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The ILO has taken good note of the publication of the World Development Report 2019: The Changing Nature of Work. It covers issues that go to the heart of the priorities of the ILO itself and are of fundamental importance to the ILO and its constituents. As the multilateral system strives to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), it is important that multilateral agencies work together towards fair, inclusive and sustainable development.
We wish to acknowledge the opportunity created by the World Bank during the drafting of the WDR to provide feedback. Updated drafts of the report appeared regularly on the World Bank's public website with an invitation for comments. Not only did the ILO provide written comments to the WDR team, but at the Bank's suggestion we held a day-long meeting in Geneva to discuss the draft. The meeting provided a forum for exchanging candid views on a range of issues.
We appreciate that the WDR as published differs from earlier versions on some issues that we discussed. For example, the final version of the WDR places greater importance on the role of collective bargaining. Advocacy of profit-sharing in lieu of a minimum wage, which appeared in earlier versions, no longer appears in the report. We hope these revisions in approach reflect the discussions held with the ILO and other institutions.
Nonetheless, we remain concerned about the WDR's approach to labour market institutions, regulations, the informal economy and social protection, and its lack of consideration of the gender dynamics of the changing nature of work. In addition, where we may agree with certain observations in the WDR, we find that the analysis and policy solutions fall short of a comprehensive approach to reducing inequality.
We concur with the WDR 2019's analysis that the anxiety about the sweeping impact of technology on employment is on balance unfounded. One of the most fundamental challenges to a just jobs transition consists in closing the critical gaps in skills and education requirements that rapid technological change creates. We therefore also agree with the World Bank report that traditional education and training systems have to undergo major adjustments to make the most of the evolving world of work. Failing to address this fundamental challenge risks leaving many workers behind and contributing yet more to the earnings and income inequality that has beset much of the world in recent years.
While we agree with the importance of early childhood development and tertiary education, the WDR lacks a substantive discussion of the concept of lifelong learning and does not sufficiently address its importance and the urgency to change the current model. The report is also silent on the financing of lifelong learning and on the use of financial incentives to encourage the participation of individuals and employers in post-compulsory education and training.
The challenge of adapting our current systems of lifelong learning becomes all the more evident when we consider how the employment relationship itself is changing. Companies have the greatest incentive to invest in their workers -- because they reap the greatest gains – when workers remain with them over a long period of time. However, at the very moment when investing in worker training has become paramount, we may be facing a world in which workers switch more frequently among companies. The problem is exacerbated with growing numbers of workers in the platform economy and other workers with weak attachments to companies.
We therefore need to adapt and strengthen our lifelong learning policies. First of all, we urgently need to expand public funding to cover continuing training of the adult workforce. But government can't do this alone. We also need incentives for employers to co-fund training. Second, we need to adopt a rights-based approach to lifelong learning that gives everyone the possibility of training at any point of their working life. Third, rethinking lifelong learning requires a whole-of-government approach to coordinate a number of policy actions 1: the implementation of labour market measures to support workers during their job transitions; strengthening relevant support systems (e.g. career guidance and childcare during training to enable parents to invest in their skills); targeting workers in SMEs and low skilled workers who are traditionally under-represented in training; and ensuring tripartite social dialogue and involvement of social partners in national, sectoral and local governance arrangements to make sure that policies are fair and are implemented. Unless we take these steps, rapid technological change stands to exacerbate inequality.
Thus, we believe that the WDR 2019 misses an important opportunity to address one of the most fundamental issues confronting policy makers in the future of work.
We suggest as well that the World Bank's new Human Capital Index may provide only a partial metric, because individual capability must be measured as a lifelong endeavour. Furthermore, a country's capacity to innovate depends on public strategies to help transform a society's knowledge base. Governments need to develop comprehensive learning strategies to foster a more creative and innovative workforce. Such learning strategies embrace learning in formal education and training, in families and communities, in professional and social networks, and in enterprises and industries. Positive labour market transformations in a context of rapid technological change thus fundamentally depend on the political will to enhance societal learning in all its dimensions.
Future disruptions in the world of work are likely to reveal labour market imperfections and possibly create new forms of imperfections and, as a result, labour regulation will continue to play a critical -- and perhaps even more critical -- role. The real issue is how to adjust labour regulation to the new reality, instead of resorting to a path of de-regulation or under-regulation as suggested by the WDR 2019. Moreover, both efficiency and distributional aspects need to be considered in evaluating the impact of labour market regulation on employment and decent work. This would be a better way of organizing our policy debates, shifting away from a deregulatory drive towards a more balanced approach. Well-designed labour market institutions are useful tools for labour protection. Minimum wages, for example, remain a useful instrument of labour protection and ensure that workers are paid at least minimally decent wages.
The WDR 2019 advocates increased flexibility on the labour market to adapt more easily to the rapid changes on the labour market. ILO research, however, shows that innovation at firm level does not require increased flexibility2. Furthermore, while there are advantages of more flexible work arrangements, the WDR 2019 does not assess their potentially negative impacts on workers, enterprises and societies. ILO research3 provides a more balanced view on the issue; while some workers might benefit from more dynamic labour markets, others might face greater insecurity of employment and income, or have increased difficulties in reconciling work with family and other personal responsibilities.
The view articulated in the WDR 2019 that labour market institutions are a fundamental obstacle to the formalization of the informal economy is a generalization that is unsubstantiated by empirical findings. The evidence reveals that there are many different drivers of informality, including the inability of the economy to create enough formal jobs, weak enforcement systems, lack of transparency and accountability of public institutions, low productivity, as well as lack of worker voice and representation. Drivers vary according to countries and to groups of workers and economic units concerned. An inadequate or absent regulatory framework is also a driver of informality. The issue is not whether to regulate or deregulate, but how to reform ill-designed regulations to arrive at a good balance between under- and over-regulation. Such a country-specific balance will encourage formalization of economic units and employment and provide workers with adequate rights, obligations and protections.
We agree with the WDR 2019's call for strengthening social protection systems. However, many elements of the World Bank's proposal would in effect lead to the weakening of social protection systems, in particular by undermining public social insurance.
The ILO welcomes the strong focus on universalism, as promoted under the Global Partnership for Universal Social Protection (USP2030) launched by World Bank President Kim and ILO Director-General Ryder in September 2016. The WDR's focus on progressive universalism and expanding social assistance, calling for a guaranteed social minimum financed from the general budget, shows the importance of strengthening access to at least a basic level of social protection, that is, a social protection floor.
However, the ILO is concerned that the WDR advocates the weakening of fundamental elements of social protection systems. Achieving redistribution and inclusive growth exclusively through social assistance is illusory in the absence of a strong mix of labour market regulation and public social insurance schemes that relieve the pressure on social assistance. The ILO's approach, agreed by all governments, employers' and workers' organisations, emphasizes that, while a social protection floor represents a necessary and fundamental element of social protection systems, it needs to be complemented by schemes that provide an adequate level of protection to large groups of the population, including the middle classes. This is usually achieved through social insurance schemes.
The WDR 2019 lacks substance on how the extension of coverage and benefits to the broad majority of the population, including the working and middle classes, will be achieved in developing countries. While advocating for a Universal Basic Income (UBI) model, the report does not provide sufficient detail on benefit levels, financing and design to show how a UBI would guarantee a social minimum. In particular, the report does not present a convincing argument as to how developing countries could move from a limited safety nets approach to a full-fledged UBI that would be sufficiently high to prevent poverty, given their often limited tax base. We caution against a one-size-fits-all approach and emphasize the need to seek the most effective and efficient combination of benefits and schemes as determined in each national context in line with ILO principles and standards.
The report presents social insurance as an instrument of the past, which has lost most of its pertinence given the "changing nature of work". Yet for over 100 years, both developed and developing countries have successfully developed different social insurance models, adapted to national and regional contexts (including, for example, the Beveridge model and its different adaptations, and the Nordic model of combining universal tax-funded schemes with social insurance, as well as different adaptations in Latin America, Africa and Asia).
The WDR's proposal for "minimum social insurance", achieved through cuts to employers' contributions, would result in increased levels of inequality and endanger the sustainability of social protection systems. Reduced contributions would also undermine coverage and benefit levels, which would result in hardship and increased poverty, especially for low wage earners. Decoupling social insurance from work, cutting employers' social insurance contributions or introducing very low ceilings for insurable earnings would severely undermine social security systems by constraining their inflow of resources.
To compensate for the cutback of public social insurance to a "basic social insurance", the WDR 2019 proposes mandatory and voluntary privately-managed individual savings mechanisms, despite the evidence that these schemes are unable to provide social protection for large parts of the population. Pension privatization, implemented in about 30 countries, did not deliver expected results. Full or partial privatization underperformed: coverage stagnated, benefits deteriorated, gender inequalities compounded, administration costs increased, systemic risks were transferred to individuals and fiscal positions worsened significantly given the high transition costs. As a result, the majority of countries that embarked on pension privatization are reversing these reforms. Similarly, the introduction of unemployment savings accounts has not led to the expected results, as adequate levels of protection are achieved only for those with the lowest risks of unemployment while those who are most exposed to the risks, including most of the middle class, are being left behind.
