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function [ THD, ph, amp ] = compute_THD( t,x, freq )
% function [ THD, ph, amp ] = compute_THD( t,x, freq )
%
% Written by Dr. Yoash Levron
% February 2013.
%
% computes the Total-Harmonic-Distortion (THD)
% of a signal x(t). The amplitude and phase of the
% basic harmonic are also computed. These values
% are typically useful in power systems, audio signal
% processing, and other related fields.
%
% DC offset does not affect THD.
%
% The function computes the basic harmonic
% of the signal, in the form:
% x(t) = amp*cos(w*t - ph) + (higher Harmonics)
% where :  w = 2*pi*freq
% so 'amp' and 'ph' are the phase and amplitude
% of the basic harmonic.
%
% inputs:
% t - [sec] time vector. (should be periodical with basic harmonic 'freq')
% x - signal vector.
% freq - [Hz] frequency of the basic harmonic.
%
% outputs:
% THD - total harmonic distortion (the scale is 1 = 100%).
% ph - [rad] phase of the basic harmonic.
% amp - Amplitude of the basic harmonic.

%%%%%%%%%%%% start function %%%%%%%%%%

%%% check that t,x are the same length
if (length(t) ~= length(x))
      'Error: t and x should be the same length'
      THD = NaN;   ph = NaN; amp = NaN;
      beep; return
end

if (size(t,2) == 1)
    t = t.';
end
if (size(x,2) == 1)
    x = x.';
end

%%% condition input time vector
input_error = 0;
%%% add two samples to complete the last cycle.
t = t - t(1);   % remove any time shift
dtt = t(end) - t(end-1);
t = [t (t(end)+dtt) (t(end)+2*dtt)];
x = [x x(end) x(end)];
T = t(end);
if (T < (1/freq) )
    input_error = 1;
end
if (input_error)
        'Error: Input time vector is illegal. Time samples should expand at least to 1/freq'
        THD = NaN;   ph = NaN; amp = NaN;
        beep; return
end

% truncate extra samples, to fit in an integer number of cycles of freq
T = floor(T * freq) /freq;

% resample on a linear grid:
% t1, x1 is the new input, not including the last sample
x = x - sum(x)/length(x);  % remove any DC offset
N = max(1e6, length(x));  % number of samples
dt = T/N;
t1 = 0:dt:(T-dt);
x1 = interp1(t,x,t1,'cubic');

%%% compute cos-sin fourier coefficients
w = 2*pi*freq;
acs = (2/T) * sum(x1.*cos(w*t1))*dt;  % basic frequency cos coefficient.
bsn = (2/T) * sum(x1.*sin(w*t1))*dt;  % basic frequency sin coefficient.
amp = (acs^2 + bsn^2)^0.5;
ph = pi/2 - sign(acs) * acos(bsn/amp);

rms22 = (2/T) * sum(x1.^2) * dt;
THD = (rms22/amp^2 - 1)^0.5;

% correct phase to be in the range [-pi : pi]
if (ph > pi)
    ph = ph - 2*pi;
end
if (ph < -pi)
    ph = ph + 2*pi;
end

