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Happy Friday the 13th! (Or as we call it around the JREF, Friggatriskaidekaphobia Appreciation Day!). While we may sometimes make light of belief in superstitions like those surrounding Friday the 13th, our real work is to educate the public and the media with reliable information about pseudoscience and the paranormal, and to expose the paranormal hucksters who hurt so many people.
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There's a lack of reason this season: This week in Doubtful News for December 10, 2013
Here is a rundown of the anti-science, pro-superstition stories of the week courtesy of Doubtful News.
A number of themes emerged in the news this week in the U.S. and around the world. First, vaccines. As the CDC released a statement about the return of measles in the U.S., http://doubtfulnews.com/2013/12/cdc-releases-statement-about-measles-in-the-u-s/ a new study estimated that the country experienced 103 million fewer cases of preventable illnesses thanks to vaccines. http://doubtfulnews.com/2013/12/vaccines-the-reason-we-have-103-million-cases-less-of-disease/ Meanwhile, chalk this up to ignorance or need to revive ratings with sensationalism, Katie Couric gets backlash for anti-vaccine program. http://doubtfulnews.com/2013/12/what-happened-to-katie-couric-the-need-for-ratings/
Treatment of serious illness is hampered in areas of Africa due to superstition. Pentecostal ministers are advising patients to reject their HIV medicines for prayer. http://doubtfulnews.com/2013/12/pentecostal-pastors-in-africa-trick-victims-of-hiv-into-thinking-prayer-is-a-cure/ Doctors in Tanzania are seeing religious beliefs interfere with medical treatments as well. http://doubtfulnews.com/2013/12/doctors-in-tanzania-seeing-religious-beliefs-interfering-with-medical-treatment/
Two examples of how NOT to do inquiry. Two amateur archaeologists attempt to prove their silly theory by vandalizing an Egyptian pyramid. http://doubtfulnews.com/2013/12/rogue-amateur-archaeologists-stole-samples-to-
Ghost hunters in Gettysburg are detained by police when they are caught poking around a business at night. http://doubtfulnews.com/2013/12/gettysburg-ghost-hunters-mistakenly-detained-in-after-dark-tour/
Gettysburg is one of the most "haunted" places in the U.S. but it will soon be usurped by Ground Zero in NYC. TheFreedom Tower moans in the wind with a ghostly sound. http://doubtfulnews.com/2013/12/freedom-tower-moans-in-the-wind-destined-to-be-forever-haunted/ And the twisted metal even has a frozen face. Creepy. http://doubtfulnews.com/2013/12/face-is-seen-in-the-twisted-steel-remains-of-wtc/
Exorcism preys on the innocent as seen in these two stories: The death of a 2 yr old in Malaysia earns perpetrators jail time. http://doubtfulnews.com/2013/12/exorcism-death-of-2yr-old-in-malaysia-results-in-jail-time/ A rapist in France is jailed for crimes described to be part of an exorcism. Horrendous stuff. http://doubtfulnews.com/2013/12/voodoo-exorcism-rapist-in-france-is-jailed/
Paranormal writer and prolific author Colin Wilson died at the age of 82. http://doubtfulnews.com/2013/12/paranormal-writer-colin-wilson-dies-at-age-82/
The media loves stories about aliens, even if they have to hype it as a completely off-base idea having to do with grey big headed spindly creatures. Because bacteria is boring, I guess. http://doubtfulnews.com/2013/12/media-uses-bait-and-switch-when-discussing-alien-life/
The biggest weird hoax of the week was played on people in Bristol harbor in the U.K. as they filmed a luminescent underwater creature. Anymore, we always must consider that it may be for a TV show. http://doubtfulnews.com/2013/12/bioluminescent-mystery-animal-filmed-by-eyewitnesses/
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Here is a recap of the stories that appeared last week at Science-Based Medicine, a multi-author skeptical blog that separates the science from the woo-woo in medicine.
Vaccines work. Period. (David Gorski) http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/vaccines-work-period/ Anti-vaccinationists exaggerate the risks of vaccines and downplay the beneficial effects. A recent study collected an unprecedented amount of historical data (88 million cases) and estimated that vaccines have prevented 103 million cases of contagious disease since 1924 and 26 million in the last decade alone. It offers interactive graphs for each disease.
Philosophy Meets Medicine (Harriet Hall) http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/philosophy-meets-medicine/ In a new book, Mario Bunge shows that medicine is firmly based on the philosophical principles of materialism, systemism, realism, scientism, and humanism; without these principles, it would be useless. He provides insights about the scientific method and the flaws of both evidence-based medicine and alternative medicine. He proposes a systemic approach to solving problems at the intersection between medicine and politics.
The Skeptics for the Protection of Cancer Patients need your help (David Gorski) http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/the-skeptics-for-the-protection-of-cancer-patients-need-your-help/ A plea to join the campaign to alert Congress to the horrendous research practices of the Burzynski Clinic that were uncovered by the FDA and to call for an inquiry into how Burzynski got away with it for so many years.
The Seralini GMO Study – Retraction and Response to Critics (Steven Novella) http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/the-seralini-gmo-study-retraction-and-response-to-critics/ The Seralini study claimed to show that GMO corn causes cancer in laboratory rats. It was flawed by small sample size, lack of statistical analysis, ambiguous results, a questionable selection of rat strain, and dubious ethical treatment of animals. After an avalanche of criticism, the journal has decided to retract the study.
Beyond the flu shot: A closer look at the alternatives (Scott Gavura) http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/beyond-the-flu-shot-a-closer-look-at-the-alternatives/ As many as half the population may be using products touted as influenza preventatives or treatments. Most of these are useless or unlikely to be effective. Vaccines are the most effective means of protecting yourself and the community.
Separating Fact from Fiction in the Not-So-Normal Newborn Nursery: Vitamin K Shots… (Clay Jones) http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/separating-fact-from-fiction-in-the-not-so-normal-newborn-nursery-vitamin-k-shots/ Recently several infants at Vanderbilt University suffered brain damage from hemorrhages because parents had rejected the vitamin K shot normally given to all newborns on the first day of life. A review of the role of vitamin K shows that newborns are deficient in vitamin K and explains why supplementing it is essential to protect them from life-threatening bleeding complications. A single vitamin K shot at birth is effective and safe.
Skeptical activism has several simultaneous goals - to educate skeptics to improve their expertise in critical thinking and the details of specific pseudosciences and uncritical claims, to educate the general public about science and skepticism, and to take specific action to protect consumers, fight against fraudsters, lobby for better regulation, and other good works. The latter goal is often the most difficult, but has the potential of being the most immediately satisfying. The skeptical movement's social media infrastructure allows us to mobilize tens of thousands of critical thinkers to apply public pressure where necessary - to defend from attacks on free speech, to focus attention on a particular scoundrel, or to pressure politicians into doing the right thing. While such activity is a constant background in skeptical activism, there are moments when opportunities arise for a focused concerted effort. I believe we are at a critical point of one such opportunity. Stanislaw Burzynski has been exploiting desperate cancer patients for 37 years with his dubious "antineoplaston" treatment. Why his treatment is dubious has been well covered by David Gorski in multiple posts at Science-Based Medicine. Essentially Burzynski is offering unapproved chemotherapy for cancer patients, claiming that it is "natural" and that he is curing cancer patients who are not responding to standard treatment. He has also moved into the "personalized cancer treatment" realm.
