Opening Statement Research Articles

Encounters at the Mound in Old Norse Literature: Dialogues between Landscape and Narrative

Encounters at the Mound in Old Norse Literature: Dialogues between Landscape and Narrative

A narrative photographic approach: opening day ceremonies for Iran’s Nature Schools

Opening Day photographs appeared in Iran’s newspapers celebrating the succession of outdoor Nature Schools commencing each year from 2014. Using a narrative photographic approach, this qualitative study collected and analysed newspaper pictures for Iran’s Nature Schools in the half decade to 2017. At this time, government approval reflected careful planning to develop these new outdoor educational opportunities. Seven news media articles were thematically analysed from this period utilising twelve pictures. This photographic method provides another layer of understanding beyond official statements of intention, formal approval or written text. Through the local features of schools, a pattern of national intention and official endorsement can be seen, but also an awareness of invisible rules permitting outdoor learning experiences. What do these images tell us about this environmental opportunity for a new generation of schoolchildren? How do the pictures portray the urban need for the outdoors? Are there clues in these pictures of the subsequent shutting down of these outdoor schools, denying further expansion? These images tell their own story alongside formal narratives embodied in official Opening Day ceremonies and statements. We conclude these schools were meeting a strongly-felt need for the outdoors in highly urbanised contemporary Iran.

Hope in the Age of Dystopia: The Ghost in the Machine in Øyvind Rimbereid's Solaris korrigert

Hope in the Age of Dystopia: The Ghost in the Machine in Øyvind Rimbereid's <i>Solaris korrigert</i>

A Contemporary Reading of Vitruvius’ Opening Statements and a Proposed New Partial Translation of De Architectura I.1

The present paper offers a new reading of Vitruvius’ opening statements in De Architectura I.1; it understands that the Roman author attempts to explain what architecture is by describing how architecture-related knowledge is acquired. It further understands that Vitruvius claims that the architect’s scientia is born out of the bodily involvement with construction, as well as out of the exercise of the proper deductive reasoning. The knowledge required for the design and erection of sound buildings that can be integrated into the world order is akin to what we today name the “designerly” way of thinking and knowing, enriched with expertise on the realization of the design produced. Finally, it proposes a new translation of I.1 that produces a coherent text with no logical gaps.

Citizens of NATS

Citizens of NATS Carole Blankenship (bio) FROM THE PRESIDENT What does it mean to be a citizen of the National Association of Teachers of Singing? How can we shape what NATS members experience? What protocols help NATS leaders ensure that all are treated equitably? How does your NATS chapter create belonging? Does the job of the NATS adjudicator extend out beyond the audition? These are only a few of the challenging questions with which NATS leaders and members of the NATS Diversity and Inclusion Focus Group have been grappling. NATS has recently made huge strides in Diversity and Inclusion efforts. The leadership has been working together on the NATS Strategic Plan for more than three years. The NATS Diversity and Inclusion statement and initiatives are vital parts of that plan. These developments begin to prepare NATS for change! That includes open and honest conversations with members and leaders that diverge in perspectives and views. Within these discussions, all voices must be heard equally, leading to better results for NATS members and their students, including, of course, their experiences with NATS programs and services. In early 2021, the NATS D&I Task Force assisted the leadership in engaging professional consultants. The Task Force noted that the NATS Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion work will continue to change and shape this association for many years. We are so pleased to be working with Diversity and Inclusion professionals, Theresa Ruth Howard and Alejandra Valarino Boyer, both accomplished performers as well as experts in the work of Inclusivity, Diversity, Equity, and Antiracism in Arts organizations. For Phase I of the NATS plan, Theresa and Alejandra traveled to Jacksonville to lead in-person training with the NATS Board members and with the NATS Office staff. At the summer 2021 NATS Board meeting, the leadership voted unanimously to move to Phase II with the work on modules to train NATS members and leaders. Region governors recommended region and chapter officers with experience or interest in Diversity and Inclusion work to the president, who then invited them to serve. This large group of 40 NATS members is the NATS Diversity and Inclusion Focus Group. Four meetings were held together with the NATS D&I consultants to discuss Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Antiracism (IDEA) within the Association. Theresa and Alejandra have taken information from those meetings to create training modules specifically for NATS. Module 1 includes videos and slideshows that explain the language of IDEA and define culture and race as a construct. This module also addresses institutional racism and clarifies antiracism. There are members of NATS testing the modules as they are created. Other qualified and trained [End Page 553] members are preparing to facilitate discussions among those who complete the modules. What is the goal of the training modules? As stated by several experts in antiracism, the goal is for NATS to become a fully inclusive antiracist multicultural organization in a transformed society. In the process, many of us will be personally transformed. That is the hard part. NATS is asking you to be open to change personally for the better solutions for all NATS members and those who aspire to be NATS members, including our students and young voice professionals. The original NATS D&I Toolkit assembled in 2020 to accompany the NATS Strategic Plan has been renamed the NATS IDEA Best Practices Guide. The opening statement of that document now reads, “NATS takes the equitable treatment for all within our organization very seriously. Equitable treatment involves learning about IDEA: Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Antiracism. This NATS IDEA Best Practices Guide has been created to identify ways to promote IDEA within NATS. It provides guidelines for fostering and maintaining a welcoming and supportive community and culture of diversity and inclusion, strategies for communicating across cultures, strategies for demonstrating that we value and validate each other and educating ourselves, and identifying ways to build an inclusive NATS leadership team” (https://www.nats.org/_Library/docs/NATS_IDEA_Best_Practices_Guide_Final_1_17_22_rev.pdf). NATS must make great changes, but transformation begins with members. The goals of this work may seem challenging, but if we each take on the training, we will make the changes. The NATS training modules will open us to...

