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The Ethical Shopper's Guide to Boycotts
Before deciding whether to spend your time and energy participating in a boycott, you should know what makes one successful.
DealNews Contributing Writer
Consumer boycotts can be an exceptionally effective way for shoppers to express their unhappiness with businesses, corporations, or even entire countries. When consumers stop shopping en masse, companies listen — at least, that's the theory. But what happens when everyone is boycotting everything?
We explore the "trend" of ethical boycotts, the three things that make for a successful boycott, and actions you can take when boycotting isn't an option.
American History Is Full of Boycotts
With boycotts taking up so much space in today's newspapers, it's easy to forget they're not a modern invention.
In fact, the principled boycott has an honored place in the history of American protest. After the Boston Tea Party, future president John Adams called for a tea boycott, saying, "Tea must be universally renounced," and "I must be weaned, and the sooner, the better." In 1955, Rosa Parks was arrested for not giving up her bus seat to a white man. This event triggered the Montgomery bus boycott, which lasted for more than a year and started a critical period in the civil rights movement.
But boycotts haven't always been about civil rights and revolution. In 1997, the New York Movie Theater Association announced a $1 price increase, to $9.50 per ticket. This prompted calls for a boycott from consumer advocacy group "Consumers Unite!" and City Council Speaker Peter F. Vallone, who called the price hike "an absolute outrage," and "a mugging of the middle class."
'I said I would picket as long as one person was behind me. I looked behind me when I got to the theaters; nobody was there. So I bought a ticket and saw the movie.'
That boycott failed — though not so dramatically as a similar boycott led by New York City Mayor Edward I. Koch in 1988, when ticket prices increased from $6 to $7. "I said I would picket as long as one person was behind me," Koch told the New York Times. "I looked behind me when I got to the theaters; nobody was there. So I bought a ticket and saw the movie."
Boycotts Are 'In'
These days, it seems like boycotts are everywhere. And businesswoman and first daughter Ivanka Trump's clothing lines are the most recent targets.
The #GrabYourWallet campaign, which is protesting the Trump administration, claimed credit for several major retailers (including Nordstrom, Sears, Kmart, and Neiman Marcus) discontinuing her products or other Trump-branded items. For their part, these companies have blamed poor performance on the products' discontinuation, but stopped short of attributing that performance to any boycott.
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And that's not the only boycott happening right now. Advertising activist group Sleeping Giants has been pressuring companies to pull their ads from conservative news site Breitbart. As retaliation, Breitbart called on its readers to boycott Kellogg, one of the companies that withdrew ads. Also, when Uber turned off its "surge pricing" feature after a New York taxi strike, more than 200,000 users deleted their Uber accounts.
In a shopping environment that seems more politicized than ever, it can be difficult to keep up with everything shoppers are supposed to be abstaining from. So many groups are calling for so many different boycotts that it's impossible to keep track of them all.
"We may be starting to see boycott fatigue," suggested Brayden King, a professor at Northwestern University who studies how consumer activism affects corporations. "We're just overrun with boycotts at the moment," King told Fast Company.
So many boycotts are happening, in fact, that there's an app for that. Buycott, available for Android and iOS, allows consumers to scan barcodes and see how particular products line up with their values.
3 Things That Make Boycotts Successful
First, the boycott must have a clear target and clear goals. Boycotts of multinational conglomerates are challenging because those entities produce so many different products that it's sometimes hard to tell which goods are made by which subsidiary companies.
The real power of a boycott lies in its ability to damage a company's reputation.
Easy participation
Second, the boycott must be easy to participate in. Ideally, shoppers should be able to find alternatives to the boycotted products without difficulty. For example, The Washington Post described Ivanka Trump's clothing as "unremarkable" and "safe," in that it "doesn't give [shoppers and merchants] anything they can't get elsewhere." Supporting a boycott needs to be as easy as looking at the next item on the rack.
Lots of publicity
Third, the boycott needs public attention. "Boycotts don't tend to work in the way people think, meaning by hurting the bottom line," King said in a University of Pennsylvania Knowledge@Wharton podcast. The real power of a boycott, according to King, lies in its ability to damage a company's reputation. And for that to happen, the boycott must be well-publicized.
