Mr President Research Articles

Cultural populism in the Uuno Turhapuro films of the 1990s

This article examines the cultural meanings given to the comedy character Uuno Turhapuro, in particular during the early 1990s. Focusing on two films, Uuno Turhapuro herra Helsingin herra (‘Uuno Turhapuro, Mr Bigwig of Helsinki’) (1991) and Uuno Turhapuro Suomen tasavallan herra presidentti (‘Uuno Turhapuro, Mr President of the Republic of Finland’) (1992), I discuss the way this unemployed, idle but resourceful character belongs to the tradition of Finnish audio-visual popular culture and analyse the cultural populism related to the authorship of Pertti ‘Spede’ Pasanen. The figure of Uuno is also a presidential parody that reflects the changing attitude in Finland towards those in power after the long administration of President Urho Kekkonen. As a historian, I have endeavoured to illustrate the ways comedy relates to the time period in which it was made.

Discourse Strategies in Chief Olusegun Obasanjo’s Letter to President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan

The paper sets out to investigate the discourse strategies deployed by former President Olusegun Obasanjo in his open letter to President Jonathan on December 12, 2013 which was published in most of the nation’s major newspapers. The work adopts M.A.K Halliday’s Systemic Functional Grammar as its theoretical framework because of the great importance which the model attaches to meanings and functions of a linguistic expression in relation to its context of usage. The researchers, through content and qualitative analysis, identify the discourse strategies used by the encoder of the speech to have the desired maximum effects on the decoders, especially President Goodluck Jonathan. Our findings reveal that President Obasanjo makes use of six discourse strategies in the letter for achieving some aims. The discourse strategies are: references to national interest; using the vocative “Mr President”; mentioning and portraying God in different perspectives; making direct appeals to the president; making references to late Gen. Sanni Abacha and copious repetitions of Nigeria and Nigerians in the text.

'From Felix to the helix, and from the cradle to the grave - Semon's contribution to thyroid surgery', Royal Society of Medicine, 1 November 2019, London, UK.

Mr President, Mr President Elect, Fellows and Members, Ladies and Gentleman, it is a pleasure to address the Section of Laryngology this morning and deliver the 94th Semon Lecture. I would like to thank the Semon Committee for their kind invitation. My lecture will discuss Sir Felix Semon (the man himself), highlight the history of head and neck surgery, and then discuss the requirements of a modern-day thyroid surgeon. I have no conflict of interest and nothing to declare.

Vocation and memories of an accounting historian

Conference of the historian, Esteban Hernández Esteve, on the occasion of the celebration ofVI International Meeting of Accounting History Luca Pacioli, held in Naples, from November 7 to 9, 2019.<< Mr President, Authorities, dear friends and colleagues all.You will allow me to give this act a bit of warmth and intimacy, in which we are all co-workers and research, use a collective tutelage, which does not diminish the respect I have for all of you.My talk, as its title suggests, will be about the emergence of my vocation as a historian, its circumstances and motivations, variations in time, stages in its approach and development, as well as current approaches in relation to the mission and importance of the history of accounting. >>

Contemporary issues for delivery of mental health services in Commonwealth countries.

