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As the Indian Ocean tsunami tragically demonstrated, disaster can strike without warning and with terrible consequences. Almost all of the more than 150,000 victims were residents of the affected countries, of course, but a few thousand were vacationers, including some from the United States.
There is no sure protection for travelers against natural disasters, accidents, illness, or other perils. However, it is indicative of these nervous times that the percentage of travelers taking out trip insurance is estimated to have almost tripled in the last few years.
Many travel insurance plans cover just trip cancellations, date changes, lost or delayed luggage, and the like, but travel insurance that also includes the cost of emergency medical treatment and air evacuation back home or to the nearest good hospital can literally be a lifesaver. There usually is no age restriction for such insurance, but seniors sometimes have to pay higher premiums.
One of the largest companies specializing exclusively in medical travel insurance is MedjetAssist (www.medjetassist.com), which protects policyholders who fall sick or are injured almost anywhere in the world, as long as they are more than 150 miles from their home. If they are hospitalized, doctors based at company headquarters in Birmingham, Ala., and the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center work by phone, e-mail, and computer with the medical team treating them. When able to be moved, the patients are flown to the hospital of their choice aboard a medically equipped and staffed airplane.
An annual policy, or membership, as MedjetAssist calls it, is $205 for an individual and $325 for a family. A membership good for a single trip starts at $69 for one week.
Recognizing the growing numbers of grandparents who vacation with their grandchildren, the company recently introduced a special "grandfamily" rate. Holders of MedjetAssist annual memberships can now add grandchildren 18 or younger to their policy for a charge of $75 per grandchild.
Air Ambulance Card (www.airambulancecard.com) is another company offering medical evacuation and repatriation insurance. For an annual $295 for a family and $195 for an individual, members traveling 150 miles or more from home are flown to any hospital they choose in a fully equipped ambulance plane.
Tour companies usually don't include any sort of medical coverage in their basic trip package price but generally offer policies covering trip cancellation and medical emergencies for an additional charge. An exception is Elderhostel (www.elderhostel.org), the Boston-based nonprofit organization specializing in educational travel for older adults, which includes a travel assistance and insurance plan in all its programs at no extra cost.
The Elderhostel plan covers emergency medical evacuation and will pick up some medical costs not covered by a program participant's own insurance. With 11 weeks' or more notice, Elderhostel also allows participants to transfer from one program to another without paying a fee. It also has had a policy of waiving withdrawal and transfer fees in the event of natural or national disaster, such as the 9/11 terrorist attack, until the situation stabilizes.
Grand Circle Travel (www.gct.com), also headquartered locally and the largest US tour operator specializing in the 50-plus traveler, has a comprehensive insurance plan with both trip cancellation and medical coverage, including air evacuation if necessary. The plan is available to participants in its own tours, which include river cruises, and those of its soft adventure division, Overseas Adventure Tours (www.oattravel.com).
The cost of the GCT plan, reportedly its most popular offering, is based on the price of the trip. For a land tour and river cruise costing up to $2,000, for example, the price is $200 per person. For a land tour costing $2,500, the price would be $224 and, for a similarly priced river cruise, $229.
However, travel insurance often is priced using a formula that factors in both age and total trip cost. This is true of the coverage offered by Travel Guard International (www.travelguard.com), the country's biggest exclusively travel insurance provider.
"Typically, the cost of a policy is 5 to 7 percent of the trip," says Carol Mueller, Travel Guard spokeswoman. "We tell people to look on a trip as an investment and protect it as they would any other investment."
Travel Guard's most popular policy, designed for the leisure traveler, is the ProtectAssist plan. Among other things, this policy will refund the full cost of a trip that has to be canceled or interrupted for sufficient reason, such as death or illness in the family. "Just changing your mind isn't a good reason," says Mueller.
The plan will also pay out up to $25,000 in medical expenses and $500,000 for emergency medical transportation. Under the Travel Guard formula, the ProtectAssist premium for a trip costing $2,000-$2,500 per person for someone age 35 to 59 would be $145. For someone 80 to 84, the price would be $353.
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What a way to end the Little League state tournament Wednesday night as White Hall clipped Pine Bluff Western 5-4 to claim its second straight regional bid to Waco, Texas.
What a way to end the Little League state tournament Wednesday night as White Hall clipped Pine Bluff Western 5-4 to claim its second straight regional bid to Waco, Texas.
These two teams battled it out for two weeks in district and state tournament action, producing some of the finest baseball I have seen at any level in the past few months. Towering home runs, dominating pitching performances and some outstanding glove work in the field provided baseball fans with more than enough excitement to compensate the price of admission.
Speaking of fans, I observed Pine Bluff�s and White Hall�s fan bases during both tournaments and saw and heard some things that, quite frankly, made me cringe. These two teams, full of talented 11- and 12-year-old boys, left it all on the field. They played the game the right way, regardless of the score.
Even in the championship tilt, when it was all on the line, JaKobi Jackson belted a first-inning home run to put Western up 2-0 before an out could be recorded. Jackson�s bomb was back-to-back after Braelin Hence led off the game going yard. As Jackson was rounding the bags, White Hall third baseman Dutton Day extended a congratulatory hand as he approached third base � true class and true respect of the game itself.
But it was a different game outside the fences and I will not spare anyone�s feelings in this matter.
During the championship game, one of Western�s fans was taunting White Hall pitcher Layne Hartsfield, yelling his name to the top of her shrilled-voice lungs. It got to the point that Little League District Administrator Travis Young was forced to make an announcement for all fans to cheer for their team and not against the competition.
Prior to that, the Western Little League president seemed belligerent to officials because there was a misunderstanding of when infield was going to take place. This was before the game even started. She even shouted from her perch some 50 yards away for the team to get back on the field and take infield � as if she were in charge.
After the championship game, one of the fathers from Pine Bluff was waiting for the umpires at the gate and had choice words and a pointed finger ready to express his displeasure of the officiating crew.
These things do not go unnoticed, not by other parents or the players. And who better to learn how to behave from than your parents. Thankfully, the players did not allow their overbearing fans to affect them. Or maybe they did. Who knows?
White Hall�s fans were not perfect, and I am in no way saying they are. However, not once did I hear them taking aim at an 11- or 12-year-old child on the field. I heard the usual griping of a questionable call by an umpire but it did not escalate further than that.
White Hall won the state title, fair and square. It is the fourth state title for that city this year as the Little Leaguers followed in the footsteps of the high school�s baseball and softball teams and the AA American Legion team this summer. Whatever it is that propels White Hall to the top could be a lesson for others to follow.
Attitude determines altitude. Western�s players deserved respect and got it by performing at a higher standard on the field. The parents need to take lessons from their children on how to behave off of it.
Chan Davis is a sports writer for The Commercial. Email him at firstname.lastname@example.com.

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Global warming alarmism is not science. It is a toxic combination of pseudo-religion and totalitarian politics. To the extent that there is any debate over climate science–the alarmists run from debate like vampires fleeing garlic–the "skeptics" always win. If you want to follow climate science controversies in a rigorous but accessible fashion, check out the Science and Environmental Policy Project's web site. Among other things, it features a weekly update on matters relating to the global warming debate.
This week's SEPP newsletter includes an excellent piece by Dr. Harrison "Jack" Schmitt, a former United States Senator from New Mexico as well as a geologist and former Apollo astronaut who currently is an aerospace consultant. Dr. Schmitt reviews some of the basic evidence that the alarmists try to wish away. You really should read it all; here are some excerpts:
Policy makers at the head of government in the United States and elsewhere apparently want to believe, and to have others believe, that human use of fossil fuels accelerates global warming. They pursue this quest in order to impose ever greater and clearly unconstitutional control on the economy and personal liberty in the name of a hypothetically omnipotent government. There exists no true concern by the President or Congressional Leadership about the true effects of climate change – only a poorly concealed, ideologically driven attempt to use conjured up threats of catastrophic consequences as a lever to gain authoritarian control of society.
There has been an absolute natural increase in global surface temperature of half a degree Centigrade per 100 years (0.9 degrees Fahrenheit) over the last three and a half centuries. Observational climate data and objective interpretations of those data strongly indicate that nature, not human activity, exerts the primary influence on this current long term warming and on all global climate variations. Human influence through use of fossil fuels has been and remains minor if even detectable. Claims to the contrary only find support in highly questionable climate models that fail repeatedly against the reality of nature. What, then, stimulates historically and geologically observed, sometimes slow and sometimes radical, changes in climate?
The primary alternative hypothesis to human-caused global warming is natural climate change driven by the Sun. … As many scientists have documented, the position and orientation of the Earth in its orbit around the sun, and the Sun's variable influence and activity, determine weather and climate. Seasons vary because of changing solar energy input in annual response to the varying orientation of Earth's Northern and Southern Hemispheres. … Further, variations in solar radiation received by the Earth correlate with short-term variations in Earth's weather, based on the slow movement of loops called "Rossby waves" in atmospheric jet streams.
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CASH strapped Dudley Council is to launch the biggest consultation in its history over a referendum to save services.
The authority's leaders are planning a massive publicity campaign asking borough people if they would support a public vote on a council tax rise of up to 4.9 per cent.
Any council tax rise over two per cent would only be possible after a referendum but, without an increase, the council's budget would need to be slashed by nearly £30m over the next three years.
