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This restaurant is one of the best in Santa Cruz County!! We always have an excellent meal here! The wine list is great also.
I hesitate to say too much nice about this local gem. Suffice to say it is our "go-to" place for delicious country-style French cuisine.
My wife had the beet salad and I had the onion soup; both were a great start. She chose the duck and I had the lamb loin. Both were cooked as ordered and to perfection, and the servings were both generous and beautifully presented. The French wine we chose from their modest list was no longer available, but the owner-suggested local pinot noir was a wonderful substitute. We split a very decadant chocolate dessert, and our stomachs smiled all the way home.
The food was exceptional, and the restaurant is small and the atmosphere great even in the small shopping center it is in. The chefs are creative and the food is prepared and presented with a flair. The restaurant is run by a couple one of whom greeted us when we arrived.
Often dine woth Michel and Mu at u Midi..Never disappointed..The new treatment of the duck l'organge was delic and the lamb entree waqs superb..The monkfish and choizo appetizer was a bit mild for my palate but understand the need to tone down,, Can highly recommend this establishment and the special occassion menues (Bastille Day/new years etc are not to be missed
By far the best food in Santa Cruz county. Once you get past the parking lot, you will feel like you are in France. We had the mussels and the sole. The sole was served with a calamari risotto which was just amazing! My friends also seemed to really enjoy the mussels. You can get many nice carefully selected French wines at a very reasonable price, I like the Provence rose from the owners region this time of tear for an aperitif.
Au Midi is one of the very best restaurants in Santa Cruz county. The food is consistently excellent (a rarity in SC) and beautifully served. Michel and Muriel, owners/chef, are perfect hosts, attentive and knowledgeable about food and wine. This hidden gem is a great place to have a relaxing, wonderful meal on par with the best San Francisco has to offer.
Glad to finally dine at this great little restaurant.
A wonderful restaurant with exceptional food and friendly service. This is a gem. If this restaurant was located in San Francisco you would wait a month to get a reservation. We ate here two weeks ago for dinner and returned yesterday for lunch. Both times were delightful, the food delicious. I highly recommend you try this restaurant for a most enjoyable meal. Authentic French food and lovely ambiance. This is the best restaurant in Aptos and the Santa Cruz area.
Michel made the experience very special. He is truly a typical energetic French man. Made us feel almost at home. Loved to hear him speak French with my husband and put up with my FrancoSpanglish. We had the monkfish appetizer with a kir royal. The Bordeaux my husband chose was exquisite and complimented the entrees very well. I enjoyed my favorite French dessert -Île Flotante! It's almost as good as the one my sister-in-law makes back in France. Certainly a repeat for us. Merci Michel!
Overall excellent! Would heartily recommend for someone desiring a fine dining experience with great food very well presented and with wonderful eye appeal. Speaking as one with over 35 years in the hospitality industry, who was a restaurater in a fine dining 7 course dinner house in the Central Valley, we were very impressed. We were made to feel very welcome, and very much enjoyed ourselves the entire evening.
We enjoyed our visit to Au Midi very much. The food was typical of what you find in the south of France. Service was excellent; however I should add that we were one of three tables; it was a Thursday evening. I had a great onion/mushroom soup as a starter and a filet of sole as main course; the sole was served on a bed of risotto, corn, and calamari pieces...very unique. For dessert we both ordered the floating island. It was one of the best I have had in any restaurant.
As always, the dining experience at Au Midi is special. The food is exceptional. Skuna Bay Salmon is a new-found treat for foodies. The mussels are the best around!
My husband and I were on the hunt for some great local spots to frequent regularly. This unassuming restaurant in in a strip plaza, sandwiched in between a yarn store and a UPS location. The service was excellent, and the food was exquisite. The whipped polenta had a taste and texture I had never known before... and I hope it stays on the menu forever. The beet and goat cheese "salad" made me LOVE red beets, though I generally do not like them. They were finely diced, and the goat cheese was magnificently whipped. I ordered the pork loin (first time ordering pork loin ever) and my husband ordered the sole with risotto. Both were SPLENDID. The floating island meringue dessert was unique, beautiful and wonderful.
I've been to Au Midi many times, and would highly recommend this restaurant. The selections are always delicious and beautifully presented. We had the sweet onion soup, monkfish appetizer with chorizo, petrale sole on a bed of risottos,squid and sweet onion reduction ,and a new ravioli dish, dessert was to die for: poached peach with fresh strawberry and raspberry colis, chocolate and ginger cake with creme brulee,orange and flourless chocolate and nuts biscuit!
