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Queens. Fear of a Black Planet- trope. The hysterical fear of living in a society where whites are a minority and Blacks are a majority. Feral youth- label/trope. This trope refers to poor people of color living in inner cities. It is often used interchangeably with Hoodlums, Hood Rats and similar tropes. Hoodlums, Hoo... |
to the spectre or threat of Black power. Users commonly make correlation fallacies while reading news reports from sites that only present negative information about non-conservative people of color, such as the Blaze and WorldNutDaily. They then ascribe hoodlum status to urban youth of color; though the trope extends ... |
people two-fold: because not all supposed “hood rats” are non-white, this trope is not only meant to target Black folks but also targets Black culture’s influence on female-bodied white teens/children. Inner City Youths- trope. This label enables white conservatives to bash people of color with its degree of ambiguity,... |
a higher population of people of color. See also Animal(s), Zoo, Hoodlums, Hooligans, Thugs. Leave the Cities- trope. Also known among POCs as “white flight”, this trope is used by racist whites to denote the fact that urban areas often have higher concentrations of POCs, leaving white conservatives and supremacists to... |
than two people who are persons of color. Frequently levied at teenagers. Used to describe a plethora of situations, such as people in urban areas, or gatherings of Black people. Extenuating circumstances may mean that this term will be applied to whites who are not conservative, such as Occupy Wall Street. Never appli... |
Muslim, Communist, et al.)- trope. With the radical reaction by conservative whites to the election of a Black person to the presidency of the U.S., this trope was bound to occur. It is a testament to the rabid fear of Blacks in power. Fear of a Black Planet ensues. Political Correctness (PC) is Bad- trope. Used by con... |
correct language to employ subtle racism/bigotry. An error of projection, as no one has benefited more from PC language than white racists/bigots who use PC in the home or at work, but not in their minds, in private conversation or anonymously on the internet. PC allows bigots to socially function while still clinging ... |
Racial Wars- trope. This trope comes in many forms and is favored especially by survivalist types, but is widespread among white conservatives. Its pathology is twofold: a desire by white conservatives to have an excuse to let their hair down and engage in open acts of violence against persons of color, and the overwhe... |
sources from outlets that provide only negative pieces about persons of color. Also known as Fear of a Black Planet, Be Ready, The Shit Will Hit The Fan, When The Shit Hits The Fan, etc. “Scare Quotes”- trope. The use of quotations to denote the un-humanity of the subject. Also used in tandem to make suggestions about ... |
in which one does not realize that they are referring to Black people or other people of color as a monolithic group. This trope has many variants, including Them, These People, Those People, There Are People Out There and more. Attached to old-school They All Look The Same To Me tropes. Welfare, Welfare Queens- labels... |
but only become stronger with Republican attacks on social programs. Also referred to as Entitlements, this trope is a result of the conservative white perception that social programs threaten their white privilege, and the fear that this may result in upward social mobility for people of color. “Young People”- label/t... |
Nahuatl, known as “Mexicano” by many of its speakers, is the most widely spoken indigenous language in Mexico. It was the lingua franca of the Aztec empire and is currently one of Mexico’s official languages. It belongs to the Uto-Aztecan language family, which spread from the United States Southwest to |
Central America. In fact, it is theorized that Nicaragua’s etymology comes from the Nahuatl words “Nican ca Anahuac,” which roughly translates to “here is Anahauc” denoting the geographical limits of the Aztec empire. There are currently several regional varieties of Nahuatl, including one still spoken in El Salvador. ... |
all, today the language boasts over 1.5 million native speakers. Nahuatl is an agglutinative language and is rich in morphology. Its classical form was highly metaphorical and poetic in style. Some of the literary treasures studied in depth by scholars are the poems of Nezahualcoyotl (“coyote in fast”) and the |
Huehuetlahtolli (literally “the ancient word”), which is an ancient collection of sayings, exhortations, and the traditional wisdom of the culture which helped preserve and pass down family values and ideals to generations—until the Spanish invasion. The good news is that despite the imposition of Spanish and trends sh... |
decline in the number of Nahuatl monolinguals, there has recently been a growing interest in Nahuatl. Aided by a movement of cultural revival, specifically in many areas of the United States, Nahuatl’s resilience is in part due to the cultural consciousness and commitment of the new generation of Mexicans. Sergio |
a Nahuatl “Word of the Day” as a way to teach and to interact with other up and coming learners of this indigenous language. He also is an administrator of the Nahuatl Facebook Page. Here is a short interview with Sergio conducted in the Nahuatl language: Rising Voices: Tell us |
