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Shane Jones digs himself into a hole
by Christie on November 14, 2018 at 11:30am
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Shane Jones's billion trees project is having some trouble getting off the ground… if you see what I mean. quote.
Forestry officials working on the Government's flagship One Billion Trees plan ordered more than one million pine seedlings for a block of land so choked with scrub and weeds planting couldn't go ahead.
Forestry Minister Shane Jones told the?Herald?"ambition" and "enthusiasm" had a part to play in planting delays which struck the $32 million inaugural joint venture on the Far North forestry block.
Official documents show the Government planned to plant 1100ha with pine this year and had ordered about 1,100,000 seedlings for that.
The number of seedlings able to be planted collapsed to 191,000 as the condition of the land was revealed.
The Ministry for Primary Industries has yet to put a dollar figure on the cost to taxpayers, but market rates for seedlings put the cost of the order at about $400,000.
The deal between the Crown and the Far North's Ng?ti Hine Forestry Trust was?trumpeted by the Beehive as the first Crown joint venture?in the One Billion Trees programme.
Documents released through the Official Information Act show Jones sealed the agreement during a May 31 ceremony on a Ng?ti Hine forestry block, at which he planted a tree using a shovel engraved with his name. end quote.
Well, they could manage to organise a shovel, although it seems that is all they could do. The important stuff, like getting the land ready for planting, seems to have passed them all by. I suppose that requires hard work, doesn't it? quote.
Ng?ti Hine documents seen by the?Herald?show the iwi did not have enough money to replant the entire forest block itself and had failed to find a commercial partner to take on a joint venture.
The $32m joint venture with the Crown over more than 20 years means the trust now has funding to plant about 3600ha with pine and about 500ha with m?nuka. The deal is intended to return $63m to the Crown at harvest.
He was told on April 6 that 1100ha was "potentially available for 2018 planting". "Seedlings sufficient for the 1100ha of planting under the to-be- negotiated forestry right with the Ng?ti Hine Forestry Trust have been secured," Jones was told by officials.
"Early indications are that the area planted in 2018 will be less than half of the 1100ha originally indicated as a consequence of the degree of weed and scrub regrowth on sites harvested as many as six years ago." end quote.
And nobody thought of this? quote.
A Treasury briefing paper also released through the OIA showed Treasury urging Finance Minister Grant Robertson to reject a $116m grant scheme because of the "the lack of detail around grants" and a $127m partnership package, again because "little detail" came with the Budget bid. In the 2018 Budget, $240m was provided for both schemes. end quote.
Those pesky kids at Treasury getting it right again.
ACT ?is now claiming that cabinet is just rubber stamping Shane Jones's requests for money. quote.
The?NZ Herald?reports?that Shane Jones asked Cabinet to approve $240 million for the One Billion Trees programme without providing any detail on how it would be spent.
The Government?s economic advisor, Treasury, urged the Minister of Finance to say ?no?: ?The paper currently does not detail how the funding will be spent…no detail around how many trees, or what kind of trees will be delivered…grant categories and rates, and the operational design of the grant scheme has not yet been determined…there are still several important details still to be worked through.?
"It's almost unbelievable that a quarter of a billion dollars was requested, and approved, with so little detail about how it would be spent. end quote.
There really is something very cavalier about all this. Normally, ministers have to go through a rigorous process to get funding approved. It seems Shane Jones can just wave a magic wand and nobody asks why. Here is one reason why those questions should be asked. quote.
MPI's Crown forestry general manager Warwick Foran said several of the seedlings ordered had been diverted to other projects. Seedlings which had not been collected from nurseries had to be paid for.
Northland MP Matt King said Jones should be well enough connected locally to hear the warnings around the condition of the land. "Local knowledge tells me the land has reverted back to scrub because Ng?ti Hine could find no one to go in partnership with them to do a replant.
"So now it's going to be hugely expensive to replant that block. It's going to involve mulching, slashing and a lot more time and money." end quote.
Horticulture 101. Prepare the land for planting. This can take some time and effort, although if they are planting pine, the land probably doesn't need huge preparation. This is such a basic mistake, it is unthinkable that no one had taken control of it.
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South Korean President Park Geun Hye speaking during a plenary session of the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok, Russia, on Sept 3, 2016.PHOTO: EPA
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VLADIVOSTOK (Reuters) - South Korean President Park Geun Hye called on Russia and other major global players on Saturday (Sept 3) to increase pressure on North Korea to abandon its nuclear programme which could open the road for cooperation with Pyongyang.
"If we cannot prevent (North Korea's) development of nuclear weapons, the nuclear threat will become a reality soon," Ms Park told a business forum attended by Russian President Vladimir Putin and Japanese Prime Minister Shinz Abe in the Russian Far East city of Vladivostok. "In order for Pyongyang to take the decision to abandon its nuclear programme, it is important to give it a strong unified message."
Mr Putin, at the same forum, said that the international community needed to avoid any actions that would further heighten tensions with North Korea. He said Russia favoured bringing North Korea back to international negotiations over its nuclear programme. But he told a business forum in the Russian city of Vladivostok: "I think that any actions that would provoke further escalation are counter-productive."
Concerns about the threat posed by North Korea have spiralled since it conducted its fourth nuclear explosion in January and followed it up with a series of missile tests despite severe United Nations sanctions, which Pyongyang rejects as an infringement of its sovereignty.
In June, North Korea test-fired what appeared to be two mobile Musudan rockets, one of which climbed to 1,000km, or enough to fly more than 3,000km down range.
On Aug 24, Pyongyang also fired a submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) toward Japan that travelled 500km.
"If North Korea abandons its nuclear programme and chooses the path to openness, we, together with the international community, will be ready to actively support it," Ms Park said.
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Movie Review: Lego Movie is So Surprisingly Good That It Could Be Dubbed 'This Generation's Toy Story'
Published Monday, February 10, 2014 at 11:31 am
by Bob Garver
Feb. 10, 2014. If I could sum up the appeal of "The Lego Movie" in one word, that word would be "detail." There are so many intricacies and hidden treasures stuffed into every second of this film that it's easy to forget the delightful movie that's right in front of your face.
It's perfectly fine to enjoy the film at face value, but this film is going to earn itself a fan base that enjoys it for much more than that. These fans are going to watch the film frame by frame, catching all the subtle jokes, hidden messages, complex designs and extensive cameos. In an animated film based on a line of toy bricks and other bric-a-brac, I suppose it's appropriate to say that not a brick is wasted.
The plot is pretty standard for a kids' movie. An everyman named Emmett (Chris Pratt) discovers that he fulfills an ancient prophecy and somehow he's so special that only he can save the world. Nobody believes this, especially himself. But his positivity and resilience pay off and it turns out that he does have something to offer.
Other characters include a love interest (Elizabeth Banks) and mentor (Morgan Freeman). And of course there is a villain, the evil Lord Business (Will Farrell), who wants to control the Lego universe with a weapon called the Kragle. It's a bit of a plot hole that Lord Business's plan to use the Kragle to drench everyone is not going to have its intended effect; he needs to use it with more finesse if he's serious about succeeding.
I'm not sure what to make of the animation. On one hand, it's incredible awkward, especially when it comes to the character's movements. Lego characters just aren't built for mobility. But then again the movie needs to be given credit for doing absolutely everything it can with the clumsy physiques. This is a movie whose look has to play by an odd set of rules, but it's a better movie for sticking to them. The scenery, of course, is all excellent Lego designs.
A lot has been made of the film containing characters from multiple franchises and properties. The good news is that you see Batman, Superman, Green Lantern, Wonder Woman, Gandalf, Dumbledore, William Shakespeare, Abraham Lincoln, Shaquille O'Neal and plenty of others (there are some big surprises) in the same movie. The bad news is that there's disappointingly little interaction between them. If you're expecting this to be an unofficial "Justice League" movie, you will not be happy.
The humor is chaotic and constant. Perhaps it skews a bit too young at times, but there are plenty of jokes for all ages. My favorite gags are just the details of Emmet's everyday life, as little by little we become accustomed to his silly world. I also liked the voice work of Liam Neeson as a henchman with a split personality who's always arguing with himself. There are a ton of other funny moments, these are just the first that came to mind.
