text: Hi All, I am working on android 2.2, I developed an application which is having an Image View and a button view. In HVGA both the image and button are visible, but in QVGA I could see only the image. Rest of the buttons that are present under the image view is not visible. How do I manage multi-screen resolutions in Android ? Is there any thing like maintaining Aspect Ratio of the image to adjust the size as well maintain clarity. I tried placing the buttons above the image view and it worked properly for HVGA and QVGA. Please let me know how can I handle the situation by placing the buttons below the image view. I have done it in relative layout Image width and height is fill_parent and wrap_content Button width and height is wrap_content and wrap_content. Thnks, nive


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SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS/KPIX 5) – Bay Area Rapid Transit workers embroiled in contentious labor negotiations were voting Tuesday on whether to authorize a strike when their current contract expires Sunday night.
The two major unions representing 2,375 BART employees planned to release the results of the strike vote on Wednesday.
The Metropolitan Transportation Commission, which posted an alert on its 511.org website warning of a potential BART strike come Monday, said it was putting together a contingency plan that included using extra San Francisco Municipal Railway buses, light-rail vehicles and ferry service.

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Giving away our gifts
Have you ever given one of your presents away? Maybe you didn't like it in the first place, or maybe you thought a friend or a family member would like it even more than you did.
In the epistle today, we hear what Saint Paul says about giving away our gifts. Should we do it? Of course! That is exactly why God gave these gifts to us. The gifts Saint Paul is talking about are our spiritual gifts. We know that God let some people be "apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, some pastors and teachers."
Those gifts—teaching or preaching, helping others in some way or another—aren't for us! God wants us to give those gifts away, so that we can "build up the body of Christ." That means that we can use our gifts to help others and to help the Christian church grow.
Our beloved Saint John Chrysostom once said that very thing! When we get one gift and another person gets another gift, we can't be jealous and we can't think we're better than somebody else. God wants us to give these spiritual gifts away—to help others! Can you think of something you are good at, and can you think of a way you can give that gift away?
What would you do if your older brother or sister grew up to be really famous? Would you be jealous? Would you wish you could be that way too?
Saint Peter (of Sebaste, in the country of Armenia today), was the youngest brother in a big and holy family. His older brother was Saint Basil the Great. (You know him!) Saint Peter has lots of holy saints in his family, but for some reason, we don't hear too much about Peter. But that isn't because he didn't do anything important!
Just as we learned in the epistle today, when God gives us a spiritual gift, we can use it to help build up the church of Christ. And that is just what Saint Peter did. He helped his older brothers with their writing—and we still read Saint Basil's and his brother Gregory's writing today. Saint Peter helped his mother and his big sister start a convent for holy women—and lots of people grew closer to God because of his work. And later, Saint Peter became a bishop, and he helped the people know the right way to worship God. Sometimes helping is just as big a deal as doing it all yourself. And that's how we remember Saint Peter of Sebaste!
We celebrate the nameday of Saint Peter tomorrow, January 9th.
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I want to buy Australian. I'm looking for...
The Australian Made Campaign is pleased to announce a range of discounted Australia Day advertising opportunities with Fairfax Media.
The Sydney Morning Herald is joining The Age in offering Australian Made licensees exclusive rates in an eight-page Australia Day feature, to be published on Friday, January 26, 2018.
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At the lowest, most affordable rates we have ever negotiated for Australian Made licensees, this is an incredible opportunity to participate in one or both of these top tier publications at a highly relevant time of year. It is worth noting that while some may only wish to target one state, the dual state option offers the best value for reach.
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Presidential Election 2012: President Donald Trump or no President Donald Trump, that's today's question.
From Donald Trump's appearance today on the O'Reilly Factor on FOX — which interaction between O'Reilly and Trump will be continued tomorrow, says O'Reilly, a few points made on today's broadcast:
When Bill O'Reilly asked Trump if he agreed (or didn't agree) that the U.S. "has a Muslim problem."
Donald says: "Of COURSE. I don't see Swedish people knocking down the World Trade Center."
That's a hit times ten.
More Trump: "There's some.thing.there about their ideology…they hate us, they HATE.us."
That was Trump cutting through the fog of words and airing the festering wound.
O'Reilly asked Trump "about unions – what's your take on unions."
Trump responded (I paraphrase): "I have a good relationship with unions — I've made a lot of money, have many good friends who are heads of unions (and emphasized his working relationship with unions toward what Trump deems to be a successful, productive method, no complaints)."
Trump did not distinguish between public and private workers unions, which is an area as to what Trump represents that needs closer scrutiny. However, since Donald Trump at this rate is a highly-emphasized "private sector" "entrepreneur," he's speaking in this interview, at this time, as such.
O'Reilly asked Trump about what's taking place in Wisconsin and Trump responded that he thought Wisconsin Scott Walker is "doing what's right for his state" but Trump didn't expand beyond that, leaving, again, the key issue of public workers' unions (which are Wisconsin's and our nation's big liability, an issue in need of correction) unaddressed by Trump.
O'Reilly asked Trump what his views are on "illegal aliens".
Trump responded (again I paraphrase): he'd "put troops on the border" to prevent "people climbing the fences with no one for miles around", that "something HAS to be done" to limit the border abuses by those entering our nation illegally.
O'Reilly remarked: "you'd militarize the border, then."
Trump agreed he would do that.
O'Reilly then asked, "but what about those who are already here" and Trump replied that (more paraphrasing) they had to be sorted out, separating the good from the bad, saying that "there are some here who are really hard working and good and then there are others who are (really, really bad) and belong in prison" and that the existing illegal alien population had to be dealt with "individually…one at a time" until sorted.
Trump's response suggests he'd be interested in arranging amnesty for "some" illegal aliens, those deemed "good" versus the bad, but he did not use the word, "amnesty," simply described some sort of "sorting" process by which the good would be distinguished from the bad and then unstated options applied to both.
Not sure about this, though it sounds practical, and it suggests great tedium and room for abuse by many more illegal aliens — the primary liability of any amnesty, more of the crime and criminal behavior results. Donald Trump is a businessman from New York with infrastructure and operations in many more states beyond New York, so obviously, his enterprises profit from cheap labor, illegal aliens provide that to a degree (when labor costs alone are considered because the economic liabilities they create far outweigh the benefits to individual businesses).
Leave me with more questions here. I cannot vote for any politician who supports amnesty for illegal aliens, despite the difficulty in resolving this ongoing problem that besets our nation.
O'Reilly asked Trump "about the Birther (issue)."
As most know who have heard Donald Trump of late, Trump has been highly vocal and critical about Barack Obama's failure to provide "his real birth certificate".
Trump, as with I, maintain that there's at least something cloudy, foggy, confusing about Barack Obama's birth circumstances as they have been unclearly presented, despite him having been elected to the U.S. Presidency in light of this confusion. Trump, as with I, says that this could "possibly mean" that there's a Constitutional eligibility for the Presidency issue as to Barack Obama and that it could easily be cleared up (and should be) with increased analysis of more exposure of valid, original documents as relates to "Barack Hussein Obama."
