Road my bike with Henry to Meadow Lane which is about 17 miles round trip from our house. Meadow Lane is one of the most magical roads in the world. A narrow strip of land just across the bay from our house where oceanfront estates routinely list for $30-50 million.


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Druids - La rivolta (Vercingétorix : La Légende du druide roi) è un film del 2001 diretto da Jacques Dorfmann.

È tratto dal romanzo di Anne de Leseleuc e da un soggetto di Norman Spinrad.

Trama

Il film racconta la sottomissione della Gallia da parte di Giulio Cesare, la presa di Alesia e la resa del capo gallico Vercingetorige.

Accoglienza

Il film è stato un fallimento sia commerciale che della critica. La produzione del film è costata ben 15 milioni di dollari, ma il film non è mai stato largamente pubblicato fuori dalla Francia, nonostante fosse uscito anche in Italia. È generalmente considerato uno dei peggiori film francesi mai creati.

Collegamenti esterni

Film d'avventura
Film su Giulio Cesare

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schlagen und bleiben is the first exhibition to focus solely on Jonas Burgert's drawings as an independent body of work.
Known predominantly for intensely coloured, life- size figurative paintings, the exhibition places emphasis on the intricacy of the artist's character studies in black and white.
Jonas Burgert was born in 1969 in Berlin, Germany where he lives and works. He graduated in 1996 from The Academy of Fine Arts (UdK), Berlin and in 1997 studied for the post graduate title Meisterschueler under Professor Dieter Hacker. Recent solo exhibitions include Gemäldegalerie der Akademie der bildenden Künste, Vienna, AT (2017); Museo D'Arte Moderna di Bologna (MAMbo), Bologna, IT (2017); Hannover Kestnergesellschaft, Hannover, DE (2017); Kunsthalle Krems, Krems an der Donau, AT (2011) and Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, DE (2008). Major group exhibitions include The Museum of Modern Art Gunma, Gunma, JP (2017); Somerset House, London, UK (2016) and Pivot Art + Culture, Seattle, US (2015). His work is in major public and private collections internationally including Denver Art Museum, Denver, US; Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, DE; Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, US and Rubell Family Art Collection, Miami, US.
In 2020 his work will be the subject of a major solo exhibition at ARP Museum, Bahnhof am Rolandseck, Remagen, DE.


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Light pink with bright yellow anthers and white filaments.
very large sized 6.5" x 3"
The bloom has 11 petals. It is a long lasting profuse bloomer with flowers that fall in one piece with consistent form and heavy petal texture.
The dark green leaves average 5.25" x 2.5" with medium serration. The plant is suitable for landscaping and exhibition uses.
Originated and propagated by James and Elaine Smelley of Moss Point, Mississippi. It was registered by James Smelley of Moss Point, Mississippi.
This 20-year-old C. reticulata seedling of 'Curtain Call' and 'Pleasant Memories' first bloomed in 1993. It was originated and propagated by James and Elaine Smelley of Moss Point, Mississippi. It was registered by James Smelley of Moss Point, Mississippi.
Bloom: The very large sized 6.5" x 3" semidouble form flower is light pink. It has 11 petals with bright yellow anthers and white filaments. It is a long lasting profuse bloomer with flowers that fall in one piece with consistent form and heavy petal texture.
Leaf: The dark green leaves average 5.25" to 2.5" with medium serration.


This land evaluation is for the 112,494 sq mts land located in Serangan, Lombok Tengah, under Indonesia.
only 30 minutes from airport.
The land is located about 800 meters from the beach. It adjoins the public road linking Selong Belanak, where there is a public road direct to the airport and Torok Aik Belik which also has connection to the airport, which is about 25 kms from the land.
The opening of the new international airport in October 2011 has increased pricing of land , therefor it is anticipated that when the public road is asphalted and electricity adjoins the land price will increase.


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Q: midi keyboard not working on all platforms I made a keyboard application a while ago that gets a midi soundbank as a resource from a jar, and uses it to get the instrument names contained in the soundbank.  This seems to work fine on machines using windows 7 with suns java 6 and in linux using suns java 6. However, this does not seem to work on machines using windows xp using the same version of java.  What seems to be happening is that the instrument array has not been loaded when the getInstrumentName() method is called.  The instrument array gets populated in the constructor of the DefaultControl class (second code sample).  Could someone please help me to understand why would this be the case, and why would it seem to be machine dependent?
I get the current instrument name like this:
data.setControls(new DefaultControls());
data.setKeyboard(new KeyboardPanel(data.getPressed()));
data.getKeyboard().setInstrumentName(data.getControls().getInstrumentName());

I get and load the soundbank like this:
this.synth=MidiSystem.getSynthesizer();
synth.open();
synth.loadAllInstruments(
  MidiSystem.getSoundbank(
    getClass().getResourceAsStream("soundbank.gm")));

this.instrument=synth.getAvailableInstruments();
this.channels=synth.getChannels();

This is the method that is called to load the name is this:
public String getInstrumentName(){
    return instrument[selected_instrument].getName();
}

A: MIDI sound banks, in Java, are subject to license restrictions and are not shipped by default for all platforms (http://java.sun.com/products/java-media/sound/soundbanks.html) and requires separate download and a multi-step setup to work.
The Answer: Gervill
http://java.net/projects/gervill/pages/Home

Gervill was designed to be generic
  synthesizer for Java. By adding
  gervill.jar to your classpath you
  should be able to load SoundFonts/DLS
  files using MidiSystem.getSoundBank().
  And MidiSystem.getSynthesizer() should
  return instance of Gervill
  Synthesizer.

It's an open source 100% pure java implementation of the general MIDI sounds banks.  You simply drop gervill.jar in the classpath and that's it.  Your gm sound banks will be made available to your app.

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Q: CreateFileA trying to get the full string of lpFileName HANDLE WINAPI f_CreateFileA(LPCSTR lpFileName, DWORD dwDesiredAccess, DWORD dwShareMode, LPSECURITY_ATTRIBUTES lpSecurityAttributes, DWORD dwCreationDisposition, DWORD dwFlagsAndAttributes, HANDLE hTemplateFile)
{
    MessageBoxA(NULL, lpFileName, lpFileName, MB_OK | MB_SYSTEMMODAL);
    return CreateFileA(NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL);
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I'm trying to make my messagebox show the Filename that was passed to CreateFile and it is only showing "C" and i would assume it's because the special characters it has and i was wondering if someone could tell me how to fix this issue?


