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NEW ORLEANS (AP) The Baltimore Ravens completed their on-field preparations for the Super Bowl with a brief, fun-filled session at the Superdome.
Hundreds of team officials, family and friends attended the walk-though, which lasted for 15 minutes. The session was more of a pep rally than a workout on the eve of Sunday's championship game against the San Francisco 49ers.
Running back Ray Rice playfully tackled his mother on the sideline and guard Marshal Yanda had a video camera attached to the top of his Ravens cap.
Around 600 people, including Hall of Fame running back Lenny Moore, were in attendance.
Coach John Harbaugh said it was important to get the players' families involved, especially since he was delighted with the way practice went this week leading up to Saturday.
``The word I would use is effective,'' he said. ``We've gotten everything we've needed to get done, that's the No. 1 thing.''
The Ravens initially practiced at Tulane University before sharing the New Orleans Saints practice facility with brother Jim and his 49ers on Thursday and Friday.
``The league has an obligation and a desire to make sure the competitive playing field is fair,'' John Harbaugh said. ``I appreciate Jim cooperating with us. He was great about it. Ultimately, made it fair for everybody.''


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My interest in genealogy started when I was a child. My dad's mom use to tell me that the family history book had been burned in a fire, but she knew we were related to Daniel Boone. I never forgot that, nor have I ever found the connection haha. Along with doing genealogy I spend a lot of my time doing photo restorations, namely for victims of Sandy through Care for Sandy, and also of family photos that I add to the books I write on our family history.
24 November 2009
How to find Native American Heritage
Client's Question:
I am attempting to find my husband's biological father in order to prove that he was Cherokee Indian. How do I find if he did belong to the tribe and what if any benefits can be afforded to our children because of their ancestry? I believe he is now deceased.
Here was my response to her and I thought maybe it could help others. So I asked her permision and she graciously granted it for me to post to share with all of you.
My Response:
To start you will need to pin point the ancestor the Indian blood comes from. You are aware that G**** was Native American, so your first task then is to find his parents. Obviously it had to have come from one or both. If he was born in 1942 then you may have to go back as far as each of his grandparents to answer this question. Once you have traced back to his grandparents then you need to narrow down which one the Natvie blood comes from. You may be able to answer this by finding them in the 1900 Federal Census (more on this later).
The key is to find the ancestor that is on the Dawes Rolls and has a roll number. With out that no descendant would be eligable for Indian rights. So keep in mind this may even need to include a search for his great grandparents, if not successful with his grandparents. The Dawes rolls were taken between 1898 - 1914, so it's very likely that you only need to find out who his grandparents were, and if his parents were older when he was born, then they may even be on the rolls.
Next you need to know the tribe, which it appears you do, but if there is some question as to the accuracy of that then look for them in the 1900 Census. I would still do this as you don't know which ancestor is Native American. This will help narrow down who you need to look for in the Dawes rolls. In the 1900 Federal Census they recroded the tribe of Native Americans (though not all claimed their Native Heritage, so this does not mean they were not, if they did not claim a tribe in the census).
Then search the Dawes roll under the tribe for the ancestor. You can search the index here. This will take some time. Be patient. First find the tribe (in your case Cherokee), if the ancestor is by blood, then Cherokee by blood. Then the index is in somewhat alphabetical order by first letter of surname. I did take a quick look at pg 300 (narrowed it down alphabetically) for G**** and there were none listed, but don't panic. That may mean his Native Blood came from his maternal side or a grandmother, or you need to keep looking through the "G's." Like I said I just took a quick look. But what this tells me is that this can not be easily answer by just searching the rolls. You will need to research his ancestry.
As far as your other question. It really depends on the tribe. My husband is in the process of apply for his rights through the Chickasaw Nation. When we are done (just waiting for a birth certificate we had to reorder) he will be eligable for medical help, free hunting and fishing licenses, and if he were interested help with college. So yes there are benifits to finding this out, but each tribe is different. I would have to look into the Cherokee tribe to find what eligabilites they would have. But first and foremost the ancestor on the Dawes rolls must be found and their number found. With out that ancestor and the number from the rolls it won't matter how much Indian your children have they are not eligable. Which even in my husbands family we know. His mother is part Native American, but she is not eligable because her Cherokee ancestor ran away from the authorities and went to TX. They refused to be put on the reservation or be a part of the rolls. They went to great lengths to hide their heritage, and as a result, none of their descendants are eligable for rights. So be prepared for disapointment as well. I've dealt with both, just in our own family.
After you narrow down to the ancestor and find their roll number the last thing you will need is proof. To do this you will need birth (of those living) and death certificates (of desceased ancestors) between your children and the ancestor on the rolls in order to submit for approval to the tribe and their rights. Also get familiar with the tribe, their laws and guidelines for applying.
Note: I do this kind of research, and can certainly help you if you are looking for someone to do this work for you, but it is possible to do it yourself as well. Just be patient and sometimes you will need to think outside the box. Feel free to ask for help when you get stuck.
Good Luck,
Amy Crooks
* Names removed to protect identity.
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- Amy said...
I'm a Chickasaw citizen, too. Any chance there's some Colberts in your husband's line?
- amyrebba said...
Yes there are Colbert's in his line. I've not had time to verify this part of his family yet though. But supposedly Julia Ann McLish, who married William Chisholm (2nd wife), the son of Jesse Chisholm. Her mother was Ginny Colbert, her father was James Holmes Colbert born 1768 in the Chickasaw Nation (at that time would have been Mississippi area) and died in 1846 in Doaksville, Choctaw Nation, IT. It was his mother who was said to be a half blood Chickasaw. Now remember I've not done any research on the Colbert's, However the person who shared this with me did provide some source information, but i've not verified it. James' father was James Logan Colbert. He was Scottish. There was conflicting evidence as to has place of birth which was either in the Carolinas or in Scotland. If this seems to fit your family please let me know. I'd be glad to share what I have. Good Luck, Amy
- Amy said...
James Holmes Colbert was my 5th great grandfather. Down from there, it goes to James I Colbert (4th great grandfather), then Christopher Columbus Colbert (3rd great grandfather). I haven't researched the line much that far back yet, so I don't have much to share past Christopher Colbert. It's just good to know someone with the same research interests. :)
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- kwmccaa said...
Hi Amy,
I've been researching my Colbert tree, but I'm fairly new at it. I have records back to my great-great-great grandfather James M Colbert, but have trouble documenting the next generation. Information leads me to James Holmes Colbert & Susan James as his parents, but there were so many James' that I'm having trouble. Any suggestions?
