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Lucha Vavoom to Play The Mayan Theater in LA, 2/13
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Photo Gallery: Riesco & Lapres Interiors
Contemporary rooms from the Vancouver firm.
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This sleek kitchen boasts teak cabinetry, limestone floors, Silestone counters and a gorgeous marble-topped dining table. No upper cabinets makes for a clean, modern look, while windows maximize views.
Textures and patterns combine for an eclectic look.
A large New York City painting — picked up at a charity auction by the homeowner — dominates this area of the family room. Vancouver interior designers Riesco & Lapres loved the action and colours in the piece, and used it as a starting point to evoke a sophisticated, world-traveler vibe. The faux zebra skin rug, Moroccan leather pouf and graffiti cushion fabric tie the look together.
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Nucleoside Switch Pilot for Virologically Controlled HIV Subjects With Decreasing CD4 Cells Who Have Received TDF-based ARV Therapy (EPZSwitch)
This study has been completed.
Therapeutic Concepts
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First received: May 25, 2012
Last updated: April 27, 2017
Last verified: May 2012
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The purpose of this study is to assess the safety, tolerability, and antivira activity of Epzicom in virologically controlled HIV subjects.
|HiV1- Positive
|Drug: Abacavir/Lamivudine
|Phase 4
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment
Masking: None (Open Label)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|Nucleoside Switch Pilot for Virologically Controlled HIV Subjects With Decreasing CD4 Cells Who Have Received TDF-based ARV Therapy
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MedlinePlus related topics: HIV/AIDS
Drug Information available for: Lamivudine AbacavirU.S. FDA Resources
Further study details as provided by Therapeutic Concepts:
Primary Outcome Measures:
- Efficacy. [ Time Frame: 1 years ]Proportion of patients with CD4 changes from baseline at week 24 and 48. Proportion of patients with plasma HIV-1 RNA <75 copies/mL at week 24 and 48
Secondary Outcome Measures:
- Safety [ Time Frame: 1 year ]Adverse events and treatment limiting toxicities at all time points.
|Estimated Enrollment:
|Study Start Date:
|November 2010
|Study Completion Date:
|October 2012
|Primary Completion Date:
|October 2012 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
|ABC/3TC (Epzicom), NRTI
Drug: Abacavir/Lamivudine
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Other Name: ABC/3TC
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Utilizing the ABC/3TC FDC tablets as the NRTI backbone, this open label study will compare the safety and efficacy of ABC/3TC when used as replacement for subjects with suboptimal CD4- cells count who are receiving TDF/FTC. TYhis study will be conducted for 48 weeks in HIV infected, HLA*B5701 begative subjects who were initially suppressed on a HAART regiment that includes TDF/FTC QD.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years to 75 Years (Adult, Senior)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- HIV-1 RNA ≤ 50 copies/mL by HIV-1 Ultrasensitive RNA, Quantitative.
- Treatment experienced subjects on virologically stable HAART regimen containing tenofovir-emtricitabine or tenofovir-lamivudine.
Subject with CD4 cells that do not increase by 15% and/or that decrease by 15% over previous 12 months period.
-≥ 18 years of age
- Cognitive ability to understand and provide written informed consent and willingness to participate in and comply with the study protocol
- Less than 7 days of prior ART with any licensed or investigational compound
- Patient does not currently have or has not been treated for an active opportunistic infection (OI) consistent with CDC definition (Appendix C) within 30 days of screening
- Vital signs, physical examination and laboratory results do not exhibit evidence of acute illness
- A female is eligible to enter and participate in this study if she is of:
- Non-childbearing potential (i.e., physiologically incapable of becoming pregnant, including any female who is post-menopausal) or
- Child-bearing potential, has a negative serum pregnancy test at screen, and agrees to one of the following:
- Complete abstinence from intercourse from 2 weeks prior to administration of the study drug, throughout the study, and for at least 2 weeks after completion or premature discontinuation from the study to account for elimination of the investigational drug. Should a patient decide to become sexually active during the course of the study, she must be counseled and be willing to use one of the birth control methods listed below:
- Double barrier method (male condom/spermicide, male condom/diaphragm, diaphragm/spermicide)
- Any intrauterine device (IUD) with published data showing that the expected failure rate is <1% per year (not all IUDs meet this criterion)
- Sterilization (female patient or male partner of female patient)
- Any other methods with published data showing that the lowest expected failure rate for that method is <1% per year.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Patient with active AIDS-defining opportunistic infection or disease according to the 1993 CDC AIDS surveillance definition (Clinical Category C) in the 30 days prior to baseline and that, in the opinion of the investigator, would preclude the patient from participating in the study (See Appendix C).
- Patient who are HLA B5701 Positive
- Patient who are determined to have ≥2 thymidine analog mutations to RT
- History of active substance abuse, excluding cannabis, or psychiatric illness that, in the opinion of the investigator, would preclude compliance with protocol, dosing schedule and assessments.
- Patient is either pregnant at time of screening evaluation or breast-feeding.
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Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01608269
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01608269
|United States, Texas
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|Houston, Texas, United States, 77004
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ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on September 25, 2017
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|NCT01608269 History of Changes
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|Study First Received:
|May 25, 2012
|Last Updated:
|April 27, 2017
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitors
Nucleic Acid Synthesis Inhibitors
Enzyme Inhibitors
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
Anti-Retroviral Agents
Antiviral Agents
Anti-Infective Agents
Anti-HIV Agents
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In two weeks time SVG Open 2011 starts in Cambridge MA, USA. This conference is an annual event for developers and users of SVG authoring tools, GIS and CAD specialist etc. The event is taking place on October 17 to 20.
There will be two Inkscape developers to give three talks at the conference. Tavmjong Bah will provide an update on what's happening in Inkscape lately and will talk at length about gradient meshes which is a work in progress. Jasper van de Gronde will talk about a different approach to advanced gradients and how those could be achieved within SVG; among other things this presentation will cover diffusion curves.


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I see Final Fantasy 7, but I don't see 6 (3 in the US) or 4 (2 in the US). This is not satisfactory. They put up Final Fantasy Tactics over FF3? Yeah, who made this list? Obviously not someone who plays video games. They also put up King's Quest (great game and series) but none of the Space Quest games which to me were just as entertaining if not more so.
As for the Solitaire debate, I'm thinking since people who don't even play video games still play Solitaire it's probably fairly popular. Before they had Solitaire on the computer I used to play with actual cards. Reshuffling and dealing took forever. Now you can just sit at the computer and play 2 games in the time it takes to shuffle and deal one game manually.


