text: 'Night of the Living Dead' in Charleston By Bill Lynch October 16, 2013 Story Share Kenny Kemp The Kanawha Players bring the excitement of director George A. Romero's cult classic to the stage in thrilling monochrome! WANT TO GO?Kanawha Players presents "Night of the Living Dead."WHERE: Kanawha Players Theater, 309 Beauregard Street.WHEN: 8 p.m., Friday and Saturday; 2 p.m. Sunday; 8 p.m. Oct. 25 and 26.TICKETS: Adults $12. Seniors and children $10. INFO: Call 304-343-PLAY or visit www.kanawhaplayers.org_____CHARLESTON, W.Va.-- Film director George A. Romero will always be remembered for his zombie movies. He did one romantic comedy, "There's Always Vanilla," and he did a couple of other kinds of horror films, including the cult classic, "The Crazies," and the adaptation of Stephen King's, "The Dark Half," but most people remember "Dawn of the Dead" or his first film, "Night of the Living Dead."Released in 1968, "Night of the Living Dead," was an indie black and white horror film about a group of people trapped inside a rural farmhouse and surrounded by dozens of restless undead. The film inspired countless writers and directors, spawned several sequels, many knock-off versions and was remade twice. It's also become a stage play, which the Kanawha Players intend to open Friday at their theater on Beauregard Street.Ginger Workman, who co-directed the play with Devon Nuckles, said the Kanawha Players have big hopes that the play may be their biggest hit in years."We're selling tickets like crazy," she said. "Right now, we're thinking we might sell out the whole thing. People love this stuff."Workman said after last fall's success with their stage production of "Evil Dead: The Musical," the theater group went looking for another horror-based play."Charleston just has a really good market for it," she said. "They want to see it and it's kind of cool that we can kind of band together to make it happen." Just doing the zombie play has attracted new people to their theater troupe, people with little or no acting experience who simply want to be one of the living dead."It's an interesting way for them to get a taste of theater without having to learn lines or be scared they're going to mess up," Workman added. "There's not a lot of pressure." At least, there's not a lot of pressure for the actors. For the technical staff, that's entirely a different question.While "Night of the Living Dead" as a stage play has been done all over the country, not every theater group has approached it the way the Kanawha Players have."What we're doing is pretty true to the movie," Workman said. "It fits in all the good scenes."The play is also in black and white -just like the film -which sounds less complicated than it actually is. The sets and costumes of the show aren't the only things colored black and white."The play has been done before a few places," the director said. "But the best I can tell is nobody has gone as far with the black and white as we have. I can't find anybody who painted their actors like we did."All of the actors have been airbrushed and the only color beyond the monochrome shades of gray is blood red. In fact, Workman said the biggest challenge in putting together this production hasn't been the people. It's the artistic direction, which she said made "Night of the Living Dead" a lot like directing a painting."Usually, we've got one person handling makeup for a show -- at most," she said. "For this one, we have at least four every night and we're doing makeup while the show is in motion."There are a lot of zombies on that stage, Workman added.Kanawha Players thinks they'll have another hit with zombies this year, but audiences shouldn't expect every October to be devoted strictly to flesh-eating corpses -at least Workman said maybe next year, they'll go in a different direction."Maybe sci-fi next year," she said. "Just something a little different than zombies." Reach Bill Lynch at email@example.com or 304-348-5195. Story Share Story Share Trending Now 1 New leaders begin to emerge for Marshall football 2 Derek Redd: Marshall thinks outside the cable box for broadcasts 3 Philanthropist Betty Schoenbaum of Shoney's fortune turns 100 4 DHHR report: No neglect, criminal charges in death of ResCare client 5 Deer in 8 WV counties found dead from EHD Fall film festival celebrates 30 years of international offerings Previous Story Alice Cooper pays homage to military in Huntington Next Story


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Add drive and speed but sacrifice responsiveness. Harder to release off the top, too.
Will it help feel a little more solid on the bottom turn?
Keep in mind that when you do a turn on a thruster, your inside rail fin does the heavy lifting... that's the fin that provides the "pivot," (although that's a bad word to use) and the majority of hold. The trailing fin adds directional control, stability, and drive, meaning how much speed and projection you carry through turns. It also has a "centering" effect when going from rail-to-rail. Increasing the size of your center fin will increase all of these attributes.

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Oden planning to attend Ohio St.
Waiting game: Before the NBA changed its rules this week, Greg Oden had been projected as the No. 1 pick in the 2006 draft. -- The Star / 2005 file photo
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Greg Oden plans to play basketball at Ohio State University, a person close to Oden confirmed Thursday.
No immediate announcement is scheduled, but Oden and Lawrence North High School teammate Mike Conley are expected to make oral commitments to the Buckeyes in the near future. Oral commitments are nonbinding; the earliest players can sign a national letter of intent is Nov. 9.
Oden and Conley, both entering their senior years, could not be reached for comment Thursday night after playing in the Indianapolis Star Indiana All-Stars exhibition game in Richmond.
Reached by phone Thursday night, Oden's mother, Zoe, said no official decision has been made.
A dominating 7-foot, 245-pound center, Oden this past year joined NBA star LeBron James as the only juniors to be named National High School Player of the Year.
He averaged 20 points, 9.6 rebounds and 3.7 blocked shots in leading the Wildcats to their second straight state championship. In one game, he blocked 18 shots.
Word of Oden's choice came two days after the NBA changed its rules for the draft, requiring that players need to be at least one year out of high school. Oden -- widely projected as the No. 1 pick in the 2006 draft before the rule change -- has said all along that he wanted to play college basketball, narrowing his choices to Ohio State, Indiana, Wake Forest and Michigan State.
Conley, one of the top-ranked point guards in the nation, averaged 10.7 points and five assists for Lawrence North last season. He had narrowed his choices to Ohio State and Wake Forest.
Earlier this month, Oden and Conley took part in the USA Basketball Youth Development Festival in San Diego.
Shooting guard Daequan Cook, an AAU teammate of Oden's and Conley's from Dayton, Ohio, also heading into his senior year, orally committed to Ohio State this spring.
Call Star reporter Jeff Rabjohns at (317) 444-6183.
Star reporter Tracy Dodds contributed to this story.
Do you know what this means? This means that Ohio State just landed the top player from this class, one of the top point guards, and already has an oral committment from the top shooting guard from this class. How long has it been since Ohio State had the #1 recruiting class? This one is surely #1.


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Dental Anesthesia
I went to my dentist and was given a local anesthetic that contained epinephrine. It made my heart rate excelerate so fast I thought I was going to pass out and made me shake all over. These symptoms passed after a few minutes, but since then it is like my heart does not beat correctly. The dentist told me this was a common reaction, but I don`t think my heart should still feel this way. Is this a common thing to happen or should I be get this checked out. I know I will not allow this medicatation to be given to be again, The dentist used what she called short term for the rest of the procedure and I was fine.
