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VV Show #60 - Larry Kramer of MarketWatch
Today's media executives plotting to charge for their content would do well to hear how Larry Kramer beat Jim Cramer's TheStreet.com by resisting pressure to put most content behind a pay wall while not relying entirely on advertising. To the average consumer, MarketWatch.com seemed to have come out of nowhere during the late 1990s to quickly establish itself as one of the leading sources of online financial information. For MarketWatch founder Larry Kramer, it represented the last chapter of his 15 year journey as a first-time entrepreneur. Larry started his career as a journalist, going from reporter to the top editor of the San Francisco Examiner in just 10 years with stops at the Washington Post and Trenton Times along the way. Larry founded DataSport Inc. (the company that would eventually morph into MarketWatch though a series of mergers and partnerships) with $500,000 from friends and family. He almost ran out of money early on. After a wild ride on the public market, Larry sold MarketWatch to Dow Jones for over $500 million in 2004 and went on to become the president of CBS Digital Media until 2006. Hear how Larry lived though two different careers and what he's planning next.
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VV Show #59 - Barry Silbert of SecondMarket
Any shareholder in a startup can tell you there's a big difference between paper wealth and cash. Short of an IPO or outright acquisition, there are few options to cash out for the shareholders of even the most thriving private companies. Barry Silbert is determined to change that with his company SecondMarket -- an exchange like the NASDAQ for private stock and other illiquid assets. He founded the company in 2004 focused on restricted stock, and quickly reached profitability with only $350,000 in angel funding. The road to this point was not without challenges; Barry's business partner was diagnosed with cancer and passed away as they were establishing the company. In 2008, SecondMarket made $20 million in revenue. Barry's success has not tempered his ambition as he's spent 2009 aggressively moving into new asset classes such as private companies (Facebook stock is already being traded on his platform), limited partner interest in venture capital firms and even California IOUs. Hear how this former bankruptcy banker did it and why he believes "The sky's the limit" for his business.
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Posted by Greg Galant on Aug 19, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (0) | View blog reactions
VV Show #58 - Siamak Taghaddos and David Hauser of Grasshopper
"Dial 1 for sales, dial 2 for support..." Ten years ago it cost over $10,000 to get a phone system with the advanced options we're used to hearing when we call big companies. Having a professional-sounding phone system was a surprisingly big challenge for small businesses short on cash. Enter Siamak Taghaddos and David Hauser who launched GotVMail to offer that service at rates starting at only $10 per month in 2003 as they were graduating college. They launched their business with under $200,000 in capital and never raised any more money. They bootstrapped their way to profitability quickly, and are now driving over $10 million in annual revenue. Despite their success, Siamak and David don't believe what's gotten them this far will take them to the next level. So they've just rebranded their company Grasshopper and are getting ready to launch some new products.
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Posted by Greg Galant on May 20, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (1) | View blog reactions
VV Show #57 - Fabrice Grinda of OLX
Craigslist seems unbeatable. It's often blamed (or celebrated) for destroying the classifieds business that helped keep American newspapers afloat. Now second-time Venture Voice guest Fabrice Grinda is seeking to dominate online classifieds with OLX, his latest venture. Unlike Craigslist, OLX is translated into many languages and has a global focus. OLX is completely ad supported so there are no fees for job or real estate listings as there are on Craigslist. Still, it sounds crazy to compete with Craigslist. If anyone can do it, it may be Fabrice. When we interviewed him in December, 2005, it was on his last day working as CEO at Zingy, a ring tone provider that he founded and sold for $80 million against all odds. OLX already has 125 employees and 60 million unique visitors per month, but with $28.5 million is venture capital it has a lot of growth ahead of it before it's a success. Hear how Fabrice plans on getting there.
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Posted by Greg Galant on Apr 27, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (6) | View blog reactions
VV Show #56 - Joel Spolsky of Fog Creek Software
Joel Spolsky first came on Venture Voice over three years ago to discuss his company which he launched in a very different way from most entrepreneurs. Rather than start with the big idea and pay lip service to building a great team, Joel focused on getting great programmers first. The ideas came second. Good thing because his big idea, a content management system called City Desk, never took off. Instead it was his small idea, software to track bugs in other software called FogBugz, that became a cash cow for his company Fog Creek Software. This small idea has provided the funding for his company to expand into three other product lines, all with just $50,000 in seed capital from Joel's savings account invested when Fog Creek was started. Since we last caught up with Joel, he's moved into a new office in Lower Manhattan that sports closed offices for all of his programmers and a large area where free lunch is served every day (eat your heart out Google). Listen to how Joel's expanded his business.
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Posted by Greg Galant on Apr 13, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (2) | View blog reactions
VV Show #55 - Graham Hill of TreeHugger
Graham Hill started the blog TreeHugger to cover green issues in 2003. After a steady climb in traffic and advertising, Graham sold the company to Discovery Communications in 2007 for $10 million. Since launch and even after the acquisition, Graham ran his business virtually. Graham lived in different cities from New York to Barcelona while working many hours to grow his company. His team of writers, ad sales people and developers chatted over Skype, got paid through PayPal and used Google documents to collaborate. Simultaneously, Graham launched a ceramic version of the iconic New York paper coffee cup (video below). Listen to how Graham built his businesses without an office or home town.
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Posted by Greg Galant on Mar 23, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (3) | View blog reactions
VV Show #54 - Tim Westergren of Pandora
It takes only a few seconds to customize a radio station on Pandora. Its founder Tim Westergren has been struggling for almost a decade to make it that way. Pandora was five years in the making before it streamed a single song to a user. For over two of those years the company was completely broke. While Tim convinced employees to defer over $1 million in salaries, Pandora underwent several changes in name, product and revenue models. Now Pandora is a leading online radio destination that's starting to bring in sizable ad revenue. Tim is still battling with the record industry for its survival.
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Posted by Greg Galant on Mar 9, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (7) | View blog reactions
VV Show #53 - David Cohen of TechStars
The title financier conjures images of mahogany desks and million dollar checks for most. But for anyone pitching to David Cohen's TechStars, the outcome is getting accepted to what's essentially a summer camp for entrepreneurs in Colorado and being offered a check of $18,000 or less in exchange for 6% of the startup. This two year old program is part of a new trend in structured angel investing and mentoring that was started by Paul Graham's Y Combinator. Two companies founded at TechStars have already been acquired: socialthing! was sold to AOL and Intense Debate was sold to Automattic (the makers of WordPress). David tells his own stories of success and failure as an entrepreneur, and his transiton to becoming an angel investor.
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Posted by Greg Galant on Jan 28, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (4) | View blog reactions
VV Show #52 - Sam Wyly of Maverick Capital, Green Mountain Energy, Michaels Stores and Sterling Software
Not to be called a one trick pony, Sam Wyly's turned himself into a billionaire by starting and growing companies in technology, oil, retail and even in the restaurant industry. Coming from a modest upbringing, Sam worked in sales at IBM and Honeywell before founding University Computing in 1963 at age 29 with just "$1,000 and an idea" as he puts it in his book of that title. The company IPOed and grew to over 5,000 people. Sam hired CEOs and stayed an entrepreneur. He's founded and acquired numerous companies including Bonanza Steakhouse (grew to 600 restaurants), Earth Resources Company, Sterling Software (sold for $3.3 billion), Sterling Commerce (sold for $4 billion), arts-and-crafts chain Michaels (sold for $6 billion), Maverick Capital (a hedge fund with over $10 billion under management) and clean-energy producer Green Mountain Energy. Despite being soft-spoken, Sam's fought and won several high profile proxy fights. Sam's been undeterred as several of his ventures have had visible failures over the years and he's lost audacious bids to take over Western Union and Computer Associates. On the whole, Sam's created a huge amount of value that's put him on the Forbes list of the 400 richest people. Hear how he does it.
