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Stefanie Ridolfo • Going All In
Stefanie Ridolfo, founder of Liv Real Estate Partners at Keller Williams, started her real estate career shortly after delivering twins. To fund her business she sold her home and moved the family in with her parents. Two years later she became a top 1% producer, and ever since has become one of the top brokers in Chicago. In her four years in real estate, Stefanie has built up a successful team and teaches other brokers how to duplicate her success. Learn how she grew so quickly and why going "all in" made all the difference.
Stephanie Ridolfo can be reached at 630.200.2120 and stefanie@livrealestatepartners.com.
D.J. Paris 0:15
Hello and welcome to another episode of Keeping it real the only podcast made by Chicago real estate brokers for brokers all over the country. That's our new tagline as we have listeners beyond the Chicagoland market. What we do here, if you're new is we feature top 1% producers in the Chicagoland area and ask them how they became successful as we are coming up now on our 100th episode, we've Gosh been featured on lists that say we're one of the best real estate podcasts in the in the country. I'm not sure if that's true, but we certainly do our best and our listeners seem to really find a ton of value in listening to these top heavy hitters in Chicago. Today is no exception. We have Stephanie Rodolfo, coming up in just a few moments. But I also wanted to mention a couple quick things. First, please continue to share this podcast with other brokers that you think could benefit from hearing from top producers, also our Facebook page, we are now starting to add more content. So you can find us on facebook@facebook.com forward slash keeping it real pod, we are almost trying to produce one post a day of something very helpful, just like our interviews that brokers could use. For example, today, I found a great thread on Reddit about the importance of doing open houses to find clients. And it's an awesome thread that someone sent into us. So we wanted to pass that along to everyone as well. So if you're not already a follower of our Facebook page, please do. Also remember you can find us on Facebook, I just I just mentioned Facebook, but on our website, you can stream every episode we've ever produced, which is keeping it real pod.com. So find us on Facebook, find us online, send us your suggestions, we are a sadly we are very behind. So everyone that's submitted a suggestion. If you haven't heard back from our production team, we apologize we have, I think we're over 100 people have been suggested to be on the show. So quite a backlog, but we appreciate it. We appreciate all the fan mail, and all the great suggestions. And if you ever have questions that you'd like me to ask, Are these top producers, please send them in because I'm always looking to increase value for you. You This is for you, not for me. So anyway, thank you for listening as we approach episode 100 Keep listening, keep telling us how to improve and we'll keep making these episodes. So now on to Stephanie Rudolfo.
Okay, today on the show, we have Stephanie Rodolfo of the of live partners, which is you can find her. I'm sorry, let me start that over my apologies. I can't read my own notes. Today on the show we have Stephanie Rodolfo of live partners, Keller Williams. Stephanie is a mother of three wife and also an entrepreneur. She got into real estate because she didn't want to leave her babies for a career she wasn't passionate about. She started her career in real estate 44 years ago, right immediately after her twins were born, and quickly realized that real estate wasn't just about helping somebody buy or sell a home. She believes real estate is about the people and their life stories and the events that trigger a real estate transaction. Her goal is to become the number one real estate team in Illinois, also creating a space that allows everyone on our team to thrive in their specific roles. And lastly, to provide endless opportunities for her people to follow their dreams and live out massive lives. So thank you, Stephanie, welcome to the show.
Stefanie Ridolfo 3:52
So tell us and by the way, you have an amazing reputation. We're so honored that you're taking the time to spend here with us and tell us but how did you get into real estate?
Yeah, so like you had mentioned, you know, I got into real estate four years ago. So how it came about was I got pregnant and found that I was having twins, which was very exciting and scary at the same time, as you can imagine. And so I you know, was looking back and just kind of reflecting on, you know, my life and where I wanted to go and you know, now becoming a mother of twins. And I just I couldn't find it in my heart to go back to my corporate job. Because I would have to leave my you know, newborn babies, and that just really didn't sit well with me. And so I kept thinking, Okay, well, what could I do that I would actually be passionate about and it would drive me enough to actually want to leave my children. You know, obviously no one wants to Leave them. But you also have to put, you know, foosball tables. So I just knew I couldn't go back to the corporate world because I wasn't passionate about it, it felt like I was going to a job every day. And that's not I felt like there was a void, there was something missing. So I started just like soul searching, and, you know, figuring out what I wanted to do. So I started talking to my friends and family. And I started thinking about, you know, opportunities. And my brother actually said, Well, what about real estate? I go, Oh, I was like, Yeah, I was like, that sounds really awesome. And I had no idea what without even meant, or what, you know, real estate agent did at the time, I had bought one house. And so but I didn't even have a realtor, because it was new construction, which we know is a big no, no, in this business. I know that now. But at the time, I did it. And so I was like, Yeah, that sounds like something I could definitely see myself doing. So then I started just, you know, talking to some people that were religious, and in the business already, and really liked what I was hearing about the, you know, potential opportunities, flexibility. So I decided to, you know, get my license. So studied, took the test passed on my first time, which I was really proud of, because that test was, in my opinion. And so, and I knew that when I got into the business, that it was going to be, you know, a career for me, it was going to be for the rest of my life. And it was a, you know, a big deal for me, because I wanted to make sure that people could trust me off the bat. And so that was always something I was worried about was that, you know, hey, I'm brand new in this business, how are people going to trust me, you know, so I, you know, hired on a mentor to really get me started and walk me through, you know, my first million in sales, which was really helpful, because I'm a very hands on learner. And that would, was really gave me the confidence I needed to really jumpstart my business. And so I think the biggest thing too, is that, you know, when I decided to get into real estate, I wanted to find something where it didn't feel like work to me. And I wanted to love what I did every day. And that was really the reasoning behind it, and why I got into real estate. And literally, ever since I made that decision, I don't feel like I've ever worked a day in my life, because I truly love what I do every single day. Obviously, it's very hard work, but it doesn't feel like work. You know what I mean? Yes. And so
that's a very, I'm sorry to interrupt that that's a very common sentiment that all of the top almost all the top producers we've ever had on the show really seem to have in common that obviously they love what they do, they love being helpful and of service. But also, they're incredibly hard workers. Because but they love what they do.
Yeah, exactly. And so if you love what you do, it's, it's a natural byproduct that you're gonna work your butt off to make you know, your dreams come true and accomplish all your goals and helping others do the same along the way. And that that's really what you know, motivates me every day, that I'm able to impact people's lives in such a positive way, whether it be with real estate, or growing them on my team. But um, when I, I want to mention this too, though, because this was a big factor to me getting into real estate, was that, you know, me and my husband, both were working at the time. And I knew that if I was going to go full speed ahead with real estate, you know, I had to quit my full time job, which meant that income was not going to be coming in. And so a lot of people think that they can get into this business and do it part time. And to me, that was not an option. Because I felt in order to give people the service that they needed, they needed my full attention. And so a lot of people getting in the business think, Oh, I could just do it on the side and do it part time. And in my opinion, you're not ready to get into the real estate course yet, because you need to build that nest egg before you jump into real estate, because it's not, it's not the right service that you're gonna be providing to your clients by trying to do you know, give 100% to two things. So what we did, what I did is that I sold my house because actually my house was the first house I ever sold. So I had my twins, got my license, and then I knew that in order to not feel the pressure of like having a mortgage payment and paying all the bills in order, you know, to just focus on real estate and not worrying about am I going to get a paycheck this month and having that stress because I never wanted to go back to the corporate world. We sold our house First home I ever saw was my own so sure, and then moved in with my parents. And then
D.J. Paris 10:07
I love that. I really do love that. Yeah.
Stefanie Ridolfo 10:10
And so that's, you know, the kind of sacrifices that I think people need to know that these sacrifices happen along the way. And it's not, it's not easy to make those decisions. But if you really want something in your life, then you're going to have to sacrifice something. And so in this case, it was sacrificing our, you know, our house, and then we were going to my parents, so that we could, I couldn't, I didn't have to worry about having the pressure of if I was going to sell something. And so that, that lasted about six months. So my first, you know, way of really building this business was all through Facebook. Yeah,
how did you how did you do that? If you don't mind me asking.
Yeah, so I just, I was a very private person on Facebook before getting into real estate, I didn't really post a lot. So the whole Facebook space was very intimidating to me. And I'm a perfectionist. And so I wanted every time I posted something for it to be perfect. And so because it's a brand, you know, I'm branding myself and anything I'm putting out into the world, people are going to see it. And I was very cautious of that. But I knew I had to do it. So I had to go out of my comfort zone and start putting, you know, my life on Facebook, which was very uncomfortable for me. But I knew I had to do it because I had a lot of people that were watching. And so I slowly started overcoming, you know, that fear of mine and put stuff on Facebook, when I was out doing an open house if I was out showing clients. And then every time I had, you know, sold a property to help someone buy something I would put out, you know, hey, just, you know, a picture with me and my clients and, you know, close this home or help someone buy this house. And so I just kept creating this story on Facebook. So people saw what I was doing, and I was staying in front of them in an organic way. And so that's really what jump started my career because people started you know, my sphere of influence, started seeing everything I was posting about. So I started getting, you know, people reaching out to me saying, Hey, I saw that you're, you know, you're in real estate, I've got a house I gotta sell or I've got a house I've got to buy. And so that's how I started building my business initially.
That's what you just said so much. I want to touch on a couple of those points that you mentioned. Number one, I love the story of going all in, right? You're like I am willing to sacrifice my own residence and do something that's in the short term uncomfortable, I'm assuming somewhat uncomfortable to move back home. But yeah, you're starting a business. That's what entrepreneurs do. They go all in. Yeah. And and by the way, this is not a 20 year journey. This is a four year journey. So far. And you are already I mean to to really to tell the listeners, what Stephanie has accomplished in four years is truly remarkable. It's not just because she's on the call. I'm mentioning this, like if you actually look at her numbers, incredible. Nobody does this in four years. Nobody builds a team that quickly. Well, you're the one who's done it. So congrats to you. But yes, I'm glad to acknowledge it, because it's such a big deal. But how many people are willing to go to that, that extreme that that length to build a business? And that's I think a good point about part time versus full time is technically Can you sort of dip your toe in both waters? Yeah, I guess so. And you can do a handful of deals a year maybe. But at some point, you have to make a decision of what do you want to do you want to make this a career or not? And, and I think that's really, I've never seen anyone really successfully do it. Who also had another career, it just seems to be too difficult.
Yeah, I agree. 100%.
