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Austyn Allison
posted on Aug. 22, 2016 at 9:46 am
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How did the regional and international advertising industry react to Saatchi & Saatchi chairman Kevin Roberts' strong words on gender diversity, asks Austyn Allison
The ad industry around the world and in the Middle East has been reacting to the controversial remarks on gender diversity that led to the resignation of Saatchi & Saatchi's executive chairman Kevin Roberts.
Roberts hit headlines in late July when he said "the f***ing debate is over" in an interview with Business Insider while talking about women in leadership positions.
He said: "We have a bunch of talented, creative females, but they reach a certain point in their careers … 10 years of experience, when we are ready to make them a creative director of a big piece of business, and I think we fail in two out of three of those choices because the executive involved said: 'I don't want to manage a piece of business and people, I want to keep doing the work'."
After the interview was published, he was placed on leave by Publicis Groupe, which owns Saatchi & Saatchi and announced his resignation within a matter of days.
A statement from Publicis said that Roberts will step down on September 1, "prior to his retirement date due in May 2017". Roberts later followed this with his own statement, saying: "'Fail fast, fix fast, learn fast' is a leadership maxim I advocate.
"When discussing with Business Insider evolving career priorities and new ways of work/life integration, I failed exceptionally fast. My miscommunication on a number of points has caused upset and offence, and for this I am sorry."
Roberts started his career in the late 1960s with London fashion house Mary Quant. He then became a senior marketing executive for Gillette and P&G in the Middle East.
At 32, he became chief executive of Pepsi-Cola Middle East in 1982 and five years later became Pepsi's CEO in Canada. In 1989 he moved to Auckland to become chief operating officer of Lion Nathan.
He became the worldwide chief executive at Saatchi & Saatchi in 1997 and was promoted to executive chairman two years ago, based in
The 66-year-old is well known for his 'Lovemarks' philosophy at the agency, which centres on an emotional connection with brands. His book on the topic explored why some brands are popular over others.
Maurice Levy,
CEO, Publicis Groupe
The opinion expressed by Kevin is neither shared nor supported by myself or the Groupe. It is his own, expressed in his unique and provocative way, and does not reflect the Groupe opinion or policy.
Nadine Ghossoub
CEO, Science&Sunshine
It's unfortunate that there are so many opinions on gender diversity yet not enough action. Telling people what they want to hear and doing nothing to change the status quo doesn't make the problem go away. Gender bias is a fundamental problem not just in our industry but more importantly in society.
I honestly don't know what [Roberts] was thinking when he made these statements, especially at a time when gender parity in our industry is a hot topic.
As a woman and CEO of an ad agency, am I offended or insulted? No. I find it silly. What does he know about being a woman anyway? Does it bother me that someone in his position would publicly make a statement like that? Sure. It embarrasses me to have people like that represent our industry. But the buck doesn't stop with Kevin Roberts. There are unfortunately so many more that secretly share his views.
He might have just done us a favour though. His statements could have just given the industry the push it needs to start acting.
Tarek Miknas
CEO, FP7/MENA
My experience with women in leadership positions at our agency has been outstanding. Within the FP7/MENA network, we have four women running our agencies, and they have continually, over a number of years, demonstrated exceptional commitment and an exceptional balance between IQ and EQ.
Those four offices are among our best performing and happiest.
I don't subscribe to the point of view of [Roberts], and can't imagine anyone that would.
Ramzi Raad
Group chairman, TBWA\Raad Middle East
I worked with Kevin Roberts for a couple of years while he was an active member of Procter & Gamble's Middle East marketing team and I was on the agency side of the fence working on Ariel, Pampers and Fairy Liquid. His recent comments did not come as a surprise to me, as Kevin has never shied from saying and doing what he personally thinks and believes. Have we all forgotten the day when he was the boss of Pepsi-Cola and went on stage with a machine gun to blast a Coca-Cola vending machine?
I strongly believe that the current controversy has been much more stirred by the reaction of Publicis' bosses to Kevin's interview more than anything else. I have arrived at this conclusion for the simple reason that other groups – and I take my own agency group, TBWA, as an example – have been bold and vocal in their stance on gender diversity, while others have lagged behind and some have totally ignored the challenge.
In March 2015, newly appointed president and CEO of TBWA\Worldwide Troy Ruhanen, launched Project 20\20, whose goal is to increase women's leadership roles in all TBWA offices and across all departments by 2020. At TBWA\Raad\Lebanon we are proud to have achieved a 52 per cent female versus 48 per cent male employment split in our creative department.
CEO, WPP
It sounded to me that the Publicis Groupe team coach was only echoing the words of his boss, (or is it team manager?) at the 4As Conference in March: i.e. that there wasn't a diversity issue in our industry, and that any substance, for example, in the Gustavo Martinez case was an isolated example [the global chairman of WPP's J. Walter Thompson resigned after the agency's communications chief filed a discrimination suit against him]. I tried to correct that impression at the same conference.
The Kevin Roberts case and, indeed, other examples including the long litigation in the Manning, Selvedge and Lee case [in October 2015, the Publicis PR agency settled a class-action gender discrimination case for almost $3m], which was not well reported on, clearly prove it wasn't and that we're all suffering from it, across the industry.
More hard work needs to be done to establish even gender balance and that's not the end. My experience, for what it's worth, indicates that female leadership is the most effective catalyst.
Edmond Moutran
Chairman and CEO, Memac Ogilvy & Mather Holding MENA
We came to know Kevin Roberts when he was in charge of the Middle East region back in the early 1980s, and have known him as a deep thinker and an achiever. But we do not know what caused such a key executive figure to remark on gender equality in such a manner that initiated a wave of world reproach and denunciation across our industry.
Perhaps because Kevin Roberts is his own character and speaks his own words. He said that gender diversity is no longer a problem at his agency and that women didn't become executives because they were happier in humbler roles. We do not subscribe to that belief, for we have always embraced gender equality, diversity and inclusion as a constant principle of our cultural and corporate values.
Indeed, we never cease to encourage our workforce of men and women to develop their careers, take higher roles, pursue their ambitions, and achieve their potential on equal footing. As a result, many of our great talents and executives have thus rightfully earned our industry's respect and agency's gratitude.
Elie Khouri
CEO, Omnicom Media Group MENA
The world of marketing and communications does have a diversity and inclusion problem. The numbers speak for themselves. Over the past 10 years the amount of women in senior leadership roles entering the Cannes Lions awards hasn't increased. In fact, it has fallen from 9.9 per cent to 9.8 per cent. Consider also only 12-14 per cent of creative directorship roles are held by women (according to recruitment consultancy Propel). Only a few months ago, Leo Burnett Sydney received serious backlash from the industry over its all-white-male creative team.
