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Given ['Represent the title to find an explanatory news article', 'Citing religious freedom, Trump backing off Obama-era rules'], a positive would be ['Represent this text to find a news title for it.', 'In a one-two punch elating religious conservatives, President Donald Trump\'s administration is allowing more employers to opt out of no-cost birth control for workers and issuing sweeping religious-freedom directions that could override many anti-discrimination protections for LGBT people and others.\nAt a time when Trump finds himself embattled on many fronts, the two directives — issued almost simultaneously on Friday — demonstrated the president\'s eagerness to retain the loyalty of social conservatives who make up a key part of his base. Leaders of that constituency were exultant.\n"President Trump is demonstrating his commitment to undoing the anti-faith policies of the previous administration and restoring true religious freedom," said Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council.\nLiberal advocacy groups, including those supporting LGBT and reproductive rights, were outraged.\n"The Trump administration is saying to employers, \'If you want to discriminate, we have your back,\'" said Fatima Goss Graves, president of National Women\'s Law Center.\nHer organization is among several that are planning to challenge the birth-control rollback in court. The American Civil Liberties Union filed such a lawsuit less than three hours after the rules were issued.\n"The Trump administration is forcing women to pay for their boss\' religious beliefs," said ACLU senior staff attorney Brigitte Amiri. "We\'re filing this lawsuit because the federal government cannot authorize discrimination against women in the name of religion or otherwise."\nThe Democratic attorneys general of California and Massachusetts filed similar suits later Friday.\nBoth directives had been in the works for months, with activists on both sides of a culture war on edge about the timing and the details.\nThe religious-liberty directive, issued by Attorney General Jeff Sessions, instructs federal agencies to do as much as possible to accommodate those who claim their religious freedoms are being violated. The guidance effectively lifts a burden from religious objectors to prove that their beliefs about marriage or other topics that affect various actions are sincerely held.\n"Except in the narrowest circumstances, no one should be forced to choose between living out his or her faith and complying with the law," Sessions wrote.\nIn what is likely to be one of the more contested aspects of the document, the Justice Department states that religious organizations can hire workers based on religious beliefs and an employee\'s willingness "to adhere to a code of conduct." Many conservative Christian schools and faith-based agencies require employees to adhere to moral codes that ban sex outside marriage and same-sex relationships, among other behavior.\nThe Alliance Defending Freedom, a conservative Christian law firm, called it "a great day for religious freedom." But JoDee Winterhof of the Human Rights Campaign, a national LGBT-rights group, depicted the two directives as "an all-out assault, on women, LGBT people and others" as the administration fulfilled a "wish list" of the religious right.\nThe new policy on contraception, issued by the Department of Health and Human Services, allows more categories of employers, including publicly traded companies, to opt out of providing no-cost birth control to women by claiming religious or moral objections — another step in rolling back President Barack Obama\'s health care law that required most companies to cover birth control at no additional cost.\nEmployers with religious or moral qualms will also be able to cover some birth control methods, and not others. Experts said that could interfere with efforts to promote modern long-acting implantable contraceptives, such as IUDs, which are more expensive.\nThe top Democrat in the House of Representatives, Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, said the birth-control rollback was despicable.\n"This administration\'s contempt for women reaches a new low with this appalling decision to enable employers and health plans to deny women basic coverage for contraception," she said.\nOn the Republican side, however, House Speaker Paul Ryan welcomed the decision, calling it "a landmark day for religious liberty."\nThe new policy took effect on Friday, but its impact won\'t be known immediately and may not be dramatic.\n"I can\'t imagine that many employers are going to be willing to certify that they have a moral objection to standard birth control methods," said Dan Mendelson, president of the consulting firm Avalere Health.\nNonetheless, he worried that the new rules would set a precedent for undermining basic health benefits required under federal law. The administration has estimated that some 200 employers who have already voiced objections to the Obama-era policy would qualify for the expanded opt-out, and that 120,000 women would be affected.\nSince contraception became a covered preventive benefit, the share of female employees paying with their own money for birth control pills has plunged to 3 percent, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation.\nMany Catholic hospitals now rely on an Obama-era workaround under which the government pays for the cost of birth control coverage. That workaround can continue under the new rules.\nDespite that workaround, there have been extensive legal battles waged by religious institutions and other parties challenging the birth-control mandate. The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops hailed the new policy as a "return to common sense" that would enhance "peaceful coexistence" between church and state.\nDoctors\' groups that were instrumental in derailing Republican plans to repeal Obama\'s health law outright expressed their dismay.\nThe American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists said the new policy could reverse the recent progress in lowering the nation\'s rate of unintended pregnancies.\n"Instead of fulfilling its mission \'to enhance and protect the health and well-being of all Americans,\' HHS leaders under the current administration are focused on turning back the clock on women\'s health," said the organization\'s president, Dr. Haywood Brown.\n___\nCrary reported from New York. 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Question: Police Investigate Pet Store That Owner Had Abandoned, Find 41 Animals Had Been Left To Die In Their Cages

Officers said the animals were left alone in the store, which had no electricity.
Police in Illinois made a gruesome discovery when they went to investigate a pet store that the owner had abandoned after the electricity was shut off — the bodies of 41 animals that had apparently been left to die in their cages with no food or water.
The incident happened in Macomb in the western part of the state, where police said they received a complaint about an overwhelming smell coming from Macomb Pet Land. They entered to find dozens of rabbits, hamsters, snakes, and mice that had died, the New York Post reported. The store’s owner, Jessica Spangler, told police that she arrange for another person to look after the animals after the store had been closed down, but police said this never happened.
The store had been shuttered for several weeks, with the local power authority turning off the electricity after the owner did not pay the bill. Police said there were 56 other animals in the store that they found alive, and they have now been placed in foster care.
Nearby business owners said there was a sign left on the door that the store was closed for maintenance and that animals were being fed and given water, the McDonough County Voice reported. But that did not appear to be the case.
41 animals found dead at Macomb pet store, police say: https://t.co/I8ftylRYYA pic.twitter.com/xwNwMS3Xcy — ABC 7 Chicago (@ABC7Chicago) May 29, 2018
Many of the surviving animals were taken to the McDonough County Animal Shelter, which provided an update to the community this week saying that no dogs or cats left in the store had died. The shelter also asked for donations of supplies and food to help take care of the large number of animals they had to take in.
“All animals have been placed in foster homes and are doing well. We would like to set some of the rumors to rest. There were no dogs/puppies living or deceased in the Pet Store,” the organization wrote on its Facebook page. “There were no deceased cats. The 2 cats that were in the store are alive and have been taken into custody of the MCAS and are doing great as well. This is a very upsetting situation for everyone and we understand the concern but we ask for continued patience. The Macomb Police Department has a press release with details scheduled for tomorrow at the normal time.”
Pet store owner Jessica Spangler has been arrested on charges of aggravated cruelty to animals. It was not immediately clear if she was in jail or if she was given bail.

