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Vincent Regan is a film and television actor who was born on May 16, 1965 in the UK, in one of the largest cities in Wales, Swansea. The artist's parents are native Irish people who moved to Wales before his birth. Vincent is the youngest member of the Regan family, he also has two older brothers. As a child, Vincent lived with his parents and brothers for some time in Ireland. Later, the Regan family moved to Suffolk County, England.
In Ipswich, Vincent entered St George's College, and after graduating, moved to the British capital. At first, he worked in London as a construction site, as he did not have the skills to work in other fields of activity. At the age of twenty, Vincent Regan entered the Academy of Painting Arts. After graduating, he worked in various theaters in the capital, where he mainly participated in classical productions. His first successful role was in the production of Shakespeare's play Macbeth at the St. James Theater. The young and talented actor was noticed and invited to the Shakespeare Royal Theater. Here, the artist practically did not have to play the main roles in productions, but Vincent received important secondary roles quite often.
The best films with Vincent Regan have many fans in almost all countries of the world.
Vincent Regan began acting on television in the late eighties. The first works of the actor were not crowned with success, but in 1994 he made his debut on the big screen - he played a small role in Black Handsome.
The brightest films with the participation of Vincent Regan are 300 Spartans, Danny Chain Dog, Jeanne d'Arc and Troy, and the series Missing Targets, Poirot, Virtuosos and others.
Vincent Regan has green eyes, naturally blond hair, fair skin and medium lips. The shape of the face is oval, the forehead is medium, the hair is curly, thick. Vincent Regan does not change hair color, preferring natural. The actor has a medium straight nose and a rounded chin. Vincent Regan sometimes drops his mustache and beard. The actor's height is 184 cm, no tattoos.
Zodiac sign - Taurus (05/16/1965)
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Thousands of Californians are fleeing the state for a better life in Nevada — only to find that they are bringing many of the Golden State’s problems along with them, according to a new report.
The Los Angeles Times revealed that California businesses and citizens are leaving the state in droves in search of the "perfect elixir — a California bender without the hangover."
However, the mass exodus has made traffic more "congested" and put city services to their limit.
"Locals are getting priced out of houses and apartments by Californians who can pay higher rents or drop larger down payments. Nevadans are struggling with homelessness and drug addiction; lines for food and housing assistance are growing," the LA Times wrote.
CALIFORNIA CITIES RATTLED BY PROSTITUTION, HUMAN TRAFFICKING IN BROAD DAYLIGHT AS COPS PIN BLAME ON NEW LAW
"It’s cheaper, supposedly, but not really," a hotel desk clerk from Southern California reportedly told the Los Angeles Times.
"It’s getting pretty crazy," he added.
The number of Californians reportedly leaving for Nevada has ballooned in recent years, according to the Department of Motor Vehicles, with more than 85,000 people swapping out their California driver’s license for a Nevada license in 2021 and 2022.
However, it is not just the people who are fleeing California; businesses are leaving too.
Many of the companies that have left California over the last three decades have chosen to move to Reno, Nevada, making it one of the most popular destinations in the country for ex-California businesses, a Claremont McKenna study found.
'DEFUND POLICE' LAWMAKER RIPPED FOR HYPOCRISY AFTER LAPD WAS CALLED TO WATCH STAFFER'S LEXUS
Tesla announced in January that it would invest "over $3.6 billion" in Nevada to grow the company’s Gigafactory there, "adding 3,000 new team members and two new factories."
Tesla’s CEO, Elon Musk, made national headlines in 2021 when he officially moved the electric car company’s headquarters from California to Texas.
The Golden State has suffered from an explosion in crime after liberal lawmakers weakened the laws governing prostitution and theft.
Critics contend that far from improving life for citizens, one recent California law intended to protect transgender sex workers has allowed pimps and prostitutes to take over San Francisco and other major cities.
There, citizens have said that prostitutes, some of whom look underage, twerk in public and wear little to no clothes.
"I call the cops; no one comes. There’s nothing I can do," one San Francisco resident reportedly told the San Francisco Chronicle after witnessing violence against women on the street.
CALIFORNIA BEACH TOWN WILL NO LONGER FLY LGBT PRIDE FLAG OUTSIDE CITY HALL; 'WE ARE ONE' CITY SAYS COUNCILMAN
Reports of theft have also skyrocketed in California after Proposition 47 passed, turning what used to be felony charges into misdemeanors for theft of goods valued at under $950 or less.
The result, opponents of the law argue, was a predictable increase in theft across the state.
Fox News’ Emma Colton contributed to this report.

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Wednesday 19 April 2023 – https://socialistworker.co.uk/
XR issued the demands ahead of The Big One, a four day protest around parliament
Extinction Rebellion (XR) has given the Tories an ultimatum—give in to its demands or it will “step up” action.
XR is calling on the Tory government to end all licences, approvals and funding to new fossil fuel projects and for a citizen’s assembly to address climate change.
The group issued the demands on Tuesday ahead of the start of its four day protest, The Big One, on Friday. It hopes to surround parliament with 100,000 people on Friday. Over 200 other organisations, including Greenpeace, Campaign Against Climate Change, Fuel Poverty Action and War on Want, backed the demands.
If the government doesn’t promise to meet these demands by 5pm next Monday, XR says it plans to “unquit”. Rob Callender from XR told a press conference, “Four months ago, Extinction Rebellion announced, ‘We quit.’ We entered into a period of alliance-building with other movements and groups by temporarily stepping back from our tactics of civil disobedience.
“Since then, the government has made policy announcements that effectively double down on deadly climate chaos. This is their last chance to show us that they are serious about saving our lives and our futures by agreeing to enter negotiations around our demands.
“A failure to do so will mean that Extinction Rebellion has no choice but to unquit. And to step up our campaign to force the government to take the drastic and radical actions necessary to avoid runaway climate change. This time, we’re not alone—allies from this 200-strong bloc will be stepping up alongside us.”
The group’s “We quit” statement wasn’t popular with every one of its supporters. Some found it confusing and others thought it was bowing to repressive Tory laws such as the draconian Public Order Bill.
One XR activist told the Cambridge Independent newspaper in January that he thought the “leadership has crumbled under pressure from the public saying you’re stopping me from going to work”. “But we should be intensifying, not slowing down our actions,” they said.
It accelerated a debate about strategy and tactics within the climate movement whether to focus on mass mobilisation, disruptive action or combine the two.
XR says it’s in a stronger position than before because it built an alliance of almost 200 groups that back The Big One. And it’s a positive step forward that XR has said that it is willing to take “radical” action if its demands aren’t met.
Extinction Rebellion activist Marijn van de Geer told the press conference, “No single event can change the world, but The Big One will be a transformational moment for the groups and people involved.
“It will be a collective opportunity to discuss and create new tactics that will make our voices heard and drive change. And there will be much, much more to come.”
Others at the press conference called for activists to get “creative” with the kind of action they take. Austin Harney from the PCS union told the press conference, “We have recently seen lawyers who had ways to disrupt their profession by refusing to take part in the prosecution of climate activists.
“I can imagine people within the media, which continues to be guilty of untruths and misleading stories about the climate, developing their own ways of disrupting their own industry.”
Just Stop Oil has vowed to start a campaign of “slow marches” across London from next Monday just as The Big One ends.
Socialists support both mass mobilisations and direct action to achieve change—and the most effective movements combine both.
And there is an opportunity to link the strikes and climate mobilisations, the fightbacks in the workplaces and the streets. We need to make the battles over the cost of living crisis and the struggle against environmental collapse part of a common fight against the bosses’ profit system.


