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FlopZoom - Mac Poker Tracking for Poker Stars and Full Tilt
FlopZoom is our Texas Hold'em online poker tracker for PokerStars and Full Tilt on Mac OS X. Track your opponents in real time and attack their weaknesses, then play back and analyze tournaments and ring games to find leaks in your own game. FlopZoom is all about exploiting your opponents and improving your own play.
Key features
|Multi-table HUD
|Head-up display tracks live statistics as you play each hand. Up to six statistics per player.
|Playback pane
|Replay sessions and hands with win & tie odds. Optional HUD on all sessions new and old.
|Session pane
|Shows stack and pot graphs for any session, for up to four players. Updated as you play.
|Statistics pane
|Graph vital statistics including VPP, PRP, and AF, for up to four players. Updated as you play.
|Analysis pane
|In-depth analysis and information: graph draws, plays, bluffs, and more. In real time as you play.
|Results pane
|Per-session win/loss and bankroll tracking for up to four players at once. Handles $ and €.
Video tips
Be sure to check out our new series of FlopZoom video tips. They'll help take your poker playing to the next level. We'll be posting new tips as often as we can. Our promise to you: "No boring narration. Ever."
Free 30 day trial
The best way to learn more about FlopZoom is to try it. Download it and try it for free for 30 days.
What's new in FlopZoom 1.6.2
22 April 2011
FlopZoom 1.6.2 addresses several issues that we though we should address before adding more features.
This is, as always, a free update for all registered users.
Issues resolved:
- Playback: some micro-stakes amounts weren't represented correctly in chip animations
- Playback: the preflop main pot amount in some limit sessions was off by one small blind
- Importing: fixed two rare crashes caused by certain Full Tilt hand history files
- Importing: reduced memory usage when importing large number of hand history files
- Minor cosmetic and usability issues resolved
Known issues:
- FullTiltPoker.fr and PokerStars.fr are not currently supported
- Poker Stars tournament results are not currently tracked in the results pane
- Euro / Dollar exchange rates are hard-coded (€1.00 = $1.41 as of 31 March 2011)
- All Poker Stars tournaments are identified as MTTs, even if they are STTs
- External monitors are not yet supported
- The Multiple Mac OS X desktops feature ("Spaces") is not yet supported
- Hand history files received by email from Poker Stars may not be added correctly
- The analysis pane still uses the older, slower database access methods
What was new in FlopZoom 1.6.1
31 March 2011
FlopZoom 1.6.1 focuses mostly on playback. We have added the chip animation feature from FlopZoom Lite as well as new hand indication features. The hand that each player with known hole cards has made is shown on flop, turn, and river. And at the end of each hand, if the all the players' cards are known, the winner's five-card hand is highlighted.
In addition, we have added the demo sessions from FlopZoom Lite so you can immediately use FlopZoom even if you haven't played any poker sessions yet. There are several stability and cosmetic fixes as well.
FlopZoom 1.6.1 is, as always, a free update for all registered users.
New playback features:
- Animation of chips bet and won (Mac OS X 10.6 only)
- Players' made hands are shown on the flop, turn, and river if their hole cards are known (Mac OS X 10.6 only)
- Winners' cards are highlighted at the end of each hand if their hole cards are known (Mac OS X 10.6 only)
Playback issues resolved:
- Learning mode didn't hide hole cards when animation was turned on
- Clicking the button sometimes didn't show button players in the hands list
- Very rarely, an all-in player's bet text would read "raises all-in to 0" on the next street
What was new in FlopZoom 1.6
24 February 2011
FlopZoom 1.6 vastly improves the speed of statistics calculations in the statistics pane and HUD. Statistics calculations over a full career are now 60 to 100 times faster than in 1.5. In addition, we have added animation to the playback pane for Macs running Mac OS X 10.6, and we have updated many other areas of FlopZoom's user interface as well.
This release is only for Intel Macs running Mac OS X 10.5 "Leopard" and 10.6 "Snow Leopard." We will continue to maintain a version of FlopZoom for legacy PowerPC-based Macs and for Macs running Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger" and will make it available in the near future.
FlopZoom 1.6 also starts a new 30 day trial period if your older version of FlopZoom has expired. This is a free update for all registered users.
Statistics performance improvements:
- Long term interval calculations are up to 60 to 100 times faster for large numbers of sessions
- The HUD and statistics panes both benefit from the improved performance
- The "career" interval with "any position" is the most heavily optimized
Playback improvements:
- New animation of button, cards, player backgrounds (Mac OS X 10.6 only)
- Players' stack sizes are now shown in green and are separated from players' names in white
- Future streets on board are now faded out slightly, and streets not reached are now empty
- Tie percentages disappear when no tie is possible (instead of showing 0.0%)
- Skipped session count appears in playback window along with new and updated count
- Player name label changed from "Player: " to: "Playing as " for clarity
- Semantics of play control buttons on table are slightly different
Prev/next actions now continue through to previous/next hands
Prev street button now jumps back to end of previous hand if current hand is at preflop
Next street button now jumps to end of hand if we're on the last street, then to next hand
HUD (Head-Up Display) improvements:
- Clicking the same table HUD toggles the HUD table data panel on/off
- Clicking the same player HUD toggles the HUD player data panel on/off
- Color-coded HUD control panel looks more like the actual player HUD windows
- Improved accuracy for small percentages (e.g. now 2.2% instead of 2%)
Miscellaneous improvements:
- Overall performance and stability improvements
- Added fade-in effect on launch
- Session, statistics, analysis, and results graphs all have four unique themes: two light, two dark
- Player counts, positions, and ranges on the statistics and analysis panes are now independent of each other
- Changed "adding" to "importing" in menus and dialogs
- Many other cosmetic improvements
Issues resolved:
- Session search for player name sometimes didn't show all sessions
- Very rarely, an all-in player was shown as moving in before their actual shove
and when they did shove their status was shown as "all-in for 0"
- Sometimes the winner's win amount was wrong when they won the pot uncalled
- Euro currency symbol wasn't correctly shown in player and table data panels
- Blinds button settings wasn't always remembered between launches
- Per-street statistics: vertical multi-street bar captions were too light when drawn on background
- Player names with leading @ sign were not handled correctly and caused a crash
- Some 6-max, ante, deep sessions were not handled correctly and caused a crash
For More Information:
Please visit the FlopZoom version history page for information on previous releases.
