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The cheerleading team will participate in a variety of activities such as community service and fundraisers. Cheerleaders are responsible for cheering at the home football and basketball games, competitions, practices - which are held at least three times a week, and organized morning workouts. As a cheerleader for Western State Colorado University, one must be dedicated and determined and be prepared to work to their full potential at ALL times.
Skill requirements necessary to be considered a Western Cheerleader:
Standing Back Handspring
Round-Off Back Handspring
Toe touch
Front, Right and Left hurdler
Jump Sequences
Fliers: Toss to hands (coed), Lib, Heel Stretch, Arabesque, Scale, Full Down, Toe Touch Basket Toss
Bases/Back spots: Ability to correctly base or back spot all stunts listed above
Not fulfilling all the above requirements does not mean you cannot make the team, please contact the Coach for additional information.
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'Tis the season of smartphones and networks, as I mentioned in this space last week. Next Thursday in New York, Samsung Electronics (ticker: 005930.Korea) is expected to unveil its Galaxy S IV smartphone, the latest installment in the portfolio of the world's biggest maker of smartphones.
The new Galaxy is just one of a raft of handsets hitting the market in coming weeks and months; there's even a rumor Apple AAPL -1.7514792899408285% Apple Inc. U.S.: Nasdaq USD124.53 -2.22 -1.7514792899408285% /Date(1435611603009-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 48414165 AFTER HOURS USD124.8 0.269999999999996 0.21681522524692845% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 747262 P/E Ratio 15.393077873918418 Market Cap 730210525268.555 Dividend Yield 1.6702802537541155% Rev. per Employee 2287920 More quote details and news » (AAPL) will introduce an iPhone update this summer, rather than wait for the fall.
In any event, the wave of coming gadgets might lend a hand to beleaguered tech stocks, which are up a mere 0.6%, on average, this year, the third worst performer, beating only the 0.4% rise in financials and utilities.
Rather than take on the entire sector, I recommend investors look to small reversals of leadership here or there within industries. In particular, some chip makers within semiconductors may be ready to appreciate after floundering this year, if they can ride the coattails of the smartphone debuts, and the networks that will tether all those phones.
Semis are among the stronger parts of tech, rising 0.7% on average this year, just behind the 0.8% rise of computer stocks such as EMC EMC -1.3100436681222707% EMC Corp. U.S.: NYSE USD25.99 -0.345 -1.3100436681222707% /Date(1435611821392-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 13652962 AFTER HOURS USD25.99 % Volume (Delayed 15m) : 130851 P/E Ratio 20.792 Market Cap 51367515861.5578 Dividend Yield 1.7699115044247788% Rev. per Employee 350214 More quote details and news » (EMC) and the 1.3% climb of the homely category of "office electronics," composed of Xerox XRX -1.8214936247723132% Xerox Corp. U.S.: NYSE USD10.78 -0.2 -1.8214936247723132% /Date(1435612013566-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 9328011 AFTER HOURS USD10.78 % Volume (Delayed 15m) : 139299 P/E Ratio 14.18421052631579 Market Cap 12101814514.9983 Dividend Yield 2.5974025974025974% Rev. per Employee 135010 More quote details and news » (XRX) and Zebra Technologies ZBRA -3.5398230088495577% Zebra Technologies Corp. Cl A U.S.: Nasdaq USD109 -4 -3.5398230088495577% /Date(1435611600203-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 491971 AFTER HOURS USD109 % Volume (Delayed 15m) : 19224 P/E Ratio N/A Market Cap 5844924827.57568 Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee 333788 More quote details and news » (ZBRA).
But within chips, there's been a disproportionate climb in some darling stocks, including British wireless vendor CSR (CSRE), having come up 46% this year, and that other U.K. favorite, ARM Holdings ARMH -3.824279270445185% ARM Holdings PLC ADS U.S.: Nasdaq USD49.04 -1.95 -3.824279270445185% /Date(1435611602380-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 1787986 AFTER HOURS USD49 -0.0399999999999992 -0.08156606851549755% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 326 P/E Ratio 52.19797764768494 Market Cap 24147996553.3841 Dividend Yield 0.8514029363784665% Rev. per Employee 406774 More quote details and news » (ARMH), which commands a royalty for billions of mobile devices using its chip designs.
Left behind since December are some excellent companies in mobile and networking that could appreciate from here. They include mobile-phone radio-chip vendors Skyworks Solutions SWKS -4.550982226379794% Skyworks Solutions Inc. U.S.: Nasdaq USD102.035 -4.865 -4.550982226379794% /Date(1435611601803-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 6017783 AFTER HOURS USD102.62 0.585000000000008 0.5733326799627578% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 32683 P/E Ratio 30.54940119760479 Market Cap 20428377261.5021 Dividend Yield 1.0192580977115695% Rev. per Employee 517640 More quote details and news » (SWKS), up 5%, and WiFi chip maker Broadcom BRCM -2.2836307810401073% Broadcom Corp. U.S.: Nasdaq USD50.92 -1.19 -2.2836307810401073% /Date(1435611600816-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 8702122 AFTER HOURS USD50.92 % Volume (Delayed 15m) : 200057 P/E Ratio 44.73337433014144 Market Cap 31368553763.4082 Dividend Yield 1.0997643362136684% Rev. per Employee 798310 More quote details and news » (BRCM), up 0.9%. These two gems will find plenty of business in numerous makers' devices, and they trade for just nine and 12 times the next 12 months' expected earnings, not counting cash.
Some chip makers serving the networking infrastructure market are also worth a look. LSI (LSI), long a supplier to the disk-drive industry, has an intriguing new line of work supplying chips for base stations. Its shares are down 2% this year, and it fetches about 11 times projected earnings.
Likewise, Cirrus Logic CRUS -3.8908246225319396% Cirrus Logic Inc. U.S.: Nasdaq USD33.1 -1.34 -3.8908246225319396% /Date(1435611600217-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 1627733 AFTER HOURS USD33 -0.100000000000001 -0.3021148036253776% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 14163 P/E Ratio 45.97222222222222 Market Cap 2184012544.44351 Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee 830225 More quote details and news » (CRUS), which sells audio processing chips for Apple's iPhone and iPad, was a darling last year but has cooled considerably, falling 19% this year versus the 7.5% rise in the Nasdaq Composite. It trades at just six times forward estimates.
Cirrus's problem is in part the current uncertainty over the outlook for Apple's sales. But for a top producer of very specialized chips, that very low P/E ratio is just too tough to ignore.
SPEAKING OF APPLE, and what ails it, Berkshire Hathaway's Warren Buffett spent three hours on CNBC last Monday morning dispensing his customary wit and wisdom on a variety of topics, including Apple.
Asked about the stock's 41% drop in the last five months, Buffett reminded viewers that Berkshire has tanked by 50% four different times in its history and always came roaring back. Each time, someone advised Buffett to pay a dividend to boost the shares, and each time Buffett demurred.