And, you know, also people you talked about having a mentor when you first started, I think that's really helpful because everyone's fear and we have a lot of brokers who listen who are new to the business, their fear is very warranted. It's like what happens when I don't know the answer to something that my clients ask, it's like, that's gonna happen all the time. That's normal. So you better have a support system in place where a mentor somebody where you can say, Hang on, let me double check on that and get right back to you or if somebody even come with you, if possible. Yeah, and, but and also, like Stephanie was saying she was her own first client. Another really good idea because we're gonna screw up you might as well screw up your own deal. Oh, I
learned a lot. I learned how to deal with the difficult seller which was my husband who wanted to price our listing and I was like, What are you thinking? Like, no, we can't price it here. It's like, well, let's just see and see, you know, what we get and of course, you know, then we had to do an adjustment to the price. And so that was it was actually a really good learning experience because I learned how to handle right away. Sellers that wanted to overpriced your listing and, and what what happens when you do that? So it was a great learning experience for me.
Yeah. And just because we get this question a lot, you know, how do you handle that where somebody says, Hey, I understand I'm gonna list it up more than what, you know, even somebody who's rational and reasonable goes, let's just try it for x amount above. How do you do? What's your sort of philosophy on what to do in that scenario?
Yeah, so I think the biggest thing is just always to remember to become very prepared and know your market and know the traps. Because if that person sitting across from you is an analytical person, and you can show them the data that proves otherwise, I always look to the numbers, because numbers always tell a story. And so I do try very, very hard to help them understand why it's important to list at market value, and what happens in the event that they don't. And so, you know, like anyone else in this business, I'm sure you're always going to have those clients are like, No, I want to test it at this price. So if they are very adamant about testing at a certain price, I say, okay, that's fine. We'll test it at your price for two weeks, we're going to monitor the activity. And we're looking for five to seven showings a week to indicate to us that it's a successful launch. And so at that point, now, every week we're having conversations with them saying, are we hitting our benchmarks of five to seven showings a week? Now, in some cases, if it's overpriced, we will hit those five to seven showings a week. But at the end of two weeks, let's say we've had 12 showings, we hit the benchmarks, but no offers are coming in. That's an indication that the markets rejecting our price because we've gotten this, we've gotten the showings, we needed the activity but the offers aren't there. And so now we're having that conversation of adjusting to the price that you know, we recommended initially.
I love that I love all of that. And in for the listeners, just in case anyone listening doesn't know this as an option. You can actually via M read, you can see how many eyeballs have looked at the property on the MLS, right? You can't see what Zillow those numbers, but you can see how many brokers have shown either shown the listing to their clients buy an email, or it was on a search and it came up. So if you're getting hundreds and hundreds of people that can that see the property, you know, online on via em read and nobody's scheduling appointments. Obviously, that's an indicator as well. So a lot of brokers probably don't know you can see that number, right.
There's prospecting. Yep. Well, oh, by the way, the actual activity, like the physical showings that a listing is getting, because views to me don't mean anything. It's all about what is the actual right action that's happening. It's all about the actions.
Absolutely. And that's the thing is, if you're getting 1000s of views, and no one's coming to see it, there's a there's an issue, which, again, that's data. So you can actually go back and say, Hey, here's the here's the reality. And you know, so that's awesome, and awesome. And again, you have a whole process. In fact, I want to before we continue, because I forgot to mention this at the beginning, I want to talk about you have a really cool website, by the way, which is live with live without the E live real estate partners.com. It's one of the better real estate websites I've seen, which by the way, everybody should have a cool real estate website or business have a website. And but I want to talk about your team because you guys, as you're always expanding, you are also looking to add on more team members. So can you tell us sort of what that looks like?
Yeah. Yeah, absolutely. So just to kind of get back into where I left off, because it's like, you know, go to how I started building the team. So my first two years in real estate, and again, this is just for all those listeners that are new in the business. It is a lot of hard work. I mean, I worked seven days a week, a lot of days, like eight till 10pm at night for almost two years straight. And so that was really hard because I was a new mom, I had twins and then I also got pregnant again. And so I was pregnant. With my third child, I had, you know, 13 month old twins and I was working, I would say eight hours plus a week. And so, you know, that's when I got to the burnout phase. When I was getting my business was building, which was so exciting and loved every minute of it. But I just there was no more time for my family and my family then started to become what I was sacrificing. And I at the time understood that you know, because I wanted to be build such a massive business, I knew that I was going to have to sacrifice time away from my family. And so I would say, you know, if you're, whether you're the husband or the family, the wife or the family, or just your own self, just know that you're going to have to sacrifice time away from people that you love and you care about, in order to build the business that you want, just to know that you're doing it. Because five years from now, my goal was always that I wasn't going to have to work nights and weekends anymore. So that was kind of like my driving factor was like I'm putting in the work now. So that we can build this team so that don't have to work nights and weekends for the rest of my life. So I really got to that burnout phase, at about two years into the business, I was doing about 10 million in sales by myself. And that's when I knew I could no longer continue at that pace, and continue to grow the business because I didn't want the customer service to Slack, right. And that was really important to me, it was always putting my clients at the forefront of everything. And so if I ever felt like I couldn't give them the service I needed they deserved, then that was the that was where I was starting to get to that point. And I knew I had to start building out a team to gain leverage. And I will tell you, I did not build my team the right way from the beginning. And that was one of my big failing forward. You know, lessons that I learned and I wouldn't take it back. Because I learned really valuable lessons. And I'm still learning every single day about, you know, building this business, but I didn't hire properly. The first I hired was not an administrative person. And so that was my biggest mistake. And I did end up hiring administration. But it was a part time. And it was also a shared admin. Sure. which I also was a big learning that, yes, it got some things off my plate. But the big picture was that I wanted this person, you know, the admin to be also a branch of me, and they didn't have client facing. And so that was then put back on me so that yeah, they could do some of the paperwork, which is great. But it wasn't really the ideal situation.
That's still not giving you back your nights and weekends. Correct.
Exactly. Yeah. So So then, I really decided at that time, like I need to know how to do this the right way. And so Keller Williams, you know, I knew was a company that was number one for training and leadership. And I knew that they had already created. They had the systems, the tools, the processes to build out a team, that's what they're known for. Right. And so I decided to move my business to Keller Williams because I was like, why am I trying to reinvent a wheel that's already been created? Right, you know, so that's what I decided to move my business to Keller Williams. And, you know, the first day I went to Keller Williams, I saw Lance Logan. He is a big, mega agent, and Keller Williams out of Houston. And I saw him on a panel and my life changed that day, I heard him speak and my mind was expanded. And once your mind gets expanded, it never returned back to its original form. So shout out to Lance, because you know, Lance, and Karina, they're, they're amazing. And so he talked about building a team and how it was the hardest thing he ever did in his life. And at the time, I was just like, Oh, it doesn't sound that hard, right?
You just hire somebody to help out? It should be easy, right?
Yeah. And at the time, I think they were doing like 300 million in sales. And so at that point, I saw a light bulb switch. And I realized that real estate, you know, was so much bigger than just you know, helping people buy and sell homes. It's about building business, a business big enough so that you can hire amazing talent and help other people accomplish, you know, their goals and their dreams. And so like that, at that point, I was like, Oh my gosh, like, I am so grateful to be here and hear this. And from that point on I started following the Keller Williams systems and models for hiring a team. I read the mrea book, which is the million Millionaire Real Estate, by the way.
Well, let's pause for a second. Everybody should read Gary Keller's millionaire effect. I think it was recently updated in the last year to it and he also has another book called The one that he's a few other books but the one thing that really great I mean everything Gary Keller's written you everyone should read.
Yeah, I mean the Red Book Um, the MRE a book is by far the number one book every single real estate agent should read, because it lays the foundation of how to run a successful business. And I think that, um, a lot of people don't understand the difference of being a realtor versus running a business. And so if you're sitting there right now thinking, Oh, I'm, I'm just a realtor, it's like, no, you're running a business. And if you're not running it, like a business, then you're doing it wrong. Right. Agree. So. So that was my big, you know, kind of like Pivotal, pivotal point in my career, was starting to build the team,
right? It's sometimes to building a team also is sacrificial, right? You, you might sacrifice some income initially, you might sacrifice some control. It's a scary, difficult thing in you know, sometimes you hire the wrong people, like you were saying, happens. It happens to everybody who builds a team, but also realize that's another point of sacrifice, at least for a short term.
Totally. Yep. And I think the biggest thing for me is I'm always a believer, like, if you build it, they will come Yes. And so but, you know, at the time, my husband was not in the real estate world with me, you know, he was working a full time job staying home with the kids on the nights and weekends. And then I go to him, and I say, hey, I want to hire an assistant that's gonna cost me, you know, 30 $40,000 a year. And he was like, Whoa, right. You know, so it was a lot of, you know, just believing in the process. And I think people sometimes they're very fearful of that, of making those decisions that it's going to change their business, because they're like, Well, you know, if I spend all this money, that means I'm gonna have to sell more houses, and how many summer houses and so it seems like, you know, they just keep postponing it, and they don't ever get the chance to actually peel back the onion. And hire out that leverage to let to give them the ability to grow. And that's something that was really, really changed my business when I hired the right, you know, person to help me it with all the administrative work. Yeah, absolutely.
I the interview that is being posted today that just before yours will drop next week. Gentleman, his name is Nick vellum, and he had the almost the exact same experience. He's like, I want to reclaim my nights and weekends. And he said, he realized the only way to do that is to build a team. And to make all of them so incredibly successful, that he was able to reclaim more time for him. And he has three kids as well. So his his family. So it's, it's a concept, but you have to be willing to take the leap and just trust the process. And I guess, you know, you're you're accustomed to, to, to taking a pretty scary leap. And the good news too, is if everybody for example, they just read Gary Keller's Millionaire Real Estate Agent, that is pretty much if you only had to read one book about how to be successful in this business, that that's the one and just do everything in that book and be willing to just trust the process. And you'll probably be fine.
Yes, exactly. If you build it, they will come. So but it's scary to do that. It's really scary. And a lot of people don't do it, because they're there. They're fearful of it. So I would just say, you know, this business is all about taking risks and stepping outside your comfort zone. Because if you know, if you're comfortable with your, with what you're doing everyday, that means you're not growing. And if you're not growing, you're not building a business.
Yeah. And you're supposed to be scared. Fear is completely in fact, if you're not scared, I'm worried. Because fear is a good thing. It's a totally good thing. And to find the courage to sort of live and coexist with that fear and trust, that it's all gonna work out because you're doing the right things. I want to actually transition that into something that I think you do. That's super cool. And I suspect to you, you probably don't even see this as all that, you know, different from what other realtors do, or maybe you do. But I love that you have a process for everything. So tell us about the process. You were talking to me before about how you work with home sellers because I just think even having a process like this is sadly sort of unique and also elevates you among all the other brokers maybe so you talk a little bit about that.
