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The need to connect runs deep in "Water by the Spoonful."
Each character in Quiara Alegria Hudes' moving drama longs for a meaningful relationship. But the pain of trauma, grief, guilt -- and, for some, the corrosive effects of substance abuse -- constitute a river that often seems too wide to cross.
Hudes' play, winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize, gets its regional premiere in an affecting new TheatreWorks production directed by Leslie Martinson. If "Water" -- the second work in the playwright's trilogy about the Philadelphia-based Ortiz family -- deals in harsh themes, it also captures the hope, humanity and offbeat humor of its yearning, deeply flawed characters.
There's no denying the grim realities faced by Elliot Ortiz (Miles Gaston Villanueva), a former Marine who returned from his tour of duty in Iraq physically wounded and emotionally scarred. Still limping from surgery, Elliot dreams of becoming an actor, but his biggest role to date has been in a toothpaste commercial. In the meantime, he spends his days making sandwiches at a Subway shop and his nights haunted by ghostly visions of the war.
To make matters worse, the aunt who raised him is dying, and Elliot can't cope with the thought of losing her. As the play begins, he asks his cousin, Yaz (Sabina Zuniga Varela), to help. On the surface, Yaz seems successful -- she's moved up from the family's working-class roots to an adjunct professor position teaching college music classes. But she's also in crisis: Her husband is divorcing her, and she's alone for the first time in her life.
Their stories alternate with those of four characters who frequent an Internet chat room for recovering crack addicts. The site administrator, Haikumom (Zilah Mendoza) keeps things friendly and positive, as longtime roomies calling themselves Orangutan (Anna Ishida) and Chutes&Ladders (Anthony J. Haney) share horror stories, report their progress ("92 days sober!") and help each other avoid relapses. Their early exchanges are funny and poignant, but with the arrival of Fountainhead (Patrick Kelly Jones), a wealthy tech entrepreneur who's still using, the situation gets tense: His heedless romance with crack seems contagious, sending waves of craving, anger and despair through the others.
Hudes ups the ante -- and unites the parallel plots -- when she reveals that Haikumom is Odessa, a member of the splintered Ortiz family. As Odessa's story emerges, the drama acquires a devastating edge, illuminating the ways that the choices of a moment can bring lifelong consequences.
Martinson keeps the action moving on multiple playing spaces, with Erik Flatmo's three-level set diagonally divided by metal staircases to form tiny apartments, train stations, park benches and business offices. Lighting by Steven B. Mannshardt, sound by Gregory Robinson, and projections of computer circuitry by Erik Scanlon punctuate the scenes; costumes by Anna R. Oliver reflect a range from poverty to prosperity.
The cast is anchored by Villanueva's sensitive performance as Elliot, whose struggles with various demons yield much of the play's tension. Varela's radiant Yaz also shines, whether urging her students to embrace the dissonance of jazz artist John Coltrane or desperately trying to pull her cousin back from the edge. Ishida and Haney, hilariously sharp-tongued in their early exchanges, lend the play warmth as they take cautious steps toward a new kind of intimacy. Mendoza brings Odessa's tragic past into sharp relief, and Jones makes the most of his scenes as Fountainhead. George Psarras contributes in several small roles.
Eventually, the characters' longed-for connections happen in unexpected ways. "Water by the Spoonful" suggests that change, forgiveness and reconciliation are never easy. But neither are they completely out of reach.
By Quiara Alegria Hudes, presented by TheatreWorks
Through: Sept. 14
Where: Mountain View
Center for the Performing Arts, 500 Castro St.,
Mountain View
Running time: 2 ½ hours, one intermission
Tickets: $19-$74;
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As Thanksgiving weekend approaches, serious shoppers in the Mid-Ohio Valley plan to have their iPhones on super charge, have downloaded bargain-hunting apps like Black Friday.com and are toning their power shopping muscles.
Some may even decide to finish their Thanksgiving dinner and ask for a slice of Aunt Nancy's famous pumpkin pie to go-so they can fight the crowds and do some super early Christmas shopping.
Big-box retailers Walmart, Kmart and Sears are fueling shoppers' fervor, by offering Thursday hours combined with plenty of doorbuster deals.
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SHARON BOPP The Marietta Times
Charlie Clay, owner of Dad's Primitive Workbench in Marietta, hangs a poster for Small Business Saturday in his store window recently. Held the day after Black Friday, the event supports the buy local, buy small movement that's gaining momentum nationwide. .
Kmart, no stranger to the concept of Thanksgiving Day shopping, is the leader of the retailing pack when it comes to offering early morning hours that start too early for most birds.
The Marietta Kmart will be open from 6 a.m. to 4 p.m. Thursday.
Peebles in Marietta has taken its lead from the big three of big boxers. Store hours on Thanksgiving Day will be 8 p.m. to midnight, reported store manager Summer Mason.
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Local store hours on Thanksgiving Day:
Peebles: 8 p.m. to midnight.
h.h. gregg: Open continuously 10 p.m. to 10 p.m. Friday.
Wal-mart, 804 Pike St., Marietta: Open 24 hours daily.
Sears: Open continuously 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. Friday.
Kmart, 502 Pike St., Marietta: 6 a.m. to 4 p.m. Reopens 8 p.m. to 3 a.m. Friday.
Black Friday shopping hours for local stores:
Marietta Kmart: 5 a.m. to 11 p.m.
Peebles: 6 a.m. to 9 p.m.
Belk: Midnight to 10 p.m.
JC Penney: 6 a.m. to 11 p.m.
Radio Shack, Grand Central Mall: 6 a.m. to 10 p.m.
Old Navy: Midnight to 11 p.m.
Kohl's: Midnight Friday to midnight Saturday.
"Some customers are excited about us being open because that gives them more variety (of stores)," she said. "Some customers are not excited. They think that 6 a.m. (Friday) is early enough anyway."
According to Mason, she and her staff are happy to be open Thanksgiving Day.
"We love the excitement in the business," she said. "Normally, family time is done anyway."
On Thanksgiving and Black Friday, Peebles will give away scratch-offs to the first 25 store customers. One customer each day will win a $100 store coupon.
"That's a first for us as well," Mason said.
Jenna Boley, 29, owner of Jenna's Salon at 248 Front St., Marietta, has mixed feelings about stores offering Thanksgiving Day shopping hours.
"I think it would be nice for them to be closed so people can enjoy their time," she said. "I think (retailers) are more worried about getting that money instead of what they should be thinking about."
Cheryl Ullom, 53, of Waverly sympathizes with a family member who has to work a 7 p.m. to 7 a.m. shift on Thanksgiving evening and Black Friday.
"You can't enjoy your Thanksgiving. You'll have to take a nap," she said.
Although Boley said she tries to do her Christmas shopping early "so I'm not bombarded just before the holidays," she admitted those big box doorbuster deals could tempt her.
"I probably would (shop Thanksgiving Day) for the sales," she laughingly said.
Angie Hindy, 26, of Marietta has no qualms about Turkey Day shopping.
"I love shopping no matter what. I will shop anywhere, anytime," said Hindy, who said she does about 75 percent of her shopping online.
Karen Pawloski, 48, of Beverly can remember thinking that Thanksgiving Day shopping was "horrible" when retailers first started the trend.
"But I admit that I have been one to get up at 3:30 or 4 in the morning," she chuckled.
In recent times, Pawloski said she has also been shopping "a lot more online."
However, she keeps some of her shopping dollars in Washington County too.
"I like to shop local businesses in Beverly and also in Marietta," she said.
Pawloski and others will have a chance to do some local shopping on Saturday during what's become known as "Small Business Saturday."
This movement, a day set aside to celebrate and support small businesses and all they do for their communities, is gaining momentum and recognition across the nation.
"People are aware of it," said Sylvi Caporale, co owner of American Flags and Poles at 276 Front St., Marietta. "They're saying to me 'I'm not going to the mall, I'm coming here.' That's really exciting."
"It's the flip side to Black Friday," said Mallory Greenham, ReSTORE Marietta's executive director.
Those shopping American Flags and Poles on Small Business Saturday will be greeted by store dogs Reo, Blue and Rusty-all wearing their Christmas collars- and Christmas music playing on the store's juke box.
The store will open at 9 a.m. Saturday.
"We usually stay until the last customer is gone. That can mean 5 to 9 p.m.," Caporale said.