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Posted by Greg Galant on Dec 3, 2008 | Permalink | Comments (1) | View blog reactions
VV Show #51 - Jeff Stewart of Mimeo, Monitor110 and Urgent Career
Jeff Stewart needed that done yesterday. Jeff became an entrepreneur when he founded the web consultancy Square Earth in 1995. Only three years later he became a serial entrepreneur by starting Mimeo, a service that lets you send a file directly from your computer to be printed, bound and shipped overnight. Mimeo struggled in the dot com crash of 2000-2001 just as it was getting off the ground. Jeff was able to pull Mimeo though the downturn despite almost running out of cash, which has allowed the company to flourish and make $55.4 million in 2007 revenues. Ironically, Jeff didn't have the same success in good economic times with ample cash after he raised $20 million for Monitor110. He discusses the company's shutdown and lessons learned. Now Jeff's focused on allowing businesses to hire good salespeople faster with Urgent Career. He announces on this show for the first time that he's just raised a six-figure angel round to speed up Urgent Career's success.
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Posted by Greg Galant on Nov 10, 2008 | Permalink | Comments (2) | View blog reactions
VV Show #50 - Derek Sivers of CD Baby and Muckwork
Last time Derek Sivers was on Venture Voice three years ago he told us he had to "whack 'em [investors] off with a stick". Now we know why. Derek announces on our show for the first time the amount he sold his company for this past summer: $22 million. Derek owned 100% of the equity. Though he might have made more money than most of his fellow music entrepreneurs, Derek's no Gordon Gekko. In this interview, Derek tells us how he put all of his money from the sale into a charitable trust, that he didn't even visit CD Baby's office once during the last year he owned it, and what he's up to next.
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Posted by Greg Galant on Oct 23, 2008 | Permalink | Comments (9) | View blog reactions
VV Show #49 - Rafat Ali of paidContent and contentNext
Attention entrepreneurs dealing with the current economic downturn: This interview is for you. After working as a journalist for Jason Calacanis at Silicon Alley Reporter, Rafat Ali ended up broke in a market with a dearth of employment opportunities. To try to find a new job, Rafat created paidContent.org as an "interactive resume." Luckily, no one hired him. From these humble beginnings, Rafat bootstrapped his blog holding company, ContentNext Media, for four years before taking a small investment from famed media investor Alan Patricof in June 2006. From its inception paidContent has doubled revenues each year and was recently acquired by UK-based Guardian Media Group for a rumored $30 million. Listen in as Rafat outlines the past, present, and future of online media, while sharing his war stories from another uncertain economic time.
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VV Show #48 - Frank Addante of The Rubicon Project
Whether working with market trends or against them, Frank Addante has found entrepreneurial success. Before he was 29 years old, one of Frank's companies went public and two were acquired. At his worse, he returned capital to investors. Suffering from serial entrepreneurship, Frank left the Illinois Institute of Technology just four classes shy of his degree. His companies range from an early search engine to a Sequoia Capital-backed enterprise email solution. Now Frank aspires to be a web publisher's best friend with his new ad network optimization service that he says is boosting their clients' revenues by 30-300%. Listen in as Frank details his ongoing entrepreneurial journey.
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Posted by Greg Galant on Apr 7, 2008 | Permalink | Comments (9) | View blog reactions
VV Show #47 - Tom Perkins of Kleiner Perkins
The name Tom Perkins is now almost synonymous with venture capital, but it's clear that he cut his teeth as an entrepreneur. Educated at MIT and Harvard, Perkins first made his mark by managing the initial growth of Hewlett-Packard's computer business while simultaneously inventing the first cheap and reliable laser. The company he built around the laser, University Laboratories, made him independently wealthy and allowed for the creation of Kleiner Perkins, one of the most successful venture capital firms in existence. Kleiner Perkins (now Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers) has funded a wide range of well known and wildly successful companies including Google, AOL, Genentech, Sun Microsystems, Compaq, and Tandem Computers. Though Tom's wowed the business press for much of his career, later in life he's gained national attention for having a key role in 2006 Hewlett-Packard board controversy, briefly marrying Danielle Steel, and building the world's largest privately owned sailing yacht. Tom has recently stepped back into the media spotlight by publishing a memoir called Valley Boy: The Education of Tom Perkins. Listen in as he discusses his journey from New York to Boston to Silicon Valley, the creation of Kleiner Perkins, and his advice for the entrepreneurs of the future.
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Posted by Greg Galant on Dec 12, 2007 | Permalink | Comments (10) | View blog reactions
VV Show #46 - Jeremy Stoppelman of Yelp
Jeremy Stoppelman is the co-founder and CEO of Yelp, a site where users can write and share reviews of local businesses. Everyone's now a restaurant critic. However, local reviews were not the original focus, but just one of several features in the earlier versions of the site. Noticing the growth of this buried feature, Yelp re-tooled the site around reviews and hasn't looked back since. Does this story sound familiar? Jeremy's the former VP of Engineering at PayPal, which also had to drastically alter its business early in its life. Listen in to hear Jeremy's thoughts on growing a local enterprise, giving users and identity, and how to recognize and act upon the need for change.
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VV Show #45 - Kevin Ryan of Panther Express, ShopWiki and Music Nation
Not many entrepreneurs have a motor like Kevin Ryan's. Kevin is best known for his work as CEO at the on-line advertising firm DoubleClick, which he grew from a 20 person start-up to the largest Internet company in New York at the height of the dot-com boom. After escaping the ensuing bust in an arguably improved strategic position, the company has since changed hands twice. In June 2005, the company was sold to the private equity firm of Hellman and Friedman for $1.1 billion and has made headlines yet again with its recent acquisition by Google for an astonishing $3.1 billion. Yet, this success has not slowed Kevin one bit. Since departing DoubleClick, he has already launched three start-ups, with plans for a fourth this summer. Listen in, as Kevin describes his DoubleClick experiences in both boom and bust, outlines his new start-ups, and explains why now is as good a time as ever to start a company, especially in the Big Apple.
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Posted by Greg Galant on Apr 27, 2007 | Permalink | Comments (6) | View blog reactions
VV Show #44 - Venture Voice Startup Workshop Coverage (part 2)
Marketing a startup is tricky business. Every entrepreneur faces the dilemma between allocating time to improving the product and marketing the product. If the two can be mixed just right, then perhaps sterile marketing can go viral. We tackle that issue in part 2 of 3 of our very own Venture Voice Startup Workshop coverage in New York City. David Hornik of August Capital leads the session, but he doesn't finish uninterrupted as the entrepreneurs on the panel jump in.
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VV Show #43 - Fred Seibert of Frederator Studios and Next New Networks
Before the rise of the Internet, cable TV was the new form of distribution remaking the entertainment business. Life-long entrepreneur and former jazz producer Fred Seibert pioneered that field, and is known in the industry for branding MTV (remember their ever-changing animated logo) and Nickelodeon (remember Nick-at-Nite). While he was figuring out what to do next, Ted Turner hired him to be president of the then-struggling Hanna-Barbera cartoon studio. Fred turned the famous studio around and kept his hand in the cable business until some friends dragged him into the Internet business. He now runs Frederator Studios which produces several cable and Internet TV shows. He also just launched a new well-funded startup called Next New Networks to create Internet TV networks.
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Posted by Greg Galant on Jan 29, 2007 | Permalink | Comments (9) | View blog reactions
VV Show #42 - Simon Daniel of USBcell
The battery is an afterthought for most inventors. All the fun seems to be in developing a device, not in powering it. But when was the last time you cursed your phone, camera or podcast player because it ran out of batteries? Simon Daniel got fed up with his batteries, and decided to do something about it. He invented the USBcell, a standard sized battery (yes, it comes in AA) that can recharge using any USB port. This isn't his first invention. Previously, he invented the folding keyboard and licensed the technology. This time he's bringing the USBcell to market himself through the company he founded called Moixa (axiom spelled backwards). Though this might force you to think differently, don't worry, we won't play the podcast backwards.
