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Configuring context root for web application libraries
By Aseembajaj-Oracle on Dec 22, 2008
There are many ways to configure context root for web applications and modules in WebLogic Server. There are rules around context root configuration of shared web application libraries too. This post intends to put all these configuration settings together. To read more about shared Java EE libraries supported by WebLogic Server, please refer to the documentation.
To begin with, let's go through context root configuration in non-library scenarios.
1. When a standalone web application is deployed, the context root is the file name sans the .war suffix. This can be overridden by the use of <context-root> setting in weblogic.xml. In such cases the configured value is used.
2. When an enterprise application is deployed without application.xml, enclosed web modules are deployed with context root of module URI sans the .war suffix. This scenario only works with release 10.0 (Java EE 5) onwards. On earlier edition, such an application would not deploy.
3. When an enterprise application is deployed with application.xml no module scanning is performed. The declared web modules are deployed with the value from the declared <context-root> element in application.xml. This element is mandatory according to schema for application.xml. This configuration would override any <context-root> declaration in weblogic.xml of the module.
WebLogic Server supports the use of shared web application libraries that can be referred to from any of the following:
1. Enterprise applications or shared enterprise application libraries
2. Web applications, web modules or shared web application libraries
The meaning of such a reference is different in the two cases. The former implies that the referred shared web application library be added as a module to the enterprise application artifact. In doing so, context-root of this web module is set to the library file name sans the .war suffix. Therefore, any <context-root> declaration in weblogic.xml is ignored. This behavior can be overridden:
1. While referring to a shared web application library using <library-ref> element in weblogic-application.xml, an optional element <context-root> may be used. This declaration ensures that the context root of the library web module is set to the configured value.
2. <context-root> setting in <library-ref> may be further overridden by the use of <library-context-root-override> element in weblogic-application.xml. This overriding configuration element has been added to cater to 3rd party library scenarios. Say customer app A.ear refers to vendor library V.ear which in turn refers to another vendor library V.war. Since customer has no control over <library-ref> declaration in V.ear, <library-context-root-override> gives her a way to override context root for V.war.
When a web application, module or shared library refers to a shared web application library, the latter is merged into the former. In such cases, <context-root> declaration in weblogic.xml of the library is ignored. <context-root> declaration in <library-ref> of weblogic.xml is also ignored.
Further clarifications
After I sent out the compilation of these rules to a colleague of mine, Konstantin Komissarchik, he wrote back requesting a few clarifications. I though it'll be useful to share his queries and my responses in this post.
Q. Could you confirm that the library name (as specified in manifest or at deployment) is not considered here and that the starting value is always based on library file name?
A. Yes, the name is NOT considered.
Q. What about the exploded web library case? Is that even supported?
A. It is supported and the same rules apply as archived shared web application libraries.
Q. Could you confirm that library-context-root-override is more generic than just the above scenario? Let's assume an EAR referencing libraries that don't reference other libraries. Can library-context-root-override be used instead of context-root element of library-ref when referencing a war library?
A. No. <library-context-root-override> only overrides <context-root> of <library-ref>. It's not good by itself. In your scenario, you'll have to use <context-root> under <library-ref>.
Q. Can library-context-root-override be used when referencing ear library to override context roots of contained web modules?
A. No. In fact there is no such configuration that could be applied to enterprise shared library reference that would override configuration for all modules.
Q. If you have A.ear referencing library B.war, and you have <context-root> specified in <library-ref> element for B.war, can you then override that context root using <library-context-root-override> in the same
weblogic-application.xml file? Or can only override <context-root> declarations from indirect references.
A. Yes, you can apply <library-context-root-override> to a context-root declared in <context-root> declaration of <library-ref> of the same weblogic-application.xml
Q. Are there any nesting limits on how deep of a reference you can override? Say you have A.ear which references library B.ear which references C.ear which references D.war and specifies <context-root>. Can you use <library-context-root-override> element in A.ear to change the context root that D.war is mapped to?
A. There are no nesting limits on libraries. So there is no nesting limit for this override. In this scenario, the use of <library-context-root-override> would work.
Q. Is it possible to use <library-context-root-override> in an EAR library (rather than EAR application)? In the scenario described in #2 above, can <library-context-root-override> be placed in B.ear or C.ear and have the same effect of placing it in A.ear. If the answer to this question is yes, what happens if you want to override again in A.ear? Is that allowed? If yes, are you overriding the override or the original value specified in the <context-root> element.
A. The schema of weblogic-application.xml is the same for enterprise applications and shared enterprise application libraries. So the presence of <library-context-root-override> is allowed in weblogic-application.xml of shared enterprise application libraries. But it is ignored.
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The State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STAAR-pronounced "star") replaced the Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills (TAKS) starting in the 2011-2012 school year.
STAAR measures college readiness
STAAR is administered grades 3 - 11
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(CNN) - Tackling the effects of climate change could cost governments around the world more than $100 billion a year, a United Nations panel of experts said Monday.
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Hope said that if people continue to emit greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere, the bill will grow for everyone.
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BOSTON — Sophomore forward Beau Kretzman notched four goals to lead Amherst to an 8-1 rout of ECAC East foe UMass-Boston Saturday afternoon at Clark Athletic Center. Sophomore Jon Hill also chipped in with a goal and a pair of assists.
Kretzman tallied his first goal of the game with just under a minute remaining in the opening period, giving the Jeffs a 1-0 advantage.
Amherst found the net four more times in the second. Hill ignited the barrage 7:08 into the stanza, off a feed from sophomore defender William Jenkins. Kretzman completed the hat trick with less than one minute to play in the frame, extending the Amherst lead to 5-0 heading into the final period.
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Senior netminder Jaffrie Perrotti finished with 15 saves while UMass-Boston's Jeff Riley turned aside 30 shots.
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Viewers are loving the new show "Married at First Sight" on FYI Network. On Wednesday, The Hollywood Reporter shared the news that even though season one isn't over yet the show has been picked up for a second season already. This is pretty good for a brand new show.
