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The health agency reported on Thursday that the total outbreak in 19 states was 386 cases of fungal meningitis, stroke due to meningitis or infections of the central nervous system or peripheral joints. Twenty-eight people have died.
The outbreak has been linked to recalled steroid shots for back pain from the New England Compounding Center, a specialty pharmacy in Massachusetts.
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America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.
Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.
A house divided against itself cannot stand.
The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.
Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.
Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure.
Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.
Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say for one that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem.
Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.
The assertion that 'all men are created equal' was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.
The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.
The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.Demikian kumpulan "Kata mutiara bijak" dari Abraham lincoln yang kami dapat sampaikan untuk temen-temen...


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Hope College will present a variety of activities during the college's annual Disability Awareness Week beginning Monday, April 7.
Hope College will present a variety of activities during the college's annual Disability Awareness Week beginning Monday, April 7.
Highlights will include a basketball game featuring the Grand Rapids Pacers Wheelchair Basketball team and members of the college's men's basketball team on Wednesday, April 9.
The public is invited to all of the events. Admission is free.
The week's activities will begin in the morning on Monday, April 7, with a wheelchair challenge that will have invited members of the college's student body, faculty and staff undergo a mobility impairment simulation for six, 12 or 24 hours.
On Tuesday, April 8, participants will be able to simulate a variety of disabilities, including mobility impairment, hearing impairment, vision impairment and learning disabilities, as well as have an opportunity to gather information about a number of hidden disabilities. The simulations will run from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the main floor lounge of the DeWitt Center.
The wheelchair basketball game between the Grand Rapids Pacers Wheelchair Basketball team and members of the Hope men's team will take place on Wednesday, April 9, at 7 p.m. at the Dow Center. The Hope players will be occupying athletic chairs and given brief instructions on techniques and rules changes.
There will be an open house in the Disability Resource Room of the Van Wylen Library on Thursday, April 10, from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. The room, which features equipment for those with vision impairments, is on the library's second floor.
A video discussing experiences with hidden disabilities will be presented with discussion following on Thursday, April 10, at 7 p.m. in the Maas Center conference room. The event will be led by Jean Lindell of the college's counseling staff and Louise Shumaker, director of disability services at Hope.
On Thursday, April 10, at 9 p.m. a descriptive video version of the film "Pretty Woman" will be shown in the DeWitt Center Kletz. The video, designed for audiences with vision impairments, includes audio description of action on-screen. The Kletz staff will provide free popcorn and soda.
The week will close with an ice cream social on Friday, April 11, from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. in the DeWitt Center Kletz sponsored by the college's dean of students office.
The DeWitt Center is located at 141 E. 12th St., on Columbia Avenue at 12th Street. The Dow Center is located at 168 E. 13th St., on 13th Street at Columbia Avenue. The Maas Center is located at 264 Columbia Ave., on Columbia Avenue at 11th Street. The Van Wylen Library is located at 53 Graves Place, on College Avenue south of 10th Street.


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Should healthy people pay less for health insurance?
Finance Minister Taro Aso has been shooting his mouth off again. Tokyo Shimbun reports that at a recent "meeting" he said it "wasn't fair" that the country had to pay for the medical costs of people who "eat as much as they want and drink as much as they want and then end up with diabetes."
Japan's national health insurance does not discriminate between people who maintain good health and those who don't. You pay according to your income. "Of course, if you have an inherent weakness, that's another story," Aso added, obviously recognizing that some people will take offense at his opinion.
But apparently it's something he's thought about a lot. The Asahi Shimbun reports that during opening remarks at a Lower House "party" of some kind Aso said, "I think we should make an incentive for people who are making an effort to stay healthy."
The government is trying to reduce medical costs, and he believes if someone over, say, 70 continually foregoes treatment for minor complaints that person should be rewarded. "Maybe give them ¥100,000 in cash," Aso suggested. Then, those people who think they might as well go to the hospital for something small will think twice.
This idea has been floated before, but doctors' groups, which would suffer financially from such a change in the public mindset, have protested, saying that discouraging people from seeking medical advice for anything is tantamount to killing them.
Aso claims that the average medical cost for a person over 70 is a million yen a year. We couldn't corroborate that statistic, but fellow Liberal Democratic Party lawmaker Taro Kono, in his email newsletter, said that the average Japanese person costs the government ¥24 million in health care during his/her lifetime — paid for through both insurance premiums and taxes — and that 49 percent of all medical outlays are spent on persons 70 and over.
Then we thought of our own situation. We've been paying into the national health insurance scheme for 26 years and reckon we've spent almost ¥10 million. We can also count on the fingers of one hand how many times we've actually gone to the doctor in those 26 years for something that falls under our coverage, so obviously we aren't getting our money's worth — so far.


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I've decided it's time to start learning how to use a computer to do calculations... I've used Singular to some small extent so far, but I want to start relying on computer algebra systems more.
Which computer algebra system is best for what, and what is the easiest/most fun(?) way to learn how to deal with them?
I should mention that I do (arguably) Arithmetic Geometry. So, ideally I should invest my time in learning something that is capable of making the abstract existence theorems in that field explicit (see for example: How to get explicit unramified covers of an elliptic curve?, or another example is normalizations).
P.S. I don't have access to Magma. How powerful is their "online calculator", and is it worthwhile to learn Magma just to use the online version?


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Fazia Aitel (2004) has begun a tenure-track appointment as Assistant Professor in the Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures at the University of Montana-Missoula. She teaches courses in Comparative Literature, 20th Century Francophone literature, Anglophone literature, postcolonial studies, and film studies.
David A. Auerbach (1993) is Associate Professor in the Graduate Program in Translation at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus. He is a member of the American Association of Art Editors. His published translations are included in Brazil: Body and Soul (Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York, 2001); The Aztec Empire (Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York 2004); The Colonial Andes, Tapestries and Silverwork, 1530-1830 (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2004); Issues in the Conservation of Paintings (Getty Conservation Institute, Los Angeles, 2005).; The Indigenous Cultures of Puerto Rico (Publications of the Museum of History, Anthropology and Art of the University of Puerto Rico, 2006); The Arts in Latin America 1492-1820 (Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, October 2006); Taínos: Ceremonial Objects (Publications of the Museum of History, Anthropology and Art of the University of Puerto Rico, 2007); The Art and Architecture of Persia (Abbeville Press, New York, 2007), and Darcy Lange: Study of an Artist at Work (Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, U.K./ Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand, 2009).
Elizabeth Augspach (2004) has published The Garden as Woman's Space in 12th and 13th Century Literature. Studies in Medieval Literature 27 (Lewiston, NY: Ewin Mellen Press, 2004). The book was based on her dissertation.
Philip Beitchman (1986) has published The View from Nowhere: Essays in Literature, Mysticism and Philosophy. (University Press of America: Lanham, MD and Oxford, UK, 2001).
Francesco Bonavita (1980) is a professor in the Department of Instruction and Educational Leadership at Kean University (Union, NJ). At the ACTFL Convention in November 2003 he presented a paper, "Primo Levi: Hope amidst Hopelessness." His textbook, Giardino italiano, An Intermediate Language Immersion Program in Italian, has been published by Bastos (2004).
Monica Calabritto (2001) is an Assistant Professor of Italian at Hunter College, CUNY. She made two presentations at the Annual Conference of the Renaissance Society of America (April 2004): "Emblems/Impresse" and "Exploring the Archives." She was awarded an I Tatti Fellowship at the Harvard University's center for research in Renaissance studies; the fellowship provides residence in Florence, Italy, during the 2004-05 academic year.
Robert Cowan (2006) is Assistant Dean for Program Development, Assessment, & Review at Hunter College, a tenured full professor of English at Kingsborough Community College, and a volunteer instructor at Rikers Island Correctional Facility. His areas of research are post-Enlightenment French and German intellectual history, critical pedagogy, and creative writing. He is the author of two monographs – Teaching Double Negatives: Disadvantage and Dissent at Community College (Peter Lang, 2018) and The Indo-German Identification: Reconciling South Asian Origins and European Destinies (Camden House, 2010) – and two collections of creative nonfiction, fiction, and poetry – Elsewhen: Pieces (Paloma Press, 2019) and Close Apart: Poems (Paloma Press, 2018). For more information, see robertcowan.space.
Giovanna DeLuca (2002) has begun a tenure-track appointment as an Assistant Professor of Italian at the College of Charleston (South Carolina). The position will also provide the opportunity for her to teach film studies.