In the marketing services industry, the question of inclusion and diversity has never been more crucial or relevant. Given the fact that women make up to 85 per cent of purchase decisions, the reason we need to have women represented at every level of our industry is plainly obvious. What's more, as the nature of marketing transforms before our very eyes, who we hire and promote, and the kind of work we engage in, will be pivotal to being successful in the new era of marketing, data, content and technology.
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Because Dasein, as conceived by Heidegger, is inherently temporal, the "who" of Dasein can never be defined simply in terms of a present identity but must have the character of what Derrida calls "différance." Dasein 's authenticity, then, must be an embracing of this, its character as différance. This means that the "self" is "neither a substance nor a subject " but a resolution. The anticipatory resoluteness of authenticity, however, is a unique kind of resolve: it is the resolve to be open to transformation. For that reason, Dasein 's proper self-appropriation—authenticity—is found precisely in its inherent inappropriability. Because Dasein is always being-in-the-world, the openness of its own "who" is equally an openness of being's "what." Dasein 's authenticity is nothing other than the enactment of the question of the meaning of being
Keywords AUTHENTICITY DERRIDA HEIDEGGER RESOLUTION DIFFERANCE
Derrida: Differance in Continental Philosophy
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The Global Refugee Crisis
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Who is a refugee?
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Why is it so hard for refugees to find refuge?
Refugees flee many different countries on a daily basis. They also face varying levels of hostility and accommodation from their countries of refuge.
The vast majority of refugees are internally displaced or settle in nearby countries, but as those refugee programs are underfunded.
Because resettlement is obligatory and costly to the countries of refuge, they have little investment in ensuring the well-being of refugees on their journeys to safety and many die in transit. Those who do make it are faced with few employment opportunities, hostility, sparse resettlement accommodations provided by their new countries, and other difficulties of transition. This results in many refugees paying smugglers to help them reach other countries in Europe and North America on treacherous journeys across land and sea, where they risk exposure to the elements and more violence such as gang violence, gender based violence, border police brutality and other physical and emotional threats.
The most pressing crises around the world
Afghanistan has experienced a tumultuous recent history with decades of war that has resulted in over 2.6 million refugees and 3.5 million internally displaced Afghans. With the recent Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, the refugee crisis there is expected to be exacerbated in the near future, with hundreds of thousands of Afghan refugees already evacuated by US and NATO allies.
For more information on the Afghan refugee crisis visit this link.
Since the onset of the Syrian Civil War in 2011, civilians have fled violence which involves many different warring groups both inside and outside of Syria's borders.
There 6.6 million refugees and 6.7 million internally displaced people. Syria's refugees have sought refuge in over 130 countries, however, the vast majority of Syria's refugees are in Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq, and Egypt.
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Violence, economic turmoil, and food insecurity in Venezuela have resulted in one of the worst humanitarian crises in the world. Over 5.9 million Venezuelans have sought refuge in nearby countries
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Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)
Political turmoil and violence have plagued the DRC since the 1990's with millions being displaced. As of 2020, there are nearly 1 million refugees being hosted in nearby African countries. Furthermore, according to the UN human rights violations are still rampant, and the risk of many more people being displaced looming large.
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Central Sahel
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Almost a third of the Central African Republic's population has been displaced in recent years as a result of violence and political instability. The vast majority of the country's refugees have been displaced to neighboring countries such as Cameroon, Chad, and the DRC.
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There are over 300,000 refugees displaced by political violence and economic instability in Burundi. Burundi's refugees have received the least funding of any refugee situation globally.
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Since 2014, over 250,000 Iraqi refugees have sought refuge in nearby countries and over a million have been internally displaced, mostly to the Iraqi Kurdistan region.
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Ethiopia (Tigray)
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Since conflict broke out in Yemen in 2015, nearly 4 million Yemenis have been forcibly displaced, with 200,000 seeking refuge in other countries. Yemen also hosts 137,000 refugees from Somalia and Ethiopia. There is a humanitarian catastrophe looming in Yemen with 16 million people suffering from hunger, and 5 million on the brink of a famine. Moreover, superimposed on this reality is a health calamity due to the COVID-19 pandemic and outbreaks of cholera, measles, dengue fever and diphtheria.
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"We already know that a diet high in fat, sugar and salt can influence the development and progression of asthma in children. Now we have evidence that it's also possible to manage asthma symptoms through healthy eating," lead researcher at La Trobe University Maria Papamichael was quoted as saying in reports.
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CD Review: Eric Van Aro's "Endless Roads" By Brian Arsenault
The last time I reviewed an album by this guy in early 2014, I complimented his reclaiming stellar jazz singing for the guys in the face of so many fine current female jazz singers.
This time, withEndless Roads, Eric Van Aro has reestablished the stripped down rock/pop sound amidst an avalanche of overdubbed, over-produced, echo chambered, synthetic slop so dominant today. (We won't name the purveyors as they know who they are; unshaken TV commercials abound for their concert tours; Good Morning America appearances before overexcited pre-teens. You know the drill.)
Eric himself writes that he has "been taught that the musical roads one can and should take are endless . . ." He may need to be careful, though, as the musical world has long since shown an obnoxious need to characterize artists and their art forms, neat little boxes to keep our tastes in without a lot of thought.
Eric, though, can find room for works by Pat Metheny, Laura Nyro, Randy Newman, Jimmy Page/Robert Plant, Bruno Mars and himself in the same album. Really.
Maybe the bravest piece is Mars' "Just the Way You Are." Reworking a big hit by a pop giant is to walk on the edge of unacceptable, as the original version is tucked so deeply into our musical consciousness. Singing along with the car radio and such. Eric pulls it off anyway by tipping his hat to the hit while singing it in his raspier, deeper way.
The lesser known Zep piece "Friends" moves effortlessly from bluesy at the start to jazzy at the end.
"This Is Not America" opens the album and sets the rocking tone with Max Elli's slick rock guitar opening. Elli is a strength throughout the album, weaving in, under and around Van Aro's vocals as if they had played together for years. In actuality, they seem to have met musically on Endless Roads.
Eric's artistic generosity means this could almost have been billed as Elli's album with Eric providing vocals, rather like the long ago days of Jeff Beck with Rod Stewart.
He notes that on this album he "really tried to let the producer in me stay at home and let myself by guided by my producer and my musicians."
Kudos to Giordano Colombo for his production. As noted, a clean, crisp, basic sound is quite rare in these days of dubbing to the max.
Drummer Giordano Colombo is solid throughout and really breaks out on "Stratus." If there's such a thing as rock scat singing, Eric shows it off here.