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In an arrangement with state prosecutors, an Arizona woman accused of unlawfully collecting early ballots in the 2020 primary election pleaded guilty Thursday, dismissing the more severe forgery and conspiracy counts and limiting the possibility of a significant prison term.
Guillermina Fuentes, 66, could face probation for running a sophisticated operation that used her status as a well-known Democrat operative in the border city of San Luis to persuade voters to let her gather and, in some cases, fill out their ballots, according to Arizona attorney general’s office investigators.
Prosecutors dropped three felony allegations charging that Fuentes improperly filled out one voter’s ballot and faked signatures on some of the four votes she illegally returned for persons who were not family members, indicating that they were unable to establish the most serious accusations.
Republicans who have rallied around the likelihood of massive voter fraud in the 2020 election, in which former President Donald Trump is expected to lose, have pointed to the allegations against Fuentes as part of a larger trend in crucial states. There’s little evidence, however, that her unlawful ballot gathering extended beyond the small-town politics in which Fuentes was involved.
In December 2020, Fuentes and a second lady were charged with one count of vote misuse, often known as “ballot harvesting,” which was made illegal by a 2016 state statute. Last October, Fuentes was charged with conspiracy, forgery, and an extra count of ballot misuse. During a change of plea hearing in Yuma County, Arizona, on Thursday, Fuentes spoke nothing, just nodding yes to the judge’s questioning when he asked whether she had read and understood the plea bargain.
Fuentes, a former mayor of San Luis who now serves on the board of the Gadsden Elementary School District in San Luis, may face a term of up to two years in jail if a court finds aggravating circumstances.
For her admitting to illegally collecting and returning four voted votes, the plea deal leaves the sentencing up to a judge, who might sentence her to probation, home detention, and a large fine. The date for sentencing has been scheduled for June 30. She will lose her ability to vote and will be forced to resign from her elected position. In an email sent Thursday, attorney Anne Chapman said she had no comment on the accusations against her client.
She, on the other hand, attacked Arizona’s ballot collecting legislation, claiming that it obstructs minority voters who have traditionally relied on others to assist their vote. “This prosecution demonstrates that the statute is a part of continuing antidemocratic statewide and national voter suppression attempts,” she added.
Fewer than a dozen ballots might be tied to Fuentes, according to attorney general’s office investigative data acquired by The Associated Press through a public records request, which isn’t enough to make a difference in any but the tightest municipal elections.
The data were released after a 15-month wait by the office of Attorney General Mark Brnovich, a Republican seeking his party’s Senate nominee. It is the attorney general’s first prosecution under the 2016 “ballot harvesting” statute, which was affirmed by the United States Supreme Court last year.
According to investigators, Fuentes appears to have utilized her position as an influential person in the mainly Mexican American neighborhood to get voters to return to the polls by giving her or others their ballots. According to the reports, Fuentes and her co-defendant were seen with multiple mail-in envelopes outside a cultural facility in San Luis on the day of the 2020 primary election. Inside, the ballots were taken and placed in a ballot box.
A write-in candidate who contacted the Yuma County sheriff filmed her. According to accounts, the video showed her marking at least one ballot, but that accusation was dismissed along with the others. That day, an inquiry was initiated, and roughly 50 votes were examined for fingerprints, but the results were inconclusive.
Within days, the attorney general’s office took up the probe, with detectives working with sheriff’s officers to question voters, Fuentes, and others. Despite the fact that Fuentes was only charged with the conduct seen on videotape and involving a small number of votes, investigators suspect the operation went far further.
According to one investigation by the Attorney General’s Office, there was some evidence that Fuentes aggressively canvassed San Luis communities and collected votes, in some cases paid for them. Before Arizona enacted the 2016 legislation, collecting votes in this manner was a standard get-out-the-vote strategy utilized by both political parties. It has never been legal to pay for ballots. There’s no evidence she or anybody else in Yuma County collected votes in the general election, but attorney general’s office detectives are still on the ground.
Last month, search warrants were served to a charity in San Luis, according to the Arizona Republic. The order sought the mobile phone of a San Luis councilwoman who may have been involved in unlawful vote gathering, according to the group’s executive director, who is also the chair of the Yuma County board of supervisors.
The Yuma primary election lawsuit was again a spotlight at a legislative hearing Tuesday as election conspiracy theories spoke. Yuma Republican Rep. Tim Dunn stated, “It’s all about corruption in San Luis and rigging a city council election.” “This has been going on for decades in south county, that you can’t have free and fair elections.” And it’s making its way across the country.”

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In preparation for the July 27th release of Concrete Steppin, Hip Nott Records' E Reece would like to reintroduce you to his previous work in the form of, The Re: Introduction Mixtape.
Concrete Steppin is the upcoming album from L.A.-based, Maryland-raised emcee E Reece. At a time where when there seems to be a lot of glitz, glamour, and negativity in hip hop, Concrete Steppin reaches out to us with a positive, organic vibe to feed your mind, body and soul.
“Once they’ve heard my music or seen my live show, I want people to believe in the power of positive music and to know that real hip hop isn’t dead.” -- E Reece
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How are we supposed to trust the mainstream media when they don’t even consider themselves “the media”? The mainstream media, which has the primary goal of reporting the news to everyday citizens, somehow thinks it isn’t responsible for reporting the news. With the recent bombing in Mogadishu, Somalia, many of these news outlets are asking: Why aren’t we reporting on Mogadishu?
But, The Independent, you are the press.
One can understand where these news outlets are coming from. The horrifying terrorist attack on Somalia’s capital of Mogadishu has not received as much attention as more prominent attacks such as the Las Vegas Strip Shooting. There are many reasons for this, unfair as it is. The Las Vegas Strip Shooting is closer to the hearts of Americans, the primary user base of Twitter. Even though there were more innocent victims lost in the Mogadishu bombing, Las Vegas is seen as the story more will be able to sympathize with, as it’s closer to home.
On the other hand, places like The Independent, The New Yorker and Al Jazeera don’t have the right to ask this question. They are the news. They are reporting. They are talking about this. To ask why nobody is reporting on an attack that is clearly being reported on is clearly just them trying to stir up attention. These newspapers and websites have Editors-in-Chief, who have had meetings to decide the importance of the Mogadishu bombing and whether it should receive a lot of coverage, and if these journalists have decided it is not that important to report on this important issue, then that is their issue. You can’t decide not to report on something, and then have the audacity to complain it is not being reported.
These headlines raise the important question: Do these outlets even consider themselves The News? In an age where being a journalist is almost considered lower on the pecking order than used car salesmen, it is clear these outlets are trying to distance themselves from this bad reputation. Too bad. They can’t. When you are the mainstream media—also known as the old or traditional media—you can’t escape from that. Especially in the age of U.S President Donald Trump and his rants on “fake news”, when you are claiming to be a source of proper news in an effort to discredit Trump. You can’t just claim to “be independent” and for important and real journalism, and then pretend not to be the media.
The world is reacting to Mogadishu. Maybe it’s not as much as Las Vegas—since the Las Vegas Shooting was in the United States and that is where much of the mainstream media lies—but people are still mourning, “thoughts-and-prayers”-ering, and reporting on the atrocities of terrorist organization Al-Shabaab . Just because you’re too busy making witty responses to Trump’s tweets about how he should just resign and impeach himself already, doesn’t mean everyone else is doing that.
Focus on the 300-plus victims of the Mogadishu bombing. Stop trying to make mountains out of molehills where they needn’t be. Why isn’t anybody talking about Mogadishu? Then talk about it! Talk about the victims. Talk about Al-Shabaab and how they can be stopped.
When we can’t even trust our allegedly trustworthy news sites, since they can’t even trust themselves, is it any wonder people are turning to “fake news”? Journalists are meant to be incredibly important for democratic nations, reporting on the news instead of creating the news. You are the news. For the love of everything, do your bloody job.


There is tremendous opportunity for application and solution developers to take charge of their data security using new hardware-based controls for cloud and enterprise environments. Intel® Software Guard Extensions (Intel® SGX), available in its second-generation on the new Intel® Xeon® E-2100 processor, offers hardware-based memory encryption that isolates specific application code and data in memory. Intel® SGX allows user-level code to allocate private regions of memory, called enclaves, which are designed to be protected from processes running at higher privilege levels. We believe only Intel offers such a granular level of control and protection.
Think about it like a lockbox in your home. Even though you have locks on your doors and a home security system, you may still secure your most sensitive data in a private lockbox with a separate key to provide extra layers of protection even if someone gained unwanted access to your home. Essentially, Intel® SGX is a lockbox inside a system’s memory, helping protect the data while it’s in-use during runtime.
This explanation is simplified, of course. It’s actually a complex engineering challenge to build a protection like this at the processor-silicon level and enable it with a broad ecosystem. Intel works with OEMs, OS vendors, and application developers to align on standards and implementation, and create solutions that can be deployed today in enterprises and cloud services. Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) now have an opportunity to expand their business to a greater range of sensitive workloads by deploying this technology which can help address enterprise security concerns and differentiate their services.
A Matter of Trust
Intel recommends a layered approach to security, with hardware security at the foundation. Intel® SGX helps protect user-selected sensitive data within an application, and sensitive application code itself, so you don’t have to solely rely on the security of other apps, the guest or host OS, or hypervisor. The more components of the system that have to be trusted, the wider the trust boundary, and therefore the more opportunities for exposure if one of those components was compromised. Intel® SGX offers a tighter trust boundary, narrowing it down to just the CPU and microcode. So even in the case of a rogue administrator or malware with read access to system memory, the attacker still wouldn’t have access to readable data within the Intel® SGX enclave. This provides added protection for your most sensitive data, such as private cryptographic keys.
Analogies and hypotheticals are useful to understand the technology, but with any new product, real-world demonstrations are what customers are after. Intel® SGX is already being utilized by security-conscious market leaders across a number of different domains for a variety of uses, including:
- Alibaba Cloud
- Baidu for Memory Safe Function
- Fortanix Runtime Encryption
- IBM Cloud
- Microsoft Azure Confidential Computing
- R3 Corda for Open Source Blockchain
Today, the most popular use of Intel® SGX is for key protection. This makes sense, since private keys are often the most sensitive data an organization has, as they are used to encrypt/decrypt confidential data. Check out my blog, The Key to Enhanced Data Protection, to learn more about key protection.
Security is a constantly evolving landscape. As we’ve highlighted, Intel® Xeon® E processors with Intel® SGX can be used in concert with existing data center infrastructure, to help protect the most sensitive portions of an application or data being used in a workload or service. We are working on an entire roadmap for Intel® SGX to scale across our Intel® Xeon® processor portfolio. Our Intel® Xeon® E processor line is the perfect place for service providers to start testing and building proofs-of-concepts. Find more information on the Intel® SGX website.
No product or component can be absolutely secure. Intel® technologies' features and benefits depend on system configuration and may require enabled hardware, software or service activation. Performance varies depending on system configuration. No computer system can be absolutely secure. Check with your system manufacturer or retailer or learn more at www.intel.com.