Dudley cabinet member for finance, Cllr Pete Lowe, said: "This is the most important question the people of Dudley have ever been asked.
"The future of council services is at stake, if people say they can't stomach a council tax increase we will have to say "what do you want us to cut"."
The council's bills add up to around £260m each year and about £30m has already been cut.
After further reductions in payouts from central government, the council is already proposing more savings of around £20m and, without a council tax rise, another £9m will have to be trimmed from spending.
Labour's Cllr Lowe says the consultation, which will begin at the end of November, is necessary because chancellor George Osbourne "moved the goal posts" following local elections in May, when the threshold for council tax rise without a referendum was changed to two per cent.
Cllr Lowe said: "The situation changed prior to the Conservative Party conference when George Osbourne made a number of alterations including the limit on council tax.
"We are duty bound to asked the people of Dudley, this wasn't in our manifesto."
The range of increases up for debate in the consultation will run from zero to 4.9 per cent.
A hike of 4.9 per cent would add an extra £1 per week on a band D property in Dudley Borough.
Dudley Conservative group leader, Cllr Les Jones, said: "We have always had consultation on the budget, it's a little bit strange we are having a referendum about a referendum.
"It's a cop out, what they should do is clearly state what they want to do and put that to the people."


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We've just released an updated version that works on Amazon Android devices!!
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Direct Payday Lenders Don't Always Offer The Best Rates
Lots of people think that the best place to get a payday loan is from a direct payday lender such as Great Plains Lending. And while Great Plains Lending is one of our favorite direct lenders, you don't always get the best rate or loan terms by going direct. Here's why…
Direct Payday Loan Lenders Don't Always Have The Best Rates
When you go with a direct lender such as Great Plains Lending, you know EXACTLY what your loan rate is going to be. In fact, their rates should be prominently displayed on their website to ensure they are complying with all state and federal laws, such as the Truth in Lending Act.
As an example, here's what Great Plains Lending has posted on their website right now:
This is a stark difference with non-direct payday lenders that don't state the loan rate on their website because they don't know what it will be yet until they share your loan application with their network of lenders. Once they find a lender for your loan, then you find out what the rate will be.
And while its nice to know up front what you are going to be charged, you don't really know how this compares to other online payday
loan lenders without knowing which ones are reputable and then going to each of their websites to see what the latest rate they are charging is.
Speaking from experience, this is often a time consuming and tedious process. More often than not, you'll find one payday loan lender that has a substantially lower rate than all the others, but when you start reading the fine print on your loan, you soon realize that their loan repayment terms are not NEARLY as good as the lenders with higher rates.
Getting A Payday Loan From An Indirect Lender Can Be Better
A better way to find the best rate and loan terms is to go with an indirect payday loan lender, also known as a payday loan broker such as 100 Day Loans. 1 Hour Direct. 1 Hour Personal Loan. etc.
Payday loan brokers often have over 100 direct lenders within their network that they offer your loan application too. When they find a couple of lenders that would like to offer you a loan, they let you know and you get to choose whom you get the loan from based on their loan rates, repayment terms and online reputation. Quite often you'll discover that by going through an indirect payday loan lender, you'll get better rates and better loan terms.Source: www.payday-loan.org
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The Denver Post is out today with an editorial opposing what is currently the best hope for making American democracy more democratic and fulfilling the Framers' wish for "a more perfect union": the National Popular Vote plan. The editorial begins this way:
Colorado played a key role in last year's presidential race, thanks to the Electoral College. Without it, there likely wouldn't have been a Democratic National Convention in Denver, and the two leading presidential candidates wouldn't have made so many visits to the state. But a bill in the state legislature would end that influence and push Colorado toward a system that would award the state's nine electoral votes to the winner of the national popular vote. We can't figure out why a smaller state, such as ours, would want to cede its influence to the more populous states on the coastlines. But Democrats have pushed the bill through the House, and it's already cleared a Senate committee.Well, give the Post credit for frankness. The paper goes right up front with its real concern: preserving a status quo that gives Colorado (along with ten or twelve other "battleground" states) special, unearned privileges, while depriving the voters of the rest of the country of any meaningful role in Presidential elections. Give them credit, too, for summarizing the plan not too unfairly:
If House Bill 1299 is approved, Colorado would enter into an interstate compact that would take effect only if enacted, in identical form, by states that have a majority of electoral college votes—270 of 538. The states would agree to award all of their electoral votes to the presidential candidate who wins the national popular vote.And give them credit for conceding that the current system "leaves the union vulnerable to choosing a president who didn't get the most support from voters":
This has happened only three times since the Civil War, but it came close again in 2004. John Kerry nearly won Ohio, which would have given him the White House, despite President Bush earning 3 million more votes."Only" three times? Four if you count 2004's close call? That's a failure rate of seven per cent. The Post is straining so hard here it's apt to give itself a hernia. But would it recommend a hernia surgeon who let seven per cent of his patients die on the operating table? Soon enough, though, the editorial goes all high-minded. And that's where it goes really lame.
In a republic, such as ours, states matter. And small states, such as Colorado, now can have an influence in a presidential election.Eleven of the twelve smallest states are spectator states. During the fall 2008 campaign, there were no campaign events in any of these states. None. Small states, qua states, have no influence in a Presidential election. Nor do big states or medium-size states. The only states that have influence, qua states, are battleground states. Also, while Colorado is indeed smaller than twenty-one other states, it is larger than twenty-eight. This does not entitle it to pity as one of the "small states."
But without the Electoral College, candidates likely would just fish for votes in more populous states, such as California, New York, Texas and Illinois. Rather than visit smaller states such as Colorado, the candidates might be tempted to just run up the score in the more populous states if they're simply aiming for a popular vote win.Excuse me, but I am not a fish. I am a New Yorker. And what is wrong with "aiming for a popular vote win"? Isn't that what candidates for Governor of Colorado do? Is it really better for candidates for President of the United States to be simply aiming for an electoral-vote win? Do candidates for Senator from Colorado restrict their campaigning to more populous areas of the state, such as Denver, while telling small-town and rural folk to talk to the hand? Under N.P.V., states would be an important category only insofar as voters regard them as important. My guess is that few voters regard their state of residence as more important than other aspects of their identity, such as their region, their race, their economic status, their moral values, and their political and policy opinions. Toward the end of the editorial, the Post drifts back to misguided state chauvinism:
Thus far, four states have entered into the winner-take-all compact: Hawaii, Illinois, New Jersey and Maryland. If the General Assembly passes the bill and Gov. Bill Ritter signs it, Colorado will be the fifth. And Colorado, which figures to be a swing state for the foreseeable future, will have lost its voice, and its influence.
Under N.P.V., a Colorado voter will have exactly the same voice, and exactly the same influence, as a Rhode Island voter, a Texas voter, a New York voter, or an Alaska voter. There is no danger that N.P.V. will give the good people of Colorado laryngitis. It will merely make Coloradans the equal of other Americans. Meanwhile, the interests of small states, qua states, will remain adequately safeguarded by the United States Senate, in which each resident of the smallest state gets seventy times the "representation" of each resident of the largest.


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A couple of posts on Techcrunch, one on Filmloop entering the Deadpool, and another on a rumor that Slide took $20m in funding have sparked some lively debate in comments about the business models for widgets. I don't pretend to have the answer to this, although I did note in my earlier post on 2007 Consumer Internet predictions that this would be the year that social networks would find a business model.
I led Lightspeed's investment in Rockyou early last year (Sequoia was our co-investor). Rockyou is a competitor to both Slide and Filmloop – they help people to customize their online representations (on social network pages, blogs etc) by embedding widgets, including photo slideshows, glittertext, image text and other widgets. As has been noted in the comments to the Techcrunch posts, the technology involved here is not terribly complicated (although the challenges of scale are meaningful). We invested for a couple of reasons: (i) Rockyou had achieved very real adoption from users and (ii) we really liked the two founders, Lance Tokuda and Jia Shen. Lance and Jia have a great sense for their users needs. Here in the valley we can get a little insular, but Lance and Jia have developed a fantastic sense of what their user, the Myspace/Bebo/Friendster user, is looking for.
We have been very happy with our investment in Rockyou. It has only continued to grow since we invested – it now serves well over 100 million widget views every DAY, and it has diversified well beyond a dependence on Myspace (a majority of its visits do not come from Myspace anymore). Having too much of a dependence for new users on a single source is a scary thing for any company. When Myspace launched its photo slideshow widget a few months ago, we waited with baited breath to see the impact on our growth. If Myspace blocked Rockyou (or Slide or any other widget company) it would have a meaningful impact on the business. However, Myspace has grown in large part by being open. It briefly blocked YouTube in December of 2005 (eventually attributed to a misunderstanding) but reversed that shortly afterwards, perhaps due to complaints from its users. Its hard to read the FIM/Myspace tealeaves, but they have had plenty of opportunity to block successful widget companies in the last year and have not chosen to do so so far, even while they have launched competing services internally.
That being said, like most startups just past their one year anniversary, Rockyou is not yet profitable. As I mentioned in my prior post, Youtube is really the only company that has suceeded in turning widgets into a destination website that can be monetized directly. Photobucket drives enough traffic from users uploading and editing photos to be able to generate significant revenue from advertising as well. Its fair to say that none of the other widget companies, Rockyou included, have achieved the same level of success in creating a destination browsing experience to the same degree.