The show actually takes couples that don't know each other at all and marries them. They meet on their actual wedding day when it is time to the knot. It will probably be really easy to find couples that want to try this out now that they can see how it works for the couples on the show now. The best matchmakers out there have set them up together and think that they have found the perfect match for them.
Only five episodes in, the show was picked up for season two. It will air sometimes in 2015 but the second season will be 11 episodes long. It will probably be a summer show just like this one was since FYI Network will need to find the couples and film but so far they have not announced exactly when it will air.
Jamie Otis went to Twitter to share that she thinks that this is a great idea for people to try out this show. She even shared that it could be their happily ever after and is worth trying. This does make it sound like Jamie might have found her true love on the show. Hopefully things worked out for her and Doug. Nobody will know for sure if they were able to make their marriages last until they share it on the finale.
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Stock Downgrades: Trouble Brewing in the BlackBerry Patch
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Wall Street ratings agencies set the tone for today's stock market.
Markets and mercury both reached fresh peaks last week, with New York temperatures topping out at a record 71 degrees for yesterday's first full day of winter. Thus does the
S&P 500 Index
(INDEXSP:.INX) stand on the brink of its best year since 1998, back when
98 Degrees
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(NYSE:HLF), which Bill Ackman intends to haunt to the "
end of the Earth
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(NYSE:WGO) that may be for the best, after its stock fell 15.9%.
It's slim pickings for earnings announcements at the start of this holiday-shortened week, but
Mechel Steel
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(NASDAQ:BBRY): It may be back down to Earth for BlackBerry today, which surged some 15.52% on Friday. This morning Hudson Square slashes the stock to Sell from Hold.
Coleman Cable
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Micron Technology
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Navios Maritime Partners
(NYSE:NMM): JPMorgan moves the limited partnership to Neutral from Overweight.
(NASDAQ:MKTG): Application software outfit Responsys gets reduced to Neutral from Outperform at Credit Suisse. Shares surged 40.34% on Friday after being bought by
(NASDAQ:ORCL) for $1.5 billion.
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Bose–Einstein condensate
Bose–Einstein condensate (BEC) is what happens to some things when they are made very cold. It forms when the particles that make up something are made to have very low energy. Only special particles called bosons can make a Bose–Einstein condensate and they can only do this if they are very close to the coldest temperature possible, to 0 K (or- 273° C, or −459.67 °F); or near to absolute zero. A Bose–Einstein condensate is a type of change of state, like when water turns into ice. And like when water turns to ice, it gets slippery; things that are Bose–Einstein condensates have 0 viscosity. This means they are as slippery as possible.
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Particles can only have a set amount of energy. They either have the energy to bounce around in gases or just the energy to flow like a liquid or be fixed like a solid. If you take enough of the particle's energy away you get to the tiniest or the smallest amount of energy possible. This is a Bose–Einstein condensate. This makes all of the particles exactly the same and instead of bouncing around randomly in all different directions, they all bounce up and down in exactly the same way, forming something called a 'giant matter wave'.[1]
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The Bose-Einstein Condensate was first thought up by Satyendra Nath Bose and Albert Einstein in 1924–25, but we then had to wait seventy years for somebody to prove that it existed. Eric Cornell and Carl Wieman made the first Bose–Einstein condensate in 1995 at the University of Colorado. Cornell, Wieman, and Wolfgang Ketterle at MIT were then given the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physics.[2]
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Usually to get anything cold enough to make a Bose–Einstein condensate you have to first trap the stuff using magnets and then, by bouncing lasers off them, take all of their energy away through red shift. This still does not get things quite cold enough. Some of the particles will still be bouncing around a lot and only some will be lying down nicely. The magnetic field is then slowly lowered bit by bit to let the faster bouncing particles out. This just leaves us with the coldest and slowest atoms inside.[3]
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- ↑ "Bose-Einstein condensation". physicsworld.com. http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/print/2242. Retrieved October 21, 2011.
- ↑ http://www.nist.gov/public_affairs/releases/BEC_background.htm
- ↑ "Bose-Einstein Condensate". YouTube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdzHnApHM9A. Retrieved October 21, 2011.


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The way of maintaining the beauty of Alas Kedaton Tourist Attraction (OWAK) is adequately unique. Village Community of Kukuh, Marga - Tabanan as the operator of the natural attraction organizes various rituals in an effort to maintain the balance of nature. "Every rerahinan (holy days in Bali), our community always deliver some offerings at OWAK. Even, the ritual activity is performed almost every day as a form of natural preservation," said the Operation Head of the Alas Kedaton Management, Rai Saptaadi, at the object some time ago.
Saptaadi Rai said the most grandiose ritual was held in the Dalem Temple right on the piodalan or temple anniversary of the Alas Kedaton Temple falling every six months (210 days) exactly on Anggarakasih Wuku Medangsia or ten days after the Kuningan feast (Tuesday, February 21, 2012). The ceremony was intended to maintain the balance of nature and to become a gratitude to God as the Creator of nature along with the contents.
In addition, a special ceremony for the forest-dwelling animals such as monkeys, flying foxes and other animals were also held every 210 days. The ceremony was held on the feast of Tumpek Kandang (Saturday, April 21, 2012). Meanwhile, special ritual for the plants was organized on Tumpek Uye/Uduh (Saturday, January 7, 2012). "The ceremony is only performed by the management staff. Conversely, the ceremony in the Dalem Khayangan Kedaton Temple will be involving all communities of Kukuh customary village," he said.
Every full moon or black moon coming every 15 days, the community of Kukuh also held a ceremony and so did small ceremony like on Keliwon coming every five days. However, the ceremonies were categorized to be quite small as an expression of gratitude for the opportunity to live and earn a living. "In day-to-day life, the people of Kukuh also hold a small ritual. But, it is only carried out by the people who earn a fortune at OWAK," he continued.
Nevertheless, the efforts to maintain the OWAK were also made, namely by providing health assurance for the monkeys. In addition to feeding on a regular basis, his party also worked closely with the Tabanan Livestock and Tabanan Health Agency as well as the Health Service Division of the Udayana University, Denpasar. Medical checkup for the monkey was not routinely performed, but it would be promptly done in case of the transmission of plague such as rabies, bird flu and so forth.
