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Seen back in October 2019. The Mission was founded in 1786 and the fountain built in 1808. We still have not ventured outside LA County since the start of the pandemic. After our recent booster doses we will likely "escape" soon.
However, note that Europe is now the epicenter for the virus. Germany, Poland, Netherlands, etc have recently seen very large increased caseloads - larger than ever before. In early July Germany had ~400 cases/day - now > 60,000 cases per day ! Deaths have increased from 20 to 250 per day and still increasing ! Get vaccinated to end this pandemic once and for all !!
Remember the movie Smokey and the Bandit? Wealthy Texan Big Enos Burdette (Pat McCormick) and his son Little Enos (Paul Williams) seek a truck driver willing to bootleg Coors beer to Georgia for their refreshment. At the time, Coors was regarded as one of the finest beers in the United States, but it could not be legally sold east of the Mississippi River. Truck drivers who had taken the bet previously had been caught and arrested by "Smokey" (CB radio slang for highway patrol officers, referring to the Smokey Bear–type hats worn in some states).
The Burdettes find legendary trucker Bo "Bandit" Darville (Burt Reynolds) competing in a truck rodeo at Lakewood Fairgrounds in Atlanta; they offer him $80,000 to haul 400 cases of Coors beer from Texarkana, Texas back to Atlanta in 28 hours; Big Enos has sponsored a racer running in the Southern Classic and wants to "celebrate in style when he wins". Bandit accepts the bet and recruits his best friend and partner Cledus "Snowman" Snow (Jerry Reed) to drive the truck, while Bandit drives the "blocker", a black Trans Am bought on an advance from the Burdettes, to divert attention away from the truck and its illegal cargo.
That movie dates me somewhat... it was a blockbuster way back in 1977, and I thought it was a hoot. After seeing this rig, however, I realized if Bandit had one of these, the movie would have been over in a few minutes. It's hard to get a lot of comedy in over so short a time... memories wouldn't go as deep either... or would they? Shockwave is a custom built race truck equipped with three J34-48 Pratt & Whitney jet engines used originally by the U.S. Navy T2 Buckeye jet trainer. The combined 21,000 lb thrust from those engines produces 36,000 horsepower! Shockwave is not only the most powerful truck in the world, it also holds the record speed for Semi Trucks at 376 mph! The weather was cool with a lot of moisture evident... it only hit 364 mph on this day with a high air density. That's still pretty impressive... but does it have a built-in cigarette lighter? You never know when one of those might come in handy.
Jerry Reed, who played the part of Snowman, was also an outstanding guitarist, songwriter, and performer... he wrote and performed the title song to the movie, East Bound and Down, that you can hear here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnRwQjTYfGI I knew all the words back in the day, as it provided background for my own driving abilities... I've slowed a little of late, but only a little, mind you. Thinking about getting a jet engine myself... wonder what the neighbors would think? The fun I could have with tailgaters might make it well worth the effort.
I have had this image on my screen for the last few days and couldnt avoid posting it, not as my masterpiece but perhaps as my wish for a health living for myself and my friends as well as an note/alert about the food poisoning .
I have been already 10 days almost with no food and suffering with pain ( medications are not effective yet) after an ingestion of a ready sandwich from an important local supermarket.
I grew up taking a healthy diet very seriously but after a while living in america i corrupted myself with those "M'cDelicious" and " KFatyChoices" . After my current experience I am ceirtanly back to Mom's diet ! :-)
Foodborne illness or Food Poisoning :
I s any illness resulting from the consumption of contaminated food.
Every year there are about:
* 76 million foodborne illnesses in the United States (26,000 cases for 100,000 inhabitants),
* 2 million in the United Kingdom (3,400 cases for 100,000 inhabitants)
* 750,000 in France (1,210 cases for 100,000 inhabitants).
325,000 were hospitalized (111 per 100,000 inhabitants);
5,000 people died (1.7 per 100,000 inhabitants.).
Major pathogens from food borne illness in the United States cost upwards of US $35 billion in medical costs and lost productivity (1997)
For more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foodborne_illness
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Senator Johnson, what were you thinking? This isn’t an exclamation. I really want to know.
In one of the most recent iterations of tone-deaf statements made by politicians, Republican Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin said this on Joe Pag’s conservative radio talk show (emphasis mine):
“Even though those thousands of people that were marching to the Capitol were trying to pressure people like me to vote the way they wanted me to vote, I knew those were people that love this country, that truly respect law enforcement, would never do anything to break the law, and so I wasn’t concerned.”
“Now, had the tables been turned—Joe, this could get me in trouble—had the tables been turned, and President Trump won the election and those were tens of thousands of Black Lives Matter and Antifa protesters, I might have been a little concerned.”
It was both shocking and amazing to hear someone—an elected Senator, no less—say such a thing without realizing the impact of his words. This is the definition of institutional racism: thought patterns so embedded in society, some see nothing wrong in expressing them, let alone thinking them. Did you say them to gain political currency, or do you believe them? As Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne Jr. recently said, “Republicans and conservatives have used culture wars as a way of encouraging working-class voters to cast their ballots on the basis of social, religious, and racial issues rather than on economic questions.” Your comments, shocking as they are to me, are chum, thrown into political waters to rile up your Republican base. In the feeding frenzy, they ignore the economic precipice they live on and, worse, don’t even realize how unimportant their lives are to the GOP.
The Justice Department’s mounting evidence against those who stormed the Capitol doesn’t correlate with your sentiments. In response to criticism about your statement, you replied, “There were no racial undertones to my comments.” You’re right, Senator. These weren’t undertones; these were overt. Here are some facts that should interest you.
In an interview with 60 Minutes, federal prosecutor and former acting U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, Michael R. Sherwin, said they were now in the process of prosecuting over 400 cases involving the January assault on the Capitol. “The bulk of those cases are federal criminal charges and significant felony charges: five, ten, twenty-year penalties…. Of those 400, we have over 100 who have been charged with assaulting federal officers and local police officers. Ten percent of the cases, I’ll call them more complex conspiracy cases—we do have evidence, it’s in the public record—where individual militia groups from different facets, Oath Keepers, Three Percenters, Proud Boys, did have a plan—we don’t know what the full plan is—to come to D.C., organize, breach the Capitol in some manner.” The investigation is only getting started.
Sherwin was an eyewitness to the insurrection. Dressed in his running clothes, he followed protesters from Donald Trump’s rally to the Capitol. “As the morning progressed, I noticed that some people were in tactical gear,” he said. “Those individuals, I noticed, left the speeches early. You could see it was getting more riled up. And it became more aggressive.” Prosecutors have charged many with obstruction of official government proceedings (the Electoral College count). Convictions could result in twenty-year felony sentences. The government has arrested two men for assaulting Capitol police officer Brian D. Sicknick, who later died of his injuries. If his autopsy shows their actions resulted in his death, they will be charged with murder.
Do you think, Senator, these people “truly respect law enforcement [and] would never do anything to break the law,” as you stated?
Covered live on TV, hundreds of thousands of Americans witnessed this breach. Rioters posted their own videos and photographs of their actions. Others proudly texted their involvement. The people you described as loving their country put members of Congress, the military, and police at risk. What’s so loving about that?
Politicians have been spinning their versions of events since the dawn of our country. During both the Reagan and George H. Bush administrations, Lee Atwater’s noxious tactics are the contemporary antecedent for the misleading hyperbole we experience today. Truth became malleable. Atwater’s support for making furloughed felon Willie Horton’s armed robbery and rape charges an issue during the 1988 presidential campaign against Democrat Michael Dukakis was instrumental in Bush overcoming a 17-point deficit to win the presidency. Atwater stated he would “strip the bark off the little bastard” and “make Willie Horton his running mate.” Trump’s “alternative facts” were the culmination of bending the truth for political gain. What’s fascinating is the traction these lies generate.