Asked about hedge-fund activist David Einhorn's call for Apple to issue preferred shares, Buffett's counsel was simple. "I would ignore him," he said. "I would run the business to create the most value over the next five or 10 years. You can't run a business to try to run the stock up everyday."
CNBC's commentators quickly ignored that patient view and resumed their hand-wringing about Apple after the segment.
It was probably of little consequence to them that Apple, like Berkshire, has seen its stock stumble dramatically in the past, such as when it fell as much as 41% between Dec. 28, 2007, and March 3, 2008, just after the iPhone was first introduced.
But if the Oracle's words hold no weight, consider some more specific data.
Last week I met with Mahi de Silva, who is head of the digital advertising efforts of a little company called Opera Software, OPERA.OS 2.2710068130204393% Opera Software ASA Norway: Oslo NOK67.55 1.5 2.2710068130204393% /Date(1435693362000-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 593007 P/E Ratio N/A Market Cap 9815871887.84802 Dividend Yield 0.38490007401924503% Rev. per Employee 2815470 More quote details and news » listed on the Oslo exchange (OPERA.Norway). Opera is best known for a Web browser that can be run on desktops, smartphones, and tablet computers. That in itself might be of little interest to readers.
But because Opera bought de Silva's start-up, AdMarvel, in 2010, the company now also runs the advertising infrastructure for 20 of the top 25 publishers on mobile devices, including The Wall Street Journal and Barron's. The Barron's iPad app was created using Opera's technology, and every time you see an ad amidst our priceless content, that's Opera at work.
To get back to Apple, de Silva says that out of the roughly $1 billion in gross advertising dollars the company facilitated for us and other publishers last year, 40% of the volume of ad impressions came from Apple's devices versus just 30% for devices running Google's (GOOG) Android operating system.
How can it be that Apple's devices generate so much more ad activity, when Apple has just 22% of smartphone sales and the vast majority is controlled by Android?
"Android users are a bit geeky," says de Silva. By which he means the average user of an Android smartphone or tablet is less likely to download and use the apps provided by Dow Jones and other premiere publishers that create the ad inventory that advertisers crave.
When I asked de Silva if that might change if Apple were to drop to, say, 15% of smartphone sales, he was inclined to think not. That audience on Apple's iOS is highly valuable, even if the overall smartphone numbers shift. The cost-per-thousand, or CPM, in fact, for ads on iOS is about 25% higher than on Android, he said.
In other words, Apple's gadgets are a platform on which the high-value consumers gather, and where the high-value publishers and advertisers focus their efforts. All three constituents tend to build the value of Apple's software in the way that they meet up.
And so, the next time someone says that the iPhone doesn't have the largest screen, or that other tablet computers are cheaper, remember that when it comes to making business sense on these devices, Apple still seems to be at the front of the pack.
Tiernan Ray can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com or at blogs.barrons.com/techtraderdaily or www.twitter.com/barronstechblog


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Steven Tyler will reportedly premiere the video to his first solo single '(It) Feels So Good' during an upcoming episode of 'American Idol'.
Steven Tyler is set to premiere the video for his first ever solo single on 'American Idol'.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, the show's judge - who is also the frontman of Aerosmith - is reportedly planning to air '(It) Feels so Good' during the May 12 episode of the pop star search show.
The video will be shown days after the song is first played on Ryan Seacrest's KIIS-FM morning radio show on May 9.
Steven's video is likely to be a hit as it was directed by Ray Kelly, who worked on Lady GaGa's 'Poker Face' and Britney Spears's 'Til The World Ends'.
An insider who saw The The clip get shot in April said: "It's everything you would expect to get from a classic Aerosmith video.
"Without giving too much away, think pure, classic Steven Tyler in all of his rock star glory."
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Tuesday, December 3, 2013
Flying Floats
Blending water with fire, air and earth
A pair of friends of mine in Alaska, experienced bush pilots who owned an air taxi and operated a Grumman Widgeon, got into a white-out flying a Super Cub through Lake Clark pass one winter. They lost all visibility, and with mountains on either side of them, they knew they were eventually going to hit something hard. But instead of giving up, they set up a 100 to 200 fpm descent until they miraculously flew into soft snow. It was getting dark, so they spent the night in the airplane, and when they woke up the next morning, they realized they were halfway up the side of a mountain. They were extremely lucky to hit the side of the mountain at just the right angle, but they used an old seaplane technique to save their lives. Getting down the mountain was another story, but the airplane is still there.
Thinking about all of this has made me want to get floatplane current again. I miss the smell of the water mixed with the sound of a propeller turning. I particularly enjoy seaplanes like the Lake Amphibian and Widgeon, and recently had the chance to fly one of my dream airplanes—a turbine Mallard off a lake in Idaho. These airplanes are all about performance and, even cooler, about access. And, if you don't have a lake to fly off of, you can fly amphibs, or amphibious floats. You might go a little slower and sit a little higher, but you can go anywhere and find fuel along the way.
If you haven't thought about it before, or maybe you've thought about it your whole life, it might just be time for you to get your seaplane rating. It's not prohibitively expensive. If you have a private license, the ASES will be private only, and if you're commercial rated, your ASES will also be commercial. Or, you can get an AMES. Sheble Aviation (www. shebleaviation.com) in Bullhead City, Ariz., gives ratings in a twin-engine Beech 18 on floats. The seaplane rating usually takes about two days and six or seven hours of flying, and there are a number of reputable schools around the country that offer them.
I've heard the argument and have used it myself, "Why get the rating? I'll never use it. I can't afford a floatplane!" If you have the opportunity, then don't worry about where it will lead. Let's face it, anytime we push ourselves a little further out of our comfort zone, get a new rating and head in a new direction, the feeling of accomplishment and excitement inspires us and extends to every other area of our lives.
I recently spoke with Mark Baker, the president of AOPA, and asked him about his view on float flying. He said, "My sense about water flying is simple—mixing water, wind and adventure flying, and it's a great day for me."
Flying is all about the elements. Blending fire and air, terra firma and gravity. When we fly a float or a seaplane, we're mixing it up with a fourth element—water. Close your eyes, picture taxiing in to your dock on floats, opening the door and smelling the water. Seaplane flying is this wonderful fusion of all of the elements—fire, air, earth and water.
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Course Start/End Date: November 5, 2013
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Course Location: Forrestal Large Auditorium
Course Description: Every October and November, the Department of Energy (DOE) joins the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and other federal, state and local agencies across the country in support of National Cybersecurity Awareness Month and the "Stop. Think. Connect." campaign. This year marks the tenth year of the cyber security awareness campaign. The theme for this year is Achieving Cybersecurity Together: It's Our Shared Responsibility. By consistently following simple security practices and understanding the consequences of unsafe actions and behaviors, computer users greatly enhance their personal and professional security.