Alice Cunningham Fletcher was both formidable and remarkable. A pioneering ethnologist who penetrated occupations dominated by men, she was the first woman to hold an endowed chair at Harvard's Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology—during a time the institution did not admit female students. She helped write the Dawes General Allotment Act of 1887 that reshaped American Indian policy, and became one of the first women to serve as a federal Indian agent, working with the Omahas, the Winnebagos, and finally the Nez Perces.
Charged with supervising the daunting task of resurveying, verifying, and assigning nearly 757,000 acres of the Nez Perce Reservation, Fletcher also had to preserve land for transportation routes and restrain white farmers and stockmen who were claiming prime properties. She sought to "give the best lands to the best Indians," but was challenged by the Idaho terrain, the complex ancestries of the Nez Perces, and her own misperceptions about Native life. A commanding presence, Fletcher worked from a specialized tent that served as home and office, traveling with copies of laws, rolls of maps, and blank plats. She spent four summers on the project, completing close to 2,000 allotments.
This book is a collection of letters and diaries Fletcher wrote during this work. Her writing illuminates her relations with the key players in the allotment, as well as her internal conflicts over dividing the reservation. Taken together, these documents offer insight into how federal policy was applied, resisted, and amended in this early application of the Dawes General Allotment Act.


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Abigail C. Field: Assessing Schneiderman's Task Force Gamble
Posted on 28 April 2012. Tags: 50 state settlement, Abigail Field, attorney general, bank of america, Beau Biden, california, Catherine Cortez Masto, conneticut, Covington & Burling, criminal, delaware, employees, Eric Holder, Eric Schneiderman, esign, fannie mae, fhfa, FHFA OIG, foreclosure, foreclosure fraud, fraud digest, Freddie Mac, George Jepson, investigation, investors, John Kroger, Kamala D. Harris, kentucky, Lender Processing Services Inc., LPS, Lynn Szymoniak ESQ, mail fraud, Martha Coakley, massachusetts, mbs, MERS, MERSCORP, michigan, mortgage, mortgage backed securities, MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS INC., nationwide title clearing, Nevada, new york, obama administration, oregon, Pension Funds, Refinance, Representation, settlement, tom miller, Trusts, UETA, wall street, william k. black, wire fraud
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My latest for FireDogLake. For even more confirmation that the Feds aren't interested in bank accountability, regardless of the State half of the task force's intentions, see Congressman Brad Miller on why he's not the task force Executive Director and Richard Eskow on the obviousness of the problem.
As people increasingly realize that the mortgage settlement was an enforcement fraud, attention's turned to the "new" joint Federal/State task force that's supposed to make the settlement into a "down payment," by delivering much more. And so far people don't like what they see, and are saying so. What's striking about the resulting PR push back, however, is that it just highlights how banker-fraud-friendly our federal government is.
For example, Attorney General Eric Schneiderman penned a Daily News Op-Ed in which he pitches "More than 50 attorneys, investigators and analysts have already been deployed to support our investigations, with many more on the way" as somehow adequate to deliver on that "down payment" promise when the Savings and Loan crisis took over 1,000 and Enron alone took over 100. Not only hasn't the federal government corroborated AG Schneiderman's claim of "many more on the way"; "many more" than 50+ doesn't sound like anywhere near the 1,000+ needed to approach the ballpark of accountability.
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The Bankers' Subversion of the Rule of Law, Notary and Land Records edition
Posted on 22 April 2012. Tags: 50 state settlement, Abigail Field, attorney general, Aurora Bank, bank of america, Beau Biden, california, Catherine Cortez Masto, CitiGroup, conneticut, Covington & Burling, criminal, delaware, employees, Eric Holder, Eric Schneiderman, esign, EverBank, fannie mae, fhfa, FHFA OIG, foreclosure, foreclosure fraud, fraud digest, Freddie Mac, George Jepson, HSBC, investigation, investors, John Kroger, jpmorgan chase, Kamala D. Harris, kentucky, Lender Processing Services Inc., LPS, Lynn Szymoniak ESQ, mail fraud, Martha Coakley, massachusetts, mbs, MERS, MERSCORP, MetLife Bank, michigan, mortgage, mortgage backed securities, MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS INC., nationwide title clearing, Nevada, new york, obama administration, onewest, oregon, Pension Funds, pnc, Refinance, Representation, settlement, Sovereign, tom miller, Trusts, UETA, us bank, wall street, wells fargo, william k. black, wire fraud
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For the next couple of weeks, I'm one of the David Dayen subs at FireDogLake–no one person could fill his shoes–and this post ran there earlier today. This version is slightly updated but essentially the same.
One way to see the double standard at the heart of the foreclosure fraud—one set of laws for the bailed out banks, one for the rest of us—is to focus on the role of notaries public, and then consider that role in light of what our Supreme Court said about notaries in 1984, in a case called Bernal v. Fainter, Secretary of State of Texas.
First, let's recap the role of notaries in the foreclosure fraud crisis: Notaries are the people who verify that someone actually is who they say they are when that person signs a document. Because banks and their agents industrialized "Document Execution" as part of their foreclosure business model, notaries did not do their jobs. Notaries' failure to verify identities has been so complete that many people will sign as one person, say, "Linda Green." Notaries have also been told to sign documents using one name, and then notarize their own "surrogate" signature. "Well, what's the big deal?" bank defenders say. Beyond the fact that there's no "business convenience" exception to following the rule of law, consider Bernal.
Bernal involved Texas's requirement that all notaries be citizens; lawful permanent resident aliens need not apply. Bernal challenged the Constitutionality for the citizenship requirement. To rule on the question, the Court had to consider what notaries did, and whether or not what notaries did was so political, so central to representative democracy, that limiting being a notary to citizens was rational. In finding that notaries were important but not political officers of the state, the Court made some observations of note.
Richard (RJ) Eskow: The White House And Mortgage Fraud: So Far It's All Talk, No Action
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The Obama Administration worked for months on a deal that would have let America's biggest banks off the hook for a crime wave of runaway mortgage fraud. All they had to do in return was pledge a negligible sum of money, to be paid by their shareholders and not themselves, and which they would dispense themselves. In return, crooked bankers received immunity from prosecution – and even from investigation.