about yourself. Notoca Sergio, ompa Mexihco Tenochtitlan nichanti. Ce pohualli ihuan chicoace xihuitl nicpia. Nitlacuilo ihuan ompa “Twitter” ihuan “Facebook” nitemachtia nochin cemilhuitl in Nahuatlahtolli. RV: How long have you been studying Nahuatl? How did you become interested in the language and how did you learn... |
de nuestra alma fuera de nuestro cuerpo, parecido a un “animal totémico” propio) #palabranahuatl 2. Chicahualiztli: Fuerza (física) #palabranahuatl 2. Chicahualiztli: Strength (physical) RV: In your opinion, what is the future of the Nahuatl language? Nicneltoca intla cachi tlacah in nahualthtolli quimatizque (tlen ino... |
Hand hygiene is recognised world wide as one of the most effective hygiene practices to reduce infection. Find out more on the SA Health website. The South Australian Infection Control Service also works with clinicians and the public to prevent infections associated with health care An A-Z list is provided on the Pare... |
about: - amoebic meningitis - the common cold Some infectious diseases are notifiable. In South Australia this means that the doctor and laboratory diagnosing this disease are required to report it by law, under the Public and Environmental Health Act 1987. To notify the Communicable Disease Control Branch phone the So... |
Fled from Syria with 300 Catholic companions to Italy due to Monophysite persecution of Severus in 514. Ordained in Rome, Italy. Preacher in Umbria, Italy. Founded a monastery at Spoleto, Italy. Bishop of Spoleto for 20 years. When he arrived to assume his see, the people rejected him as a foreigner, but the city gates... |
think it should be changed so you learn from it, but I don’t think it should be taken away because it does help people get their credits back,” said Brittany McGovern, an Alameda High School student who had a frustrating experience trying to re-take failed math and social studies classes. McGovern described being surro... |
she just stopped going to the computer center to finish her Geometry and Ethnic Studies make-ups. Her experience captures the challenge inherent in tailoring online education to the Facebook and YouTube generation of digital natives who grew up on the Internet, said Sally Murphy, senior director of undergraduate studie... |
of high school students is a social environment. It’s not a work environment. Students who see the computer as a playground are less likely to take it seriously,” she said. The result is students who get through classes without remembering what they were supposed to learn, Murphy said. Two-thirds of the incoming freshm... |
take remedial classes because their high schools gave them a diploma, but not an adequate education. Critics say too many high schools feel pressured to raise graduation rates and let students make up classes by taking poorly supervised online courses. When properly supervised though, former Alameda principal Mike Coop... |
online learning can be attributed in part to how little it costs districts that according to Murphy, the Cal State East Bay administrator, now need to refocus on making sure kids actually learn and not just pass. “That means a smaller classroom. That means more teacher time. It means that we need to give more money to ... |
said. Cheryl Foster, principal at Raoul Wallenberg High School in San Francisco, said educators everywhere understand that many California kids are going off to college unprepared. “We are working on it,” Foster said, adding that no district had solved the problem. Cyber High and other online education services were no... |
director of Cyber High. Mueller said the California PASS Program was always envisioned as a second-chance to keep kids from dropping out of school. “I don’t think we’re designed to be the high school experience. We’re just designed to help out in those little areas that kids need that extra push to get them over the gr... |
Alana Potter, lead author of the WASHCost working paper on “Assessing hygiene cost-effectiveness“, explains the importance of changing hygiene behaviours so that improved water and sanitation can lead to the expected health benefits. She has been reviewing indicators, tools and |
methods that sector institutions are using to monitor and measure hygiene behaviour change and identified three key hygiene behaviours common to all of these tools. Simply put, these are hand washing, using a toilet (i.e. separation of faeces from users) |
and safe management of household water. These are crucial for health benefits to be derived from improved water and should be remembered on World Water Day. Interview and video by Nicolas Dickinson, IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre March 21, |
School cafeterias across the country are serving up delicious and different menu items that are nutritious too. Whether it's Spicy Stir Fry, Chicken Curry Salad, or Cuban Style Roast Pork, |
international recipes helps school districts to meet nutrition standards in a fun way. It also helps students to understand and appreciate different cultures. To provide students a wider range of |
vegetables, Wayzata Public Schools in MN offers a Spicy Lemon Chicken Stir Fry dish full of veggies like broccoli, carrot strips, green beans, crisp water chestnuts, onions and julienned red |
bell pepper. Highline School District, WA (featured in the video) below provides kids with fun, educational activities that match the cultures represented on the lunch menu to promote cultural awareness |
