scholarly journals SABOLICH PROSTHETICS AND RESEARCH: A CONTINUING JOURNEY ON THE ROAD LESS TRAVELED

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Scott Sabolich
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Practice ◽  
Business Model ◽  
The United States ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Business Practices ◽  
Unique Contribution ◽  
The Road ◽  
The Status ◽  
History Of ◽  
On The Road

The Sabolich family had made a unique contribution to both the clinical practice of Prosthetics and Orthotics as well as the business of prosthetics and orthotics. In preparing for this Special Edition, as Co-Editor-in-Chief, I felt it important to include the story of the Sabolich vision for prosthetic clinical practice and their experiences in achieving that vision. Their story is an important part of the history of prosthetic clinical practice in the United States. Their rethinking of what a clinical practice could look like and function as was far-sighted.  Achieving it required both risk taking, as well as a new business model. The reaction from other Prosthetic and Orthotic practitioners was strong. Some saw the new model as visionary while others found it provocative.    The model was based on a concierge style practice, which provided a premium service to a patient from first appointment to providing and maintaining of their device.  They then went further than that by incorporating in-house research into their facility to develop new and innovative prosthetic approaches that would make them leaders in the field of socket design and fit. Their vision was to be a Center of Excellence for Prosthetics and Orthotics Practices, a vison that many people within the sector would likely agree was achieved. I invited current CEO of Scott Sabolich Prosthetics and Research to reflect back on the history of his family’s business and how multiple generations of his family were able to see gaps and create opportunities where others could not see beyond the status quo and even fought hard to maintain the status quo. The evolution of this company provides insight into the successful development of novel business practices and economics in Prosthetics and Orthotics, while staying true to core service principles.  The result was a business model that, in hind sight, had future-proofed the company in the face of the global economic challenges that impacted the sector in 2008-9 and beyond.  It is also an indicator of what opportunities there are, at the business, clinical and technical levels, for those who take the risk of breaking from the status quo. Because of time and capacity constraints on the part of Mr. Scott Sabolich, it was agreed that his professional opinions and insights would be done in an interview format. Article PDF Link: https://jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/cpoj/article/view/37089/28362 How To Cite: Sabolich S. Sabolich Prosthetics and Research: A continuing journey on the road less traveled. Canadian Prosthetics & Orthotics Journal. 2021;Volume 4, Issue 2, No.14. https://doi.org/10.33137/cpoj.v4i2.37089 Corresponding Author: Scott Sabolich, Scott Sabolich Prosthetics and Research, Oklahoma City, USA.E-Mail: [email protected] ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5723-7963

Creating Oportunity

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zoltan J. Acs
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Historical Background ◽  
Economic Opportunity ◽  
Wealth Creation ◽  
The Status ◽  
History Of ◽  
Fundamental Tension ◽  
Opportunity Creation

This chapter describes the system of opportunity creation in the United States, which has been a series of inventions and reinventions of the means by which opportunity has been provided. It begins with a historical background on efforts to suppress opportunity—or at least keep a monopoly hold on it—particularly in Britain. It then considers how opportunity has been embedded in American-style capitalism in two fundamental ways. The first is by equipping individuals with the skills they need to participate in capitalism; the second relates to the functioning of innovation and markets, and to the ability of new industries, firms, and jobs to challenge the status quo—namely, creative destruction. It also highlights the fundamental tension between wealth creation and maintaining economic opportunity. The chapter concludes with a discussion of the role played by schools and education reformers in the history of opportunity and opportunity creation in America.

Literary History on the Road: Transatlantic Crossings and Transpacific Crossovers

PMLA ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 119 (1) ◽  
pp. 92-102 ◽  
Author(s):  
Takayuki Tatsumi
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
World War I ◽  
American Literature ◽  
Herman Melville ◽  
Literary History ◽  
The United States ◽  
Jazz Age ◽  
The Road ◽  
History Of ◽  
On The Road

Literary history has always mirrored discursive revolutions in world history. In the United States, the Jazz Age would not have seen the Herman Melville revival and the completion of Carl Van Doren's The Cambridge History of American Literature (1917–21) without the rise of post–World War I nativism. If it had not been for Pearl Harbor, F. O. Matthiessen's American Renaissance (1941) could not have fully aroused the democratic spirit embedded in the heritage of New Criticism. Likewise, the postcolonial and New Americanist climate around 1990, that critical transition at the end of the cold war, brought about the publication of Emory Elliott's The Columbia Literary History of the United States (1988) and Sacvan Bercovitch's The Cambridge History of American Literature (1994–). I would like to question, however, the discourse that narrates American literary history in the globalist age of the twenty-first century.