We think FlopZoom is a pretty awesome online Texas holdem poker tracker, but don't just take our word for it. Here are some unsolicited testimonials from actual customers from around the world:
"By the way, the software is helping me loads. ... I don't know how I lived without this software."
- Greg B (USA)
"Your software is showing terrible leaks in my game, and it is helping me a lot in improving my cash games..."
- Luca H (Italy)
"It's so cool to be able to analyze my hand history, and to do it on a Mac. :)"
- Rob B (USA)
"Reviewing my HH like this is a great way to improve my game."
- Axel M (Belgium)
- Greg B (USA)
"Your software is showing terrible leaks in my game, and it is helping me a lot in improving my cash games..."
- Luca H (Italy)
"It's so cool to be able to analyze my hand history, and to do it on a Mac. :)"
- Rob B (USA)
"Reviewing my HH like this is a great way to improve my game."
- Axel M (Belgium)
HUD in graphics mode on simultaneous FullTilt and PokerStars tables. An 8-max Full Tilt table is shown here. Right-clicking any FlopZoom HUD window toggles between 8-max and 9-max HUD window positions on Full Tilt.
The HUD shows gray statistics for players with fewer than 30 hands in the HUD interval you have chosen. In this example, the interval is one week, and the hero (bottom center) has played 521 hands in a week, including the 41 at this table. Four villans have played more than 30 hands in a week (and our hero hasn't played any hands against them prior to this table.) The hand count statistic is in the bottom right of the HUD windows in this example.
HUD with cascaded tables: only the front table's HUD appears. Hero has played 60 hands in 24 hours, and three villains have played more than 30 hands in 24 hours, so their statistics are color coded to match the HUD control. The other villains have played fewer than 30 hands in 24 hours, so their statistics are in gray.
HUD with tiled tables: resizing and moving are automatic. (The aces held up.)
Playback pane: HUD can be shown on playback pane as well as on FullTilt and PokerStars tables. HUD statistics are exactly as they would have appeared if and when you played each hand live.
Session pane: four players' stacks on hand 68, with Harrington M and player count
Session pane: four players' pots, clicked on hand 68 (Graphite theme)
Session pane: four players' stacks in a ring game, with results and BB (big blind) amounts
Session pane: four players' pots in a ring game, with results and rake (gray rectangles above yellow line on each pot bar)
Statistics pane: up to five statistics for up to four players (Leather theme)
Analysis pane: draws on the flop that later hit (green) and missed (red), in any position, over a whole career
Results pane: win/loss per session and cumulative bankroll line over a whole career
Major Features
Head-Up Display (HUD)
Statistics and/or previously mucked hole cards are shown next to all players' seats in real time
Choose between graphical display or text display of statistics
HUD data can be shown on the Playback pane for all sessions including sessions currently being played
From one to six statistics can be displayed for each player at all tables
Intervals from 10 hands to an entire career can be chosen for HUD statistics
Statistics are grayed out for players with fewer than 30 hands in the chosen HUD interval
HUD windows move and resize as you move and resize PokerStars and/or Full Tilt table windows
Automatically adjusts to PokerStars and FullTilt table themes, with or without avatars
Automatically adjusts to "tiled" and "cascaded" layouts
Real Time Updates
On launch, all PokerStars and Full Tilt sessions are imported into FlopZoom's relational database in the background
New hands are added to the database and all graphs and HUD windows are automatically updated as you play
Update frequency can be set from 5 seconds to 5 minutes to never
Hole cards mucked at showdown are viewable in the playback pane after the hand is completed
Replay every hand you played, with complete hand odds (powered by the FlopZoom Lite odds engine)
Automatic playback - one click plays every action in every hand of the selected session
Animation - player status, hole and board cards, and dealer button are animated (Mac OS X 10.6 only)
Search for sessions by player name, table name, site, date, tournament type, seat count, and result keywords
Search hands for hole cards, keywords, actions, player names, and situations
Keyboard shortcuts for rapidly navigating though actions and streets of hands
Session stack and pot graphs
Graph up to four players' chip stacks simultaneously
Graph up to four players' pots won and lost simultaneously
Zoom in on 10 hands or zoom out to all hands in a session
Optionally show "M" value inflection points or BB amounts
Optionally show ring game results (money won/lost and BB won/lost)
Statistics graphs
Bar charts of eighteen vital statistics:
|Voluntarily put chips in Pot Preflop percentage
|Preflop Raise Percentage
|Aggression Factor (preflop, flop, turn, river, average)
|Streets Seen Percentage (flop, turn, river, showdown)
|Continuation bets (flop, turn, river)
|Open bets (flop, turn, river, any street)
|Raises (preflop, flop, turn, river, any street)
|Re-raises (preflop, flop, turn, river, any street)
|3rd raise or more (preflop, flop, turn, river, any street)
|Showdown Percentage
|Showdown Win Percentage
|Uncalled Bet Percentage (preflop, flop, turn, river, any street)
|All-In Percentage (preflop, flop, turn, river, any street)
|Fold to C-bet Percentage (flop, turn, river)
