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By Lynn E. Szymoniak, Esq., Ed. Fraud Digest,
August 26, 2011
On August 24, 2011, Circuit Judge Fuentes of the United States Third Circuit Court of Appeals, issued an opinion in a case appealing the reversal by the District Court of sanctions originally imposed in the bankruptcy court on attorneys Mark J. Urden and Lorraine Doyle, the Udren Law Firm, and HSBC for violations of Federal Rule of Bankruptcy Procedure 9011. Highlights from that opinion, particularly regarding Lender Processing Services and HSBC, are set forth below. In this decision, the Third Circuit reversed the District Court and affirmed the bankruptcy court's imposition of sanctions with respect to Lorraine Doyle, the Udren Law Firm, and HSBC. The District Court's decision reversing the bankruptcy court's sanctions against attorney Mark Udren was affirmed. The appeal was taken by Acting United States Trustee Roberta A. DeAngelis, In re Nile C. Taylor, et al., Case No. 10- 2154, 3d Cir. 2011. Ultimately, the Taylors lost their home. The sanctions imposed by the Bankruptcy Court, reversed by the District Court and finally affirmed by the Circuit Court, were minimal. Doyle was ordered to take 3 CLE credits in professional responsibility; Udren himself to be trained in the use of NewTrak and to spend a day observing his employees handling NewTrak; and both Doyle and Udren to conduct a training session for the firm's relevant lawyers in the requirements of Rule 9011 and procedures for escalating inquiries on NewTrak. The court also required HSBC to send a copy of its opinion to
all the law firms it uses in bankruptcy proceedings, along with a letter explaining that direct contact with HSBC concerning matters relating to HSBC's case was permissible.
The Court made the following findings:
- • HSBC does not deign to communicate directly with the firms it
employs in its high-volume foreclosure work; rather, it uses a
computerized system called NewTrak (provided by a third party, LPS)
to assign individual firms discrete assignments and provide the limited
data the system deems relevant to each assignment. The firms are
selected and the instructions generated without any direct human
involvement. The firms so chosen generally do not have the capacity
to check the data (such as the amount of mortgage payment or time
in arrears) provided to them by NewTrak and are not expected to
communicate with other firms that may have done related work on the
matter. Although it is technically possible for a firm hired through
NewTrak to contact HSBC to discuss the matter on which it has been
retained, it is clear from the record that this was discouraged and that
some attorneys, including at least one Udren Firm attorney, did not
believe it to be permitted. [The Udren Firm represented HSBC in this
bankruptcy foreclosure.](Page 6-7)
- • LPS is also not involved in the present appeal, as the bankruptcy
court found that it had not engaged in wrongdoing in this case.
However, both the accuracy of its data and the ethics of its practices
have been repeatedly called into question elsewhere. See, e.g., In re
Wilson, 2011 WL 1337240 at 9 (Bankr. E.D.La. Apr. 7, 2011)
(imposing sanctions after finding that LPS had issued "sham" affidavits
and perpetrated fraud on the court); In re Thorne, 2011 WL 2470114
(Bankr. N.D. Miss. June 16, 2011); In re Doble, 2011 WL 1465559
(Bankr. S.D. Cal. Apr. 14, 2011). (Footnote 5, Page 6)
- • Doyle [the attorney from the Udren Firm representing HSBC] did
nothing to verify the information in the motion for relief from stay
besides check it against "screen prints" of the NewTrak information.
She did not even access NewTrak herself. In effect, she simply
proofread the document. It does not appear that NewTrak provided
the Udren Firm with any information concerning the Taylors' equity in
their home, so Doyle could not have verified her statement in the
motion concerning the lack of equity in any way, even against a
"screen print." (Page 8 )
- • In May 2008, the bankruptcy court held a hearing on both the motion
for relief and the claim objection. HSBC was represented at the
hearing by a junior associate at the Udren Firm, Mr. Fitzgibbon. At that
hearing, Fitzgibbon ultimately admitted that, at the time the motion
for relief from the stay was filed, HSBC had received a mortgage
payment for November 2007, even though both the motion for stay
and the response to the Taylors' objection to the proof of claim stated
otherwise.8 Despite this, Fitzgibbon urged the court to grant the relief
from stay, because the Taylors had not responded to HSBC's RFAs
(which included the "admission" that the Taylors had not made
payments from November 2007 to January 2008). It appears from the
record that Fitzgibbon initially sought to have the RFAs admitted as
evidence even though he knew they contained falsehoods. (Page 10)
- • The bankruptcy court denied the request to enter the RFAs as
evidence, noting that the firm "closed their eyes to the fact that there
was evidence that . . . conflicted with the very admissions that they
asked me [to deem admitted]. They . . . had that evidence [that the
assertions in its motion were not accurate] in [their] possession and
[they] went ahead like [they] never saw it." (App. 108-109.) (Page
- • At the next hearing, in June 2008, Fitzgibbon stated that he could
not obtain an accounting from HSBC, though he had repeatedly placed
requests via NewTrak. He told the court that he was literally unable to
contact HSBC—his firm's client—directly to verify information which
his firm had already represented to the court that it believed to be
true. (Page 11)
- • The bankruptcy court held four hearings over several days, making
in-depth inquiries into the communications between HSBC and its
lawyers in this case, as well as the general capabilities and limitations
of a system like NewTrak. Ultimately, it found that the following had
violated Rule 9011: Fitzgibbon, for pressing the motion for relief based
on claims he knew to be untrue; Doyle, for failing to make reasonable
inquiry concerning the representations she made in the motion for
relief from stay and the response to the claim objection; Udren and
the Udren Firm itself, for the conduct of its attorneys; and HSBC, for
practices which caused the failure to adhere to Rule 9011.
- • Rule 9011 of the Federal Rules of Bankruptcy Procedure, the
equivalent of Rule 11 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, requires
that parties making representations to the court certify that "the
allegations and other factual contentions have evidentiary support or,
if specifically so identified, are likely to have evidentiary support." Fed.
R. Bank. P. 9011(b)(3). A party must reach this conclusion based on
"inquiry reasonable under the circumstances." Fed. R. Bank. P.
9011(b). The concern of Rule 9011 is not the truth or falsity of the
representation in itself, but rather whether the party making the
representation reasonably believed it at the time to have evidentiary
- • As an initial matter, the appellees' insistence that Doyle's and
Fitzgibbon's statements were "literally true" should not exculpate
them from Rule 9011 sanctions. First, it should be noted that several of
these claims were not, in fact, accurate. There was no literal truth to
the statement in the request for relief from stay that the Taylors had
no equity in their home. Doyle admitted that she made that statement
simply as "part of the form pleading," and "acknowledged having no
knowledge of the value of the property and having made no inquiry on
this subject." (App. 215.) Similarly, the statement in the claim
objection response that the figures in the original proof of claim were
correct was false. (Page 16)
- • In particular, even assuming that Doyle's and Fitzgibbon's
statements as to the payments made by the Taylors were literally
accurate, they were misleading. In attempting to evaluate whether
HSBC was justified in seeking a relief from the stay on foreclosure, the
court needed to know that at least partial payments had been made
and that the failure to make some of the rest of the payments was due
to a bona fide dispute over the amount due, not simple default.
Instead, the court was told only that the Taylors had "failed to make
regular mortgage payments" from November 1, 2007 to January 15,
2008, with a mysterious notation concerning a "suspense balance"
following. (App. 214-15.) A court could only reasonably interpret this
to mean that the Taylors simply had not made payments for the period
specified. As the bankruptcy court found, "[f]or at best a $540 dispute,
the Udren Firm mechanically prosecuted a motion averring a $4,367
post-petition obligation, the aim of which was to allow HSBC to
foreclose on [the Taylors] "house." (App. 215.) Therefore, Doyle's and
Fitzgibbon's statements in question were either false or misleading.