In 1987, the Federal Communications Commission rescinded the Fairness Doctrine, which required media outlets to present controversial issues fairly and balanced. “The Fairness Doctrine required that those who were talked about be given a chance to respond to the statements made by broadcasters.” The FCC believed this safeguard impinged on a person’s First Amendment rights, and they did away with it. Political discourse has digressed ever since.
“Cancel culture” has become our most recent ad hoc policing system to control the cacophony of voices and opinions on traditional and social media. But it’s often harsh and indiscriminate. A few months back, a Facebook friend wrote about some stress in their life, posting a sizeable animated emoji showing a round yellow face grinding its teeth. I responded to that emoji by saying, “relax” (I know firsthand the pain of bruxism—teeth-gnashing). A few minutes later, a well-known woman writer admonished me for telling any woman to relax. I only knew my friend via Facebook. And her handle was gender-neutral, so I didn’t realize she was a woman. I was going to clarify my response, but when I saw that 27 people had already liked her retort, I thought better of it. I felt ganged up upon and ridiculed unfairly. A simple question, “What did you mean?” would have cleared everything up quickly. Instead, I deleted my comment. But the feeling of being misunderstood without recourse stayed with me the rest of the day. Seeking context is a rare commodity. So that’s why I’m asking you, Senator, despite the facts, why did you say what you said?
Ultimately, it’s the responsibility of your Wisconsin constituents to judge your words and deeds. But that doesn’t mean the rest of us will stand by when you pass your judgments. They’re deadly.
And, yes, Senator Johnson, you are a racist.
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At the Conference Sessions for USATT, held at the Metropolitan Pavilion in March 2016, there was a Panel that comprised of Jim Ryan, SVP of the beer division of Constellation Brands, Giacomo Turone, VP of wine and spirits importer Palm Bay International and Scott Ades, CEO of The Winebow Group. They were asked questions relevant to the attending audience comprising of distributors, importers, retailers and producers of alcoholic beverages.
QUESTION: What impact are new e-commerce and delivery-in-an-hour models having? How are they changing the dynamics of the wine industry?
There’s plenty of innovation happening in the wine and spirits industry, and new delivery-in-an-hour and e-commerce models have the potential to change the way brands can get their products to market. In order to be successful, brands have to recognize how these e-commerce models are changing customer behaviors and how they can help to influence the purchase decision.
Scott Ades, CEO of The Winebow Group, notes that major wine retailers have had delivery services for years. What’s changed, however, are the types of wines that are being delivered with these new delivery-in-an-hour services. In the case of New York wine retailer Sherry-Lehmann, they deliver what you buy in-store or online, so there’s no advertising involved to move product.
In the emerging new delivery-in-an-hour business model, Ades says, it’s all based on advertising. When a customer opens up the app of a wine-in-an-hour company, they are presented with a number of different options. What the consumer sees is based on advertising dollars, and that’s an area where smaller brands can’t compete. Only the largest brands have the budget to get on the front page of an app like Drizly, which promises one-hour liquor delivery.
For now, says Giacomo Turone, a VP with the wine and spirits importer Palm Bay International, delivery-in-an-hour is not a major change for the industry. The major change is with the consumer. As Turone points out, “No retailer needs more product.” Thus, a small brand is not going to be able to convince a retailer to carry them based only on the delivery-in-an-hour value proposition.
A more attractive business model, though, is the whole e-ecommerce model. Consumers are now headed online to find new wines. They don’t want to have to hunt in 10 different stores for a specific wine, so they want these e-commerce platforms to make it easy to find them. This may not be a big change in a major urban market like New York, where wine retailers are clustered close together and delivery to the home doesn’t matter as much. But it’s a huge difference for a market in the Midwest, where a consumer might have to drive 50 miles to pick up a bottle of wine.
The participants of the recent panel discussion at the USATT Conference 2016 also discussed the structural reasons leading to the e-commerce model. There are too many SKUs and too many physical limitations for brick-and-mortar retailers. It’s too expensive to carry a lot of inventory. But that’s not the case with these e-commerce marketplaces. In fact, some of them have an “inventory-on-demand” model where inventory is no longer a limiting factor.
Turone agrees that sales via e-commerce “definitely” fits with the business models of smaller brands. A large website can sell 300-400 cases in a very short period of time. For “unknown” brands, though, it place even more emphasis on telling their story online. If consumers are basing their purchasing decision only on what they find online, they are going to make the decision to buy based on the overall story, as well as the supporting information – such as reviews and information on where to buy.
Going forward, it will be interesting to see if these new e-commerce models lead to changes in the types of wines that are sold. It could be the case that there are different audiences for different channels and platforms, and that will change the way brands need to tell their story and influence the consumer.
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MERS mask on, bedouin sun hat on, gloves on..temp was 43C...the sun right on top !!..btw..MERS is a deadly virus mostly in Riyadh....with a kill rate of 40%...no cure as yet...about 400 cases here....there have been 3 cases in the USA...all workers here in Saudi returning home...supposedly it jumped from camels...kinda like mad camel disease.....so now the camels get a reprieve..not too many want to eat camel meat nor drink their milk...anymore..
One month for this cause, another month for that cause. Pick a ribbon color ~ red, yellow, rainbow, orange, pink, purple. There are a million "causes" to support, it has become the new "in thing" to support one. Most people go with the main stream advocating for something that has millions of dollars in revenue each year, yet there still is no cure. Feed the starving in Africa, start at home, help the homeless. For cents a day you can adopt a child in need. Support our troops, find a cure, out and proud, don't drink and drive, LiveStrong. All worthy in their own sense.
I could choose to support any one of these.. I could justify it by associating part of my life with it. My life experiences would fit into quite a few causes.
I could be a strong advocate for the homeless,
like others rallying to collect desperately needed items for those without a home. For at one time when I was a young teenager, my father and I didn't have a home. We lived in a borrowed travel trailer parked next to the church we attended. I spent my nights cleaning the church, polishing everything possible because that is the only place I felt safe while my father worked midnights. I knew what it was like to not have a bed. Popple and I were in fact homeless, but we made it through that fall, winter, and spring just fine.
I could wear pink till I felt like a gum ball. I could sport my "race for the cure" t-shirt and don my pink ribbon hat in which proceeds go to find a cure;. I could name my Dear Grandma Belle as the one I am running for. I could say that I will never stop wearing pink till a cure is found, or should I say released to the public. I feel sympathetic for those who have to go through such things as a mastectomy, I feel sad that findings in this multi billion dollar industry are not released.
I could go to many candle light vigils for someone killed by a drunk driver. I can put up make shift memorials along side the road. I could get MADD. I still think of a dear friend each and every time i drive down rt 8 who was taken away when she was just 15. I cringe when I flash back to the drunk and high driver that hit me one night when my infant son was in the car (we were lucky). I cry every time I see "Charlies Angels" because if the one I had loved would have just gone to the theater to see that with me rather than go to that party a man would still be alive, and 7 years later we still would not be wondering who of the 3 intoxicated persons was actually the one driving. I would not be wondering if my childrens father is going to end up in jail for DUI manslaughter.
I could tie a yellow ribbon around the oak tree.. I could place a trendy magnet on my car that states "support our troops". My father was in the Air Force. My oldest brother has been sent over sea's more than once to fight for our freedom. I respect those young men and women who willingly give of themselves to defend their country even when they might not agree with the war.
Since may 2004 I have donned a yellow bracelet around my wrist. The original one given to me when I was going for treatments in Philadelphia. People wear the yellow silicon bracelet for themselves, for family, or just to join the fad. Slowly they are fading away, but the foundation is still there. The treatments take a lot out of you, they wear you down, you stay strong, you don't give up, you don't let the diagnosis be what takes away your quality of life..