I don't want to give away too much about the last act of the movie, but there's no way I can't mention it at all. You can probably guess what it involves on some fuzzy mythology mentioned early in the film, but I had no idea it would play out the way it does. The sequence contains one of the saddest scenes I've ever seen in a movie, kids' or otherwise. "Lego Movie" doesn't seem like a film that would make such an emotional impact, but believe me, it does.
"The Lego Movie" is going to become a classic. It's being seen by a lot of people right out of the gate, it will be seen by a lot more people through its reputation and it will be seen many more times on repeat viewings. This generation has found its "Toy Story."
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CAVEAT EMPTOR |MERS Transfers May Have Cloud Homeownership With `Blighted Titles'
Posted on 01 October 2010. Tags: assignment of mortgage, bearer, blighted titles, caveat emptor, clouded titles, dinsfla blog, foreclosure fraud, forgeries, GMAC, HomeOwnership, jpmorgan chase, MERS, MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS INC., promissory notes, reston, transfer, virginain
This is what this site is about…"ClOUDED TITLES"! This quote below should have added that it was in 65 Million mortgages not in some. I hope you all read my NO. THERE'S NO LIFE AT MERS…I highly recommend it because it came the heart.
In some cases, mortgages were conveyed using the Reston, Virginia-based Mortgage Electronic Registration System, or MERS, designed to cover transfers among system members. Promissory notes also often were endorsed as payable to the bearer to avoid the need for multiple transfers. Both practices have been challenged in court.
Foreclosure Errors Cloud Homeownership With `Blighted Titles'
By Kathleen M. Howley – Oct 1, 2010 12:00 AM ET
U.S. courts are clogged with a record number of foreclosures. Next, they may be jammed with suits contesting property rights as procedural mistakes in those cases cloud titles establishing ownership.
"Defective documentation has created millions of blighted titles that will plague the nation for the next decade," said Richard Kessler, an attorney in Sarasota, Florida, who conducted a study that found errors in about three-fourths of court filings related to home repossessions.
Attorneys general in at least six states are investigating borrowers' claims that some of the nation's largest home lenders and loan servicers are making misstatements in foreclosures. JPMorgan Chase & Co. is asking judges to postpone foreclosure rulings, while Ally Financial Inc. said Sept. 21 its GMAC Mortgage unit would halt evictions. The companies said employees may have completed affidavits without confirming their accuracy.
Such mistakes may allow former owners to challenge the repossession of homes long after the properties are resold, according to Kessler. Ownership questions may not arise until a home is under contract and the potential purchaser applies for title insurance or even decades later as one deed researcher catches errors overlooked by another. A so-called defective title means the person who paid for and moved into a house may not be the legal owner.
'Nightmare Scenario'
"It's a nightmare scenario," said John Vogel, a professor at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. "There are lots of land mines related to title issues that may come to light long after we think we've solved the housing problem."
Almost one-fourth of U.S. home sales in the second quarter involved properties in some stage of mortgage distress, RealtyTrac Inc. said yesterday. In August, lenders took possession of record 95,364 homes and issued foreclosure filings to 338,836 homeowners, or one out of every 381 U.S. households, according to the Irvine, California-based data seller.
The biggest deficiency in foreclosure suits is missing or improperly handled documents, Kessler found in his study of court filings in Florida's Sarasota County. When home loans are granted, borrowers sign a promissory note outlining payment obligations and a separate mortgage that puts an encumbrance on the property in the lender's name. If mortgages are resold, both documents must be properly conveyed to prevent competing claims.
Most of the document errors involved mortgages that had been bundled into securities sold to investors, Kessler said. At the end of the U.S. real estate boom in 2005 and 2006, about 70 percent of the $6.1 trillion in mortgage lending was packaged into bonds, according to the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association in New York.
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RESTRAINED |'MERS' and any of its attorneys, agents, successors and assignees by NY SUPREME COURT
Posted on 30 August 2010. Tags: 81 Woodbine Street, auction, brooklyn, Druckman & Sinel, esq., Eviction, judge david vaughan, liboria munoz, LLP, MERS, Michael D. Leopold, mortgage electronic registration system, MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS INC., munoz, nominee, NY 11221, ny supreme court, restrained, restraining order, Supreme Court Kings County, TRO, U.S. Bank, us bank national association, v.
Supreme Court of the State of New York, held
in and for the County of KINGS, at
the Courthouse located at 360 Adams
Street, Brooklyn, NY on the 2nd day of
"WHY an order should not be made dismissing the within action due to Plaintiffs lack of standing; together with such other and further relief as this Court may deem just and equitable;"
ORDERED, that pending the hearing . . of this motion, the Plaintiff Mortgage Electronic Registration System as Nominee for US Bank, N.A., and any of its attorneys, agents, successors and assignees, be and are hereby restrained from implementing or any way pursuing the closing of title on any third party sale of the premises known as 81 Woodbine Street, Brooklyn, NY 11221; and Plaintiff Mortgage Electronic Registration System as Nominee for US Bank, N.A., and any of its attorneys, agents, successors and assignees be and are hereby restrained from evicting Liborio Munoz and his family and any other occupants from the premises known as 81 Woodbine Street, Brooklyn, NY 11221.
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'CAVEAT EMPTOR' |Family buys WORTHLESS WELLS FARGO MORTGAGE at AUCTION
Posted on 22 July 2010. Tags: auction, california, caveat emptor, deed of trust, foreclosure fraud, mistake, mortgage, wells fargo, worthless
Boulder Creek family bought worthless second mortgage from Wells Fargo at foreclosure auction
By JONDI GUMZ
Posted: 07/22/2010 01:30:01 AM PDT
… (A nearly $100,000 payment landed Hayley Strand, her fiance Bryan Janbay and her parents Randall and Roberta Strand a piece of paper, not the house they thought they'd purchased near Boulder Creek.)
BOULDER CREEK — Roberta and Randall Strand thought they were getting a great deal on a foreclosure and helping their daughter and future son-in-law become homeowners. Instead they are holding a worthless second mortgage.
The home they bought for just under $98,000 and fixed up for $25,000 is scheduled for a foreclosure auction this afternoon to satisfy a debt of more than $529,000.
They offered lender Wells Fargo $75,000, but it was to no avail.
Wells Fargo spokeswoman Michele Ashley issued a statement saying, "We believe the foreclosure auction of the property on which the Strand family bid was done correctly, and are confident the legal resolution to this matter will bear that out. Currently, Wells Fargo has presented the family with options that can help them through this matter."
The Strands saw a newspaper notice last fall about the home, which is a mile from theirs, slated for a foreclosure auction. The unpaid debt was listed as $97,604.
Nestled under the redwoods on Cypress Trees Lane, the place needed work but their daughter, Hayley, 24, and her fiance, Bryan Janbay, 28, were willing to put in the effort.
Roberta looked up the property records. She saw there were two mortgages, a first and a second, recorded on the same date with the same lender. She figured the lender was auctioning the first and that the second mortgage would be wiped out.
"The price was right," her husband said.
They took out a mortgage
on their own home to make their offer. At the auction on the steps of the county Governmental Center in November, they were the only bidders.The house had been stripped, and they spent $25,000 on improvements — windows, paint, carpet, lighting and appliances.
In January, before Hayley and Bryan could take out a mortgage to pay them back, a notice arrived from Wachovia Bank, saying the previous owners owed $529,259 on their loan.
Roberta thought it was a mistake.
"I tried speaking to someone at Wachovia, but no one would speak to me because my name was not on the loan," she said.
She sent certified letters to Wachovia and didn't hear back until April, when a foreclosure sale notice was posted on the property.
"Rather than foreclose on both loans at the same time, Wachovia chose to foreclose, market and sell the worthless junior lien, purporting it to be the real property, which is what we purchased," she said.
The family sued Wells Fargo, which acquired Wachovia, and Cal-Western Reconveyance, which posted legal notices of the sale, claiming deceit, fraud and wrongful foreclosure. They want their money back.
The Strands' attorney, Steve Vondran of Newport Beach, argued that "Wells Fargo and Cal-Western have set up a system that allows them to mutually profit off the sale of worthless second mortgages."