Moving from collectively financed mechanisms to individual savings mechanisms results in adverse effects, particularly for women with non-linear working lives and disadvantaged workers, who are not in a position to build up sufficient savings to ensure adequate levels of protection. If the redistributive components of social security systems are eliminated with the introduction of individual saving accounts, those with low incomes, disrupted work careers or in non-standard forms of employment who have low savings will end up with correspondingly low pensions, thereby increasing inequalities.
The WDR's proposals to separate redistribution from risk-sharing and decouple social protection from employment therefore stand to undermine the fundamental principles of social protection systems in favour of an agenda for deregulation.
A world with deregulated labour markets combined with minimal social assistance and social insurance would have high human and economic costs. As indicated in these ILO remarks, the WDR 2019 model stands to provide only low levels of employment and income security for the broad majority of the population and would not be likely to achieve the objectives of poverty reduction, shared prosperity and inclusive growth.
Such a model cannot serve as the basis for a new social contract. While the WDR's proposals for taxing the largest corporations (particularly the big data firms), creating a strong regime of data protections, better investments in education, and job creation could be important elements, without a firm anchor in decent work which includes strong labour regulations and robust social protection the social contract proposed in the WDR will not lead to sustainable development and inclusive growth. Limited proposals to embed some element of fairness cannot substitute for the framework provided by decent work, founded on fundamental principles and rights at work and international labour standards that result from tripartite consensus and that the overwhelming majority of countries have embraced. The absence of serious consideration of gender inequality throughout the report misses a further opportunity to address one of the key challenges to inclusive growth. The decent work agenda, which advances the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda, presents a more coherent, balanced and equitable path to achieving inclusive growth and sustainable development.
1 Research on this issue identified three success factors for effective coordination: first, clarity of roles, responsibilities, decision making power authority and purpose; second, strong consultative mechanisms, including institutional ones; and third, influence over decisions about funding allocations. See ILO/UNESCO 2018. Taking a Whole of Government Approach to Skills Development. International Labour Office, Geneva.
2 ILO. 2017. WESO 2017: Sustainable enterprises and jobs. International Labour Office – Geneva.
3 ILO. 2016. Non-standard employment around the world: Understanding challenges, shaping prospects. International Labour Office – Geneva.
4 Williams, C.C., Kedir, A., 2017. Explaining Cross-National Variations in the Prevalence of Informal Sector Entrepreneurship: lessons from a survey of 142 countries. Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship.
5 ILO. 2017. World Social Protection Report 2017-19: Universal Social Protection to Achieve the Sustainable development Goals. Geneva.
6 ILO. 2014. Uruguay Monotax: Promoting formalization and protection of independent workers. Geneva; ILO. 2018. Innovative approaches for ensuring universal social protection for the future of work. Geneva.
7 Such an analysis can be found in ILO, 2016. Non-standard forms of employment: Understanding challenges, shaping prospects. International Labour Office, Geneva.


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The Great French Organ Tradition with Paul Jacobs
June 5, 2019 | By Allison Abbott
Publicity Associate, Hemsing Associates
Mr. Jacobs to Undertake Recital Series at Juilliard's Paul Hall, the Church of St. Mary the Virgin,
& St. Ignatius Loyola Three Tuesdays in September – 9/10, 9/17, & 9/24, 2019
Programs Include Works from the Romantic, Modern, and Contemporary Eras
Grammy Award-winning American organist Paul Jacobs—deemed "a grand New York institution" by James R. Oestreich of The New York Times (February 18, 2018)— will launch the fall season by highlighting the organ on the New York concert scene, performing in a three-recital series for solo organ in September 2019. Although months in the planning, these French programs assumed new meaning the night of April 15 to 16, 2019, when the Grand Organ of Notre-Dame Cathedral survived the devastating inferno in Paris.
The series will give New Yorkers the rare opportunity to hear this master organist on three important New York instruments: on the Holtkamp organ in the Juilliard School's Paul Recital Hall, September 10; the 1933 Aeolian-Skinner "Opus 891" at the Church of St. Mary the Virgin September 17; and St. Ignatius Loyola's 1993 Mander Organ, September 24. All three concerts take place Tuesday evenings at 7:30 p.m. For the complete program, please see pg. 2.
Tickets for each performance will be $20, available for purchase individually through each venue: The Juilliard School's Janet and Leonard Kramer Box Office, The Church of St. Mary the Virgin, and St. Ignatius Loyola Church's Sacred Music in a Sacred Space.
"The French have always been rightly proud of their organ music," says Mr. Jacobs. "The culture has produced scores of excellent composers and virtuoso performers, not to mention masterpieces like Messiaen's Messe de la Pentecôte, Duruflé's Suite, and Vierne's Sixth Organ Symphony, to name but a few. In constructing these particular programs, I wanted to offer, here in New York, a glimpse of this tradition over the past 200 years, including the familiar with the exotic, the profane with the sacred, the intimate with the sublime."
The series opens at Paul Hall September 10th, and a highlight of that program will include the US premiere of Naji Hakim's Tanets, inspired by the rhythm of the Basque fandango. The piece, in three parts, develops a joyful theme in a perpetuum mobile of sixteenth notes, in a tonal game of modulation. On September 17th, at the Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Mr. Jacobs will perform the music of Jean Guillou, who died earlier this year at age 88. This is the venue where Mr. Jacobs performed the complete organ works of Messiaen in 2004, and subsequently recorded the composer's Livre du Saint-Sacrement, earning him a 2011 GRAMMY Award. The series concludes on September 24th, at St. Ignatius Loyola with Louis Vierne's sixth and final Organ Symphony, Op. 59. Vierne was organist of Notre-Dame from 1900 to 1937, where he died high up in the gallery at the organ console during a performance.
Tuesday evening, September 10, 2019, 7:30 pm, Paul Recital Hall at The Juilliard School,155 W 65th St, NYC 10023
Marcel Dupré (1886-1971): Variations sur un Noël, Op. 20
Nadia Boulanger (1887-1979): Trois Pièces pour orgue
I. Prélude
II. Petit Canon
III. Improvisation
César Franck (1822-1890): Pièce Héroïque
Jehan Alain (1911-1940): Le jardin suspendu
Naji Hakim (b. 1955): Tanets
Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921): Le Cygne
Alexandre Guilmant (1837-1911): Sonata No. 1 in D Minor, Op. 42
I. Introduction-Allegro
III. Finale
Tuesday evening, September 17, 2019, at 7:30 pm, The Church of St. Mary the Virgin, 145 W 46th St, NYC 10036
Jean Langlais (1907-1991): « Acclamations Carolingiennes » from Suite Médiévale, Op. 56
Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992): Messe de la Pentecôte
I. Les langues de feu—The tongues of fire
II. Les choses visibles et invisibles—Things visible and
III. Le don de Sagesse—The gift of wisdom
IV. Les oiseaux et les sources—The birds and the fountains
V. Le vent de l'Esprit—The wind of the Spirit
Henri Mulet (1878-1967): « Rosace » from Esquisses Byzantine
Jean Guillou (1930-2019): Saga No. 4, Op. 20
Maurice Duruflé (1902-1986): Suite, Op. 5
II. Sicilienne
III. Toccata
Tuesday evening, September 24, 2019, at 7:30 pm, St. Ignatius Loyola Church, 980 Park Ave, NYC 10028
Léon Boëllmann (1862-1897): Suite Gothique, Op. 25
Introduction-Choral
Menuet
Prière à Notre Dame
Thierry Escaich (b. 1965): « Eaux natales » from Poèmes pour orgue
Jeanne Demessieux (1921-1968): Twelve Preludes on Gregorian Themes
Tu Es Petrus – Marcia
Adeste Fideles – Musette
O Filii – Variations
Charles-Marie Widor (1844-1937): "Andante Sostenuto" from Symphonie Gothique, Op. 70
Louis Vierne (1870-1937): Symphonie in B Minor, Op. 59
Introduction-Allegro
Heralded as "one of the major musicians of our time" by Alex Ross of The New Yorker and as "America's leading organ performer" by The Economist, the internationally celebrated organist Paul Jacobs combines a probing intellect and extraordinary technical mastery with an unusually large repertoire, both old and new. An eloquent champion of his instrument, Mr. Jacobs is known for his imaginative interpretations and charismatic stage presence. He has performed to great critical acclaim on five continents and in each of the fifty United States and is the only organist ever to have won a GRAMMY Award.
Mr. Jacobs has transfixed audiences, colleagues, and critics alike with landmark performances of the complete works for solo organ by J.S. Bach and Messiaen, as well as works by a vast array of other composers. Mr. Jacobs made musical history at the age of 23 when he played Bach's complete organ works in an 18-hour marathon performance on the 250th anniversary of the composer's death. A fierce advocate of new music, Mr. Jacobs has premiered works by Samuel Adler, Mason Bates, Michael Daugherty, Bernd Richard Deutsch, John Harbison, Wayne Oquin, Stephen Paulus, Christopher Theofanidis, and Christopher Rouse, among others. As a teacher he has also been a vocal proponent of the redeeming nature of traditional and contemporary classical music.
