Deposition Author(s): Bono, F., Ebert, J., Lorentzen, E., Conti, E.
Bono, F., Ebert, J., Lorentzen, E., Conti, E.
The exon junction complex (EJC) plays a major role in posttranscriptional regulation of mRNA in metazoa. The EJC is deposited onto mRNA during splicing and is transported to the cytoplasm where it influences translation, surveillance, and localization of the spliced mRNA. The complex is formed by the association of four proteins (eIF4AIII, Barentsz [Btz], Mago, and Y14), mRNA, and ATP. The 2.2 A resolution structure of the EJC reveals how it stably locks onto mRNA. The DEAD-box protein eIF4AIII encloses an ATP molecule and provides the binding sites for six ribonucleotides. Btz wraps around eIF4AIII and stacks against the 5' nucleotide. An intertwined network of interactions anchors Mago-Y14 and Btz at the interface between the two domains of eIF4AIII, effectively stabilizing the ATP bound state. Comparison with the structure of the eIF4AIII-Btz subcomplex that we have also determined reveals that large conformational changes are required upon EJC assembly and disassembly.
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The summary below is from the full report titled "Evidence of Zoonotic Transmission of Cryptococcus neoformans from a Pet Cockatoo to an Immunocompromised Patient." It is in the 1 February 1999 issue of Annals of Internal Medicine (volume 132, pages 205-208). The authors are J.D. Nosanchuk, S. Shoham, B.C. Fries, D.S. Shapiro, S.M. Levitz, and A. Casadevall.
Cryptococcus neoformans is a fungus that causes infection in people with abnormal immune systems. Among other things, the immune system helps the body fight off infection. Experts believe that people can become infected with cryptococcus when they breathe in spores of the fungus. Spores can be found in soil and in bird droppings, but nobody had yet described a case where infection was shown to spread directly from a bird to a person.
The researchers encountered a case of cryptococcal infection in a woman who was living in the same house as a pet cockatoo. They realized this was an important opportunity to find out whether the patient had acquired her infection from direct exposure to the bird.
A 72-year-old woman whose immune system was suppressed by medications she was taking after a kidney transplant.
The researchers collected information about the patient. They isolated cryptococcus from both the patient's body fluids and from the cockatoo's droppings. They then used special laboratory tests to compare the type of cryptococcus from the patient with that from the cockatoo.
The type of cryptococcus in samples from the patient was found to be identical to that in samples from the cockatoo.
This is a single case, and the situation described in this case may be unusual. In addition, the presence of the same form of cryptococcus in the patient and the bird suggests but does not absolutely prove that the patient got the infection from the bird. It is possible that both got it from another source or, much less likely, that the bird got it from the patient.
This case strongly suggests that patients with weakened immune systems can get cryptococcal infection directly from bird droppings by inhaling cryptococcus spores that spread into the air from the droppings. Although this type of situation may be rare, it seems wise to advise persons with abnormal immune systems to avoid pet birds and situations where they might be exposed to large amounts of bird droppings.
Published: Ann Intern Med. 2000;132(3):205.


