Eighteen years later, of the 742 books reviewed by the New York Times in that year, only 28 of them were written by women of color, according to Haitian-American author Roxane Gay's graduate assistant Phillip Gallagher.
This March, in an article titled "Why is Publishing so White?", Publishers Weekly explained that the industry remains nearly as white now as it was in 1994.
Although the public may recognize J. K Rowling, Nora Roberts and Stephenie Meyer, they fail to recognize J.California Cooper, Esmeralda Santiago, and Bharati Mukherjee, just to name a few.
Bisi adds that the problem is not an insufficient number of minority female writers, but that their work is not always considered for publication by editors, who are predominately white, because of classism: a prejudice against, or in favor of one party, and other related phobias coming from the public.
Furthermore, people who are not of color fear that in describing someone who is, they will offend or "put off" other readers and because of that mindset, minority characters lack dimension and often are misrepresentations of the real thing.
English professor Liz Gray, who has had two poetry collections published, is no stranger to some of the issues faced by minority women writers.
It is a sad truth that there are people who judge others solely by ethnicity, gender or a combination of the two.
All the while, publishers avoid publishing authors they fear won't make any money; unfortunately, many of those authors are women of color: the people who know exactly how to describe themselves and their characters.
Questions like these are not only a result of discrimination, but they also leave the person on the receiving end asking questions, such as does my story not matter?
Bisi insists that is not the case.
As a young African-American woman who considers writing necessary to my own survival, and who aspires to make a living on it, these findings are extremely discouraging.
As much as I read in school, I can only recall two novels written by a woman of color, nor a story that featured an minority character, and I attended a predominately African- American school.
The realization of this raised many red flags for me, as it should for anyone who considers herself a lover of the literary.
Consider the following: Bisi's workshop is the only one for women of color that exists in the United States and has been for 17 years.
This suggests there is a lack of assistance for minority women who want to pursue writing or receive recognition for their work and therefore they are not being persuaded to continue.
Vendors of their publications are also vulnerable.
Between 2002 and 2012 two-thirds of black-owned bookstores closed.
According to Publishers Weekly's "A Glimmer of Hope for Black-Owned Bookstores," of the 400 that remained afterward, only 67 of those bookstores remain open as of January.
These stores close because there is a lack of advertisement or recognition regarding the work.
Publishers assume people won't care about minority stories because they can't relate and the cycle goes on; despite the fact that literature, no matter what it may be about, is always relatable and useful to someone.
People like Ariell Johnson, who opened her own comic store on the East Coast, and EvelynBurdette,19,whoin2010self-published seven books, know this and they are the type of women literature needs.
back up said claim. It is this blind avoidance that compounds the problem. We ignore it and it continues to grow.
In short, it is just an easier way to discriminate against people of color, especially the women, who are already discriminated against.
Moreover, considering that authors tend to write from different points of view, their stories may not always reflect their own beliefs, so why work so hard to market to specific ethnicities?
That is the source of this issue entirely, our need to classify.
The argument may be made, that women of color don't write as often as Caucasian women do or that the writing isn't as "good," but that isn't true.
You've probably heard of Belinda Mckeon, and her novel "Tender," but more than likely there hasn't been a whisper about Sareeta Domingo, Anjali Joseph or Han Kang, who all have books scheduled to be released this year.
This is because studies show 79 percent of the literary industry is Caucasian and unconscious bias is an issue.
The simple fact is this: non-Caucasian perspective does matter and, ultimately, women need to be supportive of other women. We need to start the change.
We need to encourage more programs, such as We Need Diverse books, a grass roots campaign dedicated to honoring the lives of all young people through literature.
Companies, such as the Barbara J. Zitwer Agency, who publish international bestsellers and the newest American foreign authors, are helping to do this and you can help too: Log onto your nearest bookstore's website and find yourself a book written by a woman of color. Read it and promote it just as you would any otherbook.


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A threatening intellectual environment: Why females are susceptible to experiencing problem-solving deficits in the presence of males
This paper presented two experiments in which the gender composition of groups of college students was varied to examine its impact on performance of women on math and verbal tests. In Experiment 1, women completed difficult items from either the math or verbal portion of the GRE, having been told that their scores would be shared at the end of the testing session. Also in the testing room were either two males or females who posed as fellow test-takers. Women performed more poorly on the math items in the presence of two males compared with two females, but performance on the verbal items was equivalent. In Experiment 2, student participants completed just the math items, but male participants were included and a mixed-sex condition was added (i.e., 1 female and 1 male accomplice). Consistent with Experiment 1, women on average performed more poorly when in the presence of two men, but men were unaffected by the gender composition of the group. Results also showed that women's performance decreased in proportion to the number of fellow male test-takers. These results show that the social context alone, specifically being a numerical minority in a situation where a group-based stereotype might apply to one's behavior, can create stereotype threat and undermine performance.
Inzlicht, M., & Ben-Zeev, T. (2000). A threatening intellectual environment: Why females are susceptible to experiencing problem-solving deficits in the presence of males. Psychological Science, 11, 365-371.