end


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Category Archives: malcolm lowry
The writer writing writer writings
I fell in love with Malcolm Lowry's fiction after reading the novella 'Through the Panama' in his collection Hear Us O Lord from Heaven Thy Dwelling Place (1961). While I'd been aware of his Under the Volcano (1947), a novel generally acknowledged to be a classic of twentieth century English-language literature, number 11 in the Modern Library 100 Best Novels in fact (ignore the readers' list: only blatant ballot-stuffing or rank stupidity could put four books by Ayn Rand and three by L Ron Hubbard in the top ten), I had never actually read anything by him. But my father had three of his books – the aforementioned pair and Lowry's debut, Ultramarine (1933); the two novels are in fact the only books Lowry saw published during his lifetime – and I took them for myself as I fancied giving them a try…
And now I have everything he wrote – a lot of which was published posthumously – some of it even in first edition (but not Under the Volcano, since first editions of it cost around £800).
But. 'Through the Panama', which first appeared in Paris Review in Spring 1960 – it's unlikely Malcolm Lowry, who died in 1957, submitted it himself; it was more probably his wife, Margerie Bonner Lowry – features Malcolm Lowry's fictional alter-ego Sigbjørn Wilderness, and is a complex mix of fiction, autobiography and meta-fiction. It's an astonishing piece of work but, as I soon discovered when I read Ultramarine, Under the Volcano and the posthumous Dark as the Grave Wherein My Friend is Laid (1968), it's actually more like a concentrated form of Malcolm Lowry's approach to writing. Ultramarine was based on his experiences aboard a tramp freighter, aboard which he spent five months at age eighteen before starting at Cambridge University. Some of his experiences which appeared in Ultramarine also make an appearance – off-stage – in Under the Volcano, although reading the prior book is by no means a requirement for reading Under the Volcano.
But it's in Dark as the Grave Wherein My Friend is Laid where really interesting things start to happen… You'll have to bear with me for a bit as this is somewhat complicated… Malcolm Lowry started work on Under the Volcano while staying in Mexico in 1936, and finished it two years later. He left Mexico for Los Angeles, where he met his second wife, Margerie; and then spent the next eight years editing and rewriting the novel. It's set in the Mexican town of Quauhnahuac, and covers the events of single day in the life of the Consul, Geoffrey Firmin, an alcoholic, whose divorced wife has just returned to him. In 1945, Malcolm and Margerie Lowry returned to Mexico (a return for him, anyway), and settled in the town of Cuernavaca. During this time, Under the Volcano was under consideration with a British publisher, and Malcolm was worried it might be seen as too similar to Charles Jackson's 1944 novel, The Lost Weekend, the film adaptation of which, starring Ray Milland and Jane Wyman, and directed Billy Wilder, was proving a hit in the cinemas as Malcolm and Margerie travelled south from their home in Canada. The trip to Mexico proved successful both personally and professional – although Malcolm's drinking did reach similar levels to those of his earlier visit to Mexico and those attributed to the Consul in Under the Volcano… However, while in Cuernavaca, Malcolm heard back from Jonathan Cape, who asked for substantial changes to be made to Under the Volcano before they would publish it… but Malcolm successfully defended his novel with a long and detailed analysis of it. Malcolm also took copious notes throughout the Mexico trip and, once back in Canada, he realised these were effectively a novel. So he set about turning them into one, and he worked on it on-and-off, until his death in 1957. The book was eventually edited by Margerie and published in 1968 as Dark as the Grave Wherein My Friend is Laid.
In Dark as the Grave Wherein My Friend is Laid, Sigbjørn Wilderness and his wife Primrose have returned to Mexico eight years after Sigbjørn left. He is awaiting news from a British publisher about his novel, The Valley of the Shadow of Death (which was actually the original title for Under the Volcano), and is worried that it might be rejected due to similarities to the novel and film Drunkard's Rigadoon. The couple travel from Mexico City to Cuernavaca, which Sigbjørn now discovers has chosen to publicise that its name in Nahuatl is Cuauhnahuac, a fact he'd eight years previously taken great pains to uncover and had thought would "disguise" the setting of his novel. While in Cuernavaca, Sigbjørn explains the town's relationship to the setting of The Valley of the Shadow of Death to his wife – she is familiar with the story as she typed up the manuscript – and begins drinking heavily, much like Geoffrey Firmin in Under the Volcano.
So what we have is Malcolm Lowry writing a novel in which he appears as Sigbjørn Wilderness, who is the author of a book Malcolm Lowry himself wrote, which is set in the Mexican town which is the setting of both Under the Volcano and Sigbjørn's The Valley of the Shadow of Death, and this novel Malcolm Lowry has written is based upon Malcolm Lowry's own return visit to the town where he wrote, and in which he set, his most famous work, Under the Volcano. Sigbjørn and Primrose also visit some of the nearby towns and villages, such as Oaxaca, Tlaxcala and Yautepec, and each place is seen in light of Sigbjørn's previous time in Mexico and his fictionalisation of it in The Valley of the Shadow of Death. The same is also true of the people they meet, and their relationship to the characters in The Valley of the Shadow of Death. Some two-thirds of the way into Dark as the Grave Wherein My Friend is Laid, Sigbjørn hears back form his publishers – they want him to make substantial changes. Primrose persuades him to stick to his guns and defend his novel, which he does.
"Your book is regarded here as having potential importance and integrity." His heart leaped, he almost shouted out to Primrose, who was as excited as he and waiting for the verdict in the bedroom, but – at this point, another letter fell out. It was the reader's report, and he seized upon it. "The author has overrreached himself. This book will naturally call to mind the recently successful novel and film Drunkard's Rigadoon…" (p179)
Malcolm and Margerie Lowrie at their Calle Humboldt villa
Structurally, Dark as the Grave Wherein My Friend is Laid is not so adventurous – it's a linear narrative, beginning as Sigbjørn and Primrose fly south across the United States, and ending with Sigbjørn finally laying to rest the ghost of The Valley of the Shadow of Death, or perhaps of its inspirations and writing, which has haunted him throughout this visit to Mexico. But it's the melding of real-life and fiction which I find so fascinating about the book. Under the Volcano was at least, on the surface, a straightforward act of literary creativity. While its settings and cast may have been inspired by Malcolm Lowry's own time in Mexico during its writing from 1936 to 1938, it was still first and foremost a novel. (Which is not to say that it's not partly autobiographical, as Malcolm Lowry had certainly done that before in Ultramarine.) But in Dark as the Grave Wherein My Friend is Laid Malcolm Lowry has fictionalised the autobiographical elements of his fiction, folding what was real in the invented back into an invented perspective of the real. And that I find a very interesting thing to do. It allows for a whole host of meta-fictional games to be played within the text – and Malcolm Lowry plays most of them: not just Sigbjørn commenting on The Valley of the Shadow of Death, which is effectively Malcolm Lowry himself commenting on Under the Volcano, but also Malcolm Lowry as author commenting on Dark as the Grave Wherein My Friend is Laid and on Sigbjørn Wilderness. Dark as the Grave Wherein My Friend is Laid can be enjoyed as a work of fiction without having read Under the Volcano, but it's plain that reading Malcolm Lowry's magnum opus first deeply enriches the Dark as the Grave Wherein My Friend is Laid reading experience.
Malcolm Lowry's reputation waned after the publication of Under the Volcano, chiefly because he had nothing else published in the years following (and Under the Volcano had taken him nine years and two months to write). He became known as an "underground" writer, one admired only by the cognoscenti. After his death, Margerie Lowry kept his literary legacy alive, and saw to it that works he had never quite actually finished were edited and published… such as Dark as the Grave Wherein My Friend is Laid. There's no doubt in my mind that he was one of the greatest English-language writers of the twentieth century.
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Lovely Lowryness
I mentioned a week or so ago that a new author had joined my collectibles list: Malcolm Lowry. After finishing his Hear Us O Lord from Heaven Thy Dwelling Place, I was immediately a fan and went onto abebooks.co.uk to hunt down first editions. And here are the first ones I've bought:
Lowry died in 1957 and only saw two of his books published – his debut Ultramarine and the novel for which he is famous, Under the Volcano. He left behind a number of manuscripts and hundreds of poems, which his wife and others edited and then arranged to be published.
Ultramarine (1933)
Under the Volcano (1947)
Hear Us O Lord from Heaven Thy Dwelling Place (1961)
Selected Poems of Malcolm Lowry (1962)
Lunar Caustic (1968)
Dark as the Grave Wherein My Friend is Laid (1968)
October Ferry to Gabriola (1970)
The Collected Poetry of Malcolm Lowry (1992)
The Voyage That Never Ends: Fictions, Poems, Fragments, Letters (2007)
As well as the four first editions in the photographs, I also have Lowry's first three books as battered Penguin paperbacks from the 1960s. Much as I'd like a first edition of Under the Volcano, they cost upwards of £700, so they're a bit out of my range…
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It only takes one book
I have only a small number of literary heroes, but in all cases my admiration of them – and my decision to collect their oeuvre – was sparked by a single book. With Lawrence Durrell, for example, it was The Alexandria Quartet, his most famous work. Likewise for Paul Scott, after I read The Jewel In The Crown, the first part of the Raj Quartet, also his most famous work. But for the latest author to join this august company, it was not their best-known work I read. It was in fact a posthumous collection. And, to be honest, the first story in it did not bode well at all. But I persevered, and the second story, a novella, proved to be very very good indeed. And pretty soon I was hooked.
The book was Hear Us O Lord from Heaven Thy Dwelling Place, and the author was Malcolm Lowry. I knew of Lowry, of course; though previously I had never read anything by him. But I'd picked out the aforementioned collection, Ultramarine and Under the Volcano from my father's Penguin paperbacks collection to read. I have subsequently ordered more Lowry books. Lowry only saw two novels published during his lifetime – which will at least make collecting signed editions easier… When he died, he left behind a number of manuscripts which were edited by his wife and subsequently published. He also left behind several hundred poems. Here's one of them. It's from Selected Poems of Malcolm Lowry, published in 1962 and number seventeen in City Lights Books' The Pocket Poets Series.
And, when you go – much as a meteor,
Or as this swaying, incandescent car,
Which, like lost love, leaves lightnings in its wake,
(And me, an aspen with its Christ in mind,
Whose wood remembers once it made a cross,
So trembles ever since in wind, or no wind)
But most like Venus, with our black desire
Which blinds me now, your light a horned curve
First; then, circling, a whitely flaming disc,
Not distance, but your phase, removes the mask –
Until you burn the brightest of all stars –
Pray then in your most brilliant lonely hour
That, reunited, we may learn forever
To keep the sun between ourselves and love.
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Fiskadoro: A Techno Adventure In Dubai
| Houston Music |
Jef Rouner | February 29, 2012 | 9:00am
"When Jen and I moved to Texas multiple people told us not to do it 'because they killed Kennedy.' The JFK assassination, Lee Harvey Oswald, Jack Ruby etc. - it seems to be to be a metaphor for the start of all the madness around us."
- Fiskadoro's Richard Kimball
At our day job, we have a small selection of albums that we put on whenever we want to encourage some of the more annoying customers to leave. Houston's Fiskadoro is amply represented in that stack.
Their series of free EPs is not for the faint of heart. There's something about their sound that is deeply unsettling, and their latest release, Dubai, is no exception.
"The EP is about this strange year we find ourselves in," says Richard Kimball. On one hand there's all this paranoia and dread and a continuation of policies of perpetual war. On the other hand you have people like the #occupy (yes, I speak in hashtags now) movement working on a grass-roots level trying to instill radical change worldwide.