Nyro's "And When I Die", recorded memorably by Blood Sweat & Tears, adds a little country flavor and Randy Newman's "I Think It's Going to Rain Today" has just a dash of Van Morrison flavor in Eric's vocal.
The album closes with Van Aro's co-written "One Life One Song" and as an earlier song notes: ". . . that's the way to treat a friend."
The friend in this case being any listener.
Endless Roads will be released on September 17.
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You take a little Francis Albert phrasing, some Mel Torme smoothness and some Dr John deep, deep tones and you start to bubble up some of what Eric van Aro is on Obsession
The International Review of Music
Eric Van Aro
Obsession (Eraki)
By Brian Arsenault
You take a little Francis Albert phrasing, some Mel Torme smoothness and some Dr John deep, deep tones and you start to bubble up some of what Eric Van Aro is on Obsession.
The man takes back for male jazz vocalists a little of the dominance of female jazz singers in recent years.
This is a voice that could lure the unwary on the rocks of a club but also fill a Broadway stage, depending on material.
That club I mentioned, it's a small room, so for most of the evening there's only enough space for the singer and a pianist. That's fabulous Fabio Gianni on piano and his work with Eric here goes beyond accompaniment.
He supports and enhances the vocals so well that at times, they become one. In musicality. In emotionality. In…
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Bowdoin's Naculich Explains the Higgs Boson 'God Particle'
July 6, 2012 By Doug Cook Leave a Comment
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The discovery of the Higgs boson, often referred to as "the God particle" — a name many particle physicists say they detest but for its ability to let people know what they're talking about — brings these scientists closer to understanding mass and its origins. Bowdoin Professor of Physics Stephen Naculich helps bring the rest of us up to speed on what it all means.
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Emmy Nomination for Bowdoin-Informed 'Desperate Alewives'
The MPBN documentary Desperate Alewives has been nominated for a New England Emmy in the category of Outstanding Environmental Program. The doc looks at how populations of alewife — also known as sawbelly, mooneye, gaspereau and big-eyed or spring herring — have plummeted, prompting research by a group whose members include Coastal Studies Scholar Ted Ames, professors Phil Camill, Guillermo Herrera, John Lichter and David Vail, and Environmental Studies Program Manager and geographic information systems analyst Eileen Johnson, many of whom are featured in the segment.
Watch Desperate Alewives on PBS. See more from Sustainable Maine.
The Bowdoin group is collaborating with faculty from Bates and the University of Southern Maine on the project "Maine Rivers, Estuaries and Coastal Fisheries," funded by the National Science Foundation's Office of Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (ESPCoR) through a grant to the University of Maine's Sustainability Solutions Initiative. Read more about the project on a website created by Hunter Clark '13. The 35th Annual Boston/New England Emmy Awards, presented by the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Boston/New England, will be presented June 2, 2012, in Boston.
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Bowdoin Computer Scientist Oliveira Receives NSF CAREER Award for Virtual Machine Research
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Assistant Professor of Computer Science Daniela Oliveira has received the National Science Foundation's CAREER Award, a five-year, $404,000 grant that will support innovative research into operating systems' defense against attacks using virtual machines with help from undergraduate students.
"This grant will allow the realization of the dream I had since I arrived in Bowdoin in the fall of 2010 — engaging liberal arts students in cutting-edge research in a Cyber Security lab," says Oliveira.


STOCKHOLM, Sept 9: Swedes vote on Sunday in a tight election dominated by fears over asylum and welfare, with the populist, anti-immigration Sweden Democrats vying to become the biggest party in a country long seen as a bastion of economic stability and liberal values.
Lengthening queues for critical operations, shortages of doctors and teachers and a police service that has failed to deal with inner-city gang violence have shaken faith in the "Swedish model", built on a promise of comprehensive welfare and social inclusion. Sweden Democrat leader Jimmie Akesson has labelled the vote a choice between immigration and welfare.
He has also promised to sink any government that refuses to give his party a say in policy, particularly on immigration. Mainstream politicians have so far rebuffed him.


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Annual conference and Iverson Bell Symposium, virtual March 3-5
A record 365 attendees from 57 U.S. and overseas veterinary schools and a dozen companies and associations gathered for the AAVMC's first annual virtual conference and Iverson Bell Symposium. The theme was "Catalyze 2021: Connect and Innovation in the Face of Global Challenges". More than 20 sessions focused on improving diversity, strategically communicating to increase reach, and building a pipeline for executives. Robin DiAngelo, PhD, the author of "White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Rassism," discussed systemic racism during a keynote session. A keynote from Jay Dolmage, PhD included a discussion of Ableism, or discrimination against people with disabilities. During another keynote speech, Dr. Hal Gregersen on creativity and change.
Dr. Ruby L. Perry
Iverson Bell Prize, sponsored by Banfield Pet Hospital
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Remembering the Movies, Jan. 21 - 27
Every Friday, we look back at films released 10-100 years ago this week.
Visit Remembering the Movies to further peruse the past
On schedule this week (finally! - and from now on, I promise), we've got devils, werewolves, masked wrestlers, and Cruella De Vil. And the Disney's not the only cartoon; there's also a Suess-authored short with an imaginative soundtrack. Add in one of Bogart's best tough-guy roles, and it's a surprisingly strong field this Friday, perhaps breaking the January doldrums. Then again, there's a fair share of critical grumbling to be savoured, and early Oscar winners are not exempt...
