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Sage Business Cloud Accounting
Cloud Accounting for Small Businesses4.1 /5 (169 reviews) Write a Review!
Sage Business Cloud - Cannot Do Business Without It
I love the fact that my clients and I can share the same system in different locations. It also has an app that I can use on the go for invoicing and quotes.
Currently, I don't have any grips with the system.
Can definitely Work with IT!!!!!
Ability to meet the objectives of the finance department and make the workflow alot easier in terms of maximizing the efficiency
The ability to integrate with other Sage solutions was great. We had some other 3rd party solutions which needed to be integrated and the ISV already had integration points available
The price was a little off but we if you need the solution its worth the extra cost
Just don't
I wanted to use Sage business accounting cloud for basic bookkeeping and I couldn't even do this.
My experience was of utter frustration. Not only with the lack of capabilities and difficulty in using the software but even worse, with their billing department. I was charged the wrong amounts every single month. Clients were charged for software that they didn't even use. Some clients were charged for software that I had already paid for. Nobody in accounts could fix it. Not even the directors were able to fix it. What an absolute disaster. I am absolutely at a loss as to how they are still in business.
The sage logo hinted that it may be similar to their line 50 product. Oh, how wrong I was.
There is quite literally nothing good I can say about this software, their customer support nor their accounts and billing team.,
It falls way short of functional. It couldn't be further behind the competition if they did nothing.
Essential features like repeating invoices were missing.
You can't pay with or receive into the director's loan account.
You are restricted in the number and type of bank/cash accounts you can have.
Fixing anything is a mammoth task
and even then, it doesn't actually fic the issues.
Easy to use
I love the fact that the product integrates with other products such as payroll.
I loved the fact that for the most part everything seemed extremely easy to use. I did run into a few issues, but I found the support staff were extremely helpful. I would like to point ou that I am not an accountant by trade and give my books to a qualified accountant at the end of each year. This product served that purpose entirely.
The bank statements duplicated on one of the imports, but to be honest Im not sure if I did something wrong.
Simple to learn, gives you great data
I started a new job and I was up and running on invoicing at the end of the week, by week two I was able to post cash. It did take a little bit of time to familiarize myself the reports and with the general ledger. When I covered accounts payable it was also very intuitive. One of the most intuitive computer systems I have worked with ever.
The company I got a job with a few years ago used Sage, I was apprehensive about learning a new computer system but Sage was easy. It was intuitive if you have a little experience and accounting knowledge. It gives very great reports and gives you a lot of basic detail. I like.the fact that you can drill down to give various information.
There were a few times that I wish there was an online help to explain a few questions. There are a lot of reports and I feel like you may have to look at several reports to pull some advanced details.
Sage Business Cloud Accounting
Sage Business Cloud Accounting is easy to use, features are easy to access. Reporting for several different ranges of time-table very handy. No installation, no backup...very nice product to use!
Sage Business Cloud Accounting has all the features one would need from Accounting software. Easy to implement, do the setup, and train new Customers on how to use it. The add-on modules adds value to the software. The Accountant's easy access to assist Clients is a wonderful feature!
One improvement I would like to see:
When adding a new Item from inside the Invoice screen, the new Item screen should include all features (such as selecting the Purchase account). Currently you have to exit the Invoice, create the new Item, and then continue with your Invoice
Definitely the way for the future just love to work on this platform. All new clients advised to use Sage Business Cloud Accounting. The package can grow with the company from start up.
The fact that is cloud base and accessible from anywhere as long as you have internet access. There are apps available to download onto mobile devices. The product is user friendly with guidance on how to use features.
Download bank statements and map the expenses to save lots of time in the future.
It is sometimes slow depending on internet speed and take a while to download bank statements.
Sage 300
The cloud based accounting solution offers a truly "connected" experience for the end user. Whether you are a salesperson travelling amd entering orders online or a Financial director viewing information while you are sitting in an airport lounge. I believe Sage accounting solutions can truly offer value for money.
From a customization point of view I think Sage 300 ranks pretty high. Most lager ERP solutions offers a square to plug a round hole.
Searching through all the modules for an Invoice and following the flow from AP to GL for example is quite cumbersome. I have had a more positive experience with other ERP solutions as a end user.
Sage Accounting Sage 200
Improved Productivity across the business with everyone using the same system
As we are quite specialist we have to bespoke several elements around multiple addresses
it's good it works, but very hard to install in network
The fact that you cannot go modify stuff by the backdoor
support could be better, it's not easy to reach
A solid accounts package. Many useful features allowing simple accounting for small businesses.
It is relatively intuitive for people with only a basic knowledge of business accounting. It allows easy manipulation of accounting data and you are able to provide periodical reports which means you always know the state of your companies finances. It can be accessed from anywhere and at any time and allows you to restrict certain users to particular areas. You are able to give your accountant a direct log in to your accounts which makes annual tax accounting very quick and simple.
Sage One can be tied to your bank accounts so that all items that pass through your accounts can be automatically uploaded into sage saving lots of time on entering data.
VAT filing and reports can be done instantly and sent directly to HMRC.
Can also be used directly with Sage Payroll meaning all information from payroll is automatically added to Sage One accounts.
If you're internet connection is weak this can slow things down a bit though on the whole it is a very stable and trustworthy platform.
The only thing I find a little bit weak is the inability to create direct backups of your accounts either your computer desktop or external drives. The only method of backing up the information is to print reports of all ledgers, invoices, receipts and audit trail. This means you will always have the information but in the event of a catastrophic failure it would be highly time consuming to re-input all the details. There would be no obvious method of doing this.
Possibly the best accounting software we've ever used
Using Sage One allowed us to combine our Accounts and Payroll systems into one. It makes it easy to manage our accounts from any location and on any device. It also removed the worry of backing up and securing our accounts records.
The fact that Sage One is cloud based, is probably the best feature. No more endless backups and annoying updates to perform. Everything is taken care of and the support team are amazing. It's also simple to grant access to your Accountant, who can then do whatever that need to when it's your year end etc.
A very clear interface provides an overview of your current situation and makes it easy for you to do your everyday tasks like entering and raising invoices, or checking who owes you money. You can easily produces account statements and everything can be emailed straight to your customers, so far less physical paperwork.
The Invoicing template choices are limited, but with a bit of creativity, you can definitely make something you can work with. The thing that needs the most attention is the method by which invoices and statements are emailed out. they appear to be from the email address you give the system, but are sent by Sage. Consequently, some clients weren't receiving their emails. We just turn any invoices into PDF's and email them ourselves. No big deal as we are still paperless, but it would be nice if we didn't have to. hopefully something that will be addressed on a future update.
A very simple online accounting system
The ability to connect my bank accounts is great and a real time saver.
The fact that this is online and can be accessed from any device is a real pleasure. It means as a sole trader that I can enter receipts while I'm on the go or at home when I have a spare few minutes. I know sage was late to the party for online accounting systems but they have managed to make a simple system and one that starts cheaper than the competitors.
The second main feature for me was the ability to automatically connect to my bank accounts and match my transactions as this saves no end of time and is all included in the monthly price.
They also have a feature which allows you download your transaction in a CSV file as well, if you wanted to move them to another system.
It's not as customisable as the desktop version was but once you get over that hurdle and change your way of thinking and acting then you realise they had a reason for making it so simple.
We use sage for accounting. The best thing is we can use sage cloud anywhere in the world. the software reminds us of the payments due for the customers. Then we can call our customers. It's easy to use. It saves time. If your computer will be crash then our all accounts are fully safe in the cloud-based sage. It's easy to use and access. When we need any help then the sage technician will fix the problem within few minutes on the call with remote access.
a few months ago we use the sage on the computer but if there any problem with the computer then our sage data not secure. Some time we lost lots of files as well. but when we subscribe Cloud service it's so much secure and easy. Our all data is fully secure on the sage cloud. The best thing is we can access anywhere in the world.
Nothing, when we need any help the sage technicians help me.
Good solution for the small business owner
It is fairly easy to use. It provides the basic needs of small business owners. Helps me with their tax prep needs
Navigation through the product isn't seamless
Almost has 100% of what we need as a growing business
Compliance, ability to integrate different aspects of financial company data.
User-friendly interface. Good dashboard view.
Collaboration with external agencies - HMRC, our accountant & book-keeper.
Functionality has increased alongside our needs as a growing business.
Excellent customer support
No trace-ability of emails sent - only a Yes or No view of whether emails (invoices) have been sent.
Cannot export XL data to our Pension portal (Big booooo for the Sageone!)
No auto-generation of a reference number for purchases like there is sales?! This causes us issues!!
Only 1 user allowed to access Payroll platform for our subscription
I have been using Peachtree Complete Accounting for over 16 years.
Easy now to manipulate. I only wish I could input my bank information into Peachtree but it will not except it.
I have been using Peachtree Complete Accounting for over 16 years. It has taken many years to learn because I was never trained on the software.
My only issue with Peachtree Complete Accounting with Sage is the customer support. You have to wait hours to speak with someone if there is an issue especially if you call you have to just leave your name and number. During tax season it is impossible to reach someone. I once waited over 4-6 hours to get a response.
Sage One has become am essential part of my business and I would recommend it to anyone
Ease of use. I have basic accounting training but, by using the help pages, I have managed to run my business without the expense of accountants. VAT returns are just a press of a button and all information is easily found if needed. The package has grown ( at no extra cost) and the stock control and invoicing side has much improved.
Sage support is very good if you have to telephone them - HOWEVER it is expensive! Very occasionally the system has crashed (not often) and it can cost you money to find out that it is their error not yours...
On the Wright path
Well if you have clients like I do it will make your life easier and more organized
I first had this software when it was peach tree. It has a ton of features more then you will ever need with the ability to back everything up.
It takes time to learn there is so much. I would start using this software has soon had you can. I started using it in the middle of my second year of business back in 2014 and it time some time inputting data but once it's there this software made my life a breeze but you will need to take time to set it up
Using Sage since Peachtree
This software has helped us to have all the necessary reports for the government. We recommend it if you want a complete one.
It is a complete software to manage your business accounting. We have been using Sage since it was Peachtree. Now you can manage the accounting everywhere with the cloud feature. You can manage sales, inventory, employees, estimates, purchases/sellers, and so much more.