Michel & Muriel are very accessible & accomodating. They are consummate professionals We all were very happy with every aspect of our afternoon, even having some wonderful surprises! This is by far the best run bistro in the county. It should go without saying That the food is delightful and one should never bypass a dessert from Au MIDI.
We are fans of this restaurant and this dinner was fantastic. They had a special menu for the day which they called a " Summer Blast." It started off with monkish with fennel and carrots in a vodka sauce, short ribs so tender you could cut it with a spoon with polenta and vegetables in a red wine sauce. The sauce for the first course and second course were both unique and delicious. The dessert was a vanilla panna cotta with pineapple, crushed coconut macaroon which was the best . My husband who usually favors the floating island said this was the best dessert ever. It was light and delicious. The service was impeccable. Great dining experience.
My husband and I returned to Au Midi last week and were happily reminded of the outstanding food and excellent service. It's hard to believe that this wonderful restaurant is minutes from our home. Well worth the visit for any occasion or for none at all!
Amazing food - had their snail ravioli for an appetizer, and wished it was an entree! Entrees were equally delicious, and French apple pie for desert was to die for! Definitely pay them a visit if you are in the area. Windy Oaks Estate Pinot Noir that they recommended was also great!
Like a trip to Provence. The atmoshere, the food; all like a trip to Aix, or Antibes. We're going back.
After a visit to Au Midi in the town of Aptos a few minutes south of Santa Cruz you will never again think Left Bank serves French food. While not likely to win a Michelin star Au Midi serves up genuine French dishes that remind one of what cooking can be like if we actually paid attention. The meal we had here felt hand made and reflected carefully chosen and fresh ingredients. A marvelous goat cheese salad was followed by a great bowl of tasty mussels no doubt fished out of the nearby ocean that very AM. A couple of marvelous unique deserts followed. Stereotypically I had hoped for some escargot and creme brûlée but I was pleased to try some new dishes as these were not on the lunch menu.
We've eaten at Au Midi twice recently, times very nice. We both had the stuffed piquillo peppers first then we had pork, perfectly cooked with an excellent sweet/tart sauce, and salmon on baby peas with an excellent saffron/vanilla savory custard sauce. We were asked how we like our entre with respect to doneness. Both were cooked exactly right. The nougat ice cream dessert was very good. Another time we had the duck legs. The sauce was nice but the legs were a bit tough and stringy. The white peach dessert was excellent. We have eaten at Au Midi many times since it opened. I recommend any dish with a custard sauce and any meat or fish that needs to be cooked rare to medium rare. When they serve duck breast it is always excellent.
Hadn't been to Au Midi in a while and took some friends for dinner. Well, the food was magnificent!!!!! Had the snail ravioli, to die for, the wines by the glass or bottle are really good, a good selection of French and local wines. My main course was incredible. I had the filet with morrel sauce and it was cooked to perfection with a side of scalloped potatoes and a stuff zucchini. All of it was delicious. Of course Muriel's desserts are great too. I highly recommend this restaurant to anybody. It is truly a GEM!!!!
A well-kept secret hidden behind the UPS store, this little French gem is the genuine article, owned by a French chef and her maitre de husband. Great food, great staff, great experience.
This has to be one of the top five restaurants we have ever eaten at (and that includes France and New York). DO NOT be put off by the location in the strip mall or the lack of ambiance. They have put their efforts and love into the food. We started with the snail ravioli ... a fusion of Asian and French cuisine. My husband had the sole with the squid risotto ... amazing! I had the pork loin with (wait for it) a rhubarb reduction ... it was heaven with every bite. We usually don't do dessert but the apple tartine with ginger ice cream and the berries with the lemon gelatto was the perfect ending. This was more than a meal, this was a culinary experience. It's worth the trip to Aptos.
You'd never know it existed - in a non-descript strip mall in Aptos. But go! We were there for lunch and it was a wonderful experience - the food, the presentation, the service and the ambience. Every dish we tried was great! The soup du our was a fresh vegetable soup, we had the crispy goat cheese salad, Mue's mussels (the sauce was excellent) and the Couscuous of Quinoa (vegetarian but very flavorful. Don' t miss the desserts - the french apple pie (served warm) and the white poached peach (the basil-verbena sherbet - wow!) were both very good. We'll be back for dinner.
there were 5 in our party. One stated it was the BEST salmon her ever had. 2 of us had the delicious mussels and 2 had the fantastic pork tenderloin with a rhubarb sauce. The staff was very attentive without hovering. Would highly recommend and we are looking forward to a return visit.