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Posted by Greg Galant on Jan 12, 2007 | Permalink | Comments (4) | View blog reactions
VV Show #41 - Premal Shah of Kiva
Premal Shah believes your last name doesn't need to be Gates or Rockefeller in order to make a real dent in global poverty. After leaving his job as a Principal Product Manager at PayPal, it has taken Premal less then a year to make good on Kiva's pledge that all it takes to become a micro lender is a credit card and access to a computer. Raising money "Howard Dean Style" from over 13,000 online lenders, Kiva has provided more than a million dollars in low-cost working capital to small-scale entrepreneurs in less developed countries from Bulgaria to Uganda. The site boasts high repayments rates and soon hopes to offer lenders interest. We talk to Premal about how working in Silicon Valley has shaped his approach to combating poverty, how he believes the market "bakes in psychic and emotional returns," and how the power of online communities can strengthen the world of micro credit.
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Minutes of the regular meeting of Thursday, September 15, 2005.
(As approved October 20, 2005)
The San Francisco Public Library Commission held a regular meeting on Thursday, September 15, 2005 in the Koret Auditorium, Main Library.
The meeting was called to order by President Higueras at 4:09 pm.
Commissioners present: Bautista, Chin, Coulter, Higueras, Kane, and Strobin.
A quorum was present
An anonymous member of the public: spoke in opposition to the Friends of the Library, wondered at the significance of Deputy City Attorney Varah's presence, and commented on Library Commission history.
Ms. Rona Sammler, Friends of the Library Board member: called attention to the support provided for Library programs and services by the Friends of the Library; and reminded everyone to attend the Friends annual "Big Book Sale" benefiting the Library.
Mr. Peter Warfield spoke about: the Library's recent formal receipt of Proposition 14 (Sate Library Bond Act) funds for the Richmond and Ingleside Branch Libraries; and noted the importance to the general welfare of public libraries as public spaces.
Ms. Donna Bero, Friends of the Library Executive Director: reported California's State Treasurer Phil Angelides presided at the ceremonial transfer of the Prop. 14 grant funds at the Richmond Branch Library and that State Assemblyman Leno and District 1 Supervisor Jake McGoldrick and students from the neighboring McCoppin School participated in the festivities. Ms. Bero reported on assistance that the Friends were providing to the victims of Hurricane Katrina. Ms. Bero also invited everyone to attend the 2005 Big Book Sale" beginning Wednesday September 30 through Sunday October 2nd at Fort Mason.
Public comment on AGENDA ITEM #2 APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES OF AUGUST 18, 2005
An anonymous member of the public commented: that these minutes were distorted and misrepresented statements made; and noted that reasons why the "Public Comment Fund" had been created were not reported, nor were Commissioners' remarks about making contributions to the "Public Comment" Fund.
Mr. Peter Warfield: said his comments in these Minutes were inaccurately reported, citing his reported comments regarding Library use of RFID, and said other speakers, including the Deputy City Attorney, were not accurately reflected as well. Mr. Warfield noted that members of the public had not been invited to attend an "open House" held at the Library Support Services Center at 190-9th Street reported on by the City Librarian and suggested public tours be arranged.
Commission discussion of AGENDA ITEM #2 APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES OF AUGUST 18, 2005
Vice President Coulter suggested that the minutes be amended to reflect Mr. Warfield's assertion that he had not said as reported that "all Library use of RFID was bad" to read "not all Library use of RFID was bad".
MOTION: by Commissioner Chin, 2nd Commissioner Strobin for approval of the Minutes of the regular Public Library Commission meeting of August 18, 2005 as amended.
ACTION: 6-0 AYE (Bautista, Chin, Coulter, Higueras, Kane, and Strobin)
Branch Library Improvement Program Manager Marilyn Thompson presented her usual three part monthly reports on: BLIP Schedule; Budget; and Construction Reports,
(copies attached). Ms. Thompson reported expenditure or encumbrance of $34,614,198 in Bond Program Funds as of this month.
The BLIP Program Administrator noted there would be no informational report presented this month. Ms. Thompson then presented details of the staff's response to the Portola Branch Library and the Potrero Branch Library Peer Review noting changes made or explaining why some recommendations of the Peer Panelists were not accepted.
Commissioner Gomez joined the meeting at 4:56pm.
Public comment on AGENDA ITEM #3 AGENDA ITEM #3 BLIP MANAGER'S REPORT
An anonymous member of the public spoke about: the improved readability of BLIP Report documents; concerning their difficulty in identifying what was pictured in Report; discussed the Library's response to a neighbor's about a BLIP project positing creation of a "construction complaints" fund; and noted their attendance at the Richmond Branch event..
Ms. Jane Fahey, a regular Potrero Branch Library user, expressed: happiness at the renovation of the Branch; and discussed the importance of addressing ergonomic issues for Library staff during renovations.
Mr. Peter Warfield commented that the Report documents were difficult to read; noted a lack of labels on the photographs presented; recommended that the report be expanded and the Peer Panelist come back to react to the staff response; and urged that the Commissioners not make decisions without more detailed information.
Mr. Chet Roaman, Potrero Branch Library Representative on the Council of Neighborhood Libraries (CNL) noted: the revised design was an improvement; but there was need for more space in the Branch suggesting need for additional modifications.
Commission discussion of AGENDA ITEM #3 BLIP MANAGER'S REPORT
President Higueras suggested use of descriptive captions with any photographs presented in future reports.
Vice President Coulter applauded improvements in the proposed design of the Portola Branch Library and noted that his suggestion concerning use of flag poles was as a means to distinguish the new facility's civic function in the largely residential neighborhood, and that it would be useful if every branch had such distinguishing flag poles. In response to Vice President Coulter's query regarding the status of the relocation of the City College Preschool Program using space at the Bernal Heights Branch Library, City Librarian Herrera reported that the Preschool would relocate to space in the neighboring Paul Revere Elementary School. The City Librarian noted that serious and active negotiations were underway between the San Francisco Unified School District and City College of San Francisco to resolve details of the move. The City Librarian also reported that the Library's timeline for renovation of the branch would be delayed in order to facilitate the Preschool's move to the Revere School location. Vice President Coulter requested that details of this status report be included in the meeting's minutes.
Vice President Coulter recommended including Peer Panelists' comments with the report of the response made to them. The Commission Vice President next addressed the question that given renovation cost estimates for the Potrero Branch Library should consideration of its being torn down and replaced with a new facility instead be given. In response the BLIP Manager reported that replacement of the facility would require significantly greater funds than those budgeted for this project and that doing a replacement would trigger challenging planning issues that a renovation project did not. Vice President Coulter remained unsatisfied with the proposed designs and suggested that given the significant funds being expended it might be worth the effort to take on any Planning Department issues and get the best possible new facility for the money spent.
President Higueras noted that there were a lot of activities being squeezed into too small a space at this branch and noted that the neighborhood had a reasonable expectation that after their branch library was renovated it would be better than before. President Higueras noted unused space in the building's basement and suggested consideration of use of some of it. President Higueras also acknowledged that the cost of this renovation suggested that a replacement option be at least consider especially as the proposed designs were unsatisfactory. Ms. Thompson noted that this situation was not unique citing similar questions regarding the renovation of the North Beach Branch Library; and that obtaining Planning variances would certainly be very time consuming and thus costly to undertake. President Higueras requested that this proposal be brought back to the Commission for further discussion and suggested that steps be taken to re-engage with the neighborhood to determine what the community wanted.
Branch Library Improvement Program Manager Marilyn Thompson outlined the changes in the eight BLIP project budgets made to fully reflect the real costs of moving. Ms. Thompson then introduced Ms. Judy Moran, Arts Commission Public Art Program Administrator, who informed the Library Commissioners of the details of the Arts Commission's revisions to the Branch Library Improvement Program Arts Master Plan reflecting as mandated by law that increased funding available due to increases in project budgets.
Public comment on AGENDA ITEM #4 BOND PROGRAM BUDGET UPDATE
An anonymous member of the public discussed: the existence of explanatory documents not listed on the meeting's agenda; observed that left no time for members of the public to study them; and suggested that there should be a full and deliberate review before action was taken; and said that most Planning issue changes took place without controversy.