Yeah, I would love to see so. So while you know on this journey of of, you know, working with sellers so in the Red Book, Emery book, they talk about, you know, leads listings leverage and so one of the biggest things that I realized that if I was gonna, you know, have leverage that I need to bring in more business and so, you know, sphere and referrals were about 80% of my business last year and then fizz bows and expireds started becoming the 20%. Prior to that, it was all sphere and referrals. So last year, my husband actually joined the business, got his real estate license. And he's he started with me, and he started as an ISA, which means inside sales. And so that was really also key to the growth of our business because he came from sales and quickly learn the scripts, how to call fizz bows how to call expireds. And so his role on our team is to call these homeowners and set me up with listing appointments. And so because we want, you know, to lead with listings, that's the way you grow business. And so he started doing that. And, you know, when you meet with your sphere, or your referrals a lot easier, I wouldn't say easier, but it's, you know, they're not going to be interviewing as many agents or they're not going to be, you know, beating you down with commission as much. And so when I started going on the fizz bows and expired appointments, I quickly realized, like, I need to really differentiate myself and bring value and show them why they want to hire me, and why they want to hire me for, you know, 5% or 6%. And when they're, you know, used to paying, you know, three and a half percent with a discount broker and nothing when they're a Fizbo.
Yeah, and let's pause for a second because for people who are listening brokers who are listening, these are the toughest phone calls and toughest in person appointments you could possibly have. These are people that have already decided, if they're Fizbo, for example, they do not want to work with a realtor, they don't want to pay those fees, and is a massive mountain to climb. But those are people that probably need your help the most, because they likely aren't having success on their own clearly. So
and raising their hand saying, I'm trying to sell my house. Yeah. And I'll never forget the first Fizbo appointment I went on. I went to the appointment, and I, you know, they signed with me on the spot, my first ever and I was like, Oh my gosh, this is like free money, like, free money, like, Bring it on. And so it really was exciting. So for anyone that's brand new in the business, I would definitely recommend like, if you don't have you know, your sphere, big sphere of business right now the easiest, the again, easiest, you know where it's hard work. But the the number one thing you should be doing is contacting those fizz bows and expireds. Because those are people that are raising their hand, it's a low hanging fruit, it is a challenge. They are going to be your toughest clients, but it's going to be a great learning experience. So
Oh, yeah, just just for the sake of learning how to call strangers and ask something that likely is not going to be received well, by a majority of them. That is a great experience, too, because it teaches you how to have conversations with people that aren't as your sphere of influence who probably wants to work with you, because they know unlike you, these are people that don't know you, maybe will like you, maybe they won't. And it's just and by the way you can purchase expireds and fizz bows for almost nothing. They're really affordable.
Yeah, yeah, we use Vulcan seven, is about welcome. Seven. That's the best system that we found with the most accurate numbers. So yeah, so just to kind of sew back to that. So when I again, when I first started the business, I would I did have a referral. That was a cancelled listing. And I you know, I was trying to figure out like, why didn't they sell the first time? What happened? What What was the reasoning? And I walked into the home and I you know, have an I guess you could say that for design and for you know, I can I have a vision for each home, I walk into a what it can look like. And so I'm sure everyone has seen those photos online where you know, the house looks like a mess. And the photos aren't done properly. There's, you know, things everywhere and the house looks outdated. So that was what I noticed with this house. And I was like, you know, I was like, if you guys can do me a favor. Let's walk through every room and let's talk about what items we can remove from the home so that way, you know it looks different, it looks fresher. And we're just gonna move things around so that the space feels larger. And so I did that with the sphere. But then once I started meeting with the fizz bows and expired I realized that that was the value I needed to bring. I needed to bring something different that other Realtors weren't bringing. So I developed the three step process. And so I also noticed that when I was going into a lot of these homes, I was like, Oh my gosh, if this red wall was just gray, or if you know, the trim was painted white versus oak, or the white, or the OIC, outdated cabinets were painted white, that this house would literally like transform. And so I started slowly by testing the waters. And I would talk to sellers about, you know, a budget, did they have a budget that they would be willing to invest in their home, in order to prepare it for resale that they would be comfortable with? And if I could guarantee them a return on that investment? You know, how would they feel about that. And I found that about 50% of the time people were willing to invest in their home. Because again, you're dealing with people that want to get top dollar, they want to get that unrealistic price. So to get them that price, then I would say to them, well, we have to do XYZ to your home in order to give it that same look, that the other comps are showing a demand in this price. So so that's it kind of like slowly started evolving. And so then I would, you know, started walking in these houses at these listing appointments. And I'd say Okay, I think we need to paint your home Gray, I think we need, you know, your cabinets painted white, we need to replace your carpeting. And people started, you know, doing what I was telling them to do. And then I would go through the home, and then I would declutter, I would walk through room by room and say, okay, remove this piece of artwork, remove all these family photos, remove this, you know, let's rearrange the couches like that. And so they started doing it. And then I was able to elicit the price they wanted and get them, you know, the value that they wanted, because they listened to my recommendations. And so that was really cool to see that all happening. And so then the third step in the process. And the final one that we've just really started building on about a year ago was was staging the homes ourselves. And so that now what we do is we have a staging division. So we have a warehouse with inventory. And now we've been have movers that we hired to stage our homes. And so the goal is, is to really build out our staging division, even from where it is just today.
That's incredible. So how often do you find you you end up staging homes is it every time,
time. So there's two different kinds of staging. So again, so the three step process is number one, I come in for the listing appointment, I go over, you know, all the updates that the home needs, I get a budget from the client, and then we prioritize based on their budget, which items need to be done to the home. And so typically, I like to look for like a three to $5,000 budget, sometimes homeowners, you know, it's a $10,000 budget, sometimes it's 15, depending on, you know, where we want to price it, right. And so that's step one, is the updates. And then step two is to redesign the declutter removing everything from the home that needs to be removed. And then step three is the staging and bringing in those personal items. And so that is our process every single time.
Wow. And I just love that you have that process. I don't think we've interviewed anyone yet on the show, who had that specific of a process and that comprehensive. So that's incredible. And, and I love that you're able to go in and say it's almost more like a consultant than it is anything else. Right? You're going in saying, this is I know how to do this, you have to trust my process here. And, and that
I mean, not every seller, is the right fit for us. Sure, no, because there are people that say like, Oh, I'm not investing $1 I want to listen at this price. And you know, it's just totally unrealistic. And so, you know, not everyone's a good fit for us. And that's okay, because we want to work with the people that understand the value that we bring to the table because every single time that someone follows our process, we're able to get them top dollar and sell it in 11 days or less. And that's the average days on market.
Wow, incredible. Well, I know you are looking for team members to continue to grow tell because we have 1000s of listeners, almost all of which of course are brokers. Tell us what you're looking for in a team member and how they should reach out if they're interested.
Yeah, absolutely. So we're always looking for top talent. For people that are very hardworking, that are driven, self motivated. They want to win In, and they care about people. Because when somebody enable it has the qualities of a go getter and wants to win, but they don't care about the people, it's not going to work in our culture, because that is all have everyone on our team right now. They embody that. But the number one thing is, is that we always want to do what's best for our client that comes number one. And so in order to, to have that kind of soul, right, you have to love people, right? You have to care about people, and you have to put their needs a lot of time before your own. And so we're looking for those people that you know, want to grow, have big dreams want to have, you know, accomplished the world with us. And give them a space where they feel like, they can have a voice and help make decisions and really just are a part of a family because that's really what we are. We're like a little family, you know, and we want people that can come into our family, and, and help us grow and take us to the next level. And while they do that, they're doing that for themselves.
What and what's the best way for a listener? Who says that's me? That's where I want to belong to a team like that. How should they reach out?
So yeah, I mean, just contact me directly, or email me. So my cell phone number is 630-200-2120. And then my email address is Stephanie with an F. I will say I'm an ephah. As she s a n, ie at live li ve real estate partners, one word.com.
We should also want to mention your website. Again, everyone should get to see what a cool real estate website looks like. And when that's useful and helpful. Go to live real estate partners, again, live without the E live real estate partners.com. Also, I want to make sure we mentioned Stephanie's Facebook page, which is live partners. Just type it into you'll find it also there's a link to it from her website, and Instagram. And that's Stephanie. Is it separate auto or it's stuff for Adolfo? Yeah. So
I've got my personal one that I do a lot of like, you know, the process of what we do for listings on and its staff STF, Adolfo God, that realtor
Perfect. Well, this has been so helpful. And I know and by the way, again, I just want to congratulate you on behalf of the listeners of all the success and the sacrifice that you've made. We so rarely, and it was a good reminder to me to talk about sacrifice a lot, because of course, that's a huge part of it. And obviously, you're a great living example of how to have success through sacrifice. And the success you have had in a short very short period of time is nothing short of astonishing. So we appreciate by the way, Stephanie's too busy to do this. To do that. She's that busy. But she took the time out of her day just to help our listeners. So we we thank you on behalf of them.
It's my pleasure. Thanks for having me. And I hope that you know, I helped at least one person out there today. So that's that's always a win. Right?
Definitely did and it was more like 1000s of people who listened. So thank you. Thank you, Stephanie. And we'll see everybody on the next episode.
All right, thank you go get them guys.
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A large shallow crustal earthquake occurred at the western off-shore of Fukuoka Prefecture, northern Kyushu, Japan, at 10:53 on March 20, 2005 (JST). Source rupture processes of the mainshock and the largest aftershock on April 20, 2005, are estimated by the kinematic waveform inversion of strong motion seismograms. The rupture of the mainshock started with relatively small slip, and the largest slip was observed at the southeast of the hypocenter. The inverted source models showed that both of the ruptures of the mainshock and the largest aftershock mainly propagated to southeast from the hypocenters, and the rupture area of those events did not overlap each other. Three-dimensional ground motion simulation by the finite difference method considering three-dimensional bedrock structure was also conducted to see the spatial variation of the near-source ground motion of the mainshock. The result of the simulation shows that expected groud motions are relatively large in and arround Genkai Island, Shikanoshima Island, and the center of Fukuoka City compared to the other area because of the rupture heterogeneity and the deep basin structure in Fukuoka City.