"Reforestation or expansion was only done once a long time ago. Therefore, the greening is necessary to be held again," he observed. In the forest habitat, there were approximately 60 species of plant. Among others, there were rosewood, santol, ficus, teak, coconut, mahogany and white leadtree.
According to Rai Saptaadi, the present area of the OWAK totally reached 12.5 hectares consisting of 6.5 hectares of the forest, while the remaining area belonged to the temple, parking lot, parks and the office. In the meantime, the kiosk complexes of private property remained to get supervision from the management of the tourist object. (BTN/015)
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Fusion has been the hot trend of the decade, and no city has seen the marrying of various cultural flavors and culinary techniques quite like Los Angeles has. Whether it's the glamour that attracts celebrity chefs, the vast array of local ingredients, or the benefits that come with being a port city, Los Angeles has been a breeding ground for ingenuity on a plate.
Josef Centeno is no stranger to the concept of fusion; he's been doing it for years at Lazy Ox Canteen, Baco Mercat, and Bar Ama, blending Eastern-Mediterranean influences and Spanish classics while throwing in a good smattering of Mexican flavor.
Orsa & Winston is the new fine-dining playground of his own making, where he can show off the extent of his skills as a chef and bring to fruition the flavor ideas he keeps in a carry-along notebook.
Centeno's passion for the kitchen borders along obsessive-compulsive in the best possible way. His menus will vary dramatically day by day based not only upon farmer's market availability but on a morning's whim. One night you may receive pork loin atop a creamy pâté and cranberries, only to return the next evening to a hand-torn pasta with braised beef cheek and spigarello.
Does it matter that the classically-French pea soup with muscat grapes isn't a logical follower to a heavily-Asian trout course with yuzu kosho creme fraiche? Perhaps, but watching the chef wield a knife with the enthusiasm of a puppy and the precision of a heart surgeon will make you question your critiques of his art.
To accommodate Centeno's inspiration whenever it should strike, Orsa & Winston is tasting-menu only, offered in five course, omakase, and super omakase formats. The five course option is the most structured, with a crudo, soup, grain, meet, and sweet progression, although you can be sure that the chef will throw in a few other small plates throughout.
Highlights may include a coddled egg sprinkled with pancetta or a sunchoke custard overlaid with a slice of applewood-smoked ham cap. Most plates will be laced with Asian flair, whether it be through several varieties of oriental mushrooms or the housemade togorashi pepper that is the chef's favorite seasoning. The only course without a hint of far-eastern influence? A decadent chocolate and caramelized banana tart that you would never have expected from Centeno, who hasn't put much stock in the dessert industry.
Perhaps Josef Centeno will fall into more of a predictable pattern with the coming months, and perhaps his dishes will come together as a meal in due time. In the meantime, Orsa & Winston is still worth the visit, if only to pay tribute to the king of culinary fusion in his rightful castle.


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This post has some spoilers. I agree with everyone who says it needs to take place right after TSL (No years or months, right after TSL Maybe a week but no more than a week!) I do think that it needs to take place right after TSL. You will either start as the Exile on the way back to Telos (most likely to inform the Republic and tell Carth even thought Carth said not to) or you will start as a new character waiting for the Exile on Telos. Now for some gameplay ideas of mine that will work. If you start as the Exile you will create two characters. One character for Revan using the faces that bioware made only they will all look a little bit older, and a Exile using the same faces. (If there is a new character they will get new faces.) Also I think it might be fun if once the character finds Revan that Revan becomes the new party leader and the character/s (Either the Exile, the new character, or both) you are using become party members (They will have no voice but that really doesnt bug me infact if the creators want to add voice they can) Also on the party problems, The new party should include 10 more people tha go with the 13 last members (HK-47, Canderous/Madalore, Mira/Hanharr, Atton, the Handmaiden/the Deciple guy, Carth, Bastila, Jolee, T3-M4, Juhani, Visas, GO-TO (However due to the cut cutscene the party will keeps "fat" Gotos' remains), Bao Durr (However again due to cut content Bao Dur might be dead just as many other party memebers from both games so this is as if you didnt kill the)
Haha! You make it sound like Halo where you Master Chief and the Arbiter. But you do have some good ideas, but if it was a new character, it either be:
1. A force sensitive who doesn't know it and comes across a Jedi in hiding who notices the PC's force sensitivity.
2. A new recruit for the Republic(also force sensitive) who, while on his/her first day on duty, gets caught in the cross fire of a Sith ship and a small Merchant Vessel(or a smuggler vessel *hint* *hint*) and ends up with a escaping Jedi who was on board the Merchant/Smuggler Vessel.
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This coast was Cape Town's first fashionable bathing area, particularly as the water here is 5-7 degrees warmer that on the Atlantic Coast. There are many good beaches here, with the best being Muizenberg, St James with its brightly coloured bathing booths and tidal pool, Fish Hoek and Boulder's Beach just beyond Simon's Town. Boulders Beach is a pay-for-entry beach that adjoins a sanctuary for the African Penguin. The high boulders and protected site make this intimate beach a wonderful spot for children.
This area has cultural and historical treasures, such as the Natale Labia Museum in Muizenberg, but its an area for enjoying the sea. Lunch close to breakers, and maybe even whales, in Kalk Bay, Simon's Town or Miller's Point.
After this, one moves to the Good Hope Nature Reserve and Cape Point, one of the Cape's major tourist attractions. There is an ostrich farm near Cape Point, and lots of curio vendors ply their trade here.
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There are plenty of positive examples across the NHS of the kind of supportive, compassionate and high quality culture and care that must become the norm, says Michael West
Times have been tough in NHS of late. The service has experienced the biggest structural earthquake in its history and has taken a sustained public battering from many sides. Ironically this is all after a period of major improvements in services, such as reduced waiting times and treating heart disease.
'The most outstanding trusts and their boards are already nurturing the cultures needed to provide high quality, improving care'
NHS staff continue to suffer among the highest stress levels of any in the UK working population and public confidence has been undermined by the sustained criticism of the service. Yet the NHS is a service that is admired around the world.
