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Making Memories: Countercultural Memory in Irenaeus, Martyrdom of Polycarp, and Apocryphon of James

Abstract Cultures define themselves largely by how they remember the past; the commemoration of history provides a link to bygone eras that helps determine social dynamics in the present. But not everyone remembers the past in the same manner. Not only do people champion competing historical narratives, but they also memorialize the past in different ways, such as erecting monuments, glorifying a specific person, constructing and honoring an archive, revering a symbol, holding an event that repeats periodically, maintaining an institution, and more. These various hubs of memory creation and preservation are often called “sites of memory.” This article explores how various Christian groups in the second century invested their social memory in divergent sites. These sites not only propagated differing forms of Christian expression, but also diverse notions of what it means to remember. While some championed preservation of the past, others believed that memory entailed radical innovation.

Carter Center celebrates Rosalynn Carter's 95th birthday

The Carter Center celebrated former U.S. First Lady Rosalynn Carter's 95th birthday on Aug. 18 by marking key milestones, advocacy and historic achievements of her career and life. “Mrs. Carter's leadership, vision, and warmth have positively impacted millions of Americans, along with millions of people around the world,” Paige Alexander, CEO of The Carter Center, said in a news release. “She has been a pioneer in championing causes and policies and establishing resources to address them decades before they became mainstream. Her work to advance and destigmatize mental health has become increasingly relevant in the lives of people today.” For over 50 years, Mrs. Carter has been a relentless champion of people with mental illnesses and the freedom to live a life of dignity and self‐worth. She continues this crusade today through her work at The Carter Center, where she created the center's mental health program, established the Carter Center Mental Health Task Force, and founded the Rosalynn Carter Fellowships for Mental Health Journalism.

Ganesh Chella, Harish Devarajan and V. J. Rao, HR Here and Now: The Making of the Quintessential People Champion. New Delhi: SAGE Publications, 2018, 370 pp., ₹450, ISBN: 9789352806935 (Paperback).

Ganesh Chella, Harish Devarajan and V. J. Rao, <i>HR Here and Now: The Making of the Quintessential People Champion</i>. New Delhi: SAGE Publications, 2018, 370 pp., ₹450, ISBN: 9789352806935 (Paperback).

Book review: Ganesh Chella, Harish Devarajan and V. J. Rao, HR Here and Now: The Making of the Quintessential People Champion

Ganesh Chella, Harish Devarajan and V. J. Rao, HR Here and Now: The Making of the Quintessential People Champion, 2018, New Delhi: SAGE Publications, 372 pp., ₹595, ISBN: 978-93-528-0693-5.

Ganesh Chella, Harish Devarajan and V. J. Rao, HR HERE AND NOW: The Making of the Quintessential People Champion

Ganesh Chella, Harish Devarajan and V. J. Rao, <i>HR HERE AND NOW: The Making of the Quintessential People Champion</i>

From "Pitifully Ignorant" to the "People's Champion": Shifting Perceptions of Muhammad Ali in the Louisville Defender, 1964–1971

From "Pitifully Ignorant" to the "People's Champion": Shifting Perceptions of Muhammad Ali in the Louisville Defender, 1964–1971

Norah Fry – what can we learn from history?

Accessible Summary The Norah Fry Research Centre is named after Norah Fry who was one of the first women to stand up for people with learning disabilities. Over a 100 years ago Norah Fry visited people with learning disabilities and their families in Bristol and Somerset to find out what they needed to enjoy better lives. She wrote reports about what she had found and people wrote down what she said should be done to make life better. When she died she left money to the university to be used for teaching and for finding out more about the needs of people with learning disabilities and those who were mentally ill. We can now look back on the changes that she wanted to make and the problems she faced in trying to bring about change. SummaryThis paper explores how Norah Fry's concerns of 100 years ago have been relevant to the work of the Norah Fry Research Centre. In 1898, Norah Fry began to investigate the social conditions and educational needs of people with learning disabilities living in Bristol and Somerset. In reporting her findings to a Royal Commission in 1905, she set out her vision for the future. For over 50 years, she was a champion for people with learning disabilities. She canvassed support for schools for those excluded from education; she led campaigns to close the parish workhouses; and she sought to establish new patterns of residential support. This account of Norah Fry's life and legacy explores the results of the social investigations which she carried out, the policies that emerged from her work and the resistances she encountered in working for change.