Michael Demson (2009) has begun a tenure-track appointment asAssistant Professor in the Department of English at Sam Houston StateUniversity. He teaches courses on Romanticism and 19th centuryliterature and has published articles on Percy Bysshe Shelley.
Earl E. Fitz (1977) was very pleased to be honored with an Alumni Achievement Award from the Ph.D. Alumni Association at a Graduate Center reception in 2006. He enjoyed his visit and the opportunity to talk with Professor Aciman, Professor Coleman, and Professor Rabassa. Dr. Fitz is a professor of Portuguese, Spanish, and comparative literature at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN, and former director of the Comparative Literature Program. His most recent book is Translation and the Rise of Inter-American Literature (co-authored with Elizabeth Lowe, also a CUNY Comparative Literature Ph.D.). The book is dedicated to and includes a chapter about CUNY Distinguished Professor Gregory Rabassa. The book has been named an outstanding academic title by Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries. Another recent book by Dr. Fitz is Brazilian Narrative Traditions in a Comparative Context, published by the Modern Language Association as the first book in a new series called "World Literatures Reimagined". Dr. Fitz, who has BA and MA degrees from the University of Iowa, was honored as a University of Iowa College of Liberal Arts and Science Alumni Fellow in 2006. He and his family have also been recognized as volunteers of the year (2007) by Gilda's Club Nashville, a free community resource for anyone affected by cancer.
Adam Goldwyn received a B.A. in History with a concentration in the ancient and medieval Mediterranean from Pomona College, an M.A. in Ancient History from University College London and a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the City University of New York. His dissertation was entitled "A Literary History of the Trojan War from Antiquity to the Middle Ages." He has taught classes in Classical (Greek and Roman), Medieval and Renaissance literature and all levels of English composition at Brooklyn College, the City College of New York, New York University and the University of New York in Tirana. He is currently a lecturer in the English Department at the the American University of Kosovo. He has presented over ten papers on ancient and medieval literature at academic conferences in the United States, Hungary, Italy and the UK. His article "Arthur in the East: Cross-Cultural Translations of Arthurian Romance in Greek and Hebrew, Including a New Translation of "The Old Knight" is forthcoming from "LATCH: A Journal for the Study of the Literary Artifact in Theory, Culture and History."
Anja Grothe (2000) works at Greenhouse, a multimedia publishing group in Munich, Germany, and is an adjunct lecturer at Bayreuth University. Her essay, "Fate's Circles: The Female Triangle and its Mythological Repercussions in Pushkin House," appeared in a web-based casebook, Andrei Bitov's "Pushkin House." Dalkey Archive Press, www.dalkeyarchive.org.
Heather Brown-Hudson began as Assistant Professor of French and English in the Fall of 2010 at Lindenwood University in St. Louis, Missouri. She developed a Gender Studies minor in 2012, and is now Chair of the Gender Studies Department. In 2014, she was promoted to Associate Professor. Her scholarly pursuits have taken her to conferences around the world to speak about maternal discourse and the notion of instinct in 19th and 20th century literature. She also has an M.A. in French language and literature from Middlebury College (2000).
Thelma Jurgrau (1976) has published "Anti-Semitism as Revealed in George Sand's Letters" in Le Siecle de George Sand. Ed. David Powell. Amsterdam: Rodopl, 1998. She presented two papers: " 'Shylock moderne': A Study of George Sand's Jewish Characters" at the 14th International George Sand Conference (Brandeis U, April 1999) and "The Changing Image of the Jew and George Sand's Rejection of the Romantic Subject in Valvedre," George Sand Studies, 21 (2002). She delivered a paper, "Les Mississipiens: George Sand's Allegory of a Bleak New World," at Tulane University, November 2002. A founding member of the George Sand Association and a member of the editorial board of George Sand Studies, she was guest editor of vols. 18 (1999) and 19 (2000) of George Sand Studies. Her bibliography of "Translations of George Sand's Work in English" can be seen on the George Sandwebsite.
Henry Krawitz (1976) is a professional editor. He has recently edited books for ABC-CLIO, Columbia U Press, Dahesh Museum of Art, Indiana U Press, Johns Hopkins U Press, U Kansas Press, Oxford U Press, Princeton U Press, and U Wisconsin Press.
James Kugel (1977), Harry Starr Professor of Classical Modern Jewish and Hebrew Literature at Harvard University, won the Grawemeyer Award in Religion for 2001 for his book, The Bible As It Was: Biblical Traditions of Late Antiquity (Harvard U Press, 1997). In 2002 he was awarded the Graduate Center's first Distinguished Alumni Award.
Maria Makowiecka (1996) presented two papers: "Rewriting Esther/Reinscribing Jewish Otherness" AATSEEL, New Orleans, December 2001, and "Rewriting Central European Identities -- Maria Nurowska's German Dance," SCMLA, Tulsa, November 2001. She prepared these presentations during her appointment to the New York Public Library's Wertheim Study.
Jay Miskowiec (1991), Director of Aliform Publishing Co., was one of 10 editors specializing in Latin American literature in translation chosen worldwide to attend a week-long symposium in Buenos Aires, Fundación Teoría y Practica de las Artes. He has edited and published two translations by his former dissertation supervisor Gregory Rabassa: My Kingdom Is Not of This World, by the Portuguese writer Joao de Melo, and Jail, by the Colombian writer Jesus Zarate.
Drew Moore (2010) has taught in the Classics Department at Brooklyn College—CUNY, and in the Department of English and Philosophy at the United States Military Academy, West Point. He is working on Caught in the Crossfire, the first English translation of St. John de Crèvecoeur's New York City prison letters. He is also a writer, filmmaker and actor. He recently published "Why Genealogy?" (Fortnightly Review), which illuminates the challenges and rewards of searching for one's ancestors. His short film and companion essay, "A Neighborhood Reborn: Life in Lower Manhattan 10 Years After 9/11," are featured in the Artists Registry at the National September 11 Memorial Museum.
Rose Anna Mueller (1977) has published "Antonia Pulci (1452-1501)" in Catholic Women Writers: A Bio-Bibliographical Sourcebook. ed. Mary R. Reichardt, Greenwood Press, 2001. Her article "From Cult to Comics: The Representation of Gonzalo Guerrero as a Cultural Hero in Mexican Popular Culture" appeared in A Twice-Told Tale: Reinventing the Encounter in Iberian/Iberian American Literature and Film, ed. Santiago Juan-Navarro, U of Delaware Press, 2001. Another article of hers, "La Llorona, The Weeping Woman: The Sixth Portent, the Third Legend," was published in COMMUNITY COLLEGE HUMANITIES REVIEW, 2001. She presented a paper at the Latin American Studies Association Conference in Washington, D.C., September 2001, "Petra's Kingdom: The Cellar of the House on the Lagoon."
Elizabeth Pallitto (2002) was a postdoctoral fellow at the CUNY Honors College program (College of Staten Island, CUNY). Among her recent lectures are "Philomela's Tongue: Translating Petrarchism in a Female Voice," Biennial Conference on Literary Translation, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ; "Embodied Souls, Immortal Poems: Procreation and Artistic Creation in the Rime of Tullia d'Aragona and the Sonnets of William Shakespeare," Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies Conference, UC Irvine; "Machiavelli: Beyond Might Makes Right," Stern School of Business, New York University. She co-chaired a workshop, "The Dialogue as Structure and Strategy in Court and Convent Attending to Early Modern Women," at the Center for Renaissance and Baroque Studies, U of Maryland, College Park, MD. She has published translations: four poems by Tullia d'Aragona, Forum Italicum, 36, 1 (Spring 2002); eleven philosophical madrigals by Tommaso Campanella, Philosophical Forum (Fall 2002). She delivered a paper at the Annual Conference of the Renaissance Society of America (April 2004): "Early Modern Italian Women Reading."
Karen Pinkus (1990) is Professor of French, Italian, and Comparative Literature and chair of the Department of French and Italian at the University of Southern California. She published The Montesi Scandal. The Death of Wilma Montesi and the Birth of the Paparazzi in Fellini's Rome (U Chicago Press 2003). She also gave the keynote speech in London at the Association for the Study of Modern Italy.
A book by Johanna C. Prins (1987) Medieval Dutch Drama: Four Secular Plays and Four Farces from the Van Hulthem Manuscript, was published by Pegasus Press (Asheville, NC). It is volume 3 in the series, Early European Drama in Translation.