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Adopted by the CAA Board of Directors on February 21, 1996; revised in October 2002 and May 2005 and on October 25, 2009, and May 2, 2010.
In February 2009, the Professional Practices Committee (PPC) and Executive Director Linda Downs approved the formation of a task force to amend the College Art Association Standards for Retention and Tenure of Art Historians to include community and two-year colleges. Even though community colleges are large employers of art historians, they are not referenced in any of CAA's current professional-practice guidelines. This revised standard is especially important to art historians at the community college, because they often are only one or two faculty members in a larger academic department. Inclusion of community colleges into these standards will make this document relevant for art-history faculty who attempt to achieve the highest standards of professional practices in such an institution. The task force offers a document that will validate the objectives of a professional who has few peers to back proposals and will present/give legitimate support for improvement to the practice of art history at their institutions.
Sandra Esslinger, a PPC member, agreed to: 1) establish a task force to assist in the amending of the guidelines to include community colleges and two-year institutions; and 2) serve as task-force chair. The amendments were made in the spirit of the existing document but provide inclusionary language where appropriate and elaborate on community-college practices where they varied from practices at other institutions of higher education.
The task force, comprising community-college professors for whom the document is potentially most relevant and whose experience can be reflected in the amendments, included: Martina Hesser, Mesa College; Bertha Gutman, Delaware County Community College; Trudi Abram, Glendale Community College; and Sandra Esslinger, Mt. San Antonio College. A draft of this document was prepared and circulated to the PPC.
The College Art Association has established the following standards respecting the Retention and Tenure of Art Historians, a copy of which has been sent to each accrediting body in the United States and to institutional members of CAA under the cover of a letter from the current president of the association urging the said accrediting body to recognize the standards as appropriate to any collegiate art-history program.
CAA encourages institutions to maintain their diverse and unique departmental missions, recognizing that such diversity makes it essential that applicants for positions be provided with as much information as possible.
All art historians on full-time appointments other than visiting professors or lecturers on appointments of one year or less are to be granted all responsibilities and rights of faculty status at that institution. Such status should include eligibility for academic rank, promotion, tenure, a retirement plan, and any other economic packages. Equal access to university or college support for research and professional development is essential for those with regular faculty status. Adjunct faculty, such as museum professionals, who are hired part-time and over a period of time, should be accorded the opportunity of participating in curricular development and other appropriate areas concerning their areas of expertise.
The doctor of philosophy (PhD) is usually the terminal degree for art historians, though a different degree with appropriate scholarly work that contributes to the field of art history may well take its place. In the case of two-year colleges, the minimum qualification should be an MA in art history. In the absence of such a degree, specific recognized equivalent professional achievement and scholarship should be regarded as qualification for appointment to professional rank, promotion, or tenure. Neither the EdD nor the MFA are appropriate degrees for faculty hired to teach art history (though holders of these other degrees with solid art-history backgrounds may be asked from time to time to teach art-history survey courses in small, nonspecialized departments when a degreed art historian is not available). The legitimate use of adjunct faculty with full-time appointments in their professional areas is appropriate, especially in such areas as museology and historic preservation. The academic degree held by those professionals may vary from the norm.
The criteria for promotion, retention, and tenure for art historians shall be teaching effectiveness, research and professional accomplishment, and service to the institution, the profession, and the community. Evaluation of the published research, teaching effectiveness, and professional service will be carried out with the participation of other visual-arts professionals, with the greatest weight being given to the evaluation given by art-historian peers in the same area of specialization. Unless the candidate being evaluated for retention, promotion, or tenure is the sole art historian in the academic department, other art historians shall be consulted during the first stage of the review process and will be represented on any department review committee.
Colleges and universities should make certain that their policies and procedures relating to matters of renewal, retention, promotion, and tenure are clear, concrete, and made available to each faculty member when he or she is hired. In addition, said policies shall be supplemented with more specific criteria as relevant to art historians, whether as members of a distinct art-history department or as members of a broader disciplinary or academic unit. At the time of hiring or reclassification of an art historian's position within a program (e.g., moving from part-time to tenure-track), the institution should provide the faculty member a written account of all previous research (scholarly products), service activities, and teaching that will count toward retention, tenure, and promotion. Reviews of each faculty member's record in the three areas of research, service, and teaching should be held on a regular schedule, at a minimum in the first, third, and pre-tenure year of the probationary period. The person under review should be given full information in writing about his or her status at each review and an opportunity to respond to the review.
1. Both the relative weight among research, service, and teaching and at the levels of performance expected in each must be explicit and in writing; two-year colleges may place emphasis on service and teaching, liberal-arts institutions may give equal weight to all three areas, while research universities are more likely to place greater emphasis on research accomplishment.
2. In regard to evaluation of research, expectations for both the quantity and significance of published work must be made clear.
All candidates for academic advancement should be informed in writing of the specific timetable regarding cases being considered for professional advancement and of decisions made at each level of the review process.
The full-time teaching assignments of art historians should be comparable to those of other humanities faculty at the same institution (with two courses per semester as the norm at research universities, three at four-year institutions where teaching is given greater priority, and five at two-year colleges). Institutions must also recognize that class preparation in art history differs from that in other liberal-arts disciplines because of the time expended on the selection and arrangement of visual materials. Appropriate reductions in the number of classes taught are warranted when the position also includes administrative responsibilities for a department or program, image collection, or gallery, or for teaching studio courses. In two-year colleges, it is usually the case that art-history faculty are assigned five courses per semester and that they sometimes manage their program in its entirety—in short, they "chair" their programs without carrying the formal title of "Chair of the Department." It is appropriate to consider reducing the number of courses in such cases of responsibilities that exceed the duties of most humanities faculty. It is also appropriate to either reduce the number of classes taught or to provide teaching assistants when courses that require both examinations and papers are larger than a norm of forty students.
Class size must necessarily vary by the level and structure of the individual course and the availability of graduate assistants or student help, and should be consistent with the size of similar offerings in other humanities departments at a given institution. However, student access to visual-arts material for study purposes should be a factor in establishing class size for art-history courses.
In the two-year colleges, course load should be based at least in part on class size, since qualified teaching assistants are customarily not available.
In order to give the fullest opportunity for success of a beginning faculty member, the chair of a department should assign a senior art historian to serve as a mentor. Such a mentor would be available to answer questions and respond to concerns of the new faculty member, and would make sure her or his work is progressing as necessary to achieve professional advancement.
The Online Career Center is the official CAA site for positions listings; institutions are encouraged to advertise their positions listings therein to insure transmission to all members of the organization.
Such information about the institution and the department as educational philosophy, size, areas of specialization, class sizes, resources, etc.
Support for research and faculty development, from the department, institution, community, etc.
The College Art Association is the professional organization of art historians, artists, and others engaged in the practice, teaching, and research of the visual arts. The Association has over 13,500 individual members, of whom some 4,500 are art historians, as well as 2,000 institutional members, including university art and art-history departments, museums, libraries, and professional and commercial organizations.
For the use and protection of its membership, CAA issues guidelines that set national standards of practice and professional advancement in art and art history, including academic practice and advancement.
With the Modern Language Association, the American Council of Learned Societies, and other exponents of the humanistic disciplines in the United States, CAA observes a sudden and steep decline in the publication of scholarly books in the humanities in the United States. Respecting art history, the association notes with regret the recent cancellation or severe reduction of art-history lists by such eminent English-language presses as Cambridge University Press, Princeton University Press, and Ashgate. Other presses have skewed their lists in favor of topics with commercial potential, disregarding the full chronological and cultural spectrum of art history as it is practiced and taught.
Further, CAA affirms that the escalating cost of publication rights for photographs or digital media provided by museums, commercial archives, galleries, artists' estates, and other sources is an additional impediment to art historians who seek to publish the results of their research. In light of these developments, the College Art Association advises academic institutions that the well-documented "crisis" in scholarly publishing in the humanities is especially acute for art historians, and threatens the integrity and continuity of the discipline if colleges and universities continue to insist on books as the chief criterion for tenure and promotion.
Further, CAA advises that qualifications for tenure and promotion in art history cannot be judged purely on the basis of English-language publications and publication venues. Art history is an international discipline, and American art historians routinely publish their work on other continents and often in other languages. As a consequence, the association strongly recommends against the practice of measuring the value of scholarship in art history by the number of its citations (as in science), because existing citation indexes do not reliably report citations of works published outside the United States.
In addition, CAA observes that many journals published outside the United States have selection procedures that do not match the American system of peer review. This is true of even the most highly regarded and prestigious journals and does not by itself suggest that the journal is any less rigorous or selective than its American counterparts. In the absence of homogeneous procedures it is impossible to rank journals for the purpose of assessing the quality of scholarship published in them. The association recommends that judgments of the quality of a candidate's publications should be based on the assessment of expert reviewers who have read the work and can compare it to the state of scholarship in the field to which it contributes.
Addressing the continuing difficulties attached to scholarly publishing in the humanities, the CAA Board of Directors endorses a set of twenty recommendations proposed by the Modern Language Association in its Report of the Modern Language Association Task Force on Evaluating Scholarship for Tenure and Promotion (2007), presented in the Executive Summary. These recommendations supplement CAA's own statement on tenure publishing in the arts.
Although the MLA's report does not mention museum publications, they constitute the most glaring omission from books considered eligible in tenure decisions for art historians and scholars of visual culture. During the past ten years, while academic publishing has been shrinking dramatically, museum publishing has flourished, moving to the forefront as the venue for much substantial scholarship in our field.
Museum exhibition and collection catalogues are not, by and large, peer-reviewed in the traditional sense. The long lead times required for blind peer review do not accommodate the tight schedules of most exhibition catalogues, which must appear when shows open. Yet exhibition catalogues do undergo a form of peer review. Though not blind, it is thorough, as the collaborative curatorial teams that produce exhibition catalogues, and museums' editorial departments and consultants, carefully evaluate the scholarship contained within, striving to ensure that it is accurate and of the highest possible quality.
In the past, one argument lodged against exhibition catalogues has been that the essays can vary in quality. Some essays in exhibition catalogues—at times in the same catalogue—contain original, important scholarship, while others can be included for political reasons, perhaps to secure certain loans or financial contributions essential to the successful mounting of a show. In fact, this situation is not fundamentally different from scholarship published in festschrifts, anthologies, or other nonmuseum collections of scholarly essays. It is not unusual for some authors in such publications to be included for practical, rather than scholarly, reasons. Yet this does not disqualify every essay in these publications from being considered in tenure decisions.
In the words of the MLA report, "presses or other outside referees should not be the main arbiters in tenure cases." Ultimately, departmental colleagues are responsible for determining the scholarly value of contributions not only in museum publications, but in all publications. In other words, whether or not a publication has been blind peer reviewed should not be the primary criterion in determining its value to the scholarly community. As much as academic departments, serious museums care deeply about the scholarship in their publications. As a result, museum publications are often recognized for their significant contributions to the advancement of scholarship through major awards from many institutions. It is, therefore, inappropriate for scholars to be denied recognition of their contributions to major museum publications by the elimination of museum publications from the tenure process. In recognizing that the academy and museums are engaged in a shared enterprise, tenure committees should recognize the value of serious museum publications, and thus, ultimately strengthen and improve our field.
CAA therefore advises that committees of tenure and promotion evaluate scholarly publication in the arts without regard to whether the publisher is academic or museum-based.
Submitted in 1996 by the Professional Practices Committee: David Sokol, University of Illinois, Chicago (chair); Emma Amos, Rutgers University; Michael Aurbach, Vanderbilt University; Phillip Blackhurst, University of Kansas; Judith Brodsky, Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University; Whitney Davis, Northwestern University; Kathleen Desmond Easter, Central Missouri State University; Samuel Edgerton, Williams College; Dennis Ichiyama, Purdue University; Dorothy Joiner, West Georgia College; Jon Meyer, University of Arizona; Jock Reynolds, Addison Gallery of American Art; James G. Roger, Jr., Florida Southern College; Larry Scholder, Southern Methodist University; Susan Sensemann, University of Illinois, School of Art and Design; Gregory Shelnutt, University of Mississippi; Adrian R. Tio, Bowling Green State University; Victoria Star Varner, Southwestern University; Monica Visonà, Metropolitan State College of Denver; Annette Weintraub, City College of New York, City University of New York; Barbara Hoffman, Schwartz Weiss Steckler Hoffman.
Revised in 2002 by the Professional Practices Committee: D. Fairchild Ruggles, Chair, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
Addendum in 2005 by the Publications Committee: Nicola Courtright, Chair, Amherst College; Susan Elizabeth Chun, Metropolitan Museum of Art; S. Hollis Clayson, Northwestern University; Marc Gotlieb, University of Toronto; Dale Kinney, Bryn Mawr College; Winifred McNeill, New Jersey City University; Patricia C. Phillips, State University of New York, New Paltz; John Paul Ricco, University of Nevada, Las Vegas; Larry Silver, University of Pennsylvania.