(Pages 16-17)
- • With respect to the Taylors case in particular, Doyle ignored clear
warning signs as to the accuracy of the data that she did receive. In
responding to the motion for relief from stay, the Taylors submitted
documentation indicating that they had already made at least partial
payments for some of the months in question. In objecting to the
proof of claim, the Taylors pointed out the inaccuracy of the mortgage
payment listed and explained the circumstances surrounding the flood
insurance dispute. Although Doyle certainly was not obliged to accept
the Taylors' claims at face value, they indisputably put her on notice
that the matter was not as simple as it might have appeared from the
NewTrak file. At that point, any reasonable attorney would have
sought clarification and further documentation from her client, in order
to correct any prior inadvertent misstatements to the court and to
avoid any further errors. Instead, Doyle mechanically affirmed facts
(the monthly mortgage payment) that her own prior filing with the
court had already contradicted. (Page 20)
- • Doyle's reliance on HSBC was particularly problematic because she
was not, in fact, relying directly on HSBC. Instead, she relied on a
computer system run by a third-party vendor. She did not know where
the data provided by NewTrak came from. She had no capacity to
check the data against the original documents if any of it seemed
implausible. (Page 20)
- • Although the initial data the Udren Firm received was not, in itself,
wildly implausible, it was facially inadequate. In short, then, we find
that Doyle's inquiry before making her representations to the
bankruptcy court was unreasonable.
In making this finding, we, of course, do not mean to suggest that the
use of computerized databases is inherently inappropriate. However,
the NewTrak system, as it was being used at the time of this case,
permits parties at every level of the filing process to disclaim
responsibility for inaccuracies. HSBC has handed off responsibility to a
third- party maintainer, LPS, which, judging from the results in this
case, has not generated particularly accurate records. LPS apparently
regards itself as a mere conduit of information. Appellees, the
attorneys and final link in the chain of transmission of this information
to the court, claim reliance on NewTrak's records. Who, precisely, can
be held accountable if HSBC's records are inadequately maintained,
LPS transfers those records inaccurately into NewTrak, or a law firm
relies on the NewTrak data without further investigation, thus leading
to material misrepresentations to the court? It cannot be that all the
parties involved can insulate themselves from responsibility by the use
of such a system. (Page 21)
- • We also find that it was appropriate to extend sanctions to the Udren
Firm itself. Rule 11 explicitly allows the imposition of sanctions against
law firms…In this instance, the bankruptcy court found that the
misrepresentations in the case arose not simply from the
irresponsibility of individual attorneys, but from the system put in
place at the Udren Firm, which emphasized high-volume, high-speed
processing of foreclosures to such an extent that it led to violations of
Rule 9011. (citations omitted)(Page 24)
- • We appreciate that the use of technology can save both litigants and
attorneys time and money, and we do not, of course, mean to suggest
that the use of databases or even certain automated communications
between counsel and client are presumptively unreasonable. However,
Rule 11 requires more than a rubber-stamping of the results of an
automated process by a person who happens to be a lawyer. Where a
lawyer systematically fails to take any responsibility for seeking
adequate information from her client, makes representations without
any factual basis because they are included in a "form pleading" she
has been trained to fill out, and ignores obvious indications that her
information may be incorrect, she cannot be said to have made
reasonable inquiry. (Page 26)
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In order of temporal occurrence, as per the day-old tradition:
At the day's outset, it was Singapouring (sorry, it's been a long day), but once action began, it proceeded thusly: Dimitry Tursunov beat Ivo Minar like an egg. "Great success!!!" was his two-word, three exclamation point twatted reaction. Fair enough. Well, the Czech Repub's #6 may have been beaten (hint: Minar), but its #7 went through like a champ, as Dusan Lojda took out Marco Crugnola. And I don't mean to dinner. But I do mean 6-2 7-5.
Meanwhile, James Ward's winless 2011 proceeded winlessly with a tough 7-5 0-6 5-7 loss to my favorite Italian (besides Francesca Schiavone, of course), Matteo Viola. A shame the Minar bros couldn't match up against the Viola bros in doubles here, on account that neither set of siblings is playing doubles here. Regardless, I think the Minars should branch off and form their own pro-sibling circuit, just so they can call it the Minar Tour. (Sorry. Long day disclaimer still in effect.)
The Mailman John Millman sent Sergei Bubka crashing to the mat in a decidedly 7-6(2) 6-7(5) 6-2ular fashion. Wildcard Karan Rastogi vilified the vilifier, 6-1 3-6 6-4 over Brydan Klein. Fourth seed Alexander Kudryavtsev was understandably upset. I'd be upset too if I'd just lost 1&2 to Flavia Cipolla anywhere outside of Noumea. And the dream run of Peerakiat Siriluethaiwattana was cut short by the exact same score, 1&2&out to Somdev Millionaire. Will I ever get to write about Peerakiat again? If there's any justice in the world, I will. (Tip: this mean's that I likely won't).
Reunion Island
Continues to crack my shit up. If I'm ever constipated, clearly all I have to do is think of Reunion Island. Our friends at Shank Tennis alerted us to the hilarity of some of the qualifying player photos. This one's my fave:
Could this be the legendary Yann Drieux?
Once again, the greatest tennis player/blogger who ever did live, Mr. Harri Heliovaara, gives us the flavor of the Reunion Island scene. About his doubles match, which he won 6-0 6-1 with Mathieu Rodrigues: "I guess the opponents do not have much to play professional tennis in recent years, when they did not even know the…no-ad system." HAHAHAHA! As he tends to do, he took some nice pictures of the club, like so:
And so:
Seventh seed Vincent Millot managed to lose to Swissy Alexander Sedecky (the patron saint of my twitter feed, if you must know) 5-7 2-6:
Moon Over Sadecky
But the big winner of the day had to be 36 year-old Mark Sibilla of France, who padded his 1/8 career ITF record (including Futures) by winning his first round match and
scamming pocketing a nifty 9 ATP points for his "efforts". This will send the now-unranked player soaring into Top Thousand, well surpassing his previous career high of 1,184. Once again: well done, Reunion. *slow clap*
I'll leave you with the wise words of young tennis sage Heliovaara to summarize: "This (event) has now become…unusual when (main draw) players…withdrew and hardly anyone wanted to go to reach a difficult Reunion. Florida played in the Futures this week 128 qualifiers, but the Challenger was not enough players in the first division. I can say than that huhhuh!" I can say than that, too, Harri: HUHHUH!

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Thursday, January 26, 2012
A Bookend Menagerie — and More
Cats make terrible bookends. — Nora O'Neill, on The Bookshop Blog
Once you've decided which books are worth keeping, you'll want to look at good ways to store the keepers. Sometimes, that involves bookends.
And while cats don't make good bookends, cat-shaped bookends can work just fine, as Limor Yaron demonstrates. Although these bookends come from Israel, they're readily available to those of us living elsewhere through the wonders of Etsy.
Want some larger cats? Have a lot of money to spend on bookends? Here are some lion bookends from Fornasetti.
Prefer a different animal? Take a look at the Pulpo Stubborn Goat bookends, sold directly by Pulpo and on other sites, such as Occa-Home. Update on July 5, 2015: I'm no longer finding these on the Pulpo website.
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And then there are the elephant bookends from Philippi, sold at a number of web sites (including Occa-Home).
Restoration Hardware has provided some wonderful bookends in the past — and continues to do so with these bunny bookends. [via Ink + Wit]
And of course, bookends don't have to feature animals. This bookend come from Goodwin + Goodwin in the U.K.; you can also get one that says The End in a similar script. You can find them at Bouf.
Related Posts:
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A few years ago I met Rhodes Waite when we attended a tiny house group talk hosted at a Permaculture gathering. She was in the beginning stages of designing her own tiny house. We fell out of touch but just recently ran in to each other at Yestermorrow Design and Build School in Vermont. She happened to be at the school for a week-long tiny house design workshop and I was there on a work-study for Permaculture design! It was great to catch up and hear about what she was learning in the class and see her completed tiny house. Below are pictures of her home in Asheville, North Carolina and her thoughts on tiny living and the workshop she took at Yestermorrow.