Its not yet clear what the business model for such widgets will be. One possibility is sponsorship. Rockyou partnered with Sony to offer "Casino Royale" themes and with Nettwerk Records to offer "Matt Wertz" and Leigh Nash" themes that users could apply to their slideshows. All three have been successful, with large numbers of users choosing these themes resulting in 10s -100s of millions of widget views. This could well be a path to monetization. Another is freemium models. Although the base products will always be free, users may be willing to pay for certain premium customizations. Rockyou allows users to customize a "pin" to replace the rockyou watermark on their slideshows for a small fee. Its early days, and we don't yet have a clear picture of exactly what the monetization model will be, but these are both highly promising options. Venture investing, and starting companies, always carries elements of risk after all!


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"Tampa Is Seen as Social Link for Unfolding Scandal" (Is this Kardashian Sisters REDUX?)
Tampa Is Seen as Social Link for Unfolding Scandal
By MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT and SHERYL GAY STOLBERG
TAMPA, Fla. Jill and Scott Kelley moved here about a decade ago, taking up residence in a huge redbrick home with a spectacular view of the water on Bayshore Boulevard, the citys most fashionable street. They quickly established themselves as social hosts to the powerful four-star officers who run two of the nations most important military commands.
The Kelleys were known for their lavish parties, with extravagant buffets, flowing Champagne, valet parking and cigars for guests from nearby MacDill Air Force Base, including David H. Petraeus and Gen. John R. Allen, who now commands troops in Afghanistan. Tampa is the kind of community where, if youre new to the community, you can carve out your own niche, said Pam Iorio, the citys former mayor, who recalls mingling with Mr. Petraeus and his wife, Holly, at the Kelleys home. They decided to carve out a niche with the military.
Now the social link between Tampas military and civilian elite is at the center of an unfolding Washington scandal that has already cost Mr. Petraeus his job as director of the Central Intelligence Agency and has ensnared General Allen, who was Mr. Petraeuss deputy when he was here from 2008 to 2010.
At the heart of the investigation is the Tampa woman who prompted it: Ms. Kelley, 37, who received threatening anonymous e-mails that set off an F.B.I. investigation revealing that Mr. Petraeus had an affair with his biographer, Paula Broadwell. On Tuesday, General Allen was caught up in the scandal, when the Pentagon said that it was investigating whether he had engaged in inappropriate communication with Ms. Kelley; associates of the general say the messages were innocent, and President Obama voiced support for him.
Records show that Ms. Kelley and her husband, a doctor, have been subject to a string of lawsuits over debts, according to a report in The Tampa Bay Times, which said the Kelleys owed a bank nearly $2.2 million, including attorney fees, on a building they own. They also ran a cancer charity, which appears to be defunct. A 2007 tax filing, the latest available, shows the charity raised $157,284 that year, but spent just $58,417 on program services, described as conducting research to improve the lives of terminally ill adult cancer patients.
Their parties, though, were the talk of the town. In February 2010, a gossip column in The Tampa Bay Times reported that Mr. Petraeus and his wife arrived escorted by 28 police officers on motorcycles to a pirate-themed party at the Kelleys home, to mark Tampas Gasparilla Pirate Fest, an annual event. Guests dined on lamb chops and crab cakes, beside hot dog and funnel cake carts, the paper said.
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Wed Nov 14, 2012, 09:43 PM
DonCoquixote (12,193 posts)
1. GroaN
Why does my hometown have to be the weirdness magnet?
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Wed Nov 14, 2012, 09:45 PM
KoKo (84,711 posts)
2. Hey...I'm near Charlotte, NC...Bank of America ...now Paula ....You are Not ALONE!
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Wed Nov 14, 2012, 09:49 PM
global1 (16,915 posts)
3. It Just Dawned On Me That The Repug Nat'l Convention Was In Tampa....
Did these sisters attend? Did they sponsor any parties? If so - who invited, hired or paid them?
Response to global1 (Reply #3)
Wed Nov 14, 2012, 09:53 PM
grasswire (50,130 posts)
4. did they meet Mitt?
Good question!
Response to grasswire (Reply #4)
Wed Nov 14, 2012, 10:21 PM
smaug (230 posts)
5. Getting tired of all this
You know, I'm getting real tired of this. If there has been no crime or national security interest violated, who give a flying **** about spankytime amongst the retired general, general, and socialities?
If we're in a financial difficulty, then why is money being wasted on a nowhere investigation?
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Thu Nov 15, 2012, 12:26 AM
grasswire (50,130 posts)
7. and yet you clicked on the thread
As a newer member, you may not know that you can hide threads and you can even choose not to read some.
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Wed Nov 14, 2012, 10:43 PM
HooptieWagon (17,064 posts)
6. The only big party was hosted by Pam Bondi.
Guestlist was uber-VIPs... Mitt, Ryan, lots of GOP senators, Rove, several FOX peeps. I doubt Kelleys were elite enough for invite. Possibly they attended one of the smaller parties.
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Thu Nov 15, 2012, 12:04 PM
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|Amador City, California
Historic buildings in Amador City
|Nickname(s): The gold country's hidden nugget
|Motto: "Essence of the California Gold & Wine Country"
Location of Amador City in Amador County, California.
|Coordinates: 38°25′10″N 120°49′27″W / 38.41944°N 120.82417°W
|United States
|1853[citation needed]
|June 2, 1915[1]
|• Mayor
|Tim Knox[2]
|• State Senate
|Tom Berryhill (R)[3]
|• State Assembly
|Frank Bigelow (R)[4]
|• U. S. Congress
|Tom McClintock (R)[5]
|• Total
|0.31 sq mi (0.80 km2)
|• Land
|0.31 sq mi (0.80 km2)
|• Water
|0.00 sq mi (0.00 km2) 0%
|919 ft (280 m)
|Population (2010)
|• Total
|• Estimate (2016)[8]
|• Density
|622.15/sq mi (240.00/km2)
|Time zone
|• Summer (DST)
|ZIP code
|Area code(s)
|FIPS code
|GNIS feature IDs
|1657922, 2409693
Amador City (formerly, Amadore's Creek and South Amador) is a city in Amador County, California, United States. The population was 185 at the 2010 census, down from 196 at the 2000 census.
Amador City is located at 38°25′10″N 120°49′27″W / 38.41944°N 120.82417°WCoordinates: 38°25′10″N 120°49′27″W / 38.41944°N 120.82417°W.
Only two miles from Sutter Creek on Highway 49, Amador City is the state's smallest incorporated city by area. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 0.3 square miles (0.78 km2), all of which is land.
The city was founded in 1863 and was incorporated into a city around 1915. It was named after Amador County, California, which in turn was named after California soldier and wealthy rancher Jose Maria Amador, who, in 1848-1849, was prospecting an unknown creek in this historically rich gold bearing area called the Motherlode of California.[9] There were no known settlements until 1851. The California Gold Rush changed the landscape of California. Amador's most famous and productive mine, the Keystone, produced about $24 million in gold during 1853-1942. These prices would be higher using today's gold standard.[10]
A post office was established at Amador City in 1863.[11]
|Historical population
|Est. 2016
The 2010 United States Census[13] reported that Amador City had a population of 185. The population density was 589.6 people per square mile (227.7/km²). The racial makeup of Amador City was 171 (92.4%) White, 0 (0.0%) African American, 4 (2.2%) Native American, 2 (1.1%) Asian, 0 (0.0%) Pacific Islander, 2 (1.1%) from other races, and 6 (3.2%) from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 11 persons (5.9%).
The Census reported that 185 people (100% of the population) lived in households, 0 (0%) lived in non-institutionalized group quarters, and 0 (0%) were institutionalized.
There were 85 households, out of which 22 (25.9%) had children under the age of 18 living in them, 35 (41.2%) were opposite-sex married couples living together, 9 (10.6%) had a female householder with no husband present, 3 (3.5%) had a male householder with no wife present. There were 10 (11.8%) unmarried opposite-sex partnerships, and 0 (0%) same-sex married couples or partnerships. 26 households (30.6%) were made up of individuals and 9 (10.6%) had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.18. There were 47 families (55.3% of all households); the average family size was 2.74.
The population was spread out with 37 people (20.0%) under the age of 18, 18 people (9.7%) aged 18 to 24, 40 people (21.6%) aged 25 to 44, 65 people (35.1%) aged 45 to 64, and 25 people (13.5%) who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 43.5 years. For every 100 females there were 94.7 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 100.0 males.
There were 108 housing units at an average density of 344.2 per square mile (132.9/km²), of which 54 (63.5%) were owner-occupied, and 31 (36.5%) were occupied by renters. The homeowner vacancy rate was 6.9%; the rental vacancy rate was 8.8%. 111 people (60.0% of the population) lived in owner-occupied housing units and 74 people (40.0%) lived in rental housing units.
As of the census[14] of 2000, there were 196 people, 85 households, and 54 families residing in the city. The population density was 601.7 people per square mile (229.3/km²). There were 91 housing units at an average density of 279.4 per square mile (106.5/km²). The racial makeup of the city was 90.82% White, 1.02% Native American, 4.08% from other races, and 4.08% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 9.18% of the population.
There are 85 households out of which 23.5% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 43.5% are married couples living together, 15.3% have a female householder with no husband present, and 35.3% are non-families. 27.1% of all households are made up of individuals and 10.6% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.31 and the average family size is 2.76.