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Making headlines last week was Simon Cowell’s departure from “American Idol” for newer pasture in the form of the new reality competition show, “The X Factor.”
Buzz is circulating that Cowell is currently in discussions with former “American Idol” judge Paula Abdul and his current “X Factor” UK partner, Cheryl Cole, for the show, which launches on Fox in fall 2011.
“The X Factor will launch in 2011,” he told reporters at the Television Critics Association’s winter press tour. “Because of that, this will be my last season on American Idol. I was offered a lot of money to stay on. But that wasn’t the reason behind it. I wanted to do something different. I wanted a new challenge.”
Singing the lovable and recognizable Abdul would be a smart move and may even the the final dagger to “American Idol’s” dwindling interest.
While “X Factor” is similar to “Idols,” as it is also a singing competition, it differs because the judges play a more important role in mentoring the group of up and coming singers. They essentially become coaches and part of the competition.
Tony Mottola is also another name that Cowell has dropped as a ‘good choice’ for the “X Factor” judging panel.

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The notorious bankers at Royal Bank of Scotland plugged a big hole recently in the asset allocation choices for passive investors by launching a UK small cap index tracker.1 However my street party was short-lived, as the fluffily-named RBS HGSC Tracker (ticker: RS64) comes with bigger buts than England’s front-row.
Unfortunately the small cap punt is riskier still when it comes in the shape of RBS’s UK small cap index tracker – it’s neither a cuddly index fund nor a comfy old Exchange Traded Fund (ETF).
RBS call it a Redeemable Certificate, and that raises all kinds of questions.
Let’s try to answer a few.
What’s a certificate?
Even though you’re buying the return on a clutch of small cap equities, a certificate doesn’t invest directly in the shares it tracks. It’s effectively debt issued by the bank. In exchange for your money, RBS promises to pay the value of the index tracked, plus dividends.
The debt is unsecured, meaning that if RBS3 goes bust then you’ll probably get buttons. Your investment isn’t backed by a nice cushion of collateral.
That 100% exposure to the credit-worthiness of the certificate issuer is the main drawback of this kind of tracker.
Certificates are an obscure offshoot of covered warrants, are all the rage in Europe, and are the near-identical twins of Exchange Traded Notes (ETNs) that are popular in the US. But I digress.
Other key features of the certificate are:
- The RBS HGSC tracker trades on the London Stock Exchange (LSE).
- You buy and sell it through a broker, just like an ETF.
- The main advantage of a certificate is it does away with tracking error.
- It returns the value of the index minus the annual management fee.
- Dividends aren’t paid out as income but are rolled up into the certificate.
What’s the index?
The RBS UK small cap tracker follows the RBS HGSC (Tradable) TR Index, a cut-down version of the venerable Hoare Govett Smaller Companies index.
- It comprises up to 200 of the smallest 10% of companies listed on the LSE.
- It’s filtered to only include firms that traded an average of £10,000 worth of shares every day over 3 months.
- A company’s weight in the index is capped at 5% to ensure diversity of holdings.
- Weightings are reset once per year.
- TR stands for total return; it means that dividends are assumed to be reinvested in the index.
The FTSE SmallCap index represents the bottom 2% of the UK’s weeniest listed companies. So the full HGSC index (which contains over 400 companies excluding Investment Trusts) would normally bite off a fair chunk of the bottom half of the FTSE 250 as well. Knocking out 50% of the most illiquid tiddlers will heighten that FTSE 250 exposure even more.
But it’s nigh on impossible for retail investors to take a view on that because RBS doesn’t publish details of the index holdings on its website – a miserable failing in comparison to ETF issuers like iShares and db X-trackers.
That alone makes my investing antennae twitch with distress. Understanding the index you’re tracking is a key part of passive investing.
You can at least get an idea of the sector weightings of the full HGSC index courtesy of fund manager Aberforth.
What are the costs?
The annual management charge is 0.6%. Certificates don’t speak in terms of Total Expense Ratio (TER) because they don’t comply to UCITS fund regulations. Again, we’re straying off the garden path and into a darker neck of the woods.
Still, 0.6% AMC is reasonable and compares with:
- 0.85% Aberforth Smaller Companies Trust (Investment Trust)
- 0.58% CS ETF (IE) on MSCI UK Small Cap (ETF)
- 0.27% FTSE 250 Index Retail Acc (Index fund)
On top of that, you’ll pay a spread to buy and sell. The bid-offer spread is 1%, under normal circumstances, according to RBS.
That is steep and is equivalent to paying a load fee for every transaction.
You’ll pay the usual broker’s commission, too.
The HGSC Tracker is supposedly available through all the major brokers. You may need to give them a phone call though because it’s confounding many of the broker search engines I tried, even some of the ‘preferred partners’ RBS lists on its own website.
Try looking in the broker’s covered warrants section if all else fails.
The certificate has an expiry date. Like most other types of debt it eventually matures and that pay back date is April 19th, 2021.
Come the day, RBS will pay out whatever the index is worth after 10 years, plus dividends. If the index is on its knees then there’s no waiting out the storm, unless you can reinvest in an identical tracker at the time (presumably paying out more on commission and the spread).
You’ll also notice on the HGSC Tracker’s website a number marked ‘effective gearing’. Happily this doesn’t mean you’re exposed to some hideous amount of leverage. It refers to the proportion of the index value that one certificate share represents. If you multiplied the price of one share by the effective gearing ratio then you would get the value of the index.
RBS say you can hold their small cap tracker in an ISA or a SIPP as long as you buy more than five years before its expiry date, but Hargreaves Lansdown, for one, say it’s SIPP only.
While the factsheet cautions you to read the prospectus, RBS have mysteriously failed to put it on their own website – what reason can there possibly be for that in this era of digital communication? Apparently, we’re welcome to pop into their offices to pick up a copy, or it’s available online via the LSE. Good luck finding it. Please tell me if you do.
RBS owns the index the certificate is tracking. That’s a potential conflict of interest brought home when you read this choice piece of small print:
The Index rules may be amended modified or adjusted from time to time by RBS as applicable. Any such amendment may be made without the consent of or notice to investors in instruments linked to the Index and may have an adverse effect on the level of the Index.
Now I’m used to reading things in prospectuses that seem anything from a bit rum to the work of gangsters, but then my usual range of investment vehicles have run for decades without calamity so I might be prepared to give them the benefit of the doubt.
The same can’t be said for certificates. It also turns out that RBS can redeem the certificates early if:
…the closing price of the Index cannot be determined on a particular day due to a suspension or limitation of trading or other disruption to trading or early closure of the London Stock Exchange or any other exchange.
Taking all this together I can’t say I’m a fan of the RBS HGSC Tracker. Aside from the credit risk (and in truth it seems unlikely that RBS would really be allowed to pop) and the painful bid-offer spread, it’s the lack of transparency that puts me off.
Certificates can be used to provide low-cost access to otherwise hard-to-reach markets, but the only reason you’d choose this particular UK small cap index tracker is because of the sheer lack of alternatives.
Take it steady,
- CUKS, the Credit Suisse UK Small Cap ETF is a closet FTSE 250 tracker in my view. [↩]
- The Hoare Govett Smaller Companies index has outperformed the All-Share by 3.4% per year since 1955 according to a report by Professors Dimson and Marsh, who devised the HGSC index. [↩]
- That’s RBS the semi-nationalised UK banking behemoth, severely wounded during the credit crunch and saved by the Government. [↩]