Because of the intense focus on the NHS, there is an opportunity to nurture a rapid and healthy change in culture across the service. This cultural change must include the Care Quality Commission, Monitor, clinical commissioning groups and NHS England because they powerfully influence cultures across the service.
Their cultures must be shaped to be supportive, developmental, appreciative and visionary by their leaders. Regulation methods should reflect this to support the diffusion of good practice and the development of healthy cultures. The Keogh review provided a fine template for the approach while not losing the sharpness necessary for decisive intervention.
Clare priorities
The most outstanding trusts and their boards are already nurturing the cultures needed to provide high quality, compassionate and continuously improving care. Lancaster University Management School's research offers evidence based prescriptions for how to achieve this.
'The best trusts avoid "priority thickets" − so many priorities and initiatives from higher levels that frontline staff are simply besieged'
We found the best boards go beyond merely articulating a vision and ensure that they and their leadership community embody the vision through their work. It is what they focus on, monitor, reward and reinforce in their daily activities. They also clarify their five or six improvement objectives as a team, defining how they will uniquely improve their assistance to their trusts to achieve the vision. And they recognised that if quality is not improving, it is getting worse so continuous improvement in care is a central concern for all staff.
These trusts ensure all directorates, departments, teams and individuals have clear, challenging and measurable annual improvement objectives that include care quality as the top priority. They replicate this clarity at every level of the organisation, ensuring through this disciplined approach that staff are not confronted by what we called "priority thickets" − so many priorities and initiatives cascaded from higher levels that frontline staff are simply besieged.
Being the best
The best are excellent at listening to the experiences of patients and the views of staff. These are not box ticking approaches that prioritise bureaucratic compliance with external requirements, but vigorous and sustained methods of gathering rich, in-depth views from both patients and staff.
They use the data they collect intelligently and feed the knowledge back into the system and to frontline staff so that improvement and innovation are guided.
Every day the vast majority of NHS staff strive to deliver the highest quality of care but we saw some fall woefully short − usually in cultures characterised by "command and control" toxicity and internecine conflict that sapped emotional resources.
'Abusive, aggressive, arrogant and disruptive behaviours should be called out immediately and poor performance managed'
In the best trusts we noted an implicit recognition that if staff are to treat patients with compassion, respect, dignity and professionalism, leaders and managers and staff must treat each other with compassion, respect, dignity and professionalism. National staff survey data clearly bear this out.
Such interactions become culturally contagious. In the best, staff were valued, supported and, above all, when they identified barriers to quality care, they were carefully listened to. And systems difficulties were confronted. And the leadership collectively agreed that abusive, aggressive, arrogant and disruptive behaviours should be called out immediately and poor performance managed, no matter how senior the individuals concerned.
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The best trusts we studied across the country have embraced team based working focused on delivering high quality, compassionate care that is consistently improving and working supportively across professional boundaries. Status and professional identity are not barriers to effective team working because there is a widespread commitment to the trust vision and inter-professional respect and valuing. Every team has its objectives and the intent to improve the effectiveness with which they work with other teams in the organisation.
We found these trusts had positive, optimistic cultures where there was a strong commitment to work cooperatively, supportively, cohesively and transparently. There was a commitment by leaders across these trusts to create a culture of high quality, improving care characterised by compassion − taking notice, responding empathically and taking intelligent action to help.
Many trusts we studied are working towards achieving such cultures. Monitor, CCGs, the CQC, NHS England and all those responsible for safeguarding our health services at this time of change and opportunity should do so too.
Michael West is professor of organisational psychology at Lancaster University Management School
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"leaders and managers and staff must treat each other with compassion, respect, dignity and professionalism"
This pretty much identifies the real problem - all these titles are NHS staff. The divide is artificial.
If only the Board, leaders and managers treat both staff and patients with kindness, compassion, humanity dignity respect and do the right thing for both patients and staff then NHS would be much better.
Fundamental problem is NHS is good culture and leadership is patchy. Bullying, victimisation, discrimination, club culture, Old Boys' network and tolerating poor practice and poor behaviours are too common. Sadly this is due to lack of true leaders not simply at the level of the Board but also underneath the Board. Good managers and good leaders everywhere who promote good culture and create good energy is what we need.
Even good doctors and nurses become bad or indifferent in a bad culture. Bad doctors become good or leave or removed in a good system. NHS must be for the patients, by the patients and with the patients and we need good leaders who always put patients at the heart of everything they do and anything else must be secondary. Recently met nearly 300 BME doctors in 5 different events who told me they are absolutely scared to talk about patient safety! This is simply shocking and two of these doctors come from 14 Keogh Trusts!
How do we protect patients if there is fear amongst consultants and GPs? If consultants feel like this then what hopes we have juniors raising concerns about safety?
NHS must appointe leaders for the right reasons and they should be appointed only on merit and not because of race, religion, club or gender.
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Riley Culley is a 17-year-old senior at Bingham High School. He is big and strong and likes to make people laugh. He's also a football player who played a pivotal role in helping his undefeated team win the 5A Utah State Championship Title. Recently, he won a scholarship to play football at Dixie State University this fall. "Riley is a gentle giant," says his mom. "He's always looking out for the underdog." He tries to live by the motto espoused by his coach: "Good is not good enough," having it engraved in his class ring, along with the name of his grandfather who recently died of cancer.
Riley's life was changed forever on March 27, 2014 when he was diagnosed with Ewing's Sarcoma, a rare bone cancer. Instead of playing football with Dixie State, Riley will spend the next nine to 12months in and out of Primary Children's Hospital for chemotherapy treatments and surgery.
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Public health laboratories can benefit in the same way from the epidemiologic information, to pinpoint the sources of microbial contaminations in food products. SpectraCell can type over 100 samples in a single shift installed in a routine microbiological lab environment. Its discriminatory power matches that of genotyping methods such as pulsed field gel electrophoresis. SpectraCell typing is based on Raman spectroscopic analysis of bacterial biomass taken from an overnight culture. Results are available within one hour after culturing compared to two to five days for the current method and can easily be combined with historic data to enable in depth epidemiologic analyses.
