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mark stryker covers the arts for the detroit free press and joins us now.k, we just heard some of the arguments against selling the art. how much pressure is there to at least look at selling some of it, and where is it coming from? >> well, there's extraordinary amount of pressure to look at selling the art. the fact is the city does own the art, which is unusual. most civic museums are not literally owned by the city. they're independent nonprofits. but here the collection is owned by the city. and that makes it a city asset which means in bankruptcy it's vulnerable to sale. and you have creditors, including city pensioners and retirees who are pushing for a sale as well as bondholders to recover more of their losses. kevin orr, the emergency manager has been charged with restructuring the city finances. he has to find money. there's a big pool of it at the dia. he needs to put together a plan that creditors will accept and that the judge in the bankruptcy court will approve. and he doesn't think can do it without monetizing the art in some way. and so he
mark stryker covers the arts for the detroit free press and joins us now.k, we just heard some of the arguments against selling the art. how much pressure is there to at least look at selling some of it, and where is it coming from? >> well, there's extraordinary amount of pressure to look at selling the art. the fact is the city does own the art, which is unusual. most civic museums are not literally owned by the city. they're independent nonprofits. but here the collection is owned by...
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former head of stryker corp., james macmillan, is in the top spot. it's the third ceo in less than a year for the medical device maker. jack cumming took over for robert cascella in july. the company also named two new independent board members, both managing directors of icahn capital. it's a not-so-happy anniversary for victims of bernie madoff. this month marks five years since madoff was sent to prison for 150 years for bilking billions of dollars from trusting investors in a ponzi scheme. so far, courts have recovered more than $9.5 billion to distribute to former-clients through an ongoing claims process. but most are struggling to move on after losing their life savings. hilton worldwide is moving up the date for its ipo to "this" thursday instead of friday. the potential $2.7 billion ipo could become the second-largest of the year. hilton plans to sell up to 130 million shares for around $18 to $21. shares would trade under the ticker h-l-t on the new york stock exchange. it's suggested the change of date is due to strong demand from ipo inve
former head of stryker corp., james macmillan, is in the top spot. it's the third ceo in less than a year for the medical device maker. jack cumming took over for robert cascella in july. the company also named two new independent board members, both managing directors of icahn capital. it's a not-so-happy anniversary for victims of bernie madoff. this month marks five years since madoff was sent to prison for 150 years for bilking billions of dollars from trusting investors in a ponzi scheme....
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my name is cole stryker. i'm an author based in new york and i've spent the last couple of years of my life studying anonymity, first through the similar stuff that parmy's been work on, studying unanimous and these communities that have chosen to operate under the veil of anonymity for various reasons, for good and bad. yes, so, i basically decided to talk about a history of anonymity. and there's a couple reasons. one, is because i think that there are probably a lot of people in this audience who are of the opinion that if i've done nothing wrong, i have nothing to hide. thanks widespread opinion in american society. shared by a lot of my close friends and family before my book came out. so that book was kind of dedicated to them. and then the other reason is i have a personal rule not to talk too much about technology when there's a guy with a ponytail talking after me. [laughter] so i won't be talking -- i don't want to look too foolish. so i'll focus on the history. so, yes, unanimous was this group of
my name is cole stryker. i'm an author based in new york and i've spent the last couple of years of my life studying anonymity, first through the similar stuff that parmy's been work on, studying unanimous and these communities that have chosen to operate under the veil of anonymity for various reasons, for good and bad. yes, so, i basically decided to talk about a history of anonymity. and there's a couple reasons. one, is because i think that there are probably a lot of people in this...
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my name is cole stryker. i'm an author based in new york and i've spent the last couple of years of my life studying anonymity, first through the similar stuff that parmy's been work on, studying unanimous and these communities that have chosen to operate under the veil of anonymity for various reasons, for good and bad. yes, so, i basically decided to talk about a history of anonymity. and there's a couple reasons. one, is because i think that there are probably a lot of people in this audience who are of the opinion that if i've done nothing wrong, i have nothing to hide. thanks widespread opinion in american society. shared by a lot of my close friends and family before my book came out. so that book was kind of dedicated to them. and then the other reason is i have a personal rule not to talk too much about technology when there's a guy with a ponytail talking after me. so i won't be talking -- i don't want to look too foolish. so i'll focus on the history. [laughter] so, yes, unanimous was this group of
my name is cole stryker. i'm an author based in new york and i've spent the last couple of years of my life studying anonymity, first through the similar stuff that parmy's been work on, studying unanimous and these communities that have chosen to operate under the veil of anonymity for various reasons, for good and bad. yes, so, i basically decided to talk about a history of anonymity. and there's a couple reasons. one, is because i think that there are probably a lot of people in this...