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Founding Stories - GRIT: The Strength to Overcome Adversity at the 2018 Tom Tom Founders Festival
Friday April 13th | The Paramount Theater
Diagnosed as children with an illness that would blind them, Bryan and Bradford inspire others with disabilities, launching their business to fund a cure for future generations.
Speakers: Bryan & Bradford Manning, Two Blind Brothers, Cofounders
Sponsors: UVA McIntire School of Commerce Galant Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship and the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
tomtomfest.com/founding-stories
Founding Stories - GRIT: The Strength to Overcome Adversity at the 2018 Tom Tom Founders Festival
Friday April 13th | The Paramount Theater
Diagnosed as children with an illness that would blind them, Bryan and Bradford inspire others with disabilities, launching their business to fund a cure for future generations.
Speakers: Bryan & Bradford Manning, Two Blind Brothers, Cofounders
Sponsors: UVA McIntire School of Commerce Galant Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship and the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
tomtomfest.com/founding-stories



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Emily Williams Kelly, Pd.D. on the study of phenomena occurring just before death. Among these are deathbed visions - both on the part of the dying and those physically nearby; “Crisis Cases” - visions of a loved one at the moment of their death; and “Revival Cases” - the recovery of mental faculties shortly before death in individuals with dementia.
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