Byline: Rajen. Prasad, Anand. Satyanand Mr President, chief guest of the day, chairman, distinguished delegates, ladies and gentlemen, at the outset we extend the warm greetings to you all from the people of New Zealand, a fellow Commonwealth country with who India has very many close links in terms of diaspora, education, sport and tourism. May we offer congratulations to the new President for his insightful and inspirational comments just delivered. His comments would be apt in any Commonwealth country and is a reflection of his enormous grasp of what needs to happen in the mental health space globally. It is a matter of considerable regret that my colleague and friend, Sir Anand Satyanand, has been prevented from being with you today to deliver this plenary address. This has been occasioned by a temporary illness resulting in medical advice not to travel for a few weeks. The address I shall now deliver can be described as a joint production of Sir Anand Satyanand's work with some input from myself based on my own background in social policy and social work, human rights, public policy, as a parliamentarian, and most recently as a Commonwealth Special Envoy to Lesotho in Southern Africa. Since Sir Anand Satyanand and I are not medical doctors, we are intrigued, humbled, and very appreciative of the fact that you would include us in your deliberations at this conference. You administer in an arena that is vast in its geography, extensive in its historical time frame, populous, diverse, and with a very large diaspora of which Sir Anand and I are but two. We trust that the perspective we bring satisfies our brief and provides some challenge to your thinking. The brief in this address is to identify some contemporary issues for the delivery of mental health services in Commonwealth countries. As a peak organization of psychiatrists, your interest is in change, change to the way in which mental health is perceived and in the range of services that are offered to your patients. What this address advances is a broad framework for considering contemporary issues in the delivery of mental health services that may be useful as you individually and collectively review your priorities for advocacy and take on new challenges for the future. We start with a description of the contemporary international context of mental health. We then follow a simple organizing framework for our discussion. First, we address overarching issues (macro dimensions of mental health). They are the place in medical and community consciousness of mental health and second, the ever-present threat of corruption of systems and practices which thwart efforts of improvement. We then discuss the policy context of the delivery of mental health services, the community context, and finally the family context. While we focus primarily on the macro challenges we have included the other challenges for the sake of completeness and to acknowledge that practitioners and organizations like yours have the ability to take effective action at many levels concurrently. We want to begin by setting out the broad context in which mental health is practiced. The world's population today is more than 7 billion. In the year 2005, it was 6.5 billion and in 10 years' time in 2025, it will have reached 8 billion. All of you as medical practitioners in the psychiatric field will know that in all countries, people with mental disabilities represent a significant proportion of this number. It will be accepted that mental health conditions apply worldwide and that one in four people will experience a mental health condition in their lifetime. Globally, the World Health Organization estimates 450 million people suffer from mental disorders. Dementia, schizophrenia, depression, and addiction make up the bulk of this. One million people die due to suicide each year. Suicide is the third leading cause of death among young people. …

The universal value of ecclesiastical cultural property: from Renaissance safeguarding to present-day protection

Mr President, Secretary-General, members of U nidroit It is a great honour to stand before you today on this memorable occasion, and a particular privilege to be able to represent the Vatican Museums, which have housed the Papal collections of artistic heritage for over five hundred years. We have works of art that cover a time span of over three thousand years—a collection that may well be defined as a ‘treasure chest’ of human creativity. A trove where one can admire all sorts of art … although most of it—predictably—is constituted by religious art. With the evolution of religions, be they mono or polytheistic, animist or totemist, art evolved into the direct representation of faith itself, so much so that it has become an expression not only of the sacred but also of the aesthetic tastes of a population, taking on an absolute historical value. In other words, artistic heritage, and religious artistic heritage, in particular, represents the soul of a people, the real history of a nation, the identity of a State.

The Next Evolution

Roger M. Nelson, PT, PhD, FAPTA, has served the profession as a clinician, educator, researcher, and mentor for close to 50 years. Dr Nelson received his bachelor of science degree in physical therapy from New York University in 1965. He received his master of science degree from the Sargent College of Allied Health Professions, Boston University, in 1971 and his doctor of philosophy degree from the University of Iowa in 1981. His record of service includes 25 years as a commissioned officer in the US Public Health Service. He has created both national and international collaborations for education, research, and patient care and has been instrumental in gaining the recognition of physical therapists as core members of the health care team. Past Vice President of Expert Clinical Benchmarks at MedRisk Inc, he is professor emeritus at Lebanon Valley College and a former professor at Thomas Jefferson University and the College of Staten Island. Dr Nelson has authored and co-authored more than 50 publications in the peer-reviewed literature and has made more than 180 presentations to local, national, and international scientific meetings. He has published 2 textbooks. He served on the APTA Board of Directors and in the APTA House of Delegates and chaired the task force that developed APTA's Guide to Physical Therapist Practice . Dr Nelson has received numerous US Public Health Service awards and has been honored by APTA as a Catherine Worthingham Fellow. Mr President, McMillan lecturers of prior years, Board of Directors, fellow physical therapists, family, and friends, I want to thank you for this opportunity to share with you today my vision for the next evolution in the physical therapy profession (Figure). Figure. Dr Nelson presenting the 44th Mary McMillan Lecture. I would like to start off with a question for you. What is the …

