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Abbey Road Keyboards announced
Abbey Road Keyboards announced
Legendary Abbey Road Studios & Propellerhead Software announce Abbey Road Keyboards for Reason
New ReFill puts the sound of the world's most famous studio in the hands of Reason users
Stockholm, Sweden, June 5, 2007 - Abbey Road Studios and Propellerhead Software announce they have partnered to produce the Abbey Road Keyboards ReFill for Propellerhead Software's Reason. Abbey Road Keyboards delivers a hypersampled collection of seven unique instruments recorded using the original equipment at the legendary Abbey Road Studios.
The Abbey Road Keyboards ReFill consists of Reason 3.0 patches with samples of Steinway "Mrs. Mills" piano, Challen studio piano, Hammond RT-3 & Leslie Model 122, Mannborg Harmonium, Mellotron Model 400, Schiedmayer Celeste and Premier Tubular Bells. These time-tested keyboards have been at the studios since the early 60's and were used on some of the most popular tracks of all time - from "A Hard Day's Night" to "Dark Side Of The Moon" as well as numerous film scores such as Raiders of the Lost Ark, Aliens, all three Lord of the Rings movies and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, to name but a few.
Abbey Road Keyboards was recorded in the famed Studio Two, where The Beatles recorded almost all of their songs. It is a spacious recording room, with a 28' high ceiling and over 2,280 square feet of space. Its acoustics are meticulously tuned with suspended bass traps, hanging quilted curtains and four 10' by 20' acoustically-treated panels that swing out from the walls to temporarily reduce the total room size. Not only was Abbey Road Keyboards sampled using state-of-the-art equipment and techniques from this studio, Propellerhead Software consulted with senior Abbey Road engineers to also capture these instruments as they were back in the day, incorporating some of the same vintage microphones, preamps, outboard processors and mixing consoles.
All instruments were captured using Propellerhead Software's Hypersampling method. To capture every aspect of the instruments - from the way they resound in the Studio Two to their unique timbres and characteristics - they were all recorded at multiple velocity levels, from multiple angles, using multiple sets of microphones through the original mics, preamps, consoles and outboard gear at Abbey Road. With all the mic signals available separately in Reason, the Abbey Road Keyboards user can select between vintage sounding combinations of mics and pre-amps or state-of the art clean recordings, ready for the user's own preferred processing.
"Propellerhead Software is honored that Abbey Road has selected us as a partner for this project," says Ernst Nathorst-Böös, CEO of Propellerhead Software. "Hearing the sound of these vintage instruments coming out of Reason is just fantastic. It sends chills up your spine."
"As the market leader in the music software market, Propellerhead Software was the natural choice when it came to finding a partner for this project," says David Holley, Managing Director, EMI Studios Group. "An outstanding achievement. An inspiring collection of sounds and it really does feel like you're in Studio 2 with the real instruments."
The instruments in detail
Steinway Vertegrand "Mrs. Mills" piano:
Manufactured in Hamburg, Germany in 1905 by Steinway & Sons, this exquisite piano has been tuned in a way that makes it sound out of tune - but in a very pleasant way, like some beaten-up barroom piano only better. Thanks to its lacquered hammers, the "Mrs. Mills" piano produces a bright, cut-through-the-mix sound and responds very dynamically to varying note velocities.
Challen studio piano:
Sounding more like a typical home piano than the Steinway, the Challen piano offers a warm tone along with an unusually long sustain in its notes.
Hammond RT-3 & Leslie Model 122:
The RT-3 is much bigger and heavier than the familiar big and heavy Hammond B. Besides the organ, there's one other crucial item necessary for the full and proper effect: a Leslie 122 speaker. The talented Hammond organist Peter Adams played on the sessions to help capture many combinations the Hammond-and-Leslie sound.
Mannborg Harmonium:
The Mannborg Harmonium is a foot-pedaled organ that sucks air through the reeds when pumped with the pedals. This Harmonium could qualify as the first instrument with a split keyboard; keys on the left side of the split point play a different group of reeds than those on the right. This split feature is maintained in the Harmonium presets.
Mellotron Model 400:
The Mellotron Model 400 qualifies as one of the earliest sample players, except that instead of having RAM chips full of sounds inside, its samples have been recorded on 6' long strips of 3/8" magnetic tape. Abbey Road Keyboards features the samples of the Cello, Strings and Flute tapes.
Schiedmayer Celeste:
The Celeste is like an overgrown glockenspiel, played with piano style keys. It produces soft and warm, bell-like timbres. Historically speaking, a Celeste has most often been used within orchestral contexts, however many Abbey Road artists have discovered the Schiedmayer to work well for pop and other musical styles.
Premier Tubular Bells:
The Tubular Bells is an orchestral percussion instrument made up of hollow metal tubes mounted on a frame. It's tuned and laid out like a keyboard instrument and played by striking it with rubberized hammers. Who would use tubular bells, known as orchestral chimes, in a pop song? The Beatles, for one. Listen to "You Never Give Me Your Money" or "When I'm 64".