Rubbish? Envisioning a sociolinguistics of waste

Abstract(English) As the opening statement in a curated dialogue on Language and Waste, this paper considers what a sociolinguistics of waste might look like. In the first two parts, I provide some general rationale and academic context for starting to notice waste. By avoiding the dirty places and raw lives of waste, sociolinguists obscure two important relations: first, the social worlds of people who live and work with/in waste; second, the social connection between “us” (as makers of waste) and those left to pick up the pieces. I briefly review the isolated precedents in sociocultural linguistics for attending to waste. In the third and fourth parts, I propose at least two ways sociolinguistics can contribute usefully and distinctively to discard studies. I start by offering two empirical vignettes concerned with the discursive creation and destruction of value. In this vein, and orienting to economic sociology, I argue that scholarship on stancetaking can helpfully pinpoint the processes of (e)valuation and valuation by which things are declared unworthy or “waste‐able.” Against the backdrop of these initial propositions, the dialogue continues with commentaries by Jillian Cavanaugh, Annabelle Mooney, and Joshua Reno who contribute their own ideas about approaching waste from a decidedly (socio)linguistic angle.

Litigation Consultation in Cases of Women Who Kill

ABSTRACT Litigation consultation is an expanding practice for forensic practitioners. Mock juries to voir dire to jury decision-making, there are multiple areas for psychologists to use their experience and expertise. The litigation consultant can aid the retaining attorney in developing case theories and drafting talking points for opening statements and closing arguments. It may be helpful for newer litigators to have a consultant for cases that are seldom seen, but create emotional responses within the litigator, the judge, or the jury. When females commit different forms of homicide, each one comes with a different theory as to why the killing was done. This article will begin with a brief literature review on three forms of homicide women commit: filicide, mariticide, and mass murder. There will be a brief literature review on developing and presenting a case theory. The article will examine different trial strategies that can be used by a consultant and if hired by the prosecution or the defense. The motive for killing will be presented in a way that will best serve the trier of fact to render a decision. Studies on female homicide indicated the act challenges assumptions about the role women play in society. These assumptions may either need to be challenged or reinforced depending on the side that hired the consultant but also allow for individual differences based on case specifics and issues of diversity. The article will conclude with a discussion on best practices for both the consultant and the retaining attorney.

Three discipline collaborative radiation therapy (3DCRT) special debate: FLASH radiotherapy needs ongoing basic and animal research before implementing it to a large clinical scale.

Three discipline collaborative radiation therapy (3DCRT) special debate: FLASH radiotherapy needs ongoing basic and animal research before implementing it to a large clinical scale.

La fiaba: Morfologia, antropologia e storia

La fiaba: Morfologia, antropologia e storia

Meet the candidates for ALA President: Vote in the election this spring

The ACRL Board of Directors posed the following questions to the candidates for ALA president, and C&amp;RL News is pleased to publish their responses. Each candidate was given 1,500 words to respond to six questions and contribute an optional opening statement. The responses are identified under each question.