Remy Roussetzki (1999) is an Assistant Professor of English at Hostos Community College, CUNY; he has recently been appointed to the faculty of the Graduate Center's Ph.D. Program in French. His article, "When Eve Answers Back: The Impossible of Paradise Lost," was published in Zeitspruenge, Zentrum zur Erforschung der Fruehen Neuzeit (Johann Wolfgant Goethe Universitaet, Frankfurt). He presented a paper on Milton's Paradise Lost, "Cuando Eva Dija 'No' a Dios y al Demonio," at the Jornadas da Escola de Causa Analitica (Rio De Janeiro) and an article on Rabelais, "Visual Grotesque and Denial of Castration," at the Sixteenth Century Studies Conference (Cleveland).
Caroline Rupprecht (1999 PhD), Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Queens, is the author of SUBJECT TO DELUSIONS: NARCISSISM, MODERNISM, GENDER (Northwestern UP, 2006); and DARK SPRING BY UNICA ZUERN (Exact Change, 2000). She has published many articles on 20th century German and French literature and film; and is currently writing about Japanese-German writer Yoko Tawada. Her book manuscript, WOMB FANTASIES: SUBJECTIVE ARCHITECTURES IN POSTMODERN LITERATURE AND FILM, is under review at Northwestern UP. She has also taught German Modernism and Romanticism at the Graduate Center.
Deborah Sinnreich-Levi (1987) is an Associate Professor of English Literature and Director of the Writing Program at the Stevens Institute of Technology (Hoboken, NJ). She has co-edited and translated Selected Poetry of Eustache Deschamps (New York: Routledge, 2003). She gave two invited lectures: "WIT-Word, Image, Text: A 14th Century Filter," Keynote address, Conference to celebrate the 5th anniversary of the Master of Arts in English Literature, Mercy College, November 2003; "The King of the Uglies: Eustache Deschamps, 14th-Century Courtier-Poet," Wake Forest University Medieval Studies Group, March 2003. She received a major grant for a database of the poetry of Eustache Deschamps.
A book by Ekaterina Sukhanova (2001), Voicing the Distant: Shakespeare and Russian Modernist Poetry, was published by Fairleigh Dickinson U Press (2004). Her article, "Conscience Shaping Phenomena: Literature and Depression," has appeared (in a Spanish translation) in Vertex, Revista Argentina de Psiquiatría. XX/44 (June-July-August 2001). Her review of a book on authenticity and fiction in the Russian literary journey was published by American Book Review. 22/4, (May-June 2001). She presented two papers: "Depression as Text." Fifth World Conference on Depression. Mendoza, Argentina. September 2003; "Escaping the Badger Hole: Russian Modernists' Approach to Tradition." AAASS Mid-Atlantic Slavic Conference, Hunter College, New York, March 2003. She has edited a web-based casebook, Andrei Bitov's PUSHKIN HOUSE, Dalkey Archive Press, available at www.dalkeyarchive.com.
Christopher R. Trogan (2009) is Assistant Professor of Humanities atthe United States Merchant Marine Academy in Kings Point, New York andan Adjunct Lecturer at New York University's Gallatin School forIndividualized Study. He teaches comparative literature andphilosophy. In September 2009, he presented at "Aesthetics andModernity from Schiller to Marcuse," a conference sponsored by theInstitute of Germanic and Romance Studies, University of London. Heis currently at work on a book based on his dissertation, FreedomTurned Against Itself: Studies in the Literature of Suicide.
Saundra Tara Weiss holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She is an Associate Professor of English at Kingsborough Community College, where she teaches developmental writing and a variety of literature courses. She also serves as the Associate Academic Director/ESL of the Reading and Writing Center and is the College Now ESL Coordinator. She is co-founder of Kingsborough's Annual Award Winning Eco-Festival. In 2004, she was a recipient of a Kingsborough Scholarly and Applied Research Grant. She has presented papers at the Modern Language Association, the International Society for Phenomenology, the Fine Arts and Aesthetics Annual Conference, and the International Society for Phenomenology and Literature. She has also presented papers at the Mid-Atlantic Popular/American Culture Association Conferences, where she also serves as Area Chair of Environment and Culture. In 2009, she co-authored a book chapter for International Students. She has been published in Teaching English in the Two-Year College, Phenomenological Inquiry (Aesthetics and Art), and The Mid-Atlantic Almanack. In the latter two journals, her pieces focus on environmental themes in images of the American landscape. Her paper Passion's Delirium, Passion's Torment – A Discussion of One Woman's Arousal in Kate Chopin's The Awakening will be published in a forthcoming volume of Analecta Husserliana. In 2009, she was invited to facilitate a program, Reading Between the Lines: Wasting Away: Contemporary Writing on the Environmental Crises, sponsored by The New York Council for the Humanities.


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How We Covered the Katy Place Apartments Accident
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COLUMBIA - On October 10th, KOMU reported that a construction worker who fell at Katy Place Apartments had died due to information from the Boone County Medical Examiner's Office.
But, that information was wrong, and KOMU corrected the mistake as soon as it found out. Despite running a correction once the Examiner's Office admitted its mistake, there were a number of complaints on Facebook concerning KOMU's coverage. One viewer thought KOMU could have made up the Medical Examiner's report.
"Seems to me that the Medical Examiners office would know if someone in Columbia had died or not," said Merrybeth Beahan. "Are you sure this wasn't a KOMU mistake?....wouldn't be the first time!"
KOMU's content manager, Matt Johnson, said people make mistakes all the time, even if they're reliable sources.
"In this case, it was NOT a KOMU mistake," Johnson said. "I felt it was important that our viewers and readers understood that it was the medical examiner's office who got it wrong. And they make mistakes too, it's perfectly understandable that they would make a mistake, but that's why we attribute it to them."
Another viewer thought that the race to be first was part of the problem too.
"The race to be FIRST with sensational news = don't trust the station - and they ALL do it," said Jacob Halls.
While there is a timeliness element to reporting news stories, MU Journalism Professor Len Bruzzese felt some follow-up reporting would have helped, especially since KOMU wasn't the only news organization to report this incorrect information. In fact, Bruzzese said he saw five other news organizations all reported the worker had died and attributed the information to the Medical Examiner's Office.
"Normal follow-up reporting, talking to the hospital, to family members, to employers, tends to flesh out the story more in time to air or to be published," said Bruzzese, who is also the Executive Director of the Association of Health Care Journalists. "And that's where, if there's problems, it often gets spotted."
Johnson said the reason KOMU did not pursue other avenues of information is because of the reliabilty of the source.
"There are certain sources which we consider reliable and there are other sources that we think are not reliable," Johnson said. "And in this case, the Medical Examiner's Office is one that is considered a reliable source; and unfortunately, even a reliable source will get information wrong."
Bruzzese thinks there could be a solution to the problem.
"I would urge several of the news organizations to sit down with the Medical Examiner's Office and perhaps the local hospitals, not to place blame, in this case, but to come up with fail-safe or safety net kinds of things that would avoid this kind of thing in the future," said Bruzzese.
So what do you think? Do you still think KOMU could have covered this better, or is this simply a mistake that anyone could have made? Let us know in the comments below.


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Flower HeadbandsPosted in Beginners, Fashion, Gifts on 07/24/2010 07:15 pm by Chrissy
Flower Headbands
Artificial Flowers
Acrylic Jewels
Hot glue gun and glue
There are a large variety of headbands available so make sure you try a few out and find a style that is comfortable for your head. Children's headbands are also available. I used both plastic and cloth varieties to show you more than one way to utilize the headband that works best for you.
The Basic Headband
Remove all the flowers from the stems. Keep the leaves as you might want to add them to your headband for more color and volume. Disassemble the flower pieces removing the hard plastic backing and center piece. Lay them out in the order you take them off the stem.
Using hot glue secure the layers of the flower to each other starting with the largest petal and working to the smallest. Glue a jewel to the center of the flower.
Next it is time to glue the flower onto the headband. Using a mirror determine where you want your flower to sit on your head. You can put it wherever you think it looks cute. You may even want it in the center depending on your hair cut. If you are using a cloth headband the placement is not as important as you can adjust the flower once it is one your head.
Put a large drop of glue on the back of the flower and press it onto the headband. Hold it for a few seconds so the glue can cool. DON'T BURN YOURSELF. Cut a strip of felt to cover the back of the flower. Place hot glue on the back of the flower which will also cover part of the headband. Secure the felt to the glue forming a soft flat surface that will sit against your head.
Style your hair, put the headband on, but most importantly have fun and look cute.
-For the center of the flower you can use sea beads or buttons
-Spray the flowers with spray paint. Gold or silver metallic looks pretty and adds more drama.