Throughout November the Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO) will be hosting a variety of cyber awareness and educational presentations that address cyber security hot topics that can affect us daily at home and at work.
Audience: DOE Federal employees and contractors.
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Grizzlies players know today could be one-and-done
Game 7 pressure like a Final Four
OKLAHOMA CITY -- On the day before the NBA playoffs started for the Grizzlies on April 17 in San Antonio, Griz point guard Mike Conley sat in a courtside chair and talked about his team's attitude.
"We're not coming in thinking we want to win one game," Conley said. "This is a seven-game series. This isn't a one-game deal like the NCAA tournament when you lose you go home."
Well, Mike, welcome to the NCAA tournament, because here today it's the seventh game of the Western Conference semifinals between the Grizzlies and Thunder. The winner moves on to the West finals in Dallas on Tuesday, the loser goes on vacation.
For each team, it's all about handling the moment of knowing there's no tomorrow. While the Grizzlies have a handful of players who have been in Game 7s -- Zach Randolph, Tony Allen, Shane Battier and Leon Powe -- they also have five players in their playing rotation who have played in college basketball's biggest sudden death situation, the Final Four.
Shane Battier (2001, 1999), Zach Randolph (2001), Tony Allen (2004), Mike Conley (2007) and Darrell Arthur have all played in the Final Four. Battier played in two championship games for Duke and won once in '01 while Conley's Ohio State team lost in the '07 finals.
The Thunder counters with Michael Westbrook (2007, 2008), Nick Collison (2002, 2003) and Daequan Cook (as Conley's Final Four teammate in '07) as main contributors for Oklahoma City rotations who know that one-loss-and-out Final Four pressure.
"It helps to have guys who have played on big stages when games really counted like the Final Four," Randolph said.
Conley said it's hard to ignore the enormity of the moment, but the experience of being in that situation is valuable.
"You know the crowds are big, but once you walk out there, you just focus on playing the game you've played all your life," Conley said. "We can't make this game more than it is. It's just basketball. You have to go out, compete, take care of the little things and have fun.
"We have a lot of guys capable of handling the pressure and we've handled it night in and night out. A lot of guys have made big shots, have made big plays under pressure."
Conley said he remembers walking on the floor to face Florida in the '07 NCAA finals in the Georgia Dome before a crowd of 51,458.
"I was a lot more nervous then than I am now," said Conley, who had 20 points and 6 assists in an 84-75 loss to the Gators, who hit 10-of-18 3s. "Being 18 years old and walking out in front of 50,000 people was tough.
"And we hadn't played them, so you didn't know what to expect. You barely have time (after winning in a Saturday semifinal) to prepare for the finals."
That's where the NCAA tourney differs from the NBA playoffs.
The NCAA tourney is sudden-death every game, more often than not against a team that you probably hadn't played that season. In the NBA, you are scheduled to bang heads against the same team every night for two weeks in each playoff round, so there's a familiarity and a different degree of difficulty from the college game.
By the time teams get to Game 7 of an NBA playoff series, there are absolutely no secrets.
"The NCAA tourney you don't know what to expect," Battier said. "We know these guys (the Thunder) inside and out, and they know us inside and out. We know the things we've done well when we've beat them. We know the things we haven't done well when we've lost.
"Once the game starts, you don't think about the finality of the game. You don't think that every shot is pressure.
"It can't hurt to have guys (who have played in the Final Four). But I feel better about guys who know how to win on the road in the NBA. You have to have an edge and a collective toughness that's difficult to maintain for 48 minutes."
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Review Round-up: Critics Not So Kean on Bio-Play
Editorial Staff • West End • 31 May 2007
Jean-Paul Sartre's 1954 tragi-comedy, translated by Frank Hauser, is based on Alexandre Dumas pere's original, written in 1826 shortly after Edmund Kean had died. Born in 1787, Kean made his Theatre Royal Drury Lane debut in 1814, his performance as Shylock in The Merchant of Venice rousing the enthusiastic crowds to near rioting. His many other Shakespearean roles at the same address – including Richard III, Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth and King Lear - were renowned, fuelling the actor's massive ego.
However, Kean's private life of drinking, gambling and womanising took its toll on his talent. His last stage appearance, at Covent Garden, was on 25 March 1833, playing Othello to his son Charles Kean's Iago. He broke down during the third act, crying "O God, I am dying" and passed away two months later.
While most overnight critics felt that Sher, one of his generation's leading Shakespearean actors, is ideal casting for the legendary 19th-century tragedian, they were in disagreement over just how well he and director Adrian Noble rose to the challenge of reviving both Kean's spirit and Sartre's play – and indeed whether the play even deserves reviving. The romantic melodrama is described as an "intriguing curiosity rather than a neglected masterpiece" at best and "unalloyed displeasure" at worst.
Sher is joined in the cast by Sam Kelly, Joanne Pearce and Alex Avery, several of whom attract some favourable critical mentions for their performances. Kean continues its limited season at the Apollo until 18 August.
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Now that the pasty-tax fuss is dying down, sensible Ian Cowie examines the Chancellor's stamp duty changes.
2. Publishing is no longer a job or an industry — it's a button [4] (GigaOm)
Matthew Ingram elaborates on Clay Shirky's provocative claim that the publishing industry is obselete.
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Jules Peck looks at the Chancellor's political philosophy.
4. Marrying up and down [6] (Tim Worstall)
Worstall argues that the entry of women in the workplace is having a strong effect on income inequality.
5. Place-dependent output [7] (Economist | Free Exchange)
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Clinical care components for people with COPD are recommended in guidelines if high-level evidence exists. However, there are gaps in their implementation, and factors which act as barriers or facilitators to their uptake are not well described. The aim of this pilot study was to explore implementation of key high-evidence COPD guideline recommendations in patients admitted to hospital with a disease exacerbation, to inform the development of a larger observational study.
This study recruited consecutive COPD patients admitted to a tertiary hospital. Patient demographic, disease and admission characteristics were recorded. Information about implementation of target guideline recommendations (smoking cessation, pulmonary rehabilitation referral, influenza vaccination, medication use and long-term oxygen use if hypoxaemic) was gained from medical records and patient interviews. Interviews with hospital-based doctors examined their perspectives on recommendation implementation.
Fifteen patients (aged 76(9) years, FEV1%pred 58(15), mean(SD)) and nine doctors participated. Referral to pulmonary rehabilitation (5/15 patients) was underutilised by comparison with other high-evidence recommendations. Low awareness of pulmonary rehabilitation was a key barrier for patients and doctors. Other barriers for patients were access difficulties, low perceived health benefits, and co-morbidities. Doctors reported they tended to refer patients with severe disease and frequent hospital attendance, a finding supported by the quantitative data.