The Best Boycott Alternatives
Sometimes, it's impossible or impractical to support a boycott. For instance, boycotting the electric company would be exceptionally difficult for many. Boycotting the IRS could land you in federal prison. And boycotting the only grocery store in a small town probably isn't realistic.
When joining a boycott isn't an option for you, there are other ways to express your displeasure.
For example, if the target has a monopoly in their industry or is part of the government, think about reaching out to your elected officials. You may not be able to boycott the electric company, but you can write letters to your representatives and your public utilities commission demanding change.
SEE ALSO: What Happens to Prices When a Store Closes?
Also, you probably can't boycott your trash service, but calling it out on social media, sending emails to its investors, or writing letters to the editor in your local paper can all influence decision-makers — especially if you get your friends to join in.
And while you might not be able to influence a big box retailer's plans to open a new store in your town, you can talk to your local elected officials about zoning laws, and attend planning meetings to express your concerns.
Even the oft-maligned online petition can be useful. A Change.org user named Molly Katchpole created a petition asking Bank of America to drop its $5/month debit card fee. Then the petition got more than 300,000 signatures, and the bank dropped the fee. She did the same thing when Verizon proposed a $2 online-bill-paying fee; the wireless carrier ended up dropping the proposal.
Readers, have you ever participated in a boycott? Do you know of any other boycott tips or alternatives? Share them in the comments below!
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Dealnews has shown a steady decline in the past few years and this is pretty much the bottom. I come to Dealsnews for just that "deals" not politics.
Tell me what is ethical about doing your best to put a company out of business and employees losing their jobs? If you have an issue with a company just don't purchase their products, don't do business with them.
What a bunch of cry baby whiners. You obviously can't have a life when you are constantly trying to ruin people and businesses.
I will no longer use Dealnews. Am I going to try to get a mob together to hate Dealnes? No, I will just no longer use the site. I don't want harm the business or employees.
My opinion is mine. I don't need some one to form one for me .
Oh and happyleo learn how to spell and God bless you...you will need it with your attitude.
westcoastpatriot
Interesting and good points. A few other things I'd add: keep in mind boycotting doesn't just hurt CEOs and management, people on the ground in a large corporation (e.g. Target store employees) who may have had nothing to do with the executive decisions, may bear the brunt of an effective boycott. Also, some boycotts actually backfire - witness the Chick-fil-a "controversy", incited by a vocal minority looking to make an example, that resulted in a surge of traditionalist supporters swamping the restaurants in such numbers many restaurants ran out of food for a day. Lastly, the trend is getting tiresome of companies, especially from silicon valley, feeling the need to make political statements (usually leftist) which, whether intentional or not, end up offending half of their clients. How about just focus on making good products and services?
dtrudea
Great article deal news. Keep up the good work.
termaxnew
THIS kind of article is why I subscribe to Dealnews. Great deals, interesting topics, & ticked-off trolls. Keep up the good work!
Rawmeat
If people don't like certain bog articles, why do they keep reading them and even waste time commenting? I just skip reading whatever does not interest me. Too easy.
happyleo
@DEALSHOPPER222, @bollotwo
Oh you guys are threatning staffs of this website.
Now I know why trump became the president of this country.
The reason is you people who don't have any interest of political issue.
Remember. People like you are ruining this country.
"The hottest place of hell is for onlookers."
DEALSHOPPER222
This is most certainly not the type of article I would like to see on a "deals" site. There are plenty of other places that provide this type of information if I choose to seek it out. I'll definitely be spending less time at the dealnews site now.
bollotwo
@Lindsay Sakraida
Thanx for your reply.
I think I'll "spend" my time over at SlickDeals
francobollo
Lindsay Sakraida (DealNews)
@bollotwo Hi there, we are indeed a deal site, and as such we don't cover politics. The Blog though is where we talk about trends in shopping, and there's no denying that it's become very common for shoppers to feel the need to alter their purchases based on values that are important to them, regardless of where they fall on the ideological spectrum. We did our best to acknowledge, in an unbiased way, that this is indeed a thing that happens a lot these days and to present the pertinent concerns for those who want to engage with it.
encorez
if you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.
