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Washington: A Lifeby Ron Chernow
From National Book Award winner Ron Chernow, a landmark biography of George Washington
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Winner of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Biography
From National Book Award winner Ron Chernow, a landmark biography of George Washington
In Washington: A Life celebrated biographer Ron Chernow provides a richly nuanced portrait of the father of our nation. With a breadth and depth matched by no other one-volume life of Washington, this crisply paced narrative carries the reader through his troubled boyhood, his precocious feats in the French and Indian War, his creation of Mount Vernon, his heroic exploits with the Continental Army, his presiding over the Constitutional Convention, and his magnificent performance as America's first president.
Despite the reverence his name inspires, Washington remains a lifeless waxwork for many Americans, worthy but dull. A laconic man of granite self-control, he often arouses more respect than affection. In this groundbreaking work, based on massive research, Chernow dashes forever the stereotype of a stolid, unemotional man. A strapping six feet, Washington was a celebrated horseman, elegant dancer, and tireless hunter, with a fiercely guarded emotional life. Chernow brings to vivid life a dashing, passionate man of fiery opinions and many moods. Probing his private life, he explores his fraught relationship with his crusty mother, his youthful infatuation with the married Sally Fairfax, and his often conflicted feelings toward his adopted children and grandchildren. He also provides a lavishly detailed portrait of his marriage to Martha and his complex behavior as a slave master.
At the same time, Washington is an astute and surprising portrait of a canny political genius who knew how to inspire people. Not only did Washington gather around himself the foremost figures of the age, including James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson, but he also brilliantly orchestrated their actions to shape the new federal government, define the separation of powers, and establish the office of the presidency.
In this unique biography, Ron Chernow takes us on a page-turning journey through all the formative events of America's founding. With a dramatic sweep worthy of its giant subject, Washington is a magisterial work from one of our most elegant storytellers.
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"Superb… the best, most comprehensive, and most balanced single-volume biography of Washington ever written. [Chernow's] understanding of human nature is extraordinary and that is what makes his biography so powerful." –Gordon S. Wood, The New York Review of Books
"Chernow displays a breadth of knowledge about Washington that is nothing short of phenomenal… never before has Washington been rendered so tangibly in such a smart, tenaciously researched volume as Chernow's opus… a riveting read..." –Douglas Brinkley, The Los Angeles Times
"Until recently, I'd never believed that there could be such a thing as a truly gripping biography of George Washington…Well, I was wrong. Ron Chernow's huge (900 pages) Washington: A Life, which I've just finished, does all that and more. I can't recommend it highly enough—as history, as epic, and, not least, as entertainment. It's as luxuriantly pleasurable as one of those great big sprawling, sweeping Victorian novels." –Hendrik Hertzberg, The New Yorker
"[Ron Chernow] has done justice to the solid flesh, the human frailty and the dental miseries of his subject—and also to his immense historical importance… This is a magnificently fair, full-scale biography." –The Economist
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The Portrait Artist
In March 1793 Gilbert Stuart crossed the North Atlantic for the express purpose of painting President George Washington, the supreme prize of the age for any ambitious portrait artist. Though born in Rhode Island and reared in Newport, Stuart had escaped to the cosmopolitan charms of London during the war and spent eighteen years producing portraits of British and Irish grandees. Overly fond of liquor, prodigal in his spending habits, and with a giant brood of children to support, Stuart had landed in the Marshalsea Prison in Dublin, most likely for debt, just as Washington was being sworn in as first president of the United States in 1789.
For the impulsive, unreliable Stuart, who left a trail of incomplete paintings and irate clients in his wake, George Washington emerged as the savior who would rescue him from insistent creditors. "When I can net a sum sufficient to take me to America, I shall be off to my native soil," he confided eagerly to a friend. "There I expect to make a fortune by Washington alone. I calculate upon making a plurality of his portraits… and if I should be fortunate, I will repay my English and Irish creditors." In a self-portrait daubed years earlier, Stuart presented himself as a restless soul, with tousled reddish-brown hair, keen blue eyes, a strongly marked nose, and a pugnacious chin. This harried, disheveled man was scarcely the sort to appeal to the immaculately formal George Washington.
Once installed in New York, Stuart mapped out a path to Washington with the thoroughness of a military campaign. He stalked Washington's trusted friend Chief Justice John Jay and rendered a brilliant portrait of him, seated in the full majesty of his judicial robes. Shortly afterward Stuart had in hand the treasured letter of introduction from Jay to President Washington that would unlock the doors of the executive residence in Philadelphia, then the temporary capital.
As a portraitist, the garrulous Stuart had perfected a technique to penetrate his subjects' defenses. He would disarm them with a steady stream of personal anecdotes and irreverent wit, hoping that this glib patter would coax them into self-revelation. In the taciturn George Washington, a man of granite self-control and a stranger to spontaneity, Gilbert Stuart met his match. From boyhood, Washington had struggled to master and conceal his deep emotions. When the wife of the British ambassador later told him that his face showed pleasure at his forthcoming departure from the presidency, Washington grew indignant: "You are wrong. My countenance never yet betrayed my feelings!" He tried to govern his tongue as much as his face: "With me it has always been a maxim rather to let my designs appear from my works than by my expressions."
When Washington swept into his first session with Stuart, the artist was awestruck by the tall, commanding president. Predictably, the more Stuart tried to pry open his secretive personality, the tighter the president clamped it shut. Stuart's opening gambit backfired. "Now, sir," Stuart instructed his sitter, "you must let me forget that you are General Washington and that I am Stuart, the painter." To which Washington retorted drily that Mr. Stuart need not forget "who he is or who General Washington is."
A master at sizing people up, Washington must have cringed at Stuart's facile bonhomie, not to mention his drinking, snuff taking, and ceaseless chatter. With Washington, trust had to be earned slowly, and he balked at instant familiarity with people. Instead of opening up with Stuart, he retreated behind his stolid mask. The scourge of artists, Washington knew how to turn himself into an impenetrable monument long before an obelisk arose in his honor in the nation's capital.
As Washington sought to maintain his defenses, Stuart made the brilliant decision to capture the subtle interplay between his outward calm and his intense hidden emotions, a tension that defined the man. He spied the extraordinary force of personality lurking behind an extremely restrained facade. The mouth might be compressed, the parchment skin drawn tight over ungainly dentures, but Washington's eyes still blazed from his craggy face. In the enduring image that Stuart captured and that ended up on the one-dollar bill—a magnificent statement of Washington's moral stature and sublime, visionary nature—he also recorded something hard and suspicious in the wary eyes with their penetrating gaze and hooded lids.
With the swift insight of artistic genius, Stuart grew convinced that Washington was not the placid and composed figure he presented to the world. In the words of a mutual acquaintance, Stuart had insisted that "there are features in [Washington's] face totally different from what he ever observed in that of any other human being; the sockets of the eyes, for instance, are larger than he ever met with before, and the upper part of the nose broader. All his features, [Stuart] observed, were indicative of the strongest and most ungovernable passions, and had he been born in the forests, it was his opinion that [Washington] would have been the fiercest man among the savage tribes." The acquaintance confirmed that Washington's intimates thought him "by nature a man of fierce and irritable disposition, but that, like Socrates, his judgment and great self-command have always made him appear a man of a different cast in the eyes of the world."
Although many contemporaries were fooled by Washington's aura of cool command, those who knew him best shared Stuart's view of a sensitive, complex figure, full of pent-up passion. "His temper was naturally high-toned [that is, high-strung], but reflection and resolution had obtained a firm and habitual ascendency over it," wrote Thomas Jefferson. "If ever, however, it broke its bonds, he was most tremendous in wrath." John Adams concurred. "He had great self-command… but to preserve so much equanimity as he did required a great capacity. Whenever he lost his temper, as he did sometimes, either love or fear in those about him induced them to conceal his weakness from the world." Gouverneur Morris agreed that Washington had "the tumultuous passions which accompany greatness and frequently tarnish its luster. With them was his first contest, and his first victory was over himself… Yet those who have seen him strongly moved will bear witness that his wrath was terrible. They have seen, boiling in his bosom, passion almost too mighty for man."