Product features
Abbey Road Keyboards is a two DVD set containing both 16-bit and 24 bit versions of the sound library. The 16-bit version is lighter on the CPU and is suitable for composing and production work, while the 24-bit version is good to use at final mixing. The two are easily interchanged.
The ReFill also includes Guide To Abbey Road Keyboards, a 40-page full color booklet by Mark Vail (the author of Vintage Synthesizers and The Hammond Organ). The booklet provides a behind-the-scenes look at the ReFill recording sessions, the mics and outboard gear used and the instruments themselves.
Pricing and availability
The Abbey Road Keyboards ReFill will be available from Propellerhead dealers worldwide in mid June 2007. MSRP is EUR €199 / USD $219.
About Abbey Road Studios
Abbey Road Studios was the first purpose-built recording studio in the world. Opened in 1931, the studio made its name with large orchestral works and, of course, The Beatles. It has also been the venue for many major film score recordings, including Aliens, Braveheart, Captain Corelli's Mandolin, the last three Star Wars films, Lord Of The Rings and Harry Potter. Unquestionably, it is one of the most authoritative, established and well-known names in the world of music. Today, Abbey Road Studios is the most technically advanced recording, film scoring, post-production and remastering complex in the world. http://www.abbeyroad.co.uk
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Sussex Community Development Association (SCDA) took over the running of the cafe in the spring in a joint venture with Crowborough Community Association. Since then, chef Alistair Tibble has been refining his menus and working hard to provide visitors and community centre clubs and user groups with good quality, reasonably priced meals, snacks and beverages.
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Before the opening ceremony and finger buffet, Daniel Stewart-Roberts, SCDA's Director of Finance and Infrastructure, made a presentation covering the range of his organisation's community based projects and support services in East Sussex. He said the Gallery Café gave SCDA a "bridgehead" from which it can expand its work in the northern part of the county.
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Aston Martin and Bang & Olufsen announce DB9 sound system
Aston Martin and Bang & Olufsen are proud to introduce BeoSound DB9, a bespoke audio system developed and designed exclusively as an option for the Aston Martin DB9. BeoSound DB9 marks the next chapter in the acclaimed collaboration between the two brands, which began with the BeoSound DBS in 2008.
BeoSound DB9 continues a tradition of innovation established by two brands with an unrivalled history of design and engineering excellence within their respective fields. "Aston Martin and Bang & Olufsen have achieved a reputation as leaders in both design and performance through constant innovation," said Dr Ulrich Bez, Aston Martin's Chief Executive, "we are proud that BeoSound DB9 continues a strong tradition of technology, design and artistry."
"The BeoSound DB9 system demonstrates that consistent commitment to high-tech innovation and traditional craftsmanship skills which is a hallmark of both Aston Martin and Bang & Olufsen," said Bang & Olufsen President and CEO Karl Kristian Hvidt Nielsen.
The Aston Martin DB9 is a thoroughbred sports car with GT levels of comfort and refinement. Combining Aston Martin's unique character with an uncompromising design philosophy, the DB9 was borne out of a synthesis of traditional craftsmanship, high-tech manufacturing, modern components and use of the finest materials.The BeoSound DB9 shares these values. The system was developed exclusively for Aston Martin to be perfectly matched to the DB9, both acoustically and physically. The unit's design follows the inherent quality and understated beauty of the car's hand-crafted interior, with smoothly contoured, aluminium loudspeaker grilles that integrate seamlessly into the fluid lines and curves of the cabin.
Turn on the BeoSound DB9 and the twin acoustic lens speakers emerge silently and swiftly from either side of the dashboard, adding a touch of theatre and technological panache that is a formidable complement to the emotive roar of the DB9's V12 engine.
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In addition to the two tweeters incorporated into the ALT, the system comprises five mid-range speakers, three further tweeters and three woofers, including a powerful 200mm subwoofer mounted beneath the rear bench. In all, thirteen speakers are positioned in ten locations around the car.
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"He appeared out of the glory of Hollywood, the mythos of Hollywood, the dreams of Hollywood," recalls Ken Ross, one of Ray's students, in Don't Expect Too Much, Susan Ray's fascinating documentary about the making of We Can't Go Home Again, Nicholas Ray's experimental feature film. "He was bigger than life," says Ross. Richard Bock (then known as Richie) adds, "And he was cool, I mean, he was a cool guy." Once at Harpur, Ray immediately enlisted his students in the making of We Can't Go Home Again; a glimpse at Ray's address book, full of stars' names, gave some the idea that he might be their ticket to Hollywood. With his hang-loose attitude toward drugs, booze, and sex, and his receptivity to the countercultural zeitgeist, Ray related to his students on their own level, serving as a kind of scruffy Yoda –– teacher, mentor, surrogate father, and hip confessor –– to the group of kids. They coalesced into a filmmaking commune centered on the farm he rented in upstate New York.