I could let my voice be heard about abortion. I could go on marches, I could speak about experiences. I could write a book and sign petition. I could say I was "pro life" and I could say I was "pro choice". I could go a step further than that and say what is most important is that these women and these girls get the emotional help they need before and after such an experience. I could hope that....yea...........
I could show my support for that "cousin" who has downs and because of this genetic disorder she now has to endure so many gruelling surgeries. I show my compassion for this strong and beautiful little girl, and so many smart, intelligent, wonderful persons just like her.
I could get one of those puzzle ribbons, I could join Jenny McCarthy in her cause to raise awareness for Autism. I live with the joys of Autism every day in the form of a active 8 year old little man. He amazes me one moment and makes me cry the next. I love that little guy, no matter how quirky he can be.
Yet, time and time again I go back to the little Purple Ribbon that has been on my computer desk as long as I have had a computer. That little purple ribbon is what I struggle with the most. So few know what that little purple ribbon is for, or that October has long been the month for the cause that has affected my every being. Four hospital visits, countless other instances that went unnoticed. The PFA's the restraining orders, the court hearings. The insecurity, the pain, the feelings of deep regret. The scars never really heal, not the ones on the inside. The "monsters" are real, they show up still in dreams. The monster that you are scared has been passed on to you, the one you fight to keep inside. The cycle really never ends. You try and try, but all you do it suppress it for a period of time, the cycle comes back. I made a phone call, last month in my small hometown alone over 400 cases reported, and so many more that go under the radar out of fear and insecurity. It happens every day on your street. It has many causes ranging from drugs and alcohol, to stress, to the affor mentioned cycle. It ruins so many, and never really heals.
I choose to donate my time, my limited resources, my experiences to a organization that assists those who have had to courage to get out of that situation. The items that sat in my trunk for months recently went to this organization along with other things that were noted as needed by the victims in the shelter. More than anything I hope to give me, I hope to in some way give strength to these women, children, and men who think so little of themselves. I hope to show that you are not a victim of the monster, you choose to be a victim of yourself. That you just have to find the strength inside to move on, to make yourself a better person, to learn and strive and work to not let the cycle continue.
For those who were unaware... October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month , depicted by a Purple Ribbon (the color of a bruise).
MiNr. 2696 France 200. Jahrestag der französischen Revolution Stilisierte Friedenstauben in der in den Landesfarben für Freiheit Gleichheit und Brüderlichkeit Stylized peace dove in the in the national colors of liberty equality and fraternity 1. jan. 1989. RaTdr. Michel Europa Katalog West 5102 M
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History has never been easy for the French. It has, for them, probably more than for any other European people, produced a mix of exultation and anguish. Ninety-nine years ago, the French celebrated the 100th anniversary of the beginning of their great Revolution of 1789, and, by a rather extraordinary coincidence, they did so only a couple of years after inaugurating for the first time a permanently republican form of government, finishing a century-long alternation between monarchy and anarchy. The moment was full of exultation. Hope and confidence in the future prevailed. The principles of 1789, the rights of man and citizen and the concept of constitutional law, seemed finally to have been embodied in government. An Exposition Universelle was held, attracting more than 25 million paying entrants, whose centerpiece was Gustave Eiffel's extraordinary tower, in itself an awesome symbol of the belief in the perfectibility of man through reason, science and democracy.
To be sure, mingling with the triumphalism of the newly empowered republicans were discordant notes, sharp strains of anguish and opposition. Hippolyte Taine, as the French historian Pascal Ory has pointed out in a collection of volumes entitled ''Les Lieux de la Memoire'' (''The Places of Memory''), was publishing his antirevolutionary ''Origins-of Contemporary France'' in those years. Church figures railed against the revolution as Antichrist. The Republic was still shaky. Its enemies -clerics, monarchists, antiparliamentary demagogues - were out in force. But perhaps because the Republic was perceived to be fragile, or, at least, wondrous, certainly long awaited, the popular mood was weighted heavily in favor of the richness of memory. The official will, the French historian Mona Ozouf has written, ''was to drown the celebration in the ocean of a Universal Exposition.'' Mr. Ory cites a contemporary commentator, Charles-Louis Chassin, a self-conscious counterweight to Taine, proclaiming that the centennial showed ''the legitimacy of the demands of our fathers.'' Another century has rolled by now. The French will commemorate the 200th anniversary of the Revolution next year facing a kind of paradox.
The danger to the Republic has long since passed. The classic right has, at long last, appropriated the Revolution as its own, admitting it as the founding act of modern France whose underlying principles can never be repudiated. The left has lost its monopoly on that notion, thereby justifying the historian Francois Furet's observation of several years ago that, after nearly two centuries, ''the Revolution is over.'' It is no longer the centerpiece of France's political struggles.
And yet perhaps the very absence of any real threat to the Republic has encouraged a mood of ambivalence over the looming bicentennial. The revolution is generally perceived to have created a nation ''coupe en deux,'' cut into two irreconcilable parts, thereby giving French history its special whiff of the unreasonable, its taste of conflict, insurrection, class antagonism. It took most of these two centuries for the French to heal the wounds. And so it is odd that just now, when the country is more united than at any time since 1789, more governed from the political center, it has fallen into a political and scholarly quarrelsomeness over the revolution.
It is said in Paris these days that one of President Francois Mitterrand's minor purposes in declaring himself a candidate for the second presidential term he won in May was to be in office to deliver the address next year on July 14, when the 200th anniversary of the storming of the Bastille will be celebrated. The President's Socialist Party and many others wanted to consecrate the Revolution as the Great National Event, to fuse it conceptually with the nation itself. Indeed, Mr. Mitterrand hoped to mark the bicentennial with a second Exposition Universelle. But there was too much opposition to that idea for it to survive, too much of a sense that the Revolution, which produced the Terror and the dictatorship of the Committee of Public Safety, and then the Empire - not to mention nearly two centuries of a country ''coupe en deux'' - was worthy less of celebration than deep and sober reflection. And so, at the moment, no World's Fair is being planned. Meanwhile, new articles and books - there are 200 titles announced for publication in the next year - have contained the elements of the struggle for interpretation over what the event represented for France and the world.
The polemic centers around a very old and fundamental issue that can be put in the simplest, starkest terms: was the Revolution, on balance, good or bad? For, if it started with the Declaration of the Rights of Man and included the Constitution of 1793, which embodied the principles of freedom and equality before the law, it also gave birth to fundamental conflicts that, in turn, produced a familiar problem: was it appropriate to violate the newborn principles of the Revolution to defeat counterrevolutionaries? And, who, in any case, was a counterrevolutionary? The Terror of 1793, consciously implemented by the Committee of Public Safety, whose guiding figure was Maximilien Robespierre, answered in the affirmative. The ''revolutionary government'' must ''act like a thunderbolt,'' Robespierre said. After what was viewed as the counterrevolution (a term that was to have a rich history in later decades) threatened to gain the upper hand in March of that year in the region of western France known as the Vendee, tens of thousands were massacred by both sides. Did the establishment of the principles vindicate what Mr. Furet called the derapage - the skid - into chaos? Was the derapage inevitable? Those are the questions.
As the French grapple with them, two themes stand out. On the one hand, the French are examining not merely the Revolution but the history of the history of the Revolution, looking back on the way the event has been used and misused by past generations of scholars and writers, as if to stress that the great divide of French history has always divided the French. Second, if a few general lines can be discerned in recent publications, there has been a resurgence of a powerfully skeptical mood about the Revolution, of a post-revisionist school of thought with echoes of Taine and other antirevolutionary interpreters. To the great anger of those more inclined to praise the event than to discredit it, that very charged word, genocide, has been applied to the bloodshed of the Revolution, which its enemies see not as the inaugural blow of freedom but as a grim historical precedent, an ideologically motivated attempt to annihilate an entire class of people.