This study provides justification for a larger observational study to test the hypothesis that pulmonary rehabilitation referral is low in suitable COPD patients, and closer investigation of the reasons for this evidence-practice gap.
Keywords:Implementation; Guidelines; Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; Pulmonary rehabilitation
Clinical guidelines provide recommendations for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) diagnosis and management based on published evidence. There is a high degree of agreement between international [1] and national COPD guidelines [2-6] supporting the efficacy of smoking cessation, pulmonary rehabilitation, influenza vaccinations, use of medications and long-term oxygen in hypoxaemic patients. However, there is a growing body of information to suggest that evidence-practice gaps regularly occur in COPD management [7]. Recent studies examining the extent and nature of such gaps have focused on the use of spirometry in COPD diagnosis, and guideline-based prescribing practices, using surveys [8] or medical record review [9].
However, few studies have examined the implementation of pulmonary rehabilitation in patients with COPD. Pulmonary rehabilitation includes exercise training, education and psychosocial support [10]. Pulmonary rehabilitation improves exercise capacity and health-related quality of life in patients with moderate-severe COPD, and reduces dyspnoea, anxiety, depression and health care utilisation [10,11]. A systematic review examining implementation of pulmonary rehabilitation in COPD patients found referral by primary care physicians to programs was low (3-16% of suitable COPD patients [12]). Few studies have combined prospective quantitative data with qualitative reporting to explore reasons for low implementation. Characteristics of COPD patients who do, and do not, receive guideline based care are largely unknown. The range and complexity of issues which constrain implementation of COPD guidelines require further investigation. Clarification of these issues will build a research platform upon which effective strategies for better guideline implementation can be developed.
The aims of this pilot study were, firstly, to evaluate expected versus actual clinical practice regarding implementation of key evidence-based recommendations for COPD management, in a consecutive sample of patients admitted to hospital with an acute exacerbation. Our intention was to explore which recommendations had low implementation, to inform the development of a subsequent larger observational study [13]. Secondly, where expected and actual practices differed, we aimed to conduct a preliminary exploration of barriers and facilitators to implementation for patients and doctors. This would inform our choice of interview questions for a substantive qualitative study.
Five guideline recommendations (supported by systematic reviews of high-quality randomised controlled trials [1]) were examined for evidence of their implementation. These comprised smoking cessation, referral to pulmonary rehabilitation, influenza vaccination, long term oxygen use if hypoxaemic, and guideline based medication use.
Quantitative and qualitative methods and analysis were used to address the research questions. Ethical approval to conduct this study was obtained from the University of South Australia Human Research and Ethics Committee and the Royal Adelaide Hospital Human Ethics Committee prior to commencement.
Patient data
Patients admitted to a metropolitan tertiary hospital with a documented primary condition of exacerbation of COPD, were invited to participate. Patients were identified from daily hospital admission lists. Patients were excluded if they were non-English speaking, unable to provide written informed consent, or physically not well enough to participate. Informed consent was obtained from all patients prior to participation in the study. In this pilot study patient admissions over a two month period were examined, rather than a pre-determined sample size. It was anticipated this would be sufficient to provide useful information about recruitment rate, and highlight which guideline recommendations were poorly implemented (difference of at least 50% between highest and lowest implementation).
Data collection included:
1. Medical record review, which extracted data on patient demographics, disease severity, co-morbidities, smoking status, current and previous admissions, and documented evidence of target COPD care recommendations being implemented.
2. Semi-structured face-to-face interview toward the end of hospital admission. Information about patients' experience of, and perceived barriers and facilitators to, the target COPD care recommendations was sought.
Medical practitioner data
For all recruited patients, contact was made with the hospital-based medical practitioner providing their inpatient care (i.e. general medical registrar or intern) at the end of the patient's hospital admission. Informed consent to participate in the study was obtained from these health care providers. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with medical practitioners regarding their perspectives on implementation of target COPD recommendations, and barriers and facilitators to this process.
Data analysis
Quantitative analyses
Frequencies and percentages of compliance with COPD recommendations were reported.
Qualitative analysis
Interviews with participants were audiotaped, transcribed verbatim, and the transcripts were content analysed to identify and classify themes. Thematic analysis of interviews focused on experience of, and barriers and facilitators to, implementation of target COPD recommendations. This process involved:
1. Identifying transcript excerpts which related to the research question for each COPD care guideline.
2. Inductive open coding to organise these groups of excerpts into themes.
3. Comparing themes and excerpts with existing analyses of barriers and facilitators to evidence-based health care implementation. To avoid being restricted to any one behaviour change theory, a consensus based model of theoretical domains for investigating evidence-based practice was used [14].
4. Ongoing adjustment of excerpts and themes; re-reading transcripts for further relevant data.
5. Semi-quantitative analysis to determine frequency of themes for each COPD care guideline.
Study rigour was enhanced by adherence to standardised data collection protocol including the semi-structured interview guide, transcription by an independent typist, and subsequent validation by the interviewer. An independent analyst experienced in qualitative research reviewed 20% of the transcript pages (from three interviews which were randomly selected) to identify themes from the data. Differences were contested through discussion and consensus reached. Our aim in this pilot study was not to gain data saturation but to highlight predominant themes in relation to implementation of this broad range of guideline recommendations, and to guide interview question development.
Fifteen patients with COPD joined the study (from 23 consecutive admissions during recruitment period, Figure 1), a rate of 1.7 patients per week. Nine hospital doctors (5 registrars, 4 interns) were invited to participate in this study and all agreed. Characteristics of the COPD patient sample are shown in Table 1. Implementation of COPD guidelines at time of hospital admission is summarised in Table 2. Compared to recommedations with high implementation (e.g. influenza vaccination in 14/15 patients and guideline based medication use in 15/15 patients), referral to pulmonary rehabilitation was implemented in only 5 of 15 patients. Therefore, only associations with this recommendation are further described.
Figure 1. Recruitment flow chart.
Table 1. Characteristics of the COPD patient sample
Table 2. Implementation of COPD guidelines at the time of hospital admission
Patients who were referred to pulmonary rehabilitation at the time of the current admission had more severe lung disease (FEV1%pred = 41.2[9.7], mean[SD], compared with FEV1%pred = 60[13.7] in not referred group, p = .02). Non-statistically significant trends suggested that referred patients had longer hospital length of stay (9.4[7.1] days, compared with 5.4[4.6] days in not referred group), as well as more hospital bed days in the last 3 years (36.4[27.6] days compared with 18.3[23.2] days in not referred group). There was a trend for referred patients to have been seen by the COPD coordinator (100%, compared with 50% in not referred group), and to have previously discussed pulmonary rehabilitation with staff on at least one occasion (100%, compared with 60% in not referred group).
Availability of transport (40% in referred, 50% in not referred), and having been seen by a physiotherapist during admission (80% in both groups), did not differ between referred and not referred patients.