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Qualcomm and other Samsung clients could get a boost from novel power-saving gate design
At the Intel Develop Forum, the world's largest maker of traditional PC central processing units and server chips, Intel Corp. (
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On Friday, Samsung Electronics Comp., Ltd. (
that it had successfully taped out a 14 nm FinFET transistor chip. For those who don't avidly follow the CPU design industry, most traditional transistors are flat multi-layer designs (think a sandwich). By contrast the FinFET uses a tall wall-like gate, which towers over the nanoscopic surface like a fin. The novel 3D design allows leakage to be significantly reduced -- a key source of loss in reliability and power at sub 40-nm designs.
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Samsung worked with a chip-optimizing firm called Synopsys to perfect the difficult process of producing the delicate FinFETs at such a small node.
A MOSFET FinFET [Image Source: Brews Ohare/Wikipedia]
Samsung LSI vice president Dr. Kyu-Myung Choi cheers, "FinFET transistors can deliver lower power consumption and higher device performance, but they also bring tough challenge. We chose Synopsys as our FinFET collaboration partner to solve these challenges, because of our successful history together at 20 nanometer and other nodes. We continue to pool our expertise to deliver innovative FinFET solutions."
Synopsys's expertise helped Samsung characterize the prototype chips and to remove so-called "parasitic" impurities.
The chipmaking duo did not announce a time frame for commercial rollout. But when Samsung does achieve commercial mass-production of 14 nm FinFETs, one interested party will surely be Qualcomm, Inc. (
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PURTON woman Lisa Hall, who is currently having treatment for breast cancer and her grandmother, who survived the disease, are part of four generations from one family gearing up to give cancer the boot at this year's Race for Life.
Lisa, 41, and Eileen Barwood, 85, from Toothill, will be joined by Lisa's mum, Helen Richards, 60, her sister, Katherine Hendry, 35, and ten-year-old niece Freya Hendry, all from Swindon.
Lisa has just finished her sixth and final course of chemotherapy and is due to go through surgery the day after she takes part in Race for Life.
The family hope other women will join them for the 5k or 10k events which take place in Lydiard Park, over the weekend of May 31 to June 1.
They have written a defiant slogan to cancer on trainers to show they mean business.
'Beat It Cancer!', emblazed on the soles, captures the fighting spirit of this year's campaign.
Mum-of-one Lisa was diagnosed with breast cancer in November last year and is part way through her treatment.
Lisa, the dispensing optician and manager of Haine and Smith's Bassett practice, said: "It was a terrible shock when I was diagnosed with breast cancer. I just couldn't believe it was happening to me.
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Lisa added: "The treatment is tough and frightening. Losing my hair has also been hard but I am getting through it".
Lisa, who has an 18-year-old son, Kieran, with her husband Neil, 47, has been encouraged that her grandmother has successfully battled breast cancer.
"Four generations of my family – aged 10 to 85 - are going to complete Race for Life even if we have to do it in wheelchairs.
"I am not doing it for myself, but for a dear friend's dad who also had cancer."
Lisa, who will be supported at Race for Life by some work colleagues, said: "I want something positive to come out of a really nasty experience.
"I recently finished my final chemotherapy treatment and my surgery was scheduled to take place the day after Race For Life as my doctors knew I wanted to do it. Exercise is really good therapy for the operation.
"We've written the message to cancer on trainers to symbolise the fact that every step we take – together with the steps being taken by tens of thousands of women at Race for Life events across the UK – will help bring forward the day when all cancers are cured.
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Get an overview of this hotelHistoric setting on central Chang'an Avenue
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Built in the early 1900s, Beijing Hotel NUO Wangfujing is a distinctive blend of Oriental and French influences. This property hosts many significant political and cultural events.
Complimentary wireless Internet
This property has 171 guestrooms and suites appointed with intricate Oriental accents and French elegance. Rooms provide complimentary WiFi, bathrobes, and slippers.
Guest Highlights
- Spotless guestrooms
- Good location
- Helpful staff
- Guestroom size
- Overall room comfort
Beijing Hotel NUO Wangfujing
Hotel Amenities
Hotel Amenities
Conveniently located in the Wangfujing shopping district, the Beijing Hotel NUO Wangfujing is just a 2-minute stroll to Wangfujing subway station and 1.5 km to Beijing railway station.
The hotel offers a variety of fine restaurant dining, as well as a library/drawing room with books, chess table, and flat-screen TV. Exclusively for hotel guests, fitness fans can make use of the indoor swimming pool and gym. Beijing Hotel NUO Wangfujing boasts a fine collection of contemporary art, showcasing foreign and domestic artists' work.
Business center: Located behind the front office and open 7 AM till 11 PM.
Internet access: Wireless and high-speed Internet access are complimentary for all guests.
Conference/function room(s): Le Salon Raffles in the hotel's main building is 140 square meters (1,506 square feet) with an adjacent pre-function area of 94 square meters (1,011 square feet). It can hold up to 100 guests in theatre style, 42 in classroom style, or 60 for banquets. The basement of the heritage building has a further five meeting rooms ranging in size from 480 square meters (5,165 square feet) to 96 square meters (1,033 square feet), and catering theatre-style groups of 64 to 380 participants.
Valet parking / self parking:
Complimentary in a secure, open-air courtyard directly in front of the hotel.
Beijing Hotel NUO Wangfujing is non-smoking.
- 24-hour front desk
- Airport transportation (surcharge)
- Total number of rooms - 171
- Number of floors - 7
- Year Built 1917
- Bar/lounge
- Business center
- Coffee shop or café
- Free newspapers in lobby
- Conference space
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Elevator/lift
- Express check-in
- Express check-out
- Fireplace in lobby
- Fitness facilities
- Gift shops or newsstand
- Grocery/convenience store
- Tours/ticket assistance
- Library
- Limo or Town Car service available
- Meeting rooms
- Multilingual staff
- Porter/bellhop
- Luggage storage
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Conference center
- Smoke-free property
- Indoor pool
- Breakfast available (surcharge)
- Television in common areas
- Wedding services
- Free WiFi
- Number of restaurants - 2
Family Friendly Amenities
- Family Hotel
- Indoor pool
- Separate living room
- Free Wi-Fi
- Soundproofed rooms
- Grocery/convenience store
- Refrigerator
- Cribs/infant beds (complimentary)
- DVD player
Available in all rooms: Free WiFi , Free wired Internet
Available in some public areas: Free WiFi
Room Amenities
- Premium TV channels
- DVD player
- Premium bedding
- Soundproofed rooms
- Air conditioning
- In-room climate control (air conditioning)
- Refrigerator
- Minibar
- Coffee/tea maker
- Free bottled water
- Daily housekeeping
- Turndown service
- Private bathroom
- Bathrobes
- Free toiletries
- Hair dryer
- Bidet
- Slippers
- Separate bathtub and shower
- Rainfall showerhead
- In-room safe (laptop compatible)
- Iron/ironing board
- Desk
- Cable TV service
- Separate living room
- Room service (24 hours)
- Free cribs/infant beds
- Down comforter
- Individually furnished
- Individually decorated
- Sleep Number by Select Comfort mattress
- Rollaway/extra beds (surcharge)
- Free WiFi
- Free wired Internet
Where to Eat
East 33 - All-day dining in a relaxed, contemporary environment. Seafood buffet every Friday and Saturday.