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1 Outliers : the story of success, Malcolm Gladwell
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2 Thinking, fast and slow, Daniel Kahneman
3 Steve Jobs, Walter Isaacson, (large print)
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5 The tipping point : how little things can make a big difference, Malcolm Gladwell
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6 Heads in beds : a reckless memoir of hotels, hustles, and so-called hospitality, Jacob Tomsky
7 Drive : the surprising truth about what motivates us, Daniel H. Pink
8 Freakonomics : a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything, Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
8 Freakonomics
8 Freakonomics : a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything, Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner
9 The checklist manifesto : how to get things right, Atul Gawande
10 Why nations fail : the origins of power, prosperity and poverty, Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson
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Boys of Bonneville: Racing on a Ribbon of Salt, movie review by Richard Parks
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Movie Review by Richard Parks, Photographic Consultant Roger Rohrdanz
Movie reviews come in all forms. I write reviews the way I want to see them in order to decide whether I want to spend the time or money to see the movie. Time is important to hot rodders. Normally I receive or buy a disc and review the movie over and over again. Sometimes there is a reviewer's screening or Premieres that we can attend. A review shouldn't change whether we see the movie in a crowd or alone at home where we can play back the action. I'll know right from the beginning whether the movie has "legs" or is just taking up my time. On the other hand there are movies that take time to grow on you; those that get better and better with age. A movie is more than just a chance to relax; it is also a statement by the filmmaker about the subject and the times that we live in. The producer and director are attempting to record the 'truth' of the film; for now and for all time. Boys of Bonneville is a new movie that attempts to show a little known and forgotten era in land speed and endurance racing. The movie was commissioned and produced by John Price and depicts the life and times of Ab Jenkins and his son Marvin. Price recently had the chance to buy the Mormon Meteor III endurance car from the Jenkins family and have it restored to its former racing glory. The car is on display at his museum in Utah.
The Jenkins family is critical to the understanding of land speed and endurance racing. Boys of Bonneville is a documentary film that attempts to tell their story. In some
respects it does exactly that and in some cases it misses some important points. For years now I have been extolling the importance of Ab and Marvin Jenkins in land speed racing and American racing in general. Authors like 'LandSpeed' Louise Ann Noeth and Gordon Eliot White have written about the importance of the Jenkins family and of course there are hundreds of enthusiastic endurance and land speed racers and fans who have never forgotten what Ab Jenkins means to us. Simply put, Ab is responsible for Bonneville salt flat racing and the advancement of the sport beyond anything that the world could have conceived of in the 1930's. Land speed racing is an acquired taste; you simply love it and understand it or you don't. Among those who love land speed and endurance racing, Ab Jenkins is a mythic giant of a man. But before we get to Ab and those who followed him, let's set up the stage for this movie. The Newport Beach Film Festival accepted the application for Boys of Bonneville and gave the producer a date; 6pm on Wednesday, May 4, 2011. There were many film premieres over the week-long festival; some with limousines and beautifully gowned women and tux wearing men. The City of Newport Beach takes their arts seriously. But this was a hot rod documentary and we came dressed in jeans and T-shirts.
Though we aren't an artsy crowd, we have as much love for display and pomp as anyone. The men and women who showed up have won the right to wear the Red Hat, the most prestigious club anywhere in the world. They are mechanics, businessmen, diplomats, pinstripers, artists, racers and professional men and women in nearly every field of endeavor. More to the point, they are people who love speed and mechanical marvels. Their minds spin at a furious rate as they absorb the knowledge all around them in motorsports. They may hate fancy gowns and tuxes with frilled shirts, but they are not to be trifled with. These men and women who came to view the movie with me represent the best and brightest minds anywhere and they are a very hardheaded crowd to please. My son Michael Parks (Wally's grandson) treated me to this event and chauffeured me there. We found a line waiting for us that included a lot of old friends; Jim Miller, Parnelli Jones, Mike Jones (no relation to Parnelli), David and Barbara Parks, Charles Rollins, Ron Main and many more. At the Premiere was John Price, the producer and a former United States Ambassador. Accompanying him was Gerald Kent Hartley, the film's Musician and Film Composer. The crowd knew the story line probably better than the director did and they were there to praise him or boo him off the stage if he did not accord Ab Jenkins with the respect that we all hold for him. He was either going to win us over or face a cruel response.
Boys of Bonneville is a documentary that seems so much more. Slow at first to develop, it began to grow and encircle us in its mastery. There were photographs and film that I had never seen before and a scene that shows what it was like to race like Ab Jenkins raced. Ab Jenkins came from Welsh parents who came to Utah to live. He was a devout Mormon who neither used alcohol or tobacco. He was a man who was honest, straightforward and kind. As far as I can tell, he never had an enemy or failed to make a friend. He had several overwhelming loves; his family, his Mormon heritage, his love of speed, his enchantment by the beauty of the state of Utah and his ability to make friends with everyone that he came into contact with. He was a man who earned a living by building things with his hands; a simple man who lived by the code of the west. He never lied, cheated, or took advantage of another. He was John Wayne before there was a John Wayne. He was a common man of the west who became an American legend and hero and couldn't understand why people placed him on a pedestal. He did things that he would have considered normal things in life, but which no one else could truly duplicate. He was Gary Cooper and Jimmy Stewart with that "Oh, Gosh," attitude that charmed women, inspired men and drew legions of youth to follow in his footsteps.
Ab Jenkins was born in the 1870's and died in the 1950's. He's from another time and place altogether different from what we know today. We are happy if we can simply emulate a few of the things that Ab Jenkins took for granted. Sometime before the First World War Ab fell in luck with the Bonneville Salt Flats. He rode his motorcycle out there and it wasn't easy. There were no major roads and people avoided the salt flats in those days. He ran on the railroad tracks; a bone jarring ride. But once on the salt flats his mind expanded into the future and across time itself. He realized the potential for speed trials and he would spend numerous hours in the decades to come to promote the salt flats and Utah to the outside world. Ab is most famous for his series of cars that he used to set endurance records on an oval course. Sometimes sponsored by companies and sometimes self sponsored, Ab Jenkins was truly an ironman when it came to endurance racing. He set records from one kilometer and one mile up to 48 hours. He had only two substitute drivers that I know of; Babe Stapp and his son Marvin, but he so rarely let them drive that they are mostly trivia questions rather than co-drivers. He raced endurance races wherever he could and co-drove on teams that went over 400 hours in races. Ab wanted to drive at Indy and he would have done well, but he was much older by the time he had developed a name for himself.
He was also one of the calmest and most controlled race car drivers who ever raced. There is a scene in Boys of Bonneville where mirages and the shimmering light fades into darkness and only the lights of the car reflecting on the eerie salt flakes show the utter loneliness of driving 120 miles an hour for lap after lap on the ten mile oval course. Where could the man rest, what about hunger, how could he avoid thirst in the desert, where could he pee? Once strapped in the man had only one goal and one focus; to go as fast as he could for mile after mile, hour after hour until he reached those absurd records of 24 and 48 hours, alone in his thoughts. What sheer madness; many of his records are unbroken to this day because we aren't made of the sturdy cloth that those pioneers were made of. Endurance records were made by teams of men in those days. I spoke to Danny Oakes, a famous midget driver and he confirmed that to me. Endurance records were good advertising and sold cars, but the companies weren't out to make heroes of men, but of their automobiles, tires or parts. Ab would finish the race and exit the car and seem as fresh as when he started and ready for another 48 hours. He was a hero to an America in the doldrums of the great Depression of the 1930's. He showed us that we can prevail against all adversity. He was elected the mayor of Salt Lake City without having to spend a single dime for his campaign. He tirelessly worked to bring Cobb, Campbell and other European land speed teams to the salt flats. Ab Jenkins changed the course of racing throughout the world.
Sadly, the filmmakers overlooked one of the most enduring legacies of Ab Jenkin's life. Boys of Bonneville adequately gave us a picture of whom and what Ab and Marvin Jenkins were as people. The documentary gave us a real view of the difficulties faced in Ab's racing career and of his successes and rare failures. We saw how the restoration of the famous Mormon Meteor III car was accomplished and heard testimonials to the man from men like Sir Andy Green and Jay Leno. Almost nothing was admitted from the story of a true American hero except that which the crowds of Bonneville racers had come to hear and cherish. The story of how Ab Jenkins was instrumental in drawing to the salt flats a group out in California who in 1949 brought their jalopies and held a meet. That meet has seen more records and the utilization of the Bonneville Salt Flats than any other group. The SCTA (later the SCTA/BNI) group that raced there in 1949 is still racing there today. They have logged more miles and set more records in that organization than all the land speed record attempts in the entire world since the automobile was invented. This is the legacy that Ab Jenkins was most proud of; that his beloved Bonneville Salt Flats reached the level of success that he first envisioned back in the 1910's. But beyond that glaring omission, Boys of Bonneville reached a level of excellence that the crowd loved. The reviewer was overwhelmed by the crowd of hot rodders and they roared their approval. Far be it for me to overrule the group. I loved the movie, wished that the 80 minutes had been closer to 100 and that the SCTA be recognized in Ab Jenkin's life story. I rate this documentary movie a seven out of eight spark plugs and urge you all to go see it.
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Le  est une méthodologie où citoyens, habitants, usagers sont considérés comme des acteurs clés des processus de recherche et d'innovation. Cette expression anglaise désigne, y compris dans la littérature et la pratique francophone, la notion de laboratoires vivants. En 2014, on dénombre plus de 340 Living Labs dans le Monde.