|Fold to 1-bet Percentage (flop, turn, river)
|Fold to 2-bet Percentage (preflop, flop, turn, river)
|Fold to 3-bet Percentage (preflop, flop, turn, river)
|Fold to 4+bet Percentage (preflop, flop, turn, river)
Analysis graphs
Seven different bar charts for in-depth analysis of any player, especially yourself:
|Number of times a player hit/missed and won/lost with nine draw types
|Theoretical number of times the player should have hit or missed each draw types
|Number of times a player any of 11 different play types
|Ratio of wins to losses for each play type
|Number of times a player bluffed in 10 different bluffing situations
|Ratio of wins to losses for each bluffing situation
|Percentage of stack bet or raised with different hand types
|Ratio of uncalled vs. called vs. folding to reraise shown in 3 colors
|Ratio of wins vs. losses for river bets
|Percentage of stack called with different hand types
|Ratio of next street seen vs. folding to raise before next street
|Number of times any hand type was made
|Ratio of wins vs. losses with each hand type
|Number of times a player received any of 11 hole card types or ranges
|Ratio of wins vs. losses with each hole card type or range
|Theoretical number of times hole card type or range should have been dealt
Analyze just one session, all sessions in a day, in a week, a month, a year, or in an entire career
Intervals can be applied to all statistics and analysis graphs
Optional calendar or range interval types
Graph all statistics and analysis charts for any specific seat position (button, small blind, cutoff, etc.),
or position range (early position, middle position, and late position)
Player count
Graph all statistics and analysis charts for any number of players, full table play, short-handed play, or heads-up play
Tournament or ring
Choose tournament or ring games, real money or play money, or all session types
System Requirements
|Mac computer with an Intel processor
|2GB of memory
|5GB of available disk space
|Mac OS X 10.5 or later
FlopZoom 1.6 does not run on Macs with PowerPC CPUs or Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger." We will release a final Universal Binary version of FlopZoom 1.5 in the near future. This version of 1.5 will run on PowerPC and Intel Macs, running Mac OS X 10.4 and later.
This legacy version of FlopZoom 1.5 for Tiger will remain available but we will no longer add new features to it. FlopZoom 1.6 and later versions will require Mac OS X technology not available in Tiger.
FlopZoom 1.6 Performance Measurements
FlopZoom 1.6 uses a radically different data access technique, and there have been huge statistics calculation performance gains over large numbers of sessions. You will immediately notice this improved speed in the statistics panes and in the HUD, especially over the Career interval.
We did some informal testing and found that calculation times have dropped by anywhere from a factor of 60 to a factor of 110. Here are our results.
How we tested
We tested FlopZoom 1.6 by measuring the time between the Career interval button click (or choosing a villain from a player menu) and the completion of the statistics graph drawing method. Start and end times were recorded by adding the following code to the start of calculation method and to the end of the drawing method. Times were rounded to the nearest hundredth of a second.
NSString *format = @"%H:%M:%S:%F";
NSLog(@"time = %@", [[NSCalendarDate date] descriptionWithCalendarFormat:format]);
FlopZoom 1.5.3 was timed using the iPhone iOS Clock app's stopwatch mode so its times are only accurate to a tenth of a second. Both versions of FlopZoom were run minutes apart on exactly the same database. No rebuild is required when updating from 1.5.3 to 1.6, so the same database may be used, unchanged, by either version.
The test environment
The test machine was a mid-2007 2.4Ghz Core 2 Duo iMac with 4GB RAM and 166 GB free disk space running Mac OS X 10.6.6. The same apps (Safari, iTunes, iPhoto, iCal, Mail, etc.) were running in the background during all performance testing, with no changes in their CPU or memory usage. We felt that leaving apps running quiescently in the background would better simulate an actual user's system.
Times were measured on the statistics pane with five statistics chosen: VPP, PRP, AF, SDP, and SWP. The hero player was chosen in each of the runs as well as zero, one, two, and three villains. Player count was set to Any, position was set to Any Position, Career interval was chosen, and All Sessions was chosen in the game type menu.
The database contained 920 sessions total, 516 of which were played by the hero used for testing, for a total of 15,151 hands played by that hero.
The results
|Hero only
|FlopZoom 1.5.3
|61.6 seconds
|FlopZoom 1.6
|0.56 second
|110 x faster
|Hero + 1 villain
|FlopZoom 1.5.3
|69.7 seconds
|FlopZoom 1.6
|0.87 second
|80 x faster
|Hero + 2 villains
|FlopZoom 1.5.3
|76.4 seconds
|FlopZoom 1.6
|1.08 seconds
|71 x faster
|Hero + 3 villains
|FlopZoom 1.5.3
|84.2 seconds
|FlopZoom 1.6
|1.35 seconds
|62 x faster
Further room for improvement
We have identified many areas in which FlopZoom's performance can be improved, and we will do so as we move forward with its development.
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There was lots of exciting basketball action this weekend with the State Tournaments underway. The Tongue River Lady Eagles completed a perfect undefeated season with their victory over Thermopolis to take the State 2A Championship 41 to 30!