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Four new stands have been built at Deepdale in recent years. The new stands offer uninterrupted views of the pitch from all seats. The stands all have players images built in to the seating which makes a nice change to the usual club initials. Whilst it doesn't follow the generic modern bowl-shape design, by having open corners, it manages to maintain the traditional appearance which is perhaps better suited to a club with Preston''s history, whilst still incorporating all the features of a new ground with added leg room and easy access in and out.
Visiting supporters are situated in the Bill Shankly Kop stand behind one of the goals. This stand is usually shared with the home fans but when a larger following is expected the whole stand can be given over to visitors. A maximum allocation of 6,000 is available but generally this is kept to 3,000. Views, facilities and leg room are all fantastic and the refreshments aren't bad either. Prices are very reasonable and staff and stewards are generally friendly and talkative.
In the town centre you'll find the customary Wetherspoons and many other pubs but the closest to the ground that allows away fans in is There is the Deepdale Labour Club, behind the Town End stand.
There are fast food cabins situated around the perimeter of the ground and a McDonalds and Pizza Hut close by on the Deepdale Retail Park, just off Blackpool Road which tend to get really crowded on a match day.
Parking is available in the streets surrounding the stadium if you arrive early enough. Alternatively, at Moorfields Special School parking for cars is available for £3 a vehicle. The car park is manned by volunteers from the school and all proceeds go into school funds. The school is situated just past the stadium and is signposted.
The nearest / closest train station to Preston North End's Deepdale Stadium is Preston. The railway station has 2 exits and both lead you onto the main shopping street, Fishergate. Turn right and go straight along here for a mile until you see the prison on the other side of a dual carriageway.
If you cross the dual carriageway and reach the prison you will see a pub across the road on the corner of Deepdale Road. The ground is about half a mile along Deepdale Road and will appear on your right hand side as you walk towards it.
Travel: I used the coaches from Bristol. The police escorted us from the motorway to the ground (vice versa afterwards. The coach parking is right outside the away end so nice and easy.
Refreshments: I used the finneys bar in the ground, rather small and expensive but a good atmosphere between home and away fans.
Impressions: Very impressive i must admit. nice little bar on the way int. A little intimidating as there was a huge police presence and a sniffer dog as you go in. it was a no smoking ground aswell which sucked and the stands were very steep.The atmosphere was electric as you would expect for a crucial top of the table sell out clash with 3000 city fans and the 12000 preston fans really getting behind their teams!
Facilities: Toilets were a little small and the bar queues a little long but that's about normal. good legroom and vie though!
Exit: Easy, the police took us through Preston straight back on the m6 for the 4 hour slog back.
Enjoy: Very much so and i will go back next season when both teams meet in the championship.
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Jeff Angell: I'm kind of Ian Astbury's illegitimate child
Jeff Angell, is one of the greatest and most riveting singers/guitarist of our time. Many know him from Post Stardom Depression, Walking Papers or Staticland but most people became familiar with his name due to the Mad Season show in Benaroya Hall last January. The frontman who comes from Tacoma, Washington (Jerry Cantrell's hometown), a city near Seattle known for its many military bases met me in Seattle to talk about the early years of his music career, his cooperation with Duff McKagan, Mike McCready and Barrett Martin, the Mad Season show and his experiences about the Alice in Chains and Candlebox tour. Read our in-depth interview below.
Jeff Angell at Neptune Theatre, Seattle (Photo: Miklós Pintér)
After the Alice in Chains shows, in the middle of the Candlebox tour
How is the tour now?
It's good. Everybody is getting along really well. I think the fans are super receptive, really energetic, they seem to be into it. It's clubs mostly which are always my favorite because there's no barrier, you're right there with the fans.
You had six shows with Alice in Chains. I think it's big news for the fans because you are from Tacoma. Jerry Cantrell is from Tacoma and Dave Krusen too.
Oh, really? I didn't know that part.
Yes, he's from Tacoma as well. What is it with Tacoma that so many good musicians came from there?
Well, they call it Grit City because it's pretty gritty. It's starting to get pretty nice but they have an army base, a navy base and an airforce base all right around there so you get these people from all over. So there's a lot of riff-raff from the kids and the people that don't live on the base that wanna cause trouble without the army coming down on them. So that's kind of where I grew up. It's like the less attractive, unappreciated stepbrother of Seattle, it's kind of the armpit of Seattle. And they've always had music. Nirvana lived in Tacoma. They came up from Aberdeen and played in Seattle but they never lived in Seattle until after they got famous. Neko Case is from Tacoma, you have the Sonics, you have Seaweed and even Bing Crosby. So definitely, there's always been music. The Sonics were there before The Stooges, playing kind of garage rock, punk rock. So you might say that it's not Detroit, it's actually Tacoma where punk rock was born.
How was the tour with Alice in Chains?
Great. Ben and I have toured with Alice in Chains with the Walking Papers and we get along with those guys really well. After a while, it's almost like we're all just in the same band. Their crew is great and they take good care of us. It's amazing that a brand new little band like us could get right on it. The same with this Candlebox tour.
Do you have a good story from the Alice in Chains tour?
One time on the tour I called San Antonio Austin because we played Austin the day before and I was like 'All right, Austin…' and they gave me a huge boo. Afterwards Jerry was like 'What was the boo about?' and I was like 'I called them Austin.' And he was like 'Oh, I've done it like 30 times. It's the worst when you call them the wrong city. They don't respond well to that at all. By then we'd already had our show and it went well but it was kind of funny. I'd never done that before. At the end of the tour we all dressed up like roosters. When they played Rooster, we followed them out for their encore and it was hilarious. I wish I could have seen the look on their faces because I couldn't see through the ridiculous rooster costume. Afterwards they were all having a good laugh about it.
What was the reaction from the crowd about the new songs?
It was good. Some of the shows were seated and that's always weird. It seemed like they liked it, they bought the record and the T-shirt after the show but it's always hard to read their energy or get a good vibe off of it when they're in their seats. So not ideal for a rock show if you ask me but still cool.
That was the question because a lot of people know you from Post Stardom Depression, the Walking Papers and the Mad Season show. Could you please share your story about the Mad Season show with us?
It was really cool to be invited along to sing those songs. I'm a huge Layne fan. When I started, I was a guitar player and then seeing them play live and singing along to those records probably helped me learn how to sing. Although I didn't try to be him, I tried to be myself. His voice is kind of perfect for a guy like me. It's just really bluesy and believable, you could feel what he's singing and I always thought it's more important to be the most believable singer than the best singer. Mike McCready and Barrett invited me and I got to do the rehearsals…
After the Walking Papers things?
Well, we were making the Walking Papers record and at that time the Guns N' Roses thing hadn't come up yet so we were still just being a band. So they invited me. At first I don't think they knew if Chris Cornell was gonna do it so I thought I might get to do more songs but of course he stepped up and I wouldn't wanna try to stand in his way, he's such an amazing singer. The cool part to me after the show was that I don't really know Stone Gossard or Chris Cornell and after I sang my songs, they walked up to me and said 'Good job. You killed it'. And they knew my name, they said 'Awesome Jeff' and I was like, wow, they know me. So it was pretty cool to be included and validated by those guys. You can't ask for more as a Seattle musician I suppose. Because Stone, Chris Cornell and Sean Kinney was there so it was like you're playing in a sports game and you walked off the field and they all smacked my butt and said 'Good game'. It was really cool.
You were born in 1973. And you were teenager when the grunge came up from Seattle. Was that your first main inspiration to become a musician?
No, I wanted to be a musician before that. I was really into The Police when I was a little kid. As early as 1st or 2nd grade, I kind of knew I wanna be a musician. I loved the radio and I was always listening to it. The main thing I would do for years was that I would listen to songs and I would change the lyrics and write my own lyrics. So my first experience at writing songs was in the first or second grade. Back then it was all about the army or Star Wars. I put a lot of time into it. You know everybody has their own way of letting their imagination run wild so at that age I just did that. We were kind of poor, I didn't have any music lessons and it took me a long time to get a guitar, I did a bunch of work and I was pretty committed. So when I actually got the instrument, I started learning from the guitar magazines that would come out every month but I didn't even know what the songs they had in them sounded like. It's not like today when you say, 'Hey, I'm gonna learn this song, let's go and pull up a Youtube'. It was funny because later on I would hear a Carlos Santana song or something and I'd never heard it and I'd go, 'What is that song? I know that song.' And that would be because I learned how to play through the magazines. I just tried to learn everything. But I guess I always thought you had to move to like California or New York.
Where did you first meet what we now call grunge bands?
In high school, my friend's older sister's boyfriend was in a band and they said, 'You wanna go to a show?' and I said 'Sure.' So I drove up to Seattle with them and I saw Alice in Chains and Mother Love Bone. Alice in Chains was called Diamond Lie at the time and that was the second show they'd ever played. They had a few original songs and they played a few covers. And the same thing: they were playing covers and I didn't even know they were covers. So they were playing like David Bowie and stuff like that but I never had those records 'cause I lived way out in the sticks. I mean we didn't even have record stores. We barely had radio. We had cassettes from like The Ramones and Sex Pistols and I would think that those were bands that were still together. So it was 1986 and I would think, 'the Sex Pistols, they're kind of cool' and I had no idea that they'd been broken up for 10 years. So it was not like today when you have the internet and all that kind of stuff.
Which bands were your main inspiration then?
I loved The Rolling Stones, the Ramones and Black Sabbath was a really big thing for me. And some guys went to the city, bought records and would bring them back. When I was a little kid, I didn't even live in Tacoma, I lived in Lakewood and even further out in the sticks. So when I'd seen that scene, it just blew my mind. I'd seen dudes playing a backyard party playing cover tunes and what not but when I'd seen that these bands had their own songs they basically showed me a map to the universe. It's like you have a map but you're missing some pieces and they came and popped the pieces down. So what you do, you start writing some songs, you get some guys. By then I kind of knew how to play guitar and things started to happen. Once I realised that scene existed, I started to go to all those shows, I started meeting people and then I put together my own little band and I only played two shows before some manager stole me out of the band and put me in a band with a bunch of older guys. I moved out three weeks before I turned 15 and I moved in with a bunch of older dudes.
You were very young then, still at school, right?