Histoire
La notion de Living Lab émerge à la fin des années 1990 aux États-Unis au sein du Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), grâce aux travaux de trois professeurs qui créent le premier Living Lab géré par un consortium de recherche.

En Europe, le développement des Living Labs a lieu à partir de 2006 dans le contexte de la Stratégie de Lisbonne pour relancer l'emploi. La présidence finlandaise de la Communauté européenne lance le projet Living Labs Europe ayant pour objectif de susciter et fédérer des initiatives locales en créant un réseau européen des Living Labs, appelé European Network of Living Labs (ENOLL). Le réseau ENOLL prend le statut d'association en 2010.

Définition
Un Living Lab regroupe des acteurs publics, privés, des entreprises, des associations, des acteurs individuels, dans l'objectif de tester « grandeur nature » des services, des outils ou des usages nouveaux. Il s'agit de sortir la recherche des laboratoires pour la faire descendre dans la vie de tous les jours, en ayant souvent une vue stratégique sur les usages potentiels de ces technologies. Tout cela se passe en coopération entre des collectivités locales, des entreprises, des laboratoires de recherche, ainsi que des utilisateurs potentiels. Il s'agit de favoriser l'innovation ouverte, partager les réseaux et impliquer les utilisateurs dès le début de la conception.

Enjeux
Le Living Lab est une méthodologie où citoyens, habitants, usagers sont considérés comme des acteurs clés des processus de recherche et d'innovation. Cette approche est censée stimuler les collaborations entre des profils hétérogènes de personnes dans le but de développer des découvertes inattendues. Elle permet donc à une population d'influer sur les évolutions de notre société et d'en appréhender les enjeux sociaux, technologiques et économiques.

Cette approche s'éloigne de l'innovation centrée sur l'usager pour relever du projet porté par l'usager, telle que documentée par le cabinet « Umvelt » dans le cadre du réseau « Montreal InVivo ».

Ce schéma du projet porté par l'usager a été complété par le consortium « Inmediats » qui l'enrichit de la participation de « communautés créatives et artistiques ». Ainsi complétée, l'approche Living Lab fait le pont avec les pratiques de résidences et d'ateliers liant arts, sciences et technologies et permet des points de jonction avec les dynamiques de recherches et innovations responsables.

Labellisations
La certification Living Lab est notamment accordée par l'association belge ENOLL après examen des candidatures. Les Living Labs sont au départ situés principalement en Europe. En 2006 par exemple est créé le premier Living Lab agricole français, le Laboratoire d'Innovation Territorial (LIT) spécialisé dans les grandes cultures et implanté en Limagne Val-d'Allier. Néanmoins, de plus en plus de nouvelles labellisations étant décernées, ils se sont peu à peu implantés dans de nombreux pays et régions (une trentaine en 2009), comme la Chine, le Mozambique, Taïwan, l'Afrique du Sud ou encore le Brésil. Récemment sont nés l'Acadie Lab, un Living Lab canadien qui travaille sur la réhabilitation des agroécosystèmes du bassin versant de la rivière l'Acadie, et le Living Lab PA4All ( « Precision Agriculture for All - Agriculture de précision pour tous » ) en Serbie.

D'autres réseaux existent comme Living Labs Global, le « Réseau français des Living Labs et Espaces d'innovation »  (RELAI), le Forum LLSA des « Living Labs en Santé et Autonomie », le LEILAC, « Réseau des Living Labs et Espaces d'innovation Amérique Latine, les Caraïbes » qui accordent aussi leurs labellisations respectives et le réseau Francophonie Living Lab dont fait partie le « Living Lab en innovation ouverte » ( LLio), situé à Rivière-du-Loup, au Québec, Canada.

Les Living Labs ne reçoivent pas de soutien financier de la Communauté européenne, mais leur crédibilité est importante.

Agriculture et Living Lab : les Livings Labs territoriaux
En France, en 2015, le rapport « Agriculture-innovation 2025 » établit la liste de quatre actions pour favoriser l'innovation ouverte en agriculture, parmi lesquelles la création de Living Labs territoriaux.

Culture et Living Lab
Depuis 2011, le consortium de centres de sciences « Inmediats » s'est saisi du concept de Living Lab pour en faire un nouveau mode de rapport au public dans les pratiques de médiation culturelle et scientifique. Piloté par Relais d'sciences, en association avec Cap Sciences, Science animation, La casemate et le carrefour numérique de la Cité des sciences, ce groupe de Living Labs a posé un ensemble de règles pratiques et de déontologies permettant de déterminer comment une démarche Living Lab peut être productrice de nouveaux modes de médiation culturelle.

Cette approche modernise et actualise les pratiques héritées de la pédagogie active et de la citoyenneté participative. Fini le temps où le "sachant" délivrait un savoir à des anonymes. L'heure est à l'échange et à la coconstruction rendus possibles par l'approche Living Lab qui suppose de réunir public, collectivité, recherche et entreprise autour d'un même projet.

Le simple fait de réunir différentes personnes autour d'un même projet ne suffit pas pour générer le partage et la critique des informations et des enjeux. Il convient d'anticiper la production de supports et de temps d'échanges et d'informations entre les participants. Initialement, l'approche Living Lab n'est pas conçue pour faire de la médiation culturelle, mais les objectifs et les valeurs qu'elle véhicule en font un outil idéal pour y parvenir et plusieurs raisons motivent l'adoption d'une démarche Living Lab pour faire médiation culturelle.