La Veta, Colorado, is located three hours south of Denver. The heart of this tiny town of 800 people is the Francisco Fort Museum, an original adobe plaza built in 1862. The plaza contains an 1880s saloon, a school built in 1876, a blacksmith shop, adobe ovens, and a large collection of artifacts from local Native Americans, Hispanic settlers, and farmers, ranchers and miners; not to mention a resident black bear called Barnaby.
Of course, the Fort Francisco Museum is said to be very haunted. Its most famous ghost is the "floating lady" who is seen dressed in white as she glides through the west wing. There are reports of flickering lights and another ghostly woman who carries candles as she wanders the halls. When people walk by an old piano it plays music although there is no visible pianist, and an antique rocking chair has been seen swaying back and forth without anyone siting in it.
A local ghost-hunting group approached Kim, the Director of the Museum, asking if they could investigate the premises. Her committee provided permission with one condition: she must supervise their investigation. Kim was annoyed that the group did a stakeout of the premises well into the wee hours while she was forced to babysit them as they "ran around doing goofy stuff". Their findings included high EMF readings where one of the phantom women has been seen, a video of a mysterious light, and recordings of alleged voices of the dead (Electronic Voice Phenomena or EVPs). Kim wasn't very impressed.


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Home prices are staging a modest recovery in many parts of the country, even though mortgage rates are up nearly an entire percentage point since spring. The rise in borrowing costs has put the brakes on refinancing, with the Mortgage Bankers Association reporting activity recently slumping to a four-year low. Banks are now trying to make new mortgages to offset the shortfall, while at the same time bracing for the "perception of further rate increases" if the Federal Reserve scales back its bond-buying campaign.
Banking consultant Ken Thomas remarks, "This is all about maintaining market share in a shrinking market. When demand shrinks, the banks, to maintain market share, must increase the supply of credit by cutting rates -- which they will not do in this increasing rate environment -- or by reducing underwriting standards, which they are doing." Banking heavyweights like Wells Fargo are relaxing credit score and down payment requirements on some loans. Furthermore, banks are starting to consider sales with higher loan-to-value ratios and buyers with higher debt-to-income ratios.

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Two weeks back, i was driving from Lakshmi road (had been to Chitale Bandhu) to Rasta Peth. On turning around a corner, a huge wall came into view. it didn't look like a normal city building. The wall continued on and on as the road went around the complex. It looked like a fort and it looked very photogenic. The first thing i did on returning home was to research about this and i found out that this place was called Shaniwarwada and it was a fort mansion built in the 18th century.
In all my research on places to see near Pune, i had missed something so big right inside the city! So, i visited the place the following saturday. "Saturday" – this place is called Shaniwar Wada, because the foundation stone was laid on a Saturday and "wada" comes from the fact that it was a residential complex. Peshwa Baji Rao built this mansion as his personal residence.
Route from Magarpatta: (the route that i know of ) Go towards hadapsar signal, turn right on the road to Kroma/Big Bazaar, after you cross the race course (on the right), you will get a small turn to the right (one-way), taking this road and continuing on straight will take you to M.G.Road signal, go on M.G.Road , turn left at the end (near the statue) , keep going on this road until you reach a major traffic signal (ask for rasta peth if you get lost), turning left on this signal and turning left again at the t-junction will take you to Rasta Peth (statue of a fisherwoman on the roundabout). Take right at this roundabout (towards a small Hanuman temple on the middle of the road). Keep on going straight until you hit Shaniwar Wada (you will see the huge walls). Drive around the fort to find the parking lot.
I had modified the above photo in Photoshop to blur the areas other than the statue to emphasize the statue! Shaniwar Wada, in spite of being at the centre of the city and having an almost negligible 5 rupees entrance fee, is very clean and well maintained. You don't see the plastic junk which has become characteristic of almost all forts and tourist spots in Pune.
It had just drizzled just before we went there and the greenery inside the mansion/fort was appealing to the eye. So, what is to be done or seen inside Shaniwar Wada? Nothing much. Walk around, enjoy the calm, the greenery ,read about the history of the place and of course, take lot of photographs!
There is also a fountain (was not operating the time i was there). I have read a lot about the splendour of the fountain. Opposite the fountain, there was a place with lot of depressions on the ground. But, there were no signs explaining them. So, we assumed that it was community bathroom with lot of bath tubs
There is a huge wall surrounding the place. You can climb on the wall and walk the entire circumference. You get a different perspective of the whole place and also the surrounding areas. But, if you are a little horizontally prosperous, getting up the stairs could prove a challenge.
At the front of the mansion, you can climb one more flight of stairs to go to the front porch. The view from here on a clear day extends far into the city.
There were lot of eagles over Shaniwar Wada. Actually, Pune seems to have lot of them!
13 Responses to "shaniwar wada – the palace fort inside Pune city"
1. rohan Says:
January 13th, 2010 at 8:19 am
i hav recently came in pune frm kolhapur for job ..i hav scene shaniwar wada from outer side,bt never been in there, after watching this pics,i hav just gone mad..cause they r so beautiful..gonna visit soon
2. Norbert Sequeira Says:
January 22nd, 2010 at 7:24 pm
excellent effort. I am crazy of forts. Seeing any forts gives the idea of the hardship, dedication, etc. faced by the poor man of those days.
3. vishnu thota Says:
February 6th, 2010 at 2:19 pm
Excellentely described……..
4. venkatesh Says:
October 8th, 2010 at 6:37 pm
it's very nice place
5. Yatin taneja Says:
January 26th, 2011 at 7:18 pm
I have visited this place with a friend of mine. we both learnt a lot about marathi history.
6. Ashish A Says:
September 20th, 2011 at 12:39 am
Never thought that this place is so good. It really is.. enjoyed!
However, the sound and light show was pathetic. I read somewhere that PMC had spent 1.25 cr for this. After watching the show, you will keep wondering if they really did it! Audio telling the history of Shaniwarwada is decent, but, listening this in almost complete darkness (negligible light effect) makes it worse..
7. Aakash Says:
December 27th, 2011 at 3:42 pm
I like the way the Wada has been portrayed,
The main attraction here is the Light and Sound show which is conducted in Marathi/Hindi/English during evenings.The entire area becomes a stage which people can view from a platform and sure is a enriching experience.
8. Eshita Says:
April 21st, 2012 at 4:01 pm
Hey Rajaram – ALL YOUR articles are really nicely written and provides so fruitful information – especially for people like us who just migrate to Pune – Thanks.
Keep up the good work !!
Cheers – Eshita
9. Vasanth Says:
June 5th, 2012 at 5:29 pm
very nicely described. Thanks for your valuable information.