Although shoppers can make their purchases anywhere, Caporale knows that her customers like the "feeling of belonging" at her store.
"It's the experience that they have," she said. "We want them to have what's special for them and what they really need."


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PARKERSBURG - An Advent Celebration will be held at First United Methodist Church at 4 p.m. Dec. 16.
The candlelight concert will include a 60 member choir under the direction of Jean Singer and Amy Sinclair, accompanied by a chamber orchestra, The Mid-Ohio Valley Handbell Ensemble, and pipe organ.
The event will begin with the singing of the hymn "Once in a Royal David's City" as a processional. This processional has been used for nearly a century at Kings College in Cambridge, England, at its Christmas Eve service. The first verse is always sung at Kings College by an unaccompanied young chorister with the congregation and choir joining in on the succeeding stanzas. This year, at First United Methodist Church, the soloist will be Yli Yli Ocasio.
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Janet Ray, with First United Methodist Church, prepares for the church's Advent Celebration candlelight concert on Dec. 16.
The choir and orchestra will perform a varied program of sacred seasonal music including "Shepard's Pipe Carol", "Away in a Manger", "This Christmastide", the Norwegian Carol "O Yule Full of Gladness", "Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day", the Spanish Carol "A La Nanita Nana" and the spiritual "Go Where I Send Thee."
The audience will join the choir in the traditional "Hark the Herald Angles Sing" and "O Come All Ye Faithful".
Following the concert, their will be a live nativity scene in the church garden. There is no admission charge.


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From Chip Souba:
In the top right hand corner of our blog, under the Welcome, we have asked for your feedback on topics you would like to discuss (and have included a handy link to quickly email your ideas). The latest post from Keith Smith on Ethics and Leadership (see below) comes from such feedback on topics and we're delighted to welcome Dr. Smith to the conversation.
We'd love to have even more ideas, topics, comments and feedback – so please JOIN THE CONVERSATION in whatever way you feel most comfortable!
By: Keith Smith
Associate Vice President, Agricultural Administration
Associate Dean, Food, Agriculture and Environmental Sciences
Director, Ohio State University Extension
What would you do for your company or organization?
What does your behavior say about your choices as a leader?
If we put ethics into its simplest terms, as offered by the Harvard Business School, we could say that leadership is the ability to ethically move an organization from point A to point B. While I appreciate the simplicity of that statement, and being an ethical leader is something I strive for personally, I think we all know the practice of doing so can be more complicated.
The choice between right and wrong seems obvious for most of us – but it's not hard to get sidetracked. For example, when you look at the scandal among the financial institutions on Wall Street – the mistakes those company executives made by adjusting the records, cheating for business or personal gain, and outright lying to cover it up show how far you can fall when businesses bend the rules for the bottom line.


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BofA's Net Income Plunges 63% on Charges
Bank of America's fourth-quarter profit plunged 63% as the banking giant took billions in charges related to it mortgage unit.
BofA reported a profit of $732 million versus a profit of $1.99 billion a year earlier. On a per-share basis, which includes the payment of preferred dividends, the bank reported earnings of three cents versus 15 cents a year earlier. The most recent period included a per-share impact of 16 cents from the $11.6 billion Fannie Mae settlement, a six cent impact from the foreclosure review and litigation expense of five cents a share, among other items.
Revenue dropped 25% to $18.66 billion as noninterest income fell 41%. Excluding $700 million of debit valuation and fair value option adjustments, revenue was $19.6 billion.
The revenue was also impacted by the giant settlement with Fannie Mae, and BofA said excluding those items the figure was $22.6 billion.
Analysts polled by Thomson Reuters expected per-share earnings of two cents on revenue of $21.03 billion.
Shares were flat at $11.78 in recent premarket trading. Through Wednesday's close, the stock has climbed 82% in the past 12 months.


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Türk Telekom Saves Big and Improves Performance with Real-Time Archiving Solution
By Irem Radzik-Oracle on Feb 22, 2013
Written by:
Serkan KARATAS, Database Division Manager, Türk Telekom
Sandrine Riley, Oracle Data Integration Product Management
Türk Telekom--a leading
communication and convergence technology company in Turkey and the country's
most valuable brand for the last four years according to Brand Finance--provides fixed line communications and broadband internet services. The
company, which was founded in 1994 by separating from Posta ve Telgraf
Teşkilatı, the national post and telegraph directorate of Turkey, owns more
than 14.3 million fixed access lines—nearly all fixed access lines in
Turkey—and 7 million asymmetric, digital subscriber lines.
Challenges and Goals
Türk Telekom's challenge came with growth in becoming a leader in their industry. Customer relationship, sales, marketing, and finance departments needed accurate, timely, and well reported data from the organization's core CRM, billing and payment systems. Unfortunately, the overall data latency, movement, and accuracy were not optimal. The reports needed by these departments were critical for business practices around debt tracking and collecting, detecting of revenue leakages, overall churn prevention, as well as revenue assurance controls. In addition, these reports needed to incorporate online real-time data as well as historical data. In response to the challenges it faced, Türk Telekom set out to build a solution where reports would be delivered on time with maximum performance, leveraging all the appropriate data for better data analysis relevant to the critical business processes. Initially, the team tried to serve all the reports from core OLTP systems, quickly realizing they suffered from performance issues. They needed to reduce the amount of data on the OLTP system, and have the ability to report leveraging the historical data, all at the same time. Additionally, unplanned downtime with the systems was becoming an issue, and the need for data archiving became apparent.
Solution and Results
Türk Telekom was familiar with GoldenGate, as they had used it for their real-time data warehouse, as well as for some zero downtime migrations. Pleased with their prior results, they embarked on a new project in using Oracle GoldenGate for online archiving. This may very well be the first implementation of its kind in the market. Oracle GoldenGate is used to replicate the data to the archive database with near real-time latency, with the ability to purge historical data from the core OLTP database without replicating the purge activity to the archive database. Unlike other archiving solutions, the archive database contains not only historical data but also hot data, and, the archiving processes run while the systems are online and in real-time – not with offline scheduled batches.
Development and testing took about six months, and once this solution was implemented, it showed big results, very quickly. Within 1 month's time of the solution's go-live, full return on investment was achieved. Türk Telekom has saved approximately 55 million US dollars in revenue during just the first year ! The company has decreased overall churn rate due to debt by 60%, and has drastically increased OLTP performance by 10X. The business now has immediate access to sales, marketing and financial reports – providing the appropriate departments data to better handle debt tracking, and revenue leakages for example. As initially promised, the reports generated combine historical and real-time data as desired for the business.
Türk Telekom also saw many technical improvements based on this solution as well. 65% percent of disk space was saved once the historical data was archived. Storage and back-up costs shrunk by 40%, and maintenance costs of the production database decreased by 50%. Overall, the systems are more flexible and perform better with the use of Oracle GoldenGate.
But that isn't all. Türk Telekom is not finished using Oracle GoldenGate. Future projects include: archiving large log tables and transaction tables on the OLTP database for Siebel and Oracle SOA Suite applications in use, directing all application reports to the archive database and totally removing the workload on the OLTP database, as well as wanting to use the archive database as the source for GoldenGate replication to configure cascading replication from the archive database. While lots of work is ahead for the team at Türk Telekom – their success and desire for more of it is very motivating!
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The suicide of Oscar-winning actor and comedian Robin Williams has put depression, addiction and suicide back in the collective consciousness of America and the world.
Join us for a discussion with two mental health professionals who will help make sense of the tragedy and talk about treatment options for mental health disorders and disease on Aug. 13 at 1 p.m. PT.
Joining the discussion will be Tamara Thebert, MFT, an Oakland-based psychotherapist specializing in depression, grief, trauma and stress, and Julie Cerel, Ph.D, a licensed psychologist and associate professor at the University of Kentucky College of Social Work and board chair of the American Association of Suicidology.


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Here's a transcript of Tim Kawakami's phone conversation with Steve Kerr on Wednesday, not long after he agreed to a five-year, $25 million deal to replace Mark Jackson as the Warriors coach
Q: Well, I guess that happened quickly.
KERR: Yeah. I couldn't be more excited. It's thrilling, and it's such a great opportunity and there's so many wonderful people involved. It just seems like the perfect situation.