Jaan - Beijing Hotel NUO Wangfujing's signature restaurant serving light and innovative French cuisine paired with fine selections of wines.
Writer's Bar - Offers a wide range of cocktails wines and spirits. Serves daily afternoon tea and cocktail happy hours.
Hotel Policies
Check-in time starts at 2 PM
Special check-in instructions:
Check-out time is noon
Children and extra beds
- Children are welcome.
- Rollaway/extra beds are available for CNY 466.00 per night.
- Free cribs (infant beds)!
- Pets not allowed
You need to know
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy.
Optional extras
- Fee for buffet breakfast: CNY 196 per person (approximately)
- Airport shuttle fee: CNY 700 per vehicle (one-way)
- Self parking fee: CNY 60 per day
- Rollaway bed fee: CNY 466.00 per night
Hotel Name
- Beijing Hotel Raffles
- Beijing Raffles
- Beijing Raffles Hotel
- Hotel Raffles Beijing
- Raffles Beijing
- Beijing Hotel NUO Formerly Raffles Beijing Hotel
- Raffles Hotel Beijing
- Hotel NUO Formerly Raffles Hotel
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- NUO Formerly Raffles
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Hypophosphatemia is a low level of phosphorus in the blood.
Low blood phosphate; Phosphate - low
The following may cause hypophosphatemia:
Symptoms may include:
Your health care provider will examine you.
The following tests may be done:
Exam and testing may show:
Treatment depends on the cause. Phosphate can be given by mouth or through a vein (IV).
How well you do depends on what has caused the condition.
Call your health care provider if you have muscle weakness or confusion.
Yu ASL. Disorders of magnesium and phosphorous. In: Goldman L, Schafer AI, eds. Goldman's Cecil Medicine. 24th ed. Philadelphia, PA: Elsevier Saunders; 2011:chap 121.
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Andre Watson: "Try a Trial"
Andre Watson believes in clinical trials, to help himself and to help others also living with lupus. To date, he has participated in five studies and would not hesitate to consider taking part in others in the future.
One trial Andre participated in looked at the effectiveness of CellCept® (mycophenolate mofetil) to treat lupus nephritis. CellCept is a prescription medication approved to help prevent the body's immune system from rejecting a transplant organ such as a kidney as a foreign substance. While CellCept is not approved for use in lupus patients, some physicians prescribe it to help control the immune system. For instance, Andre continued treatment with CellCept, and his nephritis is currently in remission.
In another trial he came up with an important finding on his own! The study tested the effectiveness of a rheumatoid arthritis treatment, rituximab, for treating lupus. Andre commented, "I never learned if I was taking rituximab or a placebo, but I do know I was feeling better. However, I also learned that it's okay to start a trial and then decide to stop."
Andre finds participating in a research study also helps his morale. "I feel like I'm doing something to make myself feel better and to help someone else feel better. It is worth spending time doing something positive than spending time feeling hopeless."
His strongest motivation to participate is to help others. "Even if a particular trial does not help me directly, my being in it could help someone else. The more people that get involved in lupus research, the more we get done."


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Dragons looking for a fast start
5:41pm Wednesday 11th July 2012
By Chris Kirwan
5:41pm Wednesday 11th July 2012
By Chris Kirwan
NEWPORT Gwent Dragons will be targeting a fast start to the RaboDirect Pro12 campaign after being handed a first game at home against new Italian franchise Zebre.
Last season the region played catch-up from the off after playing away from Rodney Parade in six of their first eight fixtures because of the construction of the Bisley Stand. They suffered defeat on all of those trips but in the upcoming campaign they have been handed a golden chance to start off on the right foot.
Not only do they host Zebre, who have taken the place of the now defunct Aironi, but they welcome Cardiff Blues and Edinburgh – both of whom they beat last term – to Rodney Parade in September.
With trips to Heineken Cup holders Leinster and fellow Irish big-hitters Munster sandwiched between those home encounters, the pressure will be on to produce the goods in front of the Dragons home faithful.
"If we do our job properly and win our home games then we will be in the mix from the off," said head coach Darren Edwards.
"But nothing is easy in this league and in some ways Zebre is an uncomfortable game because we are going up against the unknown.
"There is a nice balance to the fixtures as opposed to last season when we were forced to play three away games in Ireland (Leinster, Munster and Connacht) in the first month.
"And playing a derby against Cardiff Blues gives us the chance to set the tone early on.
"Players will be going up against their Welsh rivals and we have always been told that the international management team keeps a close eye on those derby games.
"There are two really tough challenges with trips to the European champions and Munster but we should be served well by our pre-season.
"We will be going from an away friendly at Biarritz to a home one against London Irish. Not only are they both top quality sides but those games will prepare us for the travel aspect."
The Ospreys will begin the defence of their title with a trip to Italy to face Treviso, the Scarlets start at home to Leinster and Cardiff Blues travel to Connacht.
The Dragons travel to the Ospreys and Cardiff Blues over the festive period while their trip west to Parc y Scarlets is in October with the return fixture in March.
Their first game of 2013 is against Connacht in Galway while the final round of games sees them head to the Scottish capital to take on Edinburgh. The exact dates for the fixtures will be confirmed once league officials meet with their broadcast partners.
Dragons' Pro 12 fixtures
Weekend of 31-2: Dragons v Zebra
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Weekend of 5-7: Scarlets v DRAGONS; Weekend of 26-28: DRAGONS v Ulster
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Weekend of 8-10 DRAGONS v Benetton Treviso; Weekend of 15-17: DRAGONS v Glasgow; Weekend of 22-24: Zebre v DRAGONS
Weekend of 1-3: DRAGONS v Leinster; Weekend of 22-24: Ospreys v DRAGONS; Weekend of 29-31: DRAGONS v Scarlets
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Weekend of 3-5: Edinburgh v DRAGONS
Weekend of 10-12: PLAYOFFS
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I thoroughly enjoy Berenice Quirino's editorial columns. What a positive addition to the Record-Bee staff she is.
I couldn't agree more with Berenice's recent summation that the California Lottery has become a state revenue mechanism taking full advantage of the distant dreams of the workers and the poor.
In memory when Californians voted for the state lottery it was touted as the financial answer for the schools. What happened?