Great job, you guys. Seated immediately. Warm greeting, great food, fabulous service by an entire team. Definitely going back.
Awesome food and wine in a little Aptos strip mall - LOVE it and will be back many times. The food and service are outstanding!
7 of us will be going to the theater in 2 weeks, at 7:30. We will be talking a lot, and most have hearing loss of varying degree. If we can get right down to the business of choosing and ordering, the 5:30 opening dinner hour will be fine. As it was, no one wanted to look at the menu while we greeted and chatted with each other, and the 6:00 dinner hour wiould have been too late. I'll suggest reading your menu on-line beforehand, so that questions can be quickly resolved. We'll appreciate the quiet, but will probably be noisy oursleves! But if that party does not work out we will return - maybe all 4 of us - and be quiet, and order snails, some other time!
Onion cream soup was outstanding, itself worth the trip to Aptos. Would definitely return to try more of the lunch offerings, especially the ratatouille.
I have always appreciated the restaurant scene in Aptos (there's a restaurant scene in Aptos????). Er,....yes! Chez Renee, Ma Maison, Sushi On the Run, Sid's (great cheeseburger), Gordos (typico tacos), Bittersweet. You name it, Aptos has it. Au Medi? It's not suppose to be cheap! For what you get in terms of quality, WOW! Never had one dish that wasn't in the 8-9 range. The duck my son had the other night was a 10. My pork loin was close. Why go to Monterey, Carmel or SF? Au Medi competes with the best!
My boyfriend and I thought we'd switch it up a little bit and try something different and this place was great! Great food, great atmosphere, good wine selection, and food I normally wouldn't order. My only complaint is the portion sizes but it is french cuisine so it totally makes sense, but I would still highly recommend it!
Wonderful dinner! As always creative and delicious sauces . I had the escargot ravioli appetizer, filet mignon with morrill mushroom sauce, our friends had the Papeton , and Couscous of Quinoa. Dessert was floating island and apple pie with ginger ice cream. Service was attentive . We had had fantastic dining experience.
Love, love, love Au Midi! I have been a couple times and will be back again and again - not only because it is close to my office, but the food is delicious and the service is very nice. I am so glad a colleague told me about it - I may have passed it up (or not noticed it) in its strip mall location. Don't make that mistake!
Our experience at Au Midi is always great, lunch or dinner. If we lived closer or had no traffic issues to get here, we'd be here all the time. It is a gem of a restaurant, always a little surprising, always top notch. The prix fixe dinner that was served on Wednesday was as good as anything you'd find anywhere in France. My rating is "sublime".
I just returned from provence, and the food at Au Midi is so much better! My husband started the meal with the soup du jour, sweet onion topped with a dollop of pesto and hazelnuts. He then had the braised halibut that comes with a ravioli and potato cloud. I had the filet mignon with morel mushroom and Madeira wine sauce and thinly sliced tart of potato. Very delicious sauce.The final piece de resisitance was the vanilla panna cotta with rhubarb jelly,and strawberries. The minute we entered the restaurant, we felt welcomed. It was easy to make a reservation by using Open Table. The food is always delicious and Muriel, the chef is always finding creative new sauces to use . We would recommend Au Midi if you want a taste of provence.
Found out of the way in a shopping center, Au Midi is a real neighborhood gem. It has a small menu which is entirely excellent; we went with a group on 10 and everyone left raving about this place. I had an old friend which I have had an many restaurants, Cassoulet; and it was perfect containing two types of sausage, beans, duck, all in a broths of amazing richness. That's it :-)
We celebrated our anniversary there this week and were again treated to an excellent and inventive dining experience. A go-to place for that special dinner.
We always feel fortunate to have such a special French restaurant nearby in Aptos. Although located in a small retail center, once inside all diners are bound to feel special. The best thing about Au Midi is, of course, the delicious food! We have recently discovered Skuna Bay Salmon. It is prepared to order and is the tastiest salmon ever; pale pink, tender, almost fluffy, with a delicate flavor. Au Midi's mussel entree is a large dish with "artistically arranged" mussels in a scrumptious sauce. Be sure to take home any extra sauce to use over pasta the next day! This is a special place!
Had a wonderful dinner celebrating my mother's birthday. She enjoyed her duck entree very much. Everything was great. That floating islands dessert was absolutely delicious!!!!