A Global Green New Deal for Economic Recovery: Addressing the Financial, Climate, Food, Jobs and Development Crises Together? (The Allama Iqbal Lecture)

These immortal lines from Allama Iqbal make me very humble standing before you today to deliver the Allama Iqbal lecture. Mr Chairman, Mr President, Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen, friends all,. thank you very much for this honour and opportunity to speak to you on a very difficult subject. I would like to emphasise that, thanks to Professor Naqvi, this is not the first time I am appearing before the Pakistan Society of Development Economists, but it certainly is the first time, thanks to Dr Rashid Amjad, I have been invited to give this very distinguished lecture. Both men are very distinguished in their own right; they are people whom I have greatly respected over the years. Professor Naqvi's contributions, particularly on ethics and economics, and the challenge of rethinking Islam reminds me of Allama Iqbal's Reconstruction of Islamic Thought and the relevance of it for the challenges facing the world today, as highlighted by Professor Saith's lecture yesterday. The lines from Iqbal that I began with are very relevant, of course, to the whole question of inequality. I met Dr Rashid Amjad about three decades ago in the context of his work at the ILO. Over the decades, he provided sterling leadership in very different and changing circumstances. In a sense, it is his absence from the ILO today that is particularly felt because we face a very unique situation in the world today where, unfortunately, various forces seem to have successfully conspired to prevent a strong economic recovery. This is the subject of the lecture I would like to deliver.

12 - Mr President, Here is Why Brown Envelopes are Dirty

12 - Mr President, Here is Why Brown Envelopes are Dirty

The Listening Heart: Reflections on the Foundations of Law

The Listening Heart: Reflections on the Foundations of Law HIS HOLINESS POPE BENEDICT XVI Mr President of the Federal Republic, Mr President of the Bundestag, Madam Chancellor, Madam President of the Bundesrat, Ladies and Gentlemen Members of the House, It is an honor and a joy for me to speak before this distinguished house, before the Parliament of my native Germany, that meets here as a democratically elected representation of the people, in order to work for the good of the Federal Republic of Germany. I should like to thank the President of the Bundestag both for his invitation to deliver this address and for the kind words of greeting and appreciation with which he has welcomed me. At this moment I turn to you, distinguished ladies and gentlemen, not least as your fellow-countryman who for all his life has been conscious of close links to his origins, and has followed the affairs of his native Germany with keen interest. But the invitation to give this address was extended to me as Pope, as the Bishop of Rome, who bears the highest responsibility for Catholic Christianity. In issuing this invitation you are acknowledging the role that the Holy See plays as a partner within the community of peoples and states. Setting out from this international responsibility that I hold, I should like to propose to you some thoughts on the foundations of a free state of law.© Copyright 2011—Libreria Editrice Vaticana. An address by His Holiness to the Bundestag, Berlin, 22 September 2011. arion 19.3 winter 2012 Allow me to begin my reflections on the foundations of law (Recht) with a brief story from sacred Scripture. In the First Book of Kings, it is recounted that God invited the young King Solomon, on his accession to the throne, to make a request. What will the young ruler ask for at this important moment? Success—wealth—long life—destruction of his enemies? He chooses none of these things. Instead, he asks for a listening heart so that he may govern God’s people , and discern between good and evil (1 Kgs 3:9). Through this story, the Bible wants to tell us what should ultimately matter for a politician. His fundamental criterion and the motivation for his work as a politician must not be success, and certainly not material gain. Politics must be a striving for justice, and hence it has to establish the fundamental preconditions for peace. Naturally a politician will seek success, without which he would have no opportunity for effective political action at all. Yet success is subordinated to the criterion of justice, to the will to do what is right, and to the understanding of what is right. Success can also be seductive and thus can open up the path towards the falsification of what is right, towards the destruction of justice. “Without justice—what else is the State but a great band of robbers?” as Saint Augustine once said. We Germans know from our own experience that these words are no empty spectre. We have seen how power became divorced from right, how power opposed right and crushed it, so that the State became an instrument for destroying right—a highly organized band of robbers, capable of threatening the whole world and driving it to the edge of the abyss. To serve right and to fight against the dominion of wrong is and remains the fundamental task of the politician. At a moment in history when man has acquired previously inconceivable power, this task takes on a particular urgency. Man can destroy the world. He can manipulate himself. He can, so to speak, make human beings and he can deny them their humanity. How do we recognize what is right? How can we discern between good and evil, between what is truly right and what may apthe listening heart 4 pear right? Even now, Solomon’s request remains the decisive issue facing politicians and politics today. For most of the matters that need to be regulated by law, the support of the majority can serve as a sufficient criterion. Yet it is evident that for the fundamental issues of law, in which the...