As pulmonary rehabilitation was identified as the least well implemented recommendation, barriers and facilitators in relation to its implementation have been reported.
Barriers and facilitators to pulmonary rehabilitation referral: patient perspectives
The frequency of barriers and enablers described by the participants with regard to pulmonary rehabilitation is described in Table 3. Because participants' experience of pulmonary rehabilitation was found to be limited, participants were also asked specifically about their experiences of barriers to and facilitators for exercise (a key component of pulmonary rehabilitation).
Table 3. Frequency of patient- reported barriers and enablers to participation in pulmonary rehabilitation and exercise
Lack of awareness was a significant barrier, as indicated by this response to the investigator's description of pulmonary rehabilitation:
"Another area that sometimes the doctors talk to people with lung problems about is joining in something called pulmonary rehabilitation, or a group to go and learn to do a bit more, get a bit fitter, or get a bit more exercise, or get on a bit better with things. Has anyone ever talked to you about that sort of thing? (investigator)"
"No, I wouldn't know what that's about. (id 3)"
Hearing about the benefits of pulmonary rehabilitation from friends, family or health professionals was the most common facilitator of participation.
"I've – well, when I was home I decided that I should be able to do some of these things, you know, and there were people that I knew, had emphysema, that joined…., that did all these exercises from different stages they were with their emphysema, and they would assess you, and see how you got on with it. Well I decided, "Yeah. I could do that." (id1)"
In contrast to the lack of awareness about pulmonary rehabilitation, belief in the health benefits of exercise was frequent:
"I'm moving around the house all the time, and I've got a garden and I get out there and muck around, and all that stuff. I'm continuously bending over, or moving. So I'm not sitting watching television…because it makes me feel better. Rather than just sitting down all the time. (id7)"
Coping with co-morbidities was commonly expressed as a barrier to exercise participation, for example in this woman with co-existent chronic back pain:
"Yes, I've got my walker and I can go a little distance and then I flop over which is - and have a rest and then get going again and I just use my walking stick mostly inside because I've got not very big area to walk."
"And is it your back or your lungs that trouble you most with walking? (investigator)"
"Back. (id 13)"
Barriers and facilitators to pulmonary rehabilitation referral: doctor perspectives
Medical practitioners who participated in this study were general medicine registrars (n = 5) and interns (n = 4), of whom three had previous experience on respiratory medicine rotations. Medical practitioners' experience of referring people to pulmonary rehabilitation was generally infrequent, citing they had referred none, one or two COPD patients during a three month rotation in general medicine wards. Patients with more severe illness, already on maximal therapy or frequent attenders to hospital were most likely to be referred.
"Last year when I was doing general medicine we certainly had one patient who was just a frequent flyer and would just keep coming in with acute exacerbation ….and he was one where you know to stop him from returning to hospital all the time that we enrolled him into the program. (registrar id3)"
Previous experience in thoracic outpatient clinics or rehabilitation facilitated doctors in making referrals to pulmonary rehabilitation. Doctors who had successfully referred patients described the importance of explaining to the patients how pulmonary rehabilitation would help them to cope with dyspnoea and avoid future hospitalisations.
"I think from my experience a majority of them, and every one that I've asked them to go to rehab have agreed. For example Mr B____, he had rehab prior to he went last time, and he wants to go back again. So he's been enrolled and he's going."
"What do you think contributes to your success?(investigator)"
"I think the explanation really, and all the patients don't want to come back with exacerbation of COPD and they hate the hospital environment. (registrar id2)"
Low awareness of the program limited doctors from making more referrals to pulmonary rehabilitation:
"Are there processes within the hospital that makes it easy to suggest pulmonary rehab? (investigator)"
"I think it is something that is not out there openly that we forget to be able to refer to that so I think if it was more publicised and we had more awareness of these things being around that I think we would probably refer more people. (registrar id3)"
Suggestions offered by doctors to improve implementation included raising awareness of the program, streamlining the referral process, and having physiotherapists more actively identify suitable patients to the medical teams.
This study provides a snapshot of the care of consecutive COPD patients admitted to hospital, indicating good compliance with most high-evidence care recommendations. However, referral to pulmonary rehabilitation appears underutilised in comparison, and on the basis of this pilot research warrants investigation in a larger observational study. Such a study appears highly feasible in this centre, with anticipated recruitment rates in patients and medical practitioners able to be predicted from our data.
An Australian study [15] in COPD hospital inpatients found only four of 45 participant (8.9%) had ever completed a rehabilitation program, and 25 (55.6%) had never commenced one. However, reasons for non-referral were not explored. A strength of our study was the use of multiperspective qualitative interviews [16] to gain an understanding of both patient and doctor views regarding the implementation of pulmonary rehabilitation. These data highlight the barriers and facilitators to service implementation which exist at environmental and organisational levels, as well as clinician and patient knowledge and beliefs.
Patient barriers to participation in pulmonary rehabilitation have previously been identified, but only in people with COPD already referred to, or commenced, a rehabilitation program. Commonly expressed barriers, also described in our data, were difficulties with transport, insufficient perceived health benefit and managing ill-health due to COPD and co-morbidities [17-19]. A positive impact of health professional recommendation on uptake of pulmonary rehabilitation has been identified [20], to which our data adds the influence of peers and family. In contrast, our study highlights the problem of low awareness in the cohort of people with COPD who have never been referred to pulmonary rehabilitation during their disease course. Patients in this study expressed motivation to be active and belief in the health benefits of exercise. However, these attitudes did not translate into their understanding of potential benefits from pulmonary rehabilitation. This highlights the need to ask questions in further qualitative research about barriers and facilitators to participation in "exercise" and "daily activities" as well as "pulmonary rehabilitation" as many people with COPD will never have heard of the latter term. Given the key barriers expressed by patients in the current study, raising awareness of pulmonary rehabilitation in COPD, communicating its potential health benefits, addressing co-morbidities and minimising difficulties with access are all indicated.
A number of doctors in this sample were also unfamiliar with pulmonary rehabilitation and did not often consider it in the usual care of patients with COPD. Doctors were more likely to suggest pulmonary rehabilitation for patients with severe disease and frequent hospital admissions, in agreement with quantitative findings in our sample. Reasons for lack of referral to pulmonary rehabilitation have been examined in general practitioners and practice nurses [21]. Interviews identified lack of available services, lack of time, and a perceived difficult referral process, the latter reason in common with our findings. While a lack of services did not emerge in our data as a reason for non-referral, this may have been overshadowed by a general lack of awareness of pulmonary rehabilitation. Further qualitative research in medical practitioners is indicated in this area, and should include specialist as well as junior staff. Specific interview questions to distinguish between barriers related to capability (e.g. awareness/knowledge), motivation (e.g. beliefs about consequences, role) and opportunity (e.g. structural organisation) will help direct interventions to improve implementation [20].