No other organist is repeatedly invited as soloist to perform with prestigious orchestras, thus making him a pioneer in the movement for the revival of symphonic music featuring the organ. Mr. Jacobs regularly appears with the Chicago Symphony, Cincinnati Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, Edmonton Symphony, Indianapolis Symphony, Kansas City Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Lucerne Symphony Orchestra, Minnesota Orchestra, Montreal Symphony, Nashville Symphony, National Symphony Orchestra, Pacific Symphony, Phoenix Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, Toledo Symphony, and Utah Symphony, among others.
His recital engagements have included performances under the aegis of the American Guild of Organists, Bach Festival Society of Winter Park, Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Cleveland Orchestra, Dallas Symphony, Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center White Light Festival, Los Angeles Philharmonic at Disney Hall, Madison Symphony Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra, Phoenix Symphony, Pittsburgh Symphony, Oregon Bach Festival, San Francisco Symphony, Seattle Symphony, Spivey Hall in Atlanta, and the St. Louis Cathedral-Basilica, among others.
Mr. Jacobs gave the world premiere of Christopher Rouse's Organ Concerto with the Philadelphia Orchestra, the National Symphony, and the Los Angeles Philharmonic; all three orchestras co-commissioned the work. With the Toledo Symphony, he has performed Michael Daugherty's Once Upon a Castle, a work he recorded in 2015 with the Nashville Symphony Orchestra which was released by Naxos in September 2016, and awarded three Grammys, including Best Classical Compendium.
In the 2019-2020 season Mr. Jacobs will perform the Daugherty work with the Philadelphia Orchestra and conductor Donald Runnicles and with the Kansas City Symphony and conductor Jason Seber. In November 2019, Mr. Jacobs will join the Nashville Symphony Orchestra and conductor Giancarlo Guerrero for performances of Horatio Parker's Organ Concerto in E-flat minor, Op. 55; this work will be recorded live for the Naxos label. Mr. Jacobs will collaborate with Maestro Guerrero twice more this season in Europe: they will perform Stephen Paulus's Grand Concerto for Organ and Orchestra with the Bamberg Symphony, broadcast on Bayerischer Rundfunk Radio in April 2020; they then travel to Wroclaw, Poland for a program with NFM Wroclaw Philharmonic Orchestra in May 2020. With the Utah Symphony and conductor Thierry Fischer, Mr. Jacobs will perform Barber's Toccata Festiva and Handel's Organ Concerto No. 13 in F Major, "Cuckoo & the Nightingale," in April 2020.
In May 2020, Mr. Jacobs will inaugurate the newly restored Hazel Wright organ at the Christ Cathedral in Garden Grove, California, as part of the opening festivities under the aegis of the American Guild of Organists Orange County Chapter and the Catholic Diocese of Orange County. Additional recitals during the 2019-20 season include appearances at Davies Hall under the auspices of the San Francisco Symphony, Spivey Hall, near Atlanta, at Clayton State University, Dallas's Highland Park United Methodist Church, and the Westminster Presbyterian Church in Pittsburgh. Mr. Jacobs continues as Director of the Oregon Bach Festival Organ Institute, a position he assumed in the summer of 2014. Soon to be released will be Barber's Toccata Festiva with the Lucerne Symphony and conductor James Gaffigan on the Harmonia Mundi label. Mr. Jacobs will close out his 2019-2020 season on June 17, 2020, with a Paris recital at the Maison de la Radio, presented by Radio France and the Orchestre National de France, to be broadcast live from the station's headquarters. The program will include a world premiere of a new work written for Mr. Jacobs by the French composer Jean-Baptiste Robin.
Marking an important milestone for the development of organ playing in Asia, Mr. Jacobs participated in the 2017 launch of China's first International Organ Competition—in Shanghai—when he was appointed to serve as president of the competition's jury. After another successful guest engagement with the Philadelphia Orchestra at Philadelphia's Verizon Hall performing both Oquin's Resilience, for organ and orchestra, and James MacMillan's A Scotch Bestiary, Mr. Jacobs was invited by Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin to tour three major European cities with the Philadelphia Orchestra in May 2018. He played the Oquin work in Brussels, Luxembourg, and in Hamburg's recently inaugurated Elbphilharmonie.
Mr. Jacobs and soprano Christine Brewer recorded a CD for Naxos entitled Divine Redeemer, featuring works by Bach, Handel, Franck, Nadia and Lili Boulanger, Puccini, Gounod, and Reger. They performed excerpts from this recording at Lincoln Center's White Light Festival, which received a glowing review from Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim of The New York Times:
Seated at the console was the organist Paul Jacobs, a virtuoso of dazzling technical acumen, who anchored this recital of devotional music as part of the Lincoln Center White Light Festival. […]
Mr. Jacobs showed off his mastery in a handful of solo selections by Bach, Reger, Charles-Marie Widor and Nadia Boulanger, Lili's sister. In Reger's Toccata and Fugue, he built up a wonderfully organic crescendo in which the music expanded in all dimensions — brightness, clarity and volume — until it filled the room with a pulsating, radiant cloud of sound. — November 3, 2015, The New York Times
Prodigiously talented from his earliest years, at 15 young Jacobs was appointed head organist of a parish of 3,500 in his hometown, Washington, Pennsylvania. He has performed the complete organ works of Olivier Messiaen in marathon performances throughout North America. In addition to his highly esteemed recordings of Messiaen and Daugherty on Naxos, Mr. Jacobs has recorded organ concertos by Lou Harrison and Aaron Copland with the San Francisco Symphony and Music Director Michael Tilson Thomas on the orchestra's own label, SFS Media.
Mr. Jacobs studied at the Curtis Institute of Music, double-majoring with John Weaver for organ and Lionel Party for harpsichord, and at Yale University with Thomas Murray. He joined the faculty of The Juilliard School in 2003, and was named chairman of the organ department in 2004, one of the youngest faculty appointees in the school's history. He received Juilliard's prestigious William Schuman Scholar's Chair in 2007. In addition to his concert and teaching appearances, Mr. Jacobs is a frequent performer at festivals across the world, and has appeared on American Public Media's Performance Today, Pipedreams, and Saint Paul Sunday, as well as NPR's Morning Edition, ABC-TV's World News Tonight, and BBC Radio 3. In 2017 he received an honorary doctorate from Washington and Jefferson College.
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I am not the most knowledgeable old-car enthusiast out there, but I know what I like. And I like the Mercedes 380 SL. I saw this beautiful white coupe in Kalamazoo, Michigan on a recent visit. It's the kind of car that just 'works' for me. It's long and low, with just the right proportions of hood length and trunk length to go with the small cockpit. The RWD platform moves the rear wheels towards the middle of the car and the front wheels towards the front bumper, giving it a great stance.
I've never closely studied Mercedes' different models, so had to look up a bit of info on the 380 SL. It was built in the first half of the 1980s, and came fitted with a 3.8L V8 engine putting out 215 horsepower. A convertible was available, but I actually prefer the look of this fixed-top coupe version. The prominent, protruding bumpers and large, blocky headlights and taillights are throwbacks to a different era, but I think that this car has aged very well, and is a true classic nowadays.
If I were looking to purchase a classic car, I don't know if I'd actually consider an old Mercedes. There are a bunch of old cars that I'm more familiar with and would be more inclined to buy, but I sure am glad these old Mercs have their fans still. This white SL was clearly well taken care of, and likely has many more years of motoring ahead of it. Who knows, maybe when the time comes to buy something I'll stumble across another 380 SL and decide to take a closer look.
1988 Pontiac Fiero GT. For as long as I can remember, that has been my dream car. Sure, I've always liked many other, more expensive, more exotic cars, but the Fiero GT has remained one of my favourites since I first laid eyes on it. A sporty, compact 2-seater with the engine in the rear, the Fiero has entered the history books with a questionable reputation. Those that loved them loved them alot, to the point that even today, almost 30 years after it went out of production, it still has a huge fan base. The other portion of the population is less kind to the Fiero, thanks to an unfortunate reputation as a car that could catch fire. While there were several high-profile cases that earned the Fiero this bad reputation, statistically, it was shown that the Fiero didn't suffer significantly more engine fires than anything else on the road.
But enough of that. I'm definitely in the first camp of Fiero lovers, the ones that appreciate the car because of its quirks, not despite them. The very low-slung design of the coupe, coupled with the placement of the engine behind the driver, meant that the Fiero handled a bit like a Go-Kart, and held the road extremely well. However, the relatively pedestrian source of much of the suspension and driveline components (the Chevrolet Citation and Chevette donated many parts!) also meant that the acceleration and handling of the original models left a little to be desired. I myself found it quite entertaining, but if you hit a bump in mid-corner, things got a bit wonky. The first model only came equipped with a 2.5L 4-cylinder engine, which didn't really have its place in a car that looked so sporty. Legend has it that General Motors wouldn't approve a Pontiac sports car that might rival the legendary Chevrolet Corvette, so the Fiero was designed more as a commuter car than an all-out sports car.
Back when I was in college I finally was able to realise my dream when I purchased a 1984 Fiero. The 4-cylinder, 4-speed manual had seen better days, and I only got to drive it for a few months before the engine conked out. Even so, I thoroughly enjoyed my Fiero, and I viewed the engine dying as a minor inconvenience, not a catastrophic event. It was enough of a taste to make me a Fiero fan for life. Besides, every car fan knows that the BEST Fiero is the 1988 GT model. The 2.8L V6 was much more powerful, and improvements to the suspension made it a significantly better handling car. It is commonly said that by 1988, in its fifth model year, GM had finally gotten the Fiero right, and then promptly cancelled it! An automotive mystery and frustration for the ages, to be sure.