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Question: Trump's campaign rallies should have been a warning | Opinion

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Skip in Skip x Embed x Share CLOSE VIOLENCE ERUPTS AFTER WHITE SUPREMACIST RALLY IN CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA. Alt-right protestors carry torches to Univ. of Virginia | 0:54 A day before a scheduled alt-right demonstration in Charlottesville, Virginia, protestors marched with torches at the University of Virginia. According to local reports, several people were injured during the demonstration. USA TODAY 1 of 10 Skip in Skip x Embed x Share CLOSE VIOLENCE ERUPTS AFTER WHITE SUPREMACIST RALLY IN CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA. Video shows car plow into Charlottesville crowd | 0:41 Disturbing video shows the moment a car crashed into the crowd in Charlottesville, Virginia. 2 of 10 Skip in Skip x Embed x Share CLOSE VIOLENCE ERUPTS AFTER WHITE SUPREMACIST RALLY IN CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA. Victim in Charlottesville attack identified | 1:13 The woman who was killed when a driver rammed his car into a group of protesters demonstrating against a white nationalist rally Saturday afternoon has been identified. Time 3 of 10 Skip in Skip x Embed x Share CLOSE VIOLENCE ERUPTS AFTER WHITE SUPREMACIST RALLY IN CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA. Charlottesville car attack victim: People flying around me | 1:09 A man who was injured in Charlottesville when a speeding vehicle plowed into a second car, killing one person and injuring many others, said he thought it seemed like an assault on "every person in this country." (Aug. 12) AP 4 of 10 Skip in Skip x Embed x Share CLOSE VIOLENCE ERUPTS AFTER WHITE SUPREMACIST RALLY IN CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA. Fights break out in the street during alt-right protest | 0:51 Fights and arguments were widespread during a white nationalist protest in Charlottesville, Virginia. Demonstrators were protesting the removal of a Confederate statue. USA TODAY 5 of 10 Skip in Skip x Embed x Share CLOSE VIOLENCE ERUPTS AFTER WHITE SUPREMACIST RALLY IN CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA. Graphic video: Car slams into crowd at alt-right demonstration | 0:50 Graphic video: A bystander captures the moment a car slams into a crowd at a white nationalist protest in Charlottesville, Virginia. USA TODAY 6 of 10 Skip in Skip x Embed x Share CLOSE VIOLENCE ERUPTS AFTER WHITE SUPREMACIST RALLY IN CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA. Smoke rises after helicopter crash in Charlottesville | 0:15 Emma Eisner captured this video of thick, black smoke billowing near Birdwood golf course in Charlottesville, Va., She says a helicopter appeared to stall and spiral down to the ground. USA TODAY 7 of 10 Skip in Skip x Embed x Share CLOSE VIOLENCE ERUPTS AFTER WHITE SUPREMACIST RALLY IN CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA. Trump responds to violence in Charlottesville | 0:45 President Trump interrupted a signing ceremony for veterans to publicly denounce the deadly violence in Charlottesville, Virginia saying the U.S. government is "ready, willing and able" to step in. USA TODAY 8 of 10 Skip in Skip x Embed x Share CLOSE VIOLENCE ERUPTS AFTER WHITE SUPREMACIST RALLY IN CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA. Charlottesville victim's mother: She died doing what was right | 1:47 A female victim has been named in the violent white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, VA. Nathan Rousseau Smith (@fantasticmrnate) reports. Buzz60 9 of 10 Skip in Skip x Embed x Share CLOSE VIOLENCE ERUPTS AFTER WHITE SUPREMACIST RALLY IN CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA. White nationalist David Duke attends 'Unite the Right' rally in Charlottesville | 0:30 Former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke said the 'alt-right' protests in Charlottesville, Va., on Saturday, Aug. 12, 2017, were a "turning point" to fulfill the promises of Donald Trump. Mykal McEldowney/IndyStar 10 of 10 Last VideoNext Video Alt-right protestors carry torches to Univ. of Virginia
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830755838.jpg CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA - AUGUST 12: Hundreds of white nationalists, neo-Nazis and members of the "alt-right" march down East Market Street toward Lee Park during the "United the Right" rally August 12, 2017 in Charlottesville, Virginia. After clashes with anti-facist protesters and police the rally was declared an unlawful gathering and people were forced out of Lee Park, where a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee is slated to be removed. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) (Photo: Chip Somodevilla, Getty Images)
Here's what readers had to say about Saturday's clashes between white supremacists and counter-protesters in Charlottesville, Va.:
Donald Trump's presidential campaign rallies were always very clear in how he encouraged Americans to take sides -- particularly his own personally, against each other. Trump was recorded and taped exhorting his town hall followers to physically assault people who vocally interrupted his speeches, and some Trump protesters were indeed struck or spit upon in the crowds with Trump recorded offering to pay the legal fees of the assailants.
His initial assessment of the recent events in Virginia were that it has nothing to do with him and that " many side share the blame " -- while one specific side of the conflict openly state him as their motivation , and that they are there in part to fulfill the " Trump promise," aside from their stated protests against the removal of the statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee .
In hindsight, there were indeed many aspects all around regarding the tragedies in Virginia that plainly should have been handle better. No one should have died that day. No one should have been allowed to be assaulted. Voices should have been allowed to air as free speech -- not , two sides in open confrontation, each shouting down the other.
I could feel these tragic events on the horizon each time I saw a Trump presidential rally. We are allowing ourselves to become an America that is retreating from dialog and attempts at reason to a Trump "us against them" political climate .
Arvie A Green
Detroit
Henderson: What's the source for white anger on display in Charlottesville?
The events in Charlottesville this weekend are abhorrent. The organizers of this event are mostly to blame but as far as I am concerned President Donald Trump is complicit in this bizarre and tragic spectacle. He ran a campaign that openly embraced white nationalist rhetoric and it was like pulling teeth to get him to disavow the support offered to him by the likes of David Duke and other “alt-right” personalities. Trump needs to own up to his ongoing role in stoking the flames of reactionary intolerance, which he continues to do in all of his policy choices. At this point the only decision I would respect coming from this man is his resignation.
Christopher Currie
Detroit
More: Ex-Michigan Congressman John Dingell's response to Charlottesville goes viral
Donald Trump could help extinguish the white supremacy flare-up we are presently experiencing by scheduling a joint session session of Congress to speak directly to our leaders and the American people. He could explain that "taking back our country" and "making America great again" does not mean giving all the powers of government back to the white race. He could assure all Americans that the presidency, membership in his cabine, and all important governmental posts are open to people of all races, and that he is doing all in his power to keep it that way. He could make it clear that "making America great again" does not mean going back to something that previously existed, but rather, it means removing the evils which have crept into our present society and now prevent some of our people from sharing equally in our freedoms, our opportunities, our justice and our ability to earn a decent living.