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We are very grateful and humbled by the incredible turnout of loyal Chick-fil-A customers on August 1 around the country. .. While we don't release exact sales numbers, it was an unprecedented day.
Overnight and early Thursday, there were many reports about brisk business and long lines inside and outside restaurants as well as possibly breaking records in sales including megachurch pastor Rick Warren's tweet sent Wednesday night:
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In July, Chick-fil-A President Dan Cathy told the Baptist Press his company backed "the biblical definition of the family unit." His comment sparked criticism among individuals and groups who support gay marriage and prompted some mayors to announce plans to block the Atlanta-based company's expansion plans in their cities.
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Chick-fil-A's anti-LGBT stance goes well beyond simply opposing marriage equality. They have given millions of dollars to anti-LGBT organizations, including those that have been designated "hate groups" by the Southern Poverty Law Center, and those that push so-called "ex-gay" therapy, which has been denounced by the mainstream medical and mental health community. They have supported organizations that are on record saying that being gay should be recriminalized in America. Chick-fil-A also bans gay couples from its "WinShape Retreats" aimed at growing leadership within the company.
Throughout the day, the appreciation day gained momentum, with Chick-fil-A supporters and critics standing in lines to dine or organizing counter protests Wednesday and later in the week.
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Public Works Director Juan Florensa told The Longboat Observer Tuesday that the Planning, Zoning and Building Department has issued a temporary certificate of occupancy for the new building, just in time to host The United States Tennis Association National Senior Clay Courts Tournament December 2.
It's the fourth time the clay court tournament has been held at the tennis center and the first time it is deemed a national one.
The Longboat Key Town Commission approved a site plan amendment to the Longboat Key Public Tennis Center, 590 Bay Isles Road, last year for a $732,000 project that includes a larger, 1,750-square-foot tennis building/pro shop.
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The nation's landscapes and their component fish, wildlife and other natural and cultural resources are increasingly threatened by large-scale stressors. In the Southwest, prolonged drought, fire, and habitat fragmentation have had profound effects on the environment, communities and the economy. Working through partnership and collaboration, the region's Landscape Conservation Cooperatives are working to help identify and address pressing science needs that will help inform better management in the face of a changing climate.
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Dr. Erik Castle is a board-certified urologist who joined the Mayo Clinic staff in Arizona in 2007.
Dr. Castle is an associate professor of urology at College of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, and a senior associate consultant in the Department of Urology, where he also is assistant residency coordinator.
He was an assistant professor in the Department of Urology at Tulane University in New Orleans from 2004 to 2006 after serving as a clinical instructor/fellow at Mayo Clinic in Arizona for one year.
Dr. Castle's research interests include prostate cancer, bladder cancer and kidney cancer. He is the director of the Desert Mountain Prostate Cancer Research Fund and is the principal investigator of Castle labs housed at the Samuel C. Johnson Medical Research Building at Mayo Clinic in Arizona. His basic science research is focused on novel secondary hormonal therapies of prostate cancer as well as genomics of prostate and bladder cancers.
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- Treatment measures for kidney failure: Transplantation. National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases. http://kidney.niddk.nih.gov/kudiseases/pubs/transplant/index.htm#process. Accessed April 13, 2011.
- Segev DL, et al. Perioperative mortality and long-term survival following live kidney donation. Journal of the American Medical Association. 2010;303:959.
- Foley RN, et al. Long-term outcomes of kidney donors. Current Opinion in Nephrology and Hypertension. 2010;19:129.
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The Driftwood Inn on Bailey Island, Maine, will be the site of the Orthodox Presbyterian Summer Institute, on June 11-13, 2009. Similar to the successful Timothy Conference (though with an older age-group in view), the Summer Institute offers a taste of ministry in the OPC through an intensive time of reflection and conversation. The Summer Institute is part of a broader strategy to reconnect the church with the ministerial training of its ministers. The Subcommittee on Christian Education of the Committee on Christian Education seeks to inculcate ministerial candidates with the culture of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church through a variety of initiatives, such as the Ministerial Training Institute of the OPC and denominationally-subsidized internships.
This June six ministerial candidates will gather on a site on the coast of Maine that is conducive to thoughtful discussion. A list of reading will be distributed in order to assist participants in preparation for the seminar. Lectures and informal conversation will give time for presentation and reflection on the material presented. The institute will discuss such topics as:
The instructors for the program include Dr. Darryl Hart and Mr. John Muether, ruling elders in the OPC, and the Rev. Gregory Reynolds, editor of Ordained Servant, minister of Amoskeag OPC in Manchester, New Hampshire, and Director of the Institute.