North Berwick High School's Health Web. The pages on this site contain a range of interesting tasks designed to help pupils increase their understanding of health and wellbeing. are used by a variety of subjects across the school to enhance work in the classroom and at home. our Bodyzone for |
a wide range of tasks to help you learn how your body works. You will also discover what you should and should not do to take proper care of your body. After all, it's the only one you've got! Our school Health Web includes a number of Health Challenges on |
A4 worksheets. They cover important matters of health and wellbeing and capture the interest of pupils by the use of quiz-based exercises in a variety of styles. Click below to try some out: above to open the file. If your browser is Google Chrome you may need to right click |
and use 'Save link as' to download Health care is very important in Britain. But how much do you know about health care and the National Health Service? Your teacher may display the Health Alphabet above on a Alternatively, you can click on the image to open up the sheet |
on this computer. The answers are listed at Are you easily you touch a wasp? Even a dead one? The feeling of disgust plays an important role in keeping us healthy. Find out how by completing an online BBC experiment. Click the picture and follow the instructions carefully. |
Unless you're a detective, a thief or a strangely nosy person, you wouldn't take your neighbor's trash and dump it in your kitchen, let alone consume it. On the other |
hand, if you were dying of scurvy, those limes they threw away after last night's margarita party might look surprisingly appetizing. Accepting a transplant of someone else's stool, however carefully |
tested, might sound just as extreme, but -- thanks in part to its effectiveness in treating the intractable bug Clostridium difficile -- fecal microbiota transplantation might just be the next |
big thing in medicine [sources: Grady; Hudson; Mayo Clinic]. C. difficile, an emerging epidemic in hospitals and nursing homes, primarily affects older patients during long stays in care facilities. Like |
opportunistic weeds, the bacteria move into areas of the gut decimated by the very antibiotics intended to oust infections (antibiotics don't distinguish bacterial friend from foe). Once in the gut, |
C. difficile cranks out toxins that damage the intestinal lining, causing symptoms ranging from diarrhea to life-threatening colon inflammation. To make matters worse, C. difficile has grown increasingly virulent and |
antibiotic-resistant in recent years [sources: Grady; Hudson; Mayo Clinic]. Sending bacteria to fight bacteria makes good sense. Far from being a mere batch of bugs, many bacteria and other microbes |
are not only our friends, they are part of us. Our bodies contain nine to 10 times as many microbial cells as human ones; we each play host to 100 |
trillion bacteria. It's all part of a microbiome, an ecosystem of microbial communities that perform all kinds of useful work, from enabling digestion to aiding our immune systems [sources: Khoruts; |
Zimmer; Zimmer]. The recognition of microbial contributions to health has given rise to the growing field of medical ecology, which approaches the body's microbiome as a garden to be nurtured |
and, if necessary, weeded. Fecal transplantation extends this philosophy to "organically mulching" the gut garden: Stool from a healthy donor contains beneficial gut microorganisms, aka flora, 60-80 percent of which |
will take up residence in the recipient's gut, replacing those destroyed by antibiotics and infections, and overthrowing harmful communities like C. difficile [sources: Borody; Hudson]. Driving the need for such |
novel techniques are the ever-increasing numbers of people, particularly the elderly, who die each year from gastrointestinal infections. In the U.S. such deaths more than doubled from 1999 to 2007, |
rising from 7,000 to more than 17,000 a year [source: CDC]. Eighty-three percent of those fatalities occurred among patients over 65, two-thirds of whom died from C. difficile infections [source: |
CDC]. Fecal microbiota transplantation might sound outlandish or even a bit disgusting, but it restocks the body with some of the many microbes it needs to recover, live and thrive. |
Download chapter 3: 'Basic SOA Using REST' This chapter is excerpted from the book titled, SOA Using Java Web Services, authored by Mark Hansen, published by Prentice Hall Professional, May, 2007, ISBN 0130449687, Copyright 2007 Pearson Education, Inc. For more |
request from client to server must contain all the information necessary to understand the request, and cannot take advantage of any stored context on the server." - RESTful services have a uniform interface. This constraint is usually taken to mean |
has a unique URI. - REST components manipulate resources by exchanging representations of the resources. For example, a purchase order resource can be represented by an XML document. Within a RESTful purchasing system, a purchase order might be updated by |
posting an XML document containing the changed purchase order to its URI. These are the basic principles behind REST. However, when people talk about the benefits of RESTful systems today, they usually are not strictly applying these principles. For example, |