Data in this study are limited to the perspectives of patients at the end of a hospital admission, and doctors caring for COPD patients in a tertiary hospital. However, as COPD is reportedly under-diagnosed in primary care [22], hospital admissions may represent sentinel events in the disease trajectory which initiate diagnosis and guide decisions about future disease management [23]. Hospital admissions thus present critical opportunities for health professionals to positively influence patient management.
Barriers identified in this preliminary study indicate the relative complexity of behaviour change required to implement pulmonary rehabilitation is greater than many other COPD care recommendations, thus likely to present greater challenges to both patients and practitioners. For example, implementation of influenza vaccination requires adoption of a simple, annual procedure, supported by a widespread public information campaign and decision support for general practitioners. Smoking cessation is a more complex behaviour change, but also has a high degree of community awareness and organisational supports including no-smoking policies. In comparison, pulmonary rehabilitation is unknown in the general community and requires attendance at regular sessions, participation in a home program, and adoption of lifestyle changes.
This study provides justification for a prospective observational study to determine the incidence of pulmonary rehabilitation referral and attendance in a larger cohort of COPD patients, and indicates low awareness of pulmonary rehabilitation amongst patients and medical practitioners. Further investigation will guide development of targeted strategies at patient, clinician, organisational and community levels to improve implementation of this COPD care recommendation.
Competing interests
The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
Authors' contributions
All authors contributed to design of the study. KJ with the assistance of MY and RA were responsible for data collection. KJ analysed the data. KJ, KG-S and PF contributed to the discussion. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
This study was supported by an International Centre for Allied Health Evidence Seeding Grant. The chief investigator is funded by a National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Translating Research Into Practice (TRIP) Fellowship in 2011–2012. The funding body played no part in determining study design, collection, analysis, and interpretation of data; in the writing of the manuscript; or in the decision to submit the manuscript for publication.
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Photo By Eric Gay/Associated PressNo. 49: San AntonioThis list comprises Texas cities as they are ranked by the WalletHub survey with other cities across the United States. Click here to see the full list.
Photo By LM Otero/Associated PressNo. 48: Plano
Photo By Louis DeLuca/Associated PressNo. 46: Arlington
Photo By Ha Lam/FreelanceNo. 45: Austin
Photo By Mayra Beltran/ChronicleNo. 43: El Paso
Photo By Fort Worth Convention & Visitors BureauNo. 30: Fort Worth
Photo By PAUL MOSELEY/APNo. 26: Grand Prairie
No. 19: Houston
Photo By EDWARD A. ORNELASNo. 17: Brownsville
Photo By Anne GerkenNo. 13: Amarillo
Photo By Ben Torres/Chronicle FileNo. 9: Garland
Photo By Betsy Blaney/STFNo. 8: Lubbock
Photo By Bob Owen/San Antonio Express-NewsNo. 6: Corpus Christi
Photo By BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/StaffNo. 5: Dallas
Photo By MATT SLOCUM/APNo. 2: Irving
Photo By HandoutNo. 1: Laredo
While cities across the United States continue to feel the effects of the Great Recession, Texas leads the country in recession recovery, a recent WalletHub study found.
The study evaluated economic growth over the last few years and ranks the 150 largest cities in the United States based on job creation, worker education, home prices, crime rates, public assistance rates, population growth and other factors.
Sixteen Texas cities rank high on the recovery list, with six cities in the top 10. Three Texas cities - Brownsville, El Paso and Corpus Christi, fall in the top five for decreasing the poverty rate.
Texas is also No. 7 in new business growth, No. 11 in GDP growth and No. 13 in decreasing the bankruptcy rate across the state.
All 16 cities big enough to make the WalletHub list fall in the top 50. Click through the slideshow to find out how Houston, San Antonio, Dallas and Austin compare to smaller cities such as Laredo and Plano.


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2014 PK SHOWERS 147 SNOOKERPosted on November 16th, 2014
A very strong maximum field of 16 which produced some surprising results. When you consider Dale Kwok, Niko Zhao and Eamon Hill ended up in the plate it gives some indication of the quality of the players. 2 players scored over 500 points in the 21 minutes time limits over 7 matches each. They were Chris McBreen 558 and Vanny Ry with 505 followed by Steve Robertson 463 and Deepak Bala 460. In the second draw where the top 4 from each section and the bottom 4 from each section the competition was a bit tougher with the eventual winner being Steve Robertson on 476, 2nd Vanny Ry on 454, 3rd McBreen 438 and 4th Bruce Davies 436. In the plate, 1st Dale Kwok 494, 2nd Niko Zhao 486, 3rd Dave Gourley 343 4th Eamon Hill 318. Highest break of the day was 95 by Chris McBreen.
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"Bhaag Milkha Bhaag" is being praised by industry members even before its release, and actress Sonam Kapoor, who says she has a "cameo" in the movie, is confident it will go down in history.
The Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra-movie is based on the life of athlete Mikha Singh.
"I did the film only for Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra. It's a special appearance, but I hate the word special appearance. It's a cameo. I did this film because I knew for sure this film will go down in history," said Sonam.
The actress, who won accolades for his performance in her last release "Raanjhanaa", says she is choosy about her film projects.
"I'm choosy about my films. I do one film in one to one-and-a-half years. My films take too long - like 'Mausam' and 'Sawaariya'," she added.
"Bhaag Milkha Bhaag" stars Farhan Akhtar in the lead, and it releases Friday.
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The Porch Project engages with local young people between the ages of 11 and 20 years. The project was started in 2009 by the Very Reverend Martin Thrower, who is the Dean of Hadleigh.
When he arrived in Hadleigh he found young people were gathering in the St Mary's Church's porch because they had nowhere else to go.
Instead of asking them to move, he invited them into the church and offered them somewhere safe they could regularly meet and socialise and so the Porch Project was born.
The Porch Project aims to support young people's: physical, mental, social, spiritual and educational well-being. We don't work in isolation, our youth workers and mentors work closely with a range of partner organisations and agencies to provide joined up and integrated support if and when young people need it.
The project currently engages with over 450 young people in Hadleigh and the surrounding areas through its social activities, learning and support programmes, school visits and street work.
Over 300 local young people are registered with the project and regularly use the project's:
Growing and developing.
The project continues to grow and more additional programmes are being developed as young people tell us what activities, help and support they feel they need to find the right path and make the right choices as they move forward from being young people to young adults.
Many young people stay with us for a number of years, accessing different activities and additional programmes as their support needs change.
What it costs to run the project?
The Porch Project needs to raise £100,000 per year to provide its current facilities and activities. The project constantly seeks feedback from young people, parents and other organisations it works with in order to develop new support programmes.
For example, it costs:
For a qualified youth worker to spend one hour talking confidentially to a young person about any issues they are worried about.
For a young person to have a confidential session with a qualified and experienced counsellor.
To run a 12 week sexual health awareness programme for 10 young people.