Q: Did Lacob and Myers have to come in and convince you—even change your mind?
KERR: What helped is that I have previous relationships with Joe and Kirk and definitely Bob. Bob and I have known each other for years—he was Robin Lopez's agent; I drafted Robin in Phoenix, so we spent some time together then.
So I knew Bob. And I've known Joe actually a long time through a mutual friend, a venture capitalist in the Bay Area. So we've been on golf trips together.
The familiarity for sure was helpful and it helped everybody relax and just sort of ... be themselves.
I've been preparing for this for the last year. I knew I wanted to coach and I had some prepared materials that I showed them. But more than anything we just talked about the opportunity and the team and the possibilities.
We were just all very comfortable with one another.
Q: Lacob mentioned that he was wowed by the details you provided on this team. How detailed did you get?
KERR: I've been preparing for this for a while. I've really thought things through in terms of my coaching philosophy. There's all kinds of stuff I have.. I guess you would call my doctrines, just putting my thoughts on paper.
Jeff Van Gundy told me two years ago, when I said I'd really like to coach, what should I do, he said put all of your thoughts on paper, everything you think is important for a team. Put it on paper. Just a chance to get thoughts together and think about it. And that was great advice.
I've done that. Gone over in detail what my expectations would be for a team and how I'd like to play, how my staff would look like, what the daily routine would be, everything from social media, training staff, assist coaching staff... I've put a lot of thought in this.
And this year when I really decided I think I'm going to do this, I put together some scouting reports and synopses on the team. So I had stuff prepared for various teams and when the Warriors job opened up, I worked hard on just thinking about their team and what I would like to do and that sort of thing.
So it was just something that I've been working on with an eye towards my next career.
Q: We've talked about how badly you wanted Curry in the 2009 draft and almost got him. I'd imagine Curry was a giant pull for you here?
KERR: It was huge. I talked to him tonight and I told him this is retribution for that deal falling through back in '09. (Laughs.)
A big part of the pull was not just Steph but the whole roster. It's a really skilled, talented team.
They've done a lot of good things the last couple years, they play both ends which was very important. This is not a renovation by any means.
This is more just this team has done great things the last couple years and let's try to build on that.
I love the mentality. I think Mark really instilled a defensive identity and the emphasis on rebounding. He did a lot of really good things. That makes my job a lot easier.
I'm able to build on that rather than starting to try to build a foundation. The foundation is already there.
It's really an attractive job.
Q: Not asking about the specifics, but that sounds like your talk with Curry tonight went well. Is that accurate?
KERR: It was great. We laughed about the draft stuff from a couple years ago. He was very positive and we're planing on getting together soon.
I've got to work a couple more weeks with Turner to finish off my season with them. We're planning to get together but we didn't get into any details about strategy or anything like that.
But he expressed his desire to talk more about the team and expectations and how we can get better and all that. I'm looking forward to all that and looking forward to calling the rest of the guys in the net day or two.
Q: With you two guys, I imagine the topic of golf might've had the priority, anyway.
KERR: Hey, maybe we'll have our talk about the team over golf. That sounds like a good idea.
Q: So do you think you'll be running the Triangle with this team? Maybe this personnel isn't best suited for that? Will you run a different offense than the Triangle?
KERR: It will be influenced by the Triangle but it will not look like the Bulls of the '90s, I can tell you that.
The game has changed and I think my philosophy would reflect that. For instance, I would be crazy to do away with screen and roll with Steph—he's devastating in it. We'll do plenty of that.
But we have the opportunity to make some strides offensively and I think that will be reflected in my influences—which have been Popovich and Phil and Lenny Wilkens...
They've all been coaches who emphasized ball movement, spacing and flow and having a a system to rely on and that's what i'm looking to give.
Q: How closely did you follow the bumpiness of the way Mark Jackson left? Did you need to discuss that with the Warriors before taking this job?
KERR: I did and I talked about it with those guys yesterday. I have a decent feel for it.
As a GM a few years ago in Phoenix, I understand those dynamics can be really tricky sometimes. So it was part of the conversation yesterday that we had for sure.
Q: Will you have a role in player personnel decisions?
KERR: Yeah, but not as a decision-maker and I wouldn't want that. I'm going to have a busy enough job as it is.
I think to me the healthiest situation for any coach is to have a say, but not have the ultimate decision. I think that's what the GM is for and I got a really good sense from all the guys that it's about a consensus. And I'll be part of that.
Q: You take over 51-win team with a very popular former coach. Is that something you're facing right away—that this is going to be a pressure job?
KERR: Every position in the NBA is filed with challenges regardless of what people are talking about.
And I did think about that, about the East vs. the West situation ... those are issues.
But look, in the end, to have a really good roster and some pressure is better than having a roster and no pressure.And this is not a reference to New York, obviously. I'm just saying in general.
A good roster with pressure is far superior to a low bar and not much talent. So I'm excited about what I'm looking at.
Q: Did you literally make the decision today?
KERR: I did. This morning.
But it was agonizing to say no to Phil Jackson. He has meant so much to me in my life and he's had such an influence on my philosophy on the game and team-building.
When Phil asked me to coach the Knicks, my first thought was 'How could I ever say no?'
That's why it took me some time to sort throught my thoughts and my feelings ... until I knew in my gut what was the right fit for me.
Three hours with those guys yesterday, and I knew that it was the right fit.
It's great on a family level with my daughter being up in Cal and my wife and sons in San Diego.
It's great on a basketball level to inherit a good team and a young team with high-character players and a front office I'm already famliar with and feel very confident in and comfortable with ... Yeah ... it felt right immediately.
I'm glad that it all worked out the way it did.
Q: Are you going to live full-time in the Bay Area?
KERR: Oh yeah, yeah for sure. We're not going to sell our house in San Diego, but I'm absolutely going to be in the Bay Area full-time. That's a no-brainer. I haven't gotten that far about where exactly, but that's not an issue.
Q: You knew Joe Lacob, but what struck you about him in this meeting that made you want to work for him?
KERR: His passion, his commitment to the team.
What really stood out to me is the improvement in the organization since he took over, what's happened not just on the court but internally.
I'm very close with Rick Welts, and I know the business side of the organization has been dramatically improved over the last couple years—season-ticket sales, sponsorships, TV rights, everything is on the upswing.
It just feels like this is a young, up-and-coming organization. Joe has spear-headed that effort. And that's exciting.
This is an organization that will not spare an expense to improve the team and that's important. And Joe's proven that with the product he's put on the floor and the entertainment experience for the fans. And there's a new building coming eventually. It's just incredibly exciting.
Read Tim Kawakami's Talking Points blog at blogs.mercurynews.com/kawakami. Contact him at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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SAN JOSE -- If the Sharks take care of business, Saturday night should be wrap-up night. They can finish off their playoff series with the Los Angeles Kings at SAP Center in five games.
Odds are tilted teal. The Sharks have carried the offensive play throughout the series -- even in their Game 4 loss at Staples Center in L.A., when they outshot and out-chanced the Kings.
Combine that with L.A.'s documented difficulties winning at The Tank, where they have compiled a 1-9 record in their last 10 visits, and ... well, everything points to a happy handshake line for the Sharks at the end of the evening.
See that man pacing behind the Kings bench? He is going to have something to say about this. Any time you catch the visage of Darryl Sutter, in full frontal scowl, it always gives you pause.
Never forget that as a head coach, Sutter is 2-0 in his two previous playoff series against the Sharks. His teams are always tough outs, wherever he has been -- which, of course, includes San Jose. We know him too well.
Sutter also knows hockey better than most. A year ago when the Sharks swept Vancouver in the first round, one reason was the incredible stubbornness of Canucks coach Alain Vigneault. For four straight losses, Vigneault stuck with the same line combinations and matchups that weren't working against the superior Sharks.
By contrast, Sutter hasn't been afraid to shift the axis of his team and try different combinations. In Game 4, he moved his grit-heavy team captain, winger Dustin Brown, up from the Kings' third line to their first line. He replaced the flashier Justin Williams, who dropped down to the third line. The switch paid immediate results. Williams scored twice in Los Angeles' 6-3 victory. Brown assisted on the game's first goal.
Afterward, a reporter asked Sutter if Brown might stay on the top line for Game 5.
"It could be," answered Sutter.