The idea of Dubai, this scary, futuristic looking place that lives and dies based on the whims of the oil industry seemed like an appropriate metaphor for all of that. And it relates back to Texas. In the end all of our songs are about Texas.
I guess we just tend to be preoccupied with the dread. But really we just want to make people dance."
Achieving dance-act status is certainly something that Fiskadoro has accomplished, though the eight-minute title track may be an endurance trial for those who aren't used to shaking it to something like the album cut of Sisters of Mercy's "This Corrosion."
The sound of Dubai is much more club-friendly than their previous outings. We sensed a great deal of Chemical Brothers influence in the work, particularly in "Dubai" itself.
Part of the switch has a great deal to do with the evolution of Fiskadoro's tastes towards straight electronica. The band is big fans of Heaven 17, Human League, and Houston's own //TENSE//, and they stage regular techno listening parties. Synth player Kirston Lane Otis has also been a tremendous influence in the changing sound since he joined. Formerly difficult to described, they've now settled comfortably into the genre of techno.
"The best shows we've played are the ones when the audience is dancing to our music as opposed to standing around with their arms crossed analyzing the lyrics wondering what our thoughts are on the death of capitalism," said Kimball.
The three songs that constitute Dubai still delve into the rampant condemnation of plastic America that is their trademark. Under their pulsing rhythms that induce a low-level hypnotic state, Kimball's augmented voice hisses paranoid witticisms that dance on the edge of understandability. For a scant 15 minutes, a listener is drug over the exposed wires of their music. It's an uncomfortable experience, but oddly enlightening at the same time.
Did we mention that it's completely free? Though they haven't ruled out the possibility of charging for their music in the future, as it stands now the entirety of the Fiskadoro catalogue can be download without charge on their BandCamp.
It's taken us almost a week to process Dubai, and we're not sure that we as yet understand it completely. Among the cuts our love is given to its ultimate piece, "Boxing." We've always been big fans of Jennifer Kimball's bass playing.
Simplistic as it is at times, she still manages to throw an overwhelming amount of personality into her lines. In the slower numbers like "Boxing" is comes across as a sort of reverse time-lapsed version of Kim Deal, with each note serving as a set of booby trapped stepping stones for Kimball and Otis to languidly dance across.
It's also the most sinister of the tracks, with allusions to the Devil and a pace that feels like a prowl. Simply more of that dark-Fiskadoro style that we've come to love.
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The Global Language Monitor
At the Intersection of Technology and the Word
Category: Top Words of 21st Century
'Woke' is the Top Trending Word of 2019, Thus Far
'Progress' is the Top Un-Trending Word (Decliner) for 2019
For More Information, go to LanguageMonitor.com or call 1.737.215.7750 or email info@LanguageMonitor.com
Austin, Texas. September 5, 2012 —
'Woke' is the Top Trending Word of the Year (#WOTY) for 2019 thus far, in the latest global analysis by the Global Language Monitor. 'Woke' Is followed by 'Consequential', 'Migrants', 'Opioids', and 'Collusion'. Rounding out the Top Ten are 'Anthropocene', 'Heartbeat,' 'Blue Wave,' 'Family Separation, and 'Trade War'. These are followed by 'Fake News', Climate Change', 'The Moment', 'Nukes', 'Progressives', 'Micro-influencers', 'Fact Check', 'ICE', 'Women's World Cup', and 'Gerrymander'.
This is the twentieth consecutive survey since the turn of the century. (See Below.) GLM began recording the Top Words of the Year (#WOTY) in the Year 2000 to document the history of the 21st century through Global English, the current Global Language. (#Hashtags were not invented until 2007; #Twitter was the Top Word of 2009, 'Emoji' was the Top Word of 2014.)
The Great Awokening
"In Progressive lingo, 'woke' describes an epiphany-like experience, where one is awakened to the call of social justice — and the failures of the past," said Paul JJ Payack, president and chief word analyst of the Global Language Monitor. "Every generation in the post-Modern era has had similar experiences be they Civil Rights, the Vietnam War, the Women's Movement, LGBT rights, etc. A key distinction here is that the sins of the past are now viewed in the context of the present as subjects to be rectified."
'Woke' traces back through the Old English, 'to arise', 'to come to be', 'to be born' from the Anglo-Saxon, and Old High German ultimately from Proto-Indo-European root *weg- "to be strong, to be lively."
Woke, the Top Trending Word of 2019 for Global English Thus Far, Has Dramatically Risen in Use During the Last Decade as Shown in This Google
Progress as the Top Un-trending Word
In a first, GLM named the Top Un-trending Word for 2019, thus far: 'Progress'. "The concept of progress has had a profound influence on the advance of Western Civilization since ancient times. The idea of 'progress' as espoused in the works of Enlightenment thinkers had considerable influence on the drafters of the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution.
However, as you can see from the chart below, that use of the word has significantly fallen, especially since the mid-1960s. See the Google Ngram below.
The use of the word 'Progress' has significantly declined since the mid-1960s according to Google Ngrams.
In 2018 there were two distinct Words of the Year (#WOTY): The Moment — A confluence of fame, fortune, and happenstance (Worldwide), and Weaponize — In today's bitterly partisan infighting, any word, action, or deed can and will be weaponized (U.S. alone).
The Top Trending Words of the Year (#WOTY) for 2019 thus far, ranked, last year's ranking, and commentary
Woke (5) — An epiphany-like experience, where one is awakened to the call of social justice
Consequential — Presidents are now judged on the 'consequentiality' of their administrations.
Migrants (16) — The continuing worldwide movement of mass migrations.
Opioids (3) — The scourge continues as the nation seems a bit inured to the devastation.
Collusion (11) — The report is filed and final, but the controversies continue.
Anthropocene — Did a new human-influenced geological epoch actually begin in 1950?
Heartbeat — Fetal heartbeat bills are now front-and-center in state legislatures across the nation.
Blue Wave — The Democrats winning back control of Congress in the 2018 Mid-terms.
Family Separation (6) — Family detention and separations actually began in 2014. This is a grave and intractable matter, with plenty of blame to spread around.
Trade War (7) — As we first noted in 2009, "The Rise of China" is a geopolitical event of the first order with the seismic shockwaves continuing to echo around the world.
Fake News (8) — Packaged news, planted sources, one-sided exposes, party lines, and official narratives are a new phenomenon only to those with no sense of history.
Climate Change — 8,000 years ago New York City was under a mile of ice.
The Moment (1) — A confluence of fame, fortune, and happenstance.
Nukes (4) — Last year North Korean, in 2019 Iranian and Russian added to the mix.
Progressives — The word 'liberal' outlived its usefulness as the description of one's political leanings.
Micro-influencers — Bloggers, Vloggers, Instagrammers, Youtubers, and other small yet very influential communities of interest.
Fact Check (17) — New studies suggest that fact-checkers appear to have definite biases.
ICE — The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency under the Department of Homeland Security.
Women's World Cup — The quadrennial, global celebration of women's football.
Gerrymander — The divvying up the political spoils (election districts) to the advantage of those in power.
Methodology: The words are culled from throughout the English-speaking world, which now numbers more than 2.3 billion speakers (January 2018 estimate) GLM employs its NarrativeTracker technologies for global Internet and social media analysis. NarrativeTracker is based on global discourse, providing a real-time, accurate picture about any topic, at any point in time. NarrativeTracker analyzes the Internet, blogosphere, the top 300,000 print and electronic global media, as well as new social media sources as they emerge.
The Top Words, Phrases, and Names of the 21st century follow.
Top Words: No. 1 Truth, No. 2 Narrative, No. 3, Opioids
Top Phrases: No 1. Weinstein Effect (and #MeToo), 2. Nuclear Option (North Korean version.), 3. Deep State
Top Names: No. 1 Donald Trump, No. 2 Vladimir Putin, No. 3 Neil Gorsuch
Top Words: No. 1 A meme — Omran Daqneesh in Aleppo) No. 2 Refugee
Top Phrases: No. 1 Make America Great Again No. 2 When they go low, we go high No. 3 The Electoral College
Top Words: No. 1 Microaggression
Top Phrases: No. 1 Migrant Crisis
Top Names: No. 1 Donald J. Trump
Top Words: No. 1 The Heart ♥ Emoji (for love), No. 2 Hashtag, No. 3 Vape
Top Phrases: No. 1 Hands Up, Don't Shoot; No. 2 Cosmic Inflation, No. 3 Global Warming
Top Names: No. 1 Ebola, No. 2 Pope Francis, No. 3 World War I
Top Words: No. 1 '404', No.2 Fail, No.3 Hashtag
Top Phrases: No. 1 Toxic Politics, No. 2 Federal Shutdown, No.3 Global Warming/Climate Change
Top Names: No. 1. Pope Francis, No. 2 ObamaCare, No.3 NSA
Top Words: No. 1 Apocalypse/Armageddon, No.2 Deficit, No. 3 Olympiad
Top Phrases: No. 1 Gangnam Style, No. 2 Climate Change/Global Warming, No. 3 Fiscal Cliff
Top Names: No. 1 Newtown and Malala Yousafzai, No. 3 Xi Jinping
Top Words: No. 1 Occupy, No. 2 Fracking, No.3 Drone
Top Phrases: No. 1 Arab Spring, No. 2 Royal Wedding, No.3 Anger and Rage
Top Names: No. 1 Steve Jobs, No. 2 Osama bin-laden and Seal Team Six, No. 3 Fukushima
Top Words: No. 1 Spillcam, No. 2 Vuvuzela, No. 3 The Narrative
Top Phrases: No. 1 Anger and Rage, No. 2 Climate Change, No. 3 The Great Recession
Top Names: No. 1 Hu Jintao, paramount leader of China, No. 2 iPad, No. 3 Barack Obama
Top Words: No. 1 Twitter, No. 2 Obama-, No. 3 H1N1
Top Phrases: No. 1 King of Pop, No. 2 Obama-mania, No. 3 Climate Change
Top Names: No. 1 Obama, No. 2 Michael Jackson, No. 3 Mobama
Top Words: No. 1 Change, No. 2 Bailout, No. 3 Obama-mania
Top Phrases: No. 1 Financial Tsunami, No. 2 Global Warming, No. 3 "Yes, We Can!"
Top Names: No. 1 Barack Obama, No. 2 George W. Bush, No.3 Michael Phelps
Top Words: No. 1 Hybrid (representing all things green), No. 2: Surge
Top Phrase: Climate Change
Top Name: Al Gore
Top Word: Sustainable
Top Phrase: Stay the Course
Top Name: Dafur
Top Words: No. 1, Refugee No. 2: Tsunami No. 3: Katrina
Top Phrase: Outside the Mainstream
Top Name: (acts of ) God
Top Word: Incivility (for inCivil War)
Top Phrase: Red States/Blue States No. 2: Rush to War
Top Name: Dubya/Rove
Top Word: Embedded
Top Phrase: Shock and Awe, No. 2: Rush to War
Top Name: Saddam Hussein, No. 2 Dubya
Top Word: Misunderestimate
Top Phrase: Threat Fatigue
Top Name: W (Dubya)
Top Word: Ground Zero
Top Phrase: 'Lets Roll'
Top Name: The Heros
Top Word: Chad
Top Phrase: Dot.com
About the Global Language Monitor
In 2003, The Global Language Monitor (GLM) was founded in Silicon Valley by Paul J.J. Payack on the understanding that new technologies and techniques were necessary for truly understanding the world of Big Data, as it is now known.
Today, from its home in Austin, Texas GLM provides a number of innovative products and services that utilize its 'algorithmic services' to help worldwide customers protect, defend and nurture their branded products and entities. Products include 'brand audits' to assess the current status, establish baselines, and competitive benchmarks for current intellectual assets and brands, and to defend products against ambush marketing.
These services are currently provided to the Fortune 500, the Higher Education market, high technology firms, the worldwide print, and electronic media, as well as the global fashion industry, among others.
For More Information, go to LanguageMonitor.com or call 1.737.215.7750 or email info@LanguageMonitor.com.
GLM's Top Words Record the History of the 21st Century, Thus Far
The Top Words of the Year Since the Turn of the Century
TRUTH: 2017 Word of the Year
Recently, The Global Language Monitor (GLM) announced that Truth is the Word of the Year for 2017.
To See the Top Words, Phrases, and Names of 2017, click here
A Brief Retrospective on the Nature of Truth and Why It Confuses Us So
To Read How GLM's Top Words of the Year Record the History of the 21st Century, Thus Far, click here.
To Learn What the Top Words of the First Fifteen Years of the 21st c. Portend for the Rest of the Century, click here.
Austin, Texas, December 2017 — Since the turn of the century the Global Language Monitor has been using the most up-to-date analytical tools to track the growth and evolution of the English Language, now the first, second, or business language of some 2.38 billion people.
GLM has used these technologies to track many of the most significant trends to appear thus far in the 21st century.
In the recent past, some of the shifts first noted by the trend and narrative-tracking techniques of GLM include:
The use of number sequences as clearly defined words (Y2k, Web 2.0)
The use of Twitter as a new form of stylized human communication (2008/2009)