I am sorry you had an uncomfortable experience. Epinephrine is also known as adrenaline and causes the symptoms you describe. The medication may have been inadvertently injected into an adjacent vein and had an exaggerated effect. Or, it may have been absorbed quickly, especially if high doses were used. If you continue to feel a heart rhythm problem, you should have this evaluated, probably with an ECG. It is uncommon for dental local anesthetic solutions to cause a long-lasting problem, but I do not know about your age, medical history or current medications.
The epinephrine in dental local anesthetic solutions is added to improve the action of the local anesthetic. Especially in the upper jaw, local anesthetic without epinephrine may not be as effective as you would like, especially for procedures over 10 - 15 minutes. Discuss this with your dentist. There are techniques that can decrease the body absorption of the epinephrine if it is needed for particular procedures. The solutions without the epinephrine are probably what your dentist is referring to as "short-term".
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Can Murray State back up its brilliant regular season with a little tournament magic? The Racers kept their record perfect all the way to Feb. 9, through 23 games and road trips to such places as Memphis and Western Kentucky.
This wasn't even a great year by Ohio Valley Conference standards, so their league challenges were not immense, which is why so many have been skeptical of Murray's achievements. They have their chance to make an impression, without reservation, as the tournament begins.
Best first-round game
No. 8 Memphis vs. No. 9 Saint Louis. Memphis has struggled against teams that employ sophisticated offenses, losing twice to Georgetown and another to Michigan. And no team is more precise with its offensive execution than Saint Louis, as much choreographed as coached by Rick Majerus.
On the other hand, the Billikens have faced few teams as dynamic as the Tigers. Washington would be close, and SLU took care of the Huskies at home easily. But Memphis has grown since those early losses, so perhaps it has become patient enough to guard for 30 seconds at a time.
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Seeded too high
No. 4 Louisville's performance in the Big East Tournament was like one giant cosmetic procedure. Yeah, sure, the Cardinals just lost at home to a just-decent South Florida team and went through a stretch of four games in which they couldn't get out of the 50s—but they did win four games in four days against solid opponents in the Big East Tournament.
It's kind of like what UConn did on the way to the 2011 NCAA championship. It's also like what Syracuse did on the way to earning a stunning No. 5 seed and being eliminated from the 2006 first round.
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Seeded too low
No. 8 Memphis. Whom did the poor Tigers tick off? Yes, they have only three wins against the field, but in their defense they did help keep out Tennessee (two wins) and Miami (beat them on the road). Memphis finished 26-8 and won the Conference USA regular season and tournament titles, lost only twice to non-tournament teams and avoided an abundance of 200-plus RPI games, which isn't easy to do in the Conference USA neighborhood. The Tigers' resume was better than No. 6 San Diego State and No. 7 Gonzaga.
Upset special
No. 12 Long Beach over No. 5 New Mexico. The great thing about this pick—beyond the fact The Beach is an excellent team that has been well-tested—is it has a built-in escape clause. The 49ers' excellent forward, Larry Anderson, missed the Big West Tournament with a sprained knee. If he's not ready to go Friday against the Lobos, it's unlikely Long Beach has enough juice to beat such an excellent defensive team.
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Best potential team matchup
No. 1 Michigan State vs. No. 2 Missouri. Can we skip the preliminaries and just get to Spartans-Tigers? These are two magnificent teams with excellent leadership—Draymond Green for MSU, Kim English for Mizzou—and disparate styles. The Spartans have the size and bulk the Tigers lack but haven't missed. The Tigers can drive it from nearly every position but will be pushing into the teeth of an excellent defense.
Best potential player matchup
Darius Johnson-Odom, Marquette, vs. Isaiah Canaan, Murray State. They're powerful, dynamic guards with excellent shooting touches. And here's the cool thing: Neither team has extraordinary size, so this game really might be won by the littler guys making plays. Canaan, a first-team Sporting News All-American, has gone for 30 four times this season. DJO produced only one single-figure scoring game.
Get to know ...
Iona point guard Scott Machado. He led the nation in assists at 9.9 per game and is considered a legitimate NBA prospect by the people who consider such things. Machado went for 24 points and seven assists in the Metro Atlantic semis against Fairfield, a game the Gaels somehow still lost. He's had 10 double-doubles as a senior.
Don't be surprised if ...
Florida freshman Bradley Beal emerges as one of the region's stars. Beal struggled with his shot for much of the season, hitting only 32.9 percent from 3-point range after entering with a well-deserved reputation as an Eric Gordon clone. But the shots started to drop in the SEC Tournament; he made 7-of-16 from deep in that event, and in the Gators' loss to Kentucky he impressed with 20 points, eight rebounds and five assists. He looked like a freshman who'd figured out a few things.
Sleeper team
Long Beach State. For reasons that seem logical only now that the 49ers have qualified for the NCAA Tournament, coach Dan Monson sent his team to Pitt, Louisville, North Carolina, Kansas and San Diego State this season. The 49ers only won the first of those but were competitive every time out and thus enter the tournament with no reason to fear any opponent.
The pick
Missouri. Mizzou has appeared in more NCAA Tournaments without reaching the Final Four than any school, save for BYU. So it seems safe to say the Tigers are the best program never to make it. There haven't been a lot of times when they were supposed to make it—this is the third time as a No. 2, and only in 1994 were they a No. 1—but this is an exciting, hungry team that is difficult to defend and hungry to excel. History will be made.


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KISSIMMEE, Fla. -- Third baseman Ryan Zimmerman had been scheduled to play against the Astros on Wednesday but was scratched because of "body soreness." Will Rhymes started in his place.
Manager Matt Williams didn't say when Zimmerman will return to action, indicating that Zimmerman experienced the soreness while working out at first base on Monday and Tuesday. It's still not known when Zimmerman will play first base in a game; Williams wants to make sure he is comfortable there.
"He has been working at first, he is doing other things, turning different ways than he is used to turning. He is good, though," Williams said.
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SURPRISE, AZ (March 6, 2013) - USA Baseball announced today that Kansas City Royals first baseman Eric Hosmer has been added to the U.S. roster for the 2013 World Baseball Classic.
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Heifer growers face an array of challenges including heifer health, client relations, payments from producers and feed cost/availability.
Released in October by USDA National Animal Health Monitoring System (NAHMS), the Dairy Heifer Raiser 2011 study surveyed more than 200 heifer growers about the current management practices used on heifer-raising facilities.
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Kogod Strengthens Commitment to International Impact
Already known for strong international programming and international diversity on campus, the Kogod School of Business has positioned itself to become a leader in international education by joining the Global Business School Network (GBSN).