After defeating Sundance on Friday by a score of 34 to 31, the Bighorn Lady Rams lost a close one to Rocky Mountain 46 to 39 for the Consolation Championship.
The Sheridan Lady Broncs dominated Gillette on Saturday winning 54 to 38.
The Arvada-Clearmont Girls lost to Burlington 54 to 46 in their Consolation Championship game.
The Cowboys suffered their fourth-straight loss against the New Mexico Lobos with a final score of 53 to 42.
Wyoming finishes the regular season by hosting rival Colorado State on Wednesday at 8 p.m.
4-A EAST REGIONAL BASKETBALL - The Sheridan Broncs basketball season ended suddenly in Gillette Thursday night with the Broncs losing to Cheyenne South in an elimination game 70-57 was the final.
The Broncs end their season with a 9-14 record.
The Lady Broncs will play in the regional tournament semi final tonight at 7:00 against Laramie we will have the game live for you on 14-10 KWYO.
State and Regional Basketball is underway with day one in the books and results were mixed for Johnson County athletes.
The Lady Eagles defeated the Rocky Mountain Lady Grizzlies with a final score of 49 to 33!!!
The Sheridan Broncs lost to Cheyenne South tonight with a final score of 70 to 57.
STATE TOURNAMENT BASKETBALL - The Big Horn Lady Rams open state tournament this morning at 10:30 at Casper college against Thermopolis that game will be broadcast live for you on 14-10 KWYO and 87.7 FM.
The Rams take on Big Piney that game will follow the Lady Rams at noon live on 14-10 KWYO and 87.7 FM.
The Tongue River Lady Eagles open up tonight at 6:00 against Rocky Mountain that game will be live on 87.7 FM.
4-A REGIONAL BASKETBALL - The Sheridan Broncs will be in Gillette tonight for the 4-A East regional they play Cheyenne South tonight at 5:30 in a loser out game.
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Osho,I remember while you were in the police station in Crete, those two young smiling Greek women, dressed in black like typical Cretan women, coming to the window, holding your hand and saying in very broken English, "Osho, we love you. We are Cretan, we want you to stay here."
It seems that as the governments become increasingly strident in their attacks on you - in spite of the increasingly obvious love the common man has for you - one of the most important parts of your work will be to show how the bureaucracy, far from representing the common man, is in fact in complete opposition to him.
I certainly remember those two young women holding my hand and trying to convey to me that "We, the people of this island, want you to stay here. We love you."
The question you have raised has occurred to me many times in my life, again and again. The bureaucracy is not for the people, it is against them. It uses them, it exploits them, it manipulates them; it makes them believe that it is serving their purposes. But the reality is just the opposite.
They define democracy as the government of the people, for the people, by the people. It is none of these things. It is neither by the people, nor of the people, nor for the people.
The people who have been holding power down the centuries have always been able to persuade people that whatever is being done, is done for their sake. And the people have believed it because they have been trained to believe. It is a conspiracy between religion and state to exploit humanity.
The religion goes on preaching belief and destroys the intelligence of people to question, makes them retarded. And the state goes on exploiting them in every possible way - still managing to keep the people's support, because the people have been trained to believe, not to question. Any kind of government - it may be monarchy, it may be aristocracy, it may be democracy, it may be any kind of government.. Just the names change, but deep down the reality remains the same.
In Japan before the second world war, Hirohito, the emperor of Japan, was believed to be the direct descendant of the Sun God, and whatever he was saying was not human, it was divine; his order had just to be followed. For centuries Japanese people have believed in him as a Sun God, and they have died in hundreds of wars, willingly, joyously, because they are dying for God himself. What more blissful and beautiful a death could one aspire to?
Japan is a small country, but no other country has been able to conquer it - even countries like China, vast countries. China is the greatest country as far as numbers are concerned, as far as land is concerned, but a small tiny Japan was able to defeat the Chinese because the people had this fanatic belief that God is behind them, so victory is theirs. And the same has more or less been the situation all over the world.


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Glucose test - bloodRandom blood sugar; Blood sugar level; Fasting blood sugar
A blood glucose test measures the amount of a sugar called glucose in a sample of your blood.
Glucose is a major source of energy for most cells of the body, including those in the brain. Carbohydrates (or carbs) are found in fruit, cereal, bread, pasta, and rice. They are quickly turned into glucose in your body. This raises your blood glucose level.
Hormones made in the body called insulin and glucagon help control blood glucose levels.
See also:
How the Test is Performed
A blood sample is needed. For information on how this is done, see: Venipuncture.
How to Prepare for the Test
The test may be done in 2 ways:
- After you have not eaten anything for at least 8 hours (fasting)
- Atany time of the day (random)
How the Test Will Feel
When the needle is inserted to draw blood, some people feel moderate pain, while others feel only a prick or stinging sensation. Afterward, there may be some throbbing.
Why the Test is Performed
Your doctor may order this test if you have signs of diabetes. However, other tests (glucose tolerance test and fasting blood glucose test) are better for diagnosing diabetes.
The blood glucose test is also used to monitor patients who have the diabetes. It may also be done if you have:
- A change in behavior
- Fainting spells
- Seizures for the first time
Normal Results
If you had a fasting blood glucose test, a level between 70 and100 milligrams per deciliter (mg/dL) is considered normal.
If you had a random blood glucose test, normal results depend on when you last ate. Most of the time, blood glucose levels will be below 125 mg/dL.