I think it's a general area of scrutiny and concern that every American ought to be supportive of and the arguing about the questions raised are inherently disrespectful to and about our Constitution, and that applies to Barack Obama himself for ridiculing the queries about his refusal to provide credible documentation about who he is.
Trump: "But I'll tell you one thing, if he wasn't born in this country, it's one of the biggest scams of the century."
And, bah, Karl Rove who appears later after Trump on O'Reilly says the "'Birther' issue is a distraction." That "it's a trap — and Obama wants people to fall into the trap," which statement satiates Bill O'Reilly's screed about "Birthers."
Rove and O'Reilly are among the people who ridicule addressing this because it's one that both the Democratic and Republican gamers think they're both being played by in some ongoing double-agent blackops madness. I disagree, especially when these sorts (O'Reilly, Rove and Obama, among others) devote far more time to their emotional escapades denigrating "Birthers" than the issue merits. These are political creatures captured in their own nightmares, unfortunately, and they don't speak for human nature, in general, which Donald Trump apparently does on the issue of Obama's foggy-bottom birth circumstances.
NOTE: a Fox News poll today that shows (as of this hour) that 10,500 people AGREE that Trump is doing a good thing by exposing the "Obama Birth Certificate" issue — versus a mere 3,400 who disagree with that. Rove and O'Reilly are on the losing side of this issue, as is Barack Obama himself.
Earlier, O'Reilly asked Trump if he was "pro-life".
Trump responded affirmatively, with no hesitation, "I am. I am pro-life."
Trump then expanded briefly on his experiences arriving at that moral, ethical position, which I can surely appreciate, saying he'd gone from not being so to then and now being so (now pro-life, seems quite affirmative and proud of that position from how he affirms it).
An important point, however, that Trump also shared about his pro-life position was that he said that he doesn't think "a President should be elected on (this issue)" but that he'd explain more about his own position (pro-life) in relationship with the Presidency in a short time when or if he announced what his plans for 2012 are.
I got no impression from Trump that he was side-stepping the issue in any way, but simply reserving a near-future announcement/speaking opportunity to share more about his pro-life views in relationship with the Presidency.
O'Reilly asked Trump what his views were on "'gay' marriage."
Trump responded that he doesn't "believe in it," that our nation "has more important things (to deal with/take care of)" and that the idea of "'gay' marriage" is (I paraphrase again) is one that he finds depressing or something like that.
O'Reilly pressed him and posed the possibility that "what about the complaints about 'rights' — they think they're being denied 'rights' and…"
Trump's expression was stony and disapproving and he reiterated that he didn't agree with "that" and that our nation "has more important things" to take care of.
During the later appearance by Karl Rove and then, Dennis Miller, O'Reilly continued on to exclaim, "but do you know what this guy would DO with the Presidency?"
O'Reilly failed utterly earlier last year with his limp-kneed "interviews" with Barack Obama and here today he has an actually fresh and bold guy, Donald Trump, before him with ample opportunity to get into greater discussion, and O'Reilly uses more time after Trump departs (today's portion of Trump's appearance on O'Reilly) to lambast the very notion of his "guest" being President, and in the third-party at that (discussing his "guest," Trump, with Rove and Miller after Trump left the broadcast for today). Tasteless behavior there by O'Reilly.
Call me interested in Donald Trump as a Republican President elected in 2012.
A link to this article from a Palm Beach fundraiser in which Bill O'Reilly appeared and spoke (link from comments at Free Republic) includes many supportive, enthusiastic comments by Bill O'Reilly on behalf of Donald Trump AND a Trump Presidency (includes O'Reilly saying he'd vote for such).
So the appearance tonight (to continue tomorrow) by Trump on The Factor with Bill O'Reilly finds, instead, a contrary O'Reilly that defies his previous comments. Perhaps O'Reilly's behavior and intent in tonight's and tomorrow's Trump appearance on FOX were simply to be Argument Contrarian.
UPDATE: "Part 1" – March 30, 2011 Trump appearance on O'Reilly available in transcript form and vidoe, HERE.


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VIDEO: Unexpected cat appears on top of plane wing – during flight
DON'T you just hate it when your cat creeps on to your plane before take-off.
That's exactly what this little moggie did. And it's caused a bit of a stir online.
A short video clip shows a man and woman jetting off in a light aircraft.
But as the pair enjoy the ride, an unexpected visitor pops up on the wing.
The crafty kitty pokes it's black and white head into the camera's view as the plane looks to soar a few hundred metres above ground.
Despite the strange guest appearing, the driver doesn't appear too shocked and carries on unphased.
Although the passenger – who notices later on – does seem a little shocked.
"Cat was just like, this is my life meow"A Reddit user
While on the wing the cat chooses to lie back and relax – letting the wind flow through it's hair.
The man eventually brings the aircraft down to land and helps his little friend get it's feet back on the ground.
After the video was post don sharing website, Reddit, the pilot said: "A standard flight until... i still don't know if it got in after the pre flight check or if i missed it.
"The cat is doing well, she is still our mascot."
And Reddit users were left amazed by the feline's "no care in the world" attitude.
One person wrote: "Honestly, he seemed pretty chill about the whole ordeal."
And another said: "Cat was just like, this is my life meow"


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Growing up, the Toronto Police (or in those days the Metropolitan Toronto Police) were the friendly officers who helped us kids cross the road after school, the ones who kept speeders from ending up on our lawns, the men who came into class to talk about road safety. But then things changed, and I became disillusioned about who the cops were really serving and protecting.
The events around the G20 have served to change disillusionment into disappointment at what our top cops have turned themselves into. Toronto Police Chief Bill Blair is a big reason for that. Ever since my twenties, I have maintained that the top dog wags the organization. And how goes Blair, so goes the rank and file.
Blair asked the Ontario Liberal government to amend very old legislation, that was originally drawn up for wartime purposes, to include parts of Toronto not officially deemed public works so as to pretty much allow martial law in Toronto. Whether that was only to be within 5m of "the fence" is a moot point as the communist-authoritarian tactics of demanding ID from a citizen, even ones not in the protests, also happened far from "the fence." And the idea that only two arrests means it wasn't that big a deal avoids the fact that hundreds were detained, contrary to the way a democracy is supposed to operate, Of course, Blair is not the only one complicit in bringing a police regime to downtown Toronto, for Premier McGuinty could've, should have, said no.
Then 91 officers decided to hide their name badges. Apparently, no one reported them to their supervisors or cared enough to order the badges back on, despite it being a punishable offence within the police force. That's the point of the thin blue line: protect the thugs. And I guess, they figured that no one would be able to ID them without their badges and with riot helmets on, despite the plethora of photo- and video- taking phones and cameras around. Clearly, these officers attended their duties of serving and protecting the public with the intent to show these uppity, protesting masses who has the power. And they wielded that power violently sans compunction, whether in badge-less uniform or street clothes, as in Nobody's case. Blair found and punished these miscreants, with a whopping one-day loss of pay. To my mind, that's a nudge, nudge, wink, wink, kind of punishment, where technically Blair can say he penalized the bad apples but the fine was so small that he essentially endorsed their cowardly, brutal tactics, the kind police states use to keep the populace in line. Worse, The Toronto Star had to find the evidence he said he needed to charge the cops who beat up Nobody, as well as a National Post photographer. He was unable or unwilling to do it himself. Makes one wonder how competent our cops are.