GBSN is a consortium of 50 member institutions located in the U.S., Europe, Asia, Latin American, and the Middle East. The primary goal of the network is to partner developed country institutions—Kogod is now one of 17 in the United States—with institutions located in emerging markets.
"We are delighted to join a global alliance of top business schools," said Michael Ginzberg, dean of the Kogod School of Business. "We believe fostering a global perspective in our students is critical to their future success. Working with like minded peers will advance our efforts in and outside the classroom."
Through the network of business schools and other organizations in over 25 countries, Kogod will be able to connect faculty members with similar research interests, create opportunities for student exchanges and faculty-led programs, organize panels and guest speakers, and more.
"As an institutional partnership, the network will serve as a resource for the entire school," said Jolie Roetter, director of global learning programs. "We will advise and support developing country member schools so that they, and we, can strengthen capacity and promote academic excellence."
Kogod has long offered programs and courses focused on emerging markets, including the Kogod Global Management Institute and short-term study experiences in International Dimensions in Management.
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Lance will get about $10m per year I would guess now. If he gets that, you trade Copeland and you're under the luxury tax. Right now, including George's deal, we are set to have $65m on the books. The luxury tax for this year is $71.7m. Trading Copeland and waiving Sloan's non-guaranteed contract will get it.
I would like to see a list to compare him to other players you might be right though.
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We have so many good players. There are going to be some tough decisions this coming year. I fully expect Lance to remain a Pacer. You have to have talent to win championships and he's got it. So does PG24 and Hibbert. Those are the big 3...although it feels like we might have a big 7 or something like that.
Lance is finally home. Whether he becomes our starting PG or he's 6th man, he's getting big minutes and he's here to stay. #llortontnia
Here's another way you keep Lance: Larry needs to tell Lance to just ham it up. Do his airhumps constantly. Make it so every team despises him. That will kill his value if GMs think it will destroy a locker room.
Say we do trade Hill, do we let Stephenson play the point? Not sure why we would trade Hill though, why not Copeland? To the Lakers? He fits in that system
Last time I felt this good about the Pacers future was 4th quarter of the brawl game right before it all imploded.
Lance is finally home. Whether he becomes our starting PG or he's 6th man, he's getting big minutes and he's here to stay. #llortontnia
Fair point. IMO it was and will forever be an idiotic trade considering we traded for a point guard in the final year of his rookie contract by giving up arguably the most versatile player in the entire draft with twice as much potential and even ability as Hill, and set to be on a rookie contract for the next 4 years. While point guard is an important position, the league is littered with quality players who can play it. It is unquestionably the deepest position in the league, so there is no point in forcing yourself to have to pay for a guy at a position you really don't need to pay much for. Then factor in the importance of wings with length and athleticism who can defend, rebound, and hit a jumper, and then you have an idiotic trade... IMO.
This is the best idea ever.
Granger won't be re-signed, obviously. So that helps. Scola's contract isn't guaranteed, so that's ~$4 million that can come off the books. Not ideal, but I'd rather say goodbye to Scola than Lance.
Lance isn't going anywhere. Hill being here doesn't make it harder to keep him. Though it would be nice if Simon would be willing to pay a smidgen of the luxury tax.
We will keep Lance.
Bird is no idiot- he knows that you don't let a still improving 23 year old with tons of talent get away.
Trading Mahinmi and Copeland will free up 7 million. We will probably have 6 or 7 millions already so by trading those 2 we can afford to keep him unless someone offers him the max.
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Autonomy must return into the hands of the people.
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There is always that stretch option for Mahinmi that somebody suggested online.
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A lot of teams. He is a good player on a good contract so it could be quite easy to move him if we wanted to do it. I don't think that we want to do it, though.
Tonight, all flags must burn, in place of steeples.
Autonomy must return into the hands of the people.
The best route to take is to trade Copeland before February 20th 2014 while getting back nothing but Expiring contracts.
Hopefully dangling OJ and the Warriors 2nd round pick as sweetner could get such a deal done.
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If Lance can be signed for under $10 million then the Pacers won't have to do a lot to clear enough space to sign him.
I worry about some over eager team with loads of cap space offering him $12-$13 million a year.
But you have to keep in mind where the team was in 2011 when the deal was made. We were coming off of that Bulls series in which we competed hard against them. However, our achilles heel in that series was our inability to score points down the stretch because of our relative youth and inexperience. Thus, our biggest need was not another rookie to add to an already super young team. Instead, we needed a proven play maker whose experience could help us in tight situations. Bird went out and got the team those players with Hill and West, and those two guys brought experience and professionalism which rubbed off on the entire team. Hill had only been in the NBA for three years when we made that trade, but it was three years with an A+ Spurs organization, which would be like playing 5 years somewhere else.
Leonard has obviously turned out to be a very good player, but it's not like we traded a pick that became Kobe Bryant or something. That trade made a ton of sense when you go back and look at what our weakness was in the Bulls series. We needed vets, not rookies. Hill has been a nice asset for this team over the last couple of years.
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Dangle our 2016 1st rounder as a sweetener. If we keep Lance, that pick will be nothing again.
Also, there is probably no way Lance makes the All-Star Game. When coaches are picking backups, do you think they'll take Afflalo or the guy who is constantly dancing while destroying their team?
Roy Hibbert is also one of the best Centers in the league. The Blazers were desperate for some rim protection and that's where Hibbert is elite at. Centers are at premium and Lance is not a Center.
Tonight, all flags must burn, in place of steeples.
Autonomy must return into the hands of the people.
Hill could drop 50 points while curing cancer and people would still want to ship him out.
Larry may leave before he lets Lance leave this team.
Larry's probably striking a deal up with Herb right now....So Herb, if we make the finals, you let us go into the luxury tax...kapeesh?
This, coaches aren't voting in Stephenson. Most of them probably hate him
Possibly. But we can afford that without trading any core player. We have to see where the new cap is set for the next season but chances are that our starting budget will be 6 or 7 millions. All we need to do is trade Mahinmi or Copeland and we can save up enough in order to offer him a 10 million contract.
Tonight, all flags must burn, in place of steeples.
Autonomy must return into the hands of the people.


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Showmen of the Sky
Photo/David Yellen
The Grucci family sets the standard for fireworks celebrations around the world
After the fireworks comes the smoke. After the smoke comes the cigar.
That's how it works with the Gruccis, who have been called "America's first family of fireworks." After the noise and the color and the excitement, after Fireworks by Grucci has lit up the sky with its fanciful and beautiful designs, its minutely coordinated, split-second computer-controlled choreography of music and sound, its multishaped and multihued bombs bursting in air, after the oohs and aahs of the thousands of thrilled spectators—when all is successfully completed, Felix J. (Phil) Grucci often lights up.