High Commissioner’s Opening Statement to the 71st Session of the Executive Committee of the High Commissioner’s Programme

High Commissioner’s Opening Statement to the 71st Session of the Executive Committee of the High Commissioner’s Programme

128 Efficacy of a Virtual Mock Trial for Inter-Professional Learning

A medical negligence trial can be stressful for all involved and may be the first time in a courtroom for many health professionals. To provide students with the opportunity to learn from, with and about each other, the Mock Trial was established as an annual collaborative learning event between a local law school and our university-affiliated Office for IPE (Inter-professional Education). In 2021, Mock Trial was conducted virtually to continue high-quality IPE throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.The aims of the study were to establish the efficacy of translation of a large-scale inter-professional malpractice Mock Trial simulation to the virtual platform and to determine whether this will be a useful modality once social distancing restrictions ease.The virtual simulation was structured using the brief-simulation-debrief model. Students participated as jury members via Zoom. A simulated courtroom held 11 participants of the trial (one judge, four law students [two defence, two prosecutions], five witnesses and one administrator) and was broadcast in real time to students. The learners first heard the case (opening statements, Plaintiff’s case, Defendant’s case, closing statements and jury instructions) before moving to IP jury break-out rooms with facilitator supervision to deliberate a verdict. Verdicts were delivered in the main room, followed by a debriefing. All students completed a pre-/post-questionnaire, including the Interprofessional Collaborative Competency Attainment Survey (ICCAS) and evaluation of simulation methodology, Mock Trial structure/content and overall impression. To assess efficacy, we compared student evaluations from 2018 and 2019 (in-person events) to those from 2021 (virtual).A total of 179 learners participated in three in-person Mock Trials; 143 attended the virtual offering. The virtual event included learners from 19 professions from 4 institutions and 12 facilitators. Evaluations assessed IPEC competencies. For the virtual Mock Trial, learners (96%) strongly agreed/agreed that ‘this activity demonstrated the value of IP collaborative practice to prevent malpractice lawsuits’ and 97% felt that this was a valuable educational activity. Representative qualitative data include: ‘as a law student it was interesting to see what laypeople take away from evidence…’, ‘watching the process provided insight into the litigation process’, ‘the most valuable experience is hearing other people’s perspective’.Large-scale virtual simulation events such as a Mock Trial are feasible and provide a valuable inter-professional learning experience. Student feedback demonstrates that gaining insight from different perspectives is a meaningful part of the experience. Incorporation of large-scale simulation events post-pandemic can increase accessibility to foster IP learning on a wider scale.

Agency, Responsibility, and Actor Positioning In Courtroom Narratives

Abstract Viewing language as a system consisting of grammatical resources for meaning making, this study explores how agency and responsibility are attributed in legal narratives through the lens of transitivity. Drawing upon the opening address of three American trials, the quantitative and qualitative findings indicate that agency and blameworthiness of the individuals on trial are discursively negotiated through starkly different grammatical choices, so that polarized positionings of the same social actors and events are accomplished for the audience. It is argued that such manipulation of grammatical resources exhibits subjective intervention on the part of the presenter and constitutes a prime mechanism of inference and attitudinal evocation for the jurors. In effect, the opening statement, which is in principle intended to be merely informative, becomes not only argumentative but also evaluative.

War and genocide in South Sudan

This book investigates how state formation can occur through mechanisms of predatory ethno-nationalism and makes the case that a genocide was perpetrated in South Sudan between 2013 and 2017. Given the many foreign and domestic agendas at play in this period of South Sudan's history, this will make contentious reading for some. These years coincided with the beginning of the South Sudanese civil war. While it is broadly acknowledged that ethnic cleansing and other wartime atrocities were committed at this time—sometimes on a considerable scale—there is disagreement as to whether these crimes meet international definitions of genocide. As Pinaud dryly observes in her opening statement, ‘[t]he international community did not escalate its rhetoric to describe the violence in South Sudan as genocidal. This was at odds with the interpretation of most South Sudanese I interviewed’ (p. 2). Working with a definition (following Scott Strauss), of sustained violence at a scale...

Can we live within environmental limits and still reduce poverty? Degrowth or decoupling?

Can we live within environmental limits and still reduce poverty? Degrowth or decoupling?