After the deal came under attack from a number of its allies, the Administration settled with the banks anyway. But it promised millions of wronged homeowners – and the nation as a whole – that it would move "aggressively" to investigate criminal misdeeds and prosecute bankers and anyone else who broke the law.
That was then, this is now. Two and half months later the Administration hasn't even started to take the inadequate steps it promised it would take. The clock is running out on the statute of limitations and there's no sign that the Administration has lifted a finger to investigate criminal bankers.
Talk vs. Action …
Obama's mortgage unit is AWOL … NY AG Eric Schneiderman should quit this fraud
What we have learned so far: Whenever dealing with the banks and or with the government, they are from the same mold. We cannot tell any difference.
This "mortgage task force group" thing is also NO Different than that MERS system…There are no employees!
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On March 9 — 45 days after the speech and 30 days after the announcement — we met with Schneiderman in New York City and asked him for an update. He had just returned from Washington, where he had been personally looking for office space. As of that date, he had no office, no phones, no staff and no executive director. None of the 55 staff members promised by Holder had materialized. On April 2, we bumped into Schneiderman on a train leaving Washington for New York and learned that the situation was the same.
Tuesday, calls to the Justice Department's switchboard requesting to be connected with the working group produced the answer, "I really don't know where to send you." After being transferred to the attorney general's office and asking for a phone number for the working group, the answer was, "I'm not aware of one."
The promises of the President have led to little or no concrete action.
Read more: [NY DAILY NEWS]
Abigail Field: Hiding the Enforcement Fraud At the Heart of the Mortgage Settlement
Posted on 10 April 2012. Tags: 50 state settlement, Abigail Field, attorney general, bank of america, Beau Biden, california, Catherine Cortez Masto, conneticut, Covington & Burling, criminal, delaware, employees, Eric Holder, Eric Schneiderman, esign, fannie mae, fhfa, FHFA OIG, foreclosure, foreclosure fraud, fraud digest, Freddie Mac, George Jepson, investigation, investors, John Kroger, Kamala D. Harris, kentucky, Lender Processing Services Inc., LPS, Lynn Szymoniak ESQ, mail fraud, Martha Coakley, massachusetts, mbs, MERS, MERSCORP, michigan, mortgage, mortgage backed securities, MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS INC., nationwide title clearing, Nevada, new york, obama administration, oregon, Pension Funds, Refinance, Representation, Rosemary M. Collyer, settlement, tom miller, Trusts, UETA, wall street, william k. black, wire fraud
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On Thursday, April 5th U.S. District Court Judge Rosemary M. Collyer announced she had decided to sign off on the "$25 billion" Mortgage Settlement. By "announced", I mean she signed the consent orders all our major law enforcers and the biggest bankers had agreed to, and entered them into the record. Judge Collyer didn't actually say anything about the deal. She didn't let anyone else say anything, either: she didn't hold a public hearing on the deal.
In acting silently, Judge Collyer not only okayed the deal's lousy terms, which institutionalize servicer theft and foreclosure fraud, she reinforced the incredibly poor public process that's kept the enforcement fraud at the heart of the deal hidden. Deliberately hidden.
Magical Misdirection
To understand just how deceptive "our" government and "our" law enforcers have been with us…
[VIDEO] Shaun Donovan on the Foreclosure Fraud Settlement & Wish Wash
Posted on 06 April 2012. Tags: 50 state settlement, Abigail Field, attorney general, bank of america, Beau Biden, california, Catherine Cortez Masto, conneticut, Covington & Burling, criminal, delaware, employees, Eric Holder, Eric Schneiderman, esign, fannie mae, fhfa, FHFA OIG, foreclosure, foreclosure fraud, fraud digest, Freddie Mac, George Jepson, investigation, investors, John Kroger, Kamala D. Harris, kentucky, Lender Processing Services Inc., LPS, Lynn Szymoniak ESQ, mail fraud, Martha Coakley, massachusetts, mbs, MERS, MERSCORP, michigan, mortgage, mortgage backed securities, MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS INC., nationwide title clearing, Nevada, new york, obama administration, oregon, Pension Funds, Refinance, Representation, settlement, shaun donovan, tom miller, Trusts, UETA, wall street, william k. black, wire fraud
BREAKING: The $25B Foreclosure Fraud settlement has been approved by U.S. District Judge Rosemary Collyer.
Via Nick Timiraos
Nothing from the consent judgment entered into court in the $25B foreclosure settlement may constitute "evidence against Defendant."
The settlement was announced in February and filed in court as a consent judgment last month. Judge Rosemary Collyer approved the landmark settlement on Wednesday. The signed order was filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.
The pact will offer reductions in loan principal and other assistance to qualifying homeowners. The largest portion of the aid, valued at $17 billion, goes to borrowers at risk of foreclosure. Banks will pay $5 billion in fines, including nearly $1 billion to the Federal Housing Administration.
Review Finds Possible Flaws in More Than 138,000 Bank Foreclosures
Not this word again "Flaw"…it's FULL B L O W N FRAUD!
Why wasn't this review done prior to any settlement? Because they never began any investigation.
DealBook-
The nation's biggest banks may have put the huge $25 billion settlement over bad foreclosure practices behind them, but that doesn't mean their mortgage troubles are over.
A separate review — this time by independent consultants on behalf of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency — flagged more than 138,000 cases for possible flaws in the foreclosure process at the nation's largest mortgage servicers. Those include foreclosures involved with the so-called robo-signing scandal, in which bank representatives churned through hundreds of documents a day in foreclosure proceedings without reviewing them for accuracy.
[DEALBOOK]
Ingham County, MI to begin collecting taxes from mortgage giants Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae
Posted on 29 March 2012. Tags: Andy Meisner, Curtis Hertel Jr., fannie mae, Freddie Mac, Ingham County, Kenneth Robinson, MERS, michigan, MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS INC., Oakland County, Real Estate, register of deeds, TAXES, treasurer, William Horton
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Ingham County officials expect to see tens of thousands of dollars in new revenue as they begin collecting taxes from two of the nation's largest mortgage lenders.
Ingham County Register of Deeds Cutris Hertel Jr. said he will begin requiring Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to pay full transfer taxes on all property transfers in which they are the seller.
The two companies had claimed to be exempt from paying taxes upon filing new deeds, saying they were government entities.
But a recent court ruling found the lenders were private entities, Hertel said.
"We've been telling them along the way they need to pay on these, but we haven't had the legal backing until the Oakland County case was decided," Hertel said.