The introduction of emoji symbols as an addition to and transformation of the alphabet (2013/2014)
The rise of the Narrative presaging the rise of 'fake news' and the decline of 'truth-based' journalism. (2008)
The mounting impact of the 'sustainability' and 'Green' movements (2006)
The Rise of Microaggressions as a significant form of 'bullying' (2015)
The continued emergence of English as the first truly global language (2000-)
Big Data as the most frequently used but least understood word in High Technology (2011-)
The application of data mining techniques to global English to better understand the significance of global events and trends (2013)
The Rise of China as the most significant (and de-stabilizing) event of the 21st century, thus far. (2008)
Unveiling the racist underpinnings behind the rise of Fake News.
The Words of the Year chosen by the Global Language Monitor can be used to better understand the history of the 21st century, thus far.
The Top Words, Phrases, and Names since the Turn of the Century
Top Words: No. 1 Meme, No. 2 Narrative, No. 3, #Resist
Top Words: No. 1 Microaggression (Safe Space, Trigger, Unsafe, Snowflake, White Privilege)
Top Phrases: No. 1 Migrant Crisis, No. 2 Je Suis Charlie, No. 3 Almond Shaming
Top Names: No. 1 Donald J. Trump, No. 2 Alan Kurdi, No. 3 Pope Francis
Top Names: No. 1 Ebola, No. 2 Pope Francis, No. 3 World War
Top Words: No. 1 Apocalypse / Armageddon, No.2 Deficit, No. 3 Olympiad
Top Words: No. 1 Occupy, No.2 Fracking, No.3 Drone
Top Names: No. 1 Steve Jobs, No. 2 Osama bin-laden and Seal Team Six, No.3 Fukushima
Top Phrase: No. 1 Red States/Blue States No. 2: Rush to War
For more information, call 1.512.801-6823, email info@LanguageMonitor.com, or visit www.LanguageMonitor.com.
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As the definition of 'the moment' changes, we can see the shift after the year 2000 by way of Google NGrams
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• Keith and Susan attended the Rotary Leadership Institute training last weekend.
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Beyoncé shares the plant-based diet she followed to prepare for her iconic Coachella performance
Despite previously admitting how hungry she was on the diet, the Grammy Award-winning singer has launched a new meal plan based on what she followed to prep for her 2018 Coachella performance.
In a video released to her YouTube channel this week, The Lion King star Beyoncé Knowles-Carter has teamed up with trainer and exercise physiologist Marco Borges to launch a meal plan based on what she followed in preparation for her 2018 Coachella performance.
The meal plan, 22 Days Nutritional Meal Planner, is a plant-based meal plan that allows you to customise your recipes to suit your health goals, whether that be to optimise performance, create new healthy habits or literally follow in the footsteps of Beyoncé.
In the promotional video posted to YouTube channel the video opens with a clip filmed by the singer as she steps onto a scale to weigh herself.
"Good morning. It's 5am and this is day one of rehearsals for Coachella," she says to the camera, panning down to her the weight on the scale – 175 pounds (79.3kg).
"Long way to go," she says, "let's get it."
The video, which is two-and-a-half-minutes long, then documents the Grammy Award-winning singer and her backup dancers as they undertake preparations for the performance.
"I'm back onstage after giving births to twins," she says.
"I was a woman that felt like my body was not mine."
Marco Borges, who is also a long-time friend of Beyoncé's, explains the idea of the plant-based diet in the video saying: "We know the power of vegetables, we know the power of plants, we know the power of foods that are unprocessed.
"Plant-based is really about eliminating all the overtly processed foods that don't do us any good anyways.
"When you're eating plant based you will definitely have more energy. You will definitely sleep better. You're definitely going to have improved complexions.
"Your mood is going to change completely."
Beyonce previously admitted to struggling on such a restrictive diet, yet has now launched a meal plan based on the diet. (Image: Getty)
The launch of meal plan, which the video explains Beyoncé followed for 44 days, comes just months after she dropped her Netflix documentary Homecoming, which gave a behind-the-scenes look at the lead up to Beyoncé's Coachella performance.
It's notable because in Homecoming Beyoncé admitted struggling with the restrictive diet and intense work out regime, yet the meal plan is marketed as the same plan Beyoncé followed pre-Coachella.
"I'm hungry," she was filmed saying in the doco, after revealing that in order to reach her goals she was limiting herself to no bread, carbs, sugar, dairy, met, fish and alcohol.
In the documentary she also admitted that she probably pushed herself too far when it came to trying to juggle the demands of the intense preparation along with her role as a mother.
"It's not like before when I could rehearse 15 hours straight. I have children. I have a husband. I have to take care of my body. I definitely pushed myself further than I knew I could and I've learned a very valuable lesson: I will never push myself that far again."
Adding: "I feel like I'm just a new woman in a new chapter of my life and I'm not even trying to be who I was.
"It's just so beautiful that children do that to you."
It does then seem a little bizarre that something she vowed to never do again is something she's actively promoting, however it should be noted that the actual meal plans, even the ones that allow you to follow in Beyonce's footsteps do include carbs and do not seems as restrictive as the regimen she had put herself through during the lead up to Coachella.
This didn't stop the release of the 22 Days Nutritional promo video from garnering some criticism from some of her own fans.
One Twitter user tweeted: "I love Beyoncé Giselle Knowles Carter with my whole heart but I don't want her giving any diet/nutritional advice to anyone… crash dieting ain't normal safe, or healthy."
Canadian TV host Joelle Tomlinson, who calls herself a huge Beyoncé fan, also took to Twitter to express her disappointment writing: "Y'all know I love Beyonce. Perhaps a little too much.
"But, I'm disappointed to hear her calling her weight post-twins every "woman's nightmare", and promoting a VERY restrictive diet.
Adding: "Perhaps use your star power to promote body positivity and beauty and any body size. #IMHO."
The meal planner promises to offer personalised meal plans and support from professional food coaches and boasts convenience by providing subscribers with pre-made shopping lists and even grocery delivery in select areas.
A yearly subscription will cost you US$99 (NZD $149) or US$14 per month (NZD $21).
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We arranged for AW to visit a number of our clients in the local area so they could see the proposed furniture in situ and make decisions on which products were right for the business. A bench solution was selected, with high spec desk mounted screens positioned back to back and side to side for increase user privacy. AW spent a lot of time evaluating task chairs, finalising on the Senator Ecoflex Task chair with a contrasting seat pad. A key design feature was the breakout area, with a mixture of conventional dining seating, booth seating and high seating to create a choice of seating zones.
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World premiere.From the ashes of Mount St. Helens emerged a monster with mysterious powers—powers that changed one boy's life forever. Freak or hero? Trevor is about to find out with a little help from Mr. Right. Join triple-threat Seattle artist Justin Huertas and friends for one fateful night of adventure, music and love set on the streets of Seattle. Equal parts comic book lore, coming-of-age love story and irrepressible tunes, audiences can expect the unexpected in this indie rock musical.
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Falling asleep at this time may be safest for your heart, new study shows
November 13, 2021 Dania
The time you go to mattress could impact your chance for heart disorder. In reality, scientists say, there is a heart wellbeing sweet location for falling asleep: from 10 to 11 p.m.
An investigation of knowledge from additional than 88,000 older people tracked for around six decades exposed a 12 percent higher risk between those people who dropped off from 11 to 11:59 p.m. and a 25 per cent bigger hazard of producing cardiovascular ailment among the persons who fell asleep at midnight or later on. Slipping asleep before than 10 p.m. was affiliated with a 24 per cent maximize in risk, according to a report revealed Monday in the European Heart Journal—Digital Overall health.
"The overall body has a 24-hour inside clock, termed circadian rhythm, that assists regulate physical and mental performing," neuroscientist David Strategies, co-writer of the examine and head of study at Huma, a London well being tech company that supports decentralized scientific trials, claimed in a assertion.
"While we can not conclude causation from our study, the effects propose that early or late bedtimes could be a lot more likely to disrupt the physique clock, with adverse repercussions for cardiovascular overall health," mentioned Options, who is also a senior lecturer in organizational neuroscience at the College of Exeter in the U.K. Huma typically clears its reports by means of the ethics committee at the College of Exeter.
To explore how diverse bedtimes may well affect coronary heart health and fitness, Strategies and colleagues at Huma, turned to United kingdom Biobank, a biomedical databases. United kingdom Biobank maintains data about extra than 500,000 volunteers ages 37 to 73 who were recruited from 2006 to 2010 and delivered Huma researchers information about their demographics, life and health. Their bodily health and fitness was also assessed.
The researchers centered on 88,926 grownups, typical age 61, who wore accelerometers (units that history when a person moves) on their wrists for seven days. With the accelerometer information, the scientists identified the occasions of slumber onset and waking.
For the duration of an normal adhere to-up period of 5.7 many years, 3,172 of the volunteers (3.6 per cent) professional cardiovascular situations, this sort of as strokes, coronary heart assaults or heart failure — incidents were being best among men and women with slumber situations at midnight or later on and most affordable between all those who fell asleep from 10 to 10:59 p.m.
Even when a selection of components have been taken into account — together with age, gender, snooze length, slumber irregularity, staying an early chicken or a night owl, cigarette smoking standing, body-mass index, diabetes, blood tension, cholesterol degrees and socioeconomic standing — falling asleep regularly at midnight or later was continue to connected to the best increased possibility of heart sickness.
The amplified risk was much more pronounced in women of all ages who fell asleep later on. Adult males had been at larger coronary heart possibility only when they fell asleep previously in the evening, right before 10
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Mark Lawrenson believes Liverpool are "doing the right thing" in handling Glen Johnson's contract situation and has urged the Reds to wait till the end of the season in handing a new deal.
The England international will have one year left on his deal at Anfield at the end of the season. The 29-year-old had earlier revealed the talks over extending his stay at the Merseyside club beyond 2015 is yet to begin.
Liverpool legend Lawrenson claims the club owners Fenway Sports Group will wait till the summer in handing the former Chelsea defender a new deal.
Lawrenson insists not handing Johnson a deal in the mid-season would make him hungrier to earn a contract extension. The former Reds defender believes the current situation will benefit the club as it will make the England star work harder on improving his performance for Rodgers' side.
"Glen Johnson this week admitted he has been given no signal over any new contract with Liverpool. And I think the Reds are doing the right thing by waiting until the end of the season before addressing it," Lawrenson told the Liverpool Echo.
"The recent release of the club accounts made for very interesting reading. It appears the club are slowly wiping out their debts and clearing the decks for the rebuilding of the Main Stand and Anfield Road End."
"My perception is they are being really clever. Prudent, yes, but pragmatic with it. And, hey, it's as though Liverpool are now being run like an actual business. That's why Fenway Sports Group are going to wait and see what happens with Johnson."
"I don't have a problem with that. If you can make any employee hungrier and get a good reaction and level of performance from making them work for a new deal, then fair play. Johnson will know deep down he is playing for his future even if, as is almost certain, it will involve taking a pay cut."
"He has missed a chunk of the season. So perhaps FSG are thinking 'hold on, he's been off form and injured, so let's just wait and see what happens between now and the end of the season," Liverpool favourite concluded.