SpectraCell has been extensively validated for typing of clinical MRSA/MSSA and Acinetobacter spp. CoNS, E. faecium (incl VRE), Klebsiella, Enterobacter spp, Stenotrophomonas maltophilia, Pseudomonas spp, and food borne pathogens Salmonella, Shigella, E. coli, and Legionella are scheduled to follow in rapid succession this year.
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UPDATE: TA Softball Loses In State Title Game
Brookville Beats Knights 10-4
LYNCHBURG — There were two half innings in the 3A high school softball state championship game against Brookville that hurt Turner Ashby more than just on the scoreboard.
In the bottom of the first inning, the Bees answered a three-run TA top of the first with three runs of their own, countering the Knights' early push. Then, in the top of the fifth and down just two runs, TA loaded with the bases with one out, only to have the next two batters strike out — the first going down in a very controversial way.
Both half innings left the Knights' deflated and thieved of momentum, and they never recovered. For the second time in a week, Brookville beat Turner Ashby, this time 10-4 for the state title Saturday morning on a cloudless day at Liberty University.
"I don't know; I think we stayed up, but then, we just had some things that didn't go our way in the field," said senior Bre Bosley, the Knights' captain who went 1-for-3 with an RBI in her final high school game. "But they had a couple big innings that I don't think they should have had. We just didn't play our game. It just wasn't our day."
Brookville (27-0) beat the Knights (25-2), 5-2, June 7 in the 3A West region championship game at Liberty-Bedford High School before making it a sweep Saturday behind pitcher Jordan Dail, second baseman Brianna Atkins, catcher Morgan Dray and shortstop Morgan Bruce.
Bruce, a senior going to Division II West Virginia Wesleyan, gave the Bees the lead for good on an RBI single in the third inning that put Brookville ahead 4-3. Atkins went 2-for-4 with three RBIs, and Dray went 2-for-3 with two RBIs, while Dail a tossed a complete game.
The freshman left-hander gave up two earned runs and seven hits. Occasionally wild — Dail hit two batters back-to-back and skipped several pitches in the dirt, feet shy of the plate — she walked three but located when she needed to, striking out six, two of which killed a budding Turner Ashby rally.
Down 5-3 in the top of the fifth inning, the Knights loaded the bases with one out for Jordon Will. TA's junior third baseman eventually struck out looking, but it was on a questionable, low and outside third strike that had a lot in common with ball four. The next batter struck out swinging to end the inning.
"[The umpire] definitley changed the strike zone that inning," said Bosley, the Knights' catcher. "He gave them strikes that he wasn't giving us and hadn't been giving anybody the whole game. But I think it was deflating. It just kind of took the air out of us because you had the bases loaded, and we just didn't produce."
Just like the last Brookville game, TA scored in the top of the first inning. Saturday, it went up 3-0 after Cana Davis led off the game with a triple to right field. The Knights scored scored two runs on an error by Bruce — Bosley absolutely smoked a ground ball that caught Bruce on an in-between hop — and then a third run on a single by Katelynn Moyer.
The Bees promptly came back in the bottom of the first to tie it, 3-3.
"I definitely think that was a momentum-buster," TA coach Laura Bowman said. "No doubt."
Brookville did it again in the bottom of the fifth after the Knights' got nothing with the bases loaded. The Bees scored three runs to make it 8-3 and force Bowman to bring in Alexa Sheets in relief of starting pitcher Natalie Helmick, who lasted 4 1/3 innings and gave up six earned runs.
TA added a run in the sixth on a groundout by Olivia Cook, but that was it. Down six in the top of the seventh, the Knights got a runner on — Moyer walked — with two outs but couldn't score, ending TA's best season since 2004 when it won its first and still-only state title.
"I think our season was awesome," said Sheets, who went 1-for-3 and pitched 1 ⅔ innings in relief, allowing two runs and three hits. "Our team was just one of a kind. I don't think there was any other team out there like us with our talent and chemistry. It was just the season has been one to remember. I'm going to miss Bre like crazy. She was the best senior ever, best captain."
Turner Ashby won 24 straight games, including the Conference 29 tournament, before Brookville gave the Knights their first loss. Is there something about the Bees?
"I just think we psyched ourselves out," Bosley said. "They were our only loss this season, and I just think we psyched ourselves out and just didn't play ball like we had been."
Said Bowman: "Everybody wants to end up on top, but [my team] accomplished way more than a state championship this year. There's nowhere else I'd rather be. I'm so proud of them."
Davis, a freshman center fielder, led TA, going 2-for-4 with a double, a triple and a run. She had the Knights' only extra-base hits. TA, though, loses just one senior (Bosley), and Sheets described this season's run as a tease for what's forthcoming in 2015.
"I think we'll be a real strong team next year with everyone coming back," said Sheets, a junior. "I mean, on our team, anyone can pretty much play everywhere, so I'm not really worried about that. We're going to be back next year. I know it — I feel it."
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Oh, the joys of teaching!
Actually, I am enjoying the new job, and am hopefully also garnering new information for stories, or perhaps a novel, about said kids.
I taught my first too classes in Public Speaking today, and while the kids were a challenge, their energy enervating, the experience was great.
Picture this: each class had about 10 kids, the first group ranged from 5 years old to 9, and included a very shy Japanese girl who had almost no English at all. Except for her, the energy level in the room was through the roof, and as this "class" is an after school activity, these little whirlwinds left their good school behavior in the dust.
The second group included one very advanced 8-year-old, and other ages up to 11. These kids were by far more tractable, and more readily interested in learning how to project themselves through public speech.
I finished my first day, about an hour and a half in length, thoroughly exhausted, but feeling that I will, after all, be able to reach these little minds. I did, however, have to promise (and deliver) a magic trick for them at the end of each class… and that went over very well.
Will I be able to teach the younger group much? It's hard to say. Just getting them to sit still is a huge task, but I think so. While they haven't yet developed much of the fear that comes with later years, a growing confidence standing at the front of the room will make a difference for them.