session management capabilities using cookies, URL rewriting, and SSL session IDs. More significant deviations from Fielding's definition of REST involve getting around the "uniform interface" constraint by embedding verbs and parameters inside URLs. The Amazom.com REST interface, for example, includes |
I am not going to wade into a debate on what is or isn't RESTful. I simply define RESTful Web Services in contrast to SOAP Web Services. Table 3–1 illustrates the principal differences. a. Some would argue that XML Schema |
could be used as an interface definition for RESTful services. Not only is that approach possible, but it is used in many practical cases. However, it is not a complete interface solution because many, if not most, RESTful services incorporate |
you a sense of what is really happening, under the covers, when a Web service is consumed or deployed using JWS. This should give you a better understanding of the mechanisms underlying JWS and when to use them. For simple |
Web services, often it is easier to work with the basic Java tools than to pull out all the power of JWS. On the other hand, you will see from these examples how things can quickly get complicated and require |
the power of the JWS technologies. Since one focus of this book is on SOA-style development for the enterprise, many of the examples deal with EIS—the basic infrastructure of most corporate computing environments. This chapter describes - Structuring EIS Records |
as XML documents - Getting EIS records from a REST service (with and without JWS) - Posting EIS records to a REST service (with and without JWS) - Basic SOA-style integration of REST services using XSLT for data transformation - |
and without JWS) 3.2 XML Documents and Schema for EIS RecordsThe first step toward implementing an SOA component that consumes or provides EIS records involves formatting the EIS records that need to be exchanged as XML documents. This process is |
formalized by creating an XML Schema to represent the structure of an XML document for a particular EIS record. This section introduces some simple examples that are used throughout this chapter to illustrate the role of XML and XML Schema |
in SOA-style applications development based on Web Services. Understanding these examples requires a basic knowledge of XML and XML Schema. If you are new to XML, you should get an introductory text such as Beginning XML by David Hunter et |
al. [Hunter]. For the necessary background on XML Schema, I suggest Definitive XML Schema by Priscilla Walmsley [Walmsley]. Alternatively, if you know basic XML, but need to brush up on XML Schema, you can probably find all you need to |
know for this book by reading through the W3C's "XML Schema Part 0: Primer" [XSD Part 0]. To illustrate how XML is used, I employ an example based on the fictitious XYZ Corporation. The example illustrates real SOA challenges faced |
by many companies. XYZ Corporation has an Order Management System (OMS) that needs to be integrated with a Customer Service System (CSS). The OMS should be thought of as an EIS, such as SAP, for taking customer orders and tracking |
them through delivery. The CSS should be thought of as an EIS, such as Oracle's Siebel Customer Relationship Management Applications, that is used by customer service employees as a tool for handling customer inquiries. XYZ Corporation would like to build |
an SOA application bridging the OMS and the CSS. Every time a new order is entered in the OMS (or an existing order is updated), the new SOA application should transfer that information to the CSS and add it to |
the relevant customer's history log. The purpose of this SOA application is to ensure that customer service representatives have fast access, through the CSS, to basic customer order information. If customer service representatives need access to more detailed order information |
from the OMS, the CSS will contain the keys within the customer history log (updated via the SOA application) to query the OMS and access that detailed information. Figure 3–1 illustrates what an OMS order record looks like as it |
might appear on a user interface. Visit the Prentice Hall Professional website for a detailed description and to learn how to purchase this title. This was first published in May 2007 |
Flowering Plants Prevent Inbreeding “Humans have mechanisms to prevent inbreeding that are in part cultural. But a plant can’t just get up and move to the next town to find a suitable, unrelated mate. Some other system must be at work,” says Teh-hui Kao, professor of biochemistry and molecular biology |
at Penn State and lead researcher of a team that has discovered a large suite of genes in the petunia plant that acts to prevent it from breeding with itself or its close relatives and promotes breeding with unrelated individuals. Kao began to unravel the mystery of what he calls |
a “non-self recognition system” in the mid-1980s by studying the genetic sequence of petunias. Petunias and many common garden plants are hermaphroditic, possessing both male and female reproductive organs, and these reproductive organs are located in close proximity within the flower. This floral anatomy makes it easy... |
pollen to land on itself, resulting in self-fertilization and genetically inferior, inbred offspring. To prevent self-fertilization, many flowering plants, including the petunia, have evolved a strategy called self-incompatibility, or the ability to recognize self and non-self components within the male and female repr... |