10. kumaril bhatta Says:
November 19th, 2012 at 1:47 pm
Very good article describing all the aspects. Useful for students studying history.
11. Alma Says:
November 25th, 2012 at 11:47 pm
Very good articles. You describe nicely all places. My family and I are triying to visit one place near Pune ,every Saturday. For that, I read your articles every week. Thank you very much. We are a spanish family living in Pune.
12. Deepak Jain Says:
January 13th, 2013 at 11:27 am
This is yet another amazing place to see, and thanks to your guide, which has an amazing description of this place, makes it more desirable ..
13. Dnyanesh Says:
February 21st, 2013 at 2:42 pm
Excellent pictures. Shaniwarwada is not just a fort mansion. If you read bit more about this place, you will find that this place has same historical value as the Red Fort of Delhi or Fort of Agra. Peshwas ruled almost entire India from this place. It ruled Maratha empire whose boundries touched Attock (in Pakistan) to Bangladesh to Nizam state, Kerala on the south.


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A fashion tribe, viewed either stylistically or developmentally, is a tribe consisting of a show stopping pack that stages a social revolution in a settlement in London, at an event called London Fashion Week. The determined,confident in their own individuality and uniqueness of members in this tribe, also known as "models", were lead by designers Maki Aminaka Löfvander and Marcus Wilmont of Aminaka Wilmont and attained and edge in their newest conquest: The totem collection. Creating a new tribe, the tough, raw, and durable 'Totem', took influence from totemic tribes, primitivism and subtraction.
The influence behind this darker collection was taken from totem poles, spirits and animals, with a focus on primitive religions and deities taking on new forms. The digital prints from this collection were inspired by animal hides, skins and furs. Taking a strut on the tribal side, the collection maintained soft silhouettes and draping in silk georgette, with asymmetric cuts and the use of straps across the body, accentuating and flattering. The prints are bold and strong and there is a hint in the direction toward more structured blocks of shape and color. The knitwear, in graduating shades of grey, cut to flow widely around a silhouette, with arm and leg warmers continuing the raw and unbreakable feel throughout the collection.
Yet the Aminaka Wilmont avant-garde, trademark tailoring remained strong with the use of washed leather jackets and shorts, mixed with thick, Italian shearling and Toscana. Mimiking an inner-tribal love affair, the impenetrable wedge boots, both knee and ankle high on the runway, heavily represented a strong animal's hoof, reaffirming that a hard edge can still be elegant. With pheasant feathers, glaring eyes and long hair, there was a gluttonous edge to this collection which peaked through with the use of catwalk music, like this collection, the likes of UNKLE, Kraddy and Balam Acab were not musical artists to be left unheard in this environment filled with tribal-themed glamour.
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The what-ifs of Wildcat baseball
When looking back on the season for the Linfield baseball team, I was left with a bunch of what-ifs, wondering why it didn't do as well as expected with the team that it had this year. Was it the coaching? Or, was it the attitude of the players?
The 'Cats were ranked as high as No. 2 in the nation this year. This, however, did not last, and now the baseball team is no longer in the top 25 in the Division-III rankings. As I poured over the games I had watched, I tried to understand why they were unable to be the dominating team the polls had predicted they would be.
At the end of last season, the Wildcats had a team batting average of .315 with 44 games under their belt. This year, however, after 34 games, their team batting average was .285. Not only was team batting average lower, but its runs scored average was also lower. In 2011, their average runs per game was 6.95, but in 2012, this statistic dropped to 6.24. In 2011, the Wildcats never lost a best of three series, while in 2012, the 'Cats lost the best of three series against Pacific University, George Fox University and Whitworth University.
Another scoring statistic that haunted the team was that if it was trailing this year beyond the fourth inning, it only won three of those games. So, before I blame it all on their batting, the pitching staff must bear some of the fault if the hitters averaged six runs a game. Opponents' batting average against the pitching staff was .232 in 2012, while in 2011 it was .241.
The ERA of the Wildcat pitchers was 2.92 in 2012 and 2.81 in 2011. Although the pitchers' ERA was 2.92, the defense in the field behind them faltered this year. The average runs per game against Linfield in 2012 was 3.76. In 2011, it was 3.63. Due to errors, Linfield, on average, gave up one more run a game in both years.
When breaking down the averages of the season, it's hard to understand what went wrong for the Wildcats. They played similarly to 2011, but instead of taking first in the NWC with 20 wins and 4 losses, they ended in fifth place with 15 wins and nine losses.
The difference this year was that the 'Cats didn't score in games where they needed to score. Due to errors, pitching stayed in innings longer then they should have, and when they had to string hits together to score runs, they failed to do so. It wasn't that they lacked talent or that the coaches ruined the games for them, instead, it was just unfortunate circumstances, such as great pitching and poor hitting or great hitting combined with poor pitching and fielding against teams they had to beat.
Perhaps the most shocking statistic from the two years was not what the team did, but the fan turnout. In 2011, total home attendance was 2,435 averaging 202 people a game. In 2012, however, total home attendance dropped to an average of 97 people a game.
So, perhaps for success the 'Cats just need a little more fan support to get them through next year.
Carson Crepeaux/Staff writer
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Smart Antenna Front End aims to implement the technical change, thus cheaper, smaller and more efficient movable antenna can be provided. The world's leading Internet solution provider Molex pushes this project with the other research laboratories. 8.7 million US dollars will be invested on the project which lasts four years. It is consisted by Aalborg University, Intel Mobile Communications, WiSpy and Molex. The members of SAFE try to solve the broadband, standard and antenna problems brought by the mobile phone through cooperation and innovation.
SAFE has begun to widen the cheap broadband to cover more movable communication frequency band and standard from 1990. The size of antenna and RF component is increasing, but the market needs the smaller product. This problem should be solved. Adding more models will make the whole performance low; therefore, people hope to redesign the construction by SAFE. As the main investor, Danish National Advanced Technology Foundation has provided the corporations and universities with resources and framework. Vice-president of the foundation maintains that they wish the investment can bring Demark more business and job opportunities.
The development of RF and antenna was separated in the past, so the solutions were always below expectation. In this project, all the experts strive for the special controlling and integrated technologies which can be used in the antenna and RF field. These technologies also can be integrated into all kinds of movable phones. WiSpry, which is located in California, is a leading supplier of adjustable RF solution. WiSpry actively respond to the project, and it has established a new research center in Aalborg. The MEMS-based technology of WiSpry is a solution which can meet the demand of multi-mode and multi-band. It has the highest performance among all the adjustable solutions. SAFE gives WiSpry opportunities to show how their technical capability could build a new platform.
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The climbing on this route is fairly fun, and a nice way to get in another quick climb at the end of the day after doing another route near by. The route climbs up to a short, left-facing corner with a weird crack/slot in it that won't really take gear. Continue up to some rotten rock, and make a tricky move left with bad feet. One more tricky section moves up and right, then pick your path to the top via easy face climbing. For the most part, the holds are huge but the route has a few sections with questionable rock.