Magazine covers reflect the national ambivalence. ''La France Divisee, la Fete Menacee'' (''France Divided, the Celebration in Danger'') -was already last year the cover story of Lire, the country's most widely read literary magazine. ''Is it possible to celebrate the French Revolution?'' Ms. Ozouf, the author of ''La Fete Revolutionnaire'' (''The Revolutionary Celebration''), asks in the pages of Le Debat, a highbrow quarterly edited by Pierre Nora, chief nonfiction editor at Gallimard. Ms. Ozouf's answer is that commemoration is ''difficult.'' It would lead precisely to the sorts of discoveries and divisions that make celebration impossible. ''The discordancies of the event,'' she writes, ''would render into two the history of France and also the French themselves.''
''Should we be afraid of 1989?,'' responded Pierre Agulhon, another major historian of the Revolution, writing also in the pages of Le Debat. ''Can one plead reasonably here for a commemoration without being taken for an idiot, a Stalinist, or an official spokesman?'' he asked. He then went on to make just such a plea, proclaiming as justification ''the positive correlation between liberty and the Revolution.''
''You don't have to be a great expert in the history of France to know that the successive stages of freedom and democracy are owed to the men, the groups and the regimes who laid claim to 1789,'' Mr. Agulhon wrote. ''Each time, by contrast - and this is proof in contrario - that freedom and democracy were excluded from France, or suffered reversals or threats, it was because power was held by the declared enemies of the principles of the Revolution.''
Something odd has happened in the last five years, Mr. Nora said. ''For the first time, we were just at the point where the history of the revolution could be written not by militants but by historians. And yet, perhaps because of the resurgence of the extreme right, there has been a bizarre resistance to the revolution, an unanticipated return of the counterrevolutionary repressed. The left-right split that we thought had been buried has now come alive again.''
Perhaps the most anticipated book of the year provides the background for this. It is ''Dictionnaire Critique de la Revolution Francaise'' (''A Critical Dictionary of the French Revolution''), to be published by Gallimard later this year. The book, edited by Francois Furet and Mona Ozouf, has a symbolic value because Mr. Furet is generally perceived to be the leading figure in what has been for nearly two decades the dominant school of interpretation, one that removed the Revolution from the rosy and apologetic embrace of the Marxist left and turned it back into the hands of apolitical neutrality and moderation. Indeed, as Mr. Furet himself points out in one of the essays in the dictionary, for much of the century the interpretation of the French Revolution was dominated by the Russian Revolution of 1917, which ''illustrated the necessity of the dictatorship and of the terror.'' A sign of the Marxists' domination, exercised earlier in the century by such figures as Albert Mathiez and Albert Soboul, was the replacement of Danton, the republican figure lionized by the prorevolutionary 19th-century historians, by Robespierre and the Montagnards, who ushered in the Terror of 1793, as the heroes of the event. Not surprisingly, the Terror bears more than a coincidental similarity to the Stalinist terror of the 1930's.
''And so,'' Mr. Furet says, ''the mechanisms by which the Revolution and its heroes are identified with present events operated as much on the historians of the 20th century as on those of the 19th.'' Mathiez read back into the French Revolution what he saw as the tribulations of the Russian one, claiming Jacobinism and Bolshevism to be ''two dictatorships born of the civil war and the foreign war'' and ''having an identical aim, the transformation of society.'' Mathiez, admired by Mr. Furet for carrying out the first major study of social classes in the Revolution, is nonetheless criticized for using documents ''in the fashion of a lawyer, in order to demonstrate what he already knows.'' The basic thrust of the Marxist historians, in any case, was to treat the Revolution as a whole - ''La Revolution est un bloc,'' Clemenceau once said -seeing the Terror as justified by the Revolution's ends, as made necessary by the ferocity of the counterrevolution.
It is this point of view - the romantic and very French belief in the purifying effects of acts of revolutionary violence - that Mr. Furet has combated in his own work, particularly, ''Penser la Revolution Francaise,'' published in 1981 by Oxford University Press under the title ''Interpreting the French Revolution.'' Mr. Nora calls that work ''a vast liquidation of the entire manner of thinking of the Marxists, which was so deeply embedded in the academic culture that historians dealt with the revolution in a Marxist manner without knowing that they were Marxists.'' Mr. Furet saw in the Revolution the advent of democracy in France, its birth amid deep contradictions, but the difficulties were so great and divisive that it took a century for its basic ideas to become facts. He compared the
French revolution unfavorably to the Glorious Revolution in Britain in 1688 and the American Revolution of 1776 as models of social development, arguing, somewhat in the fashion of Edmund Burke, that it disconnected France from its historic roots. So, while the Marxists had excused the violence of 1791-94, Mr. Furet and what came to be called the revisionist school saw the headlong slide into the Terror, the massacres of the Revolution's prisoners in September 1792, the bloody civil war in the Vendee and the Dictatorship of the Committee of Public Safety as tragic and unnecessary. Moreover, while the Marxists had attributed the derapage, to the gathering forces of reaction, the plotting of emigres and the schemes of Prussia and England, Mr. Furet saw it as an interior product, the unleashing of conflicts among French classes and sects.
''The English and the American Revolutions of the 17th and 18th centuries conserved their religious attachments and their historical continuity,'' Mr. Furet wrote in a recent essay, contributing to the renewed current debate. ''Hence their extraordinary consensual force.'' By contrast, he goes on, ''the French Revolution broke at the same time with the Catholic Church and with the monarchy - that is, with religion and with history. It wanted to found society, to create the revolutionary man, but on the basis of what? It had neither Moses nor Washington, nobody and nothing on which to fix its rudder.''
In a new and controversial book, ''Le Genocide Franco-Francais: La Vendee-Venge'' (''The Franco-French Genocide: The Vendee Avenged''), published by Presses Universitaires de France, a young historian, Reynald Secher, takes some of the elements of the revisionist school and transforms them into a counterrevolutionary diatribe. Mr. Secher, a protege of Pierre Chaunu, the dean of the current antirevolutionary school, examines a single commune in the region of western France that in 1793 saw one of the most horrific outbreaks of fraternal violence in European history. But whereas numerous volumes have in the past examined the massacres in the Vendee as a conflict between ''patriotic'' revolutionary forces and those of the counterrevolution, Mr. Secher sees in the violence a kind of precursor to the absolute ruthlessness of 20th-century totalitarianism.
From the outset, Mr. Secher notes, the events of 1789 were welcomed in the Vendee, both by the local peasantry and by the clergy; however, by 1791 the mood had turned sour, local incidents multiplied and Jacobin attacks on priests - who rejected the effective nationalization of the church in 1790 and refused to take the mandatory oath of fealty to the new Civil Constitution of the Clergy - produced a guerrilla war. In the end, using a host of charts and maps, Mr. Secher estimates that a minimum of 15 percent of the Vendean population of about 800,000 was massacred in the nine months of the insurrection. But what is more thematically important and what gives this work its quality of portent for the 20th century, Mr. Secher spurns the notion that the massacres were the inevitable product of the ferocity of civil conflicts. They were ''premeditated massacres,'' he says; they were ''organized, planned, committed in cold blood, massive and systematic, undertaken with the conscious and proclaimed will to destroy a well-defined region, and to exterminate an entire people . . . in order to extirpate a 'cursed race' judged ideologically unredeemable.'' The Vendee, in other words, was the first ideological crime, history's first instance of utopianism gone wild.