How do you power your tiny house?
It is wired just like a "normal" house, 12/20 wiring and a small breaker box. I have a female recessed outlet in the exterior wall that an extension cord plugs right into. So I run it to the house who's yard I'm in. I set it up so that an inverter and solar panel could be added in the future, but for now it's on the grid, so to speak. Electric bill runs $5-$10 a month.
What is the biggest challenge for you living in a tiny house?
This is probably the hardest question you asked, as nothing comes to mind right away. Hmmm…it's probably that I haven't been settled in one location long enough to really feel stable as I'd like to. That's more of a life circumstance and choice thing than a tiny house thing, but ideally I'd like to live in a tiny house in one location (I've moved it twice in 6 months). Other than that there aren't really any challenges. I find myself wanting more space sometimes just to be able to stack a few boxes or get into projects, but it's not a big deal.
What are some of the advantages?
I love it, I love it, I love it!!!! I have no mortgage or rent (just a tiny tiny house payment), and I own my house! Wherever I go my space stays the same, and it's an amazing space. It feels so good to live so small, because it doesn't feel small at all. The title of the class I just took at Yestermorrow sums it up well…"Less is More"! There's really not a way to describe the feeling of lightness and freedom that comes with simplifying one's life. I love knowing where everything is all the time. I love being able to clean my
entire house in 5 minutes. I love feeling so connected to the resources I use and don't use to live my life and power my house. I love the simplicity of where my "wastes" go…to the backyard. I love the life and character my home holds, it feels great. I love everything being within arms reach.I love the coziness. I love loving where I live.


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Missing from this article is how homeowners are being fraudulently foreclosed upon and how this affects title to the homes.
Once again, homeowners continue to get shafted by those in office.
Just because you have money doesn't mean you made it because you're smart! See Video Below…
ST. Pete Times-
TALLAHASSEE — The push is on in Florida to cut the courts out of the foreclosure process.
Supporters of the concept — which is used in nearly 30 states — say it will speed foreclosures, get houses back onto the real estate market and boost the economy.
Opponents say it puts property owners at the mercy of banks.
Gov. Rick Scott, House Speaker Dean Cannon and Senate President Mike Haridopolos all say they are interested in considering legislation to change Florida laws so judges won't have to referee foreclosures.
Never-Before-Seen Rick Scott Deposition Video
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Here is never-before-seen footage of Rick Scott during a deposition in an anti-trust lawsuit against his former company Columbia/HCA Health. Scott's company was fined a record $1.7 billion on charges of Medicare fraud. Despite being a lawyer and being CEO of one of the nation's largest hospital chains, Scott evades answers to even the most basic questions. If Scott won't answer questions when under oath, how can we expect him to be honest with us?


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The Persistence of Vision Raytracer (POV-Ray).
This is the legacy Bug Tracking System for the POV-Ray project. Bugs listed here are being migrated to our github issue tracker. Please refer to that for new reports or updates to existing ones on this system.
FS#248 - Implement mechanism to compute direction of a spline
Opened by Christoph Lipka (clipka) - Friday, 06 July 2012, 16:19 GMT
Last edited by William F Pokorny (wfpokorny) - Tuesday, 11 October 2016, 15:47 GMT
The SDL currently provides no way to compute the exact direction of a spline at a given location, even though mathematically this is a piece of cake: The first-order derivative of any spline section gives you the "speed" as a vector function, and is trivial to compute for polynomial splines (which are behind all spline types that POV-Ray supports); the normalized "speed" vector, in turn, gives the "pure" direction.
For exact direction/speed computations, I propose to extend the SDL invocation syntax as follows to allow for evaluating a spline's derivative:
where the second FLOAT will specify the order of derivative to evaluate (defaulting to 0). In order to compute the position, direction, and acceleration of an object traveling along a certain spline, one could then for instance use:
#declare S = spline { ... } #declare Pos = S(Time); #declare VSpeed = S(Time,1); #declare VAccel = S(Time,2); #declare Dir = vnormalize(VSpeed); #declare Speed = vlength(VSpeed); #declare AccelDir = vnormalize(VAccel); #declare GForce = vlength(VAccel) / 9.81;
Alternatively, a mechanism may be devised to create a spline representing another spline's derivative; however, it would be debatable whether the syntax should be parameter-like (being an added information that could be overridden again when creating other splines from such a derived spline), or operation-like (converting the spline), and in the latter case how it should affect spline type (and consequently control points); so the spline invocation parameter approach might be more straightforward, with less potential surprises for the user.
Sanity check: linear spline (basic straight lines) is often not derivable at inflexion point (which practically means every declared points).
How do you intend to solve that piece of cake ?
If you choose either the left or right first derivative, there will always be the case in which someone would have wanted the other one... unless the syntax allow to choose the side too ?
The Lagrange's notation for derivative could be used to have : SPLINE_IDENTIFIER ' ( FLOAT, SPLINE_TYPE )
(and so on for the second derivative: SPLINE_IDENTIFIER '' ... the more ', the deeper... may be an upper limit should be enforced)
Usage with number could be SPLINE_IDENTIFIER ^( INTEGER ) ( FLOAT, SPLINE_TYPE )
(mimic the f^(4)(x) notation for the fourth derivative of function f, in Lagrange notation)
Euler's Notation uses a Df (D^2 f for the second and so on), but it's a bit cumbersome to catch just the D letter, and unicode is not yet mainstream enough for a true symbol.
Newton's notation with dot above the symbol is good for ÿ but not for a spline identifier.
Leibniz's notation (dy/dx ) is not practical inside the SDL.
Any way, how to have the left or right one ?
While a spline as a whole may not be derivable at all points, the individual segments of a polynomial spline always are, so handling of inflexion points boils down to choosing which adjacent segment to pick the derivative from; solution is easy: Just make a decision (the two sane options are (A) the "earlier" segment, or (B) the "later" segment, the choice being pretty arbitrary), implement it consistently, document it properly, and live with it.
As for the syntax, none of your suggestions bears any resemblance to established POV-Ray syntax, so consider them not an option (even if you'd get them past my dead body, Thorsten would surley issue a veto).
I agree with Christoph. The derivatives at any point of a compound function (like a spline) depend on which segment the point belongs to, since we differentiate compound functions component-wise. So here it just depends on whether you use < or < = in the spline's source code. (EDIT: "Mathematically" was not quite correct, this is the practical approach.)
As for the first- and second-order derivatives, there is not problem with cubic splines; for other spline types, the derivatives just have to jump somewhere since they cannot be continuous. Which segment to pick is a question of what the spline ist used for, although currently I cannot think of any use-case in which that would be so much important.
I think if the Lagrangian notation is no option, the parameter version (S(Time, 1)) is the one that looks reasonable, doesn't it?
Accidentally posted a similar feature request as #276.
Accidentally posted a similar feature request as #276.
Thanks for the info.
FS#276 is now officially marked as a duplicate of this request.
So, will there be an attempt to include such a feature soon?
By the way, the derivative value to choose (left/right) could, if really necessary, be configured within the spline declaration, a global_settings statement, or both (the former overriding the latter).
#declare my_spline = spline { linear_spline // etc. left_derivative // or: right_derivative ... }
- Field changed: Status (Assigned → Tracked on GitHub)
Now tracked on GitHub as #115.


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- Coast Guardsmen spot a suspicious panga boat near Santa Cruz Island, California
- Suspicious boat speeds up and hits a small Coast Guard boat, sending two overboard
- One of those Coast Guardsmen dies of a traumatic head injury
- The suspect boat is later interdicted, and two people are detained
A Coast Guardsman died Sunday after a "suspicious" boat rammed his small vessel off the coast of Southern California, an official said.