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Farihah Zaman is a Brooklyn-based filmmaker, critic and programmer. Her diverse background in the film industry includes working as the Acquisitions Manager at Magnolia Pictures, as the Program Manager of The Flaherty Seminar, and writing for several publications including Huffington Post, AV Club, Reverse Shot and Filmmaker magazine. Remote Area Medical was her first feature film, which was followed by the short Kombit (2014 Sundance Film Festival) and second feature This Time Next Year (2014 Tribeca Film Festival).
On Friday, March 6th, I finished this article just before boarding a plane to the True/False Film Fest, which draws together some of the warmest and brightest of the documentary community, many of whom are disciples of the Maysles. By the time I landed just hours later, I found out that Albert Maysles had passed.
From 2006 to 2007, I lived in the shittiest apartment I’ve inhabited before or since, a dilapidated number in Bed-Stuy with doors put in upside down, a box filled with dirt installed in the middle of the kitchen counter that the landlord creatively referred to as a “dishwasher,” and hastily built walls so lacking in up-to-code structure they once made my roommate’s carpenter ex-boyfriend cry in sheer panic. At this time, when the neighborhood was still just a sparkle in Gentrification’s eye, everyone you knew was like, “Oh, I hear there are some really nice places in Bed-Stuy.” That may have been true, but ours was not one of them, and this, of course, was the only reason we could afford it.
My roommates had just moved from Portland(ia) where, as far as I can tell, they had been paying approximately $17.50, one can of PBR and two scavenged buttons a month for rent, while both working at a vegan bakery where the proprietor would occasionally duck behind the counter to wolf down hard-boiled eggs, growling, “Don’t tell anybody! I just really need the protein.” Meanwhile, I had just scored an entry-level job at a distribution company that kept me just over the poverty line yet required me to work 18 hours a day. In other words, we were lost, lonely and too broke to do much about it. We spent a lot of time in our shitty apartment.
Luckily, we amused each other deeply, and survived via the kind of bond that can only be forged through a combination of love, isolation and straight-up codependence. Among our favorite activities was Trashy Movie Night, a comically formalized monthly affair in which we picked a DVD and ditched our usual dinner of kale and leftover baked goods in favor of really cheap, really crispy fried chicken washed down with forties. Selections included Pump Up the Volume, Empire Records and Salem’s Lot. This was also the way that I first saw Grey Gardens.
The film chronicles the life of elderly Edith Beale and her 50-something daughter, Little Edie Beale, relatives of Jackie O. who, for only vaguely referenced and sometimes conflicting reasons, retreated from the world to their Hamptons manse despite their family money, charm and talent. At one point, as the beginning of the film informs us, the house fell into a state of such disrepair and Hoarders-level mess that it was raided by the Hamptons police, an incident that graced all the New York tabloids at the time. I remember my roommates and I being shattered by the film; its beauty, humor and pathos, the gentle way that it pushed into lives that had been sensationalized, and complicated and contextualized them, and by the subjects, women so wholly unique and essentially unapologetic for their deviation from mainstream society.
We were also haunted by the feeling that any of us, and anyone we knew, could fall into a Grey Gardens situation, and easily; just holing up with your mother or your best friend or an oddball sister, getting a couple of cats and letting it all hang out. We were all just one bad decision, one sick relative, one ambivalent feeling, one lost dream away from dumping a loaf of Wonder Bread in the attic for the raccoons to feast on. The truly compelling thing about the film, though, is that it makes this not an entirely unappealing possibility. At some point, the fear of the Beales’ way becomes an impulse, a dare, a romantic notion of having the courage to live the way you would like to without giving a fuck what anyone thinks. What the Maysles were able to capture, which the tabloids never could, was that tenuous line between choice and inevitability, regret and pride, compulsion and freedom that existed in the lives of the Beales. That like many outsiders, they were sometimes trapped by the decisions they had made, but that more often than not, those choices were made for a reason.
Of course, my own living situation at that time meant my roommates and I were primed to see parallels between ourselves and the Edies; the squalor, the dash of Golightly bravado to keep oneself going, sharing space with animals (we had a robust mouse colony living in the “dishwasher” that started with the rather handsome Eben, who took a wife, Deben, and we called their vast ensuing brood the Debebens, because of feminism). However, there was also a huge divide; the Beales’ wealth and status, their life experience and accomplishments were foreign to us. But again, what makes Grey Gardens so compelling is the way that the “us” and “them” divide between the viewer and the viewed disintegrates, as does the divide between documentarian and subject.
It is clear from very early on in the film that the relationship between the Maysles and the Beales is more than a professional one (after all, their team enters this mysterious, sacred space more regularly than anyone else on earth). As the film goes on, the relationship deepens and becomes more conspicuous, until the Edies go from referring to the presence of the filmmakers to directly addressing them, to sparring and being questioned by them. Rather than take a more hands-off approach — ask the ladies to mask their friendship or edit out all references to it — the Maysles and their collaborators decided to embrace it. At one of the rare points when Big Edie actually asks the filmmakers to turn the camera away for modesty’s sake, the Maysles turn it on themselves, catching their reflection in a mirror before zooming in on an old illustration of Little Edie in her prime. Filmmaker and subject, both in the frame, side by side, but refracted through filters that still the passage of time for the sake of art.
The approach is not only smart and effective from a cinematic standpoint, but from a moral one as well, since the very presence of the filmmakers clearly affects the subjects; they are more self-conscious, aware in certain moments of how their lives may look on camera, but also more performative, as the Maysles often acknowledged in interviews. Little Edie, in particular, is at times very flirtatious or provocative for the benefit of the male gaze that has become part of her life, and it would feel remiss not to acknowledge this in some way. The Maysles’ inclusion of themselves in the film is the opposite of objectivity, but their subjectivity only enriches our understanding of their muses. Although the Beales are by no means poor, it would have been all too easy to cast them as merely pathetic figures, good stock gone to seed, to allow the camera to linger pornographically over the dirty dishes and rotting newspapers with no purpose or meaning. Grey Gardens instead reminds us of the truth that people are more than the sum of their flaws, a profound lesson in documentary filmmaking — and human compassion — that Albert and David planted in my soft young brain long before I was able to recognize it as such.


Just Another Ordinary Day
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Originally self-released in limited quantities in 2003, Just Another Ordinary Day is the first set of Patrick Watson recordings featuring the band’s current lineup. At the time this album was made, the band was playing regular two-set gigs at the now defunct but legendary Cafe Sarajevo in Montreal, drawing bigger and bigger crowds. Fans of both Wooden Arms and Close to Paradise will find plenty to love hear, as it features plenty of ethereal soundscapes and also some of the band’s most accessible, playful pop.


text: Check out this raw video of Monday’s raging riot against the beleaguered Copts in the aptly named Egyptian village of Farshoot. Story here. A priest’s skull was fractured, and there was massive burning and looting. Ignored by the Western media, this particular outbreak against Egypt’s native Christian minority actually started Saturday and is thought to be spreading. Info on U.S. Copts here, plus links to the sect’s numerous churches in the New York City megalopolis.

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If you’ve got some cucumbers lying around and you’re not sure what to do with them, these lovely Cucumber Sandwiches will solve that problem beautifully! They make for a refreshing sandwich ingredient, and they add a nice crunch, too!
- 1 (8 oz.) package cream cheese, room temperature
- 1 tbsp. Italian dressing mix
- 4 rounds pita bread
- 1 large cucumber, very thinly sliced
- Lemon pepper (optional)
- Chili-lime seasoning (optional)
- First, combine the cream cheese and Italian dressing mix in a small bowl.
- Spread 2 tablespoons of the cream cheese mixture on each circle of pita.
- Top these with the cucumber slices. Sprinkle with lemon pepper and/or chili-lime seasoning.
- Finally, simply cut them into wedges and serve! That’s all there is to it!

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(CNN) - In February, Florida Gov. Charlie Crist embraced President Obama when he came to the Sunshine State to campaign for passage of his $787 billion stimulus bill.
This week, the president is back in Florida, speaking to an audience of military personnel in Jacksonville and making a stop in DeSoto County (along with raising money for Democrats in Miami). But Crist - now seeking the Republican Senate nomination in his state - is keeping his distance.
His reason? According to the Palm Beach Post, the governor apparently didn't know Obama was in his state.
Asked by a reporter Tuesday why he didn't join the president in Jacksonville yesterday, Crist responded: "First I've known of it." Crist also said, "I didn't know his itinerary. That's all."
Eric Issac, the governor's spokeswoman, told CNN that Crist knew the president was coming to Florida, but wasn't aware of his specific city-by-city itinerary. "The governor didn't say he didn't know the president was going to be in the state," she said.
The Palm Beach Post pointed out that Crist was eager to appear with Obama earlier this year, when the president's approval ratings in the state were north of 60 percent and before Crist was facing a Republican primary against conservative up-and-comer Marco Rubio. The governor canceled a scheduled Cabinet meeting to join the president on a stage on Fort Myers in February, but he declined to do the same thing on Tuesday as the president makes another Florida stop in DeSoto County.
Isaac said Crist simply has "a full schedule" today.
Rubio's campaign jumped on Crist's remarks, claiming that the president's visit has made the governor "excruciatingly uncomfortable."
"For someone who famously never forgets a name and face, Governor Crist has picked a convenient time to forget the leader of the free world has been in his state, addressing Jacksonville-based troops, raising money in Miami to defeat Republicans in 2010 and touting the Obama-Crist stimulus in Arcadia," Rubio spokesman Alex Burgos said in an e-mail.