The woody depth of the Vetiver from Haiti, the Cedarwood from the Moroccan Atlas Mountains and the Patchouli Leaves reveals the fresh notes of Grapefruit, around an invigorating heart of Elemi and Black Pepper from Madagascar. Notes: Grapefruit, Vetiver, patchouli, black pepper.
The woody depth of the Vetiver from Haiti, the Cedarwood from the Moroccan Atlas Mountains and the Patchouli Leaves reveals the fresh notes of Grapefruit, around an invigorating heart of Elemi and Black Pepper from Madagascar.
Notes: Grapefruit, Vetiver, patchouli, black pepper.


The obsession over whether she and Kate Middleton get along and whether that in turn has caused a rift between Prince William and Prince Harry is even washing onto our shores, as evidenced by the TLC special Kate v. Meghan: Princesses at War? and the endless speculation as to what everything that Meghan and Harry do really means.
But the family's own recent history has proven that, no matter what's going on, it's going to take more than a chatty father-in-law, two women who get along just fine but maybe aren't best friends and infinite column inches to take this family down. If the lot could survive the puzzle that was Princess Diana and her uncanny ability to connect with the people and rub almost every one of her in-laws the wrong way at one point or another, then the monarchy will be chugging along just fine for the foreseeable future.
Really, the undying fascination with Diana just goes to show that a juicy subplot is one of the key reasons why the monarchy is so enduring—the people need to find a story to connect with, after all, and what better than the story of turmoil brewing just beneath that carefully managed surface, occasionally boiling over for all to savor?
When a 20-year-old Lady Diana Spencer married Prince Charles in 1981, it sadly didn't mark the end of her anxiety-ridden period of feeling abandoned by the Prince of Wales and his family when it came to learning the royal ropes (even though numerous former palace staffers and aides who were tasked with helping the future princess remember that time differently).
Her concerns stemmed from different unfortunate circumstances, not least of which was her correct assumption that Charles still loved his ex-girlfriend Camilla Parker-Bowles. At the same time, Charles fully intended to make a go at his marriage, but while he gave her tips on how to behave in public in her new role, his intent was never to take Diana by the hand and school her in the ways of his world. He figured that she would, more or less, figure it out.
Which she did—only it wasn't in the way Charles assumed she would.
Once they got engaged, Diana moved into a suite in Buckingham Palace, where she insisted she was dreadfully lonely—despite there technically being lots of people around just a stone's throw away. All three of Charles' younger siblings still lived there, for instance; but they all lived in their own apartments (which they still have) and kept to their own routines, with not much concern for the incoming member of the family in their midst.
And of all of Charles' siblings, it was Andrew with whom she was the closest.
Andrew was the one who introduced Diana's older sister Lady Sarah Spencer (now McCorquodale) to Charles in 1977, and they started dating. Andrew was only a year older than Diana and seemed like the likelier match for her in the beginning—in fact, tabloid reporters who gazed upon the royals and their guests, Sarah and Diana, one weekend at the queen's Sandringham estate assumed that the younger girl was there with Andrew.
"He makes me laugh and I enjoy being with him," Sarah told The Sun about Charles. "I have two or three other boyfriends and I go out with them just as much."
The consensus was that neither Sarah nor Charles was particularly serious about the other, but because weekends in the country were just what people did, Sarah invited her casual beau to her family's Althorp estate, where he met her 16-year-old sister, Diana.
Spare Heirs: Second-Born Royal Siblings!
The teen, 13 years younger than Charles, set out to attract the prince's attention, if not his affections, and Diana later described him as "charm itself" that weekend. Charles and Sarah continued to see each other, and she was actually the first Spencer lass to tick off the royal family when she told two reporters after a ski holiday with the prince in 1978, "I'm not in love with Prince Charles. I'm a whirlwind sort of lady, as opposed to a person who goes in for slow-developing courtships."
If they were going to get engaged, they would have been already, she added—and if he asked, she'd turn him down.
"He doesn't want to marry anyway," Sarah concluded. "He's not ready for marriage yet...Our whole approach has always been a brotherly-sisterly one, never anything else." As for the future queen of England, "I don't think he's met her yet," she added.
Not exactly the look the royal family was going for. With his 30th birthday fast approaching, Prince Charles' apparent lack of interest in settling down wasn't news—but that wasn't for his girlfriend at the time to talk about.
It was a roundabout way of getting there, but by joining the Spencer and Windsor families in one respect, Andrew helped Diana and Charles get together. According to Tim Clayton's Diana: Story of a Princess, Andrew was also responsible for their chaste kiss on the Buckingham Palace balcony after they became husband and wife—not for it being chaste, but for it happening at all.
A source called The Sun's Harry Arnold from the palace, saying Andrew had urged his big brother to make a move, saying, "Go on, give her a kiss," to which Charles replied, "I'm not getting into that caper." "Go on, give her a kiss," Andrew insisted. The queen approved (Charles asked), and thus a new tradition was born.
In turn, Diana helped settle Andrew down by seating her brother-in-law next to her friend Sarah Ferguson at the queen's lunch during Royal Ascot in 1985, and she and Charles entertained the couple on multiple occasions leading up to Andrew's proposal in 1986.
Diana felt like she understood Andrew, and it spoke to her that, in her eyes, he got short shrift as the queen's third child and one of several spare heirs.
The princess was underestimating her brother-in-law's esteemed place in the family, which had grown when he flew helicopters for the Royal Navy during the Falklands War in 1982 and received a hero's welcome back home. But Diana simply appreciated his personality—loud and charmingly rough around the edges—and they got along well. Diana was the one who wrote Andrew letters when he was at war, keeping him up to date on family news, according to the new two-part special Paxman on the Queen's Children, airing on the U.K.'s Channel 5.
Of course, Diana's complicated relationship with sister-in-law Fergie is the stuff of tabloid legend. The two were longtime friends and the Princess of Wales was eager to bring Sarah into the royal fold, both relishing the companionship and the slight reprieve from being in the media's crosshairs 24/7.
Conversely, Diana would eventually grow annoyed by all the attention paid to the Duchess of York, and yet also gave her the cold shoulder when Sarah's press turned primarily bad, figuring she herself didn't need any more criticism via a connection with Fergie. Sarah, in turn, envied how much the press fawned over Diana, even though she herself was closer to the queen.
In 1992 the duchess would come away guessing that the princess had sabotaged her with a well-timed leak of her location when she was canoodling in the south of France with businessman John Bryan.
In the meantime, however, Diana and Charles and Sarah and Andrew vacationed together and, once they were all parents, provided the foundation for their children to form a close bond, one that endures to this day. And, incidentally, both unions eventually imploded on a similar timeline, scandalous bookends for the royal family in 1992. Eventually Diana and Fergie re-bonded over their respectively disastrous marriages, but were once again estranged when Diana died.
"Andrew is the best man I know," Fergie told the Daily Mail in November about her ex-husband, whom she has lived with for the past decade despite being divorced for 22 years. "What he does for Britain is incredible; no one knows how hard he works for his country." Though Fergie was not invited to William and Kate's 2011 wedding following an embarrassing tabloid snafu on her part, she was at Harry and Meghan's nuptials and she and Andrew proudly watched their younger daughter Princess Eugenie marry in October.
The Duchess of York has also been determined to remember the best of times with Diana, telling the Mail, "Diana was my best friend and the funniest person I knew. She had such timing and wit. It was a total joy to be with her because we just laughed and enjoyed life so much, and I know she would have loved the wedding."
As for Diana's other brother-in-law, the queen's youngest child, Prince Edward, they got on...fine. Only 17 when Diana married his brother, Edward liked his sister-in-law and she in turn found him rather adorable, but according to royal biographer Ingrid Seward, Edward bonded more with Fergie.
"He actually used to sometimes have lunch with Fergie, who would drive from the palace and meet him here and take him out to lunch because they were very close at one time," Seward said in Paxman on the Queen's Children. "They were very close at one time. He liked her and she liked him and she was young and fun and she was interested in what he did."
A good relationship with Edward did Fergie no favors, however, when she and Andrew, along with Princess Anne and her husband, Mark Phillips, agreed to be on It's a Royal Knockout!, a game show Edward's production company made for the BBC in 1987, resulting in a PR nightmare for the Duchess of York when she was roundly criticized for cavorting too much on camera.
Diana and Charles had declined the invitation to take part.
According to royal biographer Sally Bedell Smith, when Charles and Diana's marriage started to go south, Edward basically sided with his family in feeling that Diana wasn't acting in their best interests, and that was pretty much the end of that—though as Diana was generally included as William and Harry's mother at all sorts of events, cordiality ruled the day.
Edward's relationship with Diana sounds like a microcosm of his father's feelings, Prince Philip having been perfectly charmed by his daughter-in-law in the beginning but was quick to sour on her when the press she was courting got out of hand. He's the one who advised Charles to either propose to or break up with Diana in 1980, and he may have been a little surprised when his eldest son chose the former.
At the same time, shortly before she and Charles formally separated, Philip told Diana in a letter that he couldn't believe someone would want to leave her for Camilla.
So Andrew was the warmest presence in Diana's life when it came to her in-laws, most of whom she felt were otherwise aligned against her. But also proving a sympathetic figure when it came to Diana's public trials and tribulations was the proud rebel of the family, Queen Elizabeth II's younger sister, Princess Margaret—or Margo, as Diana called her.
Margaret did not marry her first big love, RAF Capt. Peter Townsend, because as a divorcé he apparently got the tacit thumbs-down from the queen—and Margaret chose not to rock the boat and ended the relationship. Then her marriage to photographer Anthony Armstrong-Jones, who snapped the cheeky picture of her in the bath wearing her wedding tiara, ended in divorce in 1978.
"Diana related to Margaret because she was an unhappy person," a friend of the princess told Sally Bedell Smith. Another friend, Roberto Devorik, recalled, "Diana sometimes said Princess Margaret should have been her mother-in-law. She admired the way Margaret had worked within a broken home. Diana knew Margaret was always in the shadow of her sister, but she was always a fighter."
Diana also got on well with Margaret's kids, David Linley and Sarah Armstrong-Jones, which the elder royal appreciated.
Charles' beloved grandmother, the Queen Mother, was so on the side of her grandson that Diana just assumed her relationship with the dowager was a lost cause.
She's "always looking at me with a sort of strange look in her eyes," Diana said. "It's not hatred. It's a sort of interest and pity mixed in one...She's sort of fascinated by me, but doesn't quite know how to unravel it."
And for all the cyber-ink spent dissecting Kate and Meghan's current relationship, even though they've looked perfectly happy with each other when they're out together, Diana reportedly did have a barely there relationship with her own sister-in-law, Princes Anne—whose dedication to the crown she admired very much but who, as a duty-bound-but-media-averse, no-nonsense outdoorswoman, was also her polar opposite. Anne, who regularly outpaces all the royals every year with the number of official engagements on her schedule, didn't even give her own children titles, wanting them to have a shot at a more normal life.
"Princess Anne, she had no time for Diana, she didn't like the way she went about her duty and the way she used the cameras and the media to promote herself in her eyes," says the Daily Mail's Richard Kay—the reporter Diana called from Paris a few hours before she was killed in a car crash on Aug. 31, 1997, to say she planned to withdraw from public life—in Paxman on the Queen's Children. "Anne had a much more traditional approach to monarchy and royal duty."
On the flip side, Kay said, "I remember Diana saying 'if Anne's there I'm off' because Anne would usually say something rather cutting to her."
Anne's "got the same quick brain as [her father] the Duke of Edinburgh and doesn't suffer fools," Lord Patrick Berseford, a friend of both, told Bedell Smith for her 2017 book Prince Charles. She's "has her butler in jeans," another member of the family quipped about Charles' glamour-eschewing sister.
Diana didn't want to "'rattle her cage'" and so primarily stayed out of Anne's way, Bedell Smith, who described Anne as a "professional and efficient princess," wrote in Diana in Search of Herself: Portrait of a Troubled Princess. At the same time, while Anne disapproved of Diana courting the press so much, she would also get miffed when something frivolous, such as Diana's neckline, would get a bigger headline than her own charitable activities or other work she was doing.
A "very, very nice girl" was what Anne called Fergie, according to Vanity Fair in 1987, while any notable praise of Diana wasn't forthcoming.
They also only lived 20 minutes apart but didn't socialize, and Anne is said to have skipped Prince Harry's christening because she wasn't named a godmother. Prince Andrew and Princess Margaret's daughter, now Lady Sarah Chatto, are among Harry's six godparents (and were two of his first visitors when he was born). For whatever reason Anne didn't go (Diana publicly denied a rift in a 1985 ITN interview), we couldn't imagine a world, barring some cataclysmic event, in which Kate and William don't attend Meghan and Harry's child's christening.
But for all the diligent work that went into pitting them against each other in life, Anne and Diana, who was 10 years younger, got along...enough.
When Diana died, Princess Anne brought her children, Zara and Peter Phillips, to Windsor Castle, where the queen and Philip spent five days doing their best to occupy and protect Harry and William before returning to London to greet the mourning masses. Always finding solace in the countryside herself, Anne took Harry riding and for long walks in the woods.
And Diana would have appreciated that.