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Abigail C. Field: Our Government Blessed Foreclosure Fraud
Posted on 29 March 2012. Tags: 50 state settlement, Abigail Field, attorney general, bank of america, Beau Biden, california, Catherine Cortez Masto, conneticut, Covington & Burling, criminal, delaware, employees, Eric Holder, Eric Schneiderman, esign, fannie mae, fhfa, FHFA OIG, foreclosure, foreclosure fraud, fraud digest, Freddie Mac, George Jepson, investigation, investors, John Kroger, Kamala D. Harris, kentucky, Lender Processing Services Inc., LPS, Lynn Szymoniak ESQ, mail fraud, Martha Coakley, massachusetts, mbs, MERS, MERSCORP, michigan, mortgage, mortgage backed securities, MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS INC., nationwide title clearing, Nevada, new york, obama administration, oregon, Pension Funds, Refinance, Representation, settlement, tom miller, Trusts, UETA, wall street, william k. black, wire fraud
The mortgage settlement signed by 49 states and every Federal law enforcer allows the rampant foreclosure fraud currently choking our courts to continue unabated. Yes, I realize the pretty language of Exhibit A promises the banks will completely overhaul their standard operating procedures and totally clean up their acts. Promises are empty if they're not honored, and worthless if not enforceable.
We know Bailed-Out Bankers' promises are empty, so what matters is if the agreement is enforceable. And when it comes to all things foreclosure fraud, the enforcement provisions are laughable. But before I detail why, let's be clear: I'm not being hyperbolic. The bankers running and profiting most from our bailed-out banks are totally dishonest when dealing with the public, and their promises are meaningless.
To see their dishonesty in the mortgage context, read the complaint filed in the mortgage deal, or my take on it here. But the bankers don't limit their lying, cheating and stealing to homeowners. They abuse their clients the same way. Most broadly damaging, the bankers steal from taxpayers on a federal, state and local level and practically everybody else too. Fraud is just how they do business. When dealing with bankers, you can't do business on a handshake.
Genesee County, MI could net $500,000 from lawsuit decision against Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac
Posted on 26 March 2012. Tags: Andy Meisner, fannie mae, Freddie Mac, Genesee County, Kenneth Robinson, MERS, michigan, MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS INC., Oakland County, Real Estate, register of deeds, TAXES, treasurer, William Horton
First posted on SFF last week, Michigan's Oakland County Victory against the DC Twins.
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The county could be in line for a half-million-dollar payout from mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac if a U.S. District Court decision Friday stands up to a likely appeal.
County Treasurer Deb Cherry said today that Friday's decision by Judge Victoria A. Roberts could provide an unexpected revenue boost to the county and immediately urged that the payout be used to help fix problems that have been created by mortgage and tax foreclosures.
John Walsh: Foreclosure settlement, consent orders do not conflict
Posted on 26 March 2012. Tags: 50 state settlement, Abigail Field, attorney general, bank of america, Beau Biden, california, Catherine Cortez Masto, conneticut, Covington & Burling, criminal, delaware, employees, Eric Holder, Eric Schneiderman, esign, fannie mae, fhfa, FHFA OIG, foreclosure, foreclosure fraud, fraud digest, Freddie Mac, George Jepson, investigation, investors, John Kroger, John Walsh, Kamala D. Harris, kentucky, Lender Processing Services Inc., LPS, Lynn Szymoniak ESQ, mail fraud, Martha Coakley, massachusetts, mbs, MERS, MERSCORP, michigan, mortgage, mortgage backed securities, MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS INC., nationwide title clearing, Nevada, new york, obama administration, oregon, Pension Funds, Refinance, Representation, settlement, tom miller, Trusts, UETA, wall street, william k. black, wire fraud
Lets not confuse the word "Flaw" with "Fraud"…There is a major difference!
John Walsh, acting Comptroller of the Currency, said the recent $25 billion mortgage servicing settlement reached between the big banks and state attorneys general does not conflict or double-up on requirements servicers have to follow in consent agreements banks signed with the OCC and other regulators last year.
In 2010, regulators, including the OCC, examined 14 large federally regulated mortgage servicers and thrifts.
Last year, the agencies issued enforcement orders against all 14 institutions forcing them to take steps to review their foreclosure review processes and to offer aid to borrowers who suffered from flawed foreclosure practices.
READ OAKLAND COUNTY, MI WINNING ORDER AGAINST FANNIE MAE & FREDDIE MAC
Posted on 24 March 2012. Tags: Andy Meisner, fannie mae, Freddie Mac, Kenneth Robinson, MERS, michigan, MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS INC., Oakland County, Real Estate, register of deeds, TAXES, treasurer, William Horton
H/T DAN MARSH
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
EASTERN DISTRICT OF MICHIGAN
OAKLAND COUNTY, ET AL.,
Plaintiffs,
FEDERAL HOUSING FINANCE AGENCY
AS CONSERVATOR FOR FEDERAL
NATIONAL MORTGAGE ASSOCIATION AND
FEDERAL HOME LOAN MORTGAGE COMPANY;
FEDERAL NATIONAL MORTGAGE ASSOCIATION;
AND FEDERAL HOME LOAN MORTGAGE COMPANY,
________________________________/
ORDER GRANTING PLAINTIFFS' MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT AND
DENYING DEFENDANTS' MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT
In the end, this case turns on a single question: whether a statutory exemption
from "all taxation" includes excise taxes such as the Michigan Transfer Taxes. Wells
Fargo dictates that it does not. Accordingly, the Enterprises are liable for the Transfer
Plaintiffs' and State Plaintiff's motion for summary judgment is GRANTED.
Defendants' motion is DENIED. The issue of damages remains.
IT IS ORDERED.
S/Victoria A. Roberts
Victoria A. Roberts
Dated: March 23, 2012
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Oakland County, MI wins lawsuit against Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac
Just breaking and will report when the ruling is released…
The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan on 6/20/2011, alleged that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac failed to pay the real estate transfer tax.
Oakland County Treasurer Andy Meisner stated in twitterverse "Just got word Oakland County has won our lawsuit against Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, one step in fighting to make our taxpayers whole!"
Hopefully, the similar lawsuit filed by Ingham County Register of Deeds Curtis Hertel, Jr. against mortgage lenders for unpaid taxes scores a win too!
AGs to consider investor protections in foreclosure settlement
Posted on 22 March 2012. Tags: 50 state settlement, Abigail Field, attorney general, bank of america, Beau Biden, california, Catherine Cortez Masto, conneticut, Covington & Burling, criminal, delaware, employees, Eric Holder, Eric Schneiderman, esign, fannie mae, fhfa, FHFA OIG, foreclosure, foreclosure fraud, fraud digest, Freddie Mac, George Jepson, investigation, investors, John Kroger, Kamala D. Harris, kentucky, Lender Processing Services Inc., LPS, Lynn Szymoniak ESQ, mail fraud, Martha Coakley, massachusetts, mbs, MERS, MERSCORP, michigan, military, mortgage, mortgage backed securities, MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS INC., nationwide title clearing, Nevada, new york, obama administration, oregon, Pension Funds, Refinance, Representation, SCRA, Servicemembers Civil Relief Act, settlement, tom miller, Trusts, UETA, wall street, william k. black, wire fraud