My nickname at the time was Junior because I was so young. But I was tall so if I had my hair in my face, I could pass for older. I could play the guitar better than a lot of the older guys and eventually I was in a band that opened up for Alice in Chains and Soundgarden which to me was a very big deal. I knew a manager guy who put me into the band, he would book a show and he could choose who the openers were and that's how I got on to those shows and that's how I first made contact with those guys. At the time those guys were around 25 and they were running around chasing chicks and they probably didn't want some fifteen-year-old kid following them around telling them how great they were. So I just kind of played it cool and kept my mouth shut. I just kept slugging it out and eventually I was opening for Jane's Addiction and Alice in Chains and all my favorite bands. I got to play a lot and toured with Dee Dee Ramone and the Queens of the Stone Age and all these other people in between them. And we never got to that level. It took a lot of time to get to touring with Aerosmith or those big bands. It's like one of those things, you always wanna open the present on Christmas Eve but if you do, Christmas is kind of a bummer. So the waiting just made it all the more valuable. I'm actually really happy about how it all turned out. They kind of hit the golden years of rock and roll when those guys made a lot of money. There's not a lot of money in music any more but I was never doing it for the money anyway. I never even thought about that.
You do it for joy.
Yeah, I did it for the joy. If I was trying to do something for money, there are ways of making money that are a lot easier than rock and roll.
It's interesting because I wrote a review about the Staticland record and I think that was the album of 2016.
I have questions about three songs.
I'm happy to answer them for you.
The last one on the album is 'Let the Healing Begin'. I feel some Mark Lanegan things…
I'm a fan.
…I love it because I love Mark Lanegan. I think it is something that takes your music to a new level. What was the inspiration for that song?
You know what's funny about Mark Lanegan is that his Winding Sheet album to me is my Seattle record. It came out before Alice in Chains had their record. It was on Sub Pop. And the Screaming Trees were a few years ahead of that. We had that cassette, we had Nirvana Bleach. So around here it was a really big deal that these bands had real records. Sub Pop was doing a real thing here. If you were in a band, of course you wanted to listen to them and you'd become obsessed and wanted to figure out how you can make your own records. That first Mark Lanegan record was my soundtrack for like two years. I loved it. This was before MTV's Unplugged and stuff so he was way ahead of his time. If you listen to those chord progressions, they are really basic 'cause he's not a guitar player. And sometimes people try so hard to put some fancy riff in there, when they do, it makes it harder for the vocals to connect with the chord progression. I probably learned something from that. When I wrote Let the Healing Begin, I had recently lost three friends to substance abuse and I think some of that stuff and the song just kind of arrived. I was in the practice room and after everyone left I was like 'I'm gonna screw around with some ideas' and it was really easy, I just started playing and most of the song was there instantly. It's really rare when a song happens like that. When it does, I know it's a special song. I don't know if we're playing it tonight but when we play it live, it's still really small but then it gets huge, it's almost like Pink Floyd. And on the record, it's just the guitar and the piano. And that's a live take as well, the vocals, the guitar and the piano, all in one take, there's no overdubs on that song.
My second favorite is The Cure or the Curse. It feels like the previous song and this one are one song without a break. This is the Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple and Black Sabbath level. I feel something special in that song.
In the performance or in the lyrics? In the words or in the music?
Well, I know that when I played that guitar solo, I had a lot going on at home. I was in Nashville and I'd be on the phone trying to work out all these problems and there was nothing I could do, I couldn't go see anybody and the producer was like 'Okay, come on in and let's do the song'. So I put it all on that song. My girlfriend doesn't like guitar solos so much, she's like 'Just get to the rock,' she's kind of a punker from when she was a kid but I was saying to her, 'I think you should listen to this guitar solo 'cause I think it will probably tell you more about who I am than I could tell you with words. We should have put that song on the CD. It's on the vynil but it's not on the CD. And you can download it on Spotify. That seems to be people's favorite when we play live. It's funny because we only play a 30-minute set when we open up for Alice in Chains, maybe 45, and we play two songs that aren't even on our record.
I think there are fantastic guitar solos both in Band Aid on a Bullet Hole and High Score but I feel that I need more. I'm not a punk, I'm from the hard rock and metal side.
Well, that's what I say, I always want more guitar solos. Do you think that in Walking Papers and Missionary Position there was a lot of guitar solo?
Yes, there was.
Sometimes, I get a little tired of hearing myself play. And on this record, there are definitely some songs, like Phantom Limb or The Edge that don't really have a guitar solo. But a lot of times when a band doesn't know how to write a bridge, they just throw in a guitar solo, it's almost like the go-to thing if you can't write a bridge. So we were trying to write real bridges, maybe next time we should have both. My argument can be when we make the next record that everybody likes The Cure or the Curse so we should have more guitar solos. Or I need to get people sign a petition that says more guitar solos.
I'd like to ask about your relationship with Ben. I read an article that although the name of the LP is Jeff Angell's Staticland, it's not a solo project.
Yeah, I don't really feel that way.
You are old friends.
He was in a rival band when we were kids. We were both in industrial bands for a while. We met back then, we were both fans of each other's but he was doing his thing, I was doing my thing. When we did the first Missionary Position, he had a studio set up in his house. He started recording some of my stuff and he just kind of made his way into the songs and it became our thing and then we started writing songs together for that album. The same thing with the Walking Papers. I started that with Barrett but I just couldn't imagine doing it without Ben. So when this record label wanted to put out a second Walking Papers record but then the Guns N' Roses thing came up, that was put on hold. They said 'Why don't you just do a solo record?'. I think they wanted to use my name because they thought the Walking Papers fans would be able to find it easier which maybe some of them do, some of them don't. Some people like a band and they don't know what the name of the singer is, they just like the band. So they wanted to put my name on it and I really didn't want to. I understood why they wanted to. Jeff Angell's Staticland was kind of a compromise. If you search Staticland, you know how it works. And it makes some things a little more complicated but that was the only way we could think about getting what we wanted. I'm not a solo artist kind of guy. I always feel that things are better when you get other people's opinions. I don't know if there's such thing as a solo album, someone's still recording it, someone's still playing drums on it. I think it's all just marketing.
I think it's a very friendly viewpoint. I like it.
We work really well together. I'm pushing, he's pulling. I'm tension, he's release. He's really into details and I'm kind of a big picture guy. That's how we usually work together. I like the blues, he tends to keep it from sounding like a white guy blues record. He makes it a little darker so it's cool.
You worked with Jack Endino on Ordinary Miracles. Jack is a legend.
Yeah, he's a legend for sure. With that record, we didn't have enough money to go to the studio but we knew we wanted to get a producer. We had a Pro Tools rig in our room and we said 'We'd like to work with you but we can't afford you and we can't afford a studio'. And because he was a believer he made our record in our practice room with us. I think he liked the idea of coming down there and doing it right in our practice room. In the process, he taught us how to do it. So the next record we did after that, the Post Stardom and both of the Missionary Position records, we did in the same practice room. We did the drums on three Missionary Position songs at Robert Lang's 'cause we just wanted to try it. And I think you can definitely get some things from a big studio. I think if you know how to record it, record it, but you need a pro studio to mix it. Don't mix it in a box and don't mix it at home, get a big guy to mix it in a fancy studio.
You did the Staticland record with Vance Powell in Nashville.
That was the first time I'd ever made a whole record in a big studio. With Walking Papers, we did all the drums in the studio but then I took it home and did the guitars and vocals at my house. We did the second Walking Papers record in Josh Homme's studio from the Queens of the Stone Age. That was the first time I did a record in a studio but I still recorded the vocals and the solos at home. And with this Nashville record, the thing is, we went down there but we did like three songs on the Staticland album in our practice room and recorded the other ones at the studio and by the time a pro guy mixes it, you can't tell which ones were done where.
It was unimaginable to make a record at home in the early nineties.
But that's what Jack was doing. The studio they recorded Bleach in wasn't a fancy studio. I've been there, it's a tiny little studio. But today some guy has something in his bedroom that he bought from a guitar center, it's a better studio than we had back then. So these days there's really no excuse…
Is it true that you have new songs for Walking Papers? And you're just waiting for Duff to finish the Guns N' Roses thing?
We have a full finished album with 17 songs. I'd like it to come out 'cause I like the songs but right now I can't do it. I can't put out a record that competes with the Staticland record. Probably the closest thing that I've ever made to a solo record was the first Walking Papers record. A lot of those songs were my songs before I even knew Barrett. We practised 6 times and we made that record. A lot of the songs are songs that I had but didn't use on the Missionary Position record. At the time I just thought the other songs were better. So I had these leftover songs and we made up a few, kind of jamming. The second Papers record was really the record that sounds like Ben, Barrett, Duff and me. We wrote more of those songs together. The first Walking Papers record is definitely closer to a solo album than Staticland. Staticland is more the three of us working together. Walking Papers was mostly my songs with Barrett playing along then Duff added his bass later. But the second Walking Papers record the one that no one's heard is more of a Walking Papers record. I would like people to hear it because I think Barrett and Duff add an amazing rhythm section and it's an album that's not like any other album I've made because of their influence on it. People's perception of how a record happens and how it went down, is not always true. They shouldn't ruin the magic, it doesn't really matter. Same thing when people imagine The Rolling Stones are in the studio, playing live like a rock band and sometimes you find out, it's two different drummers on the same song and they cut it in the middle, you know what I mean? But who cares as long as it sounds good when you're listening to it. People probably imagined that with the first Walking Papers record. Duff didn't even come until the whole thing was done. In the first printing, he only plays bass on three songs. And when they re-released it, he added his bass to the whole record.
Why did Duff join the band?
Well, we just asked him to come down and play on a couple of songs as a friend. Then he asked us if we were doing shows because he wanted to jump in and we said 'of course'. The record was done and we played two shows, just Barrett and me. And when we played the third show, he joined in and Ben joined in after that. Ben played on I'll Stick Around and he played some organ on Capital T. It was just friend's adding to the music. Hell, Mike McCready could have joined also if he wanted to.
I was talking about the tone of your voice with some musicians. They and I both feel some Ian Astbury from Cult and Jim Morrison in it. Do you agree with that?
