The league is now doing a better job of paying lip service to acknowledging the long-term disability associated with concussions.
"There is more of a communitarian viewpoint in Scotland that sees the value of coming together to provide public services, to acknowledge the strength of community in Scotland," Nicola Sturgeon, Scotland's deputy first minister told the New York Times.
We found that some of the approaches toward participation and gaining influence were the result of exhausting all other options and resorting to measures that would force the services to acknowledge their strongly held opinions.
Dragged kicking and screaming, college football and the NFL have begun paying lip-service to acknowledging that [gasp!] the sport is cruelly violent, that football players are turning their brains into mush because of the relentless concussions that are simply part of the game.
The information and advocacy efforts have influenced policy planners and service providers to acknowledge the need for approaches different to traditional mainstream services.
"Services have to acknowledge the holistic issues, and link with other organisations dealing with those clients.
Update: Twitter has now updated its service status page to acknowledge the issue, saying "some users may be experiencing issues accessing Twitter," and noting that its engineers are working to resolve the problem.
They reduced him to invisibility in that way that is so commonplace in the world of everyday transaction and customer service: a refusal to acknowledge the presence of the people who make our daily lives possible.
The reasoning behind them runs something like this: (1) Christmas is supposed to be a happy time, but (2) many people aren't happy (for whatever reason), and so (3) instead of faking it, (4) a Blue Christmas service allows people to acknowledge their unhappiness in a formal, even public way.
Information and support services also need to acknowledge and address the specific needs and concerns of single people, a group whose sexual concerns are often overlooked by clinicians [ 43, 125].