Room and board expenses will be provided for students attending, as well as a stipend to subsidize travel expenses. Young men in their senior year of college or in the first two years of seminary are eligible to attend. Applications (including an essay explaining one's ministerial aspirations) must be submitted by February 28, 2009.
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With Apple's announcement later today and -- developers forum in California's clear Silicon Valley the hum but those companies.
Has some the best in the business best ideas that -- You would take energy you have fifth annual wow fifth annual exclusively days in the valley companies -- claimant begins.
With the company the put the silicon Silicon Valley she's -- and in San Francisco Liz.
-- and -- and that would be Intel in 1968.
Base started it all with their semiconductor equipment maker were here live for the first time we followed Intel.
Out of Silicon Valley and here to San Francisco at the -- -- center where 5000 people will descend.
To hear what Intel says as the next big thing they want to win the game of technology speaking of which how to move those chess pieces around the throughout to win this game and of course Fox Business has the entire landscape covered completely.
What with apple and Robert -- down there but we're here to talk about how -- it's always been about identifying the next big thing of the future.
And that building technology around it out of they do it with this got my first guest -- is Brian David Johnson.
What a title Intel's futurist I have to know.
What -- need to have underestimated B the futuristic what do you do well you.
You have to kind of have the ability to have a vision for the future and then be able to build so it's part of part design part principal engineer.
And so what I do is I look ten to fifteen years out and figure out what do you like to be human so that we can then build the chips and the platforms and the devices that people.
Tell me it's not gonna feel like being next to this -- to be if you have a what do you see you can't I mean that's not that's about expanded way out ten to fifteen years one of the most exciting.
-- things is as we continue to follow Moore's law competition gets smaller and smaller and smaller so soon.
We'll be able to turn anything into computers will be able to turn my shirt to a computer that desk into computer anything into computers we don't have to ask.
Can we do it can we make a laptop into a Smartphone can -- -- his apartment in the tablet we ask ourselves what what do we wanna do.
How do you do your job.
Well it's a -- a lot of research so.
Its mix of social science research going out all over the world talking to people.
The tech research that you would expect from Intel and then a lot of the data a lot of stuff actually from fox a lot of the things that are going on.
-- and then I go out and talk to people all over the world so -- hit the road I spend about.
67% of my time in airports and airplanes fanning out of talk -- -- people.
Pall malls.
What's both I say do that -- number -- I just talked to people see what kind of future do you want and what kind of future you wanna avoid that's very important we have to have that.
But I think one of the most interesting things from -- were really learned something was with several years ago I was in Mumbai India.
And I was in the production district in this back in tiny dark room talking about the future -- me.
So what will the future be where will people watch stuff -- there was this massive Hollywood.
And the massive Bollywood musical comedy show so.
Massive point four cameras all going and I asked the director and -- a trends that are what is the future of entertainment.
He pointed at a laptop he pointed at a Smartphone and at times pointed at a very new tablet and said that's origins in the live.
Brian David Johnson on how he does what he does as the futures thank you so -- so much is a pleasure and you know what all day long we are live here -- -- on the center -- the Intel developer's conference to look at what they are going to announce there is a special ship wait till you see with this one does.
But coming up we also have a a budget CEOs of startups to -- -- the whole part of three days in the valley in the next hour shock battery you may remember him he was president over DreamWorks Animation he also worked at electronic arts.
He's now -- a company called -- go Amazon media.
We'll -- I mean if you download a movie -- your iPad you can't get it back over on your Smartphone they've come up with an -- That will absolutely dump it all into one place you could access it with all of your devices and 3 PM eastern the big interview on Fox Business exclusive with Paul Otellini.
These Intel CEO and president.
On the way of the future and I'm gonna have -- -- -- -- questions they just a few guys know -- -- downgraded their estimates for revenues for the current quarter plus.
Are -- -- to the Smartphone game what are they doing to catch up and beat everybody else.
Back to you guys we'll see in the next hour looking forward to it Liz thing.