I have been participating for years on an automotive forum, and more than a decade ago made the acquaintance of Ken, from Michigan. Back in 1988 Ken purchased a brand new Fiero GT, and has kept it ever since. When he heard that I was coming to Michigan this month for work, he kindly invited me to see his car. We first joined another forum member, Jason, in a visit to the Gilmore Car Museum near Kalamazoo. We spent a great day checking out some truly impressive old cars and displays. But obviously the highlight of the day was getting to see Ken's Fiero.
When we got to his house he opened the garage door and handed me the keys. It had been over 10 years since I had laid eyes on a GT, but I was instantly reminded of how much I loved the design. More substantial than the 2M4 (2-seater, mid-engine, 4-cylinder) model that I had owned, the GT had a more prominent rear end with full-width taillights, 'flying buttress' side rear windows, and a smoother, more pronounced front end. When I climbed inside I saw that it was identical, apart from the addition of a few extra gauges. I fired it up and got to hear the excellent growl of the bright-red V6, something most Pontiac V6s of the era were known for. At that point I could have left happy, but Ken told us to feel free to take it for a drive! I didn't take much convincing, and I got to enjoy an awesome tour around the neighbourhood. Even Jason, a 2015 Ford Mustang owner was impressed with the sound of the car, and the way it rode and handled.
We spent a good moment in the driveway discussing the car. It had 75,000 original miles, and ran like a top. The years hadn't been kind to the paint, which was starting to fade a bit, but overall the car was in excellent shape. It was pretty clear Ken wasn't looking to sell, and I didn't think it would be polite to steal the car of someone so kind, so I handed him back the keys knowing that one day I would buy my own Fiero GT.
I snapped a few pictures, but in my excitement didn't think to check them. They didn't turn out all that great, but you can still get a peek here. Most of you will shake your heads wondering how anyone could be so enamoured by a car like the Fiero, but you don't choose what you love. It still makes me giddy like a little boy to see this car, and I left with a big grin on my face. As if that wasn't enough, Jason even let me try his Mustang out! It's a very different beast, with more than double the horsepower, so I was feeling pretty spoiled after my automotive-themed day.
You never forget your first love, which is why I am so excited to have had this chance. Thanks Ken and Jason, it was a super weekend, and it rekindled my love of the Fiero! Time isn't the friend of old cars, but there are still Fieros to be found. At some point, somewhere, somehow, I WILL own one of these GT models. Some dreams should come true!
Welcome! My name is Paul, and I am an old-fashioned, low-pressure, low-buck car fan with lots of automotive stories to tell!


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The Games Industry Has a Problem
July 30, 2021 / Late Night Parents
There's no nice way to put this: Activision Blizzard has a giant problem.
The California Department of Fair Employment and Housing filed suit against the gaming giant last week. ⚖ The lawsuit responds to reports that the company has allowed rampant sexual harassment and a "frat boy culture' to run unchecked.
Among other charges, the suit alleges that women have been passed over for promotions and received lower starting pay for "substantially similar work."
In support of the suit, hundreds of employees staged a walkout to make their grievances known—streamers and esports teams went dark in solidarity with the picket line.
In a letter published last night, Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick committed to "long-lasting change" by offering employee support, modified hiring practices, manager evaluations, and removal of "inappropriate" content from games and player communities.
Sound familiar? That's because it is. Earlier this month, Ubisoft was beat down for allegations of sexual misconduct. It goes without saying that the gaming industry is still grappling with a vast cultural reckoning.
This case could likely end in a multi-billion-dollar settlement. But more importantly, it stands to bring lasting changes to the games industry. Among potential changes are more 'lax employee contracts, the publication of salary data, and implementation of diversity and representation policies.
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Welcome back to another Australian crypto market update. There has been plenty of positive news local and abroad to make up for the lack of price movement this week.
In markets we saw more low volatility in Bitcoin, trading within a 3% range for yet another week. BCH kept most of its recent gains, dropping 1% this week. XRP fell 15% since last Monday as investors likely took profits from its meteoric rise a couple of weeks back.
Bakkt provided more colour on its first product which will roll out next month. The futures contract will be completely backed with physical Bitcoin, quelling partially backed rehypothecation rumours. It will be interesting to see the impact this has on Bitcoin price movements after its launch.
The Winklevoss crypto exchange Gemini has secured an insurance policy for its storage of digital assets by an insurer syndicate led by Aon. This follows a large underwriter entering the crypto insurance space. Crypto insurance has been very sought after by high net worth and institutional clients here in Australia and offshore. It's great to see more insurers getting familiar with the industry.
Yahoo, at one point the number one search engine, has been busy over the years carving out a niche for itself as a one stop shop for free financial data, news and charting. Yahoo Finance is one of the reasons Yahoo is now the 6th most visited website. Recently, Yahoo Finance have added a cryptocurrency dashboard and now offer crypto trading on their iOS app.
Bloomberg reported earlier this week that Puerto Rican firm Noble Bank lost its two largest clients – Tether and Bitfinex. Puerto Rico has been somewhat of a crypto oasis for banking in the US. It was rumoured to hold up to $US 3.3 Billion of client's funds at the end of 2017. Since losing Tether and Bitfinex the bank is reported to be no longer profitable and is looking for a buyer after a good deal on a banking license.
Q3 2018 trade volumes for Coinbase hit 1 year lows.
Binance finished last quarter at half of their Q1 2018 volumes for USDT, their largest trading pair.
With trading volumes down, exchanges have been diversifying themselves.
oth Binance and Coinbase have committed substantial funds to invest in blockchain startups in the hopes they will foster adoption. Binance recently backed Aussie startup TravelbyBit to roll out a new Point-of-Sales payment system allowing users to pay for travel related items in crypto. The $US2.5m ($AU3.5m) funding will assist TravelByBit in rolling out their payment system throughout Brisbane airport, with global plans soon after.
Security tokens are another area exchanges have been targeting. Currently, exchanges in Australia and the US are only allowed to list and support utility tokens. The race is on to create a platform that offers security tokens in a regulatory approved and compliant way. So far there seems to be two main approaches. US exchange Circle has focused on a modified crowdsource funding method aimed at retail investors. Whereas Coinbase has targeted sophisticated investors and institutions, focusing on private placements and a secondary market for unlisted company shares. It will be interesting to see how lawmakers react to this development.
In other local news, Aussie gold speccys are turning to crypto to raise capital. Perth-based mining industry adviser PCF Capital plans on launching a Security Token Offering (STO) named "Futuregold". Funds raised from the security token will be invested in a portfolio of small cap gold stocks with future revenue streams flowing back to token holders.


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Williams inizia la carriera internazionale nel 2005 e ottenendo dei buoni risultati ai Giochi CARIFTA del 2006 e 2007. Dal 2009 è chiamata all'interno della squadra seniores con cui partecipa ai campionati centroamericani e caraibici di L'Avana, contribuendo a conquistare la medaglia d'oro nella staffetta.
Nel 2012 aveva segnato i record nazionali nei 100 e 200 metri ma in seguito alla sua ammissione di uso di sostanze vietate, che hanno portato anche alla sua non partecipazione con la squadra nazionale ai Giochi olimpici di Londra, i risultati sono stati invalidati.
Dopo la squalifica torna a gareggiare e partecipa ai Giochi olimpici di Rio de Janeiro del 2016.

Record nazionali
 50 metri piani indoor: 6"30 ( Liévin, 14 febbraio 2012)
 Staffetta 4×100 metri: 43"53 ( L'Avana, 4 luglio 2009) (Tanika Liburd, Meritzer Williams, Tameka Williams, Virgil Hodge)

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Лондонська біржа металів (, LME) — найбільша у світі товарна біржа яка спеціалізується в торгівлі ф'ючерсами на промислові метали. Об'єм торгів у 2012 році становив більше 14 трильонів доларів США. Біржа заснована ще у 1877 році, розташована в Лондонському Сіті. З 2012 року належить компанії Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing.

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Лондонська біржа металів відома своєю консервативністю. Вона є останньою в Європі біржею, де використовуються не електронні технології, а прямі відкриті торги, в яких трейдери беруть участь особисто. Торги відбуваються в залі, в центрі якого стоїть коло з червоних крісел, яке прийнято називати "рингом". Під час торгів трейдерам заборонено вставати з крісел. Для купівлі чи продажу металів вони можуть використовувати лише сигнали рукою. Вони також зобов'язані носити діловий костюм, краватку й чорні черевики. Трейдерам також заборонено розстібати верхній ґудзик сорочки і використовувати мобільні пристрої та жувальну гумку. За порушення цих правил перердбаченні штрафи.

На LME припадає 80% від торгівлі ф'ючерсами на промислові метали. Зараз майданчиком володіє Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing, що купила її в 2012 році. Тоді постало питання про збереження "кільця". Директор LME Геррі Джонс заявив, що біржа не збирається відмовлятися від системи особистих торгів на користь сучасних технологій.