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Unvaccinated people across Germany will soon be excluded from nonessential stores, restaurants and sports and cultural venues, Chancellor Angela Merkel announced Thursday, and parliament will consider a general vaccine mandate as part of efforts to curb coronavirus infections.
Merkel announced the measures after a meeting with federal and state leaders, as the nation again topped 70,000 newly confirmed cases in a 24-hour period. She said the steps were necessary to address concerns that hospitals could become overloaded with patients suffering from COVID-19 infections, which are much more likely to be serious in people who have not been vaccinated.
A policewoman gets a booster vaccination against the coronavirus and the COVID-19 disease in Hilden, Germany, Thursday, Dec. 2, 2021. (David Young/dpa via AP)
German Chancellor Angela Merkel, left, and Finance Minister Olaf Scholz arrive for a press conference following a meeting with the heads of government of Germany's federal states at the Chancellery in Berlin, Thursday, Dec. 2, 2021. (John Macdougall/Pool Photo via AP)
"The situation in our country is serious," Merkel told reporters in Berlin, calling the measures an "act of national solidarity."
She said officials also agreed on a nationwide requirement to wear masks, new limits on private meetings and a goal of 30 million vaccinations by the end of the year — an effort that will be boosted by allowing dentists and pharmacists to administer the shots.
Merkel said authorities plan to require staff in hospitals and nursing homes to be vaccinated against COVID-19, and she backed the even more contentious idea of imposing a general vaccine mandate. She said parliament would debate the proposal with input from the country's national ethics committee. The mandate could take effect as early as February.
"In light of this situation, I really think it's necessary to pass such a mandate," Merkel said, adding that she would have voted for it if she were still a lawmaker.
Finance Minister Olaf Scholz attends a press conference following a meeting with the heads of government of Germany's federal states at the Chancellery in Berlin, Thursday, Dec. 2, 2021. (John Macdougall/Pool Photo via AP)
Just months ago, Merkel suggested that a vaccine mandate would not be effective, but she did not rule out the possibility.
About 68.7% of the population in Germany is fully vaccinated, far below the government's minimum goal of 75%.
Austria, which recently imposed even stricter measures on unvaccinated people as part of a 20-day lockdown, also plans to have a vaccine mandate by February.
A passer-by walks along the empty Augustusstrasse next to the 'Fuerstenzug' mural in front of the Frauenkirche in Dresden, Germany, Thursday, Dec. 2, 2021. Photo: Sebastian Kahnert/dpa via AP)
In Germany, unvaccinated people will still be able to meet in private settings, but only in very limited numbers. A household with an unvaccinated person over 14 can meet with only two people from another household; the limit does not apply when everyone is vaccinated.
There have been large protests against pandemic measures in the past in Germany, and the proposed vaccine mandate is likely to be opposed by some, though opinion polls show most Germans are in favor.
FILE – Customers wait in front of a Christmas Market on a rainy morning in central Berlin, Germany, Tuesday, Nov. 30, 2021. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, File)
Finance Minister Olaf Scholz, who is expected to be elected chancellor by a center-left coalition next week, has also backed a general vaccine mandate, but he favors letting lawmakers vote on the issue according to their personal conscience rather than party lines.
"If we had a higher vaccination rate, we wouldn't be discussing this now," he said.
EUROPEAN UNION MULLING MANDATORY COVID-19 VACCINATIONS
The rise in COVID-19 cases over the past several weeks and the arrival of the new omicron variant have prompted warnings from scientists and doctors that the country's medical services could become overstretched in the coming weeks unless drastic action is taken. Some hospitals in the south and east of the country have already transferred patients to other parts of Germany because of a shortage of intensive care beds.
Germany's disease control agency reported 73,209 newly confirmed cases Thursday. The Robert Koch Institute also reported 388 new deaths from COVID-19, bringing the total since the start of the pandemic to 102,178.
The discussion over new measures has been complicated by Germany's political structure, which leaves the 16 states responsible for many regulations, and the ongoing transition between the old and new governments at the federal level.
A COVID-19 patient is transported by Bundeswehr medical personnel to an A310 MedEvac aircraft of the German Air Force at Dresden International Airport, Germany, Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2021. (Robert Michael/dpa via AP)
Scholz, whose Social Democrats narrowly beat Merkel's center-right Union bloc in September, defended the latest steps as a political compromise.
"We are reacting to the current situation with very far-reaching, very drastic but precise measures," he told reporters. "Decisive action is being taken here and, what is particularly important to me, by mutual agreement."
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To reduce the pressure on hospitals, the sale of fireworks traditionally set off during New Year's in Germany will be banned. Each year, hospitals treat hundreds of people with serious injuries because of mishandled fireworks.
The new measures — which are considered a nationwide minimum — will take effect once the 16 states incorporate them into existing rules, likely in the coming days.
Merkel, who took part in what is likely to be her last news conference as chancellor, made clear her displeasure about leaving office at a time when Germany has an infection rate of almost 440 new weekly cases per 100,000 inhabitants.
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Andre Bernard Gurode (* 5. März 1978 in Houston, Texas) ist ein ehemaliger US-amerikanischer American-Football-Spieler auf den Positionen des Guards und Centers.