losing more than a third of our colonies each winter, but beekeepers are a stubborn, industrious bunch. We split hives, rebound as much as we can each summer, and then just eat our losses. So even these big loss numbers understate the problem,” says beekeeper for 50 years, David Hackenberg, |
who owns the Buffy Bee honey farm outside Tampa, Fla. “What folks need to understand is that the beekeeping industry, which is responsible for a third of the food we eat, is at a critical threshold.” Increasing Fruit and Veggie Consumption: Now is the Time “Now that the president has |
signed First Lady Michelle Obama’s child nutrition bill into law, and with debate beginning in early 2011 on the next farm bill, now is the time for strong, vocal support in favor of aligning education and agricultural policy with food and nutrition policy … The need to create a nexus |
between education, agricultural and nutrition policy has never been greater. Farm and food policy should be linked more strongly with national health and nutrition goals. Data released by the Produce for Better Health Foundation warns that in order to close the fruit and vegetable consumption gap, the United States Dep... |
of Agriculture needs to close its spending gap. Fruits and vegetables should account for 40 percent of a recommended daily diet, yet only 20 percent of what USDA spends on food initiatives is on fruits and vegetables. To put the USDA’s spending priorities in perspective, current subsidy allocations are: Meat: |
54.7 percent Dairy (non-butter): 11.4 percent Fruits and vegetables: 9.8 percent As Congress moves towards considering the reauthorization of the 2012 farm bill, questions about the cost of the bill amidst growing calls for fiscal constraint will likely dominate the debate. What is important to remember is the status q... |
Without realigning our spending priorities, America will continue to pay $56 billion a year for diet-related chronic diseases specifically due to low fruit and vegetable consumption. Both in human terms and in financial terms, poor nutrition is costing us dearly.”—from an article by Elizabeth Pivonka, president and CEO... |
Produce for Better Health Foundation, in the Sun Senital Corn Growers Push Ethanol Last year, South Dakota passed an Ethanol Blender Pump Incentive Grant Program—a program that reimburses fueling stations up to $10,000 per pump to install alternative fueling infrastructure—and it’s been a huge success according to stat... |
prompted Gale Lush from the American Corn Growers Foundation to ask, “If they can do it in South Dakota, why not here in Nebraska and across the country? And, why not use more than $15 billion in Foreign Tax Credit to do it? If you could take some of these |
subsidies from the oil companies that are producing oil overseas—that $15 billion, for instance—and channel them back here domestically we could start building our infrastructure here,” Lush says. And he said the best way to do that is by financing blender pumps. Nebraska may be the second largest producer of |
ethanol in the country, but there are only about five pumps in the state. “South Dakota is a good model. They’ve had these blender pumps for years. They’re using the recovery act that was passed last year to help finance them. Our state could do the same thing if they |
want to,” says Lush, adding that the first step in building an ethanol infrastructure is extending the ethanol tax credit for several more years. Chinese Seed Industry BoomingChina has now become the second largest seed market in the world after the United States, according to information shared at the Third |
International Conference on Seed Health and Agricultural Development. With improved varieties covering 95 percent of agricultural production and a 40 percent rate of contribution to increasing agricultural output, the farming industry has become a fundamental and strategic industry that promotes agricultural developmen... |
and efficient delivery of key agricultural products. Chief economist from the Ministry of Agriculture and press spokesman of the ministry, Chen Mengshan, said China will endeavor to: - highlight the overall development of the industry by forming a complete industrial chain - form a new seed industry by connecting all |
industry links - insist on maintaining a combination of market competition and policy to fully deploy the initiative of enterprises, and strengthen policy guidance and project inputs - improve industrial capacity and ensure the capacity of seed production and supply, and security in the stock of seeds for agricultural ... |
Augusta Christine Fells was born on February 29, 1892, in Green Cove Springs, Florida. She began making sculptures as a child, using the natural clay abundant in her area. She liked to sculpt animals and other small figures, but her father didn't approve of it, and did whatever he could |
to stop her. He was a Methodist minister and believed it was a sin to make "graven images." Savage once said that her father "almost whipped all the art out of me." "From the time I can first recall the rain falling on the red clay in Florida. I wanted |
to make things. When my brothers and sisters were making mud pies, I would be making ducks and chickens with the mud."But when he found a statue she sculpted of the Virgin Mary, he changed his mind. She entered some of her pieces into county fairs and won a number |
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