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A delicious gluten free dessert.
- 6 large eggs separated
- 6 oz caster sugar
- 5 oz dark chocolate (55%)
- 1 oz cornflour
- 2 tblsp cold water
- 10 floz double cream
- 4 oz dark chocolate (70%)
- 0.5 oz cocoa powder
- Pre-heat oven to 175C. In a large bowl, whisk egg whites until stiff
- In a medium bowl, beat the sugar and egg yolks until pale. Break chocolate into heat-proof bowl, add water and melt on low heat.
- Add cornflour and coco powder to sugar and egg yolks and beat until well incorporated, then mix in the melted chocolate.
- In three stages add egg whites to the chocolate mix, folding very gently
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amazing pictures !!! i didn't know they wanted to destroy everything that existed before this way ; they sweep everything and then build again ; u cannot see that elsewhere but in China.Posted by: 11 at May 25, 2005 11:56 AM
Thanks guys. Something else you don't see in my country: Areas with half-demolished buildings left unfenced for curious tourists (and trash-pickers) to wander around in.Posted by: David at May 27, 2005 2:41 PM
Just few months away from Shanghai and they are demolishing everything!!!
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On this day 6th August 1796 Scottish artist, David Allan, died. Allan was noted for his historical subjects and portraits and was nicknamed the "Scottish Hogarth". In addition to his portraits, Allan provided illustrations for Allan Ramsay's 'The Gentle Shepherd' and for some of the poems of Robert Burns, including engravings of 'Tam o'Shanter' and 'The Cotter's Saturday Night'. [Scotclans]
Extracts from The Gentle Shepherd: Patie and Peggy
By Allan Ramsay (1686–1758)
BY the delicious warmness of thy mouth
And rowing eye, which smiling tells the truth,
I guess, my lassie, that, as well as I,
You 're made for love, and why should ye deny?
But ken ye, lad, gin we confess o'er soon,
Ye think us cheap, and syne the wooing 's done:
The maiden that o'er quickly tines her power,
Like unripe fruit will taste but hard and sour.
But when they hing o'er lang upon the tree,
Their sweetness they may tine, and sae may ye;
Red-cheeked you completely ripe appear,
And I have tholed and wooed a lang half-year.
Then dinna pu' me; gently thus I fa'
Into my Patie's arms for good and a'.
But stint your wishes to this kind embrace,
And mint nae farther till we 've got the grace.
O charming armfu'! Hence, ye cares away.
I 'll kiss my treasure a' the livelang day:
A' night I 'll dream my kisses o'er again,
Till that day come that ye 'll be a' my ain.
Sun, gallop down the westling skies,
Gang soon to bed, and quickly rise;
O lash your steeds, post time away,
And haste about our bridal day;
And if ye 're wearied, honest light,
Sleep, gin ye like, a week that night.
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The Gentle Shepherd was one of the most popular plays of the 18th C. It is suggested by some that it inspired the Beggars Opera by John Gay.
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Some microbes, simple as they may be, have an ability to gather energy from extreme sources like sulfur, formic acid, minerals, and... electricity? Yes, electricity. A team led by Peter Girguis from Harvard has discovered how a certain bacteria gets its energetic needs from electrons pulled from the environment. The results of this study were published in Nature Communications.
Rhodopseudomonas palustris are gram-negative bacteria that has remarkable dexterity in obtaining energy and is able to take cues from the environment to employ photoautotropic, photoheterotrophic, chemoautotrophic, or chemoheterotrophic metabolism. This flexibility has baffled microbiologists for some time. Girguis's team focused on the phototrophic aspects of its metabolism in order to begin teasing out some answers.
Electrons are essentially the energy currency for most forms of life and they are exchanged through oxidation-reduction reactions. R. palustris TIE-1 is somewhat different in that it is able to take electrons from materials in the solid phase, while most others require electron donors and acceptors to be in solution. One of these metabolic mechanisms allows the bacteria to obtain energy through extracellular electron transfer, though the cellular processes that accomplish this have been a mystery until now.
These bacteria traditionally get electrons from iron, though Girguis was able to show that it wasn't necessary—a critical breakthrough in understanding R. palustris's metabolism. When the bacteria were exposed directly to an electrode, they were readily able to uptake the electrons and convert them into energy using carbon dioxide as an electron acceptor. Subsequent experiments showed that a certain gene is responsible for the majority of electron uptake. Without it, the microbe loses 66% of its ability to uptake free electrons.
RuBisCo is the protein that is used to convert carbon dioxide into the energy-rich nutrients that the bacteria need. The gene that produces the protein is activated by sunlight, as is much of the ability to take in electrons from the environment. However, the ferrous materials used by the bacteria are below the ground where they would not have access to sunlight. The researchers found that while the bacteria stay on the surface, they are able to draw in electrons from the sediment beneath them and get the best of both worlds.