I visit this site for deals, not politics.
If this keeps up, I'm gone.
francobolo
Boycott is one of the civil power of this economy system-Capitalism.
As a foreign student, I realized that people of U.S are very weak for showing there power.
Dear U.S. people,
You people have power.
Power of not buying evil products.
You don't need superheroes to solve your problem.
Collect information of evil companies' evil acts.
And stand together.
Surround evil companies walls, and shout their guilt.
Make a blacklist of evil companies.
Share the facts that evil companies did.
Choose companies to make boycotts.
Don't buy there product.
We destroyed some companies even they changed their name.
We brought Samsung's CEO to the jail.
Now we are ready for kick out our bad president.
Now your turn. US people. Show your power.
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Kirchheim, March 16, 2022. The German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) has approved the High Resistance Firewall genugate 10.0 Z for classification level German VS-NfD, as well as classification levels RESTREINT UE/EU RESTRICTED, and NATO RESTRICTED1. Effective immediately, this current version of the IT security solution supports a REST-API as well as central log evaluation via Elastic Stack. Government institutions as well as businesses with very high protection requirements can thereby extensively automate administration tasks, further consolidate IT infrastructures and, at the same time, reliably secure sensitive infrastructures against cyber risks.
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Technology trends such as cloud services, remote connections or IT consolidation increase the complexity of IT system landscapes in the public sector as well. This makes it increasingly difficult for IT administrators to efficiently manage and monitor firewalls. The risk of configuration errors and security vulnerabilities thereby increases as well.
To reliably handle complex administration tasks over a large number of appliances, the new version 10.0 Z of genugate supports a REST-API, which offers a machine-readable definition based on the OpenAPI standard. Public authorities and companies can thereby use the firewall on a large scale and easily and transparently automate processes. This includes the creation of host entries, the alignment of policies across multiple installations, the creation of rules for integration in a cloud infrastructure or policy documentation for audit purposes.
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genugate 10.0 Z also supports central logging via Elastic Stack. Integration with the open-source solution, also known as the ELK Stack, enables convenient evaluation, analysis, and handling of log messages across multiple firewalls via a single user interface (GUI) as well as the real-time monitoring of security-critical functions. Even with highly complex systems with many devices, warning messages can thereby quickly be localized and evaluated and appropriate measures taken.
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Moreover, genugate 10.0 Z is the world's only Web Application Firewall (WAF) to have received certification according to the Common Criteria (CC) EAL4+ with AVA_VAN.5 (Advanced Methodical Vulnerability Analysis) by the BSI. Designation AVA_VAN.5 stands for a high level of self-protection which has been proven to protect the firewall even against attackers with high attack potential. Especially endangered organizations such as security authorities, the military or operators of critical infrastructures can thereby reliably protect their servers against attacks.
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Small Virginia town soon to be the site of drone delivery program for Walgreens
Walgreens' drone delivery program in Christianburg, Virginia, starts in October.
ByCatherine Thorbecke
News headlines today: Dec. 23, 2020
A small town in southwest Virginia will soon be the test site for residents to have everything from drugstore necessities to sweets from a local bakery delivered to their home in minutes via a drone.
Delivery drones for Walgreens will take to the skies in Christiansburg, Virginia, starting in October as part of a pilot program. The national drugstore is teaming up with the aviation tech company Wing to launch the delivery service.
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Customers in the town will be able to order more than 100 Walgreens products through the Wing app, including cold or allergy medicine, first aid products and snacks. They are also offering specialty drone "packs" in certain categories such as kids' snacks or pain relief.
"With this pilot, Walgreens will be in a unique position to capitalize on the convenience of drone delivery if and when it should expand, with approximately 78 percent of the U.S. population living within five miles of a Walgreens store," Vish Sankaran, chief innovation officer at Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc., said in a statement.
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This undated image made from video provided in September 2019 by Wing, a member of the Alphabet family of companies, shows a delivery drone test which is part of a partnership with Walgreens.
