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KQED & KTEH TV Productions Archive
And Then One Night: The Making of Dead Man Walking
Throughout the year 2000, filmmakers went behind the scenes with the San Francisco Opera, onto death row and into the hearts of families to capture the process leading to the world premiere of Dead Man Walking, a provocative new opera about the death penalty.
Bay Window
KQED's documentary series, Bay Window programs explore issues important to the Bay Area and beyond.
Beautiful Bay Area III: Our Beautiful Parks
This HDTV program takes viewers on a non-narrated journey along nature trails, placid lakes and mountaintops in 15 Bay Area parks.
Most Beautiful Building, Most Controversial Court
Some have described it as the most beautiful building in the West. For others, it is a liberal court deviating from American mores. With host Spencer Michels, Northern California correspondent for the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, Most Beautiful Building; Most Controversial Court explores not only the spectacular architecture of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals building, celebrating its 100th anniversary this year, but also the controversy over its decisions.
Big Band Magic!
War and the Depression melted away when the big bands started to play, and a generation forgot its troubles on the dance floor. This KQED-produced special takes a nostalgic look back at the ballrooms and dance halls of the Bay Area, reviving the fondest memories of a generation, and treating viewers to a glimpse of this fabled past.
California Connected
A weekly newsmagazine that examined events and issues through the eyes of state policymakers, opinion shapers and grass-roots community leaders. California Connected was about what works and what needs fixing, what unites the state's residents and what challenges them, what's worth celebrating and what's worth lampooning. Co-produced by KQED-San Francisco, KCET-Los Angeles, KPBS-San Diego and KVIE-Sacramento.
China From the Inside
This series of four documentaries, shot in high-definition, explores China through Chinese eyes to see how their history has shaped them - and where their present is taking them. A co-production with Granada.
The Complete Pépin
These thirteen half-hour episodes include Jacques Pépin's classic teachings with new opens and closes from the culinary legend.
Television is most powerful when it informs. The mission of KQED'S FAQ series is simple and forthright: Give people a general understanding of the main concerns of a particular topic, cover the immediate questions that come to mind and direct viewers to resources where they can explore it in greater detail. Topics range from the intricacies of hospice care to family-friendly bike trails. If people are asking questions about it, FAQ will help find the
FRONTLINE turns its lens on the global community and brings a new generation of video journalists to television and the Web. Co-produced by KQED-San Francisco and WGBH-Boston.
The Golden Road: Today's Senior Drivers
Packed with vital information about how to maintain mobility for seniors without compromising safety, The Golden Road takes an unblinking look at this sensitive topic and pays special attention to the powerful and positive role friends and family
Grateful Dead: The Closing of Winterland
This program celebrates the last concert at the famed rock and roll palace and captures the energy and spirit of the 60s and 70s. Twenty five years ago, New Years Eve, 1978, the Grateful Dead played to a standing room only crowd of 5400 fans. Dubbed Winterland's house band, the Grateful Dead performed from midnight until 6am, including three encores. Interspersed throughout the concert, drummer Mickey Hart and rhythm guitarist and vocalist Bob Weir talk about the band's favorite Winterland moments. This concert was originally broadcast live by San Francisco's Public TV station KQED, and is the only recorded concert video of the Grateful Dead produced in the 70s.
Great Performances: The Merry Widow
In a Parisian whirl of elegant ladies, eligible bachelors, Maxim's can-can dancers and ever-flowing champagne, Franz Lehar's The Merry Widow has long delighted audiences with its effervescent tale of suitors seeking the coveted hand of wealthy widow Hanna Glawari. This charming English-language production from the San Francisco Opera features an internationally acclaimed cast and additional dialogue by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Wendy Wasserstein.
Great Performances: Othello
Modern dance master Lar Lubovitch has created a vibrant new interpretation of Shakespeare's classic tale of passion and jealousy, ambition and betrayal with Othello, a dance in three acts. Desmond Richardson, one of America's premiere dance talents, dances the lead in a lush San Francisco Ballet production, with Yuan Yuan Tan as Desdemona and Parrish Maynard as the treacherous Iago.
Great Performances: Sweeney Todd In Concert
Sweeney Todd, The Demon Barber of Fleet Street tells a twisted tale of love and revenge. Returning to London after a long stint in prison, Sweeney Todd is befriended by Mrs. Lovett, a pie shop owner who is "creative" in finding ingredients for her culinary delights. Together, the duo go on a rampage of evil deeds in the name of profit and revenge. This program is a filmed concert performed in July 2001 by the San Francisco Symphony, featuring Geoge Hearn and Patti Lupone.
Hardly Strictly Bluegrass
This one hour special, shot in high definition and co-produced by KQED and Austin City Limits, captures the music, spirit and community of this treasured annual event in Golden Gate Park.
Hope on the Street
This program takes a personal look at the lives of four people who are mentally ill and have been homeless. It also examines the devastating impact their conditions have had on their families.
Immigrant Voices, American Stories
In this 30-minute documentary, part of KQED's Immigration in Focus initiative, immigrants from diverse backgrounds share their personal experiences of civic participation.
Immigration Calculations
This 30-minute documentary, part of KQED's Immigration in Focus initiative, examines the effects of immigration on our economy.
Jacques Pépin: The Apprentice - Then and Now
Jacques Pépin's personal story parallels an explosion in activity in the culinary industry. Jacques has been an eyewitness to — and one of the leading figures in — the food revolution that has spread across America. In addition to providing an historical overview of America's changing food industry, this program includes a personal history of Jacques' life as a chef, a TV personality and an educator.
Jacques Pépin Celebrates!
World-renowned chef Jacques Pépin and his daughter, Claudine, demonstrate the preparation of creative and elegant culinary ideas for every occasion.
Jacques Pépin: Fast Food My Way
Designed to appeal to accomplished chefs and amateurs alike. With his signature charm, Pépin presents quick, easy and delicious recipes for today's busy lifestyle.
Jacques Pépin: More Fast Food My Way
In Jacques Pépin: More Fast Food My Way, celebrated chef Jacques Pépin continues to charm viewers with his straightforward, quick and delicious approach to home cooking. With recipes for everything from a simple snack to an elegant dinner, Jacques proves that healthy, tasty meals can be on the table faster than a trip to the local fast food counter!
Jean-Michel Cousteau Ocean Adventures
Jean-Michel Cousteau and his expedition team set sail to explore dangerous and spectacular locales across the globe in this high-definition series for PBS.
The Josh Kornbluth Show
This series brings Kornbluth - monologist, writer, actor, movie star, and fashion icon - together with the known and unknown personalities - the celebrities and innovators, the musicians, filmmakers and artists, the social critics and authors, the athletes and explorers - that add flavor and spice to life in the Bay Area.
Lonely Island, Hidden Alcatraz
KQED explores Alcatraz in a walking tour of the island, beautifully taped in high-definition format and hosted by Greg Sherwood and National Park Service ranger John Cantwell.
The Neighborhood Series: Hidden Cities of San Francisco
An ongoing television series designed to explore the rich history of San Francisco. Programs produced so far include The Castro, Chinatown, The Fillmore and The Mission.
Not In Our Town, Northern California: When Hate Happens Here
This program looks at five communities over a five year period as they take action when their neighbors are targets of bigotry. This urgent and hopeful documentary not only chronicles the pain of the victims of hate violence, but offers new ways for community leaders and ordinary citizens to band together when hate happens here.
On the Homefront in Northern California
On the Homefront in Northern California was a multi-platform program that provided a place on radio, TV, and online for KQED's diverse audience to discuss the impact the war in Iraq has had on their lives.
Paradise By The Bay
Few places on earth can boast of the natural beauty that surrounds us in the Bay Area, and even fewer can match such scenery with an amazing history. Both are blended in this high-definition production which takes you on a tranquil journey to the tops of our mountains to the shores of our coast. Along the way, you'll learn Native American legends, tales of European explorers, and
Presumed Guilty
Go behind the scenes and enter the inner sanctum of attorney/client privilege. This program follows two high-profile murder trials and courtroom dramas as public defenders and their clients face the maze of the criminal justice system.