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Lunge feeding in rorqual whales is a drag-based feeding mechanism that is thought to entail a high energetic cost and consequently limit the maximum dive time of these extraordinarily large predators. Although the kinematics of lunge feeding in fin whales supports this hypothesis, it is unclear whether respiratory compensation occurs as a consequence of lunge-feeding activity. We used high-resolution digital tags on foraging humpback whales (Megaptera novaengliae) to determine the number of lunges executed per dive as well as respiratory frequency between dives. Data from two whales are reported,which together performed 58 foraging dives and 451 lunges. During one study,we tracked one tagged whale for approximately 2 h and examined the spatial distribution of prey using a digital echosounder. These data were integrated with the dive profile to reveal that lunges are directed toward the upper boundary of dense krill aggregations. Foraging dives were characterized by a gliding descent, up to 15 lunges at depth, and an ascent powered by steady swimming. Longer dives were required to perform more lunges at depth and these extended apneas were followed by an increase in the number of breaths taken after a dive. Maximum dive durations during foraging were approximately half of those previously reported for singing (i.e. non-feeding) humpback whales. At the highest lunge frequencies (10 to 15 lunges per dive), respiratory rate was at least threefold higher than that of singing humpback whales that underwent a similar degree of apnea. These data suggest that the high energetic cost associated with lunge feeding in blue and fin whales also occurs in intermediate sized rorquals.
Baleen whales (Mysticeti) are obligate filter feeders, using keratinized plates of baleen to filter small zooplankton from ingested water. Three modes of filter-feeding have been observed among living mysticetes(Werth, 2000): (1) skim or continuous ram feeding (Balaenidae), (2) suction feeding (Eschrichtiidae) and(3) intermittent ram or lunge feeding (Balaenopteridae). Lunge feeding only occurs in Balaenopteridae (rorquals), a group that is characterized by a reduced tongue and a series of longitudinal grooves of highly extensible,elastic blubber located on the ventral side of the body(Orton and Brodie, 1987). During a lunge, rorquals accelerate toward prey and lower their mandibles,exposing the oral cavity to oncoming flow. Drag is generated, causing expansion of the ventral groove blubber around a large volume of water and prey (Goldbogen et al., 2007). The high drag generated during engulfment dissipates the kinetic energy of the body, and as a result, the next lunge requires acceleration from rest. The forces required to repeatedly accelerate the body demands more energy compared with maintaining constant speed; therefore, the number of lunges executed during a dive is predicted to have a significant effect on the energetic cost of foraging.
Lunge feeding occurs not only at the sea surface, but also apparently at any depth where prey is particularly abundant(Calambokidis et al., 2008). However, regardless of depth, rorqual foraging dives are limited to very short durations despite their large body size(Croll et al., 2001; Croll et al., 2005; Dolphin, 1988; Goldbogen et al., 2006; Panigada et al., 1999), a characteristic that typically enables longer diving in a wide range of air-breathing vertebrates (Halsey et al.,2006; Schreer and Kovacs,1997). The energetic cost of lunge feeding is hypothesized to be the cause of low dive durations observed among larger rorquals, such as blue and fin whales (Acevedo-Gutierrez et al.,2002; Croll et al.,2001). This limited diving capacity contrasts with the longer dives of bowhead whales (Krutzikowsky and Mate, 2000), which are nearly as massive but ram feed continuously– a feeding strategy that has been considered more efficient(Acevedo-Gutierrez et al.,2002). Dive profiles of blue and fin whales (Balaenoptera musculus, B. physalus) provide support for this hypothesis, demonstrating an increase in post-dive recovery time when more lunges are performed at depth(Acevedo-Gutierrez et al.,2002). Further support is provided by the detailed kinematics of these lunges at depth, which indicate a rapid deceleration of the body due to the high drag experienced during engulfment(Goldbogen et al., 2006; Goldbogen et al., 2007).
However, it is unknown whether respiratory rate is increased during these extended post-dive surface periods, and previous methods to detect lunges have relied on subjective analysis of dive profiles(Acevedo-Gutierrez et al.,2002; Blix and Folkow,1995) or have assumed that whales perform only one lunge per dive(Dolphin, 1987b). The methods to determine the number of lunges during a foraging dive have since been developed (Goldbogen et al.,2006), and in this study we build on those efforts by recording breathing events for tagged humpback whales from kinematic and acoustic data. Because rorquals breathe once upon surfacing(Brodie, 2001), this serves as a way to determine the number of breaths between dives. The number of breaths taken after a dive is important because it provides information on the oxygen deficit and carbon dioxide build up that has occurred during a dive(Boutilier et al., 2001; Kooyman et al., 1971). Thus,if lunge feeding is energetically costly, we would expect respiratory compensation when this activity is superimposed on apnea.
In this study we show that humpback whales required longer dives to perform more lunges at depth and that these lunges were targeted toward the shallowest part of the densest krill layer. Lunge frequency was significantly correlated with post-dive surface time and post-dive respiratory frequency. When compared with data for singing humpback whales(Chu, 1988), foraging whales exhibited severely limited dive durations and increased respiratory rates. These data suggest that the high foraging costs associated with lunge feeding in blue and fin whales also occur in intermediate sized rorquals.
MATERIALS AND METHODS
We attached high-resolution digital tags to the backs of surfacing humpback whales at different locations off the central coast of California(Fig. 1). A 5.3 m Rigid-Hulled Inflatable Boat (RHIB) was used in conjunction with the R/V John Martin (Moss Landing Marine Laboratory, CA, USA) to visually locate humpbacks. The RHIB was used to approach surfacing whales from behind and tags were applied to the dorsal surface of the whale with a 4 m fiberglass pole, as previously described (Goldbogen et al.,2006; Oleson et al.,2007). Once tagged, researchers on the R/V John Martinwould begin tracking the whale to collect hydroacoustic data (see`Hydroacoustic prey-field mapping' below). The high-resolution digital tag(Bioacoustic Probe; Greeneridge Sciences, Goleta, CA, USA) contains a pressure transducer, hydrophone and a two-axis accelerometer(Burgess et al., 1998; Goldbogen et al., 2006). The tag is equipped with silicon suction cups for attachment and a flotation device to facilitate tag recovery after the tag falls off the whale. Depth,flow noise and two-dimensional body acceleration (body pitch and swimming strokes) were recorded by the tag(Goldbogen et al., 2006).
Using flow noise to determine lunges and breaths
The flow noise recorded by the hydrophone generates information on the whale's speed at any given point of a dive(Goldbogen et al., 2006) and also pinpoints when a lunge occurs(Calambokidis et al., 2008). We established a relationship between flow noise and speed by: (1) measuring the body velocity from kinematic data (vertical velocity divided by the sine of body pitch angle) during steep glides (–30 deg.≥pitch≥30 deg.),and (2) calculating the root-mean-square sound pressure (50 Hz 1/3 octave band). We used this relationship to calculate the speed of the whale throughout each dive (Fig. 2). This is advantageous because the speed calculated from body kinematics is inaccurate when body pitch is close to zero(Goldbogen et al., 2006),which is the typical orientation of the whale during lunges. Speed profiles were low-pass filtered (0.2 Hz finite impulse response filter) to remove any noise associated with lift production by the fluke.
An excursion below a depth greater than one body length (>10 m) was considered a dive. A dive was considered a foraging dive if a lunge was detected. The presence of a lunge was confirmed by the following criteria(Goldbogen et al., 2006; Goldbogen et al., 2007): (1) a bout of fluking associated with a distinct speed maximum (determined from flow noise), and (2) continued swimming throughout the lunge, particularly during the deceleration phase. The rapid deceleration during continued fluking is characteristic of the high drag experienced during lunge feeding.
Following each dive, the amount of time the whale spent at the surface was recorded, defined as the time between the whales' first and last breath. A breath could be detected in two ways (Fig. 3): (1) an acoustic signal when the tag breaks the water surface,and (2) a phase relationship between undulations in the dive profile and body pitch angle. We determined the number of breaths taken before and after a dive. Following previously described methods(Goldbogen et al., 2006),other diving parameters were recorded during each phase of a dive, including dive duration, maximum dive depth, body angle, gait transition depth, and glide time.
Prey-field distribution and relative density
When a whale surfaces and dives a `footprint' is left on the water surface because of the water displaced by the moving body. When possible, we navigated the R/V John Martin directly from one surface location (`footprint'series) to the next. Along this route, acoustic backscatter by depth was recorded using a Simrad EK60 (Strandpromenaden, Horten, Norway) digital scientific echosounder operating at 38, 120 and 200 kHz. The echosounder operated at a pulse length of 1024μs pinging every 2 s along the route. These data allowed us to generate a prey–field map that shows the relative density and distribution of zooplankton as a function of time and depth (Croll et al., 2005). We then superimposed the synchronized dive profiles onto the corresponding prey–field maps. We calculated relative density of krill aggregations as a function of depth by integrating nautical area scattering coefficient(m2 target nautical mi–2) values every 15 s×10 m along the path of the foraging whale(Croll et al., 2005). We also determined prey type with targeted zooplankton net tows that consisted of 333 micron nets on a tucker trawl.
All parameters were tested for normality and homoscedacity before performing statistical tests. An overall significance level of 0.05 was used. We used least-squares linear regression to determine the relationship between diving parameters. We used analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) to test whether lunge frequency has a significant effect on the relationship between dive duration and respiratory frequency or surface recovery time.
During the summer of 2004 and 2005, 18 taggings were attempted off the coast of central California. Here we report data from two long tag deployments(Tables 1 and 2) on foraging humpback whales off Point Reyes, California (38°09′N, 123°20′W): the whale known as MnA performed 43 foraging dives and 362 lunges (over approximately 8 h), whereas whale MnB executed 15 foraging dives and 89 lunges (over approximately 5 h). Tags were typically attached near the dorsal fin and as such the lateral inclination of the tag did not allow us to determine body roll systematically for either individual.
The kinematics of humpback foraging dives were similar to that previously described for fin whales (Goldbogen et al., 2006). These characteristics included a gliding descent,several lunges at depth, and an ascent powered by steady swimming(Fig. 4). Speed of the body gradually increased throughout these gliding descents, which is indicative of negative buoyancy. On ascent, speed was relatively constant and similar in magnitude with respect to a variety of swimming animals of different sizes(Sato et al., 2007). The integration of dive profiles and prey distribution maps showed how lunges were directed towards the upper boundary of dense aggregations of prey(Fig. 5). Prey was identified as krill (94% Euphausia pacifica,6% Thysanoessa spinifera)by zooplankton net tows. The foraging behavior of each whale appeared to be serially correlated, where deeper, longer dives occurred in bouts(Fig. 6).
Foraging dives that included more lunges at depth were associated with longer dive durations (Fig. 7A;MnA, y=0.473x+3.716, r2=0.77, P<0.001; MnB, y=0.358x+5.719, r2=0.65, P<0.001). We found a significant relationship between the number of lunges per dive and the number of breaths taken directly after that corresponding dive(Fig. 7B; MnA, y=1.130x+3.733, r2=0.83, P<0.001; MnB, y=0.831x+5.245, r2=0.63, P<0.001). There was also a significant relationship between lunge frequency and the number of breaths taken before the dive, but the relationship was considerably weaker (MnA, y=0.8x+5.527, r2=0.41, P<0.001; MnB, y=0.618x+6.873, r2=0.33, P<0.001). We found a significant relationship between lunge frequency and post-dive surface time(Fig. 7C; MnA, y=0.294x+1.928, r2=0.52, P<0.001; MnB, y=0.19x+1.329, r2=0.43, P<0.001). There was also a significant relationship between lunge frequency and the steepness of ascent after the lunge bout (Fig. 7D;MnA, y=2.93x+29.127, r2=0.73, P<0.001; MnB, y=4.776x+26.464.329, r2=0.72, P<0.001) and descent on the subsequent dive (Fig. 7D; MnA, y=–1.457x–43.972, r2=0.42, P<0.001; MnB, y=–2.51x–43.5436, r2=0.66, P<0.001).
In a series of studies, Dolphin(Dolphin, 1987a; Dolphin, 1987b; Dolphin, 1987c; Dolphin, 1988) tracked diving humpback whales and their prey with an echosounder. He found that deeper dives resulted in an increase in post-dive surface time and respiratory frequency(Dolphin, 1987c). For some of these deep dives, the echosounder trace indicated feeding behavior when whales swam through patches of krill in a sinusoid-like fashion [see figure 1C of Dolphin(Dolphin, 1987c) and also figure 1b of Dolphin(Dolphin, 1987b)]. These vertical undulations at the bottom of each dive are reminiscent to the patterns in the dive profile that we observe here(Fig. 4). From his data,Dolphin concluded that the energetic cost of foraging was determined by dive depth, and therefore dive duration, which was influenced by the spatial distribution and density of target prey patches(Dolphin, 1988).
Here we build on these studies with more detailed kinematic data from high resolution digital tags. These data, combined with a more complete understanding of how these whales feed(Goldbogen et al., 2007) allow us to define actual lunge-feeding events(Fig. 4) and establish a more appropriate metric for evaluating the energetic costs of foraging in rorquals. For example, Dolphin (Dolphin,1987b) assumed that humpback whales performed only one lunge per dive, whereas we show that humpbacks are capable of executing up to 15 lunges per dive (Fig. 3B). Furthermore, by highlighting where these lunges occur at the bottom of a dive,we are able to demonstrate how bouts of lunges are directed towards dense krill patches (Fig. 5). These results are consistent with video footage from Crittercam studies on foraging blue whales that show lunges occurring within dense krill aggregations(Calambokidis et al.,2008).
Theory predicts that a predator's optimal foraging depth is always shallower than the depth of highest prey density(Mori, 1998). Our results support these predictions because humpback whales executed lunges at the upper-most boundary of dense krill patches(Fig. 5), rather than dive deeper in search of higher density patches. It is not clear how rorquals are able to detect this increase in prey density with depth. Researchers suggested echolocation as a possible mechanism after discovering click trains and buzzes associated with night-time feeding behavior(Stimpert et al., 2007), but such signals were not detected during the day time foraging bouts presented here. Alternatively, rorquals may be able to mechanically sense prey via tactile hairs or vibrissae located on the rostrum and mandibles(Ogawa and Shida, 1950; Slijper, 1979). Thus, a rorqual may decide to continue descent until it swims into a sufficiently dense prey patch, as indicated by the number of hits against such sensory structures.
Our data suggest that lunge frequency may be an indication of prey patch quality. When krill is abundant, humpbacks should attempt as many lunges as possible and return to the surface at steep body angles(Fig. 7E). A steeper trajectory during a dive should enhance bottom time and the opportunity to execute more lunges at depth (Fig. 7B). By contrast, when prey patch quality is poor, the dive is terminated early and the ascent to the surface, as well as the descent on the next dive, occurs at shallower body angles (Fig. 7E). For example, note the drop in the depth of the densest krill layer between the second and third dive of Fig. 5, which is then followed by several non-foraging dives. Shallow body angles during diving will expand the horizontal area covered and thereby increase the likelihood of locating a better prey patch (Sato et al.,2004). This may explain why dives that involved fewer lunges were not relatively longer (Fig. 7A), but instead were terminated early because of poor prey patch quality. It also suggests that in most cases dive duration is under behavioral control rather than limited physiologically(Sparling et al., 2007; Thompson and Fedak, 2001),except where prey patch is very good and maximum exploitation of the patch is desired (i.e. the most lunges possible).
The respiratory patterns associated with lunge frequency for humpback whales support the hypothesis that lunge feeding is energetically costly. Foraging dives with more lunges were followed by a longer surface interval(Fig. 7D) and more breaths during that interval (Fig. 7C). Dolphin (Dolphin, 1987c) also showed respiratory compensation with increasing dive depth and duration(Dolphin, 1987c), which was probably related to lunge frequency, based on our observations (Figs 6 and 7). Other diving cetaceans in controlled experimental conditions, such as bottlenose dolphins and the beluga, also increase respiratory frequency after longer dives(Shaffer et al., 1997; Williams et al., 1999). This type of respiratory adjustment is a hallmark of increased ventilation that occurs between dive bouts for a variety of birds and mammals(Andrews et al., 2000; Butler and Jones, 1997). Ventilation is the product of respiratory frequency and tidal volume, and both of these parameters increase in concert with longer dive durations(Kooyman et al., 1971). Increased ventilation is necessary because of the oxygen deficit and accumulation of carbon dioxide acquired during submergence(Boutilier et al., 2001). The rapid replacement of oxygen stores throughout the body is further facilitated by an increased heart rate during these surface intervals(Andrews et al., 1997; Thompson and Fedak, 1993).
If lunge feeding is energetically costly and consequently limits maximum dive time, there should be respiratory compensation (number of post-dive breaths) when this type of activity is superimposed on apnea (dive duration). We can provide indirect evidence for high feeding costs by comparing diving and respiratory data between singing (Chu,1988) and foraging humpback whales(Fig. 8); maximum dive durations of singing humpback whales were 20 min, approximately twice that for foraging humpback whales. At the highest lunge frequencies (10–15 lunges per dive), the number of post-dive breaths is at least triple the value observed in singing humpbacks that undergo similar dive durations(Chu, 1988). However, analysis of covariance does not reveal lunge frequency to be a significant cofactor for this relationship within each individual whale, which is the result of the colinearity and asymptotic nature of these dive parameters. Thus more data is needed to firmly conclude that the increased respiratory rate during foraging is due to the energetic cost of lung feeding rather than an extended breath hold.
We thank Jessica Meir and Nick Pyenson for their comments on the manuscript. We thank the captain and crew of the R/V John Martin for their assistance in field logistics. We thank Kate Thomas, Kristin Rasmussen,Erin Falcone, Dominique Camacho, Chantelle Hubers, Nora Maloney and Dana Wingfield for assistance in the field. We thank Baldo Marinovic for analysis of zooplankton net tow data. Funding for the development of this manuscript was provided by NSERC to R.E.S. and a UBC-UGF to J.A.G. Funding for tag development and field operations were provided by the US Navy, with earlier support from the Office of Naval Research grant N00014-02-1-0849 (arranged through Robert Gisiner) and also partial support from a subcontract from Scripps Institution of Oceanography via the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations (N45). We also thank Bill Burgess and Joe Olson for tag-related development and support. Field work off Central California was supported by NOAA/COTS – Center for Integrated Marine Technologies and the Tagging of Pacific Pelagics Program from the Sloan and Moore Foundations by way of Dan Costa and Barbara Block.