This route is hard to discern from the other routes in the Smoke and Mirrors area using Rossiter's guide. This route starts behind a huge fin roughly half between the start of Smoke and Mirrors and the large tree to the far climbers right on the Italian Arete Ledge. Look for the small, left-facing corner that Rossiter mentions.
A standard rack. Pro can be pretty tricky or just bad due to the quality of rock, but every now and then good gear is available.


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SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. — San Bernardino officials have filed an emergency petition for Chapter 9 bankruptcy in response to the $45.8 million budget deficit the city faces this year, making official a move the City Council approved last month.
"There will be no immediate service reductions or changes in service to the community as a result of the filing," Interim City Manager Andrea Travis-Miller said Wednesday in a written statement.
City officials are working on a plan for the city's operational budget during bankruptcy, and once the plan is complete, reductions may occur, Travis-Miller said.
Travis-Miller hopes to submit a plan for the City Council's consideration within the next three weeks.
The city of 210,000 people declared a fiscal emergency July 18.
San Bernardino became the third California city to declare insolvency this year, joining Stockton and Mammoth Lakes.
After last month's announcement, San Bernardino's finances experienced increased stress when a dozen employees put in for retirement with hopes of cashing out accrued vacation and sick time. The announcement also has spurred vendors to demand cash instead of credit as payment.
Officials say the housing crisis devastated property and sales tax revenues, and the loss of state redevelopment funds took a toll on the city's budget.
San Bernardino is located about 60 miles east of Los Angeles.


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Harrow Synagogues to host Shul of Rock
1:27pm Friday 14th June 2013 in News By Bruce Thain
Synagogues will be joining together to try and attract young people with a evening of rock music.
The evening, called a 'Shul of Rock', has been organised by musician Simon Cooper and will include Shabbat songs set to some very untraditional tunes inspired by The Beatles, Status Quo and Led Zeppelin.
The event will take place on Friday June 28 at Middlesex New Synagogue, Bessborough Road, Harrow form 7.45pm.
Mr Cooper, who has performed with the likes of Elaine Paige and Sir Cliff Richard, was inspired to start the event after performing his own charity gig at his own Synagogue and realised the potential of rock music to draw in a younger audience.
Rabbi Kathleen Middleton, of Middlesex New Synagogue said: "This will be a Friday Night like no other. Whether you come to shul once a week or once in a blue moon, this is not to be missed.
"Simon Cooper's band are true professionals and they are offering a unique take on a Shabbat service which is seriously fun and provoking."
The evening will be collaboration between Harrow and Wembley Progressive Synagogue, Middlesex New Synagogue, Hatch End Masorti Synagogue and Kol Chai Synagogue.
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Listing real estate the Bloodhound way: Everything we do to list historic, architecturally-distinctive and luxury homes for sale
This is a detailing of the things we do to list a home for sale. We don't do every one of these things on every home. For example, we know that if we list in a newer tract-home subdivision, much of the noise we try to make will fall on deaf ears. If I am listing a tenant-occupied investor-owned home, we won't do much beyond the normal MLS, lockbox and sign kind of listing. But this is what we do when we pull out all the stops for those homes that are likely to excite the most attention among buyers.
- Setting the stage for staging. Cathleen Collins will go though the house with a fine-tooth comb, often taking many photos. She will make lists of repairs, touch-ups and redecorating she wants to do, and she will plan her staging strategy.
- Home-warranty pre-inspection. We put a home warranty on our listings covering the listing period and the buyer's first year in the home. We use ServiceOne, and they do a fairly rigorous pre-inspection so that any pre-existing conditions can be addressed.
- Repairs, painting and cleaning. This can take anywhere from a few days to more than a week. Everything's a trade-off, and we can't always do everything we might wish for, but we want for our homes to be as clean, as homey, as livable and as turn-key as we can possibly make them.
- Staging. This is Cathleen, and she is a master at it. We own about three houses worth of furniture, and she is always trawling Craigslist to find more — period, modern, eclectic. She has tons of art and decorator items as well, and her modus vivendi is to take everything she thinks she might need to the house, then move back what she doesn't use.
- Professional photography. We have just switched to Obeo for our virtual tours. They send in a local professional photographer to do hi-resolution and panoramic photos. In addition to forming the basis of the virtual tour, the hi-rez photos are also used for Obeo's Style Designer, virtual remodeling of selected spaces.
- Floorplan measurement. We put an interactive floorplan on the web site for every listing. Buyers can interactively place their furniture, plus there is a printable PDF version that they can pass along to movers or decorators. We use Floor Plans First, but this is a service that Obeo offers, as well.
- Amateur photography. That would be by us. We like to have dozens of photographs of everything, including photos of the interior and exterior of the home in all the different colors of light of the day. We can end up taking photos of the home over the course of days, just for the sake of a static kind of verisimilitude. For what it's worth, I think it is incumbent upon Realtors to do the bulk of their own photography. Use a pro for the print stuff, if you lack confidence, but acquire a camera appropriate for real estate work and learn how to take good real estate photos. You should get in the habit of having a good-enough real estate camera with you every time you leave the office. The language of real estate is photography, after all.
- Neighborhood photography. We like to have a fairly comprehensive selection of photos of other homes in the neighborhood. We know that buyers want to know for sure that they're moving into a neighborhood that fits the home we are selling. We show them many of the nearby homes so they can get a feel for the neighborhood.
- Videography. We don't do this for every listing. We only do it when we have a story to tell, because video without a story is anti-marketing — worse than doing nothing. If the sellers or the neighbors have an interesting story to tell, that can work. Often, just using the neighborhood photos with a voiceover can make an interesting film.
- Building business-card-sized Open House invitations. I do this, printing them with OvernightPrints.com. We print these in the thousands.
- Building custom yard signs and directionals. This is me again. We print these locally, with a company called Signs By Tomorrow. Why do we put a paragraph of small text on our yard signs? To stop traffic. The purpose of the sign is to sell the house, so we do what we can to make sure people stop and take a look.
- Building the custom web site for the home. Generally, we will acquire the domain for the home before we even go on the listing appointment. Using engenu, I can set up the gross anatomy of the single-property web site, then Cathleen or I can go in and finesse it page-by-page. In addition to many, many folders full of photos, which engenu will render as slide shows, we supplement our web sites with all the additional information we can find or create. For example, if we can lay our hands on historic photos of the home or neighborhood, we will scan them in order to provide that background information. The same goes for historic documents or newspaper articles. We will research the builder, the architectural styles or the construction methods and document those. Lately we've been building custom maps in Google Maps to help buyers discover local amenities. We try to have all these ancillary items done before the listing hits the MLS, but that's not always possible. But we live by the idea that, if it looks done, it is done, so we don't tell people about features that are still to come. That way, the web site always looks and feels finished, even if we don't yet have the link for the finished virtual tour, for instance. Our sites are built to permit the easy addition of new or changed content, so we keep working on the site before and after the MLS listing goes live.