Du point de vue des publics, l'approche Living Lab permet de transformer le statut des visiteurs en expérimentateurs, usagers, voire dans certains cas, co-constructeurs d'une théorie, d'une technologie, d'un usage. Cette nouvelle forme d'implication participe de la prise de conscience des enjeux de développement des sociétés contemporaines.

Du point de vue de la recherche et du monde de l'entreprise, c'est une démarche dans laquelle il est possible de recueillir des retours sur des travaux, des idées, des concepts en cours d'élaboration, de créer de nouvelles formes de partage de savoirs et même de créer des savoirs !

D'un point de vue social, les actions Living Lab permettent de décloisonner les communautés constituées en favorisant leur rencontre dans un premier temps, puis en leur permettant de partager leurs connaissances et d'imaginer des projets ensemble. Toutes ces pratiques s'appuient sur les différents niveaux de participation dans laquelle engager les porteurs de projets.

Au travers des projets qui se réclament d'une démarche Living Lab, une nouvelle voie est affirmée, un renouvellement des pratiques d'implication des publics, un enrichissement des valeurs produites par l'action culturelle, un nouveau territoire d'implication de différentes composantes de la société, de nouvelles formes de financement pour la culture scientifique et technique et pourquoi pas, de la culture. La démarche Living Lab propose un nouveau paradigme de la place et du rôle potentiel d'un centre de science dans la société en réponse directe avec ce qui la fonde depuis plusieurs décennies. Elle préfigure le concept de « centre de science de nouvelle génération ».

Références

Bibliographie
En français
 Livre blanc des Living lLbs:
L. Garcia Vitoria « Le laboratoire vivant, un outil de développement territorial dans l'économie de la connaissance », in « vers l'e-gouvernance: pour une nouvelle  administration numérique », SCEREN (CNDP -CRDP), 2013.
 AJM. Loechel et Ch. Legrenzi, "« es Villes Numériques »; Best Practices Research, 2013.
 Collectif, Living Lab : une nouvelle forme de rapport aux publics, Inmediats, 2015.
 Culture et Recherche n° 132 - Sciences et techniques : une culture à partager - p 63 à 66.
En anglais
 M. Csikszentmihalyi et R. Larson, « Validity and reliability of the Experience Sampling Method », Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, , 1997, 526-536
 M. Csikszentmihalyi, R. Larson et S. Prescott, « The Ecology of Adolescent Activity and Experience », Journal of Youth and Adolescence, . 1987, 281-294
 B. de Ruyter et E. Pelgrim, « Ambient Assisted Living Research in CareLab », ACM Interactions, volume 14, , juillet-.
 B. de Ruyter, E. van Loenen et V. Teeven, « User Centered Research in ExperienceLab », European Conference, 2007, Darmstadt, Allemagne, 7- (LNCS volume 4794/2007, printemps).
 J. Garett, The Element of User Experience, 2002
 B. Gaver, T. Dunne, et E. Pacenti, « Design : Cultural Probes », Interactions, 6 (1), 1999, 21-29
 W. W. Gaver, A. Boucher, S. Pennington et B. Walker, Cultural Probes and the Value of Uncertainty, 2004
 A. Kusiak, « Innovation : The Living Laboratory Perspective », Computer-Aided Design & Applications, vol. 4, n° 6, The University of Iowa, 2007, 863-876
 A. Kusiak, C.-Y. Tang, Innovation in a Requirement Life-Cycle Framework, Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Intelligent Manufacturing Systems, IMS'2006, Sakarya University, Sakarya, Turquie, 2006, 61-67.
 Joseph Luft, Of Human Interaction, Palo Alto, CA National Press, 1969
 V.-P. Niitamo, S. Kulkki, M. Eriksson, et K. A. Hribernik, State-of-the-Art and Good Practice in the Field of Living Labs, Proceedings of the  International Conference on Concurrent Enterprising: Innovative Products and Services through Collaborative Networks, Milan, Italie, 2006, 349-357.
 M. Pallot, B. Trousse, B. Senach, S. Richir, B. de Ruyter, W. Prinz, O. Rerolle, et B. Katzy, « Living Lab Research », Ecospace Newsletter Special Issue on Living Labs, n° 5, 2008.
 J. Schumacher, et K. Feurstein, Living Labs – A New Multi-Stakeholder Approach to User Integration, Presented at the  International Conference on Interoperability of Enterprise Systems and Applications (I-ESA'07), Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, 2007.
 D. Norman, The Invisible Computer, Why Good Products Can Fail, the Personal Computer Is So Complex, and Information Appliances Are the Solution, Cambridge MA, MIT Press, 1998
 D. Norman, Emotional Design : Why we Love (or Hate) Everyday Things, New York, Basic Books, 2004
 D. Norman, The Design of Future Things, Basic Books, 2007
 Collectif, Living Lab : new form of relationship with public, Inmediats, 2015.

Liens externes
  Core Labs (2006)
 Istag Ear working group report, Involving Users in the Development of Ambient Intelligence sur le site Cordis
 Site d'information regroupant les Living Labs certifiés par l'association belge ENOLL
 Blog Living Labs
 Site d'information regroupant les Living Labs  des réseaux européens, latinoaméricains et chinois RELAI, LEILAC, CILL
 Médiation culturelle et Living Lab

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Domaine interdisciplinaire
Conception centrée sur l'utilisateur

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Raise your hand if, like my husband and I, you have risen from your bed in the morning all bleary-eyed and cranky only to stumble through your morning and mutter to yourself, "I really need to go to bed earlier."
Our schedule is nuts. My hubby goes to work around 7 am and while he is doing his thing at the office, I am in charge of keeping the kids from burning the house down. Somewhere in the late afternoon hours, I get myself ready for work and (hopefully) get a dinner game plan ready for Evan and the boys. When my beloved walks in the door, we have about 90 seconds to give each other a quick run-down of what has taken place during the day and what's on tap for the evening before I give each of the members of my family a quick kiss and get in the car. I then put in my hours as a waitress, working until usually about 10:00 pm. I will hit the gym after work if I get out a bit early, but most of the time I am working late enough that I just come straight home.
If you're playing along at home, you've realized that I don't get any quiet time alone or quality time with my husband until about 10:30 at night. It used to be that we would then stay up until about midnight or so before finally going to sleep, only to rise exhausted around 6:00 am.
We finally decided we had to have a bedtime. We settled on a 10:30 bedtime where, if we are both at home, we stop whatever we are doing and just go to bed. Even if we are in the middle of a show or a movie, we pause it where we left off and finish it a different time. If I am not home from work yet, Evan goes to bed without me.
After just over a week of living with our new bedtime I have made several observations.
1. I am significantly less tired in the morning. This may have more to do with the fact that my husband has been bringing me coffee immediately upon rising than the amount of rest I am getting, but I'm not about to look a gift horse in the mouth.
2. I am way behind on several things. I am behind on Project Life, blogging, photo editing, and numerous other projects I have going simultaneously. I would often stay up late working on these things so losing that time has really put me in the hole. I'm trying not to let it bug me, but it really is. When I try to get blogging done while the baby is awake, I have found it to be....challenging.
3. My time in the Word has dropped drastically. This one is absolutely unacceptable. I can't blame this struggle entirely on the bedtime, but it's more a combination of several circumstances. The frustration I have encountered with trying to find the right time to meet with God every day is a real hot point for me. I welcome any suggestions!
4. I can't talk to anyone about TV. We are WAYYYYY behind on the few shows that we actually watch on a regular basis so when I hear people discussing the most recent episode, I have to put my fingers in my ears and sing songs from "Mary Poppins." Then people think I'm weird.
So, I think it's a work in progress. Hard to say whether or not it has been a positive change in our world or not, but perhaps some more time will help.
Do you have a bedtime? Or perhaps you have some time management tips that help you make the most of each day? I'd love to hear about it!