Really? Well, Ian Astbury wants to be Jim Morrison and when I was in school and we had reading assignments I wasn't interested. When the librarian said 'You can pick out anything you want'. I picked No One Here Gets Out Alive about the Doors. In that book I learned about all the beat writers, William Burroughs, Jack Kerouack, Norman Mailer and all those guys. I learned about jazz, John Coltrane and the blues guys, all in that book. That book just opened my mind. Then I went back to the library and asked if they had Naked Lunch. And they'd be like 'You're in the 7th grade, why the hell are you asking for Naked Lunch?'. And like I was saying earlier, some kids had cassettes from the Doors and I was listening to that and I was obsessed with it. You're 12 or 14 years old and you're going through puberty and Jim Morrison is your tour guide out of puberty into manhood which should be rock and roll 101 for anybody who wants to sing in a rock band. A little bit after that I got turned onto the Cult. Because I could play Cult songs on the guitar and I could sing along to Wildflower and Lil Devil. Ian, like Layne kind of taught me how to sing. That's how I realised that I could sing and that I have the same range he does. Some of the Alice in Chains stuff that I tried to sing, Layne can go a little bit higher than I can with my natural voice. Ian Astbury is just right there, it's kind of a perfect spot for me to be. So I'm kind of his illegitimate child. The Cult was a huge influence. We had Billy Duffy came to one of our shows and it was really cool to have one of my heroes out there in the audience.
Is Billy your fan?
I don't know, I mean I hope so. I have a picture that someone took. He's sitting there and watching me play guitar. And it's one of my favorite photos of all time.
You had some shows with Candlebox in Europe in January. What is the next step?
We've already started writing songs and we have some songs that are left over from the album that we might rework. We definitely have a good 6 songs that we didn't put on this record. I'm really excited about the new songs 'cause I always wanna raise the bar as well as try some things I haven't tried before. And also playing with Josh, with the first record we kind of figured out how we worked together and now I think we kind of see what our strengths and weaknesses are. We try to shine the light on our strengths and sweep the weaknesses under the carpet.
Jeff Angell, Miklós Pintér, Ben Anderson, Josh Fant (Photo: Grungery.hu)
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20th General Assembly and 30th Anniversary Celebration
MEDICAL ACTION GROUP, INC.
Health and Human Rights for All
To my fellow MAG members,
Warmest greetings!
I am pleased to announce the upcoming 20th General Assembly and 30th Anniversary Celebration of our organization on 13th October 2012 (Saturday). The time and venue will be announced soon.
Highlights of our 20th General Assembly are the election of new set of Board of Trustees for 2012-2014, the Reports of the President and Treasurer on the major activities undertaken for the year 2010-2012, and the adoption of the Two-Year Thrusts and Stresses.
The organization will appreciate your early intention to participate in this endeavor by contacting us through our Facebook account http://www.facebook.com/medicalactiongroup, website http://www.magph.org/ and email address This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. If you have new contact numbers or address kindly inform Dr. Amy Ng-Abcede at (02) 433-1594 or through her mobile no. 0928-505-7294.
From time to time, we will be communicating and sending you updates and preparation. Your presence and active participation in our upcoming General Assembly and Anniversary celebration will further strengthen our commitment towards attaining our organization's vision of Health and Human Rights for All.
Thank you very much and more power!
Petronilo Lenin Pascual, M.D.
Medical Action Group, Inc. (MAG)
PHL gov't urged to adopt recommendations on absolute prohibition of torture
Noting that prohibition of torture had been highlighted in the United Nations' review of the Philippine human rights report, a group over the weekend called on the government to adopt the UN call to end all forms of inhuman acts in the country.
"The Philippine government must adopt the UN Human Rights Council's recommendation to prohibit torture as this and a number of human rights violations were being highlighted in the review," the Medical Action Group (MAG) said.
The Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of the Philippine human rights report at the United Nations Human Rights Council took place last May 29.
According to MAG, the human rights issues being tackled there resonated with civil society issues, especially the absolute prohibition of torture.
MAG stressed that "victims of torture and ill-treatment should have effective access to a medical evaluation and the establishment of a rehabilitation program for torture victims."
It noted that while some states commended the Philippines for enacting the anti-torture law, torture continues to be used by state security forces and law enforcement agencies.
MAG said that various States also called on the Philippine government to enhance human rights-based training for all law enforcement personnel on the absolute prohibition of torture and ill-treatment.
"We support the recommendations made by various states, specifically from Denmark and Ireland, to effectively implement the anti-torture act, with a particular focus on ensuring that all alleged victims of torture and ill-treatment have effective access to a medical evaluation of their injuries by institutionalizing the use of the Istanbul Protocol and the establishment of a sufficiently resourced rehabilitation program for torture victims," MAG said.
For his part, Philippine Alliance of Human Rights Advocates (PAHRA) Chairperson Max de Mesa said "the government, with its security forces, must address the continuing impunity especially of perpetrators of torture, enforced disappearance and extra-judicial killings."
He said, "the government perpetrates torture and perpetuates impunity by ignoring the exercise of its obligation of command responsibility."
"Many of the victims are human rights defenders who earlier were vilified and/or criminalized," he added.
Sixty seven states that participated in the discussion recommended the following for the Philippine government:
Step up efforts to fully prohibit and address cases of torture, extrajudicial killings and enforced disappearances and ensure there were mechanisms in place to address such cases;
Ensure that victims of torture and ill treatment had effective access to a medical evaluation; to improve the condition of prisons and detention centers;
Ensure adequate protection of human rights defenders and journalists and effectively investigate and prosecute attacks against journalists and to introduce into domestic laws strong legislation prohibiting these acts and imposing criminal penalties;
Step up efforts to combat human trafficking and strengthen relations with countries of transit and origin for victims of human trafficking and to establish programs for the rehabilitation and social integration for women victims of sexual exploitation;
Step up efforts to combat child labor and to fully prohibit corporal punishment; to increase measures on the rights to education to ensure equal access to education for all children, to special attention for children with disabilities and street children; and
Consider establishing legislation to combat discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) persons.
— Jerbert Briola /LBG, GMA News
Web Source: http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/260494/news/nation/phl-gov-t-urged-to-adopt-recommendations-on-absolute-prohibition-of-torture
Philippines urged to implement ban on tortures
ZAMBOANGA CITY -- Human rights groups are calling on the government to adopt the recommendation of the United Nations Human Rights Council on absolute prohibition of torture during its universal periodic review held last week in Geneva.
"A number of human rights violations, including against the freedom from torture was highlighted during the session, especially with respect to ensuring that victims of torture and ill-treatment had effective access to a medical evaluation and the establishment of a rehabilitation program for torture victims," Philippine nongovernmental organization Medical Action Group (MAG) said in a statement sent to BusinessWorld over the weekend.
The group said various countries also called on the Philippine government to enhance human rights-based training for all law enforcement personnel on the absolute prohibition of torture and ill-treatment.
The universal periodic review is a process that involves an examination of the human rights records of all 192 United Nations member states. It is considered an innovation of the UN Human Rights Council based on equal treatment for all countries.
"We support the recommendations made by various states, specifically from Denmark and Ireland, to effectively implement the Anti-Torture Act, with a particular focus on ensuring that all alleged victims of torture and ill-treatment have effective access to a medical evaluation of their injuries by institutionalizing the use of the Istanbul Protocol and the establishment of a sufficiently funded rehabilitation program for torture victims," MAG said.
Max M. de Mesa, chairperson of the Philippine Alliance of Human Rights Advocates (Pahra), in a separate statement said that the "government with its security forces must determinedly address the continuing impunity of torture, enforced disappearance and extrajudicial killings, which are mostly perpetrated and perpetuated by disregarding the exercise of its obligation of command responsibility." He also called on the government to put premium on documenting human rights abuses in Mindanao. --Amilbahar S. Mawallil
Web Source: http://www.bworldonline.com/content.php?section=Nation&title=Philippines-urged-to-implement-ban-on-tortures&id=52817
Human rights groups call on the government to adopt the recommendation on absolute prohibition of torture
The Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of the Philippines at the United Nations Human Rights Council last May 29, 2012 resonated with civil society issues regarding among others the absolute prohibition of torture.
"A number of human rights violations, including against the freedom from torture was highlighted during the session, especially with respect to ensuring that victims of torture and ill-treatment had effective access to a medical evaluation and the establishment of a rehabilitation program for torture victims," Medical Action Group (MAG) said.
There are States commended the Philippines in enacting the Anti-Torture Law however despite this use of torture continues among and by State security forces and law enforcement agencies.
Recommendations by UN will make real difference to Philippine victims of torture, IRCT says
Torture in the Philippines was among the primary focuses of the United Nations Human Rights Council during the country's Universal Periodic Review yesterday.
More than 15 states focused on torture in their recommendations to improve human rights in the Philippines. These recommendations include:
that the Government of the Philippines effectively implements the 2009 Anti-Torture Act, with a particular focus on ensuring that all investigations and prosecutions of allegations of torture and ill-treatment fully cover the possibility of command responsibility as stipulated in section 13 of the Act; and that all alleged victims of torture and ill-treatment have effective access to a medical evaluation of their injuries by institutionalising the use of the Istanbul Protocol, including by providing guidelines to judges, prosecutors, forensic doctors and medical personnel dealing with detained persons, to detect and document physical and psychological trauma of torture;
that the Government of the Philippines effectively implement the anti torture act with a special focus on responsibility of superior officers, access to a medical examination and the establishment of a sufficiently resourced rehabilitation programme for torture victims.
One of the main objectives of the second cycle of the UPR is to follow up to recommendations from the first UPR cycle; another objective is to ensure that recommendations are increasingly concrete and focused to promote implementation and facilitate monitoring and evaluation of these efforts.
The IRCT would like to commend the governments of Denmark and Ireland for making clear, concrete and focused recommendations that are highly pertinent to the specific domestic context of the Philippines, and which, if accepted and implemented, will make a real difference for access to justice and rehabilitation for torture victims in the Philippines.
The IRCT also welcomes the constructive approach taken by the Government of the Philippines to the UPR as clearly shown in its initiative to establish a multi-stakeholder mechanism to monitor implementation of UPR recommendations. The IRCT encourages the Government of the Philippines to accept all recommendations pertaining to torture and ill-treatment without delay so that the important national implementation work can commence immediately.
The Universal Periodic Review, or UPR, is a new mechanism of the United Nations to review the human rights record of all 192 member countries every four years. The Human Rights Council conducts these reviews, which result in recommendations to the state under review of ways in which they shall improve the country's human rights situation.
Source: http://www.irct.org/media-and-resources/irct-news/show-news.aspx?PID=13767&Action=1&NewsId=3615


