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Maria Contreras-Sweet stunned Hollywood when she and her billionaire backer Ron Burkle pulled off an eleventh-hour bid to buy assets from the teetering Weinstein Co. after months of on-again off-again negotiations, saving the studio from almost certain bankruptcy.
But the former Obama administration official's next act may prove even harder.
Now begins the work of delivering on her investor group's promise to turn the rubble of Harvey Weinstein's former New York-based studio into a new, female-focused film and TV company run by women. If the plan works, it would be an unprecedented turnaround for a badly tarnished company and possibly even set an example for the male-dominated entertainment industry.
The investor group has touted its plans to create a compensation fund worth tens of millions of dollars for women who accused Weinstein of sexual harassment and assault. It also says it will save jobs by rehiring much of the existing Weinstein Co. staff in Los Angeles and New York.
"The cornerstone of our plan has been to launch a new company that represents the best practices in corporate governance and transparency," Contreras-Sweet said in a statement Thursday. "This next step represents the best possible pathway to support victims and protect employees."
Just how that will be accomplished is unclear. Contreras-Sweet declined to be interviewed Friday.
Questions remain about what the new company will look like after the buyers complete their $500-million deal, $225 million of which will be used to pay off Weinstein Co. debt, sources said.
The buyers have not said what they will name the new studio or who will run it, a pressing issue given the board's recent firing of David Glasser, the former chief operating officer who was positioning himself to run the newly configured company. Nor have they revealed details on what types of films they will support. The deal is subject to a 40-day closing period.
"I like that there's a victims fund, and I'm glad most of those people will have work," said Joe Pichirallo, a former independent film studio executive who teaches at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. "Ultimately, though, they've got to get down to the nitty-gritty of making and acquiring movies."
The biggest factor in the future success or failure of the studio is who will take the reins.
Contreras-Sweet, who will be executive chairwoman of the new company, is a respected player in politics and the private sector, but has no experience in the entertainment industry. She previously ran the U.S. Small Business Administration under President Obama from 2014-17, overseeing a $120-billion loan portfolio.
Her private-sector experience includes founding ProAmerica Bank, which focused on supporting Latino-owned businesses. The firm struggled because it had the bad luck of launching in 2006, right before the financial crash. Her business career began with a long stint at 7-Up/RC Bottling Co., where she became an equity partner when Westinghouse sold the company.
"She's been effective at any job she's had, so I don't think there's anyone better to take Weinstein Co. and turn those assets into the model for how companies should treat their employees," said Ruben Gonzalez, senior advisor for strategic affairs at the L.A. Area Chamber of Commerce, who has known Contreras-Sweet for years.
Burkle, for his part, has dabbled in Hollywood, but only as a financial partner, not someone who picks and makes movies. He invested in Relativity Media, which fell into bankruptcy in 2015. He also invested in some Weinstein Co. movies and backed a failed bid for Harvey Weinstein and his brother, Bob, to buy back their former studio, Miramax, from Walt Disney Co.
A spokesman for Burkle, who would own about 20% of the new company, did not respond to requests for an interview.
Running a studio requires relationships with directors, producers and actors, and most of the people who had those connections at Weinstein Co. are now gone.
Weinstein, who co-founded the company in 2005 and built it into an indie powerhouse with such acclaimed movies as "The King's Speech" and "Django Unchained," was fired Oct. 8 after sexual abuse allegations against him sent the company into a tailspin. The board fired Glasser last month after New York Atty. Gen. Eric Schneiderman accused him of not doing enough to protect women from Weinstein. Glasser said the board had scapegoated him. Bob Weinstein is expected to leave the company with a handful of assets to start a new business.
"Ron and Maria have been at it since November. They know this company," said Weinstein Co. board member Tarak Ben Ammar. "So it's not as if they're going to be newcomers."
To survive, the new studio will need to quickly find a female executive — like "The Post" producer and former Sony Pictures studio chief Amy Pascal — with a robust track record in Hollywood, Los Angeles investment banker Lloyd Greif said.
"It's not just about having a female board, it's about installing a female CEO and actively reaching out to female producers," Greif said. "That talent exists. The opportunity is there, and they can really turn it around. Otherwise, it's still the Weinstein Co. with another name."
Ben Ammar would not say whom the buyers were considering.
"I know they have some great ideas," he said. "What matters is that there will be top managers that will succeed."
Starting an indie film company can be a Sisyphean endeavor even without the baggage of being associated with Weinstein Co. The box-office market for smaller films for adult audiences — previously the Weinsteins' bread and butter — has become increasingly perilous as audiences flock to either mega-budget blockbusters or micro-budget horror movies.
Some specialty distributors, such as stalwarts Fox Searchlight and Focus Features and newcomer A24, are finding success with modestly budgeted, high-quality films, especially those that score Oscar nominations. But others, such as Relativity Media and Broad Green Pictures, have charged into the business with big ambitions and lots of cash, only to retreat.
Another question is whether the new studio will have the funding to succeed where others have failed. The buyers are expected to invest $275 million to launch the new company. And unlike other new studios, the company has the advantage of Weinstein Co.'s 277-film library, which generates cash flow from home video, streaming and TV deals.
Then there's the issue of what happens to Weinstein Co.'s slate of unreleased projects. People close to the sale said the company plans to raise as much as $50 million for a victims' fund by selling unreleased movies. That would be part of a $90 million compensation package that includes insurance policies and a $10 million line of credit. Bob Weinstein will receive $10 million in escrow as payback for funds he put up to finance development of a movie, sources said. The brothers — who own about 40% of the business — will lose their stakes.
While satisfying Schneiderman's demands, however, selling off projects to compensate Weinstein's accusers would also leave the company with a slimmer film slate.