While it has been suggested that these bacteria could be used to create a functional battery, Girguis is not so sure it would be an efficient fuel source. He does note that there is a large opportunity to use them in the pharmaceutical industry where they could be altered to "produce something that is of interest" to researchers and merely need to be fed with electricity.


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The NFL Draft "Workout Warriors" Are Safer to Call Years Down the Road
By Jason Lisk
Mike Mamula is the poster boy for the "workout warrior", a player credited with wowing the scouts by performance in the workouts and combine. It's also more than a bit unfair to Mamula that he is so widely associated with such a phrase. In the overall scheme of things, Mike Mamula was a lot closer to an average 7th overall pick than an outright bust. He had 26 sacks in his first four years. He is 13th out of the 29 defensive ends selected in the top ten in total sacks, even though he was forced to retire due to injury after five seasons.
Here's another surprising thing about Mike Mamula. While he was much discussed as a potential reach at the time, the term "workout warrior" was not used to describe Mamula in any articles searched on Lexis in 1995. It did not become regularly attached to him until after his retirement.
The term "workout warrior" is often used in a derogatory manner. I went back through the history of articles through 2008 where a player was specifically associated with that term (fine print: a search using the terms: "workout warrior" & "draft" or "combine"), before he ever took a snap in the NFL. It's the kind of term that is subject to a lot of hindsight when applied after the fact, to explain why someone failed. How much foresight, though, does it provide?
Now, let's first clarify this. A player doesn't have to have the phrase "workout warrior" attached to him as a direct phrase to embody the idea that a player is seeing his draft stock shoot up based on what he does in shorts and during the measurables, beyond how he played on the collegiate field. It would probably be impossible to come up with all the search terms to objectively isolate all such candidates. Chances are, you point to a bust when you try to think of one.
For example, before I found any usage of Workout Warrior, I found this description of combine results from 1988.
"Gained fame at the combine by jumping 35 inches and running a 4.68 40. Strong enough to bench 430. Great athlete who needs more experience as offensive lineman." [St. Petersburg Times, "NFL Draft '88," April 24, 1988].
That would be a description that would match our "workout warrior" ethos, though. A raw offensive lineman who had freakish measurables. That was Hall of Famer Randall McDaniel, by the way.
Let's turn, though, to the actual term "workout warrior" and how it was used on player's before their careers began. I found only 41 cases where a player was specifically referenced as a workout warrior around draft time. Beyond that, you had a bunch of general references to avoiding workout warriors, lots of articles on Mike Mamula and others after the fact, and others noting a player was "more than just a workout warrior" (As in, "Courtney Brown is more than just a workout warrior.")
The first reference to a specific player was actually in regard to Mike Croel, drafted by the Broncos with the 4th overall pick in the 1991 draft. Newsday's "Countdown to the NFL Draft: Linebackers" had the following: "Easily the best athlete at the position. Speed, range and hitting ability make him likely top-four pick, but college stats (12 sacks, 17 pressures, 142 tackles) suggest he's a workout warrior. 40: 4.56c; 4.44s; V: 36 1/2." Croel, like Mamula, would have his career shortened by injury, but started with 10 sacks and was selected the AP Defensive Rookie of the Year.
Mel Kiper never called Mike Mamula a "workout warrior" in the lead-up to the 1995 draft, but he did break the phrase out a few years earlier. Here was Kiper in 1993: "A workout warrior who didn't play up to his numbers. A fifth- or sixth-round pick."
That was Jessie Armstead, who went even lower than Kiper projected, at the 207th overall pick. The workout warrior would play in five straight pro strongowls. In 2005, Shawne Merriman was declared "this year's winner of the "Mike Mamula workout warrior" award", strongefore strongecoming the winner of the Defensive Rookie of the Year Award. Plenty of top players were mentioned as workout warriors. Edgerrin James (rememstronger, people were upset when he jumped past Ricky Williams), Troy Polamalu, Brian Urlacher, Thomas Jones, and Vernon Davis are others that were workout warriors.
There have also been plenty of busts. Dimitrius Underwood was labeled a workout warrior before he went AWOL for Minnesota and never played a snap for the organization. Vernon Gholston is probably the most famous recently, and he was a massive bust for the Jets. Chris Henry, the running back from Arizona, was heavily debated as a workout warrior when drafted by Tennessee (though the other one from that draft, Brian Robison, is still starting at defensive end for Minnesota after being drafted in round 4).
To measure it objectively, I took Chase Stuart's draft value by slot for the first five years of a career, and compared it to the value for each player during their first five years in the league.
The combined result for all 41 players combined (listed below): the average actual first five year value was exactly in line with the expected five year value by draft position. It's almost as if a random reference that someone is a "workout warrior" has no effect on whether they will pan out, and teams are reasonably good overall at balancing upside and measurables with past production.