Edwin M. Koziol
Scottville
Skip in Skip x Embed x Share CLOSE Former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke said the 'alt-right' protests in Charlottesville, Va., on Saturday, Aug. 12, 2017, were a "turning point" to fulfill the promises of Donald Trump. Mykal McEldowney/IndyStar
It was very telling when David Duke, a leading figure of the KKK, made a pointed statement that he, KKK members, along with other hateful white supremacists, claim their mission at the demonstration in Charlottesville was part of a strategy to take back America and "Make America Great Again." Donald Trump had an unique opportunity to come out and forcefully condemn any association Duke thought his white racist, fellow bigots had with Trump's popular slogan but Trump failed miserably. Instead, while rightfully condemning "violence on many sides," Trump did nothing to distance himself from the growing cancer of race hatred in America. Trump has never before been reluctant to tweet, or publicly condemn, anyone he has disagreed with, so his lack of a strong condemnation of David Duke and his allies, is disgraceful, and unacceptable to the vast majority of Americans who believe America is still the melting pot of races from around the world.
William D. Krull
Roseville
In view of the events in Charlottesville and other similar events, I am disturbed by the continual use of the descriptive term "white" in the account of this tragedy and the reporting of too many similar events like this. Words have power, folks. Yes, I am "white" These people do not speak for me, their terrorist actions do not speak for any of the "white" people I know.
I am afraid that the continued repetition of the term "white," though descriptive of these "Alt-Right" scum, will cause a backlash of even more hate and injury. Look closely at the images of those who came to speak out against these Nazis; you'll see that many were, indeed, "white" people. A "white" woman was killed! Countless "white" people have fought and died, too, fighting against hate and for freedom and justice. Detroiter Viola Liuzzo went to Mississippi to fight against hate and was murdered by these fascists. My Dad was a "white" man and in World War II he risked his life fighting against the hate of fascists.
Doug Kowalske
Dearborn
I am horrified by the scenes that unfolding on my TV screen from Virginia. Trump did not make anyone throw a punch or a rock, but he is at least partially responsible for emboldening those who would. By Saturday afternoon, about two hours after violence broke out at the white supremacists rally, the president should have been front denouncing such actions, and exercising leadership.
He can find time to tweet about all kinds of silly and even inappropriate stuff, but couldn't take the time to communicate directly with the American people when it was really important to do so.
Earnest L. Robinson Jr.
Southfield
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Battle for Georgia congressional seat heats up The deep red state of Georgia could soon be seeing a little more blue as Democrat Jon Ossoff battles to fill the congressional seat left behind by Trump's Secretary of Health and Human Services Tom Price.
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Opinion: Will Trump's base hold? A series of policy reversals by President Donald Trump has supporters and critics alike asking the question: Is the candidate who vowed to drain the swamp getting swamped in Washington? Those on the left say he's abandoning his base and that in turn, they will abandon him. In other words: it's about to get real […]
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Question: Four Continents figure skating championships returning to US

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ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — The ISU Four Continents figure skating championships are returning to the U.S. for the first time in seven years.
The meet is scheduled for Feb. 7-10 at Honda Center in Anaheim, California, home to the NHL's Anaheim Ducks.
The competition in singles, pairs and ice dancing features skaters from the Americas, Asia, Africa and Oceania.
The U.S. team will be made up of three skaters or teams in each discipline and will be named after the U.S. nationals in Detroit on Jan. 19-27.
Last year, Americans Tarah Kayne and Danny O'Shea won the pairs title and Ashley Cain and Timothy LeDuc earned silver in Taipei. Americans Kaitlin Hawayek and Jean-Luc Baker won the ice dance title. Jason Brown won bronze in the men's competition.
The event was last held in the U.S. in 2012 at Colorado Springs, Colorado. The U.S. also hosted in 2006, 2007 and 2011.

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U.S. Figure Skating championships: 2-minute drill with Nathan Chen
Interview with Nathan Chen, 17-year-old phenom and quad jump machine who has chance to win men's competition at U.S. Figure Skating championships at Sprint Center.


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Question: Why The Government Can't Bring Terrorism Charges In Charlottesville

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When Attorney General Jeff Sessions was asked how he viewed the car attack in Charlottesville, Va., here's how he responded:
"It does meet the definition of domestic terrorism in our statute," he told ABC's Good Morning America.
That certainly seems to suggest the government is looking into a possible terrorism charge against the suspect, 20-year-old James Alex Fields Jr. At Saturday's rally organized by white supremacists, a car slammed into counterprotesters, killing one and injuring 19.
But according to the Justice Department and legal analysts, it's simply not possible for the government to file charges of domestic terrorism, because no such criminal law exists.
The Patriot Act does define domestic terrorism, and under this designation, the Justice Department has broad powers to investigate, said Neal Katyal, a Georgetown University law professor who served as former President Barack Obama's acting solicitor general and as the national security adviser to the Justice Department.
He said the government has three basic ways to approach the Charlottesville case.
"No. 1, this is a hate crime, under the hate crime statutes," he said. "The second is that this is a conspiracy to deprive individuals of civil rights."
"And the third is, this is an act of domestic terror, which isn't itself a crime," he noted. In short, the government can't file a criminal charge of domestic terrorism, but so defining the incident does allow it to investigate not only an individual suspect, but also any group the suspect may be affiliated with.
In an email to NPR, the Justice Department made the same point.
The commonwealth of Virginia, meanwhile, has charged Fields with second-degree murder and other crimes.
The Charlottesville case has again spurred a discussion about describing far-right violence as terrorism. After the al-Qaida attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, terrorism was associated primarily with radical Islamist groups based abroad.
The State Department has a list of nearly 60 groups, all foreign, that are identified as terrorist organizations. The vast majority are radical Islamists. And the government can charge a person — American or foreign — with terrorism on behalf of these international groups.
Consider this hypothetical: If the Charlottesville attacker emerged from the car and said he was acting on behalf of the Islamic State, he could be charged with international terrorism, according to Katyal.
Inside the U.S., the political debate appears to be shifting, with growing numbers calling for far-right extremism to be identified as terrorism. But that's almost entirely a political discussion, not a legal one.
On the legal front, there's still a good deal of resistance to creating a criminal charge of domestic terrorism.
"It's an incredibly broad label," said Hina Shamsi, director of the national security project at the American Civil Liberties Union. "There's a real danger of the government criminalizing ideology, theology and beliefs rather than focusing on specific criminal acts."
She said creating a domestic terrorism charge could quickly raise all sorts of political questions about free speech and religion. The ACLU opposes any such law, believing it could be politicized and used, for example, against anti-war groups or environmental activists.
Back in 1995, when Timothy McVeigh killed 168 people with a truck bomb at a federal building in Oklahoma City, it was widely described as the worst act of domestic terrorism to that point.
Yet he was charged with, convicted of and executed for killing federal agents and other crimes — but not terrorism.
The government has historically used the term "terrorism" as a general description for a range of violent acts, including those by right-wing extremists, as well as environmental, anti-abortion and far-left groups. But the specific criminal charge is never domestic terrorism.
Another case came to light Monday, when the Justice Department announced it had arrested a man for allegedly attempting to set off a truck bomb in front of a bank in Oklahoma City on Saturday.
The bomb didn't detonate, the department said. But its description of the case is similar to McVeigh's attack, claiming the suspect, Jerry Varnell, 23, was angry with the government.
The FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force is leading what's being described as a "domestic terrorism investigation." Yet the formal charge against Varnell is "attempting to use explosives to destroy a building in interstate commerce."
Not terrorism.

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-- Iran's Foreign Minister: Renegotiating Nuclear Deal Would Damage U.S. Credibility.
-- Border Patrol Agent Acquitted In 2012 Fatal Shooting Of Mexican Teen.
-- Prince's Family Files Wrongful Death Suit Against Hospital, Pharmacy Chain.
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Report: Confirmation Hearing To Be Delayed For V.A. Nominee. (Washington Post)
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Question: Messi zooms past Ronaldo as top earner

PARIS: Lionel Messi has overtaken Cristiano Ronaldo as the highest earner in world football while Jose Mourinho tops the managers’ chart, according to France Football magazine.
The Barcelona attacker is a long way ahead in the figures for the current season, pulling in 126 million euros ($154M) in salary, bonuses and commercial revenue while his great Real Madrid rival is making 94M euros.
Last season ‘CR7’ led with 87.5M euros with Messi on 76.5M euros.
That works out at 25,000 euros per minute pitch time this season for Messi in La Liga, the Champions League, the Spanish Cup and Supercup and four international appearances for Argentina this season, and assuming he plays all of Barcelona’s five remaining games.
The two players who have split the last 10 Ballons d’Or are followed by Paris Saint-Germain’s Brazilian star Neymar on 81.5M euros in the calculations to be published by France Football on Tuesday and released to AFP Monday.
There is a big gap to Ronaldo’s Real teammate Gareth Bale on 44M euros and Barca defender Gerard Pique on 29M euros.
Among coaches, Manchester United’s Mourinho remains the biggest earner with 26M euros.
Next comes China boss Marcello Lippi on 23M euros, follwoed by Diego Simeone at Atletico Madrid, Zinedine Zidane, who has won the last two Champions League titles at Real and Pep Guardiola, who has just led Manchester City to the English Premier League.
Top 5 player earners (gross wages, bonuses and commercial revenue in the 2017-2018 season):
1. Lionel Messi (ARG/Barcelona): 126M euros, 2. Cristiano Ronaldo (POR/Real Madrid: 94M euros, 3. Neymar (BRA/Paris Saint-Germain): 81.5M euros, 4. Gareth Bale (WAL/Real Madrid): 44M euros, 5. Gerard Pique (ESP/Barcelona): 29M euros
Top 5 coaches (gross wages, bonuses and commercial revenue in the 2017-2018 season):
1. Jose Mourinho (POR/Manchester United): 26M euros, 2. Marcello Lippi (ITA/China): 23M euros, 3. Diego Simeone (ARG/Atletico Madrid): 22M euros, 4. Zinedine Zidane (FRA/Real Madrid): 21M euros, 5. Pep Guardiola (ESP/Manchester City): 20M euros. AFP

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Ivan Rakitic believes Lionel Messi is 'the best player in history' despite Cristiano Ronaldo tying the Barcelona star on five Ballon d'Or awards last week.
Ronaldo was unveiled as the 2017 Ballon d'Or winner ahead of Messi, clinching the award for a record-equalling fifth time at the glitzy ceremony in Paris.
Messi and Ronaldo are now tied on five Ballon d'Ors each, having shared the last 10 awards between them since 2008.
Lionel Messi is the 'best player in history' according to his Barcelona team-mate Ivan Rakitic
But despite Ronaldo's latest gong, Barcelona midfielder Rakitic believes the Real Madrid star is 'unlucky' to have played in the shadow of Messi.
'I have a lot of respect for Cristiano Ronaldo,' Rakitic told Mundo Deportivo via FourFourTwo.
'But he has played with the best player in history, which is Lionel Messi. Those who come behind are unlucky enough to have coincided with him.'
Messi scored Barcelona's second as they beat 10-man Villarreal 2-0 on Sunday evening to maintain their five-point lead at the top of La Liga.
Cristiano Ronaldo with his five Ballon d'Or awards before Real Madrid's game on Saturday
Rakitic helped Barcelona to a 2-0 win over 10-man Villarreal on Sunday to stay top of La Liga
The Argentine's goal was his 14th in 15 league appearances this campaign and he sits comfortably top of La Liga's scoring charts.
Ronaldo, in comparison, has struggled in front of goal in the league this season with just four strikes in 11 games following his brace in Real Madrid's 5-0 win over Sevilla.
The pair have won every Ballon d'Or award since 2008, when Ronaldo first received the honour as a Manchester United player.


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Question: Facebook exec Naomi Gleit: We need more women in power

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Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg has long been vocal about the state of the female leadership lagging in the U.S.
"The truth is, men still run the world and I'm not sure it's going that well," she said at a conference in Stockton, California in September.
Now, another female Facebook executive said she agrees with Sandberg.
"We need more women in power. We need parity," VP of Social Good Naomi Gleit told CNN's Poppy Harlow in a new podcast episode of Boss Files. "It'd be awesome if women ran the world."
Gleit, who is one of the longest serving Facebook employees under founder Mark Zuckerberg, leads the company's social good efforts, which include crisis response, charitable giving, health and mentorship.
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Calling Sandberg a source of inspiration, Gleit said the COO does not "beat around the bush."
"I was there the day that she joined Facebook and she just instantaneously became the hero for all of the girls at the office," Gleit said. "We hadn't even met her yet and she was our hero."
A few years later, Sandberg wrote her best-selling book "Lean In" and became a high-profile supporter of women in the workplace.
"Here was this woman who is going to be Mark [Zuckerberg's] right hand and that just made us so proud and something to aspire to," Gleit said.
Facebook (FB), like many other tech giants, has struggled with diversifying its workforce.
In its most recent annual diversity report, Facebook made some small gains to its female workforce: 35% of its global workforce are women, up from 33% the prior year. In tech, its percentage of women has risen by two points to 19%.
Facebook also increased its Hispanic and black workforce to 5% and 3%, respectively. But numbers for its tech workforce, including coders, developers, and engineers, remained static.
"When you talk about diversity, it's not just gender. It's race, background, different perspectives," Gleit said, "Diverse teams perform better."
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When the company noticed women in India were not uploading profile pictures to Facebook, a project manager from the country said it was due to concerns that someone could steal their identity. Facebook took action.
It rolled out a tool that allows users in India to put safety guards on profile pictures. If the setting is activated, others are unable to download, share or send another person's profile picture via a Facebook message.
"I would have never known the experience that women in India are having on Facebook and she brought that perspective," Gleit said. "We're building a product for 2 billion people around the world, [so] our team needs to reflect that diversity."
In addition to diversity, Gleit urged there's work to be done to get more women into the tech industry.
"This is a watershed moment in Silicon Valley [and] in America," she said. "These female CEOs being harassed by these male VCs in positions of power over them. That needs to change too in order to see more women in the field."