Even the availability of significant funding won't guarantee success, said NYU's Pichirallo.
"You've seen companies come in with a lot of money, make bad decisions and go away," Pichirallo said. "It's really going to be about who picks the movies."


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Councillor Owen Palmer funeral was huge
During his tribute, former Prime Minister of Jamaica, Bruce Golding praised the late Palmer as a leader who led "from the front...and pointed people of his division in the way they should go".
He reminisced about his days as an MP circa 1983 where he first met the young, energetic Palmer who he praised because he always stood out because he was "articulate and argumentative", a natural born leader and a person others looked to for leadership and direction. He urged the gathering to continue to rally around the Palmer family during their time of bereavement.
"The family will need need the support in the weeks and months to come, they will not overcome their grief after we have left Meadowrest, Owen deserves that, we owe it to Owen," Golding said.
The sense of loss was palpable throughout the ceremony with many sporting flashy green suits, green ties, green shirts, green dresses and blouses to show support for the Jamaica Labour Party. Dancehall artiste Chris Howell had tongues wagging with a dapper green suit that drew compliments from females. But for all the green on show, it was a sombre affair as droves of people came to show their respect for 'Jiggy', a charismatic, warm-hearted man who touched countless lives.
Bartender Kerry Ann Smith was particularly grief-stricken as she said the accident claimed her daughter's godfather, as well as a cousin, Gideon 'Jimmy' Thompson.
"Owen was my daughter, Akeida Hammond's godfather and her cousin, Jimmy, died in the same accident so it is a double loss, and a very difficult time for me," Ms. Smith said.
During the eulogy, Senator Kerensia Morrison urged the congregation to "get back to the basics of life" and to renew and maintain bonds with friends and family.
"Don't scatter roses, call your friend, call your family, use every opportunity to spend time with your loved ones," she intoned with great passion.
Senator Morrison shared an anecdote of how two angry men had come to the councillor's office one day, but as unflappable as ever, Palmer, despite her warnings that the men were enraged, claimed "ah so dem gwaan all the time, ah miss dem miss me". Much laughter greeted this remark.
"When they returned, Palmer immediately said 'it come in like oonu ear mi a call oonu name', and within a few minutes, they were all friends and I had to wonder if ah dem same one did say 'dem done with politics!' a few hours before. Owen loved his people, and people loved him," she said to hearty applause from the congregation.
Hundreds of persons stood outside in the shade of trees because the church was full to capacity. Prime Minister Andrew Holness paid tribute to the late councillor as well. Minister of Agriculture Audley Shaw, Minister of Health Christopher Tufton, Dr. Andrew Wheatley, Minister of Science, Energy and Technology, Desmond Mckenzie, Minister of Local Government and Community Development, and Alando Terrelonge, junior minister in Ministry of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sports were also present. Dennis Robotham, president of the St Catherine Chamber of Commerce, was also in attendance.
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Kasper as a name for boys means "treasurer". Kasper is an alternate form of Gaspard (French, Persian): French respelling of Caspar. Kasper is also a form of Kaspar.
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Kasper is an unusual given name for males but a very prominent surname for both adults and children (#3287 out of 150436, Top 2%). (2000 U.S. DEMOGRAPHICS)
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Pop star Shakira's son has taught her to simplify.
The 37-year-old singer, who has 15-month-old Milan with partner Gerard Pique, said the little boy's need for her attention means she has had to be more focused in her work so that she has more free time to be with him, reported
"Well I think he's taught me, in general, he's taught me how to simplify because he requires me most of the time. So I
have to kind of learn how to be a little more direct with my own work, with the way I tackle my work," she said.
Shakira said she and Pique are so similar. "We're very much alike. We're so similar. Our personalities are so similar we don't understand how we get along so well, being so similar. We're so compatible. We want the same things, we like the same things, we hate the same things. We're so passionate the same way, we need passion the same way."


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Laura Root's favourite reads of 2016
Lie With Me by Sabine Durrant
A classy psychological thriller.
The Missing and the Dead by Stuart MacBride
The second to most recent instalment in the hugely successful Logan McRae series.
The Glorious Heresies by Lisa McInerney
Fast, furious and bleakly funny modern Irish noir.
The Catalyst Killing by Hans Olav Lahlum tr. Kari Dickson
Takes this retro series featuring K2 and Patricia into the 1970s and the milieu of militant student politics.