If you are a workout warrior and you become a bust, then you become a "Workout Warrior." If you are a workout warrior and become good, well, did you ever hear of Mike Mamula?


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30 November 2015 | General Interest
The Change the Record Coalition will today meet in Canberra to launch the Blueprint for Change. This is the first time a broad range of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and non-Indigenous organisations have come together with a concrete plan for Federal, State and Territory Governments to change the record on soaring Aboriginal imprisonment rates and high levels of experienced violence.
The Blueprint urges a whole of government strategy, the setting of justice targets, and a commitment to work in partnership with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, their organisations and representatives to drive solutions.
Co-Chair Shane Duffy said, "This Blueprint is the result of more than two years of collaboration between 16 leading peak Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander bodies, legal organisations and human rights groups.
"When these key organisations come together with one voice, governments need to listen. There is no more time to waste. Australia's first peoples are being locked up at unprecedented rates, and experiencing high rates of violence."
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are currently 13 times more likely to be imprisoned than non-Indigenous people, and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women are 34 times more likely to be hospitalised as a result of family violence than non-Indigenous women.
Change the Record Co-Chair Kirstie Parker said, "This is more than bad statistics; these figures represent people – brothers, sisters, sons and daughters who are being separated from their families and need our support.
"We know the underlying factors behind these statistics, and our Blueprint makes clear the steps that all levels of government must take to get Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people out of prison and improve community safety for us all.
"There is an urgent need for federal leadership and a national multi-partisan approach to drive co-ordinated action across the country. Our Blueprint outlines concrete changes that Federal, State and Territory governments must make to laws and policies to both reduce the escalating numbers of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people being imprisoned, and improve community safety.
Mr Duffy said the Coalition urged the Federal Government to lead their State and Territory colleagues on this critical issue, and looked forward to working with all levels of government to put the Blueprint for Change into action.
The Blueprint highlights the need for justice targets to close the gap by 2040 both in the rates of imprisonment between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, and in the disproportionate rates of violence against Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
People, with priority strategies for women and children.
These targets should be accompanied by a National Agreement which includes a reporting mechanism, as well as measurable sub-targets and a commitment to halve the gap in the above over-arching goals by no later than 2030.
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'Twilight Zone' Foreclosure Law Firm in N.Y. Draws Fine, Suits
December 08, 2010, 1:11 AM EST
By Thom Weidlich and Karen Freifeld
Dec. 8 (Bloomberg) — Steven J. Baum's New York foreclosure law firm has attracted lawsuits and fines for its actions during the housing crisis, with one judge likening its arguments to the something out of the "Twilight Zone."
As recently as last month, Baum's firm, which one lawyer for homeowners said processes about half the foreclosures in New York state, was ordered to pay $14,532.50 in legal fees and costs and a $5,000 fine by Nassau County District Court Judge Scott Fairgrieve in Hempstead, New York.
The judge said that when Paul Raia refused to vacate a Garden City co-op after foreclosure, Baum's firm filed an eviction petition that misidentified the lender.
"Falsities were contained in five paragraphs out of only ten paragraphs in the entire petition," Fairgrieve wrote in his Nov. 23 decision.
All 50 U.S. state attorneys general are investigating whether banks, loan servicers and law firms properly prepared documents to justify hundreds of thousands of foreclosures. The probe came after JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Ally Financial Inc.'s GMAC mortgage unit said they would stop repossessions in 23 states where courts supervise home seizures and Bank of America Corp. froze foreclosures nationwide.
Steven J. Baum PC, located in Amherst, New York, just north of Buffalo, has been accused of overcharging, filing false documents and representing parties on both sides of a mortgage transfer. Baum runs the firm his father founded in 1972, according to a fact-sheet provided by Earl V. Wells III, his spokesman.
Syracuse Grad
Baum is a graduate of Syracuse University, got his law degree from the State University of New York at Buffalo and was admitted to practice law in 1987, according to Martindale.com, a legal directory. Baum answered some questions via e-mails.
"Consumer activists and attorneys representing homeowners have their own agenda in this process, including degrading the legal work we conduct on behalf of our clients by using terms like 'foreclosure mill' which I find personally and professionally insulting," he wrote.
At a continuing-education training session a couple of years ago, "Steven Baum himself said they did 49 percent of foreclosures" in the state, Rebecca Case-Grammatico, staff attorney at Rochester, New York-based Empire Justice Center, which represents poor people in foreclosures, said in a phone interview. A complaint in one lawsuit against Baum's firm says it is "believed to be the largest foreclosure mill in the State of New York."
Baum declined to comment on the size of his business.
Pillar Processing
A company that processes foreclosure documents shares an address with his law firm. That company, Pillar Processing LLC, is owned by Manhattan private-equity firm Tailwind Capital LLC, according to its website. Brooke Gordon, spokeswoman for Tailwind Capital, declined to comment.