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Q: How can I integrate firebase in a Xamarin project. I am new to Xamarin and trying to integrate firebase SDK in a project. When I am trying to use gradle for pulling the jars I am getting an issue -
Gradle log:
FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

*

*Where:
Build file 'C:\Users\ss-1\AppData\Local\Temp\Xamarin.GradleBindings\91bd26\build.gradle' line: 5

*What went wrong:
A problem occurred evaluating root project '91bd26'.

Could not resolve all dependencies for configuration 'detachedConfiguration1'.
  Could not find com.google.firebase:firebase-core:9.2.0.
  Searched in the following locations:
      file:/C:/Users/ss-1/AppData/Local/Android/android-sdk/extras/android/m2repository/com/google/firebase/firebase-core/9.2.0/firebase-core-9.2.0.pom
      file:/C:/Users/ss-1/AppData/Local/Android/android-sdk/extras/android/m2repository/com/google/firebase/firebase-core/9.2.0/firebase-core-9.2.0.jar
      https://jcenter.bintray.com/com/google/firebase/firebase-core/9.2.0/firebase-core-9.2.0.pom
https://jcenter.bintray.com/com/google/firebase/firebase-core/9.2.0/firebase-core-9.2.0.jar
  Required by:
      :91bd26:unspecified

*Try:
Run with --stacktrace option to get the stack trace. Run with --info or --debug option to get more log output.
BUILD FAILED
Total time: 8.451 secs
Original script:
apply plugin: 'java'
def resolveDependencyString(String dependencyString) {
   def dependency = dependencies.create(dependencyString)
   configurations.detachedConfiguration(dependency).setTransitive(false).resolve()
}

def resolveDependencyStringTransitive(String dependencyString) {
   def dependency = dependencies.create(dependencyString)
   configurations.detachedConfiguration(dependency).setTransitive(true).resolve()
}

repositories {
   maven {
       url "C:/Users/ss-1/AppData/Local/Android/android-sdk/extras/android/m2repository/" //will be replaced by add-in
   }
   jcenter()
}

task getDeps(type: Copy) {
 def resultFileAll = new File("C:/Users/ss-1/AppData/Local/Temp/Xamarin.GradleBindings/91bd26/result_main.txt")
 def resultFileMain = new File("C:/Users/ss-1/AppData/Local/Temp/Xamarin.GradleBindings/91bd26/result_all.txt")

Please let me know, how it can be fixed.
Thank You,
Prashant

A: There are no updates on official integration of FCM with Xamarin.
Do check this website for more details.

Docs for integrating FCM with Xamarin?

Xamarin doesn't have a guide about how to integrate FCM with your Xamarin.Android app. Still Xamarin has been integrated with GCM and GCM is not yet officialy stoped by Google, So you can use GCM in your project.
Here is the Link to check out original post.

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Dallas leaders, activists eager for rebirth of Juanita Craft Civil Rights House
Oklahoma lawmaker to introduce copycat bill that mirrors Texas' restrictive abortion law
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'Dallas put most northern cities to shame': 'Condé Nast' names city a top destination for Christmas
The magazine highlighted four area attractions in making Dallas one of its top picks.
The indoor Christmas tree gets lit during Black Friday at Galleria Dallas. The 95-foot tall tree is among the attractions "Condé Nast Traveler" says make Dallas a place to visit this holiday season.(Rebecca Slezak / Staff Photographer)
By Tommy Cummings
12:52 PM on Dec 8, 2021 CST
If the Christmas season starts with a tree, Dallas is a natural choice on Condé Nast Traveler's list of the nation's best places to visit at Christmastime.
In promoting its alphabetized, unranked list of 23 destinations, Condé Nast showcased the four-story Christmas tree at the Galleria Dallas Ice Skating Center. This year's 95-foot-tall tree was erected in mid-November.
In a summary, Condé Nast editors described why Dallas should be among the traditional Christmas destinations — New England, New York and North Pole, Alaska, to name a few — with storybook backdrops:
"Proving you don't need cold temperatures to get in the Christmas spirit, the holiday celebrations in Dallas put most northern cities to shame," they wrote.
Condé Nast editors also mentioned the Holiday at the Arboretum, a Christmas village with millions of lights animated to music and visits with Santa Claus. The travel magazine also recommended the Dallas Zoo Lights and the Miracle, a holiday-themed pop-up bar at Royal 38.
Condé Nast also throws in the Hilton Anatole as a suggested place to stay. The Hilton Anatole features illuminated train rides, reindeer dance parties, snowman bounce houses and breakfast with Mrs. Claus and Santa.
The lights at the Christmas Village turned on for the first night of the Dallas Arboretum's Holiday at the Arboretum celebration on Nov. 9.(Liesbeth Powers / Special Contributor)
The list didn't include the Enchant Christmas in Fair Park, "The Trains at NorthPark" or the numerous places to see Christmas lights.
The top places in Dallas-Fort Worth to see Christmas lights and other holiday displays
This season, many old favorites are returning, and there's a handful of new ones.
By Shannon Sutlief
It also appeared to limit the Christmas-themed attractions to Dallas proper. In North Texas, you've got the Christmas Capital of Texas in Grapevine, Six Flags Over Texas' Holiday in the Park in Arlington, Radiance: Frozen in Frisco, Prairie Lights in Grand Prairie, The Modern Lights of Fort Worth and many more attractions.
The Condé Nast list also includes winter wonderlands in Ashville, N.C.; Kennebunkport, Maine; Senaca Falls, N.Y.; and Park City, Utah. The list also spotlights Christmas attractions with regional flair in Branson, Mo.; Chicago, Denver, Newport Beach, Calif.; and Santa Fe, N.M. Every section of the U.S. (except Hawaii) seems to be represented.
Tommy Cummings, Multiplatform Editor. Tommy Cummings has worked at The Dallas Morning News, Fort Worth Star-Telegram and the San Francisco Chronicle as an editor/writer/digital producer.
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Around 6:25 p.m., I was leisurely driving home to make myself dinner when all of a sudden a Ruston Police officer pulls out of nowhere, barreling toward me with the lights a-flashing.
The investigation stems from a Sept. 20 rally in support of the Jena 6 on the elementary school's playground in which kindergartners and first-graders made signs and played with shackles and chains.
The Gramblinite, GSU's student newspaper, which printed a story and photo from the event in its Sept. 27 edition, photographed a young girl being held up by her grandmother, who is also a school employee, as a teacher placed a rope noose around the child's neck.
Cedar Creek, ranked No. 2 among the state's Class 1-A programs for the second straight week by the Louisiana Sports Writers Association, has a Friday night district opener at Arcadia (3-2).
Ruston High (2-3, 0-3) will play its fourth straight District 1-5A contest at James Stadium Friday night against Monroe's Ouachita (3-2, 2-1).
All of the games are set for 7 p.m. kickoffs.
The fall clean up is a great opportunity to visit with friends and neighbors and to enjoy one of October's cool mornings. We urge residents to get involved with their communities not only because it will make them feel good, but also because it shows the pride they have in Lincoln Parish.
Most shelter residents come either directly from jail or learn about the restoration ministry through a New Living Word outreach project, where church volunteers distribute food and clothing each Friday evening at the outreach center on Martin Luther King Drive.
"To everybody who's on the streets that's homeless and wants to change their life, we say 'Get in the car, and you never have to come back,' " New Living Word Ministries Pastor Jerry Baldwin said.
District 1 candidate Jerry Lewis touched on improving the water and road systems to boost the quality of life in the parish.
District 1 candidate Theresa Wyatt touched on her platform of inclusion in the district, citing low turnout numbers in recent elections — among both white and black voters — as evidence that new blood is needed on the Jury.
That's six — count 'em — six times.
Dwyer scored on short runs, long runs and in-between runs to help keep the No. 2 Class 1-A ranked Cougars still perfect after five games.
The 5-10 and 165-pounder had two TD carries from three yards out, another for 10 runs, another for 35 yards and a long gallop of 73 yards.
Oh yes, he also finished with 316 yards on 29 carries.
Oops, almost forgot: Dwyer also caught two passes for 25 yards.
The Children's Home program has received support from state Sen. Bob Kostelka and state Reps. Hollis Downs and Rick Gallot. They understand the need for technical education in our state, and they helped the Children's Home acquire a $200,000 grant from the state to fund the new training program.
Rick, the fedora-sporting mastermind behind a service that addresses what causes kids to end up in juvenile court by attacking the root, was circumspect about the problem. Age has given him a detached persistence.
A grant contract that would provide two-thirds of the funds necessary to run the center this year was hurried through when the state got wind of a story that negatively portrayed their involvement in the situation. However, weeks will pass before the first cent ends up in the center's coffers.
The Gramblinite, GSU's student newspaper, initially publicized the event in its Sept. 27 edition and published photos on its Web site, www.thegramblinite.com. Those photos were ordered to be removed by Judson on Friday after their discovery and subsequent conference calls.
Judson, Dixon and other officials from the university and laboratory school were involved in closed-door interviews all day Monday and were unavailable for comment. Judson, when reached for comment today, said several more interviews and follow-ups are planned for today.