Streets of Darkness by A A Dhand
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- 24
- Medicine Bottle
- Down Colorful Hill
- Japanese to English
- Lord Kill the Pain
- Michael
1. 24
so it's not loaded stadiums or ballparks
and we're not kids on swingsets on the blacktop
and i thought at fifteen that i'd
have it down by sixteen
and twenty-four keeps breathing in my face
like a mad whore
and twenty-four keeps pounding at my door
like a friend you don't want to see
oldness comes with a smile
to every love given child
oldness comes to rile
the youth who dream suicide
2. Medicine Bottle
giving into love and sharing my time
letting someone into my misery
i told it all step by step
how i landed on the island
and how i swam across the sea
and it crosses my mind
that i may wake to a knife in me
no more breath in my hair
or ladies' underwear
tossed up over the alarm clock
blood dripping from the bed
to a neatly written poem
a heartfelt last line reading
there is no more mystery
it it going to happen my love
it's all in your head she said
morning after nightmare
you're building a wall she said
higher than the both of us
so try living life
instead of hiding in the bedroom
show me a smile
and i'll promise not to leave you
it happened under a rainy cloud
passing through the dark south
we went into a big house
and slept in a small bed
i didn't know you then
as well as you of me
we talked of our sad lives
and we went off separately
i found your overseas souvenirs
holiday greeting cards
and some long forgotten high school fears
it's all in my head i said
banging a piano
i've not been so alone i thought
since kicking in the womb
i drank so much tea
i wrote my letters in kanji
around the block i walked and walked
pretending you were with me
not wanting to die out here
without you
the hurting never ends
like birthdays and old friends
we forget what is flesh blood and bone is human
turning phone lines to airlines
unwilling to face
the love is found on the inside not the outside
and like a medicine bottle
in the cabinet i'll keep you
and like a medicine bottle
in my hand i will hold you
and swallow you slowly
as to last me a lifetime
without holding too tight
i do not want to lose
the thrill that it gives me
to look out from my window
and scowl at the houses
from my world in the bedroom
it's all in my head she read
in her girlfriend's self-help book
it's all his own making
a war with himself
like two sides of a wall
that separates two countries
he shuts out the world
and wants only to love you
not wanting to die out here
without you
3. Down Colorful Hill
out of the box
down colorful hill
wind lifting tired feet
skin sensing challenge ahead
prayers prayers prayers
for success
prayers prayers prayers
always die in time
losing the dream
face to face sleeping
losing the dream
open mouth breathing
where unadmired beings
dread the due changes ahead
prayers prayers prayers
for success
prayers prayers prayers
always die in time
like empty roofs above
life for poor doves
like empty roofs above
rid of our love
4. Japanese to English
i went as far as losing sleep
i went as far as messing up my life
unloving still strike me different
a million miles away from home
and fifteen from a payphone
where we sat lonely on the sand
you're ten years older
we translate japanese to english
and english to japanese
it's not that simple
this dictionary never has a word
for the way i'm feeling
it's nothing plain for me
of a different god and moral
what if i laid my head down on your stomach
or put my mouth to your hand
i cannot translate
japanese to english
or english to japanese
what i had to say is unsaid
what i had to do is undone
and if it was done
i'm sure it would have killed our hour
where we sat lonely on the stand
above the water the awful gray
our current from japan
didn't sweep away
5. Lord Kill The Pain
lord kill the pain
don't want to ask you again
kill my girlfriend
and kill my best friend sam
cause i saw them making eyes again
lord kill the pain
don't want to ask you again
kill my neighbors
and all my family too
they doubt my direction
lord let it rain
don't want to ask you again
drown my country
drown everyone but me
so i can live peacefully
or put me to sleep here
and wake me in japan
i want to speak a new language
drop me a line and pull me out
but do not find me
amongst dead underground
let me hear the whining sound
of a pig drown
and lead me over summery hill
to a place i like to think about
and sedate me with tylenol pills
oh how i love to dream about
drop me a line and pull me out
but do not find me
amongst life on the ground
let me see the burning down
of my home town
lord kill the pain
6. Michael
michael, where are you now?
somehow in my excitement the last time you called,
it slipped again to ask your hidden whereabouts
i got a lead from your old triple ex-girlfriend, she said
"i heard he lost his mind again"
"again?" i said
i didn't know that you ever did
michael, where are you now?
sleeping through the morning in flannel impaired
getting high in southern air
shoeless, sandy eveing down the unfamiliar
last whiff of salt-water freedom
skipping shells in the dead zone
with the ghost on your side
of the state borderline
"take it. . ."
do you remember our first subway ride?
our first heavy metal haircuts?
our last swim on the east coast?
and me with my ridiculous looking pierced nose?
i remember your warm smile in the sun
the daydreaming boy without a shirt on
the birmingham barfly father
left the mother of three sons
you're the oldest juvenile delinquent bum
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I'm Michele.
On Crafting
I consider myself a crafter, and a newblet knit-designer. I only make clothes for myself, but smaller projects are fun to give away, too. I crocheted before I did any other craft, and learned to use a drop spindle a few years ago.
My preference for yarns is solid colors. I like the way variegated yarns look on the skein, but I just can not abide variegated clothing, except for maybe a really well done sock. I don't care what other people wear, but I will never knit or wear a variegated sweater. Yech. Now, stripes? I can get into nice stripes. Accent colors too.
I do know how to sew, and do it once in a while, but dragging out the sewing machine every few weeks is a chore. >_> I do like working zippers though. Not really sure why.
Look for some yarn related stuff coming from me in the next few weeks. I'm working on something. ❤
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I created the header according to this tutorial on Pugly Pixel, using the same sources she did, for the most part. The font is Lobster 1.3.


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Anastasia Vronski recorded and mixed the sounds from the machine of her computer with two microphones in her home studio at the Permiac region where she lives, not far from the Uralic border of the European Russia.
Ricardo Alrucini recorded and mixed the industrial ambiences and drums, resonances, from tempered steel discs with an audio recorder in Porto, where he lives, not far from Atlantic border of Europe, in Portugal.
This is the first cooperation for the young musician from Russia, Anastasia Vronski.
She has 6 previous releases, all solo, on this and other net labels: "The Spell" ; "The Snowgirl" ; "The Blaze" ; "The Drowner" ; "The Intruder" ; "The Sputnik"
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I've been collecting puzzles for too many years. In 2010 I decided to start collecting boys as well. While you'll find the occasional puzzle on here, most posts are about my puzzling adventures around the globe.
Monday, February 20, 2012
Another day of testing
Well this time I got smart and brought along a few puzzles that I knew would stay the distance.
The first is a Lampos Cosmic creatures. (the second I will post on tomorrow) I purchased these a few years ago in Japan and have not gotten around to playing with them until this past weekend. I'm not sure what the instructions tell me to do, but I can work it out from past experience with this type of puzzle. (How do I make that photo show up with the correct orientation-frustrating) This one has relatively small number of pieces compared to others of this type. 12 in all as you can see. Each is also marked a-l to help you when placing the pieces as per the booklet. There are a large number of challenges in the booklet, but again, no Japanese so I can't tell how many, and I was too lazy to count.