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Mabry v. Orange County Superior Court CC 2923.5 | Petition to the Supreme Court of California
Posted on 16 July 2010. Tags: auction, b.daviesmd6605, cc 2923.5, deed of trust, foreclosure, mabry v. orange county superior court, Supreme Court of California, trustee sale, violation of perata mortgage relieft act
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Does a lender's failure to explore options to prevent foreclosure in clear violation of Civil Code section 2923.5 affect title to foreclosed property when the property is purchased — not by a bona fide purchaser for value — but by the very lender who violated the statute?
NATURE OF THE CASE AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY
This case arises under the recently enacted Civil Code section 2923.5 which requires residential mortgage lenders to explore alternatives to foreclosure with borrowers before initiating non-judicial foreclosure proceedings
The is a Plaintiff Petition for review of cc 2923.5 regarding reversal of all violations of the act. The decision in the Appeal Court IV. Division 3 has shown no tender, no preemption etc. This goes for all people regardless if they have been foreclosed. If foreclosed with sale asking Court to review reversal for all.
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Homeowners Associations: The New Foreclosure
Posted on 15 July 2010. Tags: auction, condo association, foreclosure, hoa, home owners association
DinSFLA here…Keep up with your association dues NO MATTER WHAT! Make sure the checks are cashed!
Published: Thursday, 15 Jul 2010 | 11:44 AM ET
By: Diana Olick
CNBC Real Estate Reporter
"I had no idea that they could foreclose," Tony Goodman tells me.
Neither did I, but Goodman's homeowners association did just that in April because he owed $769 in back dues.
"I owed the HOA very little money in comparison to what I owed my mortgage company and my mortgage company, which is Chase, bent over backwards to help me," Goodman adds. Even as he was working on a loan modification, Goodman's HOA, Lookout Canyon Creek in San Antonio, TX took title to his home on the steps of the Bexar County Courthouse. They purchased the home for $2,019, about the amount of the dues plus attorneys fees.
Apparently this is not at all uncommon these days, as struggling borrowers let the dues slide, thinking it's more important to throw all their cash into their mortgage payments.
Thirty-four states allow for judicial foreclosures by HOAs, although the rules and redemption periods differ. The redemption period is the amount of time that a homeowner has to pay up all the dues and fees after the HOA has officially taken title to the home.
Texas has a 180 day redemption period.
Florida's is just 10 days.
"People don't understand that by failing to pay the association dues they can lose their home and be put in the street," says Florida attorney Robert Tankel. He represents HOAs in Florida and his business is positively booming.
Continue reading… CNBC
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FORECLOSED HOMEOWNER in FLORIDA Illegally EVICTED!
Posted on 13 July 2010. Tags: auction, florida, foreclosure, Gmac Mortgage, illegaleviction, jodie meyers, roach, trespassing
I will try to get the details as to what happened and by which 'MILL'. They know exactly "BY LAW" if there is no objection to the sale they have 10 days before they can enter and take title!
Here is another form of Palmetto Bugs at their Best!
Foreclosure wait period can lead to problems
By DUANE MARSTELLER – dmarsteller@bradenton.com
Jodie Meyers knew she was losing her Hollybush Terrace home to foreclosure, but never expected the bank to be so quick in taking it.
She and her three children already were in the process of moving out when GMAC Mortgage won a foreclosure auction of the four-bedroom house last month. Just three days after the auction, the locks had been changed — even though the family still had personal belongings inside.
That angered Meyers, who contends that amounted to trespassing because GMAC couldn't legally take ownership for another week.
"They should have played by the rules and they didn't," she said.
Neither the bank's attorneys or the real estate agent involved in the case returned calls Friday. But foreclosure experts said while the lock-changing was done unusually quickly, it appears the lender and its representatives acted within their rights to secure and protect the property.
Still, experts said the episode highlights a little-known and sometimes gray area of the foreclosure auction process: A waiting period before winning bidders can take possession.
"It has caused some problems," said Shari Olefson, a Fort Lauderdale real estate attorney and author of "Foreclosure Nation: Mortgaging the American Dream," Olefson is not involved in the Meyers' case.
State law requires winning bidders to wait at least 10 full days before they can take title to a foreclosed property, in case there are any objections to the auction or new filings in the foreclosure court case. The waiting period begins when a court clerk issues a certificate of sale, usually on the same day as the auction.
If there are no objections or new court filings at the end of that 10-day window, then the clerk can issue a certificate of title.
But winning bidders, usually lenders, or their representatives sometimes change locks, board up windows and take other action to secure the property before that time is up — especially if they suspect it is abandoned or vacant, experts say.
"They're mostly worried about further damage to the property," said Dawn Bates-Buchanan, managing attorney of Gulf Coast Legal Services Inc. in Bradenton.
Read more: http://www.bradenton.com/2010/07/12/2424215/foreclosure-wait-period-can-lead.html#ixzz0tZMQ8Esm
Posted in auction, Eviction, foreclosure, foreclosure fraud, foreclosure mills, foreclosures, GMAC, STOP FORECLOSURE FRAUD, trespassing0 Comments
DIRTY, ROTTEN, SCOUNDRELS
Posted on 03 July 2010. Tags: auction, foreclosure
Kick a family when they are down why dontcha! Lets see them try to ring my bell or climb my fence…they might encounter a huge pair of enormous 4 legged puppies for trespassing!
Finding Gold in Them Thar Foreclosures
With eye for bargains and stomach for risk, investors sift through wreckage of housing bust
By ADAM GELLER AP National Writer
July 3, 2010 (AP)
GILBERT, Ariz. — If we're going to search for gold in the wreckage of the mortgage crisis, then 6:57 a.m. in front of 1009 W. Juanita Ave. is as good a time and place as any to start.
The Cooper Ranch subdivision, tucked behind an industrial park 25 minutes from downtown Phoenix, is just beginning to stir. But when Casey Doran pulls his pickup to the curb, the tan stucco house has already seen a steady trickle of visitors. From under the visor of his ball cap, Doran sizes up the first foreclosure of the day.
"Still occupied," he says, nodding to a green plastic tag hanging from the meter by the garage, proof that someone's paying the electric bill. He leans on the bell; when no one answers, he tries the door. The house resists his advances, leaving Doran squinting into the darkness behind the blinds. He tugs on the back gate, peering over the wall into a yard corralling chest-high tumbleweeds.
"He isn't much of a grass person," Doran says, snapping pictures with his iPhone.
In a little more than three hours, the intelligence Doran gathers in these 10 minutes of reconnaissance will be put to the test. That's when 1009 W. Juanita and nearly 600 homes like it are scheduled for auction to the highest bidder.
Maybe, with bidding set to open at $105,000, the house is a bargain.
Or maybe it's a mistake, waiting to drag an investor under.
Either way, there's little time to ponder this 1,631-square-foot gamble. But there will certainly be other chances.
After all, 50,000 homes clog the county's foreclosure pipeline and more are added every day. But before you jump to buy, know that you'll have plenty of company.
At the top of the housing boom, certain cities drew investors like magnets. In Phoenix, speculators bought up houses, largely with borrowed cash, trying to take advantage of fast-rising prices. Those who didn't sell in time were stung when the market collapsed.
But early last year, a new crop of investors — many buying with their own cash — ventured in, sensing opportunity. In the months since, the share of homes bought by investors at daily auctions has multiplied more than fivefold.
"These are unique times. Very, very unique times," says Tom Ruff of The Information Market, which analyzes Valley real estate data. "I think the best way to describe it is the Wild West."
The scene unsettles some, wary that investors could dump homes if the market weakens or take advantage of individual buyers or renters. Others are troubled at banks' willingness to settle for less at auction rather than give more substantial concessions to homeowners locked into crushing loans. But something's got to be done with all these overmortgaged, underappreciated houses.
"The investors are a tool to help get those properties moved into new hands," says Diane Drain, a Phoenix bankruptcy attorney and real estate trustee. "At this point, the dam is so broken. How do you stop the flow? I don't know how you do it other than one little stick at a time."
During the boom, Steve Vadas sold title insurance on thousands of homes. Now, with business dried up, he's landed back at the job that gave him his start — in the shadow of the Maricopa County Courthouse, auctioning foreclosures.
It's hard to recognize the place.
In the old days, Vadas stood on the courthouse steps reading lists of foreclosed homes aloud and almost always only to himself, eyed like a crazy man by the occasional passer-by.