Normal value ranges may vary slightly among different laboratories. Talk to your doctor about the meaning of your specific test results.
The examples above show the common measurements for results for these tests. Some laboratories use different measurements or may test different specimens.
What Abnormal Results Mean
If you had a fasting blood glucose test:
- A level of 100-125mg/dL means you have impaired fasting glucose, a type of prediabetes. This increases your risk for type 2 diabetes.
- A level of 126 mg/dL and higher most often means you have diabetes.
Higher-than-normal random blood glucose levelsmay be a sign of diabetes. In someone with diabetes, it may mean the diabetes is not well controlled. Your healthcare provider will likely order a fasting blood glucose or a glucose tolerance test, depending on your random test result.
Other medical problems may also cause higher-than-normal blood glucose levels, including:
- Overactive thyroid gland
- Pancreatic cancer
- Pancreatitis
- Rare tumors, includingpheochromocytoma,acromegaly,Cushing syndrome, or glucagonoma
Lower-than-normal blood glucose levels (hypoglycemia) may be due to:
- Hypopituitarism (a pituitary gland disorder)
- Underactive thyroid gland
- Insulinoma (very rare)
- Too little food
- Too much insulin or other diabetes medications
Veins and arteries vary in size from one patient to another and from one side of the body to the other. Obtaining a blood sample from some people may be more difficult than from others.
Other risks associated with having blood drawn are slight but may include:
- Excessive bleeding
- Fainting or feeling light-headed
- Hematoma (blood accumulating under the skin)
- Infection (a slight risk any time the skin is broken)
Many forms of severe stress (for example, trauma, stroke, heart attack, and surgery) can temporarily raise blood glucose levels.
Drugs that can increase glucose measurements include the following:
- Certain medicines to treat schizophrenia and psychosis
- Beta-blockers (such as propranolol)
- Corticosteroids (such as prednisone)
- Estrogens
- Glucagon
- Isoniazid
- Lithium
- Oral contraceptives (birth control pills)
- Phenothiazines
- Phenytoin
- Salicylates (see aspirin overdose)
- Thiazide diuretics (such as hydrochlorothiazide)
- Triamterene
- Tricyclic antidepressants
Drugs that can decrease glucose measurements include the following:
- Acetaminophen
- Alcohol
- Anabolic steroids
- Clofibrate
- Disopyramide
- Gemfibrozil
- Monoamine oxidase inhibitors (MAOIs)
- Pentamidine
American Diabetes Association. Standards of medical care in diabetes--2012. Diabetes Care. 2011 Jan;35 Suppl 1:S11-63.
Buse JB, Polonsky KS,Burant CF. Type 2 diabetes mellitus. In: Melmed S, Polonsky KS,Larsen PR, Kronenberg HM, Larsen PR, eds.Williams Textbook of Endocrinology. 12th ed. Philadelphia,Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2011:chap 31.
Inzucchi SE, Sherwin RS. Type 2 diabetes mellitus. In: Goldman L, Schafer AI, eds. Cecil Medicine. 24th ed. Philadelphia, PA:Saunders Elsevier; 2011:chap 237.
Review Date: 6/2/2012
Reviewed By: David C. Dugdale, III, MD, Professor of Medicine, Division of General Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine. Also reviewed by David Zieve, MD, MHA, Medical Director, A.D.A.M. Health Solutions, Ebix, Inc.


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THE HOLLIES KICK OFF 50 th ANNIVERSARY TOUR British Invasion pop legends The Hollies are celebrating their 50 th anniversary with an ambitious 41-date tour of their native Britain, New Zealand, Australia, Norway and Germany and the band promises more dates to come, according to its website. Alas, no American dates are as yet on the docket and there's no word whether original member Graham Nash will join the band for any performances.
The sextet, led by singer-guitarist Tony Hicks, 67, and drummer Bobby Elliott, 71, who both joined in early 1963 and are considered original members, begin their year-long tour with a gig this Wednesday in Palmersmith, New Zealand. The final date set thus far is Nov. 10 in Milton Keynes, England, northwest of London.
Even though the group's first gig as The Hollies took place in December 1962 at the Oasis Club in Manchester, and they performed at Liverpool's fabled Cavern Club in January 1963, Elliott told Noise 11 that he considers the actual anniversary date to be the month of March 1963 when the band first recorded at Abbey Road.
The Hollies' American Top 40 invasion began in 1965 with Graham Gouldman's "Look Through Any Window" and included Top 10 smashes "Bus Stop," "Stop Stop Stop" and "Carrie Anne." The British Invasion ended but hits by the band didn't. In 1969, "He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother" reached No. 7 and they were back again with a No. 2 classic, "Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress" in 1972, and one more time two years later, in 1974, with a ballad that went to No. 6, "The Air That I Breathe." The Hollies were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2010.
Over this past holiday, Elliott and Hick led an all-star group in a re-recording of "He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother" that benefited a group of charities associated with the 1989 Hillsborough disaster when a human crush at a soccer match between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest in Sheffield, England, resulted in the deaths of 96 fans and injuries to 766 others. Other participating stars included Paul McCartney, who sang and played guitar, as well as British superstar Robbie Williams, former Clash co-leader Mick Jones, The Spice Girls' Mel C, The Pogues frontman Shane McGowan, former Frankie Goes to Hollywood leader Holly Johnson, Glenn Tilbrook of Squeeze and McCartney's Liverpool mate, former Gerry and The Pacemakers leader Gerry Marsden. The single was the No. 1 hit of the 2012 British Christmas season.