Mr. Secher's is far from the only look at the darkest side of the Revolution. Rene Sedillot, in ''Le Cout de la Revolution Francaise'' (''The Cost of the French Revolution''), estimates that two million deaths occurred because of revolutionary violence and social dislocation. Jean-Francois Fayard, one of the co-authors of a forthcoming dictionary of the revolution (a rival to the Furet-Ozouf volume) has written ''La Justice Revolutionnaire: Chronique de la Terreur'' (''Revolutionary Justice: A Chronicle of the Terror''), examining 400 cases judged between 1792 and 1795, the period when the very guarantees enshrined in the Declaration of the Rights of Man were suspended and the guillotine was used for some 17,000 executions.
Surprisingly, these works have not been met by an equally energetic response by the Revolution's defenders. It is as though the left, from whose camp the defenders have traditionally come, has held sway for so long that it has become a bit complacent. Nonetheless, one well-known figure from the Socialist Party, Max Gallo, a novelist and biographer who was once Mr. Mitterrand's official spokesman, made a stir with the publication of a slender volume entitled ''Lettre Ouverte a Maximilien Robespierre sur les Nouveaux Muscadins'' (''An Open Letter to Maximilien Robespierre on the New Dandies'') - the muscadins were the elegant, foppish royalists of the revolutionary era who pursued the Jacobins after Robespierre's fall.
Mr. Gallo's ''Letter,'' more cri de coeur than scholarly contribution, aims its sharpest thrusts at the argument that the Terror and dictatorship of 1793 led eventually to the Gulag Archipelago. Mr. Gallo asks for a ''detached and lucid'' examination of the Revolution, one free of partisan thrusts and ulterior motives. The concept of the revolution as the world's first ''ideological genocide'' not only puts 1789 on trial, he argues, it ''calls into question the very spirit of the Republic.''
The Revolution was attacked by the counterrevolution, which caused its derapage, Mr. Gallo argues, but it also invented the concept of the rights of man and, in any case, was made by ''men and women sharing the hope - sometimes illusory and always fragile - for bread a little less expensive, for some time away from daily labor, to live a little more freely.''
There are more sober, less politically anguished, efforts to deal with the perennial questions about the French Revolution than this. ''La Revolution en Questions'' (''The Revolution in Questions'') by Jacques Sole, published by Seuil, enumerates the questions that have stirred the passions of the French and others for 200 years and attempts to elucidate them in light of the latest scholarship. Mr. Sole, a professor of history at the University of Grenoble, is less driven by ideological passions than either Mr. Gallo or his antirevolutionary antagonists, and his questions seem the right ones: Could the monarchy have reformed? Was the derapage inevitable? Why did the Revolution end up in the personal dictatorship of Napoleon? Do contemporary revolutions derive from 1789?
Mr. Sole, who expresses a great debt to British and American historians of the French Revolution, does not treat the derapage as inevitable; like Francois Furet, he sees it as the tragic result of perhaps unavoidable mistakes. The church, for example, the center of opposition to the Revolution in the Vendee, was not actually hostile to the Revolution in the beginning. Many bishops and priests had absorbed the lessons of the philosophes and, while hostile to the overt anticlericalism of some 18th-century figures, particularly Voltaire, were as fervent about that new concept, the rights of man, and as opposed to manorial rights as the early Jacobins were. But, as Mr. Sole puts it, the clergy ''did not intend to put into question the central role of their institution in national life.'' The great divide came when the church was put under state control in 1790. ''This political disaster,'' Mr. Sole writes, ''inevitably transformed itself into a permanent source of disorder.'' The importance of religious attachments in places like the Vendee were reflected in the antirevolutionary uprising there, led by a clergy far better rooted in the local area than were the revolutionary bureaucrats.
No doubt the agony and the discomfort, the sense both of richness and ambiguity produced by the Revolution, will remain even after Mr. Sole's effort to resolve the main problems. Aware that the debate will continue, he does emphasize one element of historical certainty, a matter of definition for later generations. The word ''revolution'' was first used in its modern sense at the end of 1789 by the French, who meant by it something that went beyond a mere coup d'etat, a change of rulers. It was, as Mr. Sole puts it, ''a mass uprising aimed at transforming society.'' There, perhaps, is what gives 1789 both its main link with the 20th century and its universalist, polemical thrust.
The point is that if the French created the world's first revolution (in the new, 1789 sense of the word), they also invented the moral anguish that surrounded it then and still does. It is worth noting these days that the Soviet people, basking in relative openness, have been reconsidering Stalin and Bukharin and even Lenin, just as the French have been reflecting on Danton and Robespierre. The underlying issue is the same in both cases. Can there be revolution without derapage, without the guillotine or the gulag? It is a measure of its gravity and difficulty that 200 years later, that question is among the few remaining things that still cut the French in two.
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Francuska građanska (buržoaska) revolucija započela je 1789. godine, a trajala do 1795., po nekima i 1799. godine. Najveće je dostignuće toga procesa ukidanje feudalnih odnosa u Francuskoj i u velikom broju ostalih europskih zemalja. Sve prijašnje revolucije imale su drukčije osobine. Ova je revolucija nešto posve radikalno, te označava epohu slobode od feudalnog pritiska i nepravednosti, ukidanje formi ovisnosti i osobne neslobode ljudi.
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As Thanksgiving Approaches, U.S. Virus Cases Tick Upward Once More
CHICAGO — A month ago, new coronavirus cases in the United States were ticking steadily downward and the worst of a miserable summer surge fueled by the delta variant appeared to be over. But as Americans travel this week to meet far-flung relatives for Thanksgiving dinner, new virus cases are rising once more, especially in the Upper Midwest and Northeast.
Federal medical teams have been dispatched to Minnesota to help at overwhelmed hospitals. Michigan is enduring its worst case surge yet, with daily caseloads doubling since the start of November. Even New England, where vaccination rates are high, is struggling, with Vermont, Maine and New Hampshire trying to contain major outbreaks.
Nationally, case levels remain well below those seen in early September, when summer infections peaked, and are below those seen last Thanksgiving. But conditions are worsening rapidly, and this will not be the post-pandemic Thanksgiving that Americans had hoped for. More than 90,000 cases are being reported each day, comparable to early August, and more than 30 states are seeing sustained upticks in infections. In the hardest-hit places, hospitalizations are climbing.
“This thing is no longer just throwing curveballs at us — it’s throwing 210-mile-an-hour curveballs at us,” said Michael Osterholm, a public health researcher at the University of Minnesota. He said that the virus had repeatedly defied predictions and continues to do so.
The new rise in cases comes at a complicated moment. Last Thanksgiving, before vaccines were available, federal and local officials had firmly urged Americans to forgo holiday gatherings. But in sharp contrast, public health officials, including Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s leading infectious-disease expert, have mostly suggested this year that vaccinated people could gather in relative safety.
In interviews across the country, Americans said they were not sure what to think.
Jess Helle-Morrissey, 43, a therapist who lives in St. Paul, Minnesota, said she has decided to host a dinner, although case rates in her state are among the country’s worst. About 4,200 cases are emerging every day and hospitalizations are soaring in Minnesota.
“They are diligent maskers and don’t take any extra risks,” she said of her guests. “Everyone who is coming, I keep saying, is, you know, vaxxed to the max.”
In important ways, the country is in better shape than during previous upticks. Doctors have learned more about how to treat the virus and experts are hopeful that antiviral pills will soon be approved. Most crucially, many Americans have been vaccinated. The availability of those shots — including the recent approval of booster doses for all adults — has raised confidence for many who said they planned to proceed with holiday celebrations.
But about 50,000 coronavirus patients are hospitalized nationwide, and tens of millions of Americans have declined to be vaccinated. The course of the virus in Europe, where Austria is entering a lockdown and some areas of Germany have shut down Christmas markets, has raised fears about just how high case numbers might rise in the United States.