The older group have settled into the idea, just as I'd hoped, and are seeing that they can leverage what I have to say in their lives.
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Idela was born August 5, 1919, at Balko, Oklahoma, to N.G. and Lydia Nelson. Idela went to her Lord August 10, 2011. She graduated from high school in Perryton, Texas, in 1937. She attended Panhandle State College at Goodwell, Oklahoma, where she met her husband, Kenneth R. Cavin. They were married April 30, 1939, in Dighton, Kansas. To this union were born three sons, Robert, deceased 1953, Burdette and Lynn. Kenneth Cavin passed away January 2, 1966, in Guymon, Oklahoma.
In August, 1968, she moved to Amarillo, Texas to attend Amarillo Junior College where in May of 1970, she graduated with an associate degree in Nursing.
She married Ralph McCarty on December 21, 1968, in Liberal, Kansas, and moved to Plains, Kansas, in June, 1970. She worked at the Meade District Hospital and Southwest Medical Center in Liberal, Kansas, retiring in July, 1984. She was a member of the First Baptist Church in Plains, and was an active in ABW, choir, and a Sunday School teacher. They moved to High Plains Retirement Village, Lakin, Kansas, on April 1, 2006. Ralph passed away on July 8, 2006.
She leaves to mourn her passing her sons and family; Burdette and Willa Kay Cavin of Kansas City, Kansas, Lynn and Laura Cavin of Mathews, North Carolina; stepdaughter, Helen McCarty Kessler, Lakin, Kansas; three grandchildren, Ashley Cavin Holmberg and husband Alan of North Franklin, Connecticut, Cory Cavin of New York City, New York, and Ronny Kessler and wife Nancy of Lakin, Kansas; five great-grandchildren, Caroline and Jacob Holmberg of North Franklin, Connecticut, Jacob, Cassie and Hayden Kesser of Lakin, Kansas; sister-in-law Ruth Deprin and husband Lou of DeKalb, Illinois; and many nieces and nephews. She is preceded in death by her parents; husband; son; and six brothers, Arthur, Harvey, R.E., Foster, Bradley and Delbert Nelson.
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In the inlay of Nick Drake's album Bryter Layter there is a photo of the English folk musician meandering in what looks like a park overlooking industry on the fringes of a town. It may not be everyone's idea of an evocative image, but it is to me.
It reminds me of the walks I used to take with my dad through areas of the Peak District in Derbyshire and Staffordshire. We didn't have a car, so we'd start out from some station and spend the day making our way back there via some tough inclines and some incredible views.
But what sticks with me are those moments on the edge of the small towns we'd move through, Matlock or Totley or some such, the point at which the fields start to become sprawling parks and then roads with houses and the odd pub.
They seemed to signify something for me, a combination of the possibility of people and the openness of space, the freedom to disappear. A unique junction where choice becomes irrelevant and both options are equally available.
For most of my life I've wanted to be somewhere else. Not exactly in a 'the grass is greener' type way, but more the belief that somewhere I might find a place where I might be happy. Anywhere but where I currently was, what I was currently doing.
Somewhere back in my childhood I convinced myself that I would find that place, when grown up, when I'd got what I wanted. Eventually I worked out that I was the common factor, that what I was actually trying to escape was myself. The dream was not a dream, it was an illusion.
It's in those moments of letting go that things work better, when I manage to enjoy an experience rather than thinking consciously about whether it's making me happy or not. Nick Drake's music is always one such experience. Although he only produced three albums before his death in 1974, his music is still an unending treasure trove for me.
Often seen as a poster boy for the doomed and melancholic singer-songwriter, his music is actually far more earthily real than tortured. Each album, each song, is arranged so perfectly that it sounds like it must have grown in a garden instead of being sculpted in a studio. The pause before the main theme re-emerges in 'Three Hours', the growing heavenly chimes towards the end of 'Northern Sky', the quietly grandiose and sweepingly beautiful 'Place To Be'. His music is better than a dream, because it is so very real.
And that's how Nick Drake has helped me. By reminding me that dreams are nice but they're not life, they're not living. That's what's important, wherever and whatever it turns out to be.


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Danella And Wellman Tabbed UMass Athletes Of The Week
Nov. 30, 2009
AMHERST, Mass. - Sophomores Kristina Danella and Casey Wellman were tabbed Co-UMass Athletes of the Week on Monday. The duo will be honored for their performances for the women's basketball team and hockey team, respectively, at this week's UMass Sports Luncheon on Wednesday, Dec. 2, at the Campus Center Room, room 1009, beginning at 12:15 p.m.
Wellman tallied six points, helping the UMass hockey team to a 1-1 week against two ranked opponents, #18 Vermont and #9 Quinnipiac. In the squad's 6-2 victory over the Catamounts, Wellman netted his first career hat trick, which included the game-winning goal, and dished an assist for four points. The Brentwood, Calif., native followed up by scoring twice in a 5-4 comeback loss to the Bobcats.
On the season, Wellman is second in the nation in scoring with 1.7 points per-game. In total he has 20 points on 11 goals and nine assists.
Danella was named to the Miami Wyndham Thanksgiving All-Tournament team finishing as UMass' top scorer in both games on the week, versus Rice and Miami. She recorded averages of 17.5 points and 8.0 rebounds per-game to lead the women's basketball squad to a runner-up showing at the tournament.
In a 71-57 win over Rice, the Manalapan, N.J., native tallied 21 points, including a 12-for-12 performance at the free throw line that tied a 16-year old school record for free throw percentage in a game (1.000, minimum 10 attempts).
She followed up with team highs in points (14) and rebounds (9) against Miami. Continuing her perfection at the charity stripe, Danella went 7-for-7 against the Hurricanes and has now made 27 consecutive free throws over a span of four games (last miss came vs. St. John's on Nov. 18) and 32 of her last 33 attempts.
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Back in October, CNN ran an interesting story about Marine motorcycle deaths having killed more Marines in the past 12 months than enemy fire in Iraq and that the Navy was also reporting similar rises in motorcycle accidents by miltary personnel.