You can be confused sometimes because all the windows are similar.
We've used SageOne Accounting (and it's predecessor) for many years - love it!
We find it does what it says it does. It's very flexible, not only because of Cloud access, but in terms of products, sales invoicing and reporting. The addition of integration of PayRoll has saved us both time and money.
To be honest, Iuse it without fuss. I'd prefer the Other Payments option to be in the 'Purchasing' section rather than the 'Banking' section and maybe a 'custom' layout option for Invoices - not fields, but presentation. That's all.
Sage Business Cloud accounting the accounting solution for growing businesses
Sage Business Cloud accounting is the ideal solution for any growing small business. You have all the information available to you on your cellphone if you so require. You can invoice clients as you do the job no matter what your industry. A great full function accounting system
The number of columns you are allowed when importing bank csv information is limited. Otherwise the import function serves its function.
Sage has made a big improvement on managing our accounts
Improved recording of accounts and better organisation of data.
Ability to generate reports and forecasts.
As a small business this has helped us to manage our both payroll and accounts. The initial motivator to look at online packages was for auto-enrolment. Having used the accounting package as well it's helped us to organise our accounts better and it is a lot easier to get information and reports from it.
The technical support either via self help, web chat and telephone is excellent. I've made a few mistakes initially and these were easily resolved with support line help.
This will be common to all packages. I now feel that using this software is making us do some tasks that our accountant used to do. Unfortunately I feel that some of this relies on a bit of an understanding of accountancy principles that I didn't have. I needed the support to help explain this and how to find some options. Once done though it's easy to find again.
Sage business cloud accounting
Sage business cloud accounting isn't free but nesscecary and tailored for small businesses. It brings ease and practicalcality when organizing clients and accounts. There are many bisinesses using sage business cloud accounting, so there is no doubt that the software has been designed to cator for the tasks at hand.
The software is simple to setup from entering in the user's company details and client details.
Menus are easy to navigate.
Requires basic accounting knowledge.
It is cloud based, bringing convenience in and out of the office.
The software handles all the nesscecary transactions regarding accounting for small businesses.
The software can be slow at times.
Lacks customization features in areas.
A break in an Internet connection can cause a loss in work.
The Best Accounting Software For Non-Accountants
As someone who is more interested in running my business than getting kinky with red tape, Sage one was the best of all the accounting packages for me. Automated VAT returns as well as bank feeds were my two big requirements and Sage One fulfilled this perfectly.
That it doesn't have a mobile app is an absolute travesty but that none of it's competitors with the same feature set do either means I'm sticking with it for now. As soon as another accounting software company comes along with Bank Feeds, Automated VAT returns (for Ireland without a hack) and a mobile app for receipts (currently, I use receipt bank with Sage), then I'll switch.
Easy to use. Irish VAT returns. Missing features are mostly filled with third party integrations.
No mobile app. Super annoying when trying to get info or input anything on the go.


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It's the game before Christmas. It's always different. Here's what it has looked like for the Browns of the past and present.
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BEREA The mood is always different when it's the game before Christmas.
Thoughts of seasons well played or long gone swirl together.
On Dec. 23, 2007, the Browns flew to Cincinnati knowing the ride home could be quite the party. Losing a battle that would have clinched a playoff spot left Browns fans with a hangover that still hasn't quit.
The game before Christmas in 2008 became Romeo Crennel's goodbye. A loss to the Bengals was his last at home before he got fired, scattering assistants such as Rob Chudzinski across the land.
Kansas City's defense was Santa Claus to Jerome Harrison the next year, when he went dashing through the Chiefs for 286 yards. Not even Josh Gordon has quite been there.
Eric Mangini's last road trip as head coach of the Browns was the game before Christmas in 2010, at Cincinnati.
The last of Josh Cribbs' 11 touchdowns as a Browns return man came on Christmas Eve, 2011, making a dreadful game at Baltimore merrier.
On Dec. 23, 2012, at Denver, Brandon Weeden started, Colt McCoy finished, and neither looked like Peyton Manning as the Pat Shurmur regime wrapped things up.
In a way, this year's game before Christmas is like the others. The season has been heavy, but moods are light.
One end is near, but it is as if something else soon will begin. The next journey ... the thought that the NFL is less high and mighty than it can seem.
The record is 4-10, but drudgery is taking a holiday.
Head coach Chudzinski, celebrating the arrival of his and his wife Sheila's fourth child, marched into the media room for his Wednesday press conference clutching a big batch of cigars.
In the locker room, six young players, none a sure bet to be on the team next year, gathered around a big flat screen at a vacant locker between the stalls of Quentin Groves and Barkevious Mingo. Two of them played a video football game while the other four watched.
Marqueis Gray, one of the many young players the new regime has experimented with — he gained 30 yards on two wildcat runs against Chicago — talked about home ... and backyard football in Indianapolis.
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The quarterback who will actually play the Browns' latest game before Christmas is Jason Campbell.
He has done this before. He began his career as a starter with Washington in 2006, playing at St. Louis on Christmas Eve.
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- This page contains minor mob families on General Hospital. For the main mob family, see Corinthos mob family.
Alcazar mob family
|Lorenzo and Diego
|General Hospital
|Place(s) of Origin
|South America
|Years in PC
|2002, 2003-07, 2008
|Notable members
|Luis Alcazar, Lorenzo Alcazar, Diego Alcazar, Roy DiLucca, Jerry Jacks, Ric Lansing, Dillon Quartermaine, Faith Rosco, Damian Spinelli
|Connected families
|Alcazar, Jacks, Corinthos, Morgan, Quartermaine
|Lorenzo and Skye at the Alcazar Mansion.
|Estate Information
| 243 Sky Cliff Road
Port Charles, New York
The Alcazar mob family was a fictional mob organization on the ABC soap opera General Hospital headed by Luis Alcazar, and later by his brother Lorenzo Alcazar. They were a rival of the Corinthos-Morgan mob family.
The Alcazar crime family originated in South America under the command of Luis Alcazar. In 1998, Brenda Barrett's mother drove her car off the side of a cliff with Brenda inside and Brenda and her mother were presumed dead. However, Brenda survived and was saved in the water by Luis. Four years later after holding Brenda captive all that time, Luis came to Port Charles with the sole intention of getting rid of Sonny Corinthos and Jasper Jacks due to his obsession with Brenda. Luis wreaked havoc all over the city and his quest to get rid of Sonny and Jax resulted in the death of Alexis Davis's sister Kristina Cassadine, and the kidnapping of Felicia Jones and her children.
He hired hitman Roy DiLucca to take out Sonny, but what he didn't know is that Roy and Sonny had already come up with a plan beforehand to fake Sonny's death at Roy's hand. They fooled Luis into thinking that Sonny was dead so with a false sense of security he moved on to getting rid of Jax. He tried several times to kill Jax and severely injured him, but before he could kill him Sonny showed up and shot Luis. Luis was then put on trial for the attempted murder of Sonny, Jax, and Zander Smith and the murder of Kristina Cassadine but the charges were dropped because he had friends in high places.
Jason and Sonny began discussing how to take Luis out once and for all. When Alcazar crashed a party at the Quartermaine mansion held in Brenda's honor, he got really drunk. When he left the party, he left in his limo, driven by Jason. Jason was making moves to take Luis out that night, but Sonny called the hit off at the last minute when Jason's brother A.J. started to get too suspicious. Several people threatened to kill Alcazar and he got in confrontations with several people that night, including Brenda, but he was killed by Alexis when she paid him a visit and pushed him off the railing of his fourteen story balcony. Jason and Brenda while innocent were put on trial for his murder, but they were cleared when Skye Quartermaine remembered seeing Alexis in Luis's room. When Alexis went to trial she faked having DID and was able to get out of the murder charges.
Lorenzo Alcazar was an International Arms Dealer, an intelligent and powerful man with ties to mob families and high-ranking government agencies that made him a formidable force in the town of Port Charles. Before he joined the family business, he was a History professor at Oxford University. After Lorenzo's wife Sophie Germaine was tragically killed in a village by rebels while Lorenzo was helping his older brother Luis out after a deal went wrong, Lorenzo blamed himself for what happened to Sophie, and abandoned his life in England to become part of the Alcazar family business. Years later he came to Port Charles to avenge the death of his brother Luis. He learned that Alexis was responsible for Luis's death but he did not go after her because she had no affiliation with the mob. Instead he blamed Sonny since Sonny was the reason why his brother came to Port Charles in the first place. Lorenzo became a thorn in Sonny's side and a formidable enemy for the Corinthos-Morgan organization. For years he tormented Sonny professionally by trying to steal his territory and personally by getting involved with Sonny's wife Carly Corinthos and eventually marrying her.
The war between Lorenzo and the Corinthos crime family expanded when Sonny and Jason took shipments Alcazar was delivering to his government handlers to secure his incarcerated son Diego's freedom, despite knowing Lorenzo only entered into the life to keep his son safe from the Ruiz mob family. Despite Lorenzo's attempts to protect his son, Diego was presumably killed in 2006 by Sam McCall in a shoot-out between Alcazar's men and Jason, who was on the run with Sam when Ric Lansing and Lorenzo hired Damien Spinelli to cybernetically frame Sam for a crime she didn't commit. The death of his son left Lorenzo heartbroken and determined to make sure his daughter with Skye, Lila Rae would never suffer the same fate as Diego, due to the business.
He decided at that point to leave the organization. However after Lorenzo was shot in the head, he suffered temporary amnesia which caused him to act uncharacteristically and instigate trouble with Sonny. Sonny decided to finally deal with Lorenzo, and with the aid of Skye who wanted Lorenzo out of her life, Sonny and Jason set up a plan to take Lorenzo out. Skye let Jason into their home and he killed Alcazar. The aftermath of his death went on for months and Jason went on trial for his murder, but eventually got off due to help from international criminal Jerry Jacks and Carly. Alcazar's murder trial also brought up speculations that he may still be alive and this fabricated evidence is what cleared Jason during the trial, but in the end, Jerry confirmed that all the "evidence" they used to show that Alcazar wasn't really dead was doctored and fake.