“The last thing I want is what Austria is doing,” said Dr. Allison Arwady, the public health commissioner in Chicago, where cases have started to rise. “I really, really don’t want to go there.”
In Austria, about 66% of the population has been fully vaccinated against the virus. In the United States, about 59% of the population has been.
Still, millions of Americans were forging ahead with holiday plans. Federal officials expected Thanksgiving air travel to approach pre-pandemic levels. And plenty of people who hit the road this year will be unvaccinated, unmasked and largely unworried about COVID-19.
Many experts said the wide availability of vaccines, now authorized for everyone 5 and older, as well as at-home testing, made it possible for vaccinated people to host a relatively safe, although not fully risk-free, gathering.
Arwady said she planned to spend the holiday with extended family members, all of whom are vaccinated except young children who are not eligible. While reports of new cases in Illinois have increased 62% in the past two weeks, she said she wanted vaccinated people to feel confident going about their life and to enjoy Thanksgiving.
“Is there the potential for some spread? Of course there is,” said Arwady, who suggested that unvaccinated adults consider staying home. “Are the people who are vaccinated, even if they haven’t gotten a booster, likely to end up in the hospital or die? They’re really not.”
Osterholm said he worried about breakthrough cases in vaccinated people who did not have booster shots and about the potential for future mutations of the virus. Still, he too said he would gather for the holiday with vaccinated family members who live nearby.
Many others who were interviewed, including in states with some of the highest infection rates, voiced exhaustion and frustration that the virus was even a consideration this holiday season, 20 months into the pandemic.
In New Mexico, which is averaging 1,400 cases a day, Bernice Medina, 37, a food truck operator, said she was uneasy when she gathered with her large family for the holidays last year but felt safer now because she was vaccinated. In Michigan, home to nearly 1 of every 10 new coronavirus cases nationwide, Dustin Johnston, 40, a photographer, said the vaccines made him confident enough to gather locally with older relatives.
“The vaccination, I think, changes everything,” said Johnston, whose state has the country’s highest rate of recent cases.
Officials who once urged caution were now deferring to individuals to make their own decisions.
“It’s really hard to tell people to stay away from their families,” said Mayor Katie Rosenberg of Wausau, Wisconsin, where cases have surged to their highest levels since late 2020. “I can’t anymore.”
Dr. Rebecca Smith, a public health researcher at the University of Illinois, said she planned to travel by vehicle with her children to see family but would get tested before and after.
“People want to get back to normal and we understand that — and there are ways to do that safely,” she said.
Still, Smith said she expected the outbreak in Illinois to continue to worsen as the virus rips across Midwestern and Northeastern states that largely avoided the worst of the summer surge. In the past two weeks, reports of new cases have increased by more than 40% in Pennsylvania, by more than 80% in Massachusetts and by 70% in Indiana.
Infection levels are also persistently high across much of the West, including in Arizona and New Mexico, where hospitalizations are rising, and in Alaska and Wyoming, which have started to improve after enduring major outbreaks. But case rates in California are relatively low, as they also are in the South, the region hit hardest over the summer.
Before Thanksgiving 2020, the country was reporting 175,000 new infections a day and was midway through its worst case surge of the pandemic. Vaccines were still weeks away from being authorized, many schools were closed and at-home rapid tests were rare. But even as scientists warned that COVID-19 was unlikely to completely vanish, there was widespread optimism back then that vaccines could make the virus an afterthought in daily life.
“It was wicked bad last year during the holidays,” said Kirk Burrows, 26, a paramedic in Unity, Maine, who said he planned to stay home for another Thanksgiving. “I think it’s going to be worse this year.”
Burrows, who described long ambulance rides with coronavirus patients being transferred to hospitals hours away, said he thought many people had let their guard down as the pandemic persisted. Maine is routinely reporting more than 700 new cases a day, its most since the pandemic started, and hospitalizations have reached record levels.
“I think a lot of people are fed up,” Burrows said. “They got that glimmer of hope in June and July, and they’re trucking right on through. Now everyone’s used to it.”
Dr. James Volk, a vice president for Sanford Health in Fargo, North Dakota, where coronavirus hospitalizations have been persistently high, said he felt that fewer people were seeking medical advice about how to approach the holidays this year.
“I just think that people in general here have kind of moved on from that,” said Volk, who said he planned to stay home for Thanksgiving because of concerns about the virus.
Some authorities have called for modifications to holiday traditions.
Michigan health officials issued a holiday mask advisory Friday — recommending that people wear a mask at indoor gatherings regardless of their vaccination status — to blunt both COVID-19 and a rising flu outbreak. Vermont officials suggested that unvaccinated children wear a mask if celebrating with their grandparents. And in New York, Gov. Kathy Hochul, while acknowledging that “no one wants to hear this again,” suggested that people avoid indoor spaces and large gatherings to curb transmission.
“We all went through this anxiety a year ago,” said Hochul, a Democrat, whose state has seen new cases increase more than 50% in the past two weeks. “We thought that was the last time. We declared, ‘By this time next year, I’m sure we’ll be fine. We’ll have that vaccine.’ And because there are still holdouts, we cannot declare that it’s going to be completely safe.”
Insignia of the United State Armed Forces
By Gilbert Grosvenor
President, National Geographic Society
In correct color design the insignia of all the armed forces of the United States are reproduced in this issue of the National Geographic Magazine.
Of these illustrations, the first complete set to be published in color, 654 show the insignia of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard; 337 show the lively and apt insignia of military and navel aircraft.
Never before have all these insignia been presented with full notes. Not even the services themselves have printed them in color. Authorities of the armed forces consider insignia not only an aid to recognition and a spur to pride but a means of establishing and maintaining discipline. For these reasons they have encouraged the National Geographic Society to publish this compilation.
Through many months of painstaking research, the most comprehensive and authoritative material has been gathered. The National Geographic Society is proud to offer this labor of love as it has offered its up-to-the-minute maps for the benefit of the Nation it has served faithfully for more than half a century.
The Army compilation was made and the general introduction written by Arthur E. Du Bois, formost American military heraldic expert. The whole project was supervised by Gerard Hubbard and Elizabeth W. King, of the National Geographic Society staff.
Brief descriptions, keyed to the numbers of color plates, tell “who wears that insignia, and where” -cao, lapel, sleeve, shoulder, etc.
In 400 cases National Geographic Society artists made drawings of designs from official records of services. In other offical insignia were photographed in The Society’s photographic laboratories.
High-ranking officers of the Army and Navy lent valuable framed series of insignia from their office walls and archives.
The superintendent of the Navy Nurse Corps, Capt. Sue Dauser, entrusted her hat -of new design, and at the time hard to replace-to the Society’s photographers, with the stipulation that it be sent back in time for her to wear it at a meeting! (plate XIV).
Anyone possessing a copy of this issue of the National Geographic Magazine will be able to answer whatever questions may arise concerning the meaning of any form of military and naval insignia, except those of the new women’s organizations.
Recently authorized designs of insignia for the women’s military and naval services will be published when the complete offical list is ready for release. Those services are the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps (“Waacs”); the Women’s Reserve of the U.S. Naval Reserve (“WAAVES” from initials of the descriptive title, Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service); the Marine Corps Women’s Reserve (no official nickname); the Women’s Reserve of the U.S. Coast Guard Reserve (“SPARS” from the Coast Guard motto, Semper Paratus, Always Ready).
First and foremost, corrugated cardboard takes up less space in landfills, so you can give yourself an eco-friendly pat on the back when you keep hamburgers juicy and mouth-watering in leakproof Hamburger Corrugated Clamshell Boxes.
Zenith El Primero Port-Royal V automatic chronograph chronometer - . Stainless steel case and bracelet. Reference 01/02.0451.400. Case diameter 40mm. See-through caseback. Chronograph function with automatic movement. Came with its original Zenith presentation box and instruction booklet.