For a young person to attend the drop-in centre every week for a year.
To train a mentor and for that mentor to support a young person for 1-2 hours a week for a year.
To run the state of the art computer centre with its homework and revision club, job search facilities and e-learning programmes for a year.
What's new
Changes at the Porch Project
A great big thank you to Jonathan Hunt who recently organised an organ recital at St John's Church Great Wenham featuring Simon Johnson the Organist of St Pauls's Cathedral London. The church was full to bursting and it was a wonderful evening to remember. The recital raised £500 for the Porch Project
New Treasurer Needed
The Porch project is looking for a new volunteer treasurer.
More porch doors opening
Craig, our Youth Work Co-ordinator visited Stowmarket this week, to talk about setting up a Porch Project for local young people there. He is already in talks with Hounslow Borough in London to do the same so the Porch Project could be national soon!!
Thank you Cyndy
The Porch Project would like to say a big thanks to Cyndy and Priory Hall for hosting our summer fundraising BBQ. Free use of the hall enabled us to raise £1,500 towards running the project.
Office space needed!
The Porch Project needs a new small office to work out of, fairly close to St Mary's Church. Are there any businesses out there with some unused office space that you could donate to us as a 'gift in kind'.


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Why the Greek Bailout Failed
Kenneth Rogoff explains why structural reforms won't take root if a country's government doesn't believe in them.
Kenneth Rogoff explains why structural reforms won't take root if a country's government doesn't believe in them.
Laura Tyson explains why investors should look past recent poor performance in emerging market economies.
Nouriel Roubini believes that most countries are resilient enough to withstand US monetary-policy tightening.
Wolfgang Ischinger explains why cooperation with Russia is necessary for any solution to the problems facing Ukraine.
Hector R. Torres explains how and why the long-isolated island could join the Bretton Woods institutions.
Maha Yahya warns that the Middle East and North Africa may be poised for a new round of bloodshed.
Jean Pisani-Ferry explains how the automation of labor and platforms like Uber are transforming the labor market.
Lucy P. Marcus explains why executives should open avenues to communication with the broader public.
Simon Johnson says that inclusion of existing labor and environmental standards is both possible and necessary.
Georgy Satarov examines the worldview that has arrested Russia's modernization process.
Javier Solana underscores the bilateral relationship's importance in addressing the Middle East's crises.
Andrés Velasco sees a new dawn for the region's liberal reformers.
Nancy Birdsall criticizes proposed cuts to programs that support the provision of global public goods.
Jim O'Neill calls for a strong political commitment, especially from China, to fight antimicrobial resistance.
Jomo Kwame Sundaram & Michael T. Clark identify a better approach to fostering economic and social development.
Jostein Eikeland argues that power scarcity has nothing to do with supplies and everything to do with storage.
Anne-Marie Slaughter defends US technology companies' refusal to give intelligence agencies a backdoor to users' data.
J.M. Ledgard & Scott MacMillan on the must-have gadget for remote parts of Africa, Asia, and South America.
Julia Gillard says that, at the upcoming education summit, world leaders must lay the groundwork for the SDGs.
Muhammad Nawaz Sharif highlights his government's commitment to universal primary and secondary education.
Gordon Brown explores some recent significant proposals for closing the school-financing gap in poor countries.
Kevin Watkins has high hopes for renewable technologies' potential to deliver power to the continent's poor.
Gus O'Donnell describes a global initiative to make clean energy competitive with coal within ten years.
José Graziano da Silva urges policymakers to leverage the benefits of cheaper energy to boost agricultural productivity.
Brahma Chellaney fears that the power vacuum created when the current incarnation dies could give rise to violence.
Ricardo Hausmann shows that remittances often are not the only way that migrants benefit their homelands' economies.
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British company to offer remote access to Chrome
A British company has signed a deal to work with Google on the company's Chrome operating system. Cambridge-based RealVNC offers remote access technology which will be incorporated into Chrome
A British company has signed a deal to work with Google on the company's Chrome operating system. Cambridge-based RealVNC offers remote access technology which will be incorporated into Chrome
Microsoft today announced it would release just two security updates next week to patch three vulnerabilities in Windows.
A federal judge has set aside the $US139 million judgment against SAP that a jury awarded Versata Software in August 2009, according to a ruling filed Thursday in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas.
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Google showed off the first preview of features in Honeycomb, its upcoming version of Android designed for tablets, during a keynote speech Thursday at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
As promised, Apple opened its Mac App Store today, stocking it with more than 1,000 games, utilities and productivity programs.
Microsoft Windows president Steven Sinofsky took a shot at Apple while previewing the next generation of Windows during CES in Las Vegas, saying users are being inconvenienced because there is no convergence across the iPhone, iPad, iPod and MacBook.
Zynga, the company behind popular Facebook games such as FarmVille and Mafia Wars, has acquired Flock, which develops a Web browser fine-tuned for real-time social networking data feeds.
While much of the world's focus was on the Consumer Electronics Show Wednesday, Linux creator Linus Torvalds quietly released the next version of the Linux kernel.
Motorola finally unveiled its highly anticipated tablet, the Xoom, with a 10.1-inch touchscreen with the latest version of Google's Android mobile software on board, formerly called Honeycomb.
The latest release of the Linux operating system kernel offers a number of improvements that should speed up operations in SMP (symmetric multiprocessing) systems.
French security researchers today confirmed the presence of a bug in Internet Explorer (IE) that's at the center of a spat between Microsoft and a Google security engineer.
Drupal 7, the latest upgrade to the popular open source Web content management system, is now generally available, Drupal builders said on Wednesday.
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First impression on unpacking the Q702 test unit was the solid feel and clean, minimalist styling.
For work use, Microsoft Word and Excel programs pre-installed on the device are adequate for preparing short documents.
The Fujitsu LifeBook UH574 allowed for great mobility without being obnoxiously heavy or clunky. Its twelve hours of battery life did not disappoint.
The screen was particularly good. It is bright and visible from most angles, however heat is an issue, particularly around the Windows button on the front, and on the back where the battery housing is located.
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MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!Submitted by admin on Sun, 28/12/2014 - 20:51
WATCH George Hamilton IV's "Christmas Stories & Songs" Concert AND Moravian Lovefeast LIVE from the Stage of George V's "Viva!
Patsy Cline 50th Anniversary Tour NewsSubmitted by admin on Sat, 01/11/2014 - 17:27
By Special Request from the Management, George Hamilton V (son of "George IV") will stand-in for his Father on this Patsy Cline 50th Anniversary Tour.
George IV Memorial @ the RymanSubmitted by admin on Sat, 04/10/2014 - 00:22
Here's some great links to Photos & Writing about the George IV Memorial @ the Ryman.