This, too, is something with which San Jose became familiar during Sutter's time with the Sharks, from 1997-2002. The man never uses four words when three words will do. It helps boost Sutter's reputation as an uber-stern taskmaster. But the truth is more layered. Any player who maxes out his effort has no real problems playing for Sutter, who can be remarkably sentimental at times.
In fact, one of the more touching moments in Sharks history occurred in 2004 after the team lost in the Western Conference finals to Calgary. The elimination happened in Game 6 at the Saddledome. By then, Sutter had become the Flames' head coach after being fired in San Jose one season earlier.
Yet that night, even as his Calgary players were celebrating, Sutter made certain to wait at the tunnel entrance where Sharks players exited the ice. He knew almost all of them from his time with the team. As each Shark passed by Sutter, he grabbed their arms or hugged them. He was going to the Stanley Cup finals. They weren't. But he spoke encouraging words in their ears.
"Those guys are winners, too," Sutter explained to me later. "I felt bad for them. Hey, those guys, we went to war together. I told them I wish it could have been all of us, all together."
As it turned out, Sutter and the Flames lost in the finals that year, but he finally won a Cup with the Kings in 2012. Most of that roster is still wearing L.A. uniforms, which is another reason the Sharks will have difficulty closing out the Kings. Sutter's mantra has always been that to win, your team's best players have to be your best players -- and better than the other team's best players. He broached the topic again after Game 4 in saying his veteran players had matched the intensity of the Sharks veterans.
As usual, Sutter also reminded everyone that it doesn't guarantee anything for Game 5.
"I don't think there is any momentum from game to game," Sutter said, "other than to try and play the same way."
It can be difficult to quantify how much a head coach really affects the bedlam on the ice, once it starts. But when action stops, coaching is a factor. Sharks coach Todd McLellan made the best strategic move of Game 3 when he sent Joe Pavelski out with Patrick Marleau and Logan Couture for a faceoff in overtime that resulted in the winning goal.
Game preparation is also a major coaching factor, as Sutter has shown over the years in several playoff upsets and McLellan has demonstrated in two successful playoff dismantlings of Detroit since 2010.
Saturday night, McLellan will have the last line change. We'll see then if he has an answer to Sutter's latest line maneuvering, or whether the plan is to stay pat. Sutter may not be the eminence grise of this series, exactly. But if the Kings win another game, his countenance will keep looming larger.
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Sharks lead Kings 3-1
Game 1: Sharks 6, Kings 3
Game 2: Sharks 7, Kings 2
Game 3: Sharks 4, Kings 3, OT
Game 4: Kings 6, Sharks 3
Game 5: At San Jose.
7 p.m. Saturday, CSNCA, CNBC
Game 6*: At L.A., Monday, TBD
Game 7*: At San Jose,
Wednesday, TBD
* -- if necessary
Darryl Sutter
As Sharks know, Kings coach's teams never an easy out in playoffs.


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Governor hurts the poor people
Published: Friday, February 15, 2013 at 5:55 p.m.
Last Modified: Friday, February 15, 2013 at 5:55 p.m.
What is the matter with our Gov. Jindal?
Is he sick in his mind or what?
He sure doesn't care about the old people who are getting a little check every month.
He is going to make them owe more taxes while his rich people won't pay.
For the rich, it's a drop in the bucket. He just wants them to get more.
What is happening with all that money from all these gambling establishments and the lottery?
Where is all that money?
Just show us how much the state got from all that. Show us how many of these deadheads we voted for got raises.
After we vote for them, they become deadheads. They are very educated, but they have no common sense.
Why should all these get another raise while those who are on Social Security get only a 2 percent increase?
It should be for everyone to get the same amount. All they do is fuss with each other.
None of them care about the people who voted for them. Leave the tax as it is and show us the gambling money.
You don't hear about that. All you hear is cut, cut, cut. To me, there should be a recall election.
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|Length Overall
|63' 10''
19.46 m
|Dry Weight
102,000 lbs.
46,266 kg
20' 0''
6.1 m
|Tested Weight
5' 0''
1.25 m
|Weight Capacity
|Draft Up
|Person Capacity
|Draft Down
|Fuel Capacity
1,900 gal.
|Air Draft
|Water Capacity
270 gal.
|Length on Trailer
|Max Headroom
6' 6''
1.98 m
|Height on Trailer
|Bridge Clearance
15' 8''
4.81 m
|Trailer Weight
|Total Package Weight (Trailer,Boat & Engine)
|Prices, features, designs, and equipment are subject to change. Please see your local dealer or visit the builder's website for the latest information available on this boat model.
|Std. Power
|Not Available
|Tested Power
|2 x 1900-hp CAT C32 ACERT
|Opt. Power
2 x 1600-hp CAT C32A Diesel
2 x 1800-hp CAT C32A Diesel
2 x 1900-hp CAT C32A Diesel
Captain's Report by Capt. Steve
The Hatteras GT63 EFB has modernized classic Carolina Outer Banks sportfisherman design and put it in a reliable and luxurious offshore convertible package.
Hatteras GT63 Mission Statement
The team at Hatteras showed no hesitation in stating that the mission statement of the GT63 Enclosed Flybridge is to provide the look, feel and customer experience of a custom convertible while still maintaining the peace-of-mind that can only come from a production boatbuilder such as Hatteras. The GT63 EFB is designed to break the 40-knot barrier (which I confirmed during the test), but also to provide a high level of luxury and comfort for the whole family when cruising. The GT63 is intended to be both a fishing machine and a good cruising boat in the finest traditions of the convertible concept. Finally, Hatteras intends the GT63 to be a collaboration between the customer and the builder to customize the boat as much as possible for the individual's needs and tastes.
Here is a rendering of the open flybridge version of the GT63. The classic -- and classy -- lines speak for themselves.
Distinguishing Features
In the rarified atmosphere of 60-something convertibles virtually all of the boats on the market these days are beautiful and well-built, and to a great degree look like each other. In fact, most of the distinguishing features of the Hatteras GT63 can't be seen with a casual walk-through at a boat show. Here is a list of some of the major elements of the GT63 that we think set her apart from her competitors--
Solid fiberglass bottom. While it would certainly be easy to use a balsa core in the bottom and on the hull sides to make its boats lighter, that wouldn't be consistent with the hull strength that Hatteras has built its reputation on. All Hatteras hulls -- even the relatively light GT series -- does not budge on this point. The fact that the first Hatteras convertible ever built -- which was 52 years ago -- is still in service, makes the case. Above the water line in the hull Hatteras uses a solid, closed cell foam core.
Resin infusion. Resin infusion has allowed Hatteras to build the GT's hull with a glass to resin ration of 60%, rather than the other way around. This allows laminates to be both stronger and lighter. Bulkheads and other parts are also vacuum infused for higher quality and lower weight.
Shallower draft. When compared with other boats in this class the Hatteras GT63 has the shallowest draft. A lot of that has to do with the props being recessed into modest pockets under the hull. These pockets run fully back to the transom, and can even be seen from dockside. In addition to reducing draft, these pockets also reduce the shaft angle to 6 degrees which in turn creates more efficiency and higher speed. At 5'0" (1.52) draft the GT63 is able to go across the Bahamas Banks and navigate most places in the Chesapeake Bay and elsewhere.
We like the enclosed flying bridge version because it adds a lot more year round living space to the boat without a commensurately large up-tick in price.
More beam. With a 20' beam the Hatteras GT63 is also the widest yacht in class -- in one case by 1.5' (.45 m). That is a lot, and it pays off for the owner of the GT63 in many ways. For example, it means living spaces below are larger and beds are wider. It means more space in the engine room, and more room in the saloon and a deeper dinette. Added beam also means more stability both when running and when anchored.
Painted hull. In class, only Hatteras coats its hulls with polyurethane paint. Because gelcoat is porous it retains dirt which dulls the finish. Further, gelcoat oxidizes far faster than does polyurethane paint. All of this means that the finish on the GT63 will stay brighter and glossier longer, and will need a lot less maintenance. Paint is also far easier to repair.
Unique fuel tanks. Hatteras pioneered the development of fiberglass fuel tanks which are hard to make. In the case of the GT63 there is one large fuel tank with baffles in the keel of the boat which is an integral part of the hull. This gets weight as low as possible in the vessel, adds to stability, and creates an effective second bottom where the tank is located. In class only Hatteras tanks are UL approved.