The song and its official video can be seen and heard on The Hollies' website and on YouTube and can be purchased as a download or import CD single on Amazon.
THE WHO TO KICK OFF SECOND LEG OF U.S. TOUR IN SOCAL After taking the holidays off The Who are kicking off the second leg of their American tour celebrating the 40 th anniversary of the band's classic 1973 rock opera, "Quadrophenia." The band is playing the iconic double album in its entirety. This 17-date leg of the tour begins Monday at the Honda Center in Anaheim. Other dates include Jan. 30 at Staples Center, and Feb. 5 at the Valley View Casino Center in San Diego. The band is performing a couple of gigs at, for them, the rather intimate 4,100-seat Joint at the Hard Rock in Las Vegas on Feb. 8 and 10.
BARRY GIBB TO LAUNCH SOLO TOUR Barry Gibb, the sole surviving member of The Bee Gees, will play his first full concerts since the death of his younger brother Robin, who died last May of cancer at 62. Gibb, 66, will play five concerts throughout February in Australia, where they lived and first found fame, and one gig in New Zealand on Feb. 23 with Carole King. The brief tour begins Feb. 8 in Sydney.
On Feb. 14, Gibb will attend the unveiling of a statue of The Bee Gees in Redcliffe, Queensland, Australia, where the brothers grew up.
In a recent interview with New Zealand's TV One, Gibb said that his often-contentious relationship with Robin was at a low point prior to his passing. He said he hadn't spoken to Robin for more than a year before flying from his home in Miami to England to be by his bedside in the days before he died.
Of the tour, an excited Gibb said, "It's returning to where we used to play - not music, just as kids. And going back to Australia and seeing the place (Redcliffe) where we first lived when we emigrated there."
On being the last Bee Gee, he said, "Being in the position in life where I suddenly have no brothers is very strange for me because I'm the eldest. All my brothers (Robin and his twin Maurice, who died in 2003 and the youngest, pop star brother Andy, who died in 1988) were younger than me and it shouldn't be that way."
JAGGER SAYS STONES WON'T PLAY COACHELLA Despite several clues by both The Rolling Stones and the organizers of the Coachella music fest in Indio, the band is will not headline the fest on April 12. Mick Jagger told Britain's NME (New Musical Express), "We're not gonna do Coachella, cuz it's too early. There was a rumor we were gonna do that one, but it's very early, Coachella. It's April or something, isn't it? And we're not gonna be ready by April. But we're not gonna stop."
So far, the band has not set any dates this year, yet.
Speculation ran high that they would indeed headline the SoCal fest because the band temporarily listed the place and date on their own mobile app and the fest's Facebook page shows a photo of a large round stone alone in the field where the annual event takes place.
FLEETWOOD MAC & BILLY JOEL TO HEADLINE NEW ORLEANS JAZZ FEST Fleetwood Mac and Billy Joel have both been off the road in recent years, but they will each headline the venerable New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Fest, April 26 - May 5. It's Joel's only scheduled concert this year. The Mac are embarking on their first tour since 2009, a 35-concert jaunt of the U.S. and Canada that includes stops on May 25 at the Hollywood Bowl and May 28 at the Honda Center in Anaheim.
Other veteran acts set to appear in New Orleans include Hall & Oates, Dave Matthews Band, Earth, Wind & Fire, B.B. King, Jimmy Cliff, Willie Nelson, Los Lobos, George Benson, Jeffrey Osborne, Patti Smith, Ben Harper with Charlie Musslewhite, The Mavericks, Maze featuring Frankie Beverly, The Stanley Clarke-George Duke Project, Roy Ayers, The Wayne Shorter Quartet, Taj Mahal, Dianne Reeves, The Eddie Palmieri Salsa Orchestra, The Joshua Redman Quartet, Jerry Douglas, Widespread Panic, The Gypsy Kings and The Del McCoury Band with New Orleans icons The Preservation Hall Jazz Band.
In addition, The Black Keys, John Mayer, Maroon 5, Little Big Town, hot young guitarist Gary Clark, Jr., Andrew Bird, Band of Horses, and New Orleans guys Trombone Shorty, Tab Benoit, zydeco scion Rockin' Dopsie, Jr. and Frank Ocean will play.
The legendary Big Easy performers set for the fest are clarinetist Pete Fountain, Aaron Neville, Dr. John, Allen Toussaint, Irma Thomas, Queen Ida, The Dirty Dozen Brass Band, The Meters with Ziggy Modeliste and guest Page McConnell, roots rockers The Iguanas, Ivan Neville's Dumpstaphunk and Cajun band BeauSoleil with Cajun singer-accordionist Jo-El Sonnier.
In other Fleetwood Mac news, singer Stevie Nicks will pair with hot country act Lady Antebellum in an upcoming episode of CMT's "Crossroads" series that features country acts with veteran rock and pop stars. The airdate hasn't been set. Nicks follows fellow Mac member Lindsay Buckingham, who teamed with Little Big Town on a 2006 episode. Other past teamings were Brooks & Dunn with ZZ Top in 2002, Wynona Judd and Heart in 2004, Taylor Swift and Def Leppard in 2009, and Faith Hill and The Pretenders in 2011.
JUSTIN HAYWARD SOLO ALBUM Justin Hayward, the singing-guitar playing leader of The Moody Blues will release his first solo album in 17 years on Feb. 26, according to a release posted on his website. The 15-track CD, "Spirits in the Western Sky," his first since "The View From the Hill" in 1996, was recorded in two very different locales, Nashville and Genoa, Italy.