So adept was Washington at masking these turbulent emotions behind his fabled reserve that he ranks as the most famously elusive figure in American history, a remote, enigmatic personage more revered than truly loved. He seems to lack the folksy appeal of an Abraham Lincoln, the robust vigor of a Teddy Roosevelt, or the charming finesse of a Franklin Roosevelt. In fact, George Washington has receded so much in our collective memory that he has become an impossibly stiff and inflexible figure, composed of too much marble to be quite human. How this seemingly dull, phlegmatic man, in a stupendous act of nation building, presided over the victorious Continental Army and forged the office of the presidency is a mystery to most Americans. Something essential about Washington has been lost to posterity, making him seem a worthy but plodding man who somehow stumbled into greatness.
From a laudable desire to venerate Washington, we have sanded down the rough edges of his personality and made him difficult to grasp. He joined in this conspiracy to make himself unknowable. Where other founders gloried in their displays of intellect, Washington's strategy was the opposite: the less people knew about him, the more he thought he could accomplish. Opacity was his means of enhancing his power and influencing events. Where Franklin, Hamilton, or Adams always sparkled in print or in person, the laconic Washington had no need to flaunt his virtues or fill conversational silences. Instead, he wanted the public to know him as a public man, concerned with the public weal and transcending egotistical needs.
Washington's lifelong struggle to control his emotions speaks to the issue of how he exercised leadership as a politician, a soldier, a planter, and even a slaveholder. People felt the inner force of his nature, even if they didn't exactly hear it or see it; they sensed his moods without being told. In studying his life, one is struck not only by his colossal temper but by his softer emotions: this man of deep feelings was sensitive to the delicate nuances of relationships and prone to tears as well as temper. He learned how to exploit his bottled-up emotions to exert his will and inspire and motivate people. If he aroused universal admiration, it was often accompanied by a touch of fear and anxiety. His contemporaries admired him not because he was a plaster saint or an empty uniform but because they sensed his unseen power. As the Washington scholar W. W. Abbot noted, "An important element in Washington's leadership both as a military commander and as President was his dignified, even forbidding, demeanor, his aloofness, the distance he consciously set and maintained between himself and nearly all the rest of the world."9
The goal of the present biography is to create a fresh portrait of Washington that will make him real, credible, and charismatic in the same way that he was perceived by his contemporaries. By gleaning anecdotes and quotes from myriad sources, especially from hundreds of eyewitness accounts, I have tried to make him vivid and immediate, rather than the lifeless waxwork he has become for many Americans, and thereby elucidate the secrets of his uncanny ability to lead a nation. His unerring judgment, sterling character, rectitude, steadfast patriotism, unflagging sense of duty, and civic-mindedness—these exemplary virtues were achieved only by his ability to subdue the underlying volatility of his nature and direct his entire psychological makeup to the single-minded achievement of a noble cause.
A man capable of constant self-improvement, Washington grew in stature throughout his life. This growth went on subtly, at times imperceptibly, beneath the surface, making Washington the most interior of the founders. His real passions and often fiery opinions were typically confined to private letters rather than public utterances. During the Revolution and his presidency, the public Washington needed to be upbeat and inspirational, whereas the private man was often gloomy, scathing, hot-blooded, and pessimistic.
For this reason, the new edition of the papers of George Washington, started in 1968 and one of the great ongoing scholarly labors of our time, has provided an extraordinary window into his mind. The indefatigable team of scholars at the University of Virginia has laid a banquet table for Washington biographers and made somewhat outmoded the monumental Washington biographies of the mid-twentieth century: the seven volumes published by Douglas Southall Freeman (1948 – 57) and the four volumes by James T. Flexner (1965 – 72). This book is based on a close reading of the sixty volumes of letters and diaries published so far in the new edition, supplemented by seventeen volumes from the older edition to cover the historical gaps. Never before have we had access to so much material about so many aspects of Washington's public and private lives.
In recent decades, many fine short biographies of Washington have appeared as well as perceptive studies of particular events, themes, or periods in his life. My intention is to produce a large-scale, one-volume, cradle-to-grave narrative that will be both dramatic and authoritative, encompassing the explosion of research in recent decades that has enriched our understanding of Washington as never before. The upshot, I hope, will be that readers, instead of having a frosty respect for Washington, will experience a visceral appreciation of this foremost American who scaled the highest peak of political greatness.
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"Superb… the best, most comprehensive, and most balanced single-volume biography of Washington ever written. [Chernow's] understanding of human nature is extraordinary and that is what makes his biography so powerful." –Gordon S. Wood, The New York Review of Books
"Chernow displays a breadth of knowledge about Washington that is nothing short of phenomenal… never before has Washington been rendered so tangibly in such a smart, tenaciously researched volume as Chernow's opus… a riveting read..." –Douglas Brinkley, The Los Angeles Times
"Until recently, I'd never believed that there could be such a thing as a truly gripping biography of George Washington…Well, I was wrong. Ron Chernow's huge (900 pages) Washington: A Life, which I've just finished, does all that and more. I can't recommend it highly enough—as history, as epic, and, not least, as entertainment. It's as luxuriantly pleasurable as one of those great big sprawling, sweeping Victorian novels." –Hendrik Hertzberg, The New Yorker
"[Ron Chernow] has done justice to the solid flesh, the human frailty and the dental miseries of his subject—and also to his immense historical importance… This is a magnificently fair, full-scale biography." –The Economist
Meet the Author
Ron Chernow is the prize-winning author of five previous books. His first, The House of Morgan, won the National Book Award. His two most recent books, Alexander Hamilton and Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, were both nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award in biography.
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"Washington: A Life" by Ron Chernow is an encompassing biography of George Washington. This marvelous book breaks the wooden image of Washington and brings out the character of the man we all learned about with all his charm and personality. "Washington: A Life" is divided into six parts, look for my review on my blog for more details as the B&N space is limited. The Frontiersman: The Planter: The General: The Statesman: The President: The Legend: This is the kind of history book I love. Mr. Chernow tells of little known anecdotes about George Washington which not only tell of of his character, but even relevant to this day. Some of the stories the author relates are laugh-out funny, the type that no-one can make up, the type that if you read them in a fictional book you'd hiss and throw the book at the wall - yet they are true. The self criticism of Washington literally leaps out of this book, that is the major difference I found between this biography and "His Excellency" (book review). Washington always internalized new things he learns and is able to change even though it goes against everything he knew to be true. One can see how over a lifetime of slave ownership his views towards this practice have changed from one end to the other. Ron Chernow is not only a wonderful historian, but also a masterful story teller. In this book Chernow painted George Washington in a relatable, unforgettable realism while keeping the story is vivid, flowing and compelling. Why, it's almost like you're reading fiction instead of a biography. Then again, I always maintained that no fiction story can be as good as history, otherwise it would almost be laughable. "Who makes up this stuff", we would cry to the heavens. Which author in their right mind would invent a character like Mary Ball Washington, George's mother. Poor George couldn't earn a word of praise from his emotionally numb mother, not as a loyal son, general, president or benefactor. Not only that, Mrs. Washington petitioned the Virginia legislature for a pension. and she was rich! Laughable - if in fiction. On an off shoot, while the book is about George Washington, I loved how Mr. Chernow peppered the narrative with a few sharp witted quotes from John Adams (review of "John Adams" by David McCullough) - funny today as they were when written. I have read many history books, several about Washington and I must put this one on the top of the list, the extraordinary quality of the writing and the psychological insights are worth the price of admission by themselves. For more book reviews please visit ManOfLaBook dot com
Late in life I finally got around to reading about the Founding Fathers and the history of the creation of the United States. We all think we know them and it from our grade school history classes, but I was astonished on all I did NOT know. This book is a valuable addition to the effort to learn beyond the charactertures that we all "know." Exhaustive in detail, sometimes turgid in reading, but well worth the time. GW was truly an incredible man...perhaps the ONLY man who could have led the military resistance to Britain and then lead as the first President. I am constantly amazed at the things he accomplished, and the way in which he accomplished them. Highly recommend this book, along with "His Excellency: GW" by Joseph Ellis (which I found a better read, but maybe because I read it first).