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DVDs > Moto GP > Australian Grand Prix 1989
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Relive one of the greatest 500cc World Championship showdowns of the 1980s on DVD for the very first time. Comprehensive, action-packed coverage brings you the full story of the inaugural Australian Grand Prix from Phillip Island on Sunday, April 9th, 1989.
The first motorcycle Grand Prix to be held in Australia delivered one of the most memorable races of the 1980s, with the biggest names locked in a titanic battle for victory right down to the wire. Wayne Gardner shrugged off the pressure of racing at home to reel in Wayne Rainey, setting up an awesome race-long dice. And with Christian Sarron and Kevin Magee getting involved, the lead seemed to change on every one of the 30 laps.
Superb camera angles bring you all the action as the leading group use all the track - and a bit more - as they fly into corners three abreast in a desperate bid to snatch victory. On-bike cameras give you the rider's-eye view from Magee's machine as he races alongside the leaders and from Malcolm Campbell's bike as it leaves the circuit at speed.
There's also interviews with many of the stars, including Gardner, Rainey, Kevin Schwantz and Freddie Spencer, plus GP legends turned team bosses Kenny Roberts and Giacomo Agostini.
This DVD also includes highlights from the 125cc and 250cc races, featuring Sito Pons and Luca Cadalora, plus a brief look at Aaron Slight in Superbike action
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From wire reports
WASHINGTON - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman John Dingell said Monday he was concerned about the ability of fans to watch Big Ten sporting events on a new television network debuting this summer.
Dingell, D-Mich., wrote Big Ten Commissioner Jim Delany with questions about the Big Ten Network, which is expected to launch sometime in August.
The congressman said many constituents have expressed worries about being able to watch University of Michigan football games this season because none of the state's cable systems carry the network.
"While I understand the motivation on the part of the Big Ten Conference and its member schools to create a new all-Big Ten cable channel, I am increasingly concerned about the migration of previously free, over the air content to a pay television tier," Dingell wrote.
Dingell, whose committee has jurisdiction over telecommunications, asked Delany about the status of negotiations with cable systems, whether they would be concluded before football season and how the conference reached the $1.10-per-household monthly rate from cable systems for the network.
He also noted that all 13 of Michigan's football games last season were available on either free, over-the-air broadcast or on cable channels widely available to subscribers.
Penn St. disciplines
10 football players
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. - Penn State disciplined 10 football players for their roles in an off-campus fight in which at least two people were hurt.
The university confirmed Monday that four players were temporary expelled from July 1 through the end of the summer semester in mid-August for their roles in the April 1 fight.
Players' names were not released due to federal confidentiality laws, Penn State spokesman Bill Mahon said.
Defense attorneys, however, have identified the four as safety Anthony Scirrotto, defensive lineman Chris Baker, linebacker Jerome Hayes and cornerback Lydell Sargeant. The attorneys said last week that their clients had been expelled for Penn State's second summer session but would be able to participate when preseason practice begins in early August.
Agent: Jockey
suspended, fined
PHILADELPHIA - A jockey who kicked his horse in the stomach before a race was suspended for 30 days and fined $1,000 by Philadelphia Park officials.
Victor Molina's punishment was announced by his agent Monday, three days after the rider's disciplinary hearing for kicking 2-year-old colt Yes Yes Ohyes.
Molina's agent, David Yannuzzy, said he was considering an appeal because the decision was too severe. Yannuzzy blamed the officials for overreacting because Molina's kick was televised, prompting fans who saw the act to call the track and complain.
"They felt the people pulling the slots would be upset if he didn't get enough time," Yannuzzy said. "This is not the first time horses have been hit by jockeys at races. Every time it's a $250 fine. That's it. But they said, 'Oh, we had all these hits on e-mail and TV.'"
Arkansas fan
sues officials again
LITTLE ROCK - A lawyer for the man suing University of Arkansas officials over a harsh e-mail sent to former Arkansas quarterback Mitch Mustain filed a revised lawsuit Monday.
Washington County Circuit Judge Mark Lindsay earlier this month dismissed all four complaints in a suit filed by John David Terry of Mount Ida, but gave him 20 days to file amended pleadings regarding two of the complaints.
Terry sued university Chancellor John A. White and university system President B. Alan Sugg, claiming that White should not have had Razorbacks football coach Houston Nutt investigate the e-mail because it was sent to Mustain by Razorbacks booster Teresa Prewett, a friend of Nutt's family.
Eddie Christian Jr., Terry's Fort Smith-based attorney, noted in his new filing that Mustain's mother, Beck Campbell, had written a strongly-worded letter to members of the University of Arkansas System Board of Trustees in late February. According to the filing, Campbell said Mustain had been "systematically, maliciously and intentionally harassed and defamed off the field by individuals within the department and those closely associated with the Athletic Department."
Colts lead with
6 ESPY nominations
NEW YORK - The Super Bowl champion Indianapolis Colts lead the way with six ESPY nominations this year.
ESPN announced the nominees Monday morning. Fans will vote for the winners in 38 categories, and the awards show airs July 15 from Hollywood's Kodak Theatre.
Cleveland Cavaliers star LeBron James, who will co-host the event with ABC late-night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel, is nominated in three categories, including Best Male Athlete.
The national champion Tennessee women's basketball team has the second most nominations with five, including Best Team.
The other Best Team nominees are the Florida men's basketball and football squads, the San Antonio Spurs, the Colts and the St. Louis Cardinals. Women have won the ESPY for Best Team twice: the Connecticut basketball team in 1996 and the U.S. World Cup soccer team in 2000.