In addition to working with Walgreens, Wing also teamed up with the locally-owned small business Sugar Magnolia, a self-proclaimed "paper goods, gifts, chocolates and ice cream" establishment that has been beloved in the region for years.
Sugar Magnolia shared an article with the news on their Facebook page, writing, "The future of sweetness is flying high!"
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"Wing has spent the last seven years developing a delivery drone and navigation system for this purpose," Wing CEO James Ryan Burgess said in a statement. "By delivering small packages directly to homes through the air in minutes, and making a wide range of medicine, food and other products available to customers, we will demonstrate what we expect safer, faster, cleaner local delivery to look like in the future."
Walgreens will be the first retailer in the U.S. to test an on-demand drone delivery service with Wing in Christiansburg, Virginia next month.
The town of approximately 20,000 residents was chosen as the test site because Wing has been working closely with a team at Virginia Tech, in Blacksburg, to develop drone delivery advancements since 2016.


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For their reception, the gorgeous couple chose a marquee from South Coast Party hire, which was styled by the incredible Sheree from She Designs Events. They chose heavenly soft floral tones, paired with French chairs and Willow Farm's rustic timber trestle tables. The results were breathtaking.
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Measurements of the hardness of a new high-pressure boron phase, orthorhombic γ-B28, are reported. According to the data obtained, γ-B28 has the highest hardness (∼ 50 GPa) of all known crystal-line modifications of boron.
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El Premio Fermat de investigación matemática premia trabajos de investigación en ámbitos en los que las contribuciones de Pierre de Fermat han sido decisivos:
 Declaraciones de Cálculo de variaciones
 Fundamentos de Probabilidad y Geometría Analítica
 Teoría de números.

El espíritu del premio se centra en premiar los resultados de las investigaciones accesibles al mayor número de profesionales matemáticos en estos campos. El Premio Fermat fue creado en 1989 y se concede una vez cada dos años en Toulouse
por el Instituto de Matemática de Toulouse. El importe del Premio Fermat se ha fijado en 20 000 euros para la décima edición (2007).

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 Abbas Bahri, Kenneth Alan Ribet (1989)
 Jean Louis Colliot Thélène (1991)
 Jean Michel Coron (1993)
 Andrew Wiles (1995)
 Michel Talagrand (1997)
 Fabrice Bethuel, Frédéric Hélein (1999)
 Richard Taylor, Wendelin Werner (2001)
 Luigi Ambrosio (2003)
 Pierre Colmez, Jean-François Le Gall (2005).
 Chandrashekhar Khare (2007).
 Elon Lindenstrauss, Cédric Villani (2009).
 Manjul Bhargava y Igor Rodnianski (2011).
 Camillo De Lellis y Martin Hairer (2013).
 Laure Saint Raymond y Peter Scholze (2015)
 Luis Gusman Almanza y Juan Ormeño Apolaya (2018)

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If you could perform a Yoko Ono world premiere with the Kronos Quartet and the Brooklyn Youth Chorus, wouldn't you jump at the opportunity? That's what the audience at the grand opening of the new St. Ann's Warehouse in Dumbo did Saturday night…literally. It was a playful Pauline Oliveros-style improv: everybody got to be rain, and snow, and a momentary thunderstorm. It wasn't on the bill: from the looks of it, those of us who knew about it beforehand kept that information to ourselves.
The rest of the program embraced the cutting-edge, the profound and the warmly familliar. Choir leader Dianne Berkun-Menaker guided a beefed-up take of Americana band the Wailin' Jennys' One Voice, plus an easygoing audience singalong of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young's Our House. Accompanied by vibraphonist David Cossin, the chorus opened the show with Aleksandra Vrebalov's Bubbles, a deliciously entertaining suite juxtaposing droll water noises with achingly lush, neoromantic atmospherics. The composer smartly chose to end on a humorous note: even the most serious-minded performer would have had a hard time getting through this one without collapsing in laughter. Caroline Shaw's Its Motion Keeps, reprised from the chorus' earlier performance this month at National Sawdust, maintained the kinetic pulse with its dynamic shifts, quirky accents and challenging polyrhythms, all seamlessly performed.