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By Dan Ambrose: In looking at photos of the face to face meeting between WBC middleweight champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr (43-0-1, 30 KO's) and challenger Ronald Hearns (26-2, 20 KO's) to publicize their fight next month on September 17th at the Palengue, Cuiliacan, Sinaloa, Mexico, Chavez Jr. is looking absolutely huge. In standing next to the slender 6'3″ Hearns, Chavez Jr. looks to be weighing at least 190. How Chavez Jr can still be fighting at middleweight as big as he's gotten really baffles me.
In his last fight against WBC middleweight champion Sebastian Zbik last June, Chavez Jr. came into the fight weighing a reported 180 lbs on the night of the fight. He looked like a light heavyweight fighting a middleweight on that night. And my guess is Chavez Jr. will again be weighing in the 180 pound range on the night of the fight against Hearns. Chavez Jr. looks so big right now like he's swollen up.
I honestly don't know how he can take off that much weight in dehydrating to make 160. It's got be very difficult and hard on his body. If Chavez Jr doesn't do this just right, he could come into the fight at 180, but feeling weak and lethargic. As limited as Chavez Jr is on defense, that's all it may take for the 32-year-old Hearns to score a knockout. Hearns can punch with his right hand and if you put a fighter with limited defensive skills in front of him like Chavez, he's going to do well against them if he's not met with a lot of resistance.