San Francisco Ballet's Nutcracker
A two-hour national special as part of PBS's signature series Great Performances in commemoration of San Francisco Ballet's 75th anniversary season. This performance rightfully celebrates San Francisco's remarkable contribution to American dance history and its prominent role today in the international dance world. The smashingly successful Nutcracker was recorded live in High Definition by KQED at the San Francisco War Memorial Opera House.
Saving the Bay
Being shot in HDTV for national broadcast, Saving the Bay consists of four one-hour episodes focusing on the geological, cultural, and developmental history of San Francisco Bay and the larger northern California watershed from the Sierra Nevada mountains to the Farallon Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
Season by Season
Italian cooking from Chef Michael Chiarello of the famed Napa valley restaurant, Tra Vigne.
Seeking 1906
Best-selling author, Oxford-trained geologist, and adventurer Simon Winchester travels as far a field as Alaska searching for both the stories behind the catastrophic 1906 earthquake, and the modern day science of earthquakes.
Sin, Fire and Gold! The Days of San Francisco's Barbary Coast
The rollicking early history of San Francisco is explored in this HDTV special, which celebrates the colorful characters and events of the infamous Barbary Coast.
Weir Cooking in the City
Joanne Weir cooks in her hometown of San Francisco. Celebrating her discoveries in this food capital, she shares her relaxed approach to cooking, and invites viewers to explore their own communities for hidden treats and flavors.
The Working Uninsured
This program looks at workers without health insurance and shows the consequences in the larger community.
Facing the Mortgage Crisis
From 2009 to 2010, KTEH partnered with the CPB and more than 20 trusted nonprofit community organizations that offer free help and advice for homeowners and tenants affected by foreclosures. Seven short videos address some of the most pressing questions heard from the community. Please note: questions are no longer being answered, the blog will remain online as a resource only.
KTEH Cooks with Garlic
This live broadcast featured local viewers preparing their favorite garlic recipes. More than 40 videos were submitted for consideration and over 17,000 votes were cast. Watch the videos on YouTube.
The State of the Silicon Valley
This town hall style meeting, organized by Joint Venture Silicon Valley Network, provided a forum for citizens, experts, business executives, journalists, thought leaders and others to discuss the Valley's issues, obstacles and opportunities. Watch extended interviews of established and emerging leaders from the 2010 State of the Valley Conference in San Jose.
video i
Video i was a Bay Area showcase of independent film and video. The series presented more than 30 films over the years, many of which won numerous awards at both national and international film festivals. Specializing in diverse artists and subject matter, video i gave viewers an intelligent and eclectic alternative to the usual television faire.
Vietnamese American Journey
A month of special films highlighting the Vietnamese American experience, from the fall of Saigon, to the search for the American Dream, to preserving their history for the new generations. Aired April 2008.


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Sponsored articles
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Provided that your article has a value beyond a simple sales pitch, this site allows sponsored articles. Add some useful tips, and interesting story or some results from a recent poll, and you have nice backdrop for promoting your product.
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Positive reviews
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Exposure over time
Regular news articles are replaced by new ones and older articles will disappear from the pages. Sponsored articles will stay on our pages for a longer period of time, from one to twelve months. This guarantees longer exposure time as more visitors will see your article.
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BOULDER, CO - July 15, 2008
Webroot, a leading provider of security solutions for the consumer, enterprise and SMB markets, today announced the availability of Webroot® Secure Backup, a new data backup solution for home PC users which protects digital photos, music and any other files from damage or loss. Webroot Secure Backup, delivered over the Internet as a service, automatically secures data online, locally or both to ensure users always have access to the files they value most.
"Nearly 40 percent of home PC users consider their digital content to be priceless, and yet over 60 percent of those libraries of digital photos and music they've carefully developed are never backed up because it's too hard or takes too much time," said Paul Lipman, Senior VP and General Manager of the Consumer Business at Webroot. "Webroot has been an innovator at protecting computers from security threats. With the release of Webroot Secure Backup, we are now extending that protection to the valuable digital files created by home PC users in a way that is more effective and easier to manage than traditional desktop backup programs."
The company recently moved into providing software over the Internet as a service, or software a service (SaaS), for businesses. Webroot Secure Backup, the company's first offering of SaaS products to consumers, protects data from virtually any cause of damage or loss such as hard drive crashes, fire, theft and accidental deletion.
Unlike most other backup providers, Webroot Secure Backup combines online and local data protection into a single, simple application and service that provides up to 50 gigabytes of online backup space and protects files on up to three different computers; making it ideal for families and power-users alike. Users are able to select what they want saved by using simple tree indexes that allow them to pick either files or full folders for backup.
"Through the power of the Web, we're able to manage customer files in our global network of secure data centers that puts the work where it belongs - in the hands of professional technicians," added Lipman. "And, unlike many products on the market today, we offer users a choice of backing up files locally, or online, or both. We even give customers the ability to backup as many versions of a file as they want."
Webroot utilizes one of the most advanced three-tiered file encryption processes available to consumers to ensure privacy and data integrity, and leverages multiple tier-IV data centers to keep files secure "in the cloud". No other backup provider delivers the support of Webroot's global data network. Data backed up online is accessible from any PC with Internet access, and users can easily share links to files rather than send large e-mail attachments. Users can also create secure backups on local media such as CDs, DVDs, external hard disks, and flash drives.
Select features of Webroot Secure Backup include:
- Integrated Online and Local Backup
Webroot Secure Backup is a complete data protection solution with both online and local file backup and restoration capabilities.
- Protects Files on Multiple PCs
Data on up to 3 separate PCs can be backed up to a single online account rather than having to pay to protect each computer separately
- Automatic File Backup
File protection happens automatically in the background or on demand. Backups can be set to occur daily, weekly or monthly.
- Unlimited File Archives
Every version of every file is saved online until the user removes them, ensuring a every historical copy is always accessible. File archives are ideal for financial records or desktop email in case users need to refer to previous versions.
- End to End Data Security
Multiple layers of security are used to ensure files are protected during online backups. Data is encrypted before and after it is sent through a secure connection to Webroot's high-security data centers.
- Pricing and Availability
Webroot Secure Backup is available now and includes unlimited local backup and several options for online backup space. The price starts at two gigabytes of online backup for $29.95 per year.
Webroot Secure Backup is accompanied by free US-based customer support that includes 24x7x365 toll-free telephone access to a knowledgeable staff.


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The Ultimate Black Tie Affair: Honoring The Legendary Dr. Edwin Hawkins
The Celebration Dream Team
Saturday, August 10, 2013 from 5:00 PM to 10:00 PM (PDT)
Event Details
We, The Dream Team cordially invite you to join us for the "Ultimate Black Tie Affair, as we honor the "Father of Contemporary Gospel Music", the legendary Dr. Edwin Hawkins! Be sure to save-the-date for this premier event as we celebrate seventy years of life and over fifty years of gospel music excellence!
No refunds. Artist line up subject to change with or without notice. Everyone must have a seating pass. There will be absolutely no lap seating, no pests, no food or beverages. Dress Code will be strictly inforced. Disabled attendees must present disablity card for the seating area designated for our disabled guest.
When & Where
Oakland Inter-Stake Center
4770 Lincoln Avenue
Saturday, August 10, 2013 from 5:00 PM to 10:00 PM (PDT)
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NurtureLife® is a holistic perinatal massage therapy method developed by Pregnancy Massage Australia that supports women who are nurturing new life. NurtureLife® was born from a desire to share our specialist knowledge and natural support techniques with women on their journey through pregnancy and beyond. NurtureLife® Registered Practitioners provide specialised massage treatment that focuses on nurturing both mother and baby.
As a NurtureLife® Registered Practitioner you will discover that your services are in high demand, as women and health professionals are continually seeking quality practitioners like you. You will be able to grow your business backed by the strength, experience and reputation of the NurtureLife® brand.