Blair hopes this has not tarnished the reputation of the Toronto Police Service. Who is he kidding? Toronto has the lowest per capita crime rate in the country; most Torontonians are law abiding. Toronto protesters are highly unlikely to cause a fracas on the level one sees in Montreal. The Toronto Police knew they could identify the bad guys by the fact they'd be in head-to-toe black and in shop or financial districts where lots of lovely glass was available to break. Yet they approached the protests in a bizarre under- then over-reaction, ending up attacking the peaceful protesters while they stayed away from where the blackguards were.
The police certainly should've had an effective strategy in place to round these jerks up sans assaulting innocent protestors; modern policing is no longer just about billy clubs but using the little grey cells to out-strategize the criminals. And though Prime Minister Harper set Toronto up for costly mayhem, our cops did not need to rely solely on their own expertise. Given the short time period to prepare, did they not shortcut the curve by learning from other forces in Ontario, Canada, other provinces, and the US?
However, the fundamental approach to Torontonians at the G20, and now hearing about how they no longer keep data on strip searches despite saying they would, in response to a Supreme Court ruling on such searches, I have to wonder if our cops see us as all criminals. I wonder if most of our cops live outside Toronto and so their only interaction with Torontonians is with criminals. As my mother said, working as a nurse on the leukemia ward where most die, your thinking becomes skewed to the idea that all people who enter hospital die, which is not true. We extrapolate our specific experiences to the general. So cops living outside Toronto would develop the kind of attitude to the general populace as being all a bunch of criminals, so evident during the G20.
Blair wants to resuscitate the police reputation? He has to kick out of the force those who ripped off their name badges to show us that their attitude is not that of the force as a whole. He has to charge those who beat up Torontonians who were there solely to protest - which in Canada is a legal activity. He has to apologise profusely to the entire city for asking for that amendment, and McGuinty must be beside him to also execute his mea cuplas for agreeing to it, lawyers be damned. And then he has to institute a program to educate Toronto cops that Torontonians are not all criminals who need to be billy clubbed into submission.
Lastly, Blair has to understand that as long as the thin blue line protects the bad cops, the entire force will be tarnished with their stink. The thin blue line must change to protect the good cops and us from the bad uns.


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"True belonging doesn't require us to change who we are. It requires us to be who we are." Social scientist Brené Brown, PhD, LMSW, has sparked a global conversation about the experiences that bring meaning to our lives - experiences of courage, vulnerability, love, belonging, shame, and empathy. In Braving the Wilderness, Brown redefines what it means to truly belong in an age of increased polarization.
"Actual Step-By-Step To Authenticity!"
Leonardo da Vinci created the two most famous paintings in history, The Last Supper and the Mona Lisa. But in his own mind, he was just as much a man of science and engineering. With a passion that sometimes became obsessive, he pursued innovative studies of anatomy, fossils, birds, the heart, flying machines, botany, geology, and weaponry.
"I fell in love with Leonardo"
In November 2014, 13 members of the Biden family gathered on Nantucket for Thanksgiving, a tradition they had been celebrating for the past 40 years; it was the one constant in what had become a hectic, scrutinized, and overscheduled life. The Thanksgiving holiday was a much-needed respite, a time to connect, a time to reflect on what the year had brought, and what the future might hold. But this year felt different from all those that had come before.
"What a great story"
One of the comedy world's fastest-rising stars tells his wild coming of age story during the twilight of apartheid in South Africa and the tumultuous days of freedom that followed. Noah provides something deeper than traditional memoirists: powerfully funny observations about how farcical political and social systems play out in our lives.
"Great book and perfect narration"
In this moving collection of thought-provoking essays infused with her unique wisdom and deep humor, Union tells astonishingly personal and true stories about power, color, gender, feminism, and fame. Union tackles a range of experiences, including bullying, beauty standards and competition between women in Hollywood, growing up in white California suburbia and then spending summers with her black relatives in Nebraska, coping with crushes, puberty, and the divorce of her parents.
"honest and highly entertaining"
For the first time, Hillary Rodham Clinton reveals what she was thinking and feeling during one of the most controversial and unpredictable presidential elections in history. Now free from the constraints of running, Hillary takes you inside the intense personal experience of becoming the first woman nominated for president by a major party in an election marked by rage, sexism, exhilarating highs and infuriating lows, stranger-than-fiction twists, Russian interference, and an opponent who broke all the rules. This is her most personal memoir yet.
"Typical Hillary"
Ulysses S. Grant's life has typically been misunderstood. All too often he is caricatured as a chronic loser and an inept businessman or as the triumphant but brutal Union general of the Civil War. But these stereotypes don't come close to capturing him, as Chernow sows in his masterful biography, the first to provide a complete understanding of the general and president whose fortunes rose and fell with dizzying speed and frequency.
"Reading this book has changed me. I feel enlightened as never before."
Discover the classic behind-the-scenes chronicle of John E. Douglas' 25-year career in the FBI Investigative Support Unit, where he used psychological profiling to delve into the minds of the country's most notorious serial killers and criminals - the basis for the upcoming Netflix original series.
"Clearly outstanding"
Janis Ian was catapulted into the spotlight in 1966 at the age of 15, when her soul-wrenching song "Society's Child" became a hit. But this was only the beginning of a long and illustrious career. In Society's Child, Janis Ian provides a relentlessly honest account of the successes and failures - and the hopes and dreams - of an extraordinary life.
"Oh my! What a book!"
In the spirit of Steve Jobs and Moneyball, Elon Musk is both an illuminating and authorized look at the extraordinary life of one of Silicon Valley's most exciting, unpredictable, and ambitious entrepreneurs - a real-life Tony Stark - and a fascinating exploration of the renewal of American invention and its new makers.
"Gifted people should attempt the extrordinary"
Chip Gaines is well known to millions of people as a TV star, renovation expert, bestselling author, husband to Joanna, and father of 4 in Waco, Texas. But long before the world took notice, Chip was a serial entrepreneur who was always ready for the next challenge, even if it didn't quite work out as planned. Whether it was buying a neighborhood laundromat or talking a bank into a loan for some equipment to start a lawn-mowing service, Chip always knew that the most important thing was to take that first step.
"need to listen again!"
With a rare mix of honesty, humor, and compassion, comedian and movie star Russell Brand mines his own wild story and shares the advice and wisdom he has gained through his 14 years of recovery. Brand speaks to those suffering along the full spectrum of addiction - from drugs, alcohol, caffeine, and sugar addictions to addictions to work, stress, bad relationships, digital media, and fame. Brand understands that addiction can take many shapes and sizes and how the process of staying clean, sane, and unhooked is a daily activity.