In the city, the population was spread out with 19.4% under the age of 18, 7.7% from 18 to 24, 27.0% from 25 to 44, 32.7% from 45 to 64, and 13.3% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 42 years. For every 100 females there were 92.2 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 100.0 males.
The median income for a household in the city was $45,625, and the median income for a family was $39,861. Males had a median income of $30,313 versus $16,250 for females. The per capita income for the city was $17,963. About 14.0% of families and 22.9% of the population are below the poverty line, including 42.5% of those under the age of 18 and none of those 65 and older.
Government and Politics[edit]
In the California State Legislature, Amador City is in the 8th Senate District, represented by Republican Tom Berryhill,[3] and in the 5th Assembly District, represented by Republican Frank Bigelow.[4]
In the United States House of Representatives, Amador City is in California's 4th congressional district, represented by Republican Tom McClintock.[5]
Points of interest[edit]
with the new patio.
Traveling the two blocks on Highway 49 the traveler can see signs of abandonment in this once thriving city, a contrast to the time when the placers and underground mines produced in abundance. An abandoned brick building stands next to the Fleehart Store, a beautiful reflection of the stone masonry of the time. Also on Main Street is the old Imperial Hotel, another example of the beautiful brickwork of California's past.[15] A bridge replacement project completed in 2014 has beautified and revitalized the center of the city, providing patio dining at the Imperial Hotel, new public restrooms and improved access to the many quaint shops, wine tasting rooms and purveyors of unique, tasty comestibles.
- Little Amador Railroad — Remnants remain of an incredibly-detailed G-Scale model train set in a garden that featured miniature mines and mills and turn-of-the-century full-size mining equipment.
- Amador City Cemetery — located behind the Imperial Hotel. Visitors can take a self-guided tour of the 1.25-acre (5,100 m2) cemetery that dates back to the beginning of the town. Historic Highway 49
- Amador Whitney Museum — located in one of the oldest commercial buildings in town, dating back 1860, the museum collects and displays items related to history and culture of the Mother Lode region. The museum is named after Mr. Whitney, an antique dealer, that bequeathed the building to the city of Amador to be used as a museum. Amador Whitney Museum
- ^ "California Cities by Incorporation Date". California Association of Local Agency Formation Commissions. Archived from the original (Word) on November 3, 2014. Retrieved March 27, 2013.
- ^ "Amador City Government Overview". Amador City CA. Retrieved April 6, 2015.
- ^ a b "Senators". State of California. Retrieved March 18, 2013.
- ^ a b "Members Assembly". State of California. Retrieved March 18, 2013.
- ^ a b "California's 4th Congressional District - Representatives & District Map". Civic Impulse, LLC. Retrieved March 1, 2013.
- ^ "2016 U.S. Gazetteer Files". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved Jul 19, 2017.
- ^ "Amador". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. Retrieved 2007-05-24.
- ^ a b "Population and Housing Unit Estimates". Retrieved June 9, 2017.
- ^ William Bright; Erwin Gustav Gudde (30 November 1998). 1500 California place names: their origin and meaning. University of California Press. p. 15. ISBN 978-0-520-21271-8. Retrieved 20 January 2012.
- ^ Historic Highway 49
- ^ Durham, David L. (1998). California's Geographic Names: A Gazetteer of Historic and Modern Names of the State. Clovis, Calif.: Word Dancer Press. p. 442. ISBN 1-884995-14-4.
- ^ "Census of Population and Housing". Census.gov. Archived from the original on May 12, 2015. Retrieved June 4, 2015.
- ^ "2010 Census Interactive Population Search: CA - Amador City city". U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved July 12, 2014.
- ^ "American FactFinder". United States Census Bureau. Archived from the original on 2013-09-11. Retrieved 2008-01-31.
- ^ Division of Mines, The Motherlode Country, Bulletin 141


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Scott's Shadow:
Scott's Shadow is the first comprehensive account of the flowering of Scottish fiction between 1802 and 1832, when post-Enlightenment Edinburgh rivaled London as a center for literary and cultural innovation. Ian Duncan shows how Walter Scott became the central figure in these developments, and how he helped redefine the novel as the principal modern genre for the representation of national historical life.
Duncan traces the rise of a cultural nationalist ideology and the ascendancy of Scott's Waverley novels in the years after Waterloo. He argues that the key to Scott's achievement and its unprecedented impact was the actualization of a realist aesthetic of fiction, one that offered a socializing model of the imagination as first theorized by Scottish philosopher and historian David Hume. This aesthetic, Duncan contends, provides a powerful novelistic alternative to the Kantian-Coleridgean account of the imagination that has been taken as normative for British Romanticism since the early twentieth century. Duncan goes on to examine in detail how other Scottish writers inspired by Scott's innovations--James Hogg and John Galt in particular--produced in their own novels and tales rival accounts of regional, national, and imperial history.
Scott's Shadow illuminates a major but neglected episode of British Romanticism as well as a pivotal moment in the history and development of the novel.
Ian Duncan is professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Modern Romance and Transformations of the Novel and the coeditor of Scotland and the Borders of Romanticism.
"A compelling account of Scottish fiction between 1802 and 1832, when Edinburgh rivalled London as a centre for literary and cultural innovation. Duncan shows Walter Scott's key role redefining the novel as the principal modern genre for the representation of national historical life."--Times Higher Education
"Duncan offers here a complex, fascinating monograph on the Scottish novel in the age of Walter Scott. . . . Mandatory reading for scholars of 19th-century studies and the history of the novel."--M.E. Burstein, Choice
"Certainly Duncan's sophisticated commentary is poised to become required reading for those with an interest in the Romantic novel, and will prove to be an invaluable resource for Scott scholars for many years to come."--Ross Alloway, Edinburgh Review
"While this book showcases Duncan's impressive originality of thought and assured command of his material, it also demands a high level of concentration from readers. The rigorous research, bold critical thinking and intensive analysis in each chapter reward careful reading. Undergraduates will appreciate being directed to specific parts of the book, but other readers will want to read it thoroughly, certainly revisiting it many times in future."--Meiko O'Halloran, Review of English Studies
"Equally learned and imaginative, the book manages both to offer a sophisticated and wholly original account of the idea of a national culture, while maintaining a rigorous and scholarly account of how the multiple strands of this national debate were rooted in the commercial and political world of Edinburgh."--Penny Fielding, Urban History
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DUBLIN — Three seats are up for election in November on the Dublin-San Ramon Services District board, with two incumbents being challenged by two newcomers.
Incumbents Dwight L. Howard and Rich Halket are facing Edward Duarte and Scott Hayes, political newcomers who have never been elected to public office.
Three of the four candidates reside in Dublin — only Duarte is a San Ramon resident.
As challengers to the incumbents, Hayes and Duarte believe they could bring a fresh perspective to the decision-making process and help improve the district's spending.
Hayes said he is the only candidate who is committed to making sure that "pay for performance" bonuses never happen again in the district. He said the program creates a conflict of interest and that management bonuses were a huge distraction for the organization.
"I have no personal or political ties to the board," said Hayes. "My independence would allow me to make the best decision possible for the ratepayer."
Hayes would also like to push for term limits on the district board — term limits don't currently exist — as well as start televising the meetings.
Hayes added that he would push for no more rate increases to fund the public-sector bonuses, which he said he believes create a conflict of interest.
"That is a huge distraction from the real work that needs to be done," he said.
Duarte said that if he was elected, he would like to push for more financial transparency and better efficiency of operations at the district.
"The district has made decisions in the past that I am certainly not happy with and if I were on the board, I would have voted in a different direction," he said.
An engineer by education and a public works contractor by vocation, Duarte said his 45-year experience in the business would give the district insight other candidates would not have.
Incumbent Howard said if re-elected, he would like to expand the use of recycled water throughout the Tri-Valley.
Howard said he would also like to increase cooperation and integration of water and wastewater utilities within the area.
Halket, also an incumbent, did not return attempts for comment as of press time.
Halket is the current president of the board of directors.
Once elected, directors will join current board members Dawn Benson and Georgean Vonheeder-Leopold.
Contact Katie Nelson at 925-847-2164 or follow her at Twitter.com/katienelson210.
Edward Duarte
Age: 73
Occupation: Semiretired general engineering contractor
Education: B.S. in civil engineering, CSU Fresno
Rich Halket
Age: 47
Occupation: Accountant
Civic Involvement: Incumbent, elected to the Dublin-San Ramon Services District in 2004.
Education: B.S. in geology, Stanford University; M.A. in hydrogeology, Washington State University
Scott Hayes
Age: 30
Occupation: Financial analyst
Education: B.A. in business, University of Texas at Arlington; M.A. in business, University of Notre Dame
Dwight "Pat" L. Howard
Age: 67
Occupation: Retired mechanical engineer
Civic Involvement: Incumbent, elected to the Dublin-San Ramon Services District in 2003.
Education: B.S. and M.S. in mechanical engineering, UC Berkeley; M.S. in engineering management, Santa Clara University


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Chesterfield, VA–Police and rescue crews are on the scene of two-vehicle accident at Walmsley Boulevard and Turner Road; two people were injured.
The accident took place Wednesday afternoon, shortly after 1:00 p.m. Two people suffered injuries in the crash; it's unclear how badly they were hurt. The victims were transported to a local hospital for treatment.