It appears that the fiscal cliff is much more than just a political synonym. The fiscal cliff is a point where a debtor can no longer overcome the interest on department in order to pay down the principle.
At this country's inception the people formed a government and later entrusted that government with our hard-earned tax dollars.
Today I sit back and wonder at what point we the people gave this government the express authority to bankrupt us.
Typically when a debtor can no longer pay the department, the creditor can repossess the debtor's belongings. Will we become the United States of China?
Any head of household who functions as our governments have will end up bankrupt, in jail or both. Yet they are instead rewarded with re-election. Is this public service or self-service?
The Tea Party of old was taught in our history books as a positive historical moment in time. The Tea Party conservatives of today are demonized. What happened?
As just one example I recently received my Dear John letters from CAL FIRE and the state board of equalization denying my appeal to the new state fire fee even though our property sits less than two blocks from a fully-attended, taxpayer-funded county fire station.
CAL FIRE and the county fire station are both funded with taxpayer dollars after income taxes. This clearly amounts to triple-taxation.
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My analysis of the the Pacers overall team defensive scheme continues today with a discussion of the details and nuances of proper "help side defense". We've already had great discussions on the first three in this series, which were "defending the point of attack", "defending the wing" and "defending the low post".
There is a huge amount of detail work that goes into playing proper man to man defense on the weakside, away from the ball. Because of the particular rules implemented by the NBA, a professional coach has even more to worry about that his counterparts at other levels, because an NBA coach has to deal with the innane rule that is "defensive 3 seconds".
Among the many things to talk about concerning help side defense I will try and analyze today are:
1. The proper positioning of your helpers along the imaginary "help line" in the middle of the floor.
2. Getting proper help "depth"
3. The fundamentals for communication and recognition defensively in a help position.
4. The ability to recover from a help position to "close out" properly on shooters on the perimeter as the ball moves.
5. Defending "flash cuts" made in front of a help side defender.
All these things will not only tie in together, but will also be affected by the decisions made in the overall team scheme about how to play the myriad of situations that occur in a game, so keep that in mind as we go along. With that said, lets tackle these 4 important points, and the particulars that go along with all of them.
At all levels of basketball, players should be taught that there is an imaginary line thru the middle of the floor, running from basket to basket. Some coaches may refer to this line as the "meridian line", most coaches I know would call it the "help line". Try and picture this in your own mind as we go along.
Where coaches properly believe a help side defender should be in relation to his own man and to the ball has evolved some over the years, and it is still a topic that breeds some disagreement on how it is properly taught.
Some coaches teach their away from the ball side defenders to be directly ON THE HELP LINE. It is most commonly taught this way these days at the high school level.
Other, more old fashioned coaches make this a bit more complicated and complex. In the Coach Knight system of defense, (which many of you may have learned thru your own high school coaches), there was a difference in where you were supposed to be based upon where the ball was located, and how far away your own man was from the ball. Depending on those factors, you may be asked to be "one step BALL SIDE", or "one step MAN SIDE". The overiding theme was that "the closer your man was to the ball, the closer you should be to your man."
This philosophy I do think was correct in the 70's and early 80's at levels below the NBA. But, the three point shot changed all of that, as did the improved athleticism and skill level of players today. Now, I believe that teams who sag that much at levels below the NBA often get burned by spot up shooters and skip passes too ften to win consistently at this day and age. In fact, I think it was the unwillingness to change from the "one step ball side" help philosophy that caused Coach Knight's success to wane as his career got longer from a defensive standpoint.
NBA coaches have a further wrinkle to navigate, which is in my view the dumbest rule in sports : "Defensive three seconds". This simply means that your defenders below the foul line by rule CANNOT be on their true proper position along the help line.....they instead by rule have to be either exaggerated TOWARD THE BALL, or exaggerated AWAY FROM THE BALL (on the other side of the lane from the ball handler).
Since the can't be INSIDE THE LANE more than 3 seconds at a time, this makes footwork imperative for a helper, as he needs to be able to slide his feet back and forth in and out of the lane area. Most NBA teams have their players slide from the middle of the lane back to the weakside and back again, or in extreme cases just have their helper immediately double the ballhandler in order to take the ball out of his hands.
The Pacers though have chosen to have their players OVERHELP, to the STRONG SIDE, nearer to the ball. The theory behind doing it this way instead is that by showing such a strong tendency to help and such a strong help presence, that the ballhandler won't try and drive at all. If he indeed were an NBA coach, this is probably a tactic that followers of Coach Knight would go with.
This might work if players at the NBA level werent just so damn good and athletic and proficient at making jump shots. What is killing us I think is that we help too much too early, and we are completely vulnerable to quick ball reversals and weakside screen action. The ball changes sides against us, and we cannot recover well enough to contest shots. Teams kill us from the perimeter, particularly those with outside shooting big men.
So, in this little scenario defensively we've got some team defensive scheme major issues, in my opinion. Add that to poor athleticism, and you've got major defensive problems. It is hard to tell what is the biggest error here though...is it the lack of wing defenders that caused the staff to create this overhelping game plan? Or is it the slowness of our bigs athletically that caused the staff to believe they needed to be closer to the ball to ever be able to help to start with?
Now, keep in mind from the "wing defense" thread that the Pacers are also trying to force a ballhandler to drive baseline, instead of funneling them toward the middle of the floor. This means that our helpers are being forced to not only moved further LATERALLY that most teams, but also LOWER ON THE FLOOR than most, meaning our helpers are asked to cover more ground than most systems. This is only a couple of feet further over, and a couple of feet further down, but that extra distance is a problem if you are a slower player anyway to begin with.....it can be the difference between a contested jump shot or a wide open one as the ball is moved from side to side against us.
The Pacers bigs especially are forced to cheat some here, often "sinking" further down near the rim than they should in order to be where the coaches want them to be against a wing player driving toward the low block. In other words, the Pacers help DEPTH is probably a bigger problem than how far OVER they are being asked to be.
Let me explain my theory on defensive depth.
Most coaches teach players to be in a help position, along the help line, IN A STRAIGHT LINE (I call this the sight line) WITH THEIR OWN MAN AND THE BALL. In fact, many coaches (including myself) want their help defenders to use "pointers" to identify the ball and their man. In other words, I want my helpers to be pointing a finger at both the ball and their own man while in a defensive stance position, kind of like "six shooters" in the old wild west. I still believe in the pointers, and believe it is a great communicative tool for your teammates to be sure you know where the ball and your man both are.