Acceptance of the SEG Waldemar Lindgren Award for 2008

Mr President, ladies, and gentlemen: Well, I must say that being here tonight is a bit of a surprise; I certainly never expected anything like this. There I was at work one day, just a typical day, when I received another e-mail in an interminable line of e-mails, this one from the SEG. It was the letter from the SEG president notifying me of this award. I was completely shocked when I read it—I had no idea anything like this was in the works. The letter asked me to e-mail a reply to the SEG office, asking me to let them know whom I wanted to have do the citation, and at first I wondered who on Earth could have nominated me. I guessed at a few people, but figured the best bet was my old Ph.D. supervisor, John, so I called him up and asked him, to find out that he’d organized a whole conspiracy of five different people writing letters on my behalf, all in secret. So, as you can imagine, it was a very pleasant surprise, and I’m very appreciative that John, together with Dave Pattison, Ron Frost, Neil Phillips, and Roger Powell, made such an effort on my behalf. Of course, in getting here, I am indebted to many people. First of all, unlike so many others around the world, I had the great fortune to be born in Australia, a country with wealth and a strong education system. And then, secondly, I had the good fortune to be born to adventurous and encouraging parents. As I was growing up, my parents used to take the family camping along remote tracks in the …

Your inbox, Mr President

Your inbox, Mr President

Are You Waving or Drowning?

Dr Shepard has made remarkable contributions to the profession of physical therapy through her accomplishments across all areas of practice, education, research, publication, and service. She was one of the pioneers who introduced qualitative research methods to the profession and, with her colleagues, went on to apply the principles of these methods to study differences between “master” and “novice” clinicians. Her work in this area has been vital as the profession continues to grapple with effective ways to prepare professional students, clinical specialists, interns, and residents in physical therapy. Her scholarly work includes more than 60 papers and book chapters and coauthorship of 3 textbooks. She has been invited to speak at state, national, and international professional meetings and has held visiting professorships in Sweden and South Africa. She was the “first” for several invited lectures, including the Polly Cerasoli Lecture at APTA's Combined Sections Meeting and the Eleanor Branch Lecture at Duke University. Dr Shepard's list of awards and honors includes APTA's Dorothy E Baethke-Eleanor J Carlin Award for Excellence in Academic Teaching, Golden Pen Award (now the Jules M Rothstein Golden Pen Award for Scientific Writing), Dorothy Briggs Memorial Scientific Inquiry Award (3 times), and Lucy Blair Service Award. In 1989, Dr Shepard was elected as a Catherine Worthingham Fellow of APTA. She has received awards for outstanding contributions to physical therapy education from Stanford University and Temple University and the APTA Education Section's Leadership Award, and she holds an honorary doctor of science degree from the University of Indianapolis. Thank you, Mr President, Mary McMillan Awardees, physical therapists and physical therapist assistants, guests, and the staff from states and national office who support us so consistently and graciously. Like the Mary McMillan Lecturers before me, I am gratified and humbled to take my place in that long …