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Gwynedd Archives: Caernarfon Record Office
Papurau Geraint Jones, Trefor
Reference code(s): GB 0219 XM/6209
Title: Papurau Geraint Jones, Trefor
Short title: Jones, Geraint, Trefor, papurau (papers)
Dates of creation: 1817-1988
Level of description: Fonds
Extent and medium: To be supplied
Name of creator(s): Geraint Jones
Administrative and biographical history: Trefor is a village located in the parish of Llanaelhaearn on the northern coast of the Llŷn Peninsula, Caernarfonshire. Geraint Jones (fl. 1986) collected various documents relating especially to cultural and religious life in the village and the surrounding area.
Scope and content: Papers relating to Trefor, Caernarfonshire, and the vicinity, 1817-1988, including papers relating to local eisteddfodau, 1950-1988; programmes and other ephemera for dramas, 1960-1988, and concerts and other events, 1922-1988; chapel annual reports, 1939-1985, orders of service, 1945-1988, and hymn sheets, 1880-1987; religious publications relating to Caernarfonshire, 1938-1987; election addresses, 1974-1988; almanacs, 1926-1953; diaries, mainly of Richard O. Williams, Trefor, 1900-1962; miscellaneous tickets and posters, 1983-1988; leaflets, 1969-1988; photograph albums relating mainly to Ysgol Trefor, [c. 1883]-1962; and records relating to organisations, including Trefor Village Institute, Trefor Silver Band and Trefor Flower Show, 1929-1988, and the Cors y Mynydd charity, 1817-1980.
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Language/script: Welsh, English
System of arrangement: Arranged into the following: eisteddfodau; dramas; musical events; chapel annual reports; religious services; religious publications; elections; various Trefor organisations; almanacs; miscellaneous (1st deposit); diaries; eisteddfodau; elections; religious pubications; religious services; various Trefor organisations; programmes; tickets; posters; miscellaneous; leaflets; newspapers; map; photographs (2nd deposit).
Conditions governing access: No restrictions
Conditions governing reproduction: Usual copyright regulations apply
Finding aids: Hard copies of the catalogue are available at Caernarfon Record Office and the National Library of Wales.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information: All records have been retained
Accruals: Accruals are not expected
Note: Title supplied from collector of fonds
Archivist's note: Compiled by Rhys Jones for the ANW project. The following sources were used in the compilation of this description: Caernarfon Record Office, Papurau Geraint Jones, Trefor (Geraint Jones, Trefor, Papers), catalogue; Caernarfon Record Office, Papurau Geraint Jones, Trefor (Ychwanegol)(Geraint Jones, Trefor, Additional Papers), catalogue.
Rules or conventions: This description follows ANW guidelines based on ISAD(G) second edition, AACR2, and LCSH
Date(s) of description: August 2004