Hayward co-wrote a song for the album with his friend Kenny Loggins.
"He and I were both on the road and staying in the same hotel. We had a great day playing guitar together and we came up with 'On the Road To Love.' Kenny plays and sings on the track with me."
The album's orchestrations come courtesy of Oscar-winning composter Anne Dudley ("The Full Monty"), who was a main member of Brit '80 s synth-popsters Art of Noise.
NEW ERIC BURDON ALBUM Eric Burdon, former singer for British Invasion band The Animals, will release his first solo album in seven years on Tuesday. The 12-song "Til Your River Runs Dry," shows that the 71-year-old blues-rock belter's voice that gave distinction to such '60 s classics as "Don't Bring Me Down," "We Gotta Get Out of This Place" and "Sky Pilot" remains unchanged.
The new CD follows a 4-song blues-rock EP he recorded late last year with Cincinnati-based garage band The Greenhornes, some of whom comprised the rhythm section of the Jack White band, The Raconteurs. This activity comes after undergoing back surgery to relieve a problem that bothered him for years.
Burdon, who still tours as Eric Burdon and The Animals, has seven upcoming gigs, including a show on Feb. 2 at the fabled Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake, Iowa, the site of Buddy Holly's, Richie Valen's and The Big Bopper's last performance, and at the Sycuan Casino in El Cajon on April 21.
DAVE GROHL'S SUPERGROUP PLAYS SUNDANCE WITH L.A. COMING Foo Fighter's singer-guitarist Dave Grohl directed the documentary, "Sound City," about the Van Nuys recording studio where his former band, Nirvana, recorded their 30 million-selling grunge classic, "Nevermind" in 1991.
To commemorate the screening of the film at Robert Redford's Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, the 44-year-old assembled an all-star group of singers and musicians, The Sound City Players, who also recorded at Sound City to play a gig at the fest, reports Rolling Stone.
The band consisted of The Foo Fighters, his Nirvana bass-playing bandmate Krist Novoselic and members of Rage Against the Machine, Queen of the Stone Age, Fear leader Lee Ving, Cheap Trick guitarist Rick Nielsen, Slip Knot lead singer Cory Taylor and guests Stevie Nicks, John Fogerty and Rick Springfield.
Highlights of the four-hour bash included Ving and Nielsen running through Cheap Trick's "Surrender," Nicks fronting The Mac's "Landslide," Springfield leading on "I've Done Everything for You" and "Jessie's Girl," Fogerty on "Born on the Bayou," "Bad Moon Rising" and a duet with Grohl on "Fortunate Son."
Sound City's L.A. premiere is set for Jan. 31 at the historic Cinerama Dome on Hollywood Blvd. in Hollywood. Immediately after the screening, Grohl and his entire Sound City Players contingent will perform its second concert a couple of blocks away at the even more famous Hollywood Palladium.
RITCHIE VALENS TRIBUTE SET "A Tribute to Ritchie Valens - The Day The Music Died 54 Years Later" is set for Feb. 2 from 11 a.m. - 4 p.m. at the Santa Fe Springs Swap Meet, a venue with a reputation for presenting concerts in Santa Fe Springs near the Orange County line, according to producer-musician RJ Rodriguez.
Rock and roll pioneer Chan Romero will be a featured performer.
Romero wrote and recorded the first hit version of "Hippy Hippy Shake" in 1959.
Romero's single was a modest hit here, but hit No. 3 in Australia. In the summer of 1963, British Invasion band The Swinging Blue Jeans took the song into the Top 5 in the U.K. and to No. 21 here. The Brit band's fellow Liverpool pals, The Beatles, made it a concert staple with a screaming lead vocal by Paul McCartney. A live Beatles take can be heard on their "Live at the BBC" double album. "Romero's song was also covered by the likes of The Monkees' Davy Jones, The Georgia Satellites and English glam rockers Mud, who saw it reach No. 8 on the U.K. singles chart.
Other performers include former Cannibal and The Headhunters ("Land of 1000 Dances") member Robert Zapata, El Chicano singer Gilbert Stokes, drummer-percussionist Bobby Figueroa, who was a touring member of The Beach Boys from 1973-1988, Mark Guerrero of '60 s East L.A. surf band Mark & The Escorts and a later member of Native American band Redbone ("Come and Get Your Love") and Valen's cousin, singer Ernie Valens.
TOM MORELLO JOINING E STREET BAND Former Rage Against the Machine guitar wizard Tom Morello, who also performs and records as protest song folkie The Nightwatchman, will become a member of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band, at least temporarily.
Morello will fill in for guitarist and actor "Little" Steven Van Zandt when Springsteen and his band tour Australia, playing nine concerts between March 14-31. Van Zandt is the star of the Netflix TV series "Lilyhammer," about a New York City mobster who testifies against a gangster pal so he hides out in the small Norwegian city that hosted the 1994 Winter Olympics and tries to begin a new life. Filming the series' second season will interfere with the tour so Van Zandt is out and Morello is in. However, Springsteen's lifelong sidekick will be back when the Boss and his band tour the U.K. and Europe beginning April 29 in the real Norwegian town of Fornebu.
NEW RELEASES Among the recently released albums, digital reissues and deluxe box sets is the live 2-CD set, "12-12-12 The Concert for Sandy Relief" with, among others, The Who, Paul McCartney, The Rolling Stones, former Pink Floyd leader Roger Waters, Eric Clapton, Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band, Alicia Keys, Bon Jovi, Coldplay's Chris Martin and Billy Joel; a compilation from Joel, "She's Got a Way: Love Songs:" "Transition," from Toto guitarist Steve Lukather; a 2-CD, "At the End of Cole Ave - 1 st Night" from The Velvet Underground; "The Very Best of The Pogues" and a bunch of remastered import Eddie Money CDs.