Spielerlaufbahn

Collegelaufbahn
Der athletische Gurode spielte bereits auf der High School in seiner Geburtsstadt American Football. Nach seinem Schulabschluss studierte er an der University of Colorado at Boulder und spielte für die Colorado Buffaloes American Football. Mit seiner Mannschaft zog er in zwei Bowl Spiele ein. 1999 konnten die Buffalos den Inside.Com Bowl gegen Boston College mit 62:28 gewinnen. 2002 ging der Fiesta Bowl mit 16:38 gegen die University of Oregon verloren. Gurode erlitt in diesem Spiel eine Knieverletzung. Nachdem ihm ein Verband angelegt worden war, setzte er allerdings das Spiel fort. Bis zum Beginn seiner Profilaufbahn hatte er sich von seiner Verletzung wieder vollständig erholt.

Profilaufbahn
Im NFL Draft 2002 wurde Gurode von den Dallas Cowboys in der zweiten Runde an 37. Stelle ausgewählt. Bereits in seinem ersten Jahr wurde er vom Head Coach der Mannschaft, Dave Campo, als Starter auf der Position des Centers eingesetzt, musste allerdings 2003 auf die Position eines Guards wechseln. Ab 2006 spielt Gurode permanent als Center von Quarterback Tony Romo.

Gurode entwickelte sich zu einem ausgesprochen zähen Spieler. Am dritten Spieltag in der Saison 2006 wurde Gurode in einem Spiel gegen die Tennessee Titans durch seinen Gegenspieler Albert Haynesworth durch einen Tritt am Kopf verletzt. Die durch die Stollen von Haynesworth verursachte Wunde musste mit 30 Stichen genäht werden. Trotzdem stand Gurode auch eine Woche später wieder als Starter auf dem Platz. Haynesworth erhielt einen Platzverweis und eine Sperre von vier Spielen.

2006 wurde der Vertrag von Gurode zunächst um ein Jahr verlängert. Im Jahr 2007 erhielt er dann von Jerry Jones, dem Teambesitzer der Cowboys, einen Vertrag über sechs Jahre mit einem Salär von 30 Millionen US-Dollar. Gurode hat sich in den zurückliegenden Jahren mehrfach an karitativen Aktionen seines Teams beteiligt.

Zur Saison 2011 wurde er von Dallas entlassen, da sein Gehalt die Obergrenze des Teams überstieg und man sich nicht auf ein geringeres Einkommen des Pro-Bowlers einigen konnte. Daraufhin spielte Gurode ein Jahr für die Baltimore Ravens.

Nachdem die Chicago Bears 2012 ihre beiden Guards im Spiel gegen die Minnesota Vikings verloren hatten, unterschrieb Gurode dort einen Vertrag. Er wurde jedoch nach kurze Zeit wieder entlassen.

2013 unterschrieb er bei den Oakland Raiders und spielte dort bis zum Ende der Saison.

Ehrungen
In den Jahren 2006 bis 2010 spielte Gurode im Pro Bowl, dem Saisonabschlussspiel der besten Spieler einer Spielrunde.

Weblinks
 Spielerprofil bei pro-football-reference.com
 Andre Gurode bei den Colorado Buffalos

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American-Football-Spieler (Oakland Raiders, 1995–2019)
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Monday October 28 2013 • 7:00pm - 8:15pm ET
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This Proust inspires Fiction! panel is part of the Year with Proust Festival organized by the French Cultural Services, which began with an exhibit at the Morgan Library and will culminate in "A Nomadic Reading" for 7 nights in 7 locations all over NYC! For more information, visit frenchculture.org.
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Lila Azam Zanganeh is a writer who was born in Paris to Iranian parents. After studying literature and philosophy at the Ecole Normale Supérieure, she moved to the United States to teach literature, cinema, and Romance languages at Harvard University. She has contributed to a host of American and European publications, including The New York Times, The Paris Review, Le Monde, and La Repubblica. She is the author of The Enchanter: Nabokov and Happiness and is currently at work on a novel, The Orlando Inventions.
Catherine Millet is a French writer, curator, and founder and editor of the prestigious magazine Art Press, which focuses on modern and contemporary art. She is also the author of eight books of art criticism. Millet is best known for her memoir The Sexual Life of Catherine M., an international bestseller that has scandalized, titillated and intellectually provoked readers the world over and has been hailed as one of the most important books on sexuality to be published in decades. In 2008 she published a sequel of sorts called Jour de Souffrance, translated into English in 2009 as Jealousy: The Other Life of Catherine M.
Jean-Christophe Valtat received his Ph.D in Comparative Literature from Paris III, Sorbonne-Nouvelle and is currently Associate Professor in Comparative Literature at Blaise Pascal University in Clermont-Ferrand. A true storyteller, Valtat's work mixes humor and poetry, romance and politics. His steampunk adventure series The Mysteries of New Venice is not only science fiction, but also thriller, fantasy, and Arctic adventure! His two novels written in English, Aurorarama and Luminous Chaos are part of Melville House's The Mysteries of New Venice series. In French, he has written a book of short stories, Album, and two novels, Exes, and 03.
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Hi, I have a conid regular with a Ti nib. I love it but I would like to swap the nib. I know it is a bock #6 but I was wondering what other types of nibs are compatible? I know some vintage ones are but I'm not sure exactly which ones. Can someone please help me by telling me some of the nibs that would fit with no modification? Thanks!
I know I've seen what you're looking for floating around. I think Conid has a list on their blog/website or it's a post on FPN. Alternatively, if you have a specific nib in mind you can just email them and they'll let you know (or post the info here and someone will tell you; the Conid folks come around regularly).