Stay with 8News for updates.
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Monday, November 5, 2012
'Spring Hill' After Hurricane Sandy
HERE is what it looked like in 2008.
6 comments:
- HalfPuddingHalfSauce said...
Are houses being built on the property now? Any damage to them?
- November 05, 2012 7:34 AM
- Zach said...
Yes and I don't know but I don't think so.
I'm sure you've looked at wikimapia...you can see what is being built on there.
- November 05, 2012 7:37 AM
- HalfPuddingHalfSauce said...
No I hadn't looked lately.
- November 05, 2012 7:39 AM
- HalfPuddingHalfSauce said...
I can't make out the initials in the scroll-work of the gate?
- November 05, 2012 7:49 AM
- Zach said...
Always looked like HCP to me.
The front gate at OWG says JSP.
- November 05, 2012 7:55 AM
Yes, a mess overall. Had I not toured Grand Central Terminal's innermost bowels recently I confess I may have doubted the veracity of your conclusion regarding the state of the wall, storm damage or not. Much of the terminal's understructure too is largely hollow, held in place with metal support, same as pictured in your IMG_5501.jpg of that section showing total disintegratition above the center arch.
- November 07, 2012 9:20 AM


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How Many Pans Of Cupcakes Do You Bake At Once?
Baking By kileyscakes Updated 24 May 2010 , 12:12pm by KHalstead
Hi, I was just wondering what everyone does when baking their cupcakes? I have noticed that when I bake my cupcakes (two 12 muffin) with the pans side by side they come out with the cupcake kinda slanted to one side. I have read that some bake just one pan at a time. Or some use 2 racks then rotate. What does everyone do? I have also noticed that the lean doesn't happen with every recipe just some, and it drives me crazy!
I have had the same thing happen with a few of my recipes. I believe it is caused by using a convection oven. In the oven there is a fan used to move the air and regulate temp. The fan is what blows the top of the cupcake over a bit. Usually I bake with 6 pans (a full oven) I rotate the cupcakes about 13 minutes in or just when it looks like the tops are starting to get formed enough that they wont fall when I turn the pans around. I find that the more pans in the oven the less they get the slant on the tops. I am guessing that is because it is harder for the air to move around the pans. I hope this helps! And if I am wrong please someone let me know lol.
One of the best baking pans I ever bought was a 24 count no stick cupcake pan
It fits in my 2 home ovens perfectly and the cupcakes come out beautifully.
I have a double oven, so I bake them separate.
Do you have a convection oven?
Blakescakes - Want! Can you share a link for where I can get this?
If you add other items sold by Amazon, I think shipping will be free once the total hits $25.
If you add other items sold by Amazon, I think shipping will be free once the total hits $25.
Thanks! Now I can use one oven, and have one pan to clean. Okay, it'll be the same amount of area as two 12-cup pans, but in my head it will feel like less.
I use 2-12 cup pans one on each of the 2 racks and then put a 6 cup pan on one of the racks as well (usually the top rack), the muffin tin on the bottom rack gets a cookie sheet under it (to prevent the bottoms from getting too dark)
So I bake 28 cupcakes at a time. When I bake minies I use 2-24 cup pans, so I bake 48 of those at a time.
I don't rotate my pans or anything during cookie and they all come out great


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Utah State's Will Davis has been named College Sports Madness' Western Athletic Conference Defensive Player of the Week for the second time this month following his performance in Utah State's 45-9 home win against Idaho on Saturday.
Davis also earned honorable mention national defensive back performer of the week honors from College Football Performance Awards following the Idaho game. It is the second time this year he has been honored by CFPA.
Georgia's Bacarri Rambo, Middle Tennessee's Kevin Byard and San Jose State's Bene Benwikere all earned co-national performer of the week honors at defensive back from CFPA. Davis joined Eddie Lackey (Baylor), Keon Lyn (Syracuse), David Amerson (North Carolina State), Johnny Adams (Michigan State), Matt Elam (Florida), Chibuikem Okoro (Wake Forest), Adrian McDonald (Houston), Xavier Brewer (Clemson), Eric Eiland (Houston), Jonathan Dowling (Western Kentucky), Antone Exum (Virginia Tech), Lyle Dankenbring (UCF), Luke Wollet (Kent State), Sam Carter (TCU), Najja Johnson (Buffalo) and John Hardy-Tuliau (Hawaii) as honorable mention award winners.
Davis, a 6-foot-0, 186-pound senior defensive back from Spokane, Wash. (Central Valley HS/De Anza College), had four tackles (3-solo) and an interception against Idaho that he returned 59 yards for his first career touchdown, which is USU's first pick-six since 2007.
Davis helped Utah State hold the Vandals to 210 yards of total offense.
Davis has now intercepted a pass in five-straight games for Utah State, marking the first time that feat has been accomplished since 1973. Davis' five interceptions on the season are also the most by an Aggie since Terrence Washington also had five in 2003.
On the season, Davis leads the nation in passes defended (1.75 pg) and ranks second nationally in passes broken up (1.33 pg). Davis also ranks second in the WAC and tied for 11th in the nation in interceptions (0.42 pg) and tied for 39th in the WAC in tackles (4.7 pg).
Davis ranks first on the team in interceptions (5), passes broken up (16) and passes defended (21), and is eighth on the team with 56 tackles (39-solo), to go along with 4.5 tackles for loss and three quarterback hurries.
Utah State (10-2, 6-0 WAC) just completed its most successful regular season in school history as it set single-season records for wins (10) and home wins (6), while recording its first outright league championship since 1936 and its 11th in school history, as it became the first team in USU history to post a 6-0 conference record.
The Aggies, who are ranked 20th in the nation in this week's Associated Press Top 25 and 22nd in the ESPN/USA Today Coaches' poll, will conclude their 2012 season at the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl on Saturday, Dec. 15 at 2:30 p.m. (MT) against a team yet to be announced from the Mid-American Conference.
Tickets for the 2012 Famous Idaho Potato Bowl are available online, by phone at (208) 426-4737 or at the Bronco Stadium ticket office.
Doug Hoffman is the assistant athletic director for Utah State University Athletic Media Relations.


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Jan. 11, 2006 - Pima County's pampered pouches and their owners have a new place to shop with the opening of a dog and cat retail store in the Foothills.
Muttropolis opened Jan. 7 in La Encantada, 2905 E. Skyline Drive.
The 2,500-square-foot store opened its doors after months of construction and eager anticipation by Tucson shoppers, said Janet McCulley, owner and one of the founding partners of Muttropolis.
Muttropolis specializes in, among other things, pet fashions, all-natural dog and cat food and specialty pet beds.
"We're retail for pets and their parents," McCulley said. "Pets are bona fide members of families. Our pets are our kids and our passion."
The idea for an haute couture pet store came to the owners of Muttropolis four years ago. McCulley worked for 10 years in corporate marketing and began to realize there was a niche that wasn't being filled in the pet world.
In November 2002, the first Muttropolis opened in California, offering "high-end, design-driven products," McCulley said.
"We knew it was a concept that had legs," she said.
Muttropolis locations are privately owned, not franchised, she said, which assures quality control of the merchandise and design of the stores.
The La Encantada location is the first store to open outside of California. The owners knew they needed to bring their product to Tucson, because many customers in their California stores were from Pima County.
Muttropolis has four locations and within the next year, five more locations are set to open.
At Muttropolis, the pets are as welcomed as the customers. Employees are encouraged to bring their pets in while they work and, of course, no matter the size, breed or temperament, customer's animals are always welcome, McCulley said.
The store is decked out in a dog-and cat design. Every detail has been looked at with an animal-friendly eye. The floor tiles are fabricated to look like a grassy meadow, a fountain filled with doggie chew toys is reminiscent of what you would see at your local dog park and a spa station is filled to capacity with everything the domesticated animals could want, from shampoos and conditioners to nail polish.
Prices range from affordable to downright decadent. A 16-ounce ceramic Cosmo-paw-litan shaped dog bowl costs $35. A Pawty Girl pearl dress costs $79.
Muttropolis offers a wide selection of pet beds, in many shapes, sizes and colors. A small Fatboy Doggie Lounger will cost $110 and a Saigon Day Bed is priced from $499 to $649, according to the stores official Web site.
No matter what the customer, dog or cat is looking for, McCulley is certain Muttropolis will carry it.
"We have everything for all budgets," she said.
Manager Anne Bryan is excited to finally open the doors and bring the world of pet couture to Tucson.
"It's going to be our home," she said. "It's going to be fabulous."
One aspect of Muttropolis that keeps growing is the idea of working with local shelters and rescue organizations. Weekly adoption events are held in the California stores and will likely be continued in Tucson.
"Tucson is a wonderful market with a lot of pet lovers and pet parents," McCulley said. "And we look forward to partnering with local charities."
La Encantada is a pet-friendly outdoor shopping plaza, said Kai Hsiao, senior marketing director for La Encantada. To equip the plaza for the increase in pet traffic, two dog stations have been constructed, along with a dog walk behind the building.
La Encantada shoppers are encouraged to bring their pets to shop right along with them, Hsiao said. It is all part of enjoying what Tucson shopping has to offer, he said.
Erin Schmidt covers the Catalina Foothills and schools. She can be reached at 797-4384 ext 129 or email@example.com.