Mr. Peter Warfield expressed disappointment that explanatory materials were not available in advance; suggested that there were many unanswered questions; and recommended that no action be taken.
Commission discussion of AGENDA ITEM #4 BOND PROGRAM BUDGET UPDATE
President Higueras noted that that it would have been useful if the Art Enrichment Master Plan documents had been dated. Responding to Commissioners' questions Arts Commission representative Judy Moran reported that these were the first and only amendments to the Branch Library Improvement Program Art Enrichment Master Plan.
In response to a query, BLIP Manager Marilyn Thompson informed Commissioner Kane changes to the Branch Library Improvement Program Art Enrichment Master Plan were triggered by increases in the budgets of several projects
MOTION: by Commissioner Bautista, 2nd Vice President Coulter for approval of the proposed revision to the Branch Library Improvement Program Budget.
Commissioner Gomez called attention to a potential conflict-of-interest should she vote on this issue and it was proposed she be recused from voting on this matter upon the advice of Deputy City Attorney Adine Varah.
MOTION: by Vice President Coulter, 2nd Commissioner Bautista to recuse Commission Gomez from voting on this matter in order to avoid any potential conflict of interest should she vote on this matter.
ACTION: AYE 6-0 (Bautista, Chin, Coulter, Gomez, Higueras, and Kane)
On the motion to approve the proposed Branch Library Improvement Program (BLIP) Budget revisions.
ACTION: AYE 5-0 (Bautista, Chin, Coulter, Higueras, and Kane)
Recused 1 – (Gomez)
MOTION: by Commissioner Bautista, 2nd Commissioner Chin to adjourn the regular September 15, 2005 Public Library Commission meeting.
ACTION: AYE 6-0 (Bautista, Chin, Coulter, Gomez, Higueras, and Kane)
The Commission meeting adjourned at 5:57pm.
Michael Housh, Commission Secretary 9/29/05
Please note: Copies of Commission Minutes and handouts are available in the Office of the Commission Secretary, 100 Larkin Street, San Francisco, CA 94102
Explanatory documents: Copies of listed explanatory documents are available as follows: (1) from the Commission Secretary/Custodian of Records, Main Library, 6th Floor, (2) in the rear of the Koret Auditorium immediately before and during the meeting, and (3)to the extent possible, on the Library's website at http://sfpl.org/.
Additional materials not listed as explanatory documents on this agenda, if any, that are distributed to the Library Commissioners prior to or during the meeting in connection with any agenda item will be available to the public for inspection and copying in accordance with Government Code Section 54954.1 and Sunshine Ordinance §§ 67.9, 67.28(b)& 67.28(d).
BLIP Program Manager's Report slides
BLIP Program Budget, Schedule, and Construction Reports,
Branch Library Improvement Program (BLIP) Budget Revisions 9-15-05
Branch Library Improvement Program Art Enrichment Master Plan
Branch Library Improvement Program Art Enrichment Master Plan,
First Amendment
Minutes of the Library Commission Meeting September 15, 2005
Appendix A
The Public Comment Summary Statements included in these Minutes are authorized by San Francisco Administrative Code Section 67.16.
These summary statements are provided by the speaker. Their contents are neither generated by, nor subject to approval or verification of accuracy by, the San

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Last week, we heard that Apple was sniffing around AdMob, which just sold to Google for $750 million. We ridiculed this idea.
Today, we heard that the reason Google had to fork over such a huge pile of money for AdMob was that Apple was also trying to buy the company.
We remain mystified as to why Apple would want to buy AdMob, because we just can't envision Apple ever wanting to have ad salespeople (or otherwise go into the ad business). But where there's smoke there's often fire.
So we'll include our exchange with our industry source and throw the questions open to you:
CONNECTED INDUSTRY GUY: I am hearing GOOG bought AdMob to keep it away from AAPL who was competitively bidding. I know it sounds strange that AAPL would bid for an ad network, but I am told AdMob has 80% of in-app advertising on iPhone.
SAI: Thanks. Very interesting. We heard that last week. Just doesn't make sense to me that Apple would want to go into the ad business. Maybe they view it the same way they view apps--help with distribution and take a cut. But Apple having ad sales people? Just does not compute. Does it for you?
CONNECTED INDUSTRY GUY: I totally agree that Apple would not want to go into the ad biz. But I think they are thinking more about payments these days and someone else controlling 80% of the "monetization" of post-download iPhone apps is a strategic beach head for them.
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"Awesome way to start," Martin told the PGA Tour's website, PGATour广西桑拿,.
Martin's score could have been even better as he failed to get up-and-down from a greenside bunker at the par-five 18th and had to settle for a closing par.
But he had no complaints after carding his best score on Tour by three strokes.
"The ball was going where I was looking and it seemed like the putts were falling in just like I was seeing them," Martin said.
His score is the lowest on the Tour since Australian Adam Scott also carded a 62 in the opening round of the Arnold Palmer Invitational at Bay Hill in Florida last month.
Martin's hot round was not exactly a bolt from the blue, but rather a continuation of the fine form he displayed at the Heritage in his home state of South Carolina last week.
He was in the hunt deep into the final round there until he made a mess of the 15th hole and eventually finished equal third.
The 26-year-old is in his second season on the PGA Tour. After struggling in his rookie campaign in 2012, he was relegated to the secondary circuit last year, where he won twice to earn another crack at the big time.
While Martin is trying to prove himself at the highest level, Swede Hanson is seeking to regain the form that saw him ranked 19th in the world at the end of 2012, before a back injury that sidelined him for two months last year.
"I know all about what Tiger's going through," said Hanson, referring to Tiger Woods, who last month underwent back surgery and is not expected to return to competition until the summer.
"I'm trying to play a little more relaxed. I managed to make a few putts going out and then had a bit of a jackpot coming in with a two on a really tough hole."
Hanson eagled the par-four sixth, where he holed a six-iron from 183 yards.
Former world number one David Duval also had a good day, posting 68 in just his fourth start of the year.
The 2001 British Open champion, who is not fully exempt on tour, has had trouble securing invitations to play this year.
"I feel I am playing well enough to compete and win golf tournaments," said the 42-year-old, who is not guaranteed another tournament start until Memphis in June.
"I've been working on my swing for a long time, for over a year now, and I feel like it's fixed. I hit the ball pretty much where I was aiming all day."
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The Biggest Hypocrite in Congress?
By all accounts, scandal-plagued Scott DesJarlais should have lost. He didn't.
NASHVILLE—Two abortions. Maybe three, if you count the one he pressured a girlfriend—who happened to be his patient—to get. Pulling out a gun during an argument with his first wife. Prescribing pills to another patient while they dated. Getting reprimanded by the Tennessee Board of Medical Examiners for dallying with patients, an ethics violation.
Voters in Tennessee's 4th Congressional District had plenty of reasons not to vote for incumbent Scott DesJarlais last week. The Tea Party Republican might have snuck under the radar to win a first term in 2010 and held back an onslaught of negative publicity long enough to capture a second one in 2012, but a third time? When conservative voters in this district, which stretches from the edges of Chattanooga to Nashville, went to the polls, they were widely expected to run off a pro-life, family-values conservative who had shown in divorce court that he could bend those beliefs in his own life. If this was supposed to be a throw-the-bums-out kind of year in Congress, then DesJarlais was the ultimate bum, and he ought to have joined Ralph Hall, Kerry Bentivolio and Eric Cantor as the only incumbent members of Congress to lose thus far.
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But clearly, the voters thought otherwise. If current results hold—and so far, there's no reason to believe they won't—DesJarlais appears to have captured the Republican nomination again by a mere 37 votes. All that would stand in his way to a third term is accountant Lenda Sherrell, the Democratic nominee in the heavily Republican district.