In 2008 it was revealed that Lorenzo's son Diego wasn't really dead and he returned to Port Charles wanting revenge on Jason whom he blamed for his father's death as well as revenge on every single person he deemed responsible for his family's death. He began terrorizing women in town by sending them text messages and then strangling them to death. Leticia Juarez , Michael's long time nanny was his first victim, but the intended target had been Carly. The pattern of Diego's attacks caused him to become known as the Text Message Killer. He terrorized many women and out of revenge killed Jason's sister Emily Quartermaine at her engagement party to Nikolas Cassadine and later Georgie Jones, to which he later regretted as her sister Maxie Jones was his intended target.
The TMK finally reveals himself to Sam before he kidnaps her and takes her to the place where Jason dumped his father's body intending to kill her. When the car goes partially over a bridge, he escapes and Sam is saved by Lucky Spencer before the car goes over. He flees to the warehouse where Sam was believed to have killed him year earlier. After a confrontation with Nikolas who wanted revenge for Emily's death, he tried to get away, but he ends up falling off of the catwalk and hangs himself to death. After this the Alcazar presence became non-existent in Port Charles. Many mob organizations began vying for the valuable Alcazar water front piers that Skye owned as the controller of all of Alcazar's money and estates, but she ended up selling the piers to Ric Lansing before she left town with her daughter.
- Luis Alcazar (deceased) - Lorenzo's brother
- Lorenzo Alcazar (deceased) - Luis' brother
- Diego Alcazar (deceased) - Lorenzo's son
- Sage Alcazar (deceased) - Luis' daughter
- Lila Rae Alcazar - Lorenzo's daughter
- Carly Corinthos - Lorenzo's ex-wife
- Skye Chandler-Quartermaine - Ex-lover of Lorenzo and mother of his daughter Lila Rae
- Dillon Quartermaine
- Damian Spinelli - former computer hacker
- Faith Rosco (deceased) - former partner of Lorenzo
See also
The Balkan's mob family
|Suzanne and Theo
|General Hospital
|Place(s) of Origin
|Years in PC
|Notable members
|Theo Hoffman ("The Balkan"), Suzanne Stanwyck, Aleksander Janacek, Shawn Butler
|Connected families
|Barrett, Corinthos
|Cave compound
|Estate Information
|Moved out
|Port Charles, New York
The Balkan's mob family was a fictional mob organization on the ABC soap opera General Hospital headed by Theo Hoffman, who was also known as "The Balkan."
Theo Hoffman arrived in Port Charles in 2010 wanting revenge against Brenda Barrett for the death of his son Aleksander Janáček. When Theo first arrived in Port Charles he posed as a patient at General Hospital that was suffering from a severe illness, but tests proved that nothing was wrong with Theo and he was eventually diagnosed with a psychological condition called hypochondria by Dr. Robin Scorpio-Drake. After ending the ruse with the hospital, he goes to Diane Miller wanting to join her law firm Mason, Petrovich, and Miller. He was hired and soon given a wrongful death lawsuit that had been filed against Brenda and Dante Falconeri. He used his position as Brenda's attorney to get closer to her and exact his revenge.
Theo had been behind the whole entire lawsuit and it was just a part of his plan for revenge. Brenda dated Aleksander in the past but after finding out his connections with the mob and trafficking she left him and fled to New York where Dante became her bodyguard. Brenda and Dante were not aware of their mutual connection to Sonny at the time and while in New York, Brenda found out that she was pregnant. Aleksander became obsessed with Brenda and followed her to New York. After stalking her, he ended up in a confrontation with Dante and he shot and killed Aleksander. He then covered up the crime by dumping Aleksander's body in a swamp and telling Brenda that no one would ever find out what happened.
Theo wanted Brenda to pay for Aleksander's death. He finally made his move on Brenda's wedding day to Sonny Corinthos and everyone found out that Theo was really the international criminal named The Balkan. After the wedding he had a bomb planted in Sonny and Brenda's limo. He then kidnapped and drugged Sam Morgan due to her resemblance to Brenda and put her in the limo. Brenda got into the limo and right before it exploded she was taken out of the limo and kidnapped. Sonny was devastated thinking that Brenda had died in the same way that his first wife Lily had.
When the body was recovered from the car they found that it had been Sam in the limo and not Brenda, devastating Jason, but luckily due to the bomb-proofing in the limo, Sam survived and was taken to the hospital. Jason went with Sam to the hospital and Sonny turned his attention to finding Brenda. Theo took Brenda to a cave compound and demanded to know the whereabouts of his grandson. Brenda believed that she had a miscarriage in her seventh month of pregnancy and told him so, but Theo would not believe her.
During this time it was also revealed that Suzanne Stanwyck, Brenda's long time friend and the director of her charity, the Alliance to Save Exploited Children was really Theo's wife and just as eager to avenge her son Aleksander's death as Theo was. Her whole plan for getting close to Brenda had been for revenge and to get her hands on her grandson because she knew that Brenda had been pregnant and that her son was still alive. What Brenda had thought to be a miscarriage due to a fever, had really been Suzanne drugging her so that she could induce her labor early and take the baby. After interrogating Brenda in the cave, Theo learned that Suzanne had known about the pregnancy and interrogated her. However Suzanne explained to Theo that she didn't want to add anymore sorrow to him after losing Aleksander and Theo seemed partially satisfied with the answer, until he learned that Suzanne had been with Brenda during her pregnancy and he became convinced that Suzanne had taken the baby away so that Theo would never know him.
Sonny, Jason, and Dante manage to track Theo down to the cave compound and they rescue Brenda. Theo uses Suzanne as a human shield and manages to get away while Jason and Dante chase after him. Sonny rushes Brenda to a hospital because when Theo learned that Sonny was close to finding them, he injected Brenda with a deadly neuro-toxin intended to kill her before making his escape. Thanks to the efforts of Dr. Patrick Drake, a successful antidote was made and Brenda recovered. Theo then turned his attention to finding his grandson and in the process tried to kill Suzanne but due to her connections with some of his men she survived. Jason also began chasing after Theo wanting revenge for what he did to Sam. He confronted the Trujillo crime family, who they had a truce with, because they had facilitated Theo's stay in Port Charles. Rudy Trujillo told Jason that Johnny Zacchara had been the one to plant the bomb in the limo explosion that hurt Sam and Jason confronted Johnny. Meanwhile Theo had gotten closer to his grandson's location. He found him but before he could meet his grandson, Suzanne killed Theo by slitting his throat. She then put into motion a plan that would keep Brenda from her son and allow Suzanne to raise him.
Suzanne takes Lucian, a decoy son to Brenda and convinces Brenda that Lucian is her son, so that she can move to Switzerland with Brenda's real son Alec Scott. Sonny is weary of Suzanne and her story when Suzanne reveals the truth about what really happened the night of Brenda's supposed miscarriage, Brenda angrily screams at her and kicks her out. Brenda bonds with Lucian while Suzanne makes plans for her and Alec to leave the country. Sonny remains skeptical and encourages Brenda to get a DNA test on Lucian to confirm Suzanne's story.
Brenda finally agrees to the DNA test and knowing this act would prove her story wrong, Suzanne kidnaps Lucian devastating Brenda. Sonny and Dante finally manage to track Suzanne down to Texas and they take Carly Corinthos with them to bring Brenda's son home. While in Texas they learn that Lucian was the decoy and Alec was in fact Brenda's real son. Sonny and Dante catch up with Suzanne and confront her while Carly tends to Alec. Soon the ordeal is over and they return to Port Charles and Brenda is reunited with her real son Alec. She confronts Suzanne about her actions one last time before Suzanne is put in prison for the kidnapping.
- Theo Hoffman (deceased)
- Suzanne Stanwyck - Theo's wife
- Aleksander Janacek (deceased) - Theo and Suzanne's son
- Alec Scott - Aleksander's son with Brenda Barrett; Theo and Suzanne's grandson
- Shawn Butler
- Jerry Jacks
- Siobhan Spencer (deceased) - Forced to work for Theo because Theo had her sister held hostage
Jerome mob family
|Ava and Julian
|General Hospital
|Years in PC
|1987-90, 2013-17
|Notable members
|Victor Jerome, Julian Jerome, Olivia Jerome, Ava Cassadine, Duke Lavery, Carlos Rivera, Jordan Ashford, Luke Spencer, Drew Cain
|Connected families
|Cassadine, Corinthos, Devane, Eckert, Jerome, Morgan, Quartermaine, Scorpio, Spencer
|Jerome Gallery
|Estate Information
|Port Charles, New York
The Jerome mob family is a fictional mob organization on the ABC soap opera General Hospital headed by Victor Jerome, and later by his son Julian Jerome. Luke Spencer (as Evil Luke) was the financier and head of the organization from April 2014 to February 2015.
The Jerome mob family first arrived in Port Charles in 1987 as rivals of the McKay mob family. Duke Lavery and his father, Angus McKay, were sent to prison for their various mob activities. Later, a man by the name of Jonathan Lawrence was arrested as the suspect of a hit and run. However, Jonathan was actually out for revenge against Duke and Angus for the murder of his look-alike cousin, Evan Jerome. When Angus committed suicide to end the McKay/Jerome feud once and for all, Angus's daughter Camellia McKay and Duke were put on trial for Evan's murder. They were forced to reveal that Camellia had in fact killed Evan as he raped her. They were acquitted, which didn't sit well with Evan's widow, Veronica, who later put a hit out on Camellia. Evan's father, Victor, however was able call off the hit and banished Veronica.
In 1988, Duke's wife Anna Devane was kidnapped. Victor's youngest son Julian, who wanted Duke's assistance in legitimizing the family business, agreed to help him look for her. Desperate to find her, Duke joined the Jerome mob. Duke was able to find Anna, but not before her ex-husband Robert Scorpio found her himself. When Victor sent Duke and Julian to a meeting with one of their mob rivals, the Carter family. They're ambushed in a trap and Julian takes a bullet meant for Duke. On his death bed, Julian makes Duke promise to help Victor legitimize the mob. Duke, however wanted out of the Jerome mob family.
Meanwhile, Victor's daughter, art dealer Olivia St. John, took over the organization and developed an obsession with Duke. They later had a one-night stand, but when he subsequently rejected her, she tried to kill him. Unfortunately, it was Anna who was injured in the attempt, and she lost her and Duke's unborn child. Olivia was later revealed as the one who set up the attack on Julian so that she could take over the organization. Julian, however, wasn't dead. Victor had helped him fake his death.