10 years ago (January 26, 2001)
"The Wedding Planner is one of the first big studio releases of the post-Clinton era, but it feels like a pure Clintonian artifact. It seems written and directed by a savvy Washington PR firm: It's mostly spin in which people do terrible things to other people but it's never their fault, and they never have to face any consequences." - Stephen Hunter, The Washington Post
"And consider a 'comic' sequence so awkward and absurd it not only brings the movie to a halt but threatens to reverse its flow. While Mary and Steve wander in a sculpture garden, they accidentally knock over a statue, and the statue's male hardware gets broken off. Mary has some crazy glue in her purse, and they try to glue the frank and beans back in place, but alas the broken part becomes stuck to Steve's palm. If he had gone through the rest of the movie like that, it might have added some interest. But no: Mary also has some solvent in her purse. When you have seen Jennifer Lopez ungluing marble genitals from the hand of the man she loves, you have more or less seen everything." - Roger Ebert
The Wedding Planner (2001)
"This odd and zany AIP entry has some wacky humor thanks to Chris Lemmon. He's always yelling 'Jesus Christ!' Most of his lines in the film either start or end with him exhorting the name of some people's Lord and Savior. His 12 year old daughter in the film, inexplicably named Smith (Levy), is a plucky genius who drives a car and seems to have some fun saying wordy, scientific dialogue. She has an ALF doll in her room. She practically steals the film, in much the same way Sarah Dampf did for Stealth Fighter (1999). Too bad the two tweens never starred together in a movie. They could team up and fight crime or something. Her energetic, loquacious performance contrasts completely with Brett Porter's monosyllabic, monotonous Arnold Schwarzenegger/Dolph Lundgren/Matthias Hues-style delivery. The film does borrow somewhat from Red Heat (1988). I guess we were running low on English-as-a-second-language action stars. Thank you Brett Porter." - Comeuppance Reviews
Firehead (1991)
30 years ago (January 22, 1981 at Avoriaz Fantastic Film Festival)
"Director Joe Dante recounts screening the film for some children, one of whom asked why the heroine didn't flee during the big transformation scene, instead of watching helplessly as a bad guy slowly becomes a werewolf. That's a perceptive question, but it's also the sort a true horror buff wouldn't ask, since transformation scenes function as a werewolf movie's money shots. Accordingly, Dante's much-loved 1981 cult hit affords the audience time to appreciate every intricate detail of the sequence, created by monster-makeup guru Rob Bottin. The Howling was released the same year as John Landis' similar horror comedy An American Werewolf In London, which is funnier and scarier, and features more convincing werewolves; The Howling's lycanthropes look a little bit like the Big Bad Wolf on stilts. But the artisanship on display throughout the film appeals to the adolescent Fangoria subscriber in everyone." - The A.V. Club
"Back at the secret laboratory of the Black Hand, we watch as the evil scientist scolds his midgets. My God, I believe in fighting for justice, but if becoming a criminal mastermind would guarantee me an army of midget henchmen in red suits - well let's just say that the world would tremble at the mention of Darth Borntreger. Anyway (must...not...be distracted...by...desire for...midget henchmen), Black Hand has invented a machine to turn his midget henchmen into super midget henchmen! Each of them will be imbued with the strength of ten athletes! Why doesn't Black Hand do the same to his regular henchmen? Who cares! I wouldn't worry about them either. Every minute spent creating a super wrestler is one that could be spent making another super midget." - badmovies.org
The Champions of Justice (1971)
"101 Dalmatians (Buena Vista) is one of the nicest things that have happened so far this year to dog's best friend: a full-length (80 minutes) animutted curtoon that should please just about everybody but cats and will probably make the youngsters yap-happy. It is the wittiest, most charming, least pretentious cartoon feature Walt Disney has ever made. Based on a beast-seller by Dodie Smith, the picture took three years to produce, cost $4,000,000, soaked up 800 gallons of paint, and during the passage of its 101 Dalmatians through 113,700 frames of film, places exactly 6,469,952 (count 'em) spots before the moviegoer's eyes. But it is the tale that wags the picture." - Time Magazine
101 Dalmations (1961)
"This classic, Oscar-winning cartoon introduces Gerald and his quirky speech disorder. Narrated in a rhyming, Seussian style, the story has Gerald ostracized by his friends and family until he finds employment at a local radio station, mouthing the sound effects for radio dramas. The style is visually inventive, and the story is unusual and sweet—it's easy to see why UPA followed up this critical and audience favorite with a handful of new adventures penned by their own writers." - DVD Verdict
Gerald McBoing-Boing (1951)
"We wouldn't know for certain whether the twilight of the American gangster is here. But the Warner Brothers, who should know if anybody does, have apparently taken it for granted and, in a solemn Wagnerian mood, are giving that titanic figure a send-off befitting a first-string god... Yes-sir, Siegfried himself never rose to more heroic heights than does Mr. Humphrey Bogart, the last of the great gunmen, when, lodged on a high mountain crag with an army of coppers below, he shouts defiance at his tormentors ere his noble soul take flight." - Bosley Crowther, NY Times
High Sierra (1941)
"Cimarron is often said to be the only western to win the Best Picture Oscar until Dances With Wolves in 1990. Is this the sign of a western? After the Oklahoma land rush, Richard Dix and Irene Dunne marry and settle in a growing town. But Dix has wanderlust, and he leaves Dunne in search of adventure, at which point the movie - forgets about Dix and follows Dunne's rise in local society for the next 50 years. This isn't a western. It's a soap opera, a women's picture, to use the genre terms of the time. Let it be shouted from the hilltops: no real western won Best Picture until 1990. (Or maybe 1992.)
Sentimental, poky, and overlong, this soap-western Cimarron is today the least watchable Best Picture winner of all - though note that, far from being an aberration of Oscar's (as is sometimes written), it was popular across the board - including among the general Photoplay-reading public."
- Michael Gebert, The Encyclopedia of Movie Awards
Cimarron (1931)
"[Dreyer] personally visited libraries and archives and collected illustrative material to be used as visual references. Nordisk assigned the prestigious playwright Edgar Hoyer to collaborate on the script but the two men essentially wrote two different screenplays. Once the official script was completed, Dreyer continued to revise the text for an additional three months, much to Hoyer's chagrin (the Finnish sequence is entirely Dreyer's creation). The film grew more ambitious in scale and elaborate in design. The start of production was delayed until summer of 1919." - TCM
"The war in heaven is over and Satan has lost. As his punishment, Satan is sentenced to tempt humans into evil actions. If people give into temptation, Satan receives another 100 years of punishment. However, if they can resist, God will remove 1000 years from Satan's sentence. Leaves from Satan's Book follows the devil as he attempts to sow the seeds of evil at the time of the Crucifixion, the Inquisition, the French Revolution and the Finnish Civil War. There is one good movie here, two okay ones and one that is terrible." - 100 Years of Movies
Leaves Out of the Book of Satan (1921)
100 years ago (January 23, 1911)
"How sadly ironic, then, that Mary Pickford's second IMP release, a one-reel drama entitled The Dream, features her playing opposite her real-life husband in a scenario that reflects their life together. According to film historian Charles Musser the story was written by Mary herself, which suggests that when it was made this movie represented both a disguised slice of autobiography and (in its hopeful ending) a wish-fulfillment fantasy. Moore portrays a drunken, philandering husband who staggers in after a night on the town, torments his wife with his infidelity, then passes out on their living room sofa. Unconscious, he dreams of a role-reversal turnabout in which it is Mary who misbehaves. He envisions her as a wild, 'loose' woman, garishly dressed, smoking, drinking and carrying on with men. The vision is so horrific that he awakens as chastened as Scrooge on Christmas Day, vowing to stay sober and treat his wife with respect." - wmorrow59, IMDb
The Dream (1911)
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Sam Juliano said...