-Add tulle behind the flower
-Wrap ribbon around the headband. This trick is handy if you can't find a specific color headband.
-Using a variety of sizes of flowers add multiple flowers along the side of the headband for a more dramatic effect
-Use snap barrettes instead of a headband
-Use a needle and thread if you don't want to use hot glue, especially for cloth headbands for babies.


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Guitar Hero is offering fans across the US an unheard of limited time bonus offer. With every purchase of specially marked copies of Guitar Hero® 5 during the month of September, living room legends will be able to rock out with an advance copy of the unreleased Guitar Hero Van Halen (up to a $60 MSRP value), long before it takes the stage in stores.Now that's a pretty good deal.
Rock out to over 130 on-disc tracks in two games on September 1 by pre-ordering Guitar Hero 5 now at your local retailer or at http://gh5.guitarhero.com/preorder.php and picking up your copy in September, or by buying specially marked copies of the game at any retailer anytime during the month of September, and take advantage of this limited time offer.
This mane of rock can be yours for no-money-cash.
Bryn says: OK, so Guitar Hero 5 just got a lot more attractive to me. Of course, I no longer live in the States, but according to Eurogamer.net a similar deal is going to be made available to European gamers. Not too shabby.
It does beg the question: Who the hell is going to buy Van Halen as a standalone product?


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2014 Walks Festival Announcement
It's here! Our free walks festival! September 26th to October 7th. This consists of: Eight new walks by incredibly thoughtful and imaginative artists; a first-ever series of four Talks featuring pioneers of the walk form on Sunday, September 28th at Pratt Institute, co-presented by Pratt's new MFA in Writing; and an unusual Closing Night Benefit Party on Tuesday, October 7th from 7-10pm at Jack Geary Contemporary (185 Varick St) in SoHo. Details forthcoming on the party--I can tell you now that given what we're planning--well, I don't think anyone's ever tried this at a benefit before. If you go to this link and donate $40/person, that'll pay for yer ticket.
In addition to our amazing publicist Blake Zidell, we've Hyperallergic as our media partner to help spread the walk/talk love! But let's make it easy on em--please help us along by posting and sharing (and Cher-ing) on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram #ECwalksfest You can find any updates right here on our blog.
Participating Walk Artists: Karen Finley; Anthony Goicolea; Michel Groisman; Nisan Haymian; Amichai Lau-Lavie & Shawn Shafner; Sarah Schulman, Todd Shalom & Niegel Smith; Kristin Geneve Young
Partnering organizations: Pratt Institute's new MFA in Writing; Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP); Brooklyn Museum; Jack Geary Contemporary; Aerial Arts NYC and Lab/Shul
This program is supported, in part, by public funds from The New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with The City Council.
Foundation support provided by Asylum Arts & Foundation for Contemporary Arts
"Mandala: Reimagining Columbus Circle," by Karen Finley
"Let It Go: A Tashlich Walk," by Amichai Lau-Lavie & Shawn Shafner
"Downside Up," by Kristin Geneve Young
"Signature Walk," by Todd Shalom
"Twelve Grey Lemons," by Nisan Haymain
"Dark Hour/Light Moment," by Anthony Goicolea
"Favorites," by Sarah Schulman, Todd Shalom & Niegel Smith
"Playing with Steps," by Michel Groisman
Since 2010, Elastic City has been working with artists to rigorously investigate and interrogate the participatory walk. Through this work, we have helped to pioneer a new genre within the performing arts. During the talks, moderators, panelists and participants will examine the participatory walk and its related forms while questioning its history, present and potential for the future.
In partnership with Pratt Institute's new MFA in Writing, Elastic City is thrilled to present four talks featuring renown visual and performance artists, curators, scholars and critics on Sunday, September 28, 2014 at Pratt Institute's Higgins Hall Auditorium (61 St. James Place, Brooklyn) from 11am to 5:30pm.
Each talk will hold approximately 75 people and will last about 90 minutes.
Sunday, September 28, 2014
11:00am – 12:30pm: A Genealogy of the Participatory Walk
Pratt Institute's Higgins Hall Auditorium (61 St. James Place, Brooklyn)
Featuring: Matt Green; Jeffrey Hogrefe; Aseman Sabet (moderator); Andrea Williams and Moira Williams
Sunday, September 28, 2014
12:30pm – 2pm: Politics of the Walk
Pratt Institute's Higgins Hall Auditorium (61 St. James Place, Brooklyn)
Featuring: Christian Hawkey (moderator); Rachel Levitsky; Eve Mosher and Ryan Tracy
Sunday, September 28, 2014
2:30pm – 4pm: The Participatory Walk as a New Performative Framework
Pratt Institute's Higgins Hall Auditorium (61 St. James Place, Brooklyn)
Featuring: luciana achugar; Miguel Gutierrez; Todd Shalom (moderator); Jillian Steinhauer and Pamela Z
Sunday, September 28, 2014
4pm – 5:30pm: Impossibility in Participatory Performance
Pratt Institute's Higgins Hall Auditorium (61 St. James Place, Brooklyn)
Featuring: N.D. Austin; Ayesha Jordan; Nancy Nowacek; Niegel Smith (moderator) and Veit Stratmann
Y'can click on names on the left side of our Artist page for all artist bios.
Please check this page, as we will keep adding to the list of things that'll happen at our Closing Night Benefit Party.
Thanks to all of the artists, organizational partners and the EC board for all of your dedication and support! Also, a big hats off to the spectacular graphic designer Asad Pervaiz for the festival identity and to our new emissary Keith Paul Medelis for joining us in the cray fray.
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At least 38 sitting House members would be forced into a face off with one of their colleagues -- or move out of their current districts -- a record-breaking shakeup in incumbency, if the House Redistricting Committee votes out its maps for the House, Senate and Congress as expected on Friday.
The legislative musical chairs was started when voters approved Amendments 5 and 6, forcing lawmakers to ignore incumbent and political parties and draw districts according to political boundary lines, when possible, and in a way that protects minority voting strength.
The result pits Democrats against Democrats, one Republicans against a Democrat and, most unexpectedly, Republicans against Republicans in the chamber in which a super majority controls that party.
If the House committee passes the three maps as expected, they will then be brought to the House floor on Thursday, sent back to the Senate as early as Friday and then the legislative maps would be sent to the Florida Supreme Court for the required 30-day review.
"We're will neither accelerate or delay them,'' said House Speaker Dean Cannon, R-Winter Park, on Thursday. But, he added, they appeared to be moving at a steady pace to finish soon.
Democratic Leader Ron Saunders of Key West told the Herald/Times his caucus is willing to let them finish up next week and get the issue before the court.
Democratic Leader Ron Saunders of Key West told the Herald/Times his caucus is willing to limit debate and finish up next week in order to get the issue before the court. Diaz Balart, if re-elected, would be the sitting congressman for Rivera, another Miami Republican, and would be the hometown congressman for Democrat U.S. Rep. Alcee Hastings, according to a Herald/Times analysis.
A proposed amendment, drafted by the House staff and expected to be adopted at Friday's four-hour hearing, also tinkers with the Central Florida of U.S. Reps. Richard Nugent and Cliff Stearns, merging the two Republicans into a single central Florida district, District 7.
U.S. Reps. Sandy Adams and John Mica, both Orlando Republicans, would also live in the proposed District 7, although either of them could seek the more Democrat-heavy seat to the east, District 6. And U.S. Rep. Dan Webster of Ocoee would be represented by the meandering minority majority district held by Democrat Corrine Brown.
The House committee is expected to pass the Senate map with no changes. The Senate map pits no incumbents against each other, so that leaves the most dramatic battle lines drawn for the House. There, amendments proposed by the House redistricting maps to be taken up on Friday will include a House map that pushes 38 incumbents into districts with other legislators and increases the odds of Democrats winning nine to 11 additional seats, according to a Herald/Times analysis.
All the maps appear to be a done deal. Senate Redistricting chairman Don Gaetz told the Herald/Times this week he expected the House to make slight changes to its map and that the Senate "hoped to accept those changes'' in time to get the maps on a fast track to court approval.
The congressional map also includes the newly created Hispanic-opportunity seat based in Central Florida, District 9 and the new Republican-dominated District 3 in North Central Florida, in which state Sen. Steve Oelrich has already announced his candidacy.