Opening speech

Mr President of LIBER, Mr Chancellor of Justice (JK Göran Lambertz finns med i publiken), and Distinguished Heads and Representatives of important European Libraries, First, a warm welcome to all of you in Uppsala and Sweden. It is, for reasons unknown to me, actually the first time in your Association’s 35 years proud history that you convene in this country.

A New Way to Settle Old Disputes: Mediation and Healthcare

The President: Well, once again good evening. Tonight we are venturing into the realms of dispute resolution by mediation and our speaker is Tony Allen, a Director of CEDR since 2001. Now, in my ignorance, I thought that CEDR stood for Comite Europeen de Droit Rural, in other words the European Council for Agricultural Law, but I now know that the cognoscenti refer to it as the Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution, which is an independent non-profit organisation whose mission is to encourage and develop mediation and other cost-effective dispute resolution and preventive techniques in commercial and public sector disputes. Now, Tony qualified as a solicitor in 1969 and practised primarily in the fields of personal injury and insurance (in which he acted both for claimants and defendants), clinical negligence, childcare, criminal and civil advocacy and general litigation, which I think you will agree with me is not exactly a narrow area. Now Chambers Guide to the Legal Profession of 2001/2002 said this: “He is universally considered to be clearly the best mediator in the UK for clinical negligence and personal injury”, and in previous editions it said “his humorous and affable style” counted for a lot in cases with a high emotional content. So before calling on him to address us on A New Way to Settle Old Disputes I would remind you please to ensure that your mobile telephones are either set to silent or turned off altogether. Tony has agreed to take questions after his talk, so without further ado, Tony, please do go ahead. Mr Allen: Thank you, Mr President. Good evening everyone.

Transitional Injustice? Criteria for Conformity of Lustration to the Right to Political Expression

In order to promote democratic consolidation, countries undergoing the transition from repressive regimes often attempt to address past injustices and launch deep institutional reforms.1 These meas...

Citation for the Down Surgical Prize 2002, Michael Corrigan.

Citation for the Down Surgical Prize 2002, Michael Corrigan.

John Meyer Eisenberg, MD

The recent untimely death of John Eisenberg, who was director of the United States Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), leaves a void in the international healthcare research, quality,...

Pakistan’s Economy: Potential and Challenges (Patron’s Address)

Mr President, Distinguished Delegates, Excellencies, Colleagues, Ladies and Gentlemen: Assalam-o-Alaikum. The Annual Conference of the Pakistan Society of Development Economists has traditionally provided the people of Pakistan—both practising economists and ordinary citizens—with a forum to debate in a rigorous analytical framework the major economic issues facing the country. In this context, the theme of the current conference “Growth, Poverty and Decentralisation” is particularly appropriate as Pakistan begins the 21st century. Many important issues will be discussed by the honourable participants during the Conference and an excellent start reflecting the quality of the debate has been made by the paper just presented by Dr Kemal. I, on my part, would like to take this opportunity to talk about Pakistan’s economy in an overall poverty elimination perspective and particularly the potential and challenges facing it in this regard. As a starting point, a summary of the potential of the Pakistan economy is in order. First, Pakistan is the home of the oldest and largest integrated land and water systems in the world. The world’s other old river basins—the Nile and the Tigris/Euphrates—have remained relatively minor, while Pakistan’s Indus Basin is still vital and robust. Last year, Pakistan’s record wheat crop again showed the world the potential of the Great Indus Food Machine.

Mr President: Where do we stand? Where do we go?

Mr President: Where do we stand? Where do we go?