My tree:
gr-gr-gr grandparents: James M Colbert & Mary E Atkinson
gr-gr-grandparents: Sarah E Colbert & Robert LaSalle Ford
GR-grandparents: Ida Mae Ford & William L Griffin
Grandparents: Ida Mae Griffin & James E Wells Sr
Parents: James E Wells Jr & Laetta N White
ME: Karen L Wells McCaa
- Amy Coffin, MLIS said...
I don't know. I've used the ChickasawHistory.com site for reference and see James Holmes Colbert there, but haven't gone that far back in my own Colbert line. My direct ancestor, Christopher Columbus Colbert would be a half-brother to this James Holmes. However, I'm stuck right at this connection. I'm learning about this Chickasaw research as I go.
- amyrebba said...
Hi Amy,
"I've been researching my Colbert tree, but I'm fairly new at it. I have records back to my great-great-great grandfather James M Colbert, but have trouble documenting the next generation. Information leads me to James Holmes Colbert & Susan James as his parents, but there were so many James' that I'm having trouble. Any suggestions?"
Oh boy. I'm sorry I haven't responded lately. I'm just so darn busy. I don't have any suggestions off the top of my head. I would have to seriously look into this family. All of the Colbert information was shared with me by a Chisholm cousin. To start I would need to know a bit more about James before I could really give suggestions as to where to look next. I'm next deep into three projects and a couple more coming in, as well as heading back in to 10 hour work days at work. Which is why I've had no time to keep up with my blog. Certainly keep in touch. I have two other ancestors that I've been getting a lot of interest on and I'd certainly be more than happy to pull up and work on the Colbert line as well, I just need to clear my plate some. You can always reach me by email as well, just click on my profile.
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My name is Kathy. My Grandkids were put into foster care recently. Ages 7yrs, 6yrs. and 2yrs.,due to their mother, my daughter failing 1 ua in a year. Her attorney has told her to find out if any of the three kids are part indian. I need HELP, PLEASE. He says this would help these kids. We are heartbroken and so are the children. We get one hour a week at St. Francis for visits. St. Francis told the mother it will be a year or longer before they are back in the home. How is this better for children than leaving them in the home and monitoring the family more extensively. I know some of you are thinking this is what the mother deserves and maybe so, but the kids don't deserve it. They don't have any idea why they can't go back home with their mommy. Their the ones getting punished. firstname.lastname@example.com

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North Texas over Troy by 3
Bowl Mania kicks off in New Orleans but unlike the betting public who has already pushed the Trojans up to a touchdown favorite, we don't think this visit to the Big Easy will be a walk in the park for the co-champions from the Sun Belt. Sure, the Troy boys have notched 10 wins for the second straight campaign, including 3-0 SUATS versus winning opposition this season, and are 6-1 SU in their last seven meetings with the Mean Green while North Texas got run over by FAU and the Lane Train in the Conference USA title tilt. However, we can't get past the fact that in their season-ending 8-point win over Arkansas State to claim a share of their conference crown, Troy was outgained by 313 yards. Our database is also a bit leery of Neal Brown's bunch as it notes the Trojans are just 2-7 ATS as favorites versus CUSA foes and 1-3 ATS as bowl chalk. Meanwhile, UNT is 9-0 SU and 7-2 ATS versus the Belt when they sport a winning record and 2-0 ATS in this particular matchup when they arrive with rest. In addition, our soon-to-be-released 2017 PLAYBOOK BOWL STAT REPORT (available Thursday) reminds us that C-USA bowlers off a double-digit loss are 13-2 ATS. That's plenty of good numbers in the Green's favor but the fi nal tragedy for Troy comes courtesy of THE CLINCHER: Bowl favorites of 4 or more points on a 3-0 SUATS win streak are 3-9 SU and 1-11 ATS when facing a foe off a SUATS loss.
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Let's set the table. The Rams are 8-21-1 SU and 10-20 ATS in their last 30 division away games against winning division opponents, including 1-11 SU and 2-10 ATS from Game 13 out. And while you might be saying these are not the old St. Louis Rams, we would counter that Jared Goff looked a little like the "old Goff" against Philadelphia. As for Seattle, if the playoffs started today the Seahawks would be on the sidelines, so this game is critical for them. Meanwhile, the potential loss of star LB Bobby Wagner (a Defensive POY candidate) would be devastating considering the Seahawks have already lost defensive starters Richard Sherman, Kam Chancellor and Cliff Avril for the season. Just to give you an example of Wagner's impact, the Seahawks were stout on defense in the 31 snaps with him on the fi eld last Sunday and allowed just 3 points to Jacksonville, but as soon as Wagner left the game with an aggravated hamstring injury, the fl oodgates opened and the Seahawks lost 30-24. Still, we believe in QB Russell Wilson, who has thrown for 17 TDs versus just one interception during the 4th quarter of games this season, an NFL record. Wilson is also 14-1 SU and 11-3-1 ATS at home when the Seahawks are coming off a loss, including 6-0 SUATS during the second half of the season. Safe to say, we're all over the Seahawks today provided they've got 11 starters on defense.
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Spread your TUC with cream cheese and top with crispy bacon bits and a thin slice of avocado, or a sundried tomato, for a yummy snack the whole family will love. For this either the classic TUC Original or TUC Bacon flavour, you'll believe us when we say one more is never enough!
#2. Almond Butter with Pear
Pop a layer of almond or cashew nut butter on to a cracker, and add some thin slices of pear for a delicious and nutritious snack. This is definitely one for TUC Original, ideal for a solo snack or the perfect companion during a catch up with friends.
#3. Tomato, Cheese and Mayo
Sometimes the most simple toppings are also the best. Spread your TUC with mayonnaise and slice cheese and fresh tomatoes on top and sprinkle with little salt for a tasty, easy snack or lunch. Any of the four TUC flavours would work well with this combo. For an extra flavour, you could add a sprig of basil.
#4. Smoked Salmon
For a classic TUC topping combine cream cheese, or sour cream, with some chives and smoked salmon. Or you could try horseradish cream sauce and dill instead. Sour Cream & Onion flavour TUC works best with this topping. Munch through a packet of this tasty TUC with a tempting twist. Packed with delicious sour cream and onion flavours, you can't help but TUC in!