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package org.wso2.identity.integration.test.entitlement;

import org.testng.Assert;
import org.testng.annotations.AfterClass;
import org.testng.annotations.BeforeClass;
import org.testng.annotations.Test;
import org.wso2.carbon.identity.entitlement.stub.EntitlementPolicyAdminServiceEntitlementException;
import org.wso2.carbon.identity.entitlement.stub.EntitlementServiceException;
import org.wso2.carbon.identity.entitlement.stub.dto.PolicyDTO;
import org.wso2.carbon.utils.ServerConstants;
import org.wso2.identity.integration.common.utils.ISIntegrationTest;
import org.wso2.identity.integration.common.clients.entitlement.EntitlementPolicyServiceClient;
import org.wso2.identity.integration.common.clients.entitlement.EntitlementServiceClient;
import org.wso2.carbon.integration.common.utils.mgt.ServerConfigurationManager;

import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileFilter;
import java.rmi.RemoteException;

/**
 * This class contains test case to test the use case described in https://wso2.org/jira/browse/IDENTITY-4740
 */
public class EntitlementPIPAttributeCacheTestCase extends ISIntegrationTest {
    private EntitlementServiceClient entitlementServiceClient;
    private EntitlementPolicyServiceClient entitlementPolicyClient;
    private ServerConfigurationManager scm;

    private static final String POLICY_ID = "urn:oasis:names:tc:xacml:3.0:IDENTITY4740";
    private static final String POLICY = "<Policy xmlns=\"urn:oasis:names:tc:xacml:3.0:core:schema:wd-17\" " +
            "PolicyId=\"urn:oasis:names:tc:xacml:3.0:IDENTITY4740\" " +
            "RuleCombiningAlgId=\"urn:oasis:names:tc:xacml:1.0:rule-combining-algorithm:first-applicable\" " +
            "Version=\"1.0\">\n" +
            "   <Target>\n" +
            "      <AnyOf>\n" +
            "         <AllOf>\n" +
            "            <Match MatchId=\"urn:oasis:names:tc:xacml:1.0:function:string-equal\">\n" +
            "               <AttributeValue DataType=\"http://www.w3" +
            ".org/2001/XMLSchema#string\">fooIDENTITY4740</AttributeValue>\n" +
            "               <AttributeDesignator AttributeId=\"urn:oasis:names:tc:xacml:1.0:resource:resource-id\" " +
            "Category=\"urn:oasis:names:tc:xacml:3.0:attribute-category:resource\" DataType=\"http://www.w3" +
            ".org/2001/XMLSchema#string\" MustBePresent=\"true\"/>\n" +
            "            </Match>\n" +
            "         </AllOf>\n" +
            "      </AnyOf>\n" +
            "   </Target>\n" +
            "   <Rule Effect=\"Permit\" RuleId=\"Rule-1\">\n" +
            "      <Target>\n" +
            "         <AnyOf>\n" +
            "            <AllOf>\n" +
            "               <Match MatchId=\"urn:oasis:names:tc:xacml:1.0:function:string-equal\">\n" +
            "                  <AttributeValue DataType=\"http://www.w3" +
            ".org/2001/XMLSchema#string\">readIDENTITY4740</AttributeValue>\n" +
            "                  <AttributeDesignator AttributeId=\"urn:oasis:names:tc:xacml:1.0:action:action-id\" " +
            "Category=\"urn:oasis:names:tc:xacml:3.0:attribute-category:action\" DataType=\"http://www.w3" +
            ".org/2001/XMLSchema#string\" MustBePresent=\"true\"/>\n" +
            "               </Match>\n" +
            "            </AllOf>\n" +
            "         </AnyOf>\n" +
            "      </Target>\n" +
            "      <Condition>\n" +
            "         <Apply FunctionId=\"urn:oasis:names:tc:xacml:1.0:function:any-of\">\n" +
            "            <Function FunctionId=\"urn:oasis:names:tc:xacml:1.0:function:string-equal\"/>\n" +
            "            <AttributeValue DataType=\"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string\">admin@wso2" +
            ".com</AttributeValue>\n" +
            "            <AttributeDesignator AttributeId=\"http://wso2.org/claims/emailaddress\" " +
            "Category=\"urn:oasis:names:tc:xacml:1.0:subject-category:access-subject\" DataType=\"http://www.w3" +
            ".org/2001/XMLSchema#string\" MustBePresent=\"true\"/>\n" +
            "         </Apply>\n" +
            "      </Condition>\n" +
            "   </Rule>\n" +
            "   <Rule Effect=\"Deny\" RuleId=\"Deny-Rule\"/>\n" +
            "</Policy>        " +
            "";

    @BeforeClass(alwaysRun = true)
    public void testInit() throws Exception {
        super.init();
        scm = new ServerConfigurationManager(isServer);
        entitlementPolicyClient = new EntitlementPolicyServiceClient(backendURL, sessionCookie);
        addPolicy();
        addCustomAttributeFinder();
        //call super init since server restart happens in previous step
        super.init();
        entitlementServiceClient = new EntitlementServiceClient(backendURL, sessionCookie);
    }

    @Test(groups = "wso2.is", description = "Check get decision")
    public void testGetPermitDecision() throws EntitlementServiceException, RemoteException,
                                               EntitlementPolicyAdminServiceEntitlementException {
        String decision = entitlementServiceClient.getDecision(buildRequest("admin@wso2.com"));
        Assert.assertTrue(decision.contains("Permit"), "Entitlement service get decision failed.");
    }

    @Test(groups = "wso2.is", dependsOnMethods = {"testGetPermitDecision"}, description = "Check get decision")
    public void testGetNotPermitDecision() throws EntitlementServiceException, RemoteException,
                                                  EntitlementPolicyAdminServiceEntitlementException {
        String decision = entitlementServiceClient.getDecision(buildRequest("non.existing.email@wso2.com"));
        Assert.assertTrue(!decision.contains("Permit"), "Entitlement service get decision failed.");
    }

    @AfterClass(alwaysRun = true)
    public void destroy() throws Exception {
        //Remove added policy
        entitlementPolicyClient = new EntitlementPolicyServiceClient(backendURL, sessionCookie);
        entitlementPolicyClient.enableDisablePolicy(POLICY_ID, false);
        entitlementPolicyClient.removePolicy(POLICY_ID);
        //Copy default config file
        File srcConfigFile = new File(getISResourceLocation()
                                              + File.separator + "entitlement" + File.separator
                                               + "config" + File.separator
                                              + "entitlement_default.properties");
        File targetConfigFile = new File(
                System.getProperty(ServerConstants.CARBON_HOME) + File.separator + "repository"
                        + File.separator + "conf" + File.separator + "identity" + File.separator +
                        "entitlement.properties");

        scm.applyConfigurationWithoutRestart(srcConfigFile, targetConfigFile, true);
        //remove custom attribute finder from lib
        scm.removeFromComponentLib("org.wso2.carbon.identity.custom.pip-4.2.2.jar");
        scm.restartGracefully();
    }

    private void addPolicy() throws Exception {
        PolicyDTO policy = new PolicyDTO();
        policy.setPolicy(POLICY);
        policy.setPolicy(policy.getPolicy().replaceAll(">\\s+<", "><").trim());
        policy.setVersion("3.0");
        policy.setPolicyId(POLICY_ID);
        entitlementPolicyClient.addPolicy(policy);
        entitlementPolicyClient.publishPolicies(new String[]{POLICY_ID}, new String[]{"PDP Subscriber"}, "CREATE",
                                                true, null, 1);
    }

    private void addCustomAttributeFinder() throws Exception {
        File jarFile = getCustomAttributeFinder();
        scm.copyToComponentLib(jarFile);

        //Copy entitlement.properties
        File srcConfigFile = new File(getISResourceLocation()
                                              + File.separator + "entitlement" + File.separator
                                              +  "config" +  File.separator +
                                              "entitlement_custom_attribute_finder.properties");
        File targetConfigFile = new File(
                System.getProperty(ServerConstants.CARBON_HOME) + File.separator + "repository"
                        + File.separator + "conf" + File.separator + "identity" + File.separator +
                        "entitlement.properties");

        scm.applyConfigurationWithoutRestart(srcConfigFile, targetConfigFile, true);
        scm.restartGracefully();
    }

    private File getCustomAttributeFinder() throws Exception {

        File targetDir = new File(
                getISResourceLocation() + File.separator + ".." + File.separator + ".." + File.separator + ".." +
                        File.separator + ".." + File.separator + ".." + File.separator + ".." +
                        File.separator + ".." + File.separator + "tests-common" + File.separator + "extensions" +
                        File.separator + "target");
        if (!targetDir.isDirectory()) {
            throw new Exception(targetDir + " is not a directory.");
        }