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"This is your country, this is your world, this is your body, and you must find some way to live within the all of it." In a profound work that pivots from the biggest questions about American history and ideals to the most intimate concerns of a father for his son, Ta-Nehisi Coates offers a powerful new framework for understanding our nation's history and current crisis. Americans have built an empire on the idea of "race", a falsehood that damages us all but falls most heavily on the bodies of black women and men.
"A Heartfelt Self-aware Literary Masterpiece"
Jenifer Lewis keeps it real in this provocative and touching memoir by a Midwestern girl with a dream whose journey from poverty to Hollywood will move, shock, and inspire listeners. Told in the audacious voice her fans adore, Jenifer describes a road to fame made treacherous by dysfunction and undiagnosed mental illness, including a sex addiction. Yet, supported by loving friends and strengthened by "inner soldiers", Jenifer never stopped entertaining and creating.
"Yasssss mother!"
Ron Chernow, whom the New York Times called "as elegant an architect of monumental histories as we've seen in decades", now brings to startling life the man who was arguably the most important figure in American history, who never attained the presidency, but who had a far more lasting impact than many who did.
"An Outstanding & Riveting Book!"
Before Liz Lemon, before "Weekend Update," before "Sarah Palin," Tina Fey was just a young girl with a dream: a recurring stress dream that she was being chased through a local airport by her middle-school gym teacher. She also had a dream that one day she would be a comedian on TV. She has seen both these dreams come true. At last, Tina Fey's story can be told....
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In this candid and riveting memoir, for the first time ever, Nike founder and CEO Phil Knight shares the inside story of the company's early days as an intrepid start-up and its evolution into one of the world's most iconic, game-changing, and profitable brands.
Higher Is Waiting is a spiritual guidebook, a collection of teachings culled from the experiences of a lifetime, meant to inspire listeners to climb higher in their own lives and pull themselves up to a better, more fulfilling place. In this gem of a book, Tyler Perry writes of how his faith has sustained him in hard times, centered him in good times, and enriched his life.
"Beautiful and moving"
Drawing on extensive research and interviews, Matthews pulls back the curtain on the public and private worlds of Robert Francis Kennedy. He shines a light on all the important moments of his life, from his early years and his start in politics to his crucial role as attorney general in his brother's administration and his tragic run for president. This definitive book brings Bobby Kennedy to life like never before and is destined to become a political classic.
"Required reading, required listening"
For the first time, Gucci Mane tells his story in his own words. It is the captivating life of an artist who forged an unlikely path to stardom and personal rebirth. Gucci Mane began writing his memoir in a maximum-security federal prison. Released in 2016, he emerged radically transformed. He was sober, smiling, focused, and positive - a far cry from the Gucci Mane of years past. Born in rural Bessemer, Alabama, Radric Delantic Davis became Gucci Mane in East Atlanta, where the rap scene is as vibrant as the dope game.
"Great Story, Great Bounce Back From A Train Wreck."
Pamela Paul has kept a single book by her side for 28 years - carried throughout high school and college, hauled from Paris to London to Thailand, from job to job, safely packed away and then carefully removed from apartment to house to its current perch on a shelf over her desk - reliable if frayed, anonymous-looking yet deeply personal. This book has a name: Bob. Bob is Paul's Book of Books, a journal that records every book she's ever read.
Blindness in the 1950s was a social stigma. Stephen's mother wanted a normal life for him, so he fought desperately to uphold the illusion of sight. For a child frantic to fit in, each day was an exhausting pretence. He managed to ride a bike, when even reading involved pressing his nose to the page and painfully forcing his eyes to concentrate. Head up, he strode through a carefully memorized labyrinth of streets, hoping to fool passers-by that he could actually see.
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Hugh Hefner was an American publisher. He was best known as the editor-in-chief of Playboy magazine, which he founded in 1953, and as chief creative officer of Playboy Enterprises, the publishing group that operates the magazine. An advocate of sexual liberation and freedom of expression, Hefner was a political activist and philanthropist in several other causes and public issues. In January 1952, Hefner left his job as a copywriter for Esquire after he was denied a five dollar raise. In 1953, he took out a mortgage, generating a bank loan of $600, and raised $8,000 from 45 investors, including $1,000 from his mother ("Not because she believed in the venture," he told E! in 2006, "but because she believed in her son."), to launch Playboy, which was initially going to be called Stag Party. The first issue, published in December 1953, featured Marilyn Monroe from her 1949 nude calendar shoot and sold over 50,000 copies.
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Alexander Hamilton did not rise to public prominence as an austere New Englander or a gentlemanly Virginian. He was not born in the colonies at all. He was born in the West Indies, the son of a woman of French descent who had left her husband for another man. As an illegitimate child, Hamilton could not be educated in the local church school, so businessmen, impressed by his remarkable intelligence, sent him to America for his schooling.
The Truro Murders presents the shocking true story of Christopher Worrell and his accomplice, James Miller. The events in this audiobook unveil one of the worst serial killing sprees in Australian history. Over the course of two months 1976-1977, seven young women were brutally raped and murdered. Worrell and Miller met in prison and upon release developed a dominant and submissive relationship that centered around feeding Worrell's sadistic urges towards women.
This idea of vindicating his life, rife with strife, moves him. He's endured just about every wrong a human can, to the point of losing his mind. He will no longer hide. He will set aside his fears and fight and make things right. He must right them all and then write about them all to help others do the same.
With The Hemingway Monologues Brian Gordon Sinclair gives us an intimate insight into the circumstances that shaped the famed author's life and inspired him in his writing. "Death in the Afternoon" is the third in this seven-play series that traces Hemingway's chronology from birth to death. Brian Gordon Sinclair is considered to be "the foremost dramatic interpreter of Ernest Hemingway in the world today."
Gold Dust Woman gives "the gold standard of rock biographers" (the Boston Globe) his ideal topic: Nicks' work and life are equally sexy and interesting, and Davis delves deeply into each, unearthing fresh details from new, intimate interviews and interpreting them to present a rich new portrait of the star. Just as Nicks (and Lindsay Buckingham) gave Fleetwood Mac the "shot of adrenaline" they needed to become real rock stars - according to Christine McVie - Gold Dust Woman is vibrant with stories and with a life lived large and hard.
Millions of fans of Little House on the Prairie believe they know Laura Ingalls - the pioneer girl who survived blizzards and near-starvation on the Great Plains, and the woman who wrote the famous autobiographical books. But the true story of her life has never been fully told. Now, drawing on unpublished manuscripts, letters, diaries, and land and financial records, Caroline Fraser masterfully fills in the gaps in Wilder's biography.
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When the Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded to Bob Dylan in 2016, a debate raged. Some celebrated while many others questioned the choice. How could the world's most prestigious book prize be awarded to a famously cantankerous singer-songwriter who wouldn't even deign to attend the medal ceremony? In Why Bob Dylan Matters, Harvard Professor Richard F. Thomas answers this question with magisterial erudition.