Proven Carolina design. For over 80 years charter skippers on the famous Carolina Outer Banks made their living by taking anglers out to the continental shelf to catch big game. Many of these captains built their own boats in order to meet the demands of their very specialized profession. Their boats had to be fast and dry, seaworthy and sea-kindly, but also economical to operate. The Hatteras design team studied these boats and put their best attributes into the GT63.
The GT63 sharp entry slices through waves for a comfortable ride and her 8-degree deadrise at the transom gives her speed, fuel efficiency and added stability. Note that there are no engine room air intake openings in the hull side.
Tank tested hull. Truth be told, not many powerboat hulls are ever tank tested. The GT63's hull was tested at the world-famous Stevens Institute of Technology. Hatteras designers in collaboration with Donald L. Blount and Associates (arguably America's most famous and expert naval architects when it comes to powerboat hulls) have created a remarkable hull that I found to be both fast and comfortable.
8-degree deadrise. The GT63's entry at the bow is as sharp as they come, but as the bottom moves aft it is warped from deep-V amidships to just 8-degrees at the transom. This gives the GT63 the flattest stern sections in class. These sections are one of the reasons that the boat can break the 40-knot barrier. They also make the boat a lot more stable both running and when at anchor. Because the forward sections take the seas and the stern is always fully immersed these aft sections have very little effect on riding comfort.
Engine room air intakes Notice that the GT63 does not have large openings in her hull sides for engine room air intakes. The conventional system is vulnerable to sloppy seas and salty mist that can play havoc in an engine room. Hatteras brings air to the engine room through the inside of the gunwales in the cockpit -- the most protected and dry areas of the boat.
Hatteras infrastructure. I cannot make a list of elements separating the GT63 from other boats in class without mentioning the engineering, technical staff, and shop floor personnel at Hatteras. They have an incredible depth of experience and that is why they had much to do with writing the ABYC standards that the entire U.S. boating industry uses as a building bible. The second part of the equation is expert and careful systems installations, which these days is one of the major aspects that defines one brand from another.
Performance and Handling
The Hatteras GT63 measures 63'10" (19.46 m) length overall with a 20' (6.1 m) beam and a draft of 5' (1.5 m). Our test boat was fitted with a pair of CAT C32 ACERTs producing 1900-hp each.
WOT. We reached a top speed at 2310 rpm of 40.2 kts, basically the Holy Grail of speed for boats in this class. We had a 3/4 load of fuel aboard, half water and five grown men. At that speed she was burning 200 gph for a range of 344 nm.
Best cruise came in at 1500 rpm with a speed of 22.6 kts. That reduced the fuel burn to 88 gph for a range of 436 nm. We had a very respectable time to plane of 9.3 seconds and reached 30 mph and 15.7 seconds.
I think these are remarkably good speeds for such a heavy vessel (the FB version weights 102,000 lbs.) and this model weighs even more. Undoubtedly the open version will go even faster because of the reduced weight and windage.
Handling. As for sea handling capabilities, she tracks straight and true whether running into, behind, or beam to, all while exhibiting an approximately 5-degree bow high attitude. With her wide Carolina flared bow she throws water well off to the sides and produces a very dry ride.
Responsiveness. She is most responsive to the helm at low speeds where the maneuverability around the dock was exemplary. As speed increases turning radius increases, so when you get offshore you won't be making any hard cranking and banking turns, and your guests will be very thankful for that.
Backing down. With a simulated fish on, I was able to put over 10 kts on the GPS while backing down, and had full directional control over the stern. Minimum trolling speed was less than 2 knots and produced a crystal clean wake.
Features Walk-Through
We've been saying for years that convertibles make great cruising boats, in addition to being battlewagons. The folks at Hatteras seem to agree as evidenced by this GT63 EFB. Her split-personality comes through loud and clear by looking at her battle-ready cockpit combined with a beautifully laid out interior that had me feeling like I was in a dedicated cruising motoryacht. Indeed, the GT63 is a motoryacht.
We'll begin with a look at the cockpit that features 173 sq ft. of open space and mezzanine seating for watching the action. Above is an extended overhead offering protection for the seating. Underneath the upper level of seating is an optional 7 cu ft. freezer and just below that is a standard bait box. To the center is access to the engine compartment and lazzarette. But remember, Hatteras will let you customizes these things to your heart's content.
Here you've got a good view of the large in-deck fish boxes. Notice the hatches are all back gelled and supported by gas assist struts. Behind me you can see the beefy tuna door.
Everything about this area says that it is a working area while still remaining comfortable and spacious. Notice the exterior ladder to the flybridge just over the bait prep station. The huge livewell is in the transom at right.
The side decks are roomy enough to make an easy transition to the bow. Notice the six flush mounted rod holders to both sides of the mezzanine level. The extended overhead offers protection to the lower seating as well as additional space behind the enclosed flybridge above.
Bait prep. To starboard is a bait center with a standard storage bin at the top, tackle storage below with drawers that are lined with stainless steel, the middle drawer has a cutting board that is removable and rubber feet will allow it to be placed on top of the bait center. Removable dividers allow for a wide assortment of gear to be placed inside. Below is a chilled box connected to an ice machine.
At the steps leading to the saloon is a self-draining wet storage locker, and then a refrigerated drink box that holds four cases of beverages. Under the starboard gunwale is a door for connecting your shore cord and an enclosed gaff and boat hook storage compartment. Massive cleats are through-bolted to stainless backing plates and dock lines are lead through massive stainless hawespipes. At the transom is a tuna door that I found quite easy to access, with a hot/cold cockpit shower just inside the entry. A beefy dive ladder is all it would take to solidify this GT63 as a dive platform as well.
Large livewell. All the caprails are nonskid, and at the transom is a standard livewell that is aerated and macerated. To the port side is another shore power connection and both this, and the starboard connector, have electric reels. You'll be storing your catch in one of 2 – 60" (152.4 cm) flush-mounted in-deck fish boxes, with finished hatches held up by two stainless steel struts.
Engine room
The engine room is accessed through a stairway that is exposed by lifting a section of the mezzanine seating in the cockpit. You first walk through the lazzarette with wide open storage space to both port and starboard, interspersed with some of the more mundane mechanical equipment i.e. compressor, air conditioning units. The control panels for the two cockpit freezers are also located here.
The engine room access is conveniently located, and completely hidden from view. The seat to the left has storage underneath, the two steps to the saloon house wet storage and a beverage cooler.
Headroom. Continuing forward through a watertight door you enter a very well laid out engine room. There's standing headroom between the engines (at least for me, call it 5"9"/1.75 m) and the gleaming white engine room is a study in efficiency. Our test boat was fitted with the twin CAT C32 ACERTs producing 1900-hp each.
Both engines were bolted to through vibration reducing engine mounts in stringers that came up to my hips, and were 3'1" (.94 m) apart. All systems are easily accessible, and include a fixed fire extinguishing system, three 3700 gph bilge pumps, reversible oil changing system and remote engine control panels. A single 21.5 kW generator is standard, and our test boat was equipped with the optional second unit as well.
No air intake boxes. Because the GT63 gets its engine room air from the cockpit there is no need for large air intake boxes or expensive demisting equipment. Thus there is much more room outboard of the engines, making 360-degress engine inspection easy even underway.
As I stepped through the watertight door to the engine room, you can see that my height will just about match the height of the compartment. Above the engines are mirrors allowing you a better view across the top. Engine monitor panels can be seen to left and right.
Enclosed flybridge
Here is an overview of the enclosed flybridge layout. Notice the helm is placed well forward.
The enclosed flybridge is accessed via a ladder in the cockpit mounted at a roughly 20-degree angle, or an optional spiral staircase in the saloon. I would definitely opt for adding the spiral staircase as it takes you from a protected environment down below to another protective environment up above. The exposed cockpit ladder leads to the exposed after deck of the flybridge.
Once again, Hatteras aims to please and if you would like to eliminate the interior staircase and use the space for something else, that can be done. I particularly like the spiral stairway because in a seaway there are banisters to lean against which gives a more secure feeling.
The enclosed flybridge has an aft station with the bench seat close by allowing the captain to maintain a vigil over the lines. The cockpit ladder leads directly to this aft deck.