"It's for relaxation," says Grucci, executive vice president of Fireworks by Grucci, which designs and creates the shows, and president and chief executive officer of Pyrotechnique by Grucci, which manufactures and imports the fireworks. The cigar is for relieving the tension, the butterflies in the stomach, after the often long days of preparation and anticipation, of perfecting the intricate details and making sure everything—the setups, the launching, the timing—goes right. At those serious moments, Grucci says, "for when it's a little more pressure-intense," he prefers Romeo y Julieta Coronas. "And it's a smaller cigar. You can smoke it in 45 minutes."
There have been many occasions where cigars at the conclusion have been appropriate. The Grucci family has provided fireworks for seven consecutive presidential inaugurations, from Ronald Reagan's first in 1981 to George W. Bush's second in 2005 (President Obama's inauguration in 2009 didn't include fireworks); for world's fairs in Knoxville, Tennessee, Los Angeles, Salt Lake City and Taejon, South Korea; for Olympic Games in Lake Placid in 1980, Los Angeles in 1984, Salt Lake City in 2002 and Athens in 2004; and the Gruccis were the lead designers and engineers for the Beijing Olympics in 2008. This year, they were the fireworks maven for the Dubai World Cup at the Meydan Race Course.
In the 1980s, the Gruccis fired their creations into the sky for the centennials of the Statue of Liberty and the Brooklyn Bridge. They were fireworks masters for the millennium celebration in Washington, D.C.
And in 2008, the Gruccis created the largest fireworks program ever, for the grand opening of Atlantis, The Palm resort in Dubai. "We fired more than 300,000 devices in eight minutes," Phil Grucci says, "with a budget of $4.5 million," over "eight and a half miles that we connected linearly, with no space in between." These days, their state-of-the art fireworks are run by computers, and individual Grucci devices often contain computer chips that can narrow timing to hundredths of a second and allow for the creation of incredible effects that would not have been possible a decade or so ago.
The number of devices used in a Grucci program is determined by the budget, says Charlie DeSalvo, a Grucci chief pyrotechnician and longtime Grucci associate. A 30-minute world-class program can involve thousands of devices.
For computerized events, DeSalvo says (no shows are hand-fired; if it's not done by computer, it's done electrically), the computer reads a program called a "fire file." An operator sits at a primary terminal and activates the program with a single command. The operator follows the discharge of the devices and, at times, because of safety concerns, may activate a protocol to prevent or delay the discharge of a sequence of shells or a single device. A secondary operator on a separate computer acts as a fail-safe backup and performs the same functions if the primary computer fails.
So far this year, 73 shows are booked, says Donna Grucci Butler, the president of Fireworks by Grucci and executive vice president of Pyrotechnique by Grucci—"there may be 150 by year's end." This Fourth of July, she says, will find Fireworks by Grucci all over the country, from Maine to Massachusetts to Connecticut to Florida to Las Vegas to California, and across the Pacific to Hawaii.
Costs of a show range from $5,000 for a two- or three-minute traditional event to $175,000 for a 28- to 30-minute state-of-the-art program, though for a large-scale customized show, as in Dubai in 2008, "the sky is the limit," the Gruccis say.
Fireworks by Grucci is a more than 150-year-old family business that traces its origins to Angelo Lanzetta, who began working in fireworks in Bari, Italy, a port on the Adriatic Sea, in the early 1850s. His grandson and the family patriarch, Felix James Grucci Sr., who died in 1993, went to work for his Uncle Anthony, Angelo's son, in 1923, and they opened a shop in Bellport, Long Island, in 1929.
Over the years, as The New York Times noted in Felix Sr.'s obituary, he "gained an international reputation as an innovator in fireworks and was the oldest master craftsman in that field in the country."
But until 1979, the Gruccis were mainly a local business, known mostly in and around New York, and along the East Coast. It was in that year that the family decided to enter the annual international fireworks competition in Monte Carlo, competing against Denmark, France, Italy and Spain. And the Gruccis won, becoming the first United States team to finish on top. It is the only fireworks competition the Gruccis have ever entered.
Donna Grucci Butler remembers that her brother James "came up with the idea of Monte Carlo. Every week we would sit down to a nice family dinner and end up with a big family argument, my father saying we're not going and my brother saying yes, we have to do this, we can win. Jimmy won that battle."
For the record, Donna is Felix Sr.'s daughter; Phil, Donna's nephew, is the son of her brother James Grucci, who died in a fireworks accident in 1983; another brother, Felix J. Grucci Jr., is executive vice president and chief financial officer of both Fireworks and Pyrotechnique; Donna's husband, M. Philip Butler, is vice president of sales and marketing for Fireworks by Grucci.
The Gruccis' executive offices are on a dreary 90-acre plot on the edge of Long Island's Pine Barrens in Suffolk County, New York. A small, circular, blue sign at the turnoff is the only indication you're entering Grucci territory. The offices are in a small, blue, wooden building that looks like a miniature barracks.
Nearby is a warehouse facility used to build props and store launch equipment. Rows of bunkers inhabit the sandy soil, which holds fireworks and special effects awaiting their destination orders. The Grucci product used to be produced in Brookhaven, but now it's made in Radford, Virginia—on 1,000 acres of a large army ammunition plant—as well as in Asia and Europe.
Inside the blue barracks, the walls are filled with memorabilia—family pictures, ID badges from around the world, panoramic photos and time-lapse exposures of the family specialty, in red, white and blue, green, yellow and gold.
The Brookhaven office has 20 full-time employees, though the staff increases as the Fourth of July, a time of multiple events, nears. In Virginia, there's a staff of 150. "And there are more than 300 part-time pyrotechnicians" who work on setting up and executing the programs, Phil Grucci says—"they're mechanics, accountants, lawyers" who love to work on fireworks.
"We're very fortunate," Donna Grucci Butler says. "They have full-time jobs, so to do fireworks with Grucci, they're giving up vacations, time with their families. They are just so into the pyrotechnics and the challenge of where they're going and what they're going to do to help put it up in the air."
"In the early stages," Felix Grucci says, "when they first come to our classes, they're all excited. When they begin to understand the intensity of the labor involved in making an eight- or 12-minute program come together, we quickly weed out those who thought it would be only fun and games and keep those who take it seriously. In the preparatory stage, before we lay the fireworks, putting out all the equipment and the cabling wires and going through all the testing could require working 12 hours a day. And the next day, you do it again. It can run from one day for a small installation to sometimes several weeks, with crews of more than 200 people. Sometimes, if you're battling the weather and the environment, you could work around the clock. It's labor-intensive, and if you're not in it with that mindset, it's not going to be fun."
The family was hit by tragedy in 1983 when its factory, at the time in Bellport, exploded and killed two family members, including James Grucci. According to The New York Times, the blast injured 24 people and damaged more than 100 houses.