Another cinematic potpouri of exceeding memorability and artistic worth. I had a childhood crush on 101 DALMATIONS at an impressionable age, and well recall wearing out the film's soundtrack on vinal at an age when video was non-existent. I enjoyed the TIME MAGAZINE blurb about the film's production, which used up hundreds of gallons of paint and treated the human eye to thousands of spots. It's as formidable an animated treasure today as it was upon release, as is GERALD MC BOING BOING, which rightly placed in the Top 50 Cartoons of All-Time (a seminal volume by Beck that gathered in the ballots of some of the most esteemed animators and film historians)
Of course Dreyer's early film, BOOK OF SATAN is far more than just a goal of teh completist, and it showcases some of the stark and haunting compositions the director became known for.
HIGH SIERRA is a minor classic which always rewards an entertainment-starved viewer, and CIMARRON is a lightweight Western that stands infamously as an Oscar footnote; in the perception of many it's one of the Academy's most undeserved winners ever. I actually saw the early 60's re-make by Anthony Mann, which all things considered probably eclipses this early version, whatever it's issues.
I haven't seen the Dreyer yet though I'm really curious to see it & other pre-Joan silents. Cimarron was not particularly good, but I found it mildly diverting - I always enjoy films that cover a wide range of time, as people and landscapes slowly transform. For my money, the weakest Oscar winner of the 30s is the plotless and self-important Great Ziegfeld, though I haven't seen Cavalcade or The Life of Emile Zola yet.
Apparently 101 Dalmations was the first film I ever "saw" (a re-issue circa 1986 or so) though apparently I spent the screening walking around the theater, no doubt to the annoyance of the other moviegoers...
Oh, and I like High Sierra a lot.
Joel-
Where are your thoughts on these movies? I'm fond of the review clips you choose, but c'mon! Write something!
THE GREAT ZIEGFELD did, however, have that famous "phone scene" which yielded the master-class of acting by Luise Rainer, ultimately landing her the first of her two consecutive Oscars. Rainer is still going at 101.
Fair enough - though in any given week I've only seen a few of the films. The good thing about this series is it keeps the site busy when I can't watch/write much; it's a good placeholder for slow periods, so the place doesn't collect cobwebs like some other blogs that dry up and then no one's around when they come back.
I would like to return to watching & writing a capsule on one of these films a week (as I did for Flash Gordon or Just Imagine in December). But right now I'm barely finding the time to do it this way; I'll have to build up a head of steam and do a few weekends in advance (and make a list so that I don't have to google the date every week to find out what was released) before I can return to that model.
Besides, any time I can find would be better spent playing trivia on Newbury St or drinking cheap beers & watching VHS tapes from the 90s, don't you think (especially now that I have a shelf, ha ha...)?
To be honest I couldn't stand that scene - Oscar show-boating at its worst! (From some of his comments, I think our friend Fish agrees.) Congrats, though, to Rainer for hitting 100. Olivia's still out there too right?
Remembering the Movies, Jan. 28 - Feb. 3
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How to Use Voicemail Transcripts on iPhone
Dec 1, 2016 - 16 Comments
The iPhone now has an excellent ability to transcribe voicemails, offering users a transcription of whatever voicemail has been left on the device. The voicemail transcriptions feature happens automatically, listening to your voicemails and transcribing them into text automatically for you to read.
The voicemail transcripts feature is fantastic and makes for an fast and efficient way to check your iPhone voicemail without having to actually listen to a message, making it more useful to send a call to voicemail, and easier to scan through voicemails to see if something is important, actionable, worth listening to, marking as read, or even responding to or not.
Note that Voicemail Transcription for iPhone is currently in beta, and as a result it can be varying degrees of accurate or useful, but nonetheless it's worth trying out. You'll need an iPhone with a carrier that supports Visual Voicemail enabled, and you'll need a modern version of iOS to have this feature. Anything beyond iOS 10.0 will support Voicemail Transcripts feature for iPhone assuming visual voicemail exists as well.
How to See & Read Voicemail Transcriptions on iPhone
Open the Phone app on the iPhone and then tap on the "Voicemail" button
Tap directly onto a voicemail that has been left to the phone
The voicemail transcription will appear on screen if applicable:
At the bottom of the voicemail transcript you'll see a light grey tiny font question asking "Was this transcription useful or not useful?" – you can tap on the little tiny micro blue text links to offer feedback to Apple on the feature.
Voicemail Transcription Not Available?
If the voicemail does not have a transcription available, the text will show "Transcription not available" rather than a transcription of text from the voicemail itself.
You might see the transcription not available message if the voicemail was just left and hasn't had time to be transcribed, if the transcription service is down, or if the voicemail is totally unrecognizable and impossible to turn into transcription text, a situation which can occur with low cell phone reception or generally nonsensical voicemails.
There is currently no way to disable voicemail transcription, so if you don't like the feature or you don't use it, or find it to be inaccurate or unhelpful, or you don't want the service listening and transcribing your voicemails, there is no way to opt out of the feature at the moment. If you delete a voicemail from the iPhone, the voicemail transcription will also be removed, however.
This is a great feature to pair with this trick to record iPhone calls by dialing voicemail, as it will transcribe your call recording (remember to get permission before recording any call, check your relevant laws, etc).
Any transcribed voicemail can be saved or shared as usual, the transcription has no impact on the voicemail audio itself. You can also share the actual transcription text itself by copying the text the same way you would any other text in iOS with a tap and hold.
How do you like the new voicemail transcriptions feature? Let us know in the comments.
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In there efforts to keep making the iPhone experience worse, in iOS 13.something Apple covers up the lower third of the screen with a grey box that can't be dismissed. The grey box displays other recent voicemail headers -an unnecessary and useless feature since closing a transcript shows all recent voicemails. I deleted all voice mails except the one that wanted to take a screen shot of and this annoying app still had the grey box with nothing in it!! Is there no where to vote on worst mistakes in the iOS interface?
Renée McClure says:
I hate the transcript they get through named and phone numbers wrong! How can I get rid of it? Takes up my space. Also I don't want anyone making video clips of my photos! Invasion of my privacy and I can't even get them to download right and delete and it must be that darn thing!!! Please stay out of my phone! I need that space that you are using. Thank you
"There is currently no way to disable voicemail transcription,"
So, I'm a lawyer and any communications with my client are privileged from snooping eyes. This transcription is a gross violation of the privacy between me and my clients.
And as anyone knows, once something is in "writing" i.e., transcribed, it is subject to subpoena from any source (whether law enforcement, the fed, or in a civil lawsuit). At that point, instead of being in an argument about whether or not the transcript/communication should be subject to a subpoena/subpoenaed, now the lawyer is in an argument about the content of the transcript. That's one major and serious objection I have to this being forced onto my phone.