As a reporter who has followed DesJarlais these past 21 months, I have watched with a mixture of amazement and respect as he—running for re-election for the first time since it surfaced that his personal life could have been a storyline from "Nip/Tuck" and written off by political handicappers in both Tennessee and Washington—has managed to mount a comeback with little money or political support. In a year in which incumbents have beaten back challengers nationwide, a DesJarlais win could very well be the most extraordinary feat of them all, putting him alongside the likes of Ohio's notorious James Traficant, who served nearly 20 years despite charges of tax-evasion, taking bribes from mobsters and forcing his aides to clean horse stalls on his farm, in the ranks of some the most improbable congressional hangers-on of all time.
So how did DesJarlais do it?
Charisma certainly wasn't a factor. With a personality that could be described, generously, as taciturn, DesJarlais lights up few rooms. He has a knack for the bad photograph, frequently scowling in a way that I've been told is "terrifying." But DesJarlais, a physician, is nothing if not smart, with an eager student's approach to lawmaking and a tea partier's zeal for punching holes in the Obama administration's agenda. DesJarlais was one of the first congressmen to argue that the Affordable Care Act didn't authorize the Internal Revenue Service to extend tax credits or impose penalties in states that hadn't set up their own health insurance exchanges. The seemingly arcane point has since been upheld by a D.C. court, a ruling that some believe ( and others hope) could be used to gut the law.
To his supporters, DesJarlais embodies the ideal of the citizen-legislator. He had never run for office before 2009, when in the conservative backlash that followed Obama's election he first decided to try for Congress. He emerged from a crowded field to win the Republican nomination, and it was only in the fall of 2010 that voters first got a hint that he had a salacious past. Allegations surfaced that DesJarlais had shown a pattern of erratic and potentially abusive behavior, including dry-firing an unloaded gun at a bedroom door while his ex-wife huddled inside and holding a pistol in his mouth for as long as three hours, all detailed in the 2001 record of his divorce. Most voters wrote off the claims, viewing them as a desperate attempt by Democratic Rep. Lincoln Davis to turn back the tea party tide.
DesJarlais was better prepared the next time around. In the fall of 2012, rumors began to circulate that he had engaged in a series of liaisons—with co-workers and patients—that had also been documented in his divorce file. (These eventually would form the core of the ethics complaint filed against him.) The file showed DesJarlais had supported two abortions by his ex-wife, one for "therapeutic reasons" and another because "things were not going well," and had pressured a patient he'd been seeing to travel to Georgia for one. (DesJarlais claims he was trying to get her to admit she wasn't really pregnant.) DesJarlais' lawyers fought the file's release, even though it was a public record. The day before the election, they and Democratic attorneys still were arguing in a Chattanooga courtroom over how fast the documents could be transcribed. DesJarlais lost the case, but the ruling came too late for the voters. Tennesseans didn't learn the full extent of his behavior until after their ballots had been cast.
That was supposed to be it for DesJarlais. That winter, Republican leaders in Tennessee began to hint or call outright for DesJarlais' resignation. "I think the congressman's decision is: Can I effectively represent the people who elected me?" Gov. Bill Haslam said. Many threw their support behind state Sen. Jim Tracy, an affable former high school coach and four-term state lawmaker who officially declared his candidacy for Congress just two months after DesJarlais' divorce file was released. "I was hoping he would do the right thing and resign," said Tracy, who had lost a winnable bid for Congress by a close margin back in 2010. But this was a different category altogether. When this race started, it was Tracy's to lose.


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Now it seems that things have actually moved in the other direction. Mike Fisher of FOXSportsSouthwest.com reports that the team's pursuit of Waters is a "dead deal" because "it looks like [Waters] just doesn't want to play football."
That's not a particularly surprising conclusion to draw. Waters never showed up to the Patriots last season to play out the final year of his contract with the team and reportedly turned down offers for a sizable pay raise while remaining at home. The Cowboys have also reportedly made him several contract offers for this season that Waters has passed on.
The Cowboys also pursued Brandon Moore, who chose to retire after agreeing to terms with Dallas. Nate Livings and Ron Leary are both recovering from knee surgery, leaving Mackenzy Bernadeau (who missed time with a hamstring injury this summer) and David Arkin to start at guard in the team's game against the Cardinals on Saturday.


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Less than a month after the Boston Marathon bombings, runners are anxious to know how the Boston Athletic Association will deal with the 5,752 participants who didn't finish this year's race. BAA officials and race director Dave McGillivray have been deluged with suggestions from the running community and they continue to weigh their options. The latest and perhaps most public suggestion appears on petition platform Change.org.
On the website, Ryan Polly of Williston, Vt., one of the marathoners unable to finish April 15, asks that the BAA grant the runners stopped on the course entry into the 2014 race. He makes it clear the petition is "not asking for a free spot,'' but simply a guaranteed bib number, with the runners paying the requisite entry fee.
Polly, who was less than a mile from the Boylston Street finish line when the bombs went off, appreciates the fact that the BAA is giving him a finisher's medal and estimated time, but he wants another chance at officially completing the race. And he believes others want the same chance.
"We respectfully ask that a Wave Four be created so that we may run with our brothers and sisters in solidarity and healing,'' Polly writes in his petition. "We want to be able to finish what we started. We want to do it with one another. We want to be able to say that we completed the Boston Marathon.''
In response, BAA executive director Tom Grilk issued the following statement: "In the days after the marathon, the BAA received thousands of e-mails from runners in the race, and many from those who did not have the opportunity to cross the finish line.
"Many have offered suggestions on how to help those runners find closure. While each of the 5,700 runners who didn't cross the finish line has his or her own opinion on how to attain the closure, the common thread is one of persistence.
"We have listened and read every e-mail and voice mail, and we have been touched. While it's impossible to respond or reply to all of them, we've been in continuous communication with our runners, and in particular, those runners who did not cross the finish line on where we stand in the process.
"Planning a marathon takes a lot of teamwork, and planning a marathon in the wake of the events of April 15 takes even more teamwork, communication, and planning . . . We ask those runners for continued patience.''
With some calling for the BAA to make the 2014 Marathon the largest in the history of the event, it has many tough decisions ahead. If the BAA aims for a record-setting field, the eight cities and towns along the route would be hosting near 40,000 runners. Typically, the field is about 27,000, with roughly 20,000 achieving qualifying times to enter. The remaining participants usually gain entry through running clubs or by fund-raising.
Both Grilk and McGillivray have said that "everything is on the table'' for 2014. And race planning will be even more difficult with new security protocols undoubtedly under consideration.
As of Thursday night, the Change.org petition had collected 21,554 signatures from runners who were unable to finish or people who are close to them. Many of the runners wrote that, as Grilk acknowledged, they want closure. They also want to remember the Boston Marathon as a positive, life-changing event, not a traumatic one.
"I was just about finished . . . I could taste my medal,'' wrote Janine Forgione of Cary, N.C. "I think we as a group are put into a very difficult position to ask for closure. I waffle between the guilt for asking to run again and then being angry that I didn't finish, and then the worst is that I feel, in light of what happened, I feel like I shouldn't ask at all. That is a horrible place to be in.
"Someone had told me that is a part of post-traumatic. Makes sense. Our grit and determination will and should trump that evil that kept us from our dream.''


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Woman to hand out 'obesity letter' to overweight trick-or-treaters
Woman says she wants to send message to parents
A North Dakota woman said instead of handing out candy to kids for Halloween, she is going to give overweight children a letter.
The woman from Fargo said she wants to send a message to parents.
"I just want to send a message to the parents of kids that are really overweight. I think it's just really irresponsible of parents to send them out looking for free candy just 'cause all the other kids are doing it," said the woman only identified as Cheryl.
The letter reads:
"Happy Halloween and Happy Holidays Neighbor! You are probably wondering why your child has this note; have you ever heard the saying, 'It takes a village to raise a child?' I am disappointed in 'the village' of Fargo Moorhead, West Fargo. You(r) child is, in my opinion, moderately obese and should not be consuming sugar and treats to the extent of some children this Halloween season. My hope is that you will step up as a parent and ration candy this Halloween and not allow your child to continue these unhealthy eating habits. Thank you."