Typical of these kinds of puzzles, you choose a challenge, insert the first of the pieces as given and off you go. I did about 15 of these and got bored. That seems to be a recurrent theme with me and these packing puzzles. I can only do so many at a time and then I've had enough.
The Lampos Cosmic Creatures is a bit different in the shapes-no two are the same, and well, the area that needs to be filled is not symmetrical. This seems to add a bit to the challenge. I'm sure there is some sure fire method to solve these consistently, but I've yet to work out what it is. So for me, it's a trial and error puzzle-and there is nothing wrong with that now is there....
I was so bored this weekend that I have 3 more of this type of puzzle to review....stay tuned!
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By Joel Fralick, City Year DC, '13 and City Year Chicago '14
On the eve of my college graduation in May of 2012, I still had no idea where life would take me next. My studies taught me so much, but transitioning from the classroom to the workforce was, as many college graduates find out, not a simple feat. I didn't have many opportunities that would lead to long-term professional development or any that sparked passion within me. Then, I found City Year.
The opportunity to serve with City Year was the best thing to happen to me after graduation, both personally and professionally. As a first year AmeriCorps member in Washington, DC, and then as a Team Leader in Chicago, I was able to provide much-needed services to youth in two of America's districts that are in high need of support. But the service was more rewarding than I imagined. Here are a few of the ways that my two City Year service years prepared me for my professional journey:
Leadership Opportunities
I had the chance to take on leadership roles in countless aspects of my service. From planning and organizing a spring break camp for over 300 students, to engaging community members, corporate sponsors and politicians in transformational service projects, to leading my very own team through their year of service—there were ample opportunities at City Year for me to step up and develop my leadership abilities.
Hard-Skills Development
Often, the work City Year does can be difficult to explain to people outside of the organization. Despite the ambiguity of such service work where no two days are exactly alike, there are many chances to learn specific and transferrable skills. I have learned everything from how to manage and analyze various forms of data within multiple software systems, to creating and implementing logistics and day-of action plans for large-scale events. If there's a skill you want to learn at City Year, chances are someone else in the organization will be willing and able to teach you.
When you join City Year, you immediately gain access to not only an expansive, global network of other AmeriCorps members and staff, but also countless AmeriCorps and City Year alumni, sponsors and affiliated service partners. In my two years of service with City Year, I made hundreds, if not thousands, of professional and personal human connections with people from every corner of the public and private spheres.
Teamwork and Collaboration
One of our core values at City Year is teamwork, and it's easy to see why when you look at our service model. Every person, in every role, at City Year has a team to support them. Not a single day goes by in which it isn't necessary to rely on and trust in the members of your team. The opportunity to learn how to function as a member of a team, while being exposed to extreme diversity in often challenging circumstances, cultivates a massive amount of self-confidence and allows individuals to gain an important skill for any career—collaboration.
Flexibility and Communication
City Year provides an extremely supportive framework and a culture that allows its members to constantly practice effective and efficient communication skills in order to overcome challenges.
All of these professional development benefits listed above are only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to what City Year and national service has given to me. As an organization, City Year makes it a priority to focus not only on students' academic and social-emotional growth, but the organization also places a very high value on our AmeriCorps members' development and their post-City Year plans.
As I approached the close of my second year of service, I asked myself, "What comes next?" I knew no matter what the answer to that question was, one thing was certain: I was more prepared to join the work force after serving for City Year than I had ever been. I was extremely fulfilled by the work I had done to get there. I remember hoping that I would be able to articulate my time in service in a meaningful way to my potential future employers. Lucky for me, that's was (and still is) a priority for City Year, too.
Editorial note: This post was originally published on our website in May 2014. It has been updated and republished here.


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GM, Like BP, Will Use Multidistrict Litigation and the Fund Approach to Limit Its Liability
GM, Like BP, Will Use Multidistrict Litigation and the Fund Approach to Limit Its Liability
April 3, 2014
The Faulty GM Ignition Switch
Since February, 2014, General Motors ("GM") has recalled 2.6 million cars – mostly Chevrolet Cobalts and Saturn Ions – over a faulty ignition switch, which can cause the engine to cut off in traffic, disabling the power steering, power brakes and air bags and making it difficult to control the vehicle.
Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., said that House Energy and Commerce Committee staff members found 133 warranty claims filed with GM over 10 years detailing customer complaints of sudden engine stalling when they drove over a bump or brushed keys with their knees.
The claims were filed between June 2003 and June 2012. Waxman said that because GM didn't undertake a simple fix when it learned of the problem, "at least a dozen people have died in defective GM vehicles."
GM intends to handle its liability for failing to properly address its faulty ignition switch problem in the same manner that BP addressed its liability for the BP oil spill of 2010 in the Gulf of Mexico. It's basically a simple two-pronged approach:
(a) The United States Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation ("JPML") will order that centralization of the GM faulty ignition switch cases will "eliminate duplicative discovery, prevent inconsistent pretrial rulings, and conserve the resources of the parties, their counsel, and the judiciary; and serve the convenience of the parties and witnesses and promote the more just and efficient conduct of the cases." In sum, all GM cases will be consolidated in one transferee federal court; and (b) GM retains Feinberg Rozen, LLP to manage a fund to allegedly compensate the GM victims for all "legitimate" claims.
GM ignition switch victims may find the following manner in which BP limited its liability for the BP oil spill of 2010 to be instructive.