The second is that the transcription is grossly inaccurate, from the few times I've looked at it. "Hey it's me" becomes "Siri …" etc. God forbid the transcript gets subpoenaed, *now* the lawyer is in an argument about the freakin **contents** of the transcript, and the client is in the position of having to verify or correct the transcript before or after it is used against him.
"I didn't run that red light" can easily become "I runned that red light". Now instead of testifying as to what happened during the accident, the client is in the position of "making excuses" or "correcting" the "official" transcript of the recording.
This is bad, I'm actually amazed Apple's lawyers let this pass.
I agree I think it is very odd that there is no way to disable the transcripts on iPhone. This could also pose theoretical HIPAA privacy issues.
I'm sure it will cause more than one divorce as well…
Mine are about 60% accurate but as you say, some words that show up are just the opposite, and the general accuracy is low enough to not be reliable but to certainly be problematic.
but why would you be leaving sensitive legal information on a voicemail…?
The iPhone user guide for iOS 10.1 does not say anything about earlier models not working with this feature. Maybe it will work on earlier models when it goes out of beta, but it sure doesn't now.
Not here, and my iPhone 6's system is up to date.
Dan of Nantucket says:
One way or another, this is using data, albeit a very tiny amount per msg. I suppose if you get hundreds of vms/month it could add up… Hard to imagine it won't be optional, after beta.
I believe that the first thing that should be written is what iPhone models this is on. My fairly new iPhone 6 doesn't have this functionality. In fact it has no voicemail other than what my service provider has for me and it's voicemail isn't on the device. So I'm not sure if this feature will even work with Rogers service regardless of the iPhone.
Peter Neufeld says:
I could do with this right now! However it's not there on my iPhone 6 iOS 10.1.1
Is this a US thing or a younger beta iOA?
Peter in Sydney
Ogles of Kansas says:
Works great for me but transcripts are sometimes way off.
You also need an iPhone 6s or newer.
suguru says:
This is a good point to make in the article – my wife's 5C won't do this at all while my 6S does, and it took a while to figure out that the 5C just doesn't support it. I'm not sure why not since it does Dictation/Siri fine and presumably this is doing the same speech-to-text conversion, but it definitely doesn't happen on her 5C.
Egon says:
Good point, Voicemail Transcripts works great on my iPhone 7, but it does not work on my iPhone 2G original model and it's also not working on my wired house landline! I think if the iPhone can support Siri, it can use this. But Apple holds off features to get you to update. My iPhone 7 is OK.
IntMarine says:
You started funny Egon, if snide. But you ended up just silly. The more likely reason is that it is easier to control a beta test by restricting a service in development to a level of phone known to have a certain level of processor speed.
Mr Sisters says:
Why is there no way to turn off voicemail transcription on iPhone?
Isn't there potential for privacy issues when the voicemails are being transcribed and you can't turn them off? Who is seeing the messages and where are they stored?
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New NC voting law facing legal battle
See video coverage of SCSJ's press conference on the federal lawsuit challenging limits to early voting, ending same-day registration, and eliminating out-of-precinct voting here: WBTV 3 News, Weather, Sports, and Traffic for Charlotte, NC
Posted: Aug 12, 2013 4:27 PM EST Updated: Aug 13, 2013 6:39 PM EST
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) -Gov. Pat McCrory has quietly signed into law a Republican-supported measure that makes sweeping changes in how and when people can cast their ballots in North Carolina.
There was no formal ceremony marking the bill signing. McCrory's press office sent out a statement saying he signed the legislation Monday and also posted a 95-second message on YouTube giving his reasons.
Democratic Attorney General Roy Cooper had written to McCrory urging him to veto the measure.
"This bill was much more than just voter ID. There were dozens of reasons to veto this bad elections bill with its restrictions on voting, more corporate campaign money and reduced public disclosure being just a few," Cooper wrote in a statement on Monday.
Republicans have said the legislation is meant to prevent voter fraud, which they claim is both rampant and undetected.
But non-partisan voting rights groups, Democrats and libertarians suggested the true goal is to suppress voter turnout, especially among blacks, the young, the elderly and the poor.
The American Civil Liberties Union of North Carolina, The League of Women Voters of North Carolina, and other statewide organizations and citizens filed a lawsuit in Federal Court – asking for preliminary and permanent injunctions against the law.
The lawsuit is targeting three specific points of the law: the reduction of the number of days of early voting from 17 to 10, the elimination of same day voter registration during early voting, and elimination of out of precinct voting.
"This law creates new barriers to voting" says Jo Nichols, President of the League of Women Voters of North Carolina. "It unconstitutionally limits citizens right to vote, where they can vote, how they can vote."
Chris Brook, of the ACLU of North Carolina, says "the question for them we have is why are making it harder for North Carolinians to enter the ballot box? Why is that something we're doing in 2013?"
Brook says according to the statistics from the 2012 Elections, "20% of the electorate in NC voted during the first seven days of early voting."
Brook says he's concerned the law will lead to long lines of people waiting to vote – similar to the scene in Florida where voters were forced to wait hours to cast their ballots.
The ACLU says hundreds of thousands of North Carolinians also took advantage of same day voter registration and out of precinct voting.
Organizations that work to get out the vote say "it's already bad enough trying to get people out to vote during that two week period we have. But by reducing that, it is going to tremendously reduce our ability to get people out to the polls to vote."
Voting rights activists say they believe legislators and the Governor are intentionally putting up barriers, which they say is a violation of the federal Voting Rights Act.
"And the legislature can't cut off avenues of participation that it knows that some of the state's most marginalized citizens use" says Allison Riggs of the Southern Coalition for Social Justice.
Organization say along with an injunction, they want the lawsuit to "illuminate the process" because they say "there was no public hearing, no committee meeting on any of this."
The ACLU says House Bill 589 passed in a 48-hour period.


This is wild! The Rockets, coming off two straight seasons with 50+ wins under McHale's guidance, were a popular pick to make some serious noise in the Western Conference this year. This team is an even deeper version of the one that went to the Western Conference Finals last year, and yet they have sputtered to a 4-7 start.
It's hard to pinpoint exactly what's gone wrong for the Rockets, other than to say everyone is playing poorly. They rank 25th in offensive rating and 28th in defensive rating so far, all while superstar James Harden and new point guard Ty Lawson have been playing particularly dreadful basketball. Things are so bad that the Rockets held a players-only meeting yesterday morning.
McHale received a contract extension from the organization just a year ago, making the move to fire him about as drastic and unexpected as something like this can be. He'll reportedly be replaced on a interim basis by assistant coach J.B. Bickerstaff.


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Zoe Beath is an experienced tech marketer with a strong background in B2B marketing. Zoe is the Head of Marketing in North America for Vision6, a leading integrated marketing solution for email and marketing automation. At Vision6, she drives the company's marketing strategy with the goal of helping customers succeed. Zoe holds degrees in Commerce and the Arts from the University of Sydney.