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Shortly before heading in for an MRI on his injured right foot on Wednesday, the Lakers big man posted a photo of himself smiling and giving two thumbs up. He tweeted that he was "hoping for good news!" It's doubtful Gasol was all smiles a little while later.
The MRI revealed that Gasol had torn the plantar fascia in his foot and is expected to miss at least six weeks, the Lakers announced. Gasol joins Dwight Howard on the bench in the short term, as the Lakers' other All-Star big man is out with a sore shoulder.
Check out Gasol, in happier times, in the photo below.
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Vitaly Petrov thinks the combination of rules changes in 2011 have made overtaking "too easy".
Petrov says the FIA should shorten the zones in which drivers can use the Drag Reduction System in races.
Speaking in a press conference today he said: "I think we are moving in the right direction with the rear wing, it?������s more exciting to watch racing and good for us, even in the last race I had so many overtaking manoeuvres.
"I think we are moving in the right way because with the DRS system, with this 700 [metre] straight or something, I think at every race this line will be shorter because at the moment it?������s too easy to overtake.
"Sometimes it?������s harder, it depends. I think the FIA will move this line so it?������s a little bit shorter, so the car won?������t just stay behind and overtake the car in front easier. I think it?������s more exciting when you go in to the corner together and you can still fight under braking."
Felipe Massa said the DRS was useful in a situation where two drivers were running on the same type of tyre:
"When you go out of the garage and you have new tyres and you find cars with old tyres in front of you, it?������s definitely very easy but it?������s because of the tyres, it?������s because of the high degradation. I think when you are in a similar situation it?������s not so easy, but the wing helps, you know?
"I don?������t think it?������s just the wing which makes overtaking possible, easier or not easier, it?������s everything, together with the tyre degradation and everything: how the cars use the tyres; how the strategy works as well.
"I think it?������s better for you guys. How many years have I heard people saying ?���?�the good thing was the past, when Senna, Piquet, Mansell… it was really fun to see all these drivers race. They knew how to do it: Villeneuve, Arnoux.?������ It?������s true.
"It was also different cars as well and I even heard some things like after China: ?���?�ah, now Formula One is back to how it was before?������. It?������s important to see you guys happy as well, and I think for the fans it?������s what we care about."
Lewis Hamilton joked that Mark Webber had suggested overtaking had become too easy because "His car?������s too fast!"
He added: "As Felipe was saying, I don?������t personally feel it?������s too easy to overtake. I had some great battles with people in the last race and it?������s definitely just as hard but obviously when you have the opportunity to use the wing it makes it a little bit easy, but it allows you to get closer and really remain in close proximity to be able to attack in places.
"It aids overtaking but it doesn?������t make it too easy, personally."
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Jackson FRYE and Elizabeth C. WALL were married before 1859.2 Elizabeth C. WALL was born on 10 July 1832.2 She died on 28 March 1863 at the age of 30.2 Probably died in childbirth.
Jackson FRYE and Mary S. COLVIN were married on 5 December 1865.2 Mary S. COLVIN was born in 1840.2 She died in 1916 at the age of 76.2
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BROOKSVILLE — Andrew Altringer was an outgoing high school honors student who was already planning for his future.
But Thursday night, when his 2008 Mazda veered off a dark country road in northwest Hernando County and struck and injured a 22-year-old pedestrian, he did not stop or call for help, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.
Instead, he sped north on U.S. 19.
Thirty miles and two counties later, the 18-year-old from Brooksville blew past deputies running radar just over the Levy County line. They pulled in behind him and hit their lights, and Altringer eventually slowed onto the median.
"The deputy's left foot hadn't even hit the ground," Capt. Evan Sullivan said Friday, when he heard a loud sound from inside the Mazda. Approaching the car, he found Altringer bleeding from a self-inflicted rifle shot.
Altringer was taken to Seven Rivers Regional Medical Center in Crystal River, where he was pronounced dead.
On Friday evening, the pedestrian, Alicia Anderson of Lynn, Mass., was released from Tampa General Hospital after tests showed no internal bleeding, said her father, Marc Anderson.
As the Highway Patrol was piecing together the last night of Altringer's life, his high school principal, teachers and friends were trying to comprehend what happened to a popular young man known for his leadership.
"It's one of those tragedies that's so hard to understand," said Dennis McGeehan, the principal at Central High School.
Alicia Anderson's father, 46-year-old Marc Anderson of Brooksville, said Alicia and her 22-month-old son, Angel, were visiting from the Boston area for her father's birthday.
He said she was taking a walk Thursday night when she was hit just a block from her father's house. She managed to get to a neighbor's to call him.
"All of a sudden she had called me," Marc Anderson said, "called my phone and told me that she was bleeding."
Blood was gushing from the back of her head. But doctors at Tampa General found no disabling injuries.
Marc Anderson said his daughter was released Friday evening but could hardly walk because of the bruises and scrapes.
He knew little about the crash on Friday evening, having spent nearly a day at the hospital. But he said another daughter goes to the same school as Altringer.
"I would just wonder why he didn't stop," said Anderson, a Christian who prayed for his daughter all night. "God was going to forgive him for what he's done. I would have forgave him."
Kyle Case, 17, of Brooksville, a classmate, was a passenger in the car at the time of the accident but was not in the car when Altringer was stopped outside of Inglis, the Highway Patrol said.
Case lives on Ester Drive, a short distance from the accident scene. He declined to talk to a reporter Friday.
McGeehan said Altringer was an honors student, secretary of the Distributive Education Clubs of America program and a member of the school's Naval Junior ROTC program.
A senior, he had no history of disciplinary problems at the school. "He was a nice young man, very well liked around school," McGeehan said.
Altringer also was a member of the Florida Army National Guard Military Police 690th Unit. Altringer's path on Thursday night took him right past the unit's home base at the Crystal River National Guard Armory on U.S. 19.
A spokesman for the National Guard said Friday that Altringer went through basic training in the summer and was scheduled to attend specialized military police training this summer.
The unit is scheduled to be redeployed to Afghanistan in 2010, and Altringer presumably would have gone with it, said Jon Myatt of the Florida Department of Military Affairs.
"This is a sad event for us, his National Guard family," Myatt said.
Myatt said that the rifle Altringer used to kill himself was not military issue. He noted that weapons are issued only during operations and are returned at the end of exercises.
Late Friday, fellow Distributive Education Club members met at the Brooksville home of teacher Grace Gordon.
"He was such an outgoing guy," said Michelle Venezia, 17. "Andrew was someone you could always count on, no matter what."
Teacher Gino Ortiz said, "He had vision. You don't find a lot of kids with that kind of drive."
Times staff writer Joel Anderson and researcher Caryn Baird contributed to this report.


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Words written after a Civil War battle resonate today
Nathan J. Johnson was a lawyer from Granville, N.Y. when he joined the Union Army to fight in the Civil War. He gathered a regiment — New York's 115th — of local men and left from Albany to fight in the Battle of Fort Fisher in North Carolina.
This historian was present for a re-enactment of that battle and wrote lyrics to a song about the event that was produced in a play called Civil War Ballads and Letters, performed in libraries in New York and North Carolina.
"We fought for seven long, bloody terrible hours Sir," Johnson wrote in a letter after the battle, "until at 10 o'clock p.m. the rebs caved in — Ft. Fisher passed into Union hands. It was the toughest struggle for length and fury ever known."
Colonel Johnson was named Headquarters Commander of the 24th Corps Army of the James after the capture of Confederate Fort Fisher in North Carolina. He penned those words in a letter of graphic description of that bloody and vital Civil War battle.
The letter, dated Jan. 30, 1865, was addressed to Johnson's former commanding Officer, Colonel John S. Crocker of White Creek, N.Y. of the 93rd New York.
Colonel Johnson left his hometown law practice at the outbreak of the Civil War in the fall of 1861 to raise a company to aid the Union Army. In November of that year, with 32 recruits from Washington County, Johnson reported to Albany barracks where the 93rd regiment was being formed.
He served with the 93rd as captain until accepting a promotion as lieutenant colonel with the 115th, the "Iron-Hearted Regiment." Johnson saw battle in numerous engagements in Virginia and North Carolina.
Johnson's 148-year-old missive details a decisive three-day battle that took place near the Cape Fear River at Fort Fisher, situated at the end of a small peninsula south of Wilmington, N.C. The Battle of Fort Fisher, notably significant in the outcome of the War of the Rebellion, culminated in the fall of Wilmington, the last coastal stronghold of the Confederate Army.
Johnson's letter to his old hometown friend and commander gives a vivid account of the battle. He described Fort Fisher and the strategies used to seize the strong, southern rampart, and he portrayed the bloody fight his brigade encountered when it advanced to a point inside the Fort with "shot and shell raining down from those devilish parapets like hail."
"There were about 4-5000 troops brought down for the purpose of protecting our rear and acting as a reserve…but to our 2nd Division was allotted the work of attacking Fort Fisher," wrote Johnson.
The 115th New York was then part of the 2nd Division.
On Jan. 13, 1865, Johnson's division landed in the surf on the beach north of the fort, and late that night the soldiers built a mile line of entrenchments across the Cape Fear peninsula "facing towards Wilmington in order to be protected from the rear."
"Works of the Titans"
"This was finished, "Johnson continued, "and the other troops placed in theirs [entrenchments] on the 14th. The Navy meanwhile bombarding the fort 'right smart'; although we took a look through our glasses at sunset we could not discover that any portion of the fort had been knocked down but that it still loomed up against the evening sky with all its formidable proportions of gigantic strength."