The Washington of school books is brought into the spotlight of history and Chernow reflects his every bump and defect as well as his goodness and courage in the face of overwhelming odds. Martha Custis Washington is also given a new and refreshing look other then a dowdy rich widow who sponsored another white man's success according to today's political correctness advocates. The book should be utilized by history courses in high school and college.
This book is the first installment towards my goal to read a biography of every US President. Through the telling of Washington's story, this book also gives a great picture of the birth of our Nation, and some of the personalities, hardships, and politics that were happening at that time. While Washington is the focus of the book, the relationships with Knox, Hamilton, Jefferson, the global events in England and France are given a significant role, and peaked my interesting in reading about these specific people and events in order to enhance the perspective.
Mr Chernow's latest biography Washington, A Life is an excellent accout of our first president and the times with which he lived. The author provides a thourough boigoraqhy of our first president. We see a young Washington burden with adult responsiblities because of the death of hsi father. As a young man Washington is drivent to improve himself and better his situation. We see how he has no qualms in ingratiuating himself to with social superiors and representatives of Great Briatain to reach his goals. At an early age the young Virginia plnater had dreams of aa military career.His utlimtate goal was a commission in the British regular army. Mr Chernow talks about how the expanding British coolonial empire came into conflict with the expanding French colonail empire. Wahsington played an importan war in the start of the French and Indian War. Washington became a hero throughout the colonies. He eventually commanded the Virginia militia. He was an enthusiastitc supporter of the crown and the British Empire. Yet Great Britian treated their coloinal subjects shabiiikly. He was with Braddock and proved to hbe a vbery brave and capable officer. Yet the Britishish looked down on colonials and refused to grant him a comjmission. Washington took this as a personal reublke and sparked a growing disalussionment with the colonial system. We see how his marriage to Martha Custis, a very rwalthy Virginia widow propelled Washingtoon to the tops of Virginia Society. He became a very wealth planter after the French and inidan War. Mr Chernow writes that he was not an aloof overseer. but managed his estates. He kept careful notes about the conditions of his land and strove to learn s much as possible about agricluture. We learn that his experience has a pl/anter and his relationsion to factors in England only caused greater disalussionment. I thought Mr Chernow gave an excellent accout of Wahsington. I learned what motived the aristocratic planter to become a revbolutionary. Mr Chernow also gives a fasinating account of the times with which he lived. We learned why WAshingtong who had petionsions of being a British aristocrat came to support the revoltion. Mr Chernow's book not only is an excellent biography but it is also an excellent accoutn of the colonial period, Revboltion, and early republic. This book deservies a five star rating.
Oh my! What a fine piece of work. Mr Chernow, thank you sir. This book is loaded. If you are considering this book as your next, step up and begin. Please take your time because it's impossible to rush through it. There is just so much to enjoy. Hands down, Chernow's effort here should take 1st place in "all" categories of books considered in competition for biography. His research is astounding yielding a comfortable flow of Washington's history from beginning to end displaying well placed nuances supporting atmospheres the subject passed through. I most certainly feel I know Washington now. He was one emboldened man. The times required one such as himself. Buy this in hardback. My copy is filled with marked references I made throughout the reading connected to page footnotes on the books last two blank pages. Perhaps sometime in the future a grand or greatgrandchild will read it as well. I gained an anewed perspective of the periods principal players. I have in hand a Chernow printing of Alexander Hamilton. And so, I am in store for more better learning about our revolutionary history. Read this book when you can. With no failing you will understand America better.
You can't appreciate where the United States is now, if you don't know why we got here. G. Washington was the primary reason why our democracy works as it does. He's not known to most of us, except as a engraving on a dollar bill. We should have known the younger and vigorous commander of his "band of brothers."
If you would like to learn what this man struggled with and went through for all of us to enjoy this country, this is the volume to read. I have read other volumes and this one captures his true personality better that all others and also exposes the full truth sometimes glossed over in other volumes, of how his other co-patriots treated him. I feel Jefferson drops down a few notches in my esteem. based on his dishonorable conduct in this volume towards Mr. Washington. Having recently read "American Spinx" by Joeseph Ellis, I have changed my feelings for Jefferson and Madison based on this book. I read "His Excellency, George Washington" By Joeseph Ellis and this book leaves it in the dust. Well worth the 815 pages, they flew by.
A supremely well-written and researched book. I would highly recommend it to anyone interested in learning about the most pivitol person in US history. Do to the United States' unmistakable role in world history, Washington could be seen as one of the most important leaders in recorded history. This is third book I've read by Mr. Chernow and I will no doubt dive into another one of his works in the future.
A true deep dive into Washington's entire life. The author gathers information from multiple sources and draws conclusions from them. As with any biography it focuses on the subject with other events, even momentous ones, being secondary. The treatment is balanced and well written, I found myself not wanting to put it down.
At 1000 pages+, this is a book to remember. Chernow writes in such easy style that I felt like I was with a comfortable, old companion as the story would from Washington's early life through his experiences in the French and Indian War, and on through the Revolution and his presidency. Washington was much more than what we have come to know through the years, and in Chernow's extremely capable hands, I learned every bit of it. Don't be dismayed by the length of the book - it reads very well and is packed with insight and stories of Washington the man as I haven't encountered before. A treuly great book and highly recommended.
At age 70, I remain an avid student of history. After years of Civil War reading, I have turned to the creation and early days of the Republic by reading biographies of the Founders. I started with Jefferson and Adams -- largley because of their off-and-on friendship and livlely and long-term correspondence. I have turned to President Washington and could not, I believe, have found a better staring point than Mr. Chernow's "Washington-A Life." Well-written, concise, interesting and obviously thoroughly researched, the book has given me an outstanding view and a new and comprehensive understanding of a very complex man in the context of his time. Even more importantly, Mr. Chernow deftly displays why Mr. Washington was the right man at the right time in our nation's history. Mr. Chernow paints a complete portrait of our very complex first President, including his way of delaying tough decisions after researching the questions. I now understand better Washington's position(s) on slavery, his loyalty to Alexander Hamilton, and his bitterness over what he perceived as Thomas Jefferson's disloyalty. Mr. Chernow is loyal to Mr. Washington, but not blind. Not bad for a single volume biography. And there is more, much more. Buy the book, read it at your leisure, enjoy its smooth flow through Washington's life and, perhaps like me, mourn when you finish and close the last page of Mr. Cnernow's excellent volume. Next? Mr. Chernow's biography of Mr. Hamilton.
Totally worth the price on the Nook.
If you, like me, weren't fortunate enough to meet President Washington in person, this is the next best option. This thorough, honest biography brings one of the greatest humans to ever live into perspective. My endearment for, and knowledge of Washington has grown immensely, and I thank Mr. Chernow for that great gift. I vehemently encourage every literate person to read this book.
Chernow's 815 page tome is richly detailed, vivid and well informed. He captures Washington's greatness, his flaws, and his times. He draws history and character in a tapestry including a straight ahead portrait of a slaveholder who devoted his life to freedom. Highly recommended.
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On this trip, I visited Tanzania between 26-Jun-2008 and 6-Jul-2008 and I travelled with 1 other person.
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Being a bit of an animal enthusiast, I do think it is important to stress that certain species are unlikely to be seen. I was disappointed to be told that certain species were not found in the locality of the camps despite assuming from comments in the guide that they were around ie Roan, Sable.
Having said that, there was plenty of game, and for safari newcomers, more than enough species to keep them happy.
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We have had two excellent trips with your company in the last two years. Both were competitively priced, superbly organised, and delived more than was promised. Ellie is a gem who updated us at every opportunity and who provided me with specific information on the two camps that we visited as she had been to both herself. Her level of knowledge was far higher than that we have experienced from reps of other companies and,as we have now been on safari eight times, we are really impressed.
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It's not every day that someone ships 35 pounds of snails by air, but inspectors at Los Angeles International Airport found exactly that earlier this month when they intercepted a shipment from Africa.
Prohibited in the U.S., the snails – 67 in all – arrived from Nigeria on July 1 and were being sent to someone in San Dimas, California, according to Lee Harty, a spokeswoman for U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
They were confiscated that day and a sample was sent the next day to Washington, D.C., where a federal mollusk specialist identified them as a banned species in this country.