The most significant change to the amendment to the House map would shift the districts of Jacksonville Republican Dan Davis, Michael Weinstein and Charles McBurney. Instead of pitting Davis and McBurney against each other, it pits McBurney and Weinstein into the same district. Weinstein told the Jacksonville Times Union he is considering running for the Senate seat being vacated by Sen. Steve Wise instead. Former Rep. Aaron Bean has already announced his candidacy for that post.
Here are the proposed match-ups by district and member in the House map -- if the amendment is accepted:
D16 – Charles McBurney, R-Jacksonville, and Michael Weinstein, R-Jacksonville,
D 29 – Chris Dorworth, R-Heathrow, and Scott Plakon, R-Longwood
D 40 – Seth McKeel, R-Lakeland and Kelli Stargel, R-Lakeland
D 44 – Eric Eisnaugle, R-Orlando, and Geraldine Thompson, D-Windemere
D 51 – Steve Crisafulli, R-Merritt Island, and Tom Goodson, R-Rockledge
D 52 – John Tobia, R-Melbourne, and Ritch Workman, R-Melbourne
D 63 – James Grant, R-Tampa, and Shawn Harrison, R-Tampa
D 69 – Larry Ahern, R-St. Petersburg, and Jim Frishe, R-St. Petersburg, and Rick Kriseman, D-St. Petersburg
D 72 – Doug Holder, R-Osprey, and Ray Pilon, R-Sarasota
D 86 – Joe Abruzzo, D-West Palm Beach and Mark Pafford, D-West Palm Beach
D 91 – Bill Hager, R-Boca Raton and Irv Slosberg, D-Boca Raton
D 99 – Elaine Schwartz, D-Hollywood, and Perry Thurston, D-Plantation
D 100 – Joe Gibbons, D-Hallandale Beach, and Evan Jenne, D-Dania Beach
D 107 – Daphne Campbell, D-Miami, John Patrick Julien, D-Miami Beach, Barbara Watson, D-Miami Gardens
D 110 – Eddy Gonzalez, R-Hialeah, and Jose Oliva, R-Miami Lakes
D 116 – Jose Felix Diaz, R-Miami, and Ana Rivas Logan, R-Miami
-- Times researcher Darla Cameron contributed to this report


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Bankia investors look to courts for justice
Spanish savers and pensioners who have seen their money wiped out by investing in state-rescued lender Bankia are likely to seek redress in court rather than wait for any official inquiry, which looks increasingly unlikely.
About 350,000 stockholders will share the pain of the bank's European bailout, many of them bank clients who were sold the shares through an aggressive marketing campaign for its stock market flotation in 2011.
Shares in the lender, rescued by the state in May in Spain's biggest ever bank bailout, fell to record lows on Friday, tumbling over 40% from the start of the week after it emerged losses on bad loans were worse than expected.
"Going to the courts and seeing if a judge can bring us justice is the only path left to us," said Maricarmen Olivares, whose parents lost 600,000 they made from selling her father's car workshop by investing in Bankia preference shares.
Neither of the 2 main political parties want to push for a full investigation into Bankia's demise, which could draw attention to their own role in a debacle that has driven Spain to the brink of an international rescue, commentators say.
"Investigations work when a political party has something to gain over another. In this case, no-one has anything to gain," said Juan Carlos Rodriguez, of consultancy Analistas Socio Politicos.
"I don't see the big parties investigating this because if there have been errors committed, they have been committed by both sides."
The Socialist Party was in power when Bankia was formed in 2010 from an ill-matched combination of seven regional savings banks, a union that concentrated an unsustainable exposure to Spain's collapsed property sector.
Immense political pressure from the then government forced Bankia executives to push ahead with an initial public offering in July 2011 as Spain sought to bring private capital into its banking system and avoid an EU bailout.
Then chairman, Rodrigo Rato, a former chief of the IMF, had strong links to the centre-right PP and was finance minister in a previous PP administration.
A small political party, UPyD, forced the High Court in July to open an investigation into whether Rato, ousted when the bank was nationalized in May, and 32 other former board members are guilty of fraud, price-fixing or falsifying accounts.
Investigating magistrate Fernando Andreu has so far not brought charges against anyone and could still drop the case.
Rato appeared in a private session before the judge on December 20 where he denied any blame for what happened.
Rato, who cannot legally speak to the press because he is the subject of a court investigation, has kept a low profile since the bank rescue in May. Protesters gathered outside the court on the day of his declaration wearing masks of his face.
The probe centres around Bankia's stock market listing, the formation of the lender from the 7 savings banks and the gaping capital shortfall revealed at the bank after the state takeover in May.
Rato and 23 others including bank executives and cabinet ministers were called to testify before a parliamentary committee in July this year where Rato said he had a clear conscience and had done things properly.
"That was just window-dressing by the PP following the outcry over the Bankia disaster," said a Socialist Party source.
The opposition Socialists called for a full parliamentary investigation in May, but the ruling PP blocked it, the Socialist Party source said. A PP spokeswoman said any investigation of Bankia should be carried out through the courts, not the government.
A government source said any investigative process would not fall to the government, but to the courts.
Bankia, alongside other Spanish banks, sold billions of euros of preference shares and subordinated debt to high street clients, many of whom say they were tricked into parting with their savings and are seeking compensation.
The investigating magistrate is not including the mis-selling of preference shares - hybrid instruments that fall between a share and a bond - in the probe.
Holders of preference shares at Bankia will incur losses of up to 46% as part of the EU bailout, receiving shares rather than cash in exchange.
"We won't see our money again, that's for sure. They'll give us shares, but shares with no value or credibility in a nationalized bank," said Olivares, who said she had heard nothing from the bank as to how much their losses would be.
The losses each investor will have to take has yet to be decided, a Bankia spokesman said, adding that hybrid debtholders at all rescued banks had to take losses, not just at Bankia.
A source close to the court investigation said there would certainly be scope for a separate wider probe into the mis-selling of preference shares, not just at Bankia, but throughout Spain's savings banks. Olivares, like many other small savers at Spain's state-rescued banks, claims her parents were sold the preference shares as a kind of high-interest savings account and that the bank staff did not explain the risks attached.
The government is in the process of setting up an arbitration process to compensate Bankia clients who can prove that they were duped into buying preference shares, Economy Minister Luis de Guindos said last week.
But many ordinary Spaniards who lost their life savings through the Bankia rescue say this is not enough and they want answers as to what happened to their money.
"We want justice, at least some kind of recognition that we were swindled," said Raimundo Guillen, a 50-year-old electricity station worker who put 30,000 in preference shares with Bankia under the impression they were a form of savings account.
"It's as if they've stolen your wallet - blatantly, with their face uncovered."
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Insulin detemir is a long-acting type of insulin. Insulin is one of many hormones that help the body turn the food we eat into energy. This is done by using the glucose (sugar) in the blood as quick energy. Also, insulin helps us store energy that we can use later. When you have diabetes mellitus, your body cannot make enough insulin or does not use insulin properly. So, you must take additional insulin to regulate your blood sugar and keep your body healthy. This is very important as too much sugar in your blood can be harmful to your health.
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Using this medicine together with other diabetes medicine (eg, pioglitazone, rosiglitazone, Actos®, Actoplus Met®, Avandia®) may cause serious heart problem or edema (fluid retention). Check with your doctor immediately if you are rapidly gaining weight, having chest pain or discomfort, extreme tiredness or weakness, trouble breathing, uneven heartbeat, or excessive swelling of the hands, wrist, ankles, or feet.
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This is my first trip to Moscow, and Yuri Milner, the world's most successful investor in social media, is taking me to his parents' apartment, which he bills as a typical middle-class Moscow dwelling. It's drab Soviet brick outside. The none-too-reliable-looking elevator is encircled by a crumbling staircase. But inside, the apartment is genteel and highly recognizable to me. It's like many you would find on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, a cramped and comfortable set of rooms without a recent paint job, filled with too many tchotchkes and way too many books. Milner's father, Boris, is an 81-year-old former professor—a specialist, during the Soviet era, in American management practices no less—who has written or edited more than 50 books and is eager to show me all of them. Do I know, surely I do, Professor So-and-So at Ohio State or Professor So-and-So at Georgia Tech? His less garrulous mother, Betti, who lays out a table of tea and copious sweets, is a physician who practiced at the Moscow Department for Disease Prevention for almost 40 years.
The message seems clear: Milner may have invested in virtually every social media powerhouse, from Facebook to Twitter to Spotify. He might be the vanguard of an entirely new financial philosophy. He might be the most controversial money guy in Silicon Valley—sought after, feared, and derided in more or less equal measure. But at heart he is just a nice Jewish boy.