In the latest case before the CJEU concerning standard essential patents (SEPs) and anti-competitive behaviours (Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd v ZTE Corp., ZTE Deutschland GmbH C-170/13), the CJEU has set out the particular circumstances under which bringing an action for a prohibitory injunction against an alleged infringer by the proprietor of a standard-essential patent may constitute an abuse of a dominant position.
The Court distinguished actions seeking a prohibitory injunction or the recall of products from those seeking the rendering of accounts and an award of damages, specifying that where a patent proprietor offers a licence on FRAND terms, before it brings such an action for an injunction prohibiting the infringement of its patent or for the recall of products for the manufacture of which that patent has been used, that proprietor must present to the alleged infringer a specific offer to conclude a licence.
SEPs holders can hold significant power, which can give rise to potentially anti competitive behaviours. The frequency of patent litigation in general, and related to SEPs in particular, has increased considerably over the past 30 years (see here) and the so-called "Smartphone wars" have been widely reported in the popular press. To alleviate these competition concerns and to ensure that the benefits of standardisation are promulgated, standard-setting organisations may require that patent holders commit to license their SEPs on fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory (FRAND) terms. The conduct of SEP-holders who have given a commitment to grant licences to third parties on FRAND terms has given rise to a plethora of actions before the courts of several European counties. In his Opinion in November 2014, the AG drew attention to a lack of clarity as to what is meant by 'FRAND terms', pointing out that a commitment to grant licences on FRAND terms is not the same as a licence on FRAND terms.
Huawei are owners of patent EP 2090050 B1 (the Patent), which is said to be 'essential' to the Long Term Evolution (LTE) standard developed by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI). This means that anyone using the standard inevitably uses the teaching of that patent. The Patent was notified to ETSI by Huawei, which, in turn, on 4 March 2009, gave ETSI a commitment to grant licences to third parties on fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory terms ('FRAND terms').
ZTE developed and marketed products including base stations with LTE software. These products were made for use with the LTE software, and operated on the basis of the LTE standard. This of course meant that the ZTE products used the Huawei Patent. ZTE have historically opposed the patent at the EPO on the grounds it was not valid, and although ZTE's opposition was rejected, an appeal against that decision is still pending.
The questions answered today by the CJEU go back to a dispute in Germany where Huawei, in an action for infringement of the Patent, sought an injunction against ZTE, prohibiting the continuation of the infringement. Negotiations between ZTE and Huawei for the conclusion of a licence to the Patent on FRAND terms broke down, leading to Huawei brining an action to against in Germany against ZTE, to obtain an injunction prohibiting the continuation of the infringement. ZTE claimed such an action for a prohibitory injunction constituted an abuse of a dominant position as ZTE had been 'willing to negotiate' such a licence.
The German Court referred questions to the CJEU concerning, amongst other things, whether the fact that an SEP-holder brings a claim for damages, constitutes an abuse of dominant position. The referring court's questions have been largely inspired by the Orange-Book-Standard judgment of the Bundesgerichtshof and the Commission's press release in the Samsung case. On the one hand, Orange-Book-Standard was not analogous to the present case, and on the other hand, although the press release in the Samsung case did concern an SEP the owner of which has given a commitment to a standardisation body to grant licences on FRAND terms, a mere willingness on the part of the infringer to negotiate in a highly vague and non-binding fashion cannot, in any circumstances, be sufficient to limit the SEP-holder's right to bring an action for a prohibitory injunction.
(1) prior to bringing the action, the proprietor has first alerted the alleged infringer of the infringement, designating the patent in question and specifying the way in which it has been infringed. The patent proprietor must also, after the alleged infringer has expressed willingness to conclude a licensing agreement on FRAND terms, have made a specific written offer to the alleged infringer for a FRAND licence specifying the royalty and the way in which the royalty is to be calculated.
(2) the alleged infringer has not diligently responded to the proprietor's offer to licence on FRAND terms. The diligence is to be judged in accordance with "recognised commercial practices in the field and in good faith" and is to be based upon objective factors with the particular requirement that there be no delaying tactics on the part of the alleged infringer.
The Court has held, inter alia, that the alleged infringer which has not accepted the offer made by the proprietor of the SEP may invoke the abusive nature of an action for a prohibitory injunction or for the recall of products only if it has submitted to the proprietor of the SEP, promptly and in writing, a specific counter-offer that corresponds to FRAND terms.
With regard to actions seeking the rendering of accounts and an award of damages, it was held that the prohibition of abuse of a dominant position does not, in circumstances such as those in the main proceedings, prevent an undertaking in a dominant position and holding a patent essential to a standard established by a standardisation body, which has given an undertaking to that body to grant licences for that patent on FRAND terms, from bringing an action for infringement against the alleged infringer of its patent with a view to obtaining the rendering of accounts in relation to past acts of use of that patent or an award of damages in respect of those acts of use. Such actions do not have a direct impact on standard-compliant products manufactured by competitors appearing or remaining on the market.
Clarification from the ECJ that an SEP proprietor bringing an action for infringement is unlikely to be viewed as an abuse of a dominant position is welcome. However SEP proprietors should take note of the their explicit obligation to make a written offer a licensing agreement on FRAND terms and specifying a royalty prior to considering seeking an injunction or a recall of products.
The requirement for diligence and no delaying tactics on the part of the alleged infringer provides a disincentive to the potential licensee acting in bad faith. However, the judgement leaves open to interpretation what is meant by a "diligent" response on the part of the infringer, which is to be judged "in accordance with recognised commercial practices in the field". The continuing lack of clarity with regard to what constitutes FRAND licence terms could also make the new criteria difficult to navigate.
The question remains open regarding when an SEP proprietor is deemed to hold a "dominant position". Does such a "dominant position" arises merely by having an SEP, or is more required?
Overall the judgement strikes a balance between providing clearer guidance to SEP holders regarding which actions in relation to the SEPs are likely to fall foul of competition law and clarifying that delaying tactics and bad faith on the part of a potential licensee makes it more likely that the SEP holder can seek an injunction with a reduced risk of contravening the prohibition of the abuse of a dominant position. There is a public interest in standards-compliant products not being taken off the market as a result of unfair play by market competitors.
The case will now revert to the referring German Court for judgement.
This update was prepared by Susan Keston, Patent Director in our Glasgow office.
If you would like further advice on this or any other matter please contact Susan or your usual HGF representative or visit our Contact page to get in touch with your nearest HGF office.