BUT THERE HAS BEEN AN EVOLUTION IN MY OPINION ON DEPTH OF HELP, AND I TOTALLY HAVE BOUGHT IN PERSONALLY. This may seem like a small and minute point, and maybe among anybody but basketball purists and junkies, it is....but that is what I am and that's what many of you are, so let me explain what I now believe: I now teach my helpers to be ONE STEP ABOVE THE "SIGHT LINE" , instead of right along side it. Why you ask?
Doing it this way enables you to not have to do what is called "helping upward" which is to come from a low position on the floor to a higher one up the lane. This almost always leads to a drive/dish/dunk scenario, so we want to avoid helping upward at all costs. By already BEING UP, we make that happen, instead forcing the ballhandler to have to pull up earlier for a much harder pull up jumper attempt, or to be able to sink back down to defend our own man if need be.. Being in this "ONE STEP ABOVE THE SIGHT LINE" position also helps us defend against the "flash cut", which I will discuss further down the page.
To summarize this exact "depth" discussion, the Pacers in my judgment fall way too deep near the rim, forcing them to have to cover way too much ground. Our Pacers sink deeper than most teams due to the fact that our wings channel drivers that way, which is in my opinion the exact wrong thing to be doing. Our system isn't covering up weaknesses defensively, it is in fact creating new ones!
My solution is as radical in some ways as Jim O'Briens extra sinking though. Helping above the "sight line" is a fairly new idea in the evolution of basketball, and it is designed to be aggressive, proactive, and to help prevent flash cuts and ball reversals. The leading practioners that I know of doing this at the college level are coaches Chris Lowery of Southern Illinois, and Matt Painter of Purdue. In fact, it was a Purdue staffer a few years ago who introduced me to this defensive concept. By the way, Purdue leads the nation in defensive field goal pct. defense.
Ahhh...one of my favorite topics, and fundamentals to teach and explain!
You know, the ability to communicate defensively with your teammates is as much a skill as being able to move your feet, or block shots, or jump. It is in the area of communication that the foundation of a team defense is built.
You cannot tell on television, or even in the arena unless you are very closeby, how much true communication really goes on between teammates during games. I do know that talking defensively is a skill that must be constantly taught in every drill you do from training camp on, even if it isnt a particular defensive drill. One of the fascinating things about coaching kids I think is that while teachers have to constantly tell kids to be quiet all day during school, that when you want them to talk, they often won't!
I did believe that I detected thru last years draft threads of watching film of Georgetown that in my opinion Roy Hibbert was an excellent communicator along the backside of their defense. In fact, I thought it was one of Hibbert's big strengths. I hope and believe that in time he will be excellent at doing this at the professional level, once he gains more familiarity with what is occuring around him. I also believe that the Pacers ask their bigs to move too much, whch hinders the ability of a defensive "captain" from the interior being able to talk during a possession.
I mentioned previously the fundamental of "pointers" while in help side position. That is a great fundamental and teaching tool that I rarely see at the professional level, but I wish it were more prevalent. If I were on the Pacers staff, I would demand our players do that in order to help eliminate confusion on our rotations. While it may be limited in effectiveness, ever little improvement would help.
All great defensive teams communicate greatly, and it is something our Pacers have to be able to do better than I think they are doing now. Constant defensive chatter shows alertness, awareness, energy, intelligence, and desire, and it something that can show in the personality of your team. It is in an area of the floor that you really need leadership from your wings and your bigs, as your point guard often has his back to his teammates defensively.
For those of you who believe that a player such as Mike Dunleavy is a great "team defender" (which is often said on here), look for solid evidence in the next few games to see if you think you are right. I especially recommend you watch how poor he is (in my opinion) of communicating when he is being screened, or when he is in help position. My impression is that I think you will find that he is one of the quietest players in the league in this regard. Granted, I haven't focused in on Dunleavy as an individual yet this season from a defensive perspective, but see if I am right in thinking he has this one big particular weakness of being too quiet and uncommunicative defensively.
This is another skill the Pacers struggle at, and it is going to be hard to solve because there are multiple reasons why: They rotate too far in help situations meaning they have additional ground to cover, they mostly lack athleticism, and they lack an awareness of who is supposed to rotate to whom in our complex system. All these problems just exascerbate themselves in a combination.
Teams can practice the athleticism part and awareness part. One on one or two on two closeout is a pretty common drill or group of drills taught at all levels of the game. One thing still evolving at the NBA level I think is to try and determine how far to try and "closeout" on someone....in other words, do you try to close out under control, at the expense of major giving up a jump shot attempt to prevent a shot fake and drive, or do you just fly at a player in order to make him at least dribble the ball, even though you'll be leaving him wide open after a shot fake?
The Pacers have a player in Troy Murphy that teams routinely just fly at, because they think if they can make him move off his 3 point shot he may get out of rhythm and miss.
One of the hardest things to do athletically in basketball is the abilty to close out "short and low", stop in front of a shooter in the initial stage of rising up for a jump shot, and THEN BEING ABLE TO RISE UP WITH HIM TO CONTEST THE SHOT. With effort, some players can elevate after closing out, but it takes them just a second to gather themselves to leap, meaning that they don't really bother the shot. This is such a gigantically effective talent to have that I love scouting for it and trying to develop it.
Derrick McKey had it along with great anticipation and length, which is why he was so awesome as an individual defender. I need some further study, but I believe that the single best player in basketball right now in doing this consistently is Trevor Ariza of the Lakers, which is why I want us to sign him this summer. Danny Granger can do it to but not if he has had to move too much distance....but in the lane area after his man just takes one or maybe two dribbles, he can retain his balance and lift quickly with an arm up too.
It takes alot of balance and strength in the balls of your feet to be able to do that, and it is a great skill to have as a defender. Most players close out and are left on the ground as the shooter rises over them uncontested, or fly at them so out of control that they can't even stop.
This may drive me more nuts watching a Pacers game than anything else.
Our inability to defend a flash cut is part scheme, part lack of talent, part lack of communication, part lack of effort.
Scheme wise, I have already established our helpers are slightly too low on the floor, sunk in toward the rim too far by about two steps, where I have said we should be one step exaggerated the other direction.
Sinking this far is to supposedly help stop penetration off the dribble, but what it mostly does is let is get penetrated even worse, via the pass to the lane or high post!
More than anything, this is how teams can kill us. Move the ball to a side, cause our defense to overreact and overshift, flash a guy high or mid post and feed him the ball, and let him either score (Amare Stodamire, Dwight Howard, and others) or reverse the ball to open shooters on the opposite side. This is how well organized teams like Orlando, San Antonio, Denver, or Utah make us look silly.
In defensive basketball, a penetrating pass is about the most damaging thing that can happen to you in the halfcourt. In my view, you have to do almost anything you can to prevent it from happening. I'm sure Jim O'Brien feels that way too, but his own beliefs are causing him trouble here, and I don't think he has emphasized stopping it enough.