Which might help explain—and Milner very much wants to explain himself—how it is that he has gone from investing in a macaroni factory in Moscow to upending the American technology business. I believe, too, he is trying to say his success story ought to be just as appealing as any in the Valley.
It certainly hasn't played that way in the tight-knit club of Valley venture capitalists. In fact, the more successful Milner has gotten, and the faster he has compounded his success—beginning with his night-raid investment in Facebook in 2009 and now encompassing major positions in Zynga, Groupon, Twitter, and Spotify—the more suspect and outré he has come to seem. He's definitely not your conspicuous non-consumption Valley billionaire.
Kara Swisher, who, with Walt Mossberg, runs The Wall Street Journal's D Conference, one of the prestige events in the technology business, told me with arch inflection how Milner—a Vladimir Putin look-alike with a dark undershirt always peeking out of his collar—had shown up at the conference with a blonde model towering over him. (Swisher was only slightly sheepish when she found out this was his wife.)
What's more, a whisper campaign has dogged his American adventure. Indeed, among the early backers of his investment fund, Digital Sky Technologies, was Alisher Usmanov—one of the richest men in Russia, who even other Russian oligarchs find, to say the least, a little dodgy. (Usmanov's résumé includes alleged Kremlin associations and an overturned conviction for fraud and extortion. He also has a near-$18 billion fortune in mining, steel, and telecom, as well as the obligatory ownership stake in a British football team.)
Oh, and his house—that has not helped, either. Milner, who runs his business from a no-frills office suite in Moscow, is spending more and more time in the Valley and so has bought a place in Los Altos Hills—not just the Valley's most expensive house but, at a reported $100 million, among the most expensive in America. (Milner is embarrassed about this and seems aware that he may have misjudged how this purchase would be seen. Anyway, he has heard that there is another US property sale that will soon trump his.)
To many, Milner's success is not just too much and too fast in a land of too much and too fast but … but … and here people start to petulantly phumpher … somehow unfair: Here's an outsider who has handed out money at outrageously founder-friendly terms—paying huge amounts for relatively small stakes, essentially buying exclusive access to the most desirable companies on the web! It is his outsiderness that seems most irritating and even alarming. How is it that an outsider has spotted opportunities that the Valley's best investors missed? Does Milner's success suggest that the rest of the world is starting to horn in on what has been, to date, as American as apple pie—the Internet future and Internet riches?
That's why I'm here—in Russia and in his parents' apartment—to try to figure out just what his advantage is. If he is a game changer, how exactly does the game change? I'm curious, too, about what he's after personally: He seems to want respect from the Silicon Valley folk—but why would he? Why does he care what they think? Milner's rise as a power-brokering investor happened so fast—his fund went from zero equity to more than $12 billion in US assets in less than two years—that his story has not had time to come out.
Russia may well be the most captivating place on earth for businesspeople, because it is purely about cause and effect. All of the power dynamics are on the surface—here's who has the money, here's who has the influence, here's who controls the resources—so all you need is the gumption and savvy to take advantage of them.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, a class of robber barons—the oligarchs—rose to control much of Russia's vast resources. In a disorganized and corrupt process of privatization, they came to very cheaply control vast reserves of Russia's export wealth; oil, minerals, lumber, and wheat passed from government to private hands.
A not inconsiderable point: A disproportionate number of the oligarchs are Jewish. The Jews in Soviet Russia, often kept from taking official career paths, came to thrive in the gray and black markets. Hence, they were among the only capitalists in Russia when capitalism emerged.
Milner, a half-generation younger than the first rank of oligarchs, is himself selling gray-market computers when the end of the Soviet Union arrives. He buys old DOS machines, imported or smuggled from the US, and delivers them at appointed street corners.
His father, displaying another side of Jewish business tradition and acumen—the cautious side—isn't pleased. Milner is slacking off his studies as a physics graduate student and doing things that could get him into trouble with the authorities. His father's solution is both predictable and a wild leap into uncharted waters: His son should get an American MBA. In 1990, Milner enrolls in the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, where a close friend of his father's is a professor.
This leap for Milner is radical in all the obvious, transformational, emotionally topsy-turvy ways that might be imagined (he is, at Wharton, a great oddity), but it is also a leap into one of the most dramatic and picaresque moments of American capitalism. It is the age of the takeover artist—Michael Milken, Carl Icahn, Ronald Perelman, Henry Kravis—and Milner falls in love with them all: "These are very romantic figures for me—and they are very American."
Meanwhile, his own country is imploding and turning into, for some, a highly profitable free-for-all. Watching from afar in Philadelphia and filled with great envy, Milner, after Wharton and a three-year stint at the World Bank, comes back to Moscow.
He goes to work for the now imprisoned Putin enemy and founder of Yukos, then Russia's largest oil company, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who in the mid-'90s was in the process of devouring, some would say by extraordinary means, great parts of the Russian economy. Milner proposes to Khodorkovsky that they try a legal takeover—American style, and the first ever in Russia—of a candy company. The takeover fails (Milner writes a book about the experience, pleasing his father), and he goes out on his own. In 1998, he assembles a group of investors and buys a macaroni factory. Russia has just defaulted on its debt, and Milner figures that's the end of the days of imported macaroni.
But macaroni is hardly the point.
Nobody in the digital world knows that the man in the Russian macaroni factory exists, but his nose is pressed to the glass. Sitting up late at night in the factory, as his cash flow mounts, Milner is focused on the US. It is the apogee of the dotcom moment, 1999, and Milner fastens onto an American business theory—and it consumes him.
The theory holds that the Internet is an advertising medium where users themselves create the vast amount of content. In other words, as Milner understands it, the same ocean of advertising revenues that have gone to traditional media might now go to the Internet, but without the offsetting costs of having to actually create content. Voilá.
"From margin standpoint," Milner notes, "this is very magical."
But then the bubble bursts. Mail.ru, then the biggest Internet company in Russia, valued at its height at $100 million, crashes too.
Milner, with his macaroni cash flow, buys it on the cheap.
The gray-market Soviet hustler turned would-be Russian oligarch is now a dotcom entrepreneur.
I first meet Milner in 2009, over coffee at the Four Seasons on East 57th Street in New York, a few months after he has made a surprise investment of $200 million for a 2 percent equity stake in Facebook.
Milner is the new boy in town. He obviously knows few people, does not travel in elite technology circles, and fails most of my name-dropping tests—he doesn't even pretend to know who he should know. Correction: Through Mail.ru, he does know the Goldman Sachs money guys in Russia. Indeed, Milner seems to have been almost personally inspired by the Goldman-propounded view of the BRIC countries—that capital accumulation and high growth rates in Brazil, Russia, India, and China could alter the economic balance of power in the world.
The very decision to invest in Facebook is partly the result of a gossipy Moscow dinner with the Russian Goldman guys, during which—in between pitching their investment-banking services—the bankers mention that Facebook might be looking to do a major investment round. This is just months after Lehman Brothers collapsed, with the world economy plunged into crisis. MySpace, the leader in social media, is sinking fast. Nevertheless, Milner is stirred.
What's more, he has money in the bank. Or he can quickly get it. Milner has created a separate fund to invest in international—and especially American—Internet companies, with Usmanov taking the biggest stake. The oligarch has the money and an interest in Internet properties, including, along with Mail.ru, an investment in the news sites Livejournal.com in the US and Gazeta.ru in Russia. The fund is called Digital Sky Technologies, and Facebook is its first target.
But even at this dire international financial moment, a call from an unknown Russian, however flush he might be, to then Facebook CFO Gideon Yu seems quixotic. Yu politely expresses his lack of interest in Milner's offer. But Milner gets on a plane, flies to California, and calls Yu from San Francisco. Yu, begrudgingly impressed, agrees to a meeting. Milner proposes a game-changing deal.
Pre-IPO investments in even high-flying tech companies that are not yet profitable usually conform to a specific pattern: A prestigious VC firm gets certain preferences when it invests (i.e., it gets its money out first should the company go public) and gets seats on the board (which means it gets a direct voice in the future of the company—almost always one that advocates an IPO as soon as possible). Milner offers something radically or foolishly different: an investment with no such preferences and no board seats. In effect, his money is like IPO money—no advantages for regular shareholders—without the burden of an IPO (the time suck of a road show, the administrative costs of being public, the short-term earnings pressure of the market).