- Starting now, we are building coffee-table books for distinctive homes. We always have dozens of striking photos of the home, so a coffee table book is just one more way we have of getting those images in front of buyers.
- Listing the home in the MLS. By now we will have written a ton of text about this home. We use it all and then some in the MLS. We get 680 characters in the remarks and six photos with 250 characters each for captions. If we miss out on using three of the characters available to us, that's a lot. We can have an unlimited number of "virtual tours," which are essentially off-site URLs. We use as many of these as we have content for. One of our working precepts is that the listing may be our only chance to make our case for the home to the buyer, so we try to leave nothing to chance. If we can feed the buyer's agent a good closing argument, we'll do that, too.
- Compose the flyer. We build a full-color flyer using our best photos and our most rhapsodic text, printing it on heavy coated stock. We use flyer boxes that will hold the flyers but also have a pocket at the top for business cards. We put the Open House invitation cards in there, just in case someone doesn't want to take a full flyer. We normally put flyer boxes facing in both directions on the post, and we will store extra flyers and Open House cards inside the home.
- Set the post, hang the signs and flyer boxes, mount the lockbox. For now we use a normal six-foot 4×4″ white post. When we can afford to have it done, we're going to switch to a custom-made sign structure, framing off the big sign and the riders and attaching everything will small bungee cords to keep things from flapping around in the wind. We're always looking for better sign-lighting solutions, too.
- Promote the listing with online listing bots. We're using PostLets for the broadcast distribution, but we do Craigslist our way, by hand, and we will go in and hand-finesse other online listings.
- Write a weblog entry promoting the listing and linking back to the single-property web site. This has all kinds of benefits, as we've discussed, but here's one we haven't talked about: Linking to your single-property web site from a trusted weblog can break you out of the Google sandbox.
- Distribute the Open House invitation cards. We will do this with nearby employers and in two sorts of neighborhoods: Move-up areas for our listings, and neighborhoods where BloodhoundRealty.com has a lot of fans. We know that people who like us will try to send us buyers, so we always want to let them know when we have a new house for sale.
- We hold Open Houses every week until the home is sold. Why? Because there are an awful lot of un- or under-represented buyers out there, and we want for them to be able to see our home. We avoid dual agency, but we have no problem showing the home to buyers who accidentally left their buyer's agents at home.
- We service our listings. For vacant homes, we want to be in the house every other day, at the outside, ideally every day. For one thing, a home needs regular maintenance, and we can't see to it if we aren't seeing the home first hand. But very often we will end up taking new photos of the home, which we then incorporate into the web site.
We never stop thinking of new ways to promote the home. Our future success at selling homes is directly related to our present success at selling homes, but that's a secondary consideration. The primary goal is simply to sell the home. We are always thinking and talking abut new ways to draw attention to our homes, new ways to make them more appealing to buyers, new ways to get the best results we can attain for our sellers. We're not shy about talking about the things we do. We're always delighted when someone picks up on our ideas, but that's the rare case. But, regardless of what anyone else does, we are always going to be working at getting better at listing and selling homes.
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Eric Blackwell March 30th, 2008 4:52 am
Simply Awesome. Who's gonna come back after that and gripe about price. Well done.
BTW–Before anyone else says it–Glad your customer's name was Chetson and not Monty. (grin)
Ann Cummings March 30th, 2008 4:57 am
Greg – really REALLY nice arsenal of tools to help each seller you work with.
I love these sentences – "One of our working precepts is that the listing may be our only chance to make our case for the home to the buyer, so we try to leave nothing to chance. If we can feed the buyer's agent a good closing argument, we'll do that, too." I see way too many agents in my area fail to understand just how important the remarks are and the captions that we can use with our MLS pictures. I cringe when I read some of what shows up, and just wonder what those poor under-represented sellers would think if they could only see how their precious property is NOT being portrayed to the rest of the world.
Great list, and I may borrow a few to add to my arsenal as well. Thanks for sharing your tools.
Cheryl Johnson March 30th, 2008 5:30 am
Beautifully done. Very thorough.
Here's my question about Open Houses: When you are carrying 5 or 6 listings (or more!) you reach a point where it is physically impossible to personally hold every single listing open every week. Not to mention you might need that prime weekend afternoon time to show a prospective buyer around.
What's the Bloodhound solution? Have "interns" to man the open houses? Have sellers hold their own open houses? Allow hungry mortgage brokers to sit your open house? (This one always seemed like making a deal with the devil to me, and I never gave in to it.)
Greg, I'd love to hear how you deal with it.
Paula Henry March 30th, 2008 6:53 am
Very Impressive! I can't imagine your homes sit long with such thorough marketing. What is "higher priced" in Phoenix?
I do hope you will be sharing some of these ideas at Bloodhound Unchained…….Yes?
Dan Sullivan March 30th, 2008 8:40 am
Posts like this are the reason I look at Bloodhound blog three times a day.
Greg is teaching a graduate course in being a successful Real Estate agent. I feel pretty lucky to be a student.
Greg Swann March 30th, 2008 8:59 am
> When you are carrying 5 or 6 listings (or more!) you reach a point where it is physically impossible to personally hold every single listing open every week.
Oh, Cheryl, to have that problem! I think the most Open Houses we've had to work in a single day is three. Our ideal case is for the home to sell before the second Open House, but that's not happening as often, lately.
We set up Open Houses according to a plan we borrowed from Dean Jackson. We announce a definite start time on our cards and on a rider on the signs, but no definite end time.
The first Open House can be huge, 75 parties or more, and we can end up with both of us in the house, and sometimes a teenage helper or two, for five hours or more.
Things slow down after that, if we're unlucky enough to have more Open Houses, so we only stay as long as we have traffic, up to about 90 minutes. That way, we can schedule Sunday Noon and Sunday 2 pm, and Saturday 10 am, Noon and 2pm if we need them. One Realtor can work those Open Houses.
A solution we learned in ABR classes, which we've done a few times, is to offer our Open Houses to agents we like in competing brokerages. We don't like dual agency, anyway, and this is a way to stretch our resources and to help people we want to encourage at the same time.
If a listing is near the commuter traffic flow — and most of ours are — we like to hold after-work Open Houses, too, just to see if we can snag people sick of driving.
We hold Open Houses to sell the house — everything we're talking about here is about selling the house — but we have met a lot of very interesting people at Open House. Sellers come to check us out, of course, and we meet a few buyers. But we also get to become acquainted with fascinating people who love our houses and know a ton about them. I can't count how many times we have gained access to historic photos of our listings because someone wanted to see what had become of their old home.
Greg Swann March 30th, 2008 9:05 am
> I do hope you will be sharing some of these ideas at Bloodhound Unchained…….Yes?
Tuesday morning, the synergy of offline and online marketing. A post like that takes forever to write, but it's still only like the travel directions from Google Maps. Live and Unchained, we can take the journey and see everything.
Greg Swann March 30th, 2008 9:14 am
> Posts like this are the reason I look at Bloodhound blog three times a day.