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Be Prepared: Infectious Diseases Are Here to Stay
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm MDT on Friday, June 26, 2015
Plague, which devastated Europe in the Middle Ages, has now been reported in Colorado. HIV, unknown before the 1980s, has killed almost 40 million people, and in the 21st century, the United States has already been threatened by SARS, H1N1, and MERS. Around the world, the struggle against other infectious diseases continues. We can’t predict where or when the next one will appear, or how devastating it will be, but we know it is coming. How prepared are we? Meanwhile, children in many nations are dying from vaccine-preventable infections and in the United States, measles is on the rise, with 400 cases linked to a single outbreak in 2014. What incentives will stimulate more R&D to curb infectious diseases? How do we prioritize investments in drug development? How do we get more people vaccinated?
Larry Brilliant, Anthony S. Fauci, Neeraj Mistry, Judy Woodruff, Storn Kabuluzi
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Thirteenth Colony Distilleries released a limited quantity of traditional, southern corn whiskey early September, 2010. The South Georgia distillery produced only 400 cases of the 2010 Southern Corn Whiskey.
13th Colony Southern Corn Whiskey is the first aged spirit released by the South Georgia craft distillery. The whiskey is bottled in a unique decanter with wooden and cork finish closure and a label reflecting it southern roots and the premium aged spirit waiting to be sipped and enjoyed. Truly, a unique and distinctive distilled spirit, each bottle is personally signed and numbered by Thirteenth Colony distiller, Graham Arthur. Derived from a traditional southern recipe and aged in old oak barrels, the smooth taste is complex with hints of oak, spice, butter, and sweet corn. Not for the faint of heart, this dangerously drinkable whiskey is bottled at 95 proof.
Les nouveaux Dunnys, célébrant Liberté, Égalité et Fraternité.
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The new Dunnys, celebrating Liberty, Equality and Fraternity.
Avec des designs de / With designs by:
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2/25: 12$
1/25 + Supakitch: 15$
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1/50: 20$
1/100: 100$
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The Lenz Winery
North Fork in Long Island
New York in USA
Founded in 1978, the 30 hectares winery is planted with Chardonnay, Gewürztraminer, Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc, and Pinot Noir.
In 1988, the winery was taken over by Peter Carroll, a partner in Oliver, Wyman and Company, a New York City management-consultant company, and John Pancoast, an independent management consultant for US$ 1 million. They had leased the winery and vineyards from Mr. Lenz, and have an option to buy them.
Lenz product offerings and wine brands can be summarized in the following:
Old Vines - Cabernet Sauvignon (670 cases), Merlot (628 cases), Chardonnay (400 cases), Estate Selection Merlot (950 cases). Generic offerings - Merlot (2,436 cases), Cabernet Sauvignon (659 cases), Gewürztraminer (798 cases), a Blanc de Noir (100% Pinot Noir, 160 cases), "White Label" Chardonnay (2890 cases), "Gold Label" Chardonnay (570 cases), and a Cuvee, a blend of 70% Pinot Noir, and 30% Chardonnay (309 cases, Traditional Méthode Champenoise)
Today the winery is owned by Peter Carroll and John Pancoast, assisted by winemaker Dan Kleck, vineyard manager Sam McCullough and winemaker Eric Fry.
Seasoned wine lovers following Peconic's Lenz regard it as one of the North Fork's most respected and successful producers. The wines of Lenz are priced attractively with quality results, and are considered by the wine community at large.
Contact Details:
The Lenz Winery
Main Rd., Rt. 25
P.O. Box 28
Peconic, New York 11958
United States
Tel: 631 734 6010
Fax: 631 734 6069
Email: office@lenzwine.com
Website: www.lenzwine.com
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The Lenz Winery
North Fork in Long Island
New York in USA
Founded in 1978, the 30 hectares winery is planted with Chardonnay, Gewürztraminer, Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc, and Pinot Noir.
In 1988, the winery was taken over by Peter Carroll, a partner in Oliver, Wyman and Company, a New York City management-consultant company, and John Pancoast, an independent management consultant for US$ 1 million. They had leased the winery and vineyards from Mr. Lenz, and have an option to buy them.
Lenz product offerings and wine brands can be summarized in the following:
Old Vines - Cabernet Sauvignon (670 cases), Merlot (628 cases), Chardonnay (400 cases), Estate Selection Merlot (950 cases). Generic offerings - Merlot (2,436 cases), Cabernet Sauvignon (659 cases), Gewürztraminer (798 cases), a Blanc de Noir (100% Pinot Noir, 160 cases), "White Label" Chardonnay (2890 cases), "Gold Label" Chardonnay (570 cases), and a Cuvee, a blend of 70% Pinot Noir, and 30% Chardonnay (309 cases, Traditional Méthode Champenoise)
Today the winery is owned by Peter Carroll and John Pancoast, assisted by winemaker Dan Kleck, vineyard manager Sam McCullough and winemaker Eric Fry.
Seasoned wine lovers following Peconic's Lenz regard it as one of the North Fork's most respected and successful producers. The wines of Lenz are priced attractively with quality results, and are considered by the wine community at large.
Contact Details:
The Lenz Winery
Main Rd., Rt. 25
P.O. Box 28
Peconic, New York 11958
United States
Tel: 631 734 6010
Fax: 631 734 6069
Email: office@lenzwine.com
Website: www.lenzwine.com
The Lenz Winery
North Fork in Long Island
New York in USA
Founded in 1978, the 30 hectares winery is planted with Chardonnay, Gewürztraminer, Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc, and Pinot Noir.
In 1988, the winery was taken over by Peter Carroll, a partner in Oliver, Wyman and Company, a New York City management-consultant company, and John Pancoast, an independent management consultant for US$ 1 million. They had leased the winery and vineyards from Mr. Lenz, and have an option to buy them.
Lenz product offerings and wine brands can be summarized in the following:
Old Vines - Cabernet Sauvignon (670 cases), Merlot (628 cases), Chardonnay (400 cases), Estate Selection Merlot (950 cases). Generic offerings - Merlot (2,436 cases), Cabernet Sauvignon (659 cases), Gewürztraminer (798 cases), a Blanc de Noir (100% Pinot Noir, 160 cases), "White Label" Chardonnay (2890 cases), "Gold Label" Chardonnay (570 cases), and a Cuvee, a blend of 70% Pinot Noir, and 30% Chardonnay (309 cases, Traditional Méthode Champenoise)
Today the winery is owned by Peter Carroll and John Pancoast, assisted by winemaker Dan Kleck, vineyard manager Sam McCullough and winemaker Eric Fry.
Seasoned wine lovers following Peconic's Lenz regard it as one of the North Fork's most respected and successful producers. The wines of Lenz are priced attractively with quality results, and are considered by the wine community at large.
Contact Details:
The Lenz Winery
Main Rd., Rt. 25
P.O. Box 28
Peconic, New York 11958
United States
Tel: 631 734 6010
Fax: 631 734 6069
Email: office@lenzwine.com
Website: www.lenzwine.com
Mont-roig de Tastavins (en castellà i oficialment Monroyo) és una vila i municipi de la comarca del Matarranya, a la província de Terol, a l'Aragó.
Amb una població de 314 habitants. durant tot l'any i més de 400 a l'estiu, és un poble petit, que ha tingut un passat en el qual les tropes carlines van cremar en cinc ocasions el poble, deixant un rastre de 137 cases cremades l'any 1839, però que tot i així ha continuat treballant per a tirar endavant aquest petit poble que disposa ara d'unes 400 cases.
The Lenz Winery
North Fork in Long Island
New York in USA
Founded in 1978, the 30 hectares winery is planted with Chardonnay, Gewürztraminer, Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc, and Pinot Noir.