There is storage underneath the seat and noticed the Palm Beach control sticks.
Sky lounge. The flybridge is thoughtfully laid out with an L-shaped seat to port that includes rod storage underneath, and opposes a granite countertop with refrigerator underneath, and an optional flatscreen TV that pulls down from the overhead. Obviously a high table could be mounted here that would greatly add to the utility. Also, if you wanted to give up the view, more conventional sofa seating could be installed with a coffee table turning the space into more of a sky lounge.
Terrific helm. The helm is forward mounted and flanked by double-wide observer seats both port and starboard. There is comfortable seating for two adults on each side to keep the skipper company. This is noteworthy because some builders fail to provide enough seating for companions facing forward. There is drawer storage underneath these seats and convenient footrests are built into the forward cabinets.
Hatteras is not in the electronics business, and ships its boats with basic electronics. For that reason the helm looked rather Spartan on our test boat, but I could clearly see that there was more than enough room for four large screen displays, although Hatteras had configured it with room for three.
I must commend the Hatteras designers for two things to do with this instrument console: first, they lowered it so the top of the screens do not rob much-needed visibility from the windshields as I often seen done on large motoryachts; second, the wheel is bus or truck-style, not a vertically-mounted destroyer wheel. While this may be a battlewagon, the bus-style mounting of the wheel is much more comfortable and much easier to use.
I'd like to see a table mounted in front of the L-shaped seat to port. Notice the double-wide observer seats flanking the helm. Kudos to Hatteras for lowering the instruments and screens below the windows.
Here's another shot at one of the double-wide observer seats. The deep drawers underneath double as chart storage. That is an A/C vent in the counter to starboard, something I would place somewhere else. Note the foot rests.
You can see that the spiral staircase offers a bit of a tight squeeze, but that also means you will be nice and secure when transiting in a seaway. Over my head is a pulldown panel for the optional flatscreen TV. To my right is a small refrigerator/icemaker.
The panel offers plenty of room for mounting electronics. The CATs havedigital engine controls; the read-out panels are just ahead. I would move the VHF radio and use that panel for a screen at left.
A pedestal-mounted helm seat was positioned in the center of the deck. A watertight door leads to the aft deck where there was a seat with storage next to the aft control station giving a commanding view of the cockpit. Naturally this control station had Palm Beach controls and I found them comfortable for my frame, allowing me to maintain a clear view of the action as I backed down on our mock fish. Hatteras can modify the height of this to suit any skipper.
The GT63 also comes in an open flybridge layout offered in two separate designs.
Saloon and Galley
A pushbutton in the bulkhead actuates the automatic sliding door to the saloon. The entire deck level was surrounded on three sides by frameless tinted glass. Fabric overhead with wood trim is installed on a track system for ease of service. Immediately to port is an L-shaped leather sofa with storage underneath, and opposing the flatscreen TV and icemaker.
Our test boat has a coffee table with a burlwood top which doubled as a storage container. There were two stools for the bar side of the galley island. The A/C comes wafting over the valances both port and starboard above the windows and this is a much classier-looking design than a more conventional grate running along just under the overhead.
The beautiful saloon features frameless tinted glass and notice the optional spiral staircase to the enclosed flybridge.
The cabinet underneath the spiral stairway houses the ship's touch screen electrical panel.
The view of the main saloon looking aft from the galley shows the panoramic view, including the full-length see-through watertight door that slides open at the push of a button.
Galley. The line between the saloon, and the galley/dinette is marked by the carpet ending and Amtico flooring beginning. A U-shaped settee is to port wrapping around a teak table on dual pedestals. The galley is to starboard and features top-of-the-line equipment in its L-shaped layout. The custom styling is evident from the granite countertop, to the tile back splash, and the raised woodwork on the expertly joined cabinetry.
A flat surface four-burner stove lies just below a microwave concealed behind cabinets with a garage door type access. That microwave cabinet door is also connected to a micro switch that activates both the microwave and the stove beneath… neither will work with the door closed. There's enough free counter space to prepare a gourmet meal, and refrigerated drawers reside both in the galley proper, and the granite covered island in the center of the galley.
The garage door type cabinet concealing the microwave connects to a magnetic micro switch that activates both the microwave, and the stove below. The island just behind me features four refrigerated drawers. You can customize the back splash to suit your taste.
The companionway to the accommodations deck is offset slightly to the port side and creates another transition from the Amtico flooring to a carpeted deck. Our test boat featured the four-stateroom layout, but there is an optional three stateroom layout that includes office space. Additionally, there is a galley-down layout that also has accommodations for crew's quarters.
The companionway is slightly offset to one side giving you a wider stateroom for the master to the left.
The GT63 comes in one of three optional arrangements. A four stateroom three head layout, a three stateroom layout with office, and the galley down layout with crew quarters.
Master stateroom
The master stateroom has the same wainscoting and raised wood paneling that we saw above decks. This is a customizable item, so if you would prefer something else, go for it. Additionally, the master stateroom has a rich-looking sea of leather as the headboard, which gives a nice mix of old school charm combined with modern decor. Air-conditioning discharges are routed through the valances overhead.
The leather panels serve as a nice contrast to the raised wood wainscoting. Mirrors behind the nightstand lights aid in projecting the light forward. Notice that there is no shortage of headroom.
Looking forward from the master berth shows a chest of drawers beneath the flatscreen TV surrounded in leather. The door to the head has a full-length mirror inside.
The master head has the same granite countertops that we saw above decks as well as the Amtico flooring. There is a single basin sink recessed between two storage units flanking a mirrored wall. All toilets are freshwater, and all of the head compartments have 120V ventilation fans.
Guest staterooms
Immediately to port from the companionway is the first guest stateroom, and this is the stateroom that can also be utilized as office space. Carpeting continues from bulkhead to bulkhead, the fabric headliner and bulkhead coverings are all on track systems for service access. The upper berth is a Pullman style that lifts out-of-the-way when more room is desired, or only a single berth is to be utilized. I was happy that the stateroom accommodated a full-length mirror, LED lighting, both a smoke detector and carbon monoxide detector, and separate climate control.
It is important to note that this guest stateroom is across the passageway from the master and it has plenty of room. This is a place where the boat's 20' beam pays off.
The aft stateroom can be easily converted to an office. The upper berth is a Pullman style. A full-length closet is to the left.
The forward guest stateroom has an upper berth is in a fixed position. Additionally, the closet has upper and lower doors.
There is a second guest stateroom forward and to port, that is much a mirror image of the aft guest stateroom with the exception of this one having two fixed berths rather than a Pullman berth.
Guest head/day head and laundry
The guest head is forward of the first stateroom on the port side. As the only entry to this head is exposed to the companionway, it also serves double purpose as a day head. We correctly move back to Amtico flooring but the decor theme of raised wood paneling and fabric wall covering continues. The same pattern of granite countertops that we saw in the master head, and indeed above decks, is repeated here. There are two storage cabinets flanking a mirror above the sink, the base cabinet has drawers and additional storage space.
The guest head also offers a separate walk-in shower stall to the left.
Forward of the guest head is a door housing a stacked washer and dryer. Please note that these are separate units and not a small, combo type.
Bow VIP stateroom
Fully forward is the VIP stateroom with an en suite head. The stateroom features a tapered queen berth and much the same features that we've seen in the other staterooms. There is additional storage underneath the berth accessed by lifting the foot of the bed, which will in turn be held open by a pair of pneumatic struts. An overhead hatch provides natural light and ventilation, and is held in the closed position by four latches.
The VIP head is en suite with a modest walk-in shower. Notice the grass-cloth wall covering.
To starboard is the en suite head with much the same features as we've seen in the previous heads, including a separate shower stall and mirrored ceilings.
I think Hatteras did an exemplary job on the GT63. She is very fast yet offers a very sea-kindly and stable platform that has an inherent measure of safety and strength built-in. Her lines are classic yet as modern as tomorrow in the tony world of big game sportfishing. I like her tumble home at the stern with the protruding streamlined pods that cover her side-mounted cockpit scuppers. How cool is that?