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- "Everybody was trying to survive" during the Depression, his stepson Dick Darnall says
- Glenn Miller offered the fellow trombonist a job after hearing him perform
- He left the band when Miller joined the military and started a military band
- Tanner's work included the Electro-Theremin, featured on "Good Vibrations"
Paul Tanner, one of the last surviving members of the Glenn Miller Orchestra, died February 5 at an assisted-living facility in Carlsbad, California, his stepson said.
Tanner was 95 and died of pneumonia, said Dick Darnall in a telephone interview.
Tanner was born in Skunk Hollow, Kentucky, in 1917, but soon left to tour the country with his five brothers and their father, all of them musicians, during the early 1930s.
"Everybody was trying to survive during the Great Depression," Darnall said.
After one gig, Miller, who scouted his own talent, came up from the audience and "asked Paul to become part of his band."
The trombonist went on to play with Miller, who also played trombone, from 1938 until 1942. But when the band leader joined the military and started a military band at military wages, the civilian band broke up. For the next few years, Tanner stayed in Hollywood, where he did studio work, Darnall said.
At age 39, he enrolled at UCLA, which offered him a teaching job and advanced degrees upon his graduation four years later; he went on to teach music there for 23 years, Darnall said.
Tanner was also working with the ABC Orchestra, where for 16 years he played with the likes of Leonard Bernstein, Andre Previn and Arturo Toscanini, Darnall said.
His interests included early forms of electronic music, and he developed the Electro-Theremin in the 1950s, said Darnall. The device, which is mechanically linked to an audio oscillator, produced the eery, almost human sounds showcased by the Beach Boys on "Good Vibrations" and on the TV series "My Favorite Martian."
The Electro-Theremin also was used in movies, including 1964's "Strait-Jacket," with Joan Crawford. "She was accused of chopping off everybody's heads," Tanner said in an interview in 1997 that is posted on his website.
"So, she was a psycho, they thought. There was one spot in the picture where she was to go up the wall, and they put her in a little small room, and then she got more and more and more excited and then she gradually got limp and passed out. And all through that, I'm the only thing playing.
"So, I told the guy who was going to conduct me, I said, 'Just raise your hand up when you want more intensity, and lower it when you want less intensity, that's all you got to do,' which was mainly a case of widening the vibrato. There was no music for that, I was just to make an effect, that's all."
Though Tanner did not invent the device, "He enhanced on it and made it easier to play," his widow, Jeanette, said in a telephone interview. "He made it more like piano keys."
But the device proved to be so simple that he put it into an elaborate container to make it look nicer. "Otherwise, it would look like an oatmeal box," he said.
During his teaching years, Tanner wrote a number of textbooks, and his classes proved popular, his widow said. "He used to crowd the auditorium area where he had his classes, and it got so full that the fire department closed the doors and wouldn't let any more in," she said.
Though he stopped teaching more than 30 years ago and moved to Carlsbad, "I still get letters from people that were his students," she said. "They said that he changed their life."
Tanner wound up giving his Electro-Theremin to a hospital, where it was used to measure hearing, she said.
In addition to his wife and stepson, Tanner is survived by another stepson, Doug Darnall. Tanner's first wife, Alma, died in 1981 or 1982 after four decades of marriage, according to his family.


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The PGA West Health and Racquet Club is located in the affluent PGA West gated community in La Quinta, CA. The members, for the most part, earn a comfortable living.
Some members were comfortable enough that when they visited a personal trainer at PGA West's 2,100-square-foot fitness facility, they left their personal belongings, including wallets and purses, in an area of the club that was not secure. As those members recently found out, that wasn't a good idea because when they weren't looking, their personal trainer, Richard Nathan Detamble, stole some of their credit cards from inside their wallets and purses.
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Detamble used the stolen credit cards to make purchases of more than $10,000 on gift cards and personal items, mostly at a Target department store. Detamble was arrested on suspicion of commercial burglary and fraudulent use of credit cards on April 25, just three days before he was to be married at the PGA West club. He was released from the Indio Jail after he posted bail. He has since been fired by PGA West.
Although Detamble stole actual credit cards and did not hack into the club's computer system for members' credit card information, this case raises questions about how secure club members' personal information is, and if that personal information is stolen from the club, who is liable?
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The new standard was the main subject of the Technology Summit at the annual International Health, Racquet and Sportsclub Association (IHRSA) show in March. At that summit, presenter Michael Scott Scudder of the online-based consulting firm MSS FitBiz Connection told club owners in the audience that they could face heavy fines if they were not compliant with the standard for securing their members' personal information at their clubs. He continued by telling them that the deadline for compliance was in three days — about the time most of them would be returning home from the conference.
"We were essentially asked to get up there and say, 'Hi, folks! You've all got cancer!'" Scudder says.
Scudder stressed to the attendees the importance of clubs protecting their members' information. Leaving folders with members' sign-up information lying around on the front desk or even in cabinets in the back office is no longer acceptable, Scudder says. Instead, clubs should put members' credit card information into a computer and make sure the data is encrypted or translated into a secret code.
Russo echoes that, saying that all electronic credit card data must be rendered unreadable. In some cases, smaller merchants still use paper to swipe card data. It must also be secured in a locked environment.
Frank Abagnale, who spoke after Scudder's presentation at the IHRSA show, is just as concerned about security as anyone. Abagnale is one of the nation's leading experts on the subjects of forgery, embezzlements and secure documents. A former forger and impostor, Abagnale was the subject of the movie "Catch Me If You Can." His latest book is entitled "Stealing Your Life: The Ultimate Identity Theft Prevention Plan."
As Abagnale was having lunch with the financial electronic commerce services company that sponsored the IHRSA presentation, he remarked, "I would be very concerned in this [club] industry about all of the information they take on of all the clients that come to their business and how they store that information. I have read a number of cases where an employee that has worked there has absconded with the information and sold it. I've heard about having break-ins, and the information was stolen."
In an interview several days after the IHRSA show, Abagnale continued to stress the need to secure personal information.
"It is extremely important for every company in America no matter how small or big, including every municipality and financial institution, to be asking themselves one question: What am I doing to protect the identities of my customers and my employees?" Abagnale says.
Even after the presentation at the IHRSA show, club owners were still puzzled about whether they were compliant with the new standard or how their clubs could become compliant. Club Industry's Fitness Business Pro asked readers in a recent online poll, "Are your clubs compliant with the PCI standards?" Twelve percent answered "yes," 6 percent answered "no," and 82 percent didn't know what the PCI standards were.