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OTTAWA (ONTARIO), Sept. 23, 2020 – Jim Quick, President & CEO of the Aerospace Industries Association of Canada, today issued the following statement in response to the federal government's Speech from the Throne, marking the start of a new session of Parliament:
"Today's Speech from the Throne was focused on the immediate responses to the COVID19 pandemic and we acknowledge the government's willingness for sector specific supports for industries hardest hit. It is no surprise that Canada's aerospace sector has been disproportionately affected by the COVID19 pandemic.
"The Government has a willing partner in Canada's aerospace industries, which represents 215,000 workers, to work together in order to support the economic recovery in a sustainable manner and Canada's aerospace sector is looking forward to this fall's COVID-19 Economic Response Plan.
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Robert Seager, was born at Ipswich in 1847, eldest of the three children of Robert Seager (bp 29 September 1822-29 April 1890), pork butcher, and his wife Caroline née Jackson (1821-23 January 1908), who married at Ipswich in 1844. In 1861, a 14 year old, living at 13 St Peter's Street, Ipswich with his parents, 39 year old Robert, ham & bacon curer, and 40 year old Caroline and two siblings Joseph William (1852-1927) and Caroline Elizabeth Mary (Thomas 1854-1887), both born at Ipswich. Robert married at Ipswich in 1868 Hannah Spencer of Westhall, Suffolk and in 1871, a 24 year old 'commercial clerk in the provision trade', living at 27 Commercial Road, Ipswich with his 25 year old wife Hannah and their 3 month old daughter Euphie, born Ipswich, they went on to have four more children. Landscape painter in oil and watercolour and a member of Ipswich Fine Art Club 1896-1910 but had exhibited from Dalton Road, Ipswich in 1885 'An Evening View, Walberswick' and 'An Old Wall, Walberswick' exhibiting some twenty-four works including watercolours 'A View of Oulton Broad', 'Evening View of Lake Lothing' and an oil 'A Bit of Lowestoft Harbour'. In 1901, living at 7 Dalton Road, Ipswich with his 55 year old wife Hannah and two of their two daughters, 30 year old Euphie, a music teacher, and 28 year old Mabel [q.v.], a commercial clerk, and Robert and Hannah were still living there in 1911. Robert died at 45 Avondale Road, Gorleston-on-Sea, Suffolk (actually Norfolk) on 10 September 1921, aged 74.