Neighbors think the letter is all around inappropriate.
"Here, you get candy. You get a letter. Like that kid hasn't suffered enough?" said one neighbor.
"This is more of an issue that parents should be working with kids on. It seems inappropriate to me," said another neighbor.
Eating disorder specialists say the letter could do more harm than good.
"It's just that kind of thing that for some kids, if they're vulnerable, might trigger major problems," said NDSU Clinical Psychology Asst. Professor Dr. Katie Gordon.
Gordon reminds people that one's appearance does not necessarily reflect whether or not a person has healthy eating and exercising habits.


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Jolliffe, Darrick ORCID: 0000-0003-4590-6343 (2013) Exploring the relationship between the Five-Factor Model of personality, social factors and self-reported delinquency. Personality and Individual Differences, 55 (1). pp. 47-52. ISSN 0191-8869 (doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2013.01.014)
Robinson, Oliver, Demetre, James D. and Corney, Roslyn (2010) Personality and retirement: Exploring the links between the big five personality traits, reasons for retirement and the experience of being retired. Personality and Individual Differences, 48 (7). pp. 792-797. ISSN 0191-8869 (doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2010.01.014)
Robinson, Oliver, Wright, Gordon R.T. and Kendall, Elaine (2011) Parental attachment and it's relationship to contextualised trait expression and mean-corrected cross-context trait variability. Personality and Individual Differences, 50 (5). pp. 547-552. ISSN 0191-8869 (doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2010.11.024)
Robinson, Oliver C., Lopez, Frederick G. and Ramos, Katherine (2014) Parental antipathy and neglect: relations with Big Five personality traits, cross-context trait variability and authenticity. Personality and Individual Differences, 56. pp. 180-185. ISSN 0191-8869 (doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2013.09.004)
Thompson, Trevor ORCID: 0000-0001-9880-782X, Steffert, Tony and Gruzelier, John (2009) Effects of guided immune-imagery: the moderating influence of openness to experience. Personality and Individual Differences, 47 (7). pp. 789-794. ISSN 0191-8869 (doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2009.06.024)


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Diana Vreeland: her divine life, told in a new documentary
More than two decades after her death, Diana Vreeland is once again a star.
A new documentary about the legendary fashion editor is hitting movie screens this month, a companion book was published last year, and fresh biographies are available.
Why revisit Vreeland? Because in a field that is supposed to be all about originality and creativity, it is seldom either.
And Vreeland embodied both.
We got some personal insights into the "empress of fashion" during a recent phone interview with Lisa Immordino Vreeland, the force behind the documentary and book, "Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel."
"I studied art history and was not really into fashion," Immordino Vreeland said, "But I always loved photography." And that's partly how she came to see the work of photographers like Cecil Beaton published by Vreeland during her years as a fashion editor at Harper's Bazaar (1936-62) and Vogue (1962-71). Then she met Vreeland's grandson, Alexander, through friends. First they worked together in the fashion industry, then married.
Immordino Vreeland says she had a growing sense of curiosity about Vreeland – whom she never met — and felt that while people knew the editor was extroverted and flamboyant, they didn't really know what her accomplishments were.
"This woman's life spanned practically the whole 20th century. Once I started getting to know her through her work, I understood why she became such a powerful force," she said.
"Her message transcends fashion; it's about living your life with passion and really believing in yourself and trusting yourself to try to achieve the impossible. She played the role of an oracle in people's lives. I don't think she was consciously doing it, but she loved being able to help people and support people out of her own heart."
Immordino Vreeland interviewed more than 60 people, including such designers as Oscar de la Renta, Calvin Klein and Diane von Furstenberg. "They were all so generous with their time, telling me how she touched their lives and helped them in their careers. It is so much of what she was about."
The project started as a book, "but I quickly figured out there should be a film," she said. She knew that was a good idea when she found out there were more than 30 hours of taped conversations between George Plimpton and Vreeland. "I thought she could narrate her own film, but the quality wasn't good enough," she said. So in parts of the film, actors read the words of Vreeland and Plimpton.
Immordino Vreeland and her co-directors and editors Bent-Jorgen Perlmutt and Frederic Tcheng also thought at one point they might do an animated version of Vreeland in her famous red living room, but decided against it. "Nothing can compete with her when she is on the screen," Immordino Vreeland said.
Vreeland chatters about all the fun she had discovering models, orchestrating fashion shoots, and putting everyone from Jackie Kennedy to Mick Jagger ("Those lips!") in the magazines.
Immordino Vreeland thinks Diana's upbringing – with a mother who was both critical and an adventuress – made her tough and independent as well. She seldom talked about personal matters, which was the polite society thing to do at the time. Vreeland's husband, Reed, wasn't faithful, but that didn't send her on a streak of having her own affairs.
Vreeland also didn't make her disagreements with various editors and magazine executives public. "She was at Harper's Bazaar for 26 years, and (editor) Carmel Snow was totally challenged by her," said Immordino Vreeland. "In Paris, the designers would speak to her before Snow. Snow never let her attend the shows because of the competition, but Vreeland would show up on her own."
There was also her famous firing at Vogue. After the excesses of the 1960s, the pendulum was swinging toward a more conservative mood and the powers that be at Vogue were tired of Vreeland, who didn't always please advertisers. She left in 1971 but was hired as a special consultant to the Metropolitan Museum of Art within the year.
"I was only 70; what was I supposed to do? Retire?!" Vreeland says in the film.
The timing was fortuitous because the Met's Thomas Hoving wanted to bring in bigger crowds and get more press and Vreeland gave him both, staging blockbuster shows over the next 15 years celebrating designers, fashion eras, Russian costumes, India, dance, Hollywood and a favorite subject, horses. Vreeland's efforts at times came under attack for being historically inaccurate, but that didn't deter the crowds. "Again, she was trying to be the teacher, the oracle, telling people about her favorite periods in history in a way we could fall in love with it," said Immordino Vreeland.


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Building Bridges between Teheran and Berlin
These days, when the issue of migration is discussed in Germany, the talk is of "integration" and "parallel societies." The terms claim to represent reality, but, in fact, they cement a division: on the one side, the Germans, on the other the migrants—either integrated or living in parallel societies.
The biographies of the people involved are usually more complicated than that: they often carry the parallel societies within themselves—or, as the German-Iranian writer Sudabeh Mohafez puts it, "two interior geographies."
In one of the stories in her first volume "Wüstenhimmel, Sternenland" ("Desert Sky, Land of Stars") she's found a highly poetic image for this condition.
Mount Damâvand as a mirage in Berlin
Mount Damâvand, Iran's highest mountain, huge, majestic and covered in snow, lords it over the Iranian capital, Teheran. Like a mirage, it suddenly turns up in Berlin, lording it over the River Spree—at least in the mind of the narrator in Sudabeh Mohafez's story "Sediment."
Like a slide show, the mountain and the Iranian capital superimpose themselves on the young woman's consciousness. The two contrasting capital cities blend together into a single world of experience. Her sober German environment reacts with incomprehension, it can't transcend its need for a cultural "either/or."
Like the protagonist of her story, the 41-year-old writer carries both cultures within herself. She grew up in Teheran as the daughter of a German mother and an Iranian father. The family moved to Berlin in 1979, just before the Islamic revolution.
Coming to terms with life in Germany was hard for the then sixteen-year-old Sudabeh Mohafez: she was expected to conform, to commit herself to one culture, the German rather than the Persian. Now, 25 years later, her writing is exploding the idea that there can be any finality as far as cultural realities and commitments are concerned.
Integration as a matter of power relations
Mohafez is particularly critical of the current German debate centred on the term "integration." She considers "integration" is a term which excludes the foreigners who live in Germany from the debate:
"The term refuses to recognise that we're already here in all our variety," she says. "It suggests a power relationship, in that I should go somewhere, enter something, fit in somehow. I find that a problem. It ought to be: I'm here, you're here, let's see what comes out of that."