The age of the rock star, like the age of the cowboy, has passed. Like the cowboy, the idea of the rock star lives on in our imaginations. What did we see in them? Swagger. Recklessness. Sexual charisma. Damn-the-torpedoes self-belief. A certain way of carrying themselves. Good hair. Interesting shoes. Talent we wished we had. What did we want of them? To be larger than life but also like us. To live out their songs. To stay young forever. No wonder many didn't stay the course.
Although much has been written about Al Capone, there has not been-until now-a complete history of organized crime in Chicago during Prohibition. This exhaustively researched book covers the entire period from 1920 to 1933. Author John J. Binder, a recognized authority on the history of organized crime in Chicago, discusses all the important bootlegging gangs in the city and the suburbs and also examines the other major rackets, such as prostitution, gambling, labor and business racketeering, and narcotics.
An intimate biography of Richard Avedon, the legendary fashion and portrait photographer who "helped define America's image of style, beauty, and culture" (The New York Times), by his longtime collaborator and business partner Norma Stevens and award-winning author Steven M. L. Aronson.
This is the witty, candid story of a daring young man who made his own way to the heights of American journalism and public life, of the great adventure that took him at only 20 years old straight from Harvard to almost four years in the shooting war in the South Pacific and back, from a maverick New Hampshire weekly to an apprenticeship for Newsweek in postwar Paris, then to the Washington Bureau chief's desk, and finally to the apex of his career at The Washington Post.
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Jann Arden moved in to a house just across the way from her parents in rural Alberta to be close to them but also so they could be her refuge from the demands of the music business and a performing career. Funny how time works. Since her dad died in 2015, Jann cooks for her mom five or six times a week. Her mom finds comfort in her daughter's kitchen, not just in the delicious food but also just sitting with her as she cooks. And Jann finds some peace in caring for her mom, even as her mom slowly becomes a stranger.
The Mongol army led by Genghis Khan subjugated more lands and people in 25 years than the Romans did in 400. In nearly every country the Mongols conquered, they brought an unprecedented rise in cultural communication, expanded trade, and a blossoming of civilization.
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Universally acclaimed from the time it was first published in 1968, Slouching Towards Bethlehem has been admired for decades as a stylistic masterpiece. Academy Award-winning actress Diane Keaton (Annie Hall, The Family Stone) performs these classic essays, including the title piece, which will transport the listener back to a unique time and place: the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco during the neighborhood's heyday as a countercultural center.
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This is the story of the rise to national power of a desperately poor young man from the Texas Hill Country. The Path to Power reveals in extraordinary detail the genesis of the almost superhuman drive, energy, and ambition that set LBJ apart. It follows him from the Hill Country to New Deal Washington, from his boyhood through the years of the Depression to his debut as Congressman, his heartbreaking defeat in his first race for the Senate, and his attainment, nonetheless, at age 31, of the national power for which he hungered.
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Hyena is a collection of autobiographical stories by Jude Angelini, which takes the listener on his journey of heartbreak, depravity, and hilarity, deftly moving between his adult life and his childhood growing up in a factory town outside of Detroit. Each story is told with brutal honesty yet maintains a gallows humor that will leave you shaking your head in disbelief.
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The celebrated 2010 HBO miniseries The Pacific, winner of eight Emmy Awards, was based on two classic books about the War in the Pacific, Helmet for My Pillow and With The Old Breed. Audible Studios, in partnership with Playtone, the production company co-owned by Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman, and creator of the award-winning HBO series Band of Brothers, John Adams, and The Pacific, as well as the HBO movie Game Change, has created new recordings of these memoirs, narrated by the stars of the miniseries.
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Dark, deviant, and deliriously funny, Jude Angelini writes in the colloquial vein of Charles Bukowski, using his unique, natural voice to tell stories from his life. He writes about his sexual encounters - both strange and intimate - alongside stories from his childhood and his tell-all experiences with "science drugs". Throughout it all, Jude is critical of himself and his actions, proving himself to be vulnerable, lonely, and extremely relatable. A stellar follow-up to Hyena.
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First published in 1979, The White Album records indelibly the upheavals and aftermaths of the 1960s. Examining key events, figures, and trends of the era - including Charles Manson, the Black Panthers, and the shopping mall - through the lens of her own spiritual confusion, Joan Didion helped to define mass culture as we now understand it. Written with a commanding sureness of tone and linguistic precision, The White Album is a central example of American reportage and a classic of American autobiography.
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An inspiring story of a modern American icon, here is the first comprehensive account of the life and times of Michelle Obama. With disciplined reporting and a storyteller's eye for revealing detail, Peter Slevin follows Michelle to the White House from her working-class childhood on Chicago's largely segregated South Side. He illuminates her tribulations at Princeton University and Harvard Law School during the racially charged 1980s and the dilemmas she faced in Chicago.
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Just before Christmas in 1843, a debt-ridden and dispirited Charles Dickens wrote a small book he hoped would keep his creditors at bay. His publisher turned it down, so Dickens used what little money he had to put out A Christmas Carol himself. He worried it might be the end of his career as a novelist. The book immediately caused a sensation. And it breathed new life into a holiday that had fallen into disfavor, undermined by lingering Puritanism and the cold modernity of the Industrial Revolution.
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Pulitzer Prize, Biography, 2016. Barbarian Days is William Finnegan's memoir of an obsession, a complex enchantment. Surfing only looks like a sport. To initiates it is something else entirely: a beautiful addiction, a demanding course of study, a morally dangerous pastime, a way of life.
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No one other than Warren Zanes, rocker and writer and friend, could author a book about Tom Petty that is as honest and evocative of Petty's music and the remarkable rock and roll history he and his band helped to write. Born in Gainesville, Florida, with more than a little hillbilly in his blood, Tom Petty was a Southern shit kicker, a kid without a whole lot of promise. Rock and roll made it otherwise.
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In this brave and moving memoir, Corey Feldman is revealing the truth about what his life was like behind the scenes: His is a past that included physical, drug, and sexual abuse, a dysfunctional family from which he was emancipated at age fifteen, three high-profile arrests for drug possession, a nine-month stint in rehab, and a long, slow crawl back to the top of the box office.
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Robert A. Caro's life of Lyndon Johnson continues - one of the richest, most intensive, and most revealing examinations ever undertaken of an American President. The Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer/historian carries Johnson through his service in World War II and the foundation of his long-concealed fortune and the facts behind the myths he created about it. But the explosive heart of the book is Caro's revelation of the true story of the fiercely contested 1948 senatorial election.
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In 2013 Assata Shakur, founding member of the Black Liberation Army, former Black Panther and godmother of Tupac Shakur, became the first ever woman to make the FBI's most wanted list. Assata Shakur's trial and conviction for the murder of a white State Trooper in the spring of 1973 divided America. Her case quickly became emblematic of race relations and police brutality in the USA. While Assata's detractors continue to label her a ruthless killer, her defenders cite her as the victim of a systematic, racist campaign.