Upon completion of the NurtureLife® Practitioner's Course you will join our family of practitioners and become a NurtureLife® Registered Practitioner. This identifies you as a unique therapist who is a specialist in perinatal care. You will receive a NurtureLife® 'Start Up Pack' of support material, including promotional collateral, a listing on our website, future course discounts, package deals for staff training, and referrals to help build your business.
NurtureLife® Registered Practitioners also receive mentoring and support from our highly skilled team.
As part of our ongoing commitment to women's well-being, NurtureLife® is dedicated to sharing the latest research into pregnancy massage with our registered practitioners.
Course Date
Date(s) - 15/05/2017 - 17/05/2017
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Objective: To promote the practice Model the Way (Set the Example), use this activity to start a discussion about individual values in a more subliminal way. For example, without asking people to write down and share their "values", this exercise provides the opportunity for participants to speak to their values, realistically and wholeheartedly.
Audience: This activity can be done in both large and small groups.
Time Required: 1 hour prep time; 2 minutes to select picture; 15-60 minutes for group discussion, depending on the number of people participating.
Materials Needed/Setup: Based on the size of the group, three pictures for each participant, randomly selected and cut out from various magazines (i.e., a group of 10 = 30 pictures required). A wide variety of pictures should be selected with images that imply family, work, nature, culture, and so on. Before the group gathers, set up a table and spread out all of the cut-out pictures, making sure that participants are not allowed to "peak" at them before the activity gets started.
Process: Once the group has gathered, ask participants to walk around the table where the pictures are displayed and select the one that resonates most with them. Limit this part of the process to 2 minutes and request that participants make their selection in silence. Next, ask each person individually to share the main reason(s) he or she felt drawn to that specific picture. When everyone in the group has participated, the facilitator shares his or her own reasons and then discusses the topic of values: how the picture that each person chose is a reflection of his or her value system. Our values are so ingrained in who we are. And this activity brings out some of the things we find most important without even thinking about them.
Facilitator Tips: There is no limit to the number of pictures that can be made available but a minimum of three per participant is recommended. If more than one person selects a specific picture, participants can share.
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Infant and young child feeding - tools and materials
Good nutrition is critical for healthy growth and development of infants and young children. The WHO/UNICEF Global strategy for infant and young child feeding summarizes the actions that governments and other concerned parties should take to protect, promote and support appropriate infant and young child feeding. This brochure presents tools developed and supported by WHO's Department of Child and Adolescent Health and Development, in collaboration with other relevant WHO departments and partners, to facilitate the implementation of the Global Strategy and increase coverage of effective interventions.


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The UConn Huskies fought off a strong second-half run by the Baylor Lady Bears to win 70-50 in the Women's Final Four in San Antonio, Texas on Sunday night.
UConn took a 13-point lead into halftime but the Lady Bears went on a 12-to-2 run to open the second half, cutting UConn's lead to three points. That was as close as Baylor could come.
Maya Moore, UConn's junior forward, led all scorers with 34 points, Senior center Tina Charles added 21 and handled Baylor star, 6'8" freshman Brittney Griner. who finished the game with 13 points and five blocked shots.
U.S. & World
It was the 77th consecutive win for the UConn women, who will take on Stanford in the National Title game on Tuesday night. The Cardinal beat Oklahoma in the first semi-final game of the night.
Stanford is the last team to beat the UConn women. That loss came in the 2008 National Title game.
A UConn win on Tuesday would cap a second-straight undefeated season, and back-to-back national championships.


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As we celebrate this joyful time of year, the NWLC is happy to share with you its December 2013 newsletter. Inside, we look at the exciting byelection win of our newest female Liberal MP, Chrystia Freeland, and introduce you to several other women whose names just might appear on a ballot in your community next election. Happy Holidays! More »
This month we continue our "Yes You Can" series illustrating the many ways women can get involved in politics at all levels: running for president of […] More »
In this month's issue, we try to demystify the first steps of being a candidate – the nomination process. We also continue with introductions to […] More »
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Manual installation
From refbase
This document will guide you thru a manual installation of the refbase package. Before you proceed, please make sure that you have:
- checked that your server meets the requirements
- downloaded and unpacked the latest refbase release package or the refbase SVN version
- moved all files to your web directory
Please follow the steps that match your server setup (depending on whether you're installing refbase on a shared host or on a dedicated server):
1 Installing refbase on a shared host
Note: We assume that your Internet Service Provider (ISP) has provided you with a tool such as phpMyAdmin to manage your MySQL database(s) via a web interface.
In order to manually install the refbase package on a hosted service, perform the following four steps:
1.1 Create the refbase MySQL tables
Open your ISP's database management tool (such as phpMyAdmin or similar) and select one of your unused MySQL databases for refbase.
Note: If all of your MySQL databases are already in use, and you don't have permission to add any additional databases, you'll need to install the refbase tables within one of your existing MySQL databases. In that case you should rename the refbase tables before installation in order to avoid any table naming conflicts.
Now open the file install.sql in a text editor and copy its entire contents into the SQL command entry form provided by your ISP's database management tool. Press the form's submit button to install the refbase database tables in your selected MySQL database.
1.2 Edit the file initialize/db.inc.php
Open the file initialize/db.inc.php in a text editor and edit the variables $username and $password to fit your needs. Your ISP has probably given you special values for $username, $password and $databaseName which you must enter here. For $databaseName, you should enter the database name that you've chosen in step 1.1. Please see the comments within the file for further guidance.
1.3 Setup your own admin user
Same as below.
1.4 Customize the refbase interface
Same as below.
2 Installing refbase on your own server
Note: You'll need to have some very basic knowledge of MySQL, e.g., we assume that you know how to run the MySQL command line interpreter and how to execute MySQL commands. If you require help with this, please refer to the MySQL online help.
In order to manually install the refbase package on a server with full access to MySQL & the shell, perform the following six steps:
2.1 Create a new MySQL database
Run the MySQL command line interpreter with admin permissions and create a new database by executing the following code:
If you've got MySQL 4.1.x (or greater) installed and you want to use another character set than the default one ('latin1', i.e. 'ISO-8859-1 West European') then use:
In the above statements, replace
MYSQL_DATABASE_NAME with a name that doesn't exist in your list of MySQL database names. In addition, replace
CHAR_SET with the character set of your choice. As an example, if you've decided to name your new database literature and use the Unicode character set (UTF8 encoding) for your database, your
CREATE DATABASE statement would read:
CREATE DATABASE literature DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8;
This adds a new database literature to your list of MySQL databases.
2.2 Edit the file initialize/db.inc.php
Open the file initialize/db.inc.php in a text editor and edit the variables $username and $password to fit your needs. For $databaseName enter the database name you've chosen in step 2.1. Note that you may be able to use the refbase package without modifying these variables, but we highly recommend not to use the default values!
2.3 Add a new MySQL user and set his permissions
To avoid any security risks we'll add a new MySQL user to the MySQL database. This user is granted only those permissions that are required to access the literature database. To add this MySQL user, run the MySQL command line interpreter with admin permissions and use the following
GRANT statement:
The italic items within the above statement must match the information you've provided in file initialize/db.inc.php (step 2.2). As an example, if you've entered the following in initialize/db.inc.php:
$hostName = "localhost"; $databaseName = "literature"; $username = "litwww"; $password = "%l1t3ratur3?";
GRANT statement would read:
GRANT SELECT,INSERT,UPDATE,DELETE ON literature.* TO litwww@localhost IDENTIFIED BY '%l1t3ratur3?';
This adds a new user litwww to the user & db tables of the mysql database and allows him to use only the SQL statements
UPDATE and
DELETE with any table of the literature database.