The proposal represents, too, a philosophically new and audacious view: Once a company reaches a certain size—a billion-dollar valuation by Milner's reckoning—its investment profile changes. It holds enough market share and has established enough brand identity that it represents significantly less risk than VCs have traditionally considered startups to have.
But that's not how the rest of the world interprets it. Instead it's seen as a desperate and rather vulgar deal on the one hand—Milner buying a small stake in Facebook, valuing the entire company at $10 billion—and, on the other, Facebook debasing itself by taking Russian money. Russian money! In fact, it seems rather like a desperate deal for both parties (in the midst of the banking crisis, Facebook has only two other bidders for this round—and none from the top VC tier).
Sitting in the Four Seasons, I don't come out and say, "Facebook has taken Russian money, so what does that tell you about the state of the industry and the state of social media? It tells you that social media is probably not such a great investment." But it's certainly what I'm thinking.
I pepper Milner with questions about more conventional issues: the burden of privacy concerns weighing on Facebook, the callowness of Mark Zuckerberg, the shadow of MySpace.
The Russian is not just monosyllabic but, I detect, bored. Or brooding. I am not understanding—and I am not alone in not understanding—the big picture. I am not getting that, in a matter of months, it will be clear that social media is transforming the fundamental behavior of the Internet. And I am not getting the big picture of Yuri Milner, that he has, yet unbeknownst to anyone, altered the power equilibrium of technology money.
"I have invested in four social networks. More than any other," Milner explains.
"But that's in Russia and Poland … " In other words, in a market that can hardly be compared to the US.
"Same. Social is a better way to interact with digital world. It is better than search. Implications for … everything. Total change."
And something else that I am not getting, because nobody knows it yet. Although Milner seems to have made a chump's deal without all the protections that early-stage money is usually entitled to, for a period of time he has gotten one thing: a right of first refusal on any other Facebook stock that changes hands.
The dumb money has just bought itself potentially unlimited access to arguably the most important company to hit the Internet in a decade. One of the fastest accelerations in digital history has just begun.
More than a year later, I run into Milner in the lobby of the Ritz-Carlton in San Francisco (he hasn't yet bought his house). Since we last met, he has raised his stake in Facebook to almost 9 percent (2.4 percent held by the Mail.ru Group, the rest by Milner's investment company, DST), and he has made the obvious leap into Zynga and Groupon. If he is not yet loved by the Valley, he seems now to have come to know almost everyone there. In fact, he has become something of a ubiquitous figure, speaking at every technology conference.
"How are you?" I ask, wondering if I should suggest coffee—but Milner is often so terse that this seems a frightening thought.
"What brings you here?"
"Oh …" fading off.
His phone rings. Conversation ends. I read the answer to my question in the paper a day or so later. Google has reportedly made a $3 billion bid for Twitter, which was countered by a bid for a stake in the company from Kleiner Perkins that valued the business at $3.7 billion, which in turn was countered by a bid from Milner that valued the company at $4.2 billion. Twitter takes the Kleiner money at nearer the Milner valuation—until eight months later, when it takes the Milner money, too, although this time at an amount that values the company at $8.4 billion.
It's the new reality of social media: Wherever something is happening you now find Zelig-like Milner. He will keep buying. Money for him is no object.
As this is all unfolding, just before Thanksgiving, Milner in his blue sweat suit is having coffee with Mark Zuckerberg at a Palo Alto Starbucks. The two have developed an easy relationship. Zuckerberg says he's thinking about raising another billion or two. And fast. He doesn't want the distraction; if he's going to do it, he wants to do it in 60 days. Milner says that even for him, a couple of billion in 60 days is a lot, but he'll deal.
Milner, not only the largest outside investor in one of the world's most sought-after companies but, thanks to his relationship with Zuckerberg, one of its gatekeepers, cuts Goldman into the deal. This is a substantial reversal of Goldman's usual position, in which it decides who gets to invest while mostly closing everyone else out. Goldman agrees to put in $375 million of its own capital against Milner's $125 million and raise the rest from its standing clients. It also splits its 4 percent fee on the total money raised with Milner and, as well, splits the 5 percent fee on whatever investors gain beyond their initial investment. It is, for vaunted Goldman, an almost unheard of arrangement. And possibly for that reason—internal squabbling at the firm—the deal leaks. Last January, on the day before the offer is to be made, The New York Times' Andrew Ross Sorkin calls Goldman and says he's got the story, causing great gnashing of teeth. The firm believes that if the offer is issued after a story in the Times, it might be in violation of SEC rules about marketing securities—hence, in a panic, Goldman issues the offer via email before the Times story breaks. Two things happen: Goldman's clients clamor to invest, and the offer is immediately oversubscribed by a factor of 13, giving a dramatic preview of Facebook's IPO strength. Within days, Goldman's lawyers, suddenly nervous, nix it. At any rate, they nix it for Americans—but not for Goldman's foreign clients, who, including Milner's stake, complete a $1.5 billion round that values the company at $50 billion.
Milner and I are once again eating breakfast at the Four Seasons in New York. It is one year since we first met at this hotel, which he uses as one of his floating offices while in the city. Now, I'm asking if he'll cooperate on a profile for wired. He equivocates about that topic but is much more forthcoming as he discusses his own rising position in the social media revolution. It is clear that his horizons are continuing to expand—from investor to worldwide intellectual force. "I must analyze," Milner says as he considers my request, "from what I do now, what will be the impact two or three or five years in the future. What is the statement I want to make? It is an opportunity to take a position on global scale."
Indeed, a month later, Milner calls to tell me that he is one of six technology figures who have been chosen to brief the leaders of the G8 nations at this year's summit in Deauville, France. It is a remarkable example of his rising profile and the amount of power he has come to wield. The G8 Internet colloquiums will include a series of high-profile speakers from among the digital elite: from the US, Zuckerberg and Google's Eric Schmidt; from Japan, Hiroshi Mikitani, CEO of online retailer Rakuten; from France, Maurice Levy, head of ad agency Publicis Groupe, and Stéphane Richard, CEO of France Telecom. And then Milner.
Why Milner? Partly because he has so ably insinuated himself into extraordinary networks, but also because he is the only one here who has roots in an upstart economy. That gives him unique perspective. Russian president Dmitry Medvedev, in an effort to jump-start online entrepreneurialism (and distinguish himself from his predecessor, Putin), has become as anti-regulation and laissez-faire as anyone in the West. Next to his government, France, Germany, and even the US represent the hoariest conventional views. Milner is presumably here to represent non-American entrepreneurialism at its most ambitious and successful.
Milner speaks last. By the time he takes the stage, the five other digital representatives have all discussed policy and outlined the likely growth of their various businesses. Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi is asleep, and the other G8 leaders—David Cameron, Barack Obama, Medvedev—are distracted by their iPads. Milner gives a smart and clarifying speech about social technology. He sees networks like those created by Twitter and Facebook as steps in the development of a global brain. The entire social landscape adds up to a new collaborative consciousness that transforms the nature of information and, as well, the existing monopolies of it.
Milner may be a kind of prototype for his idea of a global brain—certainly he has achieved some sort of "global being" status. Traveling alone, or often with his wife and daughters (ages 6 and 4) and his mother-in-law, and keeping his Moscow office staffed 24/7, he seldom spends a consecutive week on one continent. Quite frequently he will do every continent, save Antarctica, in a week.
This is part of the discordant behavior that makes him an anomaly, if not a sore thumb, in his new Los Altos Hills neighborhood. Silicon Valley, despite being at the center of the digital world, is a hopelessly insular and actually rather hermetic place. Even its famous immigrant culture emphasizes joining the SV way. For all its talk of innovation, it resists almost anyone who is not part of its mainstream. Before Milner, it was even difficult to buy your way in—money in the Valley, the best money, the money that gets the best deals, always has a certain pedigree. Even New York money, not to mention money from God knows where, is regarded as lesser and suspect.
But Milner's upstart and almost otherworldly status, while not necessarily helping him make friends with his new neighbors, has given him a new and, in many ways, disquieting advantage in the circumscribed digital world. He may be among only a handful of people who operate in multiple markets at the same time, without local infrastructure. This makes him a kind of free-floating state—a connector, a go-between, the ultimate independent player.
It is not just his access to global capital or his facility in markets where being an American is not necessarily an advantage (in the past 12 months, he has invested more than $1 billion in Chinese Internet companies) or his incredible and ever-expanding sources of intelligence in the fast-growing global digital market. No, it is simply that he likes it: He's happiest being in transit.