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The initial run of Manga inspired, teenage sports drama Fence comes to a conclusion in volume 3 released by BOOM! Studios this week. Collecting the final four issues of the 12 issue run, Volume 3 reaches an epic climax where everything is on the line for Nicholas, the central character.
Originally released at the later end of last year, Fence issues 9-12 continues, and in some way concludes, the story of Nicholas and Seiji’s rivalry as they fight to get into the Kings Row Fencing Team. For Seiji it is an easy walk into the final three but for Nicholas he has to battle every step. As the momentum of the story picks up pace, and with tensions running high, a showdown between the two rivals becomes the central point of the story, and this final collection.
Fence was originally planned as a 12 issue run and the story comes to a satisfactory conclusion in this volume however, there are plenty of narrative threads and budding relationships still to be explored. It is therefore not surprising that C.S. Pacat has announced that this is not the end of Fence. There is a Young Adult novel in the works and the potential for the series to continue as a run of graphic novels.
Bringing Fence Full Circle
Despite the potential for continuation, Pacat treats these final few issues as if the series is coming to an end. She winds up the story reflecting back on the very first issue. The rivalry between Nicholas and Seiji, the backbone for the entire run, reaches its zenith in these pages and the reader is treated to an epic confrontation.
However, the story wasn’t about Nicholas winning and being the ‘champion of the world’, just like Rocky in the original movie, Fence is a story about striving to be the best that an individual can be. It is about realising what is important and building friendships/relationships along the way. Pacat shows that Nicholas has worked up from nothing to fence with some of the best fencers in the world and she makes sure that his triumph is illustrated in the story.
By the end of this volume the reader can see just how far Nicholas, and in some respects Seiji, have come from their 2 dimensional beginnings in issue 1. They started as stereotypes and have grown as characters to be a complex mix of emotions and experiences. This form of storytelling is central to sports dramas, especially the widely popular Manga Sports series, and it is therefore no surprise that Fence has garnered a following.
Pacat has created a beautiful coming of age drama. The sport allows the drama to be drawn out, giving the characters a reason to fight or support each other. Budding relationships spring out of their shared problems but hearts are also broken. Fence focuses on the two central characters but Pacat has populated the comic with a large array of characters for the readers to fall in love with. If you want readers to come back month after month, give them someone to relate to, to follow. Pacat definitely understands this and fills her story with a diverse cast so that there will always be someone for the reader to identify with.
To reflect the mix of high drama and schoolboy shenanigans, Johanna the Mad draws inspiration from Sports Manga art styles. There is a frivolity to some of the panels and pages which lightens the mood after tense fencing bouts. Johanna the Mad uses neat, simple line work which often gives the characters a newspaper comic strip look allowing the relaxed humour of the new friends to shine through. However, she is also able to turn this around so that the minimalistic style heightens the drama of a fencing match or argument between characters.
A lack of background detail, mixed with the all-white fencing uniforms, hones the storytelling and focuses the reader’s attention on one specific moment. Background characters become faceless sketches as the emphasis is drawn towards the cast members that Pacat and Johanna the Mad want you to focus on.
Johanna the Mad has a wonderful talent of switching between the simplified, comical figure work and more detailed, emotional acting for the characters. This makes the narrative skip along at a comfortable pace, breaking up the moments with humour and allowing the reader to share in every aspect of these characters lives. The comic is about the growing relationships between the fencers and the art work represents all aspects of these relationships: the conflicts and the camaraderie.
Due to the nature of the artwork, the coloring exists manly for emotional emphasis. Joana Lafuente uses block background colours, simplifying the panels and drawing attention directly to the foreground so as not to detract away from the narrative punches. What becomes clear in this collection is that Lafuente is skilled at expressing emotion and character via signifying colors and a minimalistic use of these colors. The constant changing colours from one panel to the next highlights the difference between the characters and their emotional states at any given point. The inked lines lead the narrative action but the colors express the emotional experiences.
Jim Campbell does a wonderful job with the lettering, taking a lot of exposition and making it almost invisible over the art work. One of unique elements of this comic is the use of thought balloons, a technique that is sorely lacking from comics today, having mostly been replaced by caption boxes. Nicholas is a very thoughtful character, constantly doubting himself and overthinking situations and Campbell illustrates this with the thought balloons that surround the fencer.
Fence is enjoyable and has been an entertaining read from day one. It allows itself to be high drama and juvenile humour but makes no judgement on either, accepting that many states of being are allowed at the same time. The characters Pacat has created are growing into adults and they are riddled with all the emotions and insecurities that all teenagers the world over have to contend with. Fence says that it is okay to have these conflicting feelings and helps the reader to work through them with the characters.
The depiction of Fencing has been a joy to read, especially as it has acted as a reflection of the character’s development and not just an excuse for sporting action sequences. This third volume is a perfect end to the first part of the story and a wonderful springboard for future stories. It is also a very easy book to pick up and read, even if you haven’t read any of the previous volumes. There is an instant connection made between the central characters and the reader so that you immediately feel at home no matter where in the story you start.
Obviously, Fence is aimed more towards the teen market. The coming of age story-line is more often identifiable for a younger audience. However, it is also a lot of fun and the artwork is impressive. This comic would suit fans of sport comics in general, especially those who enjoy Manga, but it is also fun escapism for anyone who wants to indulge themselves in some high school drama.
Fence Volume 3 feels like a conclusion in some ways but also a starting point. There is a definite sense that this is merely the End of the Beginning.