She finds the prevailing attitude not pluralistic and varied enough: "It's not inquisitive enough towards the different cultural influences which one could experience here in Berlin, for example, if one were prepared to be open," she says. "What we have here is a treasure, it's amazing!"
Mohafez exploits this treasure in her story "Sediment." The narrator's point of view combines in one figure the experience of both a specifically German and a specifically Iranian reality.
The second major thematic issue in the stories in this volume is the literary treatment of the experience of violence. For example, in the story "Before the throne of Allah", Nâhid, an Iranian cleaning lady in Teheran, tries to save a German boy from abuse by his father.
The consequences of violent relationships
In "The Only Valid Perspective" Mohafez describes the thoughts of a son following the death of a brutal father, as he tries to find a new perspective for his life after the end of a violent relationship on which he was dependent.
Mohafez had daily contact with the consequences of physical and psychological violence in the course of her previous work as the head of centre for abused women. "Abuse destroys," she says. "It destroys the course of people's lives, it destroys talent, and it makes a real difference whether and how far someone must experience and suffer violence."
But for Mohafez that's not the end of the matter. It's just as important for her to ask what happens to victims after the violence. "How do I get out of it?" she asks. "And if I get out of it, what do I do then? It's not as if the absence of violence on its own means happiness." So a decisive question for her is: how can people find happiness after violence?
For that reason, Mohafez avoids any description of the violence itself; those who carry out the violence are only marginal figures in her stories. She's currently working on a new novel—for which she has a scholarship from the Berlin Department of Culture—which deals with the ability to live happy after abuse.
One of the characteristics of her stories is their style. With simple sentences she develops sensitive and distinctive images and moods.
Another characteristic is the open end to her stories: it's often far more important to her to ask the right questions than to offer the right answers:
"There are very rarely answers which are generally valid since every individual has to find his own answers," she says, "but there are often questions which are generally valid, and it would be inappropriate both for the people involved and in literary terms to try and find answers for those questions."
Sudabeh Mohafez lives and writes in Germany and Portugal. She says Portugal offers her the compromise she needs between her two interior cultural identities.
Katrin Matthaei
Translation from German: Michael Lawton
"Wüstenhimmel Sternenland" ("Desert Sky, Land of Stars"), Arche Verlag, Zürich 2004, ISBN 3716023329, bound, 123 pages.
You can find out more information in German about the volume of stories "Wüstenhimmel Sternenland" here.


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"Hi this is Cheese from the Duckshow. Today we are going to be talking to duckies in the Lone Star State! Yeehaw!"
Cheese: "Here comes a couple of Cowducks. Hello there. Can I ask you a couple of questions about your Lone Star State?"
Buck Duck:"Howdy. You sure can."
Joe Bob:"Yup."
Cheese:"Is it always this hot out here?"
Buck Duck:"Sometimes it gets so hot out here the hens are layin' boiled eggs."
Joe Bob:"Yup."
Cheese:"What's a day like in the day of a cowduck?"
Buck Duck:"There's a lot that goes on out there on the range. Why don't ya come on over for supper and I'll tell ya. I can cook biscuits and gravy like nobody's business. I live just over yonder."
Joe Bob:"Yup."
Cheese:"Sounds good!"
Buck Duck:"Just head on over when you're done."
Cheese: "Hello there, I'm Cheese, and you are.."
Debbie Sue:"I'm Debbie Sue, but you can call me Deb."
Cheese:"Okay, Deb. How would you describe what you are wearing?"
Debbie Sue:"This outfit? I'd call it Texas chic. I got it at Western Warehouse. I'm fixin' to go out for some Tex-mex. Wanna come along?"
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NHL jersey retirements: Who's next in the Metropolitan Division?
The Vancouver Canucks on Wednesday announced, finally, that they're retiring Pavel Bure's No. 10 jersey. That got us thinking—which players, if any, should be next to be so honored by their teams?
We're doing this division-by-division. Today is the Metropolitan. Keep saying it. Metropolitan. Metropolitan.
ATLANTIC: Hasek, Fedorov, others
Columbus Blue Jackets: Uhh ...
It's easy to see the team retiring Rick Nash's No. 61 down the road—he was the face of the franchise for 10 years, a captain for four and, despite the circus that eventually surrounded his trade request, left on decent enough terms. He's also a good guy and genuinely cared for the city. Now, beyond that, there's not much. Behind him, the franchise's leader in games played is David Vyborny. Geoff Sanderson was the first Blue Jacket to score 30 goals. Neither of them scream "jersey in the rafters," though. Maybe they'll honor the Twitter account, or hang up Adam Foote's jersey in the concourse so fans can throw garbage at it.
Retirees: None.
Future candidates: Nash.
Carolina Hurricanes: Erik Cole, No. 26
The Canes have generally taken care of the principals of the 2002 Eastern Conference champs and 2006 Cup winners. Ray Whitney might sneak in there when it's all said and done, but believe it or not, he only played five seasons for Carolina. It could end up happening for Cole, who played for the team from 2001-11, other than 63 games with the Edmonton Oilers, and scored more than 20 goals four times. He also was well liked by fans in Raleigh. Eric Staal and Cam Ward seem like future locks.
Retirees: Glen Wesley (2), Gordie Howe (9), Ron Francis (10), Rod Brind'Amour (17).
Note: Howe's number was retired by the Hartford Whalers, and the Hurricanes recognize that decision.
Future candidates: Jordan Staal (11), Eric Staal (12), Cam Ward (30).
New York Islanders: Pat Lafontaine, No. 16
There are plenty of embarrassing reasons this won't happen anytime soon, as detailed in a 2012 story by the Wall Street Journal. But it should. Lafontaine is an important part of Islanders history—that's particularly relevant, given that they're about to move from Brooklyn. Only once in his seven full seasons on Long Island did Lafontaine score less than 30 goals. Thrice he scored 45 or more, including 54 in 1989-90. It's a shame this isn't already a done deal. Another option off the 80s dynasty teams: Bob Bourne.
Retirees: Denis Potvin (5), Clark Gillies (9), Bryan Trottier (19), Mike Bossy (22), Bob Nystrom (23), Billy Smith (31).
Future candidates: John Tavares (91).
New Jersey Devils: Tie
The Devils should opt for whomever retires first: Patrik Elias or Martin Brodeur. Only Ken Daneyko played more games for the franchise. Also, Brodeur's the most accomplished goalie of all time, which is a relevant fact, and a three-time Stanley Cup champion. Elias is only the franchise's all-time leader in points and goals and holds its record for the most points in a season (96). These are slam dunks. They just need to stop playing at some point.
Retirees: Ken Daneyko (3), Scott Stevens (4), Scott Niedermayer (27).
Future candidates: Elias (26), Brodeur (30).
New York Rangers: Jean Ratelle, No. 19
We'll go off the board a little with this one. Ratelle played for the Rangers from 1960-1976 and became the first player in franchise history to score at least 100 points, during the 1971-72 season. He's second in career goals, third in career points and sixth in career games. Whenever Brad Richards gets bought out, this will be a lot easier. Henrik Lundqvist is on his way; the rafters might be different by that point, though.
Retirees: Eddie Giacomin (1), Brian Leetch (2), Harry Howell (3), Rod Gilbert (7), Andy Bathgate/Adam Graves (9), Mark Messier (11), Mike Richter (35).
Future candidates: Ryan Callahan (24), Lundqvist (30).
Pittsburgh Penguins: Jaromir Jagr, No. 68
This is another unlikely one—we've talked about it at length, but the Cliff Notes is that Jagr probably submarined the whole operation in 2011. Still, it's impossible to rule out anything—good or bad; Pro: there's a painting of Jagr outside the locker room. Con: The team store doesn't stock anything with his image on it. It's complicated. Also a factor: the Penguins have only retired two jerseys—Michel Briere, who died tragically in 1971 after his rookie season, and Mario Lemieux. That's not a coincidence. If Jagr goes up, you could argue that the floodgates should be open for the rest of the 1991-92 Cup teams. He also needs to retire. Eventually.