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A national law firm has made a "strategic expansion" into the Southwest U.S. by establishing a Houston office.
Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP, based in Birmingham, Ala., has assembled a team of nine attorneys to staff the Houston office, the company said in a statement. The attorneys have experience in construction and surety law, construction litigation, bond and lien claims, and representing oilfield service companies.
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NARRAGANSETT, RI, September 25, 2017 /24-7PressRelease/ — DeWAL Industries Inc., a major manufacturer of high-performance polymer films, will participate in the Supplier Exhibition at the 66th annual IWCS International Cable & Connectivity Symposium, to be held Oct. 8-11 in Kissimee, FL.
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A project born from a bequest designated to support youth self esteem, the Youth Engagement Strategy (YES) community development project, initiated by the Community Foundation of the South Okanagan Similkameen involved a consultation with service providers and youth regarding the needs of young people in Penticton. As a result of the report, OneSky Community Resources piloted a youth outreach worker position during the summer of 2014 and are now providing a Youth Engagement Worker who acts as a resource, mentor and counsellor to support the needs of youth.
The YES project is committed to creating positive change for Penticton youth by working side-by-side with young people who want to make a difference.
The Youth Engagement Worker (YEW) works flexible hours and is available for youth when and where they need support. The YEW connects with young people in many different ways with the goal of the making youth feel safe and comfortable to ask for assistance when they need it. The YEW visits school regularly, is available by cell phone via text and voice calls and will travel to a common meeting place to support young people.


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Union ramping up war with city
Brian Chasnoff, Staff Writer
San Antonio Professional Firefighters Association President Chris Steele holds a Tuesday press conference to levy allegations in a letter co-signed by 20 SAFD battalion chiefs, claiming they've lost "trust and confidence" in SAFD brass on October 11, 2016 at SAPFFA Union Hall.Ron Cortes, Freelance / For the San Antonio Express-News
Fire union president Chris Steele is worried about how much the city's firefighters are getting paid — so worried that he wants to make firefighters pay up to $50 more a month in union dues.
It's yet another catch-22 in the union's tiresome and absurd collective-bargaining battle with the city.
Steele was declaring "war" on city officials back in January 2015, informing firefighters in a newsletter that the San Antonio Professional Firefighters Association was "inflicting 'damage' on the enemy."
Nearly three years later, another article by Steele has made it clear that the war is only ramping up.
"I would like for the (sic) this to serve as the first notification that your union may seek a special assessment from you (maybe $25 a payday) to start running television commercials against the Mayor and the City Manager," Steele wrote. "We may also send city-wide mail pieces to educate the public. We will also start using our phone bank to call thousands of people and talk with them about the policy and direction of the Mayor.
"We must ramp this up," Steele continued, "to bring it to finality."
The union has also circulated a flyer advertising two "special meetings" next week for members to discuss "a $10 per pay period member assessment to help fund a Public Relations Marketing firm and a Professional Consultant to manage the Association's Public Relations for one year or until a new contract is signed (not to exceed one year)."
It was unclear on Friday just how much more the union will seek from its members to fund the political attacks; Steele did not return a message seeking comment.
It was clear, however, that the union's hyperbolic blitz against Mayor Ron Nirenberg had already begun.
On its Facebook page on Friday, the association shared a post by Councilman Greg Brockhouse outlining his opposition to San Antonio Water System rate increases. (A former consultant for the association, Brockhouse has worn a fire union T-shirt and pin on the council dais.)
"Mayor Ron Nirenberg is up to his usually (sic) shenanigans!" the union wrote in its post. "Are we ready to recall this mayor yet? YOUR LIFE DEPENDS ON IT!!!"
Nirenberg is persona non grata with the union for his insistence on fiscal responsibility.
For years, city officials have warned that growing health care costs for police and firefighters could consume the city budget if they're not tamed by collective bargaining. After its own ugly war with city officials, the police union last year signed a new contract forged by then-Mayor Ivy Taylor that will save the city $87.5 million in health care costs.
A councilman at the time, Nirenberg thought Taylor's deal gave away too much. Now, he simply wants the union to begin negotiations — ultimately, to prevent its contract from hindering the city's ability to provide other basic services.
The union's contract expired in 2014, ending pay raises for firefighters, but it has stayed virtually intact due to a 10-year "evergreen clause."
"I have no comment on the fire union's meetings," Nirenberg told me on Friday. "What we are focused on is resolving this contract dispute, and we will continue to ask the fire union to come to the table to negotiate. The public deserves a good faith negotiation between the city and the fire union."
The fire union has refused nine separate requests by the city to begin negotiations. Steele has insisted that the union won't come to the table until the city drops a lawsuit arguing that the evergreen clause is unconstitutional.
The city has spent nearly $1 million on the lawsuit and continues to push it forward on appeal despite repeated court rulings against the city's position.
Steele made sure his readers were aware of this, writing in all caps: "THE PUBLIC DESERVES TO KNOW THAT THE CITY HAS SPENT ALMOST $974,000 ON LAWYERS, AND THAT MAYOR NIRENBERG WANTS TO SPEND MORE.
"Finally," he continued, "your union firmly believes that you deserve a cost of living raise for the last few years. We have a long-term strategy to achieve this for you, and the 'massive' public education campaign is an integral part of this strategy."
Another catch-22: The evergreen clause that Steele so cherishes is what's preventing negotiations and stopping firefighters from receiving their pay raises.
If the union president really wants to put more money into the pockets of firefighters, he should come to the table — not launch an expensive and divisive public relations campaign to once again drag the city through the mud.
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Brian Chasnoff is a graduate of Tulane University, as well as the University of Texas at Austin, where he received a Masters Degree in Journalism. He joined the San Antonio Express-News in 2005 as a crime reporter. He was a metro columnist for seven years before joining the investigations team in 2019. As a reporter and a columnist, Brian has exposed corruption and cover-ups at the top levels of local government, including at City Hall and the Bexar County courthouse.