Multidistrict Litigation ("MDL") and the Fund Approach
Judicial economy is undoubtedly well-served by MDL consolidation when scores of similar cases are pending in the courts. Regrettably, for victims of the BP oil spill, the BP Oil Spill Multidistrict Litigation ("MDL 2179") is a "faux" MDL – i.e., an MDL that limits the liability of the defendants, grants excessive compensation to the members of the Plaintiffs' Steering Committee ("PSC") and other counsel performing common benefit work, and fails to adequately compensate the plaintiffs.
MDL 2179 is a "faux" MDL primarily because of: (a) the manner in which Kenneth R. Feinberg was permitted by the JPML and the MDL 2179 Court to administer the BP compensation fund; and (b) the terms and conditions of the BP/PSC class settlement agreement.
MDL 2179 officially started on August 10, 2010. The Transfer Order issued on that date by JPML clearly states: ".. Centralization may also facilitate closer coordination with Kenneth Feinberg's administration of the BP compensation fund." The JPML made it clear from the very beginning that the purpose of centralization was not merely to eliminate duplicative discovery, prevent inconsistent pretrial rulings, and conserve the resources of the parties, their counsel, and the judiciary; and serve the convenience of the parties and witnesses and promote the more just and efficient conduct of the BP oil spill cases. Here, the purpose of centralization was to maximize judicial economy via the creation of a "faux" class settlement wrapped in a "faux" MDL.
From the very beginning, the purpose of MDL 2179 was to replace democratic adversarial litigation with a fund approach to compensating victims of the BP oil spill. The vast majority of BP oil spill victims will never have their day in court. Judicial economy, rather than justice, is the primary objective.
The fund approach to resolving mass claims, i.e., those claims resulting from the BP oil spill incident, ought to be viewed with a significant degree of concern. The precedent established by the JPML and the MDL 2179 Court is clear: A "Responsible Party" under the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 ("OPA 90") may now enter into a contract with a politically well-connected third party "Claims Administrator," i.e., Kenneth R. Feinberg and Feinberg Rozen, LLP, d/b/a Gulf Coast Claims Facility ("GCCF"). This third party "Administrator / Straw Person," directly and excessively compensated by the party responsible for the oil spill incident, may totally disregard OPA 90, operate the claims process of the responsible party as fraudulently and negligently as it desires for the sole purpose of limiting the liability of, and providing closure to, the responsible party, and the third party "Administrator / Straw Person" shall never be held accountable for its tortious acts.
The operation of the GCCF has allowed BP to control, manage, and settle its liabilities on highly preferential terms; has permitted members of the MDL 2179 PSC, who are directly appointed by Judge Barbier, to be excessively compensated for merely negotiating a collusive settlement agreement; and has enabled judges to clear their dockets of large numbers of cases. In sum, fund approaches to resolving massive liabilities shift power over claims resolution entirely into the hands of self-interested parties and largely evade judicial scrutiny and oversight.
As noted above, judicial economy is undoubtedly well-served by MDL consolidation when scores of similar cases are pending in the courts. Nevertheless, the excessive delay and marginalization of juror fact finding (i.e., dearth of jury trials) associated with traditional MDL practice are developments that cannot be defended. The appropriate focus for fund resolution of mass claims should be justice for the claimants, not merely judicial economy and closure for the corporate misfeasor.
Kenneth Feinberg's Administration of the BP Compensation Fund
On August 23, 2010, Feinberg Rozen, LLP, doing business as GCCF, replaced the claims process which BP had established to fulfill its obligations as a responsible party pursuant to OPA 90.
Kenneth Feinberg used the fear of costly and protracted litigation to coerce victims of the BP oil spill to accept grossly inadequate settlements from GCCF. During town hall meetings organized to promote GCCF, Feinberg repeatedly told victims of the BP oil spill, "the litigation route in court will mean uncertainty, years of delay and a big cut for the lawyers." "I am determined to come up with a system that will be more generous, more beneficial, than if you go and file a lawsuit." "It is not in your interest to tie up you and the courts in years of uncertain protracted litigation when there is an alternative that has been created," Feinberg said. He added, "I take the position, if I don't find you eligible, no court will find you eligible."
GCCF employed two strategies to limit BP's liability:
(a) an "Expedited Emergency Advance Payment ("EAP") Denial" strategy. This strategy is as follows: "Fail to verify, investigate, and appraise the amount of loss claimed by the claimant in the EAP claim and deny the EAP claim without ever requesting supporting documentation from the claimant;" and
(b) a "Delay, Deny, Defend" strategy against legitimate oil spill victims. This strategy, commonly used by unscrupulous insurance companies, is as follows: "Delay payment, starve claimant, and then offer the economically and emotionally-stressed claimant a miniscule percent of all damages to which the claimant is entitled. If the financially ruined claimant rejects the settlement offer, he or she may sue."
The ultimate objective of Feinberg's "Expedited EAP Denial" strategy and "Delay, Deny, Defend" strategy was to limit BP's liability by obtaining a signed "Release and Covenant Not to Sue" from as many BP oil spill victims as possible.
The "Release and Covenant Not to Sue" requirement forces economically and emotionally-stressed victims of the BP oil spill to sign a release and covenant not to sue in order to receive a miniscule payment amount for all damages, including future damages, they incur as a result of the BP oil spill. Feinberg's "Release and Covenant Not to Sue" requirement violates OPA 90, State contract law, and is contrary to public policy.
The "Expedited EAP Denial" strategy and "Delay, Deny, Defend" strategy, although unconscionable, have proven to be very effective for Feinberg and BP:
The GCCF data indicates that a total of 574,379 unique claimants filed claims with the GCCF during the period from approximately August 23, 2010 to March 7, 2012. The GCCF paid only 221,358 of these claimants. In sum, the GCCF denied payment to approximately 61.46% of the claimants who filed claims; the average total amount paid per claimant was $27,466.47.