Johnson described Fort Fisher as semicircular in form, and he sketched a diagram depicting the enormous gun embattlements in place there. "The mounds are from 30 to 40 feet above the level plain and the guns are 20 feet above the plain," he wrote. "The guns are placed on top and all of them are carriages of the type large enough for two guns that would throw thirty-two pound shot….These works built up as they are upon a level beach, to that height and size, makes one think as he looks at them of the works of the Titans."
"On the morning of the 15th we got orders to advance which we did, the Navy firing away as if the dogs of War did 'delight to bark and bite!' We moved up to within half of a mile of the fort and then laid us down to await the cessation of the (Navy) bombardment," wrote Johnson. "We were about to charge when we saw the Marines advancing on the fort with pistols and cutlasses, from the east (we were advancing from a northerly direction).
"Great Ceaser's Ghost! Didn't we look with some amazement at such a performance. Pistols and cutlasses to storm the strongest work in America with! Well, we looked and then ran onward… onward… onward… along the lines towards Fort Fisher but before we had got half the distance the Marines were running back terribly cut up and defeated. But the 2nd Division moved on under shot and shell raining down from the devilish parapets like hail, but it was no stranger to my troops and not for a single instant did it retard our advance."
Johnson wrote that, inch by inch, the 2nd Division and states, "We drove the stubbornly resisting rebels who held their ground with courage and obstinacy that only brave man can possess."
When his men had gained possession of a few traverses, he wrote, "The guns of the Fort were turned upon them flaying in that portion of the works in our possession…and when we got into the fort at the north end we found that our job was only begun."
His aging, yellowed letter continues, "We met with a coolness and determination rarely if ever evinced…large numbers of rebs in rifle pits who could enfilade us both on the traverse and the terri plain…our hands were full…the Navy dared not fire. But we held on, fought on…the men fought on…and we were going to take that fort if it took all winter…we kept struggling …bleeding…dying…we kept on until victory rewarded our labors."
The "seven long bloody, terrible hours of fighting" took its toll on Johnson's division. "We lost heavily especially in officers," he wrote. "Colonel Bell of my Brigade was killed, Colonel Pennypacker in the 2nd, mortally wounded, Brigadier General Curtiss, slightly. I lost my acting adjutant, he was standing near me while I was giving him orders about the disposition of a portion of the regiment."
Johnson was slightly wounded himself at Fort Fisher and his letter explained to Colonel Crocker, "I got out of this engagement all right mainly, knocked down by the explosion of a shell…I could not raise my right arm high enough to draw my sword…and carried it all day in the scabbard in my left arm."
The hand-written letter is perhaps one of the most accurate, firsthand accounts of a crucial Civil War battle written by a New York State officer engaged in the siege. The Fort Fisher earthwork fortification, unique in its design, was considered "the strongest works in America… if not the world" by Johnson and military experts of that time.
Historic context
Built near the mouth of the Cape Fear River on the Atlantic shore, Fort Fisher safeguarded the city of Wilmington, a major supply line for the South. The two-sided Fort was built of earth and sand and equipped with 22 guns on the sea face and 25 guns on the land face.
The guns were in place on earthen mounds more than 32 feet high connected to interior rooms by an underground passageway. Loop-holed palisades with banquettes guarding the land front, shallow ditches, and torpedo-mined fields aided the defense of the outer fort.
The nine-foot high palisades fence extended across the entire land face. The fort was nicknamed the "Malakoff Tower of the South," referring to the Russian redoubt at Sebastopol that had held off the combined land and naval forces of Great Britain and France in the Crimean War.
Union Army and Navy forces attacked Fort Fisher on Dec. 24, 1864 but, after two days of fighting, the Union forces under command of major General Benjamin F. Butler, withdrew. After the failed assault, General Ulysses S. Grant replaced Butler with major General Alfred H. Terry and increased the Army units to 8,000 troops.
A second assault started on Jan. 13, 1865, as Colonel Johnson's letter indicates, with full-scale bombardments from both land and sea. On the afternoon of the Jan. 15, Terry's brigades assaulted the land defense at the Cape Fear River edge while 400 Federal marines armed with pistols and cutlasses attacked on the beachside of the fort. Aided by 1,600 armed sailors, the attack served as a decoy, enabling Federal Infantry to break into the fort from the north.
On the third day of the battle, after seven hours of combat inside the huge, southern bastion, Fort Fisher was captured. The Confederate Army evacuated the remaining Cape Fear area and, within weeks, Union forces took Wilmington; blockade-running days to that city were at an end. The Confederate cause was lost.
The Battle of Fort Fisher was considered the United States' largest amphibious operation until D-Day of 1944. Fifty-eight warships were involved with the New Ironsides, commanded by Commodore Radford, leading the fleet.
United States ships Brooklyn, Mohican, Tacony, Kansas, Unadilla, Huron, Maumes, Pawtuxet, Seneca, Pontoosur, Nyack, Yantie, and Nereus were in the first wave of the beginning sea battle coordinated with the land fighting. Nineteen troop transports held 8,000 troops for a beach landing.
The three-day battle expended over 40,000 projectiles. Union forces suffered 1,300 casualties and the Confederates lost 500 men with 1,000 captured in the battle.
"An awful sight"
In his letter of January 1865, Johnson recounted another incident that took place at the end of the battle. "The next morning we had a magazine explode which maimed in its fallen debris about one hundred men. We got some out alive but about sixty were killed; some were actually blown to atoms, " he wrote. "We found a leg here and an arm there and entrails in another place. It was an awful sight."
Colonel Johnson did not chronicle his own bravery in battle but James H. Clark, 1st Lieutenant of 115th New York, did. He wrote The Iron Hearted Regiment: Battles, Marches and Gallant Deeds performed by the 115th Regiment, N.Y.
Clark recorded that, at Bermuda Hundreds, Va., Johnson's horse was shot dead from under him; during the battle of Deep Bottom, in command of a brigade, Johnson was wounded; at Fort Gilmore, Johnson was severely wounded in the shoulder while carrying the regiment's flag; and at Fort Fisher, where Johnson was wounded again, he was the first brigade commander to enter the fort in that critical campaign.
Colonel Nathan J. Johnson concluded his letter by reminding his former colonel, "Hence, a son of old Washington County, New York was the first Union Commander of Fort Fisher, North Carolina, and he took his first lesson in the 'art of War' in the gallant old 93rd (New York) under Colonel John S. Crocker."
Johnson's letter, in the files of the New York State Library, is one of many written by Civil War soldiers. The letters serve as mute testimony to the bloody carnage of a war that was fought to make a country whole, silent statements of the cost, tributes to Colonel Johnson and his fallen comrades for their bravery.
Upon returning to civilian life, Johnson resumed his law practice in Fulton County where he was elected and served as county judge. He died on Oct. 10, 1884 at Broadalbin, N.Y.


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Davey Johnson's announcement that Stephen Strasburg will make two more starts this year will dominate tomorrow's coverage. That's too bad, because the Nationals and Cardinals played a whale of a game this afternoon. Strasburg dominated for six innings, staked to a lead by Kurt Suzuki's suddenly hot bat. After he left, they scrambled, clawed and held on for dear life.
"I'm glad those boys are getting out of town," Manager Davey Johnson said, a 3-1 series victory over the Cardinals in his back pocket.
In the end, the Nationals did not waste Strasburg's dominance in one of his final starts this season, scratching out a 4-3 victory. Ian Desmond and Danny Espinosa smacked consecutive RBI singles in the seventh inning to give the Nationals the lead, capping a rally that formed out of nothing – four straight hits after Ryan Zimmerman grounded into a double play.
The game included the unsettling sight, for the second time this series, of Ryan Zimmerman sailing an awkward throw over the first baseman. In the fourth inning, Allen Craig ripped a two-hopper one step to Zimmerman's left. The play forced to make a transition between fielding and throwing, and Craig's speed left him time. The combination for Zimmerman has become a recipe for concern and a reason to cringe.
Zimmerman set himself to throw and launched a looping heave. First baseman Chad Tracy started scampering backward as it left Zimmerman's hand. The ball bounced landed at the base of the tarp along the fence next to the Nationals' dugout. Zimmerman's ninth throwing error this season put Craig on second base.
The inning devolved when Strasburg walked David Freese and a wild pitch on ball four sent Craig to third. The miscues only led to the most exciting moment you can find at Nationals Park: A runner crouching on third base, a ball in the air and Harper settling under it, his feet pumping like the needles of a sewing machine.
Brett Anderson flied to shallow right-center field. As the ball smacked into the webbing of Harper's glove, Craig bolted home. Harper rifled the ball home, his form out of an instructional video. The ball skipped once, and Suzuki made a slick play to corralled it on a short hop and tag out Craig.
"What I was impressed about that throw was he didn't try to airmail it all the way," Johnson said. "When he first got here, that would've been all the way in the air. He actually had a chance to hit the cutoff man there, which is outstanding. But he has a great arm, charged the ball well and he didn't have to look up. He knew he was going home all the way."
On his way off the mound, Strasburg pointed his glove at Harper, an acknowledgement from one first overall pick to another. Suzuki pumped his first as he hopped back to the dugout.