Julian blows his own cover and confronts his sister about her involvement in his shooting. When Julian refuses to go along with Olivia's plans to merge the Jerome and Carter families, Olivia and henchman, Dino kidnap his girlfriend, Cheryl Stansbury. When a hysterical Cheryl accidentally shoots Olivia and leaves her in a coma, Julian covers it up and frames Anna who was arrested. Eventually, Dino's guilt was revealed, and he and his mother Dimitra were sent to prison. Olivia, having suffered a brain injury in the shooting, was sent to Pine Circle, a mental hospital.
Duke testifies against Victor hoping to finally put him in jail and Anna has Olivia temporarily released to get a confession out of her. With Duke's testimony and Olivia's confession, Victor was sent to prison. Victor then made a prison break to see Lucy Coe, whom he was infatuated with. When she rejected him, he swallowed a pendant he had had engraved for her, choked on it and died. Lucy went to Alan Quartermaine for help, and they dumped his body in the lake.
When Cheryl became pregnant with Julian's child she quickly left town out of fear. Cheryl eventually passed out at a bus station and was taken to a private clinic where she gave birth to their son. Shortly after, she was told her child had died. In reality the child was sold on the black market to Bobbie Spencer Jones who named him, Lucas.
In 1990, after Victor's death, Julian took over the organization. He then made a plan to kill Duke and neutralize his sister once and for all by framing her for the murder. Julian kidnapped Olivia; who had already escaped from Pine Circle. When Olivia heard of his plan to kill Duke, she knew she had to warn Anna. Before she could do so, however, Julian shot and presumably killed her. Later, Julian confronted Duke and a struggle ensued, with both being shot and presumably killed.
When Lucas fell ill, Bobbie decided to investigate his biological family and turned up proof that Lucas was Cheryl's son. Bobbie kept the information to herself but was eventually forced to return Lucas when Robert Scorpio learned the truth. Lucas then lived with his biological mother until she was killed in a car accident. Cheryl's will stated that he be raised by Bobbie and Tony Jones and after a custody battle with Cheryl's sister Tiffany Hill, Bobbie and Tony were granted custody in 1992.
In 2012, it was revealed that the man Julian killed was not actually Duke, but an imposter named Jonathan Paget; Duke was actually in fact alive.
In 2013, it is revealed that Julian didn't die in a gun fight with Jonathan Paget, but was instead placed into the witness protection program. He returned to town with a new face under the alias of Derek Wells, the new owner of the Port Charles Press and Crimson magazine. His younger sister, Ava, also joined him with her daughter, Kiki. They immediately plan to gain control of the Port Charles mob from Sonny Corinthos, and lured Sonny's son Morgan into their gambling operation. While under his alias Julian discovered that the one night stand he and Alexis Davis had in their teens resulted in their daughter, Sam Morgan, making her son, Danny Morgan, his grandson. When Julian finally revealed his true identity, he began an effort to make amends with his family and also found out he had a son when Lucas returned to Port Charles.
In early 2014 it is revealed that Ava killed Connie Falconeri because Connie discovered Derek Wells was Julian's alias and framed A.J. Quartermaine. That same year, Sonny killed A.J. and Ava had a one-night-stand with him which led to the birth of her second daughter, Avery Corinthos.
In 2015, Julian had a one-night-stand with Olivia Falconeri which led to the birth of his second son, Leo Falconeri.
When Julian and Alexis fell in love, he agreed to leave the mob before marrying her.
Although Julian did succeed in getting out of the mob.[1] He is pulled back in from his sister Olivia St. John, who was revealed to have survived Julian's hit. She too, had entered the witness protection program and returned to Port Charles intent on revenge and as the head of the Jerome mob family. After three months of Olivia's reign of terror, she was arrested and sentenced to Darkham Asylum.
In February 2017, Sam gave birth to her second child with husband, Drew (who was thought to be Jason at the time), a daughter named, Emily Scout. Julian and Ava are no longer associated with the mob anymore.
- Victor Jerome (deceased) - the original founder of the mob family
- Olivia Jerome - Victor's daughter and the most recent Jerome family mob boss
- Julian Jerome - Victor's son and the former Jerome family mob boss
- Evan Jerome, Sr. (deceased) - Victor's son
- Dino Antoinelli (deceased) - Victor's son with mistress Dimitra Antoinelli
- Evan Jerome, Jr. (deceased) - Evan Sr.'s son with his wife Veronica
- Lucas Jones - Julian's son with Cheryl Stansbury; adopted by Bobbie Spencer and Tony Jones at birth
- Ava Cassadine - Victor's daughter with mistress Delia Ryan; in a partnership with her brother, Julian
- Kiki Jerome (deceased) - Ava's daughter with Silas Clay
- Avery Jerome-Corinthos - Ava's daughter with Sonny Corinthos
- Sam McCall - Julian's daughter with Alexis Davis; given up for adoption at birth
- Danny Morgan- Sam's son with husband Jason Morgan; Julian's grandson
- Leo Falconeri - Julian's son with Olivia Falconeri
- Scout Cain - Sam's daughter with husband Drew Cain; Julian's granddaughter
- Luke Spencer - Former financier and Julian's former boss; was the real head of the organization from April 2014 to February 2015; as Evil Luke
- Tim Spencer (deceased) - Luke's father
- Lena Spencer (deceased) - Luke's mother
- Ruby Anderson (deceased) - Luke's aunt and guardian
- Pat Spencer (deceased) - Luke's sister
- Bobbie Spencer - Luke's sister
- Lucky Spencer - Luke's son with wife Laura Webber
- Ethan Lovett - Luke's son with Holly Sutton
- Lulu Spencer - Luke's daughter with wife, Laura
- Valerie Spencer - Pat's daughter
- Carly Corinthos - Bobbie's daughter with John Durant
- B.J. Jones (deceased) - Bobbie's adopted daughter with Tony Jones
- Lucas Jones - Bobbie's adopted son with Tony; actually Julian's son with Cheryl Stansbury
- Cameron Webber - Lucky's adoptive son with wife Elizabeth Webber; Luke's adoptive grandson
- Jake Spencer - Lucky's legal son with wife Elizabeth; Luke's legal grandson
- Aiden Spencer - Lucky's son with wife, Elizabeth; Luke's grandson
- Rocco Falconeri - Lulu's son with husband Dante Falconeri; Luke's grandson
- Michael Corinthos - Carly's son with husband A.J. Quartermaine; Luke's great-nephew
- Morgan Corinthos - Carly's son with husband Sonny Corinthos; Luke's great-nephew
- Josslyn Jacks - Carly's daughter with husband Jasper Jacks
- Charlotte Cassadine - Lulu's daughter with Valentin Cassadine; Luke's granddaughter
- Duke Lavery (deceased) - former brief ally of the family; was an enemy before and after his brief stint working with the mob family
- Military Gambling Ring - a gambling scheme that gets military children hooked on gambling and puts them into debt
- Carlos Rivera (deceased) - enforcer, dubbed an Operations Manager
- Jerry Jacks - associate
- Jordan Ashford - former associate; actually worked undercover for Anna Devane
- Morgan Corinthos (deceased) - former associate
- Ric Lansing - former attorney
- Diane Miller - Ava's attorney
- Mickey Diamond (deceased) - business associate, watched over the organization in Luke's absence
- Kobe (deceased) - a henchman Luke sent to kill Michael Quartermaine in September 2014
- Cesar Faison (deceased) - sent as a Luke decoy under the real Luke's orders in order to trick the PCPD in thinking that he is Julian's boss
- Johnny Zacchara - Luke's associate
- Drew Cain (deceased) - former associate; actually forced to work undercover for Kyle Sloane
- Winston Rudge - Olivia's associate; currently in prison.
- Corinthos mob family
- McKay mob family
- Carter mob family
- Grant Putnam
- Duke Lavery (deceased)
- Anna Devane
- Robert Scorpio
- Olivia St. John
- Connie Falconeri (deceased)
- A.J. Quartermaine (deceased)
- Sonny Corinthos
- Shawn Butler
- Michael Corinthos
- Ned Quartermaine
- Ric Lansing - also Sonny's half-brother
- Jordan Ashford
- Nathan West (deceased)
- Robin Scorpio-Drake
See also
Lavery mob family
|Duke with his father Angus McKay
|General Hospital
|Place(s) of Origin
|Years in PC
|1986-90, 2011, 2012-2013
|Notable members
|Angus McKay, Duke Lavery, Camellia McKay
|Connected families
|Devane, Drake, Jerome, Scorpio
|Estate Information
The Lavery mob family (formerly the McKay mob family) is a fictional mob organization on the ABC soap opera General Hospital first headed by Angus McKay, and later by his son Duke Lavery.
The McKay mob family first arrived in Port Charles in 1986. Duke Lavery was working for the mob, which was headed by Angus McKay. Angus and Duke both spent some time in prison because of their illegal activities. While in prison, it was revealed that Angus was actually Duke's father. Later, a man by the name of Jonathan Lawrence was arrested as the suspect of a hit and run. However, Jonathan was actually out for revenge against Duke and Angus for the murder of his look-alike cousin, Evan Jerome. When Angus committed suicide to end the McKay/Jerome feud once and for all, Angus's daughter Camellia McKay and Duke were put on trial for Evan's murder. They were forced to reveal that Camellia had in fact killed Evan as he raped her. They were acquitted and Camellia left town, which didn't sit well with Evan's widow, Veronica, who later put a hit out on Camellia. Evan's father, Victor, however was able call off the hit.
By 1988, Duke was out of the mob, but his wife Anna Devane was kidnapped by Grant Putnam and Duke turned to the one person he knew had the contacts to find her, his rival Victor Jerome. Duke joined the Jerome mob, but Anna's ex-husband Robert Scorpio found her before Duke did. Duke was then trapped in the Jerome mob. Duke later faked his death in a warehouse explosion and entered the witness protection program. But, soon later a man named Jonathan Paget came to town and claimed to actually be Duke, even though he didn't look or sound like Duke. This man was caught in a shoot out with Julian Jerome in 1990 and died.