"He's opposing counsel for us on a huge percentage of our cases," Meghan Faux, project director of the Foreclosure Prevention Project at South Brooklyn Legal Services, who represents homeowners in predatory-lending cases, said in a phone interview.
New York State Supreme Court Justice Arthur M. Schack in Brooklyn called the firm's explanations in one case "so incredible, outrageous, ludicrous and disingenuous that they should have been authored by the late Rod Serling."
Schack threw out the case in part because he said the assignment of the loan had been done improperly. The assignment was made by a Baum lawyer on behalf of Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc. as the nominee for the mortgage bank, according to the judge's opinion. The same day, the Baum firm represented the buyer of the loan by filing the foreclosure action, the judge said. Schack said it was a conflict for the firm to represent both sides.
'Parallel Mortgage Universe'
"Steven J. Baum PC appears to be operating in a parallel mortgage universe, unrelated to the real universe," the judge wrote in that May decision. "Next stop, the Twilight Zone," he said, quoting from Serling's TV series about science fiction and the supernatural.
Baum said that in several cases where Schack stated the firm represented both sides in a mortgage transfer, "we have supplied to the court relevant documentation indicating that no conflict of interest existed."
Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, based in Reston, Virginia, was set up by the mortgage industry to allow banks to assign and reassign home loans without having to record the changes with county land-records offices.
Federal Case
Last month, Baum's firm was accused in a lawsuit in federal court in Central Islip on Long Island of charging homeowners illegally for attending foreclosure-settlement conferences. In August, the firm was named in a civil suit in federal court in Brooklyn that said the firm's foreclosure practices amount to racketeering.
In the Nassau County case, the firm filed the petition on behalf of Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp., or Freddie Mac, to get Raia out of the Garden City apartment. That action was thrown out in July when the court ruled the assignment to Freddie Mac wasn't made properly. Fairgrieve then held a hearing on whether the Baum firm should be punished.
In his decision, the judge said the law firm "is highly versed in issues of standing as evidenced by the firm's abundance of litigation in this area."
Wells said Baum plans to appeal. Brad German, a spokesman for Freddie Mac, didn't have an immediate comment.
U.S. Trustee
In January, Diana Adams, the U.S. trustee monitoring bankruptcy cases in Manhattan, reserved the right to seek sanctions against Baum's firm in the bankruptcy case of a Bronx homeowner. The trustee accused Baum client JPMorgan of filing documents "that appear to be either patently false or misleading," according to a court a filing recommending sanctions against the bank.
Thomas Kelly, a spokesman for New York-based JPMorgan, declined to comment.
In April, the U.S. trustee, the Justice Department's representative to protect creditor interests in U.S. bankruptcy courts in New York, objected to Citigroup Inc.'s bid to foreclose on the Manhattan apartment of Gilles and Jennifer Michaud, according to a court filing.
The trustee said Elpiniki M. Bechakas, a Baum lawyer, in her capacity as assistant secretary and vice president of Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, assigned the mortgage to a Citigroup unit before Baum lawyers filed the motion with the bankruptcy court on behalf of the bank. That put the firm on both sides of the mortgage transfer, Adams said.
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Wells didn't respond to an e-mail seeking comment on the U.S. trustee's accusations. Bechakas didn't return a call. Jane Limprecht, a spokeswoman for the U.S. trustee, and Mark Rodgers, a spokesman for New York-based Citigroup, declined to comment.
Susan Chana Lask, a New York-based lawyer, on Aug. 17 sued Baum and MERS on behalf of two homeowners in Brooklyn and Rock Hill, New York, accusing them of racketeering by forcing false foreclosures. Baum has called the claims "unfounded" and asked the court to dismiss them. That motion is pending.
Karmela Lejarde, a spokeswoman for MERS, declined to comment. MERS has also asked that the case be dismissed.
Lask accused Baum of filing "tens of thousands of foreclosures" involving mortgages that weren't properly assigned and of overcharging on foreclosure fees.
"This case represents an aggressive and unfounded attempt by two homeowners who have defaulted on their mortgages to block their foreclosure by claiming that their failure to pay their mortgage was brought about by a massive conspiracy," Baum's lawyer, Brett A. Scher of Kaufman Dolowich Voluck & Gonzo LLP in Woodbury, New York, wrote in the motion to dismiss.
Defamation Suit
Scher didn't return a call seeking further comment. Baum, who declined to comment on the racketeering suit, sued Lask last month for defamation over comments she made, including in a press release announcing her lawsuit, on a YouTube video and in a Buffalo News article.
Lask and her firm "have repeatedly made false statements which they have published, or caused to be published, on websites and newspapers," according to the complaint filed Nov. 18 in state court in Buffalo.
Lask said she hasn't been "personally" served with the defamation suit. "There's absolutely no defamation. Everything I said is based on fact," she said.