Chief Petty Officer Terrell Horne was one of two Coast Guard members thrown off their cutter's small boat when the suspect's panga-style vessel "suddenly increased speed and maneuvered directly" at them, then struck the boat, said Capt. James Jenkins. Having a traumatic head injury, Horne was pronounced dead by emergency medical personnel upon his arrival on shore at Port Hueneme.
"Chief Petty Officer Horne was an outstanding Coast Guard member," Jenkins said. "And he gave his life in service, enforcing the laws of this nation."
The crew of a Coast Guard patrol aircraft spotted the panga-style boat near Santa Cruz Island, suspecting "it was engaged in illegal activity," said Jenkins, who did not elaborate on the type of activity. A panga is a work boat often used off the coast of Mexico or Central America that is engine-powered and typically 25 to 45 feet in length, the Coast Guard captain explained.
The aircraft's crew alerted the captain of the Cutter Halibut, an 87-foot patrol boat, which headed to the scene and noticed the panga "operating with no lights." A small boat was dispatched from the Halibut and headed closer to the suspect vessel.
Then, the panga accelerated and hit the small boat, forcing Horne and another Coast Guard member overboard. Two Coast Guard colleagues on the same small boat "quickly" recovered their shipmates, and all four boarded the Halibut as it headed to the nearest port.
The other Coast Guardsman tossed overboard was treated and released later Sunday morning from a hospital after suffering "relatively minor injuries," Jenkins said.
The panga boat fled the scene but was later interdicted by a different Coast Guard boat and helicopter, he added. Two people were then detained, the Coast Guard said in a news release, without specifying any charges.
"The Coast Guard, along with its law enforcement partners at the federal, state and local level, are actively working to make sure all of the individuals who are involved with this illegal activity are brought to justice," Jenkins said.


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Earlier this fall, the National Research Council released "A New Biology for the 21st Century," a report calling for a new national biology initiative. The report, authored by a committee of the nation's leading biologists, envisions a new interagency approach to biological research that would augment existing research programs and tackle societal problems related to food, the environment, energy and health.
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With an array of established theories and techniques that will help address the New Biology initiative's societal challenges, biochemistry is likely to take on a central role in this initiative.
To guide the New Biology initiative's research program, the committee outlined four societal challenges involving food, the environment, energy and health. According to the report, the New Biology initiative investigators should be tasked with (1) adapting any food plant to any growing conditions, (2) diagnosing and repairing ecosystem damage, (3) expanding sustainable alternatives to fossil fuels and (4) achieving individualized health surveillance and care.
While biochemistry will be crucial in the creation of personalized medicine, its role will extend beyond human health. For example, adapting food plants to new growing conditions will require knowledge of the biochemical traits required for survival in different climates.
As the New Biology initiative utilizes biochemistry to solve major societal problems, initially the ranks of biochemists are likely to expand from collaborations. Previously trained biologists, in fields not traditionally associated with biochemistry, will seek out collaborations with biochemists to tackle a problem.
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The New Biology initiative will require a large investment of funding over a long period of time. Realistically, the report acknowledges that "the cost will be too large to be extracted from current research budgets." If Congress allocates new funding for the initiative, biochemistry will benefit from the rising tide.
More importantly, the New Biology initiative is likely to open new funding opportunities for the biochemistry community. Its interagency approach would ask the scientific community to re-examine its highly compartmentalized structure. Currently, 11 different federal agencies fund life sciences research, and each has its own rules about the types of research it will fund. That creates particular problems for researchers who perform interdisciplinary research that does not fit under any single agency's program. The New Biology initiative may help break down some of the traditional barriers while providing specific funding for interdisciplinary approaches.
While biochemistry, biology and society will benefit from the initiative, serious questions remain about putting this initiative into practice. The report states that "the committee does not provide a detailed plan for implementation," and with no details, policymakers are left with fundamental questions about what the New Biology initiative would look like. If it's not an agency, then what is it? Who, or what, should run it? How much money over how long? How should it allocate funding? To whom?
Calling for this bold new initiative, the NRC has taken the first step. To make the recommendations a reality, scientists and policymakers must work together.
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The announcement drew an angry response from Israel, which has been worried for weeks that the escalating danger would prompt U.N. forces to withdraw from the area. Israeli officials said Austria's observers were critical to the force's strength and cohesion.
"Without them, everything falls to pieces,'' Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor said. "It is essential for the U.N. to keep this force alive and kicking."
Austria made the decision after Syrian rebels briefly captured a U.N.-monitored checkpoint Thursday morning near the abandoned town of Quneitra, Syria's sole crossing into the Golan Heights. After fierce fighting, government forces later recaptured the post but the situation remained fluid Thursday afternoon.
Austria's troops make up about a third of the 1,000-member U.N. Disengagement Observer Force, which has helped maintain the peace along the Syrian-Israeli cease-fire line in the Golan Heights since 1974. India and the Philippines have also contributed military personnel.
The area had been largely quiet for decades until the Syrian civil war erupted, resulting in shelling and sporadic clashes between Syrian insurgents and government troops.
Thursday's fighting was the most intense to date in the area. Two U.N. troops were injured, according to a statement from U.N. headquarters in New York. U.N. personnel have also been captured -- and later released -- by rebel forces in the area.
"The uncontrolled and immediate danger to Austrian soldiers has risen to an unacceptable level," Austrian Chancellor Werner Faymann and Foreign Minister Michael Spindelegger said in a statement. "The secure movement and provisioning of our soldiers on the Golan heights cannot be assured any more."
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon regrets Austria's decision and is urgently looking for replacements, according to a statement released by his office. He called on all sides to respect international agreements and stop fighting in the separation zone, saying any military activity in the area had the potential to escalate tensions between Israel and Syria and "jeopardize the long-held cease-fire between the two countries."
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The VCU women's tennis program has rich tradition of excellence and last year was no different. The Rams captured the 2010 CAA Championship and earned a top-25 ranking on several occasions throughout the spring.
This spring is no different, but the Black & Gold will rely on some new faces with one of them being freshman Daria Yakavelva. The Minsk, Belarus native had a strong fall season and looks to be a big part of VCU's success. Prior to hitting the practice courts, she chatted with VCU Athletic Communications Student Assistant Nan Turner to talk about life away from tennis.
NT: Why did you choose VCU and what is your favorite thing about it?
DY: I chose VCU because I wanted to improve my tennis skills and to help continue this program's tradition of reaching the NCAA Tournament. The coaching staff is very good here and I really just felt it was my best option. As far as the university, they have so many options of different areas you can study and the professors are very nice and approachable.
NT: What is the biggest difference between Richmond and your hometown of Minsk, Belarus?
DY: The biggest difference is that Minsk is bigger than Richmond. Here I feel more calm, than in Minsk. Minsk is crazy town, everybody are busy. It's annoying.
NT: What is the best advice you've ever been given?
DY: Life is very complicated thing.
NT: What player do you try to model your game after the most and why?
DY: I think, Justine Henin. I really like the style of tennis she plays. She has the power shots, but really knows how to attack the net. Her game is really interesting because she is such a smart player.
NT: Where do you see yourself in 10 years?
DY: Hard question. I don't know really. My major is bioinformatics. Maybe, somewhere there in this area.
NT: What is a typical day off the court like for you?
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Deluge is a lightweight but full-featured BitTorrent application written in python2. It has a variety of features, including but not limited to: a client/server model, DHT support, magnet links, a plugin system, UPnP support, full-stream encryption, proxy support, and three different client applications. When the server daemon is running, users can connect to it via a console client, a gtk-based GUI, or a Web-based UI. A full list of features can be viewed here.
deluge is available from the official repositories.
# pacman -S deluge
The gtk UI requires additional dependencies as does the Web UI. Inspect the pacman output to determine which are right for the intended application.
python2-notify: libnotify notifications pygtk: needed for gtk ui librsvg: needed for gtk ui python2-mako: needed for web ui
Daemon Setup
Deluge comes with a daemon called
deluged. If it is not running when one of the clients is run, it will be started. It is useful, however, to have it started with systemd to allow torrents to run without starting a client and/or Xorg. This can be accomplished in one of two ways: a system service or a user service.