The status report data further indicates that the GCCF paid a total of 230,370 claimants who filed claims with the GCCF during the "Phase II" period. Of these, 195,109 were either Quick Pay or Full Review Final payments; only 35,261 were Interim payments. In sum, the GCCF forced 84.68% of the claimants to sign a release and covenant not to sue in which the claimant agreed not to sue BP and all other potentially liable parties; only 15.31% of the claimants were not required to sign a release and covenant not to sue in order to be paid. Feinberg's "Release and Covenant Not to Sue" excluded approximately 200,000 BP oil spill victims from the MDL 2179 Economic and Property Damages Class Settlement Agreement.
The BP/PSC Class Settlement Agreement
BP and the PSC reported settlement negotiations began "in earnest" in February 2011 for two distinct class action settlements: a Medical Benefits Settlement and an Economic and Property Damages Settlement." In sum, the PSC initiated settlement negotiations "in earnest" merely four (4) months after Judge Barbier appointed members to the PSC. Clearly, the MDL 2179 class settlement was not achieved in the full context of adversarial litigation.
There is little doubt that any class settlement agreement which: (a) excludes approximately 200,000 claimants from the settlement benefits because they had been forced to sign an unconscionable "Release and Covenant Not to Sue;" and
(b) excessively compensates members of the PSC and other counsel performing common benefit work is neither "fair, adequate, and reasonable" nor "free from collusion."
In sum, a faux class settlement wrapped in a faux MDL is not right for America because it:
(a) allows judicial economy to replace justice; and
(b) denies access to the courts by permitting the desires and influence of corporations with deep pockets, and politically well-connected defendants, to trump the legal rights of the individual.
GM victims and BP victims deserve better!
N.B. – BP paid Feinberg Rozen, LLP a sum of $1.25 million per month to limit its liability ("administer the BP oil spill victims' compensation fund").
UPDATE (April 25, 2014): Plaintiffs File Motion to Hold Kenneth R. Feinberg, et al. Accountable for Financially Ruining Them
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Nearly last standing Vioxx victim. Great, powerful, potential blockbuster & Landmark case. RIPE… could use help.
Member of VPEG.. not necessarily representing their total viewpoints. We knew the MDL process was a means of class deform… and would be perverted and used by large. wealthy firms… THIS MUST BE STOPPED.. NOW NOT LATER…Merck mostly started it as a proxy for pharmaceuticals…. BONES
member of VPEG… not necessarily representing their total viewpoints. We knew the Merck/vIOXX MDL process was a means of class deform…and would be perverted and used by large wealthy firms…THIS MUST BE STOPPED… NOW NOT LATER… Merck is a proxy for pharmacy…


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- Production: Sallah Company Producer: Menahem Golan
- Starring: Chaim Topol, Geula Nuni, Gila Almagor, Shraga Friedman, Zaharira Harifai, Shaike Levi, Nathan Meisler, Esther Greenberg, Mordecai Arnon
- Written By: Ephraim Kishon
- Distributed By: United King Films
- Country: Israel
- Language: Hebrew
Sallah Shabati
Directed by: Ephraim Kishon
This sharp, often hilarious satire that became the most successful film in Israeli history, is about new immigrants Sallah and his family, who are left in a shack near their promised apartment and are abandoned for months. A Yemenite Jewish family that was flown to Israel during "Operation Magic Carpet"--a clandestine operation that flew 49,000 Yemenite Jews to Israel the year after the state was formed--is forced to move to a government settlement camp. The patriarch of the family, portrayed by Chaim Topol, tries to make money and get better housing, in a country that can barely provide for its own and is in the midst absorbing hundreds of thousands of Jewish refugees from Arab countries. This hilarious portrayal of immigrants in Israel won a Golden Globe Award and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Film, putting Israel on the international film stage for the first time.
See more about Sallah Shabbati at the Israel Film Center
Critical Acclaim
USA Golden Globes:
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San Francisco International Film Festival:
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*Best Screenplay
New York Film Critics Circle Awards:
*Best Foreign Language Film - 3rd place
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"Sallah Shabbati and his coterie are an unusual, endearing, often colorful lot...Ephraim Kishon, the writer and director, has poked fun at human inadequacies in [a] courageous style."
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Thomson Guster has clocked many hours in America's most popular stress position—sitting at a desk, pretending to work, refining his hatred, banking on the revolution. As the recipient of the 2010-2011 Kelly Writers House Junior Fellows Prize he managed, edited, and published HEAT MAP # 9, a fictional punk fanzine covering the secret histories of music that doesn't exist and the millenarian obsessions that inspire it. Other work has appeared in the pages of Strange Attractors: Investigations into Non-Humanoid Extraterrestrial Sexuality and the spring 2014 issue of Bedfellows magazine. Enduring interests include bugs and the buglike, exhausted forms of rock'n'roll, and ways that continuity errors, editorial mandates, and commercial interests structure history and fiction alike.


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When we see bodies of waters like oceans, seas, lakes, regardless if it is salt or fresh water, we often think of fish. We often ask ourselves, how many fish species are in the world given these large bodies of water? Are there existing fish species aside from the ones we're already familiar with? If we're looking for different types of fish, those that lack true bones or the bony fish, the best place to go is Canada.
Canada is well known due to its longest coastline at 244,000 Km, which represents approximately 25% of the coastline in the world. With 755,000 square Km of fresh water, Canada covers 16% of the world's area of fresh water.
Being one of the world's biggest commercial fishing industries, it is no wonder that
fishing in Canada
is the number one source of livelihood in approximately 1,500 communities in the region, providing more than 130,000 jobs to Canadians.