Retirees: Briere (21), Lemieux (66).
Future candidates: Kris Letang (58), Evgeni Malkin (71), Sidney Crosby (87).
Philadelphia Flyers: Eric Lindros, No. 88
The Flyers are another team that's stingy with jersey retirements, but Lindros should get the honor. His split from the team is famously ugly, but they've taken steps to fix that over the last few years, particularly during the 2011 Winter Classic, when he played in the alumni game. Maybe it happens when Lindros is inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame. His career was too short, but he was a generational talent and, if relatively briefly, one of the absolute best players in the game.
Retirees: Bernie Parent (1), Mark Howe (2), Barry Ashbee (4), Bill Barber (7), Bobby Clarke (16).
Note: Pelle Lindbergh's No. 31 is not officially retired but has been out of circulation since his death in 1985.
Future candidates: Chris Pronger (20), Claude Giroux (28).
Washington Capitals: Peter Bondra, No. 12
It's surprising this hasn't happened yet. Bondra is the franchise's career leader in goals—he led the league twice—and is second in games. playing 14 seasons for the Caps before they traded him in 2004. Goalie Olaf Kolzig is also a decent bet. Interestingly enough, owner Ted Leonsis set off some alarms in 2008 when he made comments that were understandably misconstrued as putting the kibosh on both Bondra and Kolzig, but he walked those back. That's good—he's obviously strongly pro-banner, so a shift would be confusing.
Retirees: Rod Langway (5), Yvon Labre (7), Mike Gartner (11), Dale Hunter (32).
Future candidates: Alex Ovechkin (8), Nicklas Backstrom (19), Mike Green (52).


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2 former Guantanamo detainees have left El Salvador
Two former prisoners from Guantanamo who were transferred to El Salvador 17 months ago have quietly slipped out of this Central American nation.
When and how the two men, both ethnic Uighurs, left El Salvador is unknown, but their departure is sure to fuel worries that the United States has lost track of some Guantanamo detainees who have been released.
U.S. officials declined to say when they became aware that the former prisoners were no longer in El Salvador.
Uighurs familiar with the case said it is likely the two men headed to Turkey.
"We are aware that the two Uighurs who were resettled in El Salvador departed the country. However, we will not comment on the specifics of their decision to resettle elsewhere or their current whereabouts," said Ian C. Moss, a spokesman for the State Department's special envoy for Guantanamo closure.
Uighurs (pronounced WEE-gers) are a Muslim ethnic minority that inhabit far-western China. Many Uighurs oppose what they consider the Chinese occupation of their homeland, and some have engaged in armed resistance against Chinese control. Although Uighurs are considered Chinese nationals, most refuse to carry a Chinese passport, and mystery surrounds what travel documents the two men would have used to leave El Salvador.
The two men, Abdul Razak and Ahmad Muhamman, were among 22 ethnic Uighurs sent to the U.S. detention center at the Guantanamo Bay naval base since 2002. Three Uighurs remain at the prison camp.
The other 19 have been freed and transferred to receptive host countries or territories, beginning in 2006 when Albania accepted a group of five. Subsequently, six Uighur detainees were sent to the South Pacific island of Palau, two to Switzerland and four to Bermuda, a British overseas territory.
Razak and Muhamman were freed from Guantanamo on April 19, 2012, and flown to El Salvador, a largely Christian, Spanish-speaking nation with only a few thousand practicing Muslims.
A spokeswoman for El Salvador's Foreign Ministry, Irene Sanchez, said the two were given refugee status in her country but refused to say anything further, noting that the nation "guarantees the right to privacy and confidentiality."
Most of the Uighurs sent to Guantanamo were detained in Pakistan in early 2002 after fleeing an encampment in Afghanistan's Tora Bora mountains. Even after the U.S. government conceded before a federal court in 2008 that it did not consider the Uighur detainees "enemy combatants," it had difficulty finding host governments to take them. None was willing to return to China.
"At a minimum, they would face life imprisonment there, or the death penalty," said Nuri Musabay, the secretary general of the World Uyghur Congress, an exile group that advocates for greater autonomy for the Uighurs inside China.
Without valid travel documents, it was unknown how the two Uighurs passed immigration. Justice and Public Security Minister Ricardo Perdomo, who is in charge of the nation's borders, did not respond to an email.
Musabay said he didn't know where the two Uighurs went but said Turkey would be a logical choice since it is "like a European democratic country." Another Uighur in exile, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the subject, said at least one of the Uighurs was in Turkey.
"Turkey's Uighur population has sharply increased over the last five or six years," Musabay said, adding that the Uighur language is related to Turkish.
Razak, who is in his late 30s, is from Artux, a county north of Kashgar, a city near the Chinese borders with Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan that traditionally has been a hotbed of Uighur nationalism. He left that area for Uzbekistan, then joined a village of Uighur refugees living in an encampment outside Jalalabad, Afghanistan, according to a written account by his former U.S. lawyer, Seema Saifee.
When U.S. soldiers invaded Afghanistan in October 2001, Razak and 17 other Uighurs fled to Pakistan, where tribesmen handed them over to police, who in turn gave them to U.S. forces in exchange for $5,000 each, Saifee wrote.
Muhamman, a 35-year-old former farmer, was the only Uighur at Guantanamo considered a "high" risk detainee, said Thomas Joscelyn, a terrorism researcher at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, a think tank in Washington concerned with counterterrorism.
At his combatant status review tribunal, a type of military court, Muhamman acknowledged that he'd been a weapons trainer at a camp under Abdul Haq, a fellow Uighur who was a top lieutenant to al Qaida leader Osama bin Laden, Joscelyn said. Abdul Haq was killed in a drone strike in Pakistan's North Waziristan in early 2010, he added.
The camp was run by "heavy hitters . . . al Qaida and Taliban trainers," he said.
Director of National Intelligence James Clapper's office released a document earlier this month that indicated concern that some freed Guantanamo detainees had taken up arms again. The summary of the document said that of 603 detainees freed from Guantanamo as of July 15, 100 were "confirmed or suspected of returning to terrorist activities."
In the first known case of a former detainee to have been killed in battle in the Syrian civil war, an Islamic opposition group fighting to topple the Syrian regime of Bashar Assad posted a video of the funeral of a former Guantanamo prisoner, Moroccan-born Mohammed al Alami.
Other Guantanamo ex-detainees in addition to Uighurs have found themselves unhappy in the nations where U.S. officials transferred them.
One, Libyan-born Abdul al Ghazzawi, 50, was transferred from the naval base in Cuba to the country of Georgia in 2010, unwilling to return to Libya under then-strongman Moammar Gadhafi. Ghazzawi was expected to return to the Libyan capital of Tripoli Thursday evening.


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On Saturday we went to the local Carols in the Park. I just love a carol. My husband says I turn into my sisters when I sing carols. I belt them out like no one is listening. Sadly, I lack my sisters' singing talents, but it is the one night of the year that I simply don't care.
On Sunday the kids and I made their little trinkets for their classmates. As it is the twins last ever year at day care, they convinced me to help them make pressies for their friends too. We had about 60 to make in all. Last year we did made these reindeer noses, so I didn't want to do that again, even though they were easy and very popular with the recipients!
We were going to make these Christmas trees but a trial run for the children at the Thanksgiving weekend revealed that Aldi probably doesn't have enough white marshmellows for 60 of those!
Then I found these Christmas ornaments but I imagined the kids would get sick of threading beads and I would end up having to do them all. And I figured their families have enough home-made by children ornaments on their trees that they may not appreciate another from us.
So we did this instead: Christmas pencils with home-made gift tags. So simple.
All you need is some cardboard, some Christmas ribbon and some novelty Christmas pencils like the ones Dew Drop is holding up here. We got ours for 50c each from the $2 shop.