In 2012, Jerry Jacks blackmailed Dr. Ewen Keenan into kidnapping Duke's stepdaughter, Robin Scorpio-Drake, and faking her death. It was later revealed that a man appearing to be Duke, with his original face, was holding Robin and had been responsible for her kidnapping. Unbeknownst to most, this man was Cesar Faison who had taken Duke's identity. Faison then returned to Port Charles under the guise of Duke and explained that Jonathan Paget, was an imposter.
It was then revealed that Faison had been in Port Charles the previous December 2011, when Sonny Corinthos' accountant, Bernie Abrahms, was shot. Faison was working with Joe Scully, Jr., who wanted Sonny's assets. Faison had Bernie transfer all of Sonny's assets into his daughter Kristina's name. Joe in turn had his son Trey Mitchell marry Kristina, with the intent to kill her so that Trey would inherit everything.
When Bernie tried to tell Sonny's enforcer, Jason Morgan, about Faison in October of 2012, Joe shoots Bernie. Jason attempts to rescue Bernie and shoots Joe in self-defense. However Faison arrives shoots Jason, later kicking his body into the harbor. Bernie died from his gunshot wounds and Jason was presumed dead after divers were unable to recover his body from the water. Joe also died the next day from his injuries.
In November 2012, it was revealed that the real Duke, was actually alive, and being held hostage by Faison. Faison was only posing as Duke to get close to Duke's wife, Anna, with whom he has always been obsessed.
After being rescued and returning to Port Charles in 2013, Duke joins the Corinthos organization to help take down the Jeromes.
On May 1, 2015, Duke was shot in the stomach by Carlos Rivera under the orders of Julian Jerome. On May 2, Duke died of blood loss as a result of being shot.
- Angus McKay (deceased)
- Duke Lavery (deceased) - son of Angus
- Camellia McKay - believed daughter of Angus
- Griffin Munro - Duke's son
- Anna Devane - Duke's ex-wife
- Robin Scorpio-Drake - Duke's ex-stepdaughter
- Corinthos mob family
- Scully mob family - Worked with Faison
- Bernie Abrahms (deceased) - Threatened by Faison into helping him
- Jerry Jacks - Had Robin kidnapped for Faison with the help from Ewen Keenan
- Ewen Keenan (deceased) - Had Robin kidnapped for Faison with the help from Jerry Jacks
- Dr. Liesl Obrecht - Worked for Faison
- Jonathan Paget (deceased) - Stole Duke's identity and posed as him
- Cesar Faison (deceased) - Stole Duke's identity and posed as him
- Joe Scully, Jr. (deceased) - Partnered with Faison
- Angel Moran- Dukes right hand man in the mid eighties during operation "tumble dry".
See also
Rosco mob family
|Faith and Ric
|General Hospital
|Years in PC
|Notable members
|Rosco, Faith Rosco, Ned Ashton, Ric Lansing, Lorenzo Alcazar, Zander Smith, Niko Dane
|Connected families
|Alcazar, Corinthos, Lansing, Morgan, Quartermaine, Ward
|Estate Information
The Rosco mob family was a fictional mob organization on the ABC soap opera General Hospital headed by Rosco, and later by his widow Faith Rosco.
Faith Rosco arrived in Port Charles in late 2002 to take down Sonny Corinthos, who had Faith's husband killed. Due to her husband's death, Faith has access to limited funds and often required a partner in her vendetta. Rosco quickly teamed up with Ned Ashton, who shared just as much hate for Sonny. However this was short lived as Faith, nearly brought Ned into a mob war, quickly ending their partnership.
Faith then teamed up with Ric Lansing with whom she had a one night stand. After Ric married Elizabeth Webber, Faith realized she had true feelings for him. She then pushed a pregnant Elizabeth down a flight of stairs, and had a miscarriage. When Faith poisoned Elizabeth, Ric had her arrested, to avoid going to prison Faith made a deal with the FBI to bring down Lorenzo Alcazar. Part of the deal was to pose as Sonny's mistress.
After turning on Sonny and later Alcazar. Faith begun working on her own plan, and at the next meeting of the five families, Faith had them all killed. She gloated about her accomplishment to Sonny, until Sonny informed her his enforcer Jason Morgan survived the shooting. Faith panicked and offered to work with him against Alcazar. Sonny refused and pulled out his gun - but he could not seem to pull the trigger.
Rosco went to Alcazar to help her leave town. Alcazar secretly planned to blow up the yacht she was on and frame Jason and Sonny for her murder. Alcazar's plan failed when the PCPD found Faith alive in the harbor. She was arrested once again, and begged her ex Justus Ward to help her. Justus agreed, as the two have had a turbulent past. When a prison inmate stabbed Faith, she was rushed to General Hospital , and from there escaped. Justus hid her in the basement of the Quartermaine mansion but Faith soon met her end in March 2005 where she was shot and killed by an assassin hired by A.J. Quartermaine .
- Rosco (deceased)
- Faith Rosco (deceased) - widow of Rosco
- Justus Ward (deceased) - Ex-lover of Faith
- Ned Quartermaine - Ex-lover of Faith
- Ric Lansing - Ex-lover of Faith
- Ned Quartermaine - former partner of Faith
- Ric Lansing - former partner of Faith
- Lorenzo Alcazar (deceased) - former partner of Faith
- Zander Smith (deceased) - former bodyguard
- Niko Dane (deceased) - former assassin
- Corinthos-Morgan mob family
- Alcazar mob family
- Sonny Corinthos
- Jason Morgan
- Lorenzo Alcazar
- Carly Corinthos
- Reese Marshall (deceased)
- Skye Chandler-Quartermaine
- Elizabeth Webber Baldwin
- A.J. Quartermaine (deceased)
- Emily Quartermaine (deceased)
- Courtney Matthews (deceased)
Ruiz mob family
|Manny Ruiz
|General Hospital
|Place(s) of Origin
|Miami, Florida
|Years in PC
|Notable members
|Hector Ruiz, Javier Ruiz, Manny Ruiz, Mateo Ruiz
|Estate Information
The Ruiz mob family was a fictional mob organization on the ABC soap opera General Hospital headed by Hector Ruiz, and later by his son Manny Ruiz.
The Ruiz family arrived in Port Charles, New York in 2005. Hector Ruiz was originally head of the family, however when his son, Javier, was shot and killed by rival mobster Jason Morgan, Hector refused to retaliate. In turn, Hector's second son Manny, killed him and took over the organization. Manny also became fixated on Jason's girlfriend Sam McCall, stalking her at every opportunity. Ultimately, Manny died in 2006 when Jason threw him off the roof of General Hospital.
After Manny's death, a man who looked exactly like him came to town; he even had identical tattoos. Sam was afraid it was Manny; that he wasn't really dead. It was revealed however that it was Manny's identical twin brother Mateo, who got away from the mob and became a Catholic priest. He eventually left town in 2007 and hasn't been heard from since.
- Hector Ruiz (deceased) - original head of organization
- Javier Ruiz (deceased) - son of Hector
- Manny Ruiz (deceased) - son of Hector, identical twin of Mateo
- Mateo Ruiz - son of Hector, identical twin of Manny
Scully mob family
|Joe and Sonny
|General Hospital
|Place(s) of Origin
|Bensonhurst, New York
|Years in PC
|1994-95, 2012
|Notable members
|Joe Scully, Joe Scully, Jr., Sonny Corinthos, Cesar Faison
|Connected families
|Corinthos, Falconeri, Jacks, Quartermaine
|Known for
|Pulling Sonny into organized crime
|Estate Information
The Scully mob family was a fictional mob organization on the ABC soap opera General Hospital originally headed by Joe Scully, who was responsible for pulling Sonny Corinthos into organized crime. It was most recently headed by Joe Scully, Jr. before his death in 2012.
Sonny Corinthos grew up in Bensonhurst with his mother and stepfather. His stepfather was abusive and Sonny left home at sixteen. He met Joe Scully, who took him in and taught him the business. Joe groomed Sonny into a mobster, while Joe's son Joe Scully, Jr. grew jealous of Sonny's relationship with his father. One day, Sonny returned home to visit his mother and found that Deke had beaten her very badly. He confided in Joe, and Joe had him killed.
Joe sent Joe Jr. to Atlantic City to run The Sea Breeze strip club he owned. One of the strippers there was Theresa, the sister of then-FBI Agent John McBain. John tried to get Theresa to quit her job at the club, but she ended up dead. Sonny was found by the police standing over her body with a gun. Sonny, however, claims that Joe Jr. had actually killed Theresa and Joe Sr. had Sonny take the fall for it, while he sent Joe Jr. to New Orleans. Joe Jr. claims that Sonny did indeed kill Theresa.
In 1995, Joe, now in Port Charles, causes problems for Sonny. Sonny, who has always thought of Joe as a father-figure, now realizes that he has betrayed him and is no longer on the same side as him. Lucy Coe is working with Sonny and Luke Spencer to scam Joe, and Joe kidnaps Lucy. Luke, Sonny, and Damian Smith save her, but Joe fires his gun at Sonny. He misses, however, and hits Sonny's father Mike instead. Sonny, in return, fires his gun and shoots Joe, killing him.
In 2012, Sonny's girlfriend Connie Falconeri tells him that Joe Jr. had raped her and got her pregnant when she was 17. Meanwhile, John McBain blames Sonny for his sister's death, but Sonny tells John that Joe Jr. was the one who killed Theresa, not him. John goes to New Orleans to find Joe Jr., and Sonny sends his right hand man Jason Morgan there to find him as well. Jason ends up bringing Joe Jr. back to Port Charles.
Sonny ties Joe Jr. up in his coffee warehouse and is about to kill him when John McBain comes in with the police and has Joe Jr. arrested for Theresa's murder. Joe Jr. is then extradited to Atlantic City and put in jail. Joe Jr. tells his son Trey Mitchell (aka Joey III) that he is innocent of the murder and that Sonny is actually the one who is guilty. He also tells him that Sonny took his inheritance from his father--money, power, and the business. He instructs his son to get close to Sonny's daughter Kristina and marry her so that they can have access to everything they lost to Sonny. Later, Joe Jr. kidnaps Kristina and tries to kill her so that his son Trey will inherit everything since he is Kristina's husband (and they had funneled all of Sonny's assets to Kristina). Trey, however, saves Kristina when he shoots his father. Joe Jr. then goes on the run from the police. It is later revealed that Joe is working for a man who appears to be Duke Lavery, but is actually Cesar Faison in disguise. In October 2012, Jason Morgan shots Joe Jr. in self defense; and Faison, disguised as Lavery, later tries to shoot him again, but Joe runs away. Joe Jr. later dies from his injuries.