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HEALTH AND TECH LEADERS UNITE AT DIGITAL HEALTH SUMMIT AT CES 2013
Dr. Reed V. Tuckson, Paul Slavin, Jeff Arnold Among Featured Speakers
Registration Open at www.CESWeb.org
(New York, NY) October 9, 2012 – The Digital Health Summit at the 2013 International CES will once again bring together internationally renowned innovators in the high-tech health services industry, hosting thought-provoking discussions about how consumers are seamlessly integrating these innovations into their everyday lives. The Digital Health Summit, produced by Living in Digital Times, is scheduled January 9-10 at the 2013 International CES in Las Vegas, Nevada.
The Digital Health Summit gives attendees the opportunity to hear from some of the most knowledgeable and influential individuals in technology and health care,” said Jill Gilbert, Digital Health Summit Producer. “Attendees will take away a keen understanding of consumer spending and use of health and wellness solutions, as well as learn how their organization can capitalize on this high-growth market.”
Now in its fourth year, this premier event is expected to draw increased audience numbers with its impressive line-up of speakers, including:
Jeff Arnold, CEO, Sharecare
Paul Slavin, SVP and General Manager, Everyday Health Studios
Dr. Joseph Kvedar, Founder and Director, Center for Connected Health
Ron Andrews, President Life Sciences, Life Technologies
Dr. Gregory Bayer, CEO, Brain Resource
“Inside the Digital Health Studio with Paul Slavin: Special Guest Dr. Reed V. Tuckson,” will give conference attendees the rare opportunity to join a renowned television newsman as he sits one-on-one with an industry leader for a candid and revealing conversation about the nation’s healthcare and the role technology plays in managing millions of lives.
“We anticipate a compelling conversation as Dr. Tuckson will discuss everything from how the government, insurance, physicians and services play a role, to innovations in healthcare technology,” said Gilbert.
The Digital Health Summit exhibit hall, open January 8-11, will complement the two-day event and showcase companies, including developers, manufacturers, buyers, distributors, service providers and academicians who are spearheading industry innovations.
Attendees are encouraged to register for the Digital Health Summit at http://www.cesweb.org/Conference-Program/Conference-Tracks.aspx. Follow Digital Health Summit on Twitter for news and updates.
Platinum sponsors of the 2013 CES Digital Health Summit include Life Technologies, ANT+, Omron, Ideal Life, Continua Health Alliance, Ergotron, UnitedHealthcare and Optum. Gold sponsors include iHealth Lab, Brain Resource and Sharecare. More than fifty additional sponsors and media partners have pledged their support of the summit, which will bring together more than eight hundred senior health and technology executives to examine and analyze the fast-paced digital health industry.
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Flashback to the D’SCENE interview from the MAUL MEETS section of our Fashion Director Christopher Maul who went to visit London’s most promising designers – PALMER//HARDING. The design duo presented yesterday their Autumn Winter 2016 collection. See what they shared with us us only a few seasons ago.
This isn’t your average interview. We’re sat in their studio but we’re not alone – a litter of kittens are a bittersweet distraction as they claw at me during our chat. Felines aside, Levi and Matthew talk about their signature spiral pleated shirt, their studies at Central Saint Martins and what the future holds for them.
Where did you study?
Levi: I studied a pattern cutting degree at El Centro College at Dallas. I think this gave me my technical foundation. I then won some scholarships and I travelled to Europe. It was intrigue that brought me to [Central] Saint Martins. El Centro was very technical and very structured but Saint Martins was very unstructured and it took me quite a while to adjust to this. Central Saint Martins taught me to have independence and in this industry you need to have some self initiative.
Matthew: I studied at [Central] Saint Martins. I was very institutionalised, I did Foundation then BA Womenswear and then MA Womenswear.
Did you always want to become a designer as a child?
L: Ever since I was 15, I always wanted to be a fashion designer.
M: As a kid I wanted to be a vet… When I initially applied to go to university I got accepted onto a few psychology courses but I think I wanted to do it back then because I was obsessed with Cruel Intentions and because I wanted to have this really cool office.
Why did you choose to focus on shirts from the offset?
M: We spend a lot of time developing the concept of how we wanted to start our business. At that time, and even now, a lot of people started their businesses as cocktail party dress designers and that seemed really boring to us. We wanted to do something else but we wanted to have some kind of speciality. We wanted to corner a sector of the market, I guess. We always wanted to build our business in that way, it something from day one that we had always planned, to have a dual function business where you have a whole world that you can buy into in every product category but you’re also known for a particular trend.
L: We focused on the shirt because we wanted to have a USP when we started, we wanted to own a product category that no one else was really focussing on and we thought the concept was quite interesting to go at, to look at a single garment creatively rather than just showcasing what the palmer//harding lifestyle is about.
M: People are starting labels and are offering everything at once. It kind of rules you out a lot because you are saying, ‘this is me fully formed right now’. By having the the thread of being known for our shirts we have been playing for the last couple of seasons and working where we want to go. Now we feel really confident and know what we want to do. The first couple of seasons especially we wanted to work things out because it was the first time we were properly working together but because we had that thread of the shirt we were allowed those experiments. Some seasons were more successful than others.
L: I know there are a lot of commercial brands that started with a product focussed concept but from our research we couldn’t find a similar comparable of a business model in terms of a high fashion brand that started with a singular product.
Was it a natural progression from designing shirts to a full collection?
M: We like the idea of change. We like to find the balance between evolving things but also having that constant. Adding additional garments into the collection was inevitable to give it more context.
L: It also allows us to play with the shirts more. In the beginning all of our look books are pretty much shot from the hips up because we don’t want to put focus on anything else. But if we want to create something that has really fantastic shape and silhouette, we also need to consider what we are going to style it with so we then had to start pushing in additional elements. In the beginning when we started adding additional elements it was to free up the movement and silhouette opportunities of the shirt. That then led onto other things.
Where does the balance lie between menswear and womenswear for you?
M: At the moment our business is mainly womenswear because the market is much bigger. They both serve different functions for us creatively and in terms of business. The menswear still sells but it’s much more about making clothes for our wardrobe and thinking about what we want to wear. We have fun with it.
L: The menswear is almost a vanity project for us. As long as we enjoy what we’re doing, we’re not too concerned about the commercial value of it.
Why do you decide to showcase in London?
M: We both studied in London and we’re based here. I think there’s a lot of London pride and support networks at the moment. Paris is obviously where everyone goes to sell but Paris was never an option for us because the girls are so much more expensive, the venues are so much more expensive and in general people are less willing to help new people out.
L: They don’t know about favours in Paris.
M: Whereas in London you can pull favours out of your arse. People want to be involved and help out. It’s a much friendlier city to be young in and to start a business.
Image From PALMER//HARDING AW16 – SEE THE FULL COLLECTION
What’s in the pipeline for you?
M: We’re at a really good place creatively. We are more certain of the direction we want to take our brand. It’s a really exciting time for us, both creatively and commercially. We want our business to grow but we don’t strive for a fast, speedy growth. For us, a brand that we really admire is Dries Van Noten where they got to a really good size but it’s been controllable. They could have their business much bigger but they choose to keep it at a more sustainable level. For us, it’s the same – whereas we want our business to grow, we want to enjoy the process.
L: People complain so much about the pace of the fashion industry. Gandhi said, “be the change you want to see.” That is something we try and take to heart.
M: We are slowly adding more elements into our collections but still every interview we have is about our shirts and that’s really important to us because it shows that message is still there. The most important thing of our brand has survived.
All photos by Nastassja Thompson


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Rufus Harley, who was billed as "the world's first jazz bagpiper" and emitted his haunting sounds alongside some of the greats of jazz, has died in Philadelphia. He was 70.
Mr. Harley died Aug. 1 of prostate cancer, his son Messiah Patton Harley said.
Although Mr. Harley acknowledged that "everybody thought I was crazy" when he turned to bagpipes in the early 1960s, he became a frequent sideman on records and in concerts with saxophonists such as Sonny Rollins, John Coltrane, Dexter Gordon and Sonny Stitt, with trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie and with flutist Herbie Mann.
"He adapted the bagpipes to jazz, blues, funk and other typically African-American styles, while also acknowledging the instrument's Scottish roots," said David Badagnani, an instructor at the Center for the Study of World Musics at Kent State University.
Mr. Harley was of African-American and Cherokee descent; he sometimes performed in a Scottish kilt, sometimes in a dashiki and a Nigerian kufi, or skullcap.
As a teenager, Mr. Harley sold newspapers to buy a saxophone so he could play in his high school band.
At 16 he dropped out of school and worked at odd jobs to help support his family.
But he never lost interest in music.
For 10 years he took lessons on the saxophone, oboe, trumpet and flute and played in local jazz clubs.
The turning point came in November 1963, as Mr. Harley watched the funeral procession for President John Kennedy on television and was taken by the wailing sound of the Black Watch bagpipe band.
He tried, unsuccessfully, to reproduce the sound on his saxophone.
"My dad was playing a lot of tenor sax then," his son Messiah said, "but because Coltrane and Rollins were smoking the sax, that's why he turned to the bagpipes."
A friend who knew of Mr. Harley's interest spotted a used bagpipe in a pawnshop and, after a quick phone call, covered its $120 price.
After months of practice, Mr. Harley was working in local clubs, and his unusual talent gained wider attention.
From 1965 to 1970, Mr. Harley was the lead artist on four albums on the Atlantic label. He began making appearances on television shows, including "To Tell the Truth," "What's My Line?" "I've Got a Secret," Johnny Carson's "Tonight Show" and "The Cosby Show." He accompanied singer Laurie Anderson on her 1982 album "Big Science." And in 1995 he worked with the hip-hop band the Roots on its album "Do You Want More?!!!??!"
All the while, Mr. Harley insisted the bagpipe had African roots and that his chosen instrument had helped him "discover my identity by making me aware of my cultural heritage."


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Vehicle2005 Honda Accord Hybrid 4dr Sedan (3.0L 6cyl gas/electric hybrid 5A)
ReviewA first look for the curious...My initial gas mileage is around 29 mpg for in town (60% highway/ 40% city). Powerful engine but if you have a lead foot don't expect to get the mpg also. You can slightly feel the engine kick between ECO (three cylinder operation) and the full six. You should test drive it (at operating temp.) and feel for this. Engine shuts down on stops (at op. temp.) unless you like or need to constantly creep forward. You'll feel the slight vibration on restart, but I enjoy the reminder I'm not sitting and idling. My driving style is changing to match the capacity of the car (looking for the ECO light). Power-excellent; handling-good; interior-very good. More later?
Best FeaturesThe technology behind managing three cylinder operation, electric power assist, engine shut down at idle while retaining a powerful engine is the number one 'feature'. The interior is great and very comfortable(see below). Multiple air bag safety equipment is standard.
Worst FeaturesContinue to work on road noise (not quite as quiet as our old Highlander). A mini spare instead of the pump and sealant for flats. Work on improving the interface between auto stop at idle and restart. Place the 'ECO' light in a more favorable position for driver feedback.
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