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6 months after Haiyan: Banking on recovery
Six months after Typhoon Haiyan ripped through the Philippines, recovery efforts continue in many of the hardest hit areas. Mercy Corps has helped over 140,000 people like Gertrud Quinza (above) survive the chaos of the disaster and begin putting their lives back together.
The bamboo "payang," or hut, that Gertrud, 23, shared with her husband Edsel and their two young children was reduced to rubble in the devastating storm — there is nothing but a single bamboo pole and part of a tin roof left. With Mercy Corps' assistance, she's been able to buy food and help repair her mother-in-law's house where the family is staying.
They are just a few of the 4.1 million people still internally displaced after their homes were destroyed by Haiyan (known locally as Yolanda).
The strongest recorded storm ever to make landfall slammed into the Visayas region of the Philippines on November 8 last year. With winds as high as 195 MPH, coconut trees were snapped in half like matchsticks and houses that had survived storms for decades were blown apart.
The storm surge — a tsunami-like wall of water nearly two stories high — together with high winds, lifted entire ocean liners onto land in Leyte in the Eastern Visayas. In all, more than 16 million people were affected by Haiyan and need long-term help to recover. Read more facts about Typhoon Haiyan ▸
Within days, our emergency response team was delivering water and food packages and essentials like blankets, hygiene kits and cooking utensils to families on remote islands who had yet to receive any assistance. See more photos of emergency distributions ▸
In partnership with GOAL, we also distributed tools and materials for people to repair their homes and provided cash assistance to buy additional necessities.
Based on our experience in past disasters, we know how important it is to address the unique needs of children after such a terrifying experience. Mercy Corps partnered with ChildFund International to establish safe spaces where the youngest survivors could receive psychosocial support and recover from the trauma of the storm. See more photos of our work with children ▸
We've also identified ways to help communities build back better. On remote islands like Kinatarcan, north of Cebu, we're working on ways to improve water access and sanitation for families who have traditionally relied only on wells and rainwater catchments.
Six months after the storm, there has been important progress. But recovery after a disaster of this scale is a long process. With markets still functioning, we believe the fastest and most efficient way to help people continue rebuilding is through cash transfers.
But how do you get money to people in a country where roughly 80% of the population doesn't have access to a bank account — and of those, nearly half (around 40 million people) live on less than $2 a day?
Mercy Corps saw an opportunity to make an even bigger impact by providing the cash transfers with mobile savings accounts with BPI Globe BanKO, the Philippines' first mobile phone-based bank in the Philippines. For many beneficiaries, this was the first time they'd been able to save money securely. See photos and meet one of the first families to benefit from our emergency mobile money program ▸
Mercy Corps and BanKO employees use tablets to register beneficiaries, who then receive both a mobile SIM card and an ATM card. In this way, they can access their funds at BanKO partner outlets in their community as well as through ATMs elsewhere in the Philippine islands.
Over 22,000 households have so far been registered and nearly 8,000 families have received their first of three 2,000 peso ($45 USD) cash disbursements.
Vangie Inocando, 53 and the mother of five (above), is one of them. She recalls holding onto a banana tree to keep from being blown away as the typhoon blew her house apart. "The rain pelted so hard it was painful on my checks. I heard ringing from the howling of the wind." Her first priority is to use the funds from Mercy Corps to rebuild her family's home.
Families who now have mobile savings accounts can decide how they want to spend the funds they've received from Mercy Corps. Most are using money to rebuild their homes. Many are contributing part to their children's schooling and saving for unexpected expenses in the future. Some have invested in restarting their small business.
Seventy-four-year-old Pedro del Pilar (above) used his first cash transfer to pay a carpenter to rebuild his roof that was torn when the storm swept through Arado village on Leyte island.
Amor Delacruz, 39 (above), is a health worker in Dakit village, in northern Cebu, where her house stood for 20 years and weathered at least five major storms before Typhoon Haiyan. Now all that remains is the frame.
Since she was able to move into her parents' home temporarily, Amor decided to use the first cash transfer to pay the college fees for her two older children. She intends to save the rest to rebuild the house for her and her two younger children, 14 and 10 years old.
Florida Go (above) and her husband Realino live in a village south of hardest-hit Tacloban City. They invested their first disbursement into a kilo of sugar to restart their candy-making business, which they run out of their home with the help of their children and grandchildren.
The Go's made some initial repairs on their severely-damaged house, but their business was stalled because few people had money for non-essentials like candy. Business has started to pick up again, and Mr. Go is looking forward to being able to save money on the mobile savings account and eventually pay his bills remotely — right now it takes him several hours round-trip each month to pay water and electric bills in town.
What's next? We know recovery from a major disaster like Typhoon Haiyan takes time, and Mercy Corps is committed to providing the necessary resources and smart support that families need to rebuild their lives and livelihoods.
We also see an opportunity to help people become stronger than they were before the storm. That's why we're now partnering with IDEO.org, the non-profit arm of the Silicon Valley design and innovation firm, to design new financial technologies and services that will help the hardest-hit families become more financially secure for years to come. Watch this video to learn more about our new collaboration ▸
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2016 Nissan Leaf's Two Batteries: 84 Miles Base, 110 Miles For Top Trims, Dealer Says
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With many 2016 model details already released by other makers, the specs of the 2016 Nissan Leaf electric car remain conspicuously absent as the U.S. heads toward its Labor Day holiday.
But a posting by a Nissan dealer in Indiana suggests that high-end models of the coming year's Leaf will feature a larger battery pack to give them more range, possibly "as much as 110 miles."
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The dealership, Andy Mohr Avon Nissan in Avon, Indiana, has a page on the 2016 Leaf on its website.
It says, in brief, that the base Leaf S model will continue with today's 24-kilowatt-hour battery pack, giving an EPA-rated range of 84 miles.
While an incrementally larger battery has been expected for the 2016 Leaf for some time now, a choice of pack sizes (and hence ranges) fleshes out the picture a bit, if true.
2016 Nissan Leaf description page, Andy Mohr Avon Nissan in Avon, Indiana, Aug 2015
"Drivers of higher trim levels will enjoy a battery with as much as 25 percent increased capacity," it says, "delivering a driving range of as much as 110 miles."
Unless Nissan adds a new top-of-the-range version, those "higher trim levels" are the Leaf SV and the more luxurious Leaf SL.
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With a crop of new mass-priced electric cars expected to start arriving late in 2016 with ranges of 150 to 200 miles--the 2017 Chevrolet Bolt EV first among them--the existing Leaf with its 84-mile range appears to be having trouble sustaining U.S. sales momentum.
It's still by far the world's best-selling electric car, but the Leaf's U.S. sales over the last 12 months have fallen to 15,000, compared to 22,000 in the previous 12-month period.
2015 Nissan Leaf 4-door HB SL Dashboard
And similarly-sized all-electric competitors with battery ranges between 80 and 90 miles now include the BMW i3 and Volkswagen e-Golf as well as the Ford Focus Electric and Mercedes-Benz B-Class Electric Drive.
As the dealer site notes, the "release date and pricing are still tentative" for next year's Nissan Leaf.
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The dealer site says nothing about pricing, which would likely be announced only a few weeks before the 2016 Leafs go on sale.
Assuming the larger pack is indeed coming, Nissan is likely debating how much--if anything--it can charge for the increased range, or whether it should be a running upgrade to boost 2016 sales in advance of the car's anticipated replacement for 2017 or 2018.
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We delve into the dusty attic for a gawp at our old editions. We see what treasures the 1933 issue holds, and for just a sixpence at the time, it seems as though it was totally worth it!
The year 1933 for Ireland was a time of change but also of cautious optimism. Fianna Fáil, led by Éamon de Valera, won their first overall majority in Dáil Éireann. Éamon de Valera was welcomed in his own constituency in County Clare where 77 horsemen and 77 torchbearers lit 77 tar barrels in honour of the 77 seats won by the party.
In other politics, the United Ireland movement adopted the title 'Fine Gael' and contested the general election as a political party. Also in 1933, Ireland reached out to be more connected with the world: representatives from the Netherlands and Germany arrived in Galway to inspect the site of a proposed new £3 million airport. Ireland shook off British control and the Oath of Allegiance to the British Crown was dropped. And away from politics, Ireland's first parachute jump, executed by Joseph Gilmore, is successful.
In business, the Sugar Manufacture Act provides for nationalisation of the sugar beet processing industry to ensure self-sufficiency. And of course, it wouldn't be an Almanac without a report on the weather: Ireland had a shocker that year: four people died in a great snowstorm that gripped the country.
Interestingly enough, an event thought to be the world's worst shipping disaster happened that very year. The SS Dzhurma, a Russian ship carrying prisoners to the Gulags, was thought to have come to its end during the winter of 1933-34. At the time it was ferrying 12,000 prisoners. Conditions were horrific. In an account in the 1947 book Forced Labor in Soviet Russia, it was suggested that in the winter of 1933–34 the Dzhurma got trapped in the Arctic ice. It was unable to move on until the spring.
The story alleged that all prisoners died from frost and starvation with later versions indicating that surviving crew members may have resorted to cannibalism to survive. The story was propagated and widely accepted. Today, historians have their doubts about many aspects of the story. However if it was true, this would have been among the worst ship disasters of all time.
This ad is certainly a sign of the times, before it all went horribly wrong. The Irish Sweepstakes were a lottery that was started to raise money for almost-bankrupt Irish hospitals. Ireland at the time had a low population and could not raise the funds to keep hospitals going the way other more densely-populated countries could. And with TB claiming more and more victims, something was needed to plug the fiscal hole and fast. Welcome to Irish Hospitals' Sweeps. In the public's imagination, this was a 100% legit operation to raise money for the ailing hospitals of Ireland. And they were convinced because of the way the show was put on: potentially winning tickets were drawn from rotating drums, usually by nurses in uniform. In fact they even used blind children to draw a ticket out of the barrel, so it seemed as though cheating was something they abhorred.
Each ticket was assigned to a horse running in a famous race. Tickets that drew the favourite horses thus stood a higher likelihood of winning, allowing for enormous prizes. Often the ceremony of picking tickets was also accompanied by gards in uniforms, so the legitimacy of it was never questioned.
Many Irish abroad, in America and in the UK bought smuggled tickets, even though such lotteries were illegal in their own countries. This led to many scammers selling counterfeit tickets to the sweepstakes, and none of the money ever came back to Ireland, let alone to the hospitals.
But of course, there was a big problem. The Irish Sweepstakes was a privately-run lottery, something that is wildly illegal today. Some money did filter down into the hospitals, this was true. But it was only one tenth of the TOTAL PROFITS. And that ten per cent was divided between all hospitals in Ireland, so the funds actually going to the hospitals was negligible in comparison. All hospitals were prepared to accept money from the sweepstakes, except the Adelaide Hospital, who not only disagreed with the sweepstakes, but also smelled a rat.
So how did the government of the day let this go on? They were blackmailed and bribed by the three men behind the sweepstakes, the core of influential schemers. These racketeers paid off TDs, and ensured that so many loopholes existed in the legal agreements that they didn't even end up paying tax on their profits. Compare that to the hospitals: they paid 10% tax on what of what little money filtered down to them. These core conmen at the heart of the scandal went on to build empires in Ireland, like Waterford Glass, The Irish Glass Bottle Company, and other companies. When honest politicians and lawmakers discovered what was going and threatened to shut down operations, the men behind the sweepstakes said they would fire thousands of people employed in their spin-off companies if prosecuted. The honest TDs felt powerless to stop them. But eventually it all came tumbling down: not from the gards stepping in – but from the fact that state-run lotteries became legal in countries like the USA and Canada and the UK. And Ireland developed its own state-run lottery, which was a much better contender for people's money.
The fact that the sweeps were allowed to continue for so long was an outrageous disgrace, and it certainly sullied Ireland's image around the world as a country of conmen and rogues. However the Old Moore's Almanac of 1933 certainly benefited! The ad taken out of the Irish Sweepstakes held the prize position of page 5, a very expensive position, and it was a full page ad. So the hospitals may have been ripped off, but Old Moore did okay out of it.
Lessons have been learned to never mix charity fundraising with private business, hopefully the lessons will stay in memory for a long time.
This ad was EVERYWHERE in 1933! A truss is still used in medicine today, to keep hernias in place before surgery. However today's trusses are usually made of elasticated bandages and don't resemble the trusses of 1933! A hernia is a protrusion of an organ through a wall that usually keeps it in. It is typically painful and bulging, but can be fixed by surgery. However back in 1933, surgery wasn't always an option. So people turned to somewhat rickety contraptions to ease their hernia pain.
Trusses available were usually big metal devices, sometimes loaded with springs, bound with leather, that didn't fit very well. They used a pad against the skin and some sort of belt to hold it in position. The cure seemed worse than the ailment, that's for sure. This ad tells readers to not wear a truss, and to write away for an information booklet telling you how to avoid a truss. Many of these old "information books" are now available on non-profit websites to read and enjoy! In this particular case, even though the advertisement advises the reader to not wear a truss, they ARE selling trusses…although apparently, they are wildly different to "drugstore trusses." Of course their product is backed up by "science" and by many anecdotes from the mysterious Mrs P. Kelly of Rathfarnham and shadowy Mr Z. Murphy from Blessington. In other words, they were selling trusses, which probably weren't that much different than conventional trusses of the time. Aren't you glad you live in an era of ACTUAL science rather than unsubstantiated claims of science?
Lion Ointment has been around for more than 100 years. Now called Burgess Lion Ointment, this well-known salve is used for treating dry, cracked split skin. Today the ingredients are fairly run-of-the-mill, with the main ingredient being petrolatum. The raw material for petrolatum was discovered in 1859 in Pennsylvania, United States, on some of the country's first oil rigs. Workers disliked the paraffin-like material forming on rigs because it caused them to malfunction, but they used it on cuts and burns because it hastened healing.
Robert Chesebrough was a young chemist whose previous work of distilling fuel from the oil of sperm whales had been rendered obsolete by petroleum. So he went to Pennsylvania to see if the new materials had commercial potential. Chesebrough took the unrefined black wax back to his laboratory to refine it and explore potential uses. Chesebrough discovered that by distilling it, he could create a light-coloured gel. Chesebrough patented the process of making petroleum jelly in 1872. He then travelled around New York demonstrating the product to encourage sales by burning his skin with acid or an open flame, then spreading the ointment on his injuries and showing his past injuries healed, he claimed, by his miracle product. He opened his first factory in 1870 in Brooklyn using the name Vaseline. But petrolatum was used in other products too, like Lion Ointment. And today's science backs it up: petrolatum's effectiveness in accelerating wound healing stems from its sealing effect on cuts and burns. This inhibits germs from getting into the wound and keeps the injured area supple by preventing the skin's moisture from evaporating.
But (and there is always a but) back when this advertisement ran in the Old Moore's Almanac, Lion Ointment was a different concoction altogether. A rather horrifying one by today's standards. According to the National Centre for Biotechnology Information, the ingredient list of the 1933 Lion Ointment listed one of the main elements as lead oleate, or lead plaster. We all know lead is an utter disaster for humans, especially children. It interferes with the development of the nervous system and is therefore particularly toxic to children, causing potentially permanent learning and behaviour disorders. However back in the day, Lion Ointment was merrily recommended for babies and children, as well as for every ailment known to man including venereal disease. Obviously over time as the dangers of lead became known, the lead was phased out and the level of petrolatum was jacked up, along with other ingredients like beeswax and pine oil. If you find an old tin of Lion Ointment in granny's attic, you might want to donate it to the bin and go buy the latest version.
Yes this ACTUALLY appeared in the magazine in 1933. You could buy a nose-shaper. Of course you wouldn't wear it out on a hot date. Oh no, you'd wear it around the house with only your 15 or 16 siblings to laugh at you. You could, apparently, over time, shape your unimpressive honker into something fit for movie stardom. I think the best medicine in this case is to learn to love your nose. Seriously if we catch any of you wearing this there will be big trouble.
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