Current State and Future of Strategic Leadership and Governance Theory and Practice

This panel symposium will focus on our current state of knowledge about strategic leadership and the governance that oversees, supports and engages with strategic leaders and will explore promising directions for future knowledge development and practice in strategic leadership and governance. Managerial and executive decision-making are major foci of the STR domain, along with strategic leadership (including top management teams and boards of directors) and governance of strategic decision-making. The symposium focuses on strategic choice (managers' strategic decisions) and organizational governance, both major foci in the OMT domain. Similarly, these topics are major foci in the ENT domain, with particular emphasis on decision-making under uncertainty and on governance in the context of new venture firm growth. Distinguished scholars and prolific researchers in strategic leadership and governance have agreed to serve as panelists: Donald C. Hambrick, Margarethe F. Wiersema, James D. Westphal, Sam Garg, and Ruth V. Aguilera. These panelists are also closely connected to practicing managers, including top executives. The symposium has been designed to provide a brief opening statement by each panelist regarding our current knowledge of the strategic leadership or governance topic(s) they believe to be most critical; a significant period of discussion divided between discussions based on audience questions and discussion among the panel, responding to other panelists’ statements; and a brief statement by each panelist on the strategic leadership or governance topic(s) they believe to be important for the development of future knowledge and/or practice.

A Grand Challenge None of Us Chose: Succeeding &amp; Failing against the Pandemic - A Global Perspective

The Covid pandemic and its related economic meltdown and social unrest has challenged most countries, their societies, institutions, organizations, and individuals. Focusing on both more and less successful country-specific initiatives to fight the pandemic and its consequences, the panel members of this Symposium will explore implications for effective action at the individual, organizational and societal levels. As international / cross-cultural management scholars, the panelists will document actions taken and their various consequences in a wide range of countries around the globe (including Austria, Australia, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, New Zealand, South Korea, Sweden, Switzerland, UK, and USA). Informed by a cross-cultural lens, the panelists´ opening statements will set the stage for a dialogue to explore such urgent questions as: What is most important for leaders, scholars, and organizations to learn from dealing with critical, life-threatening, society-encompassing ongoing crises? How do leaders build and maintain trust? What kinds of communication have been most effective at various stages of the crisis? How can we accelerate learning processes for effective action? How does cultural resilience emerge within a rapidly changing environment of fear, shifting cultural norms, and challenges to core identity? This dialogue will enable us to learn from each other and begin to discover novel and more successful approaches to tackling grand challenges.

GISDAY WA and DELGAM UUKW, The Spirit In The Land: The opening statement of the Gitksan and Wet’suwet’en Hereditary Chiefs in the Supreme Court of British Columbia, May 11, 1987, Gabriola: Reflections, 90 pages, Canada, $13.95 (paper)

GISDAY WA and DELGAM UUKW, The Spirit In The Land: The opening statement of the Gitksan and Wet’suwet’en Hereditary Chiefs in the Supreme Court of British Columbia, May 11, 1987, Gabriola: Reflections, 90 pages, Canada, $13.95 (paper). An article from journal Culture (Volume 9, Number 2, 1989, pp. 3-104), on Érudit.

What's in the Box? Punishment and Insanity in the Canadian Jury Deliberation Room.

In insanity cases, although the defendant's eventual punishment is legally irrelevant to the jury's decision, it may be psychologically relevant. In this three-part mixed-methods study, Canadian jury eligible participants (N = 83) read a fictional murder case involving an insanity claim, then took part in 45-min deliberations. Findings showed that mock jurors who were generally favourable towards punishment had a lower frequency of utterances that supported the Defence's case. A qualitative description of keyword flagged utterances also demonstrated that mock jurors relied on moral intuitions about authority, harm, and fairness in justifying their positions. These findings may have application in crafting effective Judge's instructions and lawyer's opening statements.

MEDICO-LEGAL ASPECTS OF COVID-19 DISEASE IN INDIA: A COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW.

In India, the first case of a COVID-19 patient was reported on 30th January 2020 by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare in Kerala’s Thrissur district. On 11th March 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) director-general’s briefed the media as an opening statement of the COVID-19 outbreak as a pandemic worldwide. In the literature data search, no article found which comprises the ethical and medico-legal aspects related to a COVID 19 pandemic situation. Therefore the purpose of to present review was to evaluate and review the Indian medico-legal aspects of Covid-19 disease. In the present review, different topics were covered such as the Epidemic Disease Act - 1897, the Disaster Management Act - 2005, the Biomedical Waste Management Act - 1998, the amendments to Epidemic Disease Act - 1998, Telemedicine and/or Teledentistry in the pandemic era in India, etc. The challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic are huge, but the basic principles of laws can keep healthcare personnel out of the medico-legal woods. Keywords: COVID-19 disease, Disaster Management Act, Epidemic Disease Act, Medico-legal, Teledentistry.