2.4 Load the MySQL database structure from file
The SQL dump file install.sql that comes with the refbase package contains everything you'll need to setup the refbase database tables. In addition it will provide some sample data. To import this file into your newly created MySQL database, run the MySQL command line interpreter with admin permissions and include the
--database option:
mysql -h HOST_NAME -u ADMIN_USER_NAME -p --database=MYSQL_DATABASE_NAME < PATH_TO_SQL_DUMP_FILE
Again, you must adjust the italic items within the above statement to suit your setup.
HOST_NAME should be the same as $hostName in initialize/db.inc.php. Similarly,
MYSQL_DATABASE_NAME must match the value of the $databaseName variable in initialize/db.inc.php. For
ADMIN_USER_NAME enter the name of the administrative user that has full access to the MySQL admin database. Finally,
PATH_TO_SQL_DUMP_FILE must contain a valid path specification to the SQL dump file install.sql. Example: With the refbase web directory as current working directory, root being the admin user and using the values from the steps above, your import statement would read:
mysql -h localhost -u root -p --database=literature < install.sql
You'll be asked for the admin password. After the command has finished your installation of the refbase MySQL database is complete.
2.5 Setup your own admin user
Now, open a web browser and access the index.php script by typing:
In the above URL, replace the string
SERVER_ADDRESS by your server name and
PATH_ON_SERVER by the actual path specification to your web directory.
This should bring up the main page of the refbase database. Login to the database by using:
email address = firstname.lastname@example.com password = start
You should see a welcome message at the top right corner of the page confirming your successful login:
Note that cookies must be enabled within your web browser, otherwise the login feature won't work properly.
Click on Add User which should bring up an empty form. At a minimum, you have to specify the admin's first name & last name, his institutional abbreviation as well as his email address and password. Then click the Add User button. You'll be shown a receipt page with the account details you just entered.
Now open the file initialize/ini.inc.php in a text editor and change the value of the $adminLoginEmail variable to the email address you've specified for your new admin user.
Log out from the database, then login again using the email address and password of your newly created admin account.
You can now delete the initial user by choosing Manage Users and clicking the appropriate trash icon. (However, we recommend to keep this user until you've explored the example records that come with the database)
Especially note that you won't be able to login using email address = firstname.lastname@example.com and password = start if you've already changed the value of the $adminLoginEmail variable before attempting to login for the first time. This variable must only be changed after you've created your own admin user.
2.6 Customize the refbase interface
In order to properly configure your new database you'll need to edit the global configuration file: Open the file initialize/ini.inc.php & edit all values of the contained variables to fit your needs. Please see Configuring refbase and the comments within the file for further guidance.
If you want to change the appearance of the web interface, checkout the CSS and header/footer files and modify them to fit your taste. See also Integrating refbase into your web site.


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CT Scan for Heart Risk Splits Doctors
A study suggests a benefit for 33.5 million Americans; not all are convinced.
Aug. 22, 2012 -- For hundreds of thousands of Americans, the first sign of heart disease is when their heart stops.
It's a situation that has cardiologists constantly searching for better ways to detect heart problems sooner. On Tuesday, a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association suggested that a test using a CT scan could lead to answers for many of the 33.5 million Americans deemed to be at intermediate risk of heart problems.
Yet the scan is not without its drawbacks -- a fact that has some doctors skeptical as to whether this test should be offered more widely.
The test -- known as a coronary artery calcium score, or CAC -- is found by evaluating the amount of calcium in blood vessels around the heart. Doctors accomplish through a CT scan of the chest.
In the new study, a team led by Dr. Joseph Yeboah, assistant professor of internal medicine-cardiology at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, found that this test was the most effective of the six different methods to determine someone's risk of future heart problems if they happened to be classified as having an "intermediate" risk of heart disease.
Doctors can tell patients whether they are at high, low or intermediate risk of developing heart disease by using what is known as the Framingham score -- a tool that looks at age, cholesterol, blood pressure, smoking history and gender. A high-risk patient will likely be treated more aggressively with blood pressure and cholesterol medications than their low-risk counterparts.
But while this approach works well when it comes to high or low risk patients, for the 16 percent of Americans in the intermediate risk category the lines are fuzzier as to when they should start taking these medications.
While the CAC is not currently in wide use, the study authors argue that expanding its use could help guide treatment for these millions of patients.
"The present study provides additional support for the use of CAC as a tool for refining cardiovascular risk prediction in individuals classified as intermediate risk by the [Framingham risk score]," the study authors write.
Specifically, the coronary artery calcium score would have accurately "reclassified" 25 percent of individuals from intermediate to high risk, and another 40 percent to low risk. This means more than half of the people previously labeled ambiguously as having intermediate risk would now be considered to be at either high or low risk, which would ideally lead to more appropriate care.
The implications of such an adjustment would be considerable. Heart disease remains the leading cause of deaths worldwide. Blockage of the arteries of the heart, or coronary heart disease, leads to heart attacks -- a condition that accounted for 1 out of 6 American deaths in 2008, according to the American Heart Association.
"While no one wants to be a statistic, the stark reality is that coronary disease is a leading killer," said Dr. Subha V. Raman, associate division director of cardiovascular medicine for quality at The Ohio State University. "Over half a million Americans find out each year that they have [coronary heart disease] while in the throes of a sudden cardiac death event,"
On the other side of the coin are the out-of-pocket expenses and the increased radiation exposure that this test entails. Previous studies show that radiation from CT scans has been linked to cancers.
Some doctors say the downsides of this test outweigh these benefits.
"I strongly disagree with the authors' conclusions," said Dr. Steven Nissen, chairman of cardiology at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation. "CAC scoring is a poor bargain with high costs and real harms."
Doctors Debate Benefits, Risks of Additional Heart Test
"The test is potentially worth the cost and small radiation risk only if it is going to change a clinical decision regarding the use of aspirin, blood pressure medications or cholesterol treatment," said Raymond Gibbons, professor of medicine at the Mayo Clinic. So for an intermediate risk patient who has additional risk factors, such as a strong family history of heart disease, he argues that this added test would be pointless, as these patients would be treated aggressively anyway.
Still, some doctors agreed with the idea that CAC could be used more widely to evaluate patients.
"With these new data, we have a much better understanding of the best utility for this tool and can understand much better how to apply this technology," Clyde W. Yancy, chief of cardiology at Northwestern University, wrote in an email.
"That coronary artery calcium scoring prevails against these and other candidate risk markers is the news of the day."


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There once was a time, back when there was no need to specify which world war you were referring to, when the fullback was the most important position in football. Owners actually bid against each other for fullbacks. I like to imagine everyone present at these bidding wars looking more or less like the Monopoly Man, disputing the preponderance of the forward pass the way present-day offensive coordinators debate the viability of the read-option.
During this time, two teams decided they desperately wanted a specific fullback with a boxer's physique and a nickname to match: Stanislaus "Stockyard Stan" Kostka of Fargo, N.D. The football Brooklyn Dodgers and the Philadelphia Eagles engaged in a bidding war for the fullback's services. The owner of the Eagles at the time was Bert Bell, who lost out to the Dodgers and their $5,000 bid. In an effort to promote competitive balance, Bell worked feverishly the following season to institute the reverse draft known to American sports today.
Bell wouldn't need to bother with any bidding war to get the top talent the following year: Due to the Eagles owning the worst record, combined with the first-ever reverse order NFL draft, he would have his pick of the country's collegiate stars in 1936.
It may be the simplicity of hindsight that makes Bell's fortune seem to unfold as such a tidy coincidence. History is rarely a direct line, and it's impossible to know how much the Stockyard Stan affair influenced Bell in the decades forward. It's equally impossible to know whether commissioner Bert Bell in the 1940s and '50s kept Stan Kostka's statuesque shadow in the back of his head when he lobbied to embed revenue sharing initiatives in television contracts, or when he created the TV blackout rules that still haunt fans in this very-different digital landscape.
What is certain, though, is Bell's name is irreversibly tied to the commonly held belief that competitive balance is essential to the financial success of professional sports. Likewise, Bell's legacy is synonymous with the antitrust exemptions that enable American sports leagues to restrict their labor markets in order to institute salary caps, reverse order drafts, revenue sharing and luxury taxes. Bell is but one of a long, unbroken chain of league commissioners who extol the virtues of parity and insist fans will not be interested in sports if these measures are not in place.