Memorial CelebrationSubmitted by admin on Sun, 21/09/2014 - 19:28
You're Invited to Attend A Memorial Celebration for "George IV" At The Ryman Auditorium ("The Mother Church of Country Music") in Nashville, Tennessee On Wednesday Morning, September 24th, Beginning at 11am.
Very Sad News from Nashville, TNSubmitted by admin on Thu, 18/09/2014 - 08:26
Sorry to be so "short" with this release, but we're trying to get the message out to everyone as soon as possible: Grand Ole Opry® Legend George Hamilton IV "The International Ambassador of Country Music" passed away late this afternoon at Saint Thomas Midtown Hospital (Nashville,TN) with his Family by his side. "George IV" suffered a serious heart attack on Saturday and had been in critical condition from that time.
Important NewsSubmitted by admin on Sun, 14/09/2014 - 18:27
Grand Ole Opry® Legend George Hamilton IV: "The International Ambassador of Country Music" remains in critical condition, but is resting comfortably in a Nashville hospital. He and his Family greatly appreciate your ongoing prayers and respect for their privacy at this personal time. More updates as the week progresses.
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Apologies to any users who have experienced issues with the George IV website recently - these are being worked on, however the Gallery has been disabled temporarily. We'll let you know once this is back up, sorry for any inconvenience.
PATSY CLINE 50TH ANNIVERSARY TOUR with Sandy Kelly & George Hamilton IVSubmitted by admin on Thu, 06/03/2014 - 21:52
See George with Sandy Kelly this October/November on the Patsy Cline 50th Anniversary tour. Dates across England and Scotland. See the link below for more details:
George IV 54th Opry Anniversary Show now online!Submitted by admin on Wed, 19/02/2014 - 14:03
Featuring George IV, George V and the Viva! NasVegas Radio Players, Brenda Lee, Riders in the Sky and Tenneessee Senator Jack Johnson, this fantastic show for George IV's 54th anniversary as a member of the Grand Ole Opry is now available to view online, free!
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Christmas Stories & Songs with Candlelight CarolsSubmitted by admin on Sun, 15/12/2013 - 00:55
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In one of the more forgettable performances of the day, the Purdue Boilermakers got spanked by the Cincinnati Bearcats this afternoon by a score of 42-7. While such a lopsided loss can never be blamed on one player, quarterback Rob Henry is stepping up to take responsibility for his team's poor showing. Henry took to Twitter to apologize to Purdue fans, then vowed to take himself off of Twitter to get better on the field. I apologize to all my family, teammates, friends and fans. My performance today was unacceptable. Never played that bad in my life — Rob Henry (@RobHenry15) August 31, 2013 Staying off twitter for a while because there obviously needs to be a lot more work done and a lot less talking on my part. #BoilerUp — Rob Henry (@RobHenry15) August 31, 2013 Purdue takes on Indiana State next Saturday. [CBS Sports]
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If you are looking for something a little different this Thanksgiving, try this recipe for celery root and cauliflower puree. This is a great recipe if you are counting calories because it doesn't have all the fat of mashed potatoes but still is smooth and creamy. I love to add fresh herbs to the puree, rosemary is especially wonderful. Celery root and cauliflower puree is a tasty side dish that deserves a spot on your Thanksgiving table.
Celery Root and Cauliflower Puree
1 head cauliflower (about 4 cups)
1 head celeriac (about 1 ½-2 cups)
1 head garlic
4-5 shallots
Low Sodium Chicken stock (or vegetable stock)
Salt and pepper to taste
Pre-heat oven to 375°F.
Cut cauliflower into individual florets, each about the same size, wash and dry off.
Peel celeriac and cut into equal 1" x 1" inch cubes.
Remove outer layer of skin off the garlic head, so that only the individual outer skin remains.
Clean shallots and leave whole.
Steam cauliflower so that it is 'mushy' – more than just andante. Remove from heat (do not place them into an ice bath – it will make the cauliflower too watery).
In a reasonable-sized roasting pan, place the celeriac cubes and the shallots. Spray with non-stick spray and toss with a small amount of sea salt.
Place the garlic into a small ramekin (big enough to just hold the garlic). Add about 2-3 tablespoons of Low Sodium Chicken Stock (or vegetable stock), cover with foil wrap. Put the ramekin in the corner of the roasting pan.
Place roasting pan in the hot oven, and roast the vegetables until they are soft, being careful not to brown the edges too much (this would ruin the 'mashed potato' look).
When the celeriac is soft enough for a fork to easily pierce, pour about ¼ cup of Low Sodium Chicken stock into the roasting pan. Allow it to evaporate (this step will soften the celeriac for blending).
The celeriac and shallots will be done a bit sooner than the garlic, remove from pan and continue to poach the garlic.
Place the celeriac and the shallots into a large bowl, add the cauliflower 2-4 florets at a time and purée with an immersion blender. The cauliflower will add enough moisture to the mash, but if you find it dry, add a little LS chicken stock (very little). The trick to this dish is to not make soup, but a creamy mash.
When you have puréed the celeriac, shallots and cauliflower, add the poached garlic cloves (all of them) and drizzle the LS chicken stock remaining in the ramekin into the mix. Purée until you have a creamy paste. Using a soup ladle, push this mash through a fine sieve (this is important so that the mash is creamy and not chunky or woody).
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Over the past few weeks, I've been trying out a few different places to work out. I had never worked out very much before I came to CU Boulder, but as it is the healthiest city in America, I couldn't help but be influenced. There are so many awesome work out studios in Boulder that offer a bunch of different classes. These are types of classes that I had never heard of before I came here, such as hula hooping. I have yet to try this class, but it's definitely on my list of things to do before I leave for the summer.
The first place I went to is called Core Power Yoga. This yoga studio is on The Hill, which is incredibly close to campus. Most of the classes are hot yoga and they offer great student discount deals with the occasional free class. If you have never tried hot yoga, I highly recommend it. Although you get really sweaty during the class, it is so worth it and you feel amazing afterwards. Another great place that I recently went to is called Alchemy of Movement. The class that I attended is called Soul Sweat and is a dance class that truly lives up to its name. The teacher that taught our class was so awesome and instructed an amazing work out class that I definitely want to attend again. This studio also offers unique classes such as Hoop Dance, Barre Physique, and Urban Hip Hop. But the closest and easiest place to work out is right here on campus. The University of Colorado Rec Center is a great facility. It offers many classes for only $5 and has multiple rooms with excercise equipment, rock climbing wall, and an ice rink. So if you're looking for a way to keep up with the healthiest city in America, make sure you try out these awesome studios.


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A dog, a bunny and a kitty woke up in Rufus's toy basket one day and wowed the other playthings with their corduroy striped fabric and squeaker heads. You see, the other toys knew that one look at their hard-to-resist corduroy ribbing and Rufus would only have eyes for them. Sure enough, Rufus saw them and didn't know which to romp around with first. Needless to say they all lived happily ever after. The End.
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