Bless you, sir. Thank you. We stand on the shoulders of giants. Just about everything we do consists of an idea we stumbled onto somewhere, stripped down to what we thought was its essence, and rebuilt the Bloodhound way. The price rider on our signs, for example — $400,000 in six-inch-high type — came from The Group in Denver. We heard about it from Ed Hatch in a CRS class and both of us immediately fell in love with the idea. I have no idea what the riders look like when The Group does them. We just do them our own way, and they bring us all kinds of good attention from buyers and neighbors.
Greg Swann March 30th, 2008 9:23 am
> What is "higher priced" in Phoenix?
Sorry! I missed this.
Our median price is around $500,000. The median for Phoenix is around $200,000. We work in the historic and mid-century modern neighborhoods of Central and North Central Phoenix, a finite supply of older homes with a steady and growing demand. Old is the one thing you can't have in Phoenix, so what little there is gets bid up aggressively. That means the pricier neighborhoods do very well against the market, and the up-and-coming neighborhoods do even better. In the long run, we would like to work our way up toward the million-dollar homes, but we're not snobs. We are more interested in the house itself than anything else, so we are delighted to list a great home in a less-than-great neighborhood at $250,000. If the houses are right, the neighborhood will come along, and the buyer will do very well for taking a chance on our listing.
Coming back to this: The real issue with "higher priced" is whether or not anyone is paying attention. There is a golf course community out in Avondale where we pulled out all the stops for a $375,000 house with a lush back yard and a sybarite's pool and got… two parties at Open House. The house still sold in three weeks for full price, but it was the MLS that sold it. Many of the ideas I'm talking about in this post work best for homes that people pay a lot of attention to — attention in terms of awareness, but also attention in the form of remodeling, refurbishing, rebuilding.
Sue March 30th, 2008 9:23 am
Greg, thank you for sharing that information. Quite a robust plan and I definitely picked up some good tips. Putting small print on signs to stop traffic is interesting as we typically think in terms of making it bigger so people can see it. I cannot imagine that someone else would get the listing over your team with that marketing plan!
Greg Swann March 30th, 2008 9:27 am
> Putting small print on signs to stop traffic is interesting
I went to the Richard Riccelli school of testing everything. When I need to sit in the car and return phone calls, I'll park up the block from one of our signs and watch how the drivers react to it. I can't wait for full-blown electronic signs.
Sue March 30th, 2008 9:44 am
I was going to ask if you ever observed….wonder if anyone actually gets out of the car to read the info.
Greg Swann March 30th, 2008 10:03 am
> I was going to ask if you ever observed….wonder if anyone actually gets out of the car to read the info.
They read the sign from the car, it's big enough for that if you're right in front of it. Then, many times, they'll look the house over. Get out of the car and walk the lawn or grab a flyer. It's never happened so far, but I would love it if someone would call me while I'm watching. Creepy for them, but fun for me.
Wayne Long March 30th, 2008 10:59 am
Wow! That is pretty impressive. What is a bottom price for the homes you list? Thank you for sharing your ideas. I feel like people have a hard time competing against your marketing system.
Greg Swann March 30th, 2008 11:21 am
> What is a bottom price for the homes you list?
For that kind of listing, I think the lowest we've ever gone is $250,000. Normally they're about double that, but, as I mentioned above in a comment, it's more about the kind of attention people will pay to the house than the price. There's a neighborhood just west of 19th Avenue in Phoenix, a tiny subdivision built entirely by the man who pioneered production building ideas in Phoenix. We represented his own family homestead a few years ago, so we can always pick out his houses when we're in them. The neighborhood I'm talking about is a slum right now, but we would love to get in there with a few serious rehabbing investors and turn the whole thing around. The houses are unrepeatable, but they're abused, so they sell for next to nothing now. It would be fairly easy to get them all to sell for quite a bit more.
Flippy Fin March 30th, 2008 8:01 pm
Great post. Why not take it a step furthur and turn it into a business. In your sales pitch to get the listing why not say something like this:
Mr. homeowner if we do all of this work the house will sell. You can have to choices on how we can procede.
1) Retail : Mr. homeowner if you pay for all of the improvments, I will pay the rest. If the house sells for less than 200k I will deduct the improvment costs from my commision.
2) Wholesale: I will buy your house at a discount for 150K right now minus a full commision. You will have no risk and pain and can move in 30 days.
The outcome of this presentation is testing your money, mouth and skills.
Your exit strategy is quite easy. If you are competant you can either do the work yourself and buy it or sell the house to an investor with no commision due. You would also get a full listing with the investor and again get paid again for a true value add.
In case 1) if you get the listing and it doesn't sell for the price you sold the homeowner on, do you really deserve the commision?
Soon every house you have listed is now in perfect condition. You have created a unique service that demands credability.
Sorry for my bad spelling and writing.
Flippy Fin March 30th, 2008 8:05 pm
By the way. I am an investor and would buy with this type of valuable service from a realtor.
Ted April 10th, 2008 11:22 am
Greg -
Impressive list of standard practice items. Obviously not for the "average" listing.
I have a general query for you and your like-minded readers: Tech-savvy professionals that know how to deliver desired results and services to high-end clients.
Background: Our company (ATSI) manufactures electronic test and surveillance equipment for government agencies and commercial firms. Specifically for this query, our product is the BuckEye Cam Orion, a wireless digital surveillance camera. Product: http://www.buckeyecam.com Company: http://www.atsi-tester.com
Professionals like you can practice their craft only after first securing the listing from the seller. Of course, your list of services is an enticing card to play. I have an idea that may improve the prospects of landing that high-end listing. Please tell me what you think about it.
We manufacture a weatherproof digital surveillance camera (Orion) that is battery/solar powered and radio-transmits the image files to a dedicated receiver base. The concept is similar to a wireless phone, which radio-transmits your voice to a dedicated receiver base. The receiver base can be connected to a PC with an internet connection, and then the images are emailed anywhere within seconds of capture. The images can also be posted to a web page for viewing from anywhere.
So far our customers (and applications) for this product have been: Hunting ranch operators (deer, elk, etc.), US and Canadian Border Patrol (illegal border crossing), US Army (supply depot thieves – Iraq), Golf course operators (Pot farmers, vandals), Construction contractors (copper thieves, vandals), and hundreds of landowners (deer monitoring, trespassing, etc.).
A real estate agent with a $500 laptop, $3000 worth of Orion camera gear, household power and an internet connection could set up 2 cameras in a home (or outside) and get them on the air within 20 minutes with no wiring, no holes drilled, and removed without a trace in the same 20 minutes to be used in your next listing.
My Questions:
1) If your potential seller is being transferred out of town or in some way being forced to move out on a schedule, would they like to be able to keep tabs on their now-vacant home from their desk at work?
2) Would the possibility of having this service lead them to list with you instead of your competition?
3) Once this customer was used to being able to see their home 24/7, would they be likely to renew the listing with your firm (if necessary)?
4) When the reality of viewing their home (and the agent walking through with buyers, etc.) sinks in, how many of their friends would they tell about this unique service?