"We had virtually nothing," Phil Grucci recalls. "We had lost close family members. We had no facility. No inventory. No insurance. It was the worst-case scenario. And we turned it around to what we have now. We are very blessed and very fortunate to have the direction that our parents and grandparents instilled in us so we could get through that."
The Gruccis quickly returned, and gave shows in New York City at Prospect and Central Parks on New Year's Eve. They rebuilt in Brookhaven. And before long, their fireworks programs grew larger and larger, they moved more and more into the national market, and began to expand internationally.
These are very competitive times in the fireworks business, Phil Grucci says. "You have to be aggressive in design, to stay ahead of the competition. It's not only the other fireworks companies. It's other entertainment media—the client is selecting lighting and lasers and music and staging and all the other elements that you typically see at the Olympics, or an inaugural event. We have to stay in the foreground as pyrotechnicians, so we're taking advantage of technology. We're building computer chips inside our fireworks to control elevation, and making certain patterns that you could never do in the past with a traditional fireworks shell."
Government rules are getting tougher too, he says. "There's a very strong sense of heightened regulations that we have to live with. We have explosives, and in any other explosives business, the blasting industry, you're moving people away. But we're moving people as close as possible so they can see what we do. We have a lot of regulatory oversight."
A big part of the challenge is concern for the environment. "Everybody wants to be green. A large part of our development is looking for more environmentally friendly fireworks—smokeless fireworks, fireworks that don't have as much debris. So it's all a combination of technology, concern for the environment, project development and the need to be creative, to think outside the box. Our biggest challenge is staying one step ahead."
How does it all work? How does a fireworks program come together?
"Generally, it's Phil Butler," the vice president of sales and marketing, "who gets the call" that someone is interested, Phil Grucci says, and then details like time and budget are worked out. Then, the next decisions involve "what is the theater, what is the stage we have to work with? Is it a building? An open field? A river in New York City? We go with the architecture of the structure we're working on. If it's a building, what are the lines of the building, what are some of the features of the structure? We get lured into working with the highest point. We have to get something on that pinnacle, something that works with the emotion of the event as well."
Then comes the design. Felix Grucci—"Uncle Butch"—"And I pretty much do all the design," Phil Grucci says. "Donna puts all the music together. It's a painstaking task, selecting the music with the clients. We select the fireworks and the timing with the music and the special effects we're going to use or custom manufacture for the event. We recently did the Dubai World Cup at the largest race track in the world, and we designed fireworks that went up in the sky and exploded in the shape of a horse head." Other pattern-shell designs include smiley faces, bowties, dollar signs, big red hearts, rings of Saturn and the Grucci exclusive "split comet."
Felix Grucci says "You start with the music, or the theme, and you build from there. You understand the inventory, what we call our characters, for the performance. You know that some fireworks have a soft color field. Some are very bold in color. Some have movement. Some have sound. Some have a combination of the above. When you listen to the music, you think that a particular device would work well with this theme of music, so you lay it in and see how it blends with the rest of the program—does it stand out, is it a moment of ooh and aah? Does it all come together? You may say to yourself that you've got too much of this effect, and it's going to start to become anticlimactic. It may take several hours to do a minute's worth of fireworks production. Because you start with a blank piece of paper and the vision is in your mind's eye."
The electronic chip, fired by computer, is embedded in the aerial shell. "A firework is very similar to a cannonball," Phil Grucci says. "It's a projectile that gets launched out of a tube—we call it a fireworks mortar. Typically, there's a timing device that's made with black powder that burns internally as the shell is rising in the sky. When that black powder train burns into the center of the shell, it ignites the charge that's in the middle and bursts the shell open."
The computer chip "replaces the fireworks fuse. With the fuse, in a typical four-second rise time, you may have a half-second tolerance, plus or minus. Well, a chip brings that down to 100 milliseconds, which means that if you know what the mortar velocity is of a fireworks shell coming out of the tube—it's generally around 400 feet per second—and you can keep that consistent, then you can dictate where in the sky the shell is going to burst."
It's called a pixel-burst shell, a Grucci trademark, "and if you create a dot in the sky, a pixel, and start connecting those dots, you can start creating some pretty amazing abstract sequences, where you're creating shapes in the sky." One of the more surprising shapes was created nine years ago, when New York's Museum of Modern Art moved temporarily to Queens for a major expansion of its Midtown building, and the Gruccis created a "transient rainbow" from Manhattan to the museum's temporary home borough.
Using the chips, the Gruccis are now also creating digits in the sky. "We call it a rumble digit," Phil Grucci says. "It will fire 200 aerial shells in rapid sequence, and they will burst in the sky all at once and create a number, an eight or a seven or a six," or whatever. "We're starting to develop that in a more refined manner, to use as a countdown for some of our upcoming New Year's Eve programs. We first used that kind of program in Beijing to do the countdown for the Olympic opening ceremonies."
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Trapdoor SpiderTrapdoor Spider (2007) - I'm An Animal Cartoon Episode Guide by Dave Koch
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- Distributed by: Monster Distributes.
Co-Financiers: Irish Film Board, RTE
- Cartoon Characters: Trapdoor Spider.
- Voice Actors: Morgan Jones, Roger Gregg, Aileen Mythen.
- Directed By Darragh O'Connell.
- Produced By Cathal Gaffney.
- Written By Lina O'Connell, Gerald Murphy.
- Music: Darren Hendley.
- Editor: Seamus O'Toole.
- First Aired about 2007.
- Originally Aired on RTE (Ireland).
- Running Time: 2 minutes.
- Color
- Ireland
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I'm an Animal is a fun, educational and entertaining series with international appeal. It takes a fun look at the world of animals, and who better to talk about animals than themselves! Follow animals down burrows, up trees, and into the depths of the ocean; find... (more)
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Will the Suns rise again in the West?
By Chad Ford
NBA Insider
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Considering the regularity with which the sun rises and sets every day . . . why is it the media are always a day behind when it comes to getting a handle on the Phoenix Suns?
In 2002, the conventional wisdom was that the Suns would be the worst team in West. They had traded away star Jason Kidd for the erratic Stephon Marbury, had drafted a high school kid, Amare Stoudemire, to play power forward and had a gimpy, washed up Penny Hardaway playing power forward. Their starting group of power forwards -- Jake Voskuhl and Scott Williams -- induced snickers. An emerging Shawn Marion seemed like the only real selling point in Phoenix.
That season, Marbury recorded his best year ever, Marion put up all-star numbers, Stoudemire became the first high school player ever to win Rookie of the Year, Hardaway found his groove and Voskuhl and Williams combined forces to become a pretty decent presence in the middle. The Suns ended up in the playoffs and scared the heck out of the eventual world champion Spurs in the first round.