"Nobody would bid on them," he says. "I literally was reading them to the air."
No more. On a May afternoon nine years later, a crowd of 60 churns the plaza outside the courthouse doors in downtown Phoenix. Dressed in board shorts and wraparound shades, they scan pages-long printouts of houses and talk furtively into headsets to unseen investors. Five auctioneers compete simultaneously for their attention.
Once Vadas, who conducts sales for Trustee's Assistance Corp., handled 60 to 70 foreclosures a month. Some days now, he and fellow auctioneers run through that many in an hour or two.
Even in good times, some homeowners failed to pay their mortgages, requiring a process for lenders to recoup losses. In Arizona, they're called trustee's sales, and in a steady economy most were little more than formalities. Foreclosed homes were usually offered for the amount owed and, with few bidders, nearly always claimed by the bank holding the loan.
But that was before home prices here plunged by half. Before debt-saddled homeowners started abandoning houses in the dark. Before lenders who never intended to get into the real estate business ended up holding the keys.
In the last year, they've done what any merchant with few customers and shelves full of stuff of sometimes dubious quality would do to avoid taking delivery of even more: Slash prices. Cash only. No guarantees. No refunds.
"It's capitalism at its finest — or at its worst," Vadas says.
This is not a game for the faint of heart or wallet. Stories circulate of buyers who thought they were getting a deal only to realize they'd bought a second loan, when the first loan holder gets the house. Or of investors who bought a house with a tenant who wouldn't leave — or had already left, taking cabinets, toilets, even the pipes.
"You can tell all the newbies," says Randy Lewis, who runs bidding service 3rd Party Buyer LLC, scanning the crowd clumped around the auctioneers. "They're all up at the front, but not bidding."
But plenty of others have jumped in, posting the required $10,000 cashier's check and trying to leverage bits of insider knowledge, marketplace dynamics and a tolerance for risk. The result is a furious chase repeated daily — Lewis calls it "chaos by statute" — that begins as soon as the opening bids are posted for the following morning's sales.
"You've heard of storm chasers?" he says. "We're deal chasers."
On to the third house of Doran's morning: 1508 E. Weathervane Lane. Opening bid: $130,100.
A competitor exits the gate of the white stucco house just as Doran, who scouts homes for bidding service Posted Properties.com, pulls up. "It's vacant," he says. "You can go inside."
Just past the pool — veined with cracks that formed as it stood empty under the desert sun (note to investor: could cost $5,000 to repair) — the sliding door yields easily. The place is empty of life except for a moldy loaf of raisin bread in the refrigerator.
On the back door, someone has left a memento of affection painted on the glass: "You rock. I love you."
Doran takes a few notes about this house, bought in December 2006 for $300,000. On the way out, he runs into a woman from next door. She tells him the former residents have been "stealing" fixtures out of the house for the past month.
"Hopefully soon we'll have a new neighbor," she says.
By the summer of 2008, Trish Don Francesco was ready to try the Phoenix housing market again.
Her company, Metropolitan Marketing & Management, had spent the boom assembling portfolios of houses for wealthy investors. In 2004, she urged her clients to sell, believing the market had peaked. Instead, most held tight as prices continued to crest, then plunged.
Now, though, seeing houses listed for less than $100,000, she was intrigued. On a Saturday morning that August, Don Francesco and a few of her employees drove to the Camelback Inn to check out an auction of houses.
"It was like being in a candy store," says daughter Makayla Don Francesco, also a broker. Houses were going for as little as $55,000. In a few hours, Metropolitan snapped up 17.
"I said to myself either the world is coming to an end or we're going to be really, really rich. I don't know which," Trish Don Francesco recalls.
The company found even more enticing deals buying homes directly out of foreclosure. In the months since, Don Francesco has bought nearly 350 homes, spending a few thousand dollars to fix each one and then rent them, often to families who surrendered a previous home to foreclosure. Over the next year, it plans to increase its stake to 1,500 houses, buying at trustee's sales on behalf of investors looking for a steady income stream from rents.
But investors are far from the only players in this game, which trades in the currency of information as much as cash.
It begins each weekday afternoon, when trustees post the opening bids for as many as 1,000 houses. By the next morning, bidders have whittled down their list of targets. Around dawn, Doran and other property runners zigzag across the Valley to check out houses, starting with those slated for 10 a.m sale. They report back to companies like Posted Properties, which charges investors a fee to bid and buy at auction.
Other drivers work for wholesalers, who buy up armfuls of homes and flip them to investors, often within hours, for a quick profit. Still other homes are bought by fix-and-flippers, who renovate and resell for a short-term gain, or investors who buy to rent and hold for a few years.
When a family buys a house, it's all about emotion. But foreclosure investing requires setting feelings aside, players say, and making a cold calculation on square footage, location and fixup costs. On the courthouse steps, bidders trade bets with seeming disinterest. When the price goes too high, they walk away.
But to say that all emotion is shelved overlooks the X factor drawing bidders. It's the edginess of the gamble and the pursuit of a deal.
Doug Hopkins, Posted Properties' CEO, recalls the morning he tagged along with a friend for his first trustee's sale 11 years ago.
"I went down there and saw what houses were selling for and I had never known that that existed," Hopkins said. "I remember coming out of there and calling my dad and I said, 'My life just changed.'"
At first, Doran isn't sure what to make of today's fifth house: 6233 S. Parkside Drive. Opening bid: $67,000.
Fresh oil stains the floor of the carport. A package from Amazon.com sits unclaimed on the step. No one answers.
It's an open secret in Phoenix foreclosure investing that, facing a door that won't budge, some runners simply drill the lock.
"Applicant will be required to do what it takes to get the maximum amount of information for our investors," one bidding service stipulated in a recent ad for drivers on Craigslist. "This is not for a meek person. Must be an outgoing, forward and fearless individual."
To Doran, whose real estate license lets him key in to some houses, the tactics of a few tar his trade unfairly. But at Parkside, the back door slides open without resistance. Whoever lived here is gone, leaving only a copy of "Dear Tooth Fairy" on a windowsill. Doran scans the kitchen.
"I'm always afraid I'm going to find a dead body in one of these," he says, chuckling as he reaches for the refrigerator handle.
Not yet. But he has found cats and lizards floating in abandoned pools, and once, a dead puppy. A few weeks ago, at an empty house in Chandler, he found an Alaskan husky, very much alive, left behind with a bag of dog food.
At this stop, though, the biggest complications are a roof that needs replacing and the house's size — it has just two bedrooms and a single bath, limiting its appeal.
"Somebody will buy it … for a rental," he says.
During the boom, borrowing was relatively quick and easy. But buying at a trustee's sale demands payment in full by 5 p.m. the next day, without an appraisal. Forget about asking a bank for a loan.
That's where Scott Gould comes in.
At 8:40 a.m. on a Wednesday, Gould tilts back in a black office chair, waiting for two phones and a Blackberry to ring so he can put his money to work. Dressed in shorts, sneakers and white golf shirt, he looks more like the gymnast he once was than a banker. On the wall hangs a gift from his wife — a "loan shark" assembled from Monopoly money.
Gould is a "hard money" lender, by some account's the valley's busiest. Last year he loaned investors the cash to buy 1,300 homes at trustee's sales, at an annualized interest rate of 18 percent, although most repay within a few months. Call Gould for a loan and the answer comes back in 20 minutes, once his staff reviews sales of comparable homes.
"The most important thing at the end is, do we think the guy can make money," he says.
Gould started managing money at 11, already earning the equivalent of a teacher's paycheck mowing yards and house sitting. He jumped into lending after the Black Friday stock collapse in 1987, when the Phoenix real estate market was tanking. Today, at 52, he and his partners have $85 million in loans out and a goal of $700,000 in new deals each day.
The phone rings. A fix-and-flip investor asks Gould for his opinion about a house in Mesa.
"The inside, from what we could see, looked good. It smelled good," the man says.
Gould is skeptical, noting the investor is relying on just one other recent sale to gauge value. He counsels bidding $1 over the asking price and no more.
The phone rings again.
"Good morning, Brad. I got a check sitting here hot for you," Gould says.
This morning, though, is slow, with just three new loans for homes auctioned the previous day. But at the office of Metropolitan Marketing and Management, a few miles away, a new round of sales keeps Makayla Don Francesco's ear to the phone.