Clearly, this yacht was not made for a bunch of guys on a simple overnight fishing trip to the canyons. She is a much more sophisticated boat than that. Rather, this is a solid fishing platform built around a trusted pedigree that can also be used as a comfortable cruising yacht.
|Marine Electronics
|VHF Radio
|Air Cond./Heat
|Battery Charger/Converter
|Dripless Shaft Seals
|Head: Fixed
|Shore Power
|Trim Tabs
|Washdown: Fresh Water
|Water Heater
|Exterior Features
|Carpet: Cockpit
|Transom Door
|Wet bar
|Boats More Than 30 Feet
|Oil Change System
= Standard = Optional
|Warranties change from time to time. While BoatTEST.com has tried to ensure the most up-to-date warranty offered by each builder, it does not guarantee the accuracies of the information presented below. Please check with the boat builder or your local dealer before you buy any boat.
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|Total GPH
|Stat. Mile
All fuel consumption numbers are the total for all engines in the boat. Speeds are measured with Stalker ProSports radar gun or GPS. Fuel consumption (gallons per hour) measured with Floscan digital fuel-flow meter or by on-board factory-installed diagnostic instruments. Range is based on 90% of published fuel capacity. Sound levels determined using Radio Shack digital decibel meter on A scale. 68 dBA is the level of normal conversation. Time to plane is measured from start of acceleration to formation of rooster tail behind boat.
|Time To Plane
|9.3 sec.
|0 to 30
|15.7 sec.
|Test Power
|2 x 1900-hp CAT C32 ACERT
|5 persons, 3/4 fuel, 1/2 water, min. gear
|75 deg.; 65% humidity; wind: 5-10 mph; seas; light chop


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SNOWMASS VILLAGE - At the age of 6, Tom Curren picked up two things: surfing and guitar playing. One led to three world titles before the age of 26, and the other a respectable musical career, highlighted by a 27-stop American tour in the early '90s and the 2012 release of "Summerland Road," his debut EP.
On Jan. 25, Curren will play a free show at the Bar at Wildwood. His music has been described as bluesy and gritty, with a minimalist approach.
Curren's music has been recognized not only within the surfing community but outside it, as well. Jackson Browne, who was in Fiji attending the same event as Curren a few years ago, took notice. The two ended up jamming together, and later, Browne showed up at one of Curren's shows. Browne performed a few songs, and Curren accompanied him on guitar. Browne later invited Curren to play in his Los Angeles studio.
"He's just been really encouraging," Curren said of Browne.
For "Summerland Road," Curren teamed up with producer John Alagia, who is known for his work with Dave Matthews, Jason Mraz and John Mayer. Alagia listened to a few of Curren's home recordings and decided what he liked and what he didn't like. Curren said Alagia has "an instinct for traditional forms of music" and that he was good at tightening up his song ideas.
"Sometimes (in the studio) it becomes a bit clinical in a way," Curren said. "But (Alagia) was really good about having the right vibe and the right players."
One of those players was Jim Keltner, drummer for Eric Clapton and John Lennon. Before the band came in to record, Curren laid down the vocals on acoustic guitar. This provided the framework, and then they recorded, finishing most songs on one take.
Even though Curren is focused on music, he still finds time to surf and keep up with his sponsor Rip Curl. Some days, it's all surfing for Curren. Other days, it's all music, especially when the waves aren't cooperating.
Curren has four children with surfing aspirations of their own. Two of his sons, 16 and 18, are on a junior pro tour in Hawaii. He also has a 23-year-old daughter who surfs as a professional.
"There'll be times where's it's 100 percent music and other times where it's 100 percent surfing," Curren said. "Sometimes it will be a mix."


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On today's Oprah Winfrey Show, she and financial powerhouse Suze Orman performed a financial—and psychological—intervention on "Octomom" Nadya Suleman. The best part of the show, however, involved awkward lesbian jokes related to Suleman's addiction to approval from women.
And just for the hell of it, here's another clip from the episode, during which Orman and Winfrey basically tell Suleman—with unapologetic candor—just how much everyone hates her:


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Pharmacy Technician Certification Board (PTCB)
The Pharmacy Technician Certification Board (PTCB) develops, maintains, promotes, and administers an accredited certification program for pharmacy technicians. The Pharmacy Technician Certification Examination (PTCE) was developed by PTCB to determine whether individuals have mastered the knowledge and skills necessary to work as a pharmacy technician. Through the PTCB certification program, pharmacy technicians are able to work more effectively with pharmacists to offer better patient care and service. The following is only a summary of PTCB's program policies. For more information, please refer to the Candidate Guidebook.
PTCB Certification
To gain certification with PTCB, pharmacy technicians must meet eligibility requirements, which include a passing score on the Pharmacy Technician Certification Exam (PTCE). Once a pharmacy technician becomes certified, he or she may use the designation "CPhT". To maintain PTCB certification, CPhTs must recertify every two years. The purpose of recertification is to ensure that pharmacy technicians stay up-to-date in pharmacy practice through the completion of 20 hours of Continuing Education (CE).
Scheduling Information
Authorization to Schedule
Once your application is approved, you will be authorized to schedule an exam appointment. The authorization to schedule period is 90 days. If you are unable to take the exam during this period, you must withdraw your application or forfeit all fees.
Scheduling the PTCE
You may schedule with Pearson VUE online or by phone. Pearson VUE automatically creates a web account, needed to schedule or change appointments online, for authorized candidates. You will receive an email with web account login information. Scheduling your appointment online is the most convenient method, and the only option for making appointment changes outside of business hours.
Special Accommodations
Candidates who requested special accommodations during the application process will not be authorized to schedule until PTCB has approved the accommodations. Candidates with approved special accommodations must call Pearson VUE's Accommodations Hotline to schedule an appointment, at (800) 466-0450.
Test Preparation
Candidates should become familiar with the content outline of the PTCE. Although PTCB does not provide preparation or training materials, there are many accredited pharmacy technician training providers. Additionally, PTCB has developed a series of optional practice exams for purchase that provide candidates an opportunity to experience question content, formats, and a test structure similar to what candidates experience when sitting for the PTCE. Additionally, Pearson VUE provides a tutorial that gives candidates an opportunity to experience the look, feel, and functionality they will encounter on the exam (please note that this tutorial is not PTCB specific, and some of the features, e.g. essay items, do not apply to the PTCE).
Practice Exam Information
These practice examinations have been constructed to familiarize candidates with the Pharmacy Technician Certification Examination (PTCE). The practice test is built according to the same content specifications as the updated PTCE, although the questions on these tests will never appear on an actual examination. Please visit www.ptcb.org for more information.


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Tuesday's letters: Animal rescues
Published: Tuesday, June 25, 2013 at 4:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Monday, June 24, 2013 at 5:22 p.m.
To the editor: Isnt it a breath of fresh air to see some organizations doing something about our appalling dog situation? Animal rescuers said in a recent article that they have sent a van load of dogs to New Hampshire to new homes. That is not only helping us but opening up an avenue for those dogs to have new, loving homes.
It sounds like Charlies Angels Animal Rescue Safe Haven is doing a great job. It does a thorough check on all these dogs before they are shipped elsewhere.
Three cheers for Charlies Angels. Keep up the good work.
Bob Behmer
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To the editor: Having never seen Evita before, I had no real idea of what to expect other than a few songs Id heard over the years. What I experienced with my friends who were also pretty new to the show was a highly memorable night of music, singing that was out of this world, and intricate tango dancing.
Evita was a beautifully told story about love, ambition and the dangers of a cult of personality.
If the whole show had just been the singing and the dance scenes, we would have still been perfectly happy! Time now to find that music for my iPod.
Nicole Davison
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To the editor: In response to the letter that appeared Tuesday from Ed Joran, as I understand it, the woman who took the Fifth Amendment rather than testifying before a House committee did so because there is a conflict between what is said there versus what can later be said in court in that anything raised before the committee would not be admissible in court.
However, my biggest complaint against Mr. Joran is that he didnt check his facts (nor did the Times-News) regarding Mr. Shulmans visits to the White House. He was cleared to visit the White House 157 times but was actually there only 11 times. Please check this out in Bill OReillys correction of his blasting the news of 157 visits at: www.fair.org/blog/2013/06/06/oreilly-spins-a-correction-on-white-house-visits/.
I do wish the Times-News would check the facts presented to it before printing letters that clearly spread misinformation. That would be more indicative of responsible journalism than what appeared Tuesday. Please at least print a correction of this misinformation.