System Service
A system service will allow
deluged to run at boot without the need to start Xorg or a client. Deluge comes with a system service called
deluged.service, which can be started and enabled without change:
# systemctl start deluged # systemctl enable deluged
This will run the deluge daemon as the deluge user, which is created by the deluge package. If you wish to run the daemon as another user, copy
/usr/lib/systemd/system/deluged.service to
/etc/systemd/system/deluged.service and change the User parameter within the file, such as the torrent user:
In that case, you will have to create a user called torrent.
User Service
A user service will allow
deluged to run when
systemd --user is started. This is accomplished by creating a user service file:
[Unit] Description=Deluge Daemon After=network.target [Service] Exec=/usr/bin/deluged -d -P %h/.config/deluge/deluge.pid [Install] WantedBy=default.target
The deluge user service can now be started and enabled by the user:
$ systemctl --user start deluged $ systemctl --user enable deluged
deluged user service can also be placed in
$HOME/.config/systemd/user/. See systemd/User for more information on user services.
Deluge can be configured through any of the clients as well as by simply editting the JSON-formatted configuration files located in
$HOME/.config/deluge/. $HOME refers to the home directory of the user that
deluged is running as. This means that if the daemon is running as the deluge user, the default home directory is
Deluge requires at least one port open for TCP and UDP to allow incoming connections for seeding. If deluge is informing you that it cannot open a port for incoming connections, you must open ports you wish to use. In this example, ports 56881 through 56889 are opened for TCP and UDP:
# iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 56881:56889 -j ACCEPT # iptables -A INPUT -p udp --dport 56881:56889 -j ACCEPT
If you are behind a NAT router/firewall, port forwards are also required there. UPnP may also be used, but that will not work with the local firewall on the system that the daemon is running on because it requires predefined ports.
The console client can be run with:
$ deluge-console
Enter the
help command for a list of available commands.
The gtk client can be run with:
$ deluge-gtk
$ deluge
The gtk client has a number of useful plugins:
- AutoAdd - Monitors directories for .torrent files
- Blocklist - Downloads and imports an IP blocklist
- Execute - Event-based command execution
- Extractor - Extracts archived files upon completion (beware of random high disk I/O usage)
- Label - Allows labels to be assigned to torrents, as well as state, tracker, and keyword filters
- Notifications - Provides notifications (email, pop-up, blink, sound) for events as well as other plugins
- Scheduler - Limits active torrents and their speed on a per-hour, per-day basis
- WebUi - Allows the Web UI to be started via the gtk client
The Web UI can be started by running
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System Service
Deluge comes with a system service file called
deluge-web.service. The process for this is the same as starting
deluged.service, except with
deluge-web instead of
deluged. This service will also run as the deluge user unless the service file is modified in the same way as
User Service
A user service will allow
deluge-web to run when
systemd --user is started. This is accomplished by creating a user service file:
[Unit] Description=Deluge Web UI After=deluged.service [Service] Exec=/usr/bin/deluge-web --ssl [Install] WantedBy=default.target
The deluge user service can now be started and enabled by the user:
$ systemctl --user start deluge-web $ systemctl --user enable deluge-web
deluge-web user service can also be placed in
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deluge-web is initially started, it will create
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You will also be greeted by a warning from your browser that the SSL certificate is untrusted. You must add an exception to this in your browser to continue on. See the OpenSSL page for information on creating your own certificate.
Headless Setup
Deluge is quite useful on a headless system, often referred to as a seed box, because of its client/server model. To set up deluge on a headless system, set up the daemon as shown above.
Create a User
To allow interaction with the server remotely, create a user in
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The number 10 corresponds to a level of Admin. Refer to the following table for additional values:
|Level Name
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You will need to open the port for remote access. The following example uses the default daemon port (58846):
# iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 58846 -j ACCEPT
See iptables for more information on firewall rules.
If you are behind a NAT router/firewall, a port forward is also required there to access the daemon from outside the network.
In the console client:
connect <host>[:<port>] <user> <password>
In the gtk client,
Edit -> Connection Manager -> Add.
In the Web client,
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This weeks Chopped Challenge sent me on a whole new adventure, one which turned out to be pretty amazing! After my old neighbor and friend, Thomas Kamakani gave me Poi, I knew an adventure was in front of me.
Not even having the slightest clue what Poi was, I set out to the great land of "google" to learn what this Hawaiian favorite was all about… and where I could possibly find it in San Diego! Turns out, there was a japanese market, that also had a small section devoted to Hawaiian favorites which carried the ingredient and was only about 10 miles from my house.
I arrived to a rather confusing small village of stores know as Marukai Value, Marukai Market and Marukai Living.
To my credit, if you were looking for food you would probably select "Marukai Market", correct? Well, Marukai Living actually holds the Hawaiian gem known as Poi, but I am oh so glad I first stumbled upon Marukai Market. How had I not known about Japanese markets until this point? It's like I opened a door to a whole new culinary world!
I have so much to say about the amazingness that was, my first Japanese market experience, that I'm going to save that for another post and get to the Chopped Challenge for this week!
This Hawaiian style mystery basket included the aforementioned Poi from Thomas, Jicama from Krista Lombardi, Pineapple from Jackie Te and Kimchee from Cristina Dotson.
I combined this magical basket of ingredients into Hawaiian Pineapple Kimchee Pulled Pork Sliders, topped with Mango Avocado Jicama Salsa and a Sweet Chili Poi Sauce.
Ingredients (Hawaiian Pork)
- ½ pineapple (chopped)
- 10 oz kimchi
- 1 tbsp paprika
- 2 tbsp chinese five spice
- ½ cup brown sugar
- 3 cloves garlic (minced)
- 1 tbsp fresh ginger (minced)
- 4 lb pork shoulder
- ½ cup teriyaki sauce
- ½ cup white wine vinegar
- ¼ cup honey
- ½ cup soy sauce
- 2 cups mango avocado jicama salsa (recipe below)
- 1 cup poi sweet chili sauce (recipe below)
- 12 hawaiian sweet rolls
Begin by adding the pineapple and kimchi to a crock pot over low heat.
Next, combine the paprika, chinese five spice, brown sugar, garlic and ginger in a small bowl.
Rub the pork with this mixture then place into the crock pot on top of the pineapple and kimchee.
Next, pour the teriyaki sauce, white wine vinegar, honey and soy sauce into the crock pot.
Turn to high and cook for 5-6 hours.
Half an hour before serving the pork prepare the Mango Avocado Jicama Salsa.
Ingredients (Mango Avocado Jicama Salsa)
- ½ jicama (thinly sliced)
- ¼ fresh pineapple (chopped)
- ½ red onion (chopped)
- ½ mango (chopped)
- 1 avocado (chopped)
- 1 lime (juiced)
- 1 tbsp avocado oil (or olive oil)
- ½ tsp black pepper
- 1 tsp chives (chopped)
Combine the first 5 ingredients in a medium bowl. Squeeze the lime juice and drizzle the avocado oil over the salsa. Toss, then sprinkle the black pepper and chives on top.
Next, mix together 1 cup of poi with 2 tbsp sweet chili sauce.
Now, remove the pork from the crock pot and shred, then place on top of the hawaiian sweet rolls, drizzle with the kimchee, pineapple sauce from the crock pot.
Top with the salsa.
The flavor combination here is amazing!
Finally, place a little Poi Sweet Chili Sauce on the top of the bun.
So the real question is, did I make the Hawaiian's proud with this dish?
Well, according to my roommate (definitely not Hawaiian, but an avid taste tester of the blog), it was delicious!


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November 3, 2011
Owen to become Associate VP for Academic Affairs
Dr. Polly Owen
Dr. Mokie Steiskal
Mary Vaughn
Dr. Polly Owen has been named Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs. Owen will begin her work officially on December 1, and during a year-long transition, she will continue to serve as Dean of Career and Technical Programs. She will be assisted by Interim Associate Deans Mokie Steiskal,Ph.D. and Mary Vaughn.