LOL…according to Tom Miller.
If the top five mortgage servicers begin to abuse bond investors under the foreclosure settlement write-downs, the attorneys general would consider some protections, according to Iowa AG Tom Miller.
Miller faced down banking executives and analysts during a panel at the REthink Symposium Thursday. The $25 billion settlement signed in March forces servicers to meet roughly $10 billion in principal reductions, which could swell higher because in some instances the full dollar written down will not be credited.
Servicers will get full credit for reducing principal on loans they hold on their own portfolio but receive 45 cents for every dollar written down on mortgages held in private securities.
"To try principal reduction in a targeted way and find out if it works is good for the housing market," Miller said. "We know what (the banks') plans are. Two have said they wouldn't do write-downs on private securities. But we could have some discussions about something to reassure investors."
Where are the Indictments?
Let's be clear why there's a mortgage deal: the banks broke the law. Several laws in fact, in ways that appear criminal as well as civil. Limiting their liability is the only reason the banks did a deal.
In this post I'm going to look at what the banks could be held liable for; how much liability "their" money persuaded law enforcers to ignore will be the next post. But one important kind of peace has not been bought: criminal. So as I detail the wrong doing exposed by the deal, I highlight the crimes our law enforcers seem to allege the bankers committed. After all, a liability release isn't simply what it says, it's what law enforcers do with their remaining freedom to act. If crimes were committed, and indictments don't follow, the release is much broader than its text.
A close read of the complaint and the related language that precedes the releases (see Exhibits F and G) reveals:
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Abigail Caplovitz Field: The Mortgage Settlement Allows Banks to Steal Without Penalty
The consent agreements the bailed-out bankers (B.O.B.s), the feds and the states are largely as had been promised. One big surprise, however, is that the B.O.B.s would now be allowed to systematically overcharge borrowers and steal their homes. Seriously. Who cares about $1 million or $5 million penalties if horrible damage can be inflicted without punishment?
To see what I'm talking about, you need to look at Exhibit E-1. (It's in all the consent agreements; here's Chase's.) Exhibit E-1 is a 14 page table titled "Servicing Standards Quarterly Compliance Metrics." That is, it's a table that details what, precisely, law enforcers will check to make sure that the B.O.B.s are meeting the very pretty servicing standards in the deal. (See Exhibit A)
(Note: You may want to print out table E-1 while reading this, or at least keep it open in another browser window; what I have to say may be hard to believe and you'll want to be able to double check that I'm telling you the truth.)
Now, the table doesn't come right out and say, 'we, the federal and state governments of the United States of America do hereby bless the institutionalization of servicer abuse,' but it should. To understand why, you need to keep your eye on how the table's columns are defined. For most issues, the critical columns are C "Loan Level Tolerance for Error" and D "Threshold Error Rate." Later I'll talk about the problems in Column F, the "Test Questions."
When Error Isn't Error…
Alison Frankel: Can MBS investors block national mortgage deal via litigation?
The never ending settlement… because those in DC are doing their best to make sure their bankers are A-OK.
Mortgage-backed securities investors who are convinced that banks intend to shift the cost of the $25 billion national mortgage settlement onto their shoulders are "evaluating their legal options," according to Chris Katopis, executive director of the Association of Mortgage Investors (and a former clerk on the District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals). The private investors, as I've reported, are outraged at the terms of the settlement, which sets no limit on the percentage of securitized mortgages the settling banks — Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup, Wells Fargo, and Ally Financial — are permitted to modify to reach their $17 billion target for reducing the principal balance owed by struggling borrowers. Mortgage-backed noteholders believe the deal terms encourage banks to write down investor-owned first liens, rather than second lien mortgages in bank-owned portfolios. That incentive, they say, shifts the cost of the deal from the banks to mortgage-backed bondholders.
Their argument is gaining traction. The New York Times editorialized Sunday on the bank-friendly details of …
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MUST READ: Who is REALLY paying in the $25bil TBTF mortgage settlement
Economic Musings-
The surprising tale that I will attempt to pen in this blog entry has a very familiar cast of characters; the Obama Administration, the Housing Bubble, "Toxic Mortgages", and Too Big To Fail "TBTF" Banks among others. While the headline of TBTF banks in a $25bil mortgage settlement is known to many, the underlying details of the settlement are less known and quite appalling when you pull back the covers.
The wounds on past and present homeowners are still fresh from the housing crisis. As Jonathan Laing points out in this weekend's Barron's cover story, "five million of the country's 76million mortgage holders have lost their homes to foreclosure or lender ordered short sales since 2006, and an estimated 14million more own more on their homes than their properties are currently worth. In all, some $7.4 trillion in homeowners' equity has been destroyed according to Mark Zandi…"
Cries for Accountability
While blame deserves to be cast upon numerous parties for the housing bubble, Americans have rightly called for accountability on the TBTF banks. Accountability for what? Among other faults, robo-signing became prevalent among TBTF banks as they forged mortgage documents in order to ensure proper paperwork was done to foreclose on properties.
Details of the $25bil Settlement (in the words of HUD) & Public Lauding
"On February 9, the Department of Justice …
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US Rep. Marcy Kaptur: Let's Address the Systemic Mortgage Fraud in Our Country
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NYT: The Banks Win, Again
Excellent view from this NYT's editorial piece.
NYT-
Last week was a big one for the banks. On Monday, the foreclosure settlement between the big banks and federal and state officials was filed in federal court, and it is now awaiting a judge's all-but-certain approval. On Tuesday, the Federal Reserve announced the much-anticipated results of the latest round of bank stress tests.
How did the banks do on both? Pretty well, thank you — and better than homeowners and American taxpayers.