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Princess Eugenie announces important new project ahead of wedding
Amy Hunt 8 June 2018 11:19 am
Princess Eugenie arrives at St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle for the wedding of Meghan Markle and Prince Harry.
Princess Eugenie may be fully underway with preparations for her wedding in just five months time, but she's working hard on her royal duties, launching a brand new, worthwhile job recently.
Over on her Instagram, the 28-year-old revealed that she has become the ambassador of a new project aiming to reduce plastic in our oceans – an apt campaign, given that today is World Oceans Day.
The royal posed alongside a giant incarnation of a whale made up of single-use plastic, which is located on London's Carnaby Street, to illustrate the damage it is doing to our oceans.
Alongside the photos, she wrote, 'I'm so excited to have recently become an Ambassador of Project 0 whose aim is to restore and protect the ocean. Today we launched our new partnership with @skyoceanrescue and of course, Plasticus, the whale made of used single use plastic…
'Together we aim to inspire people to make sustainable choices to stop the ocean from drowning in plastic. #passonplastic @weareprojectzero'.
I'm so excited to have recently become an Ambassador of Project 0 whose aim is to restore and protect the ocean. Today we launched our new partnership with @skyoceanrescue and of course, Plasticus, the whale made of used single use plastic…Together we aim to inspire people to make sustainable choices to stop the ocean from drowning in plastic. #passonplastic @weareprojectzero
A post shared by Princess Eugenie (@princesseugenie) on Jun 7, 2018 at 11:50am PDT
Princess Eugenie's followers were quick to praise the royal's important new cause. One wrote, 'Brilliant cause well done!', while another said, 'Thank you for using your platform to help our oceans 💖💖 such a great and worthy cause to support!!'
The Pass On Plastic Experience, part of Sky Ocean Rescue's campaign, is a pop-up that aims to highlight the need to cut down on plastic.
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Princess Eugenie adopted her signature style for the launch event in the capital. She opted for a floaty floral dress, teamed with her favourite knee-high suede boots.
It's likely that Eugenie's uncle, Prince Charles, will be delighted with his niece's new project, as an ardent campaigner for environmental issues himself.
In the past, the Prince has been vocal about the need to create change in regards to plastic-use. He has spoken openly too about the damage it does our oceans. And, at a conference in January, he spoke of how "unbelieveably urgent" it is that we do something about the problem.
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Long Biography
Julieanna L. Richardson created a unique path to founding and heading up the largest national collection effort of African American video oral histories on record since the WPA Slave Narratives. With her diverse background in law, television production and the cable television industries, she combined her various work experiences and her passion for American Studies to conceptualize, found and build The HistoryMakers.
Richardson graduated from Brandeis University in 1976 with her B.A. degree in Theatre Arts and American Studies. It was during her studies at Brandeis that she first experienced the power of oral history, while conducting independent research on the Harlem Renaissance. While exploring the collections of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in New York City, Richardson interviewed historian John Henrik Clarke, tap-dancer Honi Coles, and actors Butterfly McQueen (Gone With The Wind) and Leigh Whipper (The Ox-Box Incident) as part of her project. Having access to these poignant life stories "made history really come alive for me," says Richardson. "It is important that everyone have a sense of their own legacy." From this early exposure, the seeds of The HistoryMakers project first took root.
Richardson received her J.D. degree in 1980 from Harvard Law School and began her career as a corporate lawyer at the law firm of Jenner & Block prior to serving in the early 1980s as the Cable Administrator for the City of Chicago's Office of Cable Communications. She went on to found Shop Chicago, a regionally based home shopping channel. She then started her own production company, SCTN Teleproductions, which for eight years managed local cable channels, and served as the local production arm for C-SPAN.
The recipient of numerous honors and awards, Julieanna also sits on the Honors Council of Lawyers for the Creative Arts, and in 2011 was appointed to the Comcast NBC Universal African American Diversity Council. In 2012, she was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in the Humanities by Howard University; and in 2014, she served as the commencement speaker for Dominican University who also awarded her an Honorary Doctorate in the Humanities. In 2014, Black Enterprise Magazine awarded Richardson the 2014 Legacy Award, its highest recognition of women's achievement. That same year, Richardson was profiled in American Masters: The Boomer List, a PBS documentary and exhibition at the Newseum in Washington, D.C., shot and directed by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders. In 2016, Richardson delivered Brandeis University's 65th Commencement address, and also received an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters. That same year, Richardson received the Pioneer Award at the 27th Annual Heroes and Legends Awards in Los Angeles, California. In 2017, she was one of 8 honored during the world premiere of HistoryMaker and artist Jonathan Green's Requiem for Rice.
Richardson's passion for preserving and sharing this rich history is still as strong, and will undoubtedly leave a unique and lasting legacy, for generations to come.
I would like to commend Julieanna Richardson for creating The HistoryMakers. The archives are a more inclusive chronicle of American history. Thank you for offering it to the world.
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Julieanna L. Richardson created a unique path to founding and heading up the largest national collection effort of African American video oral histories on record since the WPA Slave Narratives. Richardson graduated from Brandeis University in 1976 with her B.A. degree in Theatre Arts and American Studies. Richardson received her J.D. degree in 1980 from Harvard Law School and began her career as a corporate lawyer at the law firm of Jenner & Block prior to serving in the early 1980s as the Cable Administrator for the City of Chicago's Office of Cable Communications. The recipient of numerous honors and awards, Richardson has received three honorary doctorates of humane letters – from Howard University, Dominican University, and her alma mater, Brandeis University, where she served as the 65th Commencement speaker in 2016. She was awarded the 2014 Legacy Award from Black Enterprise Magazine, and was profiled in 2014's American Masters: The Boomer List, a PBS documentary and exhibition at the Newseum in Washington, D.C. Richardson is committed to preserving and sharing this history and is leaving a unique and lasting legacy for generations to come.
George Bilicic
Head of U.S. Midwest Investment-Banking, Lazard
George W. Bilicic heads Lazard Ltd's Midwest investment banking business and global efforts in power, energy and infrastructure. In addition, he serves as a member of the Firm's Investment Banking Committee and Deputy Chairman Committee. Other than his time at KKR, Mr. Bilicic has been at Lazard since March 2002. From May 2008 to October 2008, Mr. Bilicic served as a Managing Director and Head of Infrastructure at KKR. Previously, Mr. Bilicic had been a Partner in the law firm of Cravath, Swaine & Moore from 1995. Mr. Bilicic left the Cravath partnership, effective January 2001, to begin his investment banking career at Merrill Lynch where he was a Managing Director in the Mergers & Acquisitions Department focused on power and energy clients. Mr. Bilicic has been involved in a number of community and other not-for-profit organizations including the following as a member of the Board of Directors (or equivalent), unless otherwise indicated: American Ballet Theater, Brookings Metropolitan Policy Program, Cristo Rey Network (current), Family Justice, Georgetown University Law School (current), Grenville Baker Boys & Girls Club, Hofstra University, Metropolitan Planning Council (current), MFY Legal Services, NY Team Elite AAU basketball program (founder and team sponsor), Refugees International and YMCA of Greater New York. Mr. Bilicic is also a member of The Commercial Club of Chicago.
Donna M. Carroll
President, Dominican University
Donna M. Carroll is in her 23rd year as president of Dominican University, a comprehensive Catholic university of 3,600 students, located 10 miles west of Chicago. She is the first lay president of the institution, which was founded in 1901 by the Sinsinawa Dominican Sisters
Prior to her appointment at Dominican, Dr. Carroll served as Secretary of the University at Fordham University (NYC), and Vice President, Dean of the College and Dean of Students at Mount Vernon College in Washington, D.C.
Dr. Carroll has presided over a period of tremendous growth at Dominican University—in size, quality, and stability. During her tenure, the full-time faculty has doubled, new schools and programs have been established, the operating budget increased four-fold, two campaigns raised almost $100 million in new assets and the physical plant expanded significantly, including the purchase of a second campus. In 2013, the university welcomed more new undergraduates than the total undergraduate enrollment when Dr. Carroll was appointed in 1994.
Named one of 20 Chicago "Women to Watch in 2010" by Crain's Chicago Business, Dr. Carroll also is identified regularly as one of the "100 Women of Influence" by Today's Chicago Woman and was listed among the top ten women in education by the Chicago Sun-Times. In March 2013, she was honored as a "Woman of Purpose" by Womenetics. In addition, Dr. Carroll is the recipient of the CEO Leadership Award from the Council for Advancement and Support of Education.
An outspoken advocate for immigration reform and the rights of undocumented students, Dr. Carroll, on behalf of Dominican University, was honored with the 2012 Community Change Maker Award from P.A.S.O., a community-based social justice organization dedicated to serving Latino youth and their parents in Chicago's western suburbs. In 2013, she received "Strangers No Longer" Award from the Archdiocese of Chicago. She recently was honored with the "Moral Courage" Award from Faith in Public Life.
Dr. Carroll chairs the board of the Immigration Ministry Office of the Archdiocese of Chicago, is a member of the executive committee on the School Board of the Archdiocese, and is in her third term as a director of Rush Oak Park Hospital. She also currently serves on the boards of Fordham University, Interfaith Youth Core, and Cristo Rey Jesuit High School. She is a member of The Chicago Network and the Economic Club of Chicago.