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Her comments also come at a time when the company is under the microscope for allowing Russian propaganda to spread on the platform during the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
"We don't want this to happen on Facebook," Gleit told Harlow. "This is not okay. It's a new kind of threat, and this is a threat to national security."
Facebook estimates that close to 150 million Americans may have been exposed to content from the Internet Research Agency, a troll farm with ties to the Russian government, between June 2015 and August 2017 on Facebook and Instagram.
Last month, top lawyers for Facebook and other tech companies testified before Senate and House committees into how foreign nationals used these platforms to meddle in the 2016 presidential election.
Facebook's recent efforts to address the issue include a new portal that lets users see whether they liked or followed Russian propaganda on Facebook during the U.S. election. It's also built tools to increase ad transparency. For example, users will be able to see all active ads being run by any account, and an archive of ads related to U.S. federal elections.
Facebook is also doubling its team that works on safety and security issues to 20,000. About 1,000 employees are working on the issue of foreign government election meddling, according to Gleit.
"All of that said, we know that we can do more," Gleit said.
As for whether social media sites like Facebook should be more regulated, Gleit said: "We are already working within regulations and we should discuss more moving forward."

When dinner conversations turn to cryptocurrency, as they often do these days, I brace for a grilling, because I’ve been a reporter covering the topic for six years. “Do you own any?” “Is it too late to get rich?” “What’s the next big coin?” The answer is always the same: I’m neither an investor nor a financial adviser. (So no, I’m not going to tell you whether to buy or sell either.) But the main reason I won’t give you advice is that, to me, the price tag on a digital coin is its most boring feature. What’s most fascinating about cryptocurrencies is they don’t care who you are. Be you a man, woman, person of color, trans, someone with bad credit, someone with no credit—if you can log on to a computer and push the right buttons, you can send money just like anyone else. That accessibility is a big part of what makes this technology such a breakthrough. There’s no gatekeeper. That’s all possible because of how these currencies are built: Cryptocurrency transactions are processed and recorded by peer-to-peer networks—not any one individual, bank, or government. These networks get around relying on those institutions by putting to work a group of people on the network called miners. In the case of Bitcoin, for example, thousands of those miners are competing at this very moment to process a bunch of transactions and add them to a record called the blockchain. That competition is really a race to solve a series of cryptographic puzzles—the first one to make it across the finish line gets rewarded with a handful of new Bitcoins, hot off the minting press. Those entries in the blockchain record are then verified by other people on the network. Think about that for a second: a group of strangers working together to secure a global currency and payment system without the authority of any formal institution. That’s technologically astounding. It’s also completely changing how we use money, because a lot of things happen when banks and governments are not making all the rules. Suddenly borders, time zones, and working hours become irrelevant. You can send a payment anywhere in the world at any time and have it go through, generally, within minutes—you don’t need permission from your bank, you don’t need to go through a company like PayPal or Venmo. “There’s a massive opportunity here to change the global financial structure, to change a lot of ways that society interacts with technology,” says Elizabeth Stark, the CEO of Lightning Labs, which, in March, released an early version of much anticipated software that is designed to make Bitcoin transactions faster, cheaper, and more private. “And it is crucially important that women participate.” Playing Catch-Up This new financial world started out much like the old one did: male and white. In the early days of Bitcoin, for example, miners were disproportionately men who racked up much of the wealth. When it came time for these lucky few to reinvest in cryptocurrency development, the teams they built reflected the original gender disparity. Stories of sudden wealth followed, solidifying a stereotype of what leaders in cryptocurrency looked like. “A lot of people say to me, ‘Why do you think there’s not a lot of women in Bitcoin, in blockchain?’” says Connie Gallippi, the founder of BitGive, the first nonprofit in Bitcoin. “I say, ‘Actually, there are. They’re just not given the same level of exposure or recognition.’ That’s the problem.” Tavonia Evans, who worked in the tech industry for nearly 20 years before launching her own cryptocurrency, called $Guap, sees those women too and says they’re raising the bar because of how they’ve been held back in the past. “The crypto market is highly competitive at the moment with people fighting for influence,” she says. “The men I’ve observed vying for influence are not very tech-savvy at all. Women in tech, however, tend to overachieve, study more, and expand their expertise legitimately just so they can get in this space.” Perhaps that’s why they’re filling some of the top posts in cryptocurrency: Amber Baldet helped lead the Blockchain Center of Excellence at J.P. Morgan for more than two years; Elizabeth Rossiello founded a foreign exchange and payment platform in Africa called BitPesa; Galia Benartzi cofounded Bancor, a liquidity protocol that makes it easier to convert cryptocurrencies. And you can expect to hear more from these leaders, in part because they want women to get credit for the work they’re doing, which, Gallippi points out, can motivate more women to get involved. Baldet, who has spent a lot of her time in tech working with at-risk populations, stresses how having someone at the design table who represents the people who are going to use the technology can sometimes even be a matter of life or death. “Women, I’ve found, are quick to postulate scenarios that unfortunately often hit close to home, like how GPS location sharing or an emailed receipt might disclose sensitive activity to an abusive partner,” she says. “Later those same privacy features might make someone love your app because you kept them from accidentally ruining a surprise party. Diversity in development isn’t about a numbers game. It’s about filling in each other’s blind spots to build a safer, more useful product for everybody.” Designing these applications to be attractive to women is also just good business, says Meltem Demirors, who recently left her post as a vice president at Digital Currency Group, a cryptocurrency- and blockchain-focused investment firm that she helped launch in 2015. She notes that 80 percent of consumer spending in the U.S. is influenced by women. Not making these currencies work for women would mean “missing out on the biggest concentration of wealth,” she says. “It’s women who control money in this world.” A New Cryptocurrency Club This generation of female entrepreneurs, having watched men own the tech space, is intent on keeping the playing field level. They insist that closing the gender gap will result in a more inclusive technology. Gallippi, of BitGive, immediately noticed that cryptocurrency conferences had almost exclusively all-male speaker lineups. “It just drove me insane,” she says. So she began to compile a list of women in the space that she sent to conference organizers, urging them to draw more heavily from female talent. Even today when she attends panels, “very often I’m the only woman or one of the very few women speaking,” she says. Women, Gallippi says, should have a seat at the table. “They should be up in front of people, and that would draw more women in.” Other powerful women in the field have used their influence to pull women up the ranks. “I just brought on a female board member. I specifically went out there and said, ‘I’m looking for a female,’” says Rossiello, of BitPesa, a service that has operations across Africa, as well as in the U.K. and Europe, that allows users to make business payments and buy and sell Bitcoins from their mobile phones. “I think being that bold is important to change the cycle.” A new network is forming among these women, all of whom talk of the others in glowing, supportive terms. “Wealth in our world is unfortunately still synonymous with power,” says Demirors. “So if we want to see women in power, let’s help each other create wealth and let’s redeploy that wealth into helping other women grow amazing businesses. It’s not hard to foster more diversity. Empower women, hire them, give them capital. We are in the middle of one of the largest wealth-creation cycles of this decade, if not this century.” And she wants to make sure women don’t miss out. As Stark sees it, blockchain technologies today are analogous to the early days of the Internet. “Women need to be building this new frontier,” she says. “There’s way too much of the prior generation of the Internet that was not built by a diverse group of people.” Recently we’ve seen how a diet of all-white-male test data can lead to bias in artificial intelligence, overlooking people of color, for example. “I want to see broader participation,” says Stark, “broader perspectives contributing to better problem-solving.” Thanks to the women on the front lines, the industry may just have a shot at getting things right this time. Morgen Peck , a freelance technology writer, has been covering cryptocurrency since 2011.