With fishing as one of Canada's top priorities, it is but necessary to enumerate or list down the different fish species that makes Canada as one of the biggest fishing industries in the world. Thus, making fishing in Canada as some sort of a hobby to Canadians and at the same time a source of living.
Fish Species in Canadian Waters
There are approximately 20,000 fish species in the world and Canada has its own share of fewer than 200 species in its fresh waters, being surrounded by the Arctic, Pacific and the Atlantic Oceans, and home to the Great Lakes, which clears the country clean of fish whenever they advance during the ice ages.
Listed below are the Top 20 most caught fish species in Canadian waters.
From the Herring Family
Blueback Herring
The Blueback Herring is a saltwater fish that can live is fresh water. The Blueback Herring can be found in Nova Scotia to Northern Florida. It spawns on fresh water by depositing eggs to hard objects like rocks and woods. Both the Blueback Herring and the Alewife are flat-sided fish with round bellies and forked tails with bronze backs and spiny scales across their bellies. Since Blueback Herring eat fish and eggs, they have caused problems in Lake Burton in Georgia and Lake Hiwassee in North Carolina. With this, the Natural Resources department work to limit their spread in fresh water lakes.
The Alewife is a relatively small and anadromous and landlocked species. The landlock is also called a sawbelly. The Alewife is best known due to its invasion of the Great Lakes, which led to its proliferation in lakes Huron and Michigan. There were seasons that the Alewife exhibits die offs by being washed up on the shorelines of the Great Lakes.
American Shad
The American Shad is a species of the anadromous fish family Clupeiodae but is not closely related to the other Northern American Shads. The American Shad is considered to be the largest member of the Herring family, with the males weighing around 1 to 3 pounds while the female weighs 3 to 8 pounds. The American Shad, both male and female tends to run on the East Coast of the United States.
From the Salmon Family
Pink Salmon
The Pink Salmon is the smallest and the most abundant of the Pacific Salmon. The Pink Salmon is steel blue to blue-green in color when found in its marine habitats. The Pink Salmon has a life cycle of two years. It is known to be a cold-water fish with a temperature range of 5O to 26OC. The Pink Salmon is usually found in the Pacific and Arctic coastal waters from the Sacramento rivers in California to the Mackenzie rivers in Canada.
Coho Salmon
The Coho Salmon, which is usually found on the West Coast, was introduced to the Great Lakes and anywhere in the Pacific. It belongs to the anadromous species of fish and was also known as the Silver Salmon. The Coho Salmon, during the spawning phase, develops a hooked jaw and teeth aside from having bright sides and dark bellies. The Coho Salmon lives in salt water for one or two years before returning to spawn.
Chinook Salmon
The Chinook Salmon has been variously known as the King Salmon, Columbia River salmon, black salmon, winter salmon, etc. The Chinook Salmon has also been known to exterminate undesirable species such as smelt in the lakes of the east. The Chinook Salmon can usually found in San Francisco Bay in California to the north of the Bering strait in Alaska.
Brown Trout
The Brown Trout is largely a fresh water fish. The young Brown Trout feeds on insects and invertebrates, but the larger Brown Trouts are active predators of other fish baits, and that includes the young Brown Trouts. In terms of habitat, the Brown Trout was widely introduced as sport on regions such as North and South America, Australia and New Zealand.
From the Smelts Family
Rainbow Smelt
The Rainbow smelt is located along the eastern coast of North America. In terms of body appearance, the Rainbow Smelt is slender and cylindrical. The Rainbow Smelt spend the summers along the coast.
From the Minnows and Carps Family
The Goldfish was one of the earliest fish to be commonly kept as an aquarium fish. As a small member of the carp family, the Goldfish is a domesticated version of the carp ion East Asia. It was first found in China and was later introduced to Europe in the late 17th century.
The Carp has long been a very important fish food for humans, and as a result, the carp has been introduced to various locations. Carp spawns in shallow and marshy areas and can be found thrashing in shallow waters with a portion of its body submerged in water.
Fathead Minnow
The Fathead Minnow has been introduced in various areas as a bait bucket release. Known as a rosy-red minnow, the Fathead Minnow is a very common feeder fish primarily sold in the United States. The Fathead Minnow is basically dull-olive gray in appearance and has a lighter belly.
Creek Chub
The Creek Chub is a common minnow in Virginia. Creek Chubs can grow up to 12 inches but they are much usually much smaller. Creek Chubs are usually found on medium-sized streams, but they sometimes reside in big lakes too. Creek Chubs also has a life cycle of eight years.
From the Catfish Family
Yellow Bullhead
The Yellow Bullhead is species of the Catfish Bullhead and is typically yellow and mottled depending on the habitat. The yellow bullhead is a scavenger that typically feeds at night on a variety of plants. Spawning begins in May and June with both male and female Yellow Bullhead participating in nest building, usually under a log or stone.
Channel Catfish
The Channel Catfish is the largest number of catfish found in Canada. The average weight of a Channel Catfish is 1-2 kg. but can reach up to a maximum of 27kg. The Channel Catfish are usually found throughout the United States and thrives in small rivers, large rivers, lakes and ponds.
From the Temperate Bass Family
White Perch
The White Perch is notable for being a food and game fish in North America. The White Perch has a recorded dimension of 49.5cm in length and weighing 2.2 kg. Though the White Perch is a game fish, it is also commercially fished in Chesapeake Bay. The name "White Perch" is sometimes applied to the white crappie.
Striped Bass
The Striped Bass has a streamlined longitudinal dark stripes running behind the gills to the end of the tail. The Striped Bass has a maximum length of 6.6 ft a maximum weight of 57 kg. The Striped Bass has a life span of 30 years.