- Joe Scully (deceased) - Original head of the organization
- Joe Scully, Jr. (deceased) - Joe's son
- Trey Mitchell (deceased) - Joe Jr.'s son
- Kristina Corinthos-Davis - Trey's ex-wife
- Jerry Jacks - Worked with Joe Jr.
- Cesar Faison (deceased) - Posed as Duke Lavery
- Starr Manning - Trey's roommate and friend
- Tracy Quartermaine - Joe Jr.'s on-again-off-again lover
- Sonny Corinthos - Former associate
- Corinthos-Morgan mob family
- Lucy Coe
- Sonny Corinthos
- Connie Falconeri (deceased)
- Jason Morgan
- John McBain
- Damian Smith (deceased)
- Luke Spencer
Smith mob family
|Frank, Luke and Jennifer
|General Hospital
|Years in PC
|1979-96, 2015
|Notable members
|Frank Smith, Sonny Corinthos, Luke Spencer, Roy DiLucca, Damian Smith, Jennifer Smith
|Connected families
|Corinthos, Eckert, Spencer
|Estate Information
The Smith mob family was a fictional mob organization on the ABC soap opera General Hospital headed by Frank Smith.
In 1979, Frank Smith hired Luke Spencer to manage his money-laundering operation, the Campus Disco and groomed him to become a mobster. Frank ordered Luke to execute a "hit" on senate candidate Mitch Williams. Luke's pal and sister beau Roy DiLucca decided to carry out the hit himself. After the foiled attempt on Mitch's life, Roy was presumed dead after Mitch's security agents shot at him. He supposedly dies in Bobbie Spencer's arms, only to return twenty years later after a long stretch in Pentonville federal prison.
Luke's girlfriend Laura Webber later heard an incriminating conversation of Frank's, which caused her to be marked for death. Frank told Luke that if he married his daughter, Jennifer Smith, he would spare Laura's life. Laura tried to convince Luke to break off his engagement to Jennifer. However, Luke knew that doing so would get him, Laura and their loved-ones killed. The day Luke and Jennifer's wedding was to take place on Frank Smith's yacht, Scott Baldwin pulled Luke out of the ceremony and started beating him. Luke fell overboard and was thought to have drowned. He later resurfaced and with Laura's help came up with a plan that involved the book of mob contacts that they had stolen from Frank earlier.
Luke and Laura went on the run with Frank's henchmen hot on their trail. One of the men named "Hitch" ended up befriending the two and could not kill them. The other hit man attempted to complete the hit but was discovered and killed by Hitch. It turned out that with Frank's black book, Luke and Laura did indeed have the evidence they needed to send Frank to jail. Frank wound up in prison where he continued to run his organization. In 1984, Frank framed Luke for a murder that was committed in Mexico and his best friend Robert Scorpio helped Luke was clear his name. Laura then announced her first pregnancy and they went on the run once more. Frank never stopped searching for Luke and Laura, and continued to track them for years, even after their son Lucky was born. He also hired Sonny Corinthos as his front man.
In 1993, Frank's hit men track Luke and Laura to the Triple L Diner in Canada and blew up their truck thinking they were inside. For safety reasons Luke and Laura send their son Lucky Spencer back to Port Charles to live with Luke's "aunt" Ruby Anderson. Frank's men found Lucky staying with his friend/cousin Sly Eckert. They also find Sly's father, Bill Eckert, who is the spitting image of Luke. Bill is shot and mortally wounded in a case of mistaken identity. He dies in Luke's arms. Luke and Laura, with their son Lucky, decided to hide in plain sight, back in Port Charles Frank's son, Damian Smith, speaking on behalf of his father, promises Luke that he and his family will be safe if Luke will help smuggle people into the country, with Sonny as a liaison. Luke agreed to the Smith's demands until he can figure out how to get rid of Frank. It turns out to be no easy task and puts him back in touch with a much-changed Jennifer.
When Frank ordered Sonny to have Luke taken out, Sonny learned that Luke was a family man with another daughter on the way. He then joined allegiances with Luke and agreed that Smith needed to be dealt with once and for all. To get him out in the open, they both help spring Frank from prison in 1994. However when Luke attempted to kill him, Laura walked in and Frank managed to escape using her as a human shield. Lucky follows his father to a meeting with Frank's henchman and is shot but makes a full recovery. Finally, Luke tracks Smith down to Puerto Rico and is followed by Sean Donely, who had hoped to take Smith back into custody. Sonny, who was already in Puerto Rico, arranged Smith to meet him in a cemetery for a final showdown; however Luke arrives in his place. Sean manages to tail Frank to the cemetery but is quickly discovered and shot. Just as Frank was moving in to kill Sean, Luke appeared and shoots him dead. After Frank's death, Sonny takes over the Smith organization.
Frank's son Damian was in town from 1994 to 1996.
Jennifer returned to town in 2015 and Frank was revealed to be alive until he was killed by Luke.
- Frank Smith (deceased) - head of the organization
- Damian Smith (deceased) - Frank's son
- Jennifer Smith - Frank's daughter
Trujillo mob family
|General Hospital
|Years in PC
|Notable members
|Rudy Trujillo, Old Man Trujillo
|Connected families
|Estate Information
|Port Charles, New York
The Trujillo mob family is a fictional mob organization on the ABC soap opera General Hospital headed by Old Man Trujillo, and possibly his son or grandson Rudy Trujillo in the 2010s.
In February 2011, Jason confronted the Trujillo crime family, who they had a truce with, because they had facilitated Theo's stay in Port Charles. Rudy Trujillo told Jason that Johnny Zacchara had been the one to plant the bomb in the limo explosion that hurt Sam.
In May, Anthony told Jason that the hit woman who killed Brandon told him she was hired by Old Man Trujillo. Anthony pretended to lose track of the conversation. Jason reminded him they were talking about Trujillo. Anthony said that Trujillo was using Michael and Abby to pit the Corinthos and Zacchara families against each other. Trujillo hoped this would start a mob war when Sonny went after the Zaccharas for trying to frame Abby for Brandon's murder.
In July, Jason assigns Spinelli (in his Jackal P.I. persona) to keep an eye on Luzetta's Bakery to keep Spinelli distracted. Jason says there's another crime family who are even more dangerous than the Zaccharas in town. They are called the Trujillos. Jason suspects the bakery is being used as a front.
Later Spinelli sees Johnny with a mysterious package leaving the bakery and suspects him of working with the Trujillos.
In August, Jason tells Sonny that the agreement with the Trujillos is holding. Sonny expects Old Man Trujillo to double cross them with Anthony. Jason says the man just wants to be left alone. Sonny thinks Trujillo wants Sonny and Anthony to attack each other and then he will move in.
Sonny tells Jason to make sure that Anthony isn't working with Old Man Trujillo and that Jason will stop any shipments that are landing. Sonny doesn't want to use the warehouse because he is worried Anthony will sabotage it.
Later Sonny accuses Johnny of running a drug operation. Johnny refuses to answer. Sonny infers that by denying any involvement with the Trujillos drug ring, that means Johnny is saying that Anthony is behind the whole operation. Sonny will have to deal with Anthony.
In September, Lucky tells Dante that Detective Sly Thomas got some info on Joey Bruzetta. He was just released from prison. Turns out he was a cellmate with one of the Trujillos.
In September, Johnny meets Joey's partner J.T. in an alley at Pier 14. J.T. was expecting Joey to show up. As Johnny just killed Joey he says Joey will likely be late. J.T. doesn't want any part of what went on between Johnny and Joey. Johnny tells J.T. that he works for Johnny now and will do what Johnny says or he will die.
Johnny wants the details about the other men from Pentonville (Joey and Darryl) who were involved in the bakery scheme. J.T. is worried that Anthony will kill him if he talks but he admits that Anthony is behind the whole plan. Johnny also wants to know the setup. J.T. explains that they are hiding drugs in the flour at Luzetta's Bakery. Specifically the bags of flour with stars where the apostrophes should be in the word "Luzetta's".
There is also a boat with uncut drugs in the harbor they can't get to and a retread at the old packaging house on Pier 14. Rudy Trujillo is the contact. Johnny wants J.T. to call Rudy and arrange a meeting. Before Rudy arrives, Johnny gives J.T. a gun for protection. Johnny calls Rudy's name and forces J.T. to shoot Rudy. Rudy shoots back and hits J.T. in the abdomen. Johnny tells a dying J.T. that he lied when he told J.T. that everything would be okay.
Later Lucky tells Mac that J.T. and Rudy's bodies were found at the packaging plant on Pier 14. Lucky and Mac both think it is a little too convenient and was likely a setup. Johnny goes to Anthony and tells him he cleaned up his mess. Joey, J.T., and Rudy are dead. He made it appear that someone wanted to silence J.T. and Rudy before they started talking. He planned to frame Sonny by putting drugs from the boat in the harbor into the Corinthos-Morgan coffee warehouse.
Wu mob family
|Kim and Chaing Wu
|General Hospital
|Years in PC
|1985, 2015-present
|Notable members
|Chaing Wu, Kim Wu, Nina Wu
|Known for
|The Asian Quarter
|Estate Information
The Wu mob family was a fictional mob organization on the ABC soap opera General Hospital headed by Mr. Chaing Wu.
In 1985, Sean Donely steals an Aztec treasure and intends to sell it to a Chinese man named Mr. Chaing Wu. Donely's plan, however, is foiled by Robert Scorpio. Two stolen jade Buddhas from the treasure are then given to Mr. Wu by the New York police; but he is then forced to give them to their rightful owner, a wise old Chinese man called The Ancient One.
The Ancient One explains that the true valuable part of the Buddhas is actually the black pearls within their eyes. He plans to sell the pearls to finance the acquisition of the Port Charles cannery for his Asian people who are being oppressed by an unfair labor system. The pearls, however, are gone. Mr. Wu is actually the oppressor and has had the pearls stolen. He did not, however, know how valuable they are. When he hears of their value, he instructs his grandson Kim Wu to get them back.