In 2003, the conventional wisdom said that the Suns were the best young team in the league. Marbury had turned the corner and had just received a nice fat contract extension. Joe Johnson, after a stellar summer league perfromance, was ready to take over from Penny Hardaway. Marion was now an all-star. Stoudemire had a shot at becoming an all-star. The draft had yielded two impressive prospects, Zarko Cabarkapa and Leandro Barbosa, who were supposed to step in and contribute immediately. The Suns were deep, athletic and poised to take on the big guns of the West.
Then disaster struck. Marbury became selfish again. Johnson was erratic and Penny looked old. Marion's shot faltered. Stoudemire kept improving, but constant injuries kept holding him back. Cabarkapa went down with an early season injury. A trade of Bo Outlaw and Jake Tsakalidis to the Grizzlies back fired and the Suns suddenly were too small to defend the paint. Frank Johnson lost his job. Assistant Mike D'Antoni took over. Then, GM Bryan Colangelo pulled the plug.
In the most shocking trade of the season, he sent Marbury and Hardaway to the Knicks for Howard Eisley, Antonio McDyess, Charlie Ward, Maciej Lampe, the rights to Milos Vujanic and the Knicks' No. 1 pick.
The hottest young team in the NBA just went up in smoke. As Suns fans freaked and commentators everywhere scratched their heads, Colangelo remained calm. The team had realized early into the season that it wasn't going to win a championship with Marbury at the helm. His selfishness was already causing rifts in the locker room. With a huge extension under Marbury's belt, the Suns had to act quickly to trade him away while they still could.
In the process the team slashed $31 million in payroll and actually positioned itself to be roughly $7 to $9 million under the cap this summer. Owner Jerry Colangelo subsequently put the team on the market and sold it within weeks of the regular season ending.
With new owners coming in (Colangelo remains the team's CEO and his son, Bryan, remains the GM), a lottery pick, and lots of free-agent cash to spend this summer, the Suns have the potential to be one of the most improved teams in the league again next year.
How will they do it? Here's a look at what to expect as Insider continues its summer blueprint series.
Suns Summer Blueprint
DRAFT: The Suns currently own the No. 6 pick in the draft, but all signs point to them attempting to move the pick this summer in an effort to clear more cap space.
That may change if the Suns get the No. 1 or No. 2 pick in the draft. However, with just a 6.4 percent shot at getting No. 1, that scenario is pretty unlikely. Drafting sixth, the team could find another point guard or a European big man to create depth, but the team really doesn't need either right now.
What the Suns really need is more cap room. That No. 6 pick amounts to a $2.1 million cap hold on their roster. The team would really like to package the pick along with Jahidi White (who makes $6.2 million in the last year of his deal) to a team with lots of cap room like the Bobcats. A trade like that could put them as much as $15 million under the cap next season.
FREE AGENCY: Free agency could be the key to the Suns' turnaround next season. The team wants to add a superstar in the backcourt to complement Stoudemire. If the Suns can figure out a way to trade their pick and White, they'll have plenty of money to throw at Kobe Bryant.
If they can't clear the cap space, the Suns will likely look to either make another trade to land the star they've been looking for or use the money wisely to add a few missing pieces. They've had their eye on the Pistons' Mehmet Okur for some time and have enough cash to make him an offer the Pistons would be unlikely to match.
McDyess and Keon Clark both come off the books this summer, but neither is expected to be re-signed.
The other big news on the free agency front concerns Vujanic. Vujanic, widely considered the top point guard in Europe, is currently in Italy playing for one of the top teams in Europe. He's had an excellent season and now has a top U.S. agent who will be in charge of handling a buyout this summer.
Vujanic (who wisely turned down a chance to play for the dysfunctional Knicks last summer) sounds like he's ready to come to the NBA this year if the money is right. Expect the Suns to lure Vujanic here this summer. He'd be a great addition to their backcourt.
TRADES: Here is where things could get interesting. If the Suns can't clear the cap room or get turned down by Kobe, they have enough assets to make a great trade for a star if they want to. The Suns would likely be willing to part with their first-round pick, Marion and possibly even Johnson to land another star.
With star swingmen like Tracy McGrady, Paul Pierce, Vince Carter, Allen Iverson, Ray Allen, and, at the point, Steve Francis, all potentially available, the Suns would have a nice pool of players to pick from. The Magic would likely be the most interested in making a trade with the Suns.
The Magic would likely demand Marion, Johnson and the No. 1 for McGrady. Trading McGrady away would be tough to swallow in Orlando, but the two young swingmen plus the extra lottery pick would give the Magic a serious headstart in the rebuilding process in Orlando. If the Magic could turn their two number ones into Emeka Okafor and a point guard like Devin Harris or Ben Gordon, they would be in business with a very nice young core.
McGrady would be a great fit alongside Stoudemire in Phoenix. Throw in free agents like Okur, Vujanic and the rest of the Suns young players like Carbarkapa and Barbosa and the team would be ready to take off again.
COACHING: D'Antoni inherited a terrible situation in Phoenix and did the best with what he could. He's a good fit for the Suns. He likes to play an up-tempo type game and his European background has helped him relate to the plethora of international players on the Suns' roster. He's going to get another year to turn this thing around, and given D'Antoni's background, he may be able to do it.
FRONT OFFICE: Bryan Colangelo is one of the most underrated GMs in the league. He has a great eye for talent. The Suns have been one of the best drafting teams in the league over the past five years. He also has made solid decisions about cap management and rebuilding the team. Now that the ownership situation is taken care of (Bryan is now a part owner) his job should be secure and he can get busy rebuilding the Suns back into a contender.
If he can land a player of Kobe's or T-Mac's caliber this summer, the Suns should be able to hang with anyone in the West next year. If he has to settle for something less than that, the Suns still have enough talent to return to the playoffs next season. Either way, the future looks bright in Phoenix at the moment.


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Today in Wisconsin
The protectors of the status quo are a powerful force in Washington. And over the last four years, every time we've tried to make a change, they've fought back with everything they've got. They spent millions to stop us from reforming health care and Wall Street and student loans. And their strategy from the start was to engineer pure gridlock in Congress, refusing to compromise on ideas that both Democrats and Republicans had supported in the past.
And what they're counting on now, Wisconsin, is that the American people will be so worn down by all the squabbling, so tired of all the dysfunction, that you'll actually reward obstruction, and put people back in charge who advocate the very policies that got us into this mess.
In other words, their bet is on cynicism. But, Wisconsin, my bet is on you. My bet is on the decency and good sense of the America people—because despite all the resistance, despite all the setbacks, we've won some great fights. And I've never lost sight of the vision we share that you would have a voice; that there would be somebody at the table fighting every single day for middle-class Americans who work hard.