In basketball, there is a drill common to most of you called "4 on 4 shell drill" where you work on help side defense and shifting. Allowing a high post flash cut to be successful is an absolute no-no in this drill, and in how most coaches put together their team defense.
The lack of talent comes in here, due to our lack of athelticism in being able to quickly move in short slides into a denial position. I believe Roy Hibbert COULD defend the flash cut if he was in the proper position, and I know for a fact that Jeff Foster can.....but Rasho Nesterovic and Troy Murphy have no chance no matter where you put them, especially if they are out of position anyway.
In fact, Ill go ahead and tell you that this is Troy Murphy's single biggest defensive weakness among many. He may be the worst in the league at defending and denying a pass to a flashing player right in front of him. As he is often out of position anyway in the JOB scheme, he actually ends up accidentally in the RIGHT position to be able to defend this cut. Yet still he just passively stands there, his man catches it in front of him, and usually drives right past him to score or dish to a wide open scorer. Our bigs try to defend their men too often only after they have caught the ball on them, but they need to try to prevent their man from getting the ball in the first place in this high post area! I can't tell you how many times a game I scream at Murphy sometimes for letting flashers go in front of him.
What SHOULD happen with a good team is this: the offense starts to send a "flasher", so our backline defenders starts yelling this out so his teammates are aware. The player responsible for the "flasher" should then deny him hard on the low side, physically meeting him inside the lane area, slowing him down and playing tough and physical, slowing the timing of the cut if nothing else. The coach then applauds from the sideline.
What DOES happen with our team is this: the offense sends a flasher, and no one says a word. The player responsible sees his man flashing but is too far away and too slow to react to prevent him from getting the ball. It becomes an easy pass to make and to catch. Our slow arriving defense finally gets there, but is beaten by a superior offensive player for an easy jumper, a shot fake drive and dunk, or most often a skip pass to the opposite side for a wide open three point shot or uncontested jumper. Our coach then rubs his jaw and squints, or stares passively while drinking bottled watter on one knee.
So, where are we at?
You know can see my beliefs that the Pacers defensive issues are deep, real, and interrrelated. This isn't going to be able to fixed over night, but maybe you can see some tweaks we could make that would make things better perhaps.
Lastly, I want to say that I do not want this to turn into one big Jim O'Brien bash fest. I may be criticizing his defensive schemes pretty harshly, but his offensive innovations have been very effective, some of our players are showing drastic improvements as individuals, and our team plays harder and with more purpose than most. Someday I may write a thread praising how we are playing offense even.....but these threads are deisgned to closely examine our teams porous defense, and try to figure out the root causes and cures.
Maybe we can even see some slight adjustments the staff will make when they have a breather here in February, and maybe these "defense examination" threads can identify what some of the little adjustments might become.
Part 5 of this series will involve defending the screen/roll, which I will try and post sometime late next week.
Comments and good discussions are hopefully to come.
As always, the above was just my opinion.


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LAKEPORT -- Twenty teams from throughout Northern California and Nevada took part in the inaugural Michael Kroppmann Memorial Wrestling Invitational on Saturday at Clear Lake High School in Lakeport.
Kroppmann, a former Clear Lake wrestler, lost his battle with cancer last March at the age of 23. His parents, Brenda and Greg, along with brother Jonathan were on hand to present medals and trophies to the top wrestlers and teams.
"Clear Lake used to host the Small Schools Tournament a few years ago," Clear Lake coach Aden Pierson said. "We've brought back the tournament but changed the name to honor Michael Kroppmann. From now on it will be the Michael Kroppmann Invitational.
"I'm glad the Kroppmanns could come up from the south to be with us," Pierson added. "It was great having them here."
Clear Lake, Kelseyville and Lower Lake had a full compliment of wresters at the tournament while Upper Lake sent its younger wrestlers. Durham won the team title, edging out Lower Lake by seven points. Kelseyville came in third and Upper Lake was close behind in fourth place. South Lake Tahoe rounded out the top five places followed by Clear Lake in sixth.
Pierson said the tournament ran about as well as possible.
"I heard nothing but accolades from all the teams that came," Pierson said. "Every wrestler wrestled with great class."
Lower Lake Trojans
Lower Lake's goal was to win the tournament and the Trojans came close while claiming 10 medals, including five firsts.
"The goal coming in was getting that first-place trophy," Lower Lake coach Ed Fuchs said. "It would have been a big thing for us. We just missed out, but I was very proud of how well the kids did."
Standouts for the Trojans were a pair of No. 4 seeds who ended up winning their weight classes -- Ricardo Cuevas at 128 pounds and Thomas Cross at 195 pounds.
Cuevas, 3-0 with two pins, upset the No. 1 seed 17-5 in the semifinals before pinning Robert Hook of South Lake Tahoe in the finals.
"He had a great day and he's actually had a great season," Fuchs said of Cuevas. "He was definitely my lightweight outstanding wrestler."
Cross also went 3-0 with two pins. He beat the No. 1 seed 18-8 in the semifinals before scoring a third-round pin in the finals against Tyler Hughes of Durham.
"Thomas was giving up close to 20 pounds against these guys," Fuchs said. "He wrestled smart and I thought he had a hell of a day."
Other first-place medal winners for Lower Lake were Dominick Dingess at 147 pounds, Thaddeus Wetmore at 170 and William Isaacs in the heavyweight division.
Dingess spent less time on the mats -- 66 seconds -- than any other wrestler at the tournament while going 2-0 with two quick pins. Wetmore went 3-0 with three pins, the final one against Raul Rendon of Clear Lake in the finals. Isaacs also went 3-0 with three pins.
Reaching the finals at 222 pounds was Mike Warren, who dropped a 6-4 decision in overtime to Julian Lewis of Clear Lake, voted the tournament's outstanding heavyweight.
The Trojans also picked up third-place medals from John Adair (154), who went 3-1 with two pins; Ryan Dahneke (184), who went 1-1; and from heavyweight Weeden Wetmore, who went 1-2 with one pin.
Jerald Drummond dropped his first match at 140 pounds but won his final four, three by pin, to finish fifth.
Upper Lake Cougars
With Upper Lake's more experienced wrestlers competing at the Tim Brown Invitational in Sacramento or taking the weekend off, the Cougars sent nine wrestlers, six of them freshmen, to Lakeport and still finished fourth.
Shane Favre-Koker won the 140-pound weight class, going 3-0, while Zack Sneathen went 3-0 to win at 120 pounds, including a win over Jacob Martinek of Kelseyville in the finals.
The Cougars added a second-place medal at 147 pounds, where Chris Monroe lost to Lower Lake's Dingess in the finals.