A popular delicacy in West Africa, the mollusks are among the largest land snails in the world and can grow to be up to 8 inches long. They are native to Africa and can live for up to 10 years.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture incinerated the snails after they were inspected, Harty said. The animals are prohibited in the U.S. because they can carry parasites that are harmful to humans, including one that can lead to meningitis.
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The snails are also agricultural pests, said Maveeda Mirza, the CBP program manager for agriculture.
"These snails are seriously harmful to local plants because they will eat any kind of crop they can get to," Mirza said.
The person the snails were destined for is not expected to face any penalties, Mirza said. She said authorities are investigating why a single person would want so many snails.
"We're investigating what happened, but it doesn't seem like there was smuggling involved. When someone doesn't know a commodity is prohibited under USDA regulations there is usually no punishment," she said.
Although the agency has found one or two snails that may have accidentally gotten into a traveler's luggage in Los Angeles, this is the first time that they have confiscated the snails in such a large quantity, Mirza said.
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Bolton 2-2 Sunderland
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Sunderland battled back from two goals down to force a third-round replay against Bolton in the FA Cup.
Lee Chung-yong intercepted a pass by Carlos Cuellar to fire the hosts in front and Marvin Sordell's close-range header doubled the lead.
Bolton keeper Andy Lonergan made two excellent saves from Steven Fletcher before sub Connor Wickham halved the deficit from close range.
Craig Gardner completed the comeback with a stunning 20-yard drive.
Sunderland had to call upon all of their resolve to avoid an upset against a Bolton team currently 16th in the Championship, and keep alive their hopes of lifting the FA Cup again - 40 years on from their famous win over Leeds at Wembley.
Around 5,000 travelling fans, buoyed by news of Newcastle's demise at Brighton earlier in the day, were in full voice from the start of the game.
But their mood would soon be dampened by Bolton's opening goal, which came courtesy of a catastrophic error by Cuellar.
The Spaniard, one of eight players to retain his starting place following Sunderland's Premier League defeat by Liverpool on Wednesday evening, played a pass from the left touchline across his own 18-yard box to erroneously pick out Lee, who calmly rolled the ball into an unguarded net.
Fletcher headed narrowly over from a Sebastian Larsson corner, while Lonergan smartly kept out long-range efforts from Gardner and David Vaughan.
But the visitors appeared more disjointed as the first half went on, becoming increasingly frustrated at their inability to break down the Bolton defence, marshalled superbly by Darren Pratley and captain Keith Andrews.
A half-time team talk from manager Martin O'Neill failed to have the desired effect as the hosts went 2-0 up three minutes after the interval.
After goalkeeper Simon Mignolet failed to clear a corner, the ball was returned into the penalty area, where an unmarked Sordell was waiting to nod in his second goal for Wanderers.
Seconds later, Lonergan made a flying save to keep out Fletcher's diving header, and he repeated the trick on the hour mark, but Bolton's two-goal lead would prove to be short-lived.
Wickham, who had replaced the injured Cuellar moments earlier, pounced on a loose ball following a goalmouth scramble and fired in through Lonergan's legs from six yards.
The Black Cats pressed for an equaliser and came close again with headers from Fletcher and Wickham, before Gardner's superb strike levelled the scores.
A corner was cleared to the former Birmingham man, who was allowed time and space to control the ball and unleash an unstoppable right-footed shot high into the net.
Bolton's goal came under severe pressure in the closing stages, Titus Bramble coming closest with a header into the side-netting, but Dougie Freedman's men held firm to force a replay at the Stadium of Light.
Bolton manager Dougie Freedman said: "From a 2-0 lead I'm disappointed but overall I'm thrilled with the result because I thought we showed great commitment and desire at the end to defend for our lives.
"For the first 60 minutes I thought we controlled the game and we played a style of football I like to play.
"Overall, it was the old cliche of a game of two halves. It was a great tie to watch and in the end we had to dig in and defend - and that was part of the game."
Sunderland manager Martin O'Neill said: "It [naming just six substitutes] was not a point whatsoever, it is the way things fell.
"We couldn't change it much today because we couldn't fill the bench but we treat the competition with its proper merit.
"We had 5,000 people spend a lot of hard-earned money to come down and support us and they deserved better than we were serving up in the first half."
Lineup, Bookings (1) & Substitutions (5)
- 24 Lonergan
- 03 Alonso
- 12 Knight
- 18 Ricketts
- 23 Riley (Mears - 36' )
- 08 Andrews
- 10 Petrov
- 21 Pratley Booked
- 27 Lee
- 09 Ngog (Eagles - 81' )
- 19 Sordell (K Davies - 64' )
- 01 Bogdan
- 02 Mears
- 05 Ream
- 41 Lester
- 07 Eagles
- 20 Spearing
- 14 K Davies
- 22 Mignolet
- 02 Bardsley
- 19 Bramble
- 24 Cuellar (Wickham - 57' )
- 03 Rose (Colback - 20' )
- 07 Larsson
- 08 Gardner
- 15 Vaughan
- 21 Johnson
- 23 McClean
- 26 Fletcher
- 20 Westwood
- 12 Kilgallon
- 14 Colback
- 09 Campbell
- 10 Wickham
- 11 McFadden
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Full Time The referee ends the match.90:00 +2:24
Adam Johnson takes a shot. Corner from the right by-line taken by Adam Johnson, Titus Bramble has a headed effort at goal from just inside the penalty area that misses to the left of the goal.90:00 +1:16
Foul by James McClean on Chung-Yong Lee, free kick awarded. Free kick taken by Andy Lonergan.90:00 +0:34
Martin Petrov takes a shot. Simon Mignolet makes a comfortable save.85:41
Outswinging corner taken by James McClean.85:00
Foul by Samuel Ricketts on Steven Fletcher, free kick awarded. Free kick taken by Sebastian Larsson.83:00
Sebastian Larsson takes a inswinging corner to the near post, clearance made by Zat Knight. Adam Johnson takes a inswinging corner from the right by-line played to the near post.80:16 Substitution
Substitution David Ngog goes off and Chris Eagles comes on.79:17
Strike on goal comes in from Craig Gardner from the free kick.79:17 Booking
Booking Darren Pratley receives a yellow card.79:07
Darren Pratley challenges Craig Gardner unfairly and gives away a free kick.77:47
Free kick awarded for a foul by Chung-Yong Lee on Sebastian Larsson. Jack Colback restarts play with the free kick.77:20
Free kick awarded for a foul by Zat Knight on Steven Fletcher. David Vaughan restarts play with the free kick.74:56
Jack Colback provided the assist for the goal.74:56 Goal scored
Goal! - Craig Gardner - Bolton 2 - 2 Sunderland Craig Gardner finds the net with a goal from long distance to the top left corner of the goal. Bolton 2-2 Sunderland.74:36
Short corner worked by Adam Johnson.72:19
Short corner worked by Chung-Yong Lee.71:46
Steven Fletcher takes a shot. Save by Andy Lonergan.70:33
Phil Bardsley gives away a free kick for an unfair challenge on David Ngog. Marcos Alonso restarts play with the free kick.68:36
Martin Petrov produces a right-footed shot from the edge of the area and misses to the left of the goal.