According to the Custora Pulse Holiday Recap Report, email marketing drove 20% of online sales during the 2015 holiday period, measured from November 1st to December 31st. Email subscribers seem to be more receptive of email marketing campaigns during the holiday season—who doesn't love a good promotion?
When marketers make time to create a smart email marketing campaign, even in the midst of the busy season, it can have a huge payout. Customers' inboxes are more likely to be crowded, and readers might be spending less time reading emails and more time with friends and family, so marketers have to bring their best ideas to the table. Try these 13 tactics for driving holiday sales with email marketing tactics.
1. Don't shy away from an old-school approach: Many retailers are quick to forget the importance of connecting with their email subscribers in person. The holiday season provides the perfect opportunity to invite them to an in-store event. This will help you build brand loyalty and connect with subscribers on a more personal level.
2. Avoid mistakes at all cost: While this is solid advice for email marketers year round, it's extra important during the holidays when year-end revenue is at stake. The easiest way to avoid fundamental or grammatical mistakes is to test your email before sending it to customers. Select someone on your team to proof your email and check for spelling, price consistency, product facts and links. Don't forget to test your campaign across various email clients to ensure it displays properly.
3. Don't lose any sales over abandoned carts: On average, 68% of all online shopping carts get filled and then abandoned. You can decrease this tendency by setting up automated emails to encourage customers to come back to your site to complete their purchase. Don't miss out on a huge opportunity save your leads.
4. Be confident about your brand: Now is not the time to reinvent yourself. Instead, embrace your brand personality- including your colors, logos and messaging- and use it consistently across email marketing efforts.
5. Add a human touch: The holidays are a time for family and friends, and you can add this element to your emails too. Try using humor, addressing people by their first names and toning down sales-speak, to start.
6. Design for smaller screens: A shocking 48% of emails will be opened, and 30% of online sales will occur, on mobile devices over the holiday period. Your team should design email marketing campaigns with those smaller screens in mind, or you risk losing sales. Start with sticking to a single column layout and marking your links easily touchable.
7. Give thanks: The holiday season isn't just about receiving—or closing deals. It's also about giving back, and showing your gratitude. Don't forget to say "thanks" to your loyal customers. Take it one step further by giving them an exclusive offer or a non-monetary gift like a "how to" guide.
8. Follow up with a reminder: Your holiday emails run the risk of getting lost in crowded inboxes. There's a good chance your first email will go unseen. Remember to follow up with a new subject line, even adding an extra sense of urgency to encourage subscribers to act quickly.
9. Choose a main call to action: Don't let your big ask get lost in a sea of words. Make sure your primary call to action really stands out and encourages your audience to click. It's better to ask for one thing very clearly, than ask readers to do too much at once. Minimize distractions by making your main call to action crystal clear.
10. Use GIFs and beautiful images: Add some liveliness to your holiday email marketing campaigns with animated GIF images, which are easy to create and share. Be sure to keep the file size down and ensure he first frame makes sense in your email design just in case GIFs are not supported by the recipient's email client.
11. Integrate email with other channels: Email marketing is most effective when integrated with other channels. Try coinciding your holiday emails with social media, paid advertising or other content marketing campaigns so you can make the most out of sent emails.
12. Make it sound urgent: The holidays are a powerful time to send emails to subscribers because you're typically asking them to complete an action with a very specific end date, usually the end of the holiday period. You can take it one step further by encouraging readers to act now. Set a deadline to the promotion and try adding time-sensitive language in your subject line and call to action.
13. Personalize your offers: If you want to really break through a crowded inbox, personalize your emails with information you already know about customers. You likely know where people live, their age, their purchase history and typical spending habits. Cater the email based on these factors.
Remember, only you know what will work best for your company, and all the tips in the world won't replace your creativity and persistency. Take time to learn from past email marketing campaigns, and leverage that valuable information as you prepare to send emails to subscribers. Make the most of the holiday season across email marketing—but don't forget to embrace the season as a time to relax and unwind, too.


Welcome to my website, showcasing some of my recent art works and my photo record of the restoration efforts by Cemex of their two ex-quarries: Fleet Hill farm and Manor farm.
I am pleased to announce that Chilled received a Highly Commended at the 2016 TWASI (The Wildlife Art Society International) exhibition. It was the first time I had entered the exhibition.
Please note, the original has been sold.
High quality giclée prints are available of all the paintings. You can choose to have them framed, though if on mount board they will be sized to fit standard frames from shops e.g. Habitat, Homebase, etc. See gallery below.
The prints are printed on archival quality, heavy weight, acid free 100% cotton rag smooth paper, with inks that the manufacturers report will be colour fast for at least 200 years.
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Monkey Cage Analysis
Youth radicalization is on the rise. Here's what we know about why.
Members of white nationalist groups march with torches through the University of Virginia campus in Charlottesville on Aug. 11. (Mykal McEldowney/Indianapolis Star/AP)
By Julie M. Norman and
Drew Mikhael
What drives youth radicalization? This question has renewed relevance in recent weeks in the wake of dual terrorist attacks, one at the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville on Aug. 12 and the other in Barcelona on Aug. 17, in which the alleged assailants were 20 and 22 years old respectively.
Our research with Club de Madrid on radical messaging and youth recruitment in the Middle East and North Africa indicates that, in the vast majority of cases, it is not the ideology itself that resonates, but rather the way in which an ideology provides a conduit for perceived grievances. Understanding the process of radicalization, rather than the content of the ideology, is thus crucial for developing effective interventions to disrupt those processes.
There is of course a plethora of research, both qualitative and quantitative, on youth radicalization in recent years. However, as most of the research has focused on the source and content of radical messages, a key missing element has been understanding the dynamics that take place at the very end of the communication chain — that is, how citizens actually receive and perceive messages, and what conditions make them more receptive to extremist recruiting.
In our research, we organized 18 focus groups with 138 teenagers and youths, ages 20 to 30, in Lebanon, Tunisia and Nigeria, in which we introduced a variety of messages for critique and discussion. Based on participant responses, we collected data on which aspects improved or weakened community and individual resilience to violent extremism, the appeal of extremist messaging (in terms of both production and conceptual values) and other mechanisms of recruitment, and the perceived efficacy of countermeasures to that recruitment. By using the discussion of radical and counter-radical messages as a starting point, we were able to uncover nuances in the wider debate that challenge common misperceptions of youth radicalization.