"Adam Ant Is the Blueblack Hussar in Marrying the Gunner's Daughter," is the first studio album in 17 years from the colorful London New Wave dandy; "La Costa Perdida," the eighth studio album since 1985 from Redlands alt rockers Camper Van Beethoven and its first in eight years; "Honky Tonk Man: Buck Sings Country Classics" from Buck Owens; and two bargain reissues ($4.99 on Amazon) of 12-track "Gold Vaults of Hits" and "2 nd Vault of Golden Hits" from The Four Seasons.
"True North," the 16 th studio album in 31 years from venerable L.A. punks Bad Religion; "My True Story," sees New Orleans icon Aaron Neville covering the songs that helped mold him, including Clyde McPhatter and The Drifter's 1953 hit "Money Honey," and Leiber & Stoller's "Ruby Baby" that was a hit for The Drifters in 1956 and then Dion in 1963, and the 1958 Little Anthony & The Imperials" smash "Tears on My Pillow."
Box sets include a 4-CD package, "Beginnings," from Blackmore's Night, led by former Deep Purple guitarist Ritchie Blackmore and his singing spouse Candace Night.
NOW PLAYING Classic acts from the '50 s, '60 s and '70 s continue to perform. Here's what one of them is doing.
William "Smokey" Robinson is one of the most important singer-songwriter-producers in the history of pop music. As the frontman of The Miracles (and later Smokey Robinson and The Miracles) with the falsetto and the heavy vibrato he recorded dozens of pop and R&B hits beginning with "Shop Around" in 1960 and continuing with classics like "The Tracks of My Tears," "Going to a Go-Go," "Ooh Baby Baby," "I Second That Emotion" and "The Tears of a Clown," but he was chief songwriter and producer of the songs as well.
He also wrote or co-wrote other Motown standards, including Mary Wells' "My Guy," The Temptations' "My Girl" and "Get Ready," The Marvelettes' "Don't Mess With Bill," Marvin Gaye's "Ain't That Peculiar" and "I'll Be Doggone," The Four Tops' "Still Water" and The Contours' "First I Look at the Purse."
After leaving The Miracles in 1972, he scored big with hits like "Being with You" in 1981 and "Just to See Her" in 1987. His most recent album, "Time Flies When You're Having Fun," made it to No. 10 on the R&B chart in 2009.
At age 72, Robinson is still going strong. He and Stevie Wonder headlined both of President Obama's official Inauguration Balls and he also performed at the Martin Luther King celebration at the Kennedy Center. He's got 19 concerts on his docket through 2013 so far, including May 25 at Buffalo Bill's Hotel and Casino in Jean, Nev. near the California state line and on Nov. 9 at the Eastside Cannery in Las Vegas.
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TLC planning new songs, remix and tour to coincide with VH1 biopic
(Yahoo!) - TLC member T-Boz said the group planned to capitalize on the forthcoming VH1 documentary,Crazy, Sexy, Cool: The TLC Story, by releasing new music and embarking on a tour.
VH1 announced Tuesday that Joyful Noise actress and singer KeKe Palmer has been cast to portray TLC member Rozanda "Chilli" Thomas. Rapper and "America's Best Dance Crew" judge Lil Mama and Step Up actress Drew Sidora were previously reported to play late group member Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes and T-Boz, respectively.
"In association with that, [we're] doing a 20th year anniversary package which will entail remixing some of the old hits, adding two new songs, going on tour," T-Boz told Yahoo! Music in January. "So it will be a soundtrack to the movie and also an album."
Palmer said she is excited to take on the role. "I am a true fan," she said in a statement. "I love these ladies, and I always want to be proud of my work in any role that I do."
Palmer recalled singing the group's music when she was 6-years-old. "I would sing 'No Scrubs' over and over again to the point my parents would have to tell me to stop, but I never did. I had my little hairbrush as my mic and nobody could tell me I wasn't the fourth member of TLC."
Sidora has taken on a blonde, short-cropped hairstyle in anticipation of the acting gig. "Rockin my new look!!! Lol!!!" she wrote Sunday when posting a picture on Twitter.
Jeff Olde, VH1's executive vice president, original programming and production, said the network was looking forward to telling the "never before told stories of these groundbreaking women."
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Celebrate Chinese New Year at the Mandarin in Bountiful. The 2013 event, which will ring in the year of the snake, kicks off Monday, Feb. 11, and continues through Saturday, Feb. 23.
In addition to the regular menu, the Bountiful restaurant is offering a special menu for parties for four or more for $20 per person. It includes crab cream cheese wonton, mini egg roll, choice of soup, Hunan beef, satay pork noodle, honey walnut chicken, coconut Thai shrimp, rice and a trio of homemade ice creams in passion fruit, lychee and Saigon cinnamon flavors.
Specialty cocktails, wine, Asian beers, ginger brew and china cola are also available for an additional cost.
The traditional lion's dance to ward off evil spirits will be performed on Tuesday, Feb. 12 and Wednesday, Feb. 20 at 6 p.m.
Reservations accepted for parties of 8 or more people. Smaller groups may call ahead and have their name placed on the waiting list. The Mandarin is located at 348 E. 900 North. Call 801-298-2406 for more information.