We will probably never know if Bell's early lobbying victory influenced him for the remainder of his life, shaping American sports' politics and finances for the remainder of the century. What we do know, though, is he was wrong in almost every way.
The need for competitive balance is a myth: Fans will watch leagues without it, and even if they didn't, there's precious little evidence that leagues can do anything about it. There is one thing salary caps, revenue sharing, reverse-order drafts and luxury taxes do quite effectively: They transfer money from players to owners, increasing league profitability.
There was one other thing Bell was wrong about: As for the square-jawed talent from Fargo, Stockyard Stan played in nine games for Brooklyn during the 1935 season, compiled 258 yards from scrimmage and exited professional football after the season without ever having scored a touchdown.
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Roger Goodell, in the midst of a labor dispute in 2008, responded to a question from a fan about the future of the salary cap by saying, "The goal is to keep the competitive balance of the league." Gary Bettman -- in between wryly mocking fans for crawling back to the league after the most recent lockout -- believes (incorrectly) the NHL's competitive balance is "the best in sports." That title is actually owned by the NFL. David Stern presides over the least competitively balanced league, but he believes the most recent labor agreement will "level the playing field" by redistributing more than $200 million from large markets to smaller market teams.
If this all sounds vague and circular to you, that's because the concept of competitive balance is purposely vague. League commissioners and owners have rarely proposed their own clarifying definitions. The closest we have come was the Bud Selig-organized Blue Ribbon Panel On Baseball Economics to analyze the economic structure of Major League Baseball, which concluded: "Proper competitive balance should be understood to exist when there are no clubs chronically weak because of MLB's structural features. Proper competitive balance will not exist until every well-run club has a regularly recurring reasonable hope of reaching postseason play."
There are two separate but key concepts here to keep in the back of your head: That competitive balance is a function of the league's policies, and that if a club is well-run, it has a reasonable hope of basic success.
The former idea, that league policies affect the relative strength or weakness of clubs, has always been a part of sport history. How that relates to actual on-field success is the part that has changed over time. As economists Rodney Fort and James Quirk outline in their wide-ranging paper, "Cross-Subsidization, Incentives, and Outcomes in Professional Team Sports Leagues":
"The reserve clause was introduced into baseball in the 1880 season as a way to control player salaries. Subsequently, it was incorporated into all other major American sports leagues … the reserve, or option, clause in a player's contract essentially binds the player for his entire playing career to the owner of the contract."
That is all simple enough: Owners wanted to pay players as little as possible, and in the pre-trust-busting era, they were able to get away with quite a lot. But look at what happens when that collusion is challenged:
"Over time, as the reserve clause faced court challenges, owners of sports teams developed the argument that, whatever the consequences of the reserve clause on players' salaries, it was needed to preserve competitive balance. Owners argued that free agency would allow the richest teams to acquire a disproportionate share of the playing talent in the league. Competitive balance would be destroyed, driving weaker franchises out of business."
Indeed, in Toolson v. New York Yankees (1953), the reserve clause was challenged and upheld in federal court, because leagues are a single entity "amusement" with the primary purpose of entertaining the fans, which ostensibly requires offering a competitive product for each and every game. Of course, this competitively-imbalanced dystopian vision owners painted of a free-agent system was not all that different from what they actually had under the reserve clause. In "Those Damn Yankees: The Secret Life of America's Greatest Franchise," Dean Chadwin wrote of the true effect of the reserve clause on competitive balance:
"The reserve system had always been justified by the owners as necessary to maintain competitive balance. In fact it has enabled the best teams to squirrel away talented players in the minors where they can serve as insurance in case of injury, and more importantly be kept off the rosters of potential rivals."
Even though the reserve system was largely a mechanism for the richest clubs to hoard talent and restrict labor costs -- the very opposite of competitive balance -- the argument had proven a worthy tool and received federal sanction.
That argument has evolved over time to fit the needs of each league, but it has generally been claimed that increasing competitive balance will also increase fans' interest, getting them to attend more games and spend more money, thereby raising profits for the league. Today, the most discussed tools to promote competitive balance are concerned with keeping the top clubs from spending too much: salary caps, luxury taxes and revenue sharing.
Each league has its own particulars, and many fans are misled with anecdotal evidence into believing that these measures affect competitive balance. The NFL, which has the most restrictive salary cap and most socialistic revenue sharing agreement, has the most competitive balance, whereas Major League Baseball was mired in controversy during the 1990s because of a few rich clubs dominating, combined with the lack of salary cap or revenue sharing arrangements. To many, the evidence seemed apparent enough: Small-market teams couldn't afford good players, and therefore couldn't compete without some league policies to distribute revenue or prevent the big clubs from spending too much. Owners no longer needed ammunition to argue in federal courts against trust-busters, but rather against player unions fighting for a larger slice of the pie. The concept of competitive balance is a timeless weapon.
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The first thing owners do to convince others that there is a competitive balance issue is to focus on the number of teams winning championships. The Blue Ribbon Panel mentioned above began its report by declaring, "[from 1995-1999] no club from payroll Quartiles III or IV [the lower half of the league] won a DS [Division Series] or LCS [League Championship Series] game, and no club from payroll quartiles II, III or IV won a World Series game." Aside from a woefully inadequate sample size and problematic methodology, this is a fundamentally flawed way to measure parity.
"Playoffs are not a scientific experiment of any sort," sports economist David Berri of Southern Utah University and author of "The Wages of Wins" told me. "Especially in something like football, that's purely a crapshoot. It is very much the same thing in baseball, because seven games is not enough time to determine who the better team is." Sports economist J.C. Bradbury of Kennesaw State University makes the same argument in his book "Hot Stove Economics": "In a best-of-seven contest, the inferior team would still be expected to emerge as the champion 40 percent of the time. It would take 23 games for the inferior team to have less than a five percent chance of winning more games than the superior team." The randomness of postseason play makes for an enthralling spectacle, but it isn't a sound argument for whether a league is competitively balanced.
Rather, the preferred method of measuring competitive balance is looking at the distribution of wins over time. When sports economists do this, they almost invariably find that salary caps, luxury taxes and revenue sharing have no effect on competitive balance. John Vrooman found in his 1995 study that salary caps ironically promote competitive imbalance because it allows the league to behave as one entity, rather than each team acting as an individual firm. Once a league is recognized as a single economic entity, it (shockingly) starts acting like one, and that isn't good from a competitive balance perspective. Once MLB, for example, is a single entity, it's primarily concerned with the health of the entire league. So it institutes policies that may shuffle money around to make unprofitable teams profitable, but it doesn't mandate they become more competitive, as has been the case with the Pittsburgh Pirates, who have (until recently) been lousy on the field for two decades, and yet quite profitable off of it.
But Vrooman's work was admittedly theoretical. For more analytical work, Martin Schmidt and Dave Berri conducted a 2001 study that analyzed competitive balance using a traditional measure of equality, the Gini Coefficient, to measure the relationship between attendance and wins in baseball. To their surprise, they found the 1990s were actually the most competitively balanced decade in baseball history, and there had been a steady trend in that direction for decades. The Gini Coefficient has its problems and limitations, but it's also not the only measure to come to the same conclusion. In his aforementioned book, Bradbury used the Noll-Scully Measure of competitive balance -- which uses the relationships between the average number of wins per team, the number of teams in the league and the number of games each plays -- to measure MLB's historic competitive balance. He found very much the same results as Schmidt and Berri: "Competitive balance today is about what it was in the 1980s, and it's the best it's been in the league's entire history. Recent attempts to improve competitive balance with policies such as revenue sharing and a luxury tax don't appear to have had much effect." Likewise, Berri stated unequivocally in a 2011 blog post: "We found that none of these institutions [salary caps, luxury taxes, etc.] had any statistically significant impact on balance in any of these leagues [NBA, NHL, NFL, and MLB]." These are but a few of a host of studies echoing the same conclusion: league policies don't affect competitive balance to any measurable degree.