Kathleen Breitman Kathleen Breitman By Morgen Peck Pinterest PHOTO: Getty Images Two hundred and thirty-two million dollars. That’s how much money poured into a cryptocurrency project called Tezos during a public crowdsale last July. At the time, it was a record-setting number. Kathleen Breitman, the co-founder and CEO of Tezos who developed most of the company’s protocol, had expected to raise about one tenth that amount, and when she got the news, it floored her. Literally. “I was prostrate with anxiety. It was terrible,” she remembers. Months earlier, Breitman had left a cushy job as the senior strategy associate at R3, a company that’s exploring blockchain use for the world’s biggest banks. Always an admirer of entrepreneurs, Breitman had decided to become one herself. So she boldly set off to pursue an idea that she and her husband, Arthur Breitman, had been buffing and polishing for years. The inspiration for Tezos came from watching the glacial pace at which Bitcoin evolves. With Bitcoin, the first decentralized currency, it’s really hard to get the right people to agree to make changes to the software. Some people say this is a feature not a bug, that one of the great benefits of Bitcoin is that you can be sure the fundamental rules of the currency—how many bitcoins there are and how often new ones are created, for example—will never change. But, as a result, most innovations make their debuts on other cryptocurrencies. This is the problem that Tezos seeks to avoid, and it does so by giving everyone who owns coins in the system, called “tezzies,” voting power on upgrades to the network. Imagine if owning an iPhone gave you some say in how Apple the company was run. And imagine if there was an automated way for you to push your proposals through the company. This is kind of what Tezos attempts to achieve. While it was Kathleen’s husband Arthur who first came up with the idea for Tezos, refining it and pushing it out to the public quickly became a team effort. “Arthur’s the brains. I’m the brawn,” says Breitman. Over the last nine months, her brawn has proved to be a crucial asset. The money raised in July brought with it a slew of problems and the project has weathered a parade of setbacks. First came a series of lawsuits against the Breitmans, their company, and the Tezos Foundation, which was set up to promote and foster the use of the Tezos blockchain. Then came a bitter public feud with the president of the foundation. It’s that organization, not the Breitmans, that gets to choose how to spend the money from the crowdsale. With the foundation in disarray, payments to the development team stalled. Breitman, who had just turned 27 when her plans started to unravel, remembers feeling overwhelmed. “I felt a tremendous sense of injustice that the funds aren’t being used for what they should be used for,” she recalls. Then something dawned on the couple. “My husband and I just sat down and said, it’s just a game,” says Breitman. As in: It is only the end result that matters. With this perspective, Breitman says she was able to let go of what could or should happen in a perfectly just (but non existent) universe, and focus entirely on the original goal of making Tezos work in this universe. “We just have to ship this code and just play the game,” says Breitman. Today, Breitman may be slightly closer to winning. One lawsuit was dismissed, and one is pending, the board of the Tezos Foundation has been restructured, and technical development is once more underway, with the Tezos team aiming to have a product ready by summer.
Connie Gallippi Connie Gallippi By Morgen Peck Pinterest PHOTO: ninaphototahoe.com For some, inspiration comes when they’re driving on an open highway. For some, it happens as the brain slowly shifts toward sleep. But for Connie Gallippi, the lightning bolt of creativity struck while she was washing her hands in the bathroom at a Bitcoin conference in San Jose, California in 2013. The technology was still relatively niche, but at the conference center nearly everyone was treating it like the next dot com boom. “It was magical. And I just caught that energy,” says Gallippi. And that day in the bathroom, Gallippi decided that the Bitcoin community needed a philanthropic organization—and that she was going to be the person to run it. “Nothing like that’s ever happened to me before. It was like this vision that came to me,” recalls Gallippi. The vision arrived complete with a name: BitGive. When Gallippi set up a foundation two months later, that’s the name she would use. If Bitcoin was going to usher in the next massive tech explosion, she reasoned, the people making their fortunes should have an easy way to share that wealth responsibly. “I said, you guys have to have a foundation that is giving back,” says Gallippi. “Because this is going to be huge. And if you can just siphon off a fraction of what's going to happen here and use it to give back, that would be amazing.” Today, BitGive is the number one place to go if you own Bitcoin and want to donate some of your digital cash to charity. Over the last five years, the organization has worked with some of the most well-known international relief efforts, such as Medic Mobile and Save the Children, helping them to add Bitcoin to their donation streams and running fundraising campaigns aimed at people in the Bitcoin community. Gallippi started BitGive because she thought something new, with the scale of the dot com boom, should have a philanthropic arm. Her vision was like a Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, but instead of being an arm for one company, it would be for the entire industry. If that goal wasn’t big enough, she has recently set her sights much higher. A new platform on the BitGive website, called GiveTrack, leverages Bitcoin technology to hold charities more accountable for the donations they receive. Because Bitcoin publicly records every transaction ever made in the system, GiveTrack can use that record to show people who make donations exactly where their money is spent. GiveTrack launched in October and is still being tested. But Gallippi hopes it will eventually help organizations doing good work to share that and meet higher accountability standards—inherently pressuring others to raise their game. “The idea is to build trust with donors and increase impact through more donor engagement,” she says. “Transparency is one way to do that.”
Elizabeth Rossiello Elizabeth Rossiello By Morgen Peck Pinterest PHOTO: Nyra Lang There may be no woman who better exemplifies the international reach and relevance of the cryptocurrency revolution than Elizabeth Rossiello. Originally a native of Queens, New York, Rossiello has lived all over the world and is now raising her two daughters in Dakar, Senegal, with her French husband. Meanwhile, she is running one of the most widely known companies in the cryptocurrency space. BitPesa, which she started in 2013 at the age of 31, uses Bitcoin and blockchain technology to make it easier and faster to make payments between African currencies and the rest of the world. “How do you run a finance company when you’re not in Hong Kong or London or New York?” says Rossiello. “That’s what crypto does. It lets you build these really cool, connected things from anywhere. And I’ve proven that with this company.” Bitcoin, with its high-speed, low-cost and low barrier to use borderless payment network, provided the financial infrastructure to allow BitPesa to enter the market and scale-up. But building the company itself took a fair amount of toil and grit. Rossiello made the decision to do so after years of working in finance. In 2012, while pregnant with her second child, she was pursuing consultant work, but found it difficult to get a full-time contract—despite having deep experience in risk analysis and microfinance, and an impressive list of previous employers including Goldman Sachs and Credit Suisse. “Nobody would hire me because I was a pregnant woman with a small child and the work would involve frequent travel and long hours. I was losing jobs to people who had less experience,” she says. Meanwhile, people in the industry were still taking her to lunch and picking her brain for advice. They valued her advice, Rossiello realized, and she was giving it away for free. “So, I was like F this. I’m starting my own company,” she says. Rossiello was introduced to Bitcoin and quickly realized both its similarities and improvements over mobile money, with which she was very familiar. In Kenya, where she was living at the time, people have been using a service called M-Pesa to make payments on their phone for years. “You don’t bring your wallet anywhere. You just bring your phone and you can pay ten cents for a tomato, or a thousand dollars for a plane ticket or your kid’s tuition for a semester,” says Rossiello. “Bitcoin was just one more iteration of that.” One of Rossiello’s former associates from her consulting days provided some seed funding for BitPesa, and the company really took off after a series-A round of funding in which billionaire investor Tim Draper threw his hat in the ring. “It was like a magnet. The ball just started rolling and it hasn’t really stopped,” says Rossiello. BitPesa is now in seven African countries, Europe, and the U.K. By helping people in frontier markets accept and make payments in their local currencies, the company makes it possible for businesses to grow faster and enter new markets that would have been too expensive or difficult before. She is also making sure the offices of BitPesa represent the communities where they are located. Of the 70 team members now working for BitPesa, more than 70 percent are African. And half are women.