Unfair challenge on Adam Johnson by Marcos Alonso results in a free kick. Adam Johnson crosses the ball from the free kick left-footed from right wing.63:09
Strike comes in from Craig Gardner from the free kick, save made by Andy Lonergan. Effort on goal by Phil Bardsley from just inside the penalty area goes over the target.63:09 Substitution
Substitution (Bolton) makes a substitution, with Kevin Davies coming on for Marvin Sordell.63:09
Unfair challenge on Connor Wickham by Darren Pratley results in a free kick.59:21
The assist for the goal came from Steven Fletcher.59:21 Goal scored
Goal! - Connor Wickham - Bolton 2 - 1 Sunderland Goal scored by Connor Wickham from close range low into the middle of the goal. Bolton 2-1 Sunderland.58:56
Steven Fletcher takes a shot. Save by Andy Lonergan. Corner taken by Sebastian Larsson from the left by-line to the near post,58:39
Adam Johnson takes a inswinging corner from the right by-line to the near post.56:59 Substitution
Substitution Carlos Cuellar goes off and Connor Wickham comes on.55:37
Chung-Yong Lee takes a shot. Blocked by Phil Bardsley.54:29
Headed effort from inside the area by Steven Fletcher misses to the left of the target.52:02
Foul by Adam Johnson on Samuel Ricketts, free kick awarded. Free kick taken by Andy Lonergan.51:29
James McClean challenges Tyrone Mears unfairly and gives away a free kick. Direct free kick taken by Tyrone Mears.48:00
Martin Petrov provided the assist for the goal. Steven Fletcher takes a shot. Andy Lonergan makes a save.48:00 Goal scored
Goal! - Marvin Sordell - Bolton 2 - 0 Sunderland Marvin Sordell scores a goal from close range to the bottom left corner of the goal. Bolton 2-0 Sunderland.47:31
Corner taken by Chung-Yong Lee played to the near post.45:55
Keith Andrews challenges Sebastian Larsson unfairly and gives away a free kick. Free kick taken by David Vaughan.45:01
The referee gets the second half underway.45:00 +2:11 Half time
Half Time The referee blows for half time.42:01
David Vaughan takes a shot. Inswinging corner taken from the right by-line by Adam Johnson, clearance made by Andy Lonergan. Marcos Alonso produces a left-footed shot from just outside the box that misses to the right of the target.40:42
Corner taken by Sebastian Larsson played to the near post, Headed effort from deep inside the penalty area by Steven Fletcher goes harmlessly over the crossbar.37:35
Free kick awarded for a foul by Darren Pratley on David Vaughan. Sebastian Larsson takes the free kick.35:20
Martin Petrov decides to take the corner short.35:20 Substitution
Substitution Joe Riley leaves the field to be replaced by Tyrone Mears.29:29
Sebastian Larsson takes a inswinging corner from the left by-line to the near post, clearance made by Marcos Alonso.28:48
Foul by Marcos Alonso on Adam Johnson, free kick awarded. Adam Johnson delivers the ball from the free kick left-footed from right wing, Andy Lonergan manages to make a clearance.25:17
Inswinging corner taken right-footed by Sebastian Larsson from the left by-line to the near post, clearance by Darren Pratley. Corner taken right-footed by Sebastian Larsson from the left by-line, Marcos Alonso manages to make a clearance.22:40
Foul by Titus Bramble on Marvin Sordell, free kick awarded. Direct free kick taken by Martin Petrov.21:59
David Vaughan takes a shot. Save by Andy Lonergan.19:28 Substitution
Substitution Jack Colback on for Danny Rose.18:15
Corner taken by Adam Johnson from the right by-line played to the near post, clearance made by Marcos Alonso. Sebastian Larsson takes a inswinging corner from the left by-line played to the near post, Marcos Alonso manages to make a clearance. Craig Gardner takes a shot. Save by Andy Lonergan.17:34
Corner taken left-footed by Adam Johnson from the right by-line to the near post, clearance made by Darren Pratley.15:43
Phil Bardsley produces a right-footed shot from just outside the penalty area that goes harmlessly over the target.11:38 Goal scored
Goal! - Chung-Yong Lee - Bolton 1 - 0 Sunderland Chung-Yong Lee gets on the score sheet with a goal from just outside the area low into the middle of the goal. Bolton 1-0 Sunderland.7:12
Corner taken by Sebastian Larsson from the left by-line to the near post, Darren Pratley manages to make a clearance.0:28
Free kick awarded for an unfair challenge on Marvin Sordell by Carlos Cuellar. Chung-Yong Lee takes the direct free kick.0:00
The referee gets the match started.
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One Wire Alternator Hook up?
I ordered a Proform, 80 amp, alternator stock number 66445.8N from mail order thinking it was a regular stock wire hook up but now that I have it it turns out it is a one wire hook up which I really did not want. They admit in the directions that it will not even charge the battery until you get to 2500 rpm. Car is driven normally on the street mostly in town. 350 engine. manual transmission
The directions say all I have to do is connect one 10 ga wire from the battery positive terminal to the battery terminal on the back of the alternator. This is a big hassled for me because my battery is located in the trunk.
Is there any way I can make my existing wire set up work with this alternator?
Should I keep this or send it back? Anyone have a good or bad experience with this type of alternator?
Doc here,
In my opinion, a one wire Alternator is a fine answer to space/wire problems on like a show roadster..but a bit impractical for a street rod..
In fact IIRC, They were designed for tractor operations..where the engine had no draw other than coil.. and was constantly running above 1500 RPM..
I recommend a Three wire..you have an option for a lamp, and Voltage sensing for the regulator..
But your choice there..
As far as Hook up..Is the "B" cable on your starter solenoid still hot with your remote starter system? or only when actually cranking? If so, you can run your fuse link and 10 gauge wire to that..and it will be "all good" ...
If your existing alternator wire has a "Hot At All Times" Wire on it..you COULD use that..the MAJOR draw back being..it most likely is under rated for the new draw..and if it is run to the rear now , IS in fact under rated..
either way if you run a wire to the trunk it needs to be 8 gauge or better for proper ampacity (assuming the car is about 20 feet long) ...and your worst case draw will be 80 amps with spikes up to 100 amps..
One Wire - Three Wire Read this and make your decision.
You can convert it back to a regular 3 wire by changing the voltage regulator if you need to. It may be less than the return postage !!
>Should I keep this or send it back? Anyone have a good or bad >experience with this type of alternator?
I have a one wire alternator on my '65 Impala and it's worked fine. They are self energizing, so yes, you do have to get the alternator RPM up one time after you start the engine in order to energize the fields, but once done it will continue to charge at any RPM just like a regular alternator. As for the hot wire, just hook it to the hot side of the solenoid on your starter. Give it a try, and if you don't like it you can swap out the regulator for the three wire set up as was suggested.
Doc here,
You can also change the pulley sizing to overcome the low RPM syndrome..
But if Remote Voltage sensing is required , you may still experience headlights that rise and fall at start / stop lights..
Doesn't sound like much...but there is a big difference to the battery state between 12.2 Volts and 14.4...If your going to be stop / go in traffic 90 % of the time with a high current demand..you may have problems.
A lot depends on your personal preference and driving requirements..
Will send Alt. back- have new problem
OK, thanks for all that information. I have read every post with interest. We have solved the connection problem, but Doc Vet says I may still experience trouble in stop and go traffic. Once I install this on the car you can not send it back so to avoid problems and have piece of mind, I think I will send this back and put a stock unit back on.
Also with this one wire hook up, would my amp gauge still work?
I have a new problem now as I just got my mini starter today. There are only two terminals on the side of the starter. My old stock starter had three.
I am using the old points type distributor with the Pertronix electronic conversion (because I would have to cut the firewall to install HEI) which means I still have the ballast resister, and the "R" terminal on the starter was being used, if I understand this correctly. The directions that came with the new mini starter say to use the optional "R" terminal Diode Kit P/N 600. They don't say what is involved with installing this, what it cost, or where to get one.
Anyone have advise on this issue? Thanks for the help so far.
Doc here,
Your amp gauge should work fine..
As far as the Diode kit, "R" terminal, (never used one..) but I assume it is a diode extending from the "S" terminal to prevent back flow from the secondary Ignition, to the Starter energize line .. so the starter doesn't try and start while the engine is running....(but I've been wrong before..)
You can do the same thing with a relay, just wire the coil to ground #85, and the power #86 to the "S" terminal, and the Center wiper terminal #30 to the secondary Ignition circuit..and the normally open terminal #87, to the battery.
You can also do the same with a Ford Type solenoid , should you happen to have one handy..
The way it works, when you hit start on the key, the starter energizes, and the relay fires, this closes the relay contacts and puts a full 12 volts on the secondary Ignition line..when you let off the key, the coil opens the contacts and the secondary ignition is then disabled.
OnNe wire alternator
I have a one wire alt. on my 35 Ford works fine. The only reason I'm changing back is that years ago going to Fla at 11PM my alt went out in NC Was back on road from gas station in 1 hour. I would have been in trouble trying to find a one wire.
I installed a 1 wire alternator in place of a 3 wire and did not have to use any new wireing. I just used the existing hot lead that ran to my alternator. Since it goes down to my Starter and bolts up to the battery cable there, its like running a direct wire to the battery. Doing it this way , you wouldnt need to run a new wire all the way to your battery.