"Polly shares my enthusiasm and dedication to the vision President Harrison is developing for Columbus State, and she brings great competence and experience to managing and facilitating important parts of the work that fall to the Office of Academic Affairs," said Dr. Jack Cooley, Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs.
"The scope of her position will evolve over time, but her focus will be on accreditation, assessment, curriculum, grants, tenure and promotion, and coordinating Columbus State's involvement with the various state initiatives to better align secondary career-technical course work with college course work."
Prior to becoming Dean of Career and Technical Programs, Dr. Owen served as Chair of the Nursing and Related Services Department.
Steiskal currently chairs degree programs in Hospitality Management, Massage Therapy, and Sport and Exercise Studies. Vaughn chairs the degree programs in Computer Information Technology, Digital Design and Graphics, Digital Photography, Interactive Media, Marketing, and Supply Chain Management.
Doubled workload doesn't faze this staff member
Linda Reid
When Linda Reid, office associate in Business Programs, was called upon to take on the additional office position in Business upon the death of Mary Berman in June, she maintained her positive attitude and exemplary work, according to Patricia Parker, professor in Accounting.
Parker nominated Reid for Staff Employee of the Month, which was awarded to Reid Nov. 2 in a ceremony held in the Boardroom. Reid has served as office associate in the Accounting and Finance department for many years, and after Berman's death was asked to step up and assist the more than 200 adjunct and fulltime faculty that work in the combined departments of Business Programs, including Human Resources, Business Office Applications and Business Management.
"She never complained, let a project drop, or missed a deadline," said Dan Zeiler, a new instructor in Business Programs. "As a new faculty member, my requests at times are naïve and of lesser importance than coordinators' or chairs', but they always get answers. She helps me with DARS inquiries for student advising and petitions for graduation. She is always a reassuring and supportive team member," said Zeiler.
"She has been a valuable resource to me since I assumed the Chair responsibilities in Business Programs," said Carmen Daniels. "Linda consistently does far more than required and delivers more than expected. She works with any student who needs help regardless of the student's major. We were greatly saddened by the death of Mary Berman last spring. Linda stepped up to assure us that there would be no pause in the workflow in the Business Programs."
Ohio University invites employees to breakfast
Columbus State faculty and staff are invited to join Ohio University at the Annual Community College Partnership Celebration Breakfast, to be held Tuesday, November 29 from 8:00-9:00 a.m. in the Conference Center Ballroom, WD Room 435.
Employees who would like to attend are asked to RSVP by email to Jodie Van Winkle at email@example.com.
Charitable giving campaign underway
The Charitable Choice Campaign is now underway. You can find the Pledge Form and Donor Guide on the Intranet (not available off campus). Please consider making a donation to the charity of your choice. The campaign will end on Friday, December 16. For more information contact Barb Smith-Allen at firstname.lastname@example.com or call ext. 5433.
ITDL Workshop
NextGen Grants: Making the Most of Technology
These days, funding dollars must stretch further than ever to implement projects. Technology, including mobile devices, enables virtual instruction, interactive learning, course review, and testing/evaluation with fewer staff. And, given funder interest in efficient programming, serious consideration needs to be given to the incorporation of technology into grant proposals.
The Grants Office will offer a workshop where you can learn about technologies such as presentation capture, mobile technology, Second Life, and 3-D technology; appropriate uses of these technologies; the availability and location of technology resources; and ways to incorporate technologies into grant program design. There will be a question and answer session afterward and an opportunity for hands-on experience with various technologies.
The instructor is Joel Nelson, Multimedia Web Developer for Instructional Technologies. Seating is limited and pre-registration is required.
Tuesday, November 15, 2:00 -4:00 p.m. Register
Men's Basketball Team off to impressive start; play at home Friday!
The Cougar Men's Basketball Team played an exhibition game Tuesday at Central State University, a NCAA Division II school,
winning 74-60. In front of 2,000 fans, the Cougars led the game 29-27 at halftime. During the second half, freshman Brook Turson, from Plymouth, OH made three 3-point shots to wrap up the game for the Cougars. Turson is a transfer student from Central Michigan University.
Columbus State is currently ranked No. 10 nationally in the National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA). They play their first home game on Friday against University of Akron-Wayne. The women's team tips off at 5:30 p.m. and the men start at 7:30 p.m.
Massis presents at statewide conference
Library Director Bruce Massis presented a session entitled, "Breaking New Ground in the Reference/IT Partnership" at the 2011 Ohio Library Council Convention and Expo Oct. 28.
The event was held in Toledo with more than 750 attendees participating. Massis' presentation, part of the "Game Changers" learning track, centered on the ongoing discussion of the relationship between the library and information technology functions on a college campus and the nature by which one service supports the other in its efforts to best benefit the students.
Walk follow-up
Final information for last week's "Out of the Darkness Suicide Prevention Walk" is in, and the Columbus State group has raised $989 in support of the effort, surpassing their goal, according to Lilia Bermudez, assistant professor in Psychology. This was the fifth year for a Columbus State group to walk, and more than 130 students, staff and faculty participated. The walk helps raise awareness about suicide prevention and raises funds for educational efforts, according to Bermudez. Several Psychology faculty members gave their students service learning credit for participating in the activity and writing reflections about what they learned regarding suicide prevention.
"Name the 5K" contest
The Staff Advisory Council is asking for your help. The Council needs a name for their first annual spring 5k run to be held April 28, 2012! The race is being planned to raise money for SAC's scholarship and charity efforts. Please submit your suggestion for the race name to Nichole Bowman-Glover, wellness coordinator, firstname.lastname@example.com by November 23 at 4 p.m. The winner will receive a Dick's Sporting Goods gift card!
Health Rewards Program briefing offered November 9
Find out how the Wellness Incentive has evolved into the new Health Rewards Program by attending the upcoming briefing. The Health Rewards Program went into effect September 1 and is offered through United Health Care for employees covered by UHC.
The next briefing will be offered on Wednesday, November 9 at 12:30 p.m. in FR 104. RSVP to Nichole Bowman-Glover, wellness coordinator. Delaware Campus employees may watch the briefings by teleconference and should also RSVP.
Delaware Hall construction to close some restrooms
Starting Friday, November 4 through Friday, November 18, the Delaware Hall 1st floor restrooms will be closed intermittently for construction.


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Friday, January 29, 2010
Send me all your love and kisses and I promise to drink plenty of fluids and watch only the most masala-est of Bollywood until I feel better.
xoxo Filmi Girl
Thursday, January 28, 2010
Dev.D: The Eternal Love Triangle...
Yes, so it took me a year to finally get around to watching Dev.D. I have my reasons, though, and they are as follows:
#1 Devdas isn't exactly my favorite story and when push comes to shove, I prefer comedy over drama.
#2 A lot of the same people praising Dev.D also fell all over themselves for Kaminey, which I thought was merely 'meh.'
#3 Anurag Kashyap has denounced No Smoking, which I thought was brilliant, so I was unsure if I would like his new direction.
#4 I really – and I mean really – hated the promotions for Dev.D, which made the film seem like soft-core porn. The official site has been taken down but you could hear "phone sex" clips from Chanda, which just struck me as extremely tacky and exploitive, not to mention it alienates half the potential audience for the film i.e. me and my fellow ladies.
Anyways, yes, it took me a year to get around to watching Dev.D but I'm glad I did because it is one of the best films I've seen in a long time. Anurag Kashyap does something really interesting with the old chestnut that is "Devdas" and plays with filmi clichés while he's at it.
I'm sure we're all familiar with the story of Devdas ("Dev") and Paro. They are childhood friends who grow a romantic attachment while he is off at university—in London in this adaptation.