My opinion is the camera will help you secure more listings, and form a tangible, marketable service to the seller, but I am interested in the opinions of real estate professionals like you and your readers.
As of the date of this writing, there have been no marketing efforts made to the real estate industry. This is my first try at getting a read from your industry. Thank you for reading this lengthy query and for your honest responses.
Greg Swann April 10th, 2008 11:46 am
Ted: I think this is a rockin' idea. We can't afford you yet, but you've made my wish list.
Sue April 18th, 2008 3:48 pm
This is a good idea, however, its seems rather expensive and would be desired by a limited amount of customers. Watching the home from the outside is one thing, viewing agents and their buyers going thru the home on camera is another. I would think this is something that has to be disclosed to the buyers and might create an uncomfortable feeling, just as if the seller were there. Just my opinion.
Are you a professional practitioner or just an order-taking lackey? How to list a home for sale like you own the damn place | BloodhoundBlog: Real estate marketing and technology blog | Realtors and real estate, mortgages, lending, investments May 30th, 2008 5:00 am
[...] I've written a ton about how we list homes for sale (and not just in that post; surfing the archives repays effort). At Unchained I illustrated some of our ideas, and you can catch this show on the DVDs if you missed it live. Everything we do is about selling the house — not selling us as a brokerage or as agents and not attracting buyers for other listings. We reap a substantial secondary marketing benefit from listing as hard as we do — both the efforts we undertake and our victory dance when we succeed — but our entire focus is on selling the house. [...]
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[...] I looked in on Cheryl Johnson talking about the coffee-table books we build for high-end listings. One of the comments was an eye-opener for me: Thanks for the BLOODHOUND link, I had not run across [...]
Hunter Jackson June 17th, 2008 5:18 pm
Beautiful Greg. For some reason, I just found this post. You do serve your clients, and you can dollarize it! wow!


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THE UGLY. Disembarkation at Southampton was the worst I have ever seen. We were all allocated a disembarkation number 1 to 35, however, there were only numbers in the baggage claim area 1 to 20. The first bags off (1) were put in row 1 at the passenger entrance to the Baggage area, with the other rows then working towards the Customs Exit. This meant that the first passengers off, had to fight their way through later bags coming off and later passengers looking for their bags. If row 1 had been near the exit, then building back to the entrance, this would have been better. Bags were, towards the end, being placed in the wrong row, or just left at the side on the baggage trolleys.


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Part I.
Tim and Eric were once Arabian slaves. Their journey began at the time they were tasked to a caravan delivering scimitars and spices to Mongolia. Ibn Battuta, a greedy and vain merchant, drove the long caravan through the Sahara desert.
Tim's job, being a scribe before slavehood, was to write down everything Ibn Battuta did, which was mostly stare in a mirror and talk about politics and ...
taxes. Usually though, since Battuta was illiterate, he doodled or else wrote down something about being happy. Eric was a burly man and his task was to carry all of the dead and dying camels on his back. It was a terrible job: the stench alone had killed the two previous camel-carriers.
Sweltering days were spent trudging through the desert, dunes farther than the eye can see. The molten wind whipped sand everywhere, burning and stinging. At night the air would freeze under the clear night skies and the caravan would stop to set up camp. Eric, Tim, and the rest of the slaves would gather around small fires and talk about their lives before slavehood. After their small nightly meal Tim and Eric would retire to their little tent, where they would talk about freedom and music before drifting into hopeless dreams.
The slow, grueling journey carried on like this for several fortnights until one red sunset when one of the evil slavedrivers threw a new slave into their tent. Eric and Tim sat staring as the newcomer, dressed in a tattered cloak, got up, mumbling annoyedly. When the newcomer tossed back her hood the two were shocked that their new tentmate was a rather pretty woman, so surprised that at first they didn't even notice her eyepatch. She introduced herself as Cheyenne, a pirate down on her luck.
Chey was appointed to feed the camels. "This is some old bullshit," she concluded after several hours of work, and she stole one of the scimitars and swiftly stuck it through Ibn Battuta's bejeweled head. Chaos ensued as she, like a true pirate, took over the caravan, deftly decapitating any slavedriver that got in her way. Tim and Eric escaped into the hot sands with just the clothes on their backs.
But their situation quickly became bleak. After a few weeks of meandering with no food and water they had to eat the leather off their shoes, but then had to walk barefoot. They had nothing to protect their bare heads from the impossible sun, or their dry and burnt skin from the wind and sand. Still, they soldiered on.
Until one night, one fateful Sunday night. Eric was dragging an unconscious Tim, on his last legs, when he saw a faint glimmer in the sand. He went over to it, and after a little digging, uncovered a old little toy ukulele, which is even smaller than a normal ukulele, and a silver toy trumpet. He took the ukulele in his arms, which had two cryptic words, "Simple Rituals," carved into its body. He felt an energy flow into him through the toy instrument. Wide-eyed, he took the trumpet and placed it into Tim's hands. "Look," he said, "Music. We've found music!" Tim stirred in his unconsciousness and put the trumpet to his mouth as Eric struck the nylon.
The result was an erupting, beautiful cacophony! In the middle of the Sahara desert, in the middle of the night, stars shot across the sky in a multitude of colors. The wind swirled around the two heroes. They played and played, and sang, a song for every day in slavery, then a song for every second of their freedom.
Part II.
Meanwhile, in a grand hotel room in the closest town, which was a hundred miles away, Neema Atri, the gallant leader of a troupe of gypsies, awoke from his sleep. Aside from being a hair over nine feet tall, Neema was known the world over for his ears, which were so acute they could hear your brain making thoughts.
Neema sat up from his bed, concentrating on the faint music his ears were hearing. "I… must… go to this music," he said, and put on his robe and exited the room.
In the silent streets he came across Cornelius, the prized musician of Neema's troupe. He was stumbling the cobblestoned night with the calm expression of someone who had fixed something quite well. Cornelius was a survivor of fifteen attempts on his life, . "Come on, Cornelius, we have treasure to find." And Cornelius followed. They rode off on their camels.


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No Man is Above the Law!
by Bradley Dean, Sons of Liberty
"No man is above the law and no man is below it; nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it. Obedience to the law is demanded as a right; not asked as a favor."
– Theodore Roosevelt
Napoleon said, "He who saves his country violates no law." I say, he who fulfills the law out of love saves his country (Romans 13:10), only to establish liberty (2 Corinthians 3:17).
It has also been said that the truth (law) is the first casualty in war.
Of course it is! The truth (law) is the great stumbling block to those who do not want to be ruled by law. The whole purpose of government is to ensure our rights, not to steal them away.
If the American people understood that it is not the right of the government to break the law, and that our rights come from God, not the generosity of the state, then America would not be in the state it is today. I also remind you that no representative has the authority to tear down the Constitution and rebuild it in his/her own image.
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Our First Amendment limits Congress, not you!
by Michael Anthony Peroutka
There is a suburb of the city of Rochester known as Greece, New York. Greece, New York, is governed locally by a Town Board. The Town Board of Greece, New York, is NOT the Congress of the United States.