Carol M. Fouts
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PORTSMOUTH — A hit-and-run crash on the Route 1 Bypass led to a two-state investigation and the Thanksgiving day arrest of a Maine man on a charge alleging he was driving while drunk.
Portsmouth police were notified of the crash at 5:50 p.m. Thursday, when a caller reported a rear-ender at the traffic lights just before the Sarah Mildred Long Bridge.
New Hampshire state troopers conducted field-sobriety tests on the driver of a pickup truck at the scene; he was not charged with any crime.
Meanwhile, based on witness descriptions, Kittery, Maine, police stopped a suspect in a car just over the town line in York. Following that traffic stop, police arrested John W. Russo, 59, of York, Maine, on a charge alleging he was operating under the influence.
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The 31-year-old posted a series of snaps on Thursday showing off her impressively long real hair—and Popdust has the photos.
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1. Irving omits further documentary evidence in order to support his claim that the massacre of Jews in Riga on 30 November 1941 was inspired by Goebbels's article in Das Reich. The German army officer Walter Bruns was apparently in Riga during the massacre. Bruns is regarded as a highly reliable witness by Irving. Irving has referred to Bruns's statements in many of his books, including both editions of Hitler's War, the biographies of Goebbels and Göring, and the book on the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials, and concludes that there 'can be no doubt as to the veracity of his (i.e. Bruns's) description'.61 In a conversation on 8 April 1945, apparently secretly taped by the Allied forces, Bruns recalls a conversation in Riga with a young man called Altenmeyer, who apparently belonged to the SS. Bruns claimed that he argued that the local Baltic Jews ought not to be killed, as they were valuable workers. But Altenmeyer replied:'"Yes, they must be shot, it's a FÜHRER-command!". I say: "FÜHRER-command?". "Yes, indeed", and then he shows it to me.'62 Since Irving submits this document in evidence, he must know its contents. But he totally fails to make reference to this part of Bruns testimony in his published account of these events. This is a clear example of the deliberate suppression of relevant evidence because it does not fit in with Irving's case.
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It took about 7 minutes for Vogue's Anna Wintour to get bored of mixing with people when she stopped by Saks Fifth Avenue. [Image via Getty]
The Olsen Twins held paper plates, but they didn't dare eat during their appearance at Barneys. [Image via Getty]
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Wendy Williams demonstrates what she would like her wax figure to look like at the Giuseppe Zanotti Design Boutique. [Image via Getty]
Diane Kruger played Win, Lose, or Draw at Saks Fifth Avenue. Based on what she's wearing, she already lost. [Image via Getty]
The mannequin known as Posh Spice wants you to kiss her $389 gazillion ring at Bergdorf Goodman.
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Breaking: Anna Wintour talks to a blogger. Pint-sized Fashion Rookie writer Tavi Gevinson poses with the Vogue editrix at Barneys. Break out the Drudge siren. [Image via Getty]
Barneys creative director Simon Doonan shows off his new slippers while his husband, Jonathan Adler, was making potter in the next room. No, seriously, he was making pottery in the next room. [Image via Getty]
Karl Lagerfeld treated the Chanel boutique in Midtown like his own personal gay bar as he sat around with hot guys and passed judgment on everyone. [Image via Getty]
Celeb chef Marcus Samuelsson wore carrots as pants when he took his wife, model Maya Hailes,to a party at Macy's. [Image via Getty]
We tried to purchase this Neil Patrick Harris and bring it home and love it forever, but we were told it was not for sale. Stupid Macy's. [Image via Getty]
The Ronson sisters Samantha and Charlotte have found a new declining teen actress to play around with. Watch out Michelle Tractenberg, you know what happened to their last project! [Image via Getty]
Jennifer Lopez would only pose for pictures in front of a picture of herself at Macy's [Image via Getty]
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Sonja Morgan told the other Real Housewives of New York to kiss her ass at the Roberto Cavalli boutique. [Image via Getty]
No, Miss Univers Ximena Navarrete does not get to take her sash off. Actually it has be surgically attached to her shoulder. [Image via Getty]
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Ohio's minimum wage rose 15 cents on Jan. 1, to $7.85 for non-tipped employees. It's exactly a dollar higher than the minimum wage in 2007, the year after Ohioans voted for a constitutional amendment that mandates annual wage increases based on the rate of inflation.
The jump could spell bigger paychecks for Ohio's low-wage workers, but as in years past, the sudden burden on payroll is a concern for both small and big businesses alike.
"Certainly it affects us. Right now, we aren't making any changes. It's part of doing business," said Laurie Strahler, local McDonald's franchise owner.
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Barb-B-Cutie manager Tiffany McIntyre, front, grabs an order from kitchen cook Brandon Kring Monday. As a result of a Jan. 1 increase in Ohio's minimum wage, Barb-B-Cutie owner Shane Stotts raised the pay of all of his employees to keep the wages fair.
Now 99 of 241 employees at Strahler's five locations are making the new minimum wage.
Still, Strahler is taking a wait-and-see approach before making any changes, including staffing cuts or price increases, at her five locations.
"We don't want to instantly raise the prices because of this. We've known it's been coming for a long time. We obviously plan for it," she said.
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2008: $7.00
2009: $7.30
2010: $7.30
2011: $7.40
2012: $7.70
2013: $7.85
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Ohio: $7.85
Federal: $7.25
West Virginia: $7.2
The minimum wage increase also puts pressure on employers to boost the wages of those employees already earning more, said Burger King franchisee Matt Herridge, who owns 23 locations including the one in Marietta.
Though the company will not be raising the rates of pay for employees in their 16 West Virginia locations, they will be raising the wages of all of their Ohio employees, said Herridge.
"If we raise our entry level worker 15 cents, they are moving to the rate of someone who has been there longer. So we move them as well, to recognize that that person has more tenure or experience," he explained.
An across the board 15-cent raise was also implemented at Marietta restaurant Bar-B-Cutie, said owner Shane Stotts.
"Just to kind of keep everything on a fair basis, we were able to do that," he said.
Stotts said the change will affect approximately a dozen employees, split half and half between minimum wage and higher paid employees.
It is a change for which employees are grateful, said Barb-B-Cutie manager Tiffany McIntyre.
"I think everyone is really excited," she said. "Now everyone is almost $8 an hour and that is crazy compared to what it used to be."
Ohio wages have been on the rise in the past seven years. When the 2006 amendment went into effect, it ended 12 years of a stagnant $4.25 minimum wage. In fact, businesses that grossed less than $500,000 were subject to even lower minimum wage rates.
And now that Ohio's minimum wage is tied into inflation, employers can expect the wage increases to continue.
Some businesses are hoping slightly higher price points will help offset some of the cost.
Ed Gossett, manager of White Oak Pharmacy in Vincent, said he will be looking at the prices of some of the items on the floor, but is wary of changing prices too much.
"You have to have a good price so the customer wants to come in and buy something, but eventually it starts to hurt your bottom line," he said.
In December, local business Smitty's Pizza announced price increases on its Facebook page that were partly a reflection of the higher wages they would soon have pay to more than 50 employees.
Smitty's owner Juanita Lannigan could not be reached for comment Monday.
But increasing prices to compensate for higher wages is an unfortunate cycle, said Herridge.
"Unfortunately, the biggest challenge with minimum wage is we are forced then to consider price increases, which leads to inflation, which in turn leads to a raise in the rate of minimum wage," he said.
And though Herridge has not yet noticed West Virginia employees forgoing their jobs to find better wages across state lines, that prospect is a concern.
West Virginia's minimum wage, $7.25 an hour, has been in place since 2009.
"The bigger the disparity becomes, the more pressure it puts on West Virginia employers to match wages, especially on border towns like Parkersburg and Vienna," said Herridge.


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LSU No. 1 in baseball attendance
Published: Thursday, June 27, 2013 at 11:41 a.m.
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BATON ROUGE — In the final 2013 college baseball attendance rankings, LSU is No. 1 for the 18th straight season.
Officials say LSU posted an NCAA-record total attendance figure of 473,298 in 43 games this season in Alex Box Stadium, including 38 regular-season games, three NCAA Regional games and two NCAA Super Regional contests.
The Tigers' total attendance mark was nearly 200,000 greater than second-place Mississippi State.
LSU is the only school in NCAA history to exceed 400,000 in baseball attendance.
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