That is not only unfair, given banks' huge culpability in the mortgage bubble and financial meltdown. It also means that homeowners and the economy still need more relief, and that the banks, without more meaningful punishment, will not be deterred from the next round of misbehavior.
Abigail Field: Turns out the Mortgage Deal Is Still Not Done
Q: When is a deal not a deal?
A: When the deal documents punt on contentious issues, merely agreeing to agree later.
Sadly, that's what this "deal" does. This "deal" is a hybrid contract and term sheet, with all the crucial, operational aspects of compliance unresolved. A smallish to-be-dealt-with-later item is the timing for implementing the servicing standards. The biggie is the Work Plans; those have not been negotiated at all.
Yes, part of compliance has been finalized; the metrics, and the basic enforcement structure. But it's not enough to have metrics; you also need processes for gathering the metric data and computing the results. Similarly you need more than a structure for enforcement; you need how-to details. The not-yet-existing Work Plan will cover all that. Worse, the negotiations will happen while the clock is ticking on the deal.
Servicing Standards Take Effect On a Date TBD
When the deal is approved…
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Glenn, A. L., Efferson, L. M., Iyer, R., & Graham, J. (2017). Values, goals, and motivations associated with psychopathy. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 36(2), 108-125.
Previous literature tends to focus on deficits in psychopathy including reduced moral concerns and a weaker moral identity. This featured study aimed to add to the literature by investigating what does motivate the behavior of individuals scoring higher in psychopathy in a large sample (N = 3,521). They hypothesized that psychopathy would be positively associated with self-enhancement values as well as openness to change values, with more extrinsic goals, with more concern about their relative position in society than their absolute level of a particular resource, and with a social dominance orientation. Participants completed Levensons's Self-Report Psychopathy Scale (LSRP), the Schwartz Values Scale (SVS), the Aspirational Index, the Material Values Scale, the Positional Versus Absolute Good Scale, and the Social Dominance Orientation (SDO).
- Psychopathy was positively associated with Power and Hedonism values and negatively associated with Universalism and Benevolence values with these relationships being stronger for Factor 1 psychopathic traits.
- Individuals higher in psychopathy reported the goal of obtaining financial success was more important while improving the world was less important. They also were more likely to believe that possessions and their acquisition lead to happiness and life satisfaction, use possessions to judge their success and the success of others, and find possessions to be central to their life.
- Individuals scoring higher in psychopathy were also more likely to prefer a positional state of the world including having higher income, education level, more vacation time, and being berated less than others by supervisors, even if it meant a worse absolute level of things. They also preferred their children to have higher education and intelligence even if it meant lower absolute levels.
- Psychopathy was strongly associated with a social dominance orientation, which was primarily driven by Factor 1.
- The results overall suggest that psychopathy appears to be primarily oriented with self-enhancing motivations, particularly related to experiencing pleasure and having relative higher social position.
- Those higher in psychopathy appear to be interested in experiencing pleasure, obtaining social status, and having control, while not valuing achieving this goal through ambition, success, and capability. This may suggest why individuals higher in psychopathy are more likely to cheat, commit fraud, or steal to get ahead, as they are interested in power but not achievement.
- Those higher in psychopathy are interested in financial success as a way to achieve status and power over others. The desire for social power may be a stronger motivator for those with psychopathic traits than even experiencing pleasure and accumulating wealth in of itself.
- A strong relationship with SDO may demonstrate how the core psychopathy feature of being exploitative and manipulative result in specific views of the world that may motivate behavior.
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No, the US ambassador to Zimbabwe is not a Deep-Stater who adores Mugabe
By Monica Showalter
At first glance, I was as appalled as anyone by this tweet from the U.S. embassy in Zimbabwe, extending condolences on the death of its brutal dictator, Robert Mugabe. The Marxist beast, after all, murdered thousands and left his country a smoking ruin. You don't send condolences for monsters like that. Not ever.
Here's the tweet:
The Twitter response was almost universally negative, comparing Mugabe to Pol Pot, which is appropriate enough. Many of the critics were Zimbabweans who'd fled the country. And the criticism extended to both Left and right, with the Left yelling that President Trump had a soft spot for dictators. I saw exactly two tweets defending the embassy statement — both from newly created accounts with no icon pictures, so zero credibility there.
Fox News's Tucker Carlson had the appropriate sentiment, given what we know of Mugabe:
According to the transcription from the Daily Caller:
The Fox News host called Mugabe "such a bad leader that no normal person could look at him and say we need to mourn his passing. Not one person."
"The only words in response to his death would be good riddance," he continued. "He wrecked that country. He took control of one of the richest countries in southern Africa and reduced it to starvation. He made its currency as valuable as wallpaper. He literally committed genocide against an ethic group almost as soon as he was elected in 1980. Roberts Mugabe didn't liberate his nation, he destroyed it, and only the U.S. State Department doesn't understand that. Somebody ought to get to the bottom of who sent those tweets out."
And the embassy has just deleted that tweet, and higher-ranking State Department officials put out these slightly tougher (but not that tough) adjusted statements. I'm using screenshots, given how shifty this is getting:
Carlson and others are viewing this as Department of State officials going off on their own, acting as Deep Staters, forgetting that they stand for something as U.S. representatives, and he calls for an investigation as to how this claptrap got out as well as the recall of the ambassador.
But this might be a little hasty. I looked up who the ambassador is — Brian Nichols — and from his previous postings, his name rang a bell. I recall him as a very good U.S. diplomat from my visits to Peru and Colombia about a decade ago, doing the tough job of opposing Democrats who wanted to deny those countries trade treaties while at the same time extending them to socialist hellholes such as Nicaragua. All of the embassy diplomats I met in those countries were first-rate people who understood well why these treaties mattered as a foil to Mugabe's doppelganger in Caracas, Hugo Chávez. I don't recall any really specific interactions with him, but his name brought up positive associations.
After that mission was accomplished, Nichols then got sent to Zimbabwe, a truly nasty hellhole posting. He didn't get a nice place like St. Lucia or even a place where the lights work, such as South Africa. It takes guts to work the Zimbabwe post.