These data-driven analyses put the competitive balance narrative in perspective. Competitive balance is a nebulous red herring, one that cannot be properly identified by those who purport to be concerned about it. And even if competitive balance was a real concern, wins have never been distributed more evenly -- even before salary caps or revenue sharing were put into place.
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The term itself is a clever verbal ploy, because it's juxtaposed with "competitive imbalance," which naturally steers the mind to assume a certainty of outcome. But sports rarely, if ever, have a complete certainty of outcome, ESPN Classic excepted. Even in the most unbalanced league, the best team almost always loses some games (thank you, 2007 New York Giants) and the worst teams almost always win some games (damn you, 2008 Detroit Lions). What the competitive balance debate really entails is probabilities of winning. Along those lines, as long as there's at least a slim probability of either team winning, fans remain interested.
To illustrate this point, Berri pointed out to me the amount of fan interest in the first two rounds of the NCAA tournament or regular season college football, two venues of runaway competitive imbalance, yet also two of the most popular American sporting spectacles. We watch sports for a multitude of reasons, one of which is to witness the improbable. (While on the subject, you rarely hear NCAA officials pining for greater competitive balance, perhaps because their labor costs are already zero.)
When I spoke to Bradbury, he was unequivocal in his belief that the need for competitive balance is a myth. "If there was no uncertainty of outcome, yes that would be a problem for revenue. But we're nowhere near close to that point. So when owners say, 'look we don't have competitive balance, if we don't win more no one is going to come, therefore I need salary caps so that I can afford to pay players as much money,' that's really just a PR argument to try and hold down labor costs."
Similarly, when I sent Berri an interview request via email, he politely accepted, and then succinctly post-scripted, "And yes, [competitive balance is] entirely a myth!"
"It is the case that if you went to a game and you knew exactly what was going to happen, you're not going to find it very interesting," he said. "But that's not what we're talking about when it comes to competitive balance. Even though we know the Heat are better than the other teams, there is still a chance that they could be upset. And as long as there's a chance of that happening, we have an interest in the outcome."
Fans care about competitive balance to the extent that we don't want games to be fixed (and, I suppose, to be cognizant of the fix). But this isn't saying much, and the data doesn't support much else.
It's easy to imagine tormented fanbases caring deeply about competitive balance. Indeed, Berri's 2001 study cited above backs them up. It seems fans care about competitive balance to a statistically significant degree over three- and five-year stretches, implying fans don't mind waiting until next year to see their team win as long as every year doesn't become the proverbial "next year."
But remember the Blue Ribbon Panel's definition of competitive balance: "… when there are no clubs chronically weak because of MLB's structural features. Proper competitive balance will not exist until every well-run club has a regularly recurring reasonable hope of reaching postseason play" (emphasis mine). As the data has shown, clubs aren't weak because of a league's structural features; they're weak independent of what structural features leagues implement. In fact, the definition itself is circular. A well-run club can, by definition, field a competitive team by finding labor market inefficiencies to exploit. There have been far more small-market clubs able to do so than those that have lost money in any given year over the past three decades. "Moneyball" is the most obvious, culturally relevant and sexy example here, but it's hardly the most important.
Every year and in every sport, teams hire students straight from graduate school into their analytics departments, and the Sloan Sports Analytics Conference keeps metastasizing with eager khakied wannabes waiting to be called up to their own corner of the major leagues. Yes, the rich teams are hiring, too, but that's not all that important. The whole point of the statistical revolution is to properly value players based on what they contribute on the field, which is largely independent of market size or team revenue. Forget Hollywood's portrayal, the statistical revolution hasn't been about rich teams versus poor teams; it's about not overpaying, which is what salary caps and luxury taxes have been trying to prevent. In some ways, advanced statistics are accomplishing what lockouts, luxury taxes and salary caps have been attempting for decades. One of the reasons these league policies haven't affected competitive balance is because spending more money on players than they're worth isn't a good strategy for winning games.
To be fair, there is one measure leagues can implement that Berri acknowledges helps competitive balance. During my research, I came across a study that analyzed the effect the 1993 Collective Bargaining Agreement in the NFL -- the one that implemented the salary cap and expanded free agency -- had on competitive balance. In a major oversight, it assumed all the positive effects of competitive balance were due to these mechanisms, not one other implementation in that same CBA: the salary floor, or the mandatory minimum spending on players each team had to meet per year.
The Buccaneers are a prime example: Forced to spend money on players, their record drastically improved, going from hapless day-glo orange laughing stock to perennial .500-plus contender. Of course, the Buccaneers didn't become a top-spending club, and Tampa Bay didn't suddenly evolve into a booming metropolis. They were simply forced to spend money on players.
Similarly, reverse-order drafts are often -- but not unanimously -- believed to increase competitive balance, although to what degree is often contested. This is because -- unlike revenue sharing which simply shuffles money around -- drafts reallocate talent. But teams always have the choice of "selling" that talent for more prospects and picks as that talent demands higher salaries in future contracts. If the team is only interested in profits, this won't help it improve on the field.
However, salary floors don't come with that option. Teams simply must spend money on players, so they might as well try and do it on good ones. This is further evidence the competitive balance argument is circular: If the only universally effective league policy is one that forces Monty Burns-esque owners to actually, you know, spend money on players, then policies that artificially restrict player salaries cannot help competitive balance.
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Salary caps and revenue sharing accomplish very calculated and important goals for league offices with massive payoffs, the same goal they've been fighting for since the inception of the reserve clause more than 130 years ago: to systematically lower player salaries. In 2003, Rodney Fort published a theoretical work showing that redistributing revenues from rich teams to poor teams will make winning less valuable for all teams, and therefore make labor less valuable as well. What he showed was that if the benefits of winning (money) are spread out more evenly, then everyone has less incentive to win and therefore will spend less money on players to try and win.
In a 2007 study, John Solow and Anthony Krautmann used the aforementioned Blue Ribbon Panel's data on MLB clubs pre-revenue distribution to create a model to estimate what player salaries would have been without the redistribution. They found that "[revenue] redistribution lowered [player] salaries by approximately 22 percent without affecting league balance." A 1998 study by the Bureau of Labor Statistics examined the four major U.S. sports, and found, "Salary caps and payroll taxes may seem beneficial to owners, but their effects appear to be more symbolic and cosmetic than fundamental."
That study also observed that the ratio of the salary cap to the average salary in the NBA fell during the late '80s and early '90s, when the league saw its revenue increase dramatically (must have been Horace Grant). The NBA had (and still has) a soft cap, which suggests that increased revenue was not being passed on to the players in the way it would under unrestricted market conditions. Typically, under unrestricted markets, if a league's revenue grows, owners will then have more money to spend on talent, whose salaries will rise as well (MLB and European soccer have seen this occur). But under the NBA's capped system, revenue growth outpaced salaries. So even though the NBA can claim player salaries grew in absolute terms, they didn't grow as fast as league revenue, and it's very likely players would have earned more under an uncapped system.
However, to understand that salary caps restrict labor costs, one needs to look no further than the name itself: It is a cap on salaries.
If salary caps and revenue sharing don't affect competitive balance, what does? Berri had a simple answer: "Outcomes are determined by talent and luck." Since luck is, by definition, outside of human control, competitive balance is affected by the size of the talent pool the league is drawing from. The biggest changes to competitive balance happened during major supply shocks, such as integration in baseball, or widespread scouting in other countries.
In his seminal paper, "The Short Supply of Tall People," Berri articulates this argument right in the title in intuitive fashion as it pertains to the NBA. The NBA has been the least competitive league for some time because there are only so many athletic seven-footers, and there's nothing a salary cap or luxury tax can do about that. Those seven-footers (or the select few transcendent talents such as LeBron James or the unparalleled Andrea Bargnani) can be shuffled from team to team, but there will always be a few teams with them and many without.