Baum "makes about $200 million a year from the foreclosures," Lask alleged in the racketeering complaint. Baum said in the e-mail that the figure is inaccurate.
On Nov. 8, Jacob Menashe of Great Neck, New York, filed a suit in federal court in Brooklyn accusing Baum of illegally charging homeowners for attending settlement conferences. The case was assigned to a judge in Central Islip.
Settlement Conferences
"They passed a law about not charging for settlement conferences and they charge for settlement conferences," Menashe's lawyer, Randall S. Newman of Manhattan, said in a phone interview.
"The statute relating to settlement conferences was amended and we believe plaintiff's counsel has misinterpreted its application," Baum said in the e-mail.
Both Menashe's and Lask's suits seek class-action status on behalf of homeowners in the state with similar circumstances.
"What is important now is that all parties attempt to work together to resolve issues amicably," Baum said in an e-mail. "The barrage of accusations and litigation does little to help the underlying problems."


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Knightfall is the new blockbuster drama series from the History channel featuring the Knights Templar in their final days and a quest for the Holy Grail.
It mixes fact and fiction to tell a compelling story. Some of the characters existed while others are fictional or a blend of people from that period.
I'm going to closely examine some of the factual characters in Knightfall. In this blog post, I'm looking at William De Nogaret – in real life, a key adviser to King Philip of France and architect of the Templars' downfall. He is played by Jim Carter in Knightfall.
William De Nogaret
De Nogaret came from a family that had been implicated in the Cathar heresy in southern France. This deviant form of Christianity had been condemned by the papacy which had unleashed war and damnation on the Cathars. At its height, not just the ordinary people but the aristocracy had supported a religion that refused to recognise the authority of the church and its sacraments.
Clearly, De Nogaret wanted to overcompensate for this family's past treacherous leanings. He determined to prove to the king that he was the most loyal of French subjects. This craven courtier became a pliant tool of the king's will and an instrument for his crushing of the Templars.
However, his career was characterised by a robust contempt for the papacy. His boss, King Philip, was engaged in a long row with Pope Boniface VIII (who also features in Knightfall). Predictably, this row was about money.
Philip demanded the right to tax the church as he saw fit and stop the export of riches from dioceses in France to Rome. The king believed the Catholic church in France had a patriotic duty to support his wars financially. But the Pope thought otherwise.
Boniface wanted to continue to exert traditional church power and didn't accept that kings could tell the church what to do or how to spend its money. Most worryingly for the court in Paris, the pope intended to excommunicate King Philip – a move that was dangerous for any royal ruler in the medieval world. After all, a king was supposed to be a divinely approved figure and to be cast out of the church undermined their very legitimacy.
De Nogaret came up with a novel idea for convincing Pope Boniface of the king's view. He kidnapped him in Italy. And then mistreated him. But was then forced to release the pope when local townspeople besieged De Nogaret and forced him to flee back to France. When he got back there, King Philip rewarded him handsomely and both men were delighted when news broke that Pope Boniface had died.
After a short reign by a weak pope called Benedict, the French king and De Nogaret connived to get Pope Clement – a Frenchman – elected pope. He moved the centre of the Catholic church from Rome, where he had way too many enemies, to Avignon in southern France. The popes would remain in Avignon for the next hundred years. For King Philip and De Nogaret this proved to be an excellent development as they were now able to keep a very close eye and almost complete control over the leader of the Catholic church.
This was essential when it came to destroying the Knights Templar. De Nogaret was made Keeper of the Seal in 1307 and almost immediately issued warrants for the arrest of all the leading Templars in France. After they were rounded up, he worked tirelessly to extract confessions and frame the knights on trumped up charges. In this endeavour, he drew on his undoubted skills as a very smart lawyer.
In 1314, the Templar Grand Master would be burnt to death in public in Paris but De Nogaret had died the previous year. Catholic chroniclers delighted in describing his final agonies – having not forgiven him for beating up Pope Boniface and taxing the church in France.


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There's a hole in the roof of my house.
And through that hole the extensiony stuff has grown like some sort of invading creeper of fungus.
It's both freaky and exciting. The doorway shape has so much promise. It's like some sort of portal-in-construction, hinting at a whole new world beyond.
But the hole certainly makes the house cold. And every time it rains I get very very nervous, despite the big tarp preventing the rain coming inside.
In the meantime, I carefully tinked back a round on Pomatomus, counted the stitches, compared them to the chart, and found they were okay again. I have no idea what I did wrong. Do I care? Not really.
I didn't get much done last night. The teev I watched was too rivetting. I'd recorded a late night show on SBS called Anatomy For Beginners. Not for the weak-stomached, this show. But fascinating. It's bizzare, but it reminds me a bit of Iron Chef. There's a big stadium-like room with an audience. Men in uniforms with assistants use sharp knives to explore this show's theme ingredient/bodily system. And the Chairman has his match in the main guy doing the disections. Instead of glittery 80s style clothing, the Anatomy star's fashion statement is an Indiana Jones or b&w crime flick style hat.