In 1988, the winery was taken over by Peter Carroll, a partner in Oliver, Wyman and Company, a New York City management-consultant company, and John Pancoast, an independent management consultant for US$ 1 million. They had leased the winery and vineyards from Mr. Lenz, and have an option to buy them.
Lenz product offerings and wine brands can be summarized in the following:
Old Vines - Cabernet Sauvignon (670 cases), Merlot (628 cases), Chardonnay (400 cases), Estate Selection Merlot (950 cases). Generic offerings - Merlot (2,436 cases), Cabernet Sauvignon (659 cases), Gewürztraminer (798 cases), a Blanc de Noir (100% Pinot Noir, 160 cases), "White Label" Chardonnay (2890 cases), "Gold Label" Chardonnay (570 cases), and a Cuvee, a blend of 70% Pinot Noir, and 30% Chardonnay (309 cases, Traditional Méthode Champenoise)
Today the winery is owned by Peter Carroll and John Pancoast, assisted by winemaker Dan Kleck, vineyard manager Sam McCullough and winemaker Eric Fry.
Seasoned wine lovers following Peconic's Lenz regard it as one of the North Fork's most respected and successful producers. The wines of Lenz are priced attractively with quality results, and are considered by the wine community at large.
Contact Details:
The Lenz Winery
Main Rd., Rt. 25
P.O. Box 28
Peconic, New York 11958
United States
Tel: 631 734 6010
Fax: 631 734 6069
Email: office@lenzwine.com
Website: www.lenzwine.com
WOW! I wish this was my Display or pic. Its A display that was built in San Diego by Mesa Distributin. There is not much to say but WOW! Did I say there is 400 cases on this display.
Van Loveren Wine Estate is a family-owned winery located in the Robertson Valley, Western Cape, South Africa. The estate was established in 1937 when Hennie Retief senior's father bought him the farm Goudmyn F in the Robertson Valley. The name was passed on from a previous owner who paid a vast amount of money for the land (his neighbors teased him asking whether he thought he had bought a gold mine - goudmyn in Afrikaans). The farm was subdivided (A, B, C, etc.) to give each of his nine children a piece of the original farm. Hennie Retief ended up acquiring portion F of Goudmyn. In 1939, Hennie married Jean van Zyl, a teacher from the neighboring town, Ashton. She was quite superstitious believing the "F" stood for 'fools and failures'. Much later in her life she conceded that it also stood for 'friendship and flowers' ¹. But in her feisty youth, the name Goudmyn F didn't bode well with her and she persuaded Hennie to rename the farm Van Loveren, in memory of Christiena van Loveren, who came to South Africa in 1699. Christiena van Loveren was Jean's ancestor, was married to Willem van Zyl and together they started the Van Zyl lineage in South Africa. With her, Christiena brought her beautiful bridal 'trousseau' chest – made of Philippine Mahogany. This chest was passed down from generation to generation and Jean bought it from her aunt for 45 pounds. This trousseau chest was the reason why Jean wanted to rename the farm Van Loveren. Today this stunning chest or kist is proudly displayed in the Van Loveren tasting room.
Van Loveren has been making wine since 1937. In the early years sweet wines and wine for brandy were made, and later when the second generation Nico and Wynand joined Hennie and the winery was modernized, they started making noble cultivars to sell to the wholesale trade. It was towards the late 1970s when farmers in the Robertson valley started bottling wine under their own brands that Nico and Wynand wanted to do the same. A major milestone was reached in 1980 with the birth of the Van Loveren brand. To make the occasion even more special, it was launched on Hennie's 67th birthday. Under this brand, the first 500 cases of Premier Grand Cru were bottled. It took a whole year to sell 400 cases and the remaining 100 cases were lost by the Laingsburg flood of 1981 that had the Kogmanskloof river coming straight through the winery.
Van Loveren has won numerous awards over the years. Some of its notable awards include:
- **2019**: Michelangelo International Wine & Spirits Awards - Double Gold for Christina van Loveren Sauvignon Blanc 2019.
- **2018**: Michelangelo International Wine & Spirits Awards - Double Gold for Christina van Loveren Sauvignon Blanc 2018.
- **2017**: Michelangelo International Wine & Spirits Awards - Double Gold for Christina van Loveren Sauvignon Blanc 2017.
- **2016**: Michelangelo International Wine & Spirits Awards - Double Gold for Christina van Loveren Sauvignon Blanc 2016 .
- **2015**: Michelangelo International Wine & Spirits Awards - Double Gold for Christina van Loveren Sauvignon Blanc 2015 .
The estate's vineyards are situated on fertile soils that are irrigated by crystal-clear water from mountain streams. The estate's winemakers use traditional methods combined with modern technology to produce wines that are unique and full of character. Van Loveren produces a wide range of wines including reds, whites, roses, sparkling wines, dessert wines, and fortified wines.
Van Loveren's restaurant is called Christina's @ Van Loveren. It is named after Christina van Loveren who came to South Africa in 1699 and is Jean Retief's ancestor. The restaurant offers a range of dishes that are inspired by traditional South African cuisine as well as international cuisine.
The restaurant has indoor seating as well as outdoor seating that overlooks beautiful gardens filled with indigenous plants and flowers. The gardens at Van Loveren are an integral part of its ambience. They are beautifully landscaped with indigenous plants and flowers that attract birds and butterflies.
More over at:
(1) OUR STORY | Van Loveren. www.vanloveren.co.za/our-story.
(2) Van Loveren | Wine producer in the beautiful Robertson Valley, South A. vind.wine/south-africa/van-loveren/.
(3) Van Loveren - Great winery in Robertson | Winetourism.com. www.winetourism.com/winery/van-loveren/.
(4) Background | wine.co.za. wine.co.za/page/page.aspx?PAGEID=576.
Attending in Parliament a reception organised by the British Lung Foundation (BLF). The reception was organised to launch the BLF’s ‘Mesobank’, which will enable scientists to speed up their research and improve our knowledge of mesothelioma.
Mesothelioma is a cancer which affects the lungs, usually associated with exposure to asbestos fibres, which were regularly used as a building material up until the 1990s. The UK has the highest incidence of mesothelioma in the world, with about 2,400 cases diagnosed per year. With few exceptions, mesothelioma is regarded as a terminal condition.
The Mesobank is a centralised bank containing tissue and blood samples from mesothelioma suffers, the first such bank in Europe. It will enable researchers to access tissue samples which will aid their clinical projects and speed up their work, helping us better understand and treat the disease.
have seen folks sorting Excel tables on one column (thinking it's Access!) and muddling up the details; happened once with my Bank's CC Autodebit
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The problem is that PHE's own developers picked an old file format to do this - known as XLS.
As a consequence, each template could handle only about 65,000 rows of data rather than the one million-plus rows that Excel is actually capable of.
And since each test result created several rows of data, in practice it meant that each template was limited to about 1,400 cases.
When that total was reached, further cases were simply left off.
Large Anderson 400 casement windows on either side of picture style window with semi-custom honeycomb black out shades due to Southwest exposure. View is of front yard and private drive.
The Paris Hotel, Coverack is named after a liner which ran aground here on Whit Sunday 1899. 432 passengers were taken safely to Falmouth. 6 tugs had to pull her afloat.
The Glenbervie bound for West Africa from London hit the rocks 13.1.1902 carrying 600 cases of whisky, 400 cases of brandy and treacle which the local children roasted on fires at the Point..
The pandemic of the new coronavirus originated in the Chinese city of Wuhan has registered 199,400 new cases in the last 24 hours, which brings the balance to more than 14.7 million infected people and more than 609,000 fatalities, according to the published global balance. This Tuesday at 9:00 a.m. by Johns Hopkins University. The […]
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