The Nationals led, 2-0, when Strasburg left. But the Cardinals struck in the seventh. Daniel Descalso ripped a two-run homer off Sean Burnett over the right field fence, trying the score and prolonging Burnett's rough patch. Burnett had also allowed a game-tying run Saturday. Of the past 35 batters he's faced, he has retired only 18.
He threw 20 pitches Saturday, and on Sunday he only threw his sinker at 88 and 89 miles per hour, a tick down from his usual velocity. Johnson did not have a concern about that, though.
"He hasn't had a lot of work here," Johnson said. "A sinker baller really thrives on more work, the ball sinks better. His delivery, I get a little more worried when he gets up in the 91 range. I'm comfortable when he pitches 89-90. But I went to the whip on him, I worked him and he was unbelievably good against left, right, I don't care whatever. He usually went clean. He might need a little blow. I've had him the last two games, I might give him a couple days off to regroup. Sometimes you catch a hot-hitting club, but he's been exceptional. I'm not worried about over-pitching him."
Sunday, Burnett's struggles only set up an immediate response. With two outs, Michael Morse rolled a single to right. Chad Tracy, subbing for Adam LaRoche, smacked one of his two hits. With Morse on second, Johnson sent call-up Eury Perez to pinch-run for Morse.
Perez, 22, is the second-youngest player on the team and perhaps the fastest. He showed both qualities. With one strike on Desmond, Perez took off to steal third. Desmond swing at an eye-high fastball to protect him from being thrown out. The steal was wholly ill-advised – with his speed, Perez would have scored on most any hit.
Desmond shook off the two strikes and whacked a line-drive single to center field off Lance Lynn. Perez sprinted home with the go-ahead run. Espinosa followed with his third hit, scoring Tracy. Espinosa raised his average to .253 with an outstanding weekend – he also drilled a crucial homer Saturday, his 16th of the year.
Espinosa also added the game's final highlight. Ryan Mattheus yielded an RBI double in the eighth inning to slash the lead to one. Tyler Clippard finally restored order in the Nationals' bullpen with a 1-2-3 ninth inning, his 29th save. But he could not have done it without Espinosa.
With one out in the ninth, Skip Schumaker rolled a grounder to the hole in the right side. Espinosa had been shaded toward the base, and when Clippard noticed his positioning, "I wasn't sure." But Espinosa scooped the ball and run, twisted his body and made a strong, sidearm throw. The game-tying run had been kept off the bases, and the Nationals would win one inning later.
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"From the October 2007 issue of Good Housekeeping Magazine. An updated version of GH's 2002 "The Best (Do-Ahead) Turkey Gravy" (The Best (Do-Ahead) Turkey Gravy). For extra added flavor, add pan juices from the roasted turkey (or thin with homemade or canned chicken or turkey broth) when reheating the gravy."
Do Ahead White Wine and Sage Turkey Gravy - 2007
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READY IN:2hrs 50mins
YIELD:4 cups (approx)
Ingredients Nutrition
- 2 lbs turkey wings, cut apart at joints (about 3 wings)
- 1 small red onion, cut into wedges (about 8 ounces)
- 2 stalks celery, cut into 2-inch pieces
- 2 carrots, cut into 2-inch pieces
- 1 (32 ounce) carton chicken broth or 1 (32 ounce) carton turkey broth or 1 quart homemade broth
- 4 1⁄2 cups water
- 3 large fresh sage leaves
- 2 cups dry white wine (my preference is chardonnay or pinot grigio)
- 1⁄3 cup cornstarch
- turkey drippings, from roasted turkey or additional broth
- prep - 20 minute.
- cook - 2 1/2 hours.
- makes 4 cups gravy (without added drippings).
- Preheat oven to 425°F.
- In a 15 1/2-inch x 10 1/2-inch jelly-roll pan or large roasting pan, place turkey wings, onions, celery and carrots.
- Roast for 1 hour to 1 hour 10 minutes or until turkey wings turn a deep golden brown color.
- When wings are done transfer them and the vegetables to a 6-quart sauce pot, add 1 quart broth/stock, 4 cups of water and sage leaves; set aside.
- Place (used) roasting pan over two burners on top of range, add wine to roasting pan and cook on high heat, scraping up the browned bits from the bottom of the pan for 10 minutes or until wine is reduced to 1/2 cup.
- Add wine mixture to sauce pot with the wings; bring to a boil.
- Reduce heat to low, and simmer, uncovered for 1 hour 15 minutes.
- Strain broth into an 8-cup liquid measuring cup, discard wings and vegetables, skim fat from broth and discard.
- If broth is less than 4 cups, add enough water to bring volume up to 4 cups (if broth is more than 4 cups, return broth to sauce pot, bring to boil, reduce heat and cook on medium-high until reduced to 4 cups).
- Return the 4 cups of broth to sauce pot; on high heat, bring to boiling.
- In a small bowl, add remaining 1/2 cup water to cornstarch, stir until well blended; using a whisk, blend cornstarch mixture into boiling broth and cook for 1 minute.
- Cool gravy, then transfer to plastic container with a tight fitting lid and refrigerate up to 5 days or freeze up to 1 month.
- Complete gravy after roasting the turkey: add strained and skimmed pan juices from the roasted turkey to the prepared (thawed, if was frozen) gravy, or thin with a bit of additional broth: heat well before serving.
- NOTE: For 24: Prepare gravy as above but instead use the following ingredient amounts: 4 turkey wings (3 pounds), 1 large red onion (12 ounces), 3 stalks celery, 3 carrots, 6 cups broth/stock, 6 cups water, 5 sage leaves, 1 bottle (750 ml) wine and 2/3 cup cornstarch.
- Reduce wine to 1 cup.
- Bring volume of broth to 6 cups instead of 4 cups.
- Dissolve cornstarch in 1 cup of water before stirring into simmering broth. Add juices from roasted turkey as above. Makes about 7 cups of gravy without drippings.


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DEFINITION: From the Spanish desmigratizar: to take immigration out of the talks between the U.S. and Mexico.
USAGE: Mexican President Felipe Calderón's team coined the word before Bush's visit, saying he would try to demigratize their dialogue.
WHAT IT REALLY MEANS: Both Calderón and Bush would rather talk about more upbeat topics--job growth, anyone?--than about the immigration crisis overwhelming both sides of the border. Good luck....
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Photo Coverage: BSC's West Side Story
This year marks the 50th anniversary of West Side Story, and Barrington Stage Company pays homage to this iconic American musical by producing a version that features an 11-piece orchestra and cast of 25 actors, singers and dancers. The production plays a five week run from June 13 through July 14 at 30 Union Street in Pittsfield.
Directed by Julianne Boyd, Barrington Stage Company's West Side Story, with music by Leonard Bernstein, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by Arthur Laurents, is choreographed by Joshua Bergasse re-creating the original ground-breaking Jerome Robbins choreography seen in the 1957 Broadway production and the Academy Award-winning 1961 movie. A modern retelling of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, West Side Story "maps the collision course of two feuding New York City street gangs the Jets and the Sharks and the young lovers caught in the crossfire. Winner of two Tony Awards and 10 Academy Awards, West Side Story is an American theater masterpiece, with explosive dancing and some of the most beautiful music ever written for the Broadway stage, including 'Maria,' 'One Hand, One Heart,' 'Tonight' and 'Somewhere,'" as described in press notes.
The cast of 25 includes Julie Craig (Luisa in The Fantasticks) as Maria, Chris Peluso (Lestat and Assassins) as Tony, Jacqueline Colmer as Anita, Freddy Ramirez as Bernardo, Justin Bohon (Oklahoma! and Les Miserables) as Riff, Beth Crandall as Anybodys, Gordon Stanley (Ragtime and Beauty and the Beast and BSC's Follies, Mame, etc ) as Doc, Dale Radunz as Lt Schrank, and Xavier Cano, Nicky Cooper, Robert Dalton, Billy Fagen, Matt Gibson, Melinda Hall, Spencer Howard, Joey Calveri, Jamie Markovich, Michael McGurk, Michael Mindlin, Kristin Piro, John Raterman, Rebecca Riker, Manuel Santos, Kiira Schmidt and Vanessa Van Vrancken.
Visit www.barringtonstageco.org for more information.
Photos by Kevin Sprague
The Sharks dance the Prologue - Joey Calveri as Pepe, Freddy Ramirez as Bernardo and Manuel Santos as Indio
Matt Gibson as Diesel, Justin Bohon as Riff and Spencer Howard as Big Deal - "The Jet Song"
The Jets confront Lieutenant Schrank - Spencer Howard, Michael McGurk as Action, John Raterman as A-Rab, Matt Gibson, Justin Bohon and Dale Radunz
Jacqueline Colmer as Anita, Freddy Ramirez and cast - The Dance at the Gym
The Dance at the Gym
Julie Craig as Maria and Chris Peluso as Tony
Chris Peluso and Julie Craig - "Tonight"
Nicky Cooper as Teresita, Rebecca Riker as Francesca, Jacqueline Colmer and Kristin Piro as Consuelo
The Jets and their girls - "Cool"
Chris Peluso and Julie Craig - "One Hand, One Heart"
The Jets and the Sharks leaders take each other on in "the Rumble" - Justin Bohon and Freddy Ramirez
Julie Craig - "I Have a Love"
Chris Peluso, Julie Craig and company - "Somewhere"