Dev is kind of a spoiled little dick. His father sends him off to boarding school because he's afraid of corrupting influences at home. He doesn't realize that you can only corrupt the willing…
Dev grows into a big spoiled dick who gets off on the secret, long-distance relationship he has with Paro.
Paro, who grows up to be the gorgeous Mahie Gill, also gets off on their secret relationship.
Where Dev.D differs from, especially, the epic 2002 version of the story along with numerous masala films, is that the childhood romance is just that—a romance. A fantasy. They can't sustain the reality of being together.
And some nasty stuff goes down in which Dev dredges up the old male double standard where it's okay for him to act on sexual impulses but any woman who does so is a whore.
She moves on—he does not.
Meanwhile, we are introduced to Chandramurki aka Chanda aka Leni. And here was where Dev.D really hooked me—I was pleasantly surprised to find that Chanda is actually given a backstory and personality. She isn't just the adoring sop of the 2002 Devdas. It's kind of like when Helen was allowed to have a love interest and tragic past… (I'm looking at you awesome 1967 film Talash.)
(I'd be really curious to know if Anurag deliberately cast a white actress as Chanda or if he saw Kalki and changed the character to be white.)
We are introduced to Chanda –still known as Leni—as she is getting ready for a day at high school.
She clearly has discovered that it can be nice when men notice you and we are shown Leni rolling up her skirt and pushing down her socks. Things that many, many high school girls do.
She has a creepy older boyfriend who enjoys getting blow jobs and we see that, too. Leni enjoys the attention and she enjoys playing at grown-up things but for all that, Anurag is careful not to actually sexualize HER for the camera. She's just a girl.
But then her creepy older boyfriend films her giving him a bj and you can see the difference in how his camera films her.
Of course, the film gets around and Leni's life is ruined. What I found interesting is that it's not LENI who feels guilty, it's the reactions from everyone around her. She's embarrassed—mortified—but she's not guilty. Regretful, yes, for being stupid but not full of shame. I liked that.
And we see her with the headphones and cigarette like a female version of Dev…
Everything unfolds just like you expect—Leni becomes Chanda, falls for Dev, who is still hung up on Paro, who is married to a widower—but with a fresh spirit that should keep you hooked until the end.
So, besides the smart decision to make Chanda a fully realized character instead of just a pretty, pining prostitute, what is so great about Dev.D
I will tell you!
The performances are excellent all around.
I'll admit I'm not the biggest Abhay Deol fan. I find his acting style a little too restrained for my tastes but Anurag got a fantastic performance out of him. He manages to be both rakishly charming and a total asshole all at the same time. He never lets us forget that Dev is a horrible person but it's not unrealistic. And the scenes with Chanda really humanize him—a lot.
In the hands of a less-skilled actor, Dev could have been a total disaster. He's basically the male equivalent of the poor, little rich girl. He thinks all his ennui stems from his foiled relationship with Paro but we—and Abhay—know that there is more to it than that. Dev is so cut off from his surroundings. His wealth cushions him from certain realities and he literally isolates himself with headphones in a lot of scenes. It's all an extension of the drinking and drugs that he numbs his life with.
Paro takes a back seat in this adaptation but I loved Mahie Gill. She definitely has potential and I hope directors sit up and start casting her in things. She has these gorgeous, heavy-lidded eyes…
My favorite scene of hers was during "Emotional Attachyar." We see her totally break with her fantasy of a life with Dev and accept happiness on her own terms.
Her husband (Asim Sharma) is standing to the left and you can watch his face go through the second half of Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam in about 15 seconds.
I honestly don't have room to say all the good things I want to say about Kalki Koechlin, so I'll keep it to: FILMFARE HAD BETTER GIVE HER BEST DEBUT OR ELSE THEY ARE ON NOTICE.
She is luminous. Yes, I just used the word luminous.
And I'd like to give a shout out to Dibyendu Bhattacharya, who played the pimp/drug dealer Chunnilal.
Along with the performances, I really enjoyed the various commentaries on filmi sexuality.
Leni is a big fan of Madhuri Dixit and actually names herself Chanda from the character in the 2002 Devdas. Chanda is put into a series of progressively ridiculous costumes and we see the preparation. We see the wigs, the fake fingernails, the persona. We see Chanda on the phone, totally uninterested in the phone sex she's having with some off-screen punter.
What we don't see—although it is clearly insinuated—is Chanda having sex. The camera isn't there to exploit Kalki but to show things from Chanda's point of view. I appreciated the distinction, which was totally missing from the promotions.
The other thing I really appreciated was the inclusion of both songs and dance, even though they weren't traditional picturizations. He used songs like Vishal Bhardwaj did in Omkara, where they were included both because people like songs and because songs can convey emotions.
We get a combination of montages with actual musicians and dancers and the song themes are cycled through, creating a nice flow. Dev.D really shows how even "realistic" films can utilize the film song in effective ways without resorting to either chiffon in Switzerland or the epically dull and pointless montages from films like Wake Up Sid.
I would like to say that Dev.D could have been a hit on the Western art house circuit but I think the filmi references are too Bollywood-specific. Not to mention the fact that one pretty much needs to know the story of "Devdas" before sitting down to watch.
What would be interesting is to sit some Bollywood virgins down and have them watch the 2002 Devdas followed by Dev.D and see what they think.
Any guinea pigs?


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Felicity Smith '98
Felicity led the UMW women's soccer program to one of its best four-year eras in program history, helping the team to 55 wins while garnering first team All-America honors. The Eagles won three CAC titles in her career and advanced to two NCAA Tournaments, including in 1997, when the team won a school-record 18 games en route to an appearance in the NCAA Tournament quarterfinals. Despite playing the defender position, she scored 27 points in her career, with five goals and 17 assists. She later played professionally for Arsenal in England.
Inducted October 16, 2009


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Chicago Fire 2 – 0 New York Red Bulls
Red Bull Arena – Oct. 6, 2012
On the match:
We played very well I felt. I felt that the first half we could've been better with the ball. I thought we had opportunities to play and keep the ball and that's the one thing we talked about and then we gave up some opportunities through some overall mistakes. But I felt the team played very well, 90 minutes we defended very well as a team, we created opportunities. It's just a big win, it's very difficult to play in New York. There's a lot of quality in their side and you knew it was going to be a big match at this point in the season, there was a lot on the game. I'm just very pleased with the way my team responded.
On the Arne Friedrich-Thierry Henry matchup:
Probably we've seen it before with the national teams but not here, that's for sure. Listen, Henry a lot of quality but Arne Friedrich tonight, just his ability to lead in the back, to calm the team down and to be very composed under pressure, he was fantastic. But the effort from the whole team was fantastic. The matchup was good; it was great for the fans to see high quality players, both of them.
On Sherjill MacDonald's play:
We knew about his pace. I felt that I think he's still a guy that, a lot of the guys that come really you've got to see them at 100% from last year to preseason because they missed a lot of games. I felt that he played well in other games but his ability today to be able to hold the ball, and to be able to make good runs, timing runs. Also, you got a guy like (Chris) Rolfe and other guys and (Daniel) Paladini that can play those through balls. Look, obviously you're one up and they're pushing the game and we just have to be smart with the ball. But he was super tonight in a big game and made a difference.
On his matchup with Thierry Henry:
It was a very important game for us because we played two times in a row very bad and we had some pressure. We kept losing a little bit the shape. So for me it was not that special today and I guess the same for him. We are opponents and he's a great player obviously. You just have to cover him very hard because if he gets a chance to hit the ball then it's always very dangerous.
On his role in Chicago versus when playing in Germany:
It's my responsibility to lead the team and for today I guess it went very good. We did obviously better in the second half obviously to let the ball flow. In the first half we were a little bit scared because of the lack of confidence over the last two games. In the first half we defend very well so we got a little bit confidence back. I try to lead the team, I try to help where I can and I try to talk to people. It's my job, it's why I'm here.
On the importance of the win after losing two consecutive games
We came together a little bit in the last two weeks. Before it went perfect, we won almost every game, then we lost two times in a row and maybe it brought us a little bit closer. I'm happy that we lost before the playoffs start because in the playoffs there's no room for losing games.