And yet, of course, Milner, despite his global consciousness and peregrinations (and 25,000-square-foot Los Altos Hills home), is Russian. While in some sense he has tried to move himself from this base—Mail.ru went public in London in 2010, and DST is all but set on doing business in only non-Russian-speaking countries—his home and base are in Russia; until two years ago, the majority of his capital was still Russian (today, 70 percent of his capital comes from outside his country); and, one suspects, the people who can most complicate his life are Russian.
Indeed, despite his global expansion and the personal fortune he has amassed on paper from DST—2 percent annual fees on the fund's $1 billion in capital; 20 percent on gains of more than $10 billion—he seems very much attentive to the politics of Russia. Or, perhaps more accurately, to navigating the politics of Russia, gaining distance, but not too much distance. Not getting ahead of himself. Knowing his place.
Milner's invitation to interview him in Moscow—which arrives as though it had always somehow been expected—comes with a condition attached: that I come first to Saint Petersburg and moderate a panel at what is called the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum. Like much of Russian capitalism, it's an insular imitation of something else—in this case, the World Economic Forum in Davos.
This is, I realize, a complicated, possibly even amusing, bit of theater in which I've been cast in a minor role. Milner himself is playing many parts. He is the organizer of the panel as well as one of its main draws. He is the interviewee as well as the stager of the interview. Indeed, he lays it out for me: These are the people I should call on to speak for the Russian view; this is who I should call on to speak for the American view; this for the international view; and Milner for the view in between.
The Russians on the panel include Dmitry Grishin, whom Milner has installed as CEO of Mail.ru, now the second-largest Internet company in Russia, and Arkady Volozh, CEO of Yandex, the largest Internet company in Russia. The Americans are Mary Meeker, a former Morgan Stanley analyst who now works as a VC at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, and Jim O'Neill, the Goldman banker who coined the term BRIC. And representing the international view are Daniel Ek, the Swedish cofounder and CEO of Spotify, with which Milner has been in the process of negotiating an investment, and Peter Vesterbacka, the roving head of marketing for Rovio, the company that created Angry Birds. (While Milner seems decidedly skeptical about the company's claims that it will shortly be bigger than Facebook, he has discussed investing in Rovio.)
And, as well, there is Russian president Medvedev—the main point, I assume, of this whole exercise. That is, I am told that there is a good possibility that Medvedev will show up for the panel. He will appear—if he appears (but, wink-wink, he will appear)—after the panel has begun. At that juncture I have been instructed to say, "Welcome, Mr. President. It is an honor to have you join our session. May we invite you to join our panel?"
In fact, when the moment arrives, I fail to notice Medvedev's entrance into the packed room until Milner elbows me in the ribs, with, I note, the faintest smile.
Successful people, it should not be a surprise, are often trying to explain their success to themselves as much or more than to others. As Milner takes me on a tour through his Moscow, he seems to be marveling at himself. Not at all in a prideful way. He's almost a witness—one trying to explain and illustrate both his ordinariness and his uniqueness.
Dinner is in his apartment in the outskirts of Moscow. It's three well-secured floors in a comfortable, almost LA-suburban-style high-rise decorated by his wife, Julia. They moved here just two years ago—part of the wide transformation in their lives—from a much smaller in-town home (which Milner has given to his nephew). Other than the sheer size of the new place, the only element that really distinguishes it is that where someone else might have crammed in a lot of artwork, Milner has crammed in video screens, each tuned to some global news outlet or real-time social media application.
It's here, before dinner, that Milner tells me that he didn't quite graduate from Wharton—he was, in fact, a few credits short. It's a pointed admission; he seems to want to clean up the record (and to point out that many successful people in the Valley never graduated, which perhaps increases his credibility!).
Dinner itself, stiff but pleasant, is partly prepared by his wife and partly a take-out buffet of hummus and tabbouleh. His two daughters, who Milner hopes will demonstrate their English, join us. They are charming if reluctant performers.
In the morning, Milner and his driver fetch me at my hotel. The first stop is his new synagogue, a tonier and more conservative temple, and with more security, than the one he grew up in. Jewishness is a pronounced theme in the tour: The Jewish boy, having some sweet revenge, has become a member not just of the Russian establishment but of the new world technology order. But sentimentality goes only so far. When I ask about just how observant he is—refraining from mentioning that his wife is obviously not Jewish—his response is piquant: "Very limited."
He offers a yarmulke from the communal bin as a souvenir.
We chart the oligarch's rise through neighborhoods and schools that give neither a sense of destiny nor, for that matter, much sense of the long Soviet pall that fell over half of his life. But, clearly, the fact that the pall has lifted still seems like a marvel to him. He recounts his father's near brush with Stalin and, when we reach Red Square, recalls still with some breathlessness how he was here, with few others, when the Soviet flag was lowered and the Russian flag hoisted.
Trying unsuccessfully to cut the line to visit Lenin's tomb, Milner sketchily outlines his own current place advising the government—appointed by Medvedev to sit on a committee that seems, by my interpretation, to be akin to the Council of Economic Advisers. Curiously, he casts this in almost pro-American or new-generation terms: The two non-politicians on this committee—he and Mikhail Prokhorov (owner of the New Jersey Nets)—are both heavily invested in the US.
Lunch is at a new Italian restaurant with a terrace that overlooks the White House, Russia's Parliament, which in 1991 was occupied by dissidents. Milner points out the stretch of road where he was standing that day and the stretch just ahead where various other bystanders were killed. Milner retreated into this building, on top of which is the restaurant where we are now eating our quail risotto.
We decamp to Moscow State University, where he graduated with a degree in theoretical physics. Walking the small park, which counts as the campus, in front of the massive building, Milner, who was slotted into the lesser track instead of the more elite one, gives another rueful picture of the system's slights to Jewish students and Jewish ambition.
It is hard not to read the obvious: Who would be more gobsmacked by the implications of social media—the prospect of everyone constantly talking to one another without an arbiter, mediator, or censor—than a citizen of the former Soviet Union? Likewise, who would see it as more revolutionary and valuable?
That is the singular insight that transformed Milner and through which he is transforming technology finance: It seemed worth more to him than to anybody else (at least anybody else with money).
In a way, he is to social media what Michael Milken in the mid-'80s was to many non-credit-worthy companies. Like Milken, Milner, in part through the lens of his own life's experience, saw another level of value entirely—if the world was being transformed by social media, it was more valuable than anyone thought. And, too, if technology companies had reached a certain level of value, that was a pretty good indication of their permanence.
Accordingly, he upped the ante and put social media and himself at the center of technological development.
Indeed, there is a different or further mission. He's more beholden, he's more in awe, than the Silicon Valley establishment—blasè9 or cynical as any other establishment—is of its geniuses. There is always something vaguely oppositional about the relationship VCs have with the companies they invest in. They are trying to maximize their positions, to pay as little as possible and cash out for as much as possible. Milner—now the singular link between the major players of social media, Zuckerberg at Facebook, Mark Pincus at Zynga, Andrew Mason at Groupon, Jack Dorsey at Twitter, Daniel Ek at Spotify—is not thinking about individual deals but is aligning himself financially and strategically with the founders and reaping the benefits. Already, he competes with the topmost VCs in terms of personal wealth, and he is arguably now more important—Milner is setting the price.
Next year, in Scotland, Milner tells me, he will host a gathering of all the Internet companies in the world that have a valuation of more than $1 billion—he is setting the agenda, reordering the power structure.
In a sense, the elites of Silicon Valley have a good reason to be suspicious of Milner. He has stolen, or at least moved, the center of their world.
Contributing editor Michael Wolff (email@example.com) wrote about the death of the web in issue 18.09.


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Letter, C [Charles Robinson] to My Dear S [Sara Robinson]
Author: Robinson, Charles
Date: January 20, 1860
Charles Robinson wrote several letters to his wife in Lawrence as he traveled East in January 1860. From the Astor House, New York, on January 20, he wrote that Congress was not yet in session and that everyone expected the Democrats to oppose Kansas admission. It was possible that Robinson could "be sent for as a witness in Harpers Ferry affair" (Congressional investigation/hearings).
Location of Original: KSHS Call Number: Charles & Sara Robinson Collection, # 488, Box 1, Folder 8
Item Number: 101183 Number of images: 2
Keywords: Admission, Kansas (see also Statehood); Boston, Massachusetts; Brown, John, 1800-1859; Harpers Ferry, Virginia; New York; Robinson, Charles, 1818-1894; Robinson, Sara T. L. (Sara Tappan Lawrence), 1827-1911; Statehood (see also Admission, Kansas); United States. Congress
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