Tavonia Evans Tavonia Evans By Morgen Peck Pinterest PHOTO: Nyra Lang When Tavonia Evans came up with the idea for the new cryptocurrency, $GUAP, the first people she told about it were her sons Saadiq, 20, and Errick Jr., nine. And it makes sense that she would start the pitch right in her own family, because ultimately, that’s who she wants to see using her coins. $GUAP is specifically designed to serve black consumers and to reward spending behaviors that keep the money circulating in an ecosystem of black-owned businesses. “We want to raise the value of our monetary contribution in society. We want to elevate that. We want to highlight that,” says Evans. Based in Atlanta, Georgia, the single mother of eight and a self-professed data nerd says she sees two serious problems with the position of black consumers in the modern economy. One: They don’t get nearly enough credit for their spending power. Although black consumers spend $1.2 trillion every year, companies often underestimate how much their brands depend on black consumers, and are therefore less inclined to reinvest their profits in those communities, explains Evans. And two: The money that does make it into black communities, she argues, doesn’t stay there long enough because people just aren’t spending it where they live. Evans has an ambitious plan to solve both these problems. The $GUAP currency exists as a set of 10 billion tokens on the Ethereum blockchain. A seven-member startup team is now disbursing a portion of those tokens in a crowdsale. According to Evans, the money raised in the sale, as well as the remaining tokens, will be used, in part, to build a network of $GUAP-accepting merchants in the black community and to reward consumers for spending money at those businesses, kind of like a typical credit card rewards program. But Evans, who has spent 20 years in the technology industry and has one startup and multiple software development jobs already behind her, is primarily excited about using $GUAP to illustrate the power of black consumers. Because the tokens live on a public blockchain, all $GUAP transactions will be available for analysis, providing a rare glimpse into the way black consumers are spending their money. “We want to be able to capture that data and use it for our benefit,” says Evans. “It’s just unclaimed data. It’s just sitting out there waiting for somebody to just come in and claim it and say, okay we’re going to leverage this.” For any of this to work, Evans must first convince people to use $GUAP. Which is why most of her effort has gone to explaining to people what a cryptocurrency is and how it works. “With the market that we're representing, we have to work doubly hard to educate people,” says Evans. Evans has sought to promote the cryptocurrency in a way that speaks to the black community, starting with the choice of name, which is slang for a whole-lotta-cash. “When they hear ‘GUAP’ they know it's money. So that's half the battle,” says Evans. “Now we get to explain the cryptocurrency part of it. But we've already opened the door.” If her nine-year-old son is any indication, the idea has a natural appeal. The first question Errick Jr. asked was, “can I have some?”
Tess Rinearson Tess Rinearson By Samantha Leach Pinterest PHOTO: Christian Peacock Tess Rinearson, 24, isn’t shy about telling you she’s a college dropout. After studying computer science at University of Pennsylvania and Carnegie Mellon University, Rinearson was offered an engineering job at the tech startup Medium during her sophomore year. She jumped at the chance to move to San Francisco—and never looked back. But living near Silicon Valley isn’t what led her to cryptocurrency. That journey started on a ski trip with friends to Lake Tahoe in 2015. She almost didn’t go—she still doesn’t know how to ski—but decided she’d like a weekend away. When she boarded the bus to make the trek, she happened to sit next to a fellow engineer. He talked her ear off about Bitcoin and its game-changing aspects, and by the time the bus pulled up to the mountain she’d decided to go all in on trying to land a job at Chain, a company that partners with other companies and organizations like Visa, Nasdaq, and Citigroup to build blockchain networks for their financial services. “I was like, I don’t want the next financial system to be designed by only white, libertarian leaning men,” she explains. “There was a little bit of, I want to help write this story too.” She got that job, and as an engineering manager at the company, she’s specifically involved in developing a product called Sequence—which takes the blockchain technology and securely puts it in the cloud. There are currently 23 people working at Chain, only six of whom are women. Rinearson understands the male-dominated culture of both finance and tech can lead some women to shy away from jumping into the industry, so she’s made it her mission to get more women involved—starting with high schoolers. She’s collaborated with Girls Who Code to teach them about Bitcoin. (“The girls totally got it,” she says. “By the end of it they knew what was going on with Bitcoin far more than the investment bros who can dominate the space.”) And later taught a program at the MIT Media Lab that introduced college students from underrepresented backgrounds to blockchain technology. Rinearson is also making all things crypto more accessible: She keeps a blog on Medium and has even created a Bitcoin explainer guide featuring poop and baby cherub emojis. Since cryptocurrency is such a male-dominated industry, outside of work Rinearson searches for female camaraderie in her extracurricular activities—and she’s found it in kettlebell competitions, sometimes hitting the gym to train. “It’s a really weird niche sport. It’s literally how many times can you lift like 8 kgs or 12 kgs over your head in 10 minutes without stopping, so it’s an endurance event,” she explains. “But I do it, in part because there’s a ton of women involved and it’s fun to be in this space with these literally strong women.”