On the match:
Today we kept the zero for a very long time. Then the game opens up. I got some good passes from Daniel (Paladini) and (Chris) Rolfe as well. We did a good defending job today as a team and that's why the spaces opened up at the end and you get the chance.
On his fitness level:
My stamina is getting better because I played a lot of games in a few weeks. Of course, the field was also a little bit heavy so around the 65, 70th minute I started to feel really tired but we played very close to each other as a team so it was easier.
On the importance of the win:
It was a very big win because we lost the last two games. We talked in the team, we talked to going back to the basics and defending well and we did that today so I'm very proud of the team that we kept the zero.
On the match:
We controlled the possession, We had our chances before they scored. We closed them down quite okay, of course (they) caught one on the break, and we definitely didn't take our chances in the first 25 minutes of the second half.
On losing two out of three at home:
The wrong teams to (play) against, Kansas City and Chicago, definitely. I don't think it's a lack of energy. I think we started a little bit slow with the first 10 or 15 (minutes), but after that, I had a great feeling that we were controlling possession and also creating two, three really good chances before they scored. So it's small margins. They took their chances.
On Chicago defender Arne Friedrich:
I think it suits him very well when a team sits. I think perhaps in a high pressing team it's not the same, but when a team sits he can play with his experience in a quite small area and things like that. And I think it works very well to organize the back four.
On if Thierry Henry was injured, and on why he brought Rafa Marquez in for Heath Pearce:
For Thierry, no injuries on Thierry. Rafa, from the back four, can jump into the midfield, so we could push Tim Cahill up higher on the pitch. And also with his precise passing game, final passes when we were losing one-nil.
On Sherjill McDonald's two goals:
Normally I need to see the replay to be one hundred percent sure, but you can see in a way that it's a little bit too easy to run in behind with one final pass. You get a little frustrated and annoyed when it's those types of goals, but normally I'd like to see the replay before I analyze.
On how frustrating it is to miss scoring chances:
You know that teams always, whoever you play, will pick up some chances during a game. When you don't take your chances, you know (the opponent) will get one or two hundred percent scoring chances, whoever you play. They were very effective of course, McDonald was very effective of course. It's very frustrating that we don't score earlier in the second half.
On Chicago's two goals:
Looking back on both goals, we had a break down in our back four and those are type the type of goals that we need to avoid if we really want to make it into the playoffs. I'd have to look at the replay the first one it looked like a tough call, maybe he was offsides, but he did well, he finished well. And then the second one, I mean that can't happen, it's just the way it is.
On Chicago as a team:
They're a solid team. No doubt about that. They didn't make any mistakes in the back today. They get forward fast, the get numbers up quick. To their credit, they put pressure on us and they made two goals there. They're a solid team.
On if he thought Chicago was offsides on their second goal:
Of course it goes really fast but when a guy is that wide open behind the line, you always have to check. But it still doesn't matter. I think the communication thing that happened there, two guys went for the same ball, and we just have to be better than that. We can't be giving up goals like that this late into the season.
On the match
We tried to go high into pressure to kind of a more fresh start then we have had the past couple games, and everyone was trying to pressure them high. As I said I kind of felt like we didn't have the energy it took today, and we knew it wasn't going to be a tough game. I just feel bad right now because I know we're not performing as we normally can. And especially at home, it's just frustrating as the game goes. I feel like we created chances in the fist half, in the second half I felt like it was a battle out there and neither team was creating many chances until they scored the first goal. And then we kind of kind of totally tell that I feel like we didn't have any energy to deal with it and try to chase that goal.
On Chicago's goals:
When we let in a goal like that, I have the ball up front and try to create something one against one and lose the ball too easily, and they take advantage of it and go into a counterattack, and we're not as organized as we should be when they score the first goal. It's kind of like, this is a typical game that's supposed to be 0-0. because both teams, it's not a high energy game. It's a tough game for both teams and when we let in easy goals like the two that we did, it's one of those things that shouldn't happen but unfortunately did today.
On the match:
It's pretty crappy. You have a big opportunity here to clinch a playoff berth, but we came out and just didn't get what we were looking for. We're pretty disappointed.
On coach Hans Backe's instructions to him when he brought him on at halftime:
He just wanted me to come on and provide some energy, get up and down the flank and be solid out there and be disciplined in my play. Just have to be better the next time.
On if the front office changes this week impacted the team:
I think as a player you can't focus on those things. It's a change and you have to adapt to whatever is thrown at you during the season, there are a lot of ups and downs, and you can't let anything affect you on the field. It's not an excuse for the way we played tonight or the result we got, it's just a change for us.


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While the lack of reports is leaving us blind about what's going on across the country, business continues to be done and milk prices see another good month.
The government's inability to agree on a budget is becoming more ridiculous. The politics involved in this whole situation are making the U.S the laughing stock of the world. Here we are, a democracy with elected officials who cannot work together and come up with a solution for the good of the nation. It is all tied up with party lines, special interest and the positioning for the next election.
Many citizens are furloughed, which is having a growing impact on various areas of the economy. Some goods and services are not being taken care of as usual. Imports and exports of various items and materials are virtually non-existent, resulting in increasing backlogs at shipyards. This has trickled down through many areas of the economy, not only here but the world. This is something that will not be cleared up overnight once a budget is finally adopted.
So far, there is little indication that exports of dairy products have been affected. It is difficult to get an accurate picture of this due to the inability of receiving government reports. If there are no factors that could hinder export demand of dairy products, the hindrance could come from the inability to ship it out as usual. The U.S. does not send a whole boat load of cheese or butter to one place. Products get put on a cargo ship along with other goods. If shipping to a particular country is slower due to reduced inspectors, which could slow the gathering of a full load, it will eventually slow all export movement. However, much of what is purchased for exports generally has a window of shipping time. When CWT agrees to assist in the exports of cheese and butter, it is generally states that it will be shipped over the duration of the next four to six months.
One issue with in the dairy industry is the lack of reports. We have now plowed our way through half of the month of October without the value of any USDA reports. This leaves us blind as to what is going on across the country. Surveys are not being conducted, weekly regional reports are not being released, monthly reports are not being released, etc. Fortunately, the Federal Orders are keeping track of and releasing the weekly National Dairy Product Sales report, providing the industry with critical information for product pricing.
With all of this lack of information, business still needs to be done -- and continues to be done. Trading on the CME spot market has been active, giving traders something to base their trading activity and price direction on. The recent strength in cheese prices has certainly been welcomed as it supports another good month of milk prices. Most of the pricing for October has already been factored in by the trade, with the October futures contract settling into a sideways narrow trading pattern. November will be susceptible to an underlying cash price movement over the next month, making it difficult to predict where milk prices will be. But we do know the current milk/feed ratio is the best it has been since November 2011, and one can only hope the ratio will improve as time moves forward.
Lower corn prices due to better-than-expected yields may translate over into lower milk prices if the historical pattern is followed. Milk production has remained fairly strong despite high grain prices, so one has to wonder how far dairy farmers will push production We generally increase milk production when milk prices are low to make up for the lower prices and generally increase milk production when feed is less expensive and profitability has improved.
My recommendation is to initiate fence strategies for the first six months of 2014 by purchasing $16.50 put options and selling $18.00 call options. These can be done for anywhere from 20-45 cents. This provides a nice parameter while establishing a decent floor. I am concerned for milk prices next year.
Upcoming reports: (tentative dates subject to the government)
- Global Dairy Trade auction on October 15
- Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry report on October 18
- September Milk Production on October 21
- September Cold Storage report on October 22
- Federal Order Class I price on October 23
- September Livestock Slaughter October 24
Robin Schmahl is a commodity broker and owner of AgDairy LLC, a full-service commodity brokerage firm located in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin. He can be reached at 877-256-3253 or through their website at www.agdairy.com.
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