Sometimes, Republicans in Congress have worked with me to meet our goals—to cut taxes for small businesses and families like yours, to open new markets for American goods, or finally repeal "Don't Ask, Don't Tell."
And sometimes we've had big fights—fights that were worth having. Like when we forced the banks to stop overcharging for student loans, and made college more affordable for millions. Like when we forced Wall Street to abide by the toughest rules since the 1930s. Like when we stopped insurance companies from discriminating against Americans with pre-existing conditions like cancer or diabetes, so that nobody in America goes bankrupt just because they get sick.
I didn't fight those fights for any partisan advantage. I've shown my willingness to work with anybody, of any party, to move this country forward. And if you want to break the gridlock in Congress, you'll vote for leaders—whether they are Democrats, Republicans, or Independents—who feel the same way.
But if the price of peace in Washington is cutting deals that will kick students off of financial aid, or get rid of funding for Planned Parenthood, or eliminate health care for millions on Medicaid who are poor, or elderly, or disabled, just to give a millionaire a tax cut, I'm not having it. That's not a deal worth having. That's not bipartisanship. That's not change. That's surrender to the same status quo that has hurt middle-class families for way too long. And I'm not ready to give up on that fight.
I hope you aren't either, Wisconsin.


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Relax at the full-service spa, where you can enjoy massages, body treatments, and facials. After dipping into one of the 3 outdoor swimming pools or 2 spa tubs, you can spend some time at the private beach. Additional features at this condominium resort include wireless Internet access (surcharge), concierge services, and babysitting/childcare (surcharge).
Grab a bite to eat at one of the condominium resort's dining establishments, which include 4 restaurants and a coffee shop/café. Relax with your favorite drink at a bar/lounge or a poolside bar. A complimentary breakfast is included.
Featured amenities include a business center, express check-in, and express check-out. Event facilities at this condominium resort consist of conference space and meeting rooms. A roundtrip airport shuttle is provided for a surcharge (available 24 hours), and free valet parking is available onsite.Information missing or incorrect? Tell us!Opens in a new window
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Property Amenities
Property Amenities
Simply step outside to unwind on the condominium resort's beach. Spend the day at the beach and work on your tan in the sun loungers (chaise longues) or kick back in the shade with complimentary cabanas and umbrellas. At The Ridge at Playa Grande you can cool off in one of the 3 outdoor swimming pools and indulge in a pampering afternoon at the full-service spa.
A complimentary breakfast is offered. Dining is available at one of the condominium resort's 4 restaurants and guests can grab coffee at the coffee shop/café. The property also has a grocery/convenience store. Guests can unwind with a drink at one of the condominium resort's bars, which include a swim-up bar and a bar/lounge. Wireless Internet access is available for a surcharge. This beach condominium resort also offers a children's pool, a steam room, and a fitness center. Complimentary self parking and valet parking are available on site.
The Ridge at Playa Grande is a smoke-free property.
- 24-hour front desk
- Babysitting or childcare (surcharge)
- Children's club (surcharge)
- Supervised childcare/activities (surcharge)
- Airport transportation (surcharge)
- Total number of rooms - 98
- Number of floors - 5
- Bar/lounge
- Business center
- Coffee shop or café
- Free breakfast
- Concierge services
- Conference space
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Elevator/lift
- Express check-in
- Express check-out
- Fitness facilities
- Full-service spa
- Gift shops or newsstand
- Hair salon
- Grocery/convenience store
- Tours/ticket assistance
- Designated smoking areas
- Pool umbrellas
- Waterslide
- Number of outdoor pools - 3
- Number of spa tubs - 2
- WiFi (surcharge)
- Laundry facilities
- Spa treatment room(s)
- Meeting rooms 6
- Multilingual staff
- Free valet parking
- Poolside bar
- Porter/bellhop
- Luggage storage
- On private beach
- Free self parking
- Number of meeting rooms - 6
- Tennis on site
- Year Built 2006
- Number of restaurants - 4
- Indoor tennis court
- Beach umbrellas
- Free beach cabanas
- Beach sun loungers
- Pool sun loungers
- Beach towels
- Smoke-free property
- Number of buildings/towers - 5
- Spa services on site
- Steam room
- Children's pool
- Swim-up bar
- Wedding services
Family Friendly Amenities
- Family Hotel
- On private beach
- Outdoor pools
- Children's pool
- Waterslide
- Separate living room
- Indoor tennis court
- Kitchenette
- Grocery/convenience store
- Laundry facilities
- Babysitting or childcare (surcharge)
- Miniature golf on site
- Separate dining area
- Full-sized refrigerator/freezer
- Microwave
Available in all rooms: Wireless internet access ( MXN 250 per day )
Available in some public areas: Wireless internet access ( MXN 250 per 24-hour period )
Free self parking, Free valet parking
Room Amenities
- Premium TV channels
- Premium bedding
- Balcony
- Separate sitting area
- In-room climate control (air conditioning)
- Air conditioning
- Kitchenette
- Coffee/tea maker
- Microwave
- Daily housekeeping
- Turndown service
- Second bathroom
- Private bathroom
- Hair dryer
- In-room massage available
- Shower/tub combination
- Iron/ironing board
- In-room safe
- Cookware, dishware, and utensils
- Separate dining area
- Full-sized refrigerator/freezer
- Stovetop
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- Separate living room
- Satellite TV service
- WiFi (surcharge)
- Dial-up Internet access (surcharge)
- Down comforter
- Memory foam mattress
- Pillow menu
- Cribs/infant beds (surcharge)
Where to Eat
A complimentary breakfast is offered.
The Ridge Bistro - This poolside restaurant specializes in international cuisine and serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Guests can enjoy drinks at the bar.
Calima - This restaurant specializes in fusion cuisine and serves lunch and dinner.
Brigantine - This beach restaurant specializes in Mexican cuisine and serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Guests can order drinks at the bar and enjoy alfresco dining (weather permitting). A children's menu is available.
Sushi Sun - This restaurant serves dinner only.
Puerto San Lucas - This restaurant specializes in Mediterranean cuisine and serves dinner only.
Nearby Things to Do
A private beach and an indoor tennis court are featured at the condominium resort. 3 outdoor swimming pools and 2 spa tubs are on site. In addition to a children's pool, other recreational amenities include a waterslide, a steam room, and a fitness center.
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or nearby; fees may apply.
