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Wednesday, February 22, 2012
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Bankruptcy court lets Washington Mutual reorganize
Bankruptcy reorganization calls for failed bank to distribute $7 billion to creditors and 418 million to shareholders. ?Bankruptcy proceedings took more than three years.
After a long and contentious legal battle and more than three years in?bankruptcy, Washington Mutual Inc. on Friday finally won court approval of a reorganization plan.
Skip to next paragraph"It took three and a half years, but I think the result is remarkable and well worth it," said Judge Mary Walrath, who had twice rejected reorganization plans filed by Washington Mutual before giving her blessing to a revised plan Washington Mutual submitted in December.
"I'm happy to confirm this plan," the judge added. "I thank all the parties for not giving up."
As with its earlier proposals, Washington Mutual's plan is based on WMI, JPMorgan Chase and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. settling lawsuits they filed against one another after the collapse of Seattle-based Washington Mutual Bank in 2008 and the sale of its assets to JPMorgan Chase & Co. for $1.9 billion. It was the largest bank failure in U.S. history.
The plan calls for some $7 billion to be distributed to creditors and includes significant recoveries for shareholders, who often are left with nothing in?bankruptcy?cases.
"This Chapter 11 plan is a tremendous success," said Washington Mutual attorney Brian Rosen.
In denying a previous WaMu plan in September, Walrath granted permission to the official committee of equity holders to pursue claims that hedge funds supporting the plan had engaged in insider trading based on information obtained during the?bankruptcy.
Following court-ordered mediation, the hedge funds agreed to provide $75 million in cash to the reorganized Washington Mutual, a small reinsurance company in which current Washington Mutual stockholders will hold 95 percent of the equity. The hedge funds also will provide a $125 million credit facility to the reorganized company. The hedge funds denied the allegations of insider trading.
Walrath agreed with Edgar Sargent, an attorney for the equity committee, that individual shareholders had played an extraordinary role in the case.
"I have never seen a case where the shareholders had been so active and so interested in what is going on, and what their rights are and how they can protect them," she said.
Having satisfied stockholders with the December revisions to its plan, Washington Mutual cleared away the final significant obstacle on Thursday, when it reached an agreement with a group of dissident creditors who had voted against the plan, which received overwhelming support from other creditor classes.
The dissident creditors held certain WaMu securities that were converted into preferred stock when regulators seized WMI's flagship bank and sold its assets to JPMorgan Chase. Facing far less chance of obtaining recoveries as stockholders rather than debt holders, only 62 percent of them voted for the plan, short of the required two-thirds majority. That raised questions as to whether Walrath could approve it.
But in return for rescinding their "no" votes and agreeing to support the plan, the securities investors will receive $18 million from JPMorgan and will be allowed a general unsecured claim of about $618,000. They also will be allowed to seek reimbursement of up to $15 million in legal fees without opposition from Washington Mutual or its official committee of unsecured creditors.
In approving Washington Mutual's plan, Walrath agreed to strike language in her September ruling that referred to the insider trading allegations against the hedge funds, a condition the hedge funds had demanded in the December settlement that paved the way for the plan.
While denying Washington Mutual's previous plans in January 2011 and again in September, Walrath ruled that the global settlement agreement among WMI, JPMorgan and the FDIC that was the foundation for the entire reorganization effort was fair and reasonable. She reiterated that finding on Friday, saying the agreement resolved "very thorny" issues that could have taken years to litigate.
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Friday, February 17, 2012
A robot sketches portraits
ScienceDaily (Feb. 17, 2012) ? An industrial robot as artist? From March 6-10, 2012, researchers will be presenting what may at first seem to be a contradiction at CeBIT in Hanover, Germany. There, interested visitors can view the metal painter in action and can even have it sketch their own faces.
Artists are often colorful personalities. This one, though, comes across as cool, precise and metallic -- and is anything but extravagant. No wonder -- after all, it's an industrial robot, one that will convert the Fraunhofer stand at CeBIT into an art studio. Its artistic genius only emerges if someone takes a seat on the model's stool positioned in front of the robot: first, its camera records an image of its model; then it whips out its pencil and traces a portrait of the individual on its easel. After around ten minutes have passed, it grabs the work and proudly presents it to its public. This robot installation was developed by artists in the robotlab group, at the Center for Art and Media ZKM in Karlsruhe, Germany, some of whom are now employed at the Fraunhofer Institute for Optronics, System Technologies and Image Exploitation IOSB in Karlsruhe.
But how does this technical production aid manage to provide an authentic rendering of a person's facial expressions? "We have used an image-evaluation process that essentially equips the robot with the sense of sight," explains Martina Richter, a scientist at IOSB. "There is a camera mounted on the robot's arm that it uses first to take the person's picture." Edge-processing software seeks out the contrasts in the image and translates these to robot coordinates: to movements of the robot's arm.
For the researchers and artists, the main difficulty was to adjust the algorithm for image processing so that the sketched image would leave the impression of a portrait -- and so that the high-tech artist would overlook the tiny wrinkles but would still render the eyes. "We attach great importance to the artistic look of the drawings that results, but on the other hand, we have also equipped the robot with an automatic system that enables it to carry out all of the steps itself. With this installation, we have created an interface between art, science and technology," Richter is convinced.
The robot's everyday routine is less artistic, however: ordinarily, researchers at IOSB use it to analyze the optical reflection properties of various materials. They shine light on an object -- a reflector of the kind mounted on children's school bags or jackets, for instance -- from various directions. The robot's arm circles the material sample in a hemispheric pattern, measuring how the object reflects light. Experts refer to this as a material's spatial reflection characteristics. This helps design objects such as reflectors so that they return light in the most bundled way possible to the direction from which it comes -- to a car driver, for instance. Then the reflector emits a bright flash that draws the driver's attention to the child. The objective is different when it comes to paint effects on a car's own surface: The aim there is to display different hues to the observer depending on the direction of view.
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