In pursuit of homes that will rent easily with minimal maintenance, she bids only on those built in 1995 or later, between 1500 and 3300 square feet. A few other criteria narrow the day's list of 618 scheduled sales to just 17 targets. Don Francesco pares the list to 9, eliminating any backing up to major roads or high-tension lines.
When the auctions begin, Metropolitan staffers on site are outbid on two houses and in the chaos, miss two more. But at the 10 a.m. sale, a house in Phoenix opens at $70,000 and Don Francesco grabs it for $72,300, before discovering it has two bedrooms and a den, limiting its appeal to family renters. Then, at the 11 a.m. sale, a house in Buckeye opens at $63,218 and she snags it for $66,000, despite uncertainty about whether it has three or four bedrooms.
"There's a lot of risk and you are playing with somebody else's money," Don Francesco says. "Some days it is terrifying."
But then she reminds herself that, at these prices, the deals may last for only so long.
It's almost noon and this will be the 10th and final house of Doran's morning: 2701 Val Vista Drive. Opening bid: $387,600.
"Holy moly," he says, pulling in. The house is very big. So are the mounds of discarded mattresses and other garbage piled in the overgrown yard. Two cars sit in the driveway.
"It looks like they started on it and quit," he says, pointing to a recently replastered wall painted in three different shades. He knocks on the back door, then the front. Not a sound. But the place is unlocked. Doran rolls his eyes and walks in.
"Somebody's still living here," he says, walking past dishes in the sink and rooms almost devoid of furniture. "This is odd as hell."
At the living room, he stops and tilts his head. Music floats up from downstairs — and a pair of men's voices. Doran takes one last picture, then moves quickly and quietly toward the door.
"Not worth getting shot over, I can tell you that," he says.
By Thursday, workmen have ripped out and replaced the ceiling in the house on Weathervane that Doran checked out two mornings ago. And in a kitchen in Scottsdale, Neil Lende, a real estate agent who invests in houses given up for lost, is trying to decide where to begin.
The house, bought at a trustee's sale Tuesday and paid for Wednesday with a hard money loan, has gold-tone ceiling fans and a "popcorn" ceiling that will have to go. The pool is so green with algae it might as well be bottomless.
It's hardly a wreck. But in a valley full of empty houses, what makes this one — or any of the hundreds of others for sale on the courthouse steps — a singular opportunity?
It's clear only when Lende opens the door to another investment in a subdivision called Paradise Manor, 10 minutes away
"When we first came to this one, this stuff was growing all the way out to here," says Charlie Sugarman, project manager for Lende's fix and flip business, pointing to shrubs that blocked the path to the door. Neighbors reported that the previous owner, a chiropractor, moved out in the middle of the night. Inside, Lende found the kitchen plastered with coffee grounds.
Now, the interior is repainted in silver sage, fitted with brushed metal door knobs. The kitchen cabinets, refinished in cream and mocha, snuggle against stainless steel appliances. A sign over the counter welcomes the next chef. "Live. Laugh. Love," it says.
Lende paid $194,651 for the house in early March, then spent $35,000 to renovate. "We knew we could make it really cute," he says.
The first weekend on the market, he had two offers. Tomorrow it goes to closing, sold to a retiree couple from New Jersey. For two months work — and risk — he'll pocket a $40,000 profit.
But while the new owners know they're buying a foreclosure, they almost certainly don't realize the pipeline it has traveled.
"I don't think they can envision it how it used to be, which is good," Lende says. "Because this is the reality now."
Adam Geller is a national writer for The Associated Press based in New York. He can be reached at features(at)ap.org.
Copyright © 2010 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
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Bank to return woman's home sold without notice
Posted on 27 June 2010. Tags: auction, bank of america, colorado, dinsfla, foreclosure fraud, Freddie Mac, REO, Stephanie Martin
Julie Hayden FOX31 Investigative Reporter
WHEAT RIDGE, Colo – The Wheat Ridge woman who had the Bank of America sell her house out from under her could be getting her home back.
On Thursday FOX31 News first reported 61-year-old Stephanie Martin's story. She's lived in her home for 20 years and now takes care of her 84-year-old mother and 7-year-old granddaughter.
Martin never had any trouble making her house payments, until last June when her legs were crushed in a horrible accident at the Target store where she worked.
She applied for and was accepted into a Freddie Mac program that lowered her mortgage payments and stopped any foreclosure proceedings.
"She is the poster child for this type of program. Somebody who is doing everything they can but, hit some hard times and needed a little bit of help," her lawyer, Darrell Damschen says.
But, even though her participation in the program was supposed to stop all foreclosure proceedings, Bank of America earlier this month sold her house at a foreclosure auction, to itself.
Martin says they never sent any warning or notification. And she found out about the foreclosure only after her lawyer coincidentally saw the public notice at the courthouse.
"I think this is a situation where the Bank of America made a mistake," says Damschen. "They're not communicating internally at all."
"It's clear the sale could have never been appropriate," he adds.
For nearly a month, Martin unsuccessfully tried to get some answers or help from the Freddie Mac program and the bank.
After she contacted FOX31 News and KHOW Radio Talk Show host Peter Boyles, her case received attention.
She and her lawyer say the Bank of America called them Friday and said they are going to rescind the sale and give Martin her house back.
They indicated they will also work with her to keep the lower house payments.
Martin is relieved, but says after all she's been through, she'll believe it when she sees it.
"I hope this is true because I've been told so many things."
Posted in auction, bank of america, foreclosure, foreclosures, Freddie Mac, mortgage modification1 Comment
Video: It's time for banks to do more to help homeowners in foreclosure
Posted on 25 June 2010. Tags: banking, bankruptcy, california, Consumer, David Lazarus, foreclosure fraud, loan modification, LPS, Real Estate
This is exactly what is going on with these Scams. Just as in this post I made prior this homeowner tried to do all they can to work with their lender to get help, modify and pay them current market value. Instead they foreclosed.
In this case they owed about 300K, according to tax records LPS, yes Lender Processing Services inc. came in and purchased it for $74,100 at the auction. Now the home is pending sale for $59K. Sold it for less in a matter of a month??? Okkkaaaay?
How does this make ANY kind of sense? I can only see it making FRAUD sense…these homeowners vouch not to give up contacted the listing agent about the scam as well as mentioning Law Offices of David J. Stern the foreclosing firm for the lender. This does not make ANY sense what so ever and we need to continue exposing this fraud!
David Lazarus June 24, 2010 | 10:56 pm Los Angeles Times
Consumer columnist David Lazarus says banks should end their one-size-fits-all policies and help more homeowners who are in foreclosure.
Take the Fontana woman he writes about In his latest column. She wasn't obligated to meet the mortgage obligations her husband left when he was killed in a car accident. But she wanted to stay in the home and tried negotiating lower payments with the bank.
Should the bank do more to help her?
Posted in auction, Bank Owned, conspiracy, CONTROL FRAUD, foreclosure, foreclosure fraud, foreclosures, mortgage modification, shadow foreclosures0 Comments
LENDER PROCESSING SERVICES (LPS) BUYING UP HOMES AT AUCTIONS? Take a look to see if this address is on your documents!
Posted on 01 June 2010. Tags: 1270 NORTHLAND DR STE 200 MENDOTA HEIGHTS MN, address, auction, buying, foreclosure fraud, Lender Processing Services Inc., Lender Processing Svc (651) 234-3500 1270 Northland Dr Ste 200 Mendota Heights, LPS, MN 55120
Lender Processing Svc
1270 Northland Dr Ste 200
Mendota Heights, MN 55120
Take a good look at the Buyer and the address in the document below. I investigated a little more and found multiple addresses below in forums and placed them here for you to see.
If you take a look at the Buyer in this Title the "Certificate Of Title" was issued under IndyMac Federal Bank…HUH? IndyMac FB does not exist…This seriously needs to be investigated! How are these being sold under failed banks?? Where does the money go after the auction and from the new sale?
Everyone needs to look at their documentation and look carefully for this address. If you have them under this address please forward them to StopForeclosureFraud@gmail.com.