- Golfing nearby
- Surfing/boogie boarding nearby
- Kayaking nearby
- Sailing nearby
- Scuba diving nearby
- Water skiing nearby
- Windsurfing nearby
- Rafting nearby
- Scooter/moped rentals nearby
- Bicycle rentals nearby
- Parasailing nearby
- Skydiving nearby
- Ecotours nearby
- Personal motorized watercraft on site
- Fitness classes on site
- Basketball on site
- Miniature golf on site
- Golf lessons on site
- Mountain biking on site
- Pilates classes on site
- Yoga classes/instruction on site
Spa Services
Playa Grande Spa has 9 treatment rooms including rooms for couples and outdoor treatment areas. Massages are available on the beach and in the spa; other services include facials, body wraps, and body scrubs. A variety of treatment therapies are provided, including aromatherapy and Ayurvedic. The spa is equipped with a spa tub.
Children under 18 years old are not allowed in the spa without adult supervision. Guests under 15 years old are not allowed in the spa.
- Number of treatment rooms 9
- Outdoor treatment areas
- Couples treatment rooms
- Massages on beach
- Manicures and pedicures
- Body wraps
- Body scrubs
- Aromatherapy treatments
- Ayurvedic treatments
- Spa tub in spa
- Massages
- Minimum age to access spa is 15
- Body treatments
- Facial treatments
If you have requests for specific accessibility needs, please note them at check-out when you book your room.
Property Policies
Check-in time starts at 4 PM
Minimum check-in age is 21
Special check-in instructions:
Check-out time is 11 AM
Payment types
Children and extra beds
- Children are welcome.
- Rollaway/extra beds are not available.
- Cribs (infant beds) are available for MXN 278 per stay.
- Pets not allowed
You need to know
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy.
- Minimum Spring Break check-in age is 21 years old.
Optional extras
- Fee for in-room wireless Internet: MXN 250 per day (rates may vary)
- Fee for wireless Internet in public areas: MXN 250 per 24-hour period (rates may vary)
- Airport shuttle fee: MXN 650.00 per person (roundtrip)
- Crib (infant bed) fee: MXN 278 per stay
Property Name
- Playa Grande Ridge
- Ridge Playa Grande Luxury Villas
- Ridge Playa Grande Luxury Villas Cabo San Lucas
- Ridge Playa Grande Luxury Villas Condo
- Ridge Playa Grande Luxury Villas Condo Cabo San Lucas
- Villas Playa Grande
- The Ridge At Playa Grande Luxury Villas Cabo San Lucas Los Cabos
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- Ridge Playa Grande
- The Ridge At Playa Grande Luxury Villas
We should mention
Reservations are required for massage services and spa treatments. Reservations can be made by contacting the condominium resort prior to arrival, using the contact information on the booking confirmation.


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Umbrella Office for Five Scientific Surveys Gets New Name
The head of five research facilities at the University of Illinois' Urbana campus says a name change has more to do with identity than anything else.
The Institute of Natural Resource Sustainability is now the Prairie Research Institute. Executive Director Bill Shilts says with the previous name, serving as home for five state surveys was often the source of confusion. But he said the new one ties facilities like the Illinois State Water Survey and Illinois Natural History Survey to others in the country, more closely identified with the Institute's mission.
And Shilts said the five surveys complement one another.
"This is a way to make all of the surveys related to that name," he said. "So that when one survey does something that's of value to the public, to the state, to the university, it reflects on all of the surveys rather than just the individual survey's name like it used to be when we were part of state government."
Shilts said being recognized as an institute with many different disciplines like water, geology, and biological resources gives his facilities a focus for the multi-disciplinary manner in which work is carried out.
The five surveys were established on the U of I campus in 2008, coming from Illinois' Department of Natural Resources. The name change was recently approved by the University's board of Trustees, but state legislators still have to approve it. The Prairie Research Institute has 700 employees and a 2010 budget of nearly $70-million.


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Police: IED detonated at embattled war memorial
COOS BAY, Ore. - Someone detonated an improvised explosive device at a war memorial overnight, the Coos Bay Police Department.
The Vietnam Memorial featuring a cross came under criticism from a group opposed to religious symbols on public property.
The memorial has since been vandalized by people both in favor of and against keeping the memorial.
The explosion prompted the City of Coos Bay to delay an upcoming meeting regarding the memorial.
Police said Friday that parks personnel reported "criminal mischief" at the memorial, possibly from an IED.
Oregon State Police explosive specialists responded the park from their Central Point office to investigate, police said.
North Coos 911 received several reports of a loud noise in the area of Coos Bay City Hall and Mingus Park, according to police. Police officers responded to that area at the time and were unable to find anyone in the area or anything out of ordinary.
Parks employees reported the criminal mischief just before 9 a.m. Friday morning.
Police ask anyone with information on the explosion or who may have seen anything suspicious in the Mingus Park area between 11 p.m. Thursday and 1 a.m. Friday to call the Coos Bay Police Department at 541-269-8911 or Coos Stop Crime at 541-267-6666.
Press release from the City of Coos Bay
The August 27th special meeting of the Coos Bay City Council regarding the status of the Vietnam War Memorial in Mingus Park had been postponed.
While a new date has not been determined, we want to give law enforcement time to investigate the most recent incident of criminal mischief at the site of the memorial. In addition, as these types of senseless acts only serve to aggravate a highly emotionally charged issue, the Council will wait a few weeks before discussing the status of the memorial.
The memorial was donated and placed in the park in 1972 by Western Bank and the Bay Area Jaycees.
On October 19, 2010, Landy Marshall a former member of the Bay Area Jaycees who helped construct and install the memorial appeared before the City Council and requested that the City rehabilitate the memorial as the finish had deteriorated over the years due exposure to the weather.
During the summer of 2011, city staff attempted to clean the memorial by pressure washing it.
When the pressure washing failed to make any visible improvements, the City contracted with a local firm to rejuvenate the monument by pressure grouting a thin layer of grout over its exterior.
On February 7, 2013, the City received a letter from the Freedom from Religion Foundation requesting the removal of the memorial as they believe its shape, a cross, is an unconstitutional endorsement of religion.
In response, the Council held a meeting on April 2, 2013 for the purpose of obtaining public comments.
The Council also invited the public to submit written comments on the matter.
In addition, the City of Coos Bay retained the services of constitutional attorneys from the Liberty Institute to assess the constitutionality of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Mingus Park and to advise the City Council on its options regarding the memorial.
As the issue is a matter of potential litigation, the results of the assessment was provided to the Council during a past executive session.
In addition to the letter from the Freedom from Religion Foundation, the City also received a letter from the American Civil Liberties Union also requesting removal of the memorial.
Sometime late last night (August 22nd / 23rd) an unknown person(s) vandalized the memorial with an improvised explosive device.
The Coos Bay Police Department encourages anyone with information on the incident or who may have seen anything suspicious in Mingus Park area between 11:00 pm on 08/22/13 and 1:00 am on 08/23/13 to please call the Coos Bay Police Department at 541-269-8911 or Coos Stop Crime at 541-267-6666.


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