The 12 requirements of the PCI DSS focus on securing the network of information in a computer, from installing and maintaining a firewall configuration to encrypting transmission of cardholder data across open, public networks. Companies taking payments by credit card must follow these requirements regardless of their size. However, larger companies are scrutinized more closely.
Clubs — and all merchants for that matter — are categorized in one of four levels based on the number of their transactions for one specific credit card. Level 1 merchants have more than 6 million transactions annually; Level 2 merchants have between 1 million and 6 million transactions annually; Level 3 merchants have between 20,000 and 1 million e-commerce transactions annually; and Level 4 merchants have less than 20,000 e-commerce transactions annually.
Only Level 1 merchants are required to have an annual on-site review by the merchant's internal auditor or a qualified security assessor. Merchants at all levels must fulfill a network scanning requirement on a quarterly basis using an approved scanning vendor.
Bigger clubs fall into the Level 1 or Level 2 categories. Smaller clubs are usually Level 3 or Level 4. However, a Level 3 or Level 4 merchant that is compromised or has account data stolen is automatically scrutinized at the same level as a Level 1 merchant, complete with an annual on-site review.
Only Level 1 or Level 2 merchants have to prove compliance, but Level 3 and Level 4 merchants must show that they are taking steps to be compliant, Russo says. Depending on the credit card company, Level 1 and Level 2 merchants had to show compliance by Oct. 31, 2006 or by March 31, 2007.
The PCI Security Standards Council does not levy fines for credit card fraud. Instead, fines come from the credit card companies or the merchant acquirers, which are mainly banks. Visa fined companies a total of $4.7 million in 2006, up from $3.4 million in 2005.
Clubs that are not compliant and face a breach of security could face fines ranging from $10,000 to $500,000.
"The point is, that's all payable," Scudder says. "There are very few operators that have that kind of money around. Suppose they can't come up with the money. Then, their credit card processing privileges are going to be withdrawn from them." That, essentially, would close a club, he adds.
The poster child for credit card breach is TJX, the parent company of T.J. Maxx, Marshalls and other retail stores. In February, TJX revealed that credit card information on at least 45.7 million customers had been stolen, making it the largest breach of customer data in history. Experts predict TJX could receive as much as a $500,000 fine.
In a smaller case last fall, Chase Card Services, a division of JP Morgan Chase & Co. that handles credit card transactions for Circuit City, informed 2.6 million current and former Circuit City credit card holders that tapes containing their personal information had been accidentally dumped in a landfill, according to a report on CRN.com.
The PCI Security Standards Council does not visit each business to determine whether or not they are compliant. Russo relates it to driving the speed limit. It is assumed people are following the speed limit until they are caught not following it, he says.
"Until you drive 100 miles an hour and you actually get caught, you don't get a ticket," Russo says. That means that no fines will be levied unless club owners are caught, he says.
Abagnale questions why credit card companies would be so heavily involved in cracking down on fraud. If credit card companies lose 5 percent of their revenue annually to fraud, and if those companies get a 50 percent tax write-off for those losses, then those companies would be happy to live with that loss, Abagnale says.
He is concerned that credit card fraud may simply become the cost of doing business. If no one is doing anything about crime, then we are encouraging it, he says. And that's why many people in the credit card industry stress the importance of compliance.
"When you get breached, as a consumer, you don't want to use that credit card anymore, so it's detrimental to their business," says one insider. "That's why [credit card companies are] pushing these issues. It's all about, 'How do we make our consumers feel confident in using that credit card?' It was financially impacting the credit card providers as well, but it was before PCI was brought to light. Now that PCI is out, of course everything is driven on the other side. The merchants are liable."
According to the Jewish Community Center (JCC) Association of North America, at least two of its facilities are already working to become compliant. A software system is helping one of those JCCs become compliant. The software for its membership system automatically deletes credit card numbers from its database, only holding onto the last four digits of the credit card number. The other JCC says its members' information is not yet encrypted in its system but that only the last four digits of their credit cards are viewable on the computer screen.
Ray Groover, the chief financial officer of American Bodyworks in the Atlanta, GA, area, is making sure his company's four franchisees and future franchisees are compliant. Some of the company's older franchises are still taking and storing members' information on paper, but those clubs are in transition to store the information electronically, he says.
"To do this, you have to rewrite your agreement and put it into the computer as a basic document and then merge information as you put it in for each new member," Groover says. "It's not something where we're going to be paperless tomorrow. I hope within the next two months, we'll have the systems in place."
The hardware for this transition costs between $2,000 and $2,500 per club, Groover says. Plus, the time it takes to install the systems also factors into the overall costs. But as Groover puts it, "The cost for the upgrade is negligible compared to the loss that could be incurred if you did mishandle information."
For more details and information about the new standard,visit the PCI Security Standards Council Web site at: www.pcisecuritystandards.org.
Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) Version 1.1
The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) Version 1.1 is a set of comprehensive requirements for enhancing payment account data security. The PCI DSS was developed by the founding payment brands of the PCI Security Standards Council, including American Express, Discover Financial Services, JCB, MasterCard Worldwide and Visa International, to help facilitate the broad adoption of consistent data security measures on a global basis.
The core of the PCI DSS is a group of principles and accompanying requirements, around which the specific elements of the DSS are organized:
Build and Maintain a Secure Network
Requirement 1: Install and maintain a firewall configuration to protect cardholder data.
Requirement 2: Do not use vendor-supplied defaults for system passwords and other security parameters.
Protect Cardholder Data
Requirement 3: Protect stored cardholder data.
Requirement 4: Encrypt transmission of cardholder data across open, public networks.
Maintain a Vulnerability Management Program
Requirement 5: Use and regularly update anti-virus software.
Requirement 6: Develop and maintain secure systems and applications.
Implement Strong Access Control Measures
Requirement 7: Restrict access to cardholder data by business need-to-know.
Requirement 8: Assign a unique ID to each person with computer access.
Requirement 9: Restrict physical access to cardholder data.
Regularly Monitor and Test Networks
Requirement 10: Track and monitor all access to network resources and cardholder data.
Requirement 11: Regularly test security systems and processes.
Maintain an Information Security Policy
Requirement 12: Maintain a policy that addresses information security.
Source: www.pcisecuritystandards.org


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A couple of hundreds of meters from the Kilitbahir fortress (and seemingly connected to it at some time) there is a series of what I, as a layman, call bunkers - or maybe the word casemate is more proper. Very impressive and extensive, some in several floors. Must have been hell to live there, but now they are serene. They seem to date from the 1890's.