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Gabourey Sidibe - "Gabby" to her legion of fans - skyrocketed to international fame in 2009 when she played the leading role in Lee Daniels' acclaimed movie Precious. In This Is Just My Face, she shares a one-of-a-kind life story in a voice as fresh and challenging as many of the unique characters she's played onscreen. With full-throttle honesty, Sidibe paints her Bed-Stuy/Harlem family life with a polygamous father and a gifted mother who supports her two children by singing in the subway.
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The celebrated 2010 HBO miniseries The Pacific, winner of eight Emmy Awards, was based on two classic books about the War in the Pacific, Helmet for My Pillow and With The Old Breed. Audible Studios, in partnership with Playtone, the production company co-owned by Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman, and creator of the award-winning HBO series Band of Brothers, John Adams, and The Pacific, as well as the HBO movie Game Change, has created new recordings of these memoirs, narrated by the stars of the miniseries.
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Carrot Quinn fears that she's become addicted to the Internet. The city makes her numb, and she's having trouble connecting with others. In a desperate move, she breaks away from everything to walk 2,660 miles from Mexico to Canada on the Pacific Crest Trail. It will be her first long-distance hike.
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A few clips of the singer amongst the crowd have made their way online, which show her participating in pro-choice and anti-Trump chants.
"She danced along to the crowd's chants and chanted along to 'My body, my choice' and 'Black Lives Matter,'" says New Yorker and Cinderly co-founder Laura von Holt, who spotted Rihanna in the crowd, and spoke to Mashable via email. "She was laughing and chatting with the other protesters, commenting on signs and T-shirt slogans. She seemed very happy to be a part of it."
Rihanna also posted pictures of herself at the protest, including a closer look at her pink "this p***** grabs back" hoodie. "So proud to be a woman!!" she wrote. "So proud of the women around the world who came together today for pro-choice."


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sourdough pretzels
Matt and I have a house sitter for the next 10 days since we are going to be on our vacation to Boston, New Hampshire, and Montreal. (A big shout out to Sophie, Elina, and Daisy who gave me lots of suggestions of places to eat and things to see in Beantown). I thought it would be a nice gesture to make some food for him to eat while he's watching our house. Matt made him a big Muffuletta, and I cooked up a pot of my famous (yeah, you heard me: FAMOUS) Potato Leek Soup. I also made him some delicious sourdough pretzels!!
I'm loving on sourdough lately. With my breads, pizza dough, and cake, everything I've baked in the past few weeks has been with my beautiful sourdough starter– my new refrigerator pet is getting lots of love and attention. And I'm turning into a CARBIVORE!
Sourdough Pretzels
(Recipe adapted from here)
Yield: 20 pretzels, about 4 to 5 inches across
- 1-1/2 cups fed sourdough starter
- 1 cup warm water
- 2 tablespoons butter
- 3 tablespoons sugar
- 2 teaspoons salt
- 5 cups all purpose flour
- 3 quarts of water + 3 tbsp sugar for the water bath
- coarse salt
Measure the fed sourdough starter into a bowl.
In a separate bowl mix the butter, sugar, and salt to the cup of warm water.
Add the water mixture to the starter.
Add 4 cups of flour, 1/2 cup at a time, stirring after each addition.
Turn out onto a floured board and knead in the rest of the flour. The dough will be very stiff.
Place the dough in a greased bowl, turn over, and cover. Let set for 2 hours to proof.
On a clean surface break of pieces of the dough about the size of a large egg. Roll each piece out with the palm of your hands until it is about 18 inches long and about 1/2 inch in diameter. Twist into the shape of a pretzel.
Let the shaped pretzels proof for 20 minutes.
Meanwhile, bring a pot of 3 qts of water to a rapid boil and add in 3 tbsp of sugar.
When the pretsels are proofed drop as many pretzels as will fit without touching into the water and cook about 30 seconds after they have risen to the top. (Or longer, if you like a chewier pretzel.)
Remove to a baking sheet and sprinkle generously with coarse salt.
Bake in a preheated 425*F oven for 15 minutes, until golden brown. Remove and cool on wire racks.
Matt and I are going to be taking some on our road trip too (a road trip is not a road trip without snacks!) to go with our homemade larabars and a host of other dried fruit, nuts, cans of tuna, etc…
I probably won't have computer access while I'm away so I will see you all in a week or so for a recap of my vaca. I'll miss keeping up with your blogs 🙂
I'm also going to miss my little Bagigis


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State Police and deputies from the Erie County Sheriff's Office currently patrol the island.
The hearing begins at 8 p.m. Tuesday in Town Hall, 2255 Baseline Road.


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Essie Maximillian Strasse Her
For the past six months the space in my local Boots for Essies Maximillian Strasse Her has been empty, I've checked every time I pass an Essie counter, and last week I finally spotted a full slot of the greeny-grey bottle of goodness.
I'm not sure what it is about this shade that made me obsess over it for a good six months, but since it's purchase, I've been finding this compliments a monochrome outfit rather nicely, and we all know how often I like to don those! As with all Essie polishes, the lasting power just ain't quite there unless you have a bottle of seche vite to hand, but it dries rather quickly and the colour more than makes up for a chip or two...
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That color really is beautiful! It leans towards gray but has enough blue/green in it to make it not quite a neutral. I can definitely see why it would pair well with monochromatic outfits! :)ReplyDelete
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I can see why you wanted to get your hands on this colour, it's gorgeous. I'm a big big fan of blue shades when it comes to nail polish, they seem to complement almost any outfit. I will definitely be keeping a look out for this one! xReplyDelete
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How pretty! I'm so sad I'm not allowed to wear any nail polish at work. :/ XReplyDelete
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It's so pretty, I have a similar shade from Topshop called Tidal which is slightly lighter. =)ReplyDelete
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I've had my eyes on this shade for months now, Its always sold out! Such a lovely shade!ReplyDelete
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Love the look of this shade! I always find Essie polishes last really well on my nails - about a week (: xReplyDelete
beautiful color! i might check out my local essie sales point as well...ReplyDelete
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Love the look of this:) xReplyDelete
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I love grey toned blues, this is a beautiful colour!ReplyDelete
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I really like this color but I never saw it in store! I love that it acts as a neutral while still being a real color!ReplyDelete
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This is quite similar to a shade they did last season called Parka Perfect! I'd still buy both though haha. xReplyDelete
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I love Essie nail polishes anyway, this would be a nice addition.ReplyDelete
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This is one of my favorite nail colors - I love how it works so well in the transition seasons. It's one of my go-to's for fall and spring, but still feels like an appropriate winter shade as well.ReplyDelete
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Oh, wow, this is such a beautiful shade! I've made a promise to myself not to buy any new nail polish as I already own an excessive amount that my fingers and toes will never be able to cope with, but I just may have to break that promise because I think I'm in love! I'm so weak when it comes to nail polish and I'm particularly a sucker for Essie!ReplyDelete
Such a pretty, fresh shade, also perfect for Spring. Gah I want it soo much! H xxReplyDelete
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I got this last Spring and it has remained my favourite ever since! XxReplyDelete
This is a lovely shade! I've taken a look at it before and unfortunately I don't think it suits my skin tone very well. It looks fantastic on you though! xxReplyDelete
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lovely spring colour!ReplyDelete
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I love this color so much! Must go out and find it!ReplyDelete
Love Essie polishes and their colour range is brilliant. Definitely my sort of shade - will have to go and seek it out!ReplyDelete
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Interstate Migration and the Tiebout Hypothesis: An Analysis According to Race, Sex, and Age
This article empirically examines the impact on interstate net migration of differential state and local property tax and transfer policies in the United States by race, age and sex for the period 1965-70. The results offer considerable support to the Tiebout hypothesis that the consumer-voter moves to that area which best satisfies his preferences for public goods.