Doc here,
If the remote starter is configured such as to remove all power to the local solenoid (Starter mounted) when The Key is relaxed from the Start position back to "Run" .. (and most are)..
Installing your Charging wire there, will result in dead batterys..as power will not be able to reach the battery from the local solenoid, and defeat the purpose of shutting power off on the long wire run from solenoid to solenoid (alternator powering the line from starter , rear to the remote solenoid).
If your 1 wire upgrade was one such as, 100 amp from a 63 Amp, (usual stock rated is 63 amp) Chances are that "Existing Wire" is way underrated for the "possibility" of maximum load that could be delivered by the Alternator..
If you didn't upgrade the Fuse link to match, (or install a new one , as not all were factory installed..) you may be courting trouble.
Please keep in mind , Wire Gauge and fuse protection devices are to Protect the WIRE and HARNESS from fire and meltdown..Not to protect the end user device..
If the total load is 110 amps the wire has the ampacity to support 75 constant amps, and a fuse link is 150 amps...The wire then becomes the fuse. and will do it's part by catching fire..
this is usually overlooked , or unknown to the up-grader, and never upgraded..The total ampacity of the wire MUST be slightly higher than the total draw for the circuit, worst case.. (not the other way around..) as well as the fuse protection device..
The original wire was 10 gauge, I figured that should be strong enough and there was no fuseable link in the origianal factory wire.
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Kane is my brother. And today is his birthday. So by way of a very cheap present – since he does not live in the same country as me – I thought I'd dedicate this post to him. (Hey, if I could announce my own birthday, this is no biggie right?) But don't worry, as you have come to expect, it's about music…
I figure there's no better time to thank my brother than now – here, with this post – for the influence he has had on me with regard to music. Being the older brother, he introduced me to a lot of music; so much of it stays with me to this day.
Last week I touched on it with this post about the Rolling Stones; Kane bought Rolled Gold and it became the soundtrack to our South Island family road trip. And a while back I referenced the "introduction" to music that would occur when Kane had a new CD and I, the younger brother, was invited in to listen to it. Cast your eye back to this look at the music of The Who for that story…but, if you can't be bothered clicking there the thing is that was not an isolated event…the "introduction" occurred when new music made its way in to our house; I must have been a beyond-eager student, always keen and ready to learn.
When my brother, nearly five years older, moved away to university and I started high school we really started to bond over music. He went to Auckland, where the range of music was just a little bit larger than what was available in Hawke's Bay. He was still buying cassette tapes, to start with, but moved on to CDs pretty swiftly. We shared an interest in the Stones, Santana and Pink Floyd and had picked up on our dad's love of The Beatles and mum's enthusiasm for jazz.
That first Easter holiday break my brother returned with Lou Reed's Walk on the Wild Side, a best-of compilation that very much changed my life. I knew the title song and the album Mistrial (mum had bought that at the time it was released; and I loved it) but hearing Satellite of Love, Sweet Jane, New York Telephone Conversation and Coney Island Baby was so huge for me; I can actually recall the precise moment when I first listened to that tape. I was hooked…
Always a fan of the definitive Greatest Hits/Best-of compilation Kane has introduced me to not only Rolled Gold and Who's Better, Who's Best – but also Bob Marley's Legend, Led Zeppelin's Re-Masters, Bob Dylan's Masterpieces and The Best of The Doors. He got there first by virtue of age, in most cases I would have found my way there, but still…
He also – and this is huge – bought me for Christmas one year the three-tape set of Volumes 1-3 of Dylan's Bootleg Series. If you go back to my post about Dylan albums you'll see that compilation of rarities has stayed with me. It was the first box-set I ever obtained. I remember devouring the information in the booklet that Boxing Day.
We were also able to share a few key, formative, live gigs: Eric Clapton and Dire Straits; Guns N' Roses, Michael Jackson and more recently The Police; a hark back to those days of Kane introducing me to great best-of albums (The Police's Their Greatest Hits was another).
So many of those "classic" artists I like to think I would have discovered, even if it took some time…but I can't thank my brother enough for introducing me to John Coltrane's A Love Supreme – way back in the early life of Blog on the Tracks I confirmed that as a Desert Island Disc – and it's still an album I play most weeks. Another life-changing album. Ditto: Miles Davis's Kind of Blue. Formative stuff.
But if I had to pick one act I was very pleased to be turned on to by my brother it would be Schnell-Fenster. This Split Enz-offshoot features a post-Swingers Phil Judd reconnecting with Noel Crombie. I think Kane's art teacher probably introduced him. But that tape of The Sound of Trees went round and round in my blue Volvo and I remember being so stoked finally finding it on CD many years later. The Sound of Trees is an underrated, under-discovered, under-appreciated album, an antipodean Oingo Boingo and it always made me sad to think of Phil Judd's reluctance to play live when I would listen to those awesome songs.
I like to think, now, that I have passed a bit of music back to my older brother. For his birthday – I'm not actually cheap enough to just offer this blog-post, okay, okay, not now anyway…there were years when I prayed for a blog to pass posts off as presents – but anyway, as part of the real present I gave Kane a copy of SJD's Dayglo Spectres (you may remember I was excited about this album when it was released). I figure he will really dig it, since I put him on to Songs from a Dictaphone last year. LCD Soundsystem's Sound of Silver was another I passed on last year.
We don't have any sisters or other brothers (that we know of) so I was never the older sibling passing music on to a young, keen mind. But perhaps you were? Or maybe, like me, you had an older brother and/or sister who gave you so many ideas about music and opened doors, provided starting points…
So, today's plan is for you to recall the music you have either proudly passed on to a sibling and/or the music (and wisdom) you received from your older sister or brother.
And Happy Birthday Kane; look forward to seeing you and Frances for Christmas.
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My brother once gave me the album Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble... It didn't make me love SRV, but at the time i was listening to Spandau Ballet, Duran Duran and early U2, so it certainly broadened my ideas...I now have quite a range in my album collection, although some of my favourites remain.... so I thank him for giving me the chance to look outside the RTR top 20 before I was 16!!
My sister and I have very diverging musical tastes; Madonna was blipping on her radar about the same time as I discovered Bruce Springsteen and since that time she's always preferred female artists of the easy-listening kind while I've tended to go for mostly male-dominated hard rock.
My stepbrother and his mates were into AC/DC, Iron Maiden, Led Zepplin, Black Sabbath and Metallica. It was from hanging out with them that I developed a taste for some of this classic heavy metal (though AC/DC probably doesn't fit into that genre). They weren't into the hair-metal of Bon Jovi and Def Leppard like I was, but it was nevertheless through them that I was introduced to some bands that I still listen to now.
And Happy Birthday Kane.
My brother & I have similar tastes 9or lack thereof), he's not as big on KISS as I am but we have shared many great concert experiences together, most recently the Leppard - whose t-shirt I see Simon is wearing with pride this morning.
Have a good one Kane.
There was a large gap between my brother and I; we were effectively different musical generations. He did me a favour by ringing me one afternoon and asking me if I wanted to see Joe Pass and Oscar Petersen (it was the late 70's). It was a great concert and later on he and I arrived at a similar place when I discovered Django, Miles, Coltrane, Blue Note and a love of jazz (although my partner insists they just sound like musicians playing the blues badly). I later warmed to Frank Sinatra, but he never got the Beatles, the Stones, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, etc. I actually arrived at these bands via my friends older brother's record collections. We pillaged these endlessly for a good time and musical education. Still love Zeppelin as Zeppelin 2 turned my head on, building on the "damage" done by the Beatles Australian tour and radio. Happy birthday Kane, I hope Simon bought you something decent that you won't end up using a novelty drinks coaster....
@ Peter - and I must say you are looking resplendent in your finest Stalker apparel mate...
My big bro has similarly ecclectic tastes in music to me. He introduced me to Janet Jackson & Mariah Carey, Daft Punk & The Prodigy, then we clashed over his poor taste in rap & slash metal, and now have a mutual respect for classics like Clapton, Pink Floyd and some jazz stuff. Music is the one thing that we can have a conversation about (with differing views) that doesn't result in a full-blown barney, so thank christ for music. Miss you Pickle, can't wait to see ya on the 23rd...