OTHERS LISTED WITH 1270 Northland Dr. Ste 200 Mendota Heights, MN 55120
Fidelity National Foreclosure Solutions 1270 Northland Drive Suite 200.Mendota Heights, MN 55120 · (651)234-3500
Foreclosure & Bankruptcy Services. 1270 Northland Drive, Suite 200, Telephone, (651) 234-3500. Mendota Heights, MN 55120, Fax, (651) 234-3600 …
http://www.tampagov.net/CEBAgendas/20071001.pdf
WELLS FARGO BANK NA TRUSTEE
1270 NORTHLAND DR SUITE 200
INSPECTOR: Eddie Prieto 274-5545
DEUTSCHE BANK NATIONAL TRUST
INSPECTOR: RANDEL SMITH 274-5545
http://www.newspapernotice.com/details.aspx?id=1889632
Current Beneficiary: MERS as nominee for Aegis Mortgage Corp Care of / Servicer Aegis Mortgage Corp/Fidelity C/O Fidelity National Foreclosure Solutions 1270 Northland Drive. Suite 200 Mendota Heights, MN 55120
http://www.geodetix.com/ftp/APPRAISAL_INFO_SAMPLE.TXT
BANK ONE NATIONAL ASSN TRUSTEE
MENDOTA HEIGHTS MN 55120
http://ao.lackawannacounty.org/details.php?mapno=14204010007
DEUTSCHE BANK NATL TRUST CO
http://www.stpete.org/pdf/vacantandboarded.pdf
WELLS FARGO BANK NA TRE
MENDOTA HEIGHTS MN
LONG BEACH MTG LOAN TRUST
1270 NORTHLAND DR STE 20
DEUTSCHE BANK NATL TRUST CO T
http://www.alsb.uscourts.gov/credclaim.pdf
HomEq Servicing Corp.
1270 Northland Dr., #200
Mendota MN
55120-
IndyMac Bank-FSB;The Leader
Mortgage Co.
1270 Northland Drive, Suite 200
Mendota Heights
Saxon Mortgage; Homecomings
http://madison-co.com/elected_offices/tax_assessor/display_parcel.php?pn=082I-29%20-007/02.29&street_name=v
FEDERAL NATIONAL MORTGAGE ASSOC
MN 55120
http://gis.meridian.mi.us/assessing/details_process.asp?IDValue=33-02-02-06-378-004
JP MORGAN CHASE BANK
MN 55120http://www.co.bibb.ga.us/TaxBills/NFBill.asp?id=346133
BANK ON E AS TRUSTEE
MENDOTA HEIGHTS MN 55120-
http://www2.county.allegheny.pa.us/RealEstate/General.asp?CurrBloLot=0079B00251000000&SearchBloLot=0079B00251000000&SingleResult=True
JP MORGAN CHASE BANK (TRUSTEE)
http://www.lehighcounty.org/Assessment/puba.cfm?doc=HeroesGrant_form.cfm&pin=640703621999&parnum=1
WELLS FARGO BANK NA
MENDOTA HEIGHTS MN, 55120
Contact Matrix and Team Breakdown of FIS Foreclosure Solutions, Inc.
operations for the month of December 2007
Select Portfolio Servicing Inc.
1270 Northland Drive, Ste. 200
http://www.dailycourt.com/bankruptcy.php/3:05-bk-39314/
Case #3:2005-bk-39314
Select Portfolio Servicing, Inc.
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SD Times news digest: Spell's new AI platform, Google's app translation service, and Rust 1.32
AI startup Spell has released a new deep learning and AI platform that is meant to empower teams to build using AI. Platform features include a new design, Organizations, Hyperparameter search, and dedicated clusters.
In addition, Spell has announced that it raised $15 million in funding, which it will use for continued innovations to help advance larger organizations, while still continuing to bring AI to the global workforce.
"AI may seem so advanced, but behind the scenes, 90 percent of the work is often spent on the basic mechanics of getting data, software and computation in the right place," said Serkan Piantino, co-founder & CEO of Spell. "Rather than having to start from scratch to build dozens of machines or physically move data from place to place, teams and businesses can run real experiments from a laptop at a coffee shop."
Google unveils new app translation service
Google has announced a new app translation service to help simplify the localization of apps. The new service will help localize user interface strings, store listings, in-app product names, and universal app campaign ads.
"At Google, we consider translation a key component of making the world's information universally accessible and useful. This commitment extends not only to localizing our own products, but also to providing tools to help developers and translators more easily localize their apps," Chris Yang, program manager for the translation service at Google, wrote in a post.
Rust 1.32.0 now available
Rust 1.32.0 is now available. This version includes quality of life improvements, switches the default allocator, and makes additional functions "const."
For those who have installed Rust using rustup, the latest version can be obtained in just one command. Otherwise, the rustup can be obtained from Rust's website.
Google showcases Scratch projects built using Blocky
In collaboration with the MIT Media Lab, Google released Scratch 3.0 earlier this month. Scratch is a block-based programming language meant to teach kids how to code.
Up until Scratch 2.0, the language was built on Flash, but now several of its projects are now built on top of Blocky, which is a library for easily adding block programming to apps. Now, the company is showcasing some of the projects it has built using Blocky, such as Code a Snowflake and Google Doodle. More information is available here.
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This four year programme enables students to become architectural technologists with additional advanced skills in Building Information Technology (BIM). Students will become competent in the 'science of building' and the production of construction drawings and specifications for complex building types, allowing them to become technical members of construction design teams. Student will also acquire an advanced knowledge in the application of BIM methodology which is an integrated collaborative approach for building project delivery between the relevant professionals, i.e. engineers, quantity surveyors, architectural professions and the building contractor. The inclusion of an Industrial Placement (work experience) module and modules in Project Management, Property Pathology and Refurbishment, Value Engineering and Construction Collaboration Technologies, will also enable the graduate to become an interdisciplinary practitioner within the construction industry.
The B.Sc. (Hons.) in Architectural and Building Information Modelling (BIM) Technology is the only undergraduate programme in Ireland promoting BIM at its core.
As the Irish construction industry emerges from recession it has become evident that the existing established practices of project design and delivery are evolving in line with international best practice. BIM, (Building Information Modelling) is a collaborative based approach to construction project delivery from inception through to completion and facility management. This practice has been on-going for several years at a European and global level. The skillset of the AEC (Architectural, Engineering & Construction) professional re-entering this sector must evolve to contribute to this redefined workplace.
At the School of Engineering in WIT we have been integrating a BIM methodology into all our programmes, specifically across the Departments of Architecture and Built Environment. We have altered approach from CAD based delivery to Intelligent Modelling of the construction process.
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There actually is a "most lethal" broadhead out there, Its one that flies true from your bow and is placed in the vitals of the game you are hunting. Accuracy first. It has to hit what you are aiming at (this requires you to shoot them preseason to verify) Then it has to be razor sharp and of good construction. If that describes your broadhead, it is the most lethal broadhead available.
I think the toxics are what you get when you have something people spend a lot of money on (broadheads) and that has long been already perfected.
I think a broadhead should offer just the right mixture of penetration and cutting surface but that combination was discover long ago with simple 3-4 blade heads.
Now it seems more about reinventing the wheel to make money.
Slick trick,Muzzy,thunderhead,G5 montec etc........they already got it right and are hard to compete with on the market so companies have to come up with heads like the toxic.
Rockport-have you ever seen the blood trail the Toxic leaves with good placement? Since I started using them I have better blood trails than anything I've ever used. I've tried most of the different configurations over the years too. It looks like somebody walked along slashing blood out of a bucket with a good hit with the Toxics. You really should try them some time personally before dismissing them as gimmicky. If you have tried them personally I apologize.
Were you having trouble tracking well hit deer before?
What has your biggest or most occurring problem shooting deer with a bow?
I bet blood trails on well hit deer is not even in the conversation. Penetration is a much bigger issue assuming you hit the font half of the deer.
I assure you a toxic broadhead won't leave as good of a blood trail with only a high entrance wound and lodged in the far shoulder as a simple broadhead will penetrating that far shoulder.
Shooting from a tree and not penetrating that far shoulder is a much bigger problem than the amount of blood from a well hit deer.
Not penetrating the back shoulder is simply a way bigger cause of lost deer than not enough blood on well hit deer.