So now it looks like Nicky Hayden has decided to take this issue to heart and will be helping the American Motorcycle Industry Council promote safe riding within the U.S. armed forces.
The 2006 MotoGP title winner and new Ducati Marlboro rider participated in a photo shoot to promote the safety campaign towards the end of February, at the Los Alamitos air base in Southern California.
The pictures and video from the photo shoot will be used in all US armed forces bases in the USA and across the globe.
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GlassFish v3 Progress Report
By pelegri on Jul 16, 2007
GlassFish v3 is making steady progress, despite this being the summer and a number of folks being on vacation.
We are trying to have a progress report every week or two; check the ones from Jerome and Jean-Francois. We are also starting to see some (brave) users (IAS using jRuby and Phobos); that thread ended with a discussion on the limitations of SSL under Grizzly, and I noticed that Oleksiy just wrote about SSL in Grizzly.
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MetroPCS to launch 4G LTE Android phone in early 2011
MetroPCS already has a 4G LTE handset – the Samsung Craft QWERTY slider – but this is just a feature phone, not a smartphone.
So in case you're wondering when will the regional carrier have a 4G smartphone, the answer seems to be: in early 2011.
According to Fierce Wireless, the new smartphone will run Android (most likely 2.3 Gingerbread) and it could be commercially available as soon as February. About six other LTE handsets should be launched by MetroPCS by mid 2011.
There's no word on what company will make MetroPCS' first Android handset, but it might be Samsung.
Roger Linquist, CEO of MetroPCS, expects LTE smartphones to be "priced very similar to 3G smartphones" – which means they should have prices from $200 to $400 – $500.
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SUNDAY'S WHL MATCH-UPSSun Dec 30
PATS HOST BLADES – Lane Scheidl and the Regina Pats (14-21-2-2) welcome Matej Stransky and the Saskatoon Blades (19-17-0-1) for a match-up between East Division combatants in Western Hockey League action on Sunday.
The Pats came away with a 5-1 win over the Warriors in Moose Jaw on Saturday night for their second road win in a row, and currently sit in fifth place in the division. The Pats are 8-8-2 on home ice this season. Scheidl leads the Pats in goals with 19 and points with 43 this season.
The Blades suffered a 4-2 loss to the visiting Prince Albert Raiders on Saturday night for their second straight setback to the Raiders, and remain tied for second place in the East Division. The Blades are 13-9-0-1 on the road this season, but have lost their last two road games. Stransky scored his 22nd goal of the season on Saturday versus the Raiders.
It's the fifth meeting of the season between the Blades and Pats. The Blades won all four previous meetings versus Regina this season.
Elsewhere on Sunday, JT Barnett and the Kelowna Rockets (25-10-1-1) host Josh Winquist and the Everett Silvertips (15-22-0-2).
The Rockets skated to a 5-3 win over the Giants in Vancouver on Friday night for their second straight win following the Christmas break, and currently sit just four points back of Kamloops for first place in the B.C. Division. Barnett, a former Silvertip, has seven goals and nine points in 16 games for the Rockets this season.
The Silvertips swept a home-and-home series versus Seattle this weekend, winning 2-1 in Kent on Friday before posting a 2-1 overtime win at home on Saturday. Goaltender Austin Lotz stopped 72 of 74 shots he faced over the two wins against Seattle.
In Red Deer, AB, Turner Elson and the Red Deer Rebels (22-14-2-1) welcome Eric Roy and the Brandon Wheat Kings (13-20-2-2) on Sunday.
The Rebels fell 6-1 to the visiting Edmonton Oil Kings on Friday in the back half of a home-and-home series between the teams after winning 5-3 in Edmonton on Thursday. The Rebels own the WHL's 19th-ranked power play and the third-ranked penalty killing unit.
The Wheat Kings dropped a 4-3 decision to the visiting Moose Jaw Warriors on Friday in their return to action following the break, and currently sit in sixth place in the East Division. The Wheat Kings have won just six of their 19 road games this season.
In Vancouver, B.C., Jackson Houck and the Vancouver Giants (9-27-0-0) take on Chase Witala and the Prince George Cougars (12-19-1-4) for a B.C. Division tilt on Sunday.
The Giants suffered a 9-5 loss to the Blazers in Kamloops on Saturday night for their second loss in as many nights and fourth loss in a row. Houck scored a hat trick on Saturday versus the Blazers for his first multi-goal game of his WHL career.
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This book proceeds from the assumption that music is always a social indicator; that is, it tells us something about the world around us. It responds to, mirrors, and influences the society in which we live. This comprehensive social history is organized chronologically around themes and issues which explicate the connection between music and other social processes. These include the multicultural influences in US popular music; the impact of technological advances; the significance of class, race, gender, ethnicity, and region; the importance of political context; and the power of consumer preferences. Rockin' Out is necessarily encyclopedic; still, it balances information with analysis. The text begins with the invention of sound recording and the rise of Tin Pan Alley, and proceeds through discussions of blues, country, and rhythm and blues as historical background. As such, it provides students with significant discussions of the preconditions and formative influences of the music. Garofalo discusses rock and soul, punk and disco, rap and metal, and alternative music as well as all of the sub-genres and stylistic variants of these sounds. This is the only text that covers the total range of US popular music in the 20th century, locates them in their social context, and provides an interdisciplinary analysis of their significance.