This affectionate collection of poems, illustrated by award-winning artist, Margaret Chodos-Irvine, celebrates the places and spaces that make a house a home--from a cozy bedroom to a secret hideaway to a kitchen full of mouthwatering smells. Come on in and stay awhile!
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My House is Singing is available as an E-book.
Click here for a teacher's guide to poetry.
It's Not Worth Making a Tzimmes Over!
"Both a kitchen farce and a warm celebration of Yiddish, this uproarious picture book reverses the usual sweet grandma stereotype. Sara and Grandma make challah, and while they wait for the dough to rise, they watch a horror movie. But because Sara misunderstood Grandma's directions, adding a whole box of yeast instead of two packets, the rising dough seeps out the kitchen door and down the street. Grandma is totally unperturbed by any problems large or small, and the lively watercolor pictures show her in hip outfit, as relaxed with the chaos at home as she is driving a motor scooter. Although the Yiddish in every sentence is easy to understand from the context, there's a glossary appended and also a delicious recipe for challah (just one). The title, a cool alternative (tzimmes is Yiddish) for "no big deal," and suits Grandma to a T."
Following a young boy named Sherman through multiple shoe changes in bright, playful artwork, Which Shoes Would You Choose? is a celebration of shoes that is sure to tickle the toes of even the youngest readers.
This book is also a Scholastic paperback and available at Scholastic Book Fairs.
One of 12 siblings growing up in depression-era Baltimore, Edith isn't quite sure of who she is. Between working at her father's diner, taking care of her younger siblings, and living in the shadow of her more mature sisters, Edith feels lost in a sea of siblings. When a kind teacher encourages Edith to be a teacher herself one day, Edith sees prospects for a future all her own. Full of joy, pain, humor, and sadness, this novel in verse is a wonderful look at the life of Edith Paul, the author's mother, and is an enduring portrait (complete with family photos and an author's note at the end) of one family's pursuit of the American dream.
as one of five good summer reads.
Click here for a podcast of an interview with the author about Looking For Me...in this great big family at the American Library Association (ALA) Conference.
The Horn Book recommends Looking For Me...in this great big family as a good novel in verse for reluctant readers. Click here to read more.
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*School Library Journal starred review: "Each collective noun couplet whimsically describes a group of animals: 'Would a labor of moles/wear polka-dot ties/when it goes to work/for a business of flies?' This crash course in juxtaposition and imagination should be celebrated with a peal of bells. An inspiring addition to any poetry collection."
*Kirkus starred review: "Cleverness abounds in Rosenthal's latest, from the title to the back matter, which presents a glossary asking children to guess why the words are appropriate for each animal group. The tongue-in-cheek text never falters in its rhythm and rhyme... The illustrations are a perfect match for the text's wit...Collective nouns have never been this much fun...or memorable."
*Publishers Weekly starred review: "While several picture books have tackled collective nouns, Rosenthal and Jago's collaboration stands out for the sheer inventiveness they bring to the subject...Witty delights abound as a shiver of sharks bundles up in winter knitwear and a bouquet of pheasants peers glumly out of a tall vase."
An Ambush of Tigers is featured in Chapter 12 of the newly published teacher textbook, Picture-Perfect STEM Lessons, 3-5, Using Children's Books to Inspire STEM Learning (by Emily Morgan and Karen Ansberry, published by National Science Teachers Association).
The book offers all kinds of questions to pose to the students, along with suggested activities, and a quote by me about how collective nouns inspired me to write the book.
Porcupine's Picnic: Who Eats What?
"[T]here's plenty of information to be gleaned from these pages. . . . Cheerful artwork and a narrative with plenty of repetition make this a great pick for group story time."
"Colorful, amusing, and informative . . . this is great as a read-aloud or read-alone. . . .
An entertaining and educational animal selection, with an edge, for the youngest readers."
To book a school visit, please email me.