Zeke Mendoza, who began his day at the Tim Brown Invitational in Sacramento where he lost his first two matches at 119 pounds, made it to Lakeport in time to finish fourth at 126 pounds.
Upper Lake also received fourths from Nick Stith (106) and Jerrod Ankeny (113).
Clear Lake Cardinals
Along with Lewis at 222 pounds, the Cardinals picked up another first-place medal and MVP award at 138 pounds where Alex Andrews topped the field and was voted outstanding lightweight.
Nathan Powers just missed at 160 pounds, falling 2-1 in the finals.
Other seconds went to Rendon at 170 pounds and to Josh Larsen at 184 pounds. Rick Pierson came in fourth at 132 pounds.
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Phillip Zakhour is a pioneer of the so-called "sharing economy." He makes his living by renting out the in-law unit of his San Francisco house on Airbnb, performing errands and odd jobs as a TaskRabbit and ferrying people across the city as a driver for Sidecar.
"I do this now because it pays," said the 49-year-old a former software engineer, who says he can earn about $4,000 a month before taxes if he works really hard. "I'm a single dad with two kids and a mortgage. I'm not saving any money, but I'm surviving."
But the Web- and app-based startups that have kept Zakhour afloat now face a thicket of regulatory, tax and labor issues in many of the cities where they operate. And that may threaten the livelihood of micro-entrepreneurs like Zakhour and the new wave of companies that pay them.
While the new companies say they are creating jobs by disrupting legacy industries that have fallen behind the technological curve, established industries -- from hotels to taxi cabs -- complain the newcomers are taking unfair competitive advantage and in some cases endangering the public by sidestepping safety, tax and labor rules.
Government agencies, meanwhile, are under mounting pressure both to enforce existing rules and regulations and to update them for new business models that didn't exist five years ago.
"The sharing economy often straddles the line between pure sharing and commerce," said Oakland attorney Janelle Orsi, cofounder of the Sustainable Economies Law Center. "Our laws should also make reasonable space for 'nano-enterprise' -- all the small things people do to supplement their incomes. Why not allow people to make money giving rides to others?"
But Athan Rebelos, general manager of DeSoto Cab in San Francisco, says competitors like Lyft and Sidecar are not playing by the rules.
"These companies are coming in and competing with me and they are unregulated, and that is not fair," he said. "They say they are not taxis, that it's ride-sharing. But if you ask the general public, they perceive them as cab companies. If you take out the smartphone app part of the discussion, everything else is a taxi. They are just using different technology to book the vehicle."
State regulators with the California Public Utilities Commission last month came down on the side of traditional cab companies, slapping startups Lyft, SideCar and Uber each with a $20,000 fine after accusing them of operating as passenger carriers without evidence of commercial insurance to cover injuries, property damage and workers' compensation claims.
Tension between the new companies and regulatory authorities is not confined to San Francisco, even though many of the startups are based there. New York City is cracking down on Airbnb hosts, arguing short-term rentals violate state laws against renting out rooms or apartments for less than 30 days. And Washington, D. C.'s City Council last week hammered out a framework for accommodating car services like Uber.
The new companies say regulators don't understand the pace of innovation or the contribution they make toward easing congestion and environmental degradation. Nearly 6,500 people signed a petition on behalf of Lyft and SideCar, urging the CPUC to protect ride-sharing.
"Every politician that we've talked to has been supportive of what we're doing," said Sunil Paul, CEO of San Francisco-based SideCar. "Transportation is generally a mess. It's difficult to get around the Bay Area, and we're out of room to expand travel by the automobile. Our overall view is that this is a new medium, and we need new rules to manage it. The regulators' agenda should be the public interest."
But Frank Lindh, the CPUC's general counsel, isn't easily swayed by the arguments about disruptive technology.
"These companies are for-profit companies, and they are putting people's butts into seats," he said in an interview with this newspaper. "Moving human beings for compensation is not new. My biggest concern is if there's an accident, and a pedestrian or passenger is seriously injured. It's literally an accident waiting to happen. You cannot conduct this kind of activity without proper licensing or insurance."
The CPUC recently announced plans to open a new proceeding to hash out a compromise that would accommodate the new startups and the unique challenges they present in terms of oversight.
"We are not trying to put them out of business -- there's a lot of good things about them, including good social policy goals," Lindh said. "This rule-making will help us explore the nuances. But in our view, fundamentals of public safety are not negotiable. We can't just let private companies regulate themselves."
SideCar, which launched in San Francisco in June, uses a smartphone app to match drivers with people who need rides. The company claims to be like the popular casual carpools that ferry commuters from the East Bay into San Francisco every weekend morning, just larger and more efficient. There's no central dispatch service, and SideCar stresses that riders pay drivers a suggested "donation" instead of a fare.
The service has become crucial to the livelihood of people like Zakhour.
On a recent Friday night in San Francisco, Zakhour's blue Toyota Prius was in high demand amid a steady drizzle. Many of his passengers were young people who work in the tech industry, and many had discovered SideCar through a friend who urged them to download the app.
"If I see a cab on the street I'll flag it, but if I need to call a cab I'll use SideCar," said a passenger named Kathleen, who only gave her first name. "It's just way more reliable. SideCar shows up. If you call a taxi, you either wait for 40 minutes or they don't show up at all. It's a really good system, and you don't have to pay with cash. You can just use your phone."
Zakhour complained that regulatory agencies were "set up for an old model, and they are not keeping up with what technology enables people to do." As for what taxes he will pay for the money he earns from SideCar, he said he's still trying to figure that out with an accountant.
SideCar CEO Paul claims drivers for his startup "are not actually contractors" but "volunteers."
It's not likely, however, that regulatory agencies and the IRS will agree with that definition.
Contact Dana Hull at 408-920-2706. Follow her at Twitter.com/danahull.


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Team meetings are a component of every successul business. But there are a number of factors that can make or break the effectiveness of the meeting. At the 2013 Leading Dairy Producer Conference Kristy Pagel, regional sales manager with Diamond V, shared do's and don'ts to improve the quality of meetings held.
- Include items in every team meeting that focus both on solving day-to-day challenges and long-range bigger picture items.
- Only include people that have a commitment to the long-term goals and success of your business involved in your meeting and who are actively engaged in the discussion.
- Share the agenda for the meeting ahead of time, including any performance reports that will be reviewed.
- Define who holds which role in the meeting, such as: the facilitator, note taker and timekeeper.
- Establish the start and end time for the meeting and hold to these times.
- Define action items based on the meeting discussion before adjourning; WHO will do WHAT by WHEN.
- Don't allow one person to have complete control over the meeting; this stifles conversation.
- Don't allow side chatter, texting or computers to be open; this hinders "focus."