Dr. Carroll received her bachelor's degree in English from Wellesley College and master and doctoral degrees in higher education administration and counseling from the University of Cincinnati. She is a graduate of the Harvard Institute for Educational Management, and Leadership Washington. Dr. Carroll also writes and lectures widely on topics related to higher education, leadership and vocation.
Toni Cook Bush
Executive Vice President and Global Head of Government Affairs, News Corporation
Antoinette Cook Bush is Executive Vice President and Global Head of Government Affairs at News Corp. Ms. Bush joined the new News Corp from Skadden, Arps, Meagher & Flom LLP, where, over her nearly 20-year tenure, she rose to become the Partner in charge of its Communications Group. In this role, she represented leading media/entertainment and telecom entities in regulatory, legislative and transactional matters. Ms. Bush also served as Executive Vice President of Northpoint Technology Ltd. from 2001 to 2003. Prior to her first stint at Skadden, Arps, Ms. Bush served as Senior Counsel to the Communications Subcommittee of the U.S. Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, which has oversight for the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), and the National Telecommunications and Information Administration. In this role, she was the principal staff person responsible for legislation involving communications issues, including the Cable Television Act of 1992. From 1981 until she joined the U.S. Senate Committee staff, Ms. Bush practiced communications law in Washington, D.C.
Paula DiPerna
Special Adviser
Paula DiPerna is a strategic global environmental and philanthropic policy advisor, and writer. She serves currently as Special Advisor to CDP (formerly known as the Carbon Disclosure Project). In addition, Ms. DiPerna is a member of the Board of Advisors of Global Kids, based in New York City, whose mission is to develop global citizenship. She also serves on the Circle of Advisors of Rachel's Network, which links women philanthropists who have environmental interests. DiPerna is also a juror of the 2019 Eliasson Prize for Global Leadership, awarded by the Tallberg Foundation, based in Sweden, and the 2019 100andChange initiative of the MacArthur Foundation, based in the United States. DiPerna has also served on the Board of Advisors of the NTR Foundation, based in Dublin, Ireland, which was dedicated to environmental grant making. Ms. DiPerna has also been a Visiting Fellow at Civic Exchange, Hong Kong, focused on emerging issues in Asia and a Resident Fellow at the Bellagio Center of the Rockefeller Foundation, to further her work on environmental finance.
Paula DiPerna is a frequent global public speaker, media commentator, guest lecturer, and panelist. She has extensive online presence and is widely published author of books and articles. Her book, "Cluster Mystery: Epidemic and the Children of Woburn, Mass" is a touchstone of environmental epidemiology. Ms. DiPerna is a member of the Women's Forum of New York, and the Council on Foreign Relations and is based in New York City.
Randall E. Mehrberg
Partner, Jenner & Block
Randy Mehrberg supports Jenner & Block's Corporate, Litigation, and Restructuring and Bankruptcy Practices, as well as the Energy and Regulatory industry groups. He has more than 35 years of experience in private practice and as a chief legal counsel and a strategic business leader for multi-billion-dollar public companies.
In addition to his transactional and litigation experience, Mr. Mehrberg twice served as general counsel for large public companies, ran a subsidiary of a multinational company, and was also a government GC. Mr. Mehrberg has had significant P&L responsibility, led thousands of employees, managed multi-million-dollar budgets, and directed M&A and corporate strategy at two public companies.
Mr. Mehrberg has worked across all aspects of corporate law, including mergers and acquisitions, financings, securities, corporate governance, regulatory, commercial transactions, government relations, restructuring, work-outs, tax, real estate, environmental and labor and employment. He also has significant litigation experience, including internal investigations.
In addition to his legal experience, Mr. Mehrberg has had leadership experience at major, complex organizations, including serving as executive vice president, chief administrative officer/chief legal officer at Exelon, the United States' largest electric utility at the time, and as president of PSEG Energy Holdings, a multi-billion-dollar subsidiary of Public Service Enterprise Group. At PSEG, Mr. Mehrberg also had responsibility for the parent company's strategy, M&A, government affairs, communications, human resources, diversity and inclusion and philanthropy.
Mr. Mehrberg began his legal career in 1980 as an associate at Jenner & Block, where he became a partner in 1986. In 1993, he became general counsel and lakefront director for the Chicago Park District. He returned to the firm in 1997 and stayed until he joined Exelon as its general counsel in 2000. He rejoined Jenner & Block in 2016 after serving, most recently, as executive vice president and general counsel at Vail Resorts.
Mr. Mehrberg earned his J.D. degree in 1980 from the University of Michigan, and graduated magna cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business with his B.S. degree in economics in 1977. He has served on the boards of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, the University of Michigan Law School Dean's Advisory Council, the Lincoln Park Zoo, the Millennium Park, the NJTV Public Television, the Center for Collaborative Change, the Latin School of Chicago, the Museum of Science & Industry, Northwestern Law School Corporate Counsel Institute, and the Association of General Counsel.
He has received several awards, including the Judge Learned Hand Human Relations Award from the American Jewish Committee, Legal Services Award from the Mexican-American Legal Defense and Education Fund, the David C. Hilliard Award from the Chicago Bar Association, the Award for Service to the Poor from the Catholic Charities, and the H.O.P.E. for the People Man of the Year award.
Al B. Reid
Divisional Vice President Corporate Development, Abbott
Al B. Reid is the Vice President of Corporate Development at Abbott Laboratories. Al serves as a corporate strategist and mergers & acquisition professional for the Abbott executive management team by providing strategic advisory and operational management support for their global businesses. Al has provided executive leadership for a variety of global growth initiatives including acquisitions/spin-offs, strategic partnerships, divestitures and geographic expansion in key emerging markets. Prior to joining Abbott in 2000, Al held a variety of positions at Baxter Healthcare, Dun & Bradstreet, Paramount Communications and the Federal Reserve Bank in management consulting, treasury, corporate finance and strategy roles. He serves on the Board of Directors at Senior Helpers, Chicago Youth Centers and the Aurelia Group. Al is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University (MS) and Clark Atlanta University (BA).
Julieanna L. Richardson
Founder & President, The HistoryMakers
Julieanna L. Richardson, Founder and President of The HistoryMakers, has a unique and diverse background in theatre, television production, and the cable television industry created a unique path to founding and heading up the largest national collection effort of African American video oral histories on record since the WPA Slave Narratives. With a diverse background in law, television production and the cable television industries, she combined her various work experiences and her passion for American Studies and history to conceptualize, found and build The HistoryMakers. The HistoryMakers is a national, 501(c)(3) non-profit educational institution headquartered in Chicago with regional offices in Atlanta, Georgia and the Washington, D.C. area. The HistoryMakers organization is committed to preserving, developing and providing easy access to an internationally recognized, archival collection of thousands of African American video oral histories. A 1980 graduate of Harvard Law School, Richardson graduated from Brandeis University with a double-major in Theatre Arts and American Studies, where she did extensive oral history interviews on the Harlem Renaissance and Langston Hughes. She worked as a corporate lawyer at the Chicago law firm of Jenner & Block prior to serving in the early 1980s as the Cable Administrator for the City of Chicago Office of Cable Communications. Richardson currently sits on the Honors Council of Lawyers for the Creative Arts. She has been awarded Honorary Doctorates from Howard University (2012), Dominican University (2014) and Brandeis University (2016). She has also served as the commencement speaker for Dominican University as well as Brandeis University 65th commencement. In 2014, Black Enterprise magazine awarded Richardson its 2014 Legacy Award, its highest recognition of women's achievement. That same year, Richardson was profiled in American Masters: The Boomer List, a PBS documentary and exhibition at the Newseum in Washington, D.C.
Andrea L. Taylor
President & CEO, Birmingham Civil Rights Institute Birmingham, AL
Media executive Andrea L. Taylor was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1947. After graduating from Charleston High School in 1964, Taylor moved to Boston and graduated from Boston University in 1968 with her B.A. degree in journalism. In 1988, Taylor founded and directed the Ford Foundation's Media Fund. She then became the president of The William Benton Foundation in 2001. From 2004 to 2006, Taylor served as the vice president of the Education Development Center, and as the director of its Center for Media and Community. Taylor also founded Davis Creek Capital. In 2006, Taylor was named as the director of North American Community Affairs at Microsoft Corporation. Taylor was also a member of the board of directors for the Film Forum and Ms. Foundation for Women. Taylor received the 2008 Distinguished Alumni Award from Boston University and the 2013 Creative Spirit Award from the Black Alumni Association of Pratt Institute.
Shirley Alonzo
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Amrita Balachandran
Education Coordinator
As the Education Coordinator for The HistoryMakers, Amrita works on educational outreach for the organization. Her involvement with The HistoryMakers began in 2013, when she first joined the team as a Science Writer and Researcher. Following a continued association as a consultant, Amrita came back on board our staff in 2019. She has a Ph.D. in biology from the University of Pittsburgh in Pittsburgh, PA, and is experienced as a science writer.