But this made me wonder why we don't hear European soccer leagues talk more about competitive balance, even though they draw from a global talent pool. Berri's answer was the simplest one he could give: It would be illegal for them. You see, those darn socialists in the European Union make their sports leagues abide by all the same labor laws as every other industry: You can't own the rights to a worker before he signs a contract, you can't collude to determine how much money you will spend on employee salaries in order to artificially lower their value, and you can't penalize each other for spending too much money on employees.
(Some might counter this point by gesticulating feverishly at Financial Fair Play (FFP), which is basically an initiative to stop clubs from going into massive debt by signing players to heaping piles of money. FFP won't allow clubs to transfer money to each other, and it doesn't stop clubs backed by wealthy sponsors/oil billionaires/conglomerates/actual countries to simply even out the club's finances with their own pockets. On the contrary, it will likely widen the gap between small and large clubs, since smaller clubs, almost by definition, don't have wealthy backers to boost their bottom line, and they won't be permitted to take financial risks to climb the standings. Financial Fair Play is, in sum, very similar in spirit to what we have seen in the United States: a way for leagues to ensure clubs don't lose money, and not much else.)
The other wrinkle European soccer offers is the promotion and relegation system, combined with qualifying for lucrative tournaments based on the end-of-season standings, which keep fans interested in contests aside from the top of the standings. Beyond that, it creates a compelling incentive for most clubs to get results, lest they face the stiff financial penalty of relegation or not qualifying for an international tournament. This adds intrigue to contests that might be competitively imbalanced, in the American sense, because the bottom of the standings matter just as much (if not more) than the top.
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Maybe this would all come as a shock to old Bert Bell. On his deathbed, a doctor advised Bell not to watch football because his heart was too weak. Bert replied, "I'd rather die watching football than in my bed with my boots off."
Perhaps it was just an instance of macho braggadocio, or maybe Bert cared more about the game than any of us, and he genuinely believed in this competitive balance thing. Maybe, he'd look around today and see that the modern game is about so much more than what happens on that precise rectangular turf, and recognize the need to allow those other aspects of the game to play out just as freely as the physical sport he loved so intensely.
Then again, as commissioner in 1958, Bell took a more heavy-handed approach to the reverse-draft idea he invented some 25 years before, this time with coaching talent. Hoping to improve on the Green Bay Packers' last-place finish, Bell contacted Jack Vainisi, their personnel director, regarding the team's head coaching vacancy. Bell recommended an assistant coach on the New York Giants with a flair for the authoritative by the name of Vince Lombardi. With help from the league office, Lombardi took the job, and went on to accomplish a few things. Upon reflection, I think Bell would be pretty pleased with how things turned out, and would probably buy David Stern a brandy for coining the phrase "basketball reasons."
There's a reason I imagine they all look like Monopoly Men.


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You'll probably need time to cope with your own feelings before talking to your children. But try to talk to them before they pick up on things and start to worry.
Be as prepared as you can, and make sure you have all the information you need first and that you understand it.
Who should tell them
If you're a two-parent family, it's usually best to tell them along with the other parent – but this can depend on how you usually talk as a family. If you're a single parent you may feel able to, and want to, do it on your own. Or you could do it along with someone close who your child knows and trusts.
Even if you're not doing the telling, it's still a good idea to be there so you know what's been said. However, some parents do prefer to let their partner tell the children and not to be there themselves. You should do whatever feels right to you.
The right time and place
Choose a time and a place when your children are most likely to listen and feel at ease, and where you won't be interrupted. There may be places where you and your children feel more able to talk. Make sure it's somewhere they'll feel able to express their feelings.
If you have more than one child, it's best to tell them together if you can. This prevents them feeling like their siblings know more than them. If you're telling them separately, do it as close together as possible. Some children may wonder why they were told last. Try to avoid only telling the older children, as this can place a burden on them.
Avoid telling them before bed time, as they may not be able to sleep. If it's unavoidable, make them feel supported and answer any questions they have before they go to sleep.
How to tell them
As a parent, you're the expert when it comes to your child.
You know how best to communicate with them, how they might react and what support they'll need.
If you want to, you can practise what you're going to say beforehand and anticipate some of the questions they may ask. But don't try too hard to have the perfect conversation.
If you plan too much, a question from your child may throw you. Children can ask questions you weren't prepared for, and these may come hours or days later.
Choose a time when you're feeling fairly calm. See the first conversation as a starting point. It's the beginning of an ongoing process of gradually giving your children small, relevant chunks of information and reassurance. Allow the conversation to be directed by your children's reactions and the questions they ask. Listen and keep it as open as you can. Try asking questions that encourage them to express what they're thinking, rather than a one- or two-word reply.
Some examples of openers are:
- 'Tell me about ….'
- 'How can we …?'
- 'What do you feel about …?'
Be honest
It's best to be honest with children. If they think you're being vague or hiding something, they'll find it hard to believe they're being told the truth. Don't make things sound less serious than they are. But, depending on your situation, you can be hopeful with them and let them know that although cancer is serious, many people get better. Tell them that you and your doctors are doing everything possible to get you well again.
It's fine to say you don't know if you don't have all the answers to their questions. Tell them you'll try to find out and will tell them when you know.
Teenagers may react differently from younger children or adults when they're told a parent has cancer. They may ask for more information about the diagnosis and what it means for family life, and they may need more time to work through their feelings.
As with younger children, teenagers will benefit from being told the truth about the cancer and your treatment plan. It's best to encourage them to ask any questions they have, and to answer these gently yet honestly. Remember that although teenagers value their independence, they'll still look to you for reassurance and support.
Making a start
You'll need to use words your children will understand. These will vary, depending on their ages Here are some tips to help you through the conversation:
- Find out what they know and correct any misunderstandings.
- Use simple, straightforward language and short sentences to explain what's going on.
- Keep information relevant to the current situation rather than things that will happen in the future.
- Be as specific as you can – children worry more when things aren't clear.
- Ask them if there's anything else they want to know.
- Take it at the child's pace and be prepared for them to react in their own way.
- Repeat the information for younger children, especially those under seven, as they may not take it in or understand.
- Children also need to understand how their lives and routines are likely to be affected.


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She was last seen wearing her HEB red collared polo shirt, dark blue jeans, and black tennis shoes.
She was also wearing wired rimmed glasses and drove off in her 2010 Toyota Tacoma pickup truck that Tuesday December 7, 2010 at 2:30 pm at the HEB on SE Military and Goliad in San Antonio, Texas.
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Age - 63 years old
Hometown - San Antonio,TX
DOB - July 24, 1947
Hair - Grey
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Pauline is a mother, grandmother, great-grandmother and wonderful friend to everyone she meets. She is strong and healthy willing to help anyone if needed. Before her disappearance Pauline was in the process of getting a divorce and had spoken to her husband about it the day before she went missing.
It is unlike Pauline to leave without notifying family, so if you have any information to help us find her do not hesitate to call Crime Stoppers.
The information you share may be nothing or it may be the missing piece that will help us locate Pauline Diaz.
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- Pass the website link along to co-workers and friends.
- Print the flyer and tape it to your car window.
- Stop by businesses and ask if they can place the flyers in the front windows or
on counters.
- If you have Facebook add this information to your wall.
The last person to have spoken to her as she left work, is the lady pictured here. The image was taken from an HEB parking lot camera and if clicked on will enlarge.
Eyes - Brown
Height - 4'11"
Weight - 135 lbs.


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A kitchen garden's survival during a drought, or periods drier than normal requires planning, preparing and making smart, water-saving decisions along the way.
Eggplant, once established, can handle a dry spell with less water.
Start with the Soil
Add organic matter and compost to your garden soil before sowing seeds or planting veggies. This will help the soil retain more water and to absorb more rainfall when it does come.
Choose the Right Plants
Choose plants that have low to moderate water needs or those that can better handle drought and water restrictions.