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J.P. Morgan Chase JPM +0.71% JPMorgan Chase & Co. U.S.: NYSE $56.47 +0.40 +0.71% Dec. 12, 2013 1:49 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 7.72M P/E Ratio 12.67 Market Cap $210.78 Billion Dividend Yield 2.70% Rev. per Employee $431,637 12/12/13 J.P. Morgan to Settle Madoff P... 12/11/13 Pension Funds Make the Most of... 12/11/13 J.P. Morgan's Dimon Applauds C... More quote details and news » & Co.'s penalties for the "London whale" trading fiasco are expected to total $500 million to $600 million as part of a far-reaching settlement that could wrap up as soon as next month, according to people close to the situation.
The Justice Department, Securities and Exchange Commission, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the U.K's Financial Conduct Authority are conducting investigations into J.P. Morgan's handling of the episode. Not all agencies have agreed to their final numbers and the total could still be above or below the range, one of these people added.
U.S. and U.K. officials for months have been considering the possibility of such a "global" settlement, which would resolve all the probes at once, said another person familiar with the matter.
The negotiations are part of a larger effort by J.P. Morgan to put a number of legal headaches behind it as the nation's largest bank tries to shed various crisis-era lawsuits and shore up its relationship with regulators.
One federal regulator is asking J.P. Morgan, the nation's largest bank by assets, to cough up more than $6 billion to settle claims that the bank misled mortgage-finance companies Fannie Mae FNMA +4.67% Fannie Mae OTCBB $2.69 +0.12 +4.67% Dec. 12, 2013 1:34 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 10.05M P/E Ratio N/A Market Cap $2.98 Billion Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee $17,017,200 12/10/13 Senate Confirms Rep. Mel Watt ... 11/29/13 Holman Jenkins: Wall Street's ... 11/21/13 Sperling: Why Fannie Shouldn't... More quote details and news » and Freddie Mac FMCC +4.64% Freddie Mac OTCBB $2.48 +0.11 +4.64% Dec. 12, 2013 1:34 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 3.83M P/E Ratio N/A Market Cap $1.54 Billion Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee $15,393,300 12/11/13 Change to Fannie, Freddie Term... 12/10/13 Senate Confirms Rep. Mel Watt ... 12/06/13 Senators Urge Against Loan Fee... More quote details and news » about the quality of mortgages it sold to them during the housing boom, said people close to the talks. J.P. Morgan is resisting the amount, these people added. The two sides are billions of dollars apart, one person said.
The Federal Housing Finance Agency in 2011 sued J.P. Morgan and 17 other banks, taking issue with the quality of nearly $200 billion in mortgage investments sold to Fannie and Freddie.
Preet Bharara, U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, left, announces charges against two former J.P. Morgan traders in New York on Aug. 14. Bloomberg News
The agencies bought the securities during the housing boom, when they offered rich returns. But the investments produced large losses once the housing downturn hit. Fannie and Freddie had to write down those investments sharply in 2008 when they were taken over by the federal government. The government rescue of the companies cost taxpayers $42 billion.
It isn't known how much the FHFA is requesting from all banks, but based on an $885 million settlement reached last month with UBS AG UBSN.VX -1.87% UBS AG Switzerland: SWX Europe CHF16.30 -0.31 -1.87% Dec. 12, 2013 5:30 pm Volume : 9.90M P/E Ratio 95.88 Market Cap CHF63.81 Billion Dividend Yield 0.92% Rev. per Employee CHF598,949 12/11/13 Investment-Banking Revenue Fal... 12/10/13 UBS Hires Broker Duo From Merr... 12/06/13 UBS Sells Distressed Credit To... More quote details and news » the total amount could be as much as $28 billion if the FHFA is able to extract similar amounts from others. The Financial Times reported the FHFA's $6 billion demand on Tuesday.
J.P. Morgan has the second-largest potential exposure of the 18 financial institutions sued by the FHFA, with $33 billion of the $200 billion at issue. Bank of America BAC +0.56% Bank of America Corp. U.S.: NYSE $15.33 +0.08 +0.56% Dec. 12, 2013 1:49 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 42.84M P/E Ratio 22.82 Market Cap $162.66 Billion Dividend Yield 0.26% Rev. per Employee $378,682 12/10/13 Merrill Adviser Team Jumps to ... 12/10/13 UBS Hires Broker Duo From Merr... 12/10/13 Expect Stock-Market Gains With... More quote details and news » Corp is No. 1, with $57.5 billion. Three of the institutions have reached settlements with the FHFA thus far. The regulator announced pacts with Citigroup Inc. C +0.26% Citigroup Inc. U.S.: NYSE $50.84 +0.13 +0.26% Dec. 12, 2013 1:49 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 15.77M P/E Ratio 12.68 Market Cap $153.80 Billion Dividend Yield 0.08% Rev. per Employee $368,734 12/11/13 3-D Printing Stocks Catch Wall... 12/06/13 Los Angeles Sues Wells, Citigr... 12/05/13 Citibank Website Down for Seve... More quote details and news » in May and with General Electric Co. GE +0.09% General Electric Co. U.S.: NYSE $26.61 +0.03 +0.09% Dec. 12, 2013 1:49 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 16.75M P/E Ratio 19.04 Market Cap $268.92 Billion Dividend Yield 2.86% Rev. per Employee $466,918 12/10/13 GE Capital to Refund up to $34... 12/05/13 GE to Proceed With Manufacturi... 11/27/13 First Steam, Then Diesel. Will... More quote details and news » in January, but didn't disclose the amounts.