The most cutting-edge moment of the program was when the groups were joined by pioneering Balkan a-cappella trio Black Sea Hotel, who reinvent Bulgaian and Macedonian folk themes, sometimes cutting largescale choral works to their stark roots, sometimes creating 21st century arrangements of ancient folk tunes. The chorus seemed turbocharged for this one, poised to provide waves of dark earthtone color, elegantly slow glissandos and plainchant-like precision behind the microtonally-spiced, eerie close harmonies of Willa Roberts, Shelley Thomas and Sarah Small. The piece itself, titled Around the Forest, A Youth Roams; The Forest Is Shaking and Swaying, was composed by Small – whose repertoire extends to art-song, largescale ensemble works and tableaux vivants – in collaboration with Brooklyn Balkan icon and theatrical composer Rima Fand.
The most relevant pieces on the bill were both world premieres, Sahba Aminikia's Sound, Only Sound Remains, and Mary Kouyoumdjian's Become Who I Am. The former gave the quartet a stern and austerely waltzing arrangement, delivered with precision against multitracks of women singers in Iran along with a digitized copy of a hundred-year-old 78 RPM folk recording. In Iran, it's illegal for a woman to sing unaccompanied by men; this expression of global solidarity spoke volumes. Likewise, the latter of the premieres incorporated a litany of increasingly cutting, sardonic spoken-word snippets from members of the chorus into its carefully crescendoing, plaintive sweep, contemplating ongoing challenges facing women inside and outside of music. Bottom line: the glass ceiling might have a few cracks, but it's still there. And if you thought the pressure to conform – especially for girls – was bad when you were a kid, it's brutal now.
About the new space: it's gorgeous. Tiered seating offers clear sightlines, and the sonics are pristine. While you can hear a pin drop when it's quiet, it's not a completely dry space like Avery Fisher Hall. And the hot chocolate at the food stand out front was getting the thumbs-up from the chocoholics in the crowd.
It wouldn't be fair to let the week go by without mentioning the fascinatingly eclectic and intuitive performance that violinist Miroslav Hristov and pianist Vladimir Valjarevic put on at the Bulgarian Consulate this past Wednesday. Conceptually, the program featured composers from the Balkans and adjoining areas, from Italy all the way to Turkey, spanning from the Romantic to the 21st century. The musicians opened with the Petite Suite No. 2 for Violin and Piano by Nikos Skalkottas, shifting from lively astringencies to a quaint, wormwood-tinged surrealism, Hristov's bracingly, vivid, occasionally searing sostenuto contrasting with Valjarevic's matter-of-factness, casually swaying rhythm in almost ironic juxtaposition with the melodies' bright harshness. Ildebrando Pizzetti's Tre Canti for Violin and Piano took a casually strolling detour into neoromanticism, ending with a big cinematic theme.
Fazil Say's Sonata for Violin and Piano was next. Part one, Melancholy, is a requiem, the plaintiveness of the violin veering into and back again from outright anguish as Valjarevic anchored it with an only slightly less apprehensive insistence. Part two, Grotesque came across as more of a parody of moody Romantic tropes including a macabre marionette's dance with some jagged, grisly overtones from Hristov. About midway through, the duo left any thought of parody behind and went straight for the jugular. It was the night's big, awestruck moment. The next work, Gian Francesco Malipiero's Il Canto nell' Infinito, reached for a more muted, dynamically-charged mysticism, followed by the pensive ballad Il Canto della Lontananza.
After a scampering take on Nino Rota's Improvisso in D Minor for Violin and Piano, "Un Diavolo Sentimental" that managed to be jovial without losing sight of devilishness, Hristov and switched the mood radically for the richly hypnotic, glacially shifting, Messiaenesque tectonics of Aleksandra Vrebalov's Eastern Chapel Meditation. As an evocation of the stillness and mystical ambience of a chapel hidden at the back of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, it hit the mark – except for the electronic backing track, which mingled what may have been plainchant with swooshy atmospherics. But rather than enhancing the mood, it was a distraction, not unlike the crowds of tourists who'd rather yak at each other and eat crunchy snacks as they wander through the church, snapping random photos with their phones. The closing number was George Enescu's Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 3, Op. 3, bristling with smoldering gypsy melodies, a brooding nocturnal gleam and a coda that gave both piano and violin a chance to spread their wings and go out on a biting, acerbically charged note.