But it wasn't an unimportant posting. Obviously, the tweet sent was likely a message to Zimbabwe's current rulers, the semi-Mugabes who are running the country almost as badly as Mugabe did. Unfortunately, those are the people he has to work with, as the real democrats there still don't have power. The news report here says the country's current rulers are burying Mugabe in a hilltop cemetery of heroes instead of the trash dump he deserves — but they are not holding any public events, obviously because they know full well what the locals think of the monster.
It might be fine and dandy for a U.S. ambassador to openly oppose the country's rulers and their blind stupidity and malevolent fealty to Mugabe, but actually, Zimbabwe is small fry in the larger scheme of things.
It's quite likely that Nichols knows what the real war is: countering the influence of communist China. Zimbabwe is such a dump that it can't attract any sane investors to get the people some jobs and economic growth, but China is stepping right in with its "Belt and Road" initiative and preparing to take control of Zimbabwe and all its natural resources. We have seen the Chinese do it in Venezuela; we see them doing it anywhere a country is ruined. Nichols likely has the important task of talking sense into these rulers and assuring them that the U.S. can be their friend, just to get them away from the clutches of Red China.
So for that reason, people should probably go easy on Nichols. He has a crappy but important job and has always been strong on the big picture of what U.S. interests are. He's not a rat. The tweet has been deleted, so he must recognize that it has repelled normal people. But some understanding is in order here. Extend it to him.
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And think the home which love endears,
Worth all the world beside.
The needle thus, too rudely wood,
Wanders unconscious where, Till having found the place it lov'd,
It tremblingly settles there.
THE BURIAL OF SIR JOHN MOORE.
Who fell at the battle of Corunna, in Spain, in 1808.
Not a drum was heard, nor a funeral note,
As his corse to the rampart we hurried, Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot,
O'er the grave, where our hero we buried.
We buried him darkly at dead of night,
The sods with our bayonets turning;
By the struggling moonbeam's misty light,
And the lantern dimly burning.
No useless coffin enclosed his breast,
Not in sheet nor in shroud we bound him, But he lay like a warrior taking his rest,
With his martial cloak around him.
Few and short were the prayers we said,
And we spoke not a word of sorrow,
But we steadfastly gazed on the face of the dead,
And we bitterly thought of the morrow.
We thought, as we hollowed his narrow bed,
And smoothed down his lonely pillow,
That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head,
And we far away on the billow.
Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone,
And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him,
But nothing he'll reck if they let him sleep on
In the grave where a Briton has laid him,
But half of our heavy task was done,
When the clock toll'd the hour for retiring, And we heard the distant random gun
That the foe was suddenly firing.
Slowly and sadly we laid him down,
From the field of his fame fresh and gory; We carved not a line, we raised not a stone, But we left him alone with his glory.
London Courier.
TRANSLATION OF TEOLINDE'S SONG,
From " La Galatee."
Love's purest pleasures wouldst thou know?
To love alone thy passion show;
Thy feelings no'er let others see;
Be wise, and thou shalt happy be.
To gain thy wish, then, be discreet;
Love's secret sigh to love is sweet.
Their scoffs at love let stoicks aim,
'Tis secrecy makes pure the flame;
And love's the choicest gift divine,
When mystery leads us to the shrine.
Love's secret sigh to love is sweet,
A thoughtless word may often be
The price of love and constancy:
The woes thou feelest ne'er reveal,
And loarn even pleasure to conceal.
To thy own heart alone disclose
The joy that love requited knows;
All that is lost of triumph vain
Return, in happiness again.
THERE is now a woman resident at Whitechapel turnpike, named Smart, who has lately buried her seventh husband; is between forty and fifty years of age; she never had any children, and it is said she is on the point of being married to a young man about twenty, an itinerant dealer in oranges, well known about the stock exchange; she gets her livelihood by selling apples at the corner of St. Paul's Church-yard.—London Pap.
A late Bermuda paper states that one of Mr. Francis F. Hinson's boats, in the whale fishery, which had been fitted with a gun imported for the purpose, has lately shot a whale, and brought it in. This is quite a novel mode of carrying on war against those huge natives of the briny element. The gun is charged with a harpoon of a curious construction, which is shot with such force as to enter the whale when at a considerable distance; and possession of the object is retained by a warp attached to the barpoon before the discharge of the gun, and made fast also to the boat.
The tract of land about Fort Meigs, or the Miami of Lake Er is twelve miles square, or about sixty thousand acres more than the District of Columbia. It was ceded to the United States at the treaty of Greenville; it includes the foot of the rapids, and is the head of navigation for lake vessels. The town of Perrysburg has been laid out by order of the United States, on the south bank of the Miami, opposite to which there is from one to nine feet depth of water. The town has nine parallel streets running north and south, which are intersected by seven streets running east and west. It contains seven hundred and sixty-eight town or in lots, each one quarter of an acre, and two hundred and six out lots, from two to four acres each. A public sale both of the town and of the whole twelve miles square, will be held at the land office in Wooster, Obio, on the third Tuesday of July next. The minimum price for town lots is twenty dollars each, and for out lots five dollars an acre.
The head waters of the Miami approach within a few miles of those of the Wabash. It is probable that a flourishing and respectable settlement will soon appear on this tract. Good roads will soon connect this settlement with
Detroit and Lower Sandusky, and the cultivated parts of Ohio. By the Greenville treaty a cession was made of two miles square at the lower rapids of Sandusky. This tract also has been surveyed—the town Croghansville has been laid out on the east branch of Sandusky river, and the whole will be offered at public sale at Wooster, on the second Monday of July next.
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Nashville. --Salt.—There have been so many borings for salt that have turned out to be worth nothing, that we receive with distrust the accounts of new discoveries. This distrust is removed in respect to a. late discovery by one Jenkins, about eighty miles above Nashville, and within one mile of Cumberland river. He bored about sixty feet, when he struck the salt water, which immediately rose within four feet of the top of the earth; on trying the water it was found that it was so satured it would not dissolve salt, and every ten bushels of water made one of beautiful white salt. As far as the experiment has been made, by all the kettles to be had in the neighbourhood, which have made twenty bushels a day,