About the only other show that can make me put down the needles is Top Gear.


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Chatham Imports, the new owners of the Michter's name started a new company called Michter's Distillery LLC, and operated as an NDP for a number of years, meaning they sourced their whiskeys from other distilleries and bottled it under their own name. Many of these releases have been incredibly sought after, with some early releases of their Michters 10 year old single barrel bourbons rumored to have been sourced from the legendary Stitzel-Weller Distillery.
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Driving down Ventura Blvd in Studio City in the 1960's has something in common with today, Flask Fine Wine & Whisky- Flask first opened its doors to the public in 1962. Decades later and it still remains a respected fixture in the Los Angeles community.
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Apple announces Singapore store's opening date
SINGAPORE: Apple will be opening its first store in Singapore on May 27.
According to the consumer tech giant's website, its Apple Orchard Road store at Knightsbridge Mall will open at 10am that day, with the daily operating hours stated as 10am to 10pm, Monday to Sunday.
The website also stated a series of programmes scheduled at the store, including an acoustic performance by Singapore Idol 3 winner Sezairi Sezali on the store's opening day. A photo walk with local photographer Chia Aik Beng, has also been scheduled for the following day.
The opening of the store later this month comes after much-publicised delays. Apple had previously announced it would open its first brick-and-mortar store in Singapore, and Southeast Asia, on Oct 31, 2016, before pushing it back to Jan 30 this year.
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Smoother Sailing Article – A Self-Help Book
By Pastor Barry Black
"Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast." Hebrews 6.19
In every bookstore, you find all kinds of "self-help books". There is practically everything from "learning to set personal goals", to "how to have better relationships", to "building a new room", or "do your own plumbing". I've never written a book, but if I ever write a "self-help book" for Christians, I believe it would definitely include the following:
1. Regularly commit yourself to the clarity of the gospel. Remember, we are saved by grace alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone. The more you remind and commit yourself of that, the better equipped you will be to share the Gospel with those whom you come in contact. It will also help you when you read what others have written or listen to what they say.
2. Maintain a personal relationship and walk with the Lord day by day. If he is your Savior, then hopefully He is your best Friend. Church and private devotional times are not the only places to talk to Him. Time alone while driving or walking can be quality time to talk to Him (Ephesians 5.16; 6.18; 1 Thessalonians 5.17). Prayer does not have to be verbal; it can be silent – in the privacy of your own mind and heart. You can never pray too much or too often! Time spent in God's word every day is time well spent. There are a number of ways to spend time in God's word: listening to scripture on audio while driving, walking, during breaks. Use a daily reading chart – one which will help you to read or listen all the way through the Bible in a year (or less).
3. Constantly maintain your relationship with your family. Family is your greatest "natural resource", and should be second only to your personal relationship with God but above your local church. However, your family priorities should help you to place the right priority on your local church – not hinder it, and your local church should encourage you to spend time with your family. A family should enjoy quality worship – at home AND in church.
4. Support your church with your attendance and giving. Give your time, your efforts, and give financially. It is good and fine to support other Christian ministries, if they are Biblical and are presenting the gospel clearly. However, your local church must be your first priority. There are some who have very good reasons as to why they cannot be in church. Some Christians are unable to attend worship with their fellow church members at each service due to personal illness or job responsibilities. God knows why we can't be at church. However, as long as we have strength to breathe we should have a personal walk with the Lord. There are some who constantly come up with excuses as to why they are not in church. Remember, God knows the difference between a reason and an excuse. Even though there may be circumstances that keep you from church, you should still support your church with your prayers and giving. Your local church is your extended Christian family. Wise is the Christian who realizes that church is more about what we put into it than what we get out of it!
5. Pray for, and encourage your Pastor, your Sunday School teacher and other church leaders – they need your prayers. Although preaching, teaching, and ministering are priority, your Pastor has a life to live as well. Your Sunday school teacher and other leaders likely have many obligations. Pray for them as they carry on their family and work responsibilities. Pray for them as they study and teach and that the Lord will give them wisdom to lead and minister to you and those in your church – some church members can be quite difficult to minister to!
6. Find someone to whom you can minister every day! There are always others that need your help in some way. It may involve giving tangibly of time or work or money. It may be simply to pray for them, or pray with them about some burden in their life.
7. Thoroughly check out those whose books you read or whose ministries you listen to or watch on television. If they do not encourage the same things you read in this article, you will want to be very careful. Remember, any parachurch ministry that does not encourage you to support your local church first (in your prayers, attendance, and finances) before you support their ministry is not a biblical ministry.
Barry D. Black is Pastor of Anchor Bible Church
Their website is: www.anchorbible.org
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