Serbian-American violinist/composer Ana Milosavljevic's new album Reflections is a fascinating, austerely gripping collection of recent works by women composers, most of them of Eastern European origin. The strongest piece here is her own Reflections, a brooding, Satie-esque prelude of sorts featuring the matter-of-fact piano of Terezija Cukrov. It's meant to be bittersweet, which it unquestionably is: as the melody shifts ever so subtly, it's an unaffectedly wrenching chronicle of struggle that leaves some possibility for redemption at the end, on the horizon: hope doesn't get any closer than that. The Spell III, by Aleksandra Vrebalov illustrates a folk tale about a fairy losing her powers after falling in love with a human. It's a still, mostly horizontal piece, a handful of swooping violin accents eventually taking centerstage against the ebb and flow of the atmospherics with just a hint of disquiet. A tone poem, White City by Katarina Miljkovic portrays Belgrade as it wakes and starts to bustle with activity, briefly echoing phrases moving through the frame against a hypnotic, somewhat astringently droning ambience.
Meant to evoke a threatening, possibly apocalyptic milieu, Undertow, by Margaret Fairlie-Kennedy has the feel of a horror film score, rumbling low-register piano alternating with eerily sailing violin up to an ominously sustained interlude, the violin emerging wounded and limping. Milosavljevic's own Untitled is a Balkan-tinged dance performance piece, austerely graceful motifs amid stillness or silence. Eve Beglarian's Wolf Chaser, a heavily processed electroacoustic number, oscillates interminably until finally a catchy violin loop emerges about nine minutes into it. The album concludes with Svjetlana Bukvich-Nichols' Before and After the Tekke, a memorably gypsyish mini-suite that evokes the hypnotic swirl of trip-hop string band Copal as well as Angelo Badalamenti's Twin Peaks score. It's a valuable and compelling look at several composers who deserve to be better known than they are – one can only imagine how many others there are out there who deserve the kind of inspired performance that Milosavljevic offers here.
Last night at Lincoln Center, Serbian-American violinist Ana Milosavljevic treated what looked like a sold-out room to a performance that was as intense as it was subtle. Playing both solo and duet pieces, she showed off a meticulously expert command of the instrument's intricacies, which made the drama of her occasional cadenzas or rapidfire solo flights all the more effective. She'd chosen a terrific program of recent works by composers from home or close to it, opening with Katarina Miljkovic's 2008 piece White City, a portrait of a rather horizontal Belgrade. Playing along to a soundtrack of found sounds from the streets there along with loops of motifs she'd just played, she made it an early morning tableau. A playful, kaleidoscopic video played behind her: facades of buildings and public spaces were warped into a wraparound shape to appear as faces, one amusingly crossing its eyes again and again (was that city hall, maybe?). Milosavljevic's astringent overtones mingled deftly with the atmospherics as the still, ambient tone poem unwound, a display of subtle dynamics and timbre shifts punctuated by terse phrases that moved hypnotically and dubwise through the sonic frame.
Like the first piece, it became hard to tell what was live or looped on the next one, Aleksandra Vrebalov's The Spell II, and maybe that was the point. Based on an Eastern Serbian melody made famous by the female vocal group Moba, it was music to get lost in, playful swoops and acerbic staccato phrases in a sort of call-and-response with the playback of motifs that had appeared earlier, a seemingly endless series of minimalist permutations that managed to be both incisive and hypnotic. The showstopper was Milosavljevic's own song without words, the title track to her new Innova cd Reflections, a duet with pianist Kathleen Supové. Milosavljevic explained beforehand that it's an evocation of "sadness and hope all at once." Together, the violinist and pianist gave its stunningly memorable, brooding Satie-esque changes an understatedly raw lyricism, depicting an incessant cycle of pain and disappointment while trying not to lose sight of something slightly brighter. It was absolutely devastating, finally rising to an approximation of a crescendo the third time through the verse but ending enigmatically. If there's any justice in the world, someday it will be as well known as the Chopin preludes, whose intensity and emotional wallop it matches.