Officials have said the quality of the loans issued by J.P. Morgan and two firms it purchased during the crisis—Bear Stearns Cos. and the banking operations of Washington Mutual Inc. WMIH +13.64% WMI Holdings Corp. U.S.: OTCBB $2.00 +0.24 +13.64% Dec. 12, 2013 1:34 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 3.88M P/E Ratio N/A Market Cap N/A Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee N/A 11/20/13 J.P. Morgan Won't Back Down Fr... 11/19/13 JPM's Dimon Expresses Some Reg... 11/18/13 J.P. Morgan Willing to Comprom... More quote details and news » —performed no better than those issued by UBS. If the government sought a similar pact with J.P. Morgan, the amount of money at stake would exceed $5 billion.
Documents: Paper Trail in the 'London Whale' Case
One major point of contention is whether J.P. Morgan is responsible for the tab on losses from loans issued by Bear Stearns and Washington Mutual before it bought those companies. Lawyers representing the government have prepared to argue in court that J.P. Morgan should assume successor liability for both failed banks, according to people familiar with the matter.
Any settlement J.P. Morgan reaches with U.S. regulators on the London whale probes might include the filing of civil charges alleging that J.P. Morgan failed to supervise adequately former traders responsible for the bets and lacked sufficient controls to prevent an alleged coverup of the losses, people close to the investigations said.
SEC officials have insisted that J.P. Morgan admit to wrongdoing as part of any civil settlement with the agency, said people close to the talks.
U.S. prosecutors are looking for any leads that might take them to higher-ranking bank executives, said people close to the case. Prosecutors filed criminal charges this month against two former J.P. Morgan traders who were accused of hiding losses on the botched trades, said people close to the case.
How the Story of J.P. Morgan's 'London Whale' Unfolded
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In Spain, police Tuesday arrested Javier Martin-Artajo, one of two former J.P. Morgan traders charged by U.S. prosecutors. The Spanish citizen turned himself in to police in Madrid following a conversation with a police unit specializing in fugitives, a National Police spokesman said.
Mr. Martín-Artajo was released after a hearing at the National Court, a court spokesman said. He told the judge that the accusations against him by U.S. prosecutors were false, the spokesman said. Mr. Martín-Artajo's lawyer couldn't be reached for comment Tuesday but previously has said Mr. Martin-Artajo was confident he will be exonerated after a "complete and fair reconstruction of these complex events is completed."
Mr. Martín-Artajo agreed to remain in Spain and to appear at the court every 15 days while the U.S. formally requests his extradition—a move the trader told the court he would resist, the court spokesman said.
The U.S. has 40 days to formalize the extradition request. If Mr. Martín-Artajo formally refuses extradition, a panel of three National Court judges would then review the case and decide on the request.
Julien Grout, the other former trader charged by U.S. authorities, hasn't yet been arrested. He is staying in the south of France at a place used by his parents as a weekend home and his lawyer is in discussions with U.S. prosecutors, a person close to him said Tuesday.
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Boat schools in Bangladesh bring into question the diligence of social welfare funding agencies
A group of journalists from a Bangladeshi news agency investigate the activities of an NGO called Shidulai Swanirvar Sangstha (SSS) which supposedly runs a network of "boat schools" in the Sunderban delta region. These boat schools provide basic education and agricultural training to people in remote, disadvantaged regions of Bangladesh, and even fulfill some of their power needs (by providing them night-lamps charged using solar panels). SSS has received quite a bit of media attention (even in the West) and was recently lauded with million-dollar awards from funding agencies of the ranks of Bill and Melinda Gates foundation and UNDP.