White Bass
The White Bass is the state fish of Oklahoma. The White Bass specie can be found in lakes and large rivers in the United States. The appearance of the White Bass is somewhat similar to that of the White Perch, though it is much larger.
From the Sunfish Family
Rock Bass
The Rock Bass are generally found on rocky and vegetated habitats of lakes and streams. The Rock Bass was introduced in Central Ontario. The average Rock Bass measures 6-10 inches in length, and very seldom that they would weigh over a pound.
Longear Sunfish
The Longear Sunfish is a native of eastern North America stretching from the Great Lakes down to Mexico. The Longear Sunfish can measure up to a maximum of 24cm and 790 g. The Longear Sunfish specie prefers vegetated, shallow waters in lakes, ponds, and streams.
Black Crappie
The Black Crappie measures 18-25 cm in length and can be found on warm and vegetated lakes, ponds and streams. Black crappie prefers little current and access to deeper water during winter and summer. Black Crappies are very active in colonizing new lakes and can be found scattered throughout southern Ontario including the margins of the Great Lakes.
The different fish species mentioned above are just some of the almost 200 species found in Canada. Most are not that familiar or are not household names as we could say, but this article could give vast information on the existence of other fish species not only to the local residents but also to the people around the world. Fishing in Canada? Let's go, there's a lot more to catch.
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One of the great speeches of the 20th Century was delivered during this week in history, June 12, 1987. Ronald Reagan stood before the Berlin Wall—Brandenburg Gate, and demanded that Mikhail Gorbachev, the leader of the Soviet Union, remove the barrier that was both symbolically and realistically the most prominent monument to a totalitarian state that most of us will ever (hopefully) see in our lifetimes.
Reagan used no Teleprompter and even stumbled a time or two. The columns behind him were not fabricated, they were real fortifications designed to imprison.
Less than three years after that speech, the Wall came down. The media celebrated as if they caused it to fall themselves. What had stood for years as a symbol of oppression and tyranny fell crumbling to pieces, seemingly overnight.
Certainly, it was not that easy.
Reagan found resistance from all quarters. The media and pop culture opposed him at virtually every turn. To them he was the crazy cowboy with his finger on the switch. Reagan used American strength, brilliant diplomacy and strong words to bring about change. Real change. Positive change. When Reagan talked change, he let us know exactly where he was going with it and how he was going to do it.
Exhibit A of the resistance Reagan faced at the time is this video, which was one of the most popular at the time.
A catchy song here by one of history's greatest bands, Land of Confusion by Genesis nearly swept the video music awards in 1986. The video used funny looking puppets from a popular British TV show at the time to depict an inept, incoherent Ronald Reagan who went to bed at 4:30 in the afternoon (16:30 on the 24 hour digital clock.) During a dream sequence Reagan sees dictators like, Benito Mussolini, Muammar Gaddafi, Gorbachev, and the Ayatollah Khomeini. The clear inference was that Reagan, along with those other world leaders, were partners in crime, working to destroy the world and blow us all to bits with the escalating Cold War. Certainly, for those of us who were adults then, we knew that was a very real threat. The Cold War could've ended up badly.
Fortunately to us all, we had a president who had the courage to make the right thing happen.
In the video, Reagan is seen drowning in his own sweat, putting on Superman sweats ("Superman where are you now? When everything's gone wrong somehow") and eventually riding into town wearing a cowboy hat while on the back of a pre-historic rhino. Here comes that crazy cowboy who thinks he's gonna save the day. Of course, Phil Collins and guitarist Mike Rutherford (who wrote the words) do not think there's any way Reagan could be successful. Instead, at the end of the video, the crazy cowboy wakes up from the dream, he's so inept that he can't even drink a glass of water, he splashes it all over the place, and in the closing scene, while thinking he was calling the nurse, he hits the wrong button labeled NUKE and blows up the world. The crazy cowboy hit the wrong switch. Oh well.
This song was released 8 months before Reagan gave that historic speech at the Brandenburg Gate.
This is the type of stuff conservatives who believed in values, had to put up with back then (and it still continues today, of course.) Thanks to Reagan holding strong to what he believed, a billion people in the Soviet Eastern Bloc found the freedom that seems almost to be taken for granted today. As a result, America and the world are safer.
It's hard today to imagine a divided Berlin, but again, this was only 24 years ago that Reagan gave that historic speech. Many, even within the Republican Party, thought he was being too provocative by making this demand on a foreign country. Certainly, the media, pop culture and the Democrats were appalled that the "crazy cowboy" would stand up for values like liberty and freedom and thus, would drive us all to World War III. It was not just a figure of speech that they believed Reagan was going to blow up the world, they put it in their music videos.
Thank God Reagan held strong through it all. It could not have been easy to deal with resistance from all corners of society. As we celebrate this anniversary, let us remember that we need those kinds of leaders today. Leaders who ignore what pop culture and the media think of their conservative values, and they still move forward promoting liberty and freedom for all. Like Reagan, those are the true "progressives."


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Clinging to life in a tsunami zone
By Toru Hanai
Choufuku Ishisone of Miyako, Iwate prefecture, owns a convenience store.
On March 11, 2011, Ishisone was driving to see his store after checking on his house following the earthquake and saw a black tsunami wave roar over a seawall. He made a U-turn, but the tsunami struck him from multiple directions, sending his car afloat. The engine stopped. He jumped out of the car in a hurry but lost his footing in the tsunami and was swallowed up in the thick, black water.
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"I want to be saved! That one feeling kept me climbing," he said. "Then I thought I had to get off the pole somehow, but the water didn't go down, which was very irritating."
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"The real lesson is that if there is an earthquake, you must head for high ground without hesitation," he concluded.
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