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The question of the Third Intifada
The issue of the moment is the question of an impending third intifada. Are the events taking place in Jerusalem and the West Bank heading towards another Palestinian uprising? What are the opportunities and the possibilities? What are the obstacles and the challenges? Who is working to prevent this from happening and who is working towards encouraging such an eventuality?
A third intifada is a possible scenario but it's not the only one
By Oraib Al-RantawiTranslated by Middle East Monitor from Addustour, October 05, 2015
The truth is that the Palestinian situation, especially in the occupied West Bank, has become more complicated and this reality has prevented us from finding any straightforward or easy answers; in any case and under any conditions it would be a mistake to underestimate the possibility of events unfolding where there will be a third intifada. There are many factors contributing to the outbreak of an uprising in the occupied territories and these are currently restrained by a low ceiling. The Palestinians have many reasons to break through this ceiling and head for the streets in protest.
Israel has closed every window of hope for the Palestinian people; there are currently no portals leading to a brighter future. All the pathways to freedom and independence for a viable future state have been blocked. This does not stop at the growing expansion of the settlements or the daily violations of Al-Aqsa Mosque, or the siege imposed on Gaza; in truth, it goes beyond all of that. There is very little left for the average Palestinian to lose.
In addition, there is the bloodshed that has occurred in light of Palestinian division and the absence of national unity. This requires a new strategy because the cause has been abandoned and this reality is among many factors causing the average Palestinian to feel as though he has nothing left for himself. Many have come to realise that they must take matters into their own hands and demand that their voices are heard and that their rights are given to them in the face of all these closed doors and pathways.
The question of Jerusalem and the rights of its citizens, as well as its sanctity in both the Muslim and Christian traditions, has been transformed – because of the Hashemite Kingdom's sponsorship – into not only into a bone of contention between the Palestinians and the Israelis but also between the Israelis and the Jordanians. Palestinian Jerusalemites have been ringing alarm bells time and time again in the past few months, and are doing so today, but the city has been demarcated and divided between occupation forces and settlers on one side and the Palestinians on the other.
Even so, this does not mean that we are headed towards an intifada, for the question at hand is far more complicated than this. We have gone through many points before and any one of them could have been an indication of another uprising, but it did not take place. Our expectations have exceeded far beyond this with three wars in Gaza, human rights violations and abuse of Palestinian Jerusalemites in Al-Aqsa, all of which have failed to ignite the fuse. Indeed, Israel's brutal, lawless ways have become the norm for Palestinians in their everyday West Bank life.
However, recent events have affected the way in which we have started to interpret the effects that the Israeli occupation has on Palestinian life and human rights. We are now in search of a new social and political structure that will enable us to combat the security apparatus, although the catalyst for this was the fateful broadcast of a tape showing Israeli policemen severely beating a boy from Bethlehem a few weeks ago.
Yet, with all of these factors there are still those who believe that the current violence taking place in Jerusalem and the aggression taken out on Al-Aqsa is different to that which we have seen in the past and that the third intifada is undoubtedly on its way. Is this the case?
I believe that there are visible differences between how things are taking place this time around in comparison to the previous rounds of violence; the responses of the people in Jerusalem and those in the West Bank differ, for a start. The current public mood is tense, especially within the upper ranks of Fatah, but Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas did not flick any switches in his recent speech at the UN, although he did shake up Israel's sense of security by threatening to detonate a metaphorical bomb. Moreover, Israel's arrogance may be the straw that breaks the camel's back since Abbas has made no promises to keep the lid on popular anger for much longer. All of the tension that currently exists indicates that there is in fact an impending uprising on the horizon and that the chances for confrontation may reach a peak as chaos continues to define this political game.
In light of the ongoing division between the two main Palestinian factions and the sense of fear that has overtaken both parties, there is no doubt that a dark period awaits us. Fatah is not comfortable with the escalation in confrontation that Hamas has been promising the West Bank, especially at a point when many agreements are contingent upon a longstanding ceasefire in the Gaza Strip. It seems as though the leadership in Ramallah has considered the Hamas call for resistance in the West Bank to be a veiled threat to the Palestinian Authority under the pretext of standing up to the occupation. In short, Fatah believes that Hamas is planning a coup after which the latter will gain control of both Palestinian territories.
Yes, it is true that the president of the Palestinian Authority stood in New York and declared that it is no longer obligated to abide by the Oslo agreement, and that there is also a threat to dissolve the PA itself and thus bring an end to security coordination with Israel, but Abbas has yet to carry out his threats. This has more to do with the PA's delusional outlook that there is still room for negotiations and a two state solution. Even as it waves its last playing card in the air, the PA does so under the false assumption that there will be regional and international initiatives that will change the status quo.
For all the reasons mentioned above it seems as though a third intifada is a possible scenario but it's not the only one. There are many others that we must not underestimate. It is as if there are initiatives taking place to create a sense of calm between Israel and Palestine and to achieve economic peace and stability as well as a long-term ceasefire in Gaza. The goal is to buy more time in an effort to prevent a comprehensive explosion. As for the two state solution, it is no longer going to be the pacifier that satisfies the Palestinian people's emotions, as many now believe that this option is a thing of the past and is no longer viable.
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Talk to us about why depression is the most common of all mental illnesses.
What are the differences between boys and girls experiencing depression during puberty?
Why is suicide more common among the elderly than in any other age group?
What are some reasons why depressed people may be afraid to seek treatment?
Is there a difference between depression in children, adolescents, and adults?
Why is there this big increase in cases of depression in adolescence?
What's the reason for the gender difference in depression starting in adolescence?
Why is depression in adolescents so important?
How do I know that my child has depression?
What treatments for depression are effective for adolescents?
Can we prevent depression in adolescents?
What are the problems with prevention of depression? Are there possible solutions?
Is there anything that parents can do to prevent depression in their children?
Dr. Patrick Possel has worked for 15 years with children and adolescents. Besides working clinically with minors, he has implemented 4 large scale studies to prevention of depression with about 2500 students in America and Europe and 2 longitudinal studies with 1000+ participants to better understand the origins of depression.
Depression is the most common of all mental illnesses.
Depression can occur in anyone, regardless of race, ethnicity, gender, age or background.
1 in 10 people in the US live with depression. That's about 19 million people who experience depression a year… or about the entire population of the state of Florida.
Over 300,000 soldiers returning from active duty experience a depressive disorder.
#1 cause of disability in the United States, according to The World Health Organization, is depression.
53% of people believe that depression is a sign of personal weakness.
68% of Americans don't want someone with depression marrying into their family.
58% don't want a person with depression in their workplaces.
38% believe people with depression are dangerous.
Suicide is a significant risk for anyone with a mental illness, but is exponentially higher for people with depression.
80% of depressed people are not currently receiving treatment.
Depression is a treatable condition, with 90% of those who DO seek treatment experiencing recovery.
Up to 1 out of 40 babies has depression.
11% of adolescents have a depressive disorder by age 18.
Boys have higher rates of documented depression before puberty, whereas rates of depression increase for girls over boys during puberty.
Students with depression are twice as likely to drop out of school.
Approximately 2% of people over age 65 living in the community (not living in nursing homes or other institutions) experience depression.
Suicide is more common among the elderly than in any other age group.
Recent NIMH studies show that 20% of older adults have subclinical symptoms that do not meet the diagnostic criteria for depression yet need increased health services.
15% of women experience postpartum depression.
40% of women will not seek help for depression.
Women internalize their depression, presenting with sadness and self-blame.
7% of men experience depression. That's over 6 million Americans.
1 in 10 new fathers experience postpartum depression.
50% of men will not seek help for depression.
Men externalize when depressed, presenting with more irritability and anger.
Barney, L.J., Griffiths, K., Christensen, H. & Jorm, A. (2009) Exploring the nature of stigmatising beliefs about depression and help-seeking: Implications for reducing stigma. BMC Public Health, 9 (61): 1-11.
Bromet, E., Andrade, L. et al. (2011). Cross-national epidemiology of DSM-IV major depressive episode. BMC Medicine: 9(1): 90-101.
Dingenfelder, S. (2009). Stigma: Alive and well. Monitor on Psychology, 40(6), 56.
Eisenberg, D.; Goldstein, E. and Hunt, J. (2009). Mental health and academic success. B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 9(1): 40-49.
Gotlib, I. A. and Hammen, C. L. (2010). Handbook of depression. New York: Guilford Press.
Griffiths, K.M., Nakane, Y. et. al (2006). Stigma in response to mental disorders: a comparison of Australia and Japan. BMC Psychiatry,6(21):1-21.
Kessler, R.C., Cox, B.J., et. al. (2011). The effects of latent variables in the development of comorbidity among common mental disorders. Depression and Anxiety 28(1), 29-39.
Luby, J., Si, X. Belden, A.C., Tandon, M. & Spitznagel, E. (2009). Preschool depression: Homotypic continuity and course over 24 months. Archives of General Psychiatry, 68(8):897-905.
1. Myth: Babies and children cannot be diagnosed with depression.
False. Babies and children can be diagnosed with a mood disorder. Called Pediatric Depression, this major health concern reveals that 4% of preschool aged children, 5% of school-aged children and 11% percent of adolescents meet the criteria for major depression.
2. Myth: My pediatrician says my child's moodiness it just a phase – and not to worry.
False. General practitioners and pediatricians, while trained in aspects of mental illness, are not specialists. If you're on the receiving end of a don't-worry-it's-just-a-stage response from your family physician, seek a second opinion from a mental health specialist.
3. Myth: Good parents can always detect if their child is depressed.
False. Most children who suffer with depression keep their thoughts and feelings masked. The only way for parents to understand depression is to be aware of the age specific behaviors and symptoms. Depression is not a result of bad parenting.
4. Myth: Pediatric Depression will go away on its own.
False: A serious mental illness cannot be willed away or brushed aside with a change in attitude. Ignoring the problem doesn't give it the slip either. Depression is serious, but treatable illness, with a success rates of upwards of 80% for children who receive intervention.
5. Myth: Talking about depression gives kids ideas and makes things worse.
False. Talking about depression with your child actually helps to reduce symptoms. Support and encouragement through open communication are significantly meaningful. This lets your child know he's not alone, is loved and cared for.
6. Myth: The risk of suicide for children is greatly exaggerated.
False. Suicide is the 3rd leading cause of death in adolescents ages 15 to 24, and is the 6th leading cause of death in children ages 5 to14. Suicide is significantly linked to depression, so early diagnosis and treatment of pediatric depression are extremely important.
7. Myth: Antidepressants will change your child's personality.
False. Antidepressants normalize the ranges of moods in children who have a mood disorder – and will not change your child's personality what-so-ever.
8. Myth: Once a child starts taking antidepressants, he is on it for the rest of his life.
False. The majority of children who take antidepressant medication will stop their prescription in a careful and modified manner when recovery from depression occurs. This clinical state of recovery takes about a year or so to achieve.
9. Myth: When a depressed child refuses help, there's nothing parents can do.
False. If your child refuses to go to talk therapy or take medication, there are things you can do. You can seek therapy with a trained mental health specialist to learn how to help your child in spite of the fact that he won't attend sessions. In a crisis situation, you can drive your child to the nearest hospital emergency room, or contact family, friends or the local police for assistance in getting him there.
10. Myth: Nowadays, stigma for children and teens living with depression has declined.
False. Though evidence-based research has shown depression is a real illness, stigma is on the rise instead of on the decline. There is so much shame regarding mental illness that statistics show only 1 in 5 actually seeks treatment. Studies have shown that knowledge of depression appears insufficient to dispel stigma. What does reduce stigma? Learning about positive and inspiring stories of people living successfully with depression.
Serani, D. (2013). Depression and Your Child: A Guidebook for Parents and Caregivers. Lanham, Rowman & Littlefield.


Kai Strittmatter (b. 1965) is the Istanbul correspondent for the German daily Süddeutsche Zeitung, where he has been a staffer since 1994. He has published several books, including Gebrauchsanweisung für China (China A to Z: A User's Guide to the Next Global Superpower).


RESIDENTS in downtown Luwan, Huangpu, Xuhui and Jing'an districts are enjoying better quality tap water today after the new Nanshi water plant swung into operation.
The builder of the project, which replaces a century-old water processing plant, said the first phase of the project was completed today and the plant is in production. The project has been underway since August 2007.
The old plant stopped production at the same time. Total investment in the renovation, which will have two phases, will amount to 1.15 billion yuan (US$168 million), according to its investor, state-owned Shanghai Chengtou Corporation.
The plant's daily supply capacity has improved from 400,000 to 500,000 cubic meters and the water quality will also be hugely improved, plant management said today.
Plant officials said the second phase of construction has already started and this will increase daily water supply by another 200,000 cubic meters in the near future.
The plant is located inside the 2010 World Expo area on the western bank of the Huangpu River, next to the Nanpu Bridge. All tap water for the western Expo site will come from this plant.
The new plant answers concerns about reducing pollutants involved in water processing, plant officials said.
"We have completed the new plant with the latest technology. Silt left by the water processing will be treated and will be more solid compared with previous practices. This means the silt can be carried away by vehicles and will not be discharged into the waterways," said Yu Xiao, an official with the plant today.
Officials said water supply facilities inside the World Expo Zone will be under 24-hour surveillance.