Just the one sister (not Kim!), 2 years apart in age, but we're chalk and cheese. We shared the love of Fleetwood Mac's Rumours and early Tom Petty, usually before and after school when "home alone together" and I think I turned her onto Tears For Fears for a brief time, but as we're a dysfunctional family and I never see her I couldn't be certain whether or not she even listens to music today. After Tears For Fears, I suspect not, and couldn't really blame her. I'd love to share my passion for music with her, but that is now a forlorn hope. I once forced her to see 'The Kids Are Alright' (at the cinema, no less!) because Mum wouldn't let me go alone, and I think that was the last time she ever indulged my tastes. You are a very lucky man Simon to have achieved what you probably consider a simple pleasure. Not just with yer bro, but with your Mum and Dad.
My brother and I are very close (both age-wise and personally) and we spent most of our formative years exchanging music. This was around the era of grunge, and so I put him on to Angel Dust by Faith No More, he put me on to Incesticide and In Utero after we both got into Nevermind, and so on. We spent a few years exchanging BDO tickets for Christmas, and even now we tend to recommend and exchange a fair bit of music.
Now we have two much younger half-brothers, and have taken the opporunity to indoctrinate them into decent music - sometimes it sticks (they like the Pixies) and sometimes it doesn't (TV on the Radio was a long shot). It hasn't stopped them listening to crap like Chris Brown and less crappy but no less commercial stuff like Fall Out Boy, but that stuff has also helped them transition into decent stuff like Led Zep, the Clash and the Roots.
My brother and I both prefer the Rolf Harris version of Stairway to Heaven to the original.
My elder sister single handedly changed the music I listened toin late 1989. She knew I loved music, but she also saw that I was stuck in the bogan rutt of my Upper Hutt teenage years and not being exposed to anything apart from hair or thrash metal.
So she slipped me two tapes for my birthday. One was a C90 copied from some vinyl records she owned, one side was The Clean's Vehicle, the Headless Chicken's Stunt Clown was on the other. The other tape was the recently released Doolittle by The Pixies.
Those three albums changed the way I thought about music, from that point on. They woke me up to guitar-based music that didn't have to be dumb rock or generic heavy metal, they woke me up to seeking out 'the alternative' music. Two of the albums, Doolittle and Stunt Clown remain favourites to this day.
I owe her a lot for those little gifts.
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#1 Mar 17, 2013
Most cities have a red light district where you can see crossdressing prostitutes, buy drugs and get assaulted but Fitchburg is special!
#3 Mar 17, 2013
yes we have a mayor with standards,I'm a Wong fan,isn't it fit and fun in Fitchburg
#4 Mar 17, 2013
I see and hear everything.
#5 Mar 17, 2013
There are many, many, blue lights. They are in the steeples of the Highland Baptist and Rollstone Congregational churches. They are on Cedar Street, Highland Ave and Pearl Street. In Coolidge Park. On top of the hose tower at the Moran Square fire station. In the windows of the Park Building in Depot Square. But not all of them are blue. Some are green. Some have no color at all. Some aren't even lights. But they all have motion-activated daylight and infrared cameras in them calibrated to turn on when Lynch's Scally cap comes into range. They send images and audio to a secret room in a concrete bunker at Saima Park for microwave transmission to the headquarters of the good old boy network in the back room bar of the building that used to be the old Lion D'Or. And that's how it has always worked.
#6 Mar 17, 2013
We have a blue light district where Mardi Gras is a way of life. Our college students earning high marks in drinking and smoking pot, destructing property and breaking laws with a kudos from our Mayor.
Drug dealing, prostitution, speeding, gang banging and shooting practice.
All as our police Chief states they are just kids and there is no problem :::::::::: but Lynch did wish Antonucci to have a miserable Christmas and told him that he will see him in court. Calling all resources as we need to get Lynch. Send the helicopters over to Cedar street and repel heavily armed navy seals with parachute's. Lynch may be armed with grievances and a sharp pencil as remember the chief stated a sharpened pencil could be a deadly weapon right up therewith a cosmetic ammo belt.
It was only 6 gunshots and they were only at eye level.
Maybe the city should pay the gangs. The city council avoids all issues as this way they can play dumb. The questions they do answer turn into lies. But the city has 4 Million in the bank.
It is a total mess and I do not see any hope with this city council and Mayor. They are all full of it!
#7 Mar 17, 2013
No one is supposed to know about the bunker at Saima Park. At least you didn't mention the Good Ole Boy Secret Lair in Coggshall Park.
#8 Mar 17, 2013
Annnnndddddd...why are you threatening Dr. Antonucci with court this week? BTW, I don't imagine that he has lost any sleep over it.
#9 Mar 17, 2013
I agree as he is afforded the biggest law firm in the US with unlimited resources.
And who would guess that Antonucci is on the board of trustees at the "Peoples Republic Communist China Chamber of Commerce?"
And on the board of trustees at the most expensive Utility in the State the monopoly run "Unitil".
Dr.? Oh that accolade was given to him also?
He fires my brother without reason. He has the college kid thrown in the human rights violators prison on Christmas. Bars me from the University because I requested hard copy Emails oh and oh ya I wished him to have a miserable Christmas and I ended with I will see you in court.
He followed the political case norm on that kid and attempted to have him held on $50,000 bail and had him strapped with an electronic bracelet. Boy did that sound familiar! Didn't that kid wish Antonucci to have a miserable Christmas also?
Antonucci must of had flashbacks from when I wished him to have a miserable Christmas. I wouldn't doubt it if he asked Deval to send a bus load of troopers armed like soldiers in Afghanistan to dropout of helicopters above me home repelling through the windows and to shoot my dogs because they bark at the 4:00Am college kids trying to party!!!!!
#10 Mar 17, 2013
This is way up there on the Crazometer.
#11 Mar 17, 2013
LIE! You are afforded the biggest legal team as I believe it goes if you can't afford a lawyer the state will... hold on I think there is an alligator sitting in the recliner reading the newspaper! Uh never mind it was just the newspaper and a pillow, my bad. But Lynch I see where you are coming from and think you know what you are talking about.
#12 Mar 18, 2013
The city needs alot more money in the bank. The State Auditor and IRS stated we need at least 20 milliom in the bank. The State said that State Aid will soon be dropped.
Don't you remember? The State wants all communities to become self-sufficient. They are giving communities time to prepare for the stoppage of state aid. Soon means 10-20 years, and that isn't really alot of time in fiscal world since we never had a savings account for 283 years.
Now remember Mayors work on 5,10 and 20 year plans. If our former Mayors did this then we wouldn't have to cut back on services.
What is so difficult to understand that you need money in the bank? It is the the same as a savings account.
#13 Mar 18, 2013
It's those damn Republicans who run the state... oh excuse me my plant wants to get out and go for a walk.
#14 Mar 19, 2013
David Gonzalez has been threateningly harassed today! I am not going to sit back and allow this as I am requesting the authorities to look into this situation.
Threatening to be the tough guy after what you did to Dave is not going to be allowed. You are a threat to our safety.
I still have a tough time forgetting what you did to him and what he went through due to your assaults and unjust actions.
Leave him alone!!!!!!
#15 Mar 19, 2013
I'm always being attacked
United States
#16 Mar 20, 2013
Oh, My! Lynch is contacting the authroities again.(Yawn). How many times have you called them this week?
#17 Mar 20, 2013
You forgot to mention other lawless activity in the college neighborhood, like people with cameras launching unprovoked physical assaults on cops and firemen.
#18 Mar 20, 2013
Never happened!
#19 Mar 21, 2013
Ex-Fitchburg mayoral candidate gets probation in assault
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Posted: 03/23/2012 06:32:08 AM EDT
FITCHBURG -- One-time mayoral candidate Kevin A. Lynch on Thursday agreed to comply with terms of a 2 1/2-year pretrial probation on charges that he attacked an off-duty police officer last year.
Lynch, 42, of 48 Cedar St.,#2, is ordered to not commit any misdemeanor or felony crimes, to abide by any existing harassment orders, and to not publicly comment in writing about the officer, or the officer's family, in relation to the case. Lynch is also barred from pursuing civil action related to the incident against the Fitchburg police, JR's Pub or any of their employees.