I bet you have never in your life lost a deer that had both lungs popped and a pass through and the best design to get both of those things is a simple fixed head.
Last edited by rockport; 09-08-2015 at 09:35 AM.
As a matter of fact the blood trails ARE a lot heavier and my preferred shot is low lung/heart so the arrow nails the bottom of both lungs and the top of the heart between. High placed shots are always going to be harder to track because more blood stays in the body cavity instead of draining. I have had several complete pass throughs using Toxic since they came out. Not only do I keep whatever broadhead I'm using scary sharp, but I also go to the extra length of costing the head with petroleum jelly to keep the blades from rusting. I get called several times every year to help find lost deer, so I've tracked a quite a lot of deer over the years, both mine and other people's deer. The more blood trail you have, the better. This becomes crucial when trailing an animal in rain or other conditions where blood trail has diminished or harder to see. My questions stands-have you ever personally tried them before condemning them?
No I haven't tried them. I don't need to run out and try every new broadhead with a huge "cutting surface" to know what that causes to happen.
Now my questions stand as well.
1. How many well hit deer have you seen lost from lack of a blood trail?
2. How many deer have you seen lost from lack of penetration causing only an entry wound?
The broadhead industry addresses things based on marketing. We see it year after year just on this forum alone. People will lose deer every year because they used a broadhead with to much cutting surface and didn't get a pass through and the only wound on the animal is a high entry wound.
What we won't see is people losing animals because they put a broadhead with a moderate cutting surface plum through the vitals of an animal and didn't get plenty of blood to track that animal.
What we will see is people losing animals because their broadheads with a huge cutting surface got lodged in the far shoulder......and we will see it over and over again.
Blood trails on well hit deer has never been a problem and certainly not a problem worth the trade off of getting less penetration. Its all about maketing and sometimes the truth is boring and doesn't sell.
I don't know when you started bowhunting rockport, but in the 40 years or so that I've been a bowhunter, almost all broadheads (and products in general) are designed better than they was then. Back then we didn't have the vast variety of stuff to choose from we do now. As a matter of fact I have not been able to recover 4 deer over the years that the blood trail tapered down and it was raining pretty good before I was ever asked to help find the deer. If you would try different stuff you would have a more educated better opinion about the different products on the market. I make it a point to try as much different stuff that I can afford to in order to know 1st hand exactly what I'm talking about on products, instead of forming an opinion not based on facts or experience. In that way when I tell a customer about something I've used and whether I can recommend it or not based on actual experience. I can offer them honest experienced recommendations on if a certain thing is going to work good or not. Sure I go through a lot that way and never recover the expense but it's worth it in the long run. You go ahead about your merry way inside the bubble and pretend you know about stuff when you haven't even touched it, and I'll go about mine. I'll even let you win the argument, cause I'm bowing out of the thread-say what you want. But the world is still not flat!
You could have at least made an attempt to counter my actual points.
I'll try new heads if they make sense. Ive tried Montecs, slick tricks, and several more well made and well designed heads that make sense. They are great heads There are lots of well made simple heads on the market.....hints why companies choose to reinvent the wheel instead of just compete directly.
I shoot thunderheads because they have always worked the best for me. Strong arguments could be made for several other heads like the ones I mentioned above. However reality is outside of completely missing the vitals of the deer the leading cause of lost deer is penetration issues.
Ive not seen one deer in my life shot in the vitals get lost because the whole wasn't big enough.....Ive seen a ton of deer get lost because there wasn't sufficient penetration.
Outside of completely missing the vital area on the deer what reasons have you seen lead to the most lost deer?
Well Rock, Like SB, I used to get called a lot to help track deer and like you I have found that MOST of the hard to track deer have been from poor penetration or marginal hits nicking the liver or some such. BUT, there have been quite a few that I had a hard time finding because of those 2 blade expandable heads that just sealed right up. Lot of people like those heads because they get accuracy alongside of their field tips. Sometimes those heads lay a deer open really well while other times those up and down slices just fat seal up and don't leak at all. Deer still died but without a trail they can be a mite difficult to find. So yes I have seen several deer that were really hard to track even with perfect passthrough lung shots. But never from a 3 blade or one of those hybrid jobs with bleeder blades. Those holes don't fat seal.
SB you've been in the woods a long time and should know better than to take out the heart with Bow! Lung shots! You then don't have to wait for the cavity to fill up before leaking blood leaving a trail! No heart=nothing pumping blood! Lung shots give you good spray every time they try to breath. Plus, I've found they go down much quicker from double lung and for some odd reason they tend to circle more so than straight flat out run when lung hit. Never have figured out why but danged if I haven't seen it happen a lot.
I get accuracy out of almost every broadhead. I haven't always known how to do that though so I get it.
I have never used expandables and never will. Much like the toxic it just doesn't make sense to me. The vast majority of lost deer from my experience(again outside of plum missing the vitals) are from lack of penetration and these braodheads give you less of that by their very design in order to give you more of something that has more to do with the "cool factor" than actual functionality. You put a simple Thunderhead,Muzzy,slick trick,montec etc. Through both lungs and out the other side and its over. There is no need to further compromise penetration.
The thunderhead razors fly well, penetrate well, and leave ample amounts of blood.
Slender tip, 1 1/8 cut,3 offset blades.
Best broadhead on the market IMO but there are a lot of good ones.
Last edited by rockport; 09-10-2015 at 05:14 AM.


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All-in-one tool for building HAHT sites
By Jason J. Meserve
A colleague in the Information Systems community said to me once: "I wish there was a Web tool with everything built into it." We may have found such a tool with HAHTsite 2.0 Integrated Development Environment (IDE) from HAHT Software Inc., Raleigh, N.C.
HAHTsite is a true IDE with content and page creation tools, database access utilities, site management and programming language support -- including its own Visual Basic-like scripting language called HAHTtalk. It can connect to most popular databases natively, as well as any ODBC-compliant data with a simple drag and drop. Version 2.0 is also cross-platform, running on both Unix and Windows NT and 95. HAHTsite also comes with its own Application Server for running server-side applications and scripts. The IDE only ships with a single-thread version for local testing purposes. The full multithreaded version is available separately for $4,995 per CPU running NT and $6,995 per CPU running Unix.
For this review, the IDE, Application Server and included trial-version of QuarterDeck's Web Server, were tested on a Windows 95 system running on a P120 processor, with 32Mb of RAM and 1Gb hard drive. The application and Web servers ran a little slow during testing because the computer was acting as both client and server. Performance would be greatly improved had the two been running on a remote machine -- as it would in a normal production environment. The good news is that the entire IDE and Application Server only require approximately 33Mb of disk space under a "typical" installation. Not bad considering Microsoft Office 97 requires over 120Mb of space for a similar installation.
The installation process is as simple as it gets. The HAHTsite manual states it only takes five minutes to have the system up and running; it took me a bit longer -- nine minutes. HAHTsite and its accompanying programs are contained on a single CD, and the installation is the same as virtually any Windows-based program. Just say what and where you want components installed, and bingo, it's done.
As with most applications today, the HAHTsite IDE launches straight into a tutorial when loaded for the first time. While I think most tutorials are of little benefit, I highly recommend following along in this case. The sample XtremeSports Web application gives good examples of the overwhelming functionality contained in HAHTsite, as well as provides some reusable code, HTML, etc. for later applications built with the product.
BUILDING WEB SITES
HAHTsite's interface can be a little cluttered and upon first inspection, may look more difficult than it is in reality. There are three window panes: an Explorer-like pane for viewing the contents of the current project; the near-WYSIWYG layout and coding pane for creating pages and scripts; and a pane at the bottom for debugging and checking the status of various project pieces as they are "published" to a server.
Building simple HTML pages is as easy as dragging an element from the project window, such as an image, and dropping it on the page. The tool bar contains almost every page attribute necessary to modify the appearance and placement of objects and text. However, the design area is a bit cramped and some formatting does not appear as it will when viewed through a standard Web browser. HAHTsite tells which attributes do not appear accurately in design view. For those that prefer other page editing packages, such as Adobe PageMill or Microsoft Front Page, they can be integrated into the HAHTsite IDE. The only layout problem I encountered was with aligning text with the input boxes in a HTML form.
HAHTsite's interface has three window panes: one for viewing the current project's contents; another for layout and coding; and the third for debugging and checking status.