Pile it on! Mulch with newspapers, cardboard, leaf mold, grass clippings, straw, etc. My neighbor Jack puts down a heavy layer of leaf mold around his plants in his garden, followed by layers of cardboard, topped with – you got it – more mulch. By doing this, he helps his vegetables survive an unexpected drought without having to provide supplemental water. Evaporation and water runoff are minimized.
Clockwise: Rich organic soil is key to growing vegetables in dry conditions. • Most peppers like it hot, and once fruit is set, will keep on producing in a dry spell. • To extend cool-weather crops or keep warm-season crops cooler, provide some type of shade with row covers. Using an old screen door is a creative way to provide shade cover for spinach, lettuce and mustard while providing a platform for sun-loving cucumbers to roam.
Understand When Water is Essential
Seeds need moisture to germinate, and all plants need consistent water to get established. After that, most vegetables benefit from 1 inch of water per week, at least until fruit set. During extreme temperatures, that amount may need to be increased.
When Watering
Water deeply once every four to six days so roots learn to search for water deeper in the earth. This will help when rainfall is inadequate in mid to late summer.
Drip irrigation is less wasteful, with water going directly to individual plants. Soaker hoses also do a good job of delivering water where it is needed most. Watering at dawn or in the evening at the bases of plants will allow soil to soak up moisture before it can easily evaporate from the heat of the sun. Avoid overhead watering altogether, if possible.
If water for irrigation is unavailable or water restrictions are in effect, invest in rain barrels to collect water to help your garden through dry periods.
Clockwise: Plan ahead to save water with a rain barrel in case of drought or dry periods. • Growing tall plants, such as sunflowers, on the west and south side of the garden helps cool veggies when weather becomes "too hot to handle." • Purslane is sometimes referred to as a weed, but this tasty plant can take the heat and drought and never skip a beat in the kitchen garden or in a container. Use it like you would okra to thicken soups or eat it raw in salads and on sandwiches.
Mustard greens are growing up under these cowpeas, which produce shade while the heat is too intense for the spicy greens.
Sweetpotatoes need regular watering until they are established, but they would rather have too little than too much moisture. During their last month before harvest, no water is required at all.
Provide Natural Shade
Plant in blocks rather than rows to create shade for roots and reduce evaporation. Raised beds work well when vegetables are planted close enough for leaves to shade the soil.
Control Competition
It is important to keep your garden weed-free, since weeds will compete with your plants for water. Remove plants that are struggling or have finished their major production, giving young plants easier access to soil moisture.
Keep an Eye on the Thermometer
When daytime temperatures reach 95 F and nighttime temperatures stay 85 F for more than a couple of days, many warm-weather crops, such as peppers, tomatoes and eggplants, will come to a standstill and stop setting fruit; blooms may simply fall off, taking future harvests with them.
Cool Off
When extreme heat is predicted, it is time to provide shade for the kitchen garden. Drape shade cloth over frames or hoops, allowing enough room for air movement around plants. Or, lightweight floating row covers can be placed directly on plants, helping to lower temperatures by about 10-15 degrees and hold some of the moisture in.
Extend Cool Crops
If you are trying to grow cool-season crops, such as lettuce, chard, spinach or other greens, in the warmer season, try growing sunflowers or trellises of climbing beans at the end(s) of the kitchen garden on the south and west sides, providing a cooler climate for them.
Growing vegetables in the heat of a dry summer can be challenging, but so worth it when you bite into a fresh, juicy tomato that you grew yourself in your kitchen garden!
A print version of this article appeared in Kentucky Gardener Volume 11 Number 5.
Photography courtesy of Cindy Shapton.


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Receptos Licenses Anti-Interleukin-13 Antibody From AbbVie For Phase 2 Development In Orphan Disease
Development License and Option Agreement Represents Blueprint for Innovation between Pharma and Biotech
SAN DIEGO, March 13, 2013 /PRNewswire/ – Receptos Inc. announced today that it has entered a Development License and Option Agreement to in-license a humanized anti-interleukin-13 (IL-13) antibody asset from AbbVie (ABBV).
The asset, designated RPC4046 by Receptos, has completed a first-in-human Phase I study. Under the agreement, Receptos will conduct a Phase 2 clinical study to demonstrate proof-of-concept in Eosinophilic Esophagitis (EoE), an indication designated as an Orphan Disease by the US FDA. AbbVie holds an exclusive option to enter into a global co-development collaboration for RPC4046 with Receptos following results of the planned Phase 2 study and regulatory discussions with the FDA.
"We are honored that AbbVie has entrusted a promising Phase 2-ready therapeutic candidate to the Receptos development team to pursue proof-of-concept in EoE, an Orphan Disease growing in prevalence for which there are no approved treatment options," said Faheem Hasnain, President and Chief Executive Officer of Receptos. "We believe that AbbVie's exceptional track record in immunology will be a strong asset in this collaboration."
Upon exercise of the co-development option, AbbVie and Receptos would enter into a collaboration agreement in which the parties would equally share costs of the Phase 3 clinical program and future development on a global basis. Receptos would retain a right to co-promote RPC4046 and share equally in profits in the United States. Outside of the US, AbbVie would hold sole commercial rights and Receptos would be eligible for double digit royalties on net sales. Additional indications may be pursued under the collaboration, as the mechanism of action has been shown to have potential in various immunological and allergic disorders.
Should AbbVie decline to exercise its co-development option for RPC4046, Receptos would obtain a worldwide exclusive commercial license to all indications for RPC4046.
About RPC4046
RPC4046 is a recombinant humanized, high affinity, selective, anti–interleukin-13 (IL-13) monoclonal antibody. RPC4046 binds an IL-13 epitope that prevents its binding to both interleukin-13 receptor (IL-13R)(alpha)1 and IL-13R(alpha)2, providing potential advantages in efficacy and / or safety. A Phase I study completed by AbbVie demonstrated that RPC4046 was well tolerated in healthy subjects as well as in patients with mild to moderate persistent asthma and supports both single dose IV administration and multiple subcutaneous doses. IL-13 antagonists have demonstrated efficacy in preclinical models of allergic and other immunological disorders. Human proof of concept for the anti-IL-13 mechanism of action has recently been demonstrated in a positive Phase 2 asthma clinical study, in which the anti-IL-13 antibody lebrikizumab was associated with improved lung function.
About Eosinophilic Esophagitis (EoE)
EoE is a chronic, allergic/immune-mediated disease characterized clinically by symptoms related to esophageal dysfunction and eosinophil-predominant inflammation. Quality of life is often significantly decreased due to food impaction, swallowing difficulty, and other disease effects. Designated an Orphan Disease in the United States, there are currently no FDA approved drugs for the treatment of EoE. Although the majority of patients are treated chronically with topical steroids, patients relapse rapidly within four months, creating high unmet need for drugs that reduce clinical symptoms, modify disease progression through tissue remodeling, and / or increase duration of treatment response. Over the course of the last decade, there has been a steady rise in incidence and diagnosis of EoE due to increases in atopic diseases in the general population and adoption of diagnostic guidelines. Based on reported prevalence and diagnosis rates, estimates for the 2012 diagnosed EoE patient population are approximately 160,000 patients in the United States and approximately 145,000 patients in the European Union.
About Receptos
Receptos is a biopharmaceutical company developing therapeutic candidates for the treatment of immune and metabolic diseases. The company's lead program, RPC1063, is a potential best-in-class S1P1R small molecule modulator candidate for immune indications, including relapsing multiple sclerosis (RMS) and inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). RPC1063 is currently enrolling patients into the randomized Phase 2 portion of a Phase 2/3 study examining the efficacy of RPC1063 in the indication of RMS and a randomized Phase 2 study examining the efficacy of RPC1063 in ulcerative colitis (UC). Receptos has established expertise in high resolution protein crystal structure determination, biology and drug discovery for G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs). This expertise has formed the basis of collaborations with Eli Lilly and Ono Pharmaceutical and a partnership with Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc. For more information visit www.receptos.com.
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