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Table of Contents
|p. vii
|Introduction: Definitions, Themes, and Issues
|p. 1
|Into the Twentieth Century: Popular Music and Mass Culture
|p. 2
|Rock 'n' Roll: The Birth of a New Era
|p. 4
|Marketing and the Politics of Race, Language, and Gender
|p. 9
|No Hablamos Espanol: The Language Barrier
|p. 12
|The Long, Hard Climb: Gender Discrimination
|p. 13
|Regulating Popular Music
|p. 14
|Mass Technology and Popular Taste: The Tin Pan Alley Era
|p. 17
|Sound Recording: From Cylinder to Disc
|p. 18
|Tin Pan Alley Constructs the Mainstream Tradition
|p. 24
|Tin Pan Alley Incorporates African American Music
|p. 26
|Tin Pan Alley Consolidates Its Power
|p. 29
|Commercial Broadcasting: A Very Private Enterprise
|p. 32
|The Growth of Network Radio
|p. 33
|The Advertisers Versus the Programmers
|p. 35
|Hollywood Bolsters Tin Pan Alley
|p. 37
|Blues and Country Music: Mass Media and the Construction of Race
|p. 43
|Blues and Country: More Equal than Separate
|p. 44
|"Race" Music: The Popular Sounds of Black America
|p. 46
|"Hillbilly": The Music of the White Working Class
|p. 51
|The Dissemination of Blues and Country: More Separate than Equal
|p. 55
|The Long Road Back for Records
|p. 59
|"Good Rockin' Tonight": The Rise of Rhythm and Blues
|p. 65
|The Publishers and the Broadcasters: ASCAP Versus BMI
|p. 66
|Enter the Deejay: The Broadcasters Versus the AFM
|p. 68
|From Big Bands to Solo Singers
|p. 71
|The Major Labels Reclaim Country Music
|p. 73
|The Independents Promote Rhythm and Blues
|p. 76
|High Fidelity/Low Overhead
|p. 82
|Television and the Suppression of FM Broadcasting
|p. 84
|Independent Radio: Deejays in Your Face
|p. 86
|Crossing Cultures: The Eruption of Rock 'n' Roll
|p. 93
|Cultural Diversity: The Roots of Rock 'n' Roll
|p. 94
|Structural Changes in the Music Industry
|p. 98
|Sounds of the Cities
|p. 101
|New Orleans: The Fertile Crescent of Rock 'n' Roll
|p. 101
|Los Angeles: From Jump Blues to Chicano Rock
|p. 108
|Chicago: The Blues Electrified
|p. 111
|Cincinnati: The Crossroads of Blues and Country
|p. 115
|RandB Sanctified: The Gospel Connection
|p. 116
|Doo Wop: The Intersection of Gospel, Jazz, and Pop
|p. 121
|Rockabilly: The Country Strain
|p. 131
|The Empire Strikes Back: The Reaction to Rock 'n' Roll
|p. 149
|The Established Powers Fight Back
|p. 152
|Covering the Bases
|p. 154
|Pop Diversions: From Kingston Town to the Kingston Trio
|p. 157
|Schlock Rock: Enter the White Middle Class
|p. 160
|Television's Greatest Hits
|p. 165
|The Brill Building: The New Tin Pan Alley
|p. 167
|The Official Attack on Rock 'n' Roll
|p. 169
|Surf's Up!
|p. 175
|Popular Music and Political Culture: The Sixties
|p. 183
|The Civil Rights Movement and Popular Music
|p. 184
|The "Girl Groups" and the Men behind Them
|p. 186
|Motown: The Integration of Pop
|p. 191
|Folk Music: The Voice of Civil Rights
|p. 196
|The British Invasion Occupies the Pop Charts
|p. 200
|Breaking the Sounds of Silence
|p. 209
|Folk Rock: Adding Substance to Form
|p. 210
|Black (Music) Is Beautiful
|p. 213
|Against the Grain: The Counterculture
|p. 217
|Blues on Acid: Psychedelic Rock
|p. 218
|Commercializing the Counterculture: The Monterey Pop Festival
|p. 222
|Riding the Storm
|p. 226
|Woodstock and Altamont: Reaching the Heights, Taking the Fall
|p. 231
|Music Versus Markets: The Fragmentation of Pop
|p. 239
|The Music Industry: A Sound Investment
|p. 240
|Merger Mania
|p. 241
|Expanding the Infrastructure: Counterculture as Commodity
|p. 243
|Creativity and Commerce: Rock as Art
|p. 248
|Sweeter Soul Music
|p. 257
|Singer/Songwriters, Soft Rock Solutions, and More
|p. 264
|Women's Music: The Feminist Alternative
|p. 273
|From Country Rock to Southern Boogie
|p. 277
|Mad with Power: Heavy Metal
|p. 285
|All That Glitters Does Not Sell Gold
|p. 294
|Punk and Disco: The Poles of Pop
|p. 301
|Punk Versus Disco
|p. 303
|Punk: Rock as (White) Noise
|p. 305
|Born in the USA
|p. 308
|Anarchy in the U.K.
|p. 317
|Flirtation with Fascism: The Underbelly of Punk
|p. 322
|Rock Against Racism: The Progressive Rejoinder
|p. 325
|Riding the New Wave
|p. 329
|Disco: The Rhythm without the Blues
|p. 334
|Proto-Disco: The Funk Connection
|p. 335
|Up from the Disco Underground
|p. 339
|Mainstream Disco: The Bee Gees Boogie Down
|p. 343
|The Hard-Rock Reaction
|p. 347
|Music Videos, Superstars, and Mega-Events: The Eighties
|p. 353
|Early Music Television: They Want Their MTV
|p. 355
|Superstars: The Road to Economic Recovery
|p. 365
|Charity Rock and Mega-Events: Who Is the World?
|p. 375
|Christmas in Ethiopia: The Advent of Charity Rock
|p. 376
|Mega-Events: The Politics of Mass Culture
|p. 381
|Technology and the New International Music Industry
|p. 390
|Rap and Metal: Youth Culture and Censorship
|p. 395
|The Continuing History of Heavy Metal
|p. 397
|Heavy Metal: The New Wave
|p. 397
|Metal Fragments
|p. 402
|Hip Hop, Don't Stop
|p. 408
|Old School Rap
|p. 409
|Hip Hop: The Next Generation
|p. 412
|Popular Music and the Politics of Censorship
|p. 423
|The Parents Music Resource Center
|p. 424
|The Issues: Sex, Drugs, and Rock 'n' Roll Revisited
|p. 427
|Alternative to What?
|p. 443
|Strange Bedfellows: Alternative and the Mainstream
|p. 446
|Marketing Categories and Monster Contracts
|p. 453
|Country and RandB: The Other Alternatives
|p. 457
|Lollapalooza: Countercultural Sensibilities, Mainstream Clout
|p. 460
|p. 467
|p. 475
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