The true beauty of HAHTsite is in its ability to manage a project and track links -- a daunting task for a large site if done manually. If a page is moved from one place to another within a project, all the referring links are automatically updated throughout the rest of the project. The tool will also take care of renamed pages and their associated links and objects within the project.
Adding functionality beyond simple page design is rather easy as well. HAHTsite comes with a handful of Widgets that can be dragged onto the page and which accomplish a number of tasks. Users can create their own Widgets using HAHTtalk, or save "clips" of code and HTML in a marked folder for use in later projects. I used a Widget to quickly add a "mailto" to link onto one of my pages.
Prior to testing HAHTsite, I had never attempted to manually connect a Web site to a back-end database. This IDE made it easy. First, one must specify the database(s) they will be working with under the "Database" icon in the project window. A pop-up window asks for the type of file and where the file is located; HAHTsite takes care of the rest.
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My Access database contains an archive of information about newspaper articles, containing the headline, author, text and other things. I made queries that sorted articles based on which section of the newspaper they appeared within. To add the list of headlines to a "Contents" page within my HAHTsite project, I dragged the "DB Table" Widget from the project window and dropped it on my page where I wanted it to appear. A pop-up dialog box allows you to set the database table attributes as well as edit the accompanying SQL code, if needed.
DOCUMENTATION AND ONLINE HELP
The documentation is very good. The accompanying paper-based manual acts as a good reference for many of the functions and tools, as does the online help, which looks the same as any other Windows help system. HAHT Software's Web site (www.haht.com) is also very helpful. It contains a searchable knowledge base to help answer many questions not covered in the included help documentation.
HAHTsite 2.0 is a viable tool for companies looking to build or manage large Web projects and applications. It is designed for team development use and integrates with a number of configuration management and version control tools to ensure consistency. With a list price of $1,995 for the HAHTsite IDE, Application Server: Developer Edition, the HAHTsite SDK (not tested in this review) and a 30-day trial of QuarterDeck WebSTAR Web server, HAHTsite is definitely worth investigating.


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Robert Aickman
Reviewed by: Mario Guslandi © 2011
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Index: Fantasy Horror
Robert Aickman (1914-1981) was a renowned British author of unconventional supernatural fiction (but he preferred to use the term "strange stories") who has been remarkably influential on a good number of contemporary writers.
Most of his books are by now out of print and used copies of the original editions are sold in second-hand bookstores at incredibly high prices. In 1999 Tartarus Press reprinted all Aickman's stories in two volumes which sold out very quickly and are now obtainable only by collectors endowed with deep pockets.
Fortunately, Tartarus Press itself is now undertaking the commendable task of reprinting each of Aickman's original collections. 'Sub Rosa' and 'Dark Entries' are the first two volumes published by Tartarus during the last months and a third one ('Powers of Darkness') is forthcoming. Needless to say, dark fiction lovers eagerly seek these volumes.
Aickman is a master of the genre, although an atypical one. For those who are not familiar with this author, nothing can explain the essence of his fictional work better than the words of RB Russell, editor and co-proprietor of Tartarus Press, in his Introduction to the current edition of 'Sub Rosa.' Russell very perceptively observes that Aickman describes a world "in which the inexplicable, the ghostly and the macabre are manifested, but the source and meaning of such intrusions are not at all clear. Very often the explanations of events would seem to be supernatural, but this alone will not account for everything that has happened."
Aickman's tales are elegantly written, classy pieces of fiction, enticing and subtly disquieting, sometimes frustratingly obscure, but never ordinary.
In the older collection 'Dark Entries,' the reader will (re)-discover splendid stories such as the extremely puzzling "The School Friend," the captivating "The View" — a supernatural fable of love and happiness ending up in loneliness and disappointment. "Choice of Weapons" is yet another riddle wrapped in vivid colours, with the texture of a dream. The unforgettable but elusive "Bind Your Hair" is a beautiful phantasmagoria of enigmatic characters involved in pagan, country rites. Not to mention, of course, the eerie and chilling "Ringing the Changes," possibly Aickman's most anthologized (and plagiarized) story.
The companion volume 'Sub Rosa' includes tales such as "Ravissante" featuring the unfathomable character of a Belgian painter's old wife with her odd sensuality, the unsettling "The Inner Room,, about a strange dollhouse which is more than a simple toy and "Into the Wood," in many ways a journey into a different world as well as darker, subtler evidence of Garcia Marquez' concept that insomnia is contagious. The reader will be bewitched by the cryptic symbolism of "Never Visit Venice" and by the dark atmosphere of "The Unsettled Dust," where a young man haunts the mansion inhabited by his former lover and her sister.
In RB Russell's words, "Aickman seems to have given us more than enough clues to the puzzles he offers in his tales and yet they do not quite account for all that happens in them". Quite so. As always, Tartarus books are beautifully produced — one more reason for not missing these two wonderful volumes.


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Indian court lifts block on $725 mn of Xiaomi's assets in royalty case
Xiaomi had denied any wrongdoing, saying its "royalty payments and statements to the bank are all legit and truthful".
Updated May 06, 2022, 11:27 AM IST
Xiaomi was India's leading smartphone seller in 2021, with a 24% market share, according to Counterpoint Research.
An Indian court has put on hold a federal enforcement agency's decision to seize $725 million from local bank accounts of China's Xiaomi Corp for suspected violations of foreign exchange laws, two sources told Reuters on Friday.
The Enforcement Directorate last week seized the bank assets of Xiaomi Technology India Private Limited, saying it had found the company illegally remitted funds to three foreign-based entities, including one Xiaomi group entity, "in the guise of royalty" payments.
Xiaomi had denied any wrongdoing, saying its "royalty payments and statements to the bank are all legit and truthful". It later filed a challenge against the Indian financial crime fighting agency's decision in the High Court of the southern Karnataka state.
On Thursday, after hearing Xiaomi's lawyers, a judge put a hold on the Enforcement Directorate's decision, said the two sources, who declined to be identified as they were not authorised to speak to media.
Xiaomi and the Enforcement Directorate did not immediately respond to requests for comment. The written court order is not yet public.
The relief was granted on the condition that Xiaomi will inform Indian authorities of fund transfers such as royalty payments, one of the sources said.
The case will next be heard on May 12, according to the Indian court's website. Xiaomi was India's leading smartphone seller in 2021, with a 24% market share, according to Counterpoint Research.
Reuters has reported earlier that Xiaomi's former India head, Manu Kumar Jain, was summoned and questioned as part of the directorate's investigation.
Many Chinese companies have struggled to do business in India due to political tensions following a border clash in 2020. India has cited security concerns in banning more than 300 Chinese apps since then, including popular ones such TikTok, and also tightened norms for Chinese companies investing in India.
Published on: May 06, 2022, 11:27 AM IST
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IE7 goes so far as to put the RSS reader in same menu as favorites (or as TDavid puts it "A separate "Feed Centerâ€Â� exists inside the Favorites area."), which appears in a left-hand navigation column.
When you subscribe to a feed, updated information is automatically downloaded to your browser. The benefit is that you get the latest content from your favorite websites without the trouble of checking websites manually.
So I click on each RSS feed "manually" instead of clicking on each Favorites link manually. That's the benefit?
Is this going to change the average person's media life? Hardly. Is it going to make it easier for the average person to suffer from "feed overload"? Probably.
**Do I really need to be notified whenever one of the 1,000 blogs I subscribe to posts new content? Is it really that urgent that I need one more distraction in my life?
And if it really makes more sense to review your favorite sources once or twice a day, what's wrong with a list of links to those sites?
Of course it will. IE7 features are hardly "impressive" but they are certainly integrated, which will be enough for many people to switch from independent aggregators, so they only have to use one application. If RSS aggregators are vulnerable to Microsoft, it's because they are lacking in any true innovation.
The New Media revolution will come when content is completely atomized and fully tagged, so that it can be remixed into perfectly tailored packages to suit every taste, i.e. truly what I want (when I want it).
That's why I'm getting ready to ship NewsRiver. To set the bar back where it belongs, where it was when RSS started. To try to get the ball rolling again, in some kind of productive way.
Try it out. Here's my aggregator. The username/password is snarky/snarky.


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