Professor Harry Keen, champion of people with diabetes worldwide

Diabetic MedicineVolume 30, Issue 6 p. 638-639 Editor's Selection: This Month's Highlighted Articles Professor Harry Keen, champion of people with diabetes worldwide First published: 19 May 2013 https://doi.org/10.1111/dme.12221_1 Reproduced with permission from Diabetes UK and The Independent. This obituary was first published on the Diabetes UK website and in the Independent on 15 April 2013. Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article. Volume30, Issue6June 2013Pages 638-639 RelatedInformation

Popham becomes the people's champion

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to describe how hairdressing company, Popham, has become an Investor in People champion and the benefits that have flowed from this.Design/methodology/approachThe paper explains the background to the Investor in People award and the policies that Popham has adopted to achieve this, in particular in the areas of staff consultation and employee development.FindingsTo prevent any problems from developing into major issues, the 17‐employee firm holds regular meetings with employees. Annual appraisals are used for knowledge sharing with colleagues and coaching from directors, while staff are actively encouraged to contribute ideas on a day‐to‐day basis.Practical implicationsPopham has a well‐developed business plan and individual targets for all members of staff, to which people have contributed and can relate. Directors and managers share a strong commitment to training and development. Reveals that the 17‐employee company, operating in a sector that traditionally has high employee turnover, has lost only one member of staff in the last ten years.Originality/valueThe paper provides an example of successful human‐resource management policies in a UK small business.

Nurse champions of older people: a national audit and critical review

This paper aims to equip nurses working with older people with an understanding of the roles and activities of Champions for Older People. The position of Older People's Champion was established in England to help implement the National Service Framework for Older People at local level. This paper reports on the findings of a national survey of older people's Champions. It sets this in the context of developments around health polices for older people. Forty-three of the 209 Champions who participated in this study were nurses. Nurses were the most commonly appointed clinical Champions in National Health Service Trusts responding to the survey; they used this position to promote changes within their organisation and locality. While focusing on the implementation of National Service Framework for Older People targets and requirements, some used their position to work with organisations of local older people and advocated for older patients' interests. Nurses conceived their position as clinical Champions broadly and reported that they used this role to promote service improvements for older people. Those who established networks with other Champions and older people's groups found this useful. Their role as Champions appeared to encourage a proactive and outward-looking perspective and provides evidence of the workings of one model of Championship. Embedding championing roles within organisations may be one way of bringing about change in the way that services to older people are developed.

Quality, safety, and a new people's champion

The Care Quality Commission was set the task of bringing adult social care, NHS and independent healthcare services under the same regulatory umbrella. After two busy years, Cynthia Bower examines certain aspects of the commission's role and welcomes a new development that will amplify the voices of people who rely on care services.

Muhammad Ali: The People's Champion (review)

Reviewed by: Muhammad Ali: The People's Champion Elizabeth Bush Myers, Walter Dean. Muhammad Ali: The People's Champion; illus. by Alix Delinois. Collins/Amistad/HarperCollins, 2010 32p. Library ed. ISBN 978-0-06-029132-7 $17.89 Trade ed. ISBN 978-0-06-029131-0 $16.99 Ad Gr. 3-5 From the soaring hagiography of Jonah Winter's Muhammad Ali: Champion of the World (BCCB 3/08) to Jim Haskins' plainspoken Champion: The Story of Muhammad Ali (BCCB 6/02), there's no shortage of picture-book biographies about the boxing icon. The challenge then is to break fresh ground or provide a novel take [End Page 298] on the legend, and although Myers offers an able portrait, there's no new information on offer. Furthermore, the somewhat flat prose seems poorly matched to its flamboyant subject: "On March 8, 1971, Ali fought against Frazier and lost a tough fight. His fans were crushed, but Ali was determined to keep fighting." The focus is on the active years of Ali's career, including, of course, his conversion to Islam and his refusal to serve in the military. Wrapping up the main text with Ali's lighting of the Olympic torch at the Atlanta games means that readers miss the details of his continuing battle with Parkinson's disease (recent achievements and awards are relegated to an appended timeline), a struggle that for many raises the stature of the mature Ali above that of his younger pugilist persona. Delinois' vibrant mixed-media illustrations, which fairly sculpt the figures in planes of paint textured in coarse swirls and doodles, shimmer with the heat of exertion in the ring. That eye-catching presentation will draw an audience, and readers will at least come away with the essentials. Copyright © 2010 The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois

How to make care champions

This article provides an overview of how second-year, adult branch nursing students at De Montfort University, Leicester, were trained as older people's champions to improve the care provided to this patient group.

The ‘Healthy Passport’ intervention with older people in an English urban environment: effects of incentives and peer-group organisers in promoting healthy living

ABSTRACTThis paper reports the evaluation of the effectiveness of incentives (viz. points and prizes) and of peer-group organisers (‘older people's champions') in the outcomes of a health-improvement programme for people aged 50+ years in a multi-ethnic district of the West Midlands, England. Health promotion activities were provided, and adherence, outcome variables and barriers to adherence were assessed over six months, using a ‘passport’ format. Those aged in the fifties and of Asian origin were under represented, but people of Afro-Caribbean origin were well represented and proportionately most likely to stay in the project. Those of greater age and with more illness were most likely to drop out. There were significant improvements in exercise, diet and the uptake of influenza vaccines and eyesight tests, but slighter improvements in wellbeing. Positive outcomes related to the incentives and to liking the format. The number of reported barriers was associated with lower involvement and lack of change, as was finding activities too difficult, the level of understanding, and transport and mobility problems, but when these were controlled, age did not predict involvement. Enjoying the scheme was related to positive changes, and this was associated with support from the older people's champions.

Wales to appoint commissioner for older people.

A landmark step towards appointing an older people's champion, who will fight ageism and discrimination in Wales, has been made by the Welsh Assembly Government.

Developing older people's champions

The care of older people in hospital is severely testing every aspect of the NHS's resources. To say that the nursing care of such people is in crises would not be an exaggeration, especially given some of the scandals highlighted by the media. One television programme showed such appalling conditions regarding the nursing care of older people that the producers claimed that judging by the intensity and content of the general public's responses, they could have filmed in numerous other locations around the UK.

Older people's champions in an acute NHS trust

Older people's champions in an acute NHS trust

Champion start

A new role for older people's champions was first described in the National Service Framework for Older People (NSF) ( Department of Health 2001 ). Older people's champions have a crucial role to play in helping to implement the NSF, particularly in rooting out age discrimination. There is much interest in how the roles and responsibilities are being developed in different areas.

National Service Framework for Older People: promoting health.

In March 2001, the National Service Framework (NSF) for Older People set out standards for the care and treatment of the over 60s in England. In Wales, a strategy for older people is expected in 2002. The eight standards of the NSF for Older People include strategies to reduce falls, strokes and poor mental health among older people as well as improving general and intermediate care. The final standard "Promoting health and active life in older age" is an overarching theme. As well as strategies to promote health in older people, the NSF requires service providers to develop long-term strategies to promote health throughout life in order to prevent chronic illness. This should include the prevention and treatment of osteoporosis. In promoting positive role models, the NSF for Older People is reflecting social trends in tackling ambivalence about ageing. Key themes of the standard include empowerment and improving quality of life for older people. Patient-centred care and the appointment of older people's champions are possible routes towards this aim. Although there is evidence of some patient-focused models of health promotion, a review of the literature suggests that these are limited.

The People's Champion, Fred Paterson: Australia's Only Communist Party Member of Parliament

The People's Champion, Fred Paterson: Australia's Only Communist Party Member of Parliament