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Lopez-led FPH takes control of Asian Eye
FIRST PHILIPPINE Holdings Corp. (FPH) has taken control of the Asian Eye Institute, following its acquisition of an additional stake in the medical facility for P19.5 million.
In a regulatory filing posted on Thursday, the Lopez-led conglomerate disclosed its purchase of the 149,999 common shares along with a founder's share in Asian Eye Institute from Dr. Felipe I. Tolentino.
The acquisition brings the stake of FPH in Asian Eye Institute to 50.57%, and makes the hospital its subsidiary, according to the disclosure.
Established in 2001, the Asian Eye Institute is serving 60,000 local and foreign patients annually across its clinics at Rockwell Center in Makati City, TriNoma in Quezon City, Mall of Asia in Pasay City and Commercenter Alabang in Muntinlupa City.
The institute also operates the Family Vision Center, a primary vision care facility, inside the Qualimed Clinic at the UP Town Center in Quezon City and Ambulatory EyeSite, an ambulatory eye center, within the Qualimed Surgery Center at Ayala Fairview Terraces and St. Frances Cabrini Medical Center in Sto. Tomas, Batangas.
Asian Eye Institute is the first ambulatory eye center in the Philippines to receive an international health care accreditation. It was admitted to the ASEAN Association of Eye Hospital and World Association of Eye Hospitals as well.
The hospital focused on eye care further expands the investment portfolio of FPH, whose major businesses entail power generation, real estate development, manufacturing and construction and other services.
FPH operates in the power, real estate and manufacturing sectors through First Gen Corp., First Realty Corp. and Rockwell Land Corp., among others.
In the first nine months of 2016, Lopez-led company more than doubled its net income attributable to the parent to P8.76 billion from the P 3.7 billion recorded a year earlier even as consolidated revenues turned out flattish at P74.71 billion.
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Searchiu.com is an application categorized as browser hijacker because after the installation it replaces computer's home page, default search engine and new tab page with those promoted by it. Although searchiu.com might look like any other search engine offering web search, quick access to Facebook, YouTube and twitter, do not get tricked by its simple design. If you have a closer look, there is no information about privacy rights, terms of use, contacts or the company that owes this search tool. It might proof only one, searchiu.com developers do not want to take any responsibility for the content displayed.
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How to Get More Foreclosure Cleanup Work in Your City or Town
A great way to get more foreclosure cleaning business in your city or town is to partner with REO agents, (foreclosure realtors). Many real estate agents work exclusively with REO (real estate owned) properties. Traditionally, these agents get property listings, in bulk, directly from banks. REO agents are then responsible for marketing and ultimately selling these homes.
Below are some tactics you can use to partner with these real estate agents to grow your REO cleanup and trash out business.
How to Contact REO Agents
Contact REO agents via phone and introduce your services. Tell them you'd like to meet with them to discuss how you can "help them" sell more homes. Notice I put a quote around "help them." Why? Because most people want to know how you can assist them. The most successful sales messages will almost always include benefits the client or potential buyer of your services will receive by doing business with you.
Middle of Night Tactics
Tip on Cold Calling: If you're uncomfortable with cold calling, you're not alone. Most people don't like to make cold calls. You can break the ice for yourself by using middle-of-the-night tactics discussed in the article at this link to make cold calls: http://www.foreclosure-cleanup-blog.com/?p=160 (How to Market Your REO Trash Out Business in a Tough Market Using an Old Fashioned Tactic).
Follow-up a second time via phone after you've left a first voicemail message in effort to get a meeting. This way, the real estate agent will have heard your company name, and will know something about your business. On that second follow-up call, ask the realtor if you can meet with them briefly to discuss your proposal for partnership to help them sell more foreclosures. You can stop by their broker's office or take them out for a cup of coffee at a local coffee shop to discuss.
Simple Proposal for Partnership
Your proposal to REO agents to help them sell more homes (and ultimately help you get more business) can be simple. Relay to them that your REO cleanup, trash out and real estate maintenance company can be their point of contact for cleanup, maintenance, and repairs for buyers who purchase their homes. You can simply offer to leave a before and after flier or postcard on the counters of each of their listings. These fliers or postcards can show pictures of work your company has completed. If your foreclosure cleaning and trash out business is new, the fliers or postcards can show generic before and after cleanup photos. Look for stock, royalty-free images online.
These pictures can show a home before it has been cleared out, cleanup up, painted, had yard work completed, etc., and the resulting photos after the work has been done.
A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words
Before and after photos can help move customers to act, so use color printouts or professionally printed postcards. There are tons of low-cost online printers with in-house templates you can use to drag and drop in your photos and your company's advertising message.
Along with your flier or postcard, leave a card holder with some of your small business cards so potential buyers can take one with them after they visit the home listings of realtors you're partnering with.
Getting Your Contact Info in Hands of Homebuyers
Whether or not the buyer purchases that particular real estate agent's home listing, they will have your small business contact information, which should be one of your main goals in the partnership.
In many instances, buyers will view foreclosures differently after seeing your photos, which will help sell REO homes more quickly. And this is because, after seeing your before and after foreclosure cleanup and maintenance photos, that buyer can picture a home not as it currently is, but as what it can be after a little work.
As an investor and as a card-carrying realtor having worked with buyers before, sometimes you have to paint a picture for the buyer so they can look past cleanup and cosmetic repairs. Your before and after pictures, which could have nothing to do with the home being sold, will help buyers move one step closer to purchasing a distressed home. Any REO agent will appreciate an effort like this to help them sell more homes.
So, scour the web and find a list of REO agents in your city or town. And reach out to them and try to get a meeting. Remember, your goal is to meet with them to discuss partnering on the above level in effort to help them sell more homes, which in turn will help you get more REO cleanup, trash out and real estate maintenance work.
Continued success with your foreclosure cleaning business.
Cassandra Black, http://www.cassandrablack.com
Cassandra Black is a Foreclosure Cleaning Business Consultant, the Author of How to Start a Foreclosure Cleanup Business and several foreclosure cleaning industry and mortgage field services Guides, Reports and Forms available via Stone Cottage Books and Amazon. She is also CEO of Foreclosure Cleanup, LLC. Follow Cassandra and Foreclosure Cleanup, LLC on Twitter.