Amy Billingsley
Civic leader Amy Tate Billingsley was born on November 29, 1936 in Chicago, Illinois. Billingsley received her A.B. degree in mathematics and humanities from the University of Chicago in 1958; her M.A degree in counseling psychology from Ohio State University in 1961; and her M.B.A. degree in marketing and management from the University of Baltimore in 1982. Her parents Herman Tate and Inez Duke Tate, were both active community leaders. Billingsley's great-grandfather, Jesse Chisholm Duke, was a prominent newspaper editor; her grandfather, Charles Sumner Duke was a world-renowned architectural engineer. Billingsley assisted her husband, Andrew Billingsley, with the classic book, Black Families in White America. She worked in the Clinton administration with historically black colleges and with Labor Secretary Alexis Herman. She helped found the Black Women's Agenda, Inc., lobbying for African American women in the emerging women's movement. Billingsley also served as The HistoryMakers coordinator in Washington, D.C.
Harriette Cole
A HistoryMaker herself, Harriette Cole began interviewing subjects for The HistoryMakers in 2014. To date she has interviewed hundreds of the nation's leading African American thinkers, business leaders, educators, scholars and scientists. Cole loves engaging so many dynamic African American leaders and capturing their stories. Hailing from Baltimore, Maryland, Harriette launched her career in The Big Apple at Essence Magazine where she worked as lifestyle editor and later fashion director. Harriette was the founding editorial director of Uptown Magazine as well as the creative director and editor-in-chief of Ebony Magazine. A bestselling author, Cole has written 7 books about how to live a great life. She is a nationally syndicated advice columnist, of Sense & Sensitivity, a life coach and a media trainer. Her clients have ranged from Mary J. Blige, Alicia Keys, Andra Day and Party Next Door to the National Urban League, Thurgood Marshall Academy and Hunter College. Founder of the educational platform DREAMLEAPERS, Cole has devoted her life to helping people access and activate their dreams.
Larry Crowe
Crowe has been steeped in African American arts and culture, and the humanities for over 30 years. With an undergraduate degree in history from Wright State University, he has held a variety of positions including theater manager; assistant editor for Third World Press, the largest black publisher in the United States; and manager of an African American bookstore. In his current position, he interviews HistoryMakers and completes research. As of July 2009, Crowe has conducted around 900 interviews for The HistoryMakers' project.
Dionti Davis
As the Special Assistant to the Executive Director at The HistoryMakers, Dionti Davis supports the Founder and Executive Director of The HistoryMakers in an administrative capacity, conducts research and formulates presentations, and also drafts, evaluates, and proofreads historical analysis. He joined The HistoryMakers as a researcher and writer in 2014, with duties that included crafting biographical outlines and profiles on interview subjects from diverse sources. Davis has been with the organization for over a year, and is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he earned his B.A. degree in History, and minored in African American studies.
Paul Domalik
Olivia Foster
As administrative assistant, Olivia Foster works closely with the President and Vice President in providing support services and performing administrative duties. She received her B.A. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in philosophy with a concentration in critical race studies. Olivia Foster joined The HistoryMakers in November of 2019.
Denise Gines
Claire Hagerty
As an oral history researcher for The HistoryMakers, Claire Hagerty completes in-depth research for the video oral history interviews across a wide variety of occupations and fields. Hagerty received her B.A. degree in history and comparative race and ethnic studies from the University of Chicago. She joined The HistoryMakers in 2019.
Matthew Hickey
Hickey is very proud to have been a videographer for The HistoryMakers from the start. A 25-year industry veteran, Matthew Hickey produces, directs, edits, and shoots for video, still photography and feature films. His production experience includes live events, talk shows, travel shows, corporate training, documentaries and drama. His work has appeared on WTTW, C-SPAN, Fox Sports, The International Channel, ESPN, and many other broadcast and cable TV outlets. Hickey was formerly Production Manager for SCTN Teleproductions, The HistoryMakers, Take 1 Video Productions and the Athenaeum Theatre.
Randall Pinkston
Broadcast journalist Randall Pinkston was born on March 3, 1950 in Yazoo County, Mississippi. He received his B.A. degree in history in 1973 from Millsaps College in Jackson, Mississippi and his J.D. degree from University of Connecticut in 1980. Pinkston began his broadcasting career as an announcer with WJDX-FM Radio in Jackson, Mississippi. After working as an anchor with the local Jackson news station, WLBT-TV, Pinkston was hired at WJXT-TV, a Post-Newsweek owned CBS affiliate in Jacksonville, Florida, as urban affairs director. He then worked for another CBS affiliate, WFSB-TV in Hartford, Connecticut as anchor, reporter and public affairs producer from 1976 until 1980. Pinkston went on to work as a correspondent at WCBS-TV in New York until 1990. In 1990, he was hired as a CBS News White House correspondent, and in 2013, became a freelance journalist with Al Jazeera America. Pinkston received three Emmy Awards for his work.
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Elaine Shao
Office and Accounting Coordinator
As the Office and Accounting Coordinator for The HistoryMakers, Elaine Yirui Shao oversees day-to-day operations of the office. She is responsible for recording the company's daily revenues and expenses, as well as preparing monthly financial reports. She works closely with the Vice President of Business & Operations to manage all aspects of the tasks of the company. Shao earned her B.S. degree in accounting from the University of Illinois at Chicago, and her M.S. degree in audit and advisory services from DePaul University.
Courtney Shareef
Travel and Producing Coordinator
As the Travel and Producing Coordinator for The HistoryMakers, Courtney Shareef is responsible for the logistics of the video oral history interviews that make up the archive. She works closely with the Founder and Executive Director and the Vice President of Business and Operation to identify history makers across the country. Courtney earned her B. A. in Print Journalism with a minor in Afro-American studies from Howard University and her M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Columbia College Chicago.
Scott Stearns
Zhu Sun
Vice President, Business & Operations
Zhu Sun joined The HistoryMakers in 2011. As the Vice President of Business & Operations, she leads The HistoryMakers' business and financial operations, keeping the organization moving on the right track. She has also been supervising the production of The HistoryMakers' PBS TV Tapings, the Back To School With The HistoryMakers program, as well as conferences and local receptions since 2012. Once the Library of Congress became the permanent repository for The HistoryMakers in 2014, she supervised the processing team as they published over 2,000 interviews to The HistoryMakers Digital Archive within a two-year period. Her career began when – due to her impressive academic record – she was recruited to work as Financial Assistant to the Associate Dean of the College of Engineering shortly after graduating from the University of Illinois at Chicago, serving for two years. She received her B.S. degree in Electronic Commerce from Central University of Finance and Economics, a top business school in China, and her Master of Science in Accounting and MBA from the University of Illinois at Chicago. She is both a registered CPA with the State of Illinois and a Chartered Certified Accountant with Association of Chartered Certified Accountants.
Gloria Swanson
Transcriptionist
GLORIA E. SWANSON is the owner of GS TRANSCRIPTIONS, a minority owned, woman owned, transcription company, located on the South side of Chicago.
Gloria always loved typing. At twelve years old she begged her father for a typewriter. His response was, "I'll buy you a typewriter when you get into high school." Gloria got a double promotion and got into high school six months earlier than expected at thirteen and her parents bought her the Smith-Corona typewriter.
Due to her "flying fingers" and dexterity, after high school, she was urged to study court reporting. After majoring in Court Reporting at Chicago College of Commerce in Chicago, Gloria worked as a legal secretary for over 30 years at a number of prominent Chicago law firms.
In 2004, Gloria started GS Transcriptions as a home-based transcription company while continuing to work as a legal secretary during her daytime hours. Over the years, she recruited legal secretarial friends and acquaintances to transcribe with her from their homes.
GS Transcriptions is the lead transcription company working with "The HistoryMakers", a Chicago-based not-for-profit organization. The HistoryMakers are preserving and archiving the videotaped oral history, first-person interviews of African American heroes, famous and unsung.
GS Transcriptions' transcribers are ninety-nine percent former or current legal secretaries who are accurate and fast. Gloria and her transcribers have the distinctive honor and unique opportunity to hear the life stories of hundreds of African American men and women who are interviewed by The HistoryMakers to document their stories. As of 2014, The HistoryMakers' videotaped interviews are housed in The Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.
Caress Thirus
Caress Thirus is an experienced writer & content creator. She hails from the city of Chicago, where she obtained her BA in Journalism from Roosevelt University & her MA in English from DePaul University. She joined the HistoryMakers team in 2019 after learning about the important work the organization does, and she currently assists in researching potential candidates for interviews.
Toya Werner Martin
As a researcher for The HistoryMakers, Anna Wise completes in-depth research for its video oral history interviews across a wide variety of occupations and fields (i.e. STEM, law, art, education, music, etc.). She joined The HistoryMakers as an oral history researcher in May 2019, and creates interview outlines, writes biographies, and inputs information into databases. Wise earned her bachelor's degree in both history and political science from Augustana College in Rock Island, Illinois.