Last March, Lynch was arrested on charges that he attacked Officer Kerry Siomos outside the North Street pub after yelling at Siomos and threatening to kill the officer and his family.
The charges of assault and battery on a police officer, assault and battery, disorderly conduct and threatening to commit a crime will be dropped after 2 1/2 years if Lynch complies with all terms.
#20 Mar 21, 2013
Reality begs to differ
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Well there's a ray of sunshine!
This is a discussion on Sanity Returns to California (Temporarily?) within the The Second Amendment & Gun Legislation Discussion forums, part of the Related Topics category; Edit Note 3/14/06 : Also see Previous ExSoldier762 Post of 3/13/06 on same topic (Sorry, Ex!) From NRA-ILA: Judge Invokes New Federal Law in Dismissing ...
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Judge Invokes New Federal Law in Dismissing Gun Lawsuit
By Susan Jones
CNSNews.com Senior Editor
March 14, 2006
(CNSNews.com) - A federal judge in California dismissed a "public nuisance" lawsuit against a gun manufacturer and a gun distributor on Monday, invoking a new federal law intended to protect the gun industry from politically motivated lawsuits.
The National Rifle Association said this is the first time a judge has used the new law (the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act) to stop an attempt to hold the gun industry responsible for the acts of criminals.
The lawsuit blamed Glock and gun distributor RSR for the criminal actions of white supremacist Buford Furrow, who in 1999 shot and killed a postal worker and wounded three children at a Jewish Community Center in Grenada Hills, California. Furrow, a former mental patient with a criminal record, was legally barred from owning guns.
According to the NRA, the Glock pistol, one of several guns Furrow was carrying, originally was sold to a police department, which eventually sold it to a licensed dealer, who in turn sold it to a collector, who finally sold it to Furrow.
Glock was targeted although it did nothing illegal, and RSR never owned, sold, or possessed the firearm, the NRA said.
"It is fitting that this case was the first ever dismissed based on the because the facts made this case the poster child for passage of common sense legal reform," said Lawrence G. Keane, senior vice president and general counsel for the National Shooting Sports Foundation.
President Bush signed the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act into law in October 2005. At the time, the National Rifle Association called it the most significant piece of pro-gun legislation in 20 years.
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Well there's a ray of sunshine!
Here's where I might be at odds with some of the Forum members who are in the legal profession.
I am of the opinion that the lawyer(s) who brought this case before a judge should be sued by Glock and RSR. As stated in the above article, Glock did nothing ilegal and RSR had absolutly nothing to do with it in the first place.
In an opportunistic attempt to "dig into the deep pockets," they brought two companies into court at great expense. If they wanted to claim some sort of "justice," they might have included the person that actually sold the gun to the shooter.
Then again, maybe "justice" would demand that the guy who sold you the car should also pay part of your speeding ticket, as well as the manufacturer that made a car that can exceed every speed limit in the country.
Money-grubbing pirates like these should be drummed out of the legal profession. But, the profession itself has shown no real interest in cleaning up it's act. "Look at all the good we do!" is their usual response.
Well, I don't buy it. The "good" they usually do is to enable the greed of their clients. And like the average con man, who blames any wrong-doing on that greed, the lawyer takes NO responsibility for bogus suits like the one above, but has no problem taking their cut of the cash.
It's too bad that the cases that do enable some form of justice get over shadowed by the bogus variety, but most of the time, it looks like the bogus case is the norm these days.
We need more tort reform, not less.
This suit would not have passed a test of "common sense," had there been one before going to trial. But the legal professionals that brought the suit probably got their cut in advance.
Reading about such cases is why I have such a low opinion of the profession in the first place. Hearing lawyers defending those who bring these cases forward lowers that opinion even more.
Whew! I'm done now.
Political Correctness has now "evolved" into Political Cowardice.
You are so right, but at least the outcome was positive, the legislation has been tested and upheld in court setting a precedent and emphasizing the futility of future attempts to extort money from lawful gun industries. Seems to me it is esp. emphatic that this occurred in such a gun unfriendly state.
Sense can prevail - just not often enough. This was tho a very good result.
Mike - I agree too - regarding the need for MORE tort reform - in fact it is vital.
Chris - P95
NRA Certified Instructor & NRA Life Member.
"To own a gun and assume that you are armed
is like owning a piano and assuming that you are a musician!."
http://www.rkba-2a.com/ - a portal for 2A links, articles and some videos.
Well said!
When youre wounded and left on Afghanistans plains,
And the women come out to cut up what remains,
Just roll to your rifle and blow out your brains,
And go to your God like a soldier.
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TORT Reform! Yes!
Well put, madmike! Please note that the "Plaintiff's Bar" is a very major contributor to some of our "favorite" politician's campaign coffers. Just another reason to stand where we do.
I'd love to see some counter-suits based on "frivilous" arguments go forward. Probably won't happen, but we can dream.
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A Guide to Portuguese Grape Varieties
Red Grapes
Alfrocheiro Preto: main grape in the Dao, rich in color
Aragonês: see Tinta Roriz
Baga: - Main grape used for wines in Bairrada appellation, also used in Alentejo and Ribatejo. High quality grape.
Bastardo: - funny named grape grown in the Douro, early ripening. Used in Dao extensively
Castelão Frances: - see "Tricadeira Preta". Called "Periquita" in Ribatejo, and "Joao do Santarem"
Moreto: widely grown blender grape all over Portugal, not used in single varietal wines
Mourisco: small plantings in the Douro
Ramisco: - Main grape in Colares region, very tannic
Tinto Cão: Douro grape also being used to make high quality still red wines
Tinta Amarela: grown in the Douro, Ribatejo, Estremadura and also Alentejo (where it is called Trincadeira Preta)
Tinta Barroca: ancient grape varietal, grown in the Douro for hundreds of years, one of the blender grapes for most ports. Interestingly this grape is being grown widely in South Africa.
Tinta Roriz: called Tempranillo in Spain, in Portugal it is used widely in Port making and also in the production of still reds in the Alentejo where it is called " Aragonês", in Dao and in the Douro for table wines
Touriga Francesa: one of the main grapes grown in the Douro (over 20% of all plantings), characterized by its powerful bouquet
Touriga Nacional: considered to be one of the best grapes in Portugal, a noble variety, One of the principal grapes grown in the Douro Valley for port wines and also the Dao.
Trincadeira Preta: also called Tinta Amarela and Castelão Frances
White Grapes
Antao Vaz: citrussy, acidic grape used in Alentejo
Alvarinho: grown in Northern Portugal and used for Vinho Verde, high quality. Some say related to the "Albariño" of Galicia, Spain
Arinto: used in the Bucelas appellation for still and sparkling wines, also widely in the Alentejo (for delicious dry, lemony fruity whites), Bairrada, Setúbal and other regions
Avesso: used in the Vinho Verde appellation, aromatic and acidic
Boal: there are five strains of this grape, the most famous being the Boal used in Madeira
Códega: historic Portuguese varietal which produces good alcohol, low acidity and high yields. Also called "Roupeiro"
Encruzado: - high alcoholic white grape seen frequently in the Dão
Esgana Cão: colorfully translates as "Dog Strangler"! Also called "Sercial" in Madeira. Highly acidic white used as a blender grape all over Portugal
Fernão Pires: reminiscent of Muscat this is an aromatic grape used in the Douro, Setúbal, Alentejo and other regions. Called "Maria Gomez" in Bairrada
Gouveio:see "Verdelho"
Malvasia Fina: aromatic white used all over Portugal including white port
Malvasia Real: high yielding white, not as well regarded as Malvasia Fina
Perrum: one of the main white grapes of the Alentejo and also Algarve
Rabigato: "Ewe´s Tail", this is a high yielding grape grown all over the country. Also called "Rabo d´Ovelha"
Roupeiro: Quality grape, honey flavored grape when grown in the Alentejo (also called Codéga")
Sercial: main grape used in Madeira fortified wines
Verdelho: One of the noble white varietals of Madeira. Australia is growing this Portuguese varietal extensively.
Viosinho: lesser white of the Douro, used in white ports
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