‘I thought it was a very punk rock thing to say’: NOFX’s (sort-of) public apology and (in)civility in defining contemporary punk rock in online spaces

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ellen M. Bernhard
Keyword(s):  
The United States ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Punk Rock ◽  
Music Festival ◽  
United States Today ◽  
The World ◽  
The Status ◽  
Online Spaces ◽  
Mass Shooting ◽  
History Of

As a music genre built on the foundations of questioning the status quo, punk rock has a long history of generating controversy. While many of punk rock’s offensive moments have been accepted and applauded by fans around the world, NOFX’s comments at the 2018 Punk Rock Bowling and Music Festival about the 2017 Las Vegas mass shooting were met with immediate consequences for the band, who lost several sponsorships and the ability to play their own Camp Punk in Drublic music festival one week following the incident. After footage of the band’s comments circulated, they were met with a mixed, yet heated, response from fans, with much of the conversation arguing whether or not what was said could be considered ‘punk’. Some argued these comments further solidified the band’s reputation as a punk band and are therefore imbued with an inherent right to offend, while others believed these comments were unethical, poorly timed, and pushed the boundaries of appropriateness. Through the analysis of 381 comments in response to the band’s 31 May 2018 post on their official Facebook page, this article investigates the uncivil and civil discussions of the incident and the subsequent aftermath, while also addressing the broader conversation surrounding the current ethos of punk rock within the scene in the United States today.

On the Road with Chicana/o History

2012 ◽  
Vol 82 (4) ◽  
pp. 581-587
Author(s):  
Alexandra Minna Stern
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Historical Reconstruction ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
The Road ◽  
History Of ◽  
Race Ethnicity ◽  
On The Road ◽  
The U.S

Chicana/o historians have transformed understandings of gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, identity, labor, and space in the United States. In dialogue with the articles for this special issue, my commentary reflects on some of the significant contributions of Chicana/o history, highlighting the themes of complexity and spatial metaphors. I concur with the authors that there still is much historical reconstruction to do, and suggest that this work is important intellectually and politically, given the hostile climate toward Mexicans and immigrants in many parts of the country. This commentary also provides an opportunity to share the course of my scholarly engagement with Chicana/o history and consider its far-reaching influence on my work in the history of medicine and public health in the U.S. West.

Revolutionary Road Movies: Walter Salles’ Diarios De Motocicleta (Motorcycle Diaries 2004) and On The Road (2012)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dolores Tierney
Keyword(s):  
The United States ◽  
Beat Generation ◽  
Jack Kerouac ◽  
The Political ◽  
The Road ◽  
Counter Culture ◽  
History Of ◽  
On The Road ◽  
Road Movies ◽  
Che Guevara

This chapter explores how Walter Salles’ Diarios de motocicleta and On the Road use road movie conventions to forward their political agendas. It establishes the interconnectedness of the near contemporaneous journeys recounted in the two films by Cuban revolutionary Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara and author of the seminal novel On the Road (1957) Jack Kerouac and how these are linked to the genesis of the road movie genre. It goes on to analyse how both films use the political strategies of the road movie (rebellion) to (re)explore and update the beginnings of the interconnected social, cultural and political revolutions (the Cuban Revolution, the Beat Generation and their links to the counter culture in the United States). In keeping with the broader aims of the book, this chapter is also about defending the political potential of the genre film and how it is used to address rather than ‘gloss over’ the political history of the continent.

On the Road to Vienna

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kai Bruns
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
International Law ◽  
The Road ◽  
Progressive Development ◽  
History Of ◽  
On The Road ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
International Law Commission ◽  
Law Commission

This chapter focuses on the negotiations that preceded the 1961 Vienna Conference (which led to the conclusion of the VCDR). The author challenges the view that the successful codification was an obvious step and refers in this regard to a history of intense negotiation which spanned fifteen years. With particular reference to the International Law Commission (ILC), the chapter explores the difficult task faced by ILC members to strike a balance between the codification of existing practice and progressive development of diplomatic law. It reaches the finding that the ILC negotiations were crucial for the success of the Conference, but notes also that certain States supported a less-binding form of codification. The chapter also underlines the fact that many issues that had caused friction between the Cold War parties were settled during the preparatory meetings and remained largely untouched during the 1961 negotiations.

The Current Status of Hearing Care: Can We Change the Status Quo?

2005 ◽  
Vol 16 (07) ◽  
pp. 410-418 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dennis Van Vliet
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Hearing Loss ◽  
Care Delivery ◽  
The United States ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Hearing Impaired ◽  
Current Status ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Scientific Database ◽  
The Status

The members of the profession of audiology often express concern that the services and products that have been developed to provide benefit to the hearing impaired are not sought after or delivered to the majority of those diagnosed with hearing loss. A critical look at the status quo of hearing care delivery in the United States is needed to verify this assumption and to develop strategies to improve the situation. A key concern is the lack of a comprehensive high-quality scientific database upon which to build continuous improvements in the effectiveness of the services and products that are provided to the hearing impaired.

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