        File[] files = targetDir.listFiles(new FileFilter() {
            @Override
            public boolean accept(File file) {
                String fileName = file.getName();
                if (fileName.indexOf("org.wso2.carbon.identity.custom.pip") >= 0 && !(fileName.indexOf("test") >= 0)) {
                    return true;
                } else {
                    return false;
                }
            }
        });

        if (files != null && files.length == 1) {
            return files[0];
        } else {
            throw new Exception("Could not found custom attribute finder jar");
        }
    }
    private String buildRequest(String subject) {
        String request = "<Request xmlns=\"urn:oasis:names:tc:xacml:3.0:core:schema:wd-17\" " +
                "CombinedDecision=\"false\" ReturnPolicyIdList=\"false\">\n" +
                "<Attributes Category=\"urn:oasis:names:tc:xacml:3.0:attribute-category:action\">\n" +
                "<Attribute AttributeId=\"urn:oasis:names:tc:xacml:1.0:action:action-id\" " +
                "IncludeInResult=\"false\">\n" +
                "<AttributeValue DataType=\"http://www.w3" +
                ".org/2001/XMLSchema#string\">readIDENTITY4740</AttributeValue>\n" +
                "</Attribute>\n" +
                "</Attributes>\n" +
                "<Attributes Category=\"urn:oasis:names:tc:xacml:1.0:subject-category:access-subject\">\n" +
                "<Attribute AttributeId=\"urn:oasis:names:tc:xacml:1.0:subject:subject-id\" " +
                "IncludeInResult=\"false\">\n" +
                "<AttributeValue DataType=\"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string\">" + subject +
                "</AttributeValue>\n" +
                "</Attribute>\n" +
                "</Attributes>\n" +
                "<Attributes Category=\"urn:oasis:names:tc:xacml:3.0:attribute-category:resource\">\n" +
                "<Attribute AttributeId=\"urn:oasis:names:tc:xacml:1.0:resource:resource-id\" " +
                "IncludeInResult=\"false\">\n" +
                "<AttributeValue DataType=\"http://www.w3" +
                ".org/2001/XMLSchema#string\">fooIDENTITY4740</AttributeValue>\n" +
                "</Attribute>\n" +
                "</Attributes>\n" +
                "</Request>" +
                "";
        return request;
    }
}

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


Iraqi radical Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr announced his retirement from politics February 16, 2014 [this withdrawal lasted two years]. In a handwritten note posted on his website, Sadr announced his "non-intervention in all political affairs." He said "there is no bloc that represents us from now on." Sadr and his militia group, the Mehdi Army, gained prominence after the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003. Sadr said he was closing down all his offices, except for some charities.
According to the statement, Sadr's surprise decision came to " protect his family's name, and to end all evil acts that occurred and are likely to occur under the name of our family or under the name of our offices." It wasn't immediately clear whether Sadr's decision was permanent, but this move has had immediate impacts on the political scene, with more than seven members of parliament in his political bloc, al-Ahrar, resigning after losing their religious legitimacy following Sadr's withdrawal. Sadr's group currently holds 40 seats in the 325-member parliament as well as six cabinet posts in Prime Minister Nuri al- Maliki's Shiite-led government. Observers expected that more members of parliament in Sadr's bloc and allied politicians will resign, bringing the country's political process to a new deadlock.
Led by firebrand Shi'a cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, the movement emerged as perhaps the most militant anti-American force in Iraq. Al-Sadr is the son of the late Muhammad Sadiq al-Sadr, who was gunned down, presumably by Saddam Hussein's men, along with Muqtada's two brothers, in 1999. JAM (aka the Mahdi Army) was formed in 2003 by Moqtada al-Sadr as the military wing of his Office of Martyr Sadr (OMS) party to enforce the Sadrist's nationalist - anti Coalition/anti Iran - agenda and to protect Shi'as from attacks by Sunni insurgents, particularly al-Qaeda. Since there were few Sunnis and minimal al-Qaeda activity in southeastern Iraq, JAM focused its efforts on asserting its dominance throughout the region. Fiercely nationalist, al-Sadr's military wing, the Imam Al-Mahdi Army, actively resisted U.S.-led occupation efforts; various tallies put its numbers as several-thousand strong, although exact figures were unavailable. The Mahdi Army's mouthpiece was the "Ansar Al-Mahdi" newspaper, which was edited by Ahmad Al-Mutayri.
On 07 August 2004, the interim Iraqi prime minister signed a limited amnesty law that pardoned insurgents who had committed minor crimes but had not killed anyone. Iyad Allawi said insurgents had 30 days to turn themselves in to Iraqi security forces in order to qualify for the amnesty. The prime minister offered an olive branch to Moqtada al-Sadr. Allawi particularly offered al-Sadr a chance to distance himself from the actions of his followers and begin taking part in the political process. Allawi said "I have been having positive messages from Moqtada al-Sadr. That is why we don't think that the people who are committing the crimes in Najaf and elsewhere are his people. We think they are people using his name. We invite, and I invite from this platform, Moqtada al-Sadr to participate in the elections next year." Previously, Moqtada al-Sadr has rejected invitations to participate in a national conference and national council, and had not indicated any willingness to take part in the elections scheduled for January.
As of April 2007 Muqtada al-Sadr's political element belonged to the United Iraqi Alliance (UIA) and controlled 32 seats in parliament as well as the Ministries of Agriculture, Health, and Transportation. A U.S. briefing in Baghdad on 11 February 2007 accused the Qods (Jerusalem) Force of Iran's Revolutionary Guard of supplying Iraqi Shiite militias, including the Mahdi Army, with weapons and explosives. U.S. officials alleged that Sadr's political power and significant following, in addition to his anti-American outlook, made the leader and the Mahdi Army an attractive ally to the Iranians. Iran has repeatedly denied the charges that it has supplied or trained Iraqi combatants and militias.
The Sadrist movement's influence declined during 2008. Muqtada al-Sadr's decision to cease Jaysh al-Mahdi militant activity against government forces combined with aggressive Iraqi security force operations against JAM reduced the Sadrist's ability to use force to control and influence the population. In addition, during 2008 the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq (ISCI) and the Dawa Party successfully undermined the Sadrist movement, limiting its ability to influence government decisions.
The Iraqi National Alliance (INA) was officially formed on August 24, 2009 and was often seen as the successor of the pan-Shi'a United Iraqi Alliance (UIA), which captured a plurality of votes in the 2005 national elections. Comprised of 32 entities, including a small number of token Sunni figures, the INA stood as the strongest competition to PM Maliki's State of Law Alliance (SLA) for the Iraqi Shi'a vote. The INA candidate list contained prominent names from across the Iraqi Shi'a political arena, including several prospective candidates for Iraq's next Prime Minister. Tensions between the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq (ISCI) and the Sadrist Trend -- the two biggest components of the INA -- increased after the elections. The INA enjoyed strong name recognition and party loyalty, but its electoral prospects was limited by its sectarian image and its close ties to Iran.
Iran's over-arching political objective for Iraq's January 2010 election was the re-election of a Shia-dominated, preferably Islamist, coalition led by Tehran's closest allies, notably ISCI and the Sadrist Trend under the rubric of the Iraqi National Alliance coalition (INA). Iraq, given its proximity to Iran and its shared Shia heritage, represents a vital foreign policy priority for the Iranian government's (IRIG) efforts to project its ideology and influence in the region. An economically dependent and politically subservient Iraq would foster greater strategic depth for Tehran. Iranian president Ahmadinejad has referred to Iraq in press statements as "a Shia base" confronting the broader menace perpetrated by those opposed to Iraq's identity and stability (i.e., Sunni states, the West).
Thousands of supporters of Iraqi Shi'ite leader Muqtada al-Sadr demonstrated in the center of Baghdad March 18, 2016, a fourth consecutive Friday, amid calls for government reform. Iraq's Interior Ministry said it refused permission for the protest, but security forces appeared to have relented. Iraqi television channels showed throngs of the al-Sadr supporters crossing several bridges into Baghdad's governmental Green Zone. Other video showed protesters setting up a sit-in inside the zone, which houses parliament, top leaders' residences, and the U.S. and British embassies.
Al-Sadr's spokesman, Sheikh Salah Obeidi, claimed that "hundreds of thousands of Iraqis are participating" in Friday's demonstrations "to demand reform of the government." Al-Sadr has given the government 45 days to appoint a new cabinet made up of technocrats.
Observers thought al-Sadr was probably acting at the behest of neighboring Iran. He said al-Sadr is part of Iran's chess game in Iraq, alongside other pro-Iranian actors, and might be trying to develop a civil movement to protest corruption with Iran's encouragement.