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Extraordinary Altachment.-A wedding, brought about by circumstances of a novel nature, took place within these few days at St. Andrews Church, Holborn. A young woman was tried at a very recent Old Bailey session, with her mother—the former for robbing her master, a tradesman in Cornhill, and the latter for receiving the stolen goods. During the trial, a young man, who had casually got into the gallery of the court, suddenly became enamoured of the fair young prisoner, and, after her conviction, he made interest to get to see her, on her being taken out of court; he then expressed his sudden attachment towards her. He visited her daily, and found her necessaries of every kind in abundance. He employed great exertion in getting it represented, that she had become a convert, and was truly penitent, not only to the recorder and the city authorities, but by a petition to the secretary of state; and he promised to marry her, should the royal clemency be afforded her. The behaviour of the prisoner, it was testified, was very good: and last week she received a free pardon, on condition that the young man should marry her immediately. The next morning the happy pair accompanied Mr. Crosby, chaplain to the Refuge for the Destitute, to the church, where they were married, and Mr. C. paid all expenses. The bride and bridegroom retired to the residence of the latter in Whitecross street-London paper.
The Painter and the Porter.---The following story is related in a late Paris paper: a painter who wished to represent the tragical end of Milo of Crotono, met in the street a porter of a most athletic form. He admired his colossal figure and vigorous muscles, and offered to give him a pound sterling if he would stand to him as a model. It was only necessary to tie his hands, and confine them within an iron ring, in order to represent, as well as possible, the trunk of the tree in which Milo's hands were imprisoned when he was devoured by wild beasts. The porter readily consented to the painter's proposals; he stript himself and suffered his hands to be bound. Now, said the artist, imagine that a lion is darting upon you; and make every effort which you would do in such a case to escape his fury. The model threw himself into the most violent agitation---but he made too many grimaces; but there was nothing natural in his frightful contortions. The painter gave him further directions, but still he failed of producing the desired effect. At length he thought of the following singular method. He let loose a vigorous mastiff, which was kept in the yard of the house, and desired him to seize the unfortunate captive. This excited both gesticulation and utterance. The efforts of the porter thus became natural, and the fury of the animal increased in proportion as his struggles were violent. The painter in a fit cf transport, seized his pencils. The patient, however, who had been bitten and torn by the dog, uttered violent cries. Excellent! bravo! exclaimed the artist. Continue: 0! that's admirable! Finally, the sitting, or rather the torture being at an end, the artist offered the promised salary; but the model replied, that he had agreed to accept of a pound sterling for being painted, and not for being bitten; he demanded a large indemnity. The affair has been brought before the tribunals.
Ali Bey.-The following notice is from an intelligent correspondent who obtained his information from Tangier, and may be relied on as correct.
About seven years ago a man came to Tangier, who said his name was Ali Bey. He was well versed in the Arabic
of the Levant, and in the rites of the Mahometan religion. He said he was the son of a Bey of
Egypt, who was, many years since, forced to escape from his country in disgrace, and take refuge in Italy. There his children were instructed in the sciences of Europe, and privately by their father in the doctrines of Islamism. On his death-bed, the old man enjoined upon his son to repair to the empire of Morocco, and perfect himself in the religion of his fathers. In the pious fulfilment of this injunction he was now come. He had the costume and manners of a mussulman, attended the mosque regularly, and approved himself an accomplished follower of the prophet. He resided in Tangier about six months, when the emperor sent for him to Mequinez, gave him a wife, and made him a favourite. Ali Bey had two sets of fine astronomical instruments, one of which he gave to the emperor, whose confidence he seemed now unreservedly to possess. But unfortunately one day, from wrong information or miscalculation of his own, he ventured to predict an eclipse. The emperor sent to Tangier to know if one would take place at the stated time. Mr. Simpson consulted the almanack, and returned a negative answer. At length the day arrived, and no eclipse happened " You have deceived me," said the emperor, you are an impostor. Take him---place him beyond Mount Atlas, and let him never again pass the confines of my empire." He was accordingly carried to the kingdom of Tafilet; from which, however, he contrived to escape, and in process of time he arrived in Mecca. He there made himself of some importance and repute, by means of his talents and address, and was employed in making drawings of the mosques, &c. He afterwards passed to Alexandria, and thence to Europe.
When he was sent out of Morocco, the Spanish and Portuguese consuls, with whom he had been intimate, were immediately expelled from Tan. gier without examination. Mr. Simpson assured me that he had positive information, that the pretended Ali Bey is a Catalan, named Babia, (not Badia, as has been said,) and that he was employed by the Prince of Peace to undertake this adventure. The king of Spain has, until lately, always kept two young men in Tangier, to learn the Arabic language, and to collect manuscripts, which they transmitted to Spain by stealth.
North Am. Rev. ARABIC MANUSCRIPTS.---A Frenchman, who has been a long time in Morocco, has found in the interior some curious manuscripts, consisting of proclamations and addresses to the different tribes of the Moors, soon after they were driven from Spain, to induce them to unite for the purpose of reconquering the country they had lost. They are addressed to the tribes separately, characterising them by the climate, productions, and genius of the different sections of the country, which they inhabited. They are said to be written in the finest style of oriental eloquence, and to be worthy the brightest period of Arabian literature under Haroun Abraschid. They are expected to be published soon with a French translation.
Lincoln.---At these assizes, the plaintiff, an apothecary of Bottesford, sought to recover from defendant, a batchelor of opulence, residing near Lincoln, 7871. 188. sterling, for medicine and attendance during twentyfive years. By statement of plaintiff's counsel, it appeared that the defendant was of a hypochondriacal turn, and bad taken pills for a great number of years: he used to have from 600, to 2,000 pills sent to him at a time; and in one year he took 51,000! being at the rate of one hundred and fifty a day! There were also thousands of bottles of mixtures. From the ravenous propensity of the patient for physic, it was deemed necessary to call in two physicians, who, inquiring of defendant what was the course of medicine and nourishment he pursued through the day, apswered as
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