Meltem Demirors Meltem Demirors By Morgen Peck Pinterest PHOTO: Nyra Lang Meltem Demirors is a passionate, outspoken advocate for the cryptocurrency revolution. She’s also savvy enough to ignore the hype. If you ever meet her, prepare to be schooled on how to buy, trade and safely store cryptocurrencies. (She’ll have you up and running in five minutes!) But, also be prepared for a lesson about how corrupt and scam-ridden the cryptocurrency world has become. “I think most of us got into crypto because we believed it would change existing power structures in our world,” she says. However, “it’s become so dominated and driven by greed. And that’s not why I got involved.” Indeed, to those who watch the space closely, there seems to be no shortage of ways to lose all your money in the blink of an eye, be it by investing in a sham startup or unwittingly sending everything you own to a hacker. But this sad state of affairs has not pushed Demirors away from cryptocurrency. If anything, it’s pushing her to fix it. First she was the VP of development at Digital Currency Group, a venture capital company she helped launch that invests exclusively in cryptocurrency and blockchain projects. She’s used her platform as an industry leader to talk about the need for diversity and inclusion in the cryptocurrency space, a subject that is close to her heart—and one that runs in the family. Demirors’ mother came from extreme poverty in her native Turkey, and now runs a charity there that funds the education of underprivileged women. (They are now working together to try to figure out how to incorporate cryptocurrency into the organization.) Since early 2017, Demirors has published a blog called Leaders Series in which she interviews thought leaders (all of whom happen to be female) in cryptocurrency and calls attention to their work. Those conversations were one of the motivating factors behind her decision to launch her own firm, Athena Capital, last fall. The new firm is focused on investing in products and services that improve usability and access to digital currencies. “Instead of sitting here and complaining about it,” meaning the lack of women and people of color in cryptocurrency, “I’m going to actually go and do something,” Demirors says. In the past, she says, she has felt undermined or underestimated. “So I’m going to go out on my own and create the type of company and the type of environment and the type of ecosystem that I want to participate in,” she says. “It’s not hard to foster more diversity. Empower women, hire them, give them capital.” As she sets out on her new venture, bad actors in the space would be foolish to expect any mercy from Demirors. “I’m going to go break some shit,” she says.
Amber Baldet Amber Baldet By Morgen Peck Pinterest PHOTO: Nyra Lang The very idea of cryptocurrency was to get around traditional institutions—banks and governments that have been the financial gatekeepers for decades—and create an entirely new payment system. So it’s somewhat ironic that when Bitcoin gained widespread attention Amber Baldet would be working at J.P. Morgan, one of the very banks that Bitcoin was designed to disrupt. Even more remarkable: how much she managed to achieve there. With Baldet as the lead of its Blockchain Center of Excellence, J.P. Morgan has asserted itself as one of the first banks to take blockchain technology seriously, and one of the few to release working software. Baldet first heard about Bitcoin in 2011 from friends in the information security industry, long before J.P. Morgan would make a name for itself as a pioneer in the space. “I initially thought cryptocurrency would remain the niche of hackers and cypherpunks,” Amber Baldet admits. Nevertheless, its tech advancements stayed on her radar. And when conversations about blockchain technology finally began to bubble up at work, Baldet was ready to answer questions. “I've always been the person that has the contrarian viewpoint in the room,” says Baldet. “So, it wasn't very different to be at J.P. Morgan and talking to people about cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology before it was a cool thing to do. I worked on finding common ground.” After eight years at the bank, Baldet recently left to start a company of her own developing software for businesses exploring blockchain. And many in the industry are betting on her to, yet again, defy expectations. In the nine years since Bitcoin was invented, blockchain technology and the communities working on it have splintered in competition. Tribes have formed and dogmas have been formulated. Baldet has the depth of knowledge and range of experience to reach across those cultural borders, in part because she adheres to few borders in her own life. As a mother, a gamer, a marathon runner, a spoken word artist, and a frequent speaker at hacker conferences, it seems there is no limits to Baldet’s interest and ambition. “The work I did at J.P. Morgan exposed me to a wide berth of perspectives,” she says, from investment banks to central banks to startups to hardcore blockchain developers. “Adding my own network of information security and hacker types, I have a relatively unique view on where we are going.” For now, details about her new company are still under wraps, as Baldet has yet to make a formal announcement, but she promises the work she is doing will reach beyond the initial goals of Bitcoin. The potential she sees in blockchain technology is far more ambitious and she’s convinced that decentralized monetary systems could be a force for social good. “The Internet of Value is just beginning to take shape, and it isn't just about peer to peer payments,” she says. “We're redefining how businesses and governments engage with each other, global citizens, and consumers. Building ethical, secure, scalable systems that work in the real world is a huge responsibility and I can't wait to share what we're working on.”
Galia Benartzi Galia Benartzi By Samantha Leach Pinterest PHOTO: Maayan Benartzi Disruption is in Galia Benartzi’s blood. Born in Palo Alto, to Israeli immigrant parents, she had a front-row seat to the rise of the tech boom. So it comes as no surprise that soon after graduating from Dartmouth, Benartzi, 35, co-founded a social gaming company for smartphones, called Mytopia. But in 2010, when she and her partners sold the company, “the guys bought fancy cars and I went to graduate school to study international relations and economics, which,” she jokes, “costs the same, by the way!” Benartzi attended Johns Hopkins’ School of Advanced International Studies in Bologna, Italy. It was there—in a classroom not far from the piazzas and cafes—that she began to learn some of the problems of the international financial system. “It’s really problematic,” she says. “We have this system that breeds inequality and we see it in every single nation. Income gaps are getting wider, and the wealth distribution is more and more unfair. We have more poor people and richer rich people ever before.” After finishing the program, Benartzi went back to Palo Alto for work and heard about this mysterious new currency called Bitcoin . Benartzi’s mind was blown. She remembers thinking, “Wow! We can have NON-governmental money?” Having spent two full years studying the inequalities of the current banking system, she knew she had to be part of the cryptocurrency movement. “Since that moment there’s been nothing else on my mind,” she recalls. “And then, how do we get more women [involved]...It’s my intuition that if women are equally involved in designing the new financial system it will be much better for society.” In 2017 Benartzi helped create Bancor Protocol—a non-profit foundation specializing in currency conversion for cryptographic tokens. She describes Bancor as “a way for anyone to be able to create their own currency” and still be “automatically exchangeable” with each other. “Our vision is not to have a big fat middleman layer,” she says. “We’re not all paying gatekeepers and fees along the way in order to make the trade.” Currently, Bancor facilitates automated conversions for 68 different types of cryptocurrencies. When you hear about cryptocurrency in the news, it’s typically about the wins and losses, or whether the currency will actually survive. But for Benartzi, crypto is about so much more than its monetary value. “People ask, ‘How much did you make? 20X on this, 100X on this?’ [That’s] missing the point,” she says. “Some people are here to make money. But some of us feel the urgency to use this technology to make the world better.” Benartzi is trying to do that. Currently about 35 to 40 percent of Bancor’s employees are female—and she’d like to boost those numbers. One hurdle: She gets so many fewer resumes from female candidates. “I would rather take a woman who is less qualified and put in the extra energy to train her,” she says. “Gender balance in a company is essential, and yet if you don’t actively fight for it—especially in tech and crypto—it will easily elude you. It takes extra time and effort to seek out diverse and qualified candidates and to support those talented individuals attempting to break into the space. This effort is well worth it in the long run.” And her hope is that soon she’ll see more and more resumes from females working in cryptocurrency. Her advice? “There are crypto and blockchain meetups all over the country—go to them knowing nothing! Who cares? If this field really calls to you, find the coolest crypto company and get a job there. It doesn’t matter if you paint the walls there, you’ll be absorbing information and you’ll find the way you’re most passionate about contributing.”


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