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Ameer Abdullah – NFL – Player Prop Predictions, Lines and Trends
Take a look at what bookmakers have posted for Ameer Abdullah's player prop bets in Sunday's NFL action, as he takes to the field at 4:25 PM ET broadcast on FOX. Abdullah and the Carolina Panthers (5-10) have a Week 17 matchup with the New Orleans Saints (7-8) at Caesars Superdome.
Abdullah Rushing Insights
Abdullah's rushing yards over/under for Sunday's game is set at 15.5 yards. That is 7.6 more than his season average of 7.9.
In four of 15 games so far this season (26.7%), Abdullah has rushed for more than 15.5 yards.
Abdullah's average rushing yards over/under for the season is 20.5 yards, a figure he's fallen short of by an average of 12.6 yards.
So far this season, Abdullah has yet to hit the over on a rushing yard prop bet in three opportunities.
Abdullah has not scored a rushing TD through 15 games.
Abdullah Receiving Insights
Abdullah averages 13.5 receiving yards, 5.0 less than the prop total of 18.5 that has been set for Sunday's outing.
Abdullah has totaled over 18.5 receiving yards in 33.3% of his opportunities this year (five out of 15).
Abdullah's average of 13.5 receiving yards is lower than his average prop total of 20.2.
In one of three games this season, Abdullah has hit the over on his receiving yards prop bet.
Abdullah has caught a TD pass once this season, in 15 games.
New Orleans Saints Rankings
Abdullah will square off against the NFL's fifth-ranked run defense this week. The Saints concede 95.9 yards on the ground per contest.
Opponents of the Saints have put up 10 touchdowns on the ground (0.7 per game). The Saints' defense is sixth in the NFL in that category.
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Suspected IRA militant charged in undercover agent's killing
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Robert Nairac
A man suspected by British authorities to be a former member of the Irish Republican Army has been charged with participating in the killing of a British army undercover agent, who tried to infiltrate the IRA in the 1970s. Robert Nairac, a captain of the British Army's Intelligence Corps, was among numerous British government agents who attempted to infiltrate the IRA from the 1960s onwards. Although educated at Oxford, Nairac studied Irish republican culture and put on a convincing Northern Irish accent in order to carry out the infiltration. His activities centered on patronizing various pubs in Catholic stronghold areas of Belfast, using the cover name "Danny McErlaine", and pretending to be a member of the Official IRA (an IRA splinter faction) from north Belfast. But on May 14, 1977, a group of IRA members abducted Nairac from a pub in South Armagh and drove him to a remote location, where they interrogated him prior to executing him. Nairac's killing still intrigues researchers, as he is the only one of over 700 British soldiers killed in Northern Ireland in recent decades whose body has never been found. This may happen after the indictment earlier this week of Kevin Crilly, who has been formally accused of involvement in Nairac's execution. Crilly, 58, fled to the US shortly after Nairac's death. In 2004, he returned to Northern Ireland using the false name "Declan Parr". British authorities traced his real identity and in 2008 charged him with kidnapping and falsely imprisoning Nairac. The latest indictment, which directly implicates Crilly in Nairac's execution, surprised many in Northern Ireland, who believed that the former British Army captain's killing had been forgotten after the 1998 Good Friday Agreement.
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Provided by Allen Browne. Created: December 2007. Updated August 2008.
To round numbers, Access 2000 and later has a Round() function built in.
For earlier versions, get this custom rounding function by Ken Getz.
Use the Round() function in the Control Source of a text box, or in a calculated query field.
All these numbers would then be rounded down to 2: 2.1, 2.5, 2.8, and 2.99.
As shown above, Int(-2.1) rounds down to -3. Therefore this expression rounds 2.1 up to 3.
The Round() function in Excel accepts negative numbers for the number of decimal places, e.g. Round(123456, -3) rounds to the nearest 1000. Unfortunately, the Access function does not support this.
To round towards zero, use Fix() instead of Int().
Alternatively, Ken Getz' custom rounding function behaves like the Excel function.
There is a Decimal Places property for fields in a table/query and for text boxes on a form/report. This property only affects the way the field is displayed, not the way it is stored. The number will appear to be rounded, but when you sum these numbers (e.g. at the foot of a report), the total may not add up correctly.
Round the field when you do the calculation, and the field will sum correctly.
The core idea here is fairness: 1,2,3, and 4 get rounded down. 6,7,8, and 9 get rounded up. 0 does not need rounding. So if the 5 were always rounded up, you would get biased results - 4 digits being rounded down, and 5 being rounded up. To avoid this, the odd one out (the 5) is rounded according to the previous digit, which evens things up.
But these numbers are approximations. Just as 1/3 requires an infinite number of places in the decimal system, most floating point numbers cannot be represented precisely in the binary system. Wikipedia explains the accuracy problems you face when computing floating point numbers.
The upshot is that marginal numbers may not round the way you expect, due to the fact that the actual values and the display values are not the same. This is especially noticeable when testing bankers rounding.
One way to avoid these issues is to use a fixed point or scalar number instead. The Currency data type in Access is fixed point: it always stores 4 decimal places.
Currency copes with only 4 decimal places. Use the scalar type Decimal if you need more places after the decimal point.
Note that the Date/Time data type in Access is a special kind of floating point type, where the fractional part represents the time of day. Consequently, Date/Time fields that have a time component are subject to floating point errors as well.
'           lngSeconds = number of seconds to round to.
'                  86400 for nearest day.
'Return:    Rounded date/time value, or Null if no date/time passed in.
'Note:      lngSeconds must be between 1 and 86400.
'           Default rounds is nearest 15 minutes.
RoundTime = Null        'Initialize to return Null.
For a more technical explanation of rounding theory in general, see Clive Maxfield's article, An introduction to different rounding algorithms.
What did you think of 'Rounding in Access'?


For the past eight seasons, right-hander Yuki Nishi had been plugging away in the Orix Buffaloes' rotation, pitching a minimum of 117 innings a season while only posting an ERA over four once.
This week he joined the Hanshin Tigers after filing for domestic free agency, and the Nikkan Sports published a nice little summary of the Tigers' free agent history.
Since the current free agent system was imposed by the Yomiuri Giants on NPBs 11 other teams in 1993, Hanshin has signed 12 players who filed for free agency to leave other clubs. Six of those came directly from local rival Orix.


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Q: Multiple ajax calls inside a each() function.. then do something once ALL of them are finished? Let me explain my code a little bit (Excuse me if somethings wrong, I've just written this example from scratch, it is very close to what I currently have).
HTML:
<form id="form">

    Name 1: <input type="text" name="friendName1" id="friendName1" class="friendName" value="">

    Email 1: <input type="text" name="friendEmail1" id="friendEmail1" value="">

    Name 2:<input type="text" name="friendName2" id="friendName2" class="friendName" value="">

    Email 2:<input type="text" name="friendEmail2" id="friendEmail2" value="">

    Name 3:<input type="text" name="friendName3" id="friendName3" class="friendName" value="">

    Email 3:<input type="text" name="friendEmail3" id="friendEmail3" value="">

    Name 4:<input type="text" name="friendName4" id="friendName4" class="friendName" value="">

    Email 4:<input type="text" name="friendEmail4" id="friendEmail4" value="">

    <input name="submit" type="submit" value="Submit">
</form>

JS:
$("#form").submit(function(){

    $(".friendName[value!='']").each(function(){
        var idEmail = 'friendEmail' + $(this).attr("id").replace('friendName','');
        if($("#"+idEmail+"[value!='']").length > 0){
            var name = $(this).val();
            var email = $("#"+idEmail).val();

            // Submit the ajax request
            $.ajax({
                type: 'POST',
                url: 'ajax/url',
                data: {
                    name: name,
                    email: email
                },
                success: function(json) {
                    // Log a console entry if our ajax request was successful
                    console.log(name + " was submitted via ajax");
                }
            });
        }
    });

    // Redirect the user to the thank you page
    setTimeout( function() { window.location= '/thanks'; }, 2000 );

});

JSFiddle (redirect removed and ajax call replaced with console log for fiddle)
http://jsfiddle.net/cM5PX/
The HTML is a simple form, with friend name and friend email input fields.
The JS has an each function, which if the name and associated email have values, it runs an ajax call.
I need a way for these ajax calls to run (there could be 1 loop, there could be 15) and then after they have all finished, redirect to a new page.
The current way I'm doing it is horrible, as all of the ajax calls do not finish running before the page redirects.
What can I do to make this better? It needs to be fool proof and ONLY redirect once all of the ajax calls have finished (success or error, it doesn't matter - it just needs to redirect once its finished).
I have tried using async: false but it doesn't seem to make a difference.
I've thought about putting a counter in the each function and a counter in the ajax success function and if they both match, then do the redirect, but I am looking for some more experienced guidance.

A: Ok, this is fairly easy since you're using jQuery. jQuery comes with an integrated promise maker which also is wired up with jQuery's Ajax calls. What does that mean? Well, we can easily go like this:
var requests = [ ];

// ...

// Submit the ajax request
requests.push($.ajax({
    type: 'POST',
    url: 'ajax/url',
    data: {
        name: name,
        email: email
    },
    success: function(json) {
        // Log a console entry if our ajax request was successful
        console.log(name + " was submitted via ajax");
    }
}));

// at this point we filled our array with jXHR objects which also inherit the promise API

$.when.apply( null, requests ).done(function() {
    document.location.href = '/thanks';
});

Note: The above code will only fire, if all requests completed successfully. If you need to handle the case if one ore more requested failed, use .then() or .fail() instead of .done(), too.

A: Use deferred objects:
$("#form").submit(function(e){

    e.preventDefault();

    var calls = [];

    $(".friendName[value!='']").each(function(){
        // Submit the ajax request
        calls.push($.ajax({
            type: 'POST',
            url: 'ajax/url',
            data: {
                name: name,
                email: email
             },
             success: function(json) {
                // Log a console entry if our ajax request was successful
                console.log(name + " was submitted via ajax");
             }
         }));
    });

    $.when.apply($, calls).then(function() {
        window.location= '/thanks';
    });
});

A: Just keep a counter of the AJAX calls and check to see when they have all completed.
Something like this:
$("#form").submit(function(){
    var ajaxMax = $(".friendName[value!='']").length, ajaxCounter = 0;
    $(".friendName[value!='']").each(function(){
        var idEmail = 'friendEmail' + $(this).attr("id").replace('friendName','');
        if($("#"+idEmail+"[value!='']").length > 0){
            var name = $(this).val();
            var email = $("#"+idEmail).val();

            // Submit the ajax request
            $.ajax({
                type: 'POST',
                url: 'ajax/url',
                data: {
                    name: name,
                    email: email
                },
                success: function(json) {
                    // Log a console entry if our ajax request was successful
                    console.log(name + " was submitted via ajax");
                    if(++ajaxCounter >= ajaxMax)
                        window.location= '/thanks';
                }
            });
        }
    });
});

A: By default $.ajax is asynchronous.  In the options hash being passed, add
async: false

That will serialize the calls you are making having it perform the way you want.