Mr. Wu assumes that Robert and Anna must have taken the pearls. When Robert returns home one day, he finds a young girl named Robin. She says that she lives in New York and that an Asian chauffeur had picked her up at camp and dropped her off at Robert's house. The chauffeur had told her to wait there for her grandmother to pick her up. Robert leaves Robin with Frisco and Felicia and heads to New York in search of Robin's grandmother Filomena. In New York, Anna arrives home to find her apartment ransacked and Filomena tied up. It turns out that Anna is actually Robin's mother, but she doesn't want anyone to know, not even Robin. Robin only knows her as a friend named Luv.
While Robin is with Frisco and Felicia, an Asian man attempts to grab her doll while walking on the water front. Mr. Wu is enraged and fears that Frisco might be able to identify his grandson Kim as the thief, so he orders Frisco's execution. He has Frisco's drink poisoned, but then Frisco's friend Josh drinks it instead, and dies. Robert then realizes that Robin is Anna's daughter, and that he is her father.
Sean Donely is pardoned by the governor and released. He then goes to help Mr. Wu find the pearls. Robin's doll is then stolen by an Asian delivery woman. An Asian man named Tey is killed when he is hit by a car, and Frisco and Robert decide that Frisco will go undercover. Frisco poses as the driver that killed Tey because he is eager to find out who has killed his friend Josh.
Robin then overhears that Anna and Robert are her parents. The lie upsets her and she runs away. She finds her doll at General Hospital, and then meets The Ancient One in the Asian Quarter. The Ancient One tells her about the black pearls, and she tells him that she knows where they are, in her doll's eyes. The Ancient One then gives the pearls to Olin, a kindly Asian woman, for safekeeping. The Ancient One gets information from Robin about how to get her home, but when they go to meet Anna and Buzz Stryker, they are kidnapped by Kim.
Robert and Anna set up headquarters in the Bamboo Bar to find Robin, not knowing that Robin and The Ancient One are actually being kept in a secret room at the bar. Robin and The Ancient One are finally rescued by Robert and Anna just before Thanksgiving. The Ancient One exchanges the pearls for cash and the Asian community purchases the cannery.
Robert and Sean then join with The Ancient One's grandson Yank (also Tey's brother) to take down Mr. Wu, who has been operating an illegal drug-selling operation. Yank kills Kim, who had planned to blow up the cannery. Kim's sister, Jade, is devastated to find out that her lover Yank killed her brother, and she suddenly goes blind. Mr. Wu then confesses his wrongdoing to Jade before being carted off to prison; and, being free of shame and guilt, her eyesight is restored.
The Wu Family returns in 2015 at a Mob summit in New York City called by Sonny Corinthos. A representative of the Wu Family named Ms. Wu was present.
- Chaing Wu (deceased) - Head of the organization
- Kim Wu (deceased) - Grandson of Chaing Wu
- Jade Soong - Granddaughter of Chaing Wu, sister of Kim
- Yank Se Chung - Husband of Jade
- Brad Cooper - Son of Kim, given up for adoption
- Nina Wu - Head of the Triad for the Wu family and member of the Five Families
- Wiley Cooper-Jones (deceased) - Late adoptive son of Brad
See also
Zacchara mob family
|Anthony, Claudia, Johnny
|General Hospital
|Place(s) of Origin
| New York, New York
Milan, Italy
|Years in PC
|2007-13, 2014-15
|Current region
|Port Charles, New York
|Notable members
|Anthony Zacchara, Claudia Zacchara, Johnny Zacchara, Sonny Corinthos, Dante Falconeri, Ian Devlin, Logan Hayes, Ric Lansing, Trevor Lansing, Ethan Lovett, Carlos Rivera, Luke Spencer
|Connected families
|Baldwin, Corinthos, Eckert, Falconeri, Lansing, Morgan, Quartermaine, Spencer, Zacchara
|Estate Information
The Zacchara mob family was a fictional mob organization on the ABC soap opera General Hospital first headed by Anthony Zacchara, and currently by his grandson Johnny Zacchara. They are a rival of the Corinthos-Morgan mob family and later the Jerome mob family.
Anthony first brought his mob business to Port Charles in 2007 and started an instant rivalry with Sonny Corinthos. Anthony's "son" (later revealed to actually be his grandson) came to town shortly after. Anthony's daughter (later revealed to be Johnny's mother) came to town in 2008.
Sonny kidnapped Johnny and held him locked up in a room for some time. In retaliation, Claudia put a hit out on Sonny. She hired Dr. Ian Devlin to do the job, but he missed and hit Sonny's young son Michael instead. Michael slipped into a coma and then Anthony decided to forge a truce between his organization and Sonny's. The deal was for Sonny to marry Claudia to connect the two families. The two were married and Sonny had no idea she had been the one responsible for his son's shooting. A year later, Michael came out of his coma and the truth was eventually revealed. Claudia, knowing Sonny was going to have her killed, managed to kidnap a pregnant Carly to escape at gunpoint. Just as Claudia delivered Carly's daughter Josslyn and planned to take her for herself, Michael found them and accidentally killed Claudia with an axe.
In 2010, Sonny's seventeen-year-old daughter Kristina wanted to get back at her father, so she convinced Johnny to pretend to date her, knowing it would infuriate her father. Johnny reluctantly went along with it, and when Sonny found out that they were "dating," and Johnny lead Sonny to believe they were sleeping together, he wanted Johnny dead even more. Sonny had a bomb planted in Johnny's car, but what he didn't expect was for Kristina to be with him when it went off. Kristina and Johnny both survived, but it caused an even bigger rift between them.
In 2012, Sonny blew Johnny's world apart when he revealed to him that Claudia was his mother, not his sister as he had been told his entire life. Anthony had pimped out Claudia to his business associate, fellow mob boss Gino Soleito, when she was a young teenager, and Claudia got pregnant. Johnny became furious with Anthony after learning this, and eventually shot him multiple times, killing him. Johnny then framed Anthony's wife, Tracy and her ex-husband, Luke Spencer for the murder. In early 2013 Johnny was sentenced to 20 years in Pentonville for the murders of Cole, Hope and Anthony.
In 2014, Sonny goes to Pentonville for murdering A.J. Quartermaine and Johnny kidnaps Sonny's brother, Ric. He reveals to Sonny that he wants to create the Port Charles Mob Alliance by taking over his and Julian Jerome's territories. Sonny needs to hand over his territory to Johnny or else Ric will be killed by Johnny's associate, Carlos Rivera. Ric is later saved from Carlos by Shawn Butler and Jordan Ashford. In 2015, Johnny tricked the police into thinking that there was not enough evidence to convict him for Anthony's murder, so he is released from Pentonville. Carlos had Julian falsely confess to Anthony's murder or else he had to kill him. Luke agrees to be Johnny's boss and sends him to kill Julian. Johnny orders his thugs to kill Julian, but this fails when Sonny and Julian kill two of them and the others are dragged out of the cell by security. Later, he reunites with Lulu and Maxie and starts to bond with them, which angers former Zacchara mob soldier Dante Falconeri and Det. Nathan West. When Sonny, Julian, Ava, and Franco escape from Pentonville, Luke sends Johnny and Carlos to take them all out. The two manage to injure them in a car accident. When the four wake up, Johnny and Carlos engage Sonny and Julian into a shootout while Ava and Franco escape through the back. Johnny shoots Julian in the leg and prepares to shoot Sonny, but Julian shoots Johnny in the shoulder. Meanwhile, Carlos shoots Ava in the shoulder and knocks her off a bridge before escaping with a wounded Johnny. The two later go to Sabrina Santiago's apartment where Sabrina treats Johnny for his gunshot wound. When Nathan and the police arrive, Johnny escapes through the window as Nathan catches and arrests Carlos. Johnny later goes to Maxie's apartment where she hands her car over to him. Johnny uses Maxie's car to flee town.
Johnny later returned to PC in 2016 and was eventually caught by the PCPD and thus sent to prison again.
- Anthony Zacchara (deceased) - original head of the organization
- Claudia Zacchara-Corinthos (deceased) - Anthony's daughter
- Johnny Zacchara - Claudia's son, raised by Anthony
- Connie Falconeri (deceased) — Johnny's wife
- Sonny Corinthos - Claudia's widower
- Tracy Quartermaine - Anthony's widow
- Olivia Falconeri - Former friend and ex-lover of Johnny
- Lulu Spencer - Former friend and ex-lover of Johnny
- Carly Corinthos - Former friend and ex-lover of Johnny
- Lisa Niles (deceased) - Ex-lover of Johnny and former friend of Anthony
- Ric Lansing - Ex-lover of Claudia
- Luke Spencer - Johnny's boss from 2014-15
- Ethan Lovett - former mob lieutenant
- Dante Falconeri - former mob soldier (actually undercover for the NYPD)
- Ian Devlin (deceased) - former assassin
- Logan Hayes (deceased) - former bodyguard for Anthony
- Ric Lansing - former attorney
- Trevor Lansing (deceased) - former attorney
- Skye Chandler-Quartermaine - fed Anthony information on Tracy
- Delores Padilla - former insider for the PCPD
- Steve Webber - Helped Johnny Zacchara sell organs on the black market after Johnny blackmailed him
- Carlos Rivera - part of Johnny's plot to form the Port Charles Mob Alliance
See also
- ↑ http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x45e1wn_general-hospital-4-26-16-42616-4262016-gh-4-26-2016_news... Stated by Julian on April 26, 2016.
|v - e
|Main families
|Alcazar · Baldwin · Brewer · Cassadine · Corinthos · Drake · Hardy · Jacks · Jerome · Jones · Quartermaine · Scorpio · Spencer · Taylor · Ward · Webber · Zacchara
|Minor families
|Ashford · Barrett · Barrington · Bauer · Benson · Campbell · Chase · Cerullo · Clay · Collins · Davis · Devane · Eckert · Faison · Falconeri · Giambetti · Juarez · Lansing · McCall · Moore · Morgan · Ramirez · Rivera/Santiago · Romanov · Westbourne
|Mob families
|Alcazar · Balkan · Corinthos · Jerome · McKay/Lavery · Rosco · Ruiz · Scully · Smith · Trujillo · Wu · Zacchara
|Outside Port Charles
|Chandler · Cramer · Lord · Manning


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Friday, October 31, 2008
Today, the AP is reporting that according to a close aide to Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, the Iraqi government "wants to eliminate any chance U.S. forces will stay" in Iraq "after 2011 under a proposed security pact." But also yesterday, al-Maliki took issue with calling the agreement a "security pact":
Al-Maliki, meanwhile, met with a leading Shiite politician late Thursday to discuss the deal. Government television quoted the prime minister as describing the agreement as a framework for the pullout of U.S. forces and the regulation of "their activities within the rest of the time they're here."