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Tracy Morgan Speaks Out About Terrible Crash Nearly One Year After It Happened
Donna Schiele
Donna is originally from Cleveland, Ohio, but moved around quite a bit. She has lived in NY, NJ. NC, SC, GA and even Seoul, Korea, but she calls Atlanta home! Donna grew up in Atlanta on the southwest side of town. She is a graduate of Hampton University and The University of Indianapolis. Donna started in radio in 2005 after teaching for over 10 years. She got her start in radio right in Indianapolis. Her first job in radio was a board -op and then producer of "Afternoons with Amos", hosted by the legendary Amos Brown. She has since been on air on WTLC- AM and WTLC- FM. Donna is very versatile in that she has done just about every shift on both stations. She was the host of "The Gospel Showcase" on IMC TV. Hosted her radio show "Saturday Praise" on 1310 and 92.7 The Light and "Sunday Vibes" on 106.7 WTLC- FM. She has also did the "Top 5 Gospel Songs of the Week" which played all though out the week and she had her "Weekend Entertainment Wrap – Up". Donna is still an educator as well as an actor and voice over talent. She has appeared in several local and national commercials as well as stage plays and films. Donna is also married and has two amazing sons. Follow Donna : Instagram @dschiele Facebook / Donna Schiele Twitter @DonnaSchiele SnapChat @DonnaMarie
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It's been nearly a year since Tracy Morgan was critically injured in a car accident that took the life of a dear friend and mentor to the comedian. For the first time since the tragic accident, Morgan appeared on the Today's Show to talk about his rocky past year.
During the interview with Matt Lauer, Morgan became very emotional when he talked about James "Jimmy Mack" McNair who perished in the crash. He spoke about finding out about his death when he awoke from a coma he had been in for two weeks after the accident. The reality of McNair's death didn't hit him until he came home from the hospital and actually watched his funeral on YouTube. Morgan said he was really torn up for about a week about it.
He says he's not a 100 percent yet and wants to focus on healing for now. But, he has high hopes that he'll be making people laugh again one day.
For more on this story click here.
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... Ritmo, aka Dubi Dagan, has decided to take a different approach for his second album.
Forget what you know about albums, and take a look to the future. Trying to experiment with innovative directions of expressing his art, Ritmo decided to take the concept of Phrases and separate them into two phrases, Phrase A and Phrase B.
Each Phrase consists of a collage of Ritmo's latest artistic creation and expresses different moods. Phrase A, is the melodic, happy and sunny side of Phrases.
It begins with 'Follow Me', which is a seductive psychedelic tune that signals you, as the sample will say to leave everything behind and follow this revolutionary process. After you managed to pass the first stage, you will start having 'Big Eyes'. This is a natural procedure in Phrase A, and comes with reinforcement of Motion Drive, aka Philip Guillaume. Having 'Big Eyes' helps you realize the positive side of life and start dancing in a manic uncontrolled manner to show it. If you think that it will help you distinguish between a 'Dream and Reality' then you might be expecting a surprise. Because this trip was designed exactly for destroying all the predictable assumption we have, and the best way is to embrace the notion that a dream and reality can happen simultaneously. For the final phase of Phrase A, we must 'Imprint' you.
After all, passing through such a musical turbulence needs a final proof that you are eligible to go to the next stage, to Phase B. But in order to leave a mark that will give the proper grounds for this kind of 'Imprint', Ritmo called another expert for the job, Zen Mechanics, aka Wouter Thomassen. Together, they create the finale that both closes a Phrase and opens another one, using their special thumping base line and sweeping rhythms.


Have I shown you this? I am only now getting over it. One night I fell asleep to the sound of raindrops on the roof. Nice to have a sound roof, I thought, and that was that.
Then in the morning I awoke to this. The roof was sound but the doors were not. This was the result, a major leak, the result of no weatherstripping whatsoever. Oh, oops, neither architect nor contractor thought about the doors, not that it would require much thought. One good storm during the two years of construction might have tipped them off, don't you think?
Okay, okay, I'm getting over this, right? So, no way was I going to ask my contractor to do the weatherstripping. The fact that he wanted to build completely new doors suggested that any such thing would never be right. Besides, I have spent enough time here to realize that with the wind, the rain, the occasional freeze, wood is not the best solution for an exterior surface. Plus, I wanted new doors now, not a zillion years in the future.
Google to the rescue. I found the amazing maitres ouvriers, master builders to the likes of you and me, Reignoux Creations. They do metalwork that is appropriate for historic buildings. I'm sure I've written about them before. Anyway, I drove out to their place and saw the workshop. I looked through a catalogue and selected a pattern, which I tweaked. They sent a design drawing, which I approved, and we set an installation date. Right on schedule — that in itself is a nice change — the guys showed up. They ripped out the old doors — and they'll none of them be missed — and put in new ones. When they were finished, there was just the slightest scratch to the paint which, if I provide a can of my crazy fussy Little Greene paint, they will repair for me.
The cash is not flowing, unfortunately, so I'll have to save up to do every single door but I can assure you, every single door is on the "to do" list. Here is the door in the kitchen. On the right, through the window, you can see the new marquise, or is it marquis, that shelters the utility room door. More on that later.
Amazing – especially the part about them showing up on time and completing the work Ibn a timely manner.
No kidding. On time and within budget, Gerard. It's practically unheard of out here. Well, anywhere, but more so out here.
Thanks. I stressed about getting rid of the originals but that little flood helped me get over it. I'm told the originals were pretty upscale for 1860 but to be honest, I don't think they're "original" originals. That metalwork always looked pretty post-WWII to me.
That do look lovely. And the ONLY relevant criteria are (1) are you happy with them and (2) do they keep out sideways rain?
Yes and yes. It will be even better when the new marquise shows up. Just wait and see!
They sound wonderful! Isn't great to work with real master craftsmen who know their stuff?! We've been mostly very lucky on that front, but everybody has tales of woe about disagreable craftsmen who won't listen and won't turn up when you want them. Our worst experience was with our kitchen cabinets, which we fairly quickly had completely reinstalled by someone else. Where possible we haunted the workshops of our artisans, and photographed and videoed them. They loved it! We gave them memory cards with the photos and videos for them to show their families and they were touchingly grateful. 'Our families never get to see what we do' was the comment from one of the foremen.
What a great story. My guys are camera-shy. I do have a few photos with live humans, but mostly with their backs turned, etc. The guy who built my windows won't even let me visit his workshop, much less bring a camera. It's too bad. Showing the work being done adds a lot to the story. In my case it's less what we did as it is where all that money went. This place has supported a few families.
I love them. Light, security, beauty. The whole package.


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Get Seeded Awards $7,360 in Grants
By Lassonde Staff October 13, 2021
Six student startup teams received $7,360 in Get Seeded milestone grants in the first round of grants for the fall 2021 semester. This includes regular grants and microgrants for this period. See below for a list of teams and their product ideas.
The final event for the regular grants was hosted at Lassonde Studios. It included live startup pitches, free food, and public voting to see who received grants.
Get Seeded is a regular milestone grant funding program open to all college students in Utah. The first step is to apply online. All university students in Utah are welcome to apply for grants.
Students requesting more than $500 follow a three-step process, concluding at the Final Pitch Event, where they pitch to an audience that votes on who gets funded. Students requesting $500 or less — called microgrants — are funded after a two-step process.
The program is managed by the Lassonde Entrepreneur Institute at the University of Utah and sponsored by Chad and Kristen Anselmo.
Learn more about Get Seeded and apply for a grant here: lassonde.utah.edu/getseeded.
Tatfinder
Tatfinder (University of Utah) – $1,750
Tatfinder is a new, dual-sided, artist-driven, tech startup in the tattoo community that matches users with the best artists for them based on various factors in a decision-based, optimization algorithm using location, style of tattoo, and values to match artists with users. Tatfinder also is a way to explore what style of tattoo users like and is an education tool surrounding tattoos.
Argus Entertainment
Argus Entertainment (University of Utah) – $1,500
Argus Entertainment provides high-energy DJ and AV production solutions for events across the northern Utah area and beyond. Their motto is "Turn it Up to 11," and they bring that same passion to event production. They combine professionalism and competency with a loose, fun, and laid-back feeling to perfectly execute a client's wishes for their event.
(University of Utah) – $1,500
Foam solves one of the biggest problems college students face: laundry. No college student enjoys the eerie sight of a communal laundry room; it takes time, is often full, and relying on a college student to promptly switch their clothes from the washer to dryer is … optimistic. Foam's service will pick up, wash and fold, and drop off laundry, providing a stress-free and convenient service for students. No waiting for machines. Easy drop-off. Convenient pickup. Laundry delivered.
Foodrush
Foodrush (University of Utah) – $1,500
Foodsrush is a tech company that connects stores with surplus food that hasn't been sold with consumers who are looking for food at a cheaper rate. For instance, a pizza shop that sells pizza by the slice has several slices left over at the end of the day that has to be thrown out. Instead of throwing it out, the shop notifies that it has leftover food. Consumers can then book their slot and collect the food before the shop closes for a few dollars. Foodsrush has a goal to reduce food waste.
Microgrants
Cortex Evolution (University of Utah) – $610
The Cortex Evolution mission is to make personal development more enjoyable, systematic, and effective. For one audience segment, they provide neuroscience-based learning and memory coaching, which will expand into unique, multimodal behavioral change programs. For another, they established a self-improvement community (the "ReforMates"), which algorithmically matches people with peers who act as inspiring mentors, supporters, and friends, effectively crowdsourcing to increase usefulness and profitability.
Whop (University of Utah) – $500
Whop is an acronym for "we heart our pets." It will be an eco-conscious company that creates a box catered to the owner's pet by information provided from the owner. The products they will include in their boxes will be sustainable while also prioritizing smaller businesses when selecting our products.
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