Milosavljevic returned to electroacoustic mode with the program's final work, Svjetlana Bukvich-Nichols' Before and After the Tekke, a slightly more vigorous piece that once again paired fluidly airy, steely motifs against a backing track including pulsing bass, breathing, running water and eventually a compellingly anthemic crescendo played by a small ensemble or approximation thereof. Watching Milosavljevic pair off against all of this was interesting; watching her alongside all of this live would have been vastly more so. Although it can be a disaster onstage, running water can also be great fun to work with!


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George B. Abercrombie, RPh, MBA
George B. Abercrombie served as President and Chief Executive Officer at Hoffmann-La Roche
Incorporated from 2001-2009 where he was responsible for leading the North American
Pharmaceuticals Operations in Nutley, New Jersey, and the Canadian affiliate, Hoffmann-La
Roche Ltd. in Mississauga, Ontario. During his tenure, Abercrombie also served as a member of
the Roche Pharmaceutical Executive Committee (PEC), which was responsible for developing
and implementing global strategy for the Pharmaceuticals Division. While at Roche,
Abercrombie was a member of the Executive Committee and Board of Directors of the U.S.
trade organization PhRMA (Pharmaceutical Research & Manufacturers of America), and the
state Healthcare Institute of New Jersey.
Before joining Roche, Abercrombie was Senior Vice President of U.S. Commercial Operations
at Glaxo Wellcome, with responsibilities encompassing pharmaceutical sales and marketing,
electronic commerce, the U.S. managed care system, disease management, business planning and
development, and late-stage clinical drug studies. He joined Glaxo as Vice President and General
Manager of the Glaxo Pharmaceuticals Division in 1993 following 10 years at Merck, where he
held a broad range of positions in sales, marketing, executive sales management and business
Abercrombie began his career as a pharmacist after receiving a bachelor's degree in pharmacy
from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He later earned an MBA from Harvard
University. In July 2010, he attended the Harvard Business School course, Making Corporate
Boards More Effective.
Abercrombie held the position of Senior Vice-President/Chief Commercial Officer at Innoviva,
Inc. from June 2014 until September 2018. He serves on the Board of Directors of Biocryst
Pharmaceuticals where he is a member of the Audit and Commercialization Committees and is
Chairman of the Corporate Governance and Nominating Committee. Additionally, he is a
member of the Board of Directors of Hessian Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and Brickell Biotech, where
he serves on Brickell's Audit Committee and is Chairman of the Nominating and Corporate
Governance Committee. In 2019, North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper appointed Abercrombie
to the North Carolina Board of Science, Technology and Innovation.
As an Adjunct Professor at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business, Abercrombie teaches
second year MBA candidates in Fuqua's Health Sector Curriculum.
Abercrombie is a member of the Board of Directors of the North Carolina GlaxoSmithKline
Foundation and is an Inaugural Member of the Duke University Psychiatry and Behavioral
Sciences Advisory Board. As President of Abercrombie Advisors LLC, Abercrombie has
consulted to early and mid-stage biopharmaceutical companies.


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From Ariana Grande to Zendaya, Gen Y is leading the fashion conversation. If singing, dancing, and acting weren't enough, these famous multitaskers are using their influence to shape trends while they make serious bank with endorsement deals. And while American stars often get the most attention, they aren't the only ones having an effect. The latest celebrities to make an impact also wield an influence that is global. The name Martina Stoessel might not be familiar to you, but she's got plenty in common with those garnering serious headlines. Like Selena Gomez and Miley Cyrus, Stoessel (or Tini as she's known to fans) is a Disney alum who got her big break courtesy of a highly rated show for kids. Her tween telenovela, Violetta, is a smash hit at home in Argentina and internationally, where a massive audience tunes in each week for melodrama and splashy musical numbers. Hitting all the marks that define modern celebrity, Stoessel releases a number one album, and box-office-topping tour documentaries, all while racking up magazine covers and places on global power lists. With all her accomplishments—and a social media follower count in the millions—it's safe to say Stoessel is a phenomenon.
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