Relative deprivation, marginalization and lack of hope matter more than poverty
From our focus groups, youths who were the most susceptible to radical messaging were those who perceived themselves to be politically and/or economically marginalized, resulting in a pervasive sense of purposelessness and lack of hope for the future. However, it was not poor socio-economic status itself that pointed toward susceptibility, but rather a sense of relative deprivation, coupled with feelings of political and/or social exclusion. For example, uneven development in rural areas fed a narrative that central government authorities only serve the interests of urban elites. Likewise, perceiving that one's ethnic group or sect was more monitored by the government than other groups increased feelings of alienation and susceptibility to radicalization.
Ideology provides a conduit for grievances and a sense of purpose
Ideology matters, but not necessarily its core messaging, be it Islamic fundamentalism or white supremacy. Rather, radical groups use religion and ideologies to legitimize grievances, placing themselves as agents of change and promising empowerment and a sense of purpose. As a Tunisian participant said: "[V]iolent groups are using religion to brainwash and recruit people; religion is a sensitive subject and can influence easily, especially when there is a lack of awareness." Likewise, Christian Picciolini, a reformed white nationalist, said: "I think ultimately people become extremists not necessarily because of the ideology. The ideology is simply a vehicle to be violent. I believe that people become radicalized, or extremist, because they're searching for three very fundamental human needs: identity, community and a sense of purpose."
Media/Internet messaging matters, but not as much as personal engagement
While media messaging from groups such as the Islamic State can be a contributing factor to radicalization, the presence of face-to-face recruiters who target individuals was considered a more significant element in all of our focus groups. Personal contacts made recruitment much more likely because recruiters could tailor their message to the local concerns of communities and individual experiences.
Credible community leaders and former combatants can help prevent radicalization
While personal interactions with recruiters increase the likelihood of radicalization, one positive finding was that credible community leaders can help prevent radicalization. In particular, ex-combatants and former extremists who are now engaged in outreach carry notable social capital and are often effective in dissuading youths in their communities from following their previous path.
Traditional approaches to preventing/countering violent extremism (P/CVE) can further alienate at-risk youth
Traditional P/CVE strategies that focus on increasing security measures often further alienate and disenfranchise young people who feel they are "under the watch" of the state. Over-policing of public spaces, frequent questioning and detention of youths and rhetoric from public officials that feeds the narrative of the "dangerous youth" demographic only further push alienated youths into the margins.
As one youth leader in Lebanon indicated, recruiters seize upon these policies in their tactics to convince youths of their alienation from the state. According to this leader, governments and NGOs alike can better address P/CVE indirectly via programs and policies that foster hope and trust rather than fear, such as job creation, service provisions and community engagement.
As with most studies of violent extremism, our findings represent general trends of susceptibility to radicalization; the factors are not determinative, and most youths who become radicalized, whether in the United States, Europe or the Middle East, do so for a complex variety of reasons.
It is clear, however, that given the similarities in radicalization processes across different ideologies and contexts, it is crucial for policymakers to look beyond the intricacies or appeal of the ideology itself, and more at the processes of radicalization. This shift in focus will allow for more informed interventions for disrupting such processes, such as supporting those working at the community level to prevent further youth radicalization.
Julie M. Norman, PhD, and Drew Mikhael, PhD, are research fellows at the Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice at Queen's University Belfast.


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Noah Weidner
Is a VC acquisition, shift toward E-Commerce and launch of new products like the PS5 enough to save GameStop?
What's the Deal with GameStop?
The last decade has been marked by pivotal changes in retail, entertainment and gaming. GameStop, the world's largest video game retailer, falls squarely at the intersection of these aforementioned industries.
GameStop has become a regular staple on our Bullish Ripper, a shortlist of stocks making significant moves on markets. But GameStop, which trades under $GME, has lost some of its allure in a distinctly digital-first economy for gaming and entertainment.
What's Fueling this Growth?
Investment firm RC Ventures bought a significant stake in GameStop back in August this year. The firm, managed by Chewy co-founder Ryan Cohen, acquired over 9% of GameStop. This move made RC Ventures the single largest shareholder in the company. Cohen, being an enterprising e-commerce entrepreneur, shared his vision for the future of the company — turning GameStop into an e-commerce player to rival Amazon. This sent shares of the company climbing for the first time in years. Since the start of 2020, shares of $GME have nearly doubled.
Though the plan sounds simple, saving this dinosaur will be no small feat. Seven years ago, the company was pulling down record revenues. The stock was at a relative all-time high. However, in recent years, their store experience became the topic of great revulsion among shoppers. Their business had some novelties. For example, there is no other place you can trade in used games and consoles and get cash immediately. But even these novelties have had shortcomings. If you ever want to kill time, I recommend reading GameStop reviews on Google or Trustpilot (with 86% of ratings marked as "bad").
The insistence of traditional retail companies to avoid changing their business model has been a leading reason why large brick and mortar franchises like RadioShack and Hhgregg have shuttered in the last few years. GameStop was no different. Shares of the retail giant have tumbled over the last few years, and revenue has dried up as digital competition has encroached on their territory. GameStop's story is a microcosm of a larger, all-too-familiar theme — the rise of digital shopping & e-commerce. In 2018, the company reported a whopping $700 million loss.
Knowing that they've overbuilt, the company announced a plan to lay off thousands and close stores as a cost-cutting measure in August 2019. This provided a temporary boost to the stock. However, layoffs and store closures alone would still be grossly insufficient to salvage the company. The old way of doing things is no longer going to get it done, and GameStop CEO George Sherman conceded that change would be necessary, in an interview with CNN Business that "gaming as an industry could not be stronger, it's us that needs to pivot."
What is GameStop Doing Now?
So far, GameStop did ink a surprise partnership with Microsoft in October, which will entitle them to revenue sharing from Xbox's digital revenues. In November, the company announced it would pay off over 63% of its outstanding debt ahead of schedule — a sign they're prioritizing the organization's financial health.
With the stock up over 84% YTD as of Nov. 11, it's hard to tell how much growth opportunity is left in this battered retailer. GameStop is a ship with a hole in the bottom, and it has been taking on water for years. Other former retail giants like Sears, Toys 'R Us and JCPenny all sank. If the company does manage to pull off its lofty goals and build a viable future-proof brand, it would represent a massive win. Nevertheless, investors shouldn't ignore the possibility that GameStop's ship might be beyond repair and sinking to the bottom of the ocean soon.
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Noah Weidner is a restless self-starter with a vehement interest in all things that make the world go around: culture, politics, economics and all the people in between. As a former Robintrack.net newsletter writer, he dialed into the pulse of the retail trader during the COVID-19 trading mania. Currently, he writes the Bullish Rippers series and covers other interesting trends and happenings at Bullish. In his free time, he tends to his new newsletter Business As Usual, drinks craft coffee and researches pharmas and biotechs in search of tendies.
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