Related Articles:
How to Get More Foreclosure Cleanup Work in Your City or Town, http://www.foreclosure-cleanup-blog.com/?p=8466
How to Market Your REO Trash Out Business in a Tough Market Using an Old Fashioned Tactic, http://www.foreclosure-cleanup-blog.com/?p=160
Recent Gallup Poll about Homeownership Can Mean More Work for Small Real Estate and Maintenance Contractors, http://www.foreclosure-cleanup-blog.com/?p=8461
Home Flipping on Rise — and What It Means for Cleaning Companies, http://www.foreclosure-cleanup-blog.com/?p=8452
How to Get Clients for Your Trash Out Business from Your County Commissioners, http://www.foreclosure-cleanup-blog.com/?p=281
How to Use the Small Business 80-20 Rule to Earn More Money, http://www.foreclosure-cleanup-blog.com/?p=8444
Ten Fastest Growing Small Business Sectors Dominated by Real Estate, http://www.foreclosure-cleanup-blog.com/?p=8430


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The Court ruled that he was not induced or persuaded by the government agent to commit the crimes for which he was found guilty on January 21, 2010.
He was found guilty of one count of doing anything with intent to cause an explosion of an explosive substance that was likely to cause serious bodily harm or death to persons or was likely to cause serious damage to property, contrary to section 81(1)(a) of the Criminal Code, for the benefit of, or in association with a terrorist group, thereby committing an offence contrary to section 83.2 of the Criminal Code. This offence carries a maximum sentence of life in prison.
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directly or indirectly, any activity of a terrorist group, for the purpose of enhancing the ability of the terrorist group to facilitate or carry out a terrorist activity," thereby committing an offence contrary to section 83.18(1) of the Criminal Code. This offence carries a maximum penalty of ten years in prison.
Shareef Abdelhaleem has been in custody since his arrest on June 2, 2006. He has 30 days to decide whether he will appeal this decision.
Court-ordered publication bans continue to be in effect on this matter.
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We've known for a while that the automation of customer service, or self-service, was changing the nature of the encounter between customers and brands. Customers have proven very pliable at adopting various tools like search, email, social media, and knowledge bases, to find their own solutions to routine problems.
But some people have also observed that when customers solve their own problems they solve the easier issues leaving the harder ones for the traditional call center. That's not surprising but it has significant implications that may not have been fully explored.
A new study in the January/February issue of The Harvard Business Review suggests that this trend will change many aspects of the traditional call center. The authors, Matthew Dixon and some colleagues at CEB, have written on the subject before for instance in Stop Trying to Delight Your Customers and he seems to focus on simplicity and resolution speed ahead of empathy, qualities that, his work implies, customers prefer.
Dixon's latest well-researched work examines over 1400 call center agents from multiple industries around the world. Interestingly the research groups service agents into seven classification buckets and rates their relative effectiveness and their portion of the group's composition.
It wouldn't be worth writing about if the predominant type of agent was also the most common type out there, but don't worry, they aren't. As a matter of fact, the research shows that the ideal agent for these times is not favored for hiring by service managers.
It wouldn't be a big issue except that the authors point out a disturbing trend— customer service quality is falling.
That's because today's reps aren't selected and trained to handle increasingly complex customer issues.
This goes directly back to the fact that self-service enables customers to solve their own problems, which are often easier, leaving the harder ones for traditional channels. The solution?
Managers should abandon their preference for caring, supportive reps and instead recruit and develop outspoken, take-charge types who quickly and aggressively solve customers' problems.
The article shows that the aggressive types, called Controllers, rank #1 in effectiveness but make up just 15 percent of the rep population while Empathizers more than double that population at 32 percent but rank in fourth place for effectiveness. A quick look at each type's characteristics provides some needed insight.
The Controller—Outspoken and opinionated; likes demonstrating expertise and directing the customer interaction.
The Empathizer—Enjoys solving others' problems; seeks to understand behaviors and motives; listens sympathetically.
Other types are interesting too, though I wonder why an organization would employ reps in the #3 spot, The Accommodator who,
Meets people halfway; involves others in decision making; and easily offers discounts and refunds.
This individual knows how to waste other people's time and lose money and represents a by-gone era when poor product quality might have provided some justification for discounting. But product quality, thanks to market maturity and statistical quality controls in manufacturing, makes this position tenuous in my mind.
The real question to address is why number four in effectiveness is number one in population and why the most effective agent type is only third by population. A lot has to do with our conception of customer service, which has not kept up with product reality or self-service advances identified by the authors as,
Across industries, fully 81 per cent of all customers attempt to take care of matters themselves before reaching out to a live representative.
By that point, however, even many mild mannered customers will be at their wits end having spent too much time with too much contradictory or incomplete information stemming from self-service.
When self-service fails, many people aren't in the mood for a drawn out experience, they want an answer, preferably THE answer so that they can move on with their lives. They want someone or something to FIX the problem.
Indeed one of Dixon's other papers in HBR goes precisely to this point. So an empathetic personality might not be exactly what the customer wants in the moment and someone who will take charge and find a solution will better approximate the right solution provider.
There are also tips on hiring Controllers in the article as well as on creating a service culture more accommodating to them. One big difference organizations will need to deal with is the Controller's need for the independence to take actions that can be off script.
But service managers have built a culture nearly completely opposite, focusing on after the encounter coaching sessions and superficial metrics such as call duration. So finding and hiring controllers is part of the customer service solution for modern times. But so also is developing a culture more oriented towards providing more cut and dried, just the facts, ma'am, solutions.
In short improving customer service starts with recognizing that the need has changed since customer service was first implemented.
My take
Is it just me or did you notice that some of the characteristics of a Controller are also those of highly successful sales reps?
I don't think this is an accident. Great sales people don't run on a script, they identify customer pain and set out to fix the pain with their solution.
The great ones fix problems and if they happen to close a deal also, that's great. Controllers have these qualities though they're probably not as refined, but there's no doubt that great sales people can start as service people. This should be nurtured.
A long time ago I suggested in another venue that customer service positions should be better trained and paid because I saw service as a latter day mailroom.
Go back to the Mad Men days of the 1960's or even earlier, and the people in the mail room knew more about how a company ran than anyone because it was their job to open mail, read it, and deliver it to an appropriate party.
Starting in the mailroom was an ideal first job and many CEO's of the mid- to late-20th century started their professional lives there because it was the ideal platform from which to climb the management greasy pole.
Today I think the service department has become the new mailroom and the service reps, at least the Controllers, have the chance to understand everything about products as well as a good deal about policy and procedures to enable their ascents.
So improving customer service has two obvious benefits. Of course, improvement will make happier customers but focusing on personnel can also have the benefit of being the proving ground for discovering new talent. But only if managed well and with the recognition that sales talent comes from places you might not otherwise consider.
Which makes me wonder – does your talent acquisition software cater for these scenarios?
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