- Don't just talk about the challenge, develop a plan of action.
- Don't accept tardiness nor for a meeting to go on and on.
- Don't allow people in the meeting who aren't engaged.
And, last but not least, "Don't forget to celebrate the champagne moments," she says. "Look back at where you were and how far you've come and establish a time for celebration when goals are met."
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Almost as soon as Orgy broke up in 2005, fans started asking Jay Gordon when he was going to bring back the industrial-rock band.Gordon finally did it in 2012. The reformed Orgy performs in Utah, as part of a triple-bill of goth-inspired musicians who play hard while wearing mascara. Joining the band on its "Wide Awake and Dead" tour are Davey Suicide and Vampires Everywhere!"It will be a way better Orgy," he said. "No pun intended."In 1998, Orgy released its debut album, "Candyass" inspired by the name of a drag queen they knew. The record sold nearly 2 million copies and the band's heavy take on New Order's "Blue Monday" becoming a fixture on modern rock radio. The albums "Vapor Transmission" and "Punk Statik Paranoia" followed, along with world tours with like-minded acts such as Korn, Limp Bizkit and Rammstein.But by 2005, Gordon was burned out and his bandmates Ryan Shuck and Amir Derakh were consumed with another band, Relient-K later they became involved with Dead by Sunrise, a side project of Linkin Park's Chester Bennington.Orgy, it seemed, was dead.But the questions continued from fans who wanted Orgy back together, even though Gordon, Shuck and Derakh feuded about the future of the band. In the end, the latter two left, and Gordon recruited new members for a resurrected Orgy."Everyone's really creative," Gordon, 46, said of the new members. "Everyone's delivering the goods ... Nothing against the old guys, but sometimes I feel something different."In its heyday, and to a lesser extent now, the visual element of Orgy was important, with the black-clad Gordon an intimidating presence onstage with goth make-up and devilry inspired by Alice Copper and KISS.Davey Suicide, the namesake and lead for the California-based shock-rock band, said Orgy influenced not only his music but his style. "We remembered the 'nu-metal' thing as kids," Suicide said in a recent telephone interview. "Now, it's cool hanging out with [Orgy] every day."Davey Suicide's self-titled debut album came out in March, and Suicide casts an imposing, aggressive presence in the band's first video for the song ""Generation F*ck Star." Like Orgy, much thought is put into the stage show, an influence attributed to Rob Zombie. "I always wanted to see something, not just hear something," Suicide said. "I want to experience [something] you can't get listening to the album at home."Michael Vampire born as Michael Orlando was also a fan of the first incarnation of Orgy. "When I was younger, I listened to them a lot," Vampire said. "All the older goth music seeped into me."Vampire, a former hairdresser, founded Vampires Everywhere! in 2009 and the band's debut album "Kiss the Sun Goodbye" was released in 2011. "At the beginning of the band we were constantly ridiculed," Vampire said. "We were looked at as freaks."Looking back, Vampire is disappointed by the first album, which was heavily influenced by metal. "On the first record, we weren't decided on who we were," he said. "We have more of a rock-and-roll sound [now]."The band has been through a complete overhaul, and the band is touring behind its 2012 album "Hellbound and Heartless," which features an intense cover of Nirvana's "Rape Me." With heavy make-up and shock-rock tactics, Vampires Everywhere! doesn't want to be overshadowed by its brethren on the tour. "I go to a show and not just to hear the music," Vampire said. "For $25, you want more than just to hear the music you can do that at home."So, in their dressing room before they hit the stage, Vampires Everywhere! turn on Marilyn Manson and Rob Zombie loud as they touch up their lipstick. Boys will be boys.
'Wide Awake and Dead' TourOrgy with Davey Suicide and Vampires Everywhere!When • Thursday, April 11, at 7 p.m. (Tonight)Where • Kamikazes, 2408 Adams Ave., OgdenTickets • $25 at 24Tix


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Twitter's second quarterly report Tuesday was followed by a swift slump in its share price in after hours trading, despite a growth in users and revenue.
What spooked investors, apparently, was a failure once again to demonstrate the kind of explosive growth that Facebook showed at this stage of its career.
The social networking and micro-blogging service reported 255 million monthly users, a gain of 14 million. Last quarter it reported a gain of 9 million.
Revenue of $250 million beat expectations and was up from $242 million last quarter. That was a gain of 119 percent from a year ago.
On the profit side, a loss of $132 million was a big improvement over the $511 million loss reported last quarter. Advertising revenue of $226 million was up from $220 million in the previous quarter, and represented a gain of 125 percent from the same period a year ago.
Twitter's public offering in November saw share prices leap 150 percent, but since then its shares have fallen from $70 in December to $40.74 on Monday and below that in after hours trading Tuesday.
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With warmer weather and fewer sweaters (hopefully) upon us shortly, it's time to switch out fragrances. That cashmere musk that smells great under a camel coat and silk scarf just doesn't go with a shirtwaist and a handful of daffodils. Finding a fragrance for the season is tons of fun, and you can find something gorgeous and affordable without too much effort, I promise. To curate your search, I've been spritzing myself with every Spring scent known to man over the past few weeks, and now I'm giving you my top 10. Read on to kick off that last bit of chill and get sprung.
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'"If we're going to be successful with the world-class talent we have on this team, it's going to have to come from attitude and willingness to compete. Those are things that you can instill in a player. A lot of times you can't find the talent that we have. I'm going to stick to it: We have a ton of talent available in this organization. What we need to do is find an identity, find that swagger that we had. That's the only thing I want to compare with a few years ago. I don't want to be that team, but I want the swagger. I want the confidence."'
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Raspberry Bed
Item# 39-389
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Additional Information
Exclusive | Our Exclusive Cedar Raspberry Bed has an Integrated Support System
- Long-lasting raised bed is sized to fit five raspberry plants
- Attractive, rot-resistant cedar with rustproof aluminum corners
- Includes integrated support system to keep plants contained and upright
Why are supermarket raspberries so expensive? Not because they're hard to grow — in fact, they're remarkably easy — but because they have such a short shelf life. That's why the best raspberries are the ones you grow in your own backyard and pick at the peak of ripeness. Our cedar Raspberry Bed is 8' L x 2' W x 7" H and holds five plants. It includes an integrated support system with heavy-gauge plastic monofilament line and special tensioners to keep rambling raspberry plants contained and upright.
Product Details
- Cedar sides and aluminum corners
- Support is made from monofilament line with tensioners
- 8' L x 2' W x 7-1/4" H
- Holds 9 cubic feet of soil
- Easy assembly
- Gardener's Supply Exclusive
- Sorry, no shipments to AA,AE,AF,AK,AP,GU,HI,PR,VI