Let me repeat, the Town Board of Greece, New York, and the Congress of these united States are two separate and distinct entities. They are, as I say, NOT the same thing.
Why am I bothering to point out to you this obvious, self-evident fact?
Because the implications of this one simple fact, if properly comprehended by the legal community, would absolutely dispose of the lawsuit brought against the town of Greece by two women named Susan Galloway and Linda Stephens who claim that the offering of prayer at Town Board meetings violates the First Amendment to the Constitution. [Read more...] (490)
Apple spills beans on Government Mafia requests
by Apple, Report on Government Information Requests
Here are excerpts from Apple's report. Read Apple's full report here.
We believe that our customers have a right to understand how their personal
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users or devices in the interest of transparency for our customers around
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Montana Democrats go ballistic trying to Stop Your Vote
by Senator Jennifer Fielder (R), Montana District 7
I wish this week's update could focus on all the good work we are accomplishing in the legislature, but I am sickened to have to share with you an experience unlike any in our state's history. It happened in the Senate Chamber last Friday.
In a disgraceful attempt to keep ballot referendums from reaching the voters of Montana, democrat senators staged unprecedented chaos in our state capitol to stop the vote. After an initial plot failed to disrupt senate proceedings, they resorted to mob rule — yelling, ranting, raving, and repeatedly slamming coffee mugs on their desks. Their allies in the audience morphed into a mob, hanging over the balcony, screaming, stomping, and jeering. They did everything, just short of riot, to disrupt the legislative process. Security could not get them under control. It was unbelievable. [Read more...] (216)
Conservative legislators fight liberals to save your right to vote
Vote YES on LR-119 on June 5 to get seven Supreme Court Districts
LR-119 is on the primary ballot and is set to be voted on June 5th, 2012. But …
Last November, a group of attorneys and political activists filed a lawsuit to remove LR-119 (a.k.a. "The Fair Court Referendum") from the ballot to keep you from voting on it. Their goal was to keep the decision about separate Supreme Court Districts in the hands of, well, the Supreme Court judges.
In rebuttal to this lawsuit that attacks every Montanan's right to vote, seven citizen-legislators filed to join the State of Montana in keeping LR-119 on this year's primary ballot. They believe this issue, about judges, should be decided voters, not the judges.
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Support HB 161: Repeal of Medical Marijuana Law in Montana
by Lark Chadwick
Marijuana is not a harmless drug; though it may be helpful in a limited range of medical applications, many respected scientific studies have shown marijuana to have long term and certain permanent damage the nervous system [reason why it is a good pain killer]. This is especially problematic to developing young minds and bodies. Also, as a medicinal treatment, smoking is the lease effective method of ingesting the THC chemical component so to argue for continued sales of the 'herb' for smoking as a medicinal use is specious. (Also see article by Tim Baldwin. – Ed) [Read more...] (131)
Dear Gov: Please Veto HB 161 "Repeal medical marijuana law"
Dear Governor Schweitzer:
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Representative Gary MacLaren, Chair, and Members of the House Local Government Committee
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Pass SB 414, Wolf Control and Management
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Northwestern Energy 'Bought' 24 Montana House Votes to pass HB 198
by Ed Berry
Leesa Zalesky revealed in Western Ag Reporter that 24 Montana House legislators who voted YES on HB 198 also received campaign donations from Northwestern Energy, the primary beneficiary of HB 198. Now, HB 198 is being reviewed by the Senate Energy & Telecommunications Committee. [Read more...] (333)
Silencing the Lies
by Tim Ravndal
Today, the Montana legislature's Senate Judiciary Committee heard several 2nd Amendment bills. It is amazing that each of the legislators and lobbyists that oppose enhancement of our 2nd Amendment rights, base that opposition on the presumption of guilt. Every law abiding citizen in the state of Montana should be insulted by this presumption. [Read more...] (156)
These Republican Bills will create Jobs in Montana – Support them now!
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- reduce costs of doing business in Montana [Read more...]
SB 117 Coordination: Open Letter to Mayor Carla Parks
by Lark Chadwick, Sanders County Resource Council
It has come to my attention that Thompson Falls Mayor Carla Parks sent an email to Montana State Senator Lynda Moss (D) Billings, dated January 31, 2011, expressing her opposition to our Republican Senator Greg Hinkle's bill on Coordination SB 117. I am at a loss as to why she would contact this Senator from Billings, and not our own Senator who carried the bill in the Senate! [Read more...] (304)
Tester's Back to Take Your Land and Your Water
by Kerry White, Executive Board, Citizens for Balanced Use
Under the new number of S268, Senator Tester continues to pay back his environmental friends with another 1,035,307 acres of proposed wilderness and restricted land located mostly in the Beaverhead Deerlodge National Forest. His new bill increases wilderness designations by 31,000 acres over what he proposed in his S1470.
CBU has just completed another legal analysis of his new bill and have found S268 again violates several laws and our Federal Constitution.
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SB 117: Montana Coordination Act of 2011
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UNDERSTANDING COORDINATION [Read more...]
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by Ed Berry
Look no further for a convincing demonstration that Democrats to not understand business or economics. SB 372, by Sen. Bruce Tutvedt, R-Kalispell, and SB 392, by Sen. Kim Gillan, D-Billings, on behalf of Gov. Brian Schweitzer, are miles apart in how they will affect business in Montana. [Read more...] (245)
HB 321: Crying Wolf!
by Alan Doane
10th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people"
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Open Letter: Nullification is necessary for our survival
Dear Governor Schweitzer,
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Legislative Report: Halftime & What's Done?
by Senator Aubyn Curtiss
Criticism focused on the agenda of the 62nd Legislature both ignores the 5 Point Plan articulated by the Republican Majority in January and philosophically disagrees with the solutions which have been given the green buttons so far this session by the majority of legislators demonstrating their commitment to jobs and achieving economic recovery. [Read more...] (493)
The Recovery And Restoration Of Rural America
by Jim Beers
As this is being written:
- Union rioters are seizing State Capitol buildings in Wisconsin, Indiana, and Ohio.
- State legislators are fleeing their states to avoid the wrath of their Union supporters. [Read more...]
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by Tim Ravndal
HB 274 that makes it a crime to hire unauthorized aliens had an amendment and that amendment passed the house 2nd reading. Everyone should know that the score was close, with a 52 to 48 score on the vote. Here is a list of names that talk the talk but are failing to walk the walk. [Read more...] (269)
Montana: When did the Bill of Rights become Unconstitutional and Un-American?
by JB Williams
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"When we say, that we will nullify a portion of federal law that is simply saying that we don't consider ourselves bound by the constitution of the United States of America, that's very dangerous territory,"
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Dear ProLife Montanans:
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Open Letter to Montana Senators on Wolf Legislation
by Toby Bridges, LoboWatch.com
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by Henry Lamb, WorldNetDaily
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Dear Chairman and members, Montana House Judiciary Committee:
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We need to elect "strict" Constitutionalists!
by Alan Doane
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