After getting comment from original poster, possible solution may be to do the following:

*

*Inside the submit call determine the number of calls that should be made.

*Store this result as a local variable within the handler function

*Create a callback on 'complete:' that will examine the value of the calls

*

*If the number of calls to be made is greater than 0, then decrement the value and return

*If the number of calls reaches zero, update the window.location (really should use window.location.href as window.location is an object but browsers will allow this and perform correctly)

Note, I don't have any information on the thread safety of performing this kind of operation so YMMV.

Example Code:
$("#form").submit(function(eventObject){
    var $ajaxFields= $(".friendName[value!='']").filter(function(index){
        var idEmail = 'friendEmail' + $(this).attr("id").replace('friendName','');
        return ($("#"+idEmail+"[value!='']").length > 0);
    });

    var numberToSubmit= $ajaxFields.length;
    $ajaxFields.each(function(){
        var idEmail = 'friendEmail' + $(this).attr("id").replace('friendName','');
        var name = $(this).val();
        var email = $("#"+idEmail).val();

        // Submit the ajax request
        $.ajax({
            type: 'POST',
            url: 'ajax/url',
            data: {
                name: name,
                email: email
            },
            success: function(json) {
                // Log a console entry if our ajax request was successful
                console.log(name + " was submitted via ajax");
            },
            error: function(jqXHR, textStatus, errorThrown) {
                console.log("call not completed: "+textStatus);
            },
            complete: function(jqXHR, textStatus) {
                if( --numberToSubmit == 0 ) {
                    window.location.href= '/thanks';
                }
            }
        });
    });

    // Prevent default form submission
    return false;
});

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VARSITY WEEK PREMIERES NEW MUSIC VIDEO FOR "ANYWAYS"
13 Mar, 2017 by Christian Hamilton
VARSITY WEEK
PREMIERES NEW MUSIC VIDEO FOR "ANYWAYS"
BAND TO PERFORM AT ANOTHER CENTURY SXSW SHOWCASE
VARSITY WEEK is thrilled to reveal the music video for their single, "Anyways" which can be streamed above.
Vocalist Brandon Eisenbeis explains, "'Anyways' is about walking away from anything that's not working and starting fresh. We can all relate to that. We really wanted to express that in the concept for the video."
Directed by Ryan Pesecky, the video is a visually stunning piece of art, with heartfelt storyline. "The video pushes new breath into the song, to a point where we understand it better as a band," adds guitarist Dave Orton. "I don't think we were expecting that, actually – I know we weren't."
The band will head to Austin's SXSW conference later this week, where they are confirmed to perform at this year's Another Century SXSW Showcase. Varsity Week performs at Javelina on March 16th at 8:00 PM sharp.
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The band recently released a visually stunning music video for the title track "Absolute Hope Absolute Hell."
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What About MVLRI and MVU?
The Michigan Virtual Learning Research Institute™ (MVLRI™) seeks to expand Michigan's capacity to support new learning models, engage in active research to inform new policies in online and blended learning and strengthen the state's infrastructures for sharing best practices.
MVLRI has partnered with iNACOL to manage the Research Clearinghouse for K-12 Blended & Online Learning, a repository of references to research articles and other publications from the field of K-12 online and blended learning. It also supports Michigan's Online Course Catalog and the Online Learning Orientation Tool.
MVU is a non-profit organization specializing in K-12 online and blended learning. Its research team produces original K-12 online and blended research and develops research-based practical resources for parents, learners and schools.
This new policy created an urgent, statewide need to both familiarize Michigan educators with national standards for quality online courses, and, perhaps more importantly, to help them develop the capacity to accurately and consistently assess online course quality.
Joe Freidhoff is the Executive Director of the Michigan Virtual Learning Research Institute at the Michigan Virtual University.


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Home Events: March 5 - 11, 2014
Events: March 5 – 11, 2014
Listings are compiled by Guardian staff. Submit items for the listings at listings@sfbg.com. For further information on how to submit items for the listings, see Selector.
Bikes to Books beer and map social Bender's Bar and Grill, 806 S. Van Ness, SF; www.burritojustice.com. 7-9pm, free. Gather to talk lit history, maps, and urban cycling with like-minded folks.
David Grand City Lights Bookstore, 261 Columbus, SF; www.citylights.com. 7pm, free. The author reads from Mount Terminus. Also reading: Wesley Stace, author of Wonderkid.
"Twelve Brief Moments: Reading and Publication Launch' Southern Exposure, 3030 20th St, SF; www.soex.org. 7pm, free. Culminating event of a year-long series of readings by artist Michael Swaine, who performed a short text-based work every month from February 2013 through this event.
"A Curious Menagerie" Creativity Explored Gallery, 3245 16th St, SF; www.creativityexplored.org. Opening reception 7-9pm, free. Exhibit runs through April 16. Over two dozen Creativity Explored artists interpret various members of the animal kingdom, both real and imaginary, in this new gallery show.
"Shipwreck: Wind in the Willows" Booksmith, 1644 Haight, SF; www.booksmith.com. 7:30pm, $10. Six writers "destroy" one great book and character using their literary skills and creative imaginations. This month's participants include Alan Leggit, Sean Keane, Alitzah Oros, Christopher Steffen, Kate Santos, and one more TBD.
"Urban Air Night Market" SoMa StrEat Food Park, 428 11th St, SF; www.urbanairmarket.com. 5-10pm, free. Ongoing every Thursday. It's not just food trucks anymore: Urban Air Market brings its array of independent designers, artists, and other vendors for a weekly event at the park.
Anchee Min Books Inc., 1344 Park, Alameda; www.booksinc.net. 7pm, free. The best-selling author (Red Azalea) reads from her long-awaited memoir sequel, The Cooked Seed.
"Quiet Lightning with San Francisco Center for the Book" San Francisco Center for the Book, 375 Rhode Island, SF; www.quietlightning.org. 7:30pm, $7-10. Celebrate the release of a "live literary mixtape," the latest issue of Sparkle + Blink.
"What Do the Women Say: A Celebration of International Women's Day" La Peña Cultural Center, 3105 Shattuck, Berk; www.goldenthread.org. 8pm, $15. Golden Thread's annual celebration of International Women's Day features an eclectic array of Middle Eastern female artists, including filmmaker Maryam Keshavarz, comedian Zahra Noorbakhsh, author Ayesha Mattu, and others.
"Babylon Salon" Cantina SF, 580 Sutter, SF; www.babylonsalon.com. 6:30pm, free. With readings by Daniel Alarcon, Katie Crouch, Robin Sloan, Melissa Stein, and Molly Antopol.
"Benefest 2014: Subterranean Arthouse's Fifth Anniversary Party" Subterranean Arthouse, 2179 Bancroft, Berk; www.subterraneanarthouse.org. 6-11pm, $20-100. The nonprofit, volunteer-run arts venue presents a fundraising night of live music, plus a visual art exhibit and a silent auction.
"In Love and Struggle: A Celebration of International Women's Day" La Peña Cultural Center, 3105 Shattuck, Berk; www.lapena.org. 7:30pm, $10-15. Hip-hop and spoken word performance, plus a dance party, to benefit Berkeley Copwatch.
"Pretty in Ink: North American Women Cartoonists 1896-2013" San Francisco Main Library, Fourth Flr, 100 Larkin, SF; www.sfpl.org. Exhibit runs through June 5. Photos, letters, comic books, artwork, and more highlight this exhibition showcasing female cartoonists past and present.
"World Naked Bike Ride: San Francisco Southern Hemisphere Edition" Justin Herman Plaza, One Market, SF; facebook.com/wnbrsf. 11am, free. Back for its fifth year, this "as bare as you dare" ride propels packs of naked or nearly-naked cyclists through Fisherman's Wharf, the Embarcadero, and other popular spots to draw attention to the dangers of global dependency on oil. Don't forget the SPF!
Philip B. Choi Eastwind Books of Berkeley, 2066 University, Berk; www.asiabookcenter.com. 3pm, free. The architect and Chinese American studies pioneer discusses San Francisco Chinatown: A Guide to Its History and Architecture.
Julian Hoffman Booksmith, 1644 Haight, SF; www.booksmith.com. 7:30pm, free. The author reads from Being at Home in a Beckoning World.
Clifford Chase Magnet, 4122 18th St, SF; www.booksinc.net. 7:30pm, free. The author of Winkie reads from his new memoir, The Tooth Fairy: Parents, Lovers, and Other Wayward Deities.
D. Foy City Lights Bookstore, 261 Columbus, SF; www.citylights.com. 7pm, free. The author reads from his new novel, Made To Break.
Shaham Mufti Booksmith, 1644 Haight, SF; www.booksmith.com. 7:30pm, free. The author discusses The Faithful Scribe: A Story of Islam, Pakistan, Family, and War.
"Edith Wharton at Home: Life at the Mount" Koret Auditorium, de Young Museum, 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Dr, Golden Gate Park, SF; deyoung.famsf.org. 7:15-9pm, $15. American Decorative Arts Forum of Northern California presents this talk about Edith Wharton and her "autobiographical house" by Richard Guy Wilson. *
Pub date March 4, 2014
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