
In writing THE NEW VITICULTURE, I wrote the science facts from a memory acquired more than fifty years ago. Unfortunately, memory can fail and, also unfortunately, I failed to check a fact. Happily, that “fact” does not affect actual substance of the arguments.
In the text, I attributed the conceptualization and the naming of “QUANTA” to Einstein in 1905. In fact, it was Max Planck in Berlin in 1900. He also opined that the contained energy in a given quanta was of a definite size and was proportional to the frequency. The proportion is constant. Thus, the higher the frequency, the greater the energy in a packet {the quanta}. The quanta of light came to be commonly called “photons. “
In 1905, Einstein elucidated the photoelectric effect for which he received The Nobel Prize—not for relativity. The photoelectric effect utilizes Planck’s quanta assertions in its analysis.
Of course, who postulated what, and when, has no bearing on the application of those amazing concepts. Those concepts have far reaching implications in understanding plant physiology—much further than those presented in THE NEW VITICULTURE. While it may seem that the nature of light , quanta, photoelectric effect, etc., belong to the exotic world of theoretical physics, I do point out that we farmers work with the one category of organisms that use these very things to manufacture the life sustaining and enabling product—PLANTS.
I apologize for the error.
…jdm