"We don't call it a security pact but an agreement to withdraw the troops and organize their activities during the period of their presence in Iraq," al-Maliki was quoted as saying.
The top U.S. commander in Iraq, Gen. Ray Odierno, said yesterday that "there is a 20 percent to 30 percent chance" the two sides will come to an agreement. Without an agreement or an extension of the UN mandate authorizing the presence of U.S. troops, the American military "would have to suspend all operations in Iraq" after Dec. 31, 2009.
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"GOP Selective Memory Loss": A Fleeting Illusory Democratic Congressional Supermajority
It's in Republicans' interest right now to characterize the Democrats' congressional majority in 2009 and 2010 as enormous. As the argument goes, President Obama could get literally anything he wanted from Congress in his first two years, so Democrats don't have any excuses.
The stimulus wasn't big enough? Blame Dems; they had supermajorities in both chambers for two years. There's no comprehensive immigration reform? Blame Dems; they had supermajorities in both chambers for two years. There was only one big jobs bill? Blame Dems; they had supermajorities in both chambers for two years. And so on.
The right continued to push the line over the weekend.
Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace falsely claimed Democrats had a 60-vote Senate majority for the first 2 years of his presidency.
"For the first 2 years he had a filibuster proof majority in the Senate," Wallace told LA Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, making the case that Obama has only himself to blame for his poor economic record.
I realize memories can be short in the political world, and 2010 seems like a long time ago, but it's unnerving when professionals who presumably keep up with current events are this wrong. Even if various pundits lost track of the specific details, I'd at least expect Fox News hosts to remember Sen. Scott Brown's (R) special-election win in Massachusetts.
Since memories are short, let's take a brief stroll down memory lane, giving Wallace a hand with the recent history he's forgotten.
In January 2009, there were 56 Senate Democrats and two independents who caucused with Democrats. This combined total of 58 included Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.), whose health was failing and was unable to serve. As a practical matter, in the early months of Obama's presidency, the Senate Democratic caucus had 57 members on the floor for day-to-day legislating.
In April 2009, Pennsylvania's Arlen Specter switched parties. This meant there were 57 Democrats, and two independents who caucused with Democrats, for a caucus of 59. But with Kennedy ailing, there were still "only" 58 Democratic caucus members in the chamber.
In May 2009, Sen. Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.) was hospitalized, bringing the number of Senate Dems in the chamber down to 57.
In July 2009, Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) was finally seated after a lengthy recount/legal fight. At that point, the Democratic caucus reached 60, but two of its members, Kennedy and Byrd, were unavailable for votes.
In August 2009, Kennedy died, and Democratic caucus again stood at 59.
In September 2009, Sen. Paul Kirk (D-Mass.) filled Kennedy's vacancy, bringing the caucus back to 60, though Byrd's health continued to deteriorate.
In January 2010, Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.) replaced Kirk, bringing the Democratic caucus back to 59 again.
In June 2010, Byrd died, and the Democratic caucus fell to 58, where it stood until the midterms. [Update: Jonathan Bernstein reminds me that Byrd's replacement was a Dem. He's right, though this doesn't change the larger point.]
Wallace believes the Dems' "filibuster proof majority in the Senate" lasted 24 months. In reality, he's off by 20 months, undermining the entire thesis pushed so aggressively by Republicans.
By: Steve Benen, The Maddow Blog, September 3, 2012
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24 Ice Skating Rinks in Western Mass
Note that the availability of Outdoor Rinks will not only vary from year to year, but they also will vary daily according to temperature and snow fall.
- [AMHERST] Mullins Memorial Center 413-545-3990
Skate Rentals Available, Snack Bar
- [AMHERST] Orr Rink at Amherst College 413-542-7950
- [BLANFORD] Watson Park on Main Street. Outdoor rink. (No Skate Rentals Available)
- [CONWAY] Ball park as an Outdoor rink. Lighting at night. (No Skate Rentals Available)
- [EASTHAMPTON] Lossone Rink at Williston Northampton School (No Skate Rentals Available) Public skate times are every Sunday in the winter from 3-5pm and are organized by the Easthampton PRD. 413-529-1440
- [FLORENCE] Florence Civic Center Outdoors Ice Skating (No Skate Rentals Available)
- [GOSHEN] DAR State Park Outdoors Ice Skating (No Skate Rentals Available; Warming Hut)
- [GREENFIELD] Collins/Moylan Skating Rink 413-772-6891
Skate Rentals Available, Snack Bar
- [GREENFIELD] Beacon Field Outdoor Ice Skating Rink. (No Skate Rentals) Beacon Street & Gerrett Street.
- [HOLYOKE] Fitzpatrick Arena 413-532-2929
- [HOLYOKE] Community Field. Outdoors Ice skating. Admission $3/person. Limited skate rentals $2/person. Staffed by Parks & Rec. Ice is resurfaced. Restrooms, warming house, & lockers. 2013 schedule: Fridays, 6pm – 9pm; Saturdays, 12pm – 4pm & 6pm – 9pm; Sundays 12pm – 4pm. Located off Cherry Street at 1 Community Field Road. Weather dependent. 413-322-5620
- [HUNTINGTON] Outdoor Ice Skating Rink on the Town Common (No Skate Rentals)
- [LENOX] Outdoor Ice Rink at Cranwell Resort, Spa and Golf Club. Day passes and skate rental available. 413-637-1364
- [MONTEREY] Monterey Outdoor Ice Pavilion. (No Skate Rentals Available) 413-528-1443 x248
- [NORTH ADAMS] Vietnam Veterans Memorial Rink 413-664-8185
- [NORTHAMPTON] Smith College Outdoor Ice Skating (No Skate Rentals Available) 413-585-2400
- [PITTSFIELD] Pittsfield Boys & Girls Club Skating Arena 413-448-8258
- [SPRINGFIELD] Smead Ice Arena 413-781-2599
- [SPRINGFIELD] Cyr Arena 413-787-6438
- [SHEFFIELD] Berkshire School – Rovenski Rink
- [STURBRIDGE] Old Sturbridge Village Ice Skating Outdoors in the Center Village (No Skate Rentals Available)
- [WILLIAMSTOWN] Lansing Chapman Rink at Williams College. 76 Latham St. 413-597-3131
- [WESTFIELD] Amelia Park Arena 413-568-2503 Skate Rentals, Two Rink Facility
- [WEST SPRINGFIELD] Olympia Ice Center 413-736-8100
- [WILLIAMSBURG] Burgy Ice Rink. Outdoors. 16 Main Street (Route 9). (No Skate Rentals Available)
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- Never go onto the ice alone.
- Always keep your pets on a leash. If a pet falls through the ice, do not attempt a rescue – go for help.
- Beware of ice covered with snow. Snow can insulate ice and keep it strong, but it also can insulate the ice and keep it from freezing. Snow also can hide cracks as well as weak and open ice.
- Ice formed over flowing water (including springs under the surface) is generally weaker than ice over still water.
- Ice seldom freezes or thaws at a uniform rate. It can be a foot thick in one spot or an inch thick in another.
- If a companion falls through the ice and you are unable to reach that person from shore, throw something to them (a rope, tree branch, even jumper cables from the car, etc.). If this doesn't work, go or phone for help before you also become a victim. Get medical assistance for the victim immediately.
- If you fall in, try not to panic. Turn toward the direction you came from. Place your hands and arms on the unbroken surface, working forward by kicking your feet. Once the ice is solid enough to hold you, and you can pull yourself out, remain lying on the ice (do not stand; lying down spreads your weight across a wider area, lessening the weight on any one spot) and roll away from the hole. Crawl back the way you came, keeping your weight distributed, until you return to solid ice or ground.
- As the season progresses, plan accordingly and use caution, as the condition of older ice greatly varies and is subject to rapidly changing conditions.
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D-backs appear excited for Australia trip
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- Dodgers pitcher Zack Greinke may have "zero excitement" about the coming trip to Australia to play the D-backs, but the feeling in the Arizona clubhouse appears to be quite different.
"That's his opinion," D-backs left fielder Mark Trumbo said of Greinke, who told ESPNLosAngeles.com that "I would say there is absolutely zero excitement for it. There just isn't any excitement to it. I can't think of one reason to be excited for it."
"I think it's going to be a cool thing," Trumbo continued. "That's just personal. There are going to be some tougher things that come with it, there's going to be a lot of travel and some adjusting, but I think more than anything it's just cool to be able to bring the game over there."
The D-backs and the Dodgers will play two regular season games starting March 22 in Sydney.
For D-backs first baseman Paul Goldschmidt, who finished second in the National League Most Valuable Player voting last year, this will be his second trip to Australia in five months. Goldschmidt traveled to Sydney to help promote the game last November.
"This has nothing to do with [Greinke's] comments, because I haven't heard them and I'm not going to comment on anything he said," Goldschmidt said. "But I'm looking forward to going over there and play. I've said that since last year when it got announced."
D-backs players are allowed to bring one guest, making the trip popular among wives and girlfriends.
"I can't speak for everyone in here, but it seems like the general consensus is everyone is excited and we are kind of honored that we're going to be part of the first Major League game that's going to be in that country," reliever J.J. Putz said. "I know the travel is going to be tough, but at the same time I know a lot of people have always wanted to go to Australia. To be able to bring my wife to Australia for a week and we get to play baseball? It's win-win. I'm excited about it. I think it's going to be a great trip."
The two teams will have a week after returning from Australia before they resume regular-season games.
"The fact that they're giving us a week to come back to adjust to the time, it's perfect," third baseman Eric Chavez said. "I've done the Japan trip. I love it. I had a great time. So I don't see what the problem is."