The journalists claim that the whole busness of SSS is basically a sham. On paper, they claim to own and run a troupe of 88 high-tech boats (equipped with solar panels, PCs, DVD players and 1500-book libraries) but in reality, they seem to be in possession of just 5 boats (out of which only 2 are fully functional). Their executive director boasts that their system serves about 90,000 marginalized families in Bangladesh whereas only 0.5% of people in the area seem to know about the boat-school concept (let alone make use of it).
If the findings of this study are correct, it seriously brings into question the trustworthiness of the agencies which are backing the whole program (the article names 3 of them: Bill-and-Melinda Gates foundation, UNDP, Santa Fe Conservation Trust) and the methods they use to evaluate social welfare projects in general. I don't see any obvious holes in the article and I'd say the investigation seems to have been conducted very carefully and the analysis is quite rational.
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A related article http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-gatesx07jan07,0,6827615.story?page=1&coll=la-home-headlines offers many insights into the internal functioning of such philanthropic funds. Although very long and (IMO) not well analyzed, it does show that the investments made by these funds are not always good.
I think all such interventionist programs should be supplemented with some basic ICT tools for continuous monitoring/social-auditing to provide transparency and accountability. I believe this is ideally supposed to be the role of media, and philanthropic foundations should set aside a certain %age of their funds to create a monitoring infrastructure. This will considerably help improve the benefits gained from other investments and endowments made by them. I think the real benefit of organizations like Kiva and GiveIndia is that they have incorporated auditing as an essential part of their program, rather than simply easing the flow the money.
Well, ICT tools can only go so far in building effective monitoring systems. One needs that "human in the loop" to do the bullwork and to do it honestly. I'd say an effective monitoring infrastructure should involve 75% investment in humans in 25% investment in ICTs.
What's most disturbing about the boat school study is that these funding agencies aren't even doing the basic groundwork required to evaluate social welfare projects (forget about putting a monitoring infrastructure in place). Giving a gift worth one million dollars to an NGO which basically does not exist (or exists only on paper) is totally unacceptable from a foundation that aims to eradicate AIDS from the face of the planet. It also points to the poor quality of journalism promoted by western news agencies. (Read the Washington Post article I pointed to.)
I liked the LAtimes article in your post, Adi. It does point to a serious gap in the implementation of organizations like the Gates foundation--the insulation between the endowment and investment wings of such orgs needs to be addressed and the Gates foundation doesn't seem to care much about it. To me, just the fact that the foundation puts in 5% into welfare and 95% into corporate investment (much of which goes to notorious companies like Shell and Abbott) is rather surprising and, IMO, highly injudicious.
You hit the nail on the head! The need for local media (ICT + people) through community radio and other efforts, coupled with the use of laws like RTI, is pretty much the distillation at which I arrived after many many months of confusion. I've actually applied for a funding proposal based on this philosophy; let's see how it goes :)
Also, finding the right human-ICT mix is unlikely to be a case of "one size fits all"! For example, education is a domain that inherently requires a bigger human component.. whereas, say, sustainable agriculture, is one where the the ICT component could be bigger.
anyway, we are digressing from the main theme of this thread, i guess....
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Pyloric stenosis a 100 years after Ramstedt
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- 2General & Adolescent Paediatrics Unit, Institute of Child Health, University College London, London, UK
- Correspondence to Christina Georgoula, Starlight Children's Unit, Homerton University Hospital, London E9 6SR, UK; christina.georgoula{at}homerton.nhs.uk
- Accepted 4 April 2012
- Published Online First 9 June 2012
Conrad Ramstedt performed the first pyloromyotomy for what is now called idiopathic hypertrophic pyloric stenosis 100 years ago. The intervening century has seen the management of this condition transformed but the underlying cause remains a mystery. This article reviews the treatment of this condition before and after the introduction of pyloromyotomy and the advances made subsequently towards understanding its cause.
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Below is a list of all the Exhibitions and What's On that are happening on 3rd March 2012. To view events for another date use the calendar in the left hand navigation and click on the date you wish to view.
JAPAN: Kingdom of CharactersDont miss the only opportunity to see this major exhibition in the UK, celebrating the growing interest in Japanese subcultures such as manga and anime. |
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The First Moderns: Art Nouveau, from Nature to AbstractionThe First Moderns is the first in a series of spectacular displays dedicated to the history of Modernism. |
There Is Here: Photographs by Avi GuptaThere Is Here is the first UK exhibition by American artist Avi Gupta, specially commissioned for the Sainsbury Centre. |
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