The museum inside has been much improved, with light- and sound effects to give some feel of what it was like during offensives and lots of explanations for the historically inclined.
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|Oracle Workflow Developer's Guide
Release 2.6.3
Part Number B10284-02
For any given item type, you can define a single function that operates as both a selector and a callback function. A selector function is a PL/SQL procedure that automatically identifies the specific process definition to execute when a workflow is initiated for a particular item type but no process name is provided. Oracle Workflow also supports using a callback function to reset or test item type context information. You can define one PL/SQL procedure that includes both selector and callback functionality by following a standard API.
Oracle Workflow can call the selector/callback function with the following commands:
The standard API for the selector/callback function is as follows. This section is numbered with the notation 1-> for easy referencing. The numbers and arrows themselves are not part of the procedure.
1-> procedure <procedure name> (item_type in varchar2,
item_key in varchar2,
activity_id in number,
command in varchar2,
resultout in out varchar2) is
2-> <local declarations>
3-> begin
if ( command = 'RUN' ) then
<your RUN executable statements>
resultout := '<Name of process to run>';
end if;
4-> if ( command = 'SET_CTX' ) then
<your executable statements for establishing context information>
end if;
5-> if ( command = 'TEST_CTX' ) then
<your executable statements for testing the validity of the current
context information>
resultout := '<TRUE or FALSE> ';
end if;
6-> if ( command = '<other command>' ) then
resultout := ' ';
end if;
7-> exception
when others then
WF_CORE.CONTEXT ('<package name>', '<procedure name>', <itemtype>,
<itemkey>, to_char(<actid>), <command>);
8-> end <procedure name>;
1-> When the Workflow Engine calls the selector/callback function, it passes four parameters to the procedure and may expect a result when the procedure completes. The parameters are defined here:
|The internal name for the item type. Item types are defined in the Oracle Workflow Builder.
|A string that represents a primary key generated by the workflow-enabled application for the item type. The string uniquely identifies the item within an item type.
|The ID number of the activity that this procedure is called from. Note that this parameter is always null if the procedure is called with the 'RUN' command to execute the selector functionality.
|The command that determines how to execute the selector/callback function. Either 'RUN', 'SET_CTX', or 'TEST_CTX'. Other commands may be added in the future.
|A result may be returned depending on the command that is used to call the selector/callback function.
|If the function is called with 'RUN', the name of the process to run must be returned through the resultout parameter. If the function is called with 'SET_CTX', then no return value is expected. If the function is called with 'TEST_CTX', then the code must return 'TRUE' if the context is correct or 'FALSE' if the context is incorrect. If any other value is returned, Oracle Workflow assumes that this command is not implemented by the callback.
2-> This section declares any local arguments that are used within the procedure.
3-> The procedure body begins in this section with an IF statement. This section contains one or more executable statements that make up your selector function. It executes if the value of command is 'RUN'. One of the executable statements should return a result for the procedure that reflects the process to run. For example, a result can be 'REQUISITION_APPROVAL', which is the name of a process activity.
4-> This section contains one or more executable statements that set item type context information if the value of command is 'SET_CTX'. The Workflow Engine calls the selector/callback function with this command each time it encounters a new item type and item key combination, before executing any function activities for that combination. This command is useful when you need to set item type context information in a database session before the activities in that session can execute as intended. For example, you might need to set up the responsibility and organization context for function activities that are sensitive to multi-organization data.
5-> This section contains one or more executable statements that validate item type context information if the value of command is 'TEST_CTX'. The Workflow Engine calls the selector/callback function with this command to validate that the current database session context is acceptable before the Workflow Engine executes an activity. For example, this callback functionality executes when the Notification Details web page is just about to launch a reference form. The code in this section should return 'TRUE' if the context is correct, and 'FALSE' if the context is incorrect. If the context is incorrect, you can raise an exception and place a message in the WF_CORE error system to indicate the reason the context is invalid. The raised exception is also printed in an error message in the form.
6-> This section handles execution modes other than 'RUN', 'SET_CTX' or 'TEST_CTX' as others may be added in the future. Since your function does not need to implement any of these other possible commands, it should simply return null.
7-> This section calls WF_CORE.CONTEXT( ) if an exception occurs, so that you can include context information in the error stack to help you locate the source of an error. See: CONTEXT, Oracle Workflow API Reference.


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Re: Reading anything?
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July 27, 2012, 08:21:10 PM »
I just finished Candice Millard's THE DESTINY OF THE REPUBLIC, a history of the unlikely nomination, election, and assassination of James Garfield by certified nut job Charles Giteau. Garfield sounds like a thoroughly decent fellow who had the potential to be a truly exceptional President, as well as already being a thoroughly decent, quality human being, and a loving husband and kind father. The fact that a man as crazy as Giiteau was able to get as close to the President as he did as often as he did when everyone who knew him realized he was unbalanced is a testament to what an innocent, trusting place this country once was. This is a fine piece of history, well-written and compelling, and the indictment of the sheer ignorance and incompetence of Garfield's doctors - who were more responsible for his death than the assassin's bullet was - is a reminder of how far medicine has come in the last 131 years.
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July 27, 2012, 08:46:08 PM »
The Grays
is a surprisingly gripping piece of fiction that deals with a lot of the known UFO "mythology" out there.
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July 28, 2012, 07:12:02 AM »
I have several on the go. Right now the front-runner has been "A History of British Secret Service" by Richard Deacon. It's a brief overview (477 pages) starting with Throgmorton and Walsingham and ending in the 1980's. The part about the agent with no arms and no legs hunting tigers in India after the rest of his party had died was a high point (thus far)!
Also nibbling at Temple Grandin's "Animals in Translation", a book of Robert Silverberg stories and another on forensic detection through history ("Written in Blood" maybe?).
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July 29, 2012, 07:49:12 AM »
I got the complete works of H.P. Lovecraft. I have a LOT of reading to do.
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July 29, 2012, 09:03:38 PM »
I have a hardback copy of this, sent to me by the author and inscribed by him, I've finally gotten around to reading it.
Room Full Of Mirrors A Biography of JIMI HENDRIX
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July 30, 2012, 12:01:02 AM »
Recently finished Death Has a Name, by Jerry Hanel. Interesting book about a psychic named Brodie Wade who assists police departments. Wade spent several years in a mental institution as a boy, because he suffered from weird delusions and apparently harmed himself. In fact, Brodie is able to interact with The Truth. Not the subjective truth, but rather an intelligent supernatural force that resides in a world just a little bit out of phase with ours, and incorporates things such as ghosts and psychic imprints of past events. People are aware that Brodie is a very nervous person who exhibits strange behaviour and talks to things other people don't see. The Truth always has things it wants known, and if Brodie is in the right place when the right questions are being asked, some strange apparition appears that only he can see. It can't communicate clearly, so he has to figure out what it wants. The Truth is desperate to make its information known, and when it knows someone can see and hear, it becomes quite forceful, to the point of doing real physical harm. The cops think he's crazy, but he comes up with useful information, which scares most of them but also buys him some tolerance and earns him a living. So, into this situation, the book introduces a couple of grisly and bizarre murders and an unusual theft that kick off a whole series of events. Not bad for a bargain ebook.
I'm currently about halfway through the second Detective Rebus book by Ian Rankin, Hide and Seek. Starts with a dead junkie, some suspicious circumstances and possible connections to the occult and male prostitution. Unfortunately, despite all the weirdness and his own gut instincts, Rebus is thus far having a hard time defining an actual case that would make sense to anyone. Pretty good so far, and if it's anything like the previous book, the pace of the story will pick up in the second half, and questions will start getting answered, which will make it very hard to put down.
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Quote from: A.J. Bauer on July 29, 2012, 07:49:12 AM
I got the complete works of H.P. Lovecraft. I have a LOT of reading to do.
Nice! I picked up a complete collection a couple weeks ago myself. Don't think I could manage to read it all straight through, but it's great to have everything at my fingertips when I'm in a Lovecraft mood.
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August 06, 2012, 04:07:54 PM »
Sam Brower's "Prophet's Prey : My Seven-year Investigation into Warren Jeffs and the Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints"
The subtitle is self-explanatory.
A p.i., process server, bounty hunter, bail bondsman, but not a writer, as one can see if one reads his book, but it is still good enough to be both readable and enjoyable. Basically, a man not to mess with, which they found out, much to their regret, when they started messing with him, as he had the knowledge and contacts to do what was needed to be done, and the patience to take all the time it needed.
As to why it took so long . . .
The wealth of the church could be measured not in the millions of dollars, but in the hundreds of millions. Some of it earned legitimately . . .
Hard workers -- Successful businesses -- Tithing
Some of it not . . .
Business fraud -- Ignoring child labor laws -- Money laundering -- Tax fraud -- Welfare fraud
But that is just the tip of the illegal iceberg. While not all members were criminals, and no one member was guilty of all these. They were believed guilty of . . .
assault and battery -- attempted murder -- breaking and entering -- child abandoment -- child abuse -- child neglect -- conspiracy -- contempt of court -- extortion -- falsifying records -- harboring a fugitive -- incest -- kidnapping -- obstruction of justice -- racketeering -- rape -- sex trafficking -- sexual assault -- sexual misconduct -- smuggling -- soliciting prostitution -- unlawful sexual conduct -- violating the Mann Act.
The only thing they seemed not to be guilty of, was murder. And there is some idea they might have tried that, if they could have gotten away with it.
Ignorance, Ifluence, Indifference of . . .
the local, county, state, federal . . .
judicial system, law enforcement, legal system, politicians.
Misunderstanding by . . .
the press and public.
It had nothing to do with polygamy, but the abuse of children: sexually, physically, and emotionally.
And again money . . .
If it was spend the money and do what was right, and not spend the money, not spending the money trumped spending the money.
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August 17, 2012, 04:06:19 PM »
John Landis' (yes, that John Landis) "Monsters in the Movies."
There is alot right with it and little wrong, so we will start with what's right.
The Author
He knows his stuff.
He's a good writer, but if one has any of the scripts he has written, one already knows that.
He has a wide taste in movies, but what do you expect from someone who's first movie was called "Schlock."
Though he ids himself as an atheist Jew, he is not adverse to talking about the politics, the religion, the sexuality inherent in horror movies.
He knows the importance of music in horror movies.
Maybe because of his own kids, he is one of the few to talk about the importance of kids and teens to the horror movies. Both in the audience and on the screen. There are . . .
Space babies -- Teenage zombies -- Vampire children -- Teen werewolves (It's puberty I tell ya!)
The Book
It's all there or almost all there.
From "A.I." to "Zombies on Broadway"
From 1904's "Barbe-Bleue" to the movies of last year.
From atomic mutations to zombies.
From vampires to werewolves.
From scary children to scary older women.
There is alot of obscure titles
"Flight of the Living Dead: Outbreak on a Plane" (It's like "Snakes on a Plane," but with zombies.)
"Gay Zombie" (It's like "Harry Met Sally," but with zombies.)
The Japanese "Big Tit Zombie" (it's like . . . It's like nothing you've ever seen before.)
And the last chapter deals with the unseen . . .
animators -- artists -- designers -- directors -- painters
who brought you all these horror movies.
It is full of trivia. Does the name Richard Wordsworth, who starred in "The Creeping Unkown," mean anything to you? It should. His great-great-grandfather was the poet laureate Williams Wordsworth.
There are some great pictures of old movie posters in the book.
The Interviews
He gets Christopher Lee to talk about what Lee hates to talk about. Dracula.
He has one of the last interviews that Ray Harryhausen has given.
But, the highlight of the book is . . .
The Pictorial Essays
As they allow one to scan several movies at once. Some of the essays are on . . .
Actors who have played Dracula
Vampire stakings (Have you ever staked a motorcycle?)
Actors who have played the Devil.
Dystopias (or, you wouldn't want to live there.)
Actresses who have played a wicked witch.
Killer Dolls.
Actors who have played Jekyll and Hyde. (I should say actresses, too, as a couple of them have been played by women.)
But, the best one is the "Monster Carry." That one has to be seen, but I can say in all 28 cases the monster is male and the carry is female.
I did say there were a few things wrong with it.
The author has a tendency to toot his own horn.
Both the interviewer and the interviewee allow the interview to wander.
There are a few mistakes. For example the book says "Son of Frankenstein" was Karloff's 2nd appearance as the Monster. It was his 3rd.
I wish the title had been something else. When it says monsters, I think horror monsters, but as the author points out there are also fantasy and sci fi monsters, but I still think in terms of horror monsters.
And he picks some odd titles. For example, he sees Steven Spielberg's "Duel," as a horror film. Though, to give the author his due, he is not the first one to do that.
Thus, if there is any book so far this year, that I recommend. It is this one. Expecially for anybody who posts to this board.
Now, if the events of 1983 had never happened.
Next time: 1919, or the year Chicago went up in fire and flame.
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"just my Type" by Simon Garfield. A history of fonts and an introduction to font and typography design,
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Just finished:
I Want My MTV: The Uncensored Story of the Music Video Revolution
by Craig Marks and Rob Tannenbaum. Faaaaan-tastic book about the first 10 years of the channel (y'know, when it was actually cool) and explores its impact not only on television and the music industry, but pop culture in general. There are tons of great behind-the-scenes stories in here.
Now in the middle of:
Black Sabbath - Doom Let Loose
by Martin Popoff - an album by album pictorial history of Black Sabbath, loaded with tons of geek trivia about the band, behind the scenes photos, and tons of fascinating pix of vintage concert advertisements, magazine covers, weird foreign 45s and EP covers, etc., etc.
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I tried to read the first book of The Wheel of Time series, approaching it with excitement and high hopes because it sounds like a great collection of novels, but I could not get into it at all and finally shelved it. I'm bummed.
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I read the first five, and found out the series wasn't finished, and never came back to them. I know that the series has a huge following, but I found them drawn out and boring (this from a guy who has read THE SILMARILLION about 20 times!!).
I just finished CATCHING FIRE, the second volume in THE HUNGER GAMES series. I cannot recommend these books highly enough. You will NOT be able to put them down!!!!
(The movie ain't bad either!!)
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Dreamcatcher by Stephen King. About halfway through, really, really good. Also reading 'Striking Thoughts' by Bruce Lee, which is very interesting.
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It's So Easy and Other Lies
by Duff McKagan of Guns N Roses/Velvet Revolver fame.
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There is a particular violence in Frantz Fanon's polemic on race and decolonisation.
Both 'Black Skin, White Masks' (1952) and 'The Wretched Earth' (1961) controversially deliberated the inferiority complex of blackness in a white world, examining the psyche of colonisation and pugnaciously advocating a cleansing violence. The thoughts in this post were largely inspired by this paradox of black skins and white masks that marks how race is perceived by both the self and the other. Although, I feel the age of political correctness is perhaps behind us (As made evident by virtually any episode of 30 Rock)- are we so optimistic that race in cinema is immaterial, or is it still insidiously informing orientalist stereotypes of otherness?
Race and violence in cinema have been as multifaceted and complex as the colonial experience, where differences of race, ethnicity and nationality – with a healthy dose of villainised Eastern Bloc rasps in the cold war decades and breathy Middle-Eastern whispers in the post 9-11 years – have been conflated with cinematic identities of wickedness. Save for the psychokiller genre that focuses most exclusively on deranged white men or Charlize Theron, baddies come with accents, bred from the irrational evils that oppose wholesome Western do-gooding (Or do I mean American hegemony?) and maniacally seek world domination. Of course the dashing American hero (unless of course it's Bond, James Bond with his wicked smooth British vowels) will save the world, a stunning empoweredheroine and perhaps even a bright-eyed, quippy child from unspeakable evils or a nuclear holocaust. Blue sky and sunshine unless there's a sequel involved.
Have colonial race politics set the precedent for how race is represented along caricatured stereotypes in cinema?
D.W Griffiths' epic Birth of a Nation (1915) (although extremely cinematically significant, it is the vilest piece of racist fecal matter in existence aside from being painfully long) that details the heroism of the Ku Klux Klan. If you haven't seen it, yes, you did read right- the heroism of the KKK in the pro-confederacy American South during the civil war against aggressive African-American men (played by white actors in blackface).
So does evil come with an ethnic/racial identity? Often I believe it isn't a stretch to admit that it does.
Perhaps one of the most intriguing and interrogating portrayals of race in cinema, which plays with the construction and deconstruction of African-American identities like a clever kitty (or a cool cat) with a ball of rainbow yarn, is found in Spike Lee's Bamboozled (2000). A biting satire centered on a modern-day minstrel show featuring black actors in blackface, and the violence that ensues is a truly marvelous and intelligent piece of cinema. Blackface forms a common thread in both Birth of a Nation and Bamboozled, despite the many decades and racial and political ideologies that separate the films. Bamboozled deals with the offensiveness and Fanonesque racial inferiority complex of the makeup phenomenon that originated a caricature of blackness as a racial identity in minstrel shows and Vaudeville.
I watched The Devil's Double (2011)last week, featuring Dominic Cooper in an exceptional double role as the tortured political decoy Latif Yahia and the sadistic playboy Uday Hussein, the son of America's ex-Public Enemy Number One, Saddam Hussein. I'm not going to deliberate the successes and fails of the film- it was quite excellent as far as Dominic Cooper's performance goes and worth watching.
However, what I would like to draw attention to the less than Iraqi (Or well a broad umbrella of middle-eastern or a narrower Arab?) cast that won critical acclaim for playing an entirely Iraqi cast (Ok so the female protagonist Sarrab was Lebanese, played unconvincingly by French actress Ludivine Sagnier). Don't get me wrong here, Dominic Cooper deserved every bit of the praise. His performance as the swarthyUday Hussein was particularly arresting. However, what exactly does this fluidity of race, ethnicity and nationality mean? Particularly when the gradients of colours and inflections only believably turn darker?
Ultimately, this post isn't an argument on cinema and race politics, but rather a query.
We have the great insult of blackface in cinema stirred by historical productions such as Birth of a Nation or satirical critiques such as Bamboozled. We have seen further fluidity of race on cinema as seen in Lawrence of Arabia (1962) (and so on) with Peter O' Toole and Alec Guiness flouncing about the desert in yet another epic bit of film. Today, we have an English actor convincingly playing the psychopathic son of an Iraqi dictator.
I suppose the question is, are we post-race where the best man does the job? Or are we harking back to an insulting precedent when racial politics permeated the cinema screen? After all, the reverse wouldn't be entirely convincing- for then we would have White Chicks (2004), The Sequel.
Does villainy still have a colour and an accent?
As posted on http://laphantasmagorie.wordpress.com/ (25/11/2011) Original post can be found here.
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Hi Vindhya, good to see you here - thought-provoking post. I suppose the knee jerk reaction is to say that, film being as diverse and multivalent as it is, you can to an extent find whatever you are looking for in it. For instance the last time an Iraqi torturer featured in a major production it was the Asian looking Naveen Andrews in the hit fantasy series Lost - though he is British so that fits with the 'get a British actor to be the baddy' approach. Lost was an example, though, of how fantasy and sci-fi genres have always protagonised a kind ethnic melting pot perhaps partly because strangeness, alterity and ethnic marginality go together.
Having said all that, why focus on US media and not on Indian or Chinese or even Brazilian film? Then again, look round OAC - a lot of the loudest noise, though not all, is made by white baby boomers.
Vague musings apart, I have a couple of worries about the focus on film, visual representation etc. One aspect of this is that the process of inspection feeds the phenomenon it seems to want to erase. We end up watching a lot of artistically bad, racist, imagery to make ourselves feel happy about not being bad racist people: our urge to differentiate and classify compels us to classify ourselves against something - in this case kinds of image. Perhaps I am wrong. Either way, I doubt that most of these films are of much value to the average Tamil farm worker or indeed to anything more than the tiniest fraction of the world's population. In other words it is still important to think about who the specific audience is.
Stream of consciousness. This video intends to be provocative on many fronts. Then blackface dancer and voodoo doll are intended to upset those concerned about racism. The cathedral setting suggests a black mass. Add the boys choir and the unholy combination of the Roman Catholic Church and pedophilia leap to mind. The lyrics describe the abusive lover as blue-eyed, and in the last cut he is clearly white. The song overall is clearly about a violent and abusive relationship in which the woman both fears her lover and is afraid of losing him, thus willing to do whatever he wants. To focus on the racial imagery is to miss this primary concern.
Again I would urge a broader, and in this case, historical perspective. I write as someone who grew up in the 1950s in the American South, graduated from a legally segregated high school, and watched TV news reported by white and male-only teams. I have seen for myself the dramatic changes produced by the Civil Rights Movement. My high school is no longer segregated. The news on the local TV station is reported by a male and female, rainbow coalition team, white, African-American, Asian and Hispanic. Black faces on screen have, in my lifetime, evolved from Amos and Andry and Jack Benny's butler Rochester to Denzil Washington and Morgan Freeman, the latter a black man who has played on screen both American presidents and God.
Do I think that the Movement achieved its goals in full? Of course not. It has made it possible for members of the Black, Hispanic and other minority middle-classes to pursue careers and participate in public life in a way once unthinkable. That in the USA distributions of wealth, income, and unemployment remain heavily skewed against minorities is also undeniable.
Not saying it's a perfect world out there. In the eloquent words my daughter learned in the U.S. Navy, "Shit happens." Just looking for thicker description and deeper, more nuanced interpretation.
Thank you for the comments. Saw this posted online yesterday- any comments? Quite superficial, but echoes a lot of the issues echoed by race in visual media.
It is quite unusual here for bloggers to moderate posts. So much so, I have got in th ehabit of posting my comments and editing them afterwards. Not so this time...
We most definitely do not live in a post-race world, Vindhya. As for the voice of villainy in Hollywood movies, that was traditionally an Englishman of whom George Sanders was the prototype right up to The Jungle Book. I even read not long ago that the recent casting of English actors as superheroes in three Hollywood blockbusters represented a crisis for American masculinity. It sounds as if Dominic Cooper's role as the Iraqi psychopath was something of a throwback.
If you don't distinguish between race, ethnicity, nationality, language and a host of other kinds of classes, it is hard to pose your question using skin colour as a racial identifier. I often wonder if the problem isn't just classification, taking in Linnaeus, profiling, marketing and lazy stereotyping of all kinds. So what is special about race? Ethnic and national identities are standalone or nominal categories with no logic relationship to any others built into them. Race and class are ordinal classes arranging whole populations into a set which has hierarchy built in. The thing about race is that it evolved as an account of and explanation for global empire. By some accounts the organization of the world by means of race, with whites at the top, red, brown and yellow in the middle and blacks at the bottom, is as passe as colonial empire itself. But it isn't so. Ours is still a racial world, ask any person of colour travelling through international check points. In my view, the shift in global power away from th eWest has generated a kind of cultural panic among the whites which is reassured by the enduring poverty and violence of Africa. But this too is changing with 7 of the fastest-growing economies in th eworld being now African and in 2100 Africans will more than a third of the world population. So th esituation is highly dynamic. Nationalism and ethnicity are racism without the pretension to being inclusive and universal.
Violence is a major part of your post. I would just say that Fanon is more complicated than th estereotype of his work. The Wretched of the Earth opens with a chapter whose message is basically Kill the white man. This caught public attention and had to be explained away by Sartre in his Preface. But the last chapter of seven, based on his work as a psychitrist in an Algerian hospital, is extraordinary. Here he draws the opposite conclusion that violence dehumanises not just its victims, but the victimisers also. This applies to the rebels and to the French soldiers. the conclusion is that violence is inconsistent with our basic humanity and destroys its perpetrators. Interesting enough I read a piece by a Syrian journalisttoday who argues much the same point.
For me a fundamental issue is how Western decadence manifests itself in the media, politics and elsewhere. Hollywood, which not long ago was a bastion of some would say Jewish liberalism, is now extremely rightwing,, with prominent directors issuing blasts against OWS and the militarisation of America's relations with the rest of the world reflected in the movies.
I would like to thank you for your rich post which raises more questions than anyone could answer, but that's good too.


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% maven dist
The first command will download the source code from the CVS repository. The second command (goal) will compile and build the distribution jar file you are looking for. If you don't have maven installed go to Maven for downloading and installation instructions.
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Alexei Ponikarovsky returns to Devils in trade with JetsNHL.com @NHLdotcom
NEWARK, N.J. - The New Jersey Devils have acquired forward Alexei Ponikarovsky from the Winnipeg Jets for two draft picks.
Devils general manager Lou Lamoriello announced the trade Wednesday night. New Jersey sent a 2014 fourth-round choice and a 2013 seventh-round pick to Winnipeg to reacquire a player who helped the Devils to an Eastern Conference title last spring.
Ponikarovsky is viewed, among other things, as insurance for the first-place Devils. New Jersey forward Dainius Zubrus could be out up to two months with a wrist injury. Zubrus will have exploratory surgery on Thursday.
The Devils will play host to Philadelphia on Friday